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UNION OP Po HC ks FORMED AT 8PARTANUIRO. Headquarters Committee and Anil Ha loon League Consider Ways hihI Means for Action?To Work To? gether. Spartanburg. Dec. 21.?There was a union of forces of tho advocates of the State-wide prohibition here to? night and the result Is a solid fi it with harmony throughout, accorulng to a statement given out after a lengthy conference between members of the headquarters committee of tbe Antl-saloon lague and a delegation of the league. The eonference brought agreement among tUe prohibitionists where unti. today there had been dif? ferences ai d disagreement as to the best met> od of procedure. There were those who held that the ap? proaching session of the legislature should be urged to pass a State-wide bill without referring it to the people, while others advocated submitting the question to the people of the Stao. For weeks two wings of the league have been working v.lth a common end in view but with different Ideas as to how It should bo realized. This state of affairs brought many of the leaders In the cause, on a hurry trip to 8partanburg this afternoon to con? fer with Rev. J. I.. Hariey, superin? tendent of tbe league, and members of the headquarters committee. As a result of this meeting a mo? tion was made by the Rev. J. L. Har? iey that a committee of ten bo ap? pointed, composed of five members from the headquarters committee of the Antl-saloon league and five others to meet In Columbia coincident with the assembly of th legislature to press the passage of a State-wide pro? hibition law to be ratlHed In a State election, the election to be held dur? ing the year 19IS, and tbat tho head? quarters committee of the Anti sa? loon league be requested to have the bill drafted and in readiness to be presented to the legislature. In the meantime petitions be circulated throughout the State. It was agreed by the conference that the Rev. J. L. Hsrley and Dr. C. E. Burts serve as ex-offlclo mem? bers, in addition to the ten. The five members from the Anti-saloon league, it was agreed, were to be ap? pointed by Mr. Hariey, the other five by Dr. Burts. Mr. Hariey named the following: C. P. Hammond. A. M. Du Pre. the Rev. C. C. Herbert, W. H. Crews, Dr. J. 8. Watklns, all of Spar? tanburg. Dr. Burts named the fol? lowing: D. W. Robinson. Columbia; J. Praser Lyon. Columbia; J. L. Mlms. Bdgefield; Dr. B. O. Quattlebaum. Columbia; P. H. Hyatt, Columbia. All the members of this committee were present. On motion of Dr. Burts Prof. A. M. Du Pre. who is chairman of the headquarters committee of the Anti saloon league, was chosen chairman of this committee of ten. ENGLAND INTERESTED IN CHARGES. Addresses Note of Inquiry In Howard to (ioct hals' Course In Canal Zone. Washington. Dec. 21.?Oreat lirlt a'n has addressed a note of Inquiry to the State department in regard to charges which that government al? leges Col. Ooethals had admitted were baseless against the conduct of cer? tain British colliers In the waters of the canal sone. Tbe communication implied thai the British sl.lp captains were sharply treatod. So far Secretary Daniels has not learned Just what led to tho recent . dismantlement of the radio appur.it us on a British collier at Panama, even the name of the ship being unknown. He has ordered a full report, whleh will be laid before tho Stato depart? ment. Naval experts suggested today that radio messages sent by British war? ships In the Carrlbean directly across the isthmus to other British naval ves? sels In the Pacific might have been attributed by the operators In tbe naval wireless tower on tbe Isthmus to British colliers lying In ggggU waters. OLYMPIA HAIIjS PK Hill WHY 15. Dcwey's Former KlagOilp to PseiUc KspoMitlon by Paiuimu Canal. Charleston. Dec. 22.?Instructions were received today at tbe < 'hurleston navy yard to the effect that the cruis? er Olympia, formerly tbe flagship < f Admiral Dewey, Is ready to hall for tho Panama-Paelfle ef position \ la ths Psnama canal, on February IS. The Olympia goes baea Into full commission on January - n?>xt. ^b? has been at the Charleston na\y \ar I since 1912, during th.- J.isi fJSf ?! which period she has been in or.li nary. The oivmpla will take her turn In the local dry dock, as soon as the de? stroyer Worden, and th?