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FOB FREE SUGAR AND WOOL piiukidf.nt will not aohf.i: to compromise |n hkjak and wool w'hkihxi v WUmhi Wants Vndcrwood Tariff Ulli Fnacted Into Law?Sugar Schedule Again Debated In Senate?Senator Thniaii Awtaw storm of Protect frosn Hei>ubtt<*nn. Washington. May 15.?President Wilson cams out strongly today as the champion of free wool and free sugar in three years, as provided for in the tsriff bill recenetly passed by the house. He announced emphati? cally that he was not considering compromises of any sort; that he Stood squarely behind the measure as It passed the house and that he regarded It as the duty of the Demo? cratic majority In the senste to ful? fill Its platform pledges by enacting the house bill into law. I am art the kind." said the presl 4snt. "that could ask compromises When I once take my position. 1 have taken my stsnd with the house leaders for the present bill. Enough Said. 1 am not looking for or ex? pecting compromises." The president 's utterance was made to half a hundred newspaper corre (gjpendents who gathered, as ususl, to? day at the White House for the semi Weekly conference. Practically, at th? same time, the senate was en? gaged In protracted debate, at the end of which tonight an agreement waa reached to vote tomorrow on the question of public hesrlngs on the tariff bill. While the president, smil ig. let It '*? known that he was ex Was a subject for the senate to dis? pose of. hit statement of unqualified support for the house bill was taken generally to mean that Mr. Wilson Considered arguments from special In? terests on the tariff schedule to have been closd when the measure passed the house. He is understood to re? gard the effort to obtain hearings ss a filibustering device. The correspondents were about to leave the office when the president asked If it were true that reports were circulated to compromises on the wool and sugar schedules. All day there had been rumors that con? cessions of some kind would be made en the principal schedules In order to satisfy opposition in the senate. The president had been told by friends that in some sources there was an expectation that a duty would be put on raw wool or that the pro rision for free sugar after three years would be dropped. It was to counter? act these statements thst he took oc real on to make his position clear. >f course it is expected at the White House that there will be minor changes msde by the finance commit? tee, certain equalisation and correc* time which have been approved by house leaders since the bill left their hands, but In the principal schedules, such as wool and sugar, the president Is de srmlned that there shall be no change If he can prevent it. There were even Intimations that he might veto a bill that came from the senate with smendments on wool or sugar. The agreement In the senate was for a vote at 4 o'clock tomorrow aft? ernoon on the motion to refer the Underwood bill to the finance com? mittee and the Penrose-LaFolletf amendment for public hearing*. 1! publican leaders accepted this ,oro poeal from Chairman Simmons sfter Senator Stone had attempted to force %a he mediate vote by moving to lay a I amendments to the Simmons mo? tten on the table. This he withdrew at Senator mmmons' request. The sugsr schedule wa? again the subject of enlivened debtte, Senator ttansdell of Louisiana, answering tie claim of Senator James of Kentucky that the Democratic platform warned 1 Louisiana to expect free nugar. Mr. Hansdell submitted records in an < i - fort to show that the party wss not committed to free sugsr The senate resumed consideration of the tariff lato in the day. Senator Thomas of Colorado dis? cussed prediction* of business depres? sion If the Pnd.twood bill became a law. No pani In the history of Dim country was ever caused by an at? tempt t > revise the tariff." he said. The senator aroused the Itepuhll can side by reading a magazine ifllols which alleged that the panic of n> : waa manufactured by bunking Int. ??sts which desired the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act. Ac? cording to the senator, i Iranian sn n sent out from New York to banks demanding that they retire a part of their circulation and ?all a large part of their loans, with the object of fore Ing congresM to pass this leg'slation. Senators Norris and Hoot expressed surprise thst such a circular hud been srnt and asked If It were signed. I did not give sny names because none appeared here." said Sen.if..t Thomas In r*-o|y to Mr Rant "Tins senator knows perron- * ? - m. , than I do where It rame fr<m." rtanatot Hoot ssld he was surprised that the senator from Colorado should no opinion whatsoever on the for hearings and that this make such "abaurrV* charges In the senate bused upon a communication ,i pparentl\ unsigned. ?'The senator from Colorado does not have to take Instructions from the senator from New York or any one el.