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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. Lower House of General Assembly Passes t Amendment IMPORTANT PRO VISION CARRIED Still Ghost of Chance to Enact Primary Reform Legislation Before Adjournment ./ 'Fefsttary 24?Y Special Correspondence. . ' Columbia, Feb. 58.?Leading wbal nppuured to b? a forlorn hope, the advocates1 of primary election 'J.ir?* form succeeded this morning; in, put ting through the Mlley bill 10 safe guard palmary''elections by a vbte, bj r.7 to 52. Last night the liou3n re jected by a vote of 54 to 64 the pri mary reform bill now pending In the Senate which waa drs/rvj. up by a spec tat Senate committee.. The chief difference between the Miley bill passed by the house tbia *v?orp!?? ?H-i the Senate b;ll rejected last night is that the former requires a supervisor of primary election reg istration while the latter says -that it shall be done by the secretaries of t'c^ various clubs. The Mlley bill pro vides that the supervisor of registra tion shall receive a salary of $100 fbr his work during election years, and shall spend at least two days In each month' in each, township in the county for the.purpose'of registering voters and ahaii ba elected by the county convention. The bill allows ?sch party to say what requirements there ".scale! - b? for registering for it* ^imalry election un<! provides* for the. registration of voters In duplicate, ah Important pro vision which the advegdJWH^ytfa?tt reform l^vs^?tt?l??d . In view orTnV action of the Kouie this morning, there la a ghost of a chance for tftc general assembly to epeet prb?a>,jrfo: , ..-a all. T)ii? chance hinges entirely on' the ment tor the Oensril Aasemblty slna ?^/l^? ?v.^?tan of the resolut" Seaatco^' bio that l ATTORNEYS ARE STILL HOPEFUL Will Move Before for Second Hearing State Supreme Court I (By Associated Press) Atlanta, Qa., Feb. 18. Attorneys I Leo M. Frank, convicted of the mur der here on April M, 1913, of 14-year old Mary Pbagah. a factory girl, have ' not yet given up their fight for the young factory superintendent's free-1 dorn. Although the Georgia supreme1 court yesterday refused to grant Frank's appeal for a new trial the condemned man's attorneys tonight announced tbat tomorrow morning they will move for a rehearing be fore that body. They tonight refused to disclose the nature of the ground upop which they will base their mo tion. INeither would they discuss the' Report, current here, ibc.t ! a national detect've agency, who now] ja in this city, had been engaged to snake an Inve^gatloc of the case. Lo-' eal newspapers today printed a State ment Issued by Frank/ In which he yigbrousl/ reasserted hie Innocence. 5homes 9. Felder, attorney general of eorra, will oppose the motion for a rehearing when It is presented to th? supreme coart tomorrow. WILSON FAVORS RATE INCREASE Through Casual Talks It Has Been - Drawn Out that He Thinks It Justifiable I (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 18. President Wilson sent for' Chairman .Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commission today and they had a half hour's conference, the exact nature of which Was not revealed. White Houoa of ficials afterwards said the president merely aoucht "certain iGfermsti?r./' It was suggested that the president desired information on proposed lebin latlon to reguUte the issuance of Bt?ek securiti sa Oy railroads.' Vary ing reporta tNat the president had ex Mr. Clark an Opinion; op of the proposed advances writes sought by eastern %$tty^' y , jowever, while I at .the white house, according to offlct 1 theye, <thW^^re*idenY^oped prob prompt dl.sr uld be made. t said that v neither de sired nor thought H proper to resent his beliefs te ?lit> commission as he rasawiioi a t? - Jw?b? body. ft was learned at the white house, i Ttowever, tnat casual talks with San %lora, ibo pr?sident had expressed himself as. believing on increase of routd be Justi ?HSS SEBf ? ILL rwer,? Operation i'or Ara^wdleL tis At lloHpitnl OF SOUTH MEET Gathered in Annual Convention ?? CaBvhn?a, H. ?.