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COLUMBIA IiGSLATlVE __ NEWS Luxury Tax is Resum ed. Tax on Syrup and Soft Drinks is HI Reduced Columbia, Feb. 10.?Debate on the luxuries tax bill was resumed in- the house Friday morning and consumed the whole morning ses sion. Amendments were offered to tax many other articles than drinks, tobaccos, movie tickets, ammuni tion and tobaccos. %} - The house took up the raft of amendments one at a time. Sever al al amendments were offered by the ? ; ways and means committee. The tax on sqrrups for soft drinks werea-educed from twenty-five cents a gallon, to ten.cents a gallon. Mo tion of the committee a vain ef fort was made to fix this at 5 cents. The tax on chewing tobacco was raised from one-half cent to one cent. A committee amendment to omit small arms ammunition from the bi? was lost. And this class of sales was left as taxable. An amendment offered by Rep ?< Tentative Hydrick, of Orange burg to tax candies selling above fifty cents a pound, was adopted a vote to table the amendments was was lost 71 to 18. Amendments were adopted to tax dfee and playing eards five cents a .^et. toilet waters and perfumes five cents on each sale, chewing gum. one cent per package. LABOR UNIONS ARE DISPLEASED Discharged Navy Yard Work men Cause Bitter Com plaint Washington, - Feb. 12. ? Dis charge without warning of thou sands of navy yard workers whose services were no longer required be cause of the armament limitation agreement was characterized today - as "extremely inconsiderate, heart less and inhuman" and an act of "broken faith" in a letter sent by 'vTilliam H\ Johnston; president of the International Association of itachinists, to President Harding. ' The administration was asked to provide for the men by taking all forms of armament manufactured out ^ the nands of private con / tracts, by speeding up plans for na val auxiliaries allowed by the dis armament tK$ry}a*d by arranging for manufacture ?^supplies for the civH'governmeitf la" the navy yards SOLDIER 40NUS DENOUNCED Head of National Association of Manufacturers Says It is Iniquitous - : Washington, Feb. 12.?Industries ^jthe-countr\* oppose cash appro prfa'?OQft for a soldiers' bonus "as being socially unwise, an economic absurity and politically preposter ous^ according to a statement is sued, tonight by John E. Edgerton, ^-president of the National Associa ? tion of Manufacturers. That millions of former service men."can have their votes at the November election bought by a paltry dole of $500. or $GG0. pay abl^.J?.5.0 a quarter, beginning at some time in 1923, is such an insult to "their intelligence, and an out rage to their sense of decency that in my opinion it will defeat for re election every, member of congress house or senate, who supports this iniquituous measure." He added, however, that the in dustries of the "Country were nor opposing "the most generous and liberal care" for the disabled vet erans of the world war <>r the de pendents of those killed in it. Statement by Secretary Mellon Washington, Feb. 9?The sec retary of the treasury announces that all the tax-exempt 3 3-4 per cent Victory notes have been call ed for redemption at par on June 25, 1922 and .that the notes thus called for redemption may be re deemed prior to June i:.f 1922, at . the option of .the holder, at par and accrued interest to the date of optional redemption. In view of.the call for the re demption of the entir*- :> ::-4 per cent series, the secretary of the treasury has at the same time sus pended the conversion privilege of Victory Notes, and beginning Feb ruary 9, 1922 no further conver sions of Victory Notes may be made. Detailed regulations covering the redemption of 3 3-1 per ccn? Vic tory Notes and the suspension and termination of conversion privilege at"e .set forth in treasury uepart ment circular No. 277. dcted Feb ruary ft, Ki^2. Tile amount of 3 3-4 per cent victory notes outstand ing is about $400.tM>0,000 and the treasury is calling them for re demption before maturity in pur suance of the plans winch it has al ready announced for the refunding of the Victory Liberty loan. The call for redemption is thus a pan of the refunding operations which, as indicated hi the secretary's let ter, of January 24, l!c_'i', to ti. chairman of the committee on way.