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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-19

certificates. Wade's bill amending
the law relating 10 the railroad com
mission also passed. This bill places
in the hands of the commission the
control of all interurban railways
operated by electricity over 10 miles
in length as well as those operated
by steam. Riley's bill requiring the
owner of live stock under a lien to
and providing a penalty Should the
report not be made. C%osgrove's bill
to provide for the organization Of
mutual protective associations alse
passed. The house also passed and
sent to the senate a resolution from
D. L. Smith providing that at a joint
sessions on Jan. 25 all officers to et
filled by the general assembly be
decided on. There are a number Of
vacancies on the circuit bench and
with the penitentiary directors and
college trustees it is probable that
the elections will take two days. In
addition to the names already pub.
lished the term of Judge Wilson ex.
pires in December, 1910, and this
vacancy will have to be filed.
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Lawmakers Of
PALMETTO STATE
Below is given a brief summary Of
Che doings Of the lawmakers of the
South C-rolina General Assembly
day by day:
TUEsDAY-Jan. 18th.

The Senate-The Senate is very
much divided on the question of pro-
hibition for the State. Four classes
on the liquor question. l. Statewide
prohibitionists. 2. Local optionists.
3. Standpatters. 4. Those with open
views. 1t is thought that the action
taken last year on the compromise
bill may have effect on the coming
vote.
The season did not last long, the
principal matter considered was the
Governors message, which was re-
ferred to the various committees, as
is the custom.
1t was agreed to visit Winthrop
College on the 10th, this being Gen.
Lees birthday.
Among the bills were: The State
wide Prohibition measure on the cal
endar was indefinitely postponed;
Clifton's widows pension measure
went to third reading.
The House-Gov. Ansel's message
was read and referred to the various
committees; organization completed;
agreed to visit Winthrop College on
Gen. Lees birthday, the 18th. The
first bill If the session passed was
for the creation of Dillon county.
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WEDNEsDAY-Jan. 18th.

The Senate-A poll of the mem
bers showed a complete block on
further legislation On prohibition.
Members consider the compromise
as binding and satisfactory to pro-
%hibitionists, though there is no tell
ing as yet as to what will turn up
along the line Of further legislation.
1t is not thought prohibitionists will
fight for a Statewide proposition.
The ~House-Members voted to use
Glenn Springs water for drinking
purposes, instead of C%olumbia's sup
ply. Vote II to 26. An invitation
was accepted to visit Clemson Col
lege on the 22nd. Cosgroye. intro
duced a resolution on drainage of
considerable Importance to South
Carolina, especially in the lower part
of the State. The resolution en-
dorses the efforts Of Senator Smith
in securing statistics as regards the
lands needing drainage work. Every
member has gone to work in earnest
to get in bills early, the engross-
ing department received Il.
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To War Against Trusts.

A million members by March 1 to
wage battle against the unrelentless
trusts controlling the necessaries of
life, is the hope of leaders of the
movement for the organization of a
national antitrust league. For final
action regarding the organization of
the league invitations have been
sent to everv Senator and Represen-
tative in Washington besides all
prominent citizens to attend a meet
ing here. President Taft will be in
vited to be present and lend his
moral support to the undertaking.
1t is the plan of the leaders to- OBJ
tain the cooperation of Congress
men in building up a national organ
ization. The Senators from each
State will be asked to suggest a man
and woman as the directors of the
league from his State and every rep
resentative will be invited to name
trustworthy men and women from
his district TO act as district repre-
sentatives of the movement. For
financial support the league will rely
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FRIDAY-Jan. 18th.

