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MOTHER OF NEGRO lWltOLLl l> IWIAM PARDON COST. Anna Blair Fr<*lu(>es Receipts for 910 Signed "John W Gilllam," Whkh Is N um of Colored Porter in Governor'* Ofliee?Son was Sctv for Larceny. Columbia. April 14.?Anna Blair, colored, mother of Willie Blair, pa? roled Saturday by Governor Bleasc from the Rlchland County chain gang declared t.? t*.. detectives 4 the Co? lumbia, police department?S. S. Shorter and James K. Ford?that she had paid money to John Gilllam, colored porter In the Governor's of? fice. In accepting his proposition to help her get a pardon for her son. According to the story that the Blair woman related In talking about the mstter, she said she called at the of? fice of the Governor and told Gilllam that she was seeking a pardon for her son. and that Gilllam replied that he would help her for money, advising ?er not to waste money in employing a lawyer. Being anxious to get her eon tat the gang, the woman said she petd Gilllam $10 and exhibited re? ceipts of which the following are copies: (Written on * Western Union Night Mat-as* Blank.) 3, 1913. receive ". of anna blalr 5 dollars to give James Brag man. John W. Gilllam. .Columbia, 8, 1113. Received of Anna Blalr 6 Dollars. John W. Gilllam. So far no action has been taken igalnst Gilllam by the police or other authorities. ,The woman asked the po? lice to help her get her money back. She called at headquarters Saturday morning. Anna Blair lives at 414 Blending street. Willie Blalr. her son, was con? victed In General Sessions Court at the September term and sentenced to serve one year for the stealing of a bicycle. JEFFERSON COULDN'T LIVE ON SALARY. , Yet as Minister He Lived In Europe as Simply as He Did In Annapolis. I must aay a word on my own af? fairs because they are likely to be distressed. All the Minist rs who to Europe before me came at when all oxpenses were paid. a sum allowed In addition for th*?ir utfit. Afterward they were put on fixed salaries; but still these were liberal. Congress in the moment of my appointment struck off 508 guineas of the salary and made no other pro? vision for the cunt, but allowing me to call for two quarters salary in ad vsnce. Tne outfit has cost me nearly a thousand guineas; for which 1 am In debt, and which were I to stay here seven years, I could never make good by savings out of my salary; for be assured we are the lowest and most obscure of the whole diplomatic tribe. I live here about as well aa we did at Annapolis. I keep a hired carriage and two horses. A riding-horse I cannot afford to keep. This f.till is far below the level. Yet it absorbs the whole ellowanee. and return when I will to America. I shall be the out? fit In debt to Congress. I think 1 am the nrst Instance in the world were it was not given* ? ? ? I ask nothing for my time, but 1 think my expenses should be paid In a style equal to that of those with whom I am classed. Its SWAMP HI NM Its. Team Make* lt*s*unl for Y. M. U. A. Alle)a Although the Banners ran well Monday night In the match at the Y. M. Q A. with the Creepers, they del not go fa*t enough to keep in sight of their very much faster SfH i- gssjaa The Crt SSjQfl ran away from them and literally outdid themselves, for they made the highest average for any ISSUM uhe h has bo* led at the Y. M. C. A. In the first game th?y got a good lend with 771 pins, the second game they still Stood Strong and again made 771 pins. In the third game they made the record for anv game, making a total .,f 777 pint. Their average per man for the three game* was prac ticahy ir.5 pins, the nearest record to this In a five handed match being 1 If pin* per man White. Oapti .n of the b um. made an average of ] 7 pins In the flrst game tin- Creepers led t?y .1* pins, by |f| pins in I he second and by 79 In the third, making a total minority for the team of ::<>!? pin*, the worst defeat administered to any team. ite?i Batate Troswstoei H A dull, nut '"itstee, }>?el F. H. Dunne, to hnn. two lotn on Bnrtlet' ,.| |.a on Kdwards street Oeo. C. Wi. M McCal him. lot in < I T.ilulnh w M Mattel So seres in A FORMER si'MTER MAN. Active Tart Taken In Southern Com- ! menial Work by l>r. C, J. Owens. Sketch of Life. South Carolinians will he interest? ed in the career and work for the South being done by 1 >r. C. J. Owens, managing director of the Southern Commercial congress. Dr. Owens is well known throughout South Caro? lina. He is a son of Alfred Owens of Williston and the son-in-law of W. 11. Kennedy of Williston. Prior to his connection with tht SOU thorn "ommercial congress Dr. Owens had a distinguished career as an educator. When but 10 years old he was elected president of the Orangeburg Collegiate institute of Orangeburg and was widely known at that time as the youngest college pres? ident in the United States. He served as president of Sumter Military acad? emy. Sumter, and for live years aj president of the Southeastern Agri? cultural college of Alabama. He was vice president of the Ala? bama Educational association, presi? dent of the department of industrial arts of that association and chairman of the