*? and means, will have to be carried,on during the next year and u half in ordc toirefinance the 1-2 billions of s^ort-cated debt out standing. i ROAD SURVEY IN RICHLAND CO. _ I $2,000,000 Highway System Will Be Completed Within Twelve Months Columbia. Fob. 12.?Traffic at the present, time over the highways in Richland county is below nor ! mal on account of so many roads j being under construction both in ! the county and also along the i Washington and Atlanta highway i in the eastern part of the state, j according to statcmnets made in i the economic road survey recent ! ly completed. About three months j ago, the state highway department j in conjunction with the bureau of j public roads began making an ee j onomic survey of South Carolina j by counties, and the results of the ! survey have recently been compil Jed. j Corttnuing on the subject of j traffic, the report says. "Normally ! the Washington and Atlanta high i way should carry an average *oi j from *;00 to 1,000 vehicles a day j and the other inter-county roads should average in the neighborhood of 500 vehicles. In the proximity ! of the city limits of Columbia all 1 roads, due to heavy suburban trav i el, show a*n* increase of about 100 i per cent, more than the average I estimated traffic." . j With regard to Richland coun j ty, the paragraph on "area and j population," says. "The county has an area of 751 square miles and a \ population of 7S.122, ranking ! fourth in the state. The population , per square mile equals 104 per ; sons for urban and rural regions j and ."0.0 for the rural regions alone." . ' The taxable property, according j to the survey, is valued at $28. ! 300.2S5, ranking third in the state. The road mileage, according to j figures given, amounts to 1.500 I miles in the county, of which 75.5 miles are state roads, i The state roads cnosist of four j inter-county roads, connecting Co . lumbia with Xowberry, Fairfield, i Kershaw and Sumter counties. The I Xewberry road is a link of the Ap : plachian highway and the road to : Kershaw county is a part of the ! Washington and Atlanta highway, j As to road work now in pro ; gress, the report says that road ac ; tivities are under the supervision j of ("apt. J. Roy Pennell. county ; engin? er. and that $2,000,000 worth ! of bonds have been sold ny the j county and that it is proposed to ; hard surface all state roads, with ! the exception of the last seven j miles of the Sumter road which j is to be graveled. Contracts have j oeen awarded and work of hard ! surfacing is now in progress on the j following roads: Columbia to ! Newberry county line; Columbia to I Fairlield county line; Columbia to ? mile post 17 on the Sumter road, j It is expected tliat all work now j under way will be completed by I October 1922. ] The contract for hardsurfacing j the road from Columbia to the Kershaw county line will be let in June, the report says, and the con tract for constructing and gravel ing the last seven miles of the road to Sumter will be let about April ; 1. All of the work proposed will j be done with funds provided by the i present bond issue, j The report says that with the I completion of the state highway j system, traffic in Richlind county I will be very heavy. Inter-county ? travel will be exceptionally heavy "as Richland county is centrally located and practically all cross state roads pass through Columbia. The Washington and Atlanta high way will furnish a heavy tourist travel from the north central and { eastern states when it is entirely 1 open to travel." } The recommendation is made ; that "as proposed by the Rich I land county highway commission j it is proposed that all roads in the : county be hard surfaced. Both j sand and rock for concrete can be ! obtained locally and hard surfaced j roads can be constructed eoonomi : rally.' The number of vehicles per day ; on the first seven miles of the ? road from Columbia to Lexington 'county line is S00. The number ; of vehicles per day using the first I mile of the road from Columbia to ; Fairheld county is 500. The num 1 her on the tirst four miles of the j road from Columbia to the Ker ishaw county line is S00 daily. The number of vehicles using daily the tirst two and oen-tenth miles of the road from Columbia to Sumter is 1,000. SELLING SWEET POTATOES IN S. C. Number of Crates Sent From Manning Manning, Feb. J3.?The Manning curing lmn.se shipped this week 560 crates of sweet potatoes. These potatoes wer?, sold by the South Carolina Sweet Potato association t'? a firm in Washington and brought a fancy price, showing de cidedly the value of cooperative marketing. The grading and peek ing of the crates were under the supervision of L. H. Lewis, mar keting agent of the extension forces. Largo numbers of farmers observed tie- manner in which the potatoes were handled and gained much valuable information. SOLDIER DIES IN J5ATTLK WITH EAGLE Santiago, Chile. Feb. 13.?The *,ry of :i soldier's struggle with :i huge eagle i" the mountains in which the soldier sb*?l the Uir*\ and thinking it dead approached only to be furiously attacked, was told here today. The eagle's claws clutched the trigger discharging thw gun and killing the soldier. ICITY MOVES I IN GAS RATE LITIGATION Attorneys For City of Sumter Serve No tice of Motion to Dismiss Complaint of Sumter Gas and Power Co. Messrs. Lee. & Moise, EppS and Levy and Harby, Nash & Hodges, attorneys representing the city 01* Sumter and members