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I H PUBLIC TO UtClUb ? . CURRENCY REFORM THIS SESSION IE PEOPLE ORDER THAT IT BE DONE A Democratic Currency Hill Will bo Presented to the House This Week, !?., I'D!.. * ~ I.1..*- ?- ? A ? - * iiuilitiv ' ?U" l<) IIV K'MTIIIIIlcd by Popular Kvpression of Prtvss and Public. Public opinion, the sovereign voice in lawmaking, is to decide whether there shall be currency legislation during the present session of Congress. This was the view which Representative Oscar Underwood, the Democratic leader in the House, took after a conference with President Wilson at the White House on Monday In the face of conflicting expressions from prominent Democrats in Congress as to the necessity for currency reform during the present rmslon, it is the avowed purpose of the Administration to launch a currency bill in the House and Senate before Friday of this week, which will be accompanied, or followed, by the President's message describing what ho believes to be the necessity for banking reform. Then, according to Mr. Underwood, the plan of the House will be to rest on its oars, thoroughly discuss the new .banking proposals, and await the expression of the newspapers of the country and the opinion of bankers and business men generally as to the merits of the Democratic proposals. The President strongly believes that the country will back him up in his views that the currency system ought to ho reformed so as to alleviate any stringency that might follow the passage of the tariff bill Representative Underwood, after his conference with the President said, that while the Democratic party had made up its mind what ought to be done on the tariff, currency reform was practically a new question to it, and it would bo impossible to predict how long tho House would take for a discussion of tho bill. lie took the position that the currency situation could be solved by the attitude which the nation revealed when tho bill was debated thoroughly. Meantime, Secretary McAdoo, Chairmen Owen and Glass, of the Senate and House banking and currency committees, Saturday finished the bill that represents the Administration's views. It went to the printer and Representative Glass was of the opinion that it probably would be presented on Friday. There has been no decision as to whether the President will read his message to Congress in advance of the introduction of the bill or afterward. This point, probably, will bo determined later. The bill in its present form embrases a system of regional reserve associations with local governing boards, all under control of a Federal reserve board of nine members at Washington Elasticity of the currency is to be secured through the issuance of United States notes to these reserve associations and by them to the local banks upon adequate security, including commercial paper of a qualified class. The local -k Lfiiunn ni(ii\ iu^ up t'ucii ruaurvt* uh?uciation will be required to keep a Bpecifled amount of their reserves in the association vaults. No present issues of treasury notes or gold or silver certificates are to be disturbed by the new currency, but the bill would require the gradual retirement of all national bank notes within a maximum period of twenty years. The new currency system would become operative July 1, 391 4. /Members of the banking and currency committees of both houses will be in frequent conference hereafter with the President, and while the bill as presented will carry Administration approval, it will be subject to amendments and suggestions generally in both houses That differences of opinion can bo harmonized Is the confident expectation of both the President and Mr. Underwood. The framers of the bill have made no authoritative version of the bill, and up to this time they declared there had been no final agreement as to detail. The main essentials? tUp distribution of reserves and the elasticity of the currency?have been finally agreed on only after wide differences of opinion among the currency advocates themselves were reconciled. A more conciliatory spirit toward the currency plan prevailed among members of the House committee on Monday, following a visit to the White Houso by Representative Phelan, of Massachusetts, one of the members, several or the members of the committee who have felt that they should have been consulted with or advised regarding the currency while so many conferences were in progress, talked among themselves with a view to securing party harmony. Speech-making in the House on currency will begin soon. When the House meets, according to a plan arranged, a request will be made for LOOK OUT FOR THEM i KLKCTKIC STOIOIS TO BK VKItY HAD THIS Sl'MMKK. ' Sonic Simple Kules to Avoid Danger of Being Struck l?,v Lightning During Thunder Storms. The Union Progress says as the season lias eonio who severe storms are to he expected, and if the forePHutc /if Q 1/ ?