Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-20
Swaps aud faets.


were the report and recommendations
of the insurance convention which
was held in Chicago last February.
Among the recommendations is the
draft of a bill which congress Is urg-
ed to enact into law with such
amendments as its wisdom may sug-
gest. The president says the conven-
ton sought Ito prepare a bill which
would be at once protective of poll
cyholders and fair and just to in
surance companies, and which should
prevent the graver evils and abuse
of the business, and at the same time
forestall any wild and drastic legis-
lation which would be more harmful
than beneficial" The president urges
the enactment of the proposed meas
ure, as, he says, I'VE are not to De
pardoned If we fail to take every
step in our power to prevent the pos
sibility of the repetition Of such scan
dals as those that have occurred in
connection with the insurance busi-
ness as disclosed by the Armstrong
committee"
President Roosevelt, says Wash
ington dispatch, will probably be a
candidate to succeed his successor in
1912. There is no doubt in the minds
of the presidents friends that he in
tends to stick to his determination to
retire at the end of his present term
and that no consideration will prevail
upon him to be a candidate in 1908.
BY the end of his present term, the
president has told his intimate
friends, he believes he will have made
so many enemies that he would be
an easy man to beat were his party
to make him their standard bearer.
From now to the end Of his term, as
the president has put it, he will be
obliged to be very harsh to many
interests" The public good will de-
mand his administering certain poll
cies with little sympathy for those
who differ with him, and the inev-
liable result of this iron handed
course, in the presidents opinion,
will be the creation of "sore heads. "
who will by 1908 have become a pow
that were he to become a candidate
at that time, he would probably be
defeated His friends believe all
these conditions will have changed
before 1912.
The United States supreme court
on last Tuesday handed down a de-
cision in which it holds that divorce
decree of a state court Is not bind
ing unless both parties to the pro-
ceedings are under jurisdiction Of
said court at the time of the render
ing of the decree. The decision was
rendered in the case Of John w. Had
dock VS.. Harriet Haddock. The Had
docks were married in New York in
1868. John w. Haddock afterward
moved to Connecticut and in 1881,
with his wife still in New York, pro-
cured a divorce. The next year mar
ried again and afterward came back
to New York. The first Mrs. Had
dock sued for divorce and alimony.
The New York court gave her the
divorce asked for and allowed her
500 a year. The case went up to
the United States supreme court with
the result just stated. The United
States supreme court holds that
state court cannot grant divorce de-
cree that other states are bound to
respect unless at the time ii has
both parties under its jurisdiction.
The effect of this decision will be to
illegitimatize many children born in
supposed wedlock after a divorce Sc
cured under the circumstances indi-
Gated.
When we say cotton is king, what
do we mean? asks Leslie's Weekly.
Cotton was once king Of the crops.
1t is no longer. Wheat is now en-
throned. Though the cotton crop for
last year was 13,654,O29 bales, (Cot-
ton Exchange figures,) the wheat
crop of the year exceeded the cot
ton crop in value by more than $780,
100000. But wise men say that king
wheat is a pretender temporarily
crowned, and that cotton will soon
again resume rightful place as king
of crops. The world depends upon
this country for clothes. Clothes
mean principally cotton. 1t is nat
ural, then, since this country is the
principal grower of cotton, that our
most valuable agricultural export
should be cotton. OF cotton we have
practically a monopoly; and it is the
only crop of which we have such a
monopoly; and it is. indeed, the only
staple crop of which any nation has
anything approaching a monopoly.
Then there's the still growing trade
in the Far East. How may that
trade ultimately help to reseat cotton
as king? Mr.. WI Ting-Fang. as
minister at Washington, said: IF ev-
cry Chinaman in China should add
one inch to his shirt-tail, this alone
would consume the whole American
cotton crop"
- Washington, April 16: The rec
ord made by Lieutenant Brady's gun
crew on the Pennsylvania, in hitting
the target, distant 1900 yards, seven
teen times in a minute and a half,
while the big ship was moving at
ten-knot gait, was naturally source
of qualification to naval men here.
Fine as was this performance, it is
said there are many others to be
written down with it, But for pru-
Dental reasons, the navy department
has adopted the policy of keeping
these records secret, as far as possi-
BILE, so it is not deemed advisable to
let the world know how this Penn
sylvania, with a siX-inch gun, COM
pares with the shooting on other
ships. But on one point the officers
of experience here are agreed, and
that is that this shooting of the
American blue jackets is due i'm great
part to the men themselves. 1t is
admitted that the great improvement
in the guns turned out at the Wash