PART ONE VOL. 1. NO. 1. Weekljr, K t WUhe4 1860;Doily, Jan. 18, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 13, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. $5.00 PEF ANNUM. 37TH ANNUAL GONVEM SM S.S. Meeting Opened Yes terday With Large. Attendance MORE DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED Reports Read and Meetings of Different Departments Dis cuss the Work of the Past Year The 37th annual convention of the Sunday School Association of South Carolina has started auspiciously. The weather has cleared beautifully and In consequence the attendance Is large, and many additional jyle gates are expected today. The ses sions were well attended yesterday and the night meeting at the First Baptist church crowded that great auditorium to Us utmost capacity. An account of the sessions at the different times of the day will be found elsewhere, as well as the program for.today and for tomorrow, i'he spirit of the association seems to be institutional. The work la be ing conducted in a manner to in spire the assembled teachers with now sea) , hut what is more to the point, they are being given Ideas, and that is wbst counts . Key. Walter L Herbert of Sumter, Is the presiding officer. Rev. Wl H K. Pendleton Is the chairman of the executive committee and Miss Grace W. Vandiver is tbe field secretary. The recording secretary is Rev. D. D. Jones of Easily, THa next president | of the convention will be a Baptist,} as tho association s ? iui?r?euomina tional, and each denomination is rep-1 v DIVISION ON IMMIGRATION Senator Smith Knows President's Views But Remains Silent (Dy Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 11.?Notwitb-| standing a well-defined sentiment among some democratic senators against action on immigration legis lation at this session of Congress, the] committee on immigration of thei Senate today determined to continue] Its deliberations on the Burnett bill. "There ia a feeling held by some | senators," said Senator Smith, of South Carolina, chairman of the com mittee, "that immigration legislation 1 should not be enacted at this time,] but this committee proposes, to re port a bill and to urge its passage."! Senator Burton of Ohio and Sena-j tor Lodge of Massachusetts, republi can members of the committee,] agreed that the bill would be report ed in spite of opposition. Members of the committee generally are re ticent about President Wilson's vleWs, particularly with reference to tbe literacy test, which Mr. Wilson Ib said to strongly oppose.. Senator Smith was commissioned by the com mittee to set the President's opinion, and he has done so. The senator, however, atill declines to make a public statement on the subject. ARRAIGN BANK WRECKER I Former President of Memphis Bank Pleaded Guilty Monday tpjhis, Teas., Fob. 41? Unless j _ mads tonight are disarranged, resented in turn In the presidency. | c. Hunter Raine, former president The committee on nominations con-1 e* wrecked Mercantile Bank. ??is ^rw w.:;a .Morrl??j or dem...] will be one of hair a doxen prisoners ?? SVi?linei^S ***^C*. ??nty Jail to crlm ? J- r'v^iL^^^^^^^l1?*1 .^vuu... w vvjiuiuivvui; ,u ?y-~ ery way .in tiying to make a success of the further meetings of the elation. plea to an Indictment charging Umi the diverted $788,000 of the hank's funds to hut own use. - So far as can be ascertained, Raine has not arranged for counsel, nor has it been stated whether hia plea will be other than that given at the time of his .arraignment Monda on a bench warrant charging embezzlement, when he pleaded guilty and urged that he be committed to Jail. Besides embezzlement, ' the indio*-1 ment charges larceny and fraudul?\ breach of trust. Friends today visit ed him in a final effort to induce hinl I to combat the charges and en de?? or ! to arrange for bai! pending trial. Whoth.. Ih?.r-?... ............. ..