*e." said Senator Thomas. "He is responsible to the people of his own State. He does not care whether the senator thinks this Is absurd or not." Senator Page offered to give $50 for the name of any Vermont banker who received this circular, declaring he was in a position to affirm that no hanker in Vermont had ever received it. Senator Smoot said he could say the same thing of the bankers of Utah. Senator Lane came to the assistance ! of his Democratic colleague by stat? ing that he did know a banker who had received such a communication. He refused to give his name. As a result of this circular, Sena? tor Thomas said, banks did retire cir? culation and did call many loans and laid the basis for the panic. Senator Smoot produced figures from the sta? tistical abstract showing that eircula 1 tlon of national bank notes had in? creased steadily from 1891 to 189?. ! Mr. Thomas declared the panic of 1*07 had been manufactured by the .Standard Oil company or allied inter? ests to get through the Tennessee Coal and Iron "deal" and to embarrass the president of the United States. Senator Ransdell resumed his ar? gument against free sugar by advocat? ing the vkw that people of Louisiana did not reply upon that part of the I Democratic platform praising the deeds of the Democratic congress which passed a free sugar bill but the "business plank" which stated that no legitimate industry should be de? stroyed. He quoted at length from campaign speeches of President Wil? son and maintained that in no speech had the president proposed free su? gar. The senator read a letter prepared by Representative Broussard, a sena? tor-elect from Louisiana, who was a member of the subcommittee of 11 m the platform committee at Baltimore, contending that the platform never indorsed the Underwood free sugar bill of the last congress nor had the party indorsed it. "Nowhere in that edclaration (the platform)," Mr. Broussard wrote, "can there be found any intimation that the Underwood free sugar bill of the house met with either the appro? val of the 'ommittee of 11, of the committee on platform and resolu? tions acting as a whole or of the con? vention itself as contended by th? senator from Kentucky." Mr. Broussard pointed out that the senate finance committee gave the Un? derwood free sugar bill a hearing, after which "not a single senator. 1 ?emocrat. Republican or Progressive, approved it." Of the Baltimore convention he wrote: MI must appear to you and In fact to every fair-minded man. that with the chairman of the convention, the senator from Kentucky, pleading to the body over which he presided for free sugar and with the sugar trust by telegrams Imploring the convention to declare for free sugar, it was not an oversight on the part of either the subcommittee or 11 of the full com? mittee on platform and resolutions or ?he convention that it was not writ? ten In the platform, as the senator from Kentucky now attempts to read It. that the Democratic party stood or stands for free sugar, on the con? trary, this action was the deliberate conclusion that the Democratic party ?tool against the Underwood free sugar bill and In favor of a duty on sugar. The Louisiana senator concluded with personal appeal to his colleagues: "In God's name not to vote for free sugar and put the Louisiana industry to death. ' Senator Williams asked why it was thai Senator Hansdell and his col? league resisted just as obstinately in the past any reduction in the duty on sugar as they now resist free sugar and why they voted last year against a II per cent reduction, which every; Louisiana planter now admits he could stand. * If this senate.'