- naval tu? Waben, whleh are at present In th?? basin, are undocked. The des!rover and tug will be taken nut Itsfjl week WAREHOUSE BILL PASSES. MOM aoopts LKtfJt'l cot T?X MLASt HK. Author of Pinn Says He Is Convinced of Its t.oocI l'lffectM for Farmers. Washington. Dec. 21.?The Lever cotton warehouse bill, before the house for months, was passed today, 218 to 97. The measure provides for federal licensing of cotton and grain warehouses and is a substitute or a senate bill restricted to cotton ware? houses. Tho bill now goes to con erence. The bill, approved by the adminis? tration, was the subject of brief de? bate, its sponsors contending that It would greatly enhance confidence in agricultural products. Its opponents claimed It was unconstitutional. "The bill," said Representative Lever," will result in the establish? ment of uniform warehouses and uni? form warehouse receipts for agricul? tural products throughout the coun? try. It will give a certainty and value to warehouso receipts which will make llould tho evidence of owner? ship of agricultural products. It will enhance the value of warehouse re? ceipts as collateral on which loans may M sought by producers. It will give greater negotiability to agricul? ture l receipts for agricultural prod? ucts. "Tho measure will bring together more closely agricultural products and banking capital. It will result in larger storage facilities for agri? cultural products and will serve ?s an incentive to farmers to store their products and thereby stive millions of dollars of weather loss each year. It will furnish to tho farmer for the first time in this country the machinery through which he not only may know tho class or grade of his products, but its commercial value. It will put him in a position to market his crops when the demand is strongest and the prico highest. It is a farmers' jblll and a most far-reaching forward step in our cumbersome system of marketing." The bill la not compulsory in any way. Main provisions affecting cotton proposed by the bill are: It provides for classification of cot? ton and licensing of cotton ware? houses. It bonds owners and operators of warehouses and gives the right of recovery upon the bond to the owner of cotton stored. It licenses graders or classifiers of cotton. It provides that licensed warehouses shall issue receipts describing the bales stored, the receipts to be as? signable when desired. It provides for maintenance of ac? curate records of cotton stored, the receipts issued, the right of the secre? tary of agriculture to examine rec? ords and requires reports from opera? tors to the socretary. It authorizes the secretary to deter? mine whether cotton stored In ware? houses actually Is of the grade or class certified in the recoipt and to publish his findings. It empowers the secretary to sus? pend or revoke licenses and to pub? lish not only that fact but the result of investigations made. AUOVT SKVKN MILLS. Comptroller Generals Talks of Next Levy of Taxes. Columbia, Dec. 21.?"It Will take around 7 mills to meet the expenses and the deflcicnces of the State gov? ernment," said A. W. Jones, comp? troller general, yesterday in discuss? ing tho finances of tho State. "I can't tell Just exactly the amount as yet that will be required for the government next year." Tho claims committee several days ago approved claims amounting to more than $200,000. The report by this committee is to be filed with the ways and means committee of tho house. Included In this amount was a claim for $190.000 presented by tho sinking fund commission. The comptroller general will not recommend a sweeping change in the tax saWS. He will ask that a tax Com? mission he created to study the South Carolina tax system and make recom? mendations for changes. TALKS WITH GREGORY. President Confers on Contested Ap? pointments. Washington, Dec. 21.- Kfforts tO I straighten out differences between President Wilson and Democratic members of the senate oxer f?deral appointments continued tonight at n conference between the ptesldent and Attorney Qsnwal Gregory, contested Appointment hum under Mr. Grog? ory's jurisdiction and he was consult? ed by the president as to the legal standing of men gtYOl recess appoint? ments and later rejected by the sen? gte, Mr. Gregory declined to say what conclusion had been reached at the conference. TO AIP CHARLESTON. how T1LUCAM secured cloth? ING FACTORY exten? sion. Secretary of Navy Has Looked Witli Favor Upon Factory at Navy Yard From Start. Washington, Dec. 20.?Senator Till man, who is greatly interested in the