of the City Council, have served the following notice on the. attorneys of the Sum tor Gas & Power company in the matter of the bill of complaint filed in the United States district court, and the application for an injuunction against the City of Sumter to prevent interference by the City of Sumter with the. Sum ter Gas & Power Company in the collection of rates for gas, fixed by the company. If the court grants the petition of the city and dis misses the complaint of the gas 'company the litigation over the question of gas rates will end. The next move will be up to the gas company, and it can either shut down and go out of business, apply for a receiver, or continue opera i tions at the franchise rate: To Messrs. Purdy & Bland, and Hagood, Rivers & Young, attorneys for the complainant above named: You will please take notice that j the undersigned attorneys for the Idefendants will submit the motion j to discuss the bill of complaint ! herein, which motion is hereunto j attached, to ihe Honorable H. A. | M. Smith, judge of this court, at his ; office in the city of Charleston. S. C, on Friday. February 17th, 1922 'at one o'clock p. m., or as soon j thereafter as counsel may fce heard. LEE & MOISE. j EPPS & LEVY, HARPY. XASH & HODOES. j Attorneys for the Defendants. Notice, to Dismiss. Xow come the defendants and ! move this Honorable court to dis j miss the bill of complaint herein, ; for the following x-easons, th?t is to I say: ! 1. That this honorable court i< I without jurisdietlon to entertain this proceedings. The. lev of the city which constitutes the alleged ideprivation of complainants prop erty without due process of law is i that portion of the franchise grant Jed in htll, which appertains to rates. The rights of the city there i under tlowed, not from the state, (but from the consent of the grantee {under the franchise. If, as al j leged by the complainant, the city ; was without legislative authority to jmake the provisions in question, the j act complained of was not the act of the state, and no question under the federal constitution coui i arise. (Hamilton (!as "Works vs. Hamil ton, 14?; U. S. 23S; 30 L. Ed. 963) If, on the other hand, the city had I such authority, the franchise be came ... binding contract between the parties. (Cleveland vs. Cleve land City Railway Co., 104 ?. S. |517; 38 L. Ed. M102), and there j would be no jurisdiction in equity i to relieve from the same. (Colum i bus Ry. etc. Co. vs. Columbus, 2A\) \ F. S. 399; 63 L. Ed. 669). The bill j contains no allegation that the city {claims the right to enforce the j terms of the franchise ordinance by reason of any authority vested : in it, expressly or impliedly, by the (state, and on the contrary, it has j now and has always been the con tention of the city that it was on titled to tiie benefits of the fran chise ordinance by reason of the act of complainant's predecessor in j interest in accepting its provisions, and agreeing to be bound by its j terms .and requirements, j L'. That it appears from the face j of the bill and the exhibits thereto I attached, that on or about the 2Gth 'day of September, lull, the City ' of Sumter offered to one Edw. L. ; Rieha, the predecessor in title of I complainant, through whom its [ rights were derived, and by whose j obligations it is bound, a franchise or right to own. construct and op erate a gas works in the City of ; Sumt? r, and to lay pipes, mains and conduits in the streets thereof, on [certain terms and conditions set ; forth in said franchise, and par ; ticularly, that during the continu jation thereof, under the conditions j shown by the bill to be now -exist-j ing, thai the price to be charged \ for gas should not exceed the sum of $i.4.") per thousand cubic feet, j subject jo discount for prompt pay-j j meat of bills, and that it further j appears from the. said bill and ?-\ I hibits, that thereafter the said Ed ward L. Rieha, for himself and his successors and assigns, duly ac cepted the terms and conditions of ! said gas franchise, and agreed to be bound by all of its conditions, provisions ami requirements; that j [the said agreement ? n the purl of ihe said Edw. L. Rieha was and i binding and valid as to complaint. That there is no showing in the bill, its exhibits and allegations of any facts or < ire urn stances which in lav, or equity, are sufficient to relieve complainant, us the sne ecssor of the said Edw. L. Rieha, from ihe requirements of said franchise, and more particularly the one as to maximum rates, i<> which reference is al?ove made. LEE & SlOLSE. EPPS LEVY. ILVRRY. N'ASH DODGES, Attorneys for the Defendants. JANUARY EXPORTS REACH LOW MARK Washington-. Feh. i-J-anuarj exports aggregated $279.000.001?, the lowest in seven months. Imports fell off $21,000. MASSACRE IN NORTH IRELAND Ulster Constables Shot to Death in Clones Railway Station by Irish Re publicans _ Belfast, Feb. li (By the Associ ated Press).?Four Flster special j constables were shot to death, a j number wounded and the re I malnder of a party of 20 captured ; at the railroad station at Clones j late this afternoon. { The specials, on their way to 1 Frmiskillen, were, waiting at Clones i for the arrival or a train from Bel i fast to convey them to their desti J nation. j The train had entered the sta I tion. and some of the specials j were in the act of getting into the j carnages when a party of Irish j Republican army men with rifles j and a machine gun came on the ; platform. They immediately opened j fire on the specials with their rifles : and machine gun and four of the I constables were shot d^ad, one of j them having his head blown off. 'Some of the others were wounded, ' some were taken prisoner and the I remainder escaped. Tne Republi ? can army men then fled. Taken ab i solutely unawares the specials had j no time to fire a shot at the at { tacking party. j Clones is in that part of Ulster ? which is included in the free state I territory.c it is very near the bbr i der. j Belfast received its first iritima j tion of the tragedy through a mes j sage to the station master, at the 'Great Northern terrains, to the e'f | feet: "Send no more troops, regu ' lar police or specials by train." ; Then followed the news of the j shooting and the casualty list. The ! Belfast police declare the specials i were lined against a wall and mow i ed down. Sir James Craig. premier of Fi tster, has addressed an urgent re j monst ranee to Pi emier Lloyd jCeorge, Winston Churchill and ; Viscount Pitzalan in which immed ? iate action is demanded. CRISIS IN" GERMANY i Chancelor Wirth Takes Bold j Stand, Forces Majority to Give Vote of Confidence ? ?. ? ?? j Berlin. Feb. IL?(Rv the A'sso I ciated Press.')?Chancellor Wirth ?has met one of the most critical ! parliamentary situations of his ea : reer by forcing a ?? "show doWn" i with the rMchstag in : connection . With the impending vote on four : resolutions censuring the cabinet ; for it policy during the railroad I strike. ? . ? The coalition parties fa lied ? to . protect the chaneelW by sending la supporting resolution to the j president's desk, thereby leaving I him at the mercy of the four op position motions proposed by the Nationalists, the Herman Peoples . Party, the Independent Soonilis',s land the Communists. { ? Although each of these was'cer | tain to be defeated by the votes of |the present government bloc, it j was realized that collectively '.their j effort would have spelled parlia j mentary disaster for Dr. Wirth as j the moral stigma carried by-'them j would not have been neutralized j by the. indirect majority support ? given to the chancellor by the Cler j icals. the .Majority Socialists and ! the Democrats who could must.?r sufficient votes to defeat the oppo sition attack upon the cabinet. Visible impatience with this pass I ive attitude on the part of his i principal support brought Chancel i lor Wirth to his feet just before the ! hostile resolutions were put to a j vote today. Rising from his seat I at the government bench, his voice ; ouivering with emotion, the chan ! cellor. in a brief but impassioned I plea, demanded that the. reichstag j give him a tangible and unequivo cal expression of its confidence, without which he and his cabinet colleagues could no longer conduct the affairs of the government. A negative result of the vote on tin lour opposition resolutions, the chancellor declared, would suffice to make the cabinet position unten : able. j This unexpected attitude dumb i founded both the opposition and the government parties and the latter scurried about in a hasty effort to draft a resolution of di rect approval. The house, however, finally voted to defer balloting un til Wednesday. Dr. Wirth, it ia asserted, can safely count on a de cisive vore of approval on his rail ! way strike policy, i The session supplied a second sensation when the Independent .Socialist leader! Herr Dittman. de manded an investigation of Hugo j Stinnes because of Herr Stinnes" alleged attempt to barter Hie Ger man railway system to an English (banking syndicate in rietnrn for :-( ! gold loan. Stinnes' friemds b> the i reichstag came to jb,- magnate's I-assistance und action vv:is postpon ed. Dublin. I-VP. 1:!.