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? THK SUMTER \VATCHMA>T, Estate Consolidated Aug. 2,1 LESS WORK REPAY Members of House of Represen tatives Vote to Pay Them- j selves Larger Salary. " SENATE COLDLY TURNS DOWN PROPOSITION: Both Senate and House Have: Passed Bills Providing for: Adoption of Budget System. , Columbia, Feb. 27.?The bouse'of representatives last night voted to pay the members of the general as sembly ?100 each for expenses for! "the present session. Several unsuc-! cessful attempts had been made to j put over resolutions of a similar na- \ tore during1 the session but all had \ mot, with defeat'Last night, however..; a majority of the members voted in j X-favor of the resolution and it was! ? - ?er t to the senate, where it was very ] i pTMirptly rejected. The senate last night passed the bill providing for a new and greater Cits del- This bill carried an appro pirJttion of $300,000, one-third avail able this year, one-third next year ami one-third in 1921. The proceeds from the sale of the ok! site and old buildings will also be applied to the construction of the new institution. The senate last night adopted a substitute compulsory education bill j for the one sent over from the houje. The substitute ? bill was offered by & nator Duncan of Union and is re garded by friends of compulsory edu cation as an improvement over the house measure. The house last night adopted Rep . resentative John R. Hart's bill pro viding for the adoption of a budget system in the State. The bill is sim ilar to one passed by the " senate Adption of the system now seems as sured. There was a'warm fight or. the measure in the house. The gov-j ernor delivered a special address to j the general assembly Tuesoay night j urging- the adoption of this system. ;*!v. The appropriation bill will be tak- j en up in the senate today and given J secCnd reading. Adjournment sine ?ie Saturday night seems a little i more probable-now than it did forty- j eight hours ago. The senate today passed and sent j - to the house a bill by Senators Banks; av*d Laney providing for the creation o'~ a. board of exports and market ^Ing. This board would consist of! ?ve-members, including the State cot-1 ton warehouse commissioner and the j c??nmissioner oi agriculture who vfW j iSse members ex-officio, and three oth- j er members to be appointed by th< governor by and with the advice and I ccns<-nt of the senate. Of the three j appointed members one shall be a j person' experienced. in banking or j finance, and one shall have been ac- ; lively engaged in the mercantile bus- : ?r^-ss in the State for at least two years prior to his appointment. The fvcvernor must designate one of Hie j five members as president of the| board. The president will be the cbier executive officer of the board] and will devote his ent're time to j the work of the board. He will re-j ceive an annual salary of $5.000. The: two other members' appointed by the governor shall receive a salary of $2.-; 000 a year and their reasonable j traveling expenses. - , The bill provides that corporations j \ to t*e organized for the purpose of en- ' gaging* principally in the business of j exporting commodities from the { United States to foreign countries or: to dependencies or fnsular posses-; sions of the United States may be! formed by any number of natural \ persons not less in any case than; five. ''Such persons," reads the act. 'Shrill enter into articles of associa- | tion which shall specifiy in genera!; terms the object for which the asso ciation is formed and may contain any other provisions not inconsistent! with law which the association may j see fit to adopt for the regulation r^' its business and the conduct of its affairs. These articles shall be sign ed by the persons uniting to form ! the association and a copy cf them Shall be forwarded to the board of j exports to be filed and preserved wll h the records. ?" jB Change Cotton Grades Sonth Carolina Representative in Congress Wants Number Cut From Score to Ten. Washington. Feb. 2G.?Represent*, tive Lever of South Carolina, chair man of the agriculture committee! to night introduced, in the house a bi.l !? amend the cotton future acl so :t ? to reduce the number of deliverable grades of cotton from 20 to in and to provide for government classi ?fication .pf the certificated stock of the cotton exchanges v> be delivered on contract to middling fair, st: i( * good middling, good middling, .