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UNDERSTOOD THAT GERMANY
WILL ABIDE BY ANNOUNCE.
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WIU Be?te on March First Sinking of
Mitrihssi Ships of Enemies Witn?
ess? Wsmlnr?United Stetes Will
Probably Take no Action Until
Aesftlioii I Ay en are Endangered.
Washington. Feb. 11.?Confidential
sdvlces from Berlin say that Germany
will refuse to modify her new plane
for submsrins warfare and will begin
?inking srmed merchantmen without
warning on March let. An official
communication to this effect is expect?
ed possibly today.
It Is not likely thst the United
States will take sny further sctlon un?
til American lives ars lost or en?
dangered In which case Immediate
and decisive steps *>y the administra?
tion will become necessary.
DEMANDS REPLY OF ENGLAND.
UnHed Steers Will Make Protest on
Reliurv of (ivnimiii From American
Washington, Feb. 31.?Se ere tary
lanslng/tt was announcod todsy. lifts
lemanded an explanation of Great
Britain for its delay In responding to
this government's protest against the
"trading with enenw" act and inter?
ference with American malls.
Preparatory to another protest to
Great Britain, the department direct?
ed Consul General Simmons at
Shanghai to forward all available In?
formation about the stoppage of the
American steamer Ciina by a British
warship, which took off thirty-eight
of her passengers.
Lansing stated that Great Britain's
failure to reply to the American note
of protest was regarded as an affront
by the ifiilted States. The language
used in a demand for an explanation
Is said to be stronger than any hith?
erto used.
Sumter Lady Honored.
. Mrs. Joseph McCuHough of Green?
ville and Mrs. David D. Molse of
Sumter. whose husbands are repre?
sentatives from their respective coun?
ties In the legislature, were compli?
mented by Mrs. James A. Hoyt, wife
of the speaker of the house, with an
attractive little tea at her home on
north Main street Thursday afternoon.
The tea table was graced with white
roses and golden daffodils and was
presided over by Mrs. R. C. Hoyt, who
poured tea. The hostess' sisters.
Misses Miriam and Susie Kinard and
Miss Lucy Hoyt, assisted In serving.
About 36 guests called during the
hour named.?The State.
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WHAT THE LEGISLATURE DID.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADJOURN?
ED SUNDAY MORNING, AFTER
ALL-NIGHT SESSION.
Increases Made in Appropriations by
Free Conference?Levy 6 1-? Mills,
Reduction of One-half ML. rom
Laat Year?Inhibition Received
Much Attention ? Administration
Bills Passed and Those Not Passed.
Columbia, Feb. 21.?The 1916 ses?
sion of he general assembly adjourn?
ed sine die at about 5.30 o'clock Sun?
day morning, after working for 40
flays. *
The session did little of large
achievement, but it was characterized
by a lac? of bi-partisan bickering and
factional disputes that seemed to be
the prevailing note of the legislatures
of the p.ist. few years.
The oincers of both bodies were*
commended by the members Saturday
night. Resolutions commending the
fairness and parliamentarian effi?
ciency o:' Speaker James A. Hoyt, of
the house, and Lieut. Gov. A. J. Be
then, president of tho senate, were
adopted l>y the ?.spectiv? bodies. J.
T Li ties', chairman of tho s'aknp final
commissi >n. was presented with m
handsome sliver service, und Mr. Be
Ihn wan given the president's robe
and a beautiful watch fob.
The members of both houses whiled
away the closing hours of the session
by "mock" sessions in both bodies,
and the house was enlivened by "old
plantation" songs and the modern
"rag," accompanied by a player-piano
and a violin. Early Saturday the
desks of the members were cleared of
the accumulation of printed matter
feathered during the session, and be?
fore the house and senate met at 8
o'clock Saturday night many ot the
members had bade farewell to col?
leagues. Before the hands of the
clock reached midnight both time
pieces were stopped, and, accordingly
the "time" when the general assem?
bly adjourned was still in the legisla?
tive day of Saturday. This is a tra?
ditionally polite fiction.
