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ijiimjiis CONGRESSMAN STOKES SPEAKJ AGAINST COTTON EXCHANGES. Crops Sold Before They are Plantec ?A Gigantic Gambling Scheme?Bill to Crush Out the Evil. Mr. Stokes lias introduce ! "A Hil Relating to F utureContracts in Agricultural Products". This bill will be made the basis of the fight. J declares that t'option$"und,,futures' are obstructions to and restraint upon coninierce, aud are illegal am void and that dealing iu them shal constitute a misdemeanor punishable by a fiue equal to the amount of tlx contract, if it is not less than t thousand dollars, and by imprisonment from one to five years. It pro vides also that every distinct con tract shall constitute a separate otfense for both buyer and seller. Ii provides for enjoining and properh punishing merchants or exchange lioardsof other associations that deal in options and futures. Mr Stokes has received thousands of petitions and letters from all over the country endorsing his bill anil urging its passage. From his home district, the seventh ,South Carolina, he received 1091 petitions, containing about 8,000 signatures. He 1 ! "'? hill with an plnlmrsite IHlllltliai 1IIO V/lii n ivu ?... v.?.vv..,.. speech in ih" course of which he said: "Mr. Chairman, the man who should advisedly bargain away in the beginning of the year, at a clearly asc ertaiued loss to himself, a * * *?:i ?...i wnoie year s prounci vi iun auu juivation, would everywhere be adjudged a fool iti the assizes of common sense. Still, the mm would simply have done what he had a right to do with his own. Hut when that man presumes, unasked, to bargain away the year's product of another in jron if at- nn r?oSt to th it. auvcuv^ v 'vn ? . >? , - other, the natural and proper feeling Mould be one of resentment toward him. If it became clear that he bargained the year's product of another in advance, bargained it and 6old it lime and time again at an appreciablecost. to the producer, I think it quite likely that violent remedies would be applied. 'I'U..* ;< emit! >i II v I Ko rnlutinn nf X ll(IV lO C-CI lllium vnv iviuiivii -? the "future'' operator to the producer of cotton and other agricultural staples. Through all the six thousand years and more of the world's his torv down to 1872, the wo: Id had gotten along without the services of the option dealer, and had gotten along fairly well. He owes his birth to a decade of dabauch of public conscience during and subsequent to a penod of public war and consequent public plunder. The continued toleration of his snperfiuous and officious presence is due to the grip acquired upon the public throat during the stupor incident to that mammoth debauch. "Hear what the Senate Committee presided over by that able jurist, the late Senator George, of Mississippi says : "In the first place, lei it be noted that in and through and under the regulations of the two cotton exchanges of New York and New Orleans can this business be transacted. The Cotton Exchange in New York is a corporation under the laws of liof fi+uto T< is r>nmnn>p<] nf less tnai/ uvaw? *v -? ?than 500 members and the number cannot be increased beyond that The initiation fee is $10,000, and the new members are elected by the old. No man can deal directly in futures unless he is a member. The corporation has absolute power over the dealings. All disputes or controversies are settled by a court established bv the corporation itself in what is called abitration proceedings. Neither party is allowed to call in a Federal or State court. It fixes the grades of all cotton, dcsig nates the waie-houses in which it shall l>e stored, tixes the fees and charges for storages, weighing and all other work done iu relation to the cotton. It fixes the quotations of prices which are to be published to the world, and these quotations are thus fixed under its rule for months for which there are no actual sales "It and its members have such wealth that it is claimed iu a pub ' \\ Before Retiring.... * take Ayer's Pills, and you will sleep better and wake in better condition for the day's work. ! Ayer's Cathartic Pills have no equal as a pleasant and effectual remedy for constipation, ; biliousness, sick headache, and l< all liver troubles. They are ! | sugar-coated, and so perfectly ;, prepared, that they cure with- ! out the annoyances experienced ' in the use of so many of the pills on the market. Ask your j i A '.. /->_.1 I? uiuggiM. iui .rvycx s <iixiciiLie i Pills. When other pills won't help you, Ayer's is ' THE PILL THAT WILL 'i J i lishel letter of one of its principal r members made in response to argn- \ ment made or. the floor of this body i that the exchange can absolutely j dominate and flx prices, as against all t I others, bv flooding the market with } i offers of an nulimited supply of fu- j tares when at other places prices are, in its opinion, too high, and thus tko moeL-ot* <nwl i\>\ tlio .1 j hand when it deems prices are too } ;i low at other places may immediately ^ j buy all that can be offered. The Now s Orleans Cotton Exchange though lo- ji cated m the largest spot cotton mar- . ... ... j1 ket this side of the Atlantic, is a c 'mere annex to and subordinate of, i i the New York Cotton Exchange and ^ so need not be described further than ; j by saying if it had the will to doj 'good it lias not the power. Such are , the agencies and localities ot those! dealings, and they are the sole agen- ; j cies and localities of those dealings u and transacting of this business." i - l? Salters Scintillations. Mrs. J Ii Boulware, of Newberry, is > ! here on a visit to her son, He v. 1\ ! j< ,0 Boulware. > Miss Addie Montgomery, a char- a ! ming voting lady of lvi 'gstree, is c j on a visit to relatives here, v Miss Lizzie hodge, one of Clar- J' lendon'sfair daughters, has been I C] . visiting her sister, Mrs. R J Boul3 7 ? i ware. * v There have bee" several cases of s ! fever in this vicinity lately, but t all of them seem to be progressing [favorably toward recovery. j * The exercises ot Children's Day r took place at Ml Vernon Church, I Saturday, May 2S. A good crowd . I1 jut'ended, and the occasion was 0 I quite enjoyable. j] | Mrs. Allen of Florence, Mrs. j Edgerton and Miss Jackson, of j Charleston, are the guests of Mr>J James Ferrell. Last Friday eve-j ^ ning a strawberry festival was . given in compliment to ther.i at the grove in front of Mr. William Salter's residence. ! , B. K. C. I ] Delegates to Atlanta. 1 At a meet ingot' Camp Pressleyl theld on Monday, the following' delegates and alternates weie' I elected to attend the Ueunion of United Confederate Veterans at Atlanta in July: Sponsor, Miss Mary McCutchen. Delegates. D E Gordon, i M Gilland, G V Nelson, J E Mc- I Elveen. 8 J Taylor, A \V Flasrler, F M Britton, J G Tisdal<\ R II . Kellehan. Alternates: WJFer r rill, EM Smith, T M McOutehen4 II Z Hanna, G Iv. Mitchum. ;; I) E Gokdon, ! i >; Commandant. i The County Record one dollar - iyear. I II III y Among Our Exchanges. I l?;it hujre lc?rl 11 tios are 1 >ein: made oni of litis war by trusts combines and private individuals tuere can be no question, an 1 I it a the sons of public men are beini taken care of by the govermneii is a fact that is patent to all. Vet many people mistake the action; of these men, and hold them ii| - - * /* r ,.,i us patriots.?iA't* ucu^ei There are no loiiijer any "rebels' or "ex rebels," bat only citizen? of one common country. By un animous vote the House yester Jay passed the Senate bill remov ing all Confederate disabilities. Now let us lick Spain quick and have the thing over!?New York Woild. The Augusta Herald says: 'South Carolina will send to the front as noble an army of volun leers as any St Me in the Union." l'rue, every word of it, and if the regiment gets the chance it will loubtless do as good lighting as inv other in the volunteer army. That is the wav Smith Carolina las.?Beaufort Gazette. Josh Billings says that sons o 1 treat men remind him ol a sweet potato patch?the best of them ire under ground. McKinley vould do well to consider this in ippointing the dudish sons of dis ingnished men and millionaires o high positions in the army,over rained West Point officers? lead light. In justice to genius with a han lie, we declare, and will maintain ...oil 11oiv* nnmpr^ that Sir. (411 HV, ?? ^ ^,... <ew!s Morris's verses on Mr. Gladlone in the London Times are ally up to his standard. We can hink <?t' l>nt two other men who mild climb to an equally breathess height of song. One is Sir idwin Arnold. The other is the Ion. J Gordon Googler.?New ,'urk Sun. By a vote ot (56 to 131 the State )emocratic (Convention in Col inibia rel'jsed to submit the nest ion of dispensary vs. prohi'ii ion lo llie Democratic voters of he State. Is that Democracy? Co, emphatically no! Democracy 5 the voice or the people, who hoiild be allowed to pass upon ny important question that may ome before the party. The t'hite people of this State will lever be satisfied until they have he privilege of voting upon the [ueslion, and the sootier they are ;iven that privilege the better, or the question will then be ettled. 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SPAIN, Mm M is til Prm. .lUUJIU I KS IV A V I W I A M AVWNI We have met the enemy, "High Prices," nd have routed him; while WE do not expect tUR deed to be recorded in bronze, WE do xect you to come and examine our goods and rices. WE can positively save you from 15 o20ner cent, in both our Dry Goods and Gro x- _ V ery departments. iEM till FOB.??? VOLCNTEEES. jy lie chief executive of this establishment are again issuing a general call, asking from all who desire to volunteer into oui army of great b.vgains the services of their hard-earnetl dollars. All who are loyal to the honor of their purse should respond at once,, and take their place among the brave defenders to conquer all competition aud protect the dignity of our ' / 7 high quality and low prices. Our motto is: Underbuy, Undersell, cash. We have a full line of FRUIT JARS for canning vegetables, etc., etc. W tartwa? Mm M JJX UUU II UJ XIUUUU ?. IV IV* VI . J. 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