<??):?;<: middling, middling, strict low mid dling and low middling. and the grades of yellow tinged to good mi.! d'mg and strict middling. Good middling, yellow stained cotton is also included. Washington. Feb. 27.?The me n hers of the Democratic national com mittee, which is meeting here, will be the guests of President Wilson at a luncheon at the White House tomor row. ?Sed April, 1850. ?'Bs. ?Inst a 881. NEARLY FOUR I MILLION DOLLARS - Senate Proposes Large Increase1 in Appropriations for Expen ses of State Government. l ? : r ' ? ?. ? ? : I -:- ! THE TAX LEVY WILL BE 9 3-4 MILLS Provision Made for Needs, of the National Guard?House Mem bers Persist in Effort to In crease Pay. Columbia, Feb. 27.?The general appropriation bill reported in the sen I ate today carries a grand total of I $3.939,030.43, compared with $3,234, 516.45 carried by the house bill, an increase of $73.4.513.9S. The house bill provided a levy of 7 3-4 mills and' the senate bill increased it to 9 3-4 mills. The increases in salaries granted by the senate total $12.000. The levy j last year authorized by the appro priation bill was ? 1-2 mills, but this was reduced" last fall by the comp troller general to $ 1-2 mills. The senate appropriation hi!) makes provisions for the require ments of the National Guard, appro priating" $65,000 for the purpose, if so much,be necessary. The" senate today, for the second j time, refused to pass a resolution al lowing members of the general as sembly $100 additional for expenses of the session. For Good Roads Senate Almost Unanimous for Highway Tax. j Columbia. Feb. 2.7-.?By a vote of j 3$ to 1 the senate today refused to strike out the enacting words of the good roads bill, providing a one milll levy and an auto tax of 50 cents pe< i horsepower for the construction of1 permanent roads. The final passage j of the bill is expected this after- j noon. I The hou*;e gave third reading to j Representative Hart's bill providing j for the adoption of the budget sys-} tern in the State. Progress With Pigs - Supervisor Baker Makes Report on Boys Club Work. - j Clemson College, Feb. 26.?"The] Pig Club work made unusual pro-; fzr^^ this year," says I,. L. Baker, ! Supervising Agent of Boys' Club! Work, "and created more interest - among beys, farmers, and business men than any other phase of club j work." Pig clubs were organized in 35 j [counties with total enrollment of, 2,306 members. Final complete re [ports were secured from count?'; [agents in 2a counties. 2-i-S members.] [ or 10.8 percent, report big. j Sixty members of the Fattening, : Class making complete reports fat- ; tened 60 pigs, Which gained 12.- ; I fi4?> pounds ar average cost of 11.1 j 'cents per pound, the not profits being! ! $1.725. Tn the Breeding Class and the Sow ' and Litter Class 196 boys developed j '470 purebred hogs, which gained 36,-; ,963 pounds at cest of 14.5 cents per' I pound. The total value of these was; $14.385, the net profits being $3,-! 9S4. Three hundred and thirteen mem - ! bers of the Fattening <";a-s. not. mak- . I ing complete reports, developed 313 ; pigs to a :c!al gain of 7.:2r> pounds' valued at $12,324; while 504 in the] Breeding Class, not making complete j reports, developed 1,16." p;^s for' breeding purposes to a total gain ofj 121.9X3 pounds valued at $43,501 Besides these there were 1.331 Emergency pitr club members who developed 1.3::i pigs to a total gain! of 195,650 pounds valued at $34,-! 93S. The demand for purebrcds of prop er type for club work was so great, says Mr. Baker, thai more than 1,000 Durocs. Polands. Berkshires, and others were purchased and brought in through county agents and exten sion specialists. Several hundred of these were bred gilts and there are now from this source l.'.OO to 2.000 purebreds in the hands of club mem bers for future breeding. A feature of the Pig Club work which shows, general interest in bogs is in the fact thai most of the pigs used by club members were bought by banks and other business men and sold to the boys for cash, en contract not<\ or on the endless Chain plan. So are th<' youngsters being taught business as well as hog lore. * Princess Pat Married Most Popular Member of Eng lish Royal Family Weds in Westminster. London, Feb. 27.?Princess Patrb ' cia. of Conaught and Commander R. M. Ramsay of tin* !j(.y.:! Navy, were ? married in West Minister Abbey a; noon today. Xo olhor social event ' since the outbreak of thm war cre ated such public interest. Kin;.: < George. Queen Mary and a great as-.' semblage of members of tim royal family and disting" 'shed officials, both British and foreign governments, attended. od Fear cot?Let all the ends Thou AI SUKTER, S. C, SATtJ] Great Throngs Line the Streets and Cheer Him as He Leads Parade. RETURNED SOLDIERS HONORED BY PEOPLE People of Washington Exhibit Cordiality and Enthusiasm in Greeting President Wilson. :! Washington, Fob. 27.?Washington | gave- Presderit Wilson its formal wel come home today by turning out in 'thousands to cheer the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, headed by the president, in honor of the hom?