Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOCH OPTION FIR ALABAMA. HOt'SK \IF\sllU \NH si n \ h: uii i, \<.m Park* Hill <?oco Through After Umg m bat?* ? Provide* r,,r Saloon or i' jh nsai \ with (Vrtaiii Itegula Hoiih \ot to I naetcd?Monsun? flrprvaent* Governor O'Neal's Views on Liquor ijuestlon ? tial l Mi* I hn.iiict <| \? Uli \\ rt" ami ? I ?r> " Ad v ovate*. Mostgomery. Feb. 9.?Ky a vote of 58 to 44 the House, at 5 o'clock , this afternoon, pawed the Parka lo? cal option bill, after a debate lasting five hour*. As the Senate is known to be overwhelmingly In favor of local option bill. It Is believed that the Parks bill will be rushed through that body and become a law before the end of next week. *> This does not mean that the 8tate ?will be thrown open to the sale of liquor immediately, for the Parks bill was so amended today as to make It inoperative until regulation meas? ures to accompany It are enacted. During the discussion the galleries as., the House were crowded to suffo? cation by local optlonlsts and Pro? hibitionists and the lobby between the two halls of the Legislature was fill ad with leading men from all parts of the State. Many women were In the throng, f In the gallery were the wife and daughter of Qovernor O'Neal, both deeply interested in the measure, which represents the Governor's views ,v question. Tb the lo'.g debate, tele si reph gera ft Mowed each oth M > the floor of the House, i rggaw to the varloua Saarnberg to vole against the Parks bill or for ?'.. One member. Mr. OrlfRp. of Cullman, got 160 telegrams at one time. Speaker Almon opened the dlscus ? slon for his dispensary bill on a mo? tion to substitute it for the Parks bill. He argued against the re-estab? lishment of the open saloon and said his bill would promote sobriety, peace and concord and carry out the platform of the Democratic Conven g% Uon, which nominated Governor O'Neal. The motion was lost by a vote of St to 47. There wan a num? ber of speeches on both sides. The Parks bill provides that M per cent of the number that v>ted f >r " >?m the qua* If wet, then an election Is ordered ou the question of saloon or dispensary. The county is the unit and no un? incorporated town or city and no town not having a policeman or town marsball can have a saloon or dia (^f?en*ary. The bill also provides for distilleries and breweries. MIST KFsPF.? T IHF I' N I Ft> KM. Seaate Passes House Bill, but Adds Amendment*. s V\ shlngton. Feb. 9 The Senate .ifci'ts with the House lhat weaffjfl of the uniform of soldiers or sailors of the United States should be protect? ed from discrimination by managers of places of entertainment. The n ttr. r. differs with the he punishment that d out for such dls -..1, as It passed that body. Imposed a fine of $1,000 and a penalty of two years' imprisonment for such an off erne against members of the army, navy or marine corps. The H? nate today passed the bill, but so amended It as to make the fine lieft and to remove the imprison? ment feature. Members of the reve? nue cutter service, however, were In? cluded with soldiers, sailors and ma? rines by the Senate. < I Kl 1? ro SI \\ < t KFD. How a sumo r < Ill/on I mind < omplcie If. torn Prune Holm-* I rontd - If you suffer Drags, backache-? From urinary disorders? ^ From any disease of the kidneys, ? Bm i ired tu ?tay cared. Data's Kid ax p rut i sj .u.- lasting Su Suinter p ople ?estlfy. Herd's nne ras?? of \t. W. M. F?ds-.-m. |%1 Hampton ave? nue. Humter. s. <*., *ays; ?'! r-.ad ^Ahuut Duan'm K he \ r when I S IS im4mmu4Xf rune from kidm v IfOSlI Ml nml I procured a * I blna's Drug Stoi My ba?*k ached for Hume time If 11 mad* a quick move, 1 bid nb;irp twinge* throughout my body. Aft r atttlng for awhile, I h>td to lift myself up t?y main fi?r< ??. The kldm v gast! tluna were unnatural and tilled with srdlrnent Doans Kbln-v I I - which ftJftki rained a i ??. gaVS tue entlr- r> II' f and .?ftr i.ikmi? Ho rn I enjoyed good health. I have no hesitation whatever In glvlns; DoSJl'S Kidney Pills my ? ndormioent." i Statement given In M.tn-h. Fjom.) lasting kf.sfi.ts. On January 7. 1911. Mr. Polsum was interviewed and he said; "I have ?ikr.o reason whatever f" change M|V ^hl?h opinion of D.?an's Kidney Pills and I gladlv confirm mv former en? dorsement of them Th?- b.-nefit this remedy brought roc bin been perma? nent ' For sale by all iSSvlSf? Fi Ice 50 cents. Fuster-Mllbiirn Co., Huffalo. gfM<* w York. SOlS <\*' StS for UM ftsttSd ^^Wt?