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Session is Three Weeks Old and Practically Nothing Has Been Done. MAY BE IN SESSION MORE THAN FORTY DAYS Several Important Matters to Be Considered?Gov. Cooper Urges Adoption of Budget System. (By Harold Booker.) Columbia, Feb 8.?Both houses of the general assembly adjourned yes terday for the week-end. The senate adjourned early in the afternoon until Tuesday while the houst* adjourned last night to meet again Monday night at 8 o'clock. The general assembly seems to be making slower progress at this ses sion than at any previous session in many years. It has now been in ses sion over three weeks and practical ~?% ly no bills have been enacted into law. The only bill of State-wide im portance that has passed was the sal aries bill that was pased the first week of the session. Very important legislation is pend ing in both houses but very little headway is being made on it. It was generally thought that the senate would take up the tax commis sion bill this week and dispose of it one way or the other but the week has passed with nothing done on it. The bill has been a special order for the whole week and yesterday was made a special order for next Tues day afternoon at 4 o'clock by Senator McColl of Marlboro. About the only thing the senate has done, this week of special notice was the passage of a bill raising the sal aries of circuit judges to $4,000 a year, the salaries of solicitors to. $2, 400 and the salaries of court steno graphers to $2,100. At the same time it passed a bill allowing members of , the Supreme Court who reside in Co lumbia $1.500 a year additional. Sen ator McColl made a fight on the lat ter measure saying that it was mere ly dodging the law which prohibits the raising of a salary of an official during his term of office. Other sena tors insisted, however, that there was a great advantage to the lawyers in having members of the Supreme Court reside in Columbia because they would then be more accessible to all of the lawyers of the State. The senate yesterday put its foot down 5n the proposed co-ordination of the government of the-State colleges. Senator Christensen early in the ses sion .introduced a concurrent resolu tion providing for a commission to in vestigate the plan and to report back at the next session. The ? senate yes terday took up the resolution and af ter a brief debate laid it on the table. ?Senator Sheppard of Edgefleld made a very strong speech against the res olution and his views seemed to pre vail in the senate. The Ed gefiel d sen ator, whose every word falls on at tentive ears in the senate, declared that the State would be wasting mon ey in the appintment of such a com mission. If the commission should report bac kthat the co-ordination of government scheme was not feasible the State's money would have been wasted. If it should report back rec ommending the adoption of the plan, the legislature would reject it and nothing would have been acocmplish ed. said Senator Sheppard. THs was Senator Sheppard's first week in the senate, he having been sworn in on Wednesday and was in his seat during the memorial ser vices to his son-in-law and predeces sor, the late Senator B. E. Nicholson. The senate finally got rid of the resolution providing for a constitu tional convention this week and it is ndw in the house, where it will have rougher sailin gthan it had in the senate. ? The fate of the bill in the lower house is problematical. The unani mity of the senate on the matter may have ;ts effect on the house. Cer tain it is that the lawyers of the low er body will do all in their power to get it by. A bill has been introduced In the lower house by Representatives Davis and Kinard of the Laurens delegation to abolish free tuition in all State in stitutions for higher learning in this State and to substitute a loan fund. This is an administration measure.! having been advocated by Gov. Coop-1 er from every stump in South Caro-; lina. It is expected that there will be quite a lively fight on the measure, however. Quite a great deal of labor legisla tion is pending in both houses. The house this week killed a 4S-hour a we^k hM for textile operatives. Sev eral otffr bills attempting to regulate the hours of texiilo operatives are or. the calendar yet. however, two or three having been introduced yestcr j day. Senators pea roe and Rogers yester day introduced a bill to limit their I hours of work to r,4 a week or ten j hours a day. Represenativo Long also introdueed a measure last night regulating the hours of labor in the! industrial and manufacturing enter-' prises for South Carolina. The committee on commerce and * manufactures will hold a hearing on Wednesday afternoon on a resolution ? by Representative Meares expressh sympathy for the cott?n mill strikersj and calling on maufacturcrs to er..:.' them an 8-hour day. The good roads committee of th*?