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THE Nl MTK.lt WATCHMAN, tMabllslictl April, 1850. "!?<? Just Bad 1-Var not?Lot all lbs ends Thou Alms't at bo C>y Country'H, Thy God'a and Truth1*." THE Tit lit SOUTHKON, Established June, MM Consolidated Aug. 3,1881. SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1913. Vol. XXXVI. No. 13. TOLL TAKEN BY FLOOD. 400 1>F\I> AND 40..100 IHiMI 1. ITF.NT ESTIMATES. I.JOO lion Destroyed and Nino Thousand l mill i.-, Outside of I'in - toss, Columbus mikI Cincinnati In Need <if Rehabilitation. Red Cross Igent Now In Stricken District Wire* Headquarters-Relief Sent Inundated Towns as Fust as Water Recede*. Washington, April 4.?Ohio's loss in the recent Hood was estimated tonight in a telegram from the American Red Crows agent in charge at Columbia as follows: Four hundred and sixty lives lost. Four thousand and two hundred bouses destroyed. Forty thousand and five hundred homeless. Nine thousand families outside of Dayton. Columbus and Cincinnati in need of rehabilitation. It has been extremely difficult to get Information, according to the agent, because wires are still down and trans? portation facilities uncertain. 'Emergency relief situation in each flooded district in Ohio being well cov? ered." the telegram said. "Dayton. Columbus, Piqua. Troy, Ottawa. Sid? ney. Hamilton. Mlamisburg, Mlddleton and Zanesvlll? covered by Red Cross representatives. In these places infor? mation is being; rapidly accumulated on which to base rehabilitation. "We are pushing men into the other flooded towns aa fast us water sub? sides and we can get men. Col. Miller, ch\ ?f quartermaster, reports need of underwear of all sorts, bedding and blanketa'* Reports Munition In Hand. Washington. April 4.?Major Nor moyle. at the hend of the nrrny relief forces In the flood district, reported today that he was confident that he had the situation well In hand. An? swering a query concerning the pos? sibility of starvation In Marietta. Ohio, the jfllcer responded: "I will feed them wttb a spoon if .necessary." Burgeon Kvans reported to Burgeon Oen Blokes from Cincinnati that all ?trlcken town* now have tonipetnt medical men and sufhVb :d supplies except serums. Conditions to be met relate solely to food, clothing and shel? ter and the prevention of epidemics, and Burgeon Evans believes the local health authorities are able to handle the situation I have no doubt." he reported, "that when the crest of the Hood reaches lower river points, where there is a very large colored popula? tion, that there will be much disease and destitution to be handled by the authorities with the assistance of Oov ernmcnt rations and clothing, but in so far as the medical snd surgical sit? uation Is concegjicd. each community should be, and I believe is, able to handle its own proposition at present." At the request of John H. Patter? son, chairman of the cltixens relief ?mmlttee of Dayton. Ohio, Secretary McAH \ ordered National Hank Examiner Qoodhart to go from Co? lumbus to Dayton to adflse the finan? cial institutions of the flood devastated ty as tr? methods of rehabilitation. Indiana f.otcrimr Orders Food. Indianapolis, April 4.?To aid in providing food for Indiana flood refu? gees Oovernor Kal-don tonight tele? graphed |g the mayor of Woodburn. Oregon, to ship here immediately two ads of potatoes and egal of onions. The Ceenssoreial Club, of WulUand, Idiiho, Bfnt asked to hurry two car? loads of pot does. Railroads have t fered to haul free of charge any pro visions needed. Cleaning of homes in SO UM looded districts of the State was held back today by rain, hut in Indianapolis, r Shank, heading a crew of Sal \ation Army workers, labored all day clearing houses filled with mud by the overflow. While in West Indianapolls 23 cases of ptomaine poisoning ha\e deovlop? ed frees sating ensgeed food, reports from oxer the St\te show the genet d health conditions to be good. A plan to organise a stock com pany f<?r three x.urs without int? t. | is boing considered here PR J. ||. lit Rt.ltFHH NOMINATED. Will ? di Varan*?) in Hotter from i nsreejessg t lessnts*. .Vanning. April :i -l?r Jeseph IC Murness ino been nomill it?*d to till the %SScasi<-> fw ? H-ouee of I'epre ?M?slati\es from Clar?-we><?n ?oontx H* received km rotes in Tueudjajr'i pi i mary. lo IM for I he Ree, I? Sam I orhstl. AN UNEXPECTED INVASION. GKItMAN AIRSHIP SK11ED BY FKKNCH AT LVNEVILLE. Ascrlb* Their I'liusuul ami Dangerous Course to lAtss of Hearings in tlic Cloud*. Buncvillc, France. April 3.?The German military dirigible airship Zep? pelin IV landed in the military parade grounds here today and was seized by the French authorities. The incident has caused tremendous excitement notwithstanding the Ger? man officers aboard the airship ex? plained that they had been lost in the clouds and did not know they had ' crossed the French frontier. Inhabitants of the eastern frontier regions of France have been much agitated the last few weeks over re? ports that German dirigibles had been observed or heard nightly hovering over the forts. But the