The Senate-Sinkler's bill, provid-
ing for q Commission of Law Exam
iners passed to third reading. The
bill requires that all applicants for
practice of law shall be made by pc
tition to the supreme court, also to
create a State board of law exanin-
ers to consist Of three members Of the
bar Of at least ten years standing,
who shall hold Office for three years.
Supreme court to appoint the mem
bers; Audubon Society's bill for the
protection of game, received favor
able report.
The House-Agreed to take up the
calender in systematic order; Rich
ard s bill to authorize the commission
on the monument to the women OF
the Confederacy and erect the statue
on the approaches to the capitol on
South Main street should the CON-
mission decide the way was favor
ably reported; Whaley announced
committee to confer with a similar
committee of the Senate regarding
the erection Of a Supreme Court
building. This committee will report
back at the present session; resolu-
ton to appoint two more pages was
killed; resolution by Cothran that
the builders Of the battleship "South
Carolina" to send the vessel to
South Carolina waters before the
general assembly adjourn, in order
chat the body might be present to
present the silver service, by the
State, was passed; Cothran's kinder
garten bill was killed; McKeithan's
resolution as to municipal indebted
ness, including Darlington. was pass
ed to third reading; Dicks bill for
bidding neptoism in the employment
of professors. in State colleges, went
to third reading; Smiths bill to
raise salaries of circuit judges from
/ $4,000 to $4,000, failed to pass. Vote,
IS to 40. House adjourned until
Monday.
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Briefly Told.

A three-story brick llo.el is being
erected at Cheraw.
The residence of D. j. Garrison at
Camden was destroyed by fire.
An unknown negro man was killed
by an Atlantic Coast Lnie train near
Charleston.
DR.. B. H. Padgett, a well knwon
citizen of WATERFORD, is dead at his
h>me.
John A. Marshall, a prosperous
farmer of Lancaster, entertained 200
guests at his home last week.
For biting his wife through her
lip Paul White, a Columbia negro,
was fined $50 in the police court.
DR.. C. w. Stiles, Of the United
States public health department, WILL
deliver an address in Columbia Feb
mary 5 OIL bookworm diseases.
William Boozer Reeves, aged Is
wears, Of Orangeburg, is dead at his
home as the result Of gunshot wounds
received q few months ago.
Richard Carroll, colored, has been
reelected president Of the State Col
ored Fair Association.
A. H. Fuller, a Florence county
farmer, was caught under a falling
tree and instantly killed.
Governor Ansel will be asked to
order a special term Of court for
Anderson in order that the criminal
docket might be cleared.
The office Of the Southern Rail-
way at Edgefeld was broken into
and robbed OF $50 in cash.
The pcstofice and express office at
Efingham, Florence county, were
robbed by veggmen. Fifteen dollars
were stolen from the cash drawer.
Citizens of orangeburg and Cher
lesion held a conference in Char
lesion on the question of making the
Edisto river a navigable stream.
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washington HAPPENINGS.
News From the National Capitol Briefly Noted
in Passing for the Reader.
INTERESTING FIGURES As 70 COST moving The Mails

were 139 full railway postofiee lines
having apartment ear service manned
by 905 crews of 1907 clerks. There
weer also 1,374 apartment railway
p~ostofice lines manned by 1894
crews of 5,163 clerks (including SO
acting clerks); 81 electric a lines
with 10 crews of 81 clerks; SIS steam
boat lines with 90 crews of 90 clerks
(including "a acting clerksl; making
.a total Of 1,757 lines >of all kinds,
manned by 1856 clerks. In addition
there were 4S officials, 129 chief
clerks, 755 transfer clerks employed
in handling the mails at important
junction points, and 466 clerks de-
lied to clerical duty in the various
Offices of the service. The total num-
Der Of officers and employees was
therefore 1904, an increase during
the year of TAG.
"There were 35 railroad accidents
during the year in which postal
clerks were either killed or injured
or in which mail matter vas lost or
damaged. Thirteen clerks, l substi-
9tute, and 19mail weigher were killed,
SO seriously injured and 403 slightly
injured. The number Of fatal acct
dents is larger and the number Of
others is smaller this year than
last"
Recommendations are made that
railway postal employees be given
thirty days annual leave and sixty
days sick leave; that railway postal
clerks be retired by the government
when physically mcapacitated; and
that a railway postal clerk injured
in the line of duty be granted leave,
not exceeding twelve additional
months with. pay at so per cent Of
his regular salary.
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THURsDAY-Jan. 18th.

The Senate-Laney's bill to regu-
late the running of automobiles was
killed; Sinkler, of Charleston intro
duced a bill to do away with trad
ing stamps; Sullivan introduced a
bill to keep young men out of pool
rooms, making it a fine of not less
than $25 or more than $100. or i'm.
prisonmnnt for not more than 30
days. This refers to the keepers Of
pool rooms; the tax proposition was
brought up by Senator Clifton, but
is to be considered later.
The House-Disposed Of a number
Spith3c
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FOLLOWS TAFT's PLANS.
Bill Creating Court of Commerce In
troGuced in the House.

