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CURRENCY REFORM THIS SESSION
IE PEOPLE
ORDER THAT IT BE DONE
A Democratic Currency Hill Will bo
Presented to the House This Week,
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* 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
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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
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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. !
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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
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(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
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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
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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.
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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.