success of the clothing factory at the Charleston Navy Yard expresses par? ticular personal satisfaction over the fact that the whole of Building No. 13 will be devoted to that work in the future, as announced in The News and Courrier recently. Back of the brief announcement involving the expenditure of $4,000 [for a shed to give the general store ( keeper space to offset that which has , heretofore been allotted to him in (Building No. 13, there is an interest ; lng little drama whose actors include I several of the most distinguished of? ficials of the federal government, j When Senator Tillman wants a thing done, he wants it done quickly. If it can be done today, he does not I like to wait until tomorrow; and to [suggest waiting a year makes him i really furious. The plan proposed by Admiral Ed? wards for the extension of the cloth? ing factory would have required the construction of a new spur of rail? road track, and tho $5,000 which this would have cost would have required a new appropriation by congress, Sen? ator Tillman said. That would have meant a delay of more than six months, at the least. Senator Tillman preferred a plan suggested by Hear Admiral Stanford, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, whereby practically the same results could be secured by the con? struction of a shed to be paid for jout of funds already on hand, if the secretary of tho navy approved. Bo the senator called in Paymaster Gen? eral McGowan, under whoso bureau of supplies and accounts the factory is conducted, and Secretary Daniels found himself visited at one time in behalf of the "short cut" by the chair? man of the senate committee on na? val affairs, the paymaster general of the navy, and the chief of the bureau of yards and docks. When this phalanx explained the situation to him. Mr. Daniels took tho same view and promptly signed the order necessary to clinch the decision. The J secretary has from tho start looked i with favoring eye on the clothing factory at Charleston and has always been glad to help it along in any way in his power. report MANY executions. Political Offenders are Being Thinned Out in Mexico. El Paso, Dec. 21.?Additional re? ports of executions of political offend? ers in the interior of Mexico reached tho border today. Persons arriving from Mexico said that sixteen men had been killed at the national capital in the last week. Reliable reports from Chihuahua City said that 140 persons had besn killed there in tho last month. Several days ago Gen. Villa's troops, it is said, took severul prominent prisoners to Chihuahua City from Mexico City. It is not known if they are numbered among the killed. Among them were Gen. Miguel Del* gado, a former rederal commander, land several other federal generals, 'Guillermo Terrazas, of tho rich Chi? huahua family of that name, and Castulo Baca, a rich resident of Par ral. Baca is reported as held for ransom, together with Luis Terrazas, Jr., who has been detained at Chihua? hua City several months. T. 1). Edwards, American consul at Juarez, was asked today to in? vestigate the detention at Juarez of Albert Gonzales, said to be an Amer? ican citizen. Gonzales was arrested on a charge of being n. spy. executed in mexico city. Member of Peace Convention Meets Death. San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 21.?Gen. Qullermo Aragon, a member of the Agues Caiientes Convention, and Col, David Berlanga, secretary of the mil? itary Chiefs' Convention, were execut? ed |n Mexico City December 8, ac? cording to advices reaching here to? day. It was reported that Berlanga had assailed tho actions of Guitorrez, Vil? la and other leaders at a meeting of the convention. Gen. Argon, it is said, was accused of complicity in a plot to destroy tele? graph and railroad lines in North Mexico to hamper the movements of Villa troops. Senator Weal Dead?Junior Kenn*or, Valdosta, da., Dec. 22.? United States Senat? r West died suddenly of heart disease at t o'clock this morn? ing. He was apparently In usual health last night. He "as (tiling the unexplred term of the late Senator Bacon by appointment of Qov. Slaton His term expires March Ith, next, PROHIBITION RESOLUTION LOST HOBSON MEASURE FAILS OF PAS SAGE BY SIXTY-ONE VOTES. Vote is 107 for and 18? Against Res? olution at Close of Hard Fought Buttle?Debate Lasted Ten Hours? South Carolina Congressmen Favor Bill. Washington, Dec. 22.?The Hobson lesolution to submit a constitutional