Gov. Manning waited in his office
the whole njght for the appropriation
and county supply measures. The
former bill was reported from free
conference late Saturday night and
the latter about 2 o'clock Sunday
morning. Saturday night the house
had 19 bills from the senate when it
convened, and it looked for a time that
the engrossing department would be
so congested that it would be impos?
sible for the general assembly to ad?
journ before noon Sunday. However,
the young women In the engrossing
department worked hard and efficient?
ly, and the accumulated legislative
measures v.ere finished by 4:45 in the
morning.
Tho free conference committee re?
ported the general appropriation hill
as carrying a levy of ?? 1-2 mills as
compared with 7 mills for last year,
and the total of all appropriations
amounted to $2,477,531.29.
The folk'^'ng were tho important
changes made by the committee on
free conference:
Appropriation for the industrial
school at Florence increased to |3I??
MO.
Increase of $5.000 for tho Statu
tuberculoslii camp. A ward for wo?
men was provided.
To consolidated graded schools in?
creased to $120,000.
Authorized tho expenditure of $39,?
000 for public printing, an increase ol
$6,000 over last year. The printing
will be done under the supervision of
the commi tee on printing, of whi< h
Capt. W. It. Bradford, of Fort Will,
member of tho house, was elected sec?
retary at a salary of $1,000 per an
num.
Increase of $1,500, euch, were al
lowed tho University of South Caro
Una and? the State Medical College, at
Charleston.
The free conference .committee ad?
hered to the general policy of the leg?
islature to allow the State Hospital
for the Insane a liberal allowance.
One hundred thousand dollars was al?
lowed for maintenance for improve?
ments, and there was written into the
measure the authorization of the
borrowing committee, consisting of
the governor, the State treasurer and
the comptroller general, to make a
loan of $50,000 additional x'or Im?
provements during the year, if so
much be needed.
The governor signed the appropria?
tion and county supply measures
shortly before 6 o'clock Sunday morn?
ing without, vetoing a tingle item.
The prohibition law had a decided
inning in this session of tho legisla?
ture and it was early shown that a
majority of the members are earnest?
ly desirous of driving whiskey from
the State. Many laws were introduc?
ed and several of them wero passed
to "put teeth in the law." The first in
importance was the B#iles bill making
it a straight chaingang sentence for il?
licitly selling liquor in? South'Caro?
lina. This measure Is now a law, mtv
ing been approved, ay the gOvWh ?r
S&uTttay1 hlgTit " Th< rni?f excel',, c
presented the author, Mr. Liie.*. with
(he fountain pan with which he stgi -
ed the bll. Xext comes the item in
the appropriation bill allowing the
governor to borrow $50,000, if so much
be necessary, for the enforcement of ,
the law. The Carlisle bills, one re
enacting the prohibition law and the j
other cutting the monthly shipment of
one-gallon a month to an inc ivitloal to
two quarts, or allowing in l eu of the
whiskey five dozen pint bottles of beer.
There was a fight on this bill after it
had been passed, and free conference
cut out some of the inquisitork.il fea?
tures, which many thought had they
remained in the measure would have
endangered the who'e structure of the
prohibition, law.
Next in legislative importance was
the ca*ction of administration meas?
ures. The Torrens land system bill,
in modified form, the measure provid?
ing for a board of conciliation and ar?
bitration for tho settlement of dis?
putes between capital and labor, the j
liability of railroads for personal in- j
juries to employes, the regulation ol j
child labor, providing that, after Jan?
uary 1, 1917, no child under It years I
shall be employed in mines, factories
or textile establishments that have
voted in the compulsory attendance
law, and tho teaching of agriculture
in rural schools wero adopted.
Another Important administration
measure that was perfected was the
bill amending the law creating the
State tax commission so as tt provide
for a board of review, which inad?
vertantly was left out of the orlgnal
act in tho engrossing department last
year. There was sporatie opposition
to the tax commission during the ses?
sion, but this amounted to nothing.