committee that standardized courses of study and adapted text? books for agricultural institutions of Alabama. While doing this work ,hc wrote agricultural and educational bulletins which were published by the United States department of agricul? ture. Dr. Owens' greatest work, however, has been with the Southern Commer? cial congress, an organization which has grown In four years to a great national and international institution Dr. Owens' service as a leading South? ern educator, together with his South wide acquaintance gained while com mander-in-chief of the Sons of Con? federate Veterans, was responsible for the call that came, to him three years ago from the Southern Commercial congress which elected him commis? sioner of agriculture. After a year of service as commissioner he was promoted to be secretary and treas? urer of the congress, and at the begin? ning of his third years' service he was elected managing director, a position which he has filled with conspicuous ability. He is now serving his fourth year with the Southern Commercial congress. He secured an amendment to the Oronna bill providing III.OM to be used in investigation of Kuropcan co? operation, in Conjunction with the for? eign commission of the Southern Com? mercial congress. He secured the in? dorsements, for the foreign commis? sion and Um general work of the Southern Commercial congress, of all the principal agrictiltur.il and com? mercial organizations of the country and of fottm r President Taft, former President RoOSOVtlti President Wilson and Secretary of State Hryan. He managed the participation of the house of governors in the movement of agricultural cooperation in the United States Slid had charge of the great banquet and reception ieeentl\ tondOfOd in Washington to sir Horace I'lunkett. the father of rural coopera? tion In Ireland. He has delivered ?cores of addresses throughout the South on agricultural cooperation and the general work of the Southern Commercial congress, and under his management the congress has become ?o effective that the state department and the agricultural department now refer all Inquiries concerning rural credits to the congress. Ill 1.1? o\ TWO SERIOUS CHARGES \tianta Contractor Charted With Mai on, afl . Api ii 13. ? L J. Qlenn, I he Atlants contractor with whom M i ? lone Pld< tx k, former n Ife of Charles W, Padcock, of Moultrle, elop? ed lo Dallas, Texas, and whho Is now in the Atlanta tower under charges of child abandonment prefered by his wife, faces a charge of white slavery under the Mann Act. s. I?. Reld, father nf Mrs. Padcock, has secured Mom United States Cone misslnticf I. M la a oi. of Maeon, n warrant charging a Violation of tin white slavery law, and tins warrant has been sent to the United States .< ommlsslon< t In Atlanta. \> bite slave TrafJIe. PRESIDENT IS STRONGER AFTER FIRST WEEK OP FIGHT. Mr. Wilson's Appearance Before Con? gress Strengthens Unity ? Few Changes Anticipated in Tariff ? Senators Have Pledged Support on Sugar and Wool?Preparations of Currency Reform to Move Slowly, j Washington, April 13.?President Wilson emerged from the llrst week >f the special tariff session of Con? gress apparently in a stronger posi ion as the active leader of Democ- ; roey than at any time since he assum? ed the Presidency. Within the brief space of seven lavs he had won a victory in the cau OUf of House Democrats for his free lUgmT programme; had formed a working agreement with the Demo? cratic leaders of the Stnate, which it is believed will insure general sup? port of his tariff programme in that body; and had established precedents >i Presidential cooperation with Congress, which, if successful, are expected greatly to influence the en? tire programme of legislation through- I out the Wilson Administration. The President's visit to Congress Tuesday to deliver his opening ad? dress in person, and his visit to the Senate precincts next day to confer ffith finance committee members up m the tariff plain, overshadowed all other developments of the week In public interest. Leaders of both houses who have sounded out sentl nent in Democratic ranks since this >ccurred declare the effect of the President's innovations has been to < ?trengthen Democratic unity of action is to leave the President in a dominat? ing position at the outset of his Ad? ministration. At all points where Mr. Wilson's de Isions were instrumental in the fix ng of rates in the new tariff bill the 'till Democratic membership of the House voted to sustain him in caucus >y heavy majorities. House leaders vho deferred to him in the fixing of nany of the tariff rates have sup? ported hid decisions and successfully -allied party support to his defence s the bill has been fought over by he Democratic members. The tariff revision light admittedly 1 is only begun; but the developments ?f the last week have convinced party daders that theer are likely to be few I changes from the rates favored by' the President, and little dissension within Democratic ranks over the final approval of the bill. The wool Ight will come into the House caucus ?arly this week. While a Democratic minority organization