\ /\iif t* " - b vuovd VI m n vii nnun ll n rtllllCI |U U|JI1et are to be credited they will be unusually numerous and severe this year, then it is well to consider the dangers and precautions. It is well known that steel is a conductor of lightning, and telephone and telegraph wires most frequently attract the bolts that cause poles and other objects to be shattered, and yet people are so engrossed with business affairs, or careless as to observing ordinary care, that they will use a telephone during severe storms. This is very dangerous, and should be avoided, not only for the sake of the person using the telephone, but for the central operators as well. Rvery years there are recorded deaths because people use telephones during storms, and not only last summer we knew a young man who was knocked unconscious and remained dazed for hours because he answered a telephone that was rung during a bad storm. When one is working outdoors and a storm comes up, it seems the most natural and best thing to run for shelter under some tree, and yet few places are more dangerous. It is really much safer to remain in the open, for It is a rare thing to hear j of a lightning bolt striking in an open place, where it is a common occurrence to hear of trees being torn to smithereens. All the recognized .authorities say that one is necessarily jeopardizing life during a storm to stand or sit where there is a draught, and while it may bo warm and unpleasant for a brief time to have windows closed as glass is a no-conductor of lightning, and where there is no draught it is certainly much safer. In time of storms many animals are seemingly possesed of a greater fear than man, and for that reason they often wish to crowd around their human friends, hut this also is a source of danger, as animals attract lightning, presumably because of their animal heat, many of them seemingly charged with electricity. As there is danger from lightning when one goes under trees for safety so also is there danger in fields if one is plowing, or following a team, or handling iron while their feet are on damp or wet ground, for as is known about telephones, the earth when wet forms a complete circuit, and lays one liable to danger from electricity. In storms of lightning and thunder as well as when there is wind or hail or rain or any other demonstration of nature, it is well to remember that the Providence that overlooks one in the quiet of every day life will still protect and preseerve one, though this does not mean that known laws and the exercise of precaution should be ignored, for human life is too dear and sacred and necessary for the world's betterment to be sacrificed needlessly by failure to recognize certain laws, or because one dislikes to be considered overprudent by those who have 110 physical fear and go to the extreme in carelessness WATER SUGAR STOCK. , A Trust Magnate Makes an Honest Confession as Witness. Henry L. Oxnard, known as the "father of the beet industry ' Mid vice president of the Americlo.il lie it Sugar company, was principal witness Monday before the Senate lobby ini vcstigating committee. He was I on the stand for several hours and proved an entertaining witness. He told the comraitee how Now York hankers, who helped to organize the beet sugar company, insisted upon putting in about $15,000,000 "water" in about $20,000,000 cor poration; how how he and them had made about a million by the sale of this watered stock and gave warning that the Underwood bill with its free sugar provision would result, in the formation of a new "Sugar Trust", which would not violate the antitrust law. body Hui ied in Cement Block. A coflln containing the body of Oliver II. Perkins, a milionaire of Oes Moines, la., who died recently, was placed in the heart of a block of cement ten feet square. The block i will form the foundation for a monument which will be erected in Sep- 1 tember, after the cement has time to harden. i In behalf of the unfortunates wo i say let Dr. Babcock stay at the head 1 of the asylum. ! I time for Representative Neeley, of 1 Kansas, a member of the committee 1 majority, to speak at the earliest op- 1 portunity. lie believes with Repre- 1 sentative Henry, of Texas, that there should be an immediate renewal of I the inquiry into the "Money Trust." ' AFTER THE LOBBY BELIEVE GIGANTIC SCHEME HAS BEEN FOUND SOME PRIVATE PAPERS Trail Followed for Two Weeks I^eads to Washington Headquarters of Heet Sugar Industry?Alleged An*i t< - ? - ' (i-r tit .-?ugiir i nmpuigii W ith No wspapers. The trail of the "lobby" the Senate has been following for more than two weeks led Tuesday into the private flies of the men in charge cf the Washington offices of the United Sates Beet Sugar Industry, the leading instrument cf the campaign against free sugar, and by orginals of letters and telegrams, and what purported to he copies of others, developed testimony of what appeared to be an attempt at a far reaching campaign to create public sentiment against free sugar through the columns of individual newspapers and the facilities of press associations. By subpoena duces tecum the committee got possession of copies of letters and telegrams of Clarance G. Hamlin, a Colorado Springs, Col., newspaper owner and beet sugar man. in charge of the Washington offices of the American Beet Sugar Association, two years ago. The papers included what purported to be carbon copies of letters, unsigned, but furnished as genuine by Harry A. Austin, a clerk in tho offices of Truman CJ. Palmer, representative of the United States Beet Sugar Industry. The "industry" succeeded the "association" .'ihnilt Iwn ?