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HUIM IRUST BILL ? MEMBERS PREPARE TENTATIVE DRAFT OF MEASURE FQLLQ V WILSON'S IDEAS Penalties Are Mude Individual in Accordanco With President's Wisli? Entire Measure lias Not lleeii Submitted to 11 i in?Interlocking Directorates Feature Important. A general outline of the tentative draft of anti-trust legislation prepared by majority members of the House Committee on the judiciary for action by the full committee, subject to a conference with President Wilaon, became known in Washington Friday night. While members of the committee talked with the president some weeks ago, the proposed bills ao far have not the administration stamp, and they will he discussed at * conference between the president and the committeemen immediately following the president's return. The bills, drafted after conferences between Chairman Clayton, Representative Carlin, of Virginia, chairman of the trust sub-committee, and Representatives Floyd, Arkansas, McCoy, New Jersey, and others, cover these three main points: First?Tn<crlocking directorates. Second?Trade relations and prices. Third?.Injunction proceedings and damage suits by individuals. In every case President Wilson's idea of providing penalties for individuals, as well as for corporations in case of violations, has been followed. It was decided it would bo better to draft several bills Instead of incorporating all anti-trust, proposals in an omnibus measure, supplementary to the Sherman Act. An attempt to define combinations and wni^iMi ac'.rs in i i'sinuiu or tratio, a^ far as possible, lias boon made in the bills already prepared. The bill to inhibit interlocking directorates is regarded as the most important of tbe tbree. It applies to .ba n k s and trust companies and to every industrial corporation enlaced in interstate trado. Tbe tentative draft of this measure provides that: "After tbe 23rd day of December, 1014, an officer or direcor of a Fed oral reserve bank, a branch bank, national bank, or banking association, or any State bank, banking association or trust, company admitted to membership on a Federal reserve bank shall not he an officer or director of any other hank, banking association or trust company, or of any financial corporation, institution ol association engaged in the business of banking. Nor shall he engage in the banking business individually or as a member of a firm or association engaged in auch business; nor shall he be an officer or director of any other corporation. organization or association the principal part of whose authorized or actual business is to buy. sell or bold the stocks, bonds, securities or evidences of indebtnesses of corporations, organizations or of such atock. bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness, or to negotiate loans to corporations, organizations or associations; nor of any other corporation. organization or association owning stock of or an interest in corporation, organization or association conducting principally such authorized actual business. "A director of Class A of a Federal reserve bank may be an officer ot director, or both an officer and a director of one member bank." The other two classes are prohibited in the currency law from holding the other offices. This part of the measure was drafted by Representative McCoy, and is understood to have the approval of other judlcary members. The effect of the industrial corportion feature of the interlocking directorate bill, the committeemen say would be of the most sweeping character, cutting out the interlocking arrangements and enabling directorah! nu on /I oAnt?*/\l 4 ^ ? 1 it >i \i vuimui ptinM ill <l IH r^f army of now men, instead of keepinp tho industrial oontrol of various line? of activity in the hands of a few. Under its terms no officer or director in any industrial corporation engaged in interstate trade would be permitted to he any officer or director in another industrial interstate corporation in allied business. Manufacturers of railroad cars, locomotives, railroad rails and structural steel, or men engaged in mining or selling coal, would be barred from becoming directors or other officers or other emnloyees of railroads engaged In interstate commerce. The bill would not become effective until two years after passage, to allow adjustment of business arrangements. Tho