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M ' ' r' * 4 MUST NOT DODGE IT ? < ADMINISTRATION LEAD MRS WILL NOT COMPROMISE. ? i MEET ISSUE SQUARELY ? . President Expresses Confidence That Senate Will Pass Repeal Measure an It Was Passed in the House? Several Republicans Are Joining With Hint on This Question. Administration loaders in the Senate buckled on their armor Thursday and plunged actively into the Panama tolls fight, determined to maintain an unyielding position until the end of the controversy. Though the House bill to repeal toll exemption for American ships is resting in the hands of tho committee on inter oceanic canals, there were many informal conferences (luring tho day relating to tho issue and among the developments was a visit of Secretary Bryan at the capitol in tho interest of tho administration policy. "No compromise" was tho slogan of the administration leaders in their conferences. So many bills and resolutions havo been introduced tending to cloud the plain issue of repeal that it has been determined to make it plain from tho outset that no temporizing is to be countenanced. President Wilson told inquirers that ho expected no factional delay or filibustering and had every reason to believe from what senators told him that there would bo a prompt report from the committee on interoceanic canals. The president said there were 0110 or two members of the committco who were against tho repeal bill, who, ho understood, would vote to nrintr tho nnnctinn promptly before the Senato in an early report. Incidentally, tho president took occasion to deny published reports that lio had sent any ultimatum to the Senate through Senator Owen or nny one else with a view to forcing early action. He had done nothing, he said, along this lino. Ho added that no proposals for compromise or chango in the repeal measure had been brought to him ind significantly suggested that amendments were not [being offered by administration leaders. Tho president has more than once made plain that ho believed it tho duty of tho American congress to repeal the tolls exemption without equivocation or evasion and that he was against any amendments. He told callers frankly that while he did not exDect obstructive taction in the Senate, lie expected a full discussion of tho question there but was confident the ropeal would pass. The president declared no proposals for a caucus had been mentioned to him. Reports were in circulation that an effort might bo made to force the repeal bill into a caucus, but these rumors were denied promptly Democratic leaders asserting that a caucus would not bo necessary, at the samo timo insisting that there is no doubt that the repeal bill will have a safe majority when tho vote is taken. It yas pointed out that Democratic senators, such as O'Gorman and Chamberlain, who aro openly and unyieldingly opposed to toll exemption repeal, could not go into a caucus which would bo designed to bind them. Friends of the ropeal bill insisted that support of tho president's policy is increasing rather than decreasing. One Republican senator who will vote for the repeal declared that a canvass of the Senate showed a clear majority of nine for tho hill, the probability being that several votes counted for the opposition would bo reversed. A number of Republicans, however, it is now generally understood, have decvlined to lino up against the repeal, notwithstanding they voted against free tolls originally. Among these are Senators Penrose and Oliver of Pennsylvania, who have publicly announced their change of position. Secretary Pryan discussed the issue with several senators while at the capitol, among them Senator Ashurst oi Arizona, one or tno jjemocrats openly opposed to the repeal. Senator Ashurst said, after his talk with the secretary of state, that he had not changed his views. Mr. Bryan also discussed tho situation with Senator Overman of North Carolina, who Is In favor of toll exemption repeal. ? ? ? Negro Kills Negro. At a negro dance on tho plantation of Mack Gregg, about three miles east of Florence, Saturday night Anthony Scott shot and mortally wounded James Conner, his cousin. At the last term of court Scott was tried Mr tho killing of a negro woman and was found not guilty. ? ? Shoots and Kills Town Marshal. Lawrence Newborn, town marshal of Broxton, Ga., was shot and killed a few days ago by Charles Graham, who made his escape. Fell Oft" Building. W. It. Cox, an aged carpenter, of Columbia, is In a serious condition as a result of a fall from a building on which