* Senator Williams asked, "should put a 50 per cent, re? duction on sugar instead of the pro nosed rate, with free sugar in three years. Which Would you prefer?" Senator Ransdell said he believed his people would prefer the proposed rate, beaeuse it would be quick death, whereas the other reduction would be slow death. Hit Thui Mls> Night. A Are late "hursday night practl coll) desti oyed ? negi u house In R* got Lan.upled b) EU B?nenu, I Well known negro Ol tbis i its, where to- is xcxton for the Presbyterian and Episcopal rhurchea Moat of the fur? niture was saved, but the building WUI pr o ti< ally mined it was owned ?>\ IhS estate Ol A. I?. Richer. Had it not been for the prompt ar rlvnl and egnclent service or me firs deportment it it probable that the w boir of Rfc ke, Lane would have SOOn wiped out. A LIVE STOCK CAMPAIGN, CONGRESSMAN LEVER CALLS FOR DEMO N STRATH) N l A R M. Painters <>f <.i IIh mi it County Have Asked That step* be Taken to Pro? vide tar Experiments. Washington, May 15.?Representa tive Lever today took up with the de? partment of agriculture the proposi? tion of the establishment of a live stock demonstration farm in Calhoun i county. This movement was initiated at a mass meeting of the farmers of I that county some time ago, and it has the cordial indorsement of t'ommis 'sioner Watson. Mr. Lever is very much In earnest about this undertak? ing, as will be seen by the following , letter he has written to Assistant Sec? retary Galloway. "I Inclose you a letter from Com? missioner Watson with resolutions I I adopted at a farmers' meeting in Cal 1 houn county, my district, both of i which explain themselves. I do not ' know Just what Is expected to be done, nor what can be done, but I am sure I you will agree with me that the ne? cessity is upon us to begin a system jatlc ?ampalgn for the encouragement j of stock raising In the South. The 'chief trouble In the Past has been that the South conld not be made to pro ; duce the necesary forage crops, but j the demonstrations of the department In the past two years in the growing of clovers, grasses, etc., have dis proven this Idea, and shown beyond a doubt our possibilities in the way of : growing forage crops, and hence in developing the live stock indus? try, which in my mind must be de? veloped before we can hope to have the South come in to her own as a leading agricultural section of the world. Whatever the department can do to bring about an encouragement along these lines through practical demonstration will be effort Put forth in the right direction. SPENT LIFE IN PRISON. Kansas Man, routined for 23 of His 3U Years, Paroled by the Gover? nor. Topeka, Kan., May 14.?Arthur Pat? ten, who at 30 has spent 23 years in Kansas prisons, left the penitentiary here today, paroled to a farm "to be? come a citizen.* At the age of 7 Pat? ten stole a $.'; watch and wus sent to the State reformatory as an incorigi ble. Paroled after four years he en? tered a farmer's house in Osage coun? ty, where he had vainly sought work, and ate food he found In the pantry. Caught, he was compelled to finish his reformatory sentence and then was sentenced to the penitentiary for sec? ond degree burglary. Gov. Hodges acted promptly when he learned the circumstances. "Society has committed a crime against Pat ? ten," he said. MATRIMONY BETTER THAN JAIL. Convicted Man Kager to Wed Girl Who Accused Him. Greenville, May 14.?Judge Row man today halted the proceedings of the Court of General Sessions long enough to allow Solicitor Ronham to unite in the bonds of holy matrimony a negro, who had Just been convicted of an offence aguinst a colored girl and sentenced to two years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary, or on the county chain gang. The cere? mony being performed, the Judge an? nounced that he would allow the bride und groom to go their way rejoicing, the defendant's willingness to marry the deponent serving to suspend the sentence. Before the trial begun efforts were made to settle the case out of Court, but the defendant steadfastly refused to etiter into any matrimonial alliance. Hut when the jury had convicted him of the charge for which he wus in? dicted and Judge Bowman had im? posed sentence of two years, the ne? gro's stubbornness gave way to rea? son and he called for the 'knot to be tied" with all dispatch. BATTLE IN COLLEGE KITCHEN. Steward and Negro