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r Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Jan. 28, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cent*. 77th Year. ELECTIONS A BY JON COLONEL SANDERS PENITENTI-' ARY SUPERINTENDENT; A. A. RICHARDSON SELECTED FOR; POSITION OF CHIEF GAME' WARDEN.?CIRCUIT JUDGES; .RE-ELECTED The election of the superintendent of the state penitentiary, the chief state game warden and four circuit judges and the filling of three va cancies on board of directors of the state penitentiary constitute the business transacted at yesterday's two horr session of the joint as sembly of the senate and house of representatives. Col. A. K. Sanders was reelected upertntendent of the state peniten tiary for another term of two years by the general assembly, winning over his three contestants on the first ballot. Si4>erintendent Sanders was first elected head of the state penitentiary four years ago and dur ing his administration has proved himself one of the state's most ef ficient and capable officials. Es ^ pecially significant during these four years under (Jolonei sanaers nas been the gradual inauguration with no small success of the honor sys tem at the state prison. The syste matic abandonment of the antiquat ed methods of prison management will continue throughout his coming term, Colonel Sanders announces the innovations being made as rapidly as expedient. Elected on First Ballot ? *- - ? -J Ko 1 lr>+ clinwpH i. fie ursi anib w?njr ? ??> ......? the following result': Col. A. K. San ders, 115^votes; P. H. Lesesne of Co lumbia, 37 votes; R. E. Craig of ,Co: lttmbia, 2 votes and J. Lawrence Mc- j Gee of Anderson, 9 votes. Eigthy-two votes were necessary for election. A. A. Richardson of Columbia was elected chief game warden of the state on the second ballot over a field of six nominees, R. H. Mc Adams of Due West standing second ir? both ballots. Mr. RichardsoTTpwho was formerly chief state game war den, will succeed W. H. Gibbes, who has asked to be relieved of the du ties of the office. With 162 senators and representa tives voting, the first ballot stood: W. W. Hames of Union, 17 votes; P.. H. McAdams of. Due West, 33 votes-, A. A. Richardson of Columbia, ,72 votes; P. W. Devore of "Greenwood, 10 votes; E. A. Early of Darlington, 21 votes and J. W. Folk of New berry, 9 votes. Mr. Devore's name was withdrawn from the race and the second ballot taken; Hames, 16 votes; McAdams, 35 votes; Richardson, 84 votes; Early 14 votes and Folk 3 votes. One hun dred and fifty-two members voted on the second roll call, 77 votes being necessary to declare a choice. Circuit Judges Reelected. Four circuit judges, whose terms expired this year, were unanimously reelected by the joint assembly on viva voice ballots as follows: Judge W. H. Townsend, for the fifth judi <nal circuit. Juage 1. a. sease ior the Seventh circuit, Judge R. W. Memminger for the Ninth circuit ..nd Judge George E. Prince 4 for the Tenth circuit. 0. C. Scarborough of Summerton and J. M. Smith of Smoaks were re- j elected members of the board of dir-j ectors of the state penitentiary while j G. A. Moseley of Camden was also | named as a director. Only one bnl-| lot was required. The vote standing Moseley 125. Smith 116, Scarbor ouugh 142, and McDermott 109. The joint assembly adjourned to | reconvene at noon today, the election j of four members of the board of di- j rectors of the medical college being the only business scheduled for con- j sideration. Members of the board whose terms expire this year are: Dr.' H. H. Wyman, of Aiken; Dr. W. W. { Fennell, of Rock Hill; Dr. R. E. j Hughes, of Laurens, and Dr. W. S. ' Lvnch of Scranton. i RE HELD JT ASSEMBLY j Testimony of Caminetti Completes Egression?Indicated Johnson Bill Will Not Be Keported To Senate Intact. Washington, Jan. 27.?The senate immigration committee concluded its hearings on the Johnson hill to prac tically suspend immigration for one year today after hearing the views of Anthony Caminetti, commissioner general of immigration. Some members indiciated by their comments that the measure would not be reported to the senate in the form in which it was passed by the house and Chairman Colt predicted that a variety of new features prob ably would be incorporated in the bill. "What the public is most appre hensive about,-' Senator Colt said after conclusion of the hearings, "is the number of aliens who are com ing to America. We could allay fear in this respect by fixing a maximum for the number to be adpitted an nually. Chairman Colt expressed the opin ion that the committee would look with favor on provisions of a bill, introduced by Senator Dillingham. Republican, Vermont, which would restrict immigration on a percentage system baled on the number of aliens from various countries already ad mitted to the United States. Members of the committee also were said to favor certaih features of the