~~Se**k?*ft r ''' ?*? Sacr?t T Bar Association Prepar ing for New Judicial Circuit ENDOI^?D~SMITH FOR SOLICITOR [ Tentative Schedule of Terms Of Court Sets! to Columbia Last Night By Anderson Lawyers Members of tho Anderson county bar asaoctatloo.yesterday,?gcplae;,go ceivcd.jUrjSeot. telegram? from c bia, ainon? ing.one frogBBE Ilcltor^Pioeto'r A. 'Bonham tQMFJg-ittmedulo of proposed teriv.i; fn curt ?or,:Anderson county.- undi:r new Judicial, circuit, be at once warded to Columbia aj*, ?jfs, waa of supreme importance if the new cjm cuit bill was to go through fie Oentf ral Assembly. Following this telegram a meeting of the bar association wks held at 10 (o'clock whts morning ana the follow ing ??hed'ile prepared ikr a cosunK tee appointed for that purpose: The general sessions Will convene on the first Monday In February to remain in session two weeks; the second: Monday in May foatwa weeks, the first Monday in Septemjber for |one week, and the third pondayT in November for one week. The court of common bleas will mvens oh the first Monday in March for two weeks; on. the second Mon iday in April for one wtek, equity leases only, no jurors to serve; third Monday In June for tw* week*: fourth Monday in September for two weeks, and first Monday In ^December for two weeks. mWMt all of the time allotted is not ^eceeagry, if the dockets are. cleared 3t_ r course. . will not last through the en tme stipulated. The bar association of Oconee county will make a similar schedule, which will fit with the schedule 4 resolution^ aflBfti lease, was unanimously signed by the member* SOciaJtiwv * sabers or the bar -oM ing foil confidence In I rnic? and iesai. expert-1 P. Smith to neslflwn i>?e* be office e?iicic?^^ ? hv ramttnini A hi^p n? new tonth circuit, as| the *rtt rerentiy pasuedg DOCTORS CONVENE^ Tri-Stase M?djcai AssogSkkm J laiBdf.PraM) C,1 Feb. ??;r^iWJth physicians in Oaronn?a'-said VW-? tT~Med?ca? ?mmoUtlon idoey wi " of tea Commercial CI Siehalf of the rita made by D ?nia Medical s waa featured by 1 after were Ct'rm-' or on ratght ecter ' Han ALASKA BILL PAS Authorises Railroad from (By Akbuc Washington, Fob. i? trat ion Alaska n hing the president O00,<i00 railroad CAD HOUSE! to Construct to Cool PrOBB) ?The Admin-1 bill author instruct a ISJ&.-I Alaska's coast ready has psss-j I bills will'be! terence be srith a view to the President, Intention of to Us great coal fields, was passed by th? House late tonight by a vote lof ISO to 87. A similar measure 'ithe Senate and 1 en up at once in n the two hou ing It quickly has signified. Ing it. t the eleventh llann ntary ski ..nsted from tbs fhe territories com ?uthorizing n bond ?0O to finance the paid offnflK&he Kteft la^BSsle^ in its-|in.?#vlded for [BsbeJ' Represent " Sew rorttj-led a 1 own iruwaape t??.ref id measure, the proves iianc?d out of current treasury, the President to f,l?,O00,000 and ippronrtated for 'ongress would apt Ihe amount estimated he construction of " The Mil pro vides.i lion of a road les. to be so lc >ne or more et in harbors on >f Alaska with th? , tho Interior of field or fields" Icient In quality Irai use. so as to r-elopment of the ?ral or other,rc /n effort was' i?js bill le;: ?ri of Okianoma, < . Continued after a sharp I the house el-j s* ..,.......< ~.i .., - .?... a provision' |ft Of 136,900.-! I and to.be of govern The Sea-] 000,000 bond eraid ..of' h resulted] t th? estare bond'pro vl>] Moo ?r the amend-1 >would uo fl-] i an (i s in the1 limited being espouse, each year teccssary for coneiruc tceed l.JO'j connect Pacific >rn coa*t water? .vitn a mai Mtf .yv lor oa ths ds iiad niln- ! klsska," fSML* <>f I /I?O.VI-IV ?u.d m be I Wo More -WSbeeasee HaveBeast; CtSkO^m iProbaWy End Today pectni Correspondence. S Columbia, Feb. 18.?Dr. R. G. Black-1 gtrn, tho main witness at the asylum; robe, this afternoon, charged Dr. E. ?Saunders with Interfering with] s decartment. "Hp fatied to specify' Sst how,. when or where she tres utsed, but contended that she had. He considered her actions a breach I the nrofesslon. but did not exactly! Sjlne where the breach took place. | pmd her nu??ity Uli UUCOnscioUS | Ibute when he said that she aeem to be "superintendent and every ling at the asylum," \Dr. Blackburn wap considered t??e] " ? witness for the so-called prose m,; Only two more witnesses] ST?>bedn called end the hearing ;rilL| ibabljr be concluded Thursday af nesa.-> *? ?. saunders continued1 to] In Jibe advatratlcn of the large n?jm-1 jr of spectators bv J.?r brilliant ercsa p^inatleta. : m ' rpcr ioiO me commit" Re tbut wb as at the asylum I P.TJug lessons to Dr. Saunders in the 'asscrman test, that a third person f&9 always present in the room. He laid that Dr. Blackburn told him | [politics'' played a. part In the elec |lon of the assistant physicians which] *as denied by Dr, Blackburn. IvouLiy^?RE BETTE? TEACHERS! flovel Scheme Advanced by U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion Would Work (By Associated Pres? ) I New York, Feb. 18.?A no val urheme br producing better country school b?chera by niovlrting them with s?Ra ile homes and asnpf.e acreage for far ming 4uarpoa?s today was Introduced, y Philander P. Ciaxion. United States ommissioner af education, at the Heating here of the State association t djsrHct snr?rint?ade?sa.. ,;J !"ThIs farm of twenty or thirty o*es.'' said i ax ton, "ought te ecomo a kind ?6* model farm. It prop rly operated by the teacher, and a enter of agricultural and social life a the community. "We r Sf?> better teachers." e ssW, "until we make the teachers' osltkm nroro respectable. Ko one rbo moves about from town to town nd from school to achooi constantly. s?? keep bis self-respect. Therefore} : Is necessary to make the teacher's osltlon permanent, as It is In Swttx rland. This can be dona by provbJ ig Lkn with a home and a farm. "Tbl* transforming of the teacher its a power In the coroumnlty mMst. ? acoonvpaijl-r, by a consolidation of. it: cuumry senooi system. It *?H be possible to divide states ?n i dlFiricts with the school building' fie 'teacher age' and th? mod?l terrai Guarded By Citizen-Sol diers in the Georgia Capitol LATER B?RNE BY RAIL TO MACON Will Be Interred There. Toady? Many W& Wfo.ee. the j Interment of .'Retains (By Associated Press.) . Atlanta.' Oa.i Feb. l?.--We?^'-l?f hours today the body of Senator *Kx%r. I jB??t'uB O. Bacori, guarded by ^tb ^t?D?fa. lay, Instate beneath the'dome I Of Georgia's capltol, while thousands i of those who honored thet venerable ! statesman in life paid their last, lov-' ins tribute to his memory. At sdn I set the coffin v/as taken to ite flow-1 1 er-banked bier and placed on board i I the funeral train. A few ; minutes later the sorrowful Journey I to Macon, whore the burial services' ! wirl be held today, was resumed. I I Georgia's official tribute to the] I memory of Senator Bacon was solemn I and impressive. From sunrise to sun I set the flags that flew over every public building In the capital remain-' ed at half mast. When the funeral train arrived in the city. Just Before midday, those who accompanied the body from Washington were met %t the station by state officiais and es corted to waiting carriages. Six soldiers of the Seventeenth' United States Infantry in f?ll-drsss uniform took the .flower-laden coffin from the train and carried It between double ranks military cadets and na tional guardsmen to the plaza, where a special escort of Confederate sate* I rans was grouped around the hearof). Uiisl?