-ccm ing soldiers of the capital. Mai. h ing with a swinging stride, the pres ident took the lead as the proces sion started from the peace monu ment at the captal grounds. Army airplanes and dirigibles hovered over head. It was the president's first pubiic appeai'ance here since return-, in afrom France. He was given an enthusiastic greeting by the crowds! 'filing the avenue as he marched be hind the Marine band, shouldering a big f.ag. Cotton?What to Do With It Commissioner of Agriculture Harris States His Viwes of j the Situation. Columbia, Feb. 27.?Cotton?what tro do with it? That is the question thai is uppermost in many minds. B. Karris, Commissioner of Agriculture has been giving this question most of his attention for all of his life, and he insists that if other countries can fix the price of the commodities which they grow, the South should be able :c? iix the .prlce of cotton. "Really, we have no cotton marked now, and will, have none until we have w?rld-wide and unrestricted in tercourse with all other nations.'" ?>ays Mr. Harris. This, of course. ma> ;not come until the treaty of peace has been signed, although the allies have lifted the blockade in the Med iterranean. I see by the news re ports that on the 17th instant exports were :)?!?.000 bales against 6,000 for the same day last year. The reason why such heavy exports are not stif fening the market is because the; shipments consis! of cotton belonging j to English, French, Italian and Span-1 ish cotton mills and merchants and j have been carried in the American! ports for the last year or two. ana in some instances longer. "Xo new buying is in evidence, but1 tl-'s stock of cotton will be exhausted; soon, and somebody will have to bo gin to buy. It is amusing just to j think that a few months ago how enthusiastic the bulls were to buy at| cents. How can they have rhej heart to talk bear dope ;:t 2." cents; when there is no more cotton now! Lor the world's consumption thin! when they were giving 35 cents? They! will talk to you about the great! abundance of stocks of dry goods on j hand in the retail stores and the same, time they will have to confess tliatj the merchants are buying from hand i to iricuth basis. A3 soon as the ar- ! mistice was signed, every cotton mi1! j and every bearish cotton trader in | the world sei out to convince the, world thai about five million bales would be all that the world 'would , consume, even if it. should be abb? to j handle that amount. "The best authorities say now that there is not enough cotton for the! supply of the wrld's needs, but fhe| supply is more than the world will, take with cenditions as they are.! Condi; nie? will change, and when; tin y do there will be something do-i mg in the market that will be inter osting to the man who has cotton. So' mach 'or the situation?here is the! remedy. "You farmers and bankers have it : in your hands. Held tin- Iii IS crop off the market: cut acreage !-:; ; per cent and fertilizer anywhere from 1-3 to .".a pep cent. Don't fail to do these things if yon want to win. You have the best hand in the game and don't give it away. "Let us see what is to be gained by following this program: "First, yon win show the specula tors of the world that we will net allow oar own God-given monoply? which is cotton the great money crop the South, and the South raises 7<> per cent of it to clothe the world? to be handled by .