other measures would tako effect immediately upon passage. The measure designed to stop agreements for regulation of prices has drastic provisions. It is designed to stop the fixing by wholesalers of prices at which the manufactured article shall be sold to tho public and to prevent "big business' from entering into contracts to control COTTON GRADE PLAN ? SENATOR SMITH'S EXPERIMENTS SECU RES RESULT. Government Tests Show That Texas Loses $10,000,000 on Cotton Such as Smith Plan Proposes to Save. Experiments which were ordered by Congress at the suggestion of Senator E. I). Smith to determine the difference in spinning value between the various standard cotton grades, have proceeded far enough to sustain the senator's theory that this difference is by no means so great as would be thought from the price paid the producer of the staple. Out of this investigation, which is being made by the department of agriculture under the supervision of its cotton expert, I)r. N. A. Cobb, results are accruing which will be of vital importance to the cotton growers of the South. The experiments have been carried on with a total of about 1 2 0 bales, half of eastern and half of western upland cotton, which was put through the Danville, Va., mills under the regular process used for commercial cotton. Parallel tests were made at the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical | college in South Carolina, and addi tional chocks will ho obtained from technical laboratories elsewhere before a final report is published. Enough has been learned from the tests already accomplished to justify the following semi-official statement of their significance: "It. has been shown conclusively that much of the lower grade cotton, for which a decidedly lower price is paid, works into .iust as good yarn and fabric as slightly more exnensive grades. In the case of Texas this year much of the cotton was hadlv stained and weathered in the field, but these experiments have shown that the bleaching process used in the mills is effective and cheap and has no appreciable effect on the strength of the yarn." At a hearing before the House committee on agriculture experts for the department recently said that this stained and weathered cotton in Texas has sold for 0 or 7 cents a pound, when it was intrinsically 1 worth 10 to 12 cents a pound, as ' demonstrated by the Danville experiments. The total loss to the farmers of Texas alone this year on this ac' count, one of the experts told the committee, will probably reach $40,1 000,000. As an object lesson to give practi, cnl effect to the ontoomo of the spinning experiments the department of agriculture will prepare fifty or more sots of exhibits, showing the grades of cotton handled, tho amount of , waste In each, and the character of the yarn produced, both before and after bleaching. These exhibits will ho installed at the various agricultural colleges which are interested, and with as many cotton exchanges 1 m care to have them on view as an 1 aid to the grower. WTIcSO* ITKTiPS. 1 ' Sends Oonfribntion for Monument to t (list Rifles. A check for $25 has been received ' at Anderson from President Wood' row Wilson to ho added to tho fund being raised for the erection of a monument in the town park at Wllliamston, Anderson county, to the members of the Gist Rifles, organized there before the war and serving in the front rank as a part of the Hampton Legion. One of the mem hers of the company was Ross Ken nedy, after the Rer. A. R. Kennedy, 5 D. D., a son of the distinguished edu1 cator, the Rer. John L. Kennedy, a ! gallant soldier, who was wounded at the second battle of Manassas. After ' his entry into the ministry he marrled Miss Marion Wilson, eldest sister of the president. Thoso who have the enterprise in charge thought it proper to write President Wilson of the movement. , and ho has responded promptly with . tho contribution of $25. ; Tho Gist Rifles was named for Oov ernor Olst and was commanded by > Gapt. TT. J. Smith. It contained 221 ; at tho start, and pave a Rood account i of Itself In tho struggle between tho States. An association was formed . soon after tho war, and meetings . have boon hold from time to time In , the Willlamston Park. Now, how. ever, death has Invaded the ranks . until there are hardly enough left to . hold an annual meeting. i ... ' prices