| house to which was referred the good roads measures last night report ) ? bill which is modeled after the bill endorsed by the state highway cam-1 paign committee and introdtic-d ??? ! the house early last week. The bill, has been changed, however, ?.- ? to eliminate a number of objectionable features. As introduced it provides tin- ma-i chinery for the construction of a ' State highway system whether that system be financed by a bond issu:. by a straight automobile license tax. by a straight 3-mill levy or by hsscs ment of abutting property. The bill for an enabling act on a $25.000.000 bond issue will be brought up next week in both houses and a tremen dous effort made to put it over. If j this effort should fail, then other i means will be resorted to. The good I roads people are determined to have legislation at this session. They are not content that another session shall come to a close with no steps taken to lift the State out of the mud. Th? ; ' and issue plan seems to be the one I with the strongest sentiment behind ; it and it is believed now that the ! legislature will pass it. ! There is a report that Gov. Cooper i will address the general assembly next I week on the tax problem. Tie is es pecially anxious that the State budget [bill get through and if it gets through j he feels that the county budget sys ! tern should also become a law as it is a companion measure, i In the meantime unless the mem i bers of the general assembly get I down to work they are going to be in i Columbia much more than 40 day? ! or adjourn with much important ieg i isiation not acted upon. Representative Turner of Cheseer field county has introduced in th?. house a bill to amend .section 9 of ! the act creating the State highway de partment by adding a proviso allowing counties to place an additional tax on motor trucks. Representatives Dreher and Kecnar. j have introduced a bill to amend the act creating the highway department by changing the amount to be retain ed by the highway commission. They would make that amount 10 per cent, of the auto tax instead of 20 per cent, as at present. Representative "Hub" Evans has introduced a bill in the house that would make it against the law for any farmer to sell a bale of cotton for less than 35 cents a pound. The bill would provide a tine of $1,000 for each i violation of the act. This is but one of the many freak j bills that have found their way into the bill hopper this session. Western Strike Fails Leaders Express Hope for Gen eral Collapse. San Francisco, Feb. 9.?Collapse of .i he general sympathetic strike movt j nent at Tacoma, Wash.. renewe< j hope for conservative leaders at Seat tle that the genet a' strike there wouid be terminated within the next 24 hours and arrival of troops at Butte, Men., to suppress possible disorders growing out of the strike of copper miners featured Sunday's strike activ ities in Western communities. The sit uation in the San Francisco Bay dis rict seems possible of settlement to night. Important conferences are schedul ed for tomorrow to determine if pos sible upon a settlement of the dis pute. At Tacoma chief interest centered tonight on Seattle and Butte. The Seattle city officials, headed by Mayor Hanson have declared that municipal industries will b'? operated if work men have to be imported fron; other parts of the country. The Eutte strike was called by min er members of the I. W. W. as a pro test against a recent reduction in pay which the operating companies, said was occasioned by the low price of copper. Deporting the L W. W. Agitators Special Train Carrying Fifty Four Alien Enemies Pass Chicago. Chicago. Feb. 10.?Fifty-four asem of the Industrial Workers of the World passed through Chicago last night on a special train, under heavy guard, en route for an Atlantic port, where it is said they will he deported. Forty of them came direct from Seat tle, and a majority of them are alien labo;- agitators. The cars that carried hem were detoure-d around Butt'-, Montana, on account of reports that ! mob there wouid try to release them. Lawrence. Mass., Feb. 10.?Ime Kaplan, secretary of the committee directing the textile strike heir, was arrested today on the federal charge of evading the draft. Later Kaplan's wife apeapred with his registration card. SUMTEK MAX'S LUCKY FIND. Will Tnt crest Sumter Readers. Those having the misfortune to I suffer from backache, urinary disor- i ders, gravel, dropsical swellings, rheu- | matic pains, or other kidney and blad- | der disorders, will read with gratifica- i tion tnis encouraging statement bv a. [Sumter man: j J. R. V. ingate. blacksmith. 