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'Be .his; ai 881. he asked that It go ahead. Mr. liui.th reported lor the street committee thai work on Cathoun street VJ as going un very slowly as there were \ei> fan hands, although it was being done by the contract sys? tem. He said that the street eom nlsjtJotJ had held a session at which Mr. Iteatty, the contractor for the Church street paving, had been mach a proposition. The proposition was that Mr. Beatty accept 66 2-3 per cent of the price of the half of the paving that had not been done properly as set? tlement, and that Mr. lieatty also give a bond of $1,000 covering the work. Mr. Heatty had taken this matteer under consideration and had later referred it to his attorney, who had written that he declined to settle for his client on these grounds. Tbe sum in question was about $480, which had been refused Mr. lieatty on the ground that his work had not come up to specifications. Mr. Booth then reported that the work of making pipe for the Main street storm sewer was getting along very well, but not very rapidly. The sand had been found to be not so Kood as was expected and that it was necessary to make the pipe of half granite screenings. This had furnished a better pipe at a little higher cost. Major Let reported that about one-third of the pipe for the street had been completed and thet it would be necessary to have about 3,500 feet of the pipe, some of which was now ready to be* put into the ground. He stated that there were two ways of running the storm sewer. MM way requiring about 3,500 feet :>f pipe and the other way about 4, 700 more feet of piping. He said that the piping cost about 65 cents per foot to make it. The matter of lay? ing the pipe was discussed for some time, but no action was decided upi ri e\eept to put down the piping as soon as possible, i Mr. Lee then stated that he had all of the necessary measurements for the bids for work on Main street which was proposed. He said that it was best to call for bids now and give UM contractors time to put In their bids, although It was probable that and delay* would be caused lry the lay? ing sf the storm sewer and no* by the getting of bids from the contrac? tors. Me said that a great deal of the macadam base which was n ->w ?n the -Ureet could be used by the contractors, no matter what kind of pavement they used. The matter was tlnally closed by the passage of a motion to the ef? fect that the bids be called for, prop? er specifications to be furnished by the engineer, to be ..p. rod by the special Main street paving committee at noon on Monday, June 12. and had ready for recommendation at the regular meeting of City Council on the next day. Mr. Booth reported that he had ac ? pted bids from the Booth-Harby Live Stock Company for cement that was to be used by the city In the building of pipe, their bid being low? er than that of arty other bidder. It was reported that the work on the sewer line was getlng along slow? ly, but that It would probably be fin? ished in about a month from now. Mr. I*ee stated that the work had been de? layed because of lack of hands. Mr. Wright reported for the police ?mn?ttee that new uniforms had beea ordered at a little less cost than heretofore. lb- stated that there had been some complaints about the house which had been quarantined that the quar? antine had not been strictly enforced, but that the matter WOUld be attend? ed to at once. Mr. Glenn reported that he lead re? is.al several letters from the heads of Are department! at various places rid that they all reported the auto? mobile tire engine te be ? much bet? ter concern for lighting Are than any other that had ever been put in use. He t.-ad some of the letters, most of them being from places in Illinois. Hi dated that one of Ihe hose wagons had been put to one side as being unfit for service and thai the lire en? gine bad been gotten ready for use in ease of fire mill was now in ser? vice. Most ?.f the letters were from persons wh ? used a Webb machine. The matter of getting an automobile lire engine was discussed for gome time, ami upon the statement of Mr. Clenn that the machine could not possibly res h hero before next fall sometime, even if ordered now, ho was Instructed With his committee to secure hld< for furnishing the city with an ant ?mobil? engine and other n.led apparatus. Mr. .1. H. cradv wis granted per mission to bulb) an alrdome on the lot on the corner of Main and Cald* Well streets. Mr. Wright reported lhat they had beea gears to see the place ;?t which tts? RVMTKK WATCHMAN, Establi Consolidated Aur. 2,1 CI1Y COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. Kl ?.! I Vit TAI kr'KKT KKSl'LTS IN nin?iM \M MATUM WM* IN?. \ PTKHDED To. Caaiwell siml tu IU> Widened?Turk? ey Creek Work to lb-m?Main Htrert l*a\iug Discussed at Length ?Ctty to (.ol lllds for New Auto 01. ?Mi, rlrc tug Ine. The Fathers of the City" met Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock In their regular semi-monthly session to dis? cuss what th*>y should do for the good of the city, and after much discuss? ion they decided that several import ant matters be attended to at some