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FAVORS NtW RULES PROBERS SUBMIT NEW CODE FOR ASYlUM MANAGEMENT ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE ? The Invest (gating Committee Introduces Two Resolutions in I/Cgislatnture, Requiring Printing of Evidence and Report ami New Management of Asylum. After tlio reading of the asylum investigating committee's report, tho concurrent resolution providing a system of rules and regulations for the government of the Stato hospital was adopted Wednesday by the House. In tho Senate it was referrod to tho judiciary committee. Another resolution proposing to print tho report and evidence taken by the committee was also adopted. Hoth roso iunun8 were introduced by tho investigating committoe. To Print Report. They follow: "He It resolved by tho House, tho ?}enato concurring: That the report of tho committee appointed to investigate the State Hospital for tho Insane he, and the same is hereby adopted, and the same shall he printed, along with the resolution constituting said committee and the evidence takon by said committee and the proposed rules reported by said committee, in a separate report, of which there shall ho printed 300 copies, of which each member of tho general assembly, the board of regents, the superintendent and staff of the State hospital and all State olllers shall bo furnished with a copy, and the evidence shall not be printed m the journal. "He it further resolved, That tho regents aro authorized and instructed to accept and receive buildings at State Park and equip and occupy tho *ame at their earliest convenience." The abovo resolution was introduc ?d by Messrs. Stevenson, Hardin and Hunter. Code for Asylum. "P? it resolved by the House of Representatives, tlie Senate concurring, That the following rules be, and the same are hereby adopted for rhe government and guidance of the officers of the State Hospital for the insane: "Rule 1. The medical staff officers of the State Hospital for the Inaane shall be appointed by the superintendent, by and with the advice and oonsent of the board of regents, and ahall be subject to suspension by the uperintendent with the right of appeal to the board of regents where such stafT officers shall have the right to be heard in person or by counsel, or both, after due notice in writing of the charges upon which the hearing is to bo had. "Rule 2. The superintendent shall no the chief of the medical staff; reaide within the inclosure of the State Hospital for the Insane; give his whole time and attention to the duties of his oirice and make monthly reports to the board of regents. "Rule 3. Each staff officer except the dentist and pathologist shall re Hide within the inclosure and give his entire time to the duties of the department to which lie shall be assigned, except such time as he may be excused by the superintendent. The dentist and pathologist shall report for duty at such hours as may bo designated by the superintendent. "Rule 4. Every patient when admitted to the State Hospital for tho Fnsane, shall be thoroughly examined by the person in charge of the ward to which he or she is assigned, and a full and complete report in writing of each case, made out by such physi- , clan, shall bo forthwith filed in the , general office. ( "Rule 5. The members of the mod- , ical staff shall select their subordi- j nates in their repsective departments . or wards and have the right to dis- , ohargo the same, both the selection ( ??u uiscnarge Deing Buoject lo tno f approval of the superintendent. I "Rule 6. Each phyBician in charge < of a ward shall make a report onco each week in writing to the superin- 1 tendent at tho general office, suggest*- 1 ing such treatemnt as in hia judg- < ment Bhall bo necessary or beneficial 1 in caRes upon which he reports. < "Rule 7. A general manager of tho 1 businoBs affairs of the State Hospital f for the Insane shall be appointed by s tho superintendent, by and with tho advice and consent of the board oT 1 regents, and have charge of all tho r business affairs of the State Hospital c for the Insane, nnd shall pive bond to the State of South Carolina in such ( sum as may he fixed by the board of f regents, conditioned for the faithful i performance of his duties, which duties shall not bo of a medical nature. I His duties and salaries shall bo fixed 1 by the board of regents. And ho shall t also reside within the inclosuro and ? give all his time and attention to his 1 duties. 