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I. Is VOL. XXX. KISQSTKEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 19U>, NO. 48 i Attei i j Coffins and Caski id C% MEAN BUSINESS,"]' SAYSMR. WILSON. I WARNS THE NATION THAT NO | TIME MUST BE LOST IN PRE- ' PARING ADEQUATE DEFENCE. 1 In his speech on preparedness at i j Chicago Monday before an audience 1 A -Af several thousand people President ] PV Filson said with reference to the ] ^ministration's policy. "We mean i business." t "We have given to the present t fleet of the United States an organi- 1 zation such as it never had before, I < am told by Admiral Fletcher," the ] f President said. "And we have t made preparation for immediate j I^war, so far as the navy is concern- 1 ed." ( TI?a oi-miT Prooidpnt said, as f J (U uy | M?V * * ? , at present constituted, "is not large i enough even for the ordinary duties t rof peace." < The President repeated his warn- i ings that no time must be lost in i strengthening the defences of the < Nation. He declared the Govern- 1 ment was doing everything it could ! for preparedness. 1 "When 1 see some of my fellow < citizens spread tinder where the i sparks are falling I wonder what their ideal of Americanism is," the < President said. 3 America, the President said, had been cruelly misjudged by the Naif tions now at war. } ^ "I know that on the other side of ( the water there has been a great s deal of cruel misjudgment with re- t gai'd to the reasons why America j has remained neutral. Those look- { ing at us from a distance do not j feel the strong pulses of ideals and i principles that are in us. t "They do not feel the conviction of America that our mission is a c mission of peace and that righteous- < ness cannot be maintained as a stand- i ard in the midst -ms. They do f not realize that U... of all of our r B^^energy we are a body of idealists < much more ready to lay down our t lives for a thought than for a dollar. ? "They suppose, some of them, that we are holding off because we can ^ make money while others are dying, ? the most cruel misunderstanding t that any Nation has ever had to ^ face." { Rulers,'not public opinion, brought r about the present war, Mr Wilson { declared. { "I thank God there is no man in r I the United States who has the au- t thority[to bring on war without the ^ I consent of the Nation," he said, p The task of the United States, he j ' said, has been to assert the princi- a i pies of IjbEW in a world in which the t * principles of law have broken down, j H "We are not now thinking of in- ( J vasion of the territory of the United ] States," the President declared. v "We are not asking ourselves shall i be prepared only to defend our 9/m homes and shores. We stand s ' 1 1 i. i-I i. 1 iL .1 piengeu to sec mat uuui uie cuuu- j nents of America are left free to be r used by their people as those people j choose to use them under a system of f national popular sovereignty as ab^ solutely unchallenged as our own." 4 . 1 'I, .-\ ' ' ition, Rer fror einc i z i Kin El BY A VOTE OF 60 TO 37 Highway Commission Bill Killed In the House Yesterday. Columbia, February 2: ? Very much to the surprise of every one, the bill undertaken to create a highway commission out of a fund to be Jerived from automobile licenses was killed today by a vote of 60 to 37. There were a great many things that combined to impair the possibility of the bill becoming law. First, ^as the idea that a new commission was to be established, and the Legislature is actually afraid of the word "commission" at this time. Second, there were so many different bills and many wanted their particular view to be adopted. Third, there was confusion as to the exact force of the proposed bill. Fourth, many members wanted the revenue ierived from the automobile tax spent immediately in the county where the tax was collected. Fifth, toqd fthio(?Hnn frn t)ip nprnnnnpl UllWAV ni*u vvjvvvivM ww )f the proposed commision. But what's the use to figure on the reasons? Sufficient to say to that the jommittee and the different bills ooking to the establishment of a State highway commission were tilled. There is a possibility later )n in the session of another measure ilong different lines being proposed. The Williamsburg delegation vot?d against the passage of the bill yesterday. IN THE SENATE YESTERDAY. The Senate went on record by a nore than two to one vote in favor )f retaining the State tax commislion. This bill seeking to repeal the ict creating the commission was tilled by a vote of 29 to 13, after m extended debate for and against fie commission. Senator Epps of Williamsburg voted in favor of refining the commission. Senator Carlisle's bill prohibiting :ock fighting anywhere in South Carolina was passed and sent to the louse. Under the old law cock ighting was forbidden within three * ? i i i rm niles 01 any scnooi or cnurcn. ine Spartanburg Senator said he wanted o outlaw it entirely *ith its attendmt "gamblers and toughs." Other measures passed and sent o the House were: The bill of Senitor Nickles allowing municipalities o enact laws confiscating concealed veapons and contraband liquors, the fill by Senator John F Williams pernitting the Judges the right to im)ose a fine instead of straight im)risonment in cases of involuntary nanslaughter, and the bill by Senaor Carlisle re-enacting the Statevide prohibition law. A favorable report was made by the udiciary committee on the bill creiting the 14th judicial circuit out of he counties of Colleton, Hampton, asper and Beaufort and leaving Charleston alone in the 9th circuit. Che indications are that this measure nil pass. It has already- passed the louse. The two-cent rate bill for pasenters on railroads received a maority unfavorable report from the ailroad committee through Senator ifcCown. A minority favorable retort was made by Senator Earle. ??