The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 11, 1914, Image 6

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HELP TO FARMERS # HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORABLY REPORTS ON LEVER BILL. FIXES COTTON STATDARD Lever Measure is Adopted aa Substitute for the Act of the Senate, and Compels the Adoption of Government Standards by All Cotton Centers in the Futures Market. mi. ^ t i i. /? a ? i?? i ne jjever conon iuiures 0111 was favorably reported to the House Thursday as a substitute for the bill already passed by the Senate. Representative Lever of South Carolina, author of the bill and chairman of the agricultural committee, included in his favorable report a complete analysis of exchange transactions. The bill, says the report, "recognizes the economic value of those cotton exchanges that use a contract representative of the true value of spinnable cotton and levels its prohibition against those exchanges only the value of whose contracts is susceptible to violent fluctuations and manipulation. "Upon such contracts the value of which, under the rules of the exchanges, does not reflect truly the value of spot cotton as it exists from day to day in the hands of the farmers upon local markets," adds the report, "a tax of $5 a bale is levied. Such a tax, in the judgment of the trade, is absolutely prohibitive. Upon such contracts as do represent the value of spot cotton, no tax whatever is laid, and this is true likewise of all spot cotton transactions including the 'f. o. b.' cotton, cotton 'to arrive' and 'for prompt delivery.' "The whole purpose of the bill is to compel by law the use of such a contract by the future markets, the quotations of the value of which will reflect accurately and truly the value of spot cotton of spinnable and valuable quality. In the light of the best information available, the ultimate effect of providing a contract of the character described in the bill will enhance the opinion of experts, the cotton crop in the hands of the farmers of the South not less than $100,000,000 annually." Mr. Lever said he hoped for passage of the bill by the House at this session. The Senate measure, which was introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina differs from the Lever bill only in minor details. Summarizing at length the provisions and effect of the House bill, Chairman Lever's report says: "The bill compels the adoption of the government official standards by all future markets. It establishes a uniform standard of grades, throughout the country and relieves the trade of the confusion and abuses growing out of the present multiplicity of standards in different markets. It prohibits the use, in the settlement of contracts, of the illogical and unsound 'fixed difference system' and substitutes therefor the system of commercial differences in determining the relative value of grades delivered upon contracts. "It denies to any cotton exchange the use of any contract for the future delivery of cotton, under the terms of >vmen me very low grades of cotton, 'rejections', 'left-overs,' 'misfits,' and 'dog tails'?qualities of cotton entirely unsuited for spinning purposes ?are deliverable upon it. It provides that cotton of a staple less than seven-eighths of an inch in length shall not be delivered in the settlement of such a contract. "Each bale of cotton to be delivered upon a contract shall be identified by grade with the date when the cotton is to be delivered to the purchaser, thus abolishing the practice of long delays and pro forma deliveries. "It provides that the secretary of agriculture shall determine in cases of disputes arising between the person making the tender and the person receiving the same, the quality, orf the grade, or the length of staple in dispute, furnishing as it were an unbiased tribunal to which may bo referred disputes which involvo the quality or the grade or the length of staple of any cotton tendered under tre contract. "Provision is made for the method of determining the relative commercial value of the different grades of cotton which may be delivered upon f no of o *wl i l* ftAAt.AiA? ? a # ?UIIV<U\ V( uiiu inu it'WI'y OL ilgrjculture is given such plenary power us will make it impossible to manipulate the machinery by which these | differences are determined. "Power is given the secretary to! establish standards of cotton by which its quality may be determined. "It is required of all persons corning within the provisions of the bill to keep such records and statements of accounts as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions made upon any