The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-28
FAVORS BOND issue.
ENlTE SENDS MEASURE TO
THIRD LEADING TUESDAY
ELIMINATION Debated

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House Discusses Total Elimination
!. Idea While Senate Substitutes
aa,5Oo Pounds Lint to the Ami
NAL, Bill for aSix.Acre' Reduction
by House-Senate on Bond Issue.
BY the overwhelming majority of
81 to 4, the Senate late Tuesday
night went on record as favoring a
bond issue to buy cotton. Only four
senators, Williams, Mars, Carlisle
and Black, voted to strike out the en-
acting words of the bill. An amend
ment increasing the amount OF the
bond issue to s35, 100000 was adopt
ed, IS to IL, and the bill passed to
third reading.
$ The motion to strike out the enact
Ing words cleared up what at one
time looked like tangle which the
gackers of the bond issue were about
to get themselves into. One wing
wanted the issue to remain at S2o,-
8 100000 and another wing wanted 1t
Increased and there were signs OF ap-
preaching 6issension, when the mo-
ton to strike out the enacting words
by Senatog Mars cleared up the In
cipient pickering among the advo-
Gates of the bond issue and solidlted
them behind it.
- The House Tuesday night took up
the MrQueen bill, looking to the total
elimination of cotton planting during
the year 1915. Mr.. MrQueen, who
has long been enthusiastically IN
favor Of the plan, spoke at length IN
favor of the measure.
Mr.. Friday OF 0rangeburg favored
5 total elimination and said 80 per cent
of his people wanted total elimina-
ton. He wanted the bill passed at
once, and felt it would accomplish
much good.
The Senate late Friday afternoon
declared for the policy Of reducing
cotton through restricting the pro-
6uction by adopting the Sullivan bill
as an amendment to the House bill
which reduced the acreage two-thirds
and limited it to six acres to the
work animal. The bill as now amend
ed by the Senate limits the produc'
ton to $500 pounds Hnt(cotton te
the work animal and places tax Of
s five nents a pound on all cotton Over
this amount. The vote for the Sulh
van amendment was 20 to s.
Those fayoring it being Senators
Ackerman, Applet, Carlisle, Clifton
Goodwin. Gross, Hough, Johnson, D
B. Ketchin, Lawson, Mars, MeCown
Z McLaurin Nicholson, Patterson
Sharpe, Werner, Williams, Young
Total, 20. Those voting against the
amendment were Senators Beam
guard, Black, Buck, CHM, A. John
ston, Laney, Lide, Stuckey. Total, 8
The bill as amended was then passed
to third reading.
The Senate then discussed the pro
) posed $25,000,000 cotton bonds. Al
amendment offered by Senator Ap
pe3t to raise the amount Of the bonds
! to $50, ,000, ,000 brought on prolonged
debate. Declaring that it was al
e.heroic act only justified by the gray
ity of the situation" Senator Alal
Johnstone explained the bond pro
& posaI and advocated the S50,0Q0,00'
amendment, saying it was better t.
take care Of the whole situation thar
half Of it. He argued that the pro
posal to save the cotton crop through
issuing Of bonds was sound legall,
and financially and in an exhaustive
review Of the situation made a stron'
argument for the bond issue.
a concurrent resolution, introduc
ed by Senator Appelt, requesting Cir
cult Judges rot to allow any fore
: closures before October 1, 1915, wa
adopted by the Senate without oppo
sition and sent over to the House
z This carries out the idea Of Governo
Blease not to sell any property unde
foreclosure prior to the first Of Octo
Der next year.
Mr.. Belser Of Sumter yigorousl.
opposed in the House the passage o
the total elimination bill. He salt
that the elimination Of cotton woul'
not exterminate the boil weevil il
the opinion of experts in the Unitet
States department Of agriculture. MI
Belser believed it doubtful that othe
cotton states would adopt policy o
total elimination of the cotton crop
mir. Belser pointed out that only TIVE
or three of the county branches of tn
Southern Cotton congress in the Stat
had indorsed total elimination Of cot
ton.
Mr.. Sapp Of Lancaster declares
that farmers who produced cottol
were largely in favor of prohibitin:
It's cultivation next year. He argue
that unless the planting of cotton wa
prohibited in total the supply of tn
staple would be far in excess of tn
demand. Mr.. Sapp declared tina
from IS to 80 per cent. of the far
mers were in favor of total elimina
tion. He predicted that at least min
and one-half million bales of tn
present cotton crop would be carrie'