The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-10-28
THE HOUSE GRAPHING WITH
$25,ooo,ooo BOND ISSUE
PROPOSALS.
PALMETTO CAPITOL NEWS
General News Of South Carolina Col.
lected and Condensed From Tho
State Capital That Will Prove Of
Interest to All Our Readers.
Columbia.
Reject mo Cotton"

'SJSSe W. SOItOn.
The plan of prohibiting the plant
Ing of cotton in 1915 by legislation
received a decided check when the
house killed the mo cotton" bill by
$le overwhelming vote of 81 to SO.
The measure proposed that South
Carolina should not plant the staple
provided other cotton producing states
agreed not to do so. The house de-
bated the bill at length.
The elimination of the cotton crop
In 1915 as a means of raising the
price OF the 1914 crop began to be
widely agitated after a session of the
Southern Cotton association in New
Orleans. One Of its most prominent
advocates in South Carolina was
Wade Stackhouse, M. D., Of Dillon,
president Of the state division OF the
cotton congress. Great pressure was
brought on the general assembly in the
effort to get the mo cotton" bill
through at the special session. Many
converts were made to the elimina-
ton idea. But the constitutionality
Of any act which would provide for
the total elimination Of cotton was
strongly questioned. Then, too, the
plan received a wet blanket by the
announcement from a prominent en-
tomologist that the elimination of the
crop would not .exterminate the boil
weevil. "
The IS members of the house who
voted in favor OF total elimination
were: +
Baskin, Bethea, Burgess, Busbee,
Charles, Clowney, Evans, FORMER,
Friday, Gasque. Gray, Halle, Hall, M.
C. Harrison, James, Kallehan, Kirk,
Lee, Lilies, Mcmillan, Mcqueen, Mil
Ter, Mitchell. Odonn, Pate, Pesues?
Pyatt, L. M. Rogers, Sapp, Sh.-Tood,
Smiley, Stanley, Summers, WEIGH,
White, Whitehead. -.
The Bond Issue. .
The house plunged headtoremost
into the consideration Of the question
of issuing bonds to- the amount Of
some $25, 600, 900 on the credit of the
state to buy cotton or loan money on
cotton to men In South Carolina who
have it for collateral. For seven and
a half hours in n day the debate
ragged. The proposition was brought
before the house at the morning ses-
sion on the plea that the committee
appointed by the house to 80 to Wash
ington for consultation with w. G..
McAdoo, secretary Of the treasury,
should be informed of the position Of
the house on the proposed bond issue
before 1t left Columbia. MI. Steven
son OF Chesterfield and MI. Dick. OF
Sumter %entrained for Washington,
in the afternoon at $50 O'Clock to
join the senate committee. The house
took a recess about IN hour before
they we're scheduled to leave. At this
time the house had not registered It's
opinion on the proposed giant bond H.
sue by a single vote. In consequence,
the committee went to Washington
u~ninstructed, as It were.
ldl6I0 6SCu5 " pC q oAokoAS&~A
among the members Of the house now
to defer all action OF the proposal to
submit the bond issue to the people
until the committee from the house
and senate returns from Washington
with a Tip" from McAdoo.
The seven and a half hour debate
In the house on the bond issue was
intensely interesting, involving as 1t did
the biggest financial proposition the
general assembly has had before 1t in
half a century. The proposal that
the state issue bonds, secured by cot
ton, was unsparingly condemned as
an unbusinesslike proposition likely
to wreck the credit of the state. The
most ardent advocates Of the bond Is
sue, and there are many Of them in
the house, could only indorse the pro-
posal on the grounds of expediency.