5 Sum- j ter St.. says: " Some time ago I wa.*- j troubled with my kidneys. .My back j iached and terrible headaches cam< | on. 1 thought my head would split, the pains were so bad. My nerve? , were all unstrung and I often couldn'i work. Dizzy spells bothered me a i good deal and I always felt tired and languid. My kidneys bothered me at I night and I had to get up five or sin : times to pass the secretions, which were scanty. Doan's Kidney Pills were highly recommended, so 1 : bought some and used them. 1 tell you. it certainly was great relief that ! secured in a short time and fmallvi I was e?itirely cured;" Price 0'"-. at all dealers. Don't j simply ask for a kidney remedy?get j !-eun's Kidnev Pills the same that ; Mr. Wingate had. Fostor-Miibum I Co., Mr-^vs., Buffalo. X. V. Advt 20.J Cost of Chain Gangs - I Holds State Convict Force j i Would Save Money. Columbia. Feb. 10.?The following.! report was issued by the State board i :>f charities and corrections yesterday: 'The McCutcheon-Mears bill for the creation of a State convict road force :>ut of our present county chaingang has raised the question of the cost of our county cor ct system. On study ing the available figures, which we gathered from the county supply bills 3f 1918. we were surprised to find that ;ho counties of the State were spend ing an average of 2.25 mills on their chaingang. Under the provisions of the McCutcheon-Meares bill the State convict road force would cost only one mill cn the taxable property of the .-Late, a saving of 1.23 millage per year, or $462,480 annualy. When it is taken into consideration that the sev eral counties will get better service on their roads and will receive back all of the man power that they send out. and besides, that they will save $462,4SO 3 year, it is hard to see what argu ment could be made to satisfy the people of outh Carolina that the pres ent system should bo retained. Are r;ur tax payers so enamored with the county chaingang that they are wil ling to spend $482,580 a year just jr the pleasure of keeping it? Be 'ow arc statements of the cost of the chaingangs in 30 rounties The cost in 9 counties was not available when we gathered these figures: Aiken: Total <"or all purposes. $S9. 102.OS: total millage. 0 1-2 mills: total for chaingang. $30.000: millage for chaingang. 2.17 mills; number of con victs. 9-30-18-4$. Bamberg. Total for all purposes. ?30,020; total millage. 7 1-2 inills: total for chaingang, $12.200: millage for chaingang. 3 mills: number of convicts. 9-30-18-16. Bamwell: Total for all purposes. $61.3S4.43; total millage, S 1-4 mills: total for chain era ng $5.000; millage for chaingang. .82 mills: number of convicts. 9-30-18-14. Fe- ufort. Total for all purposes. S32.97 7.50; total millage. 5 1-2 millfc: total for chaingang. $5.000: millage for chaingang, 82 mills; number of convicts. 9-30-18-14. Berkeley. Total for all purposes. $32.83:'.."0; total millage. 7 mills: to tal for chaingang. $4.500; millage for chaingang', 98 mills: number of con victs. 3-30-1S-51. Calho rn: Total for all purposes. $29.286.50: total millage, 9 mills; to tal for chaingang, $11.000: millage for chaingang, Z.2 \ mills; number of convicts. 9-30-1$-20. Cherokee: Total for all purposes $71,3-20; total millago. 11 mills; total for chaingang. $15.000; millage for chaingang. 2.33 mills: number of con victs. 9-30-18-19, Chester: Total for all purposes. $41.012.75; total millage. 5 1-2 mills; total for chaingang. $4.000; millage for chaingang. 7.15 mills; number of convicts. 9-30-18-15. Chesterfield: Total for all pur poses. $36.190: total millage. r> 1-2 mills: total for chaingang, $4.000; ! millage for chaingang .715 mills: jnumber of convicts, 9-30-1S-S. I Clarendon: Total for all purposes. I $33,436: total millage. 7 mills; total for chaingang, S7.O00: millage for I chaingang. 1.40 mills: number of con victs. 9-30-18-17. Collet cn: Total for all purposes. $53,680; total millage. 13 mills; total f:>r chaingang. $18.000; millage for chaingang. 4.33 mills; number of convicts. 