- -The evacua tion of British troops from Dublin was unexpectedly suspended todaj . Tie- sailing of steamers for Holy head and Liverpool with contin gents were cancelled. It is thought this might be due to events in Ulster. Wonder if the six-college degree man can solve u railroad lime table? -? ? ? <oir noHtal nerlvcf estimates i' lost $25.252.613 in three month: This does not include Will Hays. A grin a day keeps 'old ax a way. -4? ? ?? Centenarians are getting nuinei ous, but most of them are men. NEW ENGLAND COTTON MILLS AREAFFECTED Wage Reductions In clude Mills in New Hampshire and Lowell, Mass., Af j fecting- 25,000 Oper atives i - j Boston. Peb. 13.?The cotton j mills in New Hampshire and Lo ! well, .Mass.. employing twenty-Jive ; thousand operatives are affected by I the strike, effective today. There ; were no disturbances. Walkouts in ! protest against the wage reductions I in most eases was about twenty per [cent. The New Hampshire mills j will increase the working week , from forty-eight to fifty-four hours. The strike of thirteen thousand i workers in the Rhode Island mills j continued today. LOCAL BUREAU IS ESTABLISHED j Chamber of Commerce and ! Red Cross Home Service Come to Aid of Jobless in Sumter What is to become of the farn ? ilies of hundreds of the unemploy ed in Sumter and Sumter county? i There are at least twenty people on j the list at the Red Cross office who ;are begging for all s...rts of work, iand there are many, many more who have ma been listed, j Because people would rather ?have work than ask for assistance [from outsiders, the Red Cross is j starting an employment bureau, j with the cooperation of the Cham ? her of Commerce. Anyone who is j looking for work may register here, [in tne office of the Chamber of ?Commerce, giving name, address, iand kind of work wanted. j There is at present no telephone ; in the office of the Chamber of :Commerce, hut we hope to have j one installed within a few days, iso that anyone wanting work done ? may phone the employment bu jreau. The plume number will be j announced later. i Last week two very self-respect : ing. intelligent women came to the j Red Cross office begging the sec retary with tears in their eyes to I lind ihm some kind of work, as jtheir husbands had been unable to get anything to do. their savings had been used up, and their chil idren had nothing to eat and no (Clothes to wear to school. It is work that people want: not I charity. Most of these families have {always been self-supporting before. {and unaccustomed to ask for any thing. However, when jobs are not (forthcoming, groceries, clothing. ? and bed-covering must he given, and rents must he paid to keep both grown-ups and little children from starving or being put out in I the street. I There are many little children j growing up without milk to make ithem strong and healthy. We are I now being given from six to ten Jquarts of milk every day. and need iat least that much more. If any one can let us have one or two ijuarts or a gallon of milk regu [larly every day. we si..ill be glad tp call for it and use it to the best [advantage. Donations of money, j cast-off clothing, bed covering, etc.. I will also be most acceptable, j On the list of unemployed now [in the Red Cross office there are all I sorts of workmen and working wo men. If you arc thinking of having ?your porch or fences repaired, your [yard cleaned up. your wood cut, phone the Chamber of Commerce ?or the Red Cross office (phone 51$) [and we will send yon the right per son for the job. I if yon want a cook, a laundress. C scrub-woman, a seamstress, we can supply your needs. If you will J haw your odd jobs done now. you j will save money and also do a great ikindness to those looking for work. Roth men and women are willing to do any kind of work, whether jit is the type to which they are ae jcustomed or not. 1 know the people Of Sumter need only :i suggestion 'of this sort to bring forth a hearty ! response. Helen Wheeler. Executive Secretary. American Red Cross. I m ? ? Tokio, Feb. S?The navy depart ment has ordered the dockyards to [stop work on eighteen battleships iand cruisers, scheduled for scrap ping under ihe Washington confer : ence agreement. j We rend of clerks in the govern ment departments at Wabington I wrapping newspapers around their 'legs under tin- impression that they ? would thus lie protected from the ; snow while plodding through the drifts - a mistaken idea of the j power of the press. Rost on Tran script. Chicago man given ten years lor having two wives will enjoj the rest. Worn* a who want !?> keep their names after marriage probably would take their husband's name in vain. The fust sign of spring i~ seed Catalogs. I ?eople agree \\ hen ra Iking o| I he weathei because political part ies are in faVOr t?l weal-In i Toledo I :l.:.b VI a king ;i i" a< <? advocate is just :i - easy as making ;i gentleman, if you begin with the grandfather. REDUCE THE SALARIES OF OFFICERS i Anderson Member Introduces Bill to This Effect?House Spends Day in Talk Fest _ j Columbia. Fob. 10.?Advance ment of the bill providing for a tax on luxuries in the house and dec j lination by the senate to reconsider I the Simonhoff bill providing for a health certificate for men before i marriage and requesting congress ? to pass the Ladd bill preventing I planting of cotton only in alter I nate years were the salient points j of interest in this morning's