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EXTRA session l,ooki\<; iok WARR to ici l.ii.i' or ( (rii(?x WiCM of STATE. Many nill* for Reduction of \crogsje li-lnMliKcd?\|><> rinn to I'uss n Warehouse Measure?Left over RHU from 1-n-t Session will not -Im? Tak? en up? Holser and K|?|*s introduce Resolution und Rill fur Cotton Re? duction. Columbia. Oct. ?.?The extraordi? nary aeaaion of the general assembly met today responsive to the call of Oov. Rleuse. It Is evident that the purpose Is to consider only such legislation as Is Imperative or Is related to the pres? ent exceptional conditions br< ught about by the European war. It was determined to clear the leg? islative decks of all left-over bills und start afresh with such bills as are re? lated to the present emergency. A motion to limit the pay of mem? bers to ten days was practically kilt? ed. A dosen hills were pres?nted, all re? lating to the reduction of ucreage, the extension of time for tho payment for the taxes due this fall, a proposition to extend the time for mortgages that muy be due, authority to borrow mon? ey with which to operate the State, a eommlsslon to confer with other cot ton-srowlng States nnd a warehouse bill. Mr Hummers proposed a bill looking to the reduction of the rate of Interest. Mr. Fortner has again proposed his hill relative to white teachers in con? nection with colored schools and a passenger rate reduction hill. The matter which today received mo*, attention was how tho general assembly should get to work and how best to frame one bill on such topics aa might be undertaken as would best stand the test of law and practicabil? ity. Mr. Welch, of Columbia, has a plan whereby it is proposed to havo a committee of fifteen consider all emer- i geney matters and frame such bills as may be thought best. This committee Is to invite farmers, bankers, manu- i fscturers, merchants and others Inter? ested, and after hearing expert opin? ions frame such hills as may be deem? ed best and wise. Messrs. Relsor and Epps had a slml- < Ur proposition only that this special , committee undertake to frame the best ; acreage reduction measure. Mr. Sturkle, of Calhoun, proposed , the formation of a special committee \ of twelve to consider all emergency j bills. , Mr. Welrh wanted a Joint commit? tee, while Mr. Sturkle's idea was to i refer all matters to a special house 1 committee. Nothing was dine with . any of these resolutions today. < Mr. James of Rlshopvllle, has pend- I ing a resolution looking to the State < securing from the federal govern? ment $25.?00,000 with which to handle ! the cotton crop. The plan in brief Is to pledge cotton against such a fund, proporly Insuring und holding the cotton and to sell the cotton and refui, , the loan when cotton reaches , It cents per pound. The special session was called to i consider tho sltuutlon brought about by the war and as affecting the people of the State. The bills proposed today and some of which will be published from duy to day In the News and Courier were as follows: fly Mr. Wye he: To authorise the borrowing of funds with which to op? erate the government Ry Mr. Wyche: To extend the time for the payment of taxes due in 1914. Ry Mr. Wyche: To authorize tho appointment of a commission to con? fer with other cotton-growing States. Ry Mr. Wyche: To provide for the reduction of cotton acreage. R\ Mr. Wyche: To exempt certain taxpayers In York and I?uurens from the payment of taxes. By Mr. Kortner: To regulate the appointment of managers in primaries. Ry Mr. Kortner: To regulate and fix passenger rates In this Stute. Ry Mr. Kortner. To prohlldt the employment of white teachers for schools attended by colored pupils. Ry Mr Summers: To prohibit the foreclosure of certain mortgages and papers. Ry Mr Summers: To extend the time for the payment of taxes. I'.v Mr. Summers: To regulato the legal rate of Interest. Ry Mr. MsjQueen To regulate the acreage of cotton In thb; State. Ry Messrs. K|?|?s am Reiser: To regulate cotton acreage. Ry Mr. Mss/sssjsjsjll To provide for a warehouse system. An Will be noted most of these hills ?ae related. Several oi the number have been published In detail In the News mei Gssjrttr, After Clerk J, A Ib-yt had called the roll and the IsSSJSS was QfSjaa? Ired, Hpenker M. U Smith hoped the members would reaii/.e the seriousness and importance of the work in band, ami he hclle\eil they would The ma? chinery of the house was all r?