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HAS THREE BILLS SENATE BECINS TUSSLE ON CURRENCY PROBLEM ? COMMITTEE DISAGREE Senators Will Have to Pass on Three Separate Hills, Fostered by the House, the Senate Democratic Committeemen and the Republican Members of the Committee Aided by Hitchcock. Three separate currency bills, all based upon the same general theory, will be laid before the Senate by the divided banking and currency committee, which has been split into two distinct factions. Unable to agreo on amendments the committee will present the Glass-Owen bill as originally endorsed by tho administration and passed by the House. Tho measure, with amendments assumed to be acceptable to tho President, will be submitted by Chairman Owen and fivo other Democrats of the committee, Senators Pomcrene, llollis, Heed, O'Gorman and Shafroth. A bill materially changing tho structure of the House measuro will bo presented by tho Republicans, Senators Nelson, \\'ool> ? lll'lcfnu' \T/?T mi ?i f1""*" . . VX/..M) . ' .??VW II , iUVUVCUl (UIU v. 1 ll ford, and Senator Hitchcock. All three of the proposed hills contemplate the issuance of a currency secured by commercial paper held by the banks of the country. Each proposes the establishment of reserve banks, which will issue the currency in exchango for commercial paper to the banks, which will hold the reserves behind their deposits, mobilized for use in any emergency, and which will rediscount the paper held by banks in the system, thus always keeping available ample credit and currency for use to ward off financial crises. Each bill proposes to put the entire system under the control of a Federal reserve board to bo appointed by the president. Although agreeing as to the purposes to be accomplished by the proposed legislation the three plans differ in almost every point as to means provided to carry out these purposes. As it passed the TTouso the GlassOwen bill proposed tho creation of 12 regional banks. Tho Democrats of the Senate committee cut that down to eight, the minimum number to four, holding that tho smaller number could more effectively concentrate the reserves of the country. The twelve regional banks proposed by the House bill would bo owned by tho banks, through compulsory subscription to the stock, and the banks would elect six of tho ninej directors of each regional institution. This plan was retained by tho Democrats of tho Senate committee, although it was further provided that if the banks did not furnish enough capital to run the system tho stock might be sold to tho public. On this point Senator Hitchcock and tho Republicans departed from tho administration theory of creating a "bank of banks" and materially changed the bill. They provided that tho reserve bank's capital should be subscribed by tho public, tho banks taking whatever part tho public would not take, and that tho government, through tho Federal reserve board, should appoint five of tho nine directors of each regional bank. This was tho proposition which split the Sonato committee into two camps. In tho House bill the paper made eligible for rediscount and as a basis for currency is commercial paper, based on actual merchandising transaction, maturing in not less than ninety days. This provision was retained by the Democrats, but the Republicans broadened materially. Under their bill a part of tho member banks rediscounts may be mado in paper maturing up to six months. Under the House bill and tho draft by tho Senato committee Democrats, tho regional bank directors would have discretion as to redlscounting for member banks without limit. In the Republican bill, each member bank is given tho right to secure rediscounts up to the full amount of its capital and under a tax to twice that amount. Doth tho House bill and tho Owen bill would allow country banks to loan on one-year farm mortgages. The Republicans amended this to allow banks to loan one-third of their time deposits on five-year farm mortgages. Tho Republicans eliminated from tlio bill a provision which would have required national banks to maintain separate departments to handle savings account business. Numerous other difference, principally on minor matters or relating to tho language of tho measure, are apparent. i . Will Always Stand Together, rremior Asquith's Guildhall speech Is a reminder to autocracy wherovor enthroned and to prlvilego however intended, that tho people of England and tho people of America understand each othor, and "nothing can disturb our common