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VOL. XLII. NO.82 NEWBERRY, S. C.. FRIDAY JANUARY 27, 1905. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR BIG QUESTIONS STILL HELD IN ABEYANGE NEW BILLS CONTINUE TO COME IN. Senator Blease Disagree on Compul sory Education-Meeting of Newberry Delegation. Columbia, Jan. 26.-The legislature is closing the third week of the ses sion. Both houses are now getting down to hard work. None of the big questions have yet been tackled. The constitutional amendments, the dis pensary, the marriage license bills, the tax questions, are all still in abey ance. And still the new bills continue to come in. The engrossing depart ment a day or two ago 'had caught up and I thought the rush of new meas ures was over but yesterday the flood gates seemed to open again and new bills are still being ground out. The list now reaches something over four hundred. Of course this does not represent the exact number be cause some of the bills are drawn in duplicate so as to permit the intro duction of the same bill in both hous es. The senate calendar of yesterday for instance showed forty two new bills and the house caiendar -f the same date ninety nine. Of course there are many more bills in the bands of committees and a few been passed and a few killed. There have been only eight bills passed and ordered enrolled for rat ification. The act ratified was a few days ago and was a local measure in reference to holding court in one of the circuits. The other seven are ready for ratification. A good deal of time has been taken up in the senate, discussing the com pulsory education bill of Senator Raysor. It was up again yesterday and the indications are that it will pass the senate but may meet a diffen ent fate when it reaches the house. Senator Blease of Newberry op poses the measure and made a speech against it yesterday. His brother E. S. Blease, who is a senator from Sa lua made a speech in favor of the measure yesterday which has been very highly spoken of by those who heard it. The investigation resolution of Senator Cole. L. Blease was passed by the house yesterday some amend nments which it is claimed by those in position will make the resolution al most impossible of passage. Just what will be done in regard to the matters no one seems even willing to make a guess. Some of the amend ments proposed by the house will scarcely be concurred in by the sen ate and the whole thing may fall thrc.ugh. * * * The dispensary bills have not yet been up for discussign and as I have said before there are so many diver gent views on this subject of chang ing and amending the law that I am inclined to believe it will remain at least for another year just about as it is now. The dispensary investiga tion resolution of Mr. Blease being in for conference committee the chances are that it will not pass. If each house insists upon its amend ments and the committee fails to agree on a compromise why the reso lution is dead. At a meeting of the Newvberry dele gaion held a few nights ago New berry matters were discussed. The proposed change in the magistrate law as to Newberry was published in my Tuesday's letter. It should have been eleven magisrates instead of twelve. The changes made are to increase the salary of the magistrates at Newberry to $300oand to require that salary of the magisrate at Prosperity to be $ioo; at Whitmire to be $ioo; the other magistraes in the couny aV to receive a salary of $36 dollars each The constabes all receive the same salary as the magistrates. * * * The delegation also decided to leave the salary of the sheriff at $14o0 as it is now. The delegation had never discussed this matter and the propo sition to reduce the salary of the sheriff as I state was made by Sena tor Blease. Sheriff Buford was pres ent and a statement from him explain ing the work of the office and the ex pense connected with it it was decid ed to let the salary remain. The matter of salary paid the su pervisor and the clerk and attorney of the board of commissioners was also discussed and it was decided to make the salary of the supervisor $goo instead of $750 and to pay the clerk and attorney for the board $250. The matter of increasing the auditor's salary was also talked of but no ac tion was taken on this subject for the present. * * * The matter of indexing and ar ranging the records in the office of. the clerk of court was also dnscussed and the necessity of this work and of having it done at once was appar ent to the entire delegation so it was decided to arrange for the expendi ure of $750 for this -work and the county commissioners are to let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder and to require bond for the faithful performance of the work so that the amount shall not exceed $750. * * * The graded school bill has passed and has been enrolled and is ready fkor ratification. Its provisions are. already known. Senator Bease says he has received a number of letters from many ctizens in Newberry endorsing the action of the delegation on their action in having the bill passed and the charter changed. The bill to abolish the commission ers of public works and devolve this duties on the aldermen of the city will pass the senate this week and it will then be up to the members of the house to say what they will do about it. Mr. Earhardt hays he favors it but does not want the bill to pass before next year as it will give Mayor Cromer an opportunity to make a better showing than he, Mr. Earhardt, made. I