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MAOOO-WILLIAMS ACCUSED. < HAIU.I I? \\ I I II AiTI MI'llM. i<? Witt i K WAslllM. loN HANK. tilgt? Natlouul llunk Take* out In? junction tgaln-i t.nxcrumcut Offi? cial* to I'm o ut Collection t?r Fines for l .111in- to Make Reports?Al? legation* of lomplulnl ami Hcpl>. Washington. April 12 -William 0 McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, and John Skelton Williams. comp? troller of the currency, were mad. defendant* today m pi "ggtetlings be? gun In the District of Columbia su? preme court by the Kiggs National bank of Washington, which alleged that these officials have combined ami ?Potain! u< \s pat I IM I'ank. Temporary and permanent Injunc? tions to halt the alb nsplracy and to prevent the comptroller from making what the bank (barges are unlawful demands for special reports of various kinds, are sought from the court. One portion of the prayer seeks to restrain John llurke, treasurer of the I'ntted States .from payment into the treasury of 16.000 declared to be due the bank as interest on $1.000.000 of United States bonds deposited with the comptroller against its note cir? culation. This Interest was withheld to cover penalties of $100 a day for the bank's failure to make certain re? ports i*ncs paid into the treasury, only an Ml of congress could get the $&.000' out and Justico HgCtg late today granted a temporary injunction on this phase of the case. Tile Justice set April 16 as the das for grswer by the defendants to show causa why permanent injunctions should not i The bank s bill of complaint con? tains 27 specific allegations designed to show that the comptroller had adopted unusual and legaly ques? tionable tactics In dealing with the In stltatlon. It recites that evidence of an unusual desire for information ggeV csrsing the bank was shown by Mr. Williams shortly after he asumed the office of comptroller more than a year ago, and has continued ever since. Prior to that time, in December. 1*13, It says. Mr. McAdoo charged officers of the hank with responsibility fw publications ' regarding the official ???T' et of thu duf>ndatiT Williams' as assistant a**.raiary of the Usaaury, Whi i thU charge way gagged, gejora? tsry StoAduO cursed Mi t. !?. l'i. - a president of the bank, snd ssid to C. C. (Hover. Its president: "Mr. (Hover, you know what this m?ans to the Klggs National bank0'' "Meaning thereby," the bill adds, "that from thut time on the power <>t the treasury department would be aggressively used for the ruination and destruction of the plaintiff h.mk la order to satisfy the personal mall* e and ill will of said defendants. Wil? liams and McAdoo. and shortly att i ward? the Buid defendants. Williams , and .McAdoo, began a series of perse? cutions against the plaintiff bank for the put pose of impairing or destroy? ing Its said business, thereby prosti? tuting their high public offices and violating tin If oaths in order tu Vent their personal vindb.tiveness against .he otlicers of the platntih" bank." A fan months later, the hill set | lorth, the j'l.tint iff bank was nidified by C. S. Ilumlin, now governor of the federal reserve hoard, but then assist - aal secretary of the treasury, in charge of the fiscal bureau .that Sec? retary McAdoo purposed to exclude the Kiggs from a share Of deposits to anvat tin- Dlatrlol of Columbia tai v. it hdrawals. which are divided nmg the national banks of the Dls Itrlct. Mr. MaAdaO later wrote to Mr. Olt/Var, Um complainant States, de? clining to explain why such action should be taken, and adding at the same time ins intention of withdraw? ing all government funds from that lank. It is further alleged govern? ment deposits amounting to more than $1.200,000 were withdrawn from the l ank, including Panama canal de? posits amounting at one time to Si, 158,479. These withdrawals were brought about by Secretary McAdoo, It is charged, at a time when the Euro? pean war and the business depression In the I'nlted States had made banks conserve their rcsour ?'s, and in a "de? liberate attempt to wreck the plaintiff l ank In the execution of the con? spiracy existing between him and the defendant Williams for that purpose." Further complaint is made that Mr. Williams, as treasurer of the Red t'ross society, had the funds It kept on deposit with the Kiggs bank re? moved to other institutions. 