of any commodity. The measure on injunction and damage suits would give individuals 1 as well as tho government tho right ' to start injunction proceedings for 1 any attempt at injury. Tn civil proceedings begun by tho Federal government. under tho Sherman haw, in which a judgment or final or interlocutory decree has been entered, holding the defendants guilty of coni duct prohibited by the Act, it would permit Individuals claiming to be injured by such conduct to he admitted as a party to the suit, with the same relief as if they bad brought an independent suit. This would give the Individual the benefit of the results of a proceeding by the government. MM AUIIM HIVn HUlKdS <[ llj NAIil Fill I* TO UNFIID ST AI k FA RUIIL AUMY MfllKlllU: llordcr Patrol Disarms the Mexican llost, Taking Into Custody ? .-NOn Soldiers and Si\ ( morals, and ( Ives Stiooor to I ,.">Ot) Civilians Who Pled Prom Itebol Approach. Twenty-eight hundred Mexican Pedoral soldieis, six generals, 200,0 0 0 rounds of ammunition, two cannon. lour large held pieces and 1,5 00 civilian refugees were in the custody of the United States army border patrol Sunday as the result of the Pedoral evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico. and the occupation of the Mexican village by den. Francisco Villa's rebel forces. The distress of the refugees is intense. They have scant food and no che'.tor. Men. women, children, dogs, chickens and cattle are packed together in a space covering several acres. About them are scattered all the goods and belongings and baggage brought in the Might from >,iinaga. Otlior rosults of tlio rebel successes that place (Ion. Villa's army in undisputed control of a vast section of Northern Mexico are: Federal (lens. Mercado, Castro. Orpinal. Romero. .Vdnno and Panda are in custody of the United States troons awaiting disposition hv the wra depart men Con. Pascnal Orozco and flcn. Ynez Salazar. Federal volunteer commanders. escaped along the border to some point remote from Presidio. Salazar was wounded. They were ncoonmnnied by Gen. Carnveo and Con. Ro.ias and three hundred cavalrymen. Salazar and Orozco are being watched for in the United, States for Indictments, charging them with violating neutrality laws. Cop. Panda said he was certain all the Federal troops escaped. Charges of cowardice were made against Orozco. Salazar and Rojas. Gen. Mercado said these generals aban-1 donod their troops at the beginning of the battle and thus weakened the Federal defence. The only generals who nult the battlefield with honor, Gen. Mercado said, were those who accompanied the Federal army across the Rio Grande. Gen. Mercado reiterated that the Federals were compelled to evacuate because of lack of ammunition. Tie said his soldiers only had an a vera fro of 7 S onrfrwtrrr?a nonti After the confusion incidental to evacuation the battlefield opposite Presidio at daylight revealed a scene of desolation. The whole swoon of land lending to the heights of Ojinnpa had been ploughed by the frantic rout of the Federal army and the caver scramble into the village by Fen. Villa's rebels. A cannon toppled muzzle downward. a blood-stained sabre sticking In the muddy river bank, rifles thrown In heaps, the crumpled forms among the cactus and mosquito, and the eyes that peered here and there from among the glazed racks were nmong the mute suggestions of what had gone before. Those who went across in behalf of the Red Cross found many wounded who for hours had remained uneared for. Many were traced in the trenches by their groans. It was the belief of the American army physicians that many soldiers died because neither Fed era is nor repels Had a hospital corps. The 1,500 civilian refugees who rushed across tho river when Oen. Mercado went through the streets of O.iiriaga, telling the people to flee, suffered as much distress as the soldiers. Scores of women camp followers had lost their children in the scramble and were crying piteously in the corral provided for them on the American side. Others were without, sufficient clothing and all were drenched from wading through the river. The scene of disorder on the American side was almost as had as on the Mexican. Scores of Federal guns had been thrown into tho river and were protruding from the mud. Federal and rebel wounded, who had crawled to the river hank side by