Sterling bills restricting im migration and at the same time pro- J viding for appointment of a board to study immigration problems with a view to adjusting regulations as emergencies arise. ? Today's sessions of the committee were marked by frequent clashes be tween Caminetti and various mem bers of the committee. These sen ators repeatedly attempted to ascer tain whether the commissioner fa vored suspension of immigration, but he refused to commit himself on this point. At one juncture Mr. Caminetti said he thought such recommendation should come from his superior, Sec retary of Labor Wilson. OFFICE SUPPLIES The McMurray Drug Company is advertising in this issue of the Press and Banner the opening of a su perior line of office supplies. This enterprise will fill a long felt want and will keep many a dollar in Ab beville which has heretofore been spent out of town. These supplies will be kept in their music parlor on' North Main street and any thing necessary to the equipment of *a first class office can be found. See their list in their advertisement and go and invest in what you have been needing for so long a time. THE COTTON MARKET The market for cotton has not been so good for the last few days. Yesterday futures In New York were up about 40 points, but spots were off 65 points. Today both fu tures and spots were off 25 points. No cotton is being offered on the local market. The price offered is 15 cents for the best grades. MINOR ARRESTED Leo Minor, the other man implicat ed in the distilling operations near Price's Mill, was arrested at Calhoun Falls yesterday as he got off a Sea board train. Minor had "stepped"' over to Georgia for a lictle while, and was on his r.\i;rn home. He said h. was returning for the purpose of sur rendering. His arrest was made by Constable R. P. Martin. He has been lodged in jail. * SEVERAL ME AS CANDIL HOUSE 'I Much speculation was being in dulged in last night by members of the house as to who would be elected speaker to succeed Thomas P. Coth ran, present speaker, who was yes terday elected to the supreme court bench to succeed the late Associate Justice D. E. Hydrick. lifAwA Knincr nrnTYli l illcc Jiamuo vrcu w?.. nently mentioned in connection with the office. They were those of Rep resentatives J. K. Owens of Marl boro, J. B. Atkinson of Spartanburg present speaker pro tern, and Claud N. Sapp of Richland. While other men may be mentioned in connection with the position, gos MANUFACTU TARIFF I Washington, Jan. 27.?Ootton manufacturers, North and South, appealed to the House ways and means committee today tor imme diate relief from a "fllood" of im portations. They urged restoration of the Payne-Aldrich tariff sche dules, modified only to provide for American valuation at the port of entry instead of basing the tariff on foreign quotations. During the discussion, the investi gation of the Arkwright Club, an as sociation of New England cotton manufacturers, made 13 years ago, Was brought in by Representative H. T. Rainey, Democrat, of Dlinois, who attempted to read findings of the Department of Justice. Chair man Fordney objected, also pre n_; >? venting ivir. xvctiuey a aubcmptcu cross-examination of A. H. Lowe, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who fil ed the brief asking protection for the industry. Mr. Lowe told the committee that more than 1,500,000 persons were dependent upon the manufacturing industry for a livelihood, adding that a shrinkage in values of the^ manufacturing plants would follow a failure to supply adequate protec tion. FLORENCE Tl LAID TC Pamplico, Jan. 27.?The coroner's jury, which has been investigating rhe killing on January 15 of five, members of the-Bigham family near here, returned a verdict late last night charging Edmund Bigham, now in the Florence jail with the crime. The verdict, delivered after about 15 minutes of deliberation, holds "that Mrs.* M. M. Bigham, Mrs. Mar inri'p Blark. L. S. Bigham and John and- Lee McCracken came to their j death by gunshot wounds inflicted at the hands of Edmund Bigham.' Mrs. Bigham was the mother of the accused man; Mrs. Black, a sis ter; L. S. Bigham, a brother, and the two small McCracken boys, adopted children of Mrs. Black. The hearing began at 2 o'clock [ yesterday and^ between 15 and 20 witnesses were examined, among' 'hese being Mrs. Edmund Bigham j and her daughter. Several hundred people from the surrounding country were in atten- j dance, the court room being packed ' to capacity from the time the in- i quest started at 2 o'clock untU the verdict was announced after 101 o'clock at night Tell of Threats. A number of witnesses testified as to threats they had heard made by| Edmund D. Bigham against several j of the murdered from time to time,; these witnesses being workmen on .he premises, both white and ne-' gro. From the evidence, |t seems thatj E. D. Bigham, L. S. Bigham and aj y 'NTION ED 1ATES FOR SPEAKERSHIP sip