Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-03-12
Washington.

President Wilson went 10 congress
and pleaded for repeal Of the provi-
sion of the Panama canal act which
exempts American coastwise shipping
from tolls. He tersely asserted that
his reason for asking the repeal was
because everywhere except in the Unit.
ed States the tolls Of the exemption
were regarded as violation Of the Hay.
Parnoofote treaty. and he further ask.
Gu 4. iii suppv.L VI the administra-
tons general policy. In !. --o-s.
there was quick response to the pres.
ident's address, the committee voting
13 to 3 to favorably report the Sims
repeal bill. y
John Bassett Moore. counselor Of
the safe department and the recog.
nized authority on international ques.
tions, concluded his service with the
government, when President Wilson
accepted the resignation Mr.. Moore
had submitted a month ago. Coming
when international affairs occupy the
forefront of official and public atten.
ton, the erparture Of Mr.. Moore from
a positions second only to that Of Mr..
Bryan, attracted widespread attention
and comment 1t is stated that he will
return to the Columbia university as
head of the international law depart.
ment.
Washington paid tribute to Col. G.
w Goethals. builder of the Panama
canal. The occasion was the annual
banquet of the National Georgraph
Sdciety, with Colonel Goethals present
as the guest Of honor, and to receive
from them and the president special
gold medal awarded him by the soct
etey in recognition Of his wonderful
!. epapt-SecretaryL LRrzd
toasttfa1 The banquet prese
striking scene. At one end, raise
above the table, the words, "A dc.
Goethals-Pacifc," blazed IN brihlant
electric letters as all other lights were
extinguished.
The United States army forces In
Hawaii are to be increased from 5000
men to $4,000 or $4,000 as soon as
the troops can be transferred from
the states, according to Maj. Gen.
William H. Carter, who is to sail for
Honolulu to assume command Of the
division of Hawaii. With General Car.
ter will 60 about one thousand men to
augment the present garrison on Oahi
The remainder of the proposed in.
crease, he said, will be transferred as
soon as the men can be spared from
the Texas border.
A monument to commemorate the
victory of Andrew Jackson over the
Creek Indians at Horse Shoe Bend on
the Tallapoosa river in 1914 in Ala
bama, was provided by bill passed
by the house. Majority Leader Un.
derwood made a speech vigorously sup
porting the bill. 1t carried an ap'
preparation Of $4,000 for the monu'
ment.
Preliminary figures made public by
director Of the census, w. ]. Harris,
shows the total Indebtedness Of the AZ
states of the Union, less sinking fund
assets, on June 80, 1913, was s342,251..
OOO,. an increase Of $107,342,000, OF
nearly SO per cent, over the total ten
years ago.
President Wilson revealed to thooe
who discussed Mexican affairs with
him that he fully realized the gravity
of the situation resulting from the kill
ing of William S. Benton, British
subject, the reported murder of Gus
tav Bauch and Clemente Vergara,
American citizens, and General Car
ranzas denial of the right Of the Unit
ed States to look after the interests
OF foreigners generally in Mexico. The
president spoke deploringly Of armed
intervention, but said the power and
size of the United States warranted
cam and patient course and did not
favor rash acti on:
Tomato Clubs For Marion.
Marion.-With the visit of Miss
Edith Parrot, state agent of the
girls tomato club work and also
agent of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, to this city,
where she conferred with the county
board of education and the directors
Of the Marion Boosters" it is now
certain that Marion county will have
girls tomato clubs for 1914.
The requisite amount of money for
the support of the movement, includ.
ing nine months salary for local