side, were wading across, aided *by American soldiers. Mexican women and children, who escaped from the corral were trudging up tho mountain road toward Marfa and had to be brought back. Suddenly made guardians of an entire foreiern cnrriuon nmnnroia t, 0?,. . .MX/'1, QVUV HIO (l,,U all, the American border patrol considered what was to be (lone with the Mexican soldiers. From a military standpoint, the situation was regarded as being without a precedent, since in time of peace the United States army never has had to surround, disarm, hold in custody and care for so large a body of aliens. Less than r>00 cavalrymen handled tho panic stricken mob of almost ten times! their number. Though many Fed oral soldiers had loaded rifles and well filled cartridge belts, the rounding up and disarming was done with out any untoward incident. Poth Villa, the victorious robe* leader, and Mercado, the defeated 1 Federal commander, standing on ojh PRESIDENT IS PLEASED MIG 1M SINKSS IIKSPONDS TO J SIM KIT or m il 'OKMS. Wilson Kefuses to Address Missisl.cu'i^laimc Pccnuso He is PiT'cnipicd Willi Trust Message. president Wilson Friday expressed his gratification that business in 'ho country was adjusting: itself not only to changes brou lit about by re riM legislation but to the spirit of 'he times generally. In the course of n info'inal sneecli to a committee f'-om the Mississipni legislature, which had called on him at bis residence. the president said that this hace of public affairs was upper mi?t in his mind. Tho committee had oomo to invite^ Mr W'lson to address tho legislature of thoir state. but tho president told them ho was too dooplj ahsorhod in ''is message on anti-trust reform to 'oavo earlier than Ids scheduled time or to tarry on routo to Washington 1 audatorv resolutions that had hoon passed by thoir legislature wore road to tho president by tho committee. Mr. Wilson, nf or smilingly totting his callers that they had o\toltod him too highly, explained that ho had come South for a eomnloto ro?-"t that ho had hoon hononttod "rontlv and was going back to Wash-j inpton both phvsieallv and mentally! pronarod for a period of hard work. tto referred to tariff and currency reform as having hoon accomplished hv congross through slntn'v "sawing "'oo't" and going ahead with an outlined program. Tho thing that nleased him most, lie said, was the I war iho httsiness interests of the country seemed to ho acting. Mo ?u'idp no reference to the recent dissolution agreement of the American I Telephone and Telegraph comnnny or the withdrawal of the Monran | poni^anv from many of its directorships. V>nt those who hoard the president went away with the impression hat ho had these things in mind. The president said lie expected to read his anti-trust message to conrro?s as soon as possible after his re n*"n to \V"shimrton. He remarked hat he could pot overstay his vacation In the South, as he expected to confer with Democratic leaders In cor cress as soon as he arrived at the canltal. The meeting with the committee was pr'vate. Represent at Ive Harrison. who accompanied the visitors, ?mld the president's speech was significant in his attitude toward hip business, that the chief executive seemed to have a disposition to work out the trust, question in a peaceful constructive wav and In the spirit of common counsel. heed as incendiary. Aiken County Negro is Accused of Hurning a Itnrn. Monday night Sheriff Howard of Aiken county received a telephone message telling him that a barn belonging to Samuel Thomas, who lives about 12 miles from Aiken, had been burned and that It was thought to have been sot on fire. Early Tuesday morning Rural Policeman Samuels and Robinson were dispatched to the scene, with instructions to make a thorough Investigation. Pollcemans Samuels and Robinson returned late Tuesday afternoon with John Henry Williams, a nocrn. who is charged with tho burning. A shoe ht> had on when captured corresponded exactly with tho track which led away from the barn to the place where he was captured. He protests his Innocence. Ho had been whipped by parties to whom the barn belonged about two years ago. He left and came back about a month ago. poslte banks of tho Rio Orando, discussed the incidents in Mexican history in which they had just taken a part. Gen. Villa sat triumphantly in the little adobe palace on the Plaza