*e o an ~? J v ?. w J V141 u OBI Palmer succeeded Hamlin in charge, charge. Some of the letters tol<1 of Hamlin travelling to the large cities, giving out interviews; others, writon to 'Vashington, indicated that he was trying to circulate matter in defence of a sugar duty through newspapers. The Associated Press, and other channels, to offset what he thought misleading statements put out by sugar refiners. The text indicated that his attempts at publicity had not always been as succesful as he had hoped. Other letters referred to a plan launched by Hamlin to have the largo beet sugar companies take over $3f?,000 in bonds of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Other letters disclosed attempts to interest big railroad systems in the anti-free sugar campaign and to have professors of agricultural colleges appear before committees of congress with arguments favorable to the beet, sugar men. None of the letters disclosed that the railroads had been interested or that the great news agencies had been extensively used or that the Inter-Ocean bonds had been bought. Letters introduced did show that the sugar men had been dissatisfied with their efforts to get "interviews" carried by The Associated Press. Austin and a sergeant-at-arms of the Senate brought a big box of the telegrams and letters to the committee room Tuesday afternoon, the committee suspended the examination of witnesses and Chairman Overman, Senators Heed and Walsh began . reading them into the record. Two telegrams were exchanged between Hamlin, Senator Clark and Truman O Palmer. Hamlin's telegram in reply, sent to his uncle, Senator Clark, was given to the committee It said: "Have wire from Palmer suggesting retain attorney to nrovrmt /Inllvoi-u r\f ? >" * r.u.w..v in III^ papers 10 committee. Austin, on whom service is made, may have some of my private correspondence or papers but so far as I remember there is nothing among them which T would object to being made public." The correspondence covered much of 1011 and the early part of 1912, when the Underwood free sugar bill was introduced in the House. The letters produced indicated that Hamlin had made contracts with "news plate" concerns that furnish matter to small papers and had urged beet sugar men in different parts of the country to attempt to secure publicity in their own localities and through news agencies. Included in the mass of correspondence were letters from Aaron Gove, which show* cd that he had made an extensive tour for the same purpose. One letter from the Hamlin file, written from Washington on December 2, 1911, to Charles R Warren, president of the Michigan Sugar Co. said in part: "Visited one big town each day of my trip and invariably succeeded in getting our story in at least one of the leading papers. Of course some handled it more satisfactorily than others but generally speaking they all did well." The value of publicity was emphasized further in another letter writ- 1 ten at Fargo, N. D., by Gove, to Hamlin, in Washington. It referred to an interview that had gone out which was designated at the "Ar buckle Interview," and Gove urged Lhe use of "patent, inside" to reach the country readers. "Many farmers read those patent insides," he said. "When I looked it up I found that a stack of stuff ev? WAS STRUCK BY TRAIN white max meets iiouiuhle fate xeak aiken Shoulder Is Crushed to Pieces, Hole iu the Skull and Fracture ut Base of Brain. With his left shoulder crushed literally to pieces and a fearful hole in tus skuii, crusnea Done particles and pieces of a felt hat resting against the brain, Joe Maroney, a35-year-old white man, residing at Oak wood, in Aiken county, was found early Tuesday morning in an unconscious condition beside the Southern Railroad tracks, about six miles east of Aiken and one mile east of Montmorenci. The wounded man was brought to Aiken and all day local physicians labored faithfully to preserve his life. The bone particles and hat felt resting on the brain surface were removed successfully, when it became apparent that he man had also suffered a fracture at the base of the brain. For this there was no remedy, and he died about G o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The physical facts in the case, the position of the body, the location of the wounds and the train schedules make it appear that he was sitting evidently on a cross-tie, jutting from the track, and that the so-called "midnight train" from Augusta, passing about 12.45 at night, struck him and knocked him off. It has been stated by reliable parties that Maroney was seen in Aiken Monday afternoon, under the influence of alcohol, if not actually intoxicated. From infancy the dead man had been subjected, it is declared, to periods of partial blindness. The coroner's inquest was begun Tuesday night, but continued in view of the absence of some persons deemed material witnesses. LARGE SI MS ARK SPENT Sugar Man Says Senators Are Mostly His Friends. Henry T. Oxnard, the millionaire vice president of the American Beet Sugar Company, testified Saturday before the Senate lobby committee, that lie estimated that he had spent $20,000 a year in Washington for the last twenty-three years in behalf of the beet sugar industry. He declared not a cent had been spent illegally. Each year when he was at his home in Washington, he declared, he came to the capital to watch legislation and see his fr.ends among the Senators. Senator ?