-. bunch of inanipt; latoi-s to enrich themselves and the ] ;>eopU- who gave it. go so poorly clad < hai they have not enough clothes to < keei) them warm in white,-. i "We have been milking this obi ^ ?ow long enough and milking ami ] ttrrning tin- milk ever ;<> the other i follow. We arc going to milk far ; mr own selves in the future. \ "Let's make a little calculation to ? :ee what we would lose if we were to 1 ? go the remainder of our 191> \ ;rO]V at today's prices, quoted at 2^. ? :-eius. From the liest authority we ] :an get we now have 750.000 bales in I i this State. If sold at present spot | t >rice i: wouid bring $93,750,000. Ifj< iie],! and sold for 35 cents the rerje na Inder of the crop would bring! ?131,250,000. If sold at present13 mc't at be thj Country'*, Tbj God'a * RDAY, MASCH 1, 1919. Monarchists Contemplate Coup . in Berlin and Seizure of Government. j OFFICER CLASS HAVE THE UPPER HAND i I Success of Plot Would Result; i i ! i i in Ruthless Civil and Political i I Murder. j London, Fol). 27.?The monarchists ! ! of Germany are contemplating an j early coup in 'the opinion of The j I Mail's Berlin correspondent, who; ? says the old officer class with the j i general staff have been gradually getting the whip hand there since January 13th and now hold the gov ernment in their power. T?C threat ened coup would be carried out in i Berlin alone. the correspondent j writes and probably would, for a time, : be successful, although it would no j doubt result in ruthless civil war and unscrupulous political murder. The Armistice Negotiations Stop German Commission Leaves Spa According to Berlin Report. Geneva, Wednesday, Feb. 2$.?Tc -'rht's .Swiss newspapers print a Berlin dispatch stating that owing to the sudden suspension of thrt ar mistice negotiations the German com mission left Spa this morning for Berlin. The reason for the reported suspension is not given. The Geneva Report Is Discredited j Germans Submitted to Drastic Armistice Terms. f Washington, Feb. 2S.?Officials here j believe the Berlin dispatches publish : ed in Switzerland referring to a "sus j pension" of armistice negotiations i were based upon misinformation or I were misconstrued by the Swiss pa ' pers. Xo advices received here cast j any doubt upon the earlier dispatches! i reporting the conclusion of the no- 1 I gotiations with the acceptance by; I Germans of the drastic renewal ecu- ? ' ditiohs. Orchard Spraying A Valuable Circular of Instruc- j tion From Clemson. Clemson College, Feb. 25.?Unusual interest is being shown throughout the State In better fruit. Old homo j orchards are being renovated and ?mn Ireds of new ones are being es- j ?.-..;.iished '.his winter. The Extension j ::crvice horticulturists and county ?ge;rts are leading this movement for' more fruit; and the Extension Ser vice entomologists and plant pa thol-! ogists are joining in to work for bet- ! tor fruit. ? As one means of aiding in this ? work a valuable circular of instruc-! tion has just been issued by the Ex tension Service entitled '"Orchard Spraying;" by Prof. A. F. Conrad! and Prof. H. W. Barre. The publication contains simple instruction about j: what. when, and how to spray, as! as veil as how to get or make the j ' sprays. Write the Extension Service-; for Extension Circular 17. ??Orchard:1 Spraying." It. is free. French Demand Ships , ,- _ !! Prominent Editor Asserts That | - France Will Not Consent to j* Sinking Warships. Paris. Feb. 27.?The French dele-jt i f gation at the peace conference will energetically oppose the sinking ofj the German fleet, says Stephan Lau-U sanne. in the Matin. The other now-!' ers mav do what thev like with their' share of thf> fleet, but Prance is firm- '., !y determined to use the ships which \ fall to France when the fleet is di- , vid< d among the allies, in proportion to the losses each suffered during the.! war, M. Lausanne adds. prices we would be loser $37.500. 0<M?. Can we afford this loss? b '*Any farmer who has cotton on hand now will make more money if! lie wi!! hold on to it. and not go to thei >xpense of buying high price fertilise-' ?r and higher price labor to make 1 new cotton crop this year. If he will d >!.!a: vorn and sow the remainder of j Si his land in peas and turn under the :1 ?eas for fertilizer he will improve his ? et >oil ..11< 1 be better off than the man si vho sells his cotton and then plants w mother crop of cotton. | ci ? i urge every farmer in the State ti o be sure this year and plant corn : tnd peas and forage crops*and raise; tiogs for his honte consumption forjn next year, and if they will do that;*' bey will never see cotton sold for tu ???st of production-?and even cheap-;1" "Farmers, you have the remedy in ! in rour hands. It is up to you." 1 w: ad Tre?a'a." THE TB?1 EVIKI ARE COLLAPSE Defeated With Serious Loss By Esthonian Army Near ? Narva. LEADERS IN PETROGRAD BECOMING UNEASY Recent Arrivals in Sweden Say Red Organization is Weaken ing?Compulsory Labor to be Enforced. Stockholm, Feb. 27.?The official statement by the Esthonian army headquarters reports severe fighting near Xarva. Pskov, Volman and Salisbury. The statement claims that the Esthonians repulsed the Bolshev iki, indicting serious loss. A Petrograd telegram says the Sol che vi:<i new. papers arc commenting anxiously upen the reverses sustained in the fighting against the Esthonians. Arrivals from Libau declare that the Bolsheviki on the Baltic front are weakening and their organization appears near collapse. London. Wednesday, Feb. 26.?The Russian Soviet government, says a wireless dispatch, is instituting a system of registration preparatory to enforcing compulsory work for all. -1 Money for Health Work Seven Counties Mention Matter in Supply Bills. Columbia. Feb. 20.?A clear indi cation of the steady increase in. inter est in matters pertaining to the pub lic health is afforded by a brief study of the county supply bills. Seven counties have mrde appropriations for intensive county health work, and all want State aid in order to increase the funds being appropriated for the work. The seven counties are Lex ington, Orangeburg. Calhoun, Suni cer. Leo, Darlington and Marion. Dr. l.. A. Riser, who is-the director of rural sanitation in South Carolina, -aid yesterday that when the county health work was first inaugurated, considerable difficulty was encotmter ?d in arousing interest in the move ment, and only two counties, Green wood and Orangeburg, provided for the work. This year no county has been asked to make appropriations, yet seven have voluntarily set aside ?arms In'^Vir supply bills for this work. ' The director of rural sanitation.' thinking that only six counties would | mention the work in their supply i bills, asked for an appropriation of: $20.nan to assist the counties in the; work. With seven counties it will i iikely be?necessary to have $22.000 toj rJo the work effectively, that is. if the. Ptate is to supplement the amounts j ;et aside by the counties. When the work is taken up in a j county, a physician is put in charge; of th>' health work of the entire! y:i:itv. Tf the need arises he can be] called into service when contagious: Hisehses make their appearance. Thisj physician has inspectors who make; i sanitary survey of the county, going' from house to house : nd making: recommendations which tend to im-i Drove sanitary conditions. The doc-! tor in charge delivers lectures in j *ehoo7s and clubs on topics dealing svlth the conservation of health, j ?ome of the counties have nurses j vho render aid in homes when their: services are needed. In the second year medical in?fpec Ion of schools is undertaken and j parents are notified of remedial de- j ec'ts which are handicapping their: children. Later a second inspection, s made to see whether or not the ?ecommendations made have been J rarried out. and if they have not the! varents are interviewed personally!; vith regard to the defect, and ef orts are made to have the child so. reated that it will have an equal;1 ?hance with its fellows. The importance of the work can"' i ?areely be overestimated, and that; he people of many counties realize uliy what it means for their com- [' nunities is evidenced by the fact that ? even of them, without solicitation., ave put in the work. i' The amounts appropriated by the everal counties vary from ?-..~on to : 3.G00. The ultimate aim of the {\\. ector of the work is to have an ef- ' ?ctive county health organization in - ach oountv of the State.. Speak in New York 'resident Wilson Has Accepted Invitation for Eve of De parture. Washington, Feb. 27.?The presi ent today accepted an invitation to ? ?oak in New York Tuesday night on ' te eve of sailing for France. Form- t; ? President Taft is expected to be a t< >eaker at the same meeting, which ? ill be under the auspices of the so- r el.ies advocating the league of na ons. t ?????- .> Berlin, Wednesday. Feb. 26.?3VIu- n ch advices received today indicate u at the day passed without dis- ;i rbance. The funeral of Kurt Eise ?r. the Bavarian premier, who was ;assinated bsst week, was the most [} ipos;r>g demonstration Munich ever n; messed. ' b 5 SO?TKBON, EatabHsbed Jone, *?