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J-JOl/C*KJiAKJiivw PLANS MADE FOR FINAL VOTE TODAY WITH LEADERS AGREEING THAT RATIFICA TION SEEMS CERTAIN?VOTE THREE TO TEN Washington, March 23.?The sen ate concluded tonight its long debate on the four power Pacific treaty and prepared for its final vote tomorrow ( with leaders on both sides private ly agreeing that ratification by a . narrow margin seemed certain. 1 A display of oratorical fireworks, : scarcely surpassed in spectacular ef- j fet even during the Versailles treaty ] fight, brought the debate to an end. < Both opponents and supporters of 1 the pact ^summed up their four j weeks of argument in a running h cross fire of discussion that lasted all i day and until late at night but ap- \ parently did not change a vote. 11 Estimates of the outcome made tonight by senators placed the rati fication majority at from three to ten votes. A dozen or more reservations and amendments also must be voted on. tomorrow but the administration managers are confident of defeat of all of them ?xcept the "no alliance" | declaration framed by the foreign! relations committee and accepted by! President Harding . A final effort to a secure administration acceptance of r a second reservation extending the j privileges of the? treaty to outside t powers failed during the day. ^ Making their last stand, the S treaty's opponents marshalled kll c their oft-repeated arguments c against the four power arrangement s as an alliance and injected several! r new issues that caused momentary i c sensations end led to bitter ex changes. A recent speech by Trotsky ^ serving notice that the new inter national group should not forget the red army of Russia was quoted by Senator Borah (Republican) .of| Idaho. , i Allegations that the pastor whoj opened the arms conference with I pmyer was compelled to .omit theL name of Christ were thrown into; '' i? o i C I fie uwDtiie uy tjoiioivio j crat) of Missouri, Hitchcock (Demo- ^ crat) of Nebraska and others. In an arraignment of the treaty t as a return to the old balance of j. power system, Senator Glass (Demo-^ crat) of Virginia declared it was a ^ x f=t?p toward war instead of peace. ! r For the treaty supporters Sena-it tors Lenro^t (Republican) of Wis-jt consin, Kellogg (Republican) of | Minnesota and others insisted that| no alliance wasvproposed and that1 amity in the Pacific for many years j; to come would be insured by accep- j tance of tho treaty. They argued' that the opposition had misrepresent-! ( ed the terms of the treaty and -the1 situation it would create* and assert- j, | 1 ed that rejection of the four power, plan woukl jeopardize the whole1 ~ nnwfl (jrugram v/x iuu aiuiuj wi?ava vmwi DR. W. S. CURRELL Dr. W. S. Currell, president of the University of South Carolina, who is to give a parlor lecture 1rhis after noon at the home of Mrs. W. P. Greene to the members of the Book CWb, arrived in the city this morn ing and was met at the station by a committee composed of Mrs. R. C. Philson, Mrs. E. C. Horton, Mrs. C. E. Williamson and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fulp, and taken to the Eureka Hotel where he will stop while in town. Dr. Currell visited the city schools this morning and made an address to the 11th grade on "Liter ature and Character," after which he was driven over the city by Mrs. T. G. White. COTTON MARKET I L*eal cotton market was steady at i J * cents today with little offered. i / BILL IS CERTAIN Washington, March 23.?Passage of the four billion dollar soldier's bonus bill by the house before ad jurnment was made certain today with the adoption of a resolution providing for consideration of the measure under a suspensin of the rules. The vote on the resolutions was 221 to 121 and was without a roll call. Previously the house had adopt ed. a motion for the previous ques tion by a roll call of 276 to 126. As the roll call proceeded, there was more than the usual hu/bbub on the floor and those in the crowded gal afi&c cfpanocrc /?nn err Acainnfil lV4*VO> %rvr wv..0.wvw.v. :ustoms, looked down in surprise as the members milled about, talking ind Laughing while the clerk read the 435 names on the list. Those noting were forced to shout at the x>p of their voices in order to have :hedr vote hecrd at the clerk's desk. There was a breaking of party ines on the vot? for the suspension ^solution. Many of the democrats vh voted in the negative on this notion were counted upon to sup >ort the bonus bill on the final vote md leaders were confident that nore than the two-thirds majority equired under the rules would be btained. Chairman Fordney of the waysl I iyr md means committee was at oncej : ? j .v.. ? I C?vUgIll?C7U 3JJr VXlliCVb 1V1 Ck notion to suspend the rules and pass he bill, whereupon the house launch d into four hours of discussion. !ome members were only given only ?ne minute, others two