_ I Send us the news. ers: ie people to none but th i our prices -4 Uourdin 6c Harper HALF MILL CUT S IN STATE TAX LEVY. S |C BIG DECREASE IN APPROPR1A- v< TIONS FROM LAST YEAR-CUT IN a NEARLY EVERY DEPARTMENT, le & Columbia,January 31:?The appropriation bill for 1916, introduced m the House Saturday,carries a levy of S 6? mills and an aggregate in appro- s* j priations of $2,384,499.02, which is a ^ decrease from last year's bill of $79,- ^ 260.80. The tax levy for State pur- p, poses is also reduced one-half mill $l from last year. li P' From sources other than the State ^ levy therp is a revenue of approxi- . mately $365,000, which deducted ec from the aggregate appropriation $? brings the amount to be raised by i State levy to about $2,000,000,which | was the goal set by the ways and means committee in a resolution CI adopted the first day of the 1916 ses- *6 sion. It is the opinion of the com- S< ' - - - . i ' . 1 1__1! $1 I mittee tnat tne aciuai neeus ox eve- ^ ! ry department and every institution ^ ! have been met and that its appropriations are in accordance with the d< condition of tht State's finances. SOME COMPARISONS. The following recapitulation of ^ totals for the various departments pj and institutions shows the amount of appropriation and a comparison with the appropriation for 1915: m Governor's office,$18*0,or adecrease cc of $2,000; Secretary of State's office, pi 1 $6,920, or a decrease of $100; Comptrol- m j ler General's office, $9.500,or a decrease ei ! of $845; Insurance Commissioner, $10,- se 595, or a decrease of $500; State Treas- S ' fiAfl o rlfl/?t*aQQO nf . / m j urei s uinwc, ^o,uw,vi a uwiv>?>v w* J 050; department of education, $15,340, M ; or an increase of $20; Adjutant Gener- ar j al's office, $23,931.56, or a decrease of fo I $200; Attorney General's office, $6,045, H i or a decrease of $800; Railroad Commis- se sion, $15,800, or an increase of $1,711; A] ' public schools,$298,500,or an increase of R< about $12,0**); State Librarian,$2,559.03, 1 or an inp^ ase of $83.03; public buildings, $2,4.0, or a decrease of $7,000; State yc : Electrician and Engineer, $23,005; Ca- to ! tawba Indians,$7,500,the same; agricul- an tural department, $4,000,or an apparent loi / y s Farm* n ember, we' re tl n. \ye handle [ complete anc cnztv&CL Hf ^NTUALLY?W I WHA $[ Build your Home, y< g| and contractors. Our plan & Building Material. Our lir H Sash, Doors, Mouldi | ing, Siding, gj Building Material m m No matter how large or ho W The prices we ask will be n | Kingstree Manufacturii Real Estate?] Country Farms and T If You Want to If You Want to We can place you in any sec you want. Address all corr I* A V V jrsity of South Carolina, $97,064.04, or decrease of $7,087.40; Winthrop edge, 8147,605.78. or a decrease of $8,13.54; the Citadel,$40,500.or an increase I $2,000; School for the Deaf and Blind, >0,393.33, or a decrease of $9,206.67; tate college for negroes, $15,000, the ime; State Hospital for the Insane, 117,000, or a decrease of $42,000; South arolina Industrial school at Florence, 17,000, or an increase of $6,000; State snitentiary, $7,150, or an increase of .00; other charitable and penal instituons, $3,100, or a decrease of $1,205; hief Game Warden's office,$4,332, or a ;crease of $108; Historical Commison,$4,550, the same; interest on bond1 debt, $260,043.92, or a decrease of >89.46; elections,$48,285, or an increase : $13,435; expenses common to both >uses. $499.78, or a decrease of $35'); le Senate,$18,76o,the same; the House r Representatives, $35,052.20, or a de ease of $1,250; engrossing department, l mi tho mnmp- Medical College of )uth Carolina, $31,800,or a decrease of .,515; State Board of Charities and orrections, $8,445; State Warehouse Dmmission, $10,000, or a decrease of 1,000; miscellaneous, $136,307.37, or a >crease of about $12,000; pensions, '00,000, the same. Given up for lost some time ago, le British passenger liner Appam, ying in the west African trade,ap- ' ?ared like an apparition in Hampin Roads Tuesday flying the Ger-1 an naval ensign and with her ship's >mpany under guard of a German rize crew. She brought word of a ysterious German commerce raid , the Moewe,which now roams the as, and had on board the crews of iven British merchantmen and adiralty transports captured by the oewe before she seized the Appam id started her across the Atlantic r an American port with Lieut ans Berge of the German naval re - ? m rve and 22 men in cnarge. ine ppam will probably be held at the Dads a3 a prize vessel. 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