-ol> lot work und it was Ids sincere hupt that the housv would do what it had to do and adjourn with the least pos iibli delay. (Applause.) 1? was Mr. McQueen win, ottered a resolution that the house consider OQly hills related to the present emer? gency. That would have gone through hut it had an appendix that members " ? cpt no pay. The objection to its immediate conside rution was quite prompt. Speaker Smith said that under the rules all bills continued from last ses? sion were pending and that this was good parliamentary law. Mr. Nichol? son moved that each and every bill left over ' be discharged," and this was dene thereby killing all pending meus uies, except those offered today. Mr. Reiser and Mr. McQueen tried to save last year's warehouse bill, but the house wunted a new measure if any. The house adopted a resolution that it would go into the election of the successors of the late Judge Ernest Gary and Jonathun J. Lucas, as mem? bers of the Citadel board on Thurs? day next. The senate has to agree to this resolution before there can be any elections. Many of the commit? tees were called to meet this after? noon and start actual work, as there appears to be a keen desire to get through with what is to be done and go honte. The acreage reduction and .vare heuse meusures will be the serious propositions considered. Concurrent Resolution. Mr. Robert H. Welch presented this concurrent resolution, looking to tho better handling of the pending bills: Resolved, by the house of repre scnatlvoB, the senate concurring: (1) That a Joint committee, to con? sist of fifteen, nine of which shall be appointed by the speaker of the house and s>x by the president of the sen? ate, is hereby created, the same to be known as the emergency joint legisla? tive committee of the special session of the general assembly of 1914. (2) That said committee, when so appointed, shall promptly organize and proceed with the consideration of the matter herein referred to it. The committee is authorized to employ a stenographer and such other clerical help as it may deem necessary to elTi rdently carry on its work. (3) That the duties of said com? mittee arc to study carefully the pmergency situation now confronting our people and to report to the house *nd senute by bill or otherwise as it deems advisable, what, if anything, can bo done by the special session of the general assembly towards afford? ing relief to oui people in the present .mil unusual emergency now upon us. (4) That the speaker of tho house and the president of the senate are hereby directed to refer all bills and ; Joint resolutions that may be Intro- ; Jucod In either the house or the sen? ute relative to this emergency to this committee. (5) That this committee is author? ized to sit during the sessions of the house and the senate. The commit? tee is directed to Invite to appear be? fore It such farmers, bankers, man? ufacturers and other persons as in its judgment may be of help and assist? ance to the committee and the gen? eral assembly In suggesting such leg? islation as will be best suited to the needs of our people under existing cir? cumstances and conditions. (6) That the expenses of this com? mittee shall be paid equally by the house und the senate out of the con? tingents funds of each. Holser s Acreage Bill. The text of Mr. Reiser's cotton acre? age bill presented today reads: Whereas, a great European war has reduced the consumption of cotton nearly one-half, and the cotton pro? ducers of this State have on hand sev? eral hundred thousand bales for which they can lind no market, except at prices far bei >w the cost of produc? tion, and this condition Is bringing about poverty, want end suffering among our people, and, Whereas, it is cvldeni that the pro? duction of a full or n >nnal crop of COttMl during the year 1915 will ag? gravate this condition Of poverty, want and suffering among our people, and, Whereas .a material reduction in the acreage planted to cotton and the planting of said acreage to grain j and food crops will greatly relieve this condition, now therefore, in the exercise of t \e police power of this State, he It enacted by tin- general assembly ot the State of South Caro? lina: I 1. That all persons operating farms directly Of through agents, ami their overseer*, share-cropp t?ra <>r other agents, are hereby prohibited from planting In cotton during the yea* 1911 exeeedlng one-third of the total acreage actually planted and cultivat? ed o\ such person during the year cur., ami the planting of each acre In excess of the sali one-third SO planted i* hereby declared to be against public policy and illegal, and th. planting <?f each acre of said ex? cess shall constitute a separate of? fence ami he pnunlshed ns horelnnfter provided; provided that In no cano h ill an) p- i sou plant in excess of nine acres pel ?ach regular plough animal worked In his farm opera? tion* in said year, 9, That all peraoni guilty of the violation of Section 1 of this Act shall, upon conviction, In' punished by a line of not leas than $jr> nor more than $100, or he iinprisoned for not less than ten nor more than twenty days for each offence. That all sheriffs, deputies, ru? ral policemen, magistrates and con? stables shall he charged wtih the duty of inspec tion and in all practicable ways aiding in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. 4. It shall he the duty of the auditor of each county to require of each person making tax returns a statement, under oath, of the total acreage to he farmed or cultivated by him in the year 1915, and of the acreage which he is going to plant in cotton in the said year, the said statement to he duly entered upon said return, and it shall he the duty of the township hoards of assessors to care? fully pass upon and verify said re? turns. 5. This Act shall go into effect im? mediately upon its approval. SIIOILD ItAISE UVB STOCK. President Harrison of Smith Points out Change Which War Will Require. Washington, Oct. 8.?"There is a silver lining to the cloud which hangs over the market for cotton and cot? ton-seed products," said President Harrison of Southern Railway com? pany today. "One of the great ad? vantages of the South for the produc? tion of beef and for the dailry industry Is in the use of cotton-seed meal nnd hulls ns parts of a balanced ration for dairy cows and for fattening cat? tle for market. Under normal condi? tions a very large proportion of the cotton-seed meal and hulls produced In the South Is exported?Germany, lielglum and Holland being particul? arly large users of these products. The war in Europe will greatly dimin? ish exports to these countries and as result prices of both m^nl and hulls are now abnormally low. "This condition offers the Southern farmer an opportunity to recoup him? self for some part of his loss due to the low prices paid for cotton and cot? ton-seed. By feeding meal and hulls in proper proportion with other feeds to dairy and beef cattle, he can secure a direct profit from these cattle and at the same time have a supply of man? ure for building up the productivity of his farm. "It has long been apparent that the weakest point In agriculture in the cotton belt has been the neglect of live stock. The farmers of that region have an unusual opportunity. If they are to make the most of it, as long as present conditions continue, there should be no shipments of cattle from the cotton belt of the South to other localities either for feeding or for dairy purposes and many farmers may find it profitable to buy beef or dairy cattle in other parts of the United States." COMET NOW VISIBLE. And the Planet Venus Can be Scon In the Day Time. The Charleston News and Courier says: Delivan'l comet, discovered in 1913, is now visible In Charleston in the early morning. It's tail is dis? tinctly visible to the naked eye. The celestial wanderer can be observed In the northeatsern heavens If the weath? er be clear, between 3 o'clock and dawn. It is visible over the whole of the northern hemisphere and a portion of the southern. It is bright enough to be seen though the moon be shin? ing. This comet has been observed off and on since its discovery. At times it was too close t?? the sun for obser? vation, hut It Is plainly visible now. The comet that , was discovered Friday at ('ape Town is now visible to the naked eye in the southern hemis? phere. At present it is too far south to be seen in this latitude. It Is be? lieved that before long this comet will he visible in this part of the world. According to an interested obser Ver, Pelivun'i comet is most easily ob? served about 4 o'clock In the morning. Its tall cannot be mistaken it is said. A large number