^asrftir'in< iieesed to homage to j their dead comrade. [ Through silent, crowded utreet* ; [tee'cortege, headed by the militaryj band from Ft. McPherson, mar?Uec slowly to the capitol, where Gov. John Marshal! 81aton and his staff awaited, First In the procession were the United States regulars. Next march* ed the military cadets In uniforvns Of gray and gold. Then came *h? b**rs*? wkUi ?la escort or Confederate ifflfc erans. followed by the Fifth Georgia Infantry. * I Members of fee Atlauia Bar Asco^, , clatnn, state and city ?mci?i?,. hoho* i j rary escorts and other bodies were, I next iu line, whiie last came the oar-1 ! riages In which rode members of Senator Bacon's Immediate family and the congross'onat party which ac companied the body frrm Washing ton. On arrival at the caplto., the coffin, borne by the military pallbearers, again was car-led between double ranks or soldiers and cadets, through the sombre draped, corridors of the n* 'Bnsrd ither. took their stations at the four corners of the blort>aland- i ing silent through the brier aPSc? .thai ; wes permiued the> public it? aopV for] the last tinte) anon i<lhta rf??*'i? dead senator. Silently and with bared heads; the long lines ot mourners entered In sln-| gle rile, looked for s moment upon the ) body and gave place to those who fol lowed. No services were held over Senator Bacon's body here. No hymns were sung, no prayers spoken. At sunset the funeral cortege figiln formed. The coffin, draped fa black1 and once more covered w'.ih flowers, I was borne to the waiting hearse, and; the solemn procession returned to the railway station. At ? o'clock the fnn- > oral train, with the mourners from Washington, left for Macon, Senator, icon's former home, and th; a done their part In giving open1 pression of Georgia's grief dlsper d. Thousands thronged to the 1 tonight to take a final look features of their feltpw td" man. The burial will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow at Riverside cemetery here. Four military companies will act as an escort of honor. Confederate vet erans and numerous civic bodies will follow the funeral cortege. The Rev. John 8. Bunting, rector or Christ Church, Episcopal, will conduct the services, _, _ MAN AND WIFE BOTH BURGLARS Woman Stood Goerd Outside While the Mtm Robbed the Houses Pittsburgh. Feb. 18.?According t* The Post, Mr* Elmer Anschott, It, today confessed that she took part In many burglaries for which her h?iR baud, who la 19 year* old. wm arrest ed. Dressed as a boy. her hair cut abort, the police ssy rbe stood guard outside the housr* with a rev,-: hidden vndar her cost, while ber hus band robbed them. _ DECLARES LAW NULL AND VOID Prisoner, Sent to Road for Viola ting Conrad Labor Law, Ser^ree (Hy Acpocfuted PreHS.) Charlotte, N. P.., Feb. t8.?Chief Justice Gary of South t'arolina Bit-1 prenie court In a decision given here today at habeaa corpim proceedings brought by counsel for Rant Nichols, sentenced to th? county chalngang by a local magistrate for violation of the contract labor law of the State code of 1912, declared the law null and vow, saytng that a similar decision bad been mode by 'the' United States supreme court on the Alabama con tract labor law on 'Which the South Carolina act was modeled, and that ho bad the right -a>.-? habeas corpus proceeding to dcclsr? the law un constitutional. The prisoner was or dered discharged. Nichols, a tenant-farmer, had signed ? labor contract. with a local land owner, had never cone to the farm 'which he 'leased. HoWpVor, ho bad been given no supplies, by his landlord and the point was merely that of whether the contract'would of itself hold. PEACE CONFERENCE MAY NOT BE HELD Hague Meeting Impossible i 1915 Owing to Non-Adher , anc? to Rules (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 18.?Francis Dyke Acland, parliamentarian under sec retary for forelgqmtfair*, today In formed tho house of commons t it would be Impossible ? to hold the third Hague . Peace conference ..mis nu under the rules a cemmit must- alt for two years' in adve ' uf the meeting preparing a program. S?ch a committee has not yet been formed. Great Britain, Mr. Asland said, cc a'-.! not <ake the Initiative owing to its failure to pass ?be . naval prise , bill and thereby ratify she agreement* I of the last conference. tl/rJC/^V PAMTIM! IPG yv g\bvn v?wa-,?-?'?*^M*,,rT,, Position of Wireless M?de It IttpoafW??to Out S. O. S* I (By AfBoclnted PTsm ) I rhiiadeipnta, Feb. 18.?-The position of wireless apparatus on the steam ship Monroe, sung by the Nahtucket off the Virginia coast wiih a loss of ferty-ene lives, made it Impossible to sand out "S. 0. 8." calls, except for s, ?srr seconds after the'crash. Tes timony to this effect was given by Robert L. Ether.dge, a wireless ope-! rator aboard the Mnnroe.rwho today Was nrlolnal wifn??u ** the trial of Cfcpt. Osmyn Berry, of tho NantuekAt. Wprgea with negligence. Etheridge said tha wireless outfits were misplaced on nearly all coast wise vessels and declared that both the auxiliary, or extra switches, and the telephone to the pilothouse should be'placed at points convenient to the jwlrelesa Operator. "?f the auxiliary-, switch had heen placed so I could have reached It," he testified, 'I would alffa turned on a ?Uiraa? battery . we s?p.t in r&?r.ye, ; and ?truck until we gtK ah ?nW?M? "S. C. C." yaiin. Th?. witness said be left tin? wireleaa WOta 57 seconds after the crash and that the. other wireless operator, who lost his life, preceded-him by 17'sec onds. Etheridge admitted under cross examination thst If he or the othar operator had rema ned In the room a trifle longer the distress signal could nave men sent out again by reason of tbo auxiliary dynamo .belng placed in commission. ? Andrew SJodln, the bow lookout of the Monroe, also war a witness. He corroborated virt^s^-all that Capt. Johnson had snldmbnct the collision a?d declared all ?be^ cargo ports and passenger gangway*, had been closed before leaving Norfolk. SKRIOl'S ACCIDENT ?N INDIANA (By Associated Press) Indianapolis, Feb. 18.?Two persons Was killed, five are said to be fatallr injured and twenty others hurt when, an English avenue street car was crushed between two interurban cars her? tonight. The accident occurred on the Vir ginia avenue viaduct , and Is said to nave been caused by ke on the tracks. * . >"v * A (WOD vRlLV.. * . ~~_L * Waahlngtoa, FeoolS^A bill * to authorise pension* of 912 * * a month tor widows and $2 a * month for children of dead * Span tab war veterans, ?oday wijEJ * reported favorably by the bouse * pensions eonwalttes. Widows * or children with . income of * 1250 -a year or more. ..would not 4 r be eligible to pewafona. Fenster V. Tr.bble spent yesterday in Alreenville where he attended 1 ?. Y. P. U. convention. Republican Senator At tacks President's Pa nama Policy . \ MANY COME TO HIS DEFENSE Topics of NaUotiti Intereei Arc Discussed Hotly in the Upper Hera** of <d Congress (By Associated 'Press.) . Washington, Feb. 18.?Accusing Pr?sidant WUson oMnconalsn his .views qf the binding effect; of the democratic platform and c!mrstfnmv> that Agreed of the railroads arid -the audaelcha claims of Great Britain seem.far mere potent with our Preai? dent than the appeal of the woman hood of the nation," Senator Brielow, republican, of Kansas, today i%ivn?4 dl8cuGs.on of woman suffrage in the Senate into a vigorous debate on ..'-the proposed repeal on the free tolls pro I vi ?Inn of the "?"