resolve to obtain and maintain a friendly and sympathetic understanding." GINNING FASTER NUMBER BALES GINNED LARGER THAN LAST YEAR. Number of Bales Reported Ginned Reaches 10,434,387 by Nov. 4, Which is a Little Ahead of 1012. The fifth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for this season, issued at 10 o'clock Friday morning, announced that 10,434,127 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior to November 14. Last year to November 11 there had been ginned 10,291,131 bales; in 1 908 to that date 9,593,809 bales, or 73.3 per cent, of the entire crop and in 190G to that dato 8,662,242 bales, or 66 per cent. Included in tbo ginnings 74,127 round bales, compared with G2.190 bales last year, 03,364 bales in 1910, 123,757 bales In 1909 and 173,908 bales in 1 908. The number of Sea Island cotton bales included were 5 2,0 7 9, compared with 41,321 bales last year, 68,495 bales in 1 909, and 50,701 bales in 1908. Ginnings prior to November 14 by states, with comparisons for last year and other big crop years and the percentage of the entire crop ginned prior to that date in those years, follow : Alabama. Ginnings. P.C. 191 3 . . . . ... 1,1 82,747 1 91 2 901,3 7 S .... J 1 L i, 215 y, a l L i a. 1 1908 1,020,724 7G.0 Arkansas. 1013 003,724 ?... 1 0 12 5 4 5,988 .... 1 011 563,115 02.0 1 908 .. . 005,232 00.8 Florida. 1013 5 3,219 1912 . .. 4 2,154 .... 191 1 G5,23 0 09.1 1 008 _ .. .. 51,4 97 72.9 Georgia. 1013 . .. ..1,824,290 .... 191 2 1,331,111 1 01 1 . . ... . . 2,106,305 75.4 1 008 1,504,037 79.1 Louisiana. 1 013 374,997 :?. .. 1 01 2 300,81 1 1 01 1 269,548 70.8 100S 34 1,953 73.3 Mississippi. 1913 . .. .. 735,797 101 2 614,115 1 01 1 71 9,038 01.0 1908 . . . . -.. 1,080,183 G7.0 North Carolina. 1913 ; 493,025 ?... 1912 .. .. 027,045 1011 71 0,200 03.0 1 008 451,434 00.0 Oklahoma. 1013 .? .. .. 000,070 .. ,m" 1012 . * . . . . 7 2 2,512 .... 1011 G 5 7,4 9 7 04.7 1908 322,051 46.7 Sontli Carolina. 1913 .. .. .? 995,897 1912 . ... . . 882,976 191 1 1,163,984 C8.8 1 908 938,926 77.2 Tennessee. 1 913 233,528 .... 1 91 2 1 38,072 1 911 264,777 61.6 1908 ........ 243,493 73.9 Texas. 1913 _ . .3,304,665 1912 .. .. ..4,019,317 1911 3,473,702 84.6 1 908 2,869,528 78.9 Other States. 1913 65,019 1912 .. .? .. 59,952 1 911 74,751 63.9 1908 .... .. 46,751 63.9 ? . KILLED BY TRAIN. ? l.L.,. 1 V /1 -A * I m ? iiuuj i- imiiiu 11 fin- uihihi Jiino j rat'k at Florence. The warm, though lifeless body of Mr. Duncan M. Carmichael, of Dillon, was found lying beside tho track of tho Atlantic Coast Lino Railway Company, near tho transfer freight station, about ono milo east of Florence, early Thursday morning. The body was found by tho crew of the wllmlnnlnn 1 ~ ~ ~ 1 * > ~1. i " vt iiiiuiigtuii ii;v;ui i rt'i^ni US It WtlS pulling througli tho yards. The head was crushed in, one leg was broken and tho toes of ono foot cut off, and it is supposed that ho either fell off train No. 85, tho southbound Fast Mail, or was hit by a train of tho Coast Lino. Tho body was warm when found. Coronor Gunn, of Florenco, was summoned and an inquest was hold, tho verdict being that in tho opinion of tho jury Mr. Carmichael camo to his death from being struck by a train on tho Atlantic Coast Lino railroad. ? "Will Send Him a Friend, Tho Washington correspondent who sent out tho report that Governor Bleaso would not bo in tho Senatorial raco, also said tho Democrats thero woro elated over tho report, as Bleaso's election would embarrass President Wilson's Administration, Tho President nebd not worry, the people of South Carolina will not send any one but a friend of hla to the BenaU. There Are Two of Them. Mr. Vanderllp, who is employed by Wall Street interests to run the New York City National Hank, may bo, as ho claims, tho greatest President of the greatest bank in the greatest city of the greatest State of the greatest Republic, but does it follow that the people of tho United States in their political capacity should bow down to him and let him dictate our financial policies to suit him and his Wall Street master? Wo do not think so. The World says "there is a President at Washington who is greater even than Vanderlip; who speaks not for a class but for all; who represents no interests but public interests; whose responsibilities aro to tho people and not to Standard OH stockholders, and tho field of whoso activities is not Wall street but tho world. "Whether the mighty Vanderlip is to bo heard for himself alono or in part for thoso who have made him what he is, we beg