amendment fur national prohibition to the State legislatures was defeated in the house tonight, 197 members voting for and 189 against it. All seven of South Carolina's con? gressional delegation voted for the the Hobson amendment to establish constitutional nation-wide prohibi? tion of the liquor traffic when the resolution came to a vote in the house yesterday. An affirmative vote of two-thirds was required to adopt the resolution. Party lines were wiped out in the struggle. Democratic Leader Under? wood and Republican Leader Mann fought shoulder to shoulder at the head of the forces opposing the res? olution. And when the vote came, of the 197 standing for the resolution 114 were Democrats, 69 were Re? publicans, 11 were Progressives and four were Progressive Republicans. Immediately after announcement of the vote the house adjourned, the j crowd that had packed the galleries j throughout the prolonged debate dis? persing with mingled expressions of regret and jubilation. Prohibition leaders declared the voto of 197 for the resolution had come up to their expectations. 'V/hether a similar resolution submit I ? jted by .Senator Shcppard of Texas j would reach a vote in the senate this session was not certain tonight. Administration leaders were in? clined to believe it would not because it could not pass the house. Notwithstanding repeated public as? sertions that many members of the house would try to dodge a record vote, the roll call disclosed a larger attendance than the average through? out the session. To have carried tho house the Hobson resolution would have required 258 affirmative votes. It thus failed to carry by 61 votes. The roll call came after more than ten hours of debate. It was at the conclusion of one of the most stirring of recent days in congress, and after votes on several amendments, that the final vote was reached. Represen? tative Hobson had closed the general debate, participated in by all the house leaders. Although advocates of the resolu? tion predicted it would receive a ma? jority vote, many of them, including Mr. Hobson, conceded that it would not reecive the two-thirds necessary for passage. Before the roll cdll began Repre senativo Hobson presented an amend? ment "to his resolution authorizing "congress and the States concurrent? ly" to enforce the prohibition provis? ion by "needful legislation." It was [adopted without division. An amend iment by Representative Adamson giving the States absolute control over legislation under the proposed prohibition amendment was voted down, 32 to 179. Representative Hobson made a Anal spectacular move. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "I wish to ask whether any member of this house who has a financial interest In the question now pending, who cans stock in distilleries or breweries, who owns a saloon or who has property leased to liquor interests, can under the rules vote on this question." The speaker explained that accord? ing to precedent if a merhber was af? fected as one of a class tho rule would not prevent his voting, but that the question usually was left to the mem? ber himself. The first indication of the lineup came on a roll call on an amend? ment offered by Republican Loader Mann which would have submitted tho amendment to State conventions instead of State legislatures as the I Hobson resolution prescribes. Two hundred and ten voted with Repre? sentative Hobson against the amend? ment and 170 voted for it After the defeat of the Mann amendment Representative Hobson offered several perfecting amend? ments The first altered the phrase jology of the first section of the pro? posed amendment and included a pro? hibition against any "exportation " of intoxicating liquors. It was adopted without a division. Another amendment presented by Representative Mann would have been un absolute prohibition <>f the 'manufacture, transportation. Impor? tation and sale of intoxicating liq? uors" for any purpose. '"If WO are to have prohibition." he said, "let us have prohibition that will prohibit." Tb?? amendment was defeated on n rising vote of 77 to 209, after B shap interchange between Representatives Mann and Hobson. An effort to secure a. record vote on the second Mann amendment was de? feated. Representative Morrison then of NOMINALLY A MONARCHY. BUT EGYPT HAS LONG BEEN VIR TUALLY UNDER BRITAIN. Present Khedive Regarded as An En? couraging: Patron of Enterprise Arising in London. New York