1 "Rule 8. A pharmacist, who shall 1 bo duly licensed by tho State board t shall be appointed by tho superintendent by and with the advice and consent of the board af regents, and who t may be suspended or dismissed by l WOULD GO INTO MEXICO 1 COLQUITT ASKS TO SEN1> HANGKHS OVER BORDER. \ Bryan Answers Telegram Assuring Him That Such a Step Must Be t Taken by Washington Alone. ' A request to know "whom the United States Government now rccog- I nizes as the constituted authority in Mexican States bordering on the ltlo Grande" went forward late Thursday to President Wilson from Governor O. B. Colquit, e: Texas. The request was made for tho purpose of demanding the surrender of the "abductors and murderers" of Olemento Vergara, a Texas Citizen, executed by Mexican t Federals. Q Then apparently answering the * question hlmsel, tho Governor asked consent of the United States, "in n view of tho condition of revolution 1 and anarchy in these horde- States, v to send Rangors across the Rio C Grande in pursuit of the lawless ele- . e ment of either faction when they r cross into Texas and commit crimes." <1 "I insist, Mr. President, that Texas r as a sovereign State, is entitled to protect Texan citizens cn the border t from an unbearable condition like t that which now exists," concluded d the message. I Clemente Vergara, the American d citizen, was assaulted by Mexican t Federal soldiers on tho Mexican side ( of the Rio Grande and imprisoned a4 Hidalgo February 13. Two days lat- \ or he was hanged from a tree three ^ miles from that Htv nrwl ,"w,w ...... ...vy .-.WWJ Q loft uncared for until two days ago, j \vhon it was socretlv removed. s This, it is stated, was established to the satisfaction of United States 1 Consul Garrett and S. J. Hill, brother in-law of Vergara, who wont to Hi- 1 dalgo to investigate the death of the n Texas ranchman. Secretary Bryan telegraphed Gov- v ernor Colquitt, of Texas, that the a seeding of the State militia into Mex- 11 ieo to apprehend those responsible 8 for the hanging of Clement? Vergara, K an American citizen, would involve 1 a responsibility which the Federal C Government alone was in a position to assume. v A similar situation arose in Texas F1 in February, 1912, and February, v 1913, when border troubles caused d Governor Colquitt to declare that he c might send Texas Rangers into Mex- w ico either to prevent firing into American territory or to protect Ameri- ^ cans. When on February 24, 1913, p, Governor Colquitt ordered four com- t panies of militia to Brownsville, the ^ war department telegraphed General Steever, then in command of the deV partment of Texas, "under no circumstances to permit their crossing of the river, except under tho specific orders of the Secretary of War." a ?, ? ? ' 1) 1IAH CLOSE CALLS. 0 f v Barnwell HberifT Huns the Gauntlet p of Possible Death. ^ tl Death hftfl been camping on the ti trail of Sheriff J. It. Morris of Barn- t< well, judging from the record of acci- a dents that have befallen him recent- r< ly. While returning from a hunting d trip Friday morning with a party of a: friends, his Hudson touring car skid- ti ded down a long hill. The right a hand wheels went in the ditch, but no s one was injured. The second accident occurred Tues- g day afternoon, while tho sheriff was f) driving his Ford roadster at a rapid h rate down Main street. The little n car began to skid, and before the n sheriff could regain control, tho ma- S chine had dashed into a newly made U hole in the street, stopping suddenly against a tree. ei The third of tho series of mishaps ri occurred Tuesday night, when Sheriff ic Morris was made desperately ill from tho effects of about a teaspoonful of writing ink, which he mistook for a headache remedy. When ho became suddenly sick, he look at the bottle again and found out his mistake. A 11 rloctor was hastily summoned and n medicine given to counteract tho effects of the ink. tho superintendent, subject to appeal to tho board of regents, and who R ?hall give his whole time to the du- ^ ties of his department, subject to the |c lirectlon of the nuperintndent* 'Ruie 9. A licensed dentist shall bo appointed by the superintendent by nad with the advice and consent Df the board of regents, and jyho may 3e suspended or dismissed by the sup- 1c >rintendent, subject to appeal to the m ward of regents, and whose hours of ci lervlee shall be designated by the e< superintendent. "Rule 10. All salaries shall bo fixed )v the board of regents before the election and employment of any olfi ;er or employe. Hl "Rule 11. These rules shall not ^ )porate to prevent the board of re;ents from making any additional ules not Inconsistent herewith. "Rule 12. The pathologist shall )0 appointed by the superintendent )y and with the advice and consent of ^ he board of regents and who may be G mspended or dismissed by the super- Si ntendent, subject to appeal to the la >oard of regents. Mis duties and tours for labor shall be designated >y the superintendent." * tn Dr. Saunders ought to be thankful cc o Senator Tillman for writing thatjlo etUr\ i. - I.. "y WONT SEND 1 ROUPS ? tflLSON DID NUT ASK HULRTA IF U. S. SlllllliHS iOULD GUAUO LEGATION 're.sldpnt Makes it Plain That Ho 1)och Not Intend to Provoke Needless Trouble by Disembarking Forces in War-Torn Mexico?State Department llusy Tracing Deaths. President Wilson Thursday took ho position that for the United Itatee to send marines or armed orces of any kind into Mexico wlthut the consent of tDo governing auhorltiea there would bo an act of var. He declared emphatically that ?ermls8ion never had been sought ilther of Gen. Huerta or Gen. Caranza and indicated cloarly no roluest of that character would be nade in the near future. The president had been asked parlcularly about reportB that American roops might bo sent across the I'orler to recover the body of William R. fenton, and concerning published lispatches that tho United States conemplated sending marines to Mexico Mty to guard the American embassy. Ono press dispatch, saying Gen. luorta himself had stated that ho lad refused permission to tho United itates to send 2,000 marines to Mexco City, was shown to President Wllon, who said no such a request ever tad been made. Administration officials expressed ho opinion that Gen. Huerta probbly inspired the statement merely or effect on the Mexican people, t'hom ho hoped to impress with his ntipathy to the American govorntient as it is well known that permlsion to land marines for legation uards has been freely accorded by luerta to other nations, including Jreat Hrltain and Germany. Tho situation in regards to tho lnestigation of Ponton's death, the iritish subject executed by tho rebels, /as broadened considerably Wednesay by the Instructions sent to Amerian Consul Garrett at Nuevo Laredo, /ho was ordered to inquire into the andlng of Clement Vergara, an imerican citizen, by tho Mexican ederals. The consul was directed by he State department to demand the ody of the dead American from the fllcer of the Huerta government is iclnlty of Hidalgo, whero Vergara tas hanged. Marlon Letcher, American consul t Chihuahua has been instructed to nsiat that Villa permit the delivery i mo uouy or nenion 10 tne widow or burial where he may wish. (Jen. rllla has replied with an offer to ermlt the widow of Benton or relaIves and an American official to boo he body when exhumed. Thla 1b aken by the American government 3 mean that a complete medical exmlnatlon may bo performed. Secetary Bryan told senators Wednesay that the United States was InIstlng that two American represenrtlves he permitted to see the body nd that one of theso bo an army urgon. It has developed that the American overnment is Informally looking to en. Venuslano Carranza as titular ead of the constitutionalist movelent to clarify the situation in collection with the Benton killing, hould Carranza's influence with Vi 1l bo unavailing in the present inLance, It is admitted by many oflllals the American government will 2gard the problem in northern Mexo as much more serious. ? Twelve Firemen Injured. When a garage was burned at ynn, Mass., Thursday, twelve flrolen were badly hurt, one employee is ilssing, and 100 automobiles were ostroyed, total loss being $300,000. Firemen Hescue Muny. During a fire at the fashionable iverslde apartments, in Boston, Wednesday, with the temperature be>w zero, 60 persons were carried own ladders by firemen. Death Follows Broken uDat?". Jennie Gallo, 14 years old, swal?wed poison and died In a Bowery oving picture theater In New York ty because her boy sweetheart fa.ll1 to keep a "date". Alabama Poatoflflce Robbed. Yeggmon robbed the postofllce and ore at Randolph, Bibb county, Ala., Wednesday night, securing about 2,000 in cash and between $2 00 and J00 in stamps. Arbitration Treaties Renewed. The Senate Saturday renewed for /o years general agreements with reat Hritain, Japan, Italy, Norway, vedon, Portugal, Spain and Switzernd. Swallowed False Teeth. Tsaac Cave, a negro of good rcputlon, living near Kline, in Barnwell mnty, died Wednesday after swalwing hit false teeth. He apparentsuffered very little. RAPS LEGISLATURE SKNATOll TILL.MAN TALKS OF K AI LIU) AI> LI X. ISLATION. Two-Cent Kate I'ufair?Says Governor Haw led for it and the House Voted it With No Kxcmption. Senator B. It. Tillman, who arrived at Greenwood Friday from Atlanta, where he has been since his appearance at the asylum investigation in Columbia, gave out this statement that afternoon: "I have Just returned from Atlanta, where I have been for the benefit of my wife's health principally, and incidentally, of my own. The rest has done us both lots of good. I shall return to Washington as soon as possible, but want to go by home to plant my vegetablo garden before leaving the State. "I have tried as best I could since he legislature met to keep in touch with what it has been doing, but the two things which have Interested mo most aro the asylum investigation and the two-cent flat rato for railroads. I want to say something about this latter for the benefit of my follow citizens. I am not Tory hopeful, however, of it having any effect whatever on the legislature, because It is perhaps too late; but I can see the ear marks of the railroad lobby. One branch of the general assembly, the House, has passed the flat rate, without making any exceptions. "This is unjust and never ought to have been done. It is not right to compel the short, poor roads, of which there are 15 or 20 in tho State, with only one or two passenger trains a day and these with very inferior cars, to carry passengers at 2 cents per mile. It should not have been thought of and the bill ought to have been amended In tho House to provide for tho exemptions that are necessary if the law is to be a Just one. But I notice that there is an efTort in tho Senate to kill the bill on account of these exemptions not having been made, and every device and parliamentary trick is being employed to accomplish this result. Why don't tho senators who want to serve their constituents, the people, amend tho bill so as to make it reasonable and Just and send it back to the House instead of killing it and doing nothing as the railroads want them to do? "Why do not the legislators look after tho rights and privileges of those who have bought railroad mileage ovor tho through lines, but can not use it in South Carolina at all from point to point within the State? Why is not the railroad commission given power, if any more be needed than it already has, to regulate this matter of exemption? How long will railroad attorneys, inside and outside of both branches of the general assembly, be permitted to manipulate our law making machinery in the interests of the railroads and to the detriment of the traveling public7 "I have not kept up with the debates and do not know whnt names to specify, but unless my health fails or quits improving my purpose is to investigate tho journals of both tho Senate and the House and see who Is to blame for this condition of affairs and so help me (Jod, I will let the people know who are their faithful servants and who are traitors to their interests before tbo next primary. "I can not make any speeches on tho stump or anywhere else, but I can dictate to a stenographer and sign what I write in that way. It makes me sick, old and decrcpid as f am, to see how cunning and subtle and unscrupulous the railroad lobbyists are, and how cowardly and corrupt the people's servants are becoming, bow the people are bamboozled and are being debauched by demagogues high and low. "The governor bawls for a 2 cent rate and tho House votes it, flat, without any exemption, and his conscience is clear. He knows, as well as I do, that a 2-cent flat rate is not right and every sensible man in the State knows it Is not right to allow the long and rich roads like the Southern, Seaboard and Atlantic t t - -? - ? -? i-dne, to ao as uiey aro now doing and will continue to do until the people arouse themselves and hold their servants to account." ? ? ? Students Itescue Girls. Before daylight Thursday while a dormitory of Harcourt Seminary, Gambler, Ohio, was ablaze, brigades of males students, In zero weather, rescued many scantily clad girls. Auto Struck l>y Train. Dennis Oconner,,wealthy oil operator of Tulsa, Okla., was killed and Miss Sureline Middleton, was probably fatally injured when their automobile was lilt by a fast train. They Tried It Twice. Failing after two attempts to blow the vault in the State Treasurer's office at Des Moines, Iowa, early Thursday, burglars took $5 from a cash drawer and fled when Interrupted. Kills His Wife. A victim of acute man's, Simon O, Gooney Saturday killed his wife In a Dansville, N. Y., santarium. and coolly announced the fact to the clerk. { "PROVIDES FOR TEST HOUSE PROVIDES APPROPRIATION TO BENEFIT FARMLKS ? LEVER IS WELL PLEASED Sex*rotitry of Agriculture to Investigate mid Determine Helutive Spinning Values of Cotton us StmikIAir(1i/.ed by the (loverniueiit?Dig Suving to Kurmcrs. Representative Lever Is well pleased with that feature of the agricultural appropriation bill Jv.st reported to iho House from bis committee, which provides in substance the features of a bill introduced by him on January 19 of this year to enable the secretary of agriculture to investigate and determine the relatlvo spinning values of cotton as standardized by tho government and for demonstrating the results of such tests and car rying an appropriation of $60,000 for this purpose. Speaking of thin item of the bill, Mr. Lever said: "When the appropriation bill for the agricultural department was under consideration for 1913 in the Senate, my colleague, Senator Smith, inserted in it provision for testing the waste, tensile strength and bleaching qualities of the dfferent grades of cotton as standardized by the government and secured a small appropriation to begin the work which has progressed very satisfactorily in the department. Senator Smith's work in this respect is to be most heartily commended by those acquainted with the conditions of the cotton trado. "My bill, which in effect, is carried in tho annual appropriation bill which I have just reported, seeks, first, to provide sufficient money to test tho tensile strength, waste and bleaching qualities of all grades of cotton as standardized by the government, and at tho samo time goes a step further and provides the authority and the necessary funds for conducting experimental demonstrations to tho cotton trade, especially tho producer of the value of this work. "Upon inquiry at tho department I ascertained that tho present appropriation for this work was entirely inadeouate for an oxnodltious com pletion of it, and that tho present funds hnvo permitted tests of only ono length of staple, namely, one-inch upland cotton. "Tho appropriation provided in my bill and inserted by tho committee in tho appropriation bill, would permit similar teats on 5-8-inch, 3-4-inch, 1inch and 1 1-2-inch, and make it possible to demonstrate the results of those tests in various cotton centres of tho country. The work provided in this item will go far toward determining tho most Important elements involving in tho determination of the intrinsic value of tho different grades of cotton, and at tho same time make It possible to bring this information promptly to the attention of cotton producers and to tho cotton trado generally. "Tho appropriation will enable tho department also to extend this work whereas tha present appropriation has permitted this to be done with rospect to only five grades and that with only 1-inch length staple. The time has come when we must take into account tho very important matters of seeing to it that as far as possible tho farmer should recoivo tho intrinsic value of his products. "I have 110 doubt that tho Southern farmers aro losing anywhere from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 on their annual cotton crop, because they havo not been taught to know, as these U'?ts ami demonstrations will show, that tho difference in tho market value of low grade and high grade cotton Is intrinsically and comparatively small. "Tho work of tho department in making tho tests of 1-inch upland staple should bo extended as expeditiously as possible to all length and to all grades of cotton, and when the results havo been secured they should not be allowed to bo locked up in Washington, but should be made available In the most practical way to 1 tho cotton producerA in the country. [ I am extremely gratified that the committee, of which I am chairman, 1 was kind enough to allow this item to go into the bill. "These demonstrations must result J Inevitably in so arousing the cotton producers of tho several Spates that : tho legislatures thereof will bo fore- i ed, as they should be, to provide ofil- t cially cotton grades In every cotton i market within them. When tho far- i mer is taught to know what ho is losing in the value of his low grade cotton and that such losses can be saved through official cotton grades, | I warrant ho will see to it that such i grades are provided." | Trains Have Fatal Collision. 