he was working. HUERTA SENDS MESSAGE SPEAKS TO MEXICAN CONGRESS AT OPENING SESSION. Touches Upon Strange Attitude of a Certain Power Towards Mexico? | Not Much Enthusiasm Shown. "Before leaving these precincts 1 | must engrave upon your hearts that it is my purpose, as I have said before to the national congress, to achieve the peaco of the country and, if to do so, your sacrifice and mine shall he indispenslble, you and I will know how to sacrifice ourselves. This is my purpose or, what is the same thing, my profession of political faith." With this statement President Huerta ended his message to the Mexican congress, which convened on the first day of April. The document otherwise was devoid of sensational statements or dramatic effect. Throughout tho reading neither members nor thoso in the gallery interrupted with applause. Just before his closing words tho president paused and surveyed tho house, which became unusually silent. Ho pointed his finger as ho Impressed on the congress his "profession of political faith". Then came applause with cries of "Viva Huerta!" In this message President Huerta sain no retrained irom extensive men- ; tlon of international relations, al- ' though lie commented with bitterness j on the difllculties the Mexican gov- | ernment had encountered in obtain- ^ ing money, owing to "the influence ( exercised by the strange attitude of , a certain power towards Mexico." The only direct reference to the United States was in a review of the foreign oflice, when ho said: "Reforring to t.ho department of foreign relations, I must tell you that the government of the republic has earn- 1 estly endeavored to develop a just nationalistic policy, which far form injuring our International relations, has resulted in making them the most cordial possible with the chief pow- , ers of the world. "Somo of the American states have not yet recognized the constitutional government ad interim of the republic, but tho greater number of them keep in Mexico diplomatic representatives, and no one of them has interrupted relations with the republic. Tho United States has been so good as to invite us, through his excellency, President Wilson, to organize in common accorn 1110 preparatory work for the approaching peace conference at The Hague." President Huerta told congress that the department of agriculture was preparing laws regulating the distribution of 230,000 square kilometers of government land. The message made no suggestion to congress as to legislation, but referred to several messages which would be presented. Little space was devoted to the war department, the president confining himself to the general statement that this branch had done excellent work. He explained the apportionment of the army, now totaling 283,100, as follows: Regulars, 2.r>0,000; state troops, 31,000; rurales, 2,100. WANT IT REVERSED. ? Bishops File Petition Asserting Errors in Vanderbilt Decision. Claiming that the recent decision | of the supreme court is in error, and renaming the grounds on which the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, claim the ownership of Vanderbllt university for the church, a petition Saturday was filed before the Tennessee State supreme court at Nashville, Tenn., asking for a rehearing of the case. It is understood that the answer of the hoard of trust to the bishops will be filed before the supreme court. The petition is a voluminous document of GO pages, which assails every proposition laid down by the court ' In the petition it is argued that the board of trust is not a self perpetuating body, but that the Methodist annual conference had had in the beginning the sole right as members of a corporation to elect the trustees and that subsequently this right was vested in the general conference. It was likewise claimed in the petition that Commodore Vanderbilt was not the founder of the university, but that It was founded hy the annual conference of the church and that the church Is entitled to the credit for the funds given by Vanderbilt. | Country Divided Into 12 Districts. The country has been divided into twelve districts in accordance with tho new banking law. South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, part of West Virginia and the District of Columbia nmko up District No. 5. ? <? Dank Robbers Slain in Fight. Joseph A. Patterson, who entered and robbed the State bank of Newalla, Okla., of t)700 was shot and killed in a running fight near Oklahoma City. riitman Killed in Wreck. John Rogers, a negro fireman, was killed at Spartanburg Tuesday