do not see how this could be, but if the measure is opposed in the house, of course, it cannot get through, being purely a local matter. Mr. Higgins is also opposed to the change so he says, without further time to investigate the mat ter. I have had no expression of op inion from Mr. Taylor on the sub ject. The~ bill simply provides for doing away with the commissioners of public works and to devolve their duties upon the board of aldermen of the city. Nearly every city in thec state in which there are commissioners of public works has abolished the boards and turned the management of these public utilities over to the city council. Mr. Blease says he has received a number of letters from Newberry requesting that this be done as to Newberry. The bill to fix a uniform price for cotton seed wvas discussed in the house yesterday and killed The senate took a good portion of its time yesterday to the discussion of the compulsory education bill of Mr. Raysor. Mr. Blease of Newber ry made a speech in opposition to the bill while his brother Senator Eu gene S. Blease spoke in favor of the bill. The speech of the young sena tor from Saluda has been very highly commended. The bill will probably pass the senate but its fate in the house is doubtful. The bill of the Parr Shoals Power Co. to ratify their charter granted by the secretary of state and to give ad ditional power passed the senate and had a favorable report from the house committee but when it came up for second reading was recom' - teed without opposition. The ceremonies of inauguration took place yesterday and were sim ple and short. The speech of Gov. Heyward taking only about ten min utes. A great many Newberry people were in Columbia this week to at tend the opera. The weather here has been freezing for several days. E. H. A. THE COTTON CONGRESS. Farmers of the South Gather in New Orleans-First Move is to Reduce the Acerage. New Orleans, La., Jan. 24.-By a unanimous vote at the close of its first session today the Southern In ter-State. Cotton convention, by gen eral agreement the largest and most representative that has gathered in the South, declared that reduction of acerage and commercial fertilizers is the paramount question to be con sidered at the convention, and it must be settled before any other busineess is undertaken. Eleven hundred and thirty-five delegates, representing the thirteen cotton growing states and territories, had registered when the convention was called to order. Even that number did not represent the full strength of the convention. The foresoon and early afternoon xere devoted to compromising all differences that existed as to organi zation, the central idea being that the work of-*t convention should go to the coufftr -with the stamp of har mony- and.Praatical unanimity. The result was that former Congressman Catchings' name was withdrawn and all opposition to Harvie Jordan's se lection ended. Washington Artillery Hall, seating two thousand people, was crowded to the doors when the convention met. As president of the Southern Cotton Growers, Mr. Jordan called it to or der. He said in part: "We are al agreed upon four gen eral propositiA,U: "Frst. We ipust tie-up and take care of the surpus of this crop and re move it from the markets of the country until next fall, and hold the balance of the crop absolutely in our possession until the price advances.to normal conditions. Second. We must reduce the cot ton acreage and use of commercial fertilizers under cotton at least 25 per cent. under that of 1904. "Third. We must arrange for a general system of bonded ware hous es, under local co trol of the people throughout the south. "Fourth. We must at once proceed to organize the producers of the south in every cotton growing county on a business basis to carry into op eration a permanent system of relief and protecton for the futurt." Judge E. B. Perkins, of Dallas, nominated former Lieutenant Gov ernor Jester, of Texas, for temporary chairman, and he was unanimously elected. Concluding a brief, but ef fective. address. Governor Jester said: "Two reforms must be inauguratea by the Southern farmers: "Diversification of crops that will reduce the production of cotton, and better facilities for the storage of cotton that will give lower insurance and interest and better protecion." J. A. B. Lovett, of Bluntsville, Ala., Richard Cheatham of Mississippi and J. H. Whyte of New Orleans, were electer secretaries. The question of representation im mediately arising Governor Varda man moved that every properly ac redited delegate should be entitled to a seat on the floor and a voice in tion provoked considerable debate, it finally prevailed. On motion of J. A. Brown, of North Carolina, a committee on per manent organiza:ion of one delegate from each state was named and pend ing its report welcoming addresses by Mayor Behrman and President San ders. of the Progressive Union, were listened to. There were responses by Walter Clark, of Clarksdale, Miss., and J. Pope Brown. chairman of the Georgia railroad commission. Mr. Brown said it was the number of bales which regulated the price of cotton and the present price would not advance until it was known that the production this year was to be curtailed. Eight million bales would be an ample crop to raise this year. With the four million of surplus held on to, it would give precisely the crop the bears desire. He believed the south could whip in the present fight. W. D. Nesbitt of Alabama, present ed