ses jsion of the genoral assembly, j The house did very little work on its calendar which is in an J extremely congested condition, with jthe probability of the general ap propriation bill being introduced ! next Tuesday. In addition sixteen of the counties, according to the record in the engrossing depart Iment have not prepared their sup j ply bills and next week marks the (statutory Hunt of the general as | sembly. ! These count:"- are: Anderson, j Berkeley, Charleston, Chesterfield, Dillon, Dorchester. Hampton, Hor i ry, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee. Lex i ington, Oconee, ?rangeburg. Saluda iaiid York. The Leopard bill: providing for Ian annual license of $750 on all j cotton and stock exchanges was ! made a special order for Monday, i r^fe. Melnnes called attention to jthe special orders already on the I house unconsidered and suggested j that it would be unwise to further j dodder up the record. There are ; now seven of these special orders, ; sinne of them having been given preferential position as far back as the third week in January, i Among the important bills giv fen their final house approval today land ordered sent to the senate were j those providing for a schedule for auctioning off tobacco in ware [ houses, the Blease measure provid ing for municipalities advertising ; their bond elections and the Dil ! Ion bill ratifying the elections held tin the city of Charleston last Xo [vember at which $1,50.0,000 in i bonds were issued for the purchase ; of the Terminal property and $1, [000,000 in bonds for permanent 1 municipal Improvements, j Only local urtcontcsted matters {and a very few of them were j passed to third reading and all the '. committee reports dealt with mat ters of local import, most of them , being supply bills approved by the j ways and means committee. Mr. Clinkscalcs, of Anderson, in troduced a bill today to reduce the j salary of the governor to .$4,000 .per year, that of the lieutenant 'governor to $J30 and all other elective state offices to $'2,000 per [year each. It was referred to the j ways and means committee as was a companion bill to-make the re muneration of the members of the I general asserabdly ?250 yearly each. The new game law revamping the present statute which was . passed in the senate Wednesday I was received in the house today .and referred to the committee on ? fish, game and forestry. The conferees on the inhcrl'ance and gasoline tax bills estimated ?that they would not begin their sessic * of the free conference io adjust the. differences between the ! two houses before next Tuesday. _ _ FIENDISH CRIME OCCURS IN TEXAS Man, Woman and Small Roy Brutally Murdered - ; Waco, Tex.. Feb. 12.?The life I less bodies of Mr. and Mrs. W II. i Barker, the former with a bullet ; hole in the head and the latter with j the head cleft open with an axe. ; were found at their farm house at j Concord, seven miles northeast of here today. Homer Turk, 13 year 'old boy, was found with his skull crushed, but still alive. ; Seven negroes have been arrest ed and a number of Mexicans are j under surveillance. Those sus ' pected are all employed on farms near the scene of the tragedy. The only witness who is in a con dition to talk is Willie Louise Dar ker, four year old daughter of the murdered couple. "They shot daddy in the lot." she told officers, "'then two men came to the house and asked mam ma for money. She handed them something, then they shot her. The men looked like Mexicans, but talk ed like negroes." The child said the attack occur red about in o'clock last night. Turk had gone to the Barker home from his home about S00 yards distant hist night to play dominoes. When J. L. Turk, his father missed his son early today he imnv-diately went to the Barker home to investigate. He found Barker's body in the yard near his stole The body of Mrs. Barker \\ as found in the kit* hen. a. * l bill clasped lightly in her hand The l ny was discovered lying in a pool of blood on tin- bedroom floor, while the little girl, unharmed, was follfld Oil the bed. A double bladed axe bei mging to Barker and stained with blood, was found in the back yard with the handle broken off about a foot from the head. BROKE UP DINNERPARTY Residence of Senator Swan son Damaged by Fire Washington. Feb. 12.?Fire orig inating in the basement of the home of Senator Swanson, of Virginia, last night drove guests fro n the dinner table into the street and did a thousand dollars damage. LEGISLATIVE FORECAST FOR I THIS WEEK Ways and Means Committee Has Completed Appropria tion Bill?Tax Bills in Senate _ ! Columbia, Feb. 13.?The State [Senate held :| brief session at one o'clock today, considering only un ! contested local matters. Both i branches will be in session tonight. : and a hard v/eek of work is ahead. iSoine of the features of the week ;are expected to be; The appropriation