Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-28


appropriated s4f,500.000 for the rural
delivery service. The measure car
ried an increase of more than $12,-
100000 over the appropriations made
last year, due to the establishment OF
the parcel post system. An amend
ment proposed by Senator Penrose
providing for the pensioning Of postal
employees after they had served 20
years or more in the service was
eliminated from the bill on point OF
order by Senator Hoke Smith Of Geor-
gia. He contended that 1t was gen.
eral LEGISLATION and was sustained by
the chair. The provision in the bill
as reported to the senate providing Tor
the election Of fourth class postmasters
was also stricken out. Charges tn
railroads are grossly overpaid for cs
rying the mails were made by Senator
Ashurst during the consideration OF
the bill. He produced statistics show
ing that the government paid $71.Ss
for carrying a ton Of mail from New
York to Chicago, while for carrying
a ton Of freight the railroads received
$13 and for a ton of express S25.
Senator Ashurst contended the gov
ernment could save much by using Its
own postal cars instead Of renting cars
from the railroads.
pESSchl SOLSlllullOi VI
CO was adopted Feb 5, 1857. There
has been a number of amendments.
Under this Constitution, Mexico is
considered a federative republic, di-
vided into twenty-seven states, three
territories and one federal district,
each having the right Of local self
government. The functions Of the
federal government are divided as un-
der our own Constitution, the three
departments, executive, legislative
and judicial, being similarly organic
ed. The president. under the Consti-
tuition at least. is elected by electors
six years. The area of the country Is
765,535 square miles, nearly three
times that Of the state of Texas. The
population in 1910 was 15,063,207. OF
these about 10 per cent were pure
white, 43 per cent mixed bloods and 3S
per cent Indians. A relatively small
part Of the population, from Is to Is
per cent live in the temperate zone,
which embraces the northern states,
now in open rebellion aginst the au-
thority of Provisional President HUI
erta. In his message to congress,
Sept. 16 1912, the late President Ma
dero stated that the full strength Of
the army was 107 generals, 6,2S6 Of
ficers and 1882 men. Six gunboats
Of 1000 to 1900 tons, two transports
and several revenue cutters constitute
the naval equipment. The revenues
for the last fiscal year amounted to
$55,500,000 and the expenditures the
same amount. The total national
debt on Jan. 1, 1911, was $219,213,0 900,
with interest and other annual charges
of s14,41S,000. Mexico has $4,000 miles
Of railway, $4,000 miles Of telegraph
lines and 1884 postoffices.
With the outlook Of armed opposi-
tion to the new provisional government
in Mexico, reduced to a few small,
threatened uprisings by followers Of the
late President Madero, 1t Is the opinion
Of administration officials in Washing
ton, according to a dispatch, that
chances for the use of the military arm
to protect American interests have
greatly diminished. Concentration Of
troops at Galveston will continue, but
admittedly the purpose now is princi-
pally to test the working of the new
system Of army organization. Major
General Carter, commander Of the Sec
ond division, due to arrive in Calves
ton within the next twenty-four hours,
will take the opportunity afforded by
the assembly of complete division of
troops to put them through their PAGES
thus affording to the various regimen
tai and brigade commanders practical
ly their first oportunity to direct the
movements of the large bodies Of men
that would fall to their command in
time of war. If the complete division
is assembled in Galveston, at Texas
City, about seven miles distant, and in
the camp just opened near Houston be-
fore the end Of the present week, the
military experts feel that they will
hoUa onnnponlichad q Nra1ifo hla fpaf II
is true that the movement appears to
be very slow in comparison with the re-
markable mobilization of the allies in
the Balkans. But as a matter of fact,
such distances as that from Fort D. A.
Russell, Wyo., and Fort Smelling, Mimi,
to Galveston, would have greatly taxed
the resources Of the best European
quartermaster department. On the
whole Secretary Stimson feels very
proud of the record made up to this
point, when, by the issue of a single
order to Major General Carter, the sec
ond division commander, the entire
body of men was set in motion, whereas
under the old plan the adjutant gen.
erals department was obliged to send
hundreds of kilograms to as many in
dividuals commanding officers, all the
way from major generals down to a
captain, to begin the mobilization. I'm
der the new system, too, the quarter
master general had already assembled
at the proper point of embarkation al!
the supplies needed for campaign.
The operations Of the five armies
engaged in the Balkan war, says a
London dispatch, have been brought
practically to standstill by the win
terry weather. Snow storms are fire.
quent and the roads are in deplora-
BILE state. The daily official dispatches,
upon which the world Is now COM
PEELED to rely for news from the the
atre of war, repeat the sterotyped
statement, nothing Of Importance has
occurred" A dispatch from Constan-
tinople goes a little further, record
ing that there has been skirmishing
on the front of the Tchatalja lines by
Turkish volunteers who claim to have
met with some success. These must
have been of a minor nature as the
Bulgarians earlier in the week were
said to have withdrawn further to the
westward. Roads in that neighbor-
hood are so bad that the transport
columns found il difficult to keep the
troops at the front supplied with pro-
visions and ammunition. The news
from the neighborhood of Adrianople
is conflicting. The Bulgarian war de-
partment says only desultory fighting
mas Deen III progress, Dul ulSpdlCll
from a French correspondent inside
the city, says that since February 3,
the Bulgarians have been delivering
desperate, but ineffective assaults on
the fortress and are bombarding 1t
cruelty and fruitlessly. Even less has
occurred in the vicinity of Bulair, in
the Gallipoli peninsula, than at the
Tchatalja lines. Here the Bulgarian
and Turkish armies are entrenched,
patiently awaiting a break in the
weather. The only heavy fighting,
except at Adrianople, since the war
was resumed. has taken place around
Scutari, where the Montenegrin army,
now assisted by Servian troops. has
again failed in trying to take the
fortress. Austrian military experts
say the Montenegrin siege guns are
placed too far away to do serious
damage to the Turkish works and that
King Nicholas of Montenegro will
not permit them to be moved for
ward, as he fears a sortie by the
Turkish garrison. He is now await
ing the arrival of the big Servian
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