Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-16
Scraps aud facts.

lend millions OF dollars OH SOulH SdIo-
lima cotton in the event of the pass
age of the warehouse law, and ms
proposition went on to stipulate that
under such conditions, he would be
able 10 lend the small producer OF a
half a dozen or so bales on the same
terms and conditions as the larger
producer of hundreds of bales. me
name of the financier was not given
Spartanburg special of October H.
to the Charlotte Observer: BY order
of Gov. Cole L. Rlease, Thomas Nolen
and Charles Howard, who are serV-
ing lO-year sentences for a SlO,OoO
safe robbery at EnOree. have been
taken from the Spartanburg county
chaingang and sent back to the state
penitentiary. The men were trans
ferred from the penitentiary to the
chaingang only a few months ago.
and why Governor Blease has seen
tit to put them back in the prison
again has not been disclosed. Nolen
and Howard were pals of James
Johnson, alias Portland Ned" who
was also convicted at the Enoree
robbery and sentenced to serve 10
years, but was paroled by Governor
please.
The McLaurin bill, providing for
state system of warehouses for the
storing of cotton and validation of the
cotton warehouse receipts, passed the
senate. Wednesday afternoon. by a
vote of 81 TO II, and was ordered
sent to the house. The bill provides
for one commissioner at a salary OF
$4,000 per year to be elected by the
general assembly for a term of two
years, to handle the warehouse sys-
tenn. The bill carries an approprla-
ton of $4,000 for salaries and eX-
penses Of putting the bill into opera
ton. the warehouse commissioner to
have the power TO acquire warehouses
by lease or condemnation and to
appoint such subordinates as neces-
sary. He Is to give bond in the sum
of $4,000. The bill provides for
state validation of the warehouse re-
ceipts, the receipt to carry absolute u
tie to the cotton and to guarantee the
weight and grade.
Heading the list with a 20 per
cent reduction of his own salary
President Fairfax Harrison. of the
Southern railroad. has inaugurated
retrenchment plan which is designed
to affect equally all officers and in
terests in the corporation. Gradual
ed reductions of all salaries above
$2,500 a year and a reduction OF the
dividend of the preferred stockhold-
ers from to i-2 per cent, payable
in deferred scrip, are included in the
plan. President Harrison has deem
ed it only fair" the railroad state
ment says, that officers of the COM
pany should share the sacrifice" Cur
tailment was made necessary, it adds.
by the current depression of busi-
ness" and brought consequent re-
duction in the opportunity of many
hundreds of employees to earn the
wages to which they have been ac-
customed."
- The cotton bond BILL as agreed
upon at a series of conferences by
senators, was introduced by Senator
Hoke Smith, Wednesday, as an amend
ment to the war revenue bill. Sena-
tor Smith explained the proposal
briefly and announced he would dis
cuSs it at length on Thursday. The
measure, drafted to relieve the cotton
congestion resulting from the war,
would provide that the government
issue $225, 900 in three-year per
cent bonds to buy 100000 bales OF
cotton at ten cents a pound. To make
up for any loss that might accrue to
the government through decrease in
the value of it's cotton or inability to
dispose of it, tax would be levied on
a future cotton crop, to curtall
next years crop and maintain the
price OF the staple, tax Of 2 cents a
pound is levied by the bill on all cot
ton produced in 1915, in excess Of so
per cent Of the crop of 1914.
- Chairman Glass of the house
banking and currency committee,
told the convention of the American
Bankers association last Wednesday.
that ne felt confident that proposals
for government valorization of cotton
or the sale of government bonds to
take the crop off the planters hands
would not result in action by con-
gress. If it were done, he declared,
ii would not be of permanent beneht
to the cotton producer. Every sane
and patriotic citizen, whether of Mas
sachusetts or Mississippi, Virginia or
California, deeply sympathizes with
cotton painters and would do any
thing within the limitations of rea-
son and economic safety to aid them
in their distress; but II cannot be eX-
pected that congress will resort to any
measure for the relief of any single
American product, the enactment OF
which measure would wreck ana
ruin the entire financial and CONNER
cial fabric of the country. l can as
sure you that ii is not pleasant for me
"a southern man and chairman OF
the banking and currency committee
of the house-to submit to the re-
proaches and upbraidings of my
southern colleagues for being unwll-
ling to help their desperate schemes
of relief. but ! simply cannot with any
regard for my oath as representa-
tive in congress or with any apprecla-
ton of the responsibilities of my po-
sition, yield my judgment to such
unreasonable and dangerous sug-
gestions. These things ought not TO
be done and ! feel confident Will not
be done. If done, they would not
help the cotton producer. because the
latter would be seriously injured by
universal restrictions of credit ana
impairment of confidence that would
inevitably cnsue."
Charles Schuchs was killed and
his wife wounded in the Philippine
Islands, last Tuesday. by a Moro
near Julo. The mans head was sew
cred from his body. No reason 1or
the murder is known. Schuchs had
lived among the Moros for thirty
wears and was held in high esteem.
Charles Schuchs was one of the most
picturesque and influential characters
i'm the Philippines and a dominating
force for good. Gen. Hugh Scott, as
sistant chief of the army stan, spoke
feelinsly of Schuchs. who had served
General Scott, when he was govern
or of Jolo province, and Gen. Leon
ard Wood, in the role of Interpreter
and general adviser during the period
of American occupation. Gen. Scott
said his influence with the natives
was so potent that on more than one
occasion he had been able to prevent
hostile clashes. There appears to be
some confusion as TO the early ms
tow of Charles Schuchs, ana ms
brother Hermann. One story is that
they we're born in Singapore. OF Ger
man parents, who came to Jolo many
wears ago, and were given large
plantation by the sultan. y more ro-
mantle version is that they were
castaways. sons of Capt. Henry
Schuchs of the German bark FrltZle'
wrecked on Jolo island in 1854. Ac-
cording TO the latter story. the boys,
six ana eight years old. were found
lashed to a raft. which was cast upon
the beach. They were adopted ny
NoIo tribes who regarded them as
spirit children because Of their lisht
hair and fair cOmpleXionS: AFTER
many years they became chle1s' ne-
Ia