when six box cars crashed Into his engine. IS UP TO SI N ATE - ? lATlLK (iltOl'M) OVKK RKPKAL OF FHKK TOLLS SHUTS. VILL SEE MUCH DEBATE loth Opponents of ltepcal and Administration Leaders Are Straining Kvery Nerve for Desperate llattle? Kst limited Majority of Sixteen Encourages Those Favoring l{epeal. Tho Panama lolls controversy, surnissing in interest any problem that ins absorbed the attention of congress in recent years, was transferred o tho Senate Wednesday from the louse, wheri Tuesday night tho Sims >i11 repealing tho tolls exemption \mis Kissed by L'47 to 161. The measlre's appearance was accepted as tho dgnal for the beginning of one of tho nost protracted and complicated conests the Senate ever faced. Senators 10th for and ntrainRt tho rnnpnl said hey saw no hope of a final disposiion of tho issue within the next five >r six weeks. Senator O'Gorman, who will lead :ho fight against repeal planned to lave the iuter-oceanic canals committee, of which he is chairman, be^in consideration of the measure initio diatoly. Tho committee already ins before it various other hills renting to exemption. It. appears that he members are noarh evenly divided on tho chief issue. How a vote will result is regarded as extremely uncertain now, but unless there is a change in tho line-up opponents of repeal appear to have a mapority of une. Senator Lewis of Illinois has a bill empowering the president to suspend (oils by proclamation. Senator Reed has introduced a measure which would repeal the toll exemption clause and grant to foreign vessels tho right to compete with American ships now engaged in tho coastwise trade. Senator Owen's hill, identical with that passed by tho House, it was expected, would ,bo replaced by the administration's moasure, its purpose to expedite consideration in the Senate having failed. There are other measures pending, including a bill of Senator Thomas and Senator Gallinger's resolution expressing the sense of congress that it has the right to do as it pleases with respect to regulating shipping in the Panama canal. The latest poll brought to the White House by an administration Senator who canvassed his colleagues and excluded from his count those he considered doubtful Indicated that the president's contention would have a majority of at least sixteen Republicans as well as Democrats. Senator Owen, the administration leader in the canals committee, where the measure is now pending, was at the White House early conferring with Secretary Tumulty. Asked about the procedure in the Senate and length of time for discussion the Oklahoma Senator said: "It is natural to assume that if the committee does not report prompt, a motion will bo made to discharge the measure from consideration of the committee. There is to bo no effort at forcing unnecessarily but wo want no dilatory tactics. The committee stands, I judge, against the presi dent, and 1 think when organized those who wero in favor of the tolls exemption were In the majority. A week in tho committee will bo reasonable time for discussion." Tho president had 110 comment to make on the result in the House but let it bo known that he cherished 110 ill-feeling over those who, expressing their convictions, opposed tho repeal. There was 110 comment made on the speech of Speaker Clark. Tt was said to be apparent that a detormined effort would be made to add to the House repeal bill a clause to assert the sovereignty of tho United States over tho canal. Some Senators were said to take the view that such an amendment could not bo considered as a compromise. Democratic senators most active in tho fight for tho repeal contend tho House bill should prevail in tho Senate without amendment. How far Republican senators will figuro in tho result of tho controversy was the subiect of considerable speculation. HOY INJURED AT PLAY. Jesse Turner of Clover Hurt by Powder Explosion. While playing with some other boys in the mill village near Clover Saturday afternoon, Jesso Turner, son of M. II. Turner, sustained a very serious accident. lie and soino other boys had placed somo powder into a tin can and put earth on top of it. When they put a match to the fuse it exploded, the can striking young Turner in the face. Tho blow put out ono of his eyos, broke his nose, cut a long gash through his upper lip and caused othor painful injuries. ? . ? Stabbed by Lynchers. Twenty masked men took Adolfo Pndtlla, charged with murdering his wife, from Santa Pe, N. M., Tuesday and stabebd him repeatedly. IIo is expected to die. CAPTURED BY SIEGE