of amateur astrono? mers, who have heard of the comet, have been Utilising alarm clocks and | other devices to arouse themselves in i ; the early morning and report that the y have been well repaid for their trou? ble, in this connection it may he weil to note that the planet Venus is vis? ible to the naked eye any time after i noon on a clear daw At :i o'clock when it is utmost due smith, it is very easy I of observation. Of course it Is plainly I visible in the western Sky until ahmt K.3Q o'clock. HVA KITAIiV To HAOShALK Washington, l ?ct. I. Mr. 10, \V. Mulllns, of Marlon, bus succeeded Mr. \ ii Williams, of I*nke Pity, as prl vote seeretary <<? Congressman .1 W. Itfinadule, Mr. Williams hud to give Up tin* work in Mr. Itagsdale's i if flee in onh r io resume the study of law jut Ooorgetown University, where he Ibas ulreudy completed two ..i the I prescribed Ihres years' course. DUTY OF A CIOOD NU1UUBOIU Rigid Quarantine n Moral obligation In the Case or Contagious HltfJMPi Bvvry family, which has a member ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, or other COntagioui disease, is entitled to the sympathy and intelligent help of the community. At the same time, the stricken family should realize ful? ly that simple good citizenship calls upon its members to do everything in their power to prevent the spread of the contagion to neighbors. In the country Specially, where there are sel? dom health officers to impose rigid quarantines, the duty of keeping the sick separated from the well falls with peculiar weight on the afflicted family. Ordinary neighborliness de? mands that such a family keep its members away from others and pre? vent outsiders from coming in contact with the infection. On a farm producing and selling milk, a contagious disease such as typhoid or scarlet fever demands spe? cial precautions. A very few germs of these diseases allowed to get into tho milk may multiply rapidly and be a source of disease in many fandlies on the milk route served by the farm? er. In the case of typhoid, the disease may come from germs in the well water, and this water if used unboiled for cleansing milk bottles or cans may very well s.art a typhoid epidemic In a neighboring town. Inspectors have frequently traced outbreaks of scarlet fever and typhoid along a milk route and back to a sick person on the pro? ducer's farm. It is the duty of every milk farmer to see that no one who is suffering from fever of any kind ever enters the dairy. Moreover, no one engaged In nursing the sick should ever be allow? ed to go near milk. Those who handle the milk on such farms, even though they never have been near the person who is sick, should take spe? cial precautions. Before entering the milk room they should put on a clean' cap and a clean duster, which are never allowed to go into the house, i In cases of typhoid or suspected ty- i phoid all water used in cleansing milk vessels should first be boiled. Final? ly, even with all these precautions, wherever tyhoid or scarlet fever Is even suspected in a family, the milk should be thoroughly pasteurized be- i fore being sold. The milk producer who takes these precautions establishes his good cltl- | zenship. The one who handles milk | carelessly with sickness in his familly Is, though he may not realize it, a | possible enemy to his customers. i Such precautions are doubly necos- . sary where the owner of the farm is | the sufferer, because the milk is apt to he handled carelessly for lack of | his supervision. Inspectors recently < following up a case of bad milk found \ the owner of the farm sick with a | had case of typhoid fever. He gave , his illnss as a reason for his not being x prosecuted, because the low quality of t the milk was due directly to its hand? ling by inexperienced persons. Inves- | tigation proved that the farmer's 111- , noNs was one of a succession of cases \ of typhoid that had occurred on this , farm. The probability, therefore, was t that the milk being sent out before the farmer was sick was dangerously , contaminated, while, of course, the j risk after illness had withdrawn his , attention was vastly increased. | In many cases where an outbreak , of typhoid has been traced back to a dairy the owner was not deliberately , careless. Typhoid fever is not al- , ways readily recognised as such, and , not uncommonly passes simply as a fever or bowel