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hie si Min; waitiiman *>t?b OouBolidiited Au*. 2,1 LEGISLATURE IN SESSION. imm Din 1 \\\ ? lltSl HUi MKAS i M to m:< l ivi: notice. I mi n |.or.ilK n ol Mate Council of Dc feiwc U> Be First W.u- Legislation to De Taken l p. Columbia, Jan. 8?The legislature convened in regular session today. Efforts will be made during the ses? sion to paas a "bone dry" law us a substitute for the present law permit? ting Individuals to receive a quart of liquor a month. 0*)* of the tlrst steps* toward war legislation will be the consideration o: the bill prepared by the State Council of Defense Incorporating the council, and providing for Investigations in emergencies. Thomas P Cothran. of Greenville, a as elected speaker of the house. PEACE WITH BIEGARIA. Ku*ttiu sml Balkun State Conclude Separate Agreement. Berne. Hwltserland. Jan 9.?A sep? arate peace agreement between Kus at* and Bilgarla has been signed, the newspaper Bund reports. The Bulgarian correspondent of the Hund says that Premier Radoleavoff read the following dispatch from Brest-Utovsk In parliament: "War between Russia and Bulgaria ceases and diplomatic and economic rela? tions between the two countries will be resumed Russia recognizes Bul? garia's right to name a delegate to the international Danube commission. The first peace is thus concluded with the consent of Bulgaria's allies." WEEKS SUBMARINE TOLL. Tweaty-one British Ships Sunk Lost Weak. London, Jan. 9.?The British ad? miralty reports the sinking in the past week of 18 merchantmen of 1. <00 tone or over by mine or subma? rine, as well as three merchantmen under that tonnage. Four fishing ves sei? also weo? sunk. The admiralty statement follows. Arrivals 2.015. sailings 2,244. ghiMah aa^rchsntmen of over t.?rSt) tone sunk by mine or submarine in? cluding two previously. 18; under l.~ 400 tons. Including one previously, three. "British merchantmen unsuccesa fully attacked including two pre vlously. 11. "British fishing vessels sunk, four.' The admiralty report of January i gave the sinkings of British mer? chantmen for the current week as 21 ii vessels of 1,800 tons or over. Thi was a material Increase over the pre - vlous week when the sinkings num bered 12. 11 of the vessels more than 1,100 tons. Thus the Increase in th< submarine sinkings has been more than maintained In the past week, a they comprised 21 merchantmen ami 4 Ashing vessels PrUutccr New?? Notes. Privateer. Jan. 7 - Although th I weather hua been unusually cold there h*a been the usual amount of moving about. Mr. P. B. Harvin has sold his plnce near ('aln'e Mill to Mr. J If Myers and Mr. Harvin has re? moved tr, the old l.ynam place. Mr R. L Geddings has moved from near Tourney to his farm In Clarendon county near Calvary church. out the same amount of oats ami whe.it were planted ss was last year, but it looks now as If all oats on lisbt land is killed and the severe cold has the wheat looking badly, too but I do not think the stand is in "n??d i.i'. m is somewhat scarce In this section Misses Ben ? and Oussle Johnson, (?' Humter. spent the week-end at Mr. .1 B osteen's Mrs. e W. HfOOfl is visiting In 8t Osorge. Mrs T I, Wlmberlev. vbo has been spending sometime at Mr E. W Rhera' returned to her home in Alaehua. Fla.. Saturday. Mr E W Tisdale. of Rock Hill, has been spending some time In the neighborhood visiting friends and rel? atives. Mrs. Bryant, of Hendersonville. N C. has been visiting her sister. Mis R B Furman. Miss Kate Gunter, of Pendleton. Is visiting at Mr. J. M. Jackson's. Mr Florence N**hltt, who has been qu te III for some time Is not Im? proving. Afra J. B Osteen. who has been qu.te nick for the past two weeks I* ?till In a critical condition. Washington. Jan in -Anotlo i eel l wave is predated t.veep th?" South this week. vi April, 1850. "Be JuM au 881. Vil WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE. I I STRONG SENTIMENT IN FAVOR 09 SHORT SESSION. Elections Ordered to Fill Vacancies in the BOON?Attempt to Abolc-Ji State Svhobirsliips Renewed. ^ Columbia. Jan. 10.?One week' from tomorrow has been designated by the legislature as the date to fill the two vacancies in the Rlchland ? nunty delegation. The election will bg held to choose successors to Jas. 1 A. Hoyt and Morris C. Lumpkin. re? signed. Mr. Hoyt has transferred his nsidence to Detroit, Mich., and Mr. Lumpkin holds a commission In the National Army. Two vjn'aneies are also to be filled in tho Sumter delegation. Ono Of these Is to be a successor to Col. a. K. Sanders, now superintendent of the State penitentiary, and the other tO till the place vacated by Represen? tative Mcrutchcn, now holding a commission also in the National Army. Hard sledding for ratification of the federal prohibition nmendment s indicated last night by the nar? row margin In the majority report of this amendment from the Judiciary committee ' The vote was* seven to six. there being much sentiment In favor of leaving the issue to the States. The majority