DESPERATE NtXiHO HOLDS OFF J AS I* Kit COUNTY OFFICE ItS. +. Nemo Escaped From Clmingaiig Last August, Hut is Captured <m Heturn to llis Old llomo. On Saturday night through tho efllciont work of Sheriff Porter and liis deputies, of Jasper county, a sensational capture of 0110 of the most desperate criminals that has ever been in Jasper county was effected. Marion Brown, a negro, who was convicted during .tho May term of court in 19111, and sentenced to serve three years on tho county chain gang, during the month of Altugust, 19 I J, escaped from the gang after securing the guard's ritle, indicting a severe wound though not a serious one. Ever since his escape Sheriff l'ortor has been making every effort withing his power to rapture him, having made three trips to Georgia, whore it was reported that tho negro had been seen, hut each trip proved that it was tho wrong negro. Last Saturday some 0110 informed the sheriff that Brown was at his old home in the upper portion of tho county and immediately thereafter he left with all his deputies. They arrived after #1 <i ,*lr nn.l 1,, r. ....... .1 ?!,..? 1... ....... { ., u(ii rv ii nil 11 (U uru I II <11 ii47 ? <i.i in i? small negro cabin alono, whereupon Sheriff Porter demanded that ho surrender, hut he refused. Immediately the sheriff ordered his men to fire on tho cabin, thus hoping that lie would surrender, but this also proved in vain. After firing in the cabin for about three hours, some one secured half a di/en sticks of dynamite, and the sheriff then told Brown that this was liis last chance that, he was going to use dynamite and blow up the cabin if he did not surrender. This had tho desired affect and ho stated that would promise him protection, which lie would surrender if tho sheriff assurance was given him. After his surrender they found throe guns and a rifle in his possecsion, and the gun that ho had in his hands had been shot through the stock with throe different balls, showing how near he came in losing his life in resisting tho otllcors. | ?? NKGUO AHHKSTKI). Kilters Home at Union and Flees When Alarm Was Given. Dudley Johnson, an 18-year-old negro, was arrested about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning at his father's house, near Putnam church, eight miles northwest of Union, and lodged in jail. Dudley Johnson is charged with a very serious offense?that of entering the room of a young white woman of the Putnam community. The account as gathered from all information obtainable is that the young woman, who is about 15 years of age, had retred. With her was sleeping a young sister. About 1 1 o'clock Tuesday night she was awakened by some one placing a hand on her. She exclaimed: "Who is that?" and tho answer sought to convey the idea that it was the young woman's brother. She recognized tho voice, She, however, recognized tho voice, it is alleged, to be that of tho negro boy, Johnson, who has worked on her father's farm, and had worked about the house. The young woman screamed and caught up the child and ran into her mother's room, and as she ran screaming from the room, the intruder jumped out of a window and fled The alarm was promptly given and Sheriff Fant made a hurried trip tc Carlisle, where he got Clary Jeter, th< chain gang guard,'and his dogs, am proceeded hence to the Putnam neigh borhood. Tho young woman is post tive in her identification of the lie gro. ' FOUGHT IN TilK WAR. ? Woman Masqueraded as a Man foi Over Sixty Years. After masquerading as a man foi C?0 years and serving as a soldier ir Grant's army during the War of Se cession "Albert" Cashier, whoso soi was discovered at tho Quiucy, 111. soldiers' home Saturday, was commit '. ...! ' i rni? ir;u iu illl iuauiiu il?yiUIU. 1I1B WO mnn was born in Ireland 711 yeari ago. She ramo to America as a stow away clad In boy's clotbes. When war broko out, she, havinj continued to represent herself as t male, enlisted in Company O, Ninety fifth Illinois infantry. She partici pated in several bloody battles ant behaved with gallantry. When tin war closed she resumed civil life as i workman until sho became belplesi to support herself. She then enterec tho soldiers' home, where her so: was discovered whilo she was undei the care of a surgeon. Auto Accident Injures Two. Dr. Floyd Rogers and his wife o Anderson were seriously injured Sat urday when their auto turned ove threo times near that city. + ^ Vnknown Men Drown. Two unidentified men were drown ed when a bride over the Mohawl River, Schenectady, N. Y., was swop away Friday. CAPTURES TOR* ? VILLA TAKKS CITY AITKIt LONG and iu/Oody hattli.