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lid- Week Will see lbs?Mon on Much
10?*? i ?4-.nl Problem?Vote by Satur?
day?(Nfcfcf l/enisiatlon.
Washington. March 15.?Open de?
bate on repeal of the toll exemption
clause of the Panama canal act will
< ??gm hue this week in the house and
a vote in that body on the 8ims bill
to carry out the recommendations of
Preetetonl Wilton Is expected by Sat?
urday night. In the senate an earnest
effort will be made by administration
leaders to pave the way for early ac?
tion on the issue by bringing it aqua: ?
ly befoie committee on inter
oceanic canals for consideration and
report ?>y the time the house has
disposed of the subject.
Opposing forces In both houses are
arrayed for the right, the prospect be?
ing that the ehampiont of toll exemp?
tion for American coattwise ships
?Mil lote when the roll calls have been
taken in both houses. Representatives
Adamsoa and 81ms. In charge of the
repeal forest in the house, are only
doubtful as to the sise of the major?
ity their cause will have. They pre?
dict that it will be larne. while Major?
ity Leader Underwooi and some of
the Democrats who agree with him
that It is an economic ndvake to re
vsne the nation's policy regarding
canal tolls, insist that the vote will be
clott.
In the senate the return of Sena?
tor O'Oorman of New York, chairman
of the committee on inter-oceanic
canals, it awtited with interest in
m?w of the fact that Senator Owen, a
majority member of the committee,
has introduced a bill similar to the
Sims bill for the purpose of expedit?
ing settlement of the controversy at
s?'i?n us possible. Senator Owen seeks
? have the committee take the repeal
bill up at once and paas upon It. Sen?
ator O'Oorman. who will lead the op?
position, took the position before
leaving Washington last week that hit
committee should do nothing with the
repeal until the house had acted.
Administration senntors, after con?
ferring with the president, determined
that the issue Is so clearly drawn that
there la no reason for delay, and I
that the senate should be ready to
discuss the subject immediately after
the house acts, or even before, should
the Sims bill meet unexpected delay
In the kwer branch.
Aiding Senator Owen in leading the
administration forces will be Senator
Hoke smith of Georgia and James
of Kentucky. Various polls of the
sonnt* on the repeal question have In?
dicated that the president will be sus?
tained by * majority of from 10 to 20
rotes.
Am th*r matter included in the
foreign relations of the government
which It Is planned to undertake this
week for consideration is the pending
treaty with Nicaragua, negotiated In
the Taft administration, which the
present administration wishes to have
amended and ratified as toon as pos?
sible
The foreign relations committee of
the senate expects Secretury Hryan to
appear Wednesday In explanation of
the administration's desire relating to
the treaty, which it detlgned pri?
marily for acquirement by the United
States of the Nlcaraguan canal rights
and rights to naval station titet in
the bt> of Fonseca In exchange for a
payment of $1 000,000 in gold.
Uy the terms of the treaty as orlg
li.ally framed Nlcaragut would {rant
In porpetulty to the Unled Statet the
exclusive rights for an lntor-oc?anlc
canal through the Sun Juan river ami
through the treat Like of Nicaragua,
or by way of any other route over
Nlcaraguar territory. Article ta o of
the treaty proposes that ' in ord ?r to
facilities the protection of the Pan
um? canal." and UM right Is contem?
plated In Nicaragua. Nicuragua shall
lease to ths United States for 99
years the Great Cefl and Ltttl? 'orn
islandn In the < iritd>?an sea and
rights to a ntvnl base on the Gulf of
Konseca.
Early In the present udmlnUh i
Hon Hecretary Hryan proposed It the
i* it ate committee that the treaty be
amended In tuch a was that the
United States would procure virtual
control of Nicaragua through a pro?
tectorate similar to that exercised
over Cuba He would .old to the
? rest tfOJ -umilar to the "Platt
amendment ' relating to Cuba To
thin proposal then- ?a is < onscb r . M?
opposition In the eommirtee and it is
?tpected It be revived now.