1 "t- almost a year, the bill avers, the comptroller has bombarded the Kiggs National with demands for spe? cial reports of many sorts exceeding the inquisitorial and visitorial powers vested in him. The bank declares that it has made an effort to comply with these demands, has worked itn clerks early and late to do so, but that requests for time have been met with refusals and in somo instances with a reminder that failure to make reports asked by a comptroller in? volves a penalty of $100 for each day after a report is demanded and not rendered. Kvnct figures as to pen >iitie>s tbi estnptrotler may hold the l .ink has n< urrei in this connection the inn statse, ore not available, but it ??stimme? that i must be at least $160,000. In making some of these demands, the bank alleges, Mr. Williams has violated the fourth and fifth amend on atS M the constitution prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures and forcing any one to be a witness against himself. lit February last, according to tin bill. Mr. Williams wrote to the bank asking If its officers had destroyed any of its records. On March 3<?, it | Italian Tenor Who Will Sing at Our Forthcom? ing Chautauqua SIGNOR GIUSEPPE BARTOLOTTA. SIOVOM f;il'Si:i?PE HAKTOLOTTA, the Italian tenor who Is to sin? at the IttMlpi*rh rhuutauqna In thU city, linn won wide distinction M a ?Inger i.ofj? in Europe and America. He has sun? ?t lb* fort in-si 'oiii ? rtH In Kurland In conjunction with iOtM of the most fa fouus artiMtM. including 1'aftl, Melba, Kulxlik, PulfOWlIU and others. II? I? a Neapolitan hy birth unrl atudled for aome years at the COMfffltOfJ of M|>lea. Tbo renark:iMe rnnj^o and power of his hcautlful tenor voice are u i #? elation of ? r whelming superiority of tin; Italian tenor In opera tic slpjinK Ut falv Immediate favor with the most apathetic audlencca. To In ir MO> \* lu be convinced that he possesses every requisite of u great sluu'er? ?IHK? prcffODC*. excellent nty'e und enunciation and a dramatic power and In f?4*,,v equal to the gicat oporu starv lie sln^s with true brilliance, ill tlld uOepduu and wonderful effect*. further sots forth, he demanded a complete hsitory of loans of the Uiggs bunk to its present oflleeri and that for failure to comply with a like re? quest made on January it was as sesed a penalty of $f>.00 3. The next day a formal demand for payment of this line made l?y two bank examiners was refused. On April 1 a quarter installment of the interest on the $1,000,000 of 2 per cents, held by the Uiggs?in the comp? troller's custody to secure its cir? culation?came due. The comptroller, the complaint sets forth, "wrongfully and unlawfully'' ordered the treasurer of the United BttaOfl to withhold the payment of the interest. In this connection the bill alleges that Mr. MoAdOO has "usurped" the power of the treasurer. The bill asks that Mr. Williams be enjoined from revoking the Biggs designation {is a depository for the reserves of other national banks or refusing to approve it as such deposi? tors'. An injunction to restrain Mr. McAdoo "from usurping the powers" of the treasurer of the United States also is asked. The court also is asked to find the sections of the revised stat? utes dealing with the examinations of banks unconstitutional and void "If they must be construed as they have been and are being construed and en? forced" by the defendants. The bank's olllcers tonight gave out i statement outlining at length their view of the events of the last year which led up to the proceedings of today along the lines of the sworn statement in the bill of complaint. Comptroller Williams issued this statement tonight: "I have not seen the bill llled by the complainants, but have read the extracts furnished the press. "The recent investigations of the affairs of the Uiggs National bank disclosed irregularities and unlawful practices on the part of certain offi? cers of sufficient importance to merit their reference to the department of justice and that department engaged the services Of Ixniis D, Brandeis of Boston some weeks ago as special counsel in the case, and it Is con? sistent with the attitude of those of? ficers to attempt by unwarranted and untrue statements to place themselves und the bank in a position of mar? tyrdom at the hands of the adminis? tration. "Tt Is not the practice of thl* de? partment to diso Uta in the public prets ti e affairs <?i