around the lobby yesterday was to the effect that one of these three will wield the gavel when Speaker Cothran formally resigns. Represen tative Owens is known to have a good following: Representative Sapp has many influential friends in the house and has been frequently mentioned in connection with the speaker's of fice. 1 The outcome of the election for another speaker will be awaited with interest by the friends of the vari ous candidates. No time has yet been set for an election nor indeed has Speaker Cothran announced publicly ?when he will resign his present of fice.?The State. RERS ASK i RESTORED <<nr_ a ii. Jy "L I w e ao not Deneve it wioe, iie 1 said, "to stop our machinery, throw our labor out of work and turn over j | our market to the foreigners even | if they do owe us upwards of $12,-! ' 000,000,000." I The witness said that had the war I not practically shut off imports the I cottofi manufacturing industry ! would have been bankrupt by the ! Underwood tariff. Signing the brief j with Mr. Lowe were Nathaniel F. ' Ayer, Boston; Stuart W. Cramer, I Charlotte, N. O.; J. E. Rou'smaniere, j New York Citv: William F. Garce-i I Ion, aud Robert Amory, both of j ! Boston. , Invoke Cloture Rule J Washington, Jan. 27.?A petition | to invoke cloture was circulated to- j I day by Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-1 vania, in charge of the emergency: tariff bill, although Republican j leaders said no attempt to choke off i debate would be made unless filibus-l tering was demonstrated beyond all question. Senator Penrose soon secured | more than the required sixteen Sen 1 ators' signatures to the petition re I quesing thai; the standing cloture rule be invoked. It would limit each I Senator to one hour's time. UGEDY ) LIVING SON V number of negro men went to the woods for the purpose of taking up the week's cutting of wood Saturday morning, January 15; that while in the woods one of the negro men re quested L. S. Bigham to go with him to look over some land to work tins year; that E. D. Bigham requested him not to go at that time that he, E. D. Bigham wanted to see him; that one by one the cutters left the wouus, leaving me iwc Dignanis. One witness testified that he heard shortly after leaving the woods a pistol shot, but did not remember nor did he at the time pay any attention to the direction from which the sound of shot came. Another negro testified that he saw E. D. Bigham come out of the woods alone, about 100 yards south of the Bigham home, join one of the McCracken boys, and walk on up the road, turning into the Bigham yard. This statement was also made by the negro's wife, who was with him in the road at the time, tne ivici^racK<;n Doy naving oeen sent to them by Mrs. M. M. Bigham with an old vest which she had given the negro. He stopped to put the vest on and upon doing so looked back and saw Edmund Bigham come out of the woods. No one testified to having , heard any shooting around the Big ham home. Several of the cutters testified that they saw the pistol, which was found ir. the hand of L. S. Bigham, in the pocket of E. D. Bigham while he was taking up their wood. The pistol was positively identified by the witnesses. BORAH ADV( DISARM. HOUSE DISCUSSES SCHOOLJSURANCE Recommit 'Bill as to Mutual Compan- j ies?Object of Sinking Fund Commission Again Out lined. Columbia, Jan. 27.?Insurance of public buildings with the sinking fnrwl rtr?mTY^iooi nn mot With m nro (TPTI. [ eral approval at the hands of the house yesterday when it decided, af ter lengthy debate, to recommit a bill by Representative Owens of Marlboro which had passed the gaunt let of the second reading and which would permit in effect, rural schools to insure their buildings in mutual insurance companies. Tuesday this amendment of Representative Owens was threshed out carefully. He held that the word "not" had been omitted from the published acts of 1920 and his amendment provided for the in sertion of this word. After consider able discussion, in which it was I brought out that insturance premi ums charged by the sinking fund com mission were much higher than pre miums required by mutual companies but that after the sinking fund has accumulated a reserve of $1(000,000 it will give insurance^free for all pub lic buildings. Yesterday Representative' Sapp made a motion tolrecommit the measure and outlined the purposes of the sinking fund commission and told of the funds already accumulat ed. Representative Owens defended his amendment warmly, but the house voted to recommit the bill by a vote of 72 to 39. This means Rep resentative Owens' measure is de feated. Reports of committees on numer-' ous bills were received yesterday by the house. Among them was a major-; ity unfavorable report on the Mower! bill to reduce cotton acreage by one! third. The bill to prohibit the operation j of pool hall;; was reported unfavor-i ably by the majority of the commit-1 tee