Washington, S~pecial.-Representa-
tive Townsend Of Michigan intro
duced in the House last Tuesday the
bill embodying the recommendations
outlined in the special message of
President Taft for amendments to
the interstate commerce law. 1t
provides, among other things, for a
special court composed Of five Fed
eral circuit judges to have exclusive
original jurisdiction over matters
growing out of orders of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
This court is to be composed of
five circuit judges who shall serve
by assignment Of the chief justice
for a term of five years, but no two
of the judges terms will expire at
the same time, and thus under all
circumstances four of the judges will
have had several years. experience
with these technical questions.
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TIES
Condensed from Wide fields,
Domestic and Foreign.
AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY
Suited to the Wants of Busy Readers
Seeking a knowledge Of Whist Is
Going n

At 0cla, Fla, fire completely de-
stroyed the Crystal Cold Storage and
Canning company's plant. Loss
100000.
There was no Virginia pilot aboard
the battleship Georgia when it
grounded near Norfolk, and it ID
said an investigation will follow.
The widow of former President
Barrios, of Guatemala, once possess
ed of millions, applied for admission
to q New Orleans almshouse.
At Nashville, Tenn, P. B. Jones,
president and general manager Oh.
the Southwestern Co., publishers,
shot and killed his 5-year-oM son,
Jerry, and then committed suicide.
The Cotton States baseball league
is to be revived and In the course
of the next few days a meeting will
be held for the purpose of perfect
ing an organization.
j. C. Barnett, a Louisiana farmer,
has been made agricultural expert
to the King Of Siam.
Standard Oil interests are said to
have closed a deal for the. entire
natural gas output of West Virginia,
the sum involved being $200,0G0,r
900.
A fire at Bramwell, W. Va, burn
ed IS buildings and caused a loss OF
100000.
jefferson Taylor, of Aakhill, Va,
shot his bride OF three days, mistak-
ing her for burglar.
Karl Hau, the George Washington
University professor, who murder
ed his mcther-in-law in Germany
and got a life sentence, madeSa f-
tile attempt to escape from prison
Three men were killed and two
others injured, one seriously, when
the automobile, in which they were
riding, collided with a street ear ait
Atlanta, Ga. The automobile was
wrecked and The street ear badly
damaged.
Rev. DR.. Samuel Smith, pastor
First Presbyterian church, Columbus
S. c., dropped dead of appoplexy.
Atlanta, Ca, is to be the head
quarters of an ice and coal CORPORA
ton that has just been chartered un-
der the Virginia laws. The new
corporation has acquired absolute
control of the plants of sic local
companies, and will shortly erect
two more plants in cities near Allan
ia. The cities interested are Allan
ia, Chattanooga, Macon, Rome,
Augusta, Athens. and Columbus.
Secretary Ball1nger of the Interior
Department, Washington, has sus-
pended from Office Superintendent
John D. Benedict of the Five Ciyf
LIKED Tribes of Oklahoma and three
Supervisors as the result of an m-
vestigation which has disclosed "a
disgraceful condition. affeetis"AtH~
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sArUkDAY-Jan. 18th.

