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GINNING REPORT : r GOVERNMENT ISSUES NEXT TO LAST SEASON ESTIMATE 1 13 MILLIONS GINNED Ninth Report of Census llureau Was < Iimued at 10 O'Clock Friday Morn- ' iag?I,ii00,i34 Bales dinned in 1 South Carolina?Sea Island Bales ; Included Amount to 70,182. The ninth cotton ginning report of 5 tho census bureau for the season, is- I sued at Washington at 10 o'clock Friday morning, announced that 13,- 5 589,171 bales of cotton, counting ' round as half bales, of tho growth of ( 1913, had been ginned prior to Jan- ' nary 16, to which date during tho 1 past seven years tho ginning averag- I ed 95.5 per cent, of the entire crop. 1 Last year to January 16 there had boon ginned 13,088,930 bales, or 97 ' per cent, of the entire crop; in 1911 ; to that date 14,515,799 bales or 93.3 ' per cent., and in 1908 to that date 1 12,GOG,203 bales, or 9G.8 per cent. included in tho ginnlngs were 97,034 round bales, compared with 7 8,- i GOO bales last year, 97,05 4 bales in ( 1911, 1 1 1,079 baks in 1910 and ] 2 32,510 bales in 1 008. Tho number of sea island cotton i bales included were 7 6,182, compared t with 70,7 5 8 bales last year, 10 9,867 ( bales in 1912 and 92,191 bales in s 1 900. i Ginnlngs prior to Jan. 1G by states, with comparisons for last year and i other big crop years and tho percent- < ago of tho entire crop ginned prior to > that date in those years, follow: t Alabama. : Ginnlngs. P. C. 1013 1,475,642 .... 1 1912 1,307,736 98.5 ( 191 1 1,638,609 9 0.7 * 1908 1,316,803 OS.9 J Arkansas. 1913 907,720 .... 191 2 74 1,282 96.2 c 1911 707,507 87.8 "t 1908 931,133 93.5 ( Florida. i 1913 65,754 .... ( 191 2 57,324 97.4 t 191 1 88,177 93.3 ; 1908 68,624 97.2 c Georgia. f J3U 2,3 1 6,3 0 1 .... 191 2 1,781,232 98.3 191 1 2,657,984 95.1 1908 1,952,1 13 98.7 Louisiana. 1913 420,094 .... 191 2 369,07G 98.5 1 91 1 357,758 93.9 1908 458,762 98.3 Mississippi 1913 1,176,626 .... 1912 952,520 94.8 19U 1,061,859 90.8 1908 1,551,792 95.8 North Carolina. 191 3 784,402 .... 1912 875,493 96.6 191 1 996,988 88.5 1908 661,669 96.8 Oklahoma. 1913 825,112 .... 1912 965,752 96.1 191 1 915,563 90.1 t 1908 532,803 96.4 t South Carolina. t 191 3 1,369,434 .... f 1912 1,192,574 97.4 t 1911 1,536,085 90.8 " 1908 1,1 92,723 98.1 r Tonnesso. 191 3 3 6 89Q7 ^912 252,890 94.6 191 1 386,293 89.8 1908 321,727 96.3 a Texas. {] 1913 3,718,725 .... ,j 191 2 4,509,220 97.1 f 191 1 3,964,620 96.5 t 1908 3,528,981 97.3 Other States. 1913 11 1,052 Q 191 2 83,831 93.1 1911 11 4,176 82.2 'r 1908 69,732 95.3 The glnnlngs of sea Island cotton, s prior to Jan. 16, by states, follow: i, Florida. Georgia. S. C. a 191S .. ..25,356 42,650 8,176 u 1911 .. ..39,340 65,577 4,950 s 1909 .. ..27,888 51,072 13,231 tl v Child Crashed to Death. r' n The siX-Vfi.l r-ril rl nnn C V? ? I _ _ ? v,.,. wv/ii vi vuna Thompson of Wilkinsvlllo was crush- ^ ed to death Tuesday In the oil mill at that place. The little fellow was J' playing in the room near the elevator when he was caught in the machinery and injured so badly that he died ^ within a short time. * 1 Ninth I'eace Treaty. j Secretary Bryan and Dr. Paul Rit- f( tor, the Swiss minister, Saturday j, agreed on a treaty providing for investigation of all questions which can not be settled by diplomacy. p n Child's Suitor Shoots Parent. 1, Angered because ho was refused o the hand of a nine-year-old girl in cl marriage, John Vane of Gellwood, I) Pa., fired four shots into the girl's father, Guian Petroli, who will die. ti lL. THEY TOOK IT ALL BACK TIIK ASYLUM REGENTS PASS TWO RESOLUTIONS. Vfako Serious (Tuitkon About a Lady Physician and Then Take it All Hack. The resolution passed by the board' >f regents of the Asylum in December criticising I)r. Dabcock and his lady Assistant, Dr. Saunders, and the set passed in January exonerating Dr. Saunders, which action Senator Crouch denounced as "cowardly" and jcored so severely, played an importiiit part in the Senate Friday morning in the discussion on the resoluion to invesigate the Asylum. What one Senator termed as a liftng of the corner of the "veil of mys,ery" which envelops the seething caldron at the Asylum, is contained n the following copies of the resoutions by the board of regents composed of Dr. J. 11. Taylor, of Columbia; J. A. Summersett, of Columbia; I. 1). Havens, of Dorchester County; [>r. W. L. Settlemeyer, of Caffney, md Dr. T. A. Carouthers, of Hock Hill, chairman. All