stories,# like those of the phantom airship of Eng? land, never were properly substantiat? ed. Zeppelin IV, which is of the latest and largest model, carried 10 passen? gers, of whom four were officers in uniform, a Prussian captain and lieu? tenant and two Wurtemburg lieuten? ants. The captain explained to Gen. Les cot that the Zeppelin was undergoing a test prior to being taken over by the war department. They left Frled rlchsohafen early in the morning bound for the grand duchy of Bad? en. With the intention of making as? cension trial they had mounted to a height of 3,000 metres (about 9,550 feet) and had lost their course in the clouds. They were carried along by a strong east wind and observing the cavalry thought they had reached Saarbrucken. As they were* short of gasoline they decided to land. They did not know they had crossed the French frontier. The chief officer of the engineer sejfpg at I.unevllle removed the mag netoea fr< . the engines so that the airship could not get under way and the cabin was searched for photo? graphic apparatus, sketches, or simi? lar articles Nothing of that nature, however, was found. The German officers were permit? ted to telephone) to Friedrichshafen for a supply of hydrogen and for me? chanicians. CHAGRIN 101) BY MISHAP. ZcpiHdln's Prank Decreases Confidence In Craft and Also Betrays Military Secret. Berlin, April 3.?The straying of /appelin IV into France ???nies as a double blow to German army circles, I for It shows that airrhips still are subject to the elements to such a de? gree as to make them undependahle and it permits the Frenc h officers to Inspect the latest type of military Zep? pelin and learn details of construc? tion and equipment Which have been kept religiously secret. There is no apprehension of any trouble over the incident. The dirigible has not been taken over by the German government #hd private property is not subject to seizure. TWO ABSENT FROM POSTS. Congressman Pliilcy ami Senator Smith Now Only If gering Members of South Carolina Delegation. Washington. April 1.?With the re? turn of Senator Tillman to Washing? ton today the South Caroline delega? tion di congress was complete with the exception of Representative Fin ley, who is confined to his home by illness. ;,nd Senator Smith, who is ex pe. led to get in either tomorrow or Mondny. Besides tin- various sched? ule* in the tariff lull in which South Carolinians are interested, man) Other matters. Including patronage Quest lone, wail conn- before the mem ben oi ihe delegation durlni th.- ?\ tra session beginning Monday. RVNNKRN \<.\l\ \ H loHlot s. Defeated Ihe hamlet In Uood Kxhlbltkm Thuratlaj Klgut. In a good exhibition of bowling Thureda) nlghl Ihe Runners were \ i< lotions over tin- Snails, this being the second victor) which the Runners hit\c won in the series, Tin- hhic^ made were generali) hieb and th< match was nnusuall) ? lose, consider? ing the fact thai the Runners defeal iii I heir opponents in ever) game The first game went lo tie Itunnera bj as, sane, nee m?ti??i1 hj t pirn and ill. third to ?': I pins. mal. nig ? i.. tal muioiiiv of pins, Tin- next match will be held Monday nlghl be twees the Creeprs and Leectu . TIIHH RENEWS CRITICISMS. Too MANY RAILROAD LAWYERS IN LEGISLAT1RE, Hi: SAYS. - Inability to IM> .Mileage Rooks in South Carolina C ited as Evidence that lawmakers are ??Indecently" , Subservient to the Hallways?Re? grets General Assembly Did not GlTO Him Opportunity to Press Charges He Made Recently ? W oiii.i Have Shown Record of Gov? ernor Rlca.se. - Fellow Citizens': I have a grievance and I want to tell you all about it and ask you to exert your influence to help correct it. It concerns every citizens. The night I left Washington I bought two mileage books over the Southern Railway for my wife and self. I paid $-0 apiece for them? two cents a mile. They are inter? changeable and can be exchanged for tickets over fifty-live railroads oper? ating in the South. I exchanged this mileage for tickets to Calhoun. South Carolina, but 1 could not exchange it for tickets from Anderson to Green? wood or from Greenwood to Colum? bia. I note on the inside of the back rover this condition: "Coupons from this book will not be accepted on trains, nor on and after May 1, 1912, In exchange for tickets for a journey Wholly within the State of South. Carolina." The Southern Railway has my $40 for these two hooks, and yet 1 cannot use them in the State of South Carolina. 