Times. The announcement of a British Protectorate over Egypt hod been expected for some time. Owing to Great Britain's preponderant influence in the country there has been for years an augmenting party in Eng? land which believed that the Valley of the Nile should become a British Protectorate in order that the great public works of the country, designed and carried out chiefly by English? men, should be more secure. More? over, it was believed that the liberty ^and prosperity of the natives, which ?have gradually been expanded by the influence of British official initiative, would be better protected. Nominally Egypt was a monarchy, whose ruler, the Khedive, was the Vali, or Viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey, to whom the Khedive paid an annual tribute of $3,461,750. It is doubtful, however, if the Sultan has ever been able to collect a penny, jand in 1S73 the grant to Egypt of the right of negotiating treaties with foreign powers and of maintaining a standing army independent of that 'of Turkey made the country on pa? per, practically an independent nation. On paper also the representative of Great Britain was designated merely as "his Majesty's Agent and Consul Oeneral In Egypt." The German rep? resentative, however, is a Minister ? Plenipotentiary. For all practical purposes, however, ! Egypt since 1882 has been under the direct control of the British Foreign Office, with the modest "agent" ac? tually performing the duties of a British Viceroy. Prior to that date, and through a concession granted by the Khedive Ismail, the French had dug the Suez Canal and from 1879 to 1S83 had, with the English, con? trolled the national finances and exer? cised a considerable influence in the administration of political affairs. ' However successfully the canal might ; be operated as a commercial enter? prise, its possession cn the way to India was vital to Great Britain. She acquired the majority of stock in a : manner which has never been for? given in Berlin. Bismarck learned that the majority of stock owned by Ismail was for sale, and quietly sent an agent to Cairo to , make the purchase. This was in the I summer of 1874, and Disraeli was 'premier of England. Ho heard the (news at about the same time. He j could not openly ask Parliament for ! the credits to ;mak,e the purchase j without showing his hand to Bismarck ? and causing Ismail to put up his price. Through a secret agent and (with the funds of the Bank of Eng? land at his disposition he made the purchase before Ismail had time to consider Bismarck's offer. This epi jsode has been used In the play ["Disraeli" by Louis N. Parker. In 188 2 a rebellion against Khedive Mohammed Tewflk began and Eng? land invited Italy and France to join i her in subduing it. Both declined, and s England put down the rebellion with i some aid from the loyal Egyptians. The first important result w;as a de jCree issued by the reinstated Khedive by which the Franco-English control {of the finances was abolished and a j British financial adviser appointed, with ministerial powers. I From that time on British power in j Egypt has constantly increased, while following the letter of the convention ?of London of 1885, which set the {status of Egypt as an absolute mon? archy subject alone to the Sultan. Constantly, too, the British agent and I consul general has, under the direc? tion of the British foreign office, in jcreased the prestige of his country in the Valley of the Nile. Slave labor lias been abolished, the Assuan Dam built, the Mahdi annihiliated, the consultive legislative council turned into a rep? resentative legislature, the army re ! organized on the British standard, with its chief, the Sirdar, always a ! British officer, and a British garrison, j All these and many other things have been done, and form an Interest? ing record of achievement In the annual reports of the succeeding I British "agents" for the last SO years. And when, half a dozen years ago, the Sultan claimed part of the Sinai peninsula, east of ti e canal, it was I British and Egyptian troops which fought side by side to pin-serve that territory for Egypt. The greatest Englishmen who have been employed in the reconstruc? tion, of the country were the "agents" Lords Cromer and Kitchener, the let? tered bis substitute for the first sec? tion of the Hobson amendment, it prohibited Interstate commerce In in? toxicating liquors, a point of order against this amendment