exchange, hoard of trade, similar institution, or place of business. "The bill undertakes to prevent, as far ao possible, the transfer or the present vicious practices of certain exchanges from this country to foreign countries. "It is provided that any person liable to the payment of any tax im SMITH FEELS HOPEFUL I SENATOR IS CONFIDENT OF DEMOCRACY'S FUTURE. +. . ? Administration is Carrying Out its Campaign Fledges and Even Doing More. Senator E. D. Smith was in Florence a few hours Monday. He spoke very hopefully of the outlook in Washington, though he thought that the Democratic administration was passing through a very crucial period, and one fraught with occasion for anxiety, lie was hopeful, because the party and the administration had carried out practically every campaign VI H?A in iliA ?A/V?\1A '? 1 im vui ioc iv? i iit* ijcuiue, it nil rt'U ee Ml Oil its pledges. The Mexican problem and the method In which it has been handled by the administration, he declared, have appealed to the nations of the earth, so far, as a triumph of the ultimate achievement of clear intellectuality and common sense in control of a delicato situation. President Wilson and his cabinet, he said, have followed a course apparently in conflict with what is generally considered the American spirit, one that subjected them to adverse criticism, but if the difllculties there be settled, as they apparently will be shortly, and peace and prosperity be brought to Mexico, which may be reasonably expected, without bloodshed, this administration will have convinced the world that devastating international' warfare can bo avoided. So far the president and his advisers have succeeded in spite of rather than with the help of certain forces that should have been lined up with them in their effort to exhaust every means compatible with dignity and honor for the peaceable settlement of the difllculties in which we were becoming involved. The effect of the operation of the new tariff and currency law will become more apparent and generally recognized ny the people or this country in the near future tha;i just now. One lias not yet been put into operation, and one lias barely been put into operation. All of which, coupled with the anti-trust laws, should prove to the country that this administration and the Democratic party have proved of real and practical benefit to the whole country and to all the people. Senator Smith says he is too busy with present affairs to talk of personal interests and local politics; he is trying to get real things done in the capital. ? ? MOB MEMBERS ARRESTED. ? Six Men of Aiken County Will Face Trial for Alleged Offenses. Weells Heath, Monroe Weathersbee, Bud Redd, Joe Craig, L. Redd and Bonnie Craig, all white, of Aiken, were bound over Saturday morning after a preliminary hearing to the court of general sessions on a charge of assault with intent to kill and shooting into a dwelling house. The preliminary was the afthermath of the recent disorder on the Hitchcock plantation in Aiken county, about eight miles from Aiken, when the farm hands went on strike. Bond was given in the sum of $2 00 each. When the farm hands struck, one old noKro man. Calvin Williams, who lived on the place, refused to quit work. His home was visited one night by a mob and it was testified at the hearing that more than 1,000 shots were fired into the house. The place was completely wrecked, but no one was injured by the bullets as the negroes fied. The mob then visited the home of Manager Williams of the Hitchcock plantation, pinned crepe on his door and tagged the fence with papers bearing threatening inscriptions. The six white men are charged with being members of the mob. ( ? ? California Volcano Active. For the first time in 70 years volcanic activity occurred Saturday when for eighteen hours smoke, steam, rocks and volcanic ashes were thrown out by Mount Lassen, in the Cascade range near Redding, Cal. I Another Convict Freed. The governor has granted a pardon to J. IT. Verner, who was convicted in Anderson county in January of this year of larceny and sen tenced to ono year. Strikers Destroy Property. Strikers at the Palermo sulphur mines Tuesday burned half the town, tore up the railway tracks and cut telephone and telegraph wires. Troops established order. posed by the bill who fails to pay, or evades or attempts to evade tho payment of such a tax, or any person who otherwise' violates any of the provisions of the act, or any rule or regulation made under it, shall bo fined not less than $100 nor more than $20,000, and In case of natural persons may in addition bo punished by Imprisonment for not less than sixty days nor more than three years, and in addition to this, may be fined $2,000, to be recovered In an action founded on this act in the name of the United States as plaintiff." 