minutes, thers three, but by unanimous con ent, all had leave to extend their emarks in the Congressional Record luring the next ten- days. ATE OF CHANDLER TO BE KNOWN SOON Irother* of Defendant Testify?Plea of Insanity is IV^ade For the Defendant. Greenville, March 23.?The fate of 'eff Chandler, charged with murder if his wife and mother-in-lnw, on February 25, will in all probability be lecided tomorrow by the jury, the lefense having completed its case his aftemooi; and Solicitor Sn^oalc laving started rebuttal. Testimony vas that Chandler had asserted thai lis wife was unf .ithful and unfit to ear his children was introduced*by he defense. The contention that men ai stress from this was one of the xacti .g tim es of mental unbalance vas one of the features of the day. ! he test'mu y v. as made by two jmothers of the defendant, George ind J. Arch Chandler. The entire 2.1'ternoon session was levoted to expert testimony by six -hysicians, et^ii of whom answered lypothetical questions relative to in >anity. MRS. CLARK HOWELL DIES Wife of Editor of Atlanta Constitu tion Pauei Away Atlanta, March 23.?Mrs. Clark Howell, wife of the editor and gen eral manager of the Atlanta Consti tution, died at her home here to night of pneumonia following an attack of influenza. Mrs. Howell was the daughter of the late Hugh M. Comer of Savan nah and a nr.ece of former Gov. B. B. Comer of Alabama. Besides her husband and mother she is survived by four sons and four sisters and brothers. DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR Dr. John I. McCain, professor of English at Erskine iCollege, was in Abbeville today on business. He wa1 accompanied by his daughter, Mis Mildred McCa n. Dr. McCain is on< of the most distinguished educator in the state and his Abbeville frie:ndt are always glad to see him here. IR8UCKLE TRIAL MOVES FORWARD lLICE BLAKE BREAKS DOWN { ON STAND?CASE HELD UP UNTIL WITNESS REGAINS HER COMPOSURE?NURSE GIVES TESTIMONY. San Francisco, March 23.?Alice lake, testifying for the prosecution ? 1 the third manslaughter trial of 1 .oscoe C. (Fatty) Arlbuckle, broke * own today during her recitation of | le events at the party in Arbuckle's 1 otel suite which * preceded the 3 eath of Miss Virginia Rappe. Court ( acessed until she had regained her * smposure. 1 i In answer to charges by defense j >uncil that she had been coerced nd intimidated, Miss Blake said on ;-direct examination that nothing te district attorney had said or 5ne had affected her veracity. She said she had come to the dis ict attorney's office voluntarily and id not been under his surveillance nee two weeks *before the first ial. Miss Blake, attorneys said, prob >ly would be the most important of ie prosecution witnesses because of ie absence of Zey Prevost, show rl, who occupied the stellar posi Dn in Arbuckle's two earlier trials, iss Prevost is in New Orleans and ported to be too ill to come here. Miss Grace E. Balston surgical irse at the Wakefield sanitarium, stified that Miss Rappe had been ceived there September 6 and died jptemJber 9. She said she saw *uises on both arms and one leg of e film actress and when asked to ascribe the bruisee in detail, she d so, over the protest of the de nse. George W. Blum, police photo- ^ apher,' identified photgraphs of e actress' right arm and others fc towing two bruises of her face and d : her legs. ^ t Arbuckle avoided looking at the N. I J lotograph of the girl's face. g District attorney Brady offered a * r otion that the testimony of Miss s revost at the first two trials be t ;ad into the record. It will be pass- j 1 upon later t EXPORTING OF COTTON 1?1 P.? A tuple ?e.ug ^?>>vu Ships in Gulf Washington, March 23.?Ships | ying tho American* flag operating1J om Gulf ports are carrying 56 per'r jnt of the cotton exported compar- I i with 1^'per cent a year ago, Vice' 1 resident Smull of the shipping c oard, announced today. r Shipping board operators in the 3 ulf ports, he said, ar? making re uests for more ships, and the ship- c ing board has adopted a policy of ranting their requests, provided s ley increase their freight rates so ' lat they will not lose money which c rould occur, in the view of shipping s oard officials, under the present * jtes. c In connection with the coal strike 1 hich is imminent for April 1, Mr. A mull said^that, although no" consid ratiori had been given to transport- * \g coal from England nor had any I etcraests been made the shipping oard could probably take on car- I oee of coal froim England at a reight rate of approximately $2.20 i ton It would be only a minor harge and could be done because "1 oal would have a 'better ballast ? han any other for those ships which rould have to return in ballast. ELECTION DECLARED. The Democratic Committee met < hursday and declared J. Moore 1 fars elected mayor, and M. B. Sy i in, J. M. Gambrell and J. S. Coch- 1 m elected .aldermen. J