report was made by Representative Hamblin and the mi? nority by Representative Young. Resolutions were introduced in hoth houses ' yesterday calling for submission of the amendment Xp the voters of South Carolina. Representative Domlnlck's bill call? ing for preventios of dogs running at large was killed by a vote of 4 3 to 26. The enacting words of tho bill, call up for two cents passenger rates were stricken out by a vote of f?9 to 26. It was regarded as a more than useless task to vote a reduction of rates since the government has taken over the roads. Two veto messages were sent up by Oov. Manning last night, apply? ing to certain modification of the gams laws, as to Greenville and Hor ry counties. The acts were passod Inst session. The bill hy Hall of Anderson to ive trial in cases relating to eject? ment of tenants at Will and domestic servants was passed to third read? ing. By a vote of 4 2 to 38 the house struck out the enacting words of tho Hall bill to make It a misdemeanor to smoke in certain public places. The bill to prohibit white nr. rses from attending negroes in hospitals was similarly disposed of. A resolution Introduced by Repre , sentatlve Bills cf Greenwood, was ..adopted, granting leave of absence to . all members in the military service of , the nation. I The Senate. At the incht session of the senste . bill was passed providing that it \ shall he a misdemeanor for anyone , under the ape of fourteen years to drive or operato an automblle on any street or highway. The original bib i of Senator Friday, of Orangeburg, made it a misdemeanor for anyone urder 16 years to drive a car. but by consent the age was changed to 14 ye.rs. Tim resignation of Mr. J. Rion MrKissick, ns code eommissioner, was presented through Uov, Manning. A duplicate art relative to the fiscal yesr for railroad accounting was ve? toed and the veto was sustained. The game warden veto is pending. A nit Of lionham's bill to amend the ( enstitution relative to the pardoning power of the governor was then ta Kaa up The sugestion is that there }<* a pardon board and that pardons and reprieves be eontingent upon the findings of this board rather than on the decision of the governor alon l'pr n an explanation by Mr. Honh im the measure was unanimously passed to juhmlt the proposed amendment to the voters sjsnator ifcCown of Florence had k bill whn h sought to transfer the col? ored reformatory, together with thl I for whits boyii to one central board. There v/ai no opoaltion to tins meas? ure. Senator Ruigell of I^exington wan; ed to abolish scholarships at the State . ollegcs. The bill had an un? favorable report Tonight he propose i that all scholarships be In lieu of notes to be paid within live pear I The fund pal l for these at hol.i i shuvi sh ill be kept as a lean fund for t)e? serving students Senator Rldgell In sisted that the present system was unsatisfaetory and that bis plan Ql ? iting a loan fund would be better Senator Ridgell argued at length <m ad F?*r uot?lie* ail the ends Thou All JMTER, S. 0., SATURD the scholarship system and sta*.e<\ that 22 per cent of the students at State colleges were fed and clothed by these scholarships. Senator Bon ham asked if the board of charities and corrections had not weeded out \ all the undeserving cases. Senator Bidgell wanted the present plan con? tinued, but with the proviso that those getting scholarships must in time repay the loan fund. Senator Luney thought it best to let matters stand and saw no reason to further deny sehool boys and girls education. Ho thought only deserving boys and] girls competed for the scholarships. Senator Shelor of Oconee argued in favor of Mr. Uidgell's amended bill and had many facts in support of his views-. The bill was killed by a vote of 21 to 10. , Senator Laney had the senate agree to meet in the morning at 10 o'clock. The senate has certainly put on its working clothes. It worked fiom 10 o'clock until the dinner bell rang, and then took a recess until night; and the committees are all to hold meetings in the afternoons. It look? ed very much as if It were the last days of the legislature rather than the beginning of the session. Some have suggested that so much discus? sion is probably not conducive to an early adjournment. I The senate passed two resolutions today indicative of a desire to do what is to be done and go home. First, it passed the Kelly resolution expressing the legislative sense that the tession be restricted to 20 days, and then it adopted Senator Whar tOtl'S resolution llxing Feb. 2 as the day of tinal adjournment. Of course, either resolution can be effective if tho legislators so elect, or they can be inoperative by simply paying no attention to the expression. Most of the legislative day was ta? ken up in the discussion of a bill sug? gested by the committee which per? mits the investment of trust funds in . farm loan bonds. After considerable discussion the bill was passed am', ordered rotilled, and will become u statute of the