in Ojinaga. Gen. Mercado sat in the camp of tho American border patrol. "It was hopeless," said Gen. Merrado. "We could not have resisted a charge by the rebels. It would have been a massacre. I ordered the evacuation and flight to safety across tho river on grounds of humanity. "Tho loyalty of the government forces was unquestioned. There was no indication of a general desertion. When I saw there was no hope I had to command the soldiers to Ipuva t ehose to places the lives of my men !t\ the care of the United States rather than to risk them to the rebels. We are grateful for our hospital asylum here." (Jen Villa said: "The credit for his victory is due to Gen. Torlbio Ortega. We knew the Federals only had a limited supply of ammunition. Our tactics were to exhaust that supply. Gen. Ortega started an attack to draw the Federal fire. He succeeded well. "For a whole week the Federal garrison kept firing hack at us with Mttle effect. We did not go near enough to endanger our men. Then " e withdrew for six days to obtnin more ammunition. Our renewed at'sck settled the conflict. The Federals were exhausted and the flight to the United States began Just as we planned." THIS YEAK AHIAB MASON'S ClMlHNtilNNINGSTOPS THAT IIF 1912 13 MILLIONS UINNFD (iovcniiiMMil l'Nthnnte Plans <?innings at 1 d,:idd,07 I Kales, Which is About inn.(MM) Kales More I Than for the Same Period in Pre-j ceding Crop?This State's Share. The eighth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issued at 1 0 o'clock Friday morning, announced that 1 1,111,074 hales of cotton, counting round as half hales, of the growth of I!) 1II had been ginned prior to January 1, to which date during the past seven years the ginning averaged 0.1.1 per cent, of the en tiro crop. Last year to January 1 there had been ginned 12,I 0 0 7, 10.7 hales, or 0.7.7 per cent, of Ihe entire crop: 11.117,002 hales, or 0 2.1 per cent, in 1011, and 1 2,1 0.7,208 hales, or 0.7.1 per cent, in 1008. Included in the ginnings were 10 1.20.7 round hales, compared with 77,000 hales last year, 00,227 hales in 1011, 100,202 bales in 10 10, and 1 11,0 10 hales in 1000. The number of sea island cotton bales included were 7 4.120. compared with 07,2.77 bales last year, 10.7,0SS hales in 1011, 80,0 11 bales in 1OO0. and SO,.728 bales in 1 008. Winnings prior to January 1 by states, with comparisons for last year nnd othor big crop years and tho percentage of the entire crop ginned prior to that date in those years, follow: Alabama. Year. Clinnings. P.C 1 r? I 3 1 ,4 6 7,9 4 3 .... 19 12 1,289,227 9 7.1 191 1 1.??1 S. r? 1 0 9a.r, 1 9 0 S 1,202,22.8 97.8 Arkansas. 1 9 1 2 922,289 .... 1912 722,118 9 2.0 1911 7 8 0,229 80.6 1 908 9 1 0,422 91.4 Florida. 1 91 3 65,269 .... 1 91 2 56,04 2 95.3 1 91 1 86,421 91.5 1 908 66,855 94.7 Cieorgla. 1 9 1 3 2,276,477 .... 1 9 1 2 1,756,824 96.9 1 91 1 2,623,91 7 93.9 1 908. 1,930,783 97.7 Louisiana. 1913 41 0,086 .... 1 91 2 3 66,402 97.8 1911 352,503 02. 0 1008 453,2 1 0 07. t Mississippi. 1 0 1 3 1,1 4 3,007 .... 1012 03 0.41 5 03.2 1 011 1,047,200 80.0 1 908 1,522,160 93.0 North Carolina, 1 9 13 750,604 .... 1912 857,1 89 94.0 1 91 1 075,223 80.0 1908 6 4 7,505 94.7 Oklahoma. 1 01 3 804,4 57 .... 1 01 2 047,452 04.3 1 01 1 000,400 88.0 1 90 8 5 2 5,610 95.1 South Carolina. 1 013 1,342,988 1 01 2 1,1 73,210 05.8 1 01 1 1,508,753 80.2 1908 1,176,220 96.7 Tennessee. 1 91 3 3 5 4,549 .... 1912 a 248,503 92.9 1 01 1 381,281 88.7 1 908 31 7,010 94.9 TV xits. 1 91 3 3,608,080 .... 1 91 2 4,401,740 90.0 1 91 1 3,020,059 95.0 1 008 3,480,007 96.1 Other States. 1 01 3 1 07,105 .... 1 01 2 82,257 01.3 1 01 1 1 1 0,208 70.1 1 008 67,777 92.7 The pinnitiRs of sea island cotton, prior to January 1, by states, follow: Years. Fla. C.a. So. Car. 1 0 1 3 .. ..25,1 00 41,708 7,3 80 1 01 2 .. ..21,085 30,543 6,620 1 91 1 .. ..38,001 03,000 4,708 1009 .. ..2 7.5 3 2 4 9.9 4 4 1 2.1 sr. ? INJURIES PROVE FATAL. i Little Laurens Roy Fearfully Scalded i>y Falling in Pot. Ar the result of scalds and burns received three days ago. Jack Dendy, aged 7, eldest child of Joseph J. Dendy, a prominent farmer and busll noss man of Laurens county, died Sunday night at thp family home. I While warming himself before a flro under a pot In the yard, the lad accidentally fell into the vessel of boiling water and was terribly scalded from his neck to the waist line. Five