<eed demanded that the witness give the names of Senators who were his friends. "Most all of the Senators," replied Mr. Oxnard. "You need not include me in that list," declared Senator Reed. "Well, I call Senator Overman one of my friends and Senator Cummins there and?I don't know so much about Senator Nelson," said the witness. Senator Overman promptly asked Mr. Oxnard if ho had ever called upon him at his office or house, or if he had ever attended iMr. Oxnard's entertainments. Mr. Oxnard replied in the negative. ery week was not exorbitant in price and it sure does get before the voters little by little, and eats in." Another of the Gove letters signed and dated August 4, 1911, threw i i i - - nuiiiu ugm on mo activities of the beet sugar forces while the Hardwick committee of the house was investigating the so-called ""sugar trust." Mr. Gove said it would require some skill to itemize his expense account so it could he checked up by an auditing hoard. '"We have had an interesting time," the letter continued. "Palmer Is before the committee on his third day to-day. Tie is doing well. TT. T. entertained them in New York with I learn, good effect. The Hardwick committee report will reach over to December and will be less harmful than I hoped." Members of the committee asked who "H. T." was. "I suppose it was Mr. Oxnard," said Senator Reed. ( Mr. Oxnard's initials are "II. T." The letter added: "Bristow insists that he will yet get in his ugar amendment. Of course, it would likely end with the veto of the Executive, but I don't forget that it is only four months to the session when something will be doing in earnest. I have had some very encouraging interviews as to next winter, but the issue promises to be warmly contested. Senators like Borah insist that they want to be shown. He used those words to me this morning." y\ i?iier 10 namnn rrom rl, A. Douglas, of the Minnesota Sugar Company, of Chaska, Minn., dated at Detroit, April 6, 191, said: "Wo think that It would he a wise plan to have Mr. C. T. Fenton, manaper of the Minnesota Sugar Company, who Is now in Washington, meet the Iowa Senators and advise them of the posibillty of Minnesota Sugar Company extending its interests in Northern Iowa in case of a satisfactory sugar tariff settlement." 1 lllea.se Aguin Follows Tillman. ? In his open letter lo Governor Hlease last summer Senator Tillman pointed out very plaiuly the essontial difference between "TUlmanisiL. ~ and Bleaseism." In many things Governor lilease has followed in the way that eSnator Tillman blazed out. So much so that he has been I accused of aping all that the Senior Senator has done that he thinks will aid him in getting lo the United States Senate when Senator Smith's term expires This is his chief ambition now, and he claims to be confident that he will succeed in doing so, but this remains to be seen. Governor Bleaae's stunt at the convention of Governor's in Richmond with reference to the negro, 1?.1 1 -n I * nun mueeu ail llO I1HH OV(T SaUl Oil the race question, had been better said or done before him by tho Senior Senator. (Jovernor Blease's lotter to President Wilson about revenue license is another instance of his following in the tracks of Senator Tillman. As long ago as 1 897, a short time after ho went to Washington, Senator Tillman introduced ~ a bill in the Senate, which provided among other things, that all Intoxicating liquors would lie absolutely subject to the laws of such State. Here is the bill: "That all fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any state or territory and remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein shall upon arrival within the lirntis of said State or territory be subject to tho operation and effect of the laws of such state or territory enacted for tho con- i trol and policing of tho liquor traffic, absolutely, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquors or liquid had been produced in such State or Territory and shall not ho exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original or other packages for private use or otherwise, and the States and Territories shall have control of such liquors or liquids within their borders by whomsoever produced or for I for whatever use Imported and without regard to the manner \ of sale provided by the State or Territory: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be Contained Shall he prmntriinrl