PARCEL POST CAUSE OF DEFICIT IN P. 0 :hief postoffice inspecto says he has known al TIME PARCEL post WA not paying fcxpense! finding out costs Washington, March 23.?Respoi ri'biility for deficits incurred by jostoffice department in the han< ing of the mails is attributed larg< y to the parcel post system, accori ng to data collected by the joii >ostal commission which has bee conducting a nation wide investigt ion into the cost of the handling < ill classes of mail matter. Conch lions of thft commissions are to I ncorporate i a report to be submi ed to coilgress next fall, after fu iher investigations have been con jleted, it was announced today. Members of the commission an )fficials of the department declare he parcel post to be indispensabl o the country but asserted th* K>me system should he devised to & a/hlish it on a paying basis. Th :ommision has not yet determine inally, it was said, to what extei he postal deficit is attributable t he parcel pcfst, but the fact that il >peration had made inroads int >ostal appropriations had cause oncern for soq^e time, officials aai< The. joint commission, created b ongrees to investigate postal cond ions throughout the country with iew to suggesting and recommenc ng needed improvements and extei ions of service has held hearings i arious cities, principally at cot ;ested postal centers like Chicag< ^iladelphia and New York. It ha * j i_: i >een iouna, it wna cApituueu, mm onditions in New York and Phils lelpfoia, especially, were most tuwal afactory, and should be strengthex d considerably if a fair standard- c fficiency was to be maintained. Rush B. Simmons, chief postoffic nspector, representing the jystoffic lepartment on the commission, sai he fact that the parcel post systei iad been found not to be paying e> enses was no surprise,' it had bee enerally conceded for some tim hat something should be done t mt that branch of the service on ound basis. What recommendation he commission will maxe zo congres n its report could not be forecast s his time, the members said. SWEET POTATOE SPEAKERS ries^r>. Robertson and Hoffman T Be Here Monday. A meeting will be held at 11 o'cloc donday, March 27th, in the ston oora formerly occupied by the Cas 3argain store at which Mr. A. I Robertson, Development Agent fc he Seaboard Air Line and Mr. Hof nan, sweet potato expert from Clen on College will talk to the people o he subject of growing, gatherinj :uring and marketing sweet potatoe Since the boll weevil struck th lection it behooves the farmers 1 nterest themselves in another mone :rop. With the proper advertising th iweet potato should become a worl ood. They are cheap, wholesome an lelicious. What California has dor vith raisin bread the south can c vith potato puaaing. The boll weevil will be a blessir n disguise if he can introduce ti >oor benighted bean-eating North 1 he joys of jiist one southern-mac >otato pudding. But a southern (woman recent] risited every market in the City < Vashington in search of a "Georg if am" and the market men had nev< ;ven heard of such a thing. What are you going to do about rl REV. A. J. DERBYSHIRE ILL Rev. A. J. Derbyshire has be? :onfined to his home for the lai weeik suffering with a miniatert sore throat, and his classes at seho< lave been taken by Mrs. Derb: ;h're during his illnes?. LOSS SHOWN IN INCOME TAXES Washington, March 23.?On the k basis of reported collections of in S come and profits taxes of the March 5 15 installment a shortage of $200, 000,000 in the estimated revenues from these sources for the calendar year 1922 was estimated today by the Treasury. Original estimates of revenues e_ from income and profits taxes for j_ the calendar year, high officials said, were $1,740,000,000 while te turns from the March installment now indicate the total for the year will be $1,540,000,000. Final reports on receipts for March will not be in hand before the end of tha month officials said but reports received from collectors so far indicate that not more than $400,00(),000 will be received as compared with approximately $728, 000,000 for the corresponding quar ter last year, j * Estimates for the March quarter of this year, officials continued, placed the total at $460,000,000 so that the falling off in these receipts probably will mean a shortage of over $100,000,000 in the revenue is estimated in the budget for the fis cal year 1922. Estimates of tax col lections on June 15 were originally $315,000,000, officials explained, but with a more than $60,000,000 drop in the March collections it was a; thought the decrease of the two I-1 quarters prior to the end of the fis t-!cal year would be about $100,000, 000. BEAUFORT STAGES LETTUCE /FESTIVAL i Thousand Acre Crop Viewed By Visitors?Many Interesting Speeches Made. Beaufort, March 23.?Beaufort's two day lettuce festival began Wed nesday morning when the visitors to the "lettuce city" accompanied