Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-05
Scraps aud faets.


peacefully than the sixtieth congress.
The Democratic filibuster against the
penal code bill in the senate was
drawn to a close yesterday by an
agreement eliminating from the meas
ure the Objectionable features author
izing the use Of troops at election
places, and the measure was passed
without actually changing the law
now on the statute books. The Bailey
resolution declaring the right OF the
senate to demand papers and fnfor-
nation from the heads OF depart
ments, was referred to the committee
on Jury after an animated debate. On
the eve of the final adjournment, the
house Of representatives transacted
business with facility unusual for
dying congress, although at times
there was much confusion. with
scarcely any debate the conference
reports on the military academy, leg
islative, executive and judicial and pc
nal code bills were agreed on. The
house adjourned at 10 o'clock Wed
nesday night.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian:
The Congregationalist asked a number
of college presidents to tell its readers
what specific contribution has Presi-
dent Roosevelt made to national
righteousness. Without exception they
regard the president as having rem
dered the country invaluable service.
President Northrop Of the University
of Minnesota says: He has fought
against fraud in every way possible,
in the courts, in recommendation TO
congress and by executive action. He
has lifted the moral standard OF bus
mess and politics and life for the
whole people. and we are people OF
higher ideals in consequence" and
president Faunce Of Brown university
says, I'VE may feel henceforth safer
and calmer with another temperament
at the helm. But we have needed the
strong hand, the breezy personality
the ruthless onset against evil; and
goodness Is easier for us all because
lie has lived and led" With the judg-
ment of these men We are sure the
great body of American men Will
agree. Roosevelt has made mistakes,
of course he has, most people do, but
notwithstanding these mistakes ne
has quickened the public conscience
and called attention in his own way to
many things which were not right in
our land. His administration has been
for the betterment Of the country.
New Orleans, March 8: Secretary
Hester's cotton statement issued yes
day shows the total for February to
be 1,001,317 bales against 9S0,495 last
year. The movement from September
1st to February 2Sth inclusive, shows
receipts at all United States ports 81
1929 against 6,s5S,S05 last year;
overland across the Mississippi, Ohio
and Potomac rivers to northern mills
and Canada 92S,47S against 4S4,53s
last year; southern mills takings ex-
elusive Of quantity consumed at south
ern outports 100000 against 1884,
cess Of those held at the commence
ment Of the season 627,491 against
3S4,5o last year. These make the to-
tai movement Of the cotton crop
brought into sight during the six
months ending with the close Of Feb
ruary 11,12s.24S against s,21S,S4s last
year. Foreign exports for the six
months Of the season have been g.
4S0,590 bales, showing an increase
over last season Of 625,S56. Stocks at
the seaboard and the twenty-nine
leading southern interior markets on
February 2Sth were 1,495,651 against
1,122,701 the same date last year. In
cluding port and interior town stocks
left over from the previous season and
the number of bales of the current
crop brought into sight during the last
six months, the supply has been H.
410,595 against 9,561,S55 last year, and
11,351,10 the year before. Up to the
close Of February last year 7s 62-100
per cent Of the cotton crop had been
marketed and for the same six months
in 1907 the percentage of the crop
brought into sight was 81 S1100.
The ship subsidy bill was rejected
in the house last Tuesday by vote
of 172 to 175. The principal feature
of the bill is the provision that Amer
lean mail steamships Of 16 knots or
over and of not less than 5000 gross
tons shall be paid $3.50 per nautical
mile outward bound on routes Of A.
900 miles or upward to South Amer
lea, Philippines, Asia and Australasia.
Mr.. Lan6is Ind.) made an earnest
plea for the passage Of the bill. Mr..
Moon (Tenn.) led the opposition to
the measure. 1T is an internal fraud
designed to plunder the treasury" he
declared. Speaking Of the provision
for training of American boys and
answering the plea Of patriotism ad-
vanced by Mr.. Landis, he said that 1t
was but a blind to hide the giving
of the peoples money to corporations
of ship owners. The climax came
when Minority Leader Clark declar-
ed that a lobby had been carried on
right on the floor Of the house" in
favor of the passage of the bill. 1T
is an outrage to a civilized country"
he declared, this thing Of coaxing
men, or button-holing men, and l
undertake to say that when Mr.. Moon
of Tennessee denounced this bill as
an Internal fraud he used language
he was justified in using" The debate
against the bill was closed by Mr..
Cochran of New York. He denounc-
ed the subsidy las an outrageous con-
cession of the enslaving of a people
through the agency Of a government.
Among those to speak for the bill were:
Goebel (OD, Landis Qnd), Humphrey
(Wash.), and Hobson (Ala.); against it
were: Small IN. c., Kusterman (Wis.),
Iafiord (Wis.), Lloyd (Mo), Burton
(O.), Saunders (Va), Wilson (Pa.),
Clark (Mo.), Steenerson (Minn), Finley
Is. c., and Norris (Neb) The feeling