The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 12, 1919, Image 3
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.