him not to bo ridiculous. When it conies to nn issue in this country between President Vanderlip and President Wilson, we know as well as wo shall know a year hence what tho result must be." It is hard for men like Vanderlip to reconcile themselves to tho new order of tilings at Washington. They have been used to having a man in the White House who did their bidding without question. Hut it is dif iovent now. woodrow Wilson is the master, while the Republicans who preceded him as President, were the servants of Wall Street and men of the Vanderlip type. And it is hard j for them to realizo the fact, but they will realize it before President Wilson and the Democratic Senato and House gets through with their reform measures. Verily tho people are at the bat. ? . The Reform Wave Rolls On. Tammany has just received the worst defeat in its history but Tammany has a habit of surviving defeat and of riding into power again after a year or two of exclusion. All of which goes to show that the forces of reform and good government must keep everlastingly at it if any permanent. good is to result. We hear about a wave of reform, but what is needed is not a mere wave that rolls majestically along but soon passes leaving nothing very lasting in its wake except a memory. The forces of evil never take a vacation and neither must the forces of civic and political righteousness if permanent good is to be accomplished. Some wise person once said with a good deal of truth that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty". In like manner it may be said that eternal vigilance is the price of civic and political purity. The results in New York, aj^d similar triumphs from time to time in other cities and states where continued and unblushing corruption had become intolerable prove that decent peoplo are in the majority in almost every place and that they havo the power when they choose to exert themselves. "Where is My JU>y To-night." In well nigh every community there are parents who do not know, and who seemingly do not care where their boys spend their evenings or the company they mingle with. Such parents are guilty of criminal negligence and they are mainly to blame if their boys, because of that neglect, go to the bad. It is the duty of every father and mother to safeguard the morals of their boys, and to do that they must exerciso wise vigilanco and authority. The best safeguard is to make the home life pleasant and attractive and to invite young peoplo of good character to meet their children in their own homes. Hut no homo can bo made attractive and winsome if the parents almost every night in the week aro absent at some club or other meeting, and it is just there where the fatal weakness lies in many a home. Chil-1 dren aro the most precious treasures a home can have but lota of parents aeem to have no sense of value. If they had, they would look more carefully after the treasure. ? Why Some Children Are Had. In many cases where parents com plain of the behavior of their children they forget that their children ' have good cause to complain of the . behavior of their parents. It is un reasonable to expect children to bo > distinguished by good conduct if the i example set them by their parents is i not good. Children are born lmlta! tors and not all the precepts one may i utter arc equal to the example given. T f n foU O, ~ ~ '1-1-1- > - 11 cv uiiiH i in )H uicuiUf ui ui in km, or JMl ' untruthful and selfish ho must not he 1 surprised to find his boys showing the same traits, and if a mother is l frivolous, extravagant in dress, and in other things setting an unwise ex. ample can she wonder if her daughi tors indulge in like manner? Under such circumstances what is needed ; is not scolding and punishment of > children but a reform on tho part of tlio parents. ? ? Must Use New Methods. Tho Dawson, Ga., News says "oven in tho absence of tho boll weevil 'hog and hominy' farming has demonstrati ed its practicability and profit in no i uncertain manner. With tho noar api proach of the weevil, thercforo, how , Imperative It is that proven methods > of farming along other lines than ox; elusive cotton raising bo undertaken Jon as largo a scalo as possible." The boll we?Yll U headed this way. I HANDS IN REPORT INSPECTOR TELLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA COMPANIES SIX FOUND DEFICIENT ? In llis Statement to War Department lie Tells of Changes Needed in the Otlier (Companies in Order to Hring Them to the Efficiency Demanded?Makes No ltocommendntions. The