itny national hanging I association, but stnsa the officers, inj question have had the temerity to submit this matter to the court, this otllce is prepared to show a condition of affairs in the management of this institution which fully warranted the action taken b ythis office. The bank || solvent. The interests of the de? positors have been safeguarded by the action taken by this office. The bank if the methods and practices com p.alned of had been permitted to con? tinue the results would have been se? rious. The evidenoe will abundant? ly show that it has been necessary for this office to seek to terminate the reprehensible practices of the of? ficers in question and their misuse of the powers delegated to them by the directors. ' The penalty imposed for failure to make reports, th# collection of which penalty they seek to have enjoined, grows out of their unwillingness to disclose the true nature of the trans? actions enga'ged in. "The whole purpose of the depart? ment has been to require the bank to give up the unlawful and dangerous practices and methods which had been In vogue for years past and which had threatened alike the wel? fare and security Of both shareholders and depositors and to require the bank to conform to the plain require" ments of the national bank act and to the regulations of the comptroller of the currency. "In its efforts to ascertain the real truth in regard to the operations and affairs of the Uiggs National bank, letters were from time to time di? rected to the bank from the otliee of the comptroller of the currency for Information. These requests for data In various cases were refused, and on March 30 the Uiggs National bank w as not hied of the imposition of a peitUlty of $5,000, under section !>2M of the United States revised statutes, tor its refusal to furnish information to the comptroller's ollice in regard to its affairs. "On April T> the comptroller of the currency addressed a letter to the bank calling its attention to various false statements Which bad been made by its officers under oath, and what are regarded as deliberate ef? forts to deceive the department, and notified the bank thai 'In view of the unsatisfactory and dangerous condi? tions which have com.? to light as i\\> result of the Investigation of tin- bunk by this office and the national bank examiners, in view of Ihe unreliabil? ity of the statements made i > your officers under oath or otherwise, nod your long continued dellance of 111?? law and disregard for Ihe instructions nt this ollice. you are hereby notified that the comptroller of ihe currency will until further notice refuse i" approve the Biggs National bank as national bank.'' Attached to Mr. Williams' statement are extracts from letters sent to the bank at various times since July 22, 1914, which charge that officers of the institution had benefited person? ally from use of the bank's funds through "dummy" loans and that a policy of fostering stock speculation among clerks and professional men has been followed by the bank. Va? rious other allegations also are mad i to most of which the bank's bill of complaint seeks to make answer. The bill of complaint also gives extract of dome of these letters and th?. replies made by the bank. EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTION RIGHTS For "Tlie Servant In the House" In Lyceum and Chaulnuquas in the United States and Caiutdu Held by the Red path. In connection with the coming of "The Servant in the House," to the Redpath Chautauqua here, it is of in? terest that the Redpath Bureau holds the exclusive rights for the produc tio of this play in both the Lyceum and Chautauqua In the United States and Canada. The Redpath pays a large royalty for these production rights. Charles Rann Kennedy, the author of the play, will personally as? sist Mr. William Owen In coaching the cast. CHATAUQUA TICKET SALE PRO? GRESSING RAPIDLY. Preliminary Arrangements for the Opening of the Great Chautauqua Season N earing Completion. The ticket sale for the Chautauqua is progressing rapidly. A great num? ber of the people who have pledged for tickets from last year have already called at the Y. M. C. A. and redeem? ed their cards. This has been of great help to the committee and it would be appreciated by them if more would respond and call for their tickets. Theer are very few tickets which remain to be secured at $2.00, so