The Senate-Business was trans
acted within quorum, but point was
not raised. Sinkler's bill regulating
the admission to practice Of attor-
nleys, solicitors and councillors, to
provide for a board of examiners,
passed third reading and was order
ed sent to the house; Croft's bill "to
amend section $50 of the civil code
of procedure of the State of South
Carolina, volume g" passed third
reading and was ordered sent to the
house Christensen bill to amend
the act establishing an industrial
school for boys passed the senate.
The effect OF the amendment is to
keep the boys convicted of any crime
in the school until they r Il, An
other feature of the amended bill is
to place the expense of sending the
boys to the reformatory on the coun-
ties from which they come; Carlisle's
bill providing against the working in
the cotton mills of any child under
IS years of age between the hours
of z p. m. and Ga. m. passed second
reading; OTIS bill to declare the IN
lawful sale, barter, storage and keep
ing in possession Of alcoholic liquors
a common nuisance, was brought up
but was passed over; Carlisle moved
reconsideration Of the "South Caro-
lima" battleship resolution. 1t was
hoped that the new warship could be
finished and the silver service pre-
sented in South Carolina waters Feb.
10th, during the session of the gen.
eral assembly but it will not be
ready; Senator Earle's bill "relat-
ing to State printing there was con-
siderable discussion but no action
was taken; the bill to renew the char
ter of Porter Military academy in
Charleston, passed to third reading;
Carlisle has introduced a bill that
changes the law very much on
the question OF distress Of rent.
The measure Of Carlisle provides:
"That from and after the approval
of this act the right Of distress for
rent shall be abolished except for
premises leased for agricultural pur-
poses." There is also a repeating
section Of the act.
The House-There was nc session
of the House.
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GOVERNMENT TOO COSTLY
So Says Adair, Of Indiana, Before
the House.

Washington, D. G., Special
representative Adair, Of Indiana,
n an address before the House a few
lays since, had the following to say
concerning the extravaganza OF the
D. S. government.
"The Presidents salary should
lot have been increased to $4,000
1 year," he thought $4,000 was
sufficient.
Attacking the Presidents allow
lnce of $4,000 for vehicles, stables,
.tc., Mr.. Adair argued that this was
$4,000 too much, and be also assert
I'd that one-third Of the $4,000 allow
,nce for care of the White House
greenhouse would "furnish the
President with all the flowers he can
possibly use." +,
Without depriving the President
pf any Of the comforts or Injuries
which properly belong to the White
House, NE. Adair said, the appropri-
atoms of the Executive Department,
which were $329,420 last year, could
be reduced at least $4,000 a year.
Nh. Adair declared that appropri-
atoms for all purposes could be re-
auced at least $lOO,000,OOO a year
without impairing any part OF the
Government service. Extravaganza
and waste permeate everywhere
through the Federal service" he
said.
Opposing the proposition to pen
sion government employees, Mr.; Adair
said the departments in Washington
were crowded with incompetents,
and if they had failed to lay aside
part of their earnings for a rainy
day the failure was due to no fault
Of the Government.
"There is more extravaganza in
the army and navy than in any
other departments Of our Govern
ment," said Mr.. Adair. ut is
enough to bankrupt any government
in the world to spend $23S,l32,699
each year or the maintenance OF It's
army and navy, and that, too, In
time Of peace"
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dement's For Augusta, ia.

quarter million dollar improve
rhent for the Savannah River, at
Augusta, the cost to be evenly dl-
vided between the Federal Govern
lnent and the Georgia city, has been
recommended to Congress by the war
department. Where Augusta rests
on the Savannah's banks, the rivers
slope changes from a steep to a
gradual incline, which subjects that
section to sudden, severe and de-
structive freshets, with constant ero-
sion estimated to have carried away
half a million cubic feet of material
from the river bank along the city
front since last August.
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Diplomats, officials and hundreds
Of others attended Cardinal Gibbons
annual reception in Washington
Speaker Cannon is promised a
more decisive defeat by the Insur.
gents if he attempts with Senate aid
to overturn the resolution of the
House to elect its members of the
Ballinger committee.
Republican leaders fear the effect
of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
on their party.
Secret Service men are at work
in New York trying to get on the
trail Of persons who "strip" gold
and silver coins.
The percentage Of idleness is re-
ported to be decreasing in New York
State.
The H. C. Frick Coke Company
announces that the wage scale OF
1907 will be restored.
At San Francisco, the trial of Pat
rick Calhoun. charged with bribery,
has been defended until Jan. 81.
Mrs. Flora Darling, founder Of
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution, died suddenly in New York.
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, in 4
message to the Legislature, adcccat-
ed an income tax.
Sweeping refroms in the direction
of economy are proposed by the New
VorL Roord of Estimate ~
]. Pierpont Morgan is said to- be
interested in negotiations to form q
5000. 100000 nitrate trust.
The Paper Board Association was
indicted in New York on the charge
of being an illegal combination.
John and Daniel Utsler, brothers,
83 and 80 years, respectively were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their little one-room log
cabin located in Indiana county,
New Florence, Pa.
Tammany retains control Of tie
New York Board Of Aldermen. but
Mayor Gaynor is not afording en-.
couragement.
Cases of cancer are said TO have
been cured at Manila with q vaccine
virus prepared from the cancer OF
the patients.
Mai. Gen. Newton Martin Cartia
who commanded the van of the as.
saulting column which captured Fort
| Fisher on January is, 1865, and lost
an eye in the battle, dropped dead
in New York.
Five hundred Justices Of the peace
and e~onstables throughout the state
of New Jersey are about to make a
concerted move for higher wages.
Three young Harvard explorer
have just left New York on a two
year expedition to the interior OF
South America, where they will coll
lect chronological data and specimens
for the Harvard museum.
Two officers of the Russian Army
have purchased two dirgible balloons
to go to the South Pole.
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Pass White Slave Bill.