but Dr. Taylor are ippointees of Governor Ulease. First Resolution. The first resolution of the board of *egents of the hospital, passed January I 4, 1 HI 4, as certified t oby J. W. Hunch, secretary, is as follows: "Whereas complaints have been nado to us individually and as abody hat certain friction among the officials of this instituton s now n exitenco and lias been for sonm Hmo I 111(1 "Whereas various members of the nodical staff reported to us that Dr. Saunders was interfering, meddling >\ith them and thereby hampering hem in the discharge of their duties; iii (1 "Whereas, this board did on the l-th day of December, 1913, hold an xecutive sesson and have before it Superintendent Babcock, Drs. SaunIcrs, (Jrilllth, Thompson, Fulmer and Poole, and hold their various statenents in reference to sad matter; and "Wheras at sad meeting, Dr. Saunders admitted that she had been aking lessons under Dr. Cooper in a ertain branch of the medical departnent, and that Dr. Cooper had freinently been on the premises and in he building of the said institution it'tor he had been defeated as an oilier thereof and after the? superintendnit had been requested to kep him iff said premises and out of said milding; now, therefore, be it reiolved: "First, That this board deplores he action of Dr. Saunders in intercring with the other members of the nodical staff in the discharge of their ' luties and that the members of this >oard hereby place upon record their :ondenination of her continually hav- 1 ng Dr. Cooper in the institution in lirect violaton of the wshes of this joard of regents. i "Resolved, second, That this board i lo lind that Dr. Saunders has been sontinually interfering with the other i nembers of the medical staff in the ! lischarge of their duties and in fact ' ireventing Dr. Blackburn from the : ironer (lispliarpp nf l>iu ilniioo , ? . n ^ v ???w uunco (111 il >therwlse viotlating tho proprieties of i ho position which she holds. "Resolved, third, That while this >oard does not request at present i he resignation of Dr. Saunders that : ho same would be very acceptable \ o them and that they think from the riction that is evident in said instiution that it is her duty to resgnn i ind that said resignation would do ' nore to bring about peace and bar- 1 nony in tho institution and among i he employes thereof than any other ' ction they could conceive of. ] "Resolved, fourth, That this board lesires to place itself upon record s condemning the conduct of the su orintendent, Dr. J. W. Rabcock, in ipholding I)r. Saunders in her delance of the rules and wishes of his board." Second Resolution. The second resolution of the board f regents, passed January 15, 1914, nd certified to by J. W. Hunch, secetary, follows: "Whereas, O. R. Saunders has preented a petition asking for a reopentig of tho investigation of charges gainst Dr. Saunders for interfering dth other members of the medical taff of this institution, and wherets, his matter has been thoroughly in estimated at a previous meeting, as j esolution adopted this day shows; nd [ "Whereas, there are no charges roin any source before this board or nder investigation by this board as ' i the moral character of the said Dr. aunders, or as to her ability to per- * )rm the duties of the office she is oldlng: 1 "Ho it resolved, That till aboard is f the opinion that it is for the best r iterosts of the said insttuton and ir the best nterests of this lady * at this ontiro matter be closed and 1 io same be dismissed. "Resolved, further, That this board ((1 uts itself on record as stating thatj* o charges whatever from any source R ave been made to them or by them * r through them as to the moral f tiaracter and personal standing ofjh r. Saunders. d "Resolved, further, That the peti- h on of Mr. Saunders is ropsectfully s FIGHT jOR PROBE THE SENATE TOTES FOR THE ASYLUM INQUIRY AFTER A LONG DEBATE Senator (Vouch Said the Home of a Woman Was at Stake and Senator v Weston, Who IamI the Fight, Said the Matter Should he Sifted to the 'J lotto in. Preceded by warm denunciation of the board of regents, voiced in a strong speech from Senator (Vouch, tho Senate Friday morning adopted, by a vote of 3 0 to 9, the House eoncurrent resolution ordering a sweeping investigation into the asylum and its management. The vote in favor of the resolution was as follows: Aekerman, Appelt. Banks, Heamguard, Black, Buck, Carlisle, Christensen, Crouch, Karle, Kpps, (loodwin, Hardin, Hough, Johnstone, Ketchin, Lawson, Lido, Manning, Mauldin, McCown, Mullins, Nicholson, Patterson, Hichardson, Sinkler, Stuekey, Sullivan, Weston and Young?Total 30. Those who voted against the resolution were: Clifton, Dennis, Cross, Johnson, Mars, Sharpe, Strait, Verner, Williams?Total 9. Minutes of the board of regents were used by Senator Crouch in his speech calling for the passage of the resolution, in which he denounced as cowardly the action of the board in passing a resolution condemning Dr. 1 W ,i - i ... . ii . . i in iji vm i\ , tin* r* 11 |j 1 I l II1t * II(.It? III OT the institution, and his lady assistant, Dr. Saunders, on December lli, and then in January turned around and passed resolutions vindicating Dr. Saunders, "They met behind closed doors, and with lawyers excluded, and no one present, passed out their dirty insinuations, but when confronted by the father of the young lady, in broad open daylight, they squirmed and tried to get out of their action by passing resolutions vindicating the young lady," exclaimed the Saluda senator in a speech literally scoring the board. lie denounced their actions as "cowardly" and said that he didn't see how any senator could vote against the investigation after reading the two sets of resolutions by the board, one condemning the young lady and one exonerating her, all within a few days, comparatively, or each otherll About noon Senator Weston called up the Stevenson resolution calling tor the investigation and moved concurrence. Senator Appelt opened and precipitated a heated debate. He said that rPho Qtnto in 1 uvuiv-i 111 I..uiciiii^ i no jii uctteuings of the Senate on Thursday had, unintentionally, he took it, repreBented hom as opposed to an investigation. He said that he was not opposed to an investigation, but had simply asked for more "light" and Information showing the need of concurring in the resolution before the Senate. If there was anything tangible, the Senate should know of it, he said, lie had asked Senator Weston, he said, to tell the Senate what he knew, if ho did know anything about the matter, and be thought that Senator Weston should give the information. Senator Weston in reply said by way of preface that ho had no per3onal interest in the matter at all. The senator from Richland said that the policy of the present board of regents of the hospital hal been a very rash one. The board had displaced Dr. Pope and I>r. Killingsworth, among others, ho said. Senator Weston said that certain tests had to be made at the institution which tiould be made only by an expert pathologist and that the board had put in a pathologist who could not make the necessary tests. The senator said that he wanted to know whether or not the changes made by the board were for the best interests mid that the board had passed resolutions condemning Dr. Rabcock. mperintendent of the hospital, for 1 lpholding I)r. Saunders. Dr. Rab!ock, said the senator, was not given i hearing. Senator Weston said that 1 here was friction between Dr. Rabcock and the board and that for this OQUAn KA -1 A * % vuouii, nio aupci iiuuuuoni naa lenlered his resignation to the governor, lo said that so far as ho knew the < governor had had nothing to do with ' lie matter. "If the gentlemen on this hoard," 1 nquired Senator Appelt, "took some iction, isn't it to be assumed that ( hey acted within their rights? Can in investigation have the effect of ( mtting them out of oflice?" 1 "Yes, sir," said Senator Weston, in 1 eply to the last question. 1 Senator Weston went on to nay hat it wan to b esimpl yan investigaion into the conduct of the instituion.. He said that it was the right { >f the senate to make an investiga- j ion. He said that tho hoard of re- j ents had passed resolutions setting ,, orth that there was friction at the lospital. He read from tho resoluleclined, and that, so far as this ( oard is concerned the entire matter I tands at an end." > SCHOOLS FOR WORKERS | THK HOt'SK I'ASBKS HI IX NSTAHLISH1NG THEM. I One School is Allowwl Eat-h County Having Two Thousand Cotton Mill | Operatives. Textile and industrial schools in counties in which there are more ? than 2,000 mill operatives were pro-. Tided for by the House Frida yafter extended debate. The textile and industrial school bill was introduced by Mrs. Haynsworth. As passed by the House to third reading, tlie measure says that the State