to which it was referred. The bill to give Women equal suf-j frage rights with men was reported j favorably. A a ronfivt iirnc m n A a nn the bill of Representative Bucking-j ham which makes it unlawful for, any person charged with the dis- j bursement of funds appropriated by ! county or state to exceed the amounts! stated in the appropriation or to shift j appropriations from one item to an other. MR. THOMAS RESIGNS The following taken from the' "Bleaehery Life" a smafl mill paper j published by the Board of Operatives at Wappingers Falls, N. Y., will be of interest to the people! of Abbeville: "This seems to be the season for! resignations! Mr. Thomas has handed| fl?? DivA/tfAl* nf ' ill ma i< Village Club House in order to ac-l cept the position of Executive Secre- j tary of the Board of Selectmen at! the Abbeville Cotton Mill, Abbeville,! S. C. Mr. Thomas' many friends, deeply regret his leaving after his' hard and splendid work at the Club , House and as Treasurer of the Sav-| ings Plan. His good judgment has been a great help in our rapidly de veloping Partnership Plan and it is only that he may fill a larger place and help to make Industrial Democ racy a vital force in the South that we are at all reconciled to seeing him-go. The best wishes of the en-, tire Bleachery go with him in his new position." R. E. Cox is home from Rich- ' mond. On the way up he says there was ten inches of snow in North Carolina and a warm clear day in Richmond. I )CATES AMENT PLAN 5 IDAHO SENATOR FINDS SUP PORT FROM TWO DEMOCRAT- Y IC SENATORS, McKELLAR OF TENNESSEE AND KING OF U 1 Atl. U13CU33IU1N JE.L? IN MIDST OF TARIFF DEBATE Washington, Jan. 27.?Bi-parti san support for the naval disarma ment movement was given in the senate today during discussion of Senator Borah's disarmament reso lution. Senator Borah's plan for an offi cial determination of the future value of big ships in the American ^ naval program was indorsed by Sen [ ators McKellar of Tennessee and King of Utah, Democrats, while ' Senator Borah sopke at some length in behalf of his project. The disarmament discussion was interjected in the senate tariff de bate but without any attempt to se cure a vote. While the senate dis cussion was in progress the house rtoirol r* Arv> yv? iff on nrJ _ I navai jjuo^uhcu iiiucii" nitely the hearing of General Persh ing on .disarmament, scheduled for tomorrow, because of continued ill ness of Representative Butler of Pennsylvania, committee chairman. ~ 1. Senator Borah declared if the | people of the United States, Great Britain and Japan could give voice 4 to their opinions, he felt confident they would speak tor a nagreement to redtfce naval building. He added he would discuss later the , sugges tions from Elihu Root and others for postponement until after the in auguration of the new administra tion of action on his resolution look ing to a naval disarmament be tween the three powers. Two Way? To Defeat "There are two ways to defeat disarmament," Senator Borah de clared. "One to oppose it'conscien tiously. Another is that.adopted by others in public life who are willing. to give lip service to disarmament, but conjure up all conceivable me thods to secure delay." The Idaho senator said his other resolution calling on the seriate naval committee for an opinion as to whether the American naval building program could be suspend ed for six months until the value of capital ships should be determined was designed to develop "as defi nitely as can be known what will bring us an efficient navy." Many high naval officers, Senator Borah said, believe that capital ships have lost their value, because of the development of submarine and aerial warfare, but were unable he said, to state their real opinions. In this connection he pleaded for what he described as "the release of the real thought of the navy," and asked that officers might be able to give their real views to the govern ment. May Move Again Notice was served by the senator that if the naval committee should not act on his resolution of inquiry, he would introduce another resolu tion calling for a thorough investi gation of the naval program, the relative value of capital and all other ships and types of naval arma ment. Senator King also urged an "ex haustive investigation" to deter mine what units would make a mod ern navy. He cites that the present buildinc nroeram was adoDted five years ago before the United States entered the war and before the changes were brought about by the submarine, and added should be set tled whether the United States should proceed with big ship con struction in view of the changes in naval warfare. Senator Gerry, Democrat, inter rupted to observe that in 1918 dur ing the war, Secretary Daniels rec ommended an increased naval building program. Senator King re plied that Secretary Daniels' rec ommendations were approved by the American people and would be "re pudiated if renewed."