Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-20
Scraps and faets.

prohibition measure was before the
legislature, there has been more or less
excitement In addition to Mr.. Alex
ander the other candidates for the gov
ernor's chair are John M. Slaton, pres
ident of the senate, and Joe Hill Hall.
of Macon, for many years leading
member of the legislature. William
Schley Howard, member Of congress
from the 5th district is seeking re-
election without opposition.
Washington, August 16: AS the re-
suit of a renewal Of Republican Leader
Mann's fight to get a direct vote on the
Bourne Bristow parcels post amend
ment, which the senate put into the
postoffice appropriation bill, the house
today was forced to adopt substitute
plan offered by Democratic leaders.
Mr.. Mann forced a reconsideration OF
the vote by which the bill was sent in
to conference. He then moved that 1t
again be sent to conference and the
house conferees be instructed to agree
to the senate's parcels post plan. AS
substitute for this Chairman Moon, OF
the postoffice committee, offered new
plan for an experimental system con-
fined to fourth-class mail matter and
farm products. The scheme was based
on the zone system as was the senate
cents to twelve cents pound, and a
limit of weight of fifteen pounds for a
package. The Moon substitute was
adopted by a vote Of 143 to Sc. Repre-
sentative Mann's motion subsequently
was defeated. The poStoffice bill then
was sent to conference, where the con-
fiicting provisions will be adjusted.
The senate on last Friday voted to
sustain the vetoes Of the president on
the wool and metal tariff rivision bills.
On the metal bill the motion to over
ride the president did not obtain a
majority. On neither measure did the
vote approach the necessary twothirds.
Senator Simmons called up the metal
bill, which was first disposed of. With
out debate a roll call vote was taken.
Thirty eight voted against the passage.
No Republican voted to pass the bill.
Senator La Toilette made the motion
to repass the wool bill. He asserted
the bill was a protective tariff meas
ure and was framed according to the
tariff boards report. He analyZed the
report of the board and compared 1t
with the bill. Senator La Toilette as
serted that the failure of the presi-
dent TO accept the Judgment of con-
gress was usurpation Of power Sen
ator Hepburn answered Mr.. La Toilette
and denounced the bill as a Democratic
measure. When the vote finally was TAX
en- thirty nine senators voted in favor
of passing the bill and thirty-s six
against it. The following Republicans
voted with the Democrats to override
the wool vote; Senators Bristow,
Clapp, Crawford, La Toilette, Poindex-
ter and Works.
-Juarez, Mexico, August IS: For a
few hours a Mexican Joan of Arc was
the dictator Of this city. With ten
Mexican rebels marching at the heels
of her horse she rode up to the police
station and disarmed the provisional
chief of police and six of his men. The
rebels rode away mounted on the po-
licemen's horses. The woman fearless
ly entered stores and demanded and
received provisions and then shortly
before daylight today she rode out of
town with her admiring followers. She
is said to be the wife Of Col. LaZero
Alanis, rebel commander operating
around Palomas. 1t is believed she has
gone to join her husband after her raid
on this town which is unprotected,
save for a few police installed at the
departure last week Of Gen. Orozcos
rebels. Clothed in a khaki riding suit
and riding q white horse, the young
woman dashed here and there through
the town collecting the stragglers in
the rebels ranks. Her raid on the po-
lice station was an utter surprise. The
police meekly surrendered their arms.
Tonight a guard of forty citizens armed
with all manner Of antique weapons
patrols the streets.
Washington, August II: The Pan
anna canal bill, as agreed upon by con-
ferees of the senate and house. was
passed by the house again tonight by
a viva voce vote. AS passed the bill
which provides for the government and
administration Of the canal. contains
provisions for the passage Of American
coastwise vessels through the canal
free of tolls and the admittance of
shipbuilding material to the canal zone
free of duty The bill already has pass
ed the senate and now goes to the
president for his signature. A special
rule prohibiting points of order against
the measure prevented Representatives
Moore and Olmstead, of Pennsylvania,
Republicans, from renewing their at
tack on the provision for the free ad-
mission of ship materials. AS a result,
there was little opposition. Mr.. Moore
was taken severely to task by Repre-
sentative Alexander, chairman Of the
merchant marine committee, for his
allegations that the free admission
clauses would injure American ship
yards and would work a hardship on
American labor. Mr.. Alexander held
that with free material shipping would
be greatly benefited and that such
provision would in no sense affect the
labor situation in American yards. He
defended the admission of foreign built
ships to American registry on the
ground that American ship yards were
not building vessels for foreign trade.
The exclusion Of railroad or trust own
ed ships from using the canal. in the
opinion Of Representative Sims, of
Tennessee, Democrat, was worth all
the labor and time taken to mold the
bill. He felt, he said, that long step
forward had been taken in the solution
of the trust problem.
Paris, Aug. IS: Considerable anx-
iety is evident in military circles here
over the situation in Morocco where
the French troops for the moment are
practically on the defensive pending
the arrival of endorsements which are
leaving Toulon and Marseilles daily.
The abandonment of Marakesh on Au-
gust 16, by General Liautey, the French
resident governor of Morocco, was the
first note indicating that serious COM
plicn lions were hampering the French
Opel dtl0nS. IhlS was followed quickly
by news that the pretender, FL Hiba,
was approaching the abandoned city,
which is the religious capital of the
country and threatened to proclaim
himself sultan there. Ell Hiba, who is
the son of a sorcerer, has been joined
by several chiefs with big followings
who always managed when defeated by
French columns to escape to the neigh
boring Spanish zone where they have
had no difficulty in marshaling fresh
forces with the connivance, the French
say, Of the Spaniards. The latest news
from Morocco is disquieting and in
dicates fear of a general rising in the
south. The tribes in the Spanish zone
refuse to recognize the new sultan, Mu-
lai Youssef, who succeeded to the
throne on the abdication, August 12, of
his brother, Mulai Hafid, and this ac-
tion on the part of the MOors in that
territory also is attributed here to
Spanish influence. General Liautey
has organized a flying column, COM
posed Of four thousand men under Col.
Mangin, which the French govern
ment hopes will suffice to hold the pre-
tender in check until sufficient troops
can be poured into the country to per-
NIT of a general advance and the re-
occupation Of the evacuated district.
= Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. II: Clar-