m mm cores. LATE RETURNS GIVE REPUBLI CANS MAJORITY IN SEN. ATE. Wer March 4th They Will Reor , ganize Both House and Senate and V&tect Legislation as They See Fit and Big Business Desires. Washington, Nov. 8.?A Republi can majority in the next congress of at lasest two in the senate and of no', less . than 43 in the house was assur ?lifirom .returns today from the scat tering doubtful districts of last Tues . day's elections. Word from Detroit Of. election 'in..Michigan, upon almost complete unofficial returns, of Tru man H. Newherry, Republican candi dates for the senate over Henry Ford? Democrat, increased the Re publican senate roll to 49, a bare ma jority. The Democrats have 46 with the Idaho contest between Senator SSugent, Democrat, and Former Gov " ?i*or Gooding still in doubt on the face of almost complete unofficial re ? turns. Nugent has a majority of aearly 500, but Gooding has demand ed an official count which will be made November 15. Returns from the last missing house district, the Second Montana, .where a Republican was elected to the seat now held by Representative Jeaanette Rankin, unsuccessful In dependent candidate for the senate, were received today. On the face ot now complete unof ficial returns the political line up of the next house is as follows: Repub licans 239, Democrats 194, Independ ent l, Socialist 1. Prospect Of holding not less than 4$ seats in" the senate regardless of v the outcome of the Idaho contest, place the Republicans in a position to -take control of the senate from the Democrats and reorganize it. With " 49 votes necessary to control, howev er. Republican leaders realize that or ganization will depend upon unbroken partisan alignment. They recall that, even before the Democrats went into control of the senate with President j Wilson's inauguration in 1913, theyj had a majority of the senate but were j unable because of Republican faction- j al defection, to elect Former Senator I Galligner president pro tempore. . j When the new -senate convenes; March 4, next, however, sue.h difficul-j ties, according to Republican leaders, ? are not expected. Republican control both of the sen- j ate and house and harmony of action between the Republicans of both bodies are expected to have much ef fect on legislative policies. Like the 'reorganization of the house, Republican organization of! the senate principally affects chair-1 manship and majority control of com-! mittees besides legislation. Seniority ! of service is the almost unbroken precedent in the senate as in the house, of electing committee < chair- J men. ? I With, 'the Republicans intact their j - majority to organize the senate Sena-1 tor Lodge of Massachusetts under thej ?eniority of ruh? would succeed Sena- j tor Hitchcock of Nebraska as head of the foreign relations committee. A1-' . though the belief here now is that th< peace treaty will be ratified before Democratic control ends, this commit tee will have many important after the-war problems. Heading the powerful senate fin ance committee, with its jurisdictior over .bond and tax legislation woulc be Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania ir place of Senator Simmons of Nortl ' Carolina. Senator Warren of Wyoming is ex pected to head the appropriation* ; committee of which Senator Martir of Virginia now Democratic leader, ij chairman. Mr. Warren is senior mem ber of the military and agriculture committees, but is expected to prefei the appropriations committee chair manship. . The military affairs committee oi which Senator Chamberlain of Ore gon is chairman is expected to go to Senator Wadsworth of New York, next in line after Senator Warren to secure the chairmanship. The naval committee, chairman ship, held by Senaor Swanson of Virgima, is regarded in dc-*ht. Rank ing Republican member.1 e in or der, Senators Penrose, Lodge, Smith .-of Michigan; Page of Vermont and Poindexter. With Senators Penrose and Lodge heading the finance and foreign relations committees and Sen ator Smith retiring, Senator Page is next in line for the chairmanship but is expected to prefer the agriculture committee chairmanship leaving Sen ator Poindexter to take the naval affairs. * The judiciary and commerce com mittee chairmanships also rest upon preferences finally made by ranking Republicans. Senator Nelson of Min nesota, is senior on both. If he should choose the latter of which he was once chairman, Senator Dillingham of Vermont, who once headed the immigration committee, would be in line for the judiciary body and if Senator Dillingham should prefer j his old committee, Senator Prandegee I of Connecticut ranks next for the ; judiciary leadership. Preferment by i Senator Nelson for the judiciary com ! mittee would leave Senator Jones of j Washington in