complaint. For this reason every case of fever on a dairy fan.l should be regarded with sus? picion and lead to very careful handl- , ing of the milk. Members of households In which there are contagious or suspicious ill? ness also have an important part to play In keeping the milk supply clean. They should never return emptly milk bottles Without first boiling them, and any family which takes a public milk bottle into a room where there is a contagious disease is really a party to a serious offense against public health. A milk dealer who learns of a case of sickness In a family should keep the lottles from that Ionise sep? arated Horn the othefs and make cer? tain that they are very carefully steri? lized before they are again used for milk. Even where there is no sickness on a farm, the dairy farmer should use every effort to produce a high grade, eleun milk from healthy cows. Steri? lization of bottles and other milk ves? sels is essential. American Private Shot by Mexican. Xaco, Arts., net. 0. Private LeKoy r trad ford of the United States cavalry, was shot through the ?best today by t'arranxit troops across the bonier. Ilrndford was on duty on the Ameri? can side, making observations. The <tuinter Cotton Warehouse Com? pany has tilled the warehouse, tobac? co warehouse and Is now increasing the amount of cotton placed on the j cotton platform. The Bank of South Carolina THE FARMERS* BANK (Si TRUST CO. CAPITAL - - - $200,000.00 SURPLUS - - - $150,000.00 Interest at 4 per cent compounded quarterly in Sav? ings Dept. 5 per cent on time certificates of deposit. SUCCESSOR. TO WE SOLICIT YOUR ACCOUNT MESSAGE CONCERNING MES? SAGE. Governor Blease Sends Special Mes? sage to Senate Concerning Handling of Former Communication. Columbia, Oct. 7.?The governor did not like the way in which the lo? cal morning paper headlined the story of his message to the legislature yes? terday, and he told the senate so this morning through a special message. Only part of the message was read in the senate yesterday by Reading Clerk Stokes, who said Stenographer Black? burn, of the governor's office, had marked the passages which he could read and marked out the ones to skip. Mr. Stokes having gone down to the governor's office before the senate met to get a copy of the message. The understanding in the senate yesterday was that only that part of the governor's message read was to be printed and the Journal came out this morning with the expurgated edi? tion. But the chief executive did not like it, as his following message shows: "State of South Carolina, "Executive Chamber. "Message No. 3. "Gentlemen of the Senate: I sent to you two messages on yesterday, and stated then that I did not propose to lend any other messages or make any further suggestions to this session of the legislature, but that 1 was going to leave to their good judgment the passage of such laws as they thought would relieve the present condition of jur people. "This morning, upon picking up the Columbia State, I find in big head ines: "Chief Executive for Stay Law? Sende Plethoric Message to House, Expurgated Edition to Senate," and hen in referring to the message, this newspaper says: 'In other words, the lenate received an expurgated and the louse an unexpurgated edition.* "I cannot allow this to pass. I sent :o each house identically the same -opy, printed at that, and each copy vas in full and each copy just exact y alike, and how this newspaper, or inybody else could make that kind of abatement I am at a loss to under? hand. "I enclose you affidavits from my private secretary, who prepared the ?opies of the message for delivery to he general assembly, and from my rtenographer, who delivered the copy 0 the senate. "To prove, furthermore, that I had io desire to conceal anything I had he document printed, and have al? ready mailed out numbers of copies 'rom the governor's office, printed in 'ull. "It does seem to me that there mould be an end to this misrepresen? tation of myself by a hostile press, and really, if the majority of your body were my friends, I would ask for an investigation, but as I know the ma? jority of you possibly would smile and be pleased at the misrepresentation, 1 dmply call your attention to it in this manner. "Very respectfully, "Cole L. Blease, Gvernor. "Columbia, S. C, Oct. 7, 1914." W. S. Stokes, reading clerk of the senate, made the