9-30-18-29. Dillon: Total for all purposes. $19.541; total millage. 9 mills; total for chaingang, $12,000; millage for chaingang. 2.25 mils; number of con victs. 9-30-1 S-S. Dorchester: Total for ali purposes. I$37.550; tot;.] millage. 9 mills: total ?for chaingang. $9.000; millage for chaingang, 2.17 mills; number of con victs. 9-30-1S-15. ? Fail-field: Total for all purposes. ; $32.794; "total millago 5 1-2 mills: .total for chaingang* $10.000; millage for chaingang 1.60 mills; number of c nvicts 9-30-18-9. Florence: Total for all purposes. $S6;123; total millage S mills: total for ohr.mrnmr $25.000: mill.-i.c^ for chaingang. 2.4 0 mils; number of con victs 9-30-18-13, 1 Georgetown. Total for all purposes. ' $47.641.25: total milage 10 mil's: [total for chaingang $1 1.000; millage j chaingang 2.30 mills; number of iconvicts 9-30-1S-19. Greenville: Total for all purposes: ;$2S3.031.S9; total miilage 13 1-2 mills; ? tofafor chaingang $25.000: millage for chaingang 1.30 mills: number of convicts 3-30-18-75. Greenwood: Total for all purposes. $70.-156.32: total millage $ mills; to tal for chainsrana: $24,000; millage for chaingang 2.75 mills; number of con ! victs 9-30-18-20. Horry: Total for all purposes $28. atota1 rniilage l'< 1-2 mills: total ''?>-?? chaingan*: $4.000: millage for chaingang .91 mills: number of con victs 9-30-18-14. Jasper: Total for all purposes $21.-! 742; total millage 7 mills; total for chaingang $3.0?A',r millage for chain-j ga?ig .9<< mills: n-mbor of convicts. 9-30-18-9. I Kershaw: Total for all purposes.; $67.240; total mill;.:? i3 mills; total i for chaingang $20:000; millage for chaingang :;.90 mills; number of con vies 9-30-13-18. Laurens: Total for .-ill purp eves. $87.545.54; total mi?'iLro mills: to tal for chaingang * I S.7fi 1.."::; miilng?? for chaingang I.SO mills: number of convicts 9-30-1^-23. Lexington: Total for all purposes. $70.07O: tot;ii millage 10 1-4 ?-:lls: total for f'lviin'.--!^' ?;'0.0'-O; for chaingang 2.90 mills: number of convict^ 9-30-18-55. SfcCormick: Total for :,]] purp :cs, $30.007.17: total millage 12 minis'- ro for chaTngans: $15.000; m iliac-" for chaingang 6 mills: number of com icts 9-30-1!8-2, Marlboro: To;.-:! for all purp' ???< $60.258.66: total miliac- !? mills: 1 .rr* 1 for chaingang SS.Oniv m?lasro for <:haingan?r 1.20 mills; number of rbh vfcts 9-30-18-" 6. \..\v?.crry: Total for ;.!1 purp? ?es $61.8Oil.85; total millage r, 1-2 mills: total for chaingang $10.850: mil tage for chaingang 1.09 m s: number of >-ov;\<'\< 9-30-18-16. Oconec: Total foi ail purposes,1 $46,216.66; total miliare 7 1-2 mills;' total for chaingang $20.000; millagei :'<'.- chaingang :> z:> mills; number of I convicts 9-30-18-15. Orangeburg: Total for all purposes' $97.815.50: total millage ^ mills; to- j tal Tor chaingang $25,000; millage for j chaingang, 2.04 mills; number of run-: victs 9-30-18-25. Pickens: Total for all purposes,, $."0.208.66; total millage 11 miils; to tal for chaingang $25,000; millage for chaingang 5.48 mills; number of con victs 9-30-18-16. Richland: Total for chaingang j $55.000; millage for chaingang 2J (mills; number of convicts 9-30-IJ I Salucla: Total for all j ? ? I $20.139; total for chaingang $ ! . . I number of convicts 9-30-18-1 2. ! Sumter: Total for all pur] $S5.991; total millage 7 3-1 mills: I tal lor chaingang $16,500; mil i chaingang 1.49 mills; number of con victs 9-30-1S-20. j Union: Total for all pu \ $100,144.34; total millage 12 :?-. I.mills;' total for chaingang ?9.0 millage for chaingang 1.15 mill numhereof convicts 9-30-lS->7. Williamsburg: Total for a }\ pur poses $23,912.50; total millage G !mills: millage for chaingang _ u.ills: number of convicts 9-30-18-12. York: Total for chaingang $13. i S00: millage for chaingang :: miils; j iiumber of convicts 9-30-1S-2S. iRcport of the Colored County Schools for January. We usualy have to send in to Dr. James H. Dillard the enrolment for January, since that month is usualiy I the heaviest. We give below the fol lowing, as evidence how litte the in ; ?uenza has interfered with the col j cred county schools. Number of different schools visited, 122; Number "of visits to schools. 31; i ether visits to homes and churches. 