Engage |u Pistol Duel at Converse, Spartanburg, May 15.?Two hun? dred young lady students w?re badly frightened, -<? negro waitresses were thrown Into ;i panic arid the principals were each wounded as the result of ;i piatol duel between J. i>. Cheshire, white, and John Mayes, a negro, In the kitchen of Converse col leas this morning. Cheshire's wounds, while pnlnful, ars not serious, Mayes' condition ;?t tir^t was regarded as critical, but this evening an attendant physician said timt he had an even " ham e to i ei o\ er. Marriage License Reoonl, I license to marry has been issued to Uu hard Reed, Florence, and Ma ttlds Wilson, Kl Charles; and Sam Montgomery and Viola Solomons, Concord, TO PROTECT BUYERS. Now Pure Pood Law Amendment Commit toe Con fern With state end City Officials. Washington, May ir?.?The commit? tee recently appointed by the secre? taries of agriculture, commerce and treasury to draft regulations for the pure food law amendment requesting quantities of contents to he plainly labeled on all packages, today con? ferred with various State and city of? ficials who are here attending the an? nual conference on weights and meas? ures. The principal topic discussed was as to the amount of variance which should be allowed on account' Of shrinkage caused by moisture and evaporation. A. W. Rlneheart, assist? ant superintendent of weights and measures of the State of Washington urged that the weights should be de? termined, not at the time the package left the factory, but when it reached the consumer, and that when pack? ing and wrapping be described in re? ceipts the burden of proof should be i on the manufacturer, not on the gov? ern ment. NEW LAWS MAY COME. Johnson Cant* May Result in Laws Against Miscegenation. I Chicago, May 14.?National legis? lation prohibiting miscegenation is expected to result from the conviction of Jack Johnson, negro champion prize lighter, for violation of the Mann jact. Representative Roddenbery, who has introduced legislation in con? gress forbidding intermarriage of , negroes and whites, today sent word j to local federal officials asking for a transcript of the testimony of the case. Representative Roddenbery said he intended to use the story de ! veloped in the Johnston trial to show that relations between fhe i aces are , impossible. Johnson said today the prosecution had broken him financially and that {he had spent about $60,000 financing his defense. Johnson's attorney de? clared that if Judge Carpenter refuses . a new trial, he would carry the case to the supreme court. ANOTHER FLY DANOER. Insect Sold to Carry Infantile Par? alysis Germs, j St. Louis, May 14.?^-Warning against the fly as the most common cause of ! infantile paralysis was given by Dr. E. W. Saunders of St. Louis in an i address before a medical association here today. Dr. Saunders traced a connection between infantile paralysis and the 1 raising of poultry and gave this as an j explanation why the disease is more ] prevalent in country and suburban j districts than in the crowded part 0t 1 a city. i While experiments were not com? plete, he said, yet he was cr nfident ? that final tests would demonstrate a ! connection between "limberneek" in ! fowls and infantile paralysis. His theory is that flies carry the germs {of infantile paralysis from the car cusses of fowls and possibly from the bodies of hogs anu dogs to food. Dr. Saunders condemned legal pro? tection of the buzzard which he said transmits infectious diseases of live stock. NEW RULE ON COTTON. Cqsnpress Association Adopts Regula? tions (Governing Hales. Memphis, Tenn., May 16.?In eon ? formity to regulations promulgated at I recent conferences of railroad repre? sentatives and steamship agents, held I at Dallas and New Orleans, the Mis? sissippi Valley Compress asociation adopted resolutions today lixing the uniform size of compressed t rtton bales at 27 inches In width and 54 inches long and the weight approxi? mately 500 pounds. Requirements that the exact condition of both the cotton and wrapping be described In receipts and bills of ladings were also ap? proved. These rules will become effective July I, 1913. Representative! of 80 compress companies in Arkansas, Alabama, Mis? sissippi. Tennesse and Louisiana at? tended the annual meeting of the com? press association here toduy. Dele? gates