1 WANT TO DELAY ACTION SENATE SEEM DETERMINED TO STALL LEGISLATION. ? President is l'Trni in His Purpose and Will Try to Force Consideration of Reforms. With the hope of preventing the enactment of trust legislation at this session of congress, a tacit agreement to delay the legislative program is believed to be guiding the actions of many senators in Washington. It is the hope of these obstructionists that by dragging out debate on tlie tolls exemption repeal bill and on the various annronriatlrm mile they can make it impossible to ad- ' journ before late in August or Sep- ' tember if any trust legislation is to N be enacted. Their plan is, just before ( the last appropriation bill lias been 1 taken up, and after the tolls question c lias been settled, to begin their ac- ^ tive and open work to obtain ad- " journmcni. 1 In view of the fact that one-tliird 1 of the senators will be eager to get back to their states to run in the E popular elections, they county on z much backing in their demand for r time to mend their fences. They also 1 count on support from the House, j where every member wants to get u back to his district. 0 Friends of the president, however, P state that no matter if these tactics s should draw out the present session a of congress until it merges with the * new session beginning December 7, 11 the trust legislation must be enact- a ed. They hope that when this finally v draws upon the obstructionists the delay program will be abandoned. ^ The passage of the agricultural ap- a propriation bill through the Senate t took forty days. A week or so. is, s normally, plenty for the discussion of 1 such a measure. Passage of all kinds r of bills and work in general in the ^ Senate has been held up through the 11 tufjci iicoo, in o 1*1 > uiniuriuimy, or 1 Republican senators to make v si)eeclies attacking the Democratic tariff law, which Democratic senators 0 feel obliged to answer, much as they ^ deplore the waste of time. e Next week the Rivers and harbors f' bill, increased in the Senate commit- 1 tee by a round of $10,000,000, will v be reported out. This is one of the 11 prize packages in the way of a pork ^ barrel bill, with every senator wanting all he can get for his own state. ^ A long drawn out battle is expected, c with set speeches for distribution in a the approaching campaign plentifully s ornamenting the Congressional Record, and incidentally taking up the t Senate's time. d The tolls debate?that is, the s heavy, set speech part?has nearly w concluded. Mr. Carton of New Mexi- e co, who will speak Monday, is the c only remaining senator who has given a notice of his intention to speak, e though a number of others will un- g doubtedly make long addresses. f< When the time comes for the vote it > is likely that about a day will be consumed in roll calls. ti ? ? T PLANNED HEROISM. n * n Washington Watchman Planted Dynamite Which He "Discovered". tl Several hundred clerks and officials n fled in fright from their offices in the g department of agriculture Tuesday n when Daniel V. Jauch, a watchman, ^ r O n h >?An rr R t 1? ^ ^ 11 i mi 1.111 wugu cue cui i luurs Hiiouung that the building was about to be de- ^ stroyed by dynamite. Led by Jauch, several of the cooler headed department ofhcials ran to the basement, where they found four sticks of dynamite on which the fuses had been burned out. Apparently an explosion had been averted because ^ the fuses had been jammed too tightly into the detonation caps that the t tire was extinguished. Then came a hurried sequel. Jauch, p who had suffered severe injury to his ( head while serving as a soldier in the Phillipines two years ago, was taken to a police station and subjected to r rigid questioning. Later the police announced he had admitted that he, ? himself, placed the explosives. De- j partment officials said they believed the watchman intended to "discover" the dynamite before it could do harm, ( hoping to wi npron\otion for heroism. J WILSON I7PHKLI). 1 A * f Florida Fleets Supporter of President ] And Retires Opponent. The first primary election at which 1 the tolls repeal bill was made an is- t sue was in Florida. Senator Duncan IT. Fletcher, who is supporting the < president most heartily in his fight < for the repeal of the exemption < clause of the Panama canal act, was i renominated by tho Democrats by a majority of C.000. The only representative defeated ( in the primaries was Claude L/ICngle, ( representative-at-large. Ho was de- i feated by about 3,000. Mr. L/Engle ' was paired against the repeal bill 1 when the vote was taken in the i House. Tho question was brought > forward by the opponents of Mr. i Fletcher and by tho friends of Mr. I/Engle. t ? ? + 1 At Gaffney Tuesday twenty auto-jt Obilists were fined for speeding. 