the report of the committee on permanent organization. . It provid ed for Harvie Jordan as president from each state, and for the three secretaries named by the temporary organization. It fixed the represen tation on the basis of one vote for every ioo,ooo bales of cotton raised during 1903-1904, as follows: Alabama io, Arkansas 8. Flordida I, Georgia 14, Louisana 9, Mississippi 14 Norh Carolina 6. South Carolina 9, Tennessee 3, Texas 26, Oklahoma 2, Missouri i and Indian Territory 3. These committees were provided for: Reduction of cotton acreage and use of commercial f9rtlizers witR one farmer one banker and one merchant from each state. . Permanent organization of farmers with three farmers, one merchant and one banker from each state. Financing and holding balance of the present crop until legitimate prices are secured, with 'one farmer, one merchant and one banker from each state. Ware housng and financing future crops. similarly constituted. Vne direct trade between farmers and manufacturers. On resolutions to consider matters of a general nature otherwise provid ed for. "Reduction of acreage and com mercial fertilizers being of paramount importance we recommenid it be made the first order of business and be set tIed before other business is under taken," was the conclusion of the committee's report, which was unan imously adopted. The convention adjourned until to night. His Frst Attempt. Kansas City Times. They were in a carriage going to a ball. He was just of age and was wearing his new dress suit. It was his first attempt at "doing things up in style." Never before had he worn a dress suit or taken a girl to a social function in a carriage. He had dressed in nervous haste, and yet he had tried his best to see that his raiment was absolutely faultless. As they were driven rapidly to ward the hall they talked of the fine time they expected to have. Sud denly the girl stopped talking and gazed intently at the bottom of the hack. The youth noticed that she was apparently interested in some thing down there, and he asked: "Mary, what's the matter with you? What makes you so quiet?" "John," she replied, "perhaps I shouldn't ask you such a question, but isn't there something wrong with your feet?" The young man looked down. He was still in his old carpet slippers sockless. Truth may be held under water for a while, but it's bound to bob up some time. The misletoe has gone out of fash ELECTIONS BY LEGISLATURE. Judge Ernest Gary Re-elected Fifth Circuit-H. E. Hydrick Elect ed Seventh Circuit-Other Elections. Special to The Herald and News. Columba, Jan. 26.-The elections held today by the general assembly resulted as follows: For judge fifth circuit Ernest Garv. For judge seventh circuit-D. E. Hydrick. For superintendent of penitentiary -D. J. Griffith. For board directors penitentiary A. K. Sanders, Jno. G. Mobley, J. H. Kirby. Member board of trustees colored college-Arthur Kibler. Judge Ernest Gary, of course, was reelected without opposition. There were three candidates in the seventh circuit; Senator D. A. Townsend, anc didate for re-election; Senator D. E. Hydrick, of Spartanburg, and Repre sentative C. P. Sanders, of Spartan burg. The vote was, Townsend 6q, Hydrick 78, Sanders 15, putting Hy drick in by three votes. Col. Griffith who was reelected superintendent of the penitentiary, was without oppo sition. A. K. Sanders and J. G. Mob ey, on the penitentiary board, were reelected, and Mr. Kirby representa tive from Cherokee, defeated M. 0. Rowland, of Spartanburg. Mr. - Ar thur Kibler ,on the colored college board, takes the place of Senator Cole L. Blease, resigned. RUSSIAN SITUATION. Military Have St Petersburg Under Control-Great Excitement Throughout the Country. While the military evidently have the situation in St. Petersburg and other centers well in hand and no dis turbances have occurred, today's ad vices say that great excitement ex ists throughout the country. Gen eral Trepoff. the new governor gen eral of St. Petersburg has been given absolute authority over the military and police and even vested with the power of exile. and it is evidtnt that the government is dealing firmly with the situation. Many persons have been arrested, among them being Maxim Gorkey. the author and re form leader, who, the Associated Press is privately informed, was tak-. en into custody at his home in Riga. A notice was posted today at all the works in St. Petersburg giving the strikers 24 hours to return to work and intimating that those who do not comply will be deported to the villages. Dispatches from Moscow which to day's advices indicate as the possible storm center, say at Riga and Revel troops are marching the streets and the strikers are being fired upon. At Saratoffi the men in the railway shops and other establishments have gone out, but no disorder is reported. The improvement in the situation is reflected in a generally firmer tone on the European bourses. Dispatches from London to the As sociated Press say that the British foreign office and the press take a gloofy view of the situation. St. Luke's Church. Divine services will be at St. Luke's (Episcopal) church next Sunday the 29th inst. at I i a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Subject at night-"The scarlet line in the window." Al! persons cordially invited. Saw Himself. Detroit Free* Press. "Honest, now, Jones, did you see a buglar in your room when you called the polce?" "No. My wife had shifted the mir ror in m., ..onm, and I didn't know it."