bill to be ? introduced in the House Monday j night or Tuesday morning. The j ways and means committee has completed work on u and it is ibeing typed in the engrossing de ' partment. j Three income tax bills on the iSenate calendar will be debated by the upper branch perhaps Tues jday. One of these is the House [ways and means committee bill. (The others have been introduced ; lately by Senators MeC.ee and Pad gett, both as substitutes. The original income t.;\ bill, in its pres ent form, would require all single ) persons with incomes of $1,000 or more and married persons hav ing incomes of $2,500 or more to 'make returns, and to pay a flat tax jof $5 with the return. The bill !would tax an income of $1,500, I where there are no children. $15: an income of $2.000 would be tax ed $20; a $2,500 income, $35; a $3,000 income. ."Mr.. or where there [ are children $1">; a $3.500 income, no children $55, with children. $25; a $4.000 income. $uf>. with j children $35; income of $5.000. j taxed $85. with children $.".5: a I 510.00 income, $3S5 with children. $355; a $ 30,00 0 income $985; with children .$'Jf?5, and so on. The hydro-electric tax bill is on second reading in the Senate, with an unfavorable majority report, and this means a hard row ahead for it. .The luxury tax reaches the Sen ate calendar this week, having been I passed by the House last Friday , afternoon. j The bill by Senator Miller, of j Darlington, to enlarge the railroad 'commission to seven members [.ejected after the present commia Lsioneis' terms expire, by the'legis l Ja tu re. will likely be reported back to the House this week by the rail : road committee. The bill has passed the Senate. The bill to enlarge the Iniversi ity board of trustees to twenty-one i members gees to free conference, j A bill to change the manner of electing the members of the state j highway commission is due to come Unto the llouse soon. It will bring a hard fight. The bill will take tp?. place of that by Representatives [Hughes and Edgar A. Brown, to create a one-man highway oom.nis ? sion. A stubborn fight over the 'state highway department is anti cipated. The Senate last week ?killed the Wightman bill to refund to Saluda county a part of the au to license tax money, this showing the Senate's sentiment in regard to changes in the state highway ;system. The Senate voted strong jly against changing the highway (machinery. i The fifty-five hour cotton mill week bill is with a Senate com mit ?tee and is due to be reported out I this week. A bill by Representative C.erald. [of Columbia, to create a special ? hoard of arbitration of differences (between tin* Columbia street rail way company and its employees, is jon the Senate calendar for third reading, with prospects of tough sledding, it has passed the Mouse. j Six of the county supply bills are [yet to be introduced. Many of these are expected to reach the calendars ; this v/eek. There is every prospect now that the session will run far into March. j The old-time plan of trying to ! reduce salaries, as a method of re iducing taxes, has bet n introduced this year, as usual, but there is :i<<i much sympathy for the attempt orr the part of leaders. Represen tative Clinkscale. of Anderson, has ja bill to reduce the governor's sal ary from $.~.U00 to $4.000; the lieutenant governor's from $7.".'i to i$550; the adjutant general's fron: ?$2.500 to $200: the comptroller general, the state treasurer, the secretary of state the superintend ent of education, the railway com missioners, the commissioner of agriculture and the insurance com missioners' salaries from $2,500 Cach to $2.0ii0 each. The lull would also cut the nay of legislators ifrom $400 to $300. The legislature started i'.s sixth week today. Columbia. Peb. 13.?The state highway commission meets in Co lumbia Tuesday. At this meeting jChas. II. Moorefteld. chief enginei r. will tender his resignation, offered as a result of the fight launched against the department. What a. - tion the commission will take re garding the commissi.>n t: a mat jter of uncertainty. Columbia, Peb. 13.-? Represenia tives R. < >. Atkinson, of Chester: W. I.. Riley. of Bamberg: J. H. West, of Georgetown: .1. C. Bailey, of Beaufort: W. A. Prince, of : I bu ry, and .1. T. Williams, of Edge ;field, composed an escort of honor, named by Speak, r .1. B. Atkinson, of the Hons.* of Representatives, for the funeral of the hue Hon. M. R. Cooper, of Beaufort. wh<> died it. Columbia Saturday. Mr. Cooper came to Columbia when the Gen eral Assembly convened January ! 10. .