those who did not subscribe should made as early a call as possible at the Y. M. C. A. The program is bigger than ever. The Redpath management has spent $700 more on this year's program,) which assures and guarantees u groat ? program. The big tent is here and will bo. placed on the hall park. The old seats ol last year have been discard? ed and new ones which are much more comfortable are in their place. Mr. Knox is trying to arrange for an auto parade. All those who have cars and wish to join are welcome. The cars are to be filled with chil? dren who will be given a red or green Chautauqua hat. The cars will be decorated with Chautauqua flags and ' Neilsen pennants. The parade will be given by the local supporters of the Chautauqua. Monday, April 19th at 3 P. M., is the date planned. TO OPEN CURB MARKET. Florence, April 13.?A curb market for the sale of country produce has been under discussion in Florence for , some time and the efforts which have been made by the Chamber of Com meree and the Housewives' league for the establishment of this convenience are expected to be realized in the opning of a market on Saturday, April '17. The stewards of the Meth? odist church have very kindly given I for the use of the ladies the property at the corner of Dargan and Cheeves Streets. This property is situated in the centre ol the city, conveniently lo? cated for the purpose designed. A number of the farmers have promised to bring produce in on that day and offer the housewives the opportunity of supplying their table at iirst hand j with the very best and freshest that can be obtained. This movement is under the direction of the Housewives' league, recently formed In the city, and which now has a paid member- I ship of more than 50, all agreeing to | cooperate and make successful every effort undertaken for the general good of the community. This Is their ftrsl practical undertaking and they wish to make this opening day a marked success. Therefore, every housewife in Florence, whether a n mber of the league or not, is urged to bring her basket on Saturday morning to the old Methodist church grounds be? tween 8 and 10 o'clock and get her veegtables for Sunday dinner. Quite a variety has been promised, In? cluding spinach, mustard, onions, let? tuce, radish, cabbage, asparagus and turnips, besides other things. Tne young ladles of the canning clubs in the county have asked for a special booth In which their products max be displayed for sale under the manage? ment of tl<e director ol the clubs. ; Miss Isla Willotighby. Some of the girls will soon have loinatoes read) for market. Work on i lie Hob Join s tabernacle is being rushed, n large force of car? penters being employed. The big edifice will be completed, it is expect < d, i his week. ?tmmttttttmtmmmtmttttitmtmtmm "A ROLL OF HONOR BANK." CAPITAL $100,000.00 EARNED PROFITS $125,000.00 THAT'S WHY Builds Up a ?j(^ Business! Another young man in u nearby town started in with a smajl Bank account. In a few year* it grew to a very substantial ?um. He than was able to start In business lor himself. Today he lias one of the nicest stands in his town and carries a good bank ac? count. When you see a good business opportunity will you be ready to take it? Why not pre|>are for the future by opening an account with us now? THE PEOPLES BANK r H 1 rt< itt*??**!?*?***II IIIIIMI ??????????????MMlMl "IT IS OUR CLAIM" In every transaction It is the aim of the Officers of this Bank to serve its Depositors in a distinctive and careful manner; to keep in mind the individual requirements of each and leave nothing undone that will better serve and protect the Customer's interest. Those bating financial matters to transact are cordially Invited to avail themselves of our assLstancc and advice. Business and personal accounts arc welcomed. TBK GROWING BANK t it The Commercial & Savings Bank? I GEO D. SHORE, Prt&ici?:?t. J. K. CROSSWELL Vice-Pres, R. A. BRADHAM, ? Cashier. The Safest Place For Your Savings is a National Bank We pay 4 per cent compounded quarterly. Any deposits made by April 10 draws interest from date. The National Bank of Sumter ESTABLISHED 1889 "SAFEST FOR YOUR SAVINGS" Lumber, Lime, Cement, BUILDING MATERIAL GENERALLY AND FEED OF ALL KINDS. Booth-Shuler Lumber & Supply Co. Successors to Pooth-llurby Live Stock Co. und CentrahLumber Co. CJeo. Fpperson's Old Stnnd *>PP? Court House