war department at Washington Wednesday wrote tho governor of South Carolina a letter bearing on the recent inspection of South Carolina troops and while tho department declined to make public tho contents of this letter before it has been received by tho governor, it is understood that in plain terms it calls attention to tho very unsatisfactory condition of tho troops at tho present time, says a dispatch to The Mm vv. i iivui. v / w i i /(i > iu o11 ti 11 ivn of the army luado an inspection of the troops in compliance with orders from the secretary of was between October G ami October 21, 1913. The object was to determino tho condition of tho twclvo companies which had been inspected and reported as unsatisfactory at an inspection made in March and April, 1913. "1 do not wish to make any recommendation in regard to these companies," the report says. "Thero may be considerations affecting them or important reasons for retaining them that are not fully known to mo. The following expression or opinion regarding their present condition and reasonable prospect of improvement is based upon the idea that the United States desires to encourage military instruction in every way; it does not want to withdraw opportunity for military instruction in any caso where it seems reasonable to suppose that tho government may receive even a fair return for the money invested or tho efforts made. "Based upon this idea it is my belief that tho companies located at Chesterfield, Bamberg, Barnwell, Bennettsville, Conway and Lancaster are in such condition as to render it extremely improbable that the govcernment would ever recelvo from them any kind of satisfactory service. The company at Walterboro, I believe, has improved to an extent such as to warrant its continuance without change in the commissioned personnel." The companies at Ellorce, Darlington and Comnanv CI. Sornnd Tnfnnfrv at Columbia, have an enlisted personnel that would promise considerable improvement with changes in the commanding officers the report says. Company 13, Second South Carolina infantry, is referred to as being "not in as good shapo as any of the last three mentioned," and it is intimated that hero should bo a change in its commanding ofllcer also. "Company 13 First infantry, at Liberty Hill, has no armory or proper store rooms," the report goes on. "Its membership is scattered over the surrounding country. The showing of this company under all its disadvantages was fairly good, and its enlisted personnel in physiquo and appearance and drill was ahout as good as any I saw Ah n_ drill inBlriiflnp Uu oontoln was quito as good as any." An analysis of this in tho absence of specific and more direct information which is contained in tho letter from tho war department to the governor of South Carolina, leaves llttfo room to doubt that, taken as a wholo and with special reference to tho companies at Chesterfield, Romberg, Barnwell, Bcnnettsville, Conway and Lancaster, the federal authorities are not satisfied with their showing. This is the state of their condition even after tho warning order which several of tho South Carolina companies received from tho war department last summer. Tt will bo noted also that the companies at Elloreo, Darlington, and Companies C and R at Columbia must show improvement before their general condition will ho satisfactory to tho secretary of war. It is assumed that upon receipt of this letter from tho secrotary of war to tho governor e o ^, 11, /~i ^ ? 1: ~ i. -- A ' - ' *'? * > ui uuuni vjtii uuiiii i>y nm iciiiur, tno matter will assume definite shapo. It will then bo known also whether or not any of tho South Carolina troops are to lose their federal appropriation or whether they will continue as at present. ?, About a Wiir With Mexico. Capt. Chas. Petly, of Spartanburg, says: "You need not fear a war with Mexico. Nobody wants it hut capitalists who havo invested millions in that country, army and navy contractors, tho powder trust and war advocates who would not fight if thoro wore a hundred wars in progross." That sizes up tho situation exactly. Plank Stops Runaway. Armed with a plank, an attendant at tho Georgia-Florida fair at Valdosta, Ga., stopped a runaway horso after ho had circled tho track six times at top speed. Ono well-directed blow brought tho runaway to an end. $ TRAMFS COST MILLION * INITKI) STATUS YIIlLllS VAST I>AI IiV TKI1UTU. Knights of ltoud Will Not Work, Whole World Is Their Prey and Jails Tlioir Welcome Winter Home. Tramps cost t ho United