Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-06-20
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fred Conor, bacteriologist of the
Belvedere Military hospital, Tunis,
where, with the collaboration OF DR..
Nicholle he had prepared solution
containing living whooping cough
bacilli, which they injected into l22
children suffering from the disease,
repeating il every two days. thirty
seven per cent Of the children recover
ed In less than three weeks, whereas
under ordinary treatment the mtldest
attacks last two months. DR.. Roux
while declaring that the experiments
thus far were on too small scale
to make a definite pronouncement,
said he believed an effective cure was
In sight.
In an address at washington
night school commencement last
TUESDAY. Vice President Marshall
warned the graduates not to look to
book learning to guarantee the max
ing of a career Anybody" he de-
clared, 'who Is willing to cast princl.
ples to the wind to take advantage OF
the weak and to ride roughshod over
his neighbors, can make career, put
from the higher standpoint, ne gains
nothing but that" The vice president
pleaded for the maintenance or the
old common school and cultural ed
of technical instruction. Education,
he declared, especially of the cultural
kind, does not go to make career,
but rather to make splendid men and
women, q greater task. since the
revolution" he added, "the Uniteo
States has set the pace for the worio
in progress and civilization and In TWO
centuries more the world Will De
Democracy. I believe that this age Is
the crowning glory OF all ages.
Senator william Alden Smith Oh
Michigan, declared before the senate
lobby investigating committee iast
wednesday that the clause In the
sundry civil bill now awaiting Presl-
dent Wilson's signature, exempuns
labor unions and farmers organiza-
lions from prosecution under the
Sherman antitrust law represented
the work of lobby. 1.-The very bill on
the presidents desk this morning,
he said, was put through by loppy
of labor organizations They know
there is class legislation in II. Samuei
Gompers admitted to me 1t was class
legislation. OF course the American
Federation of Labor has lobby mere.
I don't condemn it. They have
right to be here, SO have tine sugar
people and the others. think there
is a very considerable lobby here;
there always will be and think 1t ap-
propriate. In everything ] have done
here / have encountered the lobby. II
does not do any harm. encountered IL
in the Titanic investigation ana the
MEXICAN revolution" Senator Smith
added he knew John Norris, OF the
newspaper people" had been mere LOT
free print paper. He added that tne
Temperance people" had maintained
a lobby in Washington. senator
Smith said he approved Of the use OF
influence by presidents. He SAID tnat
every president since Cleveland nao
undertaken to influence legislation.
An eleventh-hour discovery that
the sugar schedule Of the Underwood
tariff bill had 'joker" In II, whlcn
would have operated to make all re-
fined sugar dutiable at two cents
mound and nullify the provision for
free sugar after three years, resulted
last Wednesday in an amendment by
majority members Of the senate nm
ance committee, elimination In the
Underwood bill Of the Dutch stand
ard of color, which has been In tarlu
bills for many years 1t was discover
ed. made applicable to all refined
sugar a pa. .agraph from the Payne
Aldrich bill relating to connection
ary, which included the Following
words: Sugars, after being renned,
when tinctured, colored, or In any
way adulterated, two cents per pound.
The majority members of the finance
committee had their attention called
to this matter by Senator Sheppard or
Texas, who was petitioned by the
chamber of commerce Of Greenville,
Texas, to look into the provisions
which they believed might defeat the
purpose of the administration ano
majority in congress as to ultimate
free sugar. 1t was suggested that the
bill as II stood could be so construed
as to apply to all refined sugar which
Is colored with ultramarine. The
Dutch standard, which was taken out
in the house bill, stipulated specih-
cally as to the coloring of refined sug-
ar. Members of the finance commit
tee ordered an investigation and Pres
ident Wilson, when his attention was
called to II, agreed that it should be
looked into thoroughly. Late We'd
nesday afternoon the majority mem
bers of the committee received ex-
pert reports that the provision might
operate as a joker and they referred
to refined sugars and left 1t applic-
able only to confectionery.
AN amendment to the Underwood
tariff bill, adopted yesterday by the
majority members of the senate H.
nance committee, would give the pres
ident of the United States authority to
suspend certain rates In the proposed
law and to proclaim special rates
against nations which discriminate
against products of the United States.
The amendment is appended to the
clause giving the president authority
to negotiate reciprocity agreements
with other nations, and in some re-
spects resembles the maximum and
minimum clause Of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law eliminated in the house bill.
In substance the amendment would
provide that when any nation discrim-
mates against the products OF the
United States or imposes restrictions
upon United States exports, or does
not, in the opinion Of the president
reciprocate in trade relations, the
president may. by proclamation, sus-
pend certain rates and put in effect
other rates. Only specified articles,
II Is understood, are to be included un-
der the terms of this amendment and
the retaliatory rates are specified also.
Among the articles included In the
list upon which the president might
suspend rates are fish, wheat wheat
flour. coffee, tea, earthenware, wines
leather goods, jewelry, sugars and mo-
lasses. The duties prescribed vary as
to the different articles. Fish, 1t is
reported, would be dutiable at ! cent
a pound, wheat at 10 cents bushel,
flour at As cents a barrel, few cents
per pound on coffee and tea. On 9TH
er items the penalty would be doubled
rates, while on sugars, which proba-
bly, never would be affected, the rate
would be only fraction Of l cent per
pound. The amendment Of course, is
subject to ratification Of the Demo
cratic senatorial caucus, which will
begin work on the bill today.
Columbia special Of June 16, to
News and Courier: Cold water and
mayhaps grape juice for any special
occasion is all that the South Caro-
lima Press association can look fol
when they meet on the Isle Of Palms
at Charleston on the 26th Of this
month for their annual convention
for Governor Blease declared this
morning that he was going to clamp
on the lid and sit on it while the ed
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