line to take the 'com : merce committee. The interstate commerce commit tee with its jurisdiction over legisla tion affecting government control in the railroads and telegraph and tele phone wires, falls to Senator Curn mings of Iowa as successor to Sena tor Smith of South Carolina. Besides these preeminent commit tee chairmanships, prospective chair men of other important committees i follow: Banking and currency, Senator McLean of Connecticut, vice Senator Owen of Oklahoma. Privileges and. election, Senato: Kenyon of Iowa, vice Senator Pome rene of Ohio. Manufactures, Senator La Follettt of Wisconsin, vice Senator Reed of Missouri. Postoffices, Senator Townsend of Michigan, vice Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Education and labor. Senator Bo rah of Idaho, vice Senator Smith of^ Georgia. fi Selection by the Republicans of a president pro tempore to succeed 1C IS If The danger now seems to be j over and you can come to town and do your shopping without j any risk. Our Stock of Dresses, Coats and Coat Suits is Complete. Also a good line of Odd Skirts : I and a^eautiful selection of Shirty: I Waist. \x / : % See ourslmithen buy,,/ ...THE. *. Donnell Dry Goods Co Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, wh< :? failed of reelection, is a matter o; - some speculation. Senator .Lodge i> -| scheduled to remain leader of tin j Republicans, with Senator Prandcge*" -/mentioned for the honorary presiding i Position. I Senator Martin of Virginia, non l j majority leader, is expected to heau l the Democrats again in the new con gress with Senator Gerry of Rhode - Island mentioned for the place o: 5 Democratic whip now held by Sena i tor Lewis of Illinois, who was de > feated. MUST FEED THE WORLD. Demands ifor Food in Europe Wil Continue for Sometime. Columbia, Nov. P --William El i liott, food admin:sirator for Soutl , Carolina, has : ?eived the following 1 tlegeram from Herbert Hoover or world food conditions as affected b. the recent changes brought about bj Austria's dropping out of the war: "The interallied food council ii London is discussing the possibility of diminishing the percentage of sub stitutes used in wheat bread by Jan uary 1 in all allied countries in viev of the new situation caused by th< Austrian armistice. This must resul in greater safety of the Mediterran ean sea routes and increased access: bility of Indian and Australia) wheat supplies, even if Germany doe not immediately quit the war. Thi should make sufficient wheat fron j these countries available during th winter to reduce the amount of sub i titution in the bread of allied coun tries and allow substitutes now be ing imported to the allies to be use< for dairy feeds, of which there is great shortage. The same situatio; regarding feeds exists in the Unite< States, and this would also be great ly relieved by relaxing the use o substitutes in bread. The altered wa ! situation would thus enable us to se j cure better adjusment between hu man and animal food. "The change in the war situatioi: j however, does not alter the totals o food demands upon the Jnited States but will increase our load, and, there fore, there will be increased demand for economy. "We must now participate in th preservation of the newly liberate nations in Austria from starvation and it is anticipated that while som wheat may be needed from the Unit ed States, the largest pai*t of our ex ports to that quarter will be corn rye, barley, and fats. The Austria: merchant shipping must be placed i: service before exports can be starte< to them." MAJ. MANNING PROMOTED. Wyndham Manning Made Lieut. Ocl onel of Field Artillery. Columbia, Nov. 9.?Governor Man ning has been advised that Ma Wyndham Manning, one of his si sons in the United States army, ha been promoted to be lieutenant col onel of the Three Hundred and Sev enteenth Field Artillery Regiment. Colonel Manning is serving witl the artillery forces in France. A graduate of the United State Military Academy at West Point, h retired from the army several year ago on account of ill health. Whil acting as commandant of cadets a Porter M^itary Academy, Charleston he was made captain of the Charles ton Light Dragoons, Troop A, Sout: Carolina Cavalry, National Guard and commanded this troop during it long stay on the border. At the outbreak of the war he wa transferred to the artillery brand and went to Fort Oglethorpe as ai i instructor with the rank of captain (Assigned to Camp Jackson, he wa soon promoted to be major and wer overseas a.s adjutant of the One Hur. dred and Fifty-sixth Field Artiller Brigade. Maj. Bernard Manning is in th same artillery brigade, which is com manded by Brig. Gen. Andrew Mose* well known artillery officer, who very popular in Columbia. ON AUSTRL?.N TERRITORY. Troofle