^.w PWiACtUI not stated. CENTENNIAL NEXT TS AB. Mrs. Lawrence Thompson of Leba non, was shopping in the city yester day for a few Hours. The Farmers' Society of Fendleton| Preparing. The annual meeting of the old Farmers' society of Pendleton, will be held today at 10 a. m. In the his toric ball of that place. This wilt be the most important meeting since tits war. The officers elected today and the committees appointed will have charge of the centennial preparations for next year. Every person in the county is urged to Join the associa tion ?ud to assist is the work of making a auccces ot tue institution which was the pride of Calhoun and other great men of former seuerk tions. ; -? I ""?5- ?r .???w?, uniiivilim auuj substantially eradicated." TUG POTOMAC GRIPPEu BY ?CE? Chances for Getting Loose Before I Spring Considered Small flgt- '(Wmt*l*i*4 Press.) lionne Barfgff. F., Fe?- 11.?The American naval tug, Potomac, which came to these waters to rescue two barring fishing crafts caught in the WR^ft Bay -at islands, is gripped so firmly in Ice floe that the chance of her getting away before spring. 4 Is considered Small. Heavy lea has become packed Into tho gulf of fit. Lawrence, south to Cabot : Strait, and, while continued 3B8terly winds might break it up so that the Potomac uould make a near by cArb?r, marlners believe there Is little likelihood thfrt she would be ible to get clear of the gulf. The pr?ya'rliog winds are northwest. The first officer and others of the tug's crew today walked ashore to I-ohstSr Head Light station. They reported, her hard and fast three miles off the haibar. AH tho 3d men sf tbt Potomac are well, but coal sad provisions are running low. In ?rd?r tb replenish their supplies, the landing party tonight came to Bonne Bay and tomorrow will drag sled leads or venu baox over the ice. Genera! Oenfbrawd >n. Feb. 11.?The nom baa leal Inspector WUIIa O to be surgeon general and the bureau of medicine and of *_n* navy today was tses f the senate. NEGLIGENCE IS il? -M (By Associates Cress) Philadelphia, Po?. ?.4--Capt. Osmyn Perry, commander ofttfee steamship Nantucket, charged With negligence in the recent eoHlaUtri with the steamship Monroe off the Virginia coast, in which forty^ lost, today listened iE. Johnson,/or the I give his version of I fore the local United} tore of steam vessela-. mine who was respon accident. Capt. Johnac Btand all day. * ?As In the Titanttc pected that the inqt in certain changea St^Kf made with relation to. the navigation of vessels, at least in the' coastwHKlrade. While primarily Capt. Be-n-y is oa trial, the hoard of Inspectors bah instructions from the department. ol commerce to make a thorough inqutty into' every phase of the collision' ItfHh the view I of the enactment .Of ; assist in preventing similar disasters. The Governs Oapi Berry wu.cn '< ,by the charge ernnior.t steamboat , folk, pleaded not gut ed with faille* to ; of his shj etralF.. : operator was on dirty and with being] (careless in not ascertaining through th? Wireless operator whether any I other vessels were close by in the | I fog. : I One of the'most important., points I brought our in the examination of Capt. Johnson, who anas the first witness, was that .he, navigated the Monroe with a steering compass that deviated as much as two degrees from standard magnet compass.. He ssld the instrument was sufficiently true to run the ship and that it Was the custom of masters in the coastwise trade to use such compasses. His steering compass. Capt. Johnson tes tified, had never heen adjusted in Lthe one year he was master of the ! Monroe. The Monroe's captain told the story I [of the collision and was'exhaustively { amined by the steamboat inspectors. MB. J. 8BREVE Dl ItIIAW. Chieago. Home D?partaient und Hesse Vlntim tien Superintendent, lasernatlon. ?18.$? Association. *&* ?BACK W. VANfUVHR Wfeo Rs* Smignsd as ?Wi &ere.|i tsrj. .,e?