States $200,000 a day, according to the estimate of Prof. William Pulley, of the chair of economics in Tale university. In a roco.it address at Springfleld, Mass , he called attention to the tramp evil and declared die only wa> to eliminate the undesiral-lo loafers is not to give a penny o? a hi to to eat to a tra np unless ho works for it. Tho tramp is naturally voracious, Prof. Pailey observes, and once he Is compelled to work for what ho eats ho will seek steady employment so that he can command what ho desires as his food. ".Jails aro of no value In solving tho tramp problem," says Prof. Pailey. "Tramps discuss jails as most people do summer resorts and then select tho town in which they will commit a depradation so as to have a winter home." There are four grades of tramps In the United States, according to Prof. !?..!! ?~ _ 1 in - i imnrv j> cuissiiicaiion, ranging rrom tlio lowest, the "tomato can" tramp to gypsies, the only class that, is tolerated at law. The "tomato can" tramp is not misnamed, lie carries a tomato can over his shoulder, lie nses it to go about in the hack yards and alleys near saloons to drain the last dregs of beer kegs that are ready for the brewery. Without, the can ho could not do this. lie knows ho has not long to livo but he doesn't seem to bother much about, that. Next to tho "Knigths of tho Tomato Can" are tho "dossers". They liavo tho price to buy lodging In a doss houso nt. from flvo to 15 cents a night. Tho "dossers" nro quite vain and consider themselves as highly respectable. Tho everyday "hobo" comes next in tho scale. The gypsy is tho highest, grado of trampj. lie has a few horses, many dogs and numerous children. Ills chief business is "swapping" horses. His wlfo usually tells fortunes and the children earn nickel by doing athletic stunts. These gypsies are usually cleveh as pickpockets and follow country fairs. They are compelled to liiovo from place to place ? iii* ii .1111?iiiiiik nj cuin 111 un 1 Lius swapping undesirables. Prof. Battey stales that most tramps start out lo pet work hut find they can live without working. Many never work after their first, attack of wanderlust and they becomo professional tramps. I kills tiirfk officious. Murderer Shoots Policeman Who Attempt Ills Arrest. Chief of Polico Grant, of Bingham, Utah, and Deputy Sheriffs Otto Whit heck and Nephi Jenson, were killed in a fight with Ralph Lopez, a Mexican, near Saratoga Springs, Utah, late Friday. Lopez is wanted in Bingham, a mining camp, for the murder of John Valdez, a countryman, thoro early Friday morning. After slaying the three otllcers Lopez fled Into the hills. Posses aro searching for him with the prospect of another fight if ho is overtaken. Immediately after killing Valdez, Lopez, armed with a rltlle, left the mining camp with a posso in pursuit, hut the trail in the snow soon was lost. It was picked up again Friday afternoon and the fugitivo was located in a clump of bushes near Saratoga Springs. Deputy Wliitbeck ordered him to surrender and was answered by a bullet, which killed him. Popez then turned his gun on Chief Grant, who fell dead. Deputy Jensen, the third member of the posse, received a wound, of which be died while trying to defend bis comrades. After shooting tho officer? Lopez resumed bis llight. Several automobile loads of police and deputies continued tho search for the murderer. Make tho Pest of Tilings. Not unoften peoplo by tho exercise of good judgment, courage, and will may convert troubles into veritable blessings. An artist once painted a beautiful picture, but by somo accident just as he was finishing it some blots got onto tho sky. To rub them out without spoiling tho picture would havo been Impossible. But instead of fuming and fretting over the matter ho painted wings and beak tc each blot, and converted them intc birds, and in so doing gavo tho picturo an added valuo. That is a good way to deal with troubles. Give them wings and let them fly away. ? Falso Alarm Proves Fatal. Answering to an alarm of firo al Miama, Fla., that proved falso, ar auto truck skidded, turned turtle and hurled the eight firemen who wer< riding on it violently to the streot Ono man was fatally Injured, while the other seven were seriously hurt ? ? Injured in Wreck. Two passengers and three train men were injured late Tuesday wher the Seminole Limited of the Illinois Central Railroad was derailed neai Jasper, JJm. LOOKS OUT FOR ENGLAND 1 UNITE I > STATES TO PROTECT FOREIGN PROPERTY. ? Kobol Chief at Tuxpam Answors Ad? iniral