shall appropriate $5,000 for the establishment of the schools in counties with the p required population of mill operatives a and not more than $5,000 each year t for the maintenance of the schools. t The Haynsworth bill was opposed i chiefly on the ground that it would benefit only a fe wcounties in the / Piedmont section. The advocates of t the measure declared that the schools i would enable the mill operatives to ( get an education and at the same I time earn their living by working in ? the mills. a The school at Spartanburg, main- a taitied at the Spartan mills by the e Methodist denomination, was cited as < an instance of successfully combining s the earning of a living with the learn- / ing of the textile art. After extended debate the measure c came to a vote. The Touse refused c to strike out the enacting words by a p vote of <?7 to 10. On the motion to t strike out the enacting words of the t I laynsworth bill the vote stood: a Ayes ? Addy, Holt, Hurgess, 1 Charles, Courtney, Cross, l)ant/ler, Oelaughter, Epps, Casque Hall, liar- s din, llarvey, llolley, Hunter, John- e ston, Kelley, Kirk, Idles, Lyhrand, i McQueen, Malpass, Massey, Miley, c Murray, Nelson, Ready, Riley, Robertson, Sapp, Sanders, Sherwood, i Smiley, Stanley, Strickland, Sturkie, i White, Whitehead, Zeigler 10. t Nays Speaker Smith J. W. Ash- t ley, M. ,1. Ashley, Atkinson, Rarnwell, t Raskin, Rothea, Rowers, Royd, t Rrowning, Rrice, Rusbee, Clement, i Creech, Dick, Evans, Fortner, Friday, 1 Fripp Coodwin, Cray, Greer, llaile, s H. F. llarrelson M. C. Harrelson, s I laynswort h, Hutchinson, Hutson, r Irbp, James, Jones Kennedy, Kirby, 1 Lee, Long, Lumpkin, McDonald, Me- v Master, McMillan. Means, Mell'i, Mil- c ler, Mixson, Moore Moseley, Mower, t Nicholson, Odotn, Pegues, Pratt, Rid- i die, Rittenburg Robinson W. S. Rogers, Jr., W. M. Scott, W. W. Scott, I Senscney, Shirley, Stevenson, Sum- r mors, Thompson, Tindal, Vander c Horst, Welch, Wilburn, C. C. Wyche, ? C. T. Wyche, You mans?(>7. c After the insertion of a few amend- c ments offered by Mr. Haynsworth, i the bill was passed to the third read- ' ing. t I tions. ii "Let's find out who is tlie cause of ? tliis friction," said the senator from c Richland. Senator Sharpe asked if tlie board ?* of regents did not have the right to I employ whom they pleased. F Senator eston said that the hoard s had an arbitrary right, but not an n ethical or moral right. n "Their power should not be used 1' arbitrarily but ethically," said Sena- a tor eWston. c "Who demanded this investiga- n tion?" asked Senator Williams. t "The governor did," said Senator c Weston. n Senator Williams said that the res- P olution had been introduced by Mr. t Stevenson. He said that ho wanted to know if it was an administration b or anti-administration measure. He i' said that ho wanted to know wliat In- <1 dividual at the asylum wanted an in- 1' vestigatlon. ? "I don't know who wants the in- n vestigatlon," said Senator Weston. "1 have no sinister purpose in this a thing. I am willing to uphold the e hands of those whom the testimony ? shows to ho blameless." ti Said Senator Mars: "I want to go r on record as opposing this investiga- n tion. I have never seen the necessity n for these investigations and I don't c see the necessity for this investigation." r< ounmor mars said tnat Dr. Hab- <1 nock was tlio best man in tho Stato h for superintendent of tho hospital, a lie said that the matter should come n up before the board of regents. n "It is too small a matter for the w nonsideration of this Senate," said 's the senator. 11 Senator Weston continued. "As I understand it," ho haid, "Dr. Babcock s tvas expected to remove I)r. Saun- p iers." n< Several other senators spoko on the C( question, and at tho conclusion of Senator's Crouch's remarks, quoted ibove, the resolution was passed, as 111 ihove stated. lc Man slayer Freed. p, Tho governor has granted a parole o John T. Owons, who was convicted ui n Berkoley county in Septcmbor of g< IDOf, on the charge of manslaughter ji md sentenced to ten years. cc ? at Over a Thousand Killed. dl According to a report issued Satur- ai lay there were 1,141 mine workers p< tilled in tho Pennsylvania mines last m roar. t! LAID BEFORE HOUSE NEISTATE TRADE COMMISSION RILL INTIIIUCEI FOLLOW WILSON'S PLAN kffAMure Kmbodlos the Suggestions <?f. the President?Is Designed to Assist DusIih'ss and Government in Preventing Violations of the