Washington, Specially a viva
voice vote the house passed the Ben
net-Sabath "White Slave Bill"
The "White Slave bill is the re-
suit of an investigation Of traffic in
alien women, made by the national
immigration commission. Provision
is made for deportation and exclu-
sion of immoral alients and for cz-
clusion and punishment of their pro.
curers who traffic in immoral women
becomes subject to restrictions of
interstate commerce laws.
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S~IueraDIe UdufaSvv~vvtvA .n 1890
Carolina; especially in the sections
around Batesburg and Leesville. The
insect is very destructive and where
it has taken firm hold the crop il
usually almost a total failure. Farm.
ers around Batesburg have had this
matter under consideration with
Representative Lever during the pasi
year, with the result that through
his efforts the department of agri.
culture has become interested in the
situation and has formulated def.
mite plans for beginning work al
Batesburg on february !.
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Transportation of the mails by
railway, steamship lines and various
star routes cost the government,
during the fiscal year, ended June
80, 1909, $S3,493,762.
These are the figures given IN the
annual report of Joseph Stewart,
Second Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al, which was made public last Mon
day. Tie number of railroad routes
employed by the department was
-3,3l6, a~ggregating 2l7,l15 miles.
The total expense of the railway
service for the year was $45,O5448.
For the fiscal year of 1911 it is esti-
mated. that the expenditures for
railroad transportation will be $46,-
100000.
he result of the readjustment of
pay for railroad transportation, eff
fective July /, 1909, for the ensuing
four years, based upon the weighing
of the mails, shows q decrease Of
$494,360.3l, or sos per cent; and
for railway p~ostoffice ear pay a de-
crease, of $3,l95.97, or 0.29 per cent.
1t has developed that electric
street railway companies in some
cities demand extortionate rates for
carrying the mails. Concerning this
situation, Mr.. Stewart says:
Sin view of the demands made by
electric car companies for higher
rates for service in the large cities
it is found desirable in some cases,
to substitute motor-Wagon service Tor
the electric car service.
It is shown by the report that ION
June 80, 1909, there were 168 full
railway p~ostofice lines, manned by
1851 crews of S,063 clerks (includ-
ing IS acting clerks; of these there
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Boil Wesvil Causes Short Crop.

The cotton crop Of the year 1909
will be the smallest since 1899 ac-
.cording to the statement of w. D.
Hunter, Of, Dallas, Texas, expert Of
the department of agriculture.
st is DUE he said, addressing
the House committee on agriculture,
Ito the weevil in Louisiana, portions
of Arkansas and Mississippi and
the, extreme dry weather in Texas,
where sensational conditions inter-
fered with propagation Of the para
sites"
The boil weevil, be decarled, I'M
doubtedly would cause remarkable
redistribution Of production of cot
ton, first in large areas What were
large centers Of production former
" were going to fell down and there
wos be the redistribution of small
cns. He declared the soil
Err conditions in certain parts
st every plantation in the
Eli permit the planter to
to raise cotton proftably
.l Ehe boil weevil.
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Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Special
Sarah O. Breymer, aged 26 years, a
pretty and cultured governess at the
summer home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnes Compton, at Millbrook,
Duchess county, was found in her
bed strangled to death. Frank
Schermerhorn, aged 26, employed as
coachman on the Compton place,
was brought here charged with the
murder. He made an unsuccessful
attempt at suicide, cutting his throat
with a razor.