jpf- Macedonian Army Ente: Bosnia. Saloniki, Nov. 9.?It is officially an nounced that the allied troops hav( entered Safejeve, Bosnia. ADMIRAL SIMS IN LONDON. Has Not Taken Part in the Armistice Negotiations. Paris, Nov. 9, 11.11 A. M.?It war learned this morning that Admira' Sims is no taking part in the armis tice negotiations as American repre sentative, but has gone to London. SOLDIER TRAIN WRECKED IN ILLINOIS. Three Killed and Twenty Injured for Collision. Aurora, 111., Nov. 9.?A train bear ing hundreds of soldiers from Camr Grant, who came to witness the foot l-bai! game at Chicago with Camp Tay I lor squad was wrecked in collision ; with a passenger train near her*, i today. Three dead were taken from ? the wreck. The injured will number twenty troops, an officer says. TO FORCE KAISER'S ABDICA TION. j Socialists Will Wait Until Armisttcc is Signed. i Washington. Nov. 0.-? Diplomat ic I dispatches coming through Switzer land today say official German infor mation shows that Socialists are de laying steps to force the Kaiser's ab dication, pending "expected signing of j the armistice." DRY FORCES LEADING. Victory Seems certain in Minnesota. j St. Paul. Nov. s.?Returns on the i State-wide prohibition amendmt ?r ! which wei r nearing completion to night showed the dry forces leading by about S.000 votes. As the amend ment must receive a majority of the votes cast at the election to be adopted, a victory for the wets seems certain unless the missing country preclacta return big dry majorities. HO SM STOP, THEKE WILL BE NO IMMEDL1TE CANCELLATION or WAR CONTRACTS. Chairman of War Industries Board Makes Announcement of Course to be Followed. Washington, Nov. $.- -Chairman Baruch of the war industries board authorized the statement tonight that the coming of peace will not result in immediate cancellation of war supply contracts, but that contracts will be cancelled gradualy as requirements are reduced, making it possible to lift curtailments and restrictions up on ordinary industrial activities. "For some time to come," said Mr. Baruch, "assuming the armistice will be signed for a period to be deter mined by the war making agencies of the government contracts must continue on a wide scale. This cir cumstance applies to a considerable 'share of present contracts. "As the demand for raw materials! is lessened by the reduction of war requirements and the cancellation of war contracts, and when such can cellations be made, the raw mater ials so made available will be releas ed and allocated by the war indus tries board, for use in supplying civ ilian and export demands, which through curtailment, have been sel dom, checked during the war. In ad dition to the ordinary commercial re quirements there will be a heavy flow of materials released to supply the demand for the great recon structional work required by the Eu ropean countries. "At the same time there is to be a gradual falling- of the restriction and curtailments that have been im posed upon industry by the exigency of the war so as to allow as promptly possible free flow of all supplies to peace channels. "The war industries board will continue to exercise its functions un- j til the peace treaty is signed, to the ?nd that the readjustment of the mat ters on which it has been actin? may be made in as orderly a manner as possible. "A committee named by the pres ident has been and is now at work to bring about the best mechanism of bringing about readjustments from a war to a peace basis. The report of the commitee may take the form of sugested legislation. "The whole effect of the readjust ment plans will be to the end of bringing about necessary changes with as little dislocation ,as possible and the full opportunity for all to bene fit as in the past bv ndividual in genuity, vision and fair dealing." WEATHER HELPS CORN. Increase of Thirty Million Bushels, Washington, Nov. S.?October | weather conditions resuked in an in- j crease of 30.000,000 bushels in thej country's crop of corn. The depart ment of agriculture's November crop report today placed the preliminary estimate of production at 2,749,19S, 000 bushels. While the crop is smaller in size than last year's, its food value is materially greater be cause the quality this year is more than ten points higher. With a wheat crop of about 919, 000,000 bushels which is some 100, 000,000 more than the average of the last five years, and large crop? of rye. buckwheat, potatoes, rice, beans, onions and cabbages, the country's food crops this year have boon bountiful. The crop of tobacco is a record one by 70,000,000 pounds, being 1, 266,686,000 pounds this year. BIG CROP OF TOBACCO. Never so Large as This Year in His tory. Washington, Nov. S.?Never before was there a crop of tobacco so large as this year's. With the exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, every South ern State increased its production this year, North Carolina leading with an increase of 38,000,000 pounds over last year's large crop. The production by States, the department of agri culture announced today is: Vir ginia 150,997,000 pounds, an in crease of 21,000,000 pounds; North Carolina 242,220,000, increase 38, 000,000; South Carolina 62,208,000 pounds, increase 11.000,000; Florida. 