time in the future, though no mat? ters of Immediate Importunce to the people of the city were passed upon. The various matters that were act? ed upon were the proposition of Man? ning. Rowland and Shore to accept four feet of their sidewalk on Cald well street and to buy four feet from Cresa A Company of New York to widen Caldwell street; the decision to go ahead with the work on Turkey Creek canal, after Mr. W. M. Graham had made his report; the de? cision to secure bids for an automo? bile engine and the discussion of the proposed Main street paving with the conclusion that It was best to bav? the bld3 In bv the next meeting of ? uncil for their consideration and acceptance or refusal. These matters wore attended to. as well as several others of lesser Importance, before Council saw fit to adjourn Its session. I The matters as taken up In order were as follows: After the meeting had been open? ed and Council had heard the min? utes of the last meeting and approved them. Mtesrs. R. I. Manning. C. O. Rowland and George D. Shore ap? peared wltth a proposition which, they stated, they wanted Council to consider thoroughly before acting up? on. . Mr. R. I. Manning, who acted as speaker, stated that the. propo? sition may at first seem a selfish one. but that it was not such. He said I that it bad been considered for some tin)* ani'TBrTnade the proposition HB!? as this was the first time thin *ttjty aad ever secured 'he consent of '-Kirf** A Company to consider the **ma|>er at pII or t.? offer to sell the laftub at any price. He said that Manning Koulmd and Shore own * ed sbout thre* hundred feet on Cald? well street and that Cress A Com? pany owned about 100 feet. They were willing to give four feet f??r the widening >f the street, not tne side? walk, with the condition attachod that the city buy four feet from Cress A Company, so as to make the street I of a uniform width. They were also ' willing to furnish the $800?Cress A ! Company having consented to sell the property at that price, at which they bad bought it. $200 per front foot.? without interest until next fall when ' toe city should return it to them. He ' stated further that they bad beard j that Cress A Company expected to build on their lot sometime in tne' near future, and that If the street was ever to be a business street and ( widened as it should be, this was the time. It was further stated by Mr. Shore that they were ready to move back any building that they possessed on the street so that the four feet would at present cost the city nothing and the sidewalk and street could be changed whenever the city liked. Mr Shore said that he thought that the matter ought to i>. attended to new as this offer had bten made by Cress A Oompanv after much corres? pondence with them, they having at first refused |e consider the propo? sition at all. and as they expet lad t? make Improvements on their property shortly, the street would have to be widened now or never. It was situated In a good pla? ?? for a business stre- t and could be made so only by widen ing. The mutter was later taken up by Council and It was decided that the offer should be accepted, provid? ing that Manning, ttowluml and Shore carry on the 1 >ah without Interest for one year and that the tree commission should grant permission that the tree; on that side of the street be taken down. Mr. S. If. Kdmunds extended an in? vitation to the rity Council to attend he commencement exercises of the high school on both i Ighn. which was - ? pted with thanks. Mr. W. M. Oraham stated that ?. had been t ? see several of the prop ert\ ovners |g the Turke\ Creek sec? tion wh<. were Interested In the drain? age of the canal and that all of them had consented to give something ex ? . pt one, who had refused to give anything at all. He said that ho thought that the share from the pr.?p ertv owners would be forthcoming at any time that the w ?rk was done and ^d Fear not-^Let all the ends Thou Ain SUMTER, 8. C, SATU MOrlE LORIMER INVESTIGATION SENATE HAS THREE RESOLU? TIONS CALLING TOR M AY INQUIRY. I _ i?? Martin Presents the Last?lMan of Democratic Leader Provides for Sweeping Invcstlgutoln of Legisla? tive Jackpot. Washington, May 2:5.?The "Lori mer ease" again was to the fore in the senate today. A resolution of inquiry offered by Senator Martin, the Demo? cratic leader, as a suhsltute for the Ijjl Follette and DiUingham resolu? tions ar.d the continuation of a speech by Senator La Follette furnished the feature. Mr. La Follette did not fin? ish today, but hopes to conclude to? morrow his plea for a reinvestigation of the bribery charges brought in con? nection with the election of the Illi? nois senator. Mr, La Follette reviewed the recent proceedings of the Hlinoic legisla? ture relative to the Lorimer case. He said he was convinced that there was still more testimony to be adduced. "The people of the country," said he, "rejected our former verdict as if by one voice. Nothing ever is settled : until it is settled right. It Is God's j justice, pulllhg to make things plumb." He was sure that public opinion had been right In this case, and, decla' Ing that he wanted the I senate to view Itself