was over? ruled. On a rising vote it was defeated, 41 to 213. An effort to obtain a rec? ord vote failed. ter of whom, with the Khedive's Sir? dar In 1898, destroyed the Mahdi fa? natics of the Sudan, thereby render? ing Upper Egypt safe for civilization and the tourist. When the European war began the present Khedive, Abbas Hllml, was celebrating his fortieth birthday in Constantinople. He had been Khe? dive since 189 2 and was always re? garded as an encouraging patron of British enterprise in Egypt, a.though under the administration of Sir Eldon Gorst, Lord Kitchener's predecessor as British agent, he became some? what domineering and refractory. INVENTS NEW MISSILE. l oung Hammond IIa? Projectile That Will Discharge Molten Steel When it Strikes. Gloucester, Mass., Dec. 22.?A new type of projectile, which would scat I ter a white-hot mixture of molten steel over the object of attack, and at the same time permeate the at? mosphere with deadly pas which, would make it impossible for fire fighters to approach, has been invent? ed by John Hays Hammond, Jr., ac? cording to a statement made by tho inventor tonight. The naw missile may soon appear in the European war, as some of tho belligerent nations are now negotiat? ing for its purchase, he said. Tho United States government at present is conducting experiments with the new projectile at Sandy Hook, he add? ed. The missile is designed for use in siege guns as an aid in destroying towns and dirigible balloons. Mr. Hammond explained that the missile carries an alumino thermic mixture which, five seconds after the projectile is discharged, turns the steel inside to a white hot mixture at a temperature of 5,400 de? grees Fahr. When the projectile hits the target, tho inventor said, it explodes, its white-hot contents setting Are to whatever inflammable material it strikes. To avoid the possibility of anyone in the locality quenching the flames, Mr. Hammond said, he had equipped the projectile with a cham? ber filled with hydrocyanic acd, the fumes of which are deadly. NEWS NOTES FROM REMBERT. Blight Problem Solved by Rembert Farmers?Sunday School Chilstmas Tree. Rembert, Dec. 23.?Possibly with reduction in cotton acreage, with di? versified farming, which is thrust up? on us, will come the correction of blight. Speaking about that, there is little doubt in my mind that it may be cor? rected by a judicious use of surf wods litter with the rotten rr.ould. Right here in Sumter county on jthe outskirts of Dinkins peninsula, \ where so many good things happen or jare discovered, a citizen, who never I saw a college in his life, solved the blight problem to my satisfaction in the way I have indicated. Isaac Cato, Rembert, S. C, Route 3, is the man. He pretends to no great learning, and wears no frills or flounce:?, but is a plain hard working, big hearted man, as honest as the days are long. Mr. Williams, our demonstration nan, will do well to visit Mr. Cato, and make particular inquiry into his ac? complishment. Vermelbi Logan, daughter of Frank Logan, colored, was bitten by a mad cat tho other day. It would not have happened had the family allow? ed Frnak to shoot the cat when it began to act strangely. Miss Courtenay Atkinson, teaching at Gaston, S. C, is homo for the holi? days. Hoopoe! the season for big di.iners on the peninsula is at hand, and for tho next two weeks I will be on a strut. My how it taxes me! But I can't face "Colonel" Jackson, because he outclasses me, as an eater. I think ho is father to the expression that tho nearest way to a man's heart is down his throat. Theer is a lot of stealing going on here, potatoes, chickens, etc. And do you know certain long black and short "yaller" rascals are spotted for it. Some bright day when they are not thinking Julian Scale or another will drop down on them. And then what? Just let the law take its course. Folks are still planting small grain where able t<> buy. A lot of moving among tenants another year. That Christmas tree with exercises, mention of which has been made In your columns, comes off Wednesday night. 23rd, at 7.30 P. M.. at Bcthesda Methodist church. The public is in? vited. "Hagood." Pardon for Dead Man. Jackson. Dec. 22.?Gov. Brewer, of Mississippi recently pardoned Jim Johneon, a negro convict who had been dead eighteen years. He acted on a petition for the negro. The fact that the convict was dead was learned when an effort was made i ? serve papers for his release