from similar organisations In Oklahoma and Georgia were also in attendance. S. A. Wilson, Lexington, Miss., was reelected resident of the association; Walter II, Harrison of Memphis was elected Vice president, and C. C, Han? son of Memphis secretary-treasurer, The next place of meeting will be selected by a committee. o. c. iToou Improveing. <>. p riood, W in? was sind near Manning several days ago, is repott? ed to be Improving, John Vates, the negro who u/as shot by others, Is said to he in the same condition, as formerly, with n imall Shanes of recovery. PRESIDENT WILSON DENIES RE PORT THAT PRECAUTION? ARY MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN. _ Niivy And Army Will Remain Quiet While Negotiations with Japan wo Doing Carried on?Promise <>f Enrl) settlement of Japanese Ques? tion. Washington, May IS.?President Wilson has determined that no war? ships or troope shall be moved or anything resembling a military <?r na val demonstration carried on by the United States while diplomatic ne? gotiations with Japan concerning ?the California legislation are in pro? gress so that no alarming interpreta? tion can he placed on even the ordi? nary manoeuvre! of the army and navy. This decision of the president was announced ut the WThite House to? night. It answered a report current in official circles late in the day that i precautionary movements by the army and navy were contemplated and had been discussed at a con? ference between the president and 'secretary Daniels of the navy depart? ment, Secretary Garrison Of the war department and Acting Secretary Moore of the state deartment. Mr. Moore went to the White House, it was explained, to discuss the framing j of a reply to the recent Japanese pro ' test against the California land leg? islation while the war and navy sec? retaries called to discuss routine af? fairs of their departments. White House officials said there had been no change in the diplomatic phases of the Japanese question and that the situation was promising of an early settlement. It was emphati? cally denied that army or navy ma? noeuvres, or movements of any kind not included in the ordinary plans arranged months in advance of exe? cution, had been contemplated at any ! time. The rumor which called forth the White House statements probably originated earlier in the day when the war department made public order* that three officers and two companies of coast artillery were to sail frem San Francisco for Honolulu about May 24. These orders, It was explained, were In conformity with the pro? gramme for the creation of a per? manent and sufficient garrison in Hawaii, outined in the last annual [ report of the secretary of war, and j merely carried out plans of long 'standing. They relieved Col. William JC. Rafferty, coast artillery corps, of the command of the coast defenses of the Potomac and of the post of Fort Washington to sail for Honolulu with the One Hundred and Nineteenth and the One Hundred and Forty third companies of coast artillery; to accompany Col. Rafferty as a mem? ber of his staff and directed Maj. Frank W. Coe. now personnel officer, North Atlantic coast artillery dis? trict, to sail on the same. S. C. C. I. COMMENCEMENT. Miss Ruth Cain ami Mr. Hewyard Barrens of sumter County Among (Jraduates. The commencement exercises of the South Carolina Co-Educational Insti? tute nre now being held. The grad? uating exercises take place Monday evening. Miss Ruth Cain and Mr. Hey ward Burreas of Sumter county are among the twenty-one graduates. The following Y. M. C. A. officers have been elected for next session: President, E. s. Dunbar, Dalsell, s. c.; I Vice-president. H. (\ Kdens, Sumter, S. C.J Secretary, A. S. Kilgore, Orlando, Fla., Treasurer. L. A. Odom, Ben nettsville, s. c. 1 The following officers were elected in the Pierian Literary Society: Pres? ident. EC. S. Dunbar; Vice-president, H. C. Kdens, Secretary, A. S. Kilgore, 'Censor S. W. Talbert. 