in the mirror of such opinion, he held aloft a huge collection of newspaper clippings con? demning the senate's decision in the case. Mr. La Follette quoted the senate's action in the DuPont case in an ef? fort to justify the demand for a re? opening of the case, contending that the senate as well as other tribunals should exercise the privilege of re? viewing Its own proceedings. He pre? sented a voluminous transcript of the Illinois legislature's record in the Lor? imer case. He read freely from the testimony of Kohlsaat, Funk and Hines concerning the use of a cor? ruption fund of $100,000. which it was charged had been used in In fhincing votes-in Ix?rinur'A hehalL -II*? contended that many statements! j made by Hines would be proved if! the senate reopens the case. A resolution calling for an invest!- ' gation of the charges of bribery in connection w Ith the election of the ! junior senator from Illinois was of- J fered <>n behalf of the Democratic minority by Senator Martin. It goes farther than the T.a Follette and Dil-! llngham resolutions in that it provides ' specifically for an inquiry Jnto the "Jackpot" fund in the Illinois leg? islature and its connection with Lor tmer. The Martin resolution would leave with the committee on priv leges and election the prosecution .? the Inquiry and delegates to It all the powers of a court. The committee would be authorized to hold its ses? sions at whatever place it deemed most convenient. Robertson had wanted a street open? ed and had found the plan feasible, provided that Robertson secured the right of way and the earth that was necessary to fill th? cut. It was esti j mated that It would take about $200 to do the work of opening the street. I The matter was referred to the street committee to be acted on under these conditions, if they saw fit. The cotton samples which were purchased last fall by the Chamber Of Commerce and the city, were or? dered transferred to the cotton plat? form. The contract which the Atlantic Coast Line wanted signed by Council, relative' to the placing of the sewer? age pipe under their track was refer? red buck to the city attorney for hiH 1 recommendation in writing. The settlement of the A. C. L. claim for expenses incurred In cut? ting the sever line under then- track I was deferred. I A request from the Thomas Lum? ber company was refused. The Civic League asked that steps j be taken to have the streets kept in better condition, hut no action was taken In the matter. A htter from ('rosswell \: Com? I nany w as read In which it was asked that th>? sewer matter brought up by them before, be attended to at unco. The city engineer was Instructed to visit the place and Und aul if a four Inch drain was sufficiently large to carry off the sewerage and If so that Crosswell ami Company he permitted to put It In at their own expense; if an eight Inch pipe was found to be necessary it was to be laid by the city engineer, the city to hear one half Of the expense. The commlsson of Public Works was permitted to b irrow $s,0<>0 mi notes to be given by them. lis t at be thy Country's, Thy Cod's an RDAY, MAY 27, 1911. THE VOTHIB CONTEST. TEN THOUSAND FREE VOTES ON YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS i Big Special Inducement Announced Today in Order to Give Every Can? didate a Substantial Start in the Race for the Grand Prizes? Splendid Opportunity to Get a Cood Start. - Today a special offer is announc? ed and it will be to the advantage of every candidate to benefit by. Every J candidate who brings or sends to the office before 8:30 p. m. Tuesday even- ! ing, May 30th, a subscription for one year to the Daily Item or Watchman and .Southron will he entitled to a special ballot of 10,000 votes in ad- ' j dition to the regular scale of votes covering subscriptions. The subscrip? tions may be either an old one paid one year In advance, or new one. Candidates residing outside of the City or those who can not get in to the office may mail their subscrip? tions anytime before 8:30 p. m. on Tuesday, May 30th. Only one of these 10.000 ballots will be given to each candidate. Interest in the Daily Item and Watchman and Southron's great prise voting contest is increasing day I by day and every day brings in more nominatiDns. The Way to Cot Votes. There are only two ways of getting votes in this contest?one way is by saving the free vote coupons which are printed in each issue. The other by securing paid in advance subscrip I tions for the Item or Watchman and i Southron. Another positive assur? ance you have is that votes cannot be bought. The only money which will be accepted in connection with the contest will be that sent to pay for subscriptions. Subscribers, this is ' your opportunity to do a kindness for some of your friends. You will be doing yourself a good turn at the same time. If you are an old sub? scriber you will save yourself the an? noyance of constant calls from a col? lector. If you take the paper now, you will be giving yourself a pleasure hitherto* unKowri. It \\ satisfaction to feel that the paper you read in the evening is reliable. It is a pleas? ure to read the bright, broad news and the