1 MM?!?? - AWAIT REBEL NOTE MEDIATOR** HAVE RECEIVED NO ANSWER FROM CARRANZA. PEACE PROSPECT GOOD Car r ansa's Washington Representative Takes Vp the Matter With His t'hief?Officials Appear Sure of Success Although Admitting Possibility of Setback. Whether the Mexican Constitutionalists are to participate in peace negotiations at Niagara Falls probably vas known Friday. Agents of Gen. farranza Thursday night were in telegraphic communication with the wiiMuiuuonanst leader after having orwarded to him tho answer of the South American mediators to his nessage of protest carried to Niagara ' alls last week. Publication of the mediators' mesage was withheld until Gen. Carrana has determined on his reply. Hanoi Zubaran, minister of the interior n Carranza's cabinet and head of lie Constitutionalist agency in Washagton, would not discuss the nature f the mediators' proposals or the robable attitude of his chief. Per011s in touch with the Constitutionlist agency, however, suggested that he terms on which the mediators roposed to receive tho Constitutionlists into tho peace negotiations /ould be defined. The mediators' note, addressed to Ir. Zubaran, reached Washington in special delivery letter. As soon as he message was received, the Contitutionalist agency began preparaions to communicate with Gen. Caranza at Durango by a special wire. Vhen the mediators' message had ecu forwarded, conferences witr heir chieftain were begun over the ire. Administration oflicials awaited the utcome with considerable anxiety, 'lirougliout the day there were some xpressions of apprehension in ofhcial uarters over the success of mediaion plans as originally outlined. It /as the first time that any admission ad been made of probable setbacks, 'et those who admitted the possibilty of obstacles insisted that all dificulties ultimately would be overome. Secretary Bryan again reiterted that mediation was progressing ntisfnrtnril v 'At Constitutionalist headquarters hose engaged personality in the long Istance deliberations -with the Contitutionalist leader refused to say .'hether the communication containd a possibility of settlement of Mexian difficulties from the Constitutionlist point of view. One source, howver, intimated that there were sugestions in the note that had not been orecast in previous dispatches from iiagara Falls. While ammunition for the Constiutionalists was en route Thursday to 'ampico from the United States, adlission came from the state departlent The mediators have smoothed the ath for Constitutionalist participalon. The United States government rants them to accept. A rejection lay eventually mean the Washington overnment's withdrawal of the loral support it has been extending o the Constitutionalist cause. It is known the mediators want the lonstitutionalists to come into the onference so that the solution by eaceful methods may be an historic xarnple to Pan-America by the way evolutions can be ended in countries f this hemisphere. Put if the Constitutionalists refuse o enter, mediation will proceed. An .greement will bo reached between he United States and the TTuerta adninistration through which a new ;overnment will bo set up. Tho inernationai conflict will have been renlvpd nnrl tho nrr>V>n hil i tv fliof a ?. I W. ^V. v. v.. w I' ? ?y n / I ? I V J I/IUVI/ /\ I ~ j jentino, Brazil and Chile will accord I ecognition and moral support to the lew provisional government. The Tnited States would he expected to do ikewise. Gen. Carranza announced Thurslay through agents in Washington hat he would not make answer to he communication of the mediators, ior issuo his proclamation dealing vlth the formation of a provisional government in northern Mexico until le had reached Saltillo. At the tamo time it was announced that the Constitutionalist commander in chief lad departed from Durango on his vay to Saltillo by way of Torreon. The opinion of those surrounding "'arranza regarding the throe-cornered conference at Niagara was reflected once more in a semi-official statenont from Durango. The statement follows: " 'Hamlet with TTamlet loft out' is ho wny many Constitutionalist loaders expressed themselves regarding he conference at Niagara Falls, rhat a plan can be found to settle nterior affairs in Mexico without the