*. * WIRES MAY WORK AGAIN IN MEXICO To Restore Communication Be tween Towns and Outside Work! (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 11.?Officiais here today were much interested in dispatches announcing the unexpect ed restoration of telegraph communi cation between ' Important Mexican towns In the war zone and the out side world. Monterey, Laredo, Clu dad Porfirlo Diaz and Torreon were among the towns named. The infer erfce drawn was that campaigns against these federals strongholds were, not being actively pushed by the constitutionalists. It was suggested that rebel lead ers were awaiting the receipt of fresh supplies of arms and ammuni tion. There also is a suggestion that Gen. Villa and Gen. Carrauta are concerned over the possibility that some of their followers, unused to restraint, may be difficult to handle in the event that any of tbeae large towns are captured, and that, for the present, they are quietly putting into I operation disciplinary measures with a view to meeting the close scrutiny of the civilised world when tbey are placed in the attitude of conquerors. FINAL ACTION NOW IN PROSPECT Thought Alaskan Railroad Mat* ter Will Be Settled Next Week (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. ??. Final se* tlon on the Alaska railroad bill next Wednesday tonight was in prospect after the House had given a day to detailed consideration of the measure as psssed by the Senate. But one amendment was written in to the bill during the discussion. This j would leave to the dixcrotton of the [ President the probies of handling | the proposed railway after the gcv- ! eminent has built it It was Intro duced by Representative Mann of 11 llnois and would allow the President; wither.to lease the railroad to pri-j Ltatg- 4$ tommm^** ? the governmonL Mr. Mann pointed, oat that trie President might be confronted by a situation In which the oniy available lessees would be the Guggenheim in terests or other Interests heavily in terested In Alaska, and that In such a ease he ought to be sbte to decline to lease. Several members, both democrats I anjl republicans, attacked the bill as| socialistic" in the course of the de bate and at one time Majority Lsoi?.' Underwood took the floor to reply to their ssserorjss, 'The suggestion that this bit! cert ains the germ of socialism," he said, "takes twelve years of the time when we were debating the first irrigation bill in this House. The same ' cry was raised then, but no one today will contend that the government's Irri gation policy has been a failure." TEMPORARY WAY NOW PROVIDED Method for Election of Senators b e Un?tes! States Act (By Aa*ori*t*rf Press.} , 'Washington, Feb. 11.?Without a roll call the Senate late today passed! a bill to provide a temporary method for the nomination and election ?! senators - In States that have not leg islated to cary out the seventeenth constitutional amendment for the dlect election or senators. The law would be effective only until the various States provide their own machinery for nominating and electing senators. Where ( no suth methods are. provided, the bill would make the State laws for nominating ? ?owid uificen? applicants to senators. The only fight against the measure came from Southern senators, who contended thst the federal govern ment had no constitutional right to intrude Into such local matters as the nomination of candidates, ' Sena tor Fall of New Mexico, was the only republican to. vote In favdr of limit Ingr the Mil to elections. T**aiO?*?*m?%.. TT*?I- _ - ?~?.r ? m Charles P. Sima Cam Assoctated Press.) Coiumbis. s, ?l, Feb. u.-Thetak ?L^l*!****?**. * tne dtabarment proceedings brought against C. P Sims, attorney of Spartanburg. to-' night was concluded in the cunfeme court sad the case w? takeTaadsr ? ^^ArwSSl.- Ad*! elslon will be rendered Isfsr. Sims ""ethical conduct. A speed of too bottle* * minute Ig claimed for a new bottle capping ma chine which dees its work au tern* tic ally without the cosstaat attention of m attendant-. , mniiccT ? ill"UL?! 1 COPPER MINERS GIVE TESTIMONY. Congressional Investigators Are in the CalirriKrt (By Associated Press.) Hancock, Mich., Feb. 11.?Sixteen striking copper nine workers today testified before the congressional In vestigators that they Were compelled to toll under dangerous and unsani tary conditions for wages that barely enaGled them to. exist. The contract system of pay was condemned. The committee decided to go to Ca lumet to investigate the Italian hall disaster Christmas eve as relating to the deportation of Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners two nights later. There is difference of opinion among com mittee members as to the scope the inquiry on this subject should take. O. N. Hilton, senior counsel for the f*^*l