l?io When House Falls. Three men and two girls are supposed to be in the ruins of a building tbit eollapsed at South Tlend, Ind., 0*t?r6ty. PLAN TO MEET ATTACK FEDERALS SAY EACH DAY GIVBH THEM STRENGTH. They Await Villa's Rebol Troops Which Are Supposed to ho Gathering for the Attack. Returning Thursday to Ojinaga from a roeonnoitoring trip, flen. Pa?cual Orozco, commander of federal volunteers, said ho had encountered only tho outposts of the rebel army. The rebels wore believed to be concentrating under personal direction of flon. Francisco Villa, to present a solid front when they again maroh on Ojinaga. All nine generals who remain In the trenches at Ojinaga, with tho 1,000 Huerta soldiers, said every hour of delay gave them opportunity to prepare resistance and (Jen. Villa would have to increase tho rebel force greatly to repeat tho six day's battle of last week, when the rebels came within 4 00 yards of the Ojinaga trenches without being a bio to take t hem. (Jen. Francisco Castro, commander of the federal regular army, said he was confident his army never would lie beaten by Villa. He said he was well aware that tho impending conflict was of momentous importance to tho Huerta regime. It would settle. he said, a question whether the Mexico City government was to maintain its authority in the north or whether the "lawless rebels which go bv the natne of constitutionalists :irt? to have full sway." The federal commnndor said his soldiers bad endured hardships, bad gone without food for days, rapped and footsore, they bad marrbod over Ibo waterless desert as a token of tbeir loyalty and be did not believe tbey would run at the sound of battle. "Well never retreat, but all of us will die right bero in Ojinaga If our ammunition gives out," said (Jen. Castro, himself garbed in a torn and dusty uniform as evldenco of tbe rerent fighting. Reports have reached Federal headquarters that since tbeir withdrawal from the battle Monday the rebels had not only been strengthened by reinforcements from Chihuahua but they also had obtained quantities of ammunition. The federal army has only what ammunition' was left after tbe battle and has no means of replenishing its stores. A story of the death of Col. Cuilly, relative of tbe rich Terrawia family, who Joined the federal army as a volunteer, was told today by a priest. Tbe priest said Cuilly, accidentally shot by his men in last Sunday's ontragement, bad requested when dying that the rumor of his shooting be kept from tbe rebels, as they might consider tbe federals bad become excited. FEW MOKE MADE Fit EE. Please Pardons One and Paroles Several Other Criminals, Among those who received exectv* tive clemency on the first of the year were: J. Caesar Watts, white, convicted at the October, 1911, term of court for Lancaster county, of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Stato penitentiary. Granted a full md free pardon. TTenry Patrick, white, convicted at tho November, 1903, term of court for Marlboro county, of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary. Paroled upon the condition that he remain sober. Harvey Jackson, white, convicted at tho April, 1 900, term of court for Chesterfield county, of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary. Paroled during good behavior. William Praswell, white, convicted In Richland, September, 1913, of highway robbery and larceny, and sentenced to three years. Paroled during good behavior. Hollle Leslie, colored, convicted in Abbeville in 1911, of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Paroled during good behavior. Ludie Heard, colored, convicted In Greenville September, 1910, of assault and battery with intent to kill, and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Paroled during good behavior. Oerellct Is Sunk. Tho part of tho Oklahoma which remained nfloat after tho disaster and menaced navigation, was sunk Wednesday by tho revenue cutter Senaca. It took fifteen explosive shells, fired from six-pound guns, to send the derelict to the bottom. Cotton Is Humeri. Four hundred bales of cotton were destroyed and 20ft wero damaged In a flro which destroyed tho Northwestern compress at Howie, Texas, Sunday. ? Kllleri by Train. Mrs. Fllza Kennory, of Ridgeway, was struck and killed by a Southern train Thursday She Is supposed to hare been walking down the track.