clean, conservative columns Of a newspaper like the Item or Watchman and Southron, which are as Wall litted to the man of affairs as they are to the home, combining as they do and as few papers do, the element of State-wjde information, detailed local news, reliable market reports, and ? stand never abandoned for the best interest of the vicinity. A Word to Our Readers. Every reader ;?f this paper is re quested to look over the list of can? didates printed today. If you have a friend In the race, clip out the r?0- | vote coupon and send it in to her credit. Then call her on the tele? phone and pledge her your further support. A little encouragement at the start would "roost" her campaign more than at any other time. It should be remembered that 10,000 ex? tra votes will be given for the first yearly subscription turned in by each candidate before Tuesday, May 30th, at 8:3C p. m. G, S. M. A. CLOSING EXERCISES. Commencement Exercises to Be Held in High Hill Baptist ( hutch on 28th and 29th. Stateburg, May 23.?Genera] Sum ter Memorial Academy will hold its closing exercises in the High Hill church this year. The sermon, on Sunday the 28th, will be preached by the Rev. R W. Lide, l >. I?.. exercises beginning at 11: 80 a. m. j On Monday evening, 29th, th graduating exercises will be conduct? ed in the same church. After the essays by the graduates, an address will he delivered by Hon. L. H. Low son, Senator from Darlington Coun? ty. The music will he furnished on both occasions by the students and faculty of the Academy. _ I'm nut is report that cotton is com? ing up despite the lack of rain. News of the death of Mother F" retto In Charleston Monday was re? ceived with sincere sorrow by scores of people in Bumter, especially those who attended st. .Joseph's Academy during the years she was directress of that Institution. She was a woman of lovable ? haracter, s teacher of superior attainments and as direct? ress of the Academy, displayed mark? ed executive ability. The many young Women wh<? Were educated under le i direction remember her with feelings I of gratitude and affection. id Truth's." THE TRTJ ?* ~?????-r-iwwMMWMI TO LET NEW STABS SHINE. PASSES A RESOLUTION ADMIT? TING ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO. People of Territories Must Pass on Certain Features of Proposed Or j ganlc Laws. Washington, May 23.?The joint ! resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate Statehood, but withholding approval of the constitu? tions of both States until the people have voted on certain proposed amendments to them, passed the house of representatives this after? noon by a viva voce vote. No r* call was demanded on final vote Jl I v a preceding motion to recomir jb? resolution, made by Jas. F *> A, Republican leader, 31 F V1 .-ans voted with the Democrr . v eating the motion* 214 to 57. ? The resolution re x>* Arizona to vote on an ament5 .amoving the recall provision as it ?>plies to judges and requires New Mexico to vote on an amendment making Its constitu? tion more easily amendable in the fu? ture. Neither State Is required to adopt the amendments proposed by congress Whether they are approved or re? jected by the proposed referendum, the constitutions of the new States will stand finally approved when the respective votes have been taken. The resolution passed in the form proposed by the Democratic majority of the committee on territories. Efforts were made by the Republi? cans to force Arizona to vote out of its constitution the recall of judges, and to give immediate and unqualified approval of the New Mexican consti? tution. Both provisions were re? jected. The Democrats declared that the proposal to force Arizona to reject the recall was an effort to keep that State out of the Union. Notwithstading this attitude, lead? ing Democratic orators bitterly de? nounced the recall of judges during the afternoon's debate, while Republi? can Insurgents refused -to join Sir. Mann in the proposal to force Arizona to give it up. Representative Sherlcy (Ky.), at? tacking the provision, said the recall was no excuse for refusing to admit Arizona to Statehood, but that as a policy of government it threatened to take away the greatest safeguard of the public. ' The courts are the only protection of the individual," said Mr. Sherley. "People ousht to reeoKnize the neces? sity in their calm moments for main? taining safeguards that will prevent hasty and unfair action on the'r part In their excited moments." Representative Martin W. Littleton of New York made an equally vigor? ous attack, not exactly or. the recall, but upon the initiative and referen? dum. 