I nder the STOpOSSd plan of amend
tog the treaty Nicaragua. besides
gr.mtim; list < .irotl and ntt\al Htutlon
tights, woods' gsjrei
That war should noi he dot Isred
without connent of the United MatSt
That no IfOStttg SS made with for?
eign government .? (hit would tend to
deetmy her iro' -pen-h i .. or give for>
etgn governments a foothold In the
repu bile.
That OS piildn Swhl SMMlM SS con
MSJStSd beyond the ordinary rOSOUfSOt
of government.
That MM Uttsd Settee shoultf havs
the right to intervene at any time to
preserw Niearuguan independence, or
to protect life or property.
The administration, it is under?
stood, Withes the Nieagrauan treaty
matter settled as soon as possible in
line with its general policy to clear up
the foreign situation, and Senator
Shively of Indiana, acting chairman
of the foreign relations committee
who has conferred with President
Wilson, expects the committee to
take the treaty up this week and to
keep it under consideration until a
report can be made to the senate.
In the senate during the week the
lobby invstigating committee plans
to resume its examination of Clarence
W. DeKnight with regard to charges
of lobbying in the interest of in?
creased pay bills for army and navy
officers and other legislative matters.
Appropriation bills also will be taken
up in both branches, the h use plan?
ning to take up the naval appropria?
tion bill over which will occur a
spirited contest between the socalled
"big navy" and "little navy" adher?
ents.
TO AID JAPANESE BAND.
Will Help 1 "ansage or Distressed Asi?
atics.
Washington, March 12.?Secretary
Bryan has promised the Japanese am?
bassador, Viscount Chiudu to obtain
permission for the passage of about
150 Japanese through American ter?
ritory from El Paso, Texas, to Calex
ico, on the extreme northwest corner
of the Mexican State of Sonora. The
Japanese, reduced to an extremity by
luck of work owing to military op?
erations in Mexico, will seek employ?
ment as cotton pickers on the west
coast. The umbassador made it plain
no colonisation scheme was involved.
Consular reports today gaNe warn?
ing of a threatened general engage?
ment near Torreon, where small pre?
liminary skirmishes ulready have
taken place. On the gulf coast the
threatened battle near Tampico has
not materialised. Admiral Howard
reported today that all was quiet at
Mazatlan, as well as Guaymas and
Topolobampo.
The W. S. Benton commission still
remains in statu quo at El Paso, ap?
parently waiting results from the
commission named by Gen. Carranza.
Tho war department is watching
with much interest the outcome of
efforts of Mexican military prieoners
near Fort Dllss to get their liberty
through habeas corpus writs and Gen.
Scott Is fully sustalne ' in his de?
termination to resist these efforts as
far as he legally can.
The department late today decided
to abandon the plan to send the
Seventeenth infantry by transport
from Savannah to Galveston, and in?
stead the regiment will entrain from
Fort McPherson and make tho trip
by rail to the Mexican border.
AIDED IN TOLLS EIGHT.
Million ( < pie* of Pampldet Printed
Vrging Ropoal of Tolls Exemption.
Washington. March 13.?How the
Carnegie endowment for international
peace has aided In the fight for repeal
of Panama tolls exemptions was re?
vealed today before the senate lobby
committee. Dr. Ja? Brown Scott, sec?
retary and a member of the board ol
directors of the endowment, appear?
ing under subpoena, told the commit?
tee that more than $30,000 had been
appropriated for "circulation of Pan?
ama canal literature."
Detailing tho endowment's efforts,
Dr. Scott said a million copies of u
pamphlet urging repeal of the exemp?
tion clause, and signed by Virtually
the entire directorate, had been sent
throughout the country and 700,
000 copies of Senator Boot's speech in
the senate urging the repeal had been
mailed under the senate's frank.
INSPECTION SHOWS IMPROVE?
MENT.
Adjutant General Finds Evidences j
of Progress In Militia?Columbia
OsjBJSjpgasttl Tueiduy.