oa affecting the internal revenue laws, or liquors or liquids in t.raasit through a State or Territory." Nothing came of this bill but the agitation, which has done much good. In 1 907 Senator Tillman followed up hiR lirst bill with another almost identical in terms. Nothing ? came of this bill either, but the in- ? troduction of these two bills by Senator Tillman paved tho way for the Webb-Kenyon bill, which is practically tho same in meaning, and _ which became a law over President Taft's veto on March 1, 191.1. From the above it will be seen that Sena- ^ tor Tillman has endeavored more than once to do just what Governor lllease is trying to accomplish. Senator Tillman failed in his efforts simply because the Republican ^ majority in the Senate was opposod ^ to any law that would curtail the ' business of tho rum sellers of the j country, which the bills introduced by Senator Tillman would have done had they boon passod. Tho whiskey ( lobby in Washington at that time 1 was too strong. It had the syinpa- c thy and help of the Republican President and ? Republican Con- ^ gross, and thwarted all efforts made by Senator Tillman and others to P pass laws favorable to the prohibi- ri tion cause. Rut it is different now. a President Wilson is powerless to 11 do what Governor Rlease asks him c to do. Congress alone can do that, and Senators Tillman and Smith, } who are always dead right on the whiskey question, will have the mat- n tor fixed just as soon as possible. ' Until that time wo will have to grin s and bear the evils of the laws as it 11 is, .but we venture the prediction " that as soon as Congress meets in 1' regular session in December. Sena- ? tors Tillman iuhI Smith will do what tliov r>or? Krt nooo o Inn. ~ ~ a 1 V..V.J IA/ j;cion (V 1(1 n |#I W V t3ll tl 11^ the Internal Revenue Department of the Government Issuing licenses to 11 booze filters in prohibition terri- F tory. Senator Tillman has always fi been in favor of such a law.?The R Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ii ? fi Old newspapers for sale. b BANK~OF Conway HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SURP COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMRT ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COUN CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS., LIABILITIES OP STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC1 ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. CVf. L. ZUCK. GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACCO COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE ! Robert R, Scarborough, D.V President. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. TlllKSDAY, JUNK 15?, 1013. f*KOFK8SlUNAI> OAKDH ^ H. H. WOODWARD vrcomay and Councalor At U? (X)NWAY, 8. O. ?W is. BC AKliUUt^ oonwaj:, b. t Attoraej at Law A. H. BU llltO IXJHA fbjiicUui *nd Hargeoif CONWAI, H. C. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. BENE RAVENEL I^iml Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Conway, 8. 0. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE A .LIGHT RUNNING want either ft Vibrating Hhuttte, Rotary Mottle or ft HlnKle Thread [Chain tilUcAl Sewing Machine write to m ?W HOME 8EWIN0 MACHINE COMPJUV Orange* Mass* IftSJ su iiTncmachlnfi are made to sell resrartfWBSH" but the Kew Home Is made to vtai Our guaranty neve* runs out. C lNi If Miborisetl dealer* *oa sals m WANTS THE BABIES SAVED. ifttioii Will he Taught How to Grow Young Americans. Warning every community in the. ation that the great death rate of abies is due to diseases which to a. irge extent are preventable the chil? ren's 'bureau of the department of ibor has prepared a compilation of tie steps which variously up-to-dateitizens are taking to protect child fe and will circulate it in a national ampaign of diffusing. In wards of such cities as New ork and Philadelphia, where syspmatic summer baby saving camaigns were undertaken, the death site of infants decreased between ,10 nd 4 0 per cent. A baby nursed by S mother, the ohilHrnn's human lares, has approximately ten times, lie chances to live that a bottle fed a by has. Tho bulletin describes various muicipal and philanthropic activities, n the direction of child welfare, uch as inspection of milk supply, lunicipal milk dispensing stations, aby clinics, visiting nurses, instrucon of mothers, and the destruction f the death distributing fly. Oaitghed up Trout Paul Nickols, a farmer of Ilenton [arbor, Mich., is a human aquarium, or weeks he had been suffering rom a serious stomach ailment. Recently he was seized with a coughlg attack and emitted a four-inch ish. Other coughing spells have een attended with like results. HORRY, S, C. LUS OK ANY RANK IN IIQRUT MED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF TY. $50,000 12,500 IT/\T m/iii'una. . . . 00,000 DR8 112,500 roRs W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. PURE MAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. M MOD ATI ON WHICH THEIR AC- , SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. . Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier.