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HAS FORCE TO USE BRITISH PREMIER HEPl'DIATES VliKIKSK IX) ARMY OFFICERS. | CHIEF OF STAFF ERRED ? His Resignation is Expected as Resuit of Mistake Which He Committed iti (living Assurance to Officers That They Would Not he Used to SuppR-ess Vlster. The English government Wednesday published its promised statement of its dealings with the revolting officers of the Third cavalry brigade and the House of Commons held another heated and disorderly session. H(>t W non t 11 n lln/mmanta ni.nonnt/iJ i. v^i* %nv v*vv u uivii 10 )/1 uoi; 11 iuu and tlio various statements drawn from cabinet ministers, vital facts of the affair were made clear. They reveal a comedy, or tragedy, of errors perpetrated by Col. Seely, secretary for war, and Sir Arthur Paget, commanding the troops in Ireland. Col. Seely took all the blame on himself. He frankly declared be bad made a great mistake. His written assurances to (Jen. Hubert Hough that to use all the forces of the crown in Ireland or elsewhere to maintain order and the support the civil powers in the ordinary exercise of their duty but has no intention whatever to taking advantage of this right to crush political opposition to the policy or the principles if tho homo rule bill" was given without the knowledge of the cabinet and contrary to its policy. The war secretary tendered his resignation to Mr. Asquith but tho premier refused to accept it. The governments has withdrawn Col. Seely's guarantees. Thus the situation with respect to Gen. Hough and his 5 9 comrades who sent in their papers is still in a state of suspence. The most important revelations of the day were that the government did plan an important military and naval demonstration on Ulster. Win, ofnn nu bin ii--* ' - Diuu v>iiiiii'iiiiiy urm. ior(i 01 tho admiralty, confirmed report.* that he had ordered the third battleship Bquadron and a torpedo flotilla to Irish waters but explained that when the military arrangements had not been carried oit he countermanded the orders by wireless?an explanation which tho Unionists received with Jeers. The blunder Gen. Paget made appears to have been in giving a practical ultimatum to officers of the cavalry brigade, to say whether they would take active service in Ulster. The cabinet Monday framed a general statement of the officers' position and duty under the law, and Col. Seoly freely admitted that his error was in yielding to Gen. Cough's demand for a written assurance that the army would not be used to sup prcBB the covenanters. Premier Asqulth's statements that the otiicers should return to duty unconditionally, it is declared, -were made in good faith. The prime minister made plain to the House of Commons the government's position regarding the army, declaring he would not assent to the claim of any body of men in the service of the crown to demand assurances of what they would be required to do in circumstances which had not arisen. Sir Edward Grey spoke even more strongly. He said: "The government is prepared to use force to whatever extent is required to make the will of the country prevail. That is a contingency which can not arise for a long time, and we will labor to avoid it." Much of the debate in the House of Commons consisted of fiery denunciations of the military aristocracy. Government members were placated by revelations, but there remains among Radicals and Laborites a strong and outspoken dissatisfaction with the whole affair. Many think the matter would have been allowed to rest except for the almost unanimous attacks by the Liberal press over wliat they speak of as Gen. Gough's victory. All talk of a compromise on the home rule bill for the time is suspended. Conservatives hold that recent events have shown that no compromise is possible, except on (he unconditional exclusion of Ulster. The "Liberals say that would not bo compromise, but surrender. Col. Seely's transfer to another cabinet post is predicted and the announcement and acceptance of tho resignations of Oen. Paget and Cen. Cough would be no surprise. Clemency to Two Negroes. Gov. Bleaso Tuesday paroled Henry Beasley of Laurens, a negro serving a life sentence for minder and commuted tho sentence of John Creech, colored, of Richland, from seven to six years. Creech was convicted of larceny. Smith Gets Hill in Line. Senator Smith Wednesday afternoon succeeded in getting his bill to regulate transactions in cotton futures established as the unfinished business of the Senate, which means it will probably ho voted on in a short t,mo- u .a JU J L' I 4 COTTON CROP OF 1913 NUMBER OF BABES GINNED OF BAST TWO YEARS' CROP. Orangeburg Beads Willi Over 80,000; Spartanburg is Second With Over 73,000. William J. Harris, director of the census, department of commerce, announces tho preliminary report of cotton ginned by counties in South Carolina for tho crops of 1913 and 1912. Tho report was made public at 10 a. m. on Friday, March 20. Quantities are in running bales, counting round as half bales. I,inters are not included. 1913. 1912. Abbeville . . . 34,280 28,975 Aiken .... 48,025 36,873 Anderson . . . 73,146 54,577 Bamberg . . . 27,692 19,932 Barnwell . . . 58,878 43,407 Beaufort . . . 8,168 5,920 Berkeley . . . 1 3,475 10,809 Calhoun .... 27,960 22,231 Charleston . . 1 5,832 1 1,686 Cherokee . . . 1 8,080 1 4,107 Chester .... 32,275 31,212 Chesterfield . . 3 1,7 09 31,864 Clarendon . . . 40,268 35,469 Colleton .... 19,605 15,232 Darlington . . 38,456 40,420 Dillon .... 37,752 39,048 Dorchester . . 16,661 13,52 8 Edgefield . . . 33,201 27,436 Fairfield .... 26,323 26,462 Florence . . . .44,282 38,965 Georgetown . . 8,806 3,157 Greenville . . . 4 4,651 114,585 Greenwood . . 33,782 30,125 Hampton . . . 10,902 1 4,774 Horry 10,416 10,259 Jasper 6,1 96 5,14 2 Kershaw . . . 27,608 25,916 Lancaster . . . 25,G34 26,1 4 4 Laurens . . . 45,3 12 35,638 Leo 38,520 34,093 Lexington . . . 26,018 22,942 Marion .... 1 7,890 1 8,439 Marlboro . . . 56,582 71,208 Newberry . . . 4 0,413 34,510 Oconee . . . . 2 0,7 9 2 15,516 Orangeburg . . 80,294 60,699 Pickens .... 19,212 14,161 Richland . . . 22,679 21,172 Saluda .... 26,054 23,551 Spartanburg . . 73,301 57,81 1 Sumter .... 41,170 34,426 Union 20,706 17,529 Williamsburg . 26,494 23,894 York 40,849 40,400 Total . . . .1,414,409 1,224,245 WHIPPED AND TAKRKD. ? Girl's Alleged Traducer Victim of Seven Angry Relatives. Horsewhipped, covered with tar, and otherwise roughly handled by seven assailants, one of them a woman, who charged him with making derogatory remarks about a thlrteenear-old girl, Arthur Bryan, seventeen years old, of St. Helena, Md., had an exciting experience Sunday night. According to young Bryan, he was passing a church on his wav to a nartv. when he was met by John Hughes, who told him Mrs. Hoare wished to see him behind the church. He went there and was immediately seized by six of the persons named, Hughes joining the party at the same time. While two of the Hoare boys held him, shaking him roughly, the father and mother, Bryan says, charged him with circulating injurious reports concerning their daughter, Emma. Bryan was declaring his innocence of this, when his hat was knocked from his head, and, firmly grasped by his captors, ho was dragged to whore a bucket of steaming tar was standing, Mrs. Hoare beating him with the horsewhip all the while. Hot tar was daubed all over his clothing, and then on his face and hair, ho says, until the pain caused him to lose consciousness. COURTS DKCIOE. Methodist Bishops' Veto of Carnegie's Millions Annulled. Til A To, . J. n-i. 1 III) 1 CIIIICODCC oupi ^llio CUill l Dttlurday decided the case involving the control of Vanderbilt university of the university board of trustees. The court held the board of trust to be a self-perpetuating body. The court, however, held that the board of trust's selections are subject to confirmation by the general conference or tlio church's board of education. Under the decision the college of bishops veto of tho acceptance by the board of trustees of Andrew Carncr.,nilA? ,1 ~ 1 1 ? * - " f-sn.? o iiuiiiuu-uuiitii iu mo van(lerbilt medical department is without erfeet. The court held that Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and not the Southern Methodist church was the founder and original patron of Vanderbilt university. Old Musket Full of Life. A musket which had not been fired since 1801 went off Saturday at Columbia while in the hands of Jim Williams and seriously njured another negro. Dies on Kivor. Last Sunday A. J. Barwlck Sr., of Weeks, went to the Edisto river to look aftor some nets. Later he was found dead. Foul play is not suspected. SHOWS TWO THINGS SENATE VOTE ON THE SUFFRAGE A >1E N DM K X T 1N TE HESTIN (i. MAY LEAD TD SURPRISE Only Hope I/Oft for Suffragists is to Agitato Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment, Tlius Securing Solid Southern and Western Support in Their Cause. East. Thursday's vote in the Senate on the Ashurst resolution to submit a constitutional amendment prohibiting States from discriminating on the ground of sex in their suffrage restrictions, together with the vote on the amendments submitted to the resolution by the Mississippi senators, leaving to the States the choice of restrictions in all respects except sex, made two points plain. The first is that Senator Borah of Iowa was right in warning the woman suffrage advocates that they could not hope to accomplish their purpose through the Federal constitution while tho Fifteenth amendment remained in that instrument, complicating the question of sex with that of "race, color or previous condition of servitude." Many believe, with Mr. Borah, who is the giant of tho Republican side, that racial amendments in tho constitution absolutely preclude the adoption of woman suffrage by Federal internosi Hon. Others, however, see hope for the short-cut attainment of woman suffrage in the possibilities of the second point, which was made clear by the vote of last Thursday. That is the demonstration that the Southern nnd sonio of the Western senators are ready to vote for a woman suffrage amendment if it ho coupled with repeal of tho racial suffrage provisions of the constitution. Some observers in Washington, including anti-woman suffragists as well as "pros", look for a juncture of these two currents of political thought which will have an effect in increased force like that of tho juncture of tho Mississippi with the Missouri. Thursday the suffrage senators mustered thirty-five votes for their proposition. About a score of senators who voted against it voted for the amendments coupling it with the repeal of the racial suffrage provisions of the constitution. If these two forces had been united there would have been a total of over fifty votes, possibly fifty-four votes, for woman suffrage. To carry the resolution for submission of nn amendment to the states "would have required twothirds, or sixty-four votes. Without such a union of forces it would be even harder to get a suffrage amendment ratified by the states than It would bo to get it submitted by congress, because the ratification of the constitutional amendments requires the affirmative votes of three-fourths of the states, casting their ballots as units. There are Southern senators who admit privately, though not themselves advocates of woman suffrage as a separate issue, that they regard the adoption of a constitutional amendment ,by the combination just described as among the reasonable possibilities of the present decade. They believe that the suffragists will profit by the object lesson given by all of the Southern and some of the Western senators in Thursday's vote and undertake to furnish the South and Pacific West the necessary "quid pro quo". It is amusing to supporters of the Wilson administration to hear the outcries that proceed successively from thfc two Republican rings of the political circles because of the alleged purloining of "tricks" by the Democrats in the big central ring. When President Wilson made his deliverance early in the session in favor of presidential primary elections, the Hull Moosers emitted a loud yell to the effect that this was avowedly and originally "Progressive Republican" doctrine, and that the Democratic president was committing political larceny in appropriating it without any acknowledgment. The administration has never taken any notice of this complaint, the existence of any foundation for it being entirely a matter of opinion. It is, no doubt, the view of the majority of the Democrats in congress, perhaps, that it would bo best to leave1' to the Hull Moose the business of advocating such a primary by constitutional amendment and make the Democratic movement one towards accomplishing the same result by the Independent action of the states. Now the regular Republicans are nddrossinir thn t M...n V..V/ ff w??i*a TUUIICIUUOI) with tho charge that the administration policy of establishing nn interstate trade commission, provided for in tho Covington bill, recently introduced, with tho president's backing is an infringement upon tho regular Republican patent. Tho Republicans point out that their platform of 1912 contained a specflc endorsement of the interstate trade commission idea, whereas neither tho Democratic nor the Moose platform had anything on WILSON IS CONFIDENT WANTS QUICK REPEAL OF THE FREE TOLLS RILL. +. Impresses Callers That He is Hnxious for Ilis Party to Take OH' Exemption. President Wilson declared Monday that in seeking the repeal of the Panama tolls exemption he not only was seeking that the nation do what it was hound in honor to do, but was going the way of tho majority in the Democratic party. He pointed out that when the Panama canal act was passed a majority of tho Democrats then in tho House of Representatives voted against the tolls exemption, and that only by a coalition of a minority of Democrats with a number of Republicans did the measure become law. This announcement was taken in administration circles as the president's answer to the argument at the Baltimore platform made the tolls exemption Democratic doctrine. The president is understood to believe that the majority opinion of the Democrats in the House, as last expressed, was a result of more deliberate consideration of tho question than Wfl Q TinQ<ui))lo Tlo 1 1 i oc\n .. ??pwwui l? V tllU J'UIVIlltViU V.U/1" vontlon. The president made no secret to callers of liis anxiety for the repeal measure to come to a vote. Asked if lie thought influences were at work to prolong debate unnecessarily, Mr. Wilson said lie did not know, but it certainly appeared to him as if there had been lilibusterng; that minorities always flilibustered and disclosed themselves in filibusters. The president is confident that he will have the majority of his party behind him in the House when the repeal conies to a vote, lie has been assured that at least 200 Democrats and many Republicans will support him. Senator James of Kentucky has informed the president the vote in the Senate would bo at least 5 8 to 2 4 in favor of the repeal. There seemed little prospect Monday night of getting the Sims repeal bill before the House until late in the week at the earliest. Debate on the rivers and harbors appropriation bill is dragging along slowly wth no prospect of immediate conclusion. Mondny the apparent efforts of members to prolong discussion of trivial matA. V, ? ~ ?V- 1 A A - 1 it?i? uruugui cuuuuini reierence oy champions of the toll exemption repeal to filibustering tactics. ? ? ? CAUSES OF FIRES. ? Sparks on Roof, Defective Flues and Carelessness Responsible. In the report of the Insurance companies made to the State department of Insurance for fire losses during the month of February, appears also a very interesting table showing the causes of 108 fires which had been reported to it. The cause of these fires property, 6; Carelessness, 21; Coals from grate or fireplace, 8; Defective flues, 16; Defective electric wiring, 4; Explosion of gas stoves, 2; Explosion in moving picture machine, 1; Explosion of lamp, 1; Foreign substance in machinery, 2; Lightning, 1; Matches in cotton, 1; Rats and matches, 4; Sparks from locomotive, 1; Sparks on roof, 27; Spontaneous combustion, 1; Stoves, 2; Suspicious or incendiary, 3. The total losses paid by insurance companies in the State during February covered 158 fires, and amounted to $85,352.65. Out of this, the amounts paid in the towns in this part of the State was as follows; Bowman, $27; Cope, $1,2 60; Orangeburg, $76.50; Sally, $9,450. This does not mean that there were not more losses sustained during the month, but this is the amount paid during the month ? PLANNING TICK FIGHT. Loaders Hcl<l Important Meeting in Congressman Lover's Office. A conference of importance to South Carolina was held Tuesday at Representative Lever's office, in which the participants were Mr. Lever, President Riggs, of Clemson college; officials of the National Department of Agriculture, including B. H. Rawl and State Veterinarian Powell. The conference had reference to tick eradication in the State and full details of the plans for the work will be made public later, the subject. \ As the Republicans are going to vote for tho trade commission because of their platform, the ndmnitration leaders are laughing in their sleeves. Tho Bull Moosers are going to fight the commission bill. They are inclined to back tho idea of legalizing