Columbia. March 15.?"I find some
improvement in the condition of the
rnajorltv of the companies Inspected*"
Said Adjt. Gen. Moore, who returned
'<? Columbia yestervlay. after inspect?
ing the companies of the National
Quard of Mouth Carolina at Barnwetli
F.lloree. <\.nway, Darlington, Bcn
nettavtlle and CTaeraw,
Mondo) and Tuesday Oen. Moore
??'el Col. I? C, Shanks. U. S. A., will
Inepset Companies it and C, second
Infantry, in Columbia.
Companies si Liberty Hill. Lances?
ter and Woodruff will el SO t?e inspc t
ed next week.
BRYAN ORDERS INVESTIGATION.
Will gpare no Effort to Apprehend
PonUli Murderer^ of PlTtSnsstfir
Washington, March II An Imme?
diate investlKat ion of the monier ol
Fiank Johnson, postmaster at T<
? Me. Cel., by a band of Mealeans
Saturday was ordered by Secretary -t
stat.- Bryan lodaj He will use every
effort to naVS 'to- murderers punish?
ed.
rWU TO CELEBRATE.
QAlCB COCK LODGE TO onSKRVK
ITS TWKNTY-FTFTH ANXI
VKHSARY.
Golden Jubilee of Order To Be Cete-I
htm ted at Same Tlmo?Many High
Pythian Officer* From Loral Lodge
?Largest In Membership in State.
Gamecock Lodge NO, 17, Knights
Of Pythias, of Sumter, will tonight,
celebrate its silver jubilee, or twenty
flfth anniversary in connection with
the exercises incidental to the cele?
bration of the golden jubilee or
fiftieth anniversary of tho great order
of Knights of Pythias of the world,
which will be fittingly celebrated at
the same time by nearly every Py?
thian lodge in the universe.
A special ritualistic service will be
held by order of the Supreme Chan?
cellor of the Knights of Pythias, and
Gamecock Lodge, will also put on a
few extra touches of local color for
the occasion.
Refreshments will be served after
the exercises. Past Chancellor Com?
mander, Hhrtwell M. Ayer, of Flor?
ence lodge, South Carolina, prominent
in Pythian circles and a popular Jol?
ly good fellow, will be over to give
h talk to local Knights. Brother
Ayer Is very much loved by all of his.
brother Knights who know him and
he will be given a royal welcome.
It is expected that Grand Chancel?
lor Commander of the Pythian Do?
main of South Carolina, George W.
Dick of Sumter, will honor the local
lodge by an official visit. District
Deputy Grand Chancellor, Bartow
Walsh, of Sumter, will also be pres?
ent.
Gamecock Lodge No. 17, of Sumter,
has had pythian h( ors bestowed up?
on it in great measure. Four grand
chai.iellor commanders of this State
were elected from the Sumter lodgo.
The late lamented, honored, and
much loved Altamont Moses, H.
Frank Wilson, und John M. Knight,
and the present distinguished and
popular Grand Chancellor Command?
er George Wr. Dick.
Donald J. Auld. Grand Keeper of
Records and Seal, lik* other three
distinguished Carolinians. was also
from Gamecock Lodge No. 17, of
Sumter. Hon. Altamont Moses and
H. F, Wilson were also Supreme Rep?
resentatives to the Supremo Lodge,
from South Carolina.
Sumter has had the honor of en?
tertaining the grand lodge threei
times, and two Grand Chancellors, D.
C. Howard, and H. Frank Wilson,
were elected in Sumter during the
grand lodge meetings.
Dr. George W. Dick was District
Deputy Second Chancellor Comman?
der.
