Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-04
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Washington, July 1: Senate Dem
ocrats approached final agreement on
the Underwood Simmons tariff bill in
caucus late today when they made the
following decisions on important con-
tested points: Mutual life insurance
companies were exempted from pay
ment of income tax on earnings re-
turned to policyholders in the form of
dividends. A stamp tax Of lilo cent
per pound was agreed to for all trad
ing on cotton futures, the tax to be
refunded where cotton Is actually de-
livered.
Washington special Of July to
Columbia State: William E. Gonzales
today took the oath Of office as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary from the United States to Cuba.
Former Minister Beaupre arrived from
Cuba today and the state department
suggested that Mr.. Gonzales imnedi-
ately go to Habana, but his departure
will be. delayed for nearly a month in
order that he may keep an engage
ment with the North Carolina Press
association at Asheville about July 25
Today Secretary Bryan gave a lunch
con to Minister Gonzales, having the
newly arrived minister from Cuba to
meet him.
DIR Cho Choy, late of China and
Cuba, died at the Ellis Island immi-
grafton station last Tuesday in his
hundred and fiftieth year. With par
ty OF Chinese he was en- route from
Cuba to Canada under bond, having
arrived there Sunday from HAVANA.
His health was excellent, he said, and
he resented suggestions that stories of
mis- age were exaggerated. Choy stout
ly declared that he was born in 1854
at Shan Hal Swang. He became i'll
was more than six feet tall and bald,
while his features were a web of gray
wrinkles. He lived for fifty years in
his native land and claimed to have
spent nearly 100 years in Cuba prac-
ticing medicine among the Chinese
there, where he acquired considerable
wealth. While on Ellis Island the doc
tor partook Of no nourishment except
a few tabloids Of concentrated food,
which he always carried with him,
and little cold water.
Washington, July 8: An increase
of S56,000 acres in the area planted to
cotton this year and an Improvement
of 81 per cent, in the condition Of the
crop over May 25 were the features Of
the department of agriculture's July
the first official estimate of the acre
age this year and the condition on
June 25. With the increased acreage
and a better condition by Ia per cent
over last year and 1.6 per cent over the
10-year average on June %, indications
point to a larger crop than the big one
produced in 1912. Texas reported an
increase of $4,000 acres in area plant
ed and the condition of the plant there
improved two points over May. Geor-
gia reported slight decrease in acre
age, but the condition improved per
cent from May to June. Increases in
acreage also were reported from Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennes-
see, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Virginia. A total area of 35,622, 900
acres of cotton Is in cultivation in the
United States, according to the prelim-
mary estimate of the bureau Of sta
tistics. This compared with 34,766,00
acres, the revised estimate Of acreage
in cultivation a year ago, 36,045, 900
acres in 1911, 32,403,000 acres in 1910,
S0,93S,000 acres in 1909 and 32,444,000
acres in 1908. The condition of the
growing cotton crop on June 25 was
SIS per cent Of a normal condition, as
compared with 1911 per cent on May
25, 1913, S0.4 per cent on June 25, 1912
and S0.2 per cent, the average condi-
tion on June % for the past 10 years
"A sweeping investigation of lobby
ing charges made by Martin M. Null
hall, involving members of the house,
Will be authorized by the house. prob
ably on Saturday. After two hours of
heated discussion Wednesday, the
house referred the matter to the rules
a resolution giving a committee broad
inquisitorial powers to probe the mat
ter. Chairman Henry called a meeting
Of the rules committee for Thursday
morning to begin framing the resolu-
ton. The question of appointing a
committee to act in conjunction with
the senate lobby committee was taken
up and Senator Overman and other
members of the senate committee are
being consulted. If separate house
committee is decided upon an attempt
will be made to reach an agreement
with the senate committee to divide the
subject matter of the inquiry, with the
idea of allowing the house to probe
such matters as concern its own men,
bers. Resolutions of inquiry were
presented by Representative Sherley of
Kentucky, one of the members listed
by Col. Mulhall as susceptible to "infiu-
ence," who declared he did not know
Mulhall, Representative Nicely of Kan
sas and Representative Nolan Of Cali
fornia. During the discussion On the
floor, it was made apparent that the
proposed investigation may extend not
only to activities of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, but to
those of labor union agents, temper
ance association representatives and
all others who have interested them
selves in congressional legislation.
Uncle Sam closed the fiscal year
1913 with surplus Of $50,0S3,2 ,229, rep
resenting the excess OF receipts over
expenditures, exclusive of Panama ca
nal and public debt transactions. This
exceeds last years surplus by $780,
600. The Panama canal expenditures
and public debt transactions, however,
wiped out the surplus of ordinary re-
ceipts over ordinary expenditures and
created a deficit for the year of ST.
$4,000. Total receipts for the fiscal
year amounted to 1923, ,7S2,921 while
the ordinary disbursements were $685.
699,692. Corporation taxes yielded the
government $34,94S,S70, or $5,365, 766
more than during the fiscal year 1912.
Custom receipts for the fiscal year
reached 1918, $4,000, an increase of
nearly $7,000,000 over the previous
year. The record drinking and smoking
of the American people in the twelve
months brought the Federal govern
ment the enormous total Of $309, ,47S,-
900 in internal revenue receipts, which
was $16,500,000 greater than in 1912.
Under the first years operation of the
new pension law the government paid
veterans and widows $175,134,000, an
increase of 21,537.000. The fiscal year
closed with $164, 100000 in the general
fund Of the treasury, as compared with
1857, 1890 year ago. The cash draw
er of the treasury contains S65 900
as the working balance of the govern
ment. The trust funds of the treas
ury include $1,0S6,7 900 in gold coin
and bullion. The government spent
Sal, ,741 900 on construction of the Pan
anna canal in the past year, making a
total of $31S,229,O00 spent on the canal
to date. The mints coined during the
year $37,147,000, of which $30,05S, 900
was in gold. The 1892 national banks
have total outstanding circulation
of national bank notes of $737,S50,050. |
Gettysburg, Pa. July 2: Seven
men were stabbed in q fight in the |
dining room of the Gettysburg hotel as
a result of a fight which started when |
several men aroused the anger of a |
veteran in blue, by abusing Lincoln. |