participation of the Constitutionalist government is regarded by them as mpo8sible. "They point out that the only par:y directly interested in Mexico which pas been represented in the formadon of the Niagara Falls plans had been that of Hucrta. This party, de TILLMAN IS FOR SMITH 1 DENIES HAVING ENDORSED GOVERNOR'S AMBITION. ? "The State's Good Name AVill be Better Preserved and We Will Have a Better Senator." Senator Tillman Thursday gave out the following on the South Carolina political situation, especially with reference to John L. McLaurin's letter on the stand of John (?. Richards Jr., and the governor: "I have just seen a telegram from The News and Courier to its correspondent here saying McLaurin has made a public statement to this effect: " 'I am glad that Senator Tillman has reached the conclusion that peace can only come through the election, not the defeat of Gov. Mease, and that his candidate, Richards, has declared for Gov. Mease.' "To say that I am surprised, very much surprised, does not express my feelings. I have not given out any such utterance, and have not had any such thought. 1 am sure that whatever may he Mr. Richards' attitude, ho will regret ever having declared for Gov. Mease. Whether peace will come by Gov. Mease's defeat or not I know the State's good name will be preserved and we will have a better senator here than if Blease is sent to Washington. "Of course McLaurin is swinging onto Mease's coattail in a desperate hope that he will thus be pulled through and elected governor, but as I predicted some months ago there is no hope for him ever recovering the confidence of the people of South Carolina until he has expiated his past misdeeds and sins. I am satisfied now that if Senator Smith bears himself like a man that this open alliance between Mease and McLaurin will only help to bury both of them. "Had McLaurin followed my advice and exposed Measeism, its utter selfishness, its lack of catholicity of spirit and statesmanship, ho would have stood some chance ofs coming back in the future, for he would have maue atonement for Iiis betrayal of the people of the State. Hut now there is no earthly chance for him, whatever Blease does. 1 believe this alliance between the two will cause Gov. Blease to go down to defeat more surely." ? SOME GOOD OPENINGS. Civil Service Jobs That Will be Filled in June and July. The civil service commission will hold several examinations to fill vacancies in various departments of the Federal government on different dates in the months of Juno and July. One of the places to be filled by examination is that of record examiner for the department of agriculture in connection with forest reservation purchases. The examinations are open only a lawyers from certain states, one of which is South Carolina. The place pays between $1,500 and $1,800 annually. The examination will be held July 21. Other examinations to be held are: Law assistant, in the office of the solicitor of the department of agriculture, July 22-23, at a salary of $1,600; senior highway engineer and highway engineer in the office of pub lie roads, June 29, at salaries of $2,200 to $3,000 and $1,800 and $2,100, respectively; assistant epidemiologist, July G, at a salary of between $2,000 and $2,500; assistant mining engineer in the bureau of mines, July 13, at a salary of between $1,800 and $2,400; and structual engineer and draftsman in the odice of the supervising architect, July 8-9, at a salary I of from $150 to $175 per month. The examinations are open only to men. Should Make More Powder. A naval appropriation bill provides for an increase in the capacity of the government powder factory at Indian Head, Md., so that all smokeless powders for the navy may be manufactured there. ? ? Adopts Australian Ballot. The Charleston county Democratic executive committee Friday night decided to adopt the Australian ballot system for city primary voting. feated bv tho Constitutionalists at every point, is in tho throes r>f /Ma soluH/- "rid is in no condition to fulfill any pledges that might he made. The Constitutionalists have declared repoatedly that the sole solution of the internal differences of the country was the elimination of lluerta and his party from politics. "The Constitutionalists emphasize the fact that they will recognize only a government established under the plan of Guadolupe at the triumph of the .revolution. By this time the commander in chief of the Constitutionalist pnrty will he provisional president of Mexico while elections are being verified and constitutional order is restored. 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