1 While running slowly near Pros- I pect, Va., two freight trains collided Wednesday. Henry Cooper, fireman, was killed. South Carolina Hanks Apply. i Forty-nine banks of this State have ( applied for membership in tho new i Federal reserve banking system. |1 EXPLORERS WERE EATEN PKRUVIAN OANNIHAL8 CONSUUH AMERICAN PARTY. British Captain lirin^ Rack Wonderful Stories From Peru, Brazil and the I'pper Amazon. ('apt. J. A. Campbell Beslor of London and three eompanioriH arrived In New York city a few days ago fresh from the unexplored wilds of Peru, Brazil and the upper waters of the Amazon, where they spent ten months. A narrative of the trip through tho last unknown country of tho world reads like a chapter of ancient explorers. One of tho Incidents was the trailing of the ill-fated Cromer-Seljan oxplorntion expedition, which resulted In tho finding of the bones of Seljan and Patrick O'Hlgglns, two Americans, who had been devoured by cannibals. There was the discovery of three pro-Inca cities abandoned 10,000 or 20,000 years ago, but with evidences of marvelous architectural art still Intact, wonderful campi utensils and weapons, campl being as alloy of gold and silver. Capt. Lesley and ten conipanloaa left Lima, Peru, In July, 1913, determined to go through tho unexplored areas of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia In their journey they studied tha deadly Ute fly; Journeyed over roads constructed 10,000 years ago that ara as pood to-day as when they wore built and viewed tho ruins of cities of tho pre-Inca typo, which must havo had a population of 00,000 or more and must have been constructeh 20,000 years ago. "Wo returned to Lima for tho third timo last September," say a ('apt. BeBloy, "and then departed for our last expedition, which was to take ur across the continent. .lust as we were about to go, United States Minister Henry 0. Howard, at Lima, rocoived a telegram from Secretary of Stato Bryan asking him to inquire about the fate of the Cromor-Soljan expedition, which went into the interior in 1911 to locate a grant of land awarded to the Peruvian American corporation by the Peruvian government. "We knew that \V. II. Cromer, a West Point graduate, was one of tha heads; that W. H. Page was another; member and that Seljan, whose flrat name wo never got, was a third. "Holbrook, Coatee, Dunn and myself started soon afterward and after leaving Corro de Pusco plunged into a country which white men had never entered before. We reached the river and rafted down It for seven daya. We woro fired upon by Indians with poisond arrows, blow-guns and oldfashioned muskets. "There wo got trace of Seljan and Patrick O'Higglns, an America? miner who had been with him. Wa never got a trace of Cromer or Paga. An Indian girl brought us a letter written by Seljan to her. It was i? Spanish and she couldn't read. II was a love letter, but It told us ha and O'Higglns were traveling toward a river three weeks'Journey distant. He then had six Indians as guides. .? - * At.-A ..<! iuuiiu in unit vniage one or two Indians who had mot Seljan. "One Raid that an Indian girl, Juliano, had continued with the men, and it was not so long thereafter that we came upon Juiiano. She said sho had gone witli the men until one evening she was treed by a bear near camp. While she was in the tree sho heard some shots. Sho never stopped to inquire, but when the bear fled she struck off through the jungle for home. "We followed the trail she indicated seven days, and at last, a little distance from the trail, wo found the bones of two men, thigh bones, arm bones and small bones, with evidences of a Are. About that samo I time some Indians appeared near Iquitos with tho guns and clothing of the two men. They said they had bought them from tho men themselves. Tho natives speak freely of eating white men." Made up Thrilling Story. To keep her husband home nighta Mrs. JofT Hurd, Chestertown, Md., concocted and told a thrilling story ~ -ii ui uu uiincK upon ner Dy a negro, Bmearing chicken blood about her home to support her recital, she later admitted. "Wind Overturns Train. As an express emerged from the Loetchberg tunnel near Berne, Switzerland, it was struck by a "fochen", a terrific southeast wind peculiar to the Alps. Two cars were overturned, resulting in tho I^ ? ?? a V?.w uvuin ui UI1U pusstjuger. Found Dead in Iiarn. John Wright was found (load In a l>arn on Mr. Charley Durant's farm near Sumter Wednesday morning. Phe man was a hand on the place and It is supposed that ho fell from the loft and broke his neck Tuesday afternoon while feeding tho stock. ? ? Hullets Subdue a Hlaze. Hy firing four shots from his pistol up a burning chimney, thus tearing loose the soot that had caught, a Charleston policeman Wednesday night prevented a possible serious are.