1 call this infamous and downright robbery. Why? Be? cause north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and westward to the Great Plains each system of roads hke the Southern sells mileage at 2 cents per mile. No signature of the purchaser is required. One may use such mile? age to carry his whole family as well as his neighbors and friends. All the railroads want or require Is a coupon for every mile traveled by every passenger. Why this discrimi? nation? Are the Northern people any more civilised or better Christ or citizens than 4he Southern per/pie? 1 do not think anybody claims it, but all the same the people of South Carolina are treated as though tiny tire criminals and convicts. Why? Because they have not sense enough, it seems to elect men to the legisla? ture who will compel the railroads to treat them fairly and Justly like the citizens of other states are treated. Investigation will show that a large number of the members of the legisla? ture are lawyers In the employ <ifl the railroads. Many of them are traveling en free passes in South Carolina be? cause the railroad rate bill, which I engineered through the United States Senate, expressly provides in terms that no free passes shall be granted by the railroad! except to their em? ployees, attorneys," etc it is through this loophole thai the leg? islate! ? who are venal can be debauch? ed. In every Court House town in the Slate some lawyer represents the railroads, sometimes more than one, and these lawyers tire often elected to the Legislature. If a lawyer is elected to the Legislature who is not already a railroad attorney, he soon becomes one, if the railroads want his vote. I want it distinctly understood that I am a friend of the railroads and recognise their great function in ad? vancing the welfare of .any commu? nity. Hut South Carolina has been very liberal in dealing with Ithese people ami they have .shown very lit? tle appreciation. A great hurrah was made when the Legislature met and great Indigna? tion was expressed In speeches In the House of Representatives because I had criticised members of the Gener? al Assembly about their subserviency to the railroads. The House passed the Rembert ^solution demanding an explanation, and f waited patiently for the Senate to pass it also in order thai l might tell the people why I m ole the charge. Bui no opportunity cams as the Senate pigeon-titled it. I would have been glad I" have shown the records from the House and Senate journals of cert tin men in South Carolina public Hfe, among them Oovernor Blease, who cast the deciding vote un one occasion which defeated the mileage bill. Now. fellow citizens. this If not onl\ wrong but it is indecent Such corruption and cowardice ought not to be tolerated by the people \ shak? ing np i- needed and sonic men retir? ed to private hte to cogitate and pon? der over the fate of those who betray I he tiii^t the people have lepoSed iu lie in This is a day and time in which Irs niaesMM are mote aroused than thej have ever been hi mv life llme, Will while the people nee wide awake elsewhere, in South Carolina I ITNAIi DECISION VPON SUGAR HAS YET TO BE MADE. Hill Will Ho Administration Measure, as It Is in Accordance with Presi? dent*! Views Throughout?Is Sow Being Studied by Lemiers of Sen? ate. Washington, April 1.?The Demo? cratic tariff l"vision hill is completed tonight with ho exception of a linal decision upon sugar. From beginning to end it is modeled in accord with ideas of President WiUon, with wool, meats and many other foodstuffs and clothing material! on the free list; with low duties upon all agricul? tural products and foodstuffs that are not free; and with the tariff on chem? icals and steel and other commercial products cut far below the present protective rates. Senate tariff leaders today asked for an opportunity to study the bill until Sunday afternoon. They will then confer with Chairman Underwood of the house committee on ways and means and later will have a final conference with President Wilson. A careful analysis of the senate will be made in the mean time to determine - whether free wool, "one cent sugar" and low rates on "market basket pro? ducts" will prove acceptable to a ma? jority of the Democrats. Briefly summarized, the tariff de? velopments of the day were: President Wilson's ultimatum to su? gar interests that they must agr^e to a tariff of one cent per pounu foi three years, with free sugar afto? i that time, or he would attempt to pro? vide for free sugar at once. Completion of the bill by the ways and means committee with the excep? tion of the sugar schedule. On this the committee prepared to agree on free sugar if \he president in? sists. Income tax rates fixed at 1 pel cent for all corporation incomes above $5,000; 1 per cent on personal in? comes from $5,000 to $20,000; 2 p?g- cent from $20,000 to $50,000; ;i per cent from $50,000 to $100, 000; 4 per cent above $100,000. The president submitted his pro? posal on the sugar tariff to Repre? sentative Boussard of Louisiana early in the day. Louisiana senators and representatives conferred throughout the day and sounded out other mem? bers of the senate to determine wheth? er enough strength c^uld be secured to .light the free sugar features of the plan. They had reached no de? cision tonight, however, as to the course to take. Notwithstanding the sugar controversy, events .so shaped themselves today as to indicate that the house, the senate and president will come to a definite and final agree? ment upon the tariff bill before Mon? day, and that the measure will be pre? sented to the house early next week as an administrativ measure and with all tariff lenders behimd it. After a short meeting of Democratic members of the finance committee to? day Senators Simmons, James and Ihey seem, to be asleep or Indifferent to their rights. 