1 Unconscious from Has Fumes. When Mr. Ed Dunne, an employee of the Sumter (Jas and Power Co.. was assisting in the repairing of a leak in front of the Pepsi Cola Bouling works on Dugan street shortly after noon today, he was overcome by Ras and was for some little time in an unconscious state. Dr. Ashley Mood was t ailed as soon as Mr. Dunne's predicament was as? certained, and Dr. Mood carried the young man to the Sumter Hospital when- he soon revived under admin? istration of oxygen. Mr. Dunne was MOUi of the fight" only a short while, and was aide to go back to work im? mediately after leaving the hospn.ii Informal Dance. Mr Wylie McKain, who has at va? rious times laughl dancing in this and other < Ith N, vs ill conduct a danc? ing school in the urnior) hall on every Frida) and Wednesdaj night, and ex poets to have .i number of Informal soli ess* during t he sommsfi COTTON YIELD PER ACRE. Average Yield in Southern States Leee in 1912 than in IStS, ??exaj, mttpueo s TJUIlOJTIf) 'M lddlrfSISSl ?eurqfitnoq eiSiJoaf) ?MBfiUT}>lJV *?ms p?n?n n # e m ^. t 3j X C. 'i _ ^ ^ ?"5 0 QC ?1 ??? ^ .1 ?A ? a ia /? ? ? ?i M ? N lPS i.O ^5 .- f- ?I ri w ? -r O 00 ^ t c? e n e e n ? ? ? - 7. fi i> <T. O O ?0 n M >? ? Kpojjaj it?^\ a\ik.i j) m r? 0? ? ? ? wt o> o <r. ? ? ? ? r. r. C so oc a. <r. (Yield expressed in decimals of a hale per acre * The rathei reneral idea exists that the last ten years have shown a mark? ed improvement In the yield per acre due to the more scientific use of fer? tilizers and new methods of agric?l 1 ture. This may apply to the individual farmer, but it is doubtful if it will to the State and certainly not to the cotton belt as a whole. As can be seen in the accompanying tabulation Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ok? lahoma and Texas arc* all going back? ward instead of forward and must be contented with a smaller annual yield per acre, and not a larger one. This decrease of yield Per acre is due probably to the boll weevil as well as decreasing fertility. Alabama shows only a slight in? crease of yield and it is possible that tht weevil army now invading that ; State mr.y start it on the toboggan to? ward a lessened yield. Georgia, North Carolina and Scuth Carolina are the only three States where the yield has sho*n any material increase per acre. Vrom 1893 to 1897 Georgia, with cotton at four and five cents per pound (which practically prohibits the use of fertilizers) averaged .35 of a bale per acre, while from 1908 to 1912 inclusive, with cotton averaging over 12c and permitting intense ferti? lization, that State averages .4 2 of a bale per acre. Will the difference of .07 of a bale?let us Bay 35 pounds of lint cotton?Pay the difference In the cost of fertilizer today and in 1893 to 1897? North Carolina jumps from .40 of a bale in 1893 to 1897 to .50 of a bale in 1908 to 1912. Does .16 of a bale, or say 80 pounds per acre, pay the difference in cost? South Carolina shows .08 or 4 0 pounds per acre difference. Is it worth the price? The truth of the matter Is that the increase in the size of the cotton crops is due wholly to the increase of acreage, and farming la not an In? viting occupation to those not born to its trials and tribulations, and we need not expect any sharp increase in acreage until the profit invites novices to experiment in cotton farming. About ninety-five percent of those who can raise cotton profitably at I eight and ten cents per pound live in apartment houses in Harlem or com? mute from New Jersey and do their farming on paper . The gradual decrease in fertility of the older lands, and the added march of the boll weevil over Sherman's fa? mous pilgrimage will, we think, equal any and all additions because of fer? tilization and scientific farming. The United States will continue to raise about .38 to .40 of a bale per acre and If we want twenty million bale crops we must plant Oft) million acres of land. sj Keep this chart. I Yours very truly, S H. P. Pell & Co. May 9. 1913. Two Tronssei us and One Bride. 1 Florence, .May 14.?Sheriff Durch went to Jacksonville Fla., last nii;ht Ito arrest and bring home Frank Crow ford, alias Bubber Julien, and his wife Nellie Will lama it seems that Rub? ber was engaged t?> two girls and did net know which he was going to let put their things in his house, but he finally evolved a scheme to get the things of both and pay the rare fare <?! hut ??ne. The change is that he had the two girls pack their trunks and gel ready for the wedding march. He smt for both trunks but only one girl, and the other sent for him and he was located at Jack? sonville honeymooning along the St John, where the sheriff broke up he- dream of love with one girl and leu Douses*.