of forty or more Representatives will attempt to upset the President's free wool puogramme, it is expected that the Administration will be sustained by a large majority as it was In the fight on the sugar tar? iff provisions yesterday. Senate leaders have pledged to the President their support of the sugar ind wool provisions as finally adopt ?d in the House, it is believed that ?.he attempted organization between opponents of free sugar and free wool n the Senate will not acquire suffi? cient strength to alter the bill. Sen uor Meyers, of Montana, who has Men counted on by some of the antl rce wool forces as their ally, has in? formed members of the finance com- J mlttec and has stated publicly that he favors the free wool programme and will actively uphold the President's course as to this schedule. The full Democratic membership of the House will resume consideration of the tariff behind closed doors to? morrow, with the prospect Of anoth? er week's fight before the Underwood bin comes out with the seal of party approval upon it. Agricultural duties will be taken up first tomorrow and representatives of farming districts are planning a hard fight against iome of the most severe reductions which the President and the House tariff makers have determined upon as part of their "lower cost of living" programme. Republican members of the House ways and means committee, who had no part in preparing the Underwood bill are now working on sub-cotton and wool schedules, which they will offer as soon as the tariff Is taken tip in the House. These will be similar to the Republican substitutes offered I In the last Congress which proposed a general reduction in tariff but main j tained protection for the manufac I tureren and wool growers. The Re? publicans v ill have another caucus Thursday night for further discussion ot t he t:.i iff. Other legislative subjects have been forcing themselves to the front dur? ing the last we -k. and nttempts will be made lo secure President W ilson s ap? proval of several project* on which Immediate action Is desired, Prepara? tion of currency reform legislation Is to move slowly because of the agree? ment between the President ami Sen itor Owen, Representative Glass and other Congressional directors of flnan pal legislation that it shall ma Inter feie with the tariff revision. A series ill ii ?.ring* probablj will open soon, under Ihe direction of the Senate bankins ami currencs committee. TO CURB APPROPRIATIONS. President And Congress* Working To? ward a Definite Budget System to Keep Expnditures Within The Gov? ernment's Income. (Washihngton Correspondence in Brooklyn Eagle.) Representative John J. Fitzgerald has had two talks with Preayldent Wilson on the matter of Government expenditures. Mr. Wilson is just as much interested in the problem of trying to establish a sane relation be? tween Government revenues and ex? penditures as was President Haft. It seems assured that some action will be taken at the present Congress to establish a more logical system. The United States is peculiar among nearly all of the great powers in that it has never developed a budget sys? tem of government. Revenues have been raised without regard to expen? ditures, and expenditures, on the oth? er hand, have been authorized with? out the least regard for income. This happy-go-luck system has al? ternately resulted in surplus and de? ficiencies in the Treasury. President Wilson regards it as one of the initial problems of his administration. The chief duty of the Presidential Commission on Economy and Effi? ciency has been laying out a budget system. Thi Democrats in the House, how? ever have already undertaken reform in the matter of appropriations. At the caucus a committee of seven was appointed to consider changes in the House rules with regard to preparing annual bills for support of the depart? ments. The committee consists of Underwood, the Democratic leader; Fitzgerald, chairman of the Appro? priations committee, and Sherley, of Kentucky; Hay of Virginia; Garrett, of Tennessee; Davis, of West Virginia, and Stevens, of New Hampshire. Its task is finding a way to reduce an? nual expenditures and avoid duplica? tion of appropriations. It is to in? quire as to the advisability of com? mitting the work of preparing appro? priation bills to one committee. Under the present system of sub? mitting estimates of expenditures to Congress, the Secretary of the Treas? ury is made the responsible executive ollicer. On October 15 he is supposed to prepare a statement of the money each of the 10 executive departments will require for the ensuing fiscal year. More recently it has become the duty of the Secretary to present an esti? mate of revenues. But, in fact, in the preparation of estimates each Cabinet Officer acts 01; his own responsibility. The Secretary of the Treasury has no authority to revise. Each Cabinet of- . fleer is jealous of his authority. Prominent Democrats support the Bhereley plan of giving to the Secre? tary of the Treasury the power to re? vise estimates, which would give the President and his cabinet power to compel a consideration of estimates as a whole. A further change may be required in Congress. At one time the House Appropriation! Committee had com? plete jurisdiction over all the annual supply bills. This is no longer the case. There are as many different roads to the Treasury as seven or eight. The result has been that Con? gress Is no longer in a position to consider appropriations as a whole. I Mr. Sherley Mas submitted a plan which approaches a definite budget system. 