**e CHANGE NOT WANTED. sol Till KM Us OPPOSE rKDKRAX mriuucNCfl in BLBcnoifa \ccordlng 1?? Tony, People Would then Forego Popular Election of Senator*. Tflflttillirn, feb, S.?Tho South IfOul I prefer the defeat of the resolu? tton (ailing for the election of United States senators hy dlreet vote of the people to Its passage If amended as Senator Sutherland of Utah has pro? posed, so as to place control of such elections In the hands of congress, de? clared Senator Percy of Mississippi In a speech today. Mr. Percy addressed himself ex? clusively to the consideration of the Sutherland amendment. He con? tended that In the provision of th* constitution giving congress supervi? sion over the election of senators, the power of control Is only formal. It could extend only to legislatures and not in the original voter acting on his right of franchise in case of popular election of senators. As it now stands It is an emergency power to be used by congress only in case of the failure of a legislature to act. "Yet," said the Mississippi senator, "by the alchemy of senatorial logic It has been transmuted into one of the chief bulwarks of the government." The acceptance of the Sutherland amendment would give the national government control of electors and might be so employed as to result in the appointment of supervisors of elections, which would be most ob jectlonal. the senator maintained. He declared that never, except during the 25 years from 1970 to 1894 when election laws were resorted to to pro? tect the negro vote in the Southern States, had the national power of supervision been Invoked in the matter of the election of members of the house of representatives, "and," he added, "never in all that time was there a day when the general welfare would not have been promoted by striking these laws from the statu? tes," Referring to the effort of 20 years to pass the force bill, Mr. Percy de? clared that legislation along the lines then contemplated would have re? sulted in chaos, whereas the Southern State* left to their < wn d?\tc*8 of government, thort ha - ?ntinued prosperity f^r both whiter and blaoka "I Detleve,'* he wald, "tha ir. * gark days have goAs nevei ?.o ituum, and yet we find warrant for appre? hension in the threat of the senator from New York (Mr. Depew) that senators voting for the resolution would feel the result of the negro vote in the doubtful States. It Indicates a desire to curry favor 'with that vote and it may afford a sufficient Incen? tive to attempt to control elections," While, however, he considered that the day was far distant when uny i dltlcal party would undertake to enact federal laws for the contro! r* State elections, nevertheless, it was felt that too much caution could not be exercised. Taking up the Southerland amend? ment Mr. Percy said: "The extension of the federal power as contemplated by the Southerland amendment is a price greater than the South Is willing to pay for the right of electing senators by direct vote." In conclusion Mr. Percy d< elan d that the South recognised the futility of any attempt to repeal the llfteenih amendment to the constitution nnd that such a course would not be un? dertaken by that section of the coun? try. AUDITOR II \s JANUARY It WORT. Amount of I npuld Vanes on Property In County With One Pet Cent Pen? alty is $:t:>,t?o7,i!u:i. ????? Auditor Harby has prepared his re? port to tiie Mats Treasurer's office -bowing the SSAOUnt of unpaid taxes, in the county up to the first of J ? nary, with th. one per cent penalty at ' t h .1 to it as provided for by State law, 'Toe total amount of taxes un? paid up to January I, with the one net sent penalty attached was $;15, 'o?7, 'I'b.? returned \ulue of the pfOpert: tn the eeuntg 01 Which the taxes Were not paid tip to the first of January was |l,?ft,SSe, On this property the amount of State taxes due with the addition ii penalty of one per cent aas HMftS.Mt; the county taxes with tin- additional penalty was $12,359, II . tie BChOOl taxes, with the addlt lonal penalty was |S,71S,IST; poll las, with penalty M,U7.lt; capitation dog tax 1111,111, m iking the total Unpaid tax-^ at the tust of January with the on* pst eenl penalty $11, loiT.L't;.:, additional penalty amount? ing in all to a total of $tlS,lll, The auditor Is now preparing the report for February w ith It* sdldtlonal penalty of two pet cent. The report for the year till up t.? January 1. | I til, Hhowing the amount of un 1 hUMf for lilt to he less than lb1' previous y nr. A LONG LOOK AHEAD. Is The Prceent Popular Tendency To ward Aholltlou of Renate? (From ths New York Bun*) Ths sleotlon of United Btatei Sen? ators directly by the people our.- ad? opt* 'i ai a system throughout the country may not end popular agita? tion concerning tin second chamber of tin- American Congress. Certain very conservative newspapers wh.eh are opposed to the popular election of Senators are suggesting that if the method of election is to be changed much more radical alterations shoun! follow. The Richmond Times-Dis? patch declares that the Senate itself should be abolished and a single chamber be depended upon for legis? lation. The Sun proposes that Sena? tors bo appointed among the States according to their population in or? der that the present inequality of representation may be remedied. Neither suggestion seems to be made very seriously, except in so far as a hope is entertained that a back fire may bo started against the move? ment for the election of