Gov. D. C. Heyward was elected
and installed as Grand Chancellor at,
Sumter. The writer who has been a
member of Gamecock Lodge for
twenty years, .emembers well how
frightened "Brother Clinch" was the
night he was elected Grand Chancellor
and was called on for a speech. He
had never made a speech. He was
so scared that Dr. G. W. Dick, and
several other brothers had to threat?
en to put a blind bridle on him and
back him into the castle hall. Final?
ly he was pushed up to the Chan?
cellor Commander's desk and as he
was about to talk the electric lights
went out and "Old Brother Clinch"
won the happiest man in town at
that time. He has since developed
into ono of the smoothest hot air.
spell-binding, and eloquent speakers
of this old State. Ho has reflected
honor on Pythlanians and South Car?
olina, like all Of her Grand Chan?
cellors.
Gamecock Lodge of Sumter is the
largest, in point of membership, of
any Pythian lodge in South Carolina*
a.id has consistently held this lead
for many pears. The present mem
I trehip is said to be three hundred
and fifty. The lodge meets twice a
month. Many of the prominent men
Of Sumter and other counties of
South Carolina were and are members
of this lodge. The best, most public
spirited, and leading men of Bumter
County constitute its membership.
Brother C. C. Beck i? the present
Chancellor Commander.
It is hoped that Past Grand Chan?
cellor Commander M. L. Bonham, and
other distinguished out-of-town Phy
thlant will honor the local lodge by
their presence tonight, which will be
a memorable event In local Pythian
circlet.
ah visiting Knights who may he
In Sumter are cordially Invited to
attend the jubilee exen ises. Twenty
live years of unselfish usefulness with
reCOrdl Of hundreds of good deeds
performed by Ihe lodge will be cele?
brated, and ihe history ?d Pythlanitm
Will be told b\ those well qualified In
do so.
The local Knights are looking for
ward with very pleasant anticipation
to ., delightful evening. B. 1 It
Connecticut has one and a half mil
lion acres of timherland, mainly in
farmers' WooUlots
TRADE MARK
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Norfolk. Va,.
Sold cverywkert
BOYS' COHN CLUB MEETING.
Etirmun Beall Elected President of
Organization.
The Boya* Corn Club held its semi?
annual meeting at the court house
Saturday with thirty-two members
enrolled as a beginning for club work.
The annual election of officers result?
ed in the selection of the following
boys: President, Furman Beall; vice
president, Robert Durant; secretary,
Frank White.
It was determined to hold various
experiments in the contest this year
about which more will be stated la?
ter. It was determined to limit the
cost of stable manure and commer?
cial fertilizer which a member might
urA on his acre to twenty dollars,
thus Insuring the growth of a crop
with less cost to the producer.
Mr. J. Frank Williams, county dem
monstation agent who is at the head
of the corn club work, announced to
the boys that the chief prizes this year
were to be two four weeks' scholar?
ships to Clemson College, where the
young farmers might learn much
about agriculture and stock raising
and other matters of importance to a
farmer.
ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
Strange Disease Follows on Hoels of
Smullpox.
Douglas, Ariz., March 14.?A
strange disease, resembling cholera in
the speedy death of its victims, is re?
ported at Jecori, Chihuahua, a dis?
trict just freed from an epidemic of
smallpox. Persons arriving here from
territory adjacent to Chihuahua said
that recently a collection was taken
up In the city of Bacanora, Sonora, to
purchase medicine for residents ol
the affected area.
POSTMASTER TOOK MONEY.
Negro Appears Before United States
Commissioner.
Olangeburg, March 14.?Porler W.
Anderson, a negro, former postmaster
at PrloleaUi was brought before
United States Commissioner J, Lcroy
Dukes, this city, today for a prelim?
inary hearing on a charge of convert?
ing moneys from the money order de?
partment to his own use. The charge
was made by Postoftlce Inspector W.
ES. Willlmon, who checked up Ander?
son's hooka and found them short In
amount of $i?ot>.7t. Anderson refund?
ed the shortage yesterday, after he
v. ,im arrested,
Anderson confessed to the charge
of appropriating funds to his own use.
in default of bond, Anderson v*its
committed to jail t., await trial at the
United states district court.
Prloleau postofhee is situated in a
negro settlement of Berkeley county
$48.15
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