Fletcher, Saying Caprice or Vengeance Does Not Control Him. Rear Admiral Fletcher, commandIng tHo American fleet on tHo oast coast of Mexico, lato Friday cabled the navy department a messago ho had received from Gen. Agullar, tho Constiutionalist leader, who has occupied tho vicinity of Tuxpam, giving assurances that American and other extensive oil interests in that territory would bo protocted. Admiral Fletcher is under orders to tako such steps as may bo necessary to protect foreign lives and property, reports from Tuxpam having indicated that the Constitutionalists were threatening to destroy the tanks of British oil interests. This led to talk of the possibility of landing marines or bluejackets from tho American battleships, and develop- j ments in tho situation havo been awaited with intense interest. Gen, Aguilar's message, sent in reply to Admiral Fletcher's demand that no harm should come to foreigners or their property, said: "I am governing on a constitutional basis, my attitude being to guarantee the interests of all foreign and domestic oil corporations existing in the territory I occupy, fulfilling in this manner <he rlemnn/la (ion and not being governed by caprico or vengeance." Officials tbink thin means that (hero will bo no troublesome complications as a result of Agullar's occupation of the oil Hold territory. Destruction of tbo tanks would have endangered lives of many Americans and other foreigners. Two British cruisers liavo been ordered to tho scene, but, in tbo meantime, tho United States lias been asked to guard British interests. Frequent conferences Friday botween Secretary Bryan, Counsellor John Bassott Moore and Acting Secretary Roosevelt and two visits by the Secretary of State to tho White House, accompanied by Mr. Roosevelt, were the outward marks of tho deep interest felt in official circles in tbo Mexican situation. It developed that the welfare of the Madoro brothers and their relatives, who bad sought asylum in tho American consulate at Vera Cruz, was the feature of these conferences. There was a strong desire on the part of the administration to learn whether any resistance had been offered by tbo Mexican authorities to the removal of tbo refugees aboard a battleship, and it was quite apaprent that a sense of relief was experienced when It was learned that it had not been necessary to mploy force. Late in tho day tho department received a cablegram from Admiral Fletcher announcing that "Daniel Madero and five companions were received this morning on board tbo Louisiana as refugees." Tt was said at the navy department that no special Instructions had been given in regard to tho treatment of tho refugees, though Admiral Fletcher bad been told to confer with John Bind, who had been authorized by President Wilson himself to extend, protection to the Maderos. ? . STIIjTj HAS HIS COItV. 4 From the Aero for Which Ho Got Fiftcen Hun tired Dollars. i Possibly it will Interest the boys - who contemplate entering corn clubs ; to know what a Georgia boy has aci complished, and what it is possible [ for any boy to duplicate. A press dispatch from Augusta ' says: "Ono aero of corn grown by a I hoy in his teens, Edward J. Welborn, > of Richmond county, has netted him . $1,500, and ho holds tho world's i record for production on a single aero I for this season. "Hero is what tho boy gets. One ? pair of mules, $000; wagon and harness, $100; Percheron mare, $100; scholarship In collego, $250; local and National corn show and othor , prizes, $150. Total, $ 1,500. I "These prizes are given young Wels born in connection with tho Augusta t Chronicle's Corn show, held in con nection with tho Georgia-Carolina i Fair. In addition, tho young man i still has his corn?181.72 bushels of > it, all grown on one acre. It cost him 2 8c a bushel to mako It, or just i $51.05." , ^ ^ ? T ? Wants Equal Bights. Cheshire, tho editor of tho Har1 poon, says ho "is ono of tho people, ! ho is a candidato for congress, he was for Blease in tho last election," andho wants to know now "why should ho not have rights equal to any other i man's"? Simply because Dominick i is the Blease candidato in tho district I ho aspires to represent in congress ) and ho is in tho way. i Tho Florenco Times remarks that . "Senator McLaurin says ho is ready to help in a moral reform of politics in tho Stato. Wo seo plenty of need of It, but it strikes us that tho Senai tor was headed a mighty peculiar i way to have that sort of destination/* That la the way Is strikes most poo^ Pi* |j