AntiTrnst I>a\v?Penalties Provided. President Wilson's message to con;roHH,suggesting anti-trust leglslatIon lupplemental to tDo Sherman law, >ore its first fruit Thursday, when a ill to create an interstate trade comnission was introduced in the house. Following a conference between Vttorney-tioneral Melteynolds, Senaor Newlanda, of the interstate coinnerco committee; Representative Mayton, chairman, and other mem>ers of the judiciary suheonimitt.ee, dr. Clayton submitted the measure, ind it was referred to the interstate uul foreign commerce committee. An ffort by Senator Nowlands to introluco tho hill simultaneously in the enate failed owing to debate 011 the Uaska railroad hill. President Wilson expects action by ongress during the present session in all hills being prepared by concessional committees to deal with he trust question. He told callers hat ho regarded the group of hills s reasonably homogeneous and that 10 expected prompt, action. The president reiterated his deire that business nten should bo givn a full opportunity in public hcarngs to express their views and critiise. While the president reoommendod 11 his message supervision by the nterstato commerce commission of he issuance of railroad securities, he ock occasion Thursday to emphasize hat this did not. mean necessarily hat past, issues would he inquired nto, or affected by the present legisation. Nor did the president, conider that the regulation of railway ecurities has anything to do with egulating stock exchanges. Legisation on this subject, he explained, ras not recommended in the Demoratio platform, and he did not feel hat he should recommend anything lot included in the platform. The commission proposed by the till introduced would absorb the bueau of corporations, which consist ?f live members, salaried at $10,000, md would have powers of inquisition iver all corporations, save common arriers, which are regulated by the nterstato commerce commission. Its nost important function is designed o assist business and the government n preventing violation of the Sliernan act; in aiding the attorney-genral to terminate alleged unlawful onditions by agreements. In clothing the commission with uthority to be of service in forestallng conditions that might necessitate rosecution, the bill prescribes that it hall, upon the request of the attorey general or any corporation that nay no arrectecl, or upon its own intiativo, investigate for the purpose of iscertaining whether there is any orporation which violates the Sherian act. Tn case violation is found o exist, the bill provides that the ommission shall report to tho attorey-general "in order that said coronation may thereafter comply with he terms of said act. Despite the fact that there has een agitation against immunity to ndividuals who might testify in inuirea conducted hy the coinmssion, mmunity is granted to individuals xcept for perjury. Thero is no imnunity to corporations. In detail tho hill sets forth that it hall require all corporations engagd in interstate and foreign business, xcept common carriers, from time to Ime to furnish to the commission ecords of their organization, busiess and financial condition, conduct lanagement and relation to other ompales. Striking at secret sessions of directorates and other bodies, the bill irects that the commission shall ave complete access to all records of ny of the executive or other comlittees of corporations. Failure or eglect of corporations to comply 1th this requirement is made punihable as a misdemeanor, with a fine pon conviction. The district courts of the United tates, npon the commission's aplication alleging a failure of witpsses to respond to subpoenas or to >mply with any commission order >r furnishing of information, will avo jurisdiction to issue a writ of landamus to enforce tho commlson's order and to punish disobednco To aid tho equity courts, the bill rovides as follows: "Tn suits of equity brought by or ruler tho direction of the attorneymoral, as provided in the act of illy 2, 1 800 (tho Sherman law), tho: >urt in which suit is pending, may' : any stage of tho litigation, at its; Iscretlon, refer to tho commission iy aspect of the litigation or proised docreo, whereupon tho coraission shall investigate the queson or questions referred to with all FREE TRADE ZONE WOULD USK PANAMA CANAL TO IIUILD WORLD T11ARE. Illinois Representative in National House Plans < Tearing House