by a large crowd of Beaufort folks motor ed out to Bramlett's farm where a bountiful feast consisting of barbe cued pork, rice, potatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, relishes, bread and cof fee was served. After dinner the cars lined up for a visit to several fields of Beaufort's thousand acre lettuce crop, stopping on the way to see an interesting old tVrt built before 1600 on Mr. Bram lett's place and also at the Home Farm dairy where Mr. Kinney serv j ed del'cious sweet milk and butter , I milk. k j It is sincerely hoped that these fes v,! tival will be an annual event and -hat every county of South Carolina nay be represested at the second let ^ Ituce festival in 1923. CONFER DEGREES Geo. T. Bryan of Greenville and W. A. Giles of Belton came down yesterday to be present at the Call Convocation of the Hesperian Chap ter R. A- M., at which Master and Royal Arch Degrees' were conferred. A large attendance of members was present, and after the meeting a delightful supper was served them by a committee from the Parent Teacher Association. ERSKINE STARS SICK. Alvin Reid, J. W. Beard and B. O. Ivans, special base ball stars at ^rskine, have been on the sick list tnd confined to the infirmary for several days. The doctor has been orking over time to get them out ind in shape to play in the game to day. DUE WEST VISITORS. in st Mrs. M. G. Donald, Mrs. Jesse aJ Vatt, Mrs. R. D. Purdy and Miss dI Eva Pratt were in the c'ty yesterday f- "rom Due West. The attraction here . med to be tke Millinery stores. THOSE OF PACIFIC FLEET TO GO TO SAN DIEGO?ATLANTIC FLEET TO PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD?COST IN CHAR. j LESTON TOO HIGH | Washington, March 23.?The 68 destroyers of the Pacific fleet order ed out of confmission by June 30, will be stofed at the destroyer base, San Diego, Calif., while the 82 "de commissioned" destroyers of the At- % ' lantic fleet will go to the Philadelphia I nflVV lin/lar nrdan annmoul I ? ?.r|/4VfWU j today by Secretary Denby. j The plan for disposition of the -| I "decommissioned" destroyers were | worked out by a special naval board headed by Captain Kalbfus which considered that the "ideal plan" would have been to put the entire > 150 vessels at San Diego. Thia was not found possible, however, because t of the fuel cost involved in moving tho Atlantic destroyers to the Paci- % fic. Orders for decommissioning thj ?hips direct that those in the Pacific { i be placed under the jurisdiction of i the commander in chief of the Pa I cific fleet wh;le a special officer with | the rank of captain will be in charge , J j of those at the Philadelphia yard. ^ } Ammunition and removable equip- ~ I ment for each shipment is to be stor- i'/ ed ashore, tagged to show from which ship it came, and so disposed ttat all can be quickly replaced on that ves sel if needed. I In that connection, the report of :he board said: v . "The board is greatly impressed | with the value of these vessels both from a military as well as a finan cial standpoint and is fully alive to .he necessity of thorough and effi cient measures in decommissioning them and for their care and preser vation while out of commission. "The board has accordingly been guided by that realization that when needed for national defense they will be requested at short notice and must i be in such condition that they can be :nade ready for service at'once." The suggestion that all destroyers )e sent to San Diego was said by the, board to be the "ideal plan" because here were no disadvantages at that port either of climate or exposure to .torms. A second proposal to place he Atlantic destroyers out of com mission at the Charleston, S. C., navy yard, also was considered but i r ejected oecause ui me mgiiei cvo? ui :ar ns: for them at that place than at '3 Philadelphia. FOR THE BONUS BILL 'k \ South Carolina Delegation I? Al most Solid. Washington, March 23.?The en re South Carolina delegation in the House today voted for the bonus bill except Representative P. H. Demi- .J lick, who took the same old stand this time which he took two years ago when the entire Palmetto dele gation voted against a bonus bill. / Pnn?oo?itiitiuM Fnlmer and Logan were not members of the del- i gation on the previous vote. Mr. McSwain told the House today that he would not claim or accept any of /' the benefits of the bonus bill if it i should be enacted. He is a veteran /. f the World War. i Bandit* Get $100,000 in Jewelry. Cincinnati, 0., March 23.?Within v and view of hundreds of pomeM-by nree bandits today held up {he Lib ral Loan office, in the heart ol tne ty and escaped with diamonds and "ewelry estimated by Sam Sahin own r of the pawnshop, at $100,000. NEWS FROM MRS. GILLELAND Mrs. Roy Gilleland had her fight rmb amputated four inches shore the knee yesterday at the DarM-FiAer Sanitarium in Atlanta and is wljwrt ed rest'ng well.