4,416,000, increase 1,000,000; Ten nessee 62,018,000, decrease 17,0000, 000; Kentucky, 3SS,170,000, decrease 38,000,000. The quality this year is 87.7 com pared with S6.4 last year; the acre yield 871.8 pounds, compared with SI6.0 last year. SUNDAY WORK DISCONTINUED. Navy Yards Will Stop Sunday Work, j Beginning To-Morrow. Washington. Nov. 9.?The Navy department today issued an order discontinuing, until further notice, all Sunday work at navy yards and other shore stations of the navy. The order will be effective tomorrow. American PrLsoncrs. Thive Alabama Men in German. Frisson Camps. Washington", Nov. 9.?The names of Americans in German prison! camps include at Rastaat. Ollie Car- j ter. Gadsden, Ala.. Sylvester Cle-| ments, Geneva, Ala., and Private Ar-j thur EdWards, Meltonville. Ala., is reported at an unknown camp. NEW SPANISH CABINET. Count Romanones. Strong Man ol j Spain, Asked to Form Government.; Madrid. Nov. A. M.?King Al-J fonso has asked fount Romanones to I form a new ministry. The latter hasj promised to answer by noon today. J Seems as if the government ought to take over the entire supp'y of one or two of these patent medicines. If they are up to their advertising, an army properly primed with them ought to be able to clean up the ene my in half a day.?Los Angeles Times FURLOUGHS FOR WORKMEN, tefialh e fselMeGcice f,c-ah h hh - terial help to many of the agricultur* Negro Limited Service Draftsmen To al districts where farm labor is de j lie Transferred to Construction Di-! cidedly short. vision. All over the South, especially in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, there is a dearth of help and nothing that the war department could do would so materialy assist that section j Washington, Nov. S.?The j nouncement, just made by the i department, that negre limited vice men would be furloughed to | now as furloughing of farm help, j work on projects under the supervis- j both white and negro, until mustered J ion of the construction division of the out of the service. [army and that 20,000 men will im- -:-; .'mediately be sent to Camp Jackson j MAXIMILIAN WILL TAKE MES jand other camps for this purpose, isj SAGE. [the most important order yet issued! - looking toward a demobilization oi i Chancellor Will Communicate Armis American troops. Besides Campj tice Terms to Reichstag. Jackson, the men are soon to go toj ? Camp Wheeler, Camp Sevier and to j Paris, Nov. 9, 4.25 A. M.?It is re Charleston, where much work is to! garded as probable in well informed be undertaken in the near future. j circles that Prince Maximilian, the This means, according to the best j German chancellor, will today corn information available here, that not j municate the terms of armistice to only will no more men be sent across i the committee of reichstag leaders seas, but that as quickly as possible] and will himself convey their vote to those already in camps will be fur-1 authorize the plenipotentiaries to loughed in the manner indicated uu- | sign the armistice. til they be officially mustered out off - > the service. There is now no neces- j PRINCE MAX HOLDS ON sity for additional American troops' being sent abroad, it is said here, end no reason why those in camp should be held with nothing to do while the work of mustering them out is in progress. Kaiser Clings to Remnant of Powci" and Retains Imperial Chancellor. Copenhagen, Nov; 9.?Emperor William has not accepted the resig I nation of Prince Maximilian, aeecrd The second important step lies in j ing to a Berlin message today. The ?the fact that after construction work I message adds that the emperor asked is supplied, labor interests generally Maximilian to continue holding the throughout the country will be simi j office provisionally until a final dec% larly supplied. This will be of ma- 1 ion has been reached. ^?mmi?>??.;..:m^v?h>^^?:?k?h>.i?i.>|' : > k m i t t mi ??mi ?wt The Hatianal Bank 4 South Caraflaa % Plant More Grain and Lick the Hun! We have helped to pat ali Liberty Loans over. ?To make all Crops. ?And are still at your service, WITH THE GOODS. c. g. rowland, President F E. HINNANT, $ Csthier. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Our Total Resources in 1917 Were $900,000. OUR RESOURCES NOW AtlE $1,500,000 AN INCREASE OF $680,000. ' ;?!???>?!'?>??I1**'K1