and licensing monopoly accordng to tho Perkins-Munsey prescription. Iloro again the Democrats aro pleased. As to the congressional power of tho Moosers, it amounts to little, as they have only seventeen men in the House and only one avowed partner in tho Senate. ? Rivers and Harbors Rill Passed. The rivers and harbors bill, appropriating $43,000,000, has passed congress, without much amendment. HOME RULE HALTED IIIIITISII C/SOVKIIN.MKNT Y1F.LPS TO AHMV OFF1CKKS DKMANI) UNIONISTS WIN VICTORY I Istcr Loaders Assert that (iovern* incut's Action is Surrender?Say Future on Home llulo Hill is Doubtful?lister's Claws Have ltecn Seen. The defection of the KnHi di aim OfTlcers who refused to serve in 11ster is a closed incident, hut iis consequences are likely to prove farreaching. Premier A qui i :r Seely, secretary of st .to lor war, made explanations b? and turbulent House of Commons Monday that the whole affair was the result of a niisund< > Hiding. This misunderstanding, it was inferred, although they did not directly say so, was due to misconstruction of the government's plan by the commanding general, Sir Arthur Paget, whereby he informed the officers in Ireland that they were to move on uintv:! iui ii i ujii wssaivu v <1 111 |) i 11K " Gen. Paget and throe senior officers from the Currngh camp?Gen. Gougli, Col. McKwan and Col. Parker?were summoned to London for a conference. According to official statements the misunderstanding has boon cleared away and these officers returned Monday night to Ireland. Prior to -their departure they said they were entirely satisfied. The terms or which the officers remain at their posts were not disclosed, but the general belief is that they were assured they would not be compelled to fight against the Ulster men. This is considered a distinct surrender by tho government. The Unionists firmly believe that the government has participated in a fiasco. They think that the most enterprising spirits of tho cabinet, David Lloyd George and Winston Spencer Churchill, were tho chief movers in the plan and that the government proposed a wholesale movement of troops into Ulster to overcome the covenanters by the display of superior force and tho arrest of their leaders and that the plan was frustrated only by tho opposition of the officers. Some of the Unionist members assert that Andrew Bonrr Law recently received a letter quoting one of the highest officers in Ireland as saying: "Py Saturday there will be hundreds of dead in Ulster." The Unionists also accuse the government of making a scapegoat of Gen. Paget for their own "colossal blunder". The future of the home rule hill is in doubt. <No declarations of "full steam ahead" nor "meeting force with force" were heard Monday from the Liberals in the debate in the House of Commons. None of the fire and firmness which permeated the speeches of ministers only last week was in evidence. The army has checkmated the government, accord-! ing to the Unionists' view, and the covenanters of Ulster have won their fight. No one will be surprised if the government soon relinquishes armed force, as its action had the immediate result of striking a shower of sparks of class jealousies. Liberal newspapers of high standing and influence, like. The Daily Chronicle and The Daily News, print bitter denunciations of the officers as part of the Tory aristocracy which insists upon the prerogative of ruling ino couniry against the will of the people and demand the democratization of the army and that the system of officering it from the sons of the rich be superseded by a system whereby officers may be promoted from the ranks. SHOOTING AT KERSHAW. ? Marry Gregory Said to Have Been Fatally Wounded. News came Tuesday morning of the shooting Monday night, at Kershaw, of Harry Gregory, a prominent young business man of Kershaw. A Mr. Bollin, of Columbia, is accused of the crime. The shooting took place in a lot in the rear of a block of stores between 8 and 0 o'clock, and it is said thorn worn - .. v/. v/ I*vy VyJ C" ? if nessos. Gregory was shot, through tho stomach, tho hall passing entirely through his body, inflicting, it is said, what will prove a fatal wound. Gregory was taken to Rock Hill for an operation. No arrests havo been made. % ? Farmer Finds Wife Dead. While at work In a field near his home Monday Carroll Hawkins, a farmer of Brooks county, Ga., heard the sound of a pistol shot in the house and rushing thither found his wife ^^<id, a bullet hole through her left temple. ? Negroes lirutally Attack White Girl. Two negroes of Atlanta brutally attached a pretty young white girl Wednesday. She was dragged into the "Tood2 *rven her cries brought white men to her aid. Armed citizens searched for the fiends. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY S. C. ' i Published Kvory Thursday. Till USD W, APKII, IS, 11)1 I, PKOFESSIONAh CAltDS. II. II. WOOHWAIU), Attorney and Counsellor ut haw. CONWAY, S. C. II. It. SCAKIiOKOl'OlI. Attorney at haw. CONWAY, S. O. ii. ii. miKitorciis, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. W. E. McCOItl). Dental Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. KEN E It A V EN EE, I jhi <1 Surveying and Drainage. Spivoy Ituilding, ('oinvay, S. C. j PARCEL POST TO HELP + Wlhli PIT FA KM E ItS IN TOl'CII WITH THE CONS I'M 10 ItS. The I'nited States Post Ofllco Department is Perfecting Plan to lteduce the Cost of Living. Preliminary stops have been taken by the post olliee department to perfect its plan for reducing the cost of living by having parcel post carry farm products direct to the door of consumers. Ten cities were selected to begin the work of establishing direct connection between producer and consumer. Postmaster General Burleson already having issued an order permitting the use of crates and boxes for butter, eggs, poultry, vegetables and fruit shipped by parcel post. Orders Saturday went to the postmasters at Boston, Atlanta, St. I,ouis, San Francisco. Ralt5r"ore, Detroit, Lacross, Wis., Lynn, Mnss., Rock Island, 111., and Washington, directing them "to receive the names of persons who are willing to supply farm produce in retail quantities by parcel post." Printed lists of these names will be distributed among town and city patrons. "By the use of the lists," said First. Assistant, Postmaster General Roper, "the city consumer can get in touch with a farmer, who will fill his weekly order for 'arm produce. The consumer will receive the product fresh from the country and the farmer will be relieved of carrying his produce to market, as the rural carrier will make daily collections at the farmer's own door of the retail shipments to city consumers. "The point has been raised that difficulty will be experienced in the return of hampers and other containers. The farmer may use inexpensive hampers whose value would not warrant their return nr ho mo? use the higher grade hampers for which he may include an additional t charge to be credited to the consumer on return of the hamper by parcel post. "The postmaster general is convinced that this plan is the one thing necessary to enable the people of thia country to enjoy the potential benefits of the parcel post. The postmaster general's plan is designated to provide for the most economical distribution of those products which are consigned in the form and condition in which they are produced." BANDIT SHOOTS CASHIER. Gets $5,000 and Makes His Escape in an Automobile. A bandit Monday shot the cashier of the Union Bank of Altoona, Pa., wounded a depositor and got away in an automobile with n.hrm* v ^1/jVUV^ A young man entered the bank In the central part of the city, pointed a re-^ volver at Mr. Burton, the teller, and demanded the bank's money. Burton ducked behind the counter, the intruder vaulted over the iron screen and landed inside. The cashier, A. P. Turner, turned in his chair just as the robber fired, tho bullet striking him in the stomach. A bookkeeper and another employee escaped through a door while tho teller lay concealed in a corner. Tho robber gathered into a satchel! all the loose bills he found on the counters, and after wounding a depositor who entered the bank, walked out to tho street, firing in every direction and chasing everybody to cover. Tried to Conceal Crime. Francis Bprden, sixteen years old, of Buffalo, N. Y., was shot Friday night while attemntin ?T r> mil"' '* , 0 W VII WA <* | store. Rather than explain the wound in his knee he took a pocket knifo and attempted to cut out the bullet. Postmasters Appointed. The Senate has conilrmed the folI lowing nominations for postmasters: Peter F. Sapoch, Rlacksburg; George Bailey, Greenwood; F. M. Cross, 1 Westminster; Arthur Garner, Timmoubvillo; Luther McLaurin, McColl.