1 do not advocate or believe it is right to require the railroads to sell interchangeable mileage, but each system like the Southern, the Seaboard the Atlantic Coast Line, should be compelled by law or by public opinion or by whatever Instrumentality is necessary to treat their Southern pat rons the same as they treat their Northern patrons. If I had the same1 strength i once had l would make it my special business to campaign this stat", county by county If necessary, to see that fewer railroad lawyers are elected to the Lecglslature and honest and sensible men sent In their stead I know the South Carolina Legisla? ture has no power or control over in? terstate commerce, but the South Carolina Legislatur?1 has the power over taxation and other regulations, and it can make these railroads come to taw and behave decently and fair Is- towards the people by putting on the screws wherever it is possible to do so. Thank God all the lawyers in the state are not In the emplo> of the railroads or venal enough to be sub? sidized by them. I will do all I can In Washington with the Interstate commerce commis? sion, but the press of the State and the public men lh II ought to have the railroads understand that the people of South Carolins arc not to be dip criminated against In this way, und will not tolerate be Ins robbed as they, have been M we demand Justice and our tights we will get them; If we do not, we do ma deserve them. What are the people of Kouth Caro? lina goinR to do about it ? II, It, Tlllmnn, Trentolli S. c., April 1913, HUERT& MIL REHRE. PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO Too HOT A JOB TO HOLD. Military Dictator lias Agreed to Yield Presidency and Pedro Lascwrlun Will be Named as Provisional Pres? ident to Serve out Uncompleted Term of Madcro. This Cnmprneelur Offerecl to Placate the Constitution? alists Now Fighting Eluertn in Northern Mexico. I ????? El Paso, April Z.?To satisfy all fac? tions in the Mexican melee, (Jen. Heurta has agreed to the naming of Pedro Lascuraln as provisional pree I identi said advices here today directly from the national capital. La would serve out the uo ?g&?V* Of the late IV-- ' c V'0*N This ai b .? ?aid, has been offer constitutionalists now fighting the Huerta government in northern Mexico. It is declared that Qov. Carranza of Coahuila has agreed and that the Sonora insurrec? tionists will fall in line. The decision of the present provisional president is said to have been occasioned by the recent uprising of Zapata in the south, which places the Huerta forces a-tween two fires. Mexican military men here esti? mate that Huerta has not more than I 14,000 troops in all Mexico with which j to meet the situation. This is even less than Porfirio Ifiaz possessed in combating the Madero revolution. Ma dero, on taking office, began recruit? ing volunteer troops with the ex-in surrecto crops as a basis. In the meantime the regular army was not recruited to normal strength. The lesertion to the opposing side of the majority of the volunteer groups has a ft the actual government forces far ? clow par. I Hughes called on Mr. Underwood and j liseussed the wool, sugar and agrieul j .ural tariff. A demand from some j tuartera in the senate for an increase j n agricultural duties and a doubt as to the success of both free wool and Iree sugar in the senate, constituted he* pr. b ems over which the senate leaders will work tonight and to? morrow. The house tariff makers have . left i matters entirely in the hands of the I members. Members of the senate : finance committee today declared there would be an ultimate confer? ence with the president over all con? tested points. It is understood that un? less a sugar compromise is accepted by senators from Southern States, the < finance committee probably will act . on its own initiative and comply with President Wilson's desires. The situation as it has developed this week apparently is a consum? mation of the plan laid out by the president and the house and senate .leaders to bring the executive depart? ment and both branches of congress into agreemnt upon the tariff revis? ion before the new bill leaves tt e I custody of the committee that hai drawn it. Leading senators predicted today there would be no important matters unsettled when the hill is in? troduced in the house. This situation, unique in tariff history of reca nt years, is expected to greatly shorten the time required for passage of the bill and to reduce to an unusual dcgri th congressional debate and amend? ment of the measure. A preliminary agreement on the bill, it is claimed, will result in the making of few changes by the senate when the bill reaches that hotly. Chairman Underwood, when the ways and means committee adjournd for the day, seemed in a greatly re? lieved frame of mind and expressed the hope that the committee Would hc.uv from the president and senate committee bj Sunday at the latest. MOur