\<?. CARRANZA HEARS NEWS ? ? Federals Are Driven From Their Stronghold and in Itiotous Itetrent Are Pursued by Victors?Not Yet Known W hether Federal < 'omniatider lias llcen Captured. Torreon completely into tho hands of the rebels at 10:20 o'clock Thursday night, according to announcement made at Juarez, Mexico, by Gen. Vonustlano Carranza. The news first was announced to tho world when tho bugler in front of Carranza's residence blew tho staccato notes of victory. The paean, Carranza said, was sounded even before it was heard in Torreon, Villa delaying out of compliment to his chief. The meagre bulletins excitedly announcing victory after the bloodiest series of battles known to modern Mexico said that Villa captured a large number of prisoners and that the fleeing federal remnant was being pursued. V bother Velnsco, the federal commander, was captured was not stated. There was heavy fighting Thursday, it is understood, and the end came when, after capturing the three remaining barracks held in tl'inclty by the federals, the rebels stormed the trenches and barbed wire entanI'lfMiiPli I d rif E'nil vnn fin nnnrnntin Tho prisoners captured are believed to have been the defenders of the barracks, while tho troops in the canyon, which forms an egress from tho hill girt city, were able to escape. Tho campaign against the federal stronghold of Torreon, the main object of the rebel campaign, began suddenly two weeks ago after Gen. Villa had spent months in making tho most careful preparation. The rebel loss in this campaign is said to bo more than 2,000 killed and wounded. Trains loaded with wounded have been arriving daily at Chihuahua for tho last week. Tho rebel commander moved with a rapidity hitherto unknown in Mexican wafrare. lie worked his men in shifts, and as one shift became exhausted ho sent fresh hosts against tho enemy. A number of small towns of lessor importance in a m'litary sense fell first?Mapimi, Noe and Sacramento, where a bloody battle was fought. This opened a path for tho main attack. Next came Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, populous suburbs of Torreon, and all three connected by a belt street car line, herdo was not defended but it took three main asen n 1 1 n I n h I 4 1* /v 1 ^ ^ ? ? ? oouno hi nuiuii mw icuoia luai IIOHVlly to take Gomez Palacio. In the final attack on the city troops were withdrawn from Lerdo, whereupon the federals occupied It and another sanguinary conflict was necessary to retake it. i Past Friday, six days ago, Gen. i Monclovio Herrera, with his own bri, gate and part of Tlenavldes* Zarn, goza brigade of veterans, matlo the > first dash against Torreon. He enter ed by the east and penetrated to the . hull ring north of the centre of the town before lie was checked. Street 1 fighting, in which hand grenade? ' were the most useful weapons used i followed. Gen. Villa, then at Gomez Palacio . announced that he would join the at I tack, taking supreme command. IP > announced also that the newspapei } men with hfm would not he allower 1 to send any news whatsoever unti - the town was completely in his hands MYSTMKIOl S Ml'HDEIt. i ? Tennessee Parents ami Child Killci Three Miles Apart. Mystery surrounds the killing aeai Clinton, Tonn., early Wednesday o three members of the Seivers family r Millard Reivers was shot through th< ) hack of tlio head at his home thre< - miles from Clinton and a short tim< c later three miles away the bodies o , his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs Jacob Seivers, were found lying ir - the dining room of their hone. s Millard Seivers' wife told the ofll - rials that sho was awakened earlj Wednesday by a revolver shot. Sh< ; said she investigated and found th< ? ~ O \ t * ' i imjuj ui uer nuHuand lying on tli( - floor with blood flowing from a bul - let hole in tho back of his liead. llii 1 rovolver was beneath him. 3 Mrs. Solvers swooned, she said i and does not know how Ion# sho re s rnained unconscious. On recovering 1 she summoned help and sent a mes < senger to tho homo of iter husband'i r parents. Unable to arouse any om at tho homo of the elder Seivers, th< messenger investigated and found tin bodies of tho aged man and his wife f Both of tho Seivers wero prosperou: . farmers. Tho elder Seivers was Gi r years old and tho son 35. Hoy Falls on Pocket Knife. Floyd Hill, aged 0 years, whilo oi - his way to attend school at Ilurlison < Tenn., Friday fell with an open knif< t in his hand. The blade entered hli body between the robs. ^ * | ' girls drown in pond ???