The administration measure for a
system of rural credits did not pass,
yet a step In the direction of land
banks was accomplished v hen the j
senate adopted a resolution providing
for a committee to investigate the
whole Question and report its findings
to the next session of the general as?
sembly, a. J. Bethen, president of
tho senate, has appointed 1 >. Reese
Williams, of Lancaster. Alan Johnston,
o! Newbcrry, and J. I,. Bhorardi of
Anderten, as members of tins commit?
tee.
Oov, Manning stated Saturday light
that he was gratified at tho work dorn?
by the genera] assembly, particularly
so because of the passage of so many
measures approved by the administra?
tion. The chief executive was also
pleased that so much had been done
in tho way of progressive legislation
?and yet the levy had been held to
I 1-1! mills.
The legislature showed a spirit of I
extreme friendliness to the State ware?
house system; and everything that was
asked was given to it. Several meas?
ures for the strengthening of the sys?
tem, advocated by Commissioner Mc
Baurin and Gov. Manning were passed.
As a direct result of the fight for
lower insurance rates being waged by
the system, the bill forbidding fire in-,
surance compacts in South Carolina
passed. This bill, which was bitterly
fought and was the cause of the only
real filibuster during the session?
which occurred Thursday night?will
drive the Southeastern Tariff Associa?
tion out of the Statt. South Carolina
is the 22nd State of the union to adopt
an "anti-compact" law.
All the counties having surplus
stocks left over from the dispensares
were allowed to sell their remnants
outside the State by the old dispensary
boards.
Because of the growing State, the
increasing attention being paid to
schools and the desire for better
roads, there was far more local legisla?
tion than ever before introduced in
and passed through the general as?
sembly.
In connection with the upbuilding
of the schools the rural high s? hool |
act wa3 amend'd so that < ity schools]
taking- pupils from the country Mm
trict., .without eharginy a fe< might]
participate in ite aid.
The South Carolina mfJitia fared
particularly well when the general ap?
propriation bill was amended to al?
low the borrowing board to make a
loan of $25,000 to pay for lost equip?
ment, should it be found that the fed?
eral government will not make a good
the loss.
The bill providing for a State high?
way commission died, because the leg?
islature was averse to creating new
offices.
The hi-ennial session idea did not
show its head.
The two-cent rate bill, alter pass?
ing in the house, slumbered on the
senate calendar and was killed and
buried w hen the calendar was cleared
on the last day of the session.
The law placing the election of the
chief game warden in the hands of
the legislature instead of the govern?
or was ratified and sent to the govern?
or.
A new judicial circuit, known as
the 14th circuit, composed of ilamp-j
ton, Colleton, Beaufort and Jasper
counties, was created. James S>.
Peurifoy, of Colleton, was elected
judge of this new circuit.
Sumter has three Btrotng Baptist
churches. The First, Rev. W. E.
Thayer, pastor, has a membership of
about 500; Grace, Dr. John A. Bruji
son. pastor, has 100; and Salem Ave?
nue, Rev. J. W. Cuy, pastor, the
youngest of the three, has 175.?Bap?
tist Courier.
The Sumter Chamber of Commerce
has a limited quantity of to'.vaeco seed
on hand for distribution for those
whose tobacco beds we re damaged by j
the recent cold. Tins seed will be
given free while they lost to farmers
Who wisli to plant tobacco.
liirtlis and Mortality Report for Jan?
uary, 101?.
Births, white, males :!; females 1, to?
tal 4; colored males 2, females -r>. to
lal 7. Total I 1.
Deaths, white males <>: females 3,
total ;'.; colored males L'; females 5,
total 7. Total I I.
Norway, Feb. L7.?Mr. If. P. Ful
mer, of the Barnes farm, had the mis?
fortune to lose one of Iiis lim- mfiles
last Friday the llth. Mr. Ful/nor
had a hand plowing a. pair of muflps
near an old well in the Held whcgl
i , _
trying to go loo close both mules [(Ml
in, oik1 on top of the other. O?o
muh? was Instantly killed and tile
other \\;is dug out bruised. au*i
scared up but will get well.
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