State. Another, and most interesting ; discussion, was on the proposition of I Senator Padgett to require partner 1 ships to file the names of the indivl? i uals comprising such partnerships, j There was very much interest in this I suggestion, and the bill was finally passed by the senate, with three QQlsndmonta, that were more or lesd vital: First, that the bill should not apply to contracts made relative to agricultural operations. Second, that the certificate of partnership should be filed with the clerk of court and I not the secretary of State. Third, that if. upon soiit, the information as to the membership of partnerships bo given within ten days, that then need be no record with the clerk of I court, and, fourth, that the partner i ship declaration need not apply where the agreement is for not more than 60 days. Senator Laney of ? Chesterfield in the disCUSSlon of the bill looking to the licensing of fire insurance agents, took o. c.ision to romp on the Soutb ? stern Tariff Association. He argued that this rate-making association had ' acted very badly towards the peoplo of South Carolina and that it had j fooled the people and the legislature; jthat It was depriving the State of in? surance independence and that it was altogether a "bad egg." He heartily i approved the pending bill; first, be j cause it would insure more care on the part of ngenU. in not over-writimr i insurance, but principally because it had a, clause that he suggested, that would allow non-resident brokers to j write insurance in South Carolina. He insisted that if non-resident brokers were not allowed to write Insurance in South Carolina that some sort of Oltlb ought to be provided to hold the Southeastern Tariff Association in control; the present legislation was not sufficient, and Ineffective. No ac? tion was taken on the bill during tho morning. The senate killed the sugwestion of. Senator Kvans that B steering com mltee be provided to expedite the work of the senate. BOLSHEVISM claim VICTORY. Petrograd, Wednesday. J&n. 8.? I Generals Kaledines and Dutoff, the Cossack I leaders, the OlAolgl news BgenQy announced today, have been defeated. Gen. Dutoff is in flight, pur? sued by revolutionary soldiers of the Red Guard. Gen. Kaledines is re? treating. The workmen's and soldier's OOUnOll at Rostov have been liberated. Amsterdam. .Ian. 5.? Hamburg Germany's second largest city, is now entirely without Street illumination at night, in consequence of the shortage of coal Which has curtailed the out? put of gas and electricity. net at be thy Country**, Thy God's aa AY, JANUARY 12, 1918 ALLIES NEED FOOD. NINETY MILLION BUSHELS OF 1 Will:AT TO BE SENT AT ONCE. Situation is so Critical la Eujf?pc ' i Tluit Wheat Must be Sent and Americans arc Asked to Save Eli on gl i to Supply ??eds. Washington, Jan. 10.?The food sit-, uation in Europe is regarded here as so critical that the food administra-! tion is planning to release an addi? tional ninety million bushels of wheat, t? Americans will be asked to save to make up the deficiency. FIRE AT WEDGEFIELD. ????N__ Five Stores, One Dwelling and Two Warehouses Burned. I . Fiie made a clean sweep Of the row of stores north of the railroad at ! Wedgefleld Thursday night about 9 o'clock. Five stores?J. B. Ryan. S. Weinberg, B. L. Burress, Walker's1 and Hair's?Ryan's and Woinberg's warehouses and the old DuPont resi- j dance were destroyed before the fire i ! could be checked. The Sumter fire departemnt was ! called on for help and the truck, 'with chemical extinguisher, was sent! lover, but when it arrived the fire had almost burnt itself out. No reliable estimate of the amount of the damage is obtainable, but it is tiUite heavy. There was insurance that partially covers the loss but the hat loss over and above the insurance is considerable. LEGISLATIVE EIJ5CTION ORDER? ED. Successors of Representatives A. K. Sanders and W. L. McCutchen to Be Elected January 23rd. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has issued a writ of election directed to the Election Commissioners of Sumter directing them to hold an election Wednesday, January 2Srd, for the purpose of electing two members of the House of I Representatives to fill out the unex 1 pired terms of Representatives A. K. jSandors and W. L. McCutchen, whose i signations created vacancies in the Sumter county delegation. The Com? missioners of State Elections for ' Sumter county were F. A. McLeod, L. S. Vin8on and T. IS. Hodge, but Mr McLeod having been appointed so? licitor and Mr. Vinson having been elected magistrate of the 7th District ' since the last general election they cannot serve as election commlssion ' ers. Mr. A. S. Harby and Mr. S. L. Roddey have been appointed to fill ' the vacancies and they, with Mr. T. I E. Hodge, wdll conduct the special 1 election on the 23rd inst. STATE WAREHOCSE REPORT. Two Hundred and Fouv Warehouse* in System Helping Small Fanner. Columbia, Jnn. 10.?In the annual report prepared by W. G. Smith. State warehouse commissioner, it is shown that the department was operated ' during the year just closed at a total cost of $9,992.51, which leaves a bal? ance from the appropriation of $7.19. The warehouse system now has cash and accrued storage more than $10,? 