* Vol. XLVIH. No. ? Makes Address Before' Joint Session of the Legislature Opposes Bond Issue Now. ADVOCATES ADOPTION OF BUDGET SYSTEM Governor Says System Should Be Paid for by Taxation of . ?5,000,000 or $6,000,000. Columbia. Feb. 25.?Gov. Cooper tonight addressed the generals assem bly in joint session on the subject of a system of permanent highways and the -budget system and urged the passage of laws at this session of the ? legislature putting them into effect. The address of the executive was Vis j tened to attentively by the legisla | tors and was given liberal applause. The governor said that he did not ! believe in a bond issue for perma ; nent highways at this time; that, in i h-s opinion, the good roads system !-hcuid be paid for by taxation, which should raise between $5,000,000 and j ?6,000.000. Every class of property, I he alleged, should be equitably tax ed according to the benefits it re ceives from a system of permanent highways. He advocated a special license tax for motor driven vehic'es, a special graduated tax on property , abutting the improved roads and a i general tax on all the property of the State. was of the opinion that counties which had spent money I on permanent highways under the general State scheme of highways, ^ Should he g'ven credit for it. J Governor Cooper eloquently def scr-hed the benefit which would he derived by the people of the State, j improving educational facilities, ; bringing the church nearer the rural {population, drawing the farms and j country into closer inter-communica" It-en, advancing the social status of the country folks and enhancing the : industrial development of South Car olina. j In ? a few short sentences the *goV ernos sketched the advantages to be ! derived by the State from the adop i tion cf a budget system. This method j of governing appropriations, he said, would give an intelligent idea of ev j ci y cent of money expended by the I State, the counties, the towns and the cities and the school districts. To dealing with the problem of good roads Governor Cooper said in part: * "X do not believe we should delay the actual construction of roads un- ? til a bond issue may be voted. I doubt if we could at this time judiciously spend more than five or six million dollars per annum for roads, and .this amount can be raised easily by taxa tion. During one year of'the war we subscribed or contributed for war purposes an aggregate of ? about one hundred million dollars, and no bank ruptcies have come to my attention as a result of this wonderful generosity and patriotism. Sureiy we can now raise, one-twentieth of this amount annually until we have a thorough system of roads throughout the State. "A controlling principle in the levy cf a tax should be to distribute the burden in such a way as to require, each class of property subject to the tax to pay its just proportion.-If any particular class of property is to re ceive a special benefit from the ex penditure of the tax money, it is nothing' more than reasonable that such property pay proportionately . mere of the tax than does other prop erty. ?'Applying this principle it seems to nie tha< ,al mot->r driven vehicles :hould pay a special road tax, since Lhe owners and operators of these vehicles would receive a special ben efit. It is also true that alb property ?butting on or adjacent to the high ways To be improved would necessar :y receive a special benefit, so a special graduated tax should apply to ib such property. And finally, all >rcpe?ty and every individual would receive a general benefit from a' ?tate road system, therefore a gener t! tax on all proporty should be lev er!, this general tax to apply,, also, property classed as specially bene ited. ? If any county has spent its funds n building permanent highways, md .such highways are taken into a State system, the county should be :iven credit for the present value of he permanent improvements on hose units in the State system. Attorney Gen. Palmer L Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsyl vania, Succeeds Gregory. Washington, Feb. 27.?A. Mitchell 'aimer was today nominated for at >rney general. He will probably ike office on March 4th. the date ntativeJy fixed !>: Attorney General icgory for his retirement when he esigned seevrn'l months ago to re tn' ..' the private practice of law. he resignation of Palmer as alien roperty custodian has not been an otmocd and there is no intimation as > who may succeed him in that of Washington, Feb. ?27.?Norman apgood. of X'w York, was nomi ited for minister to Denmark today y the president