Along l.lnes of a l,(rw Zone. A project for making part of the Panama canal zone a free trade territory with a view to establishing a sort of clearing house for North, Ceutral and South American countries is being worked out by Representative Copley of Illinois who will present it to congress in the form of a bill. The plan is along the general lines of a free zone arrangement tried out In Hamburg, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Copley says he believed after the canal has been in operation live years all nations would bo ready to agree to joint action to protect the canal and let the United States havexclusive right to it as a belligerent in the event of war. Uy that time, he added, there will be no reason why warehouses should not be built in the zone by manufacturers in the United St ates. "A few manufacturers," Mr. Copley said, "could got together and send down a full cargo of goods, put it into a warehouse and from there ship to all parts of the world. Representatives could ho sent, to cities of ssoii t u and Central America to induce merchants to go to Panama to insport tho warcH from tho United States. This project would open ui a groat commercial field." The bill would provide that the present government commissary and cold storage plant in the canal zone he retained. Mr. Copley said that at Hamburg the plan was working well. 2,100 acres having been set aside there by the Herman government for the upbuilding of its trade. At Singapore there is a free zone where trade amounts to more than one-seventh of all the combined imports and exports of America. CIIPATPD 1)I0.\Til. Aviator, Victim ol' Many Serious Accidents Dies Suddenly. Charles K. Hamilton, who gained fame as an aviator by flying from New York to Philadelphia and return, died suddenly Thursday at his home in New York City. His wife | was aroused by Hamilton's groaning and she summoned a physician, but the aviator was dead before the doctor reached tho house. Tho cause of death was internal hemorrhage. Hamilton was 28 years old, had been in poor health for more than two years and recently suffered a nervous breakdown. During his career as an aviator he had many accidents. His collarbone was broken twice. Two ribs were fractured, his right knee cap fractured, both legs dislocated and he suffered many other minor hurts. Ho began first with flights in dirigible balloons, then took up the nornnlnnp v, ,, vy, Hamilton's career bristled with adventures. His first flight was at tho end of the tail of a kite drawn by a boat over the Hudson river in New York. Three years later he began dirigible balloon ascensions, and in 1 009 made his first aeroplane flight. He toured China and Japan with his machine. In Japan he was received by the Mikado. For two years Hamilton had worn a silver plate in his head. It was inserted after his skull had been fractured by a fall. Pencil Wound Causes Death. Mrs. Ida Somcrville, 50 years old? of Clarksburg, W. Va., fell asleep in her home, with a lead pencil in her hands. Her head dropped on the table and the pencil pierced her pencil pierced her throat, making a wound which caused her death. Injured in Runaway. Mrs. J. C. Stidham's horse became frightened while she was out driving on Tuesday afternoon at Saluda and, running away, threw her out on the buggy. Her ankle was badly crushed, so much so that an amputation of the limb was necessary. * Returns to Spartanburg. Announcement has been made that the Thompson - McFadden pellagra commission will return to Spartanburg In March and conduct its investigation for another year. the powers of investigation hereinbefore bestowed on tho commission, and uhflll rnnAft On ? 1 ........ . v|iui v no ijimiiijs IU nit) cuurip with a copy of tho evidence upon which said findings or recommendations are based. Said evidence, findings and recommendations shall bo public orders." The new commission would be required to make an annual report to congress. Of the five members of the body, not more than three could be of tho same political party All would serve seven years except at the beginning, when tho chairman would servo seven years, and the other four commissioners, throe, four, fivo and six years, respectively. Tho first chairman would bo the commissioner of corporations, in this caso, Joseph E. Davles. All commissioners except tho first chairman would be appointed by the president, subjoot to confirmation by the senato.