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shadows of the Dark Ages are settling about 

 us." Mr. Waggoner opposed the bill on the 

 ground that in passing it the legislature would 

 exceed its functions as a law-making body and 

 would set a dangerous precedent. "There have 

 been times here to-day when those on both sides 

 of this discussion were about ready to place 

 their opponents on the rack and tortui'e them," 

 continued Mr. Waggoner. "I don't know any- 

 thing about evolution and from what I've 

 heard I don't believe there are others here who 

 do. We have set up a straw man and have 

 been boxing industriously at him all day." 



In his final appeal for the passage of his 

 bill, Mr. Ellis said he had sent his son to the 

 University of Kentucky and that he returned 

 with his faith destroyed and argued religion 

 against his father and mother. The voice of the 

 aged representative was broken with emotion as 

 he told of this experience. 



When the roll was called the vote stood 38 to 

 36 for the bill, which meant its defeat, as 40 

 votes are required for passage. As Mr. Meyers 

 was about to announce this the proponents de- 

 manded that the absentees be called. Then 

 the vote was 40 to 39 for the bill. The oppo- 

 nents demanded a recapitulation. During that 

 they dragged in two more members and the 

 proponents one, making it 41 to 41. Repre- 

 sentative Bryee Cundiff, who had declined to 

 vote on the ground that he "was a hard shell 

 Baptist and believed what was would be any- 

 how," said he would have to discard his reli- 

 gion and vote "No." Then the bill was de- 

 clared to be defeated by a vote of 41 to 40. 



In South Carolina^ 

 The teaching of "the cult known as Darwin- 

 ism" as "a creed to be followed" is prohibited 

 in all state supported public schools and insti- 

 tutions of higher learning by a proviso attached 

 as a rider to the general appropriation bill by 

 the Senate yesterday morning. The amend- 



1 From the Columbia State. The amendment 

 was eliminated from the bill by the conference 

 committee appointed to adjust differences be- 

 tween the bill as passed by the House and by 

 the Senate. It is said that another attempt will 

 probably be made to pass the bill when tlie legis- 

 lature meets next year. 



ment, which was tagged on to the end of the 

 section providing for the appropriation of 

 funds for the public school system, would make 

 it impossible for any public school or higher 

 institution of learning teaching or permitting 

 "Darwinism" to be taught to receive any funds 

 from the state and would prohibit the paying 

 of state funds to any such institution. Senator 

 F. A. Miller of Hartsville is the author of the 

 proviso, which was adopted by the Senate, 

 practically without opposition. 



Ultimate fate of the proviso, which took its 

 place as one of the Senate amendments to which 

 the House refused concurrence, will therefore 

 have to be determined by the conference com- 

 mittee to which the appropriation bill was re- 

 ferred. None of the representatives on this 

 committee from either house have announced 

 their stand on the question and since the House 

 has never explicitly expressed itself on the 

 question the House conferees wiU consider the 

 proviso without any idea as to the House's 

 stand on the matter. 



The amendment was passed in the Senate 

 practically without debate or opposition. Sen- 

 ator Miller making the only address either for 

 or against the measure. The proviso follows 

 in full : 



And provided, furtlier, That no moneys appro- 

 priated for public education or for the main- 

 tenance and support of state supported institu- 

 tions shall be used or paid to any such school or 

 institution teaching, or permitting to be taught, 

 as a creed to be followed, the cult known as ' ' Dar- 

 winism. ' ' 



The proviso contains no definition of "Dar- 

 winism" and is intended, Senator Miller ex- 

 plains, to apply only to Darwinism and there- 

 fore not to the theories of evolution of Lamarck, 

 Bergson, Le Dantec, Baldwin, Osborn, and the 

 many others who have since Darwin's day 

 practically thrown "Darwinism," as it was first 

 enunciated, into the discard. The amendment 

 applies. Senator Miller points out, only when 

 "Darwinism" — which is now defined as the 

 theory of natural selection, that is, the survival 

 of the fittest in the struggle for life, was the 

 mechanism by which evolution was accom- 

 plished — is taught or permitted to be taught 

 "as a creed to be followed" and not when it is 