'It will strike from the splendid structure of free government the arch upon which it has come t:> rest with unshaken confidence." Represen? tative Little declared in his speech. "The seasoned and staid traditions of Impeachment are to be translated into aerial by tumult," said Mr. Lit? tleton. "The orderly processes of regulated justice are to be converted into sporadic assaults born of hate and disappointment. The dignified minister of the established law, en? nobled by the grandeur of his lofty station and disciplined by the pres? sure of sober responsibllty, is to be degraded by the impending threat and distracted by the uncertainty of a precarious tenure. The misguid? ed or malignant passions of an un? important fragment of the com? munity may accuse the most stain? less judge, and by groundless charge ut suspicion In the place of conti < ence and distrust In the place of faith and trust." Quoting from Saint Luke, telling how Pilate, bending before the cries of the mob, permitted Chris! to be taken away and crucified, the speak? er concluded: "God forbid (hat the sanctuaries of America shall ever he ravished by* the sibilant hiss of a mob crying, 'Crucify him! t Iruclfy him!' " ELECTED GRAND PRELATE. Dr. Gec?. W. l>i< !? Chosen for Impor? tant Office by (.rand Lodge Knights of Pythias. Columbia, May 24.?Geo, W. Dick, of Sumter, was today elected Grand Prelate of the Grand Lodge Knights .?f Pythias by a large majority over Plshburn, Albert Knobeloch, of Chariest >n. killed himself in a Philadelphia hos? pital Tuesday. E SOUTHRON, Established June, IMC Vol. XXXII. No. 28. MOTHER LORETTA Q?INLAN. SUPERIORESS or SISTERS OF OUR LADY or MERCY PASSES AWAY. End < '?me* lor Remarkable and Ite loved Woman After Weckt or Suf? fering?Waa Head of the heaters of Mercy in this state?Funeral Ser? vices to bo Held at the Cathedral Tomorrow ? li.terment 1? Take Place at St. Laurence Be? Ctet J. Mrther M. Loretto Quinian, Super? ior ? the Sisters of Our Lady of passed away yesterday a?er at 6:30 o'clock at St. Francis vier Infirmary, after an illness of r .about three months. In her position as Mother Superior she was the head of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy In South Carolina and was widely known throughout the State. She was 63 years of age. The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Office of the Dead being celebrat? ed at 3:30 o'clock and Solemn Ponti f.cal Mass of Requiem at 10 o'clock. The interment will follow in St. Laurence Cemetery. When Mother Loretto died yester? day afternoon at sunset a remarkable woman rested from her labors. Through several weeks of suffering she preserved her equable and cheer? ful disposition. As the end drew near yesterday Lishop Xorthrop and sev? eral of the clergy, together with the sorrowing Sisters of Mercy, who were all fondly attached to their Spiritual Mother, knelt at her bedside in pray? er. Joanna Quinian, the fair young girl of 17, knelt as a bride of Christ in 1865 and made her final vows in 1868. Her recognized talents led to her as? signment to St. Joseph s Academy, Sumter. soon afterwards. She was mad? directress of this institution in 1891 and filled that responsible of? fice until the death of that wonderful woman, Mother Teresa, whom she was elected to succeed in 1900 as Mother Superior of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and ^hee^tbjahgd^*] office continuously until her death.' Evidence of her administrative ability is found in the large increase and nourishing condition of the com? munity over which she presided and in the prowth and efficiency of the several scnools and institutions di? rected by the Sisters of Mercy. Dur? ing her term as Mother Superior St. Angela's Academy at Alken, S. C, was opened, St. Catherine's School for colored children established, the Training School for Nurses at St. Francis Xavier Infirmary founded and the new Convent of the Sisters of Mercy ,on Legare street, construct? ed. This executive talent did not diminish her tenderness of heart con? stantly manifested in her direction of the Sisters, and especially in her af? fectionate care of the orphan chil? dren as their devoted guardian dur? ing her whole term as Mother Su? perior. Mother Loretto was the model re ligieuse. wholly sonsecrated to God and having achieved the height of Der fect detachment from the things of earth, but in her last illness she said that if it should be God's will, she would see the new Infirmary com? pleted, characteristic of her tender thought, at all times, of the suffering and the sorrowing. She will be held in prayerful and affectionate remembrance by the members of her community and the orphans and by those who link her lovingly to their school days in their convent home, many of whom have nann d their children for Mother Lo? retto; and many others in this . ity will miss her sunny smile and mis? sions of mercy and charity?News and Courier, May POUR MEN shot. THREE DEAD. Five Aces in Pack Causes Trouble That Ends in shooting. Klttanntng, Pa., May 22.?Poaasa are to lay searching the country about bete for Dick s'cndrie. a triple murderer, who during a quarrel at Kaylor, a minins 'own, in the north? ern part of Armstrong county, last night shot and killed Charles Sen drlc, his brother; "Andy"' Bralttc, and his brother. Roco Bralttc. Walter Spillsh, another partici? pant in the melee, was shot through the hod) snd will die. The wholesale slaughter resulted from t beating administered to "Dick" SendrlC, after the alleged dis? covery of live aces in a ?lec k of c ards, with which the men were playing. He was driven from the miners' Shack, and standing en an embank? ment outside pumped the bad from an automatic gun into the open door.