000. There are 204 warehouses in the system and Mr. Smith makes a num? ber of recommendations for the de? velopment of the plan to its highest stage of usefulness. Grading and stapling has been one of the chic:* efforts of Mr. Smith and no part lie had in the war last year meant more to the success of the system than the public grading feature. Growing of big boll cotton generally is- recom? mended and the organization of mar? keting associations among the farm? ers is suggested. Duck Hunting Costa Lifo of Throe Men. Ceorgetown, Jan. 5.?Thursday night the community was shocked by the news of the death of the three young men, Harry McNaron. J. T. Schroder and Dozier Misbjow, while duck hunting. These young men had been out hunting all day. Nothing was known of the accident or at what time of day it took place until another hunting party returning home saw the boat with one lifeless body Stretched across it. The supposition is that the other two were drowned, the third one reaching the boat but afterwards suc? cumbing to exposure and the intense cold. Sean thing partial have not yet succeeded in finding the. olher two bodies. id TrmtaVm** THE TRUE SUFFRAGE FIGHTIWOtU 'RESIDENT WILSON THROWS IIIS G INFLUENCE IN FAVOR OF AMENDMENT. \dvisos Congressmen to Vote for Con- 11 sitnionnl Amendment (.anting Suffrage to Women?Relieve! Tluit This Will Insure Passage. Washington, Jan. 9.?Presidents Wilson tonight threw his support to th? f?deral amendment for woman' suffrage. On the eve of a vote on1 suffrage in the house 12 Democratic members called at the White House with word that many of their col? leagues wanted advice from the head of their party as tr* the position (they should take. There was a conlerence of 40 minutes, the result of which was described in this statement, dictated by the president himself and made ( public by the delegation: "The committee found that the president had not felt at liberty to volunteer his advice to members of congress in this important matter but!' when we sought his advice he very ftankly and earnestly advised us- to vote for the amendment as an act of j right and justice for the women of the country and of the world." In these few lines suffrage cham pions saw certain victory where a few days ago most of them privately were conceding defeat. A large majority or the Republicans in the house have been counted upon to support the amendment and enough Democrat are committed to insure a close vote. With the weight of the president's in tluence to line up doubttul Demo? crats. Representative Parker, chair? man of the suffrage commltte?. jubi? lantly predicted tonight that the ne? cessary two-thirds would be exceeded by 15 or 20 votes Opponents of suffrage were claim? ing a safe margin against the amend? ment during the day in spite of inti? mations from the suffragists that a trump card yet was to be played. : There were no formal predictions I from tho opponents tonight but a trc j mendous fight is promised. ? The news of the president's action I came as a complete surpriso to nearly j everybody in the capital. Until now j in all public utterances the president I has held to the view that suffrage was J a question to be determined by the individual States and not by federal action. Xo statement was forthcoming from the White House tonight to explain his present stand. Members of con 1 gress who participated In the con? ference, however, said the president told them he still believed that the I j proper and orderly way of dealing, ; with the question was to permit each State to take its own action but in view of conditions now existing in the j United States and the world generally! ; he felt free to advise submission cf a j 1 federal amendment to the States. In emphasizing this point he is said , to declare that the United States as a lender in the great family of nations cj>n not disassociate itself from the family and can not be reactionary on any great worid question. When his .callers talked of tho Stuto rights is-, sue the president is said to have told them he did not feel that this compfi-j cnted the situation at all; that.suffrage was a policy and not a principle. He pointed out that the federal constitu? tion now deals with the qualilloa tions of electors and prescribes the, qualification of those entitled to vote1 for members of congress. All of the members who went to the Whits House were Democrats and most of them supporters of the amendment, but there were several uncommitted. In the delegation were Representatives llaker. Taylor, Bark? ley and Cantlill, Hayden, Gregg ami Jones (Texas), Ayers, Caraway, Mayes, Linthicum and Rrumbaugh. After Mr. Raker had explained the object of the call each told the presi dent of the situation in his State. One said the president's advice would aid him In determining the question and that many others were similarly situ? ated. The president is said to have re? plied that while he had felt it was not proper to send for members- or to volunteer his advice he was glad of the opportunity that the visit of the delegation gave him. He indicated! that he had not felt at liberty to go beyond the party platform which had declared woman suffrage to be a State issue, until changed conditions mafic it necessary. Patterson. X. .)