Senators di? rectly by the people. Yet in these at? tacks upon a popular agitation for u more democratic control of our pow? erful second chamber one may find perhaps the beginning of a formidable movement in the future to make over the Senate on a basis more truly democratic. It must be admitted that the Sen? ate would not become a body estab? lished In accordance with democratic principles simply because the State Legislatures had been deprived of their constitutional right to choose the members thereof. A body that has two Senators from each State, no more and no less, and thus disregards the distribution of the country's pop? ulation, is not so far as the Hrittsh House of Lords from being a demo? cratic chamber; but it would be dif? ficult to make the inequality in rep? resentation more pronounced than it is in the second chamber at Washing? ton. The statistical facts are thor? oughly familiar and need not be pre? sented with any elaboration, since every one knows that States like Rhode Island, Delaware, Idaho and Nevada exercise a political power in the Senate as great as that exercised by such States as New Y'ork, Penn ?vlvnrds, r?y?i?> tiTlA Massachusetts The tlni" : tight iOl wber* It \.Id be moTv easy for the people in the mere thickly populated States or (ac? tions to believe th-.tt they had a grie? vance in this condltlcn of affairs. We can think of three influences that in the future might create a popular sentiment in the larger States against the present constitutional structure of the United States Sen? ate. One is the gradual weakening of the Federal Ideas as contrasted with the national idea. Much in reality depends upon whether the United States "are" or whether the United States "is." If the republic should become more and more centralized, if the Washington Government should absorb more and more the functions hitherto belonging to the separate States, there would develop ah even stronger tendency than one sees to? day to forget the Federal principle up? on which the United States Govern? ment was originally founded, and which is more conspicuous perhaps in the equal representation of the States in the upper house of Congress. a second Influence Is an increasing rather than a diminishing inequality in the distribution of the population of the country, it bus already been pointed out by the Director of the CenSUS of 1910 that the growth of population is these Eastern States during the last decade has been rela? tively much greater than in large sec? tions of the West and South. The in? equality In representation in the Sen Sts is today much more llagrant than It was in 1190 or 1?J00. Fonslder New York and Iowa, the one having gain? ed ssvsral millions of Inhabitants Bines the last census, the other hav? ing actually lost inhabitants. Or com? pare the Bast as a whole with the West ig i Whole?Is it not evident that tin- East at present Is gaining population the faster and is conse? quently more and more sacrificed in the constitutional distribution of po? litical power In tb I United States' Senate ? A third Influence one may refer to much less confidently, perhaps, and that Is the possible waning of the prestige of the st cond chamber prin? ciple, it Is by no means settled thai as democrat y sdvances it will tol? erate second chambers In any legis? lative bodies whatever, We know from e\p? rlence that they are now universally condemned In the govern? ment of municipalities as- both su? perfluous and Injurious to good gov? crnrnent. In the latest development we see the old legislative council, whether bicameral or not, cast out entirely, As the idea of government by experts develops, this tendency may grow much stronger and find In? creasing application in political en? tities larger than municipalities, Al? ready, however, *n several countries abroad whert pnrllamentay Institu t'ous aie well i sta'tllshed there is ? J+mw ? jl v m REGISTERED. p The Origin of Roystcr Mizers. Mr. Royster believed that success av/aited the Manufacturer of Fertilizers who would place quality above other cc isiderations. This was Mr. Royster's idea Twenty-seven years ago and this is his idea to-day; the result has been that it requires Eight Factories to supply the demand for Roy ster Fertilizers* F. ?. ROYST1ZR GUANO COMPANY, FACTORIES AK3 CALC3 CFF'CEC. NORFOLK, VA. TARBORO, N. C. COLUMBIA. 8. C CP/ul," MACON, CA. COLUMBUS. GA. MONTGOMERY, ALA* JA... - virtual single chamber government. ( Canada's Senate is merely a name, and it may be fairly said that the single-chamber government in the Dominion not o"ly exists but also is eminently successful. If now the British House of Lords should be permanently deprived cf its absolute veto, in acordance*with the Ministry's program, and what amounts to single chamber government should prove satisfactory to the British democracy, the example upon democracies else? where could not fail to be profound. The United States may become pe? culiarly susceptible to these radical influences. There is every indication that the country is growing more rath? er than less devoted to the princi? ples of government by the people. ""Iiis is proved especially by the widen-' ng popularity of the Initiative, the referendum end the rece , which r< so fai democrat!