11?' would create a commit? tee of estimates and expenditures, composed of the chairman, three ranking majority members and one ranking minority member of both the Ways and Means and Appropriations committees and the chairmen and ranking minority members of the oth? er committees which now have charge I of annual supply bills. This commit? tee is to report to the House the amount of revenue which seems avail? able for. the ensuing fiscal year, and I thereupon decide what amount of money each of the annual appro? priation bills shall carry. The whole theory of Mr. Sherley's proposition, to speak roughly, is to prevent the Federal Government from voting away each ye ar more than Its annual income. In other words, it is an attempt to prevent the Government from running into debt. Having de? termined how much money the Gov? ernment will take in during a given year, this committee will turn around and s;ty to a committee in charge of the appropriation for a particular de? partment: "Your allowance for next year is so much. Keep within it." One of the lug problems of the new administration will be to establish a more logical and businesslike method of ?Utting the coat according to the cloth. in tin- past there has never been a harmonious working system be? tween those officials <d the Govern? ment who spend the money and those win* authorise the raising i.f it. Tie Wilson administration has taken up this problem early in its career and is hopeful of devising a more scientific method. Miss Tilllnghast's Orchestra went to Tlmmonsvllle Wednesday night to piny at the MeSween-Fostei wedding j at that place. COTTON SMITH'S MEASURE. JUNIOR SENATOR INTRODUCES KILL GOVERNING TRADE IN COTTON FUTURES. Calls for Standard Grades and Pro? vides That Contracts for Delivery Shall Specify Kind of Maple to be Sold. Washington. April 14.?Senator K. D. Smith of South Carolina has intro? duced in the senate a bill to provide I for specific performance of cotton contracts in interstate common o; that is, that the contract shall pro? vide the grade to be delivered and that the vendor must furnish that1 grade or a grade one degree above or one degree below it. The difference in price is to be the actual commer? cial difference between the values of the grades on the day before the set? tlements. This bill, if passed, will have the effect of making every future contract sale potentially a spot sale, in that the purchaser can demand and se? cure COttOll Of a grade which he can use, and will not be forced, as at present, to accept any one of a dozen grades which may or may not be suit aide for his purpose. The bill also provides for long Itaple cottons, Betting forth that the length of such cotton shall be stated In the contract and must be approx? imated on delivery. The bill denies the use of the mails and other interstate carrying agencies to those who violate the law, and further provides for a line. The hill was read twice in the sen? ate and referred to the committee on agriculture. The bill follows: "That any person. partnership, joint stock company, society, asso- i ciation or corporation, their managen or officers engaged in interstate com? merce, in making or offering for sale) any cotract or contracts for the fu? ture delivery of cotton, shall specify the grade or grades contracted for in each and every contract; and such Krade as is, or grades as are, con? tracted for shall be according to United States government standard? ization: Provided, That the seller of such contract as is herein provided tor may have the option of delivering in settlement of such contract not more than one grade above or one grade below such grades as is con? tracted for. And the settlement of the difference between the price of the grade contracted for and the grade delivered shall be the actual commercial difference in the price of such grades on the day previous to the settlement of such Contract. And it shall he the duty of the secretary of agriculture to standardize the grades of 'uplands' ami 'gulf cottons separately; and such grades as are es? tablished for both 'upland' and 'gulf cotton shall not be below good or? dinary or above middling fair. It ?hall he the duty of the secretary of agriculture also to standardize accord? ing to grades, stains and tinges. "See. 2. That in ease long staple cottons are bought or Bold for future delivery the length of the Itaple shall be designated in the contract, and the cotton shall he, when delivered) delivered as of the grade and length of staple designated in the contract "Sec. 3. That the use of the mails, telegraphs, express companies or any other method of interstate communi? cation shall he denied any person, partnership, .joint BtOCk company, so? ciety, association, corporation, their manager or officers or employes in making such contract or contracts not conforming to the provisions of this act; ami that any employe, agent, owner or officer of the above means of communication prohibited in this section who shall know ? use such property or agencies of communica? tion or knowingly to allow such prop? erty to ho used f?