., Jan. 10.?The ( losing of the Dupont Powder plants at Pomp ton i^ake and Haskell, en? gaged exclusively in war work, is- de? clared to be imminent, unless fuel is received promptly. SOUTHRON, Vol. XLV. No. 43. THE ANh JALiMESSAGE. a ;ov. manning; reviews years WORK ANl> RECOMMENDS LEGISLATION. Ie Vrgos Every Citizen to Give Patri? otic Service to Their Country Needs of State Institutions Outlin? ed. "entlemen of the General Assembly: As Chief Executive of th? State. i leliver my anivaal message to"you as in obligation iir.posed upon me by tho ?or.stitution, and in conformity with in unbroken custom. I also desire o discuss with you measures imme Ilately affectin. our State government, he welfare of our people and the de? velopment of cur nation, of which our Stale is an int gral part. I extend to you a warm greeting. Phis year you come from homes and from duties that need you and your services more ihan ever before. But 18 the effective operations of the State iml its officials depend upon you and me, together we must -see that the business* of the State is carried on ef? ficiently and economically and that tho part we shoule. perform in this crisis of the nation Is viewed with a broad vision. Let us fervently thank God for our blessings and p:ay to Him for strength a^id guidance to realize our responsi? bilities and for courage to meet them. The opportunity for great service to the State and to the nation urgently presents itself, and in the work that lies before us I desire to assure you of my earnest and hearty cooperation. Since the ge ral assembly adjourn? ed last Februar.' our country has been drawn into the world war, but of this and the tasks 'aiposed upon us there? by I shall speak later with definite new. Just now, however, let me re? call that some of your number are now following ;he flag. With me you honor their pa riotism and consecra? tion to a nation il duty which prompt? ed them to go into the service of their country, /hose paramount bus? iness is war: They are Senator Christensen of Beaufort and Repre? sentatives Lloyd B. Harrison and a* W. Horton of Spartanburg, Morria JD. Lumpkin of Rie iland, Elmer M. Tripp of Beaufort, ( scar K. Mauldin of Greenville. F. Marion Whaley and Ed? ward P. Passailaigue of Charleston, W. R. Ritchie, Jr.. of Laurens, W. L. McCutchen of fumter and Herbert I*. Smith, Jr., of Georgetown. These vmosen representatives of our peo? ple from various sections of the State are participant- in the fight for de? mocracy, freedom and liberty against irresponsible governments, who, in mad lust for -.corld domination, re? gard not the sanctity of treaties, who destroy our ships and mercilessly murder innocen\ non-combatant men, women and children. These members of our preneral assembly deserve and have our honor and our grdtltude. In order that our State may play its full part in cooj?rating with the nat? ional governmcrr. it is imperative that we enact laws covering these objects. There are, however, other matters di? rectly affecting OUT State, to which I invite your attertion. I shall speak of some of thes< measures here, and in a subsequent message I will deal with education, State institutions, fin? ance, taxation, enforcement of law and other State natters. Among the RU ny urgent calls and Pne opportunities for war service dur? ing the present I mergency, there is grave danger that the yearly internal needs of South Carolina be lost to view. This must be prevented at all cost. Never has Mtere been larger necessity for inc ased vigor and en ergy In pushing forward the construe tlve elements of :itate progress. Th severe strain of shaping a great de mocmoy for war. the presence of three large army camps and two na? val stations in South Carolina, the rapidly mounting cost of living, the disorganization of transportation and uncertainty of labor, the ever-closing grip of a war-rub d scheme of life all combine to bi nd our eyes and close our ears to the appeals of ed? ucational, sanitary charity and pen? al conditions in South Carolin. The world war 1 a conflict of intel? ligence and skill, far which the schools are the recruit lag ground. These works are internal, and unless Ahoy sre pushed orward our State wn not prepress. The necessity for them is greater by reason of war con litions than ever b< fore. luatraliatt Ballot. In a democratic form of govern n( it is essential that the untram neled, Independent will of the elector* >e expressed at the ballot box. Ev ry safeguard should be thrown] i round our elections, so that eactt i