Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-23
Scraps and faets.

the cow that died on the tune-they
will have to recognize an addition 10
their celebrated quartette now. Shes
the COW that ate up $50 worth or gov
ernment dynamite out in WIZARD
Wash, and made the, wheels or con-
gress go around until her owner got
$50. The house paused in its consider
alton of weightier subjects long enough
TO pass the necessary bill. Contriou-
tory negligence on the part OF gov
ernment road builders, who left the
sticks of dynamite where Bossy could
eat them, was the verdict. strangely
enough. il did not blow up the COW, II
only poisoned her, but it nearly blew
- up the house Of representatives.
john Shelton Williams has again
heen nominated by President wilson 10
be comptroller Of the currency. Inc
nomination was made. senators eX-
planned, to meet senate rules requiring
new action with each new session. Mr..
NiI,iam's preyious nomination expired
with the last session. The new noml-
nation automatically will go to the
senate banking committee which is eX-
pected to renew it's recommenoatiohs
on a party division that the nomlna-
tion he not confirmed. Meantime the
denomination continues Mr.. Williams
in office This is the third time Mr'
Williams has been nominated. ms
first nomination was not acted on pe,
fore the sixty fifth congress expired
and no action was taken at the extra
session of the present congress on the
committee report recommending that
his second nomination be not confirm
ed. The committee held extensive
hearings at which Mr.. Williams or
ficial acts were attacked by bankers
and others and vigorously defended by
the comptroller
The census bureaus cotton seed and
cotton seed products monthly report
issued last Friday shows 1,7l6,l4S tons
of cotton seed were crushed august 70
November 80 compared with 1,555,4zS
tons for the same period last year ana
777. $50 tons were on hand at mills
November 30, compared with 1,14S,517
a wear ago. Cotton seed products pro-
duced in the four month period and on
hand November 80 were: Crude OIL
produced 52O,66S,636 pounds, compared
with 44l,432,961 last year and on mana
l4S,49S,909 compared with 9S,l53, 100.
Refined oil produced, 315,S26,666 POUNDS
compared with 301, ,644, ,461 and on hand
l36,S12,920 compared with l37l22'2So.
Cake meal produced 7Sl,O57 tons' com
pared with 772,09S and on hand lsi,
ga. compared with 111,716. Linters
44S.O83, and on hand S37, ,191, compared
with l6O,274. Imports Of oil for the
neriod were 10,773,674 pounds, COM
pared with 4,334,515 in 1918. Exports
of oil were 24,7S2,265, compared with
16242.6O2; of cake and meal, sO,SS3
tons compared with 695 and Of linters
12,SOS bales, compared with 6O,415.
Governor Beckett, of North Caro-
lima, or last Friday issued an order In
which he made sweeping commuta-
tion in the terms of all life prisoners in
the penitentiary whose sentences nave
been affected by the order, including
a number whose original sentences
were death by electrocution, and whose
sentences have previously been com
muted to life Imprisonment. The lst
includes twenty-one who were con-
yicted Of murder. In issuing the com
mutation order, last Friday night, Gov
ernor Beckett expressed the oelie1 tnal
.sno man ought to suffer eternal pun
fshment in thisTworld When You leave
q, man his life" the governor said;. you
have no right to take away his hope.
There is no opportunity OF making
better citizen of a man or OF develop
ing manhood when he has nothing be-
fore him save the prospect or prison
walls for the remainder or his natural
life." The only prisoner who lis ac-
tually entitled to freedom unuer- the
order is a woman known as Aunt
Sarah Wycoff, who was sentenced 10
life Imprisonment in 1879 FOR murder
She has expressed a desire to remain
Ia prison, saying that she is we'll taken
care of there and she has no reason to
believe that she would fare any better
on the outside.
The supreme court of North Caro-
lima has handed down a tremendously
important decision in the c'se or the
Public Service Company against the
Southern Power Company. The ques-
ton at issue was whether the South
ern Power Company could lawfully
charge different prices for the same
service under the same conditions. The
basis of the action was the price
charged for lights and power, in the
city of Salisbury. The majority opin-
ION of the court was written by Chief
Justice Clark. Justice Allen wrote
dissenting opinion which was con-
Cured in by Justice Walker. The ma
iority opinion contains this, Whlch
seems to be the heart of the matter:
"It is Of the the utmost Importance that
the claim Of the defendants, the
Southern Power Company, to discrimi-
nate in the rates charged by it to pur-
chaSerS unQ6r ike COHulllOHS DS
clearly decided by the courts. If the
defendant is thus permitted to charge
cotton mills, in which the owners are
'->+eras+ad |. while ii charges the
plaintiffs and other mills and industries
"A ynlca II IS uoI interested l.SS, or a
higher rate than it does others in like
conditions, it follows that in com
paratively brief time the defendant
will have the power to destroy, and
thereby acquire the ownership OF all
the other cotton mills and industrial
plants in the state and thus create
cotton mill monopoly wherever its
lines extend, for, by reason Of the ap-
preaching exhaustion of the coal and
the interruption of mine operations
there can soon be left available for
large industrial plants no other power
than the monopolized water power OF
the state"
The Cummins railroad reorganiza-
ton bill, clearing the way for the re-
turn of the railroads to private owner
ship, passed the senate last Saturday
afternoon intact. and Immediately v'""
sent to conference. The Cummins
measure emerged from the senat
without amendment. 1t includes T.
anti-strike provisions against which
there had been heavy attack. The