Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-04-25
Scraps ana faets.


include several hundred with more
than a thousand more or less seriously
wounded and at least thirty thousand
houses. destroyed.
Orangeburg, April 22:-The su-
nreneEcourt has lust handed down
decision in the. case Of William ".
Zeigler; a taxpayer, against W., q:
Thompson and the other members OF
the board of trustees of the. city
schools. In this s:case the plaintln
sought to enjoin the trustees from
Issuing and selling $4,000 of schooi
bonds Ito erect school buildings. Inc
case was a friendly suit and intenoeo
TO test and settle the question as 10
whether a school district could issue
and sell school bonds upon the au-
thority Of an act Of. the legislature
without first submitting the question
to the voters in an election. some
doubted this and the bond house would
NOT huv the bonds until the question
was settled. Judge Bowman held the
bonds, valid without submitting same
to the people. The supreme court mas
sustained Judge Bowman. The trus-
tees will now sell the bonds and pro-
coed TO erect the school building Tor
the colored people.
-Continual.ce Of the boom in the
stock market last week carried the
average price of railroad ard steels,
euuipfnents4 and motors and oils 10
new Inaximums on daily sales ranging
/ 200, 900 to about 100000 shares. In
creased public participation was bal
anced at intervals by heavy selling
for profits but reactions were mod
crate, save in several Of the less rep
resertatiye .industrials' and speclaltles.
Practically The same condition ruled
in the bond list, Liberty issues easing
slightly, as did also some. Of the Euro
peanG war Offerings. On the other
hands underlying domestic rails and
utilities were decidedly strong" IN
the Eopen market call loans ruled
throughout at 1-2 per cent. Relaxed
tendencies were noted in short time
rGteS bank acceptancss and gift edged
compercial paper. The G9ai ,sclke
seemed to enter only casually into the
calculations of traders, although ad-
vices from industrial .centers reported
curtailment Of operations due to scar
city of fuel and further shutting down
of non-union mines.
Hope Of closing the break in the
Mississippi levee which occurred at
Myrtle Grove, 80 miles south Of New
Orleans was abandoned Sunday after
it had widened to approximately 125
feet despite the efforts of the levee
engineers to close the gap and con-
fine the river to its regular channel.
Engineers hope to be able to "tie" the
ends of the levee with tarpaulins and
let the water run through over the al
ready inundated land. While it is
impossible to estimate the damage
done by the break at Myrtle Grove,
plantation men expressed the opinion
Sunday at least 81 100000 damage had
already been done. The Deer Range
Plantation company is the heaviest
loser. This company owns about g.
900 acres of land in the inundated
area, planted mostly in sugar cane.
Owners OF the plantation say it will
require at least three years of har-
vesting before enough seed can be
raised to, proceed with the conduct of
the plantation of Nthe scale maintaht-
ed before the flood. Oyster and shrimp
beds and trapping are other industries
which will suffer largely as a result
of the break. AS protection to
plantation settlements, back levees
were cut in several places but the
flood waters continued to spread over
large acres of land with no appreci-
able let up. - .... ,f
- Senator Borah, (Republican) of
Idaho stated in letter to the Po-
catello Qdaho) Post, American Le-
gion, that if he voted. for the soldiers
bonus bill lit would be a simple mat
ter of barter in which l use the peo-
pies money to buy somebody's vote"
The letter was in response to a tele-
gram received by the senator from
the Pocatello post and was made pub
80, .s..l,N H.,
telegram" it says, "the threat which
you impliedly make as to future poll
teal punishment. 1t was wholly un-
necessary for you to make this threat.
1t reflected no credit upon you and it
has had mo effect whatever upon me.
When YOU cbme,th that hight. in which
you propose to fnflict punishment,
you will doubtless be able to say
many things in the way of censure
upon my public record. But one thing
neither you nor any one else will be
able to say, and that is, that Lever
sought to purchase political power by
draft upon the public treasury, or that
l chose to buy n continuation in Of
flee by putting $4,000000,000 upon.
the bended backs of American taXpay-
ers. | haven't much respect for the
man who buys office. even though he
pays lOE IL WIFI IIb OWN IllOHty. bul
the most Shiny creature which dis
graces American politics is the man
who buys office by paying for it with
appropriations out of the public treas
ury and charges his venal political
obligations to the taxpayers. If /
thought this measure q proper one, l
could and would vote for it. But be-
lieving with thousands of former SER
vice men who have written me that II
Is not a proper one, if | should vote
for it 1t would be n simple matter of
barter in which | use the peoples
money TO buy somebody's vote, in
which the account of my political eX-
penses would be charged TO the tax
payers. OF course, you understand
that | have at all times supported and
stand ready, to support any measure
ans" At the outset of his letter SEN
ator Borah said he had taken his po-
sition on the bonus 'artcr great con-
sideratiOn and with much reluctance"
He added that he understood perfectly
tho. criticism it would bring and con
demnation it would invite" but be-
lieving that his position w;s a right
eOus one he could not change it.
"A warning against a growing ten
dcncy towards speculation throughout
the cour try as business conditions i'm
prove was sounded by Comptroller of
the, Currency CTisSinger in an address
before the Florida Bankers associa-
tiOn at Gainesville Fla last Satur-