\ few days after he was stricken will? pneumonia, at the 'home ltis sister. Mis. Lizzie Clark. Mr Cooper was at one time sec retary of state He was one of I to best members of ihe General As sembly. The funeral of Mr. Cooper was rheld at Denmark Sunday. Rev. R. \L. Keaton. chaplain of the House, [conducted the funeral services. ISeveral state officials, including Governor Cooper, attended. Hunting Ways To Increase Taxes Federal Government Fix On Eight Sources of Revenue to Pay Soldiers* Bonus Washngton, Feb. fJ.?The field : of possible soldiers' bonus taxes j virtually was narrowed today to j eight sottrei-s by the subcommit tee of the Republican members of jthe hous.e ways and means com i mittee dealing with the tax prob j lern. These sources were stated as fol : lews: A gasoline consumption tax of ; possibly one cent a gallon; a license tax on automobiles <jf about 25 cents per horse power; a stamp tax j on bank checks at about one cent I for each check: a tax on real es tate transfers at the rate of about ; ."? cents on each $10 involved, and i Increased taxes on admissions j wh?-re the sum paid exceeds 25 cents, cigarettes, tobacco and docu I mentary stamps. Representative Longworth of j Ohio, acting chairman of the sub tcommittee in the absence of Rep resentative Fordney, said there was I little sentiment for any increase j either in the first or second class j postage rates, but added there had i been some discussion of an advance j in the parcel post rates. The bonus taxes will be. tem-% j porary, Mr. Longworth said. ex ! tending over a period of three years ', and will tie designed solely to take j care of the cash payments to be ! made to former service, men during ' the two and one-half years begin j ning on January l, 1923. It was ! explained that the cost of the other. : four options to be included in the j bonus measure would be spread ! over 20 years and would not begin ;;o be a serious charge against the I federal treasury for severa* years* j at least. Members of the subcommittee j figured that on the basis of esti i mates furnished by treasury ex. j ports the $350,000,000 yearly need ' ed for three years for the cash I paymenfs could be obtained from ! the eight sources outlii jd. Exact j rates in each case remain to be i fixed but the subcommittee expects j to have the entire program com . pleted by Saturday. It then will be i passed upon by the majority mem-* ? hers of the ways and means com j mittee and under present plans will ? he submitted in turn to Republi can members of the senate finance i committee and to President Hard j ing. I Graduated increases in the vari | ous kinds of documentary stamp I taxes now in force were discussed j today in the subcommittee with [sentiment said to have been in fd ! vor of imposing the highest rate I in the case of the transfer of capi | tal stock and bonds. The figure j suggested was 1-10 of 1 per cent, j on all transactions whether orig? jinal or subsequent. The pre ' tax I is 1-20 of I per cent, in case i of the original transfer and 1-50 of l per cent, on each subsequent ; transfer. j The suggested increase in the I taxes in cigarettes is estimated to lyieA $25.000,000 while that on to j hacco would yield an additional : $5,000.000. In the case of admis ; sions the existing rates of 10 per j cent, may be doubled where the j charges exceed 25 cents. Representative Longworth said ; that by spreading the taxes over ? eight different sources the burden would be fairly well distributed ; among the people and yet would I not fall particularly heavily upon janj one class, fie thought also that this plan would result in the ! mimmum of interference with the I improvement of business condi ' lions. While Mr. Long worth's commit tee was dealing with the tax prob I lern the other subcommittee under ! the direction of Representative I Green of Iowa began work on the I bill. It was said that no changes ; would -be made in the live plans jas written in the original Fordney measure but that several altera tions in some of the administrative , features were planned. One .important change was made today, .the committee striking out the provision requiring the arniy and navy departments before mak ! ing payments to former service men ; to ascertain and deduct any amounts that might be owed the government by the men growing ; out of their war services. Driga I dier General Lord, budget officer in the war department, told the ?committee that the cost of examin [ ing the records of the more than 4,000,000 men who served with the color: would exceed the amount that the government would obtain under the provision. SITUATION IN IRELAND AT ACUTE STAGE Massacre of Ulster Constables Causes Great Anxiety in London London, Feb. 13.?The Irish sit uation which seemed to be improw j ing under rhe apparent efforts of Arthur Griffith and Mie.irel Col lins to obtain the release of the kidnapped Ulster men. tins become acute, as the result of the Clones ait ray Saturday. Developments are awaited v.itl the utmost anxiety. GIRL STUDENTS ARE RECOVERING Columbus. Miss.. Feb. 13.?Three hundred girl students are recover ing today from ptomaine poisoning said to have been caused by eating chicken salad served yesterday.