8; [ total visits 39. Amount of money col j looted for industrial material: Erun |son. $1.0?: St. Luke's. $1.10; Shep herd, 50c: Tram Road. $7.45; Bculah ! No. 2. $2.00; Mulberry. ."0C; Brog jdon, $3.55; Ston* Hill. $'.?.25; Dicks (new school), $$.S0: Dwyer; $2.00: Good Hope No. 1 $2.25; New Hope. $2.30; Congruity, $10; total. $57.52. Amount colected for health survey, j $110.00. Total collected for January. [$167.52. Number doing graded in j dustrial work, 225. All do work of some kind. These figures refer xc i those doing graded work, there are C. grades of industrial work, and some | few are in every grade com 1st to 6th. The average attendance for Jan uar ? of the 2- different schools visit ed 1.0.5. One or two one teacher I schools halving an enrollment of V.',Z. j L. Brags; Anthony. M. D., | County Supervisor, i Colored Teachers' Association. On Saturday, February 1st the Sum-! jter County Teachers' Association (col-1 lored) met at the demonstration rooms' on South: Salem Avenue. After sing-, ling of the hymn '?Yield Not to Temp tation" prayer was offered by Miss Sadie Lowery of MuJdrow school; af !ter which ?'Brighten the Corner" was' isung. P'r. Bragg Anthony, our Coun :y Supervisor, said that 12 months ? having expired, the time was present I for the election o.' officers. The teach-' ; ers decided that it was better to have ?:the election and no: wait as the time; wag and ail of our work has i ? ?'? already hindered; In the placed i ?;?' 3?rs. Annie Saunders, who was; chosen president in lids who is! [not t< aching at present. Miss Sadie ; Lower:, of Muldrow school was elect : d president. Miss Mary Bill of Prov ; idence school, vice president; Miss omelia Manoney of Congrtiity school elected secretary, aiid Dr. Bragg An thony treasurer. Dr. Bragg Anthony stated that at national meeting which she attended las July it was voted to have a jour nal. Rev. Silas :;. Floyd, of A^o-us a. G; .. was chosen the editor and had gotten out a most excellent jour nal. "The National Note Book." She showed us a copy and urged all to subscribe to it as it was olny 50c a year, and it wot:hi contain full infor mation concerning the national meet ing to ho held at Orangeburg, S. C. next summer. All present voted to subscribe and several paid, their sub scrip; ion to the secretary. After showing and explaining the work for this year, and the promise of all pres ent to make our teachers' meeting the hrs! Saturday in March more large ly attended through our personal ef fort, we adjourned, after having spent a pleasant and prohtal.de time. C. A. Manoney. Secretary Sumter County Colored Teachers' Assciation. I There will be prayer meeting at Mr. LS. R. J. Smith's. 2S S. Magnolia street I tonierht at S o'clock. Public cordially i invited. New Calomel is Best For Colds And Influenza Doctors Now Prescribe Calotabs, the Purified Calomel That is Safe and Nausealess. Doctors are warning the public that simple colds and mild cases of influ ^rr/.v. often lead to pnepmonia and ' s :ioi:s complications. They say ? ?old should receive imme ?:.;icn and that the first step ? ::-:)K-nt is to make sure that I.- . r is :.<-tive. For this.purpose ' ill. perfected, nausealess ?;!'.;.';:??! 5hat Is freed from danger Of ?.:!'vat:?m. ?? the surest and most' agreeable laxative. On e Fa ott-.b at bed time with a swa?cw o:- w v?er?that's all, no salts, no naus'-a. -v- danger and no upsetting; of the digestion and appetite. Next morning your cold has vanished, your liver is active, your system is purified and refreshed and you are feeling fine v.-1th a hearty appetite for breakfast.: For your protection, Calotabs are so pi in original sealed packages, price thiny-five cents. All druggists i and guarantee Calotabs by offer".::g n refund the price if you?' are act -.h-iigrUod with them.?Advt. The high school basketball team [meets the stiong Columbia team here I next Friday. This game will in all I likelihood determine the State cham ! pionship. The Sumter boys recently ! lost to the capital cijty boys.in -Coium ! bia in a close and exciting game but ; hope to even up matters next Friday. i _" i j There was Quite a large crowd a? I the Shady Side Guernsey auction sale = at the Fair Grounds today, quite a ! number of breeders and owners of [line cattle from J.ee and other coun : tics being among the attendants. The ; sab- was conducted by Col. p. I?. i Perry, the live stock auctioneer of na tional reputation. The sale was 'still j in progress when this was, written j and will continue until the last of the j cattle have been disposed of. It is j stated that the prices obtained did not run as high as anticipated. During the morning the prices ranged from $150 to $353. Always Insist on the BEST Manufactured by (Fertilizer WaSrRs) PANY Dal For Sale By R. J. MAYES, JR. sVIavesville, S. C. ?And? E. M. Wilson, Box .372 Columbia, S. C.