{.,. WHILE Ol T DHIVrV^i HOItHE I'M \<;i:s IN MII.L ST 11 E.AM. Two Lexington tiirlv Lose Their Lives in Deplorable .Vrcldnit?llrotliet Escapes. Misses Jessie and Klossle Croat, aged 20 Atirl 10 years, respectively, lost their lives in Tnvlor's mi" pond, about fifteen miles south of Lexington, Saturday afternoon vvh -n 'be mule they were driving made a wild dash Into the pond* while they were crossing the dam. Klzie ('rout, a brother of the young ladies, aged about 12 or 13 years, who was in the buggy at the time of the accident, barely escaped with bis life, bo having .managed to get to the bank. His escape is said to have been almost miraculous. The accident happened almost within sight of the home of the young women, as they were returning from Swansea, where they went to visit relatives. There were no witnesses to tin* accident. The home of Mr. Azarias Taylor is almost within a stone's throw of the pond where the young women wnro drowned. Mrs, Taylor and her little daughter, the only members of the family at home at the time, were attracted by the girls' screams. They were unable to lend assistance and the lad, too young to aid his sisters, struggled in the water in an effort to save his own life. The mule swam to the opposite shore after ho had managed to get loose from the buggy. It was possibly half an hour beforo the men near by reached the scene and it was an hour before the bodies of the young women were recovered. Webster Smith, in charge of the search, found both bodies. The older girl, Miss Jessie ('rout, was still in the buggy in a sitting posture. Miss I'lossie ('rout was rescued from beneath the buggy. Tim water where the young women lost their lives was about eight, feet deep. Hlzle, the little boy, says that lie saw his sisters rise two or three times, but lie was ? unable to give them aid. Wild, SOON BK EMPTY. * State Farms In plan ted on Account of Shortage of Worker. There are 186 prisoners In the State penitentiary and 5 7 prisoners on tho State farms. Of the prisoners In the penitentiary 150 were men and 86 women. All tho prisoners omnlnvorl nti (lio Qtntn fnrm nrn nioii ,? ? .... .... " Under normal condition?.'..'^require?.*' about 1 <?0 convicts to work^he 2,400 acres of cultivated land at the State farms In Kershaw and Sumter counties. Much of the land will lie fallow this y r. Practically no cotton will be p' .ed at the State farm. T.ib small force or convicts will be used to cultivate food crops exchi' sively. About 000 acres havo been sowed In wheat and oats. Some corn has already been planted and more will be planted later on. As there is not enough labor avallablo to culti vate the big cotton crop which the Stato farm has been planting for years, it will not bo grown this sca) son. The penitentiary directors have disposed of the mules they do not s need on the State farms. ! The chair factory at the penitentiary Is turning out about 55 rattan 5 rockers per day, which are sold in . various parts of the South. Forty male convicts and 12 female convicts . are employed in the chair factory. - The ash and maple for the arms, 3 frames and rockers of the chairs are i' shipped from the lumber mills in the 1 mountains. The rattan reed is im1 ported from the East Indies through . New York. All the parts of the chairs are mado on the premises frolr. raw material. ^ ? . 1 DHOVJE BANDIT OUT. ?.? 1 Express Messenger Balks Bandit by i 1 f Opening Fire on Him. I ^ A bandit who attempted to rob a 5 Seaboard Air Kino passenger train near Cnnipr On nnrlv Tinn>n,in.r ..... . , >v., vui i uui nuu/i w ivr> f balked by an express messenger, R. C. Fletcher, who exchanged shots with the outlaw until he jumped from the | train near Comer and escaped, lie boarded the express car as ti e train was leaving a water station two miles south of Comer. * 3 Covering PMetchcr with a revolver ^ he ordered him to open the express car safe. Fletcher drew his pistol , and opened fire. After several shots were exchanged, the bandit, hit by a bullet in the arm, dropped his wea' pon and leaped from the train. ? Fletcher was not Injured. Posses be\ gan a search for tho outlaw. \ Shot His Wife's Friend. 3 While George Young and his wife 3 were quarreling Thursday In their . homo at West Plains, Mo., a hired q hand, Georgo Billings, ran Young out 1 of the house with a poker for slapping Mrs. Young. Young grabbed a gun and shot him. ? ? ( Lexington to l>o Wet, The election in Lexington in favor a of the county dispensary sytem was a declared legal Friday by the supreme court. M