bill is ready," said Mr. Under? wood, "The sugar tariff is the only lerlous point in controversy and our committee has agreed to do whatever the pr< stdent wants ut to do. "We expected to get w ord ft out him tod a 3 after his conference with the senate, but the word did n< t come, l behexe. howe\.r. thai tic whole mat? ter will he determine.1 tomorrow. If the president can not bring about an agreement on this schedule, we arc ready an) way and the bill will go t. Ihe Ionise as a committee bill. "This committee has agreed thu tar to every change the president sug? gested in our origlnul hill as it reach ed him. His suggestions were lew Most of the tail met with heartiest ap? provol The committee was of tin mind that no hill should ? ??? presenter which President Wilson m uht v.t. when it reached him. Having mad. the changes suggested w. arc now ready to accede to the further recom ntendations he may make." Iteeatise of the deln> in settling tin sugar schedule, the committee ma* MANNING LIBRARY OPENED. Handsome Structure Formally l)e\ot co to its Puses of Instruction und I tatet tainmcnt. Manning. April I.?The new Man? ning library was formally opened this afternoon under the auspices of the Civic league or rather the library com? mittee of the league. The building a handsome structure of red pressed brick with stone trimmings, having a metal dome roof and a central sky? light. There is already collected and on the shelves the nucleus of a varied and valuable library, and it is the purpose of the league to make addi? tions from time to time and to ar pe* for the conduct of reading l the library building as well the circulation of the books o.moiig those who may wish to take ihem home to read. LEVER ELECTED LIFE TRUSTEE. Action of Clcmson Hoard of Recent Mooting Announced. The Hon. Richard I. Manning an? nounced Friday night that at a recent meeting of the trustees of Clcmson College Congressman A. F. I^ever had been elected a life trustee and that Mr. Lever had now accepted. Mr. Lever succeeds the late R. A. Simp? son. The other life trustees are Alan Johnson, of New berry; M. L Don? aldson, of Greenville; Senator B. R. Tillman, J. E. Wannamakcr. of St. Matthews; W. W. Bradley, of Abbe? ville, and R. I. Manning. Mr. Lever s election was influenced not only by his executive ability, but by the gerat interest he has shown during his public career in agricultural development. AMERICA'S <IP RACK. Reported That Sir Thomas Will Again Call for Race. London. April 3.?Sir Thomas Lip ton, undaunted by the refusal of the New York Yacht club to accept the conditions he proposed in his recent challenge for the America's cup, nas decided, ae ordirg te the -Evening* News, to issue aa unconditional chal? lenge. Means a Match. N%W York April 3.?An uncondi? tional challenge for the America's cup from Sir Ti.omas Lipton means a match in the opinion of members of the New York Yac^it club today. They point out that the club has no alternative under the deed of gift but to accept. The opinion prevails that the defenders will meet Sir Thomas with a boat the size of tho ('hallenger. The only bar to acceptance of Sir Thomas' challenge it is said is elimin? ated by his removal of the condition lixing the limit of size of the Defend? er, which was constrained on his hallcngo recently rejected. not be ready to introduce the hill Monday. Chairman Cnderwood as? sured the president he could have all the time necessary to tiring about an agreement with the senate loaders. The ways and means committee chairman declared every member of the committee was cooperating with the president to bring about harmony. All agreed that the points of serious difference should be settled by com? promise if necessary before the bill is sent in the legislative mill, rather than afterwards when stubborn obstacles might arise to prolong debate and drag the session along for months. a provision of the measure hi that it shall become effective on midnight of the day on which it. is signed by the president. This provision and the fact that the measure will hi' a blan? ket bill, including the income tax. when it comes from the committee, strengthens the probability that it will be considered in congress as one measure instead of being taken up schedule by schedule. This method. :t is said, will almost Certainly follow if there is an agreement between the president and the senate and hoUSC b aders as to the income tax rate. President Wilson gave his cabinet today an outline ol the negotiations through which he hoped to secure a common sgicement on the tariff lull. Later members of the cabinet ex? pressed themselves as in hearty ac? cord with tin* presidents Views on the tat iff. declaring that the president was determined to have the people of the t'nited states get free sugar in three years The president was hopeful tonight he would have the support of the Louisiana senators on the one-i ent - mar proposal and that when the bill was Introduced next week it w? uld go through both houses of congress smoothly, thereby giving an oppor? tunity for other important legislation.