>r the transmission of any message relating to such con? tracts as an? prohibited by the terms of this act shall, upon conviction therefor, lie punished for such offense by a tine of not more than 11,000 nor less than $.r?00; and the sending of each message in violation of the provisions of this section shall con? stitute a separate offense. "Sec. 4. That any contract or con? tracts for the future delivery of cot? ton not having tiie specifications herein enumerated Shall he deemed null and void; and any person, part? nership, join! stock company, society, association or corporation, their man? agers officers, who shall make or sell or attempt to sell any contract or contracts lor the future delivery of cotton not conforming to the pro visions of this act or shall tail to de? liver in conformation t<? the provisions of this a< t shall be deemed, upon con? viction, guilty ot a misdemeanor and sentenced to Imprisonment for three yearn or pay a tine of $r..n<ui ,?r both in the discretion of the court; ami provided, further, that this act shall onlj apply to interstate commerce.*' Say, that man Wilson has a way with him. lie makes Teddy look like an amateur,?Walerbury (Conn.) , a merlcan. Will- PUT on M Ml. SERVICE. Railway Poatofljice to Im- Operated on Trains Between Punster ami Mc Bee mi Seaboard. Washington. April 14.?Congress? man Lever has perfected arrange? ments with the poetofRce departraent for th?' operation ??f railway mail ser? vice from IfcBee to Sumter on a new branch of the Seaboard Air Line. The road is about 35 mibs in length and the service will be In? augurated Immediately. MONEY I OK SCHOOLS. Large Amount Sent Out by Uupctia tendent. Columbia. April 15.?J. E. Swearin gen State superintendent of education, yesterday paid out $31,645 State aid of 120 high achoohl in 41 counties. Warrants were mailed to the several county treasurers and notic es address? ed to the county superintendents of education and each board of district trustees. Sixty-three rural graded schools in 17 e.ounties received $1,390.94. All of these schools arc located in rural districts, or in i/icorporated places with less than 300 population. A dis? trict levying a four-mills tax, employ? ing two teachers and running its schools six months receives $200 State aid. A district levying a four-mill tax, employing three teachers and running the school seven months re? ceives $300. Fifty-eight such schools received aid last November, and hence were not entitled to additional assistance this spring. The rural graded school law has, therefore, benefited 121 communities during the c astie year. Any school > share in its benefits ma: * application as soon as i monts of the law are m opening of the session th ing the next scholastic ye; State aid was also grai districts in 19 counties und extension act for weak sc amount paid these 56 sc $4,834.62. In each instance the db ing in high school aid an< tension aid levies a local t mills and receives from th much as this tax raises u term extension aid. A CO number of claims arc yet t from many counties. The library aid will be within the next ten days. The rural graded school lions. term extension apr and library requisitions were of the $3u.000 recently borrc school purposes. The balanc? loan will be exhausted within few weeks. NEW YORK COTTOX MARKET. New York, April 17. Opening. Closo. Jan.11.37 Mar. 11.47 May.11.84 11.94 July.11.SS 11.89 Aug.11.71 11.76 Sept. 11.50 Oct.1139 11.44 Dec. 11.47 SUMTER COTTOX MARKET. Corrected daily by Ernest Field, Cot? ton Buyer. Sumter. April 17. Oood Middling 12 1-8. Strict Middling 12. Middling ii 7-s. Low Middling 11 1-2. Strict l.>w Middling to 7-8. Staple cotton, nominal. SLEET AT CONCORD. Twice During Tuesday sleet Covered ti round. A report from Concord states that i twice on Tuesday sleet tell at that plaCv so that it covered the ground. The f; 'l of Sleet occurred each time during ti?* morning. The ice meited j rapidly as it fell, it is stated. Lain booms the umbrella, but knoc ks out the Ian.?New York Tress. Teacher-' Examination. The regular spring teachers' exam* nation will be held at the Court House, Friday, May 2ml. beginning at 9 o'< lock A. M. The questions will be based on the 1 state adopted text i.ks. .1. HERBERT HAYNSWORTH, County Superintendent of Education. PSave Feed Bills D *nd c*t hotter ro?ult? from " your ?t rk. Adt'. ?mall aggSm ^p**"^ Maount of AKfr*^ rSL V to th* dally ration. Strcn*t>ion? and aumu- m^mmaa\ lat*a atgontlr* cigar- MlS muaaaUm Tln?urr? ?lock recahrl?S 'MmlWMm full t^nefu of food. In ? park*?*-? to ?alt t5r. 60c. | $1; Z& lb. palN. f ." SO. T"Vour rn-.u. t I ?< k tf tt gSflpSl fall?." ? . Get l^at:.* TV ^It-Sharing ? Holtet, ^-m^ SA? 11 AUuaua^ FUBBJ |B*^gJ w. T. Brogdon, Brogtlow, s. c.