?".r, ' f ari?l set, Senator Bristow'a attach brought to the defense or the President several republican as well so democratic ed?- ' atora, while it served also as the sig nal ror opening the tight within the democratic party against repeal . of the exemption provision. Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, democrat, dramatically declared that he would not "stultify' himself by leiiing his constituents that he had not kept his p?atforui pledge on too ,toll question "haciui?; ?hs PrssiSist I or the United States doe* not agree with Joe." t. Vil'ilie senators were Uiua engaged {In the first open discussion'or the ap {proaehtng battle m Congress over the chief '. ?xccuu>-?'s d?sirs tor reversal of th? Panam? policy, the President MfOmt. was engaged-.vlth. UM?rs Of the house of representatives* whhr are jsrfeil the situation with MajFtijflffir. ; Lead?r Underwood, and BhbrAseOts tlvej KitolHn of N'orth Caroline, but so far.ae can be learned, <tld dot con: vert ta?m to fits view that the. provi sion granting free tolls to American -1,3 rlc-Isiss i?'e ii?y-rau?ChfiOte treaty and embarrass?e the adminis tration in its foreign relations. Senator BrIStow ba*ed his charge or inconsistency against the _ Brest* on the ground t?ai he had iotd th? - 'suffragists that he could not advocate Woman suffrage, becauac the demo* era tic party had not expressed itself in the matte?.-, while he proposed that Congress eltould reverse itself on ibe tolls question, deepit? the fact thai the party had inserted its action, la this connection the Kansas senator mentioned the reference in the Balti more platform favoring "a single pres ldential term." and asked whether tho President would ''interpret tbte plank In harmony with hi* position as to suffrage, or as to canal tolls." , 'When Senator. Br^tS"' said thai iho traps-continental railroads had for years been behind, the fight agalnat free tplls for Aiverican ships, and In timated 'that they had influenced tha - .ci'^y?^. Gelinter. i^Mige of Ma***-. . chu?efi?, republican *jucrauer or tho rorelgn relations' committee- took jthe^locr to declaro'.tUot the President I afctuated in !i!k attitude on the toll quextlon smely hy his desire to restore the United Slates to its former prestige among nations. "The President doea nut like to see the Unites States an outlaw among the nations," added the Massachusetts senator. Referring to the vdt of women suffragists to President, Wilson last Deceiriber, Senator RrUtow quoted this from the chief executive's reply to their request for support of the equal suffrage constitutional amend Di l:. "When my private op nlon is asked by those who aro co-operating with me. I am glad to give it, but i am not at liberty until ? apeak for somebody besides myself to urge legislation up on Cont.t.h*." "When the'tolls question *?ame up,** the Kansas senator continued, "It was not brought before the iv?stdent by the good women or the .country, but by a representative of. the Ekigllsh government, whose action has been instigated by the American and Cans*- ' dlan trans-continental railroad* and British shipping interest*," Senator Brielow quoted the Balti more platform In its endossement of tho toll exemption policy for Ataur? can ships and declared that the Pr?si dent, in ? recent letter to Mr. Bt*r? bury of Baltimore, had declared the exemption to be a "very mistaken e?K Icy from every point of view." .: **It la true - continued Senator Brls tow, "that we have oxpended about $400,000,000 of our own money m con, structiog this canal on our owe ter ritory and that a democratic house of representatives, a republics* e*na"V hv ?? w'rhc?si.-.? S??^?ir, ? - Taft, the President of the Bolt* t States .and the demoerhWh national convention alt thought we had. a per (Continued on pa*fe 8.)