following statement, which was ordered printed in the Jour? nal: "Before the beginning of the session of the senate I went down to the gov? ernor's office, as I usually do, to get a copy of the governor's message that 1 might look It over before the senate convened Mr. Blackburn, the gov? ernor's stenographer, went Into the governor's private office and returning took a printed copy of the message from the case and said he could fix it. and proceeded to put together most of the pages and to draw a heavy, black pencil across the parts which could not be padded, and handing it to me said: 'Wihen the governor's message is sent up just put it on your desk and read this copy.' 1 did as requested and read only those parts left un? marked. ? \V. s. stokes, Reading Clerk." The senate ordered the full mes? sage printed. Marriage License Record. A license to marry has been Issued to Mr. W. Clarence Newman and Miss Annie I.ou Newman of Sumtsr A license was also issued to Binckney Thompson and Rebecca Snipes of ttumter. prospects for a big increase ix yield. Yield of Tobacco Crop Looks to Be 92,000,000 Above that Expected in September?Estimates of Other Crops. Washington, Oct. 7.?Greater corn crop prospects by 78,000,000 bushels ind great improvement in tobacco, in? creasing the prospects of that crop over the forecast in September by 92, 000,000 pounds, were features of the department of agriculture's October crop report announced today. An increase of 11,000,000 bushels in the potato erop, 21,000,000 bushels in the oats crop and 10,000,000 buhels in the applie erop also were forecast. Spring wheat showed a slight de? crease, being 4,000,000 bushels under the September forecast, yet the com? bined crop of winter and spring wheat makes this year's harvest of that grain a record one. The condition of corn and the fore east of production by States follows: States. Condition. Production. Virginia.74 43,500,000 North CaroMna . .. 86 64,600,000 Georgia.82 68,800,000 Kentucky.77 96,100,000 Tennessee .., .. ..78 81,000,000 Alabama.79 62,100,000 Mississippi.75 65,300,000 Louisiana.75 38,500,000 Texas.66 125,600,000 Oklahoma.42 65,600.000 Arkansas...65 42,200,000 The total production of each crop as forecast on October 1, compared with the forecast made on September 1 will show the change in prospects during the month, and production fig? ures, of last year's crop and the aver? age for the five years from 1909 to 1912 are given for comparison (all fig? ures in millions of bushels, 1. e., 000, 000's omitted, follow: Crop- II Is - \I m O q, o T g % fa 't fa o> -r <i O W r-t fa Winter wheat . *675 675 523 441 Spring wheat .*217 221 240 245 All wheat.. . .*892 896 763 686 Corn.2,676 2,598 2,447 2,708 Oats.?1,137 1,116 1,122 1,181' Barley. . .. *197 200 178 182^ Rye. *43 43 41 36 Buckwheat. 17 17 14 17 W. potatoes . . 382 371 332 357 S. potatoes. . . 55 55 59 68 Tobacco (libs) 954 862 954 996 Flag. 17 15 18 20 Rice. 24 24 26 24 Hay (tons) . . *69 69 64 69 Apples. 230 220 145 17$ NO more race meets. I n ess Held Before Blease Goes out of Office. The Greenville Piedmont says: a dispatch narrating the efforts of Santos Sotille of Charleston to get the Jockey Club to sanction a racing meet in Charleston in Novem? ber and December, while Blease is still governor, quotes him as saying the, same attorney general has been elect? ed. Yes, but Tom Peeples, while he may not be able to set the congress on lire, is not quite a fool. He can read Um signs of the times as expressed in the death of Blease and Richards. The very proposition to hold the meet this year. Instead of in January and Feb ruary as usual is proof that those put? ting it on know it needs protection form officers who will wink at law vio? lations. We have an idea that Peeples will be rather a different attorney general in Manning's ad dnistration from what he has been with Blease an governor. We believe racing in Char? leston is doomed. If not held before Blease goes out of office, it will cer? tainly not bo held while Manning h| governor. And with such a gover-j nor ami the kind of men who will ? ei moose the legislature, Peeples would be very rash if he attempted to use his office in behalf of the race track gamblers. Peeples is a Noting man with his future Hhead of him. We do not believe he wilt deliberately wi e? k it. L?rick & Lowrance (INCORPORATED) Seedman Columbia, - South Carolina