* that tl sy ?u im what unfav ?r?bl-- -tu;-?* : ially poiited out that the Senate in this country is the more powerful of the two branches of Congress, notwith? standing that it is not the popular branch. This 1 ct may come to mean very much in case democracy develops and second chambers elsewhere lose prestige and our distribution of population becomes even more un? equal and the Federal principle in our Government loses ground. For then j the conditions would be ripe for such a movement against the Senate as might destroy it utterly. It is not in the least impossible that the preesnt agitation for the election Of United States Senators directly by the p ople points the way toward an cltimate attack upon the Senate that would completely shatter its Con? gressional supremacy. Second cham? bers nowhere are sacred or even popular. Democracies never liked them. Let us take a long look ahead. skin and SCALP TROUBLES YIELD TO ZEMO. a ( lean Liquid Preparation for Fx vernal Use. DeLorme's Pharmacy is so confi? dent that Zcmo will rid the skin or scalp of infant or grown person of pimples, blackheads, dandruff, sose? ma, prickly heat, rashes, hives, ivy poison or any other form of skia or scalp eruption, that they will five your mom V luck if you are not en? tirely satisfied with the results ob? tained from tile use of Zeno?. The first application will give prompt relief and show an impr >ve ment and in ? very instance where used persistently, will destroy the germ life, leaving ths skin in a clean, healthy condition. Let us show you proof of some re? markable cures made by Zemo and and give you v. 32 page booklet how to preserve the skin. W-w.-I-f.?No. 4. SAVANNAH IIas $100.000 PIKE. Coast Line Warehouse ami Cand) Factory Destroy od. Savannah, Qa., Feb. Originating in the plaid of tb<> Savannah Candy Factory, Basl Broad and Liberty streets, tire tonight destroyed the fac? tory, spread to the storage sin d of the Atlantic Coast Line freight depot and destroyed that and a quantity of valuable freight before Its progress could be checked, The general offices of the Atlantic Coast Line, In a frame building in a stone's throw of the dames, were sav? ed. Several automobiles were binned In the freight shed. Loss in estima? te ? ! at 11 00,OOS, STATE WITHOUT NOTARIES PUB .Many Notaries Affected by Governor's ActlOD and Many Apply for Of? ten, Columbia, Feb. 10.?Although South Carolina was today without a single notary public, the bill creating this office in response to a suggest? ion from the governor has passed both houses, the commissions tor no? taries are nearly all made out and are ready for final action of ratifica? tion and the signature of the chief executive. It Is probable that there will be little delay in the matter of issuing commissions. The law in re? spect to terms of notaries public has not been changed and all notaries' ? ?ruor, as hei t* ????. B? tween six .-. i seven thousand n taiies public ; - ro affected* Russia planted 240,419,396 acres in grain last year, tho largest acreage in its history. See what's coming! A Washington woman jury fined a man for swear? ing.?Milwaukee News. WOMEN Women of toe highest type, womeu of superior education and 1 efinercent, whose discernment nd judgment give weight and forct to their opinions, highly praise the wonderful corrective and curative properties of Cham oerlaia's Stomach and Liver Tab? lets. Throughout the many stages si woman's life, from girlhood, i through the ordeals of mother j hood to the declining years, there j is no safer or more reliable med i :iae. Chamberlains Tablets are ;oid everywhere at 25c a bcx. . TAX RETURNS FOR 1911. Sumter, S. C, Dec. 2, 1910?No? tice Is hereby given that I will at i. ad in person or by deputy at the following places on the days indica? ted, respectively, for the purpose of rec eiving returns of real I state, per* sonal property and poll taxes, for the flsi al year commencing January 1st, 191. ah males between the age:' of is and r>& years, must make return sa to Whether or not they are liable for road duty for year 1911. Tindals, Tuesday, January 3rd. Privateer, (Jenktn's Store) Wed? nesday, January 4th. Wedgefleld, Friday, January Gth. Claremont, Depot, Monday, Jan? uary 9th. Hagood, Tuesday, January 10th. Rembert, Wednesday, January 11th. Dalsell, Thursday, January 12th. w. T. Brogdon's Store, Friday January loth. MayesviUe, Tuesday, January 17th Bhlloh, Wednesday, January 18tb Norwood's X Roads, Thursday January 19th. ( IswegO, Friday, January 20th. All persona whose duty it Is u make returns, should be prompt t< meet St these appointments. All re turns must be made before Feb. 20 1911. 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