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House Bepasseg Dry Enforcement BN1
within Three Hours After President
had Unexpectedly Vetoed It. IV. t
Spell for Christmas Now Unlikely.
'Washington, Oct. 27.—^President
Wilson unexpectedly vetoed the^rohi-
bition enforcement bill today and
within three hours the house repassecP
it over his veto by a vote of 176 to 55.
The total vote was barely more than
rniaj6‘flTy p ''tlf~ Clie entire membwsbtpr Tfrg foMowtngig-tfae-fOBtep of-ea—»
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ately began laying plans to repass the
bill there. They expect to ask unani
mous consent for its consideration to
morrow, claiming enough votes to put
it through. They expect to act on it
by Wednesday at the latest.
The president refused io sign the
bill because it included the enforce
ment of war time prohibition.
The objects of war time prohibition,
the President said in his veto, had
been .satisfied, and “sound public pol-
s icy makes clear the reason and neces
sity for its repeal."
It would not be deflcult, the Presi
dent held, for congress to deal sep
arately with the two issues.
The veto hit congress unexpectedly.
The house, getting on its feet again,
deserted its leaders, who wanted to
defer consideration until Thursday so
as to round up all the dry members.
But the drys swept into the chamber
'and showed there was overwhelming
sentiment among them to give the
government ample weapons for deal
ing with the liquor traffic. ,
Nobody had really professed to
know the President would veto the
bill.. Republicans and Democrats
alike, and the countless multitude that
had sorrowfully watched the passing
of the bars, thought it would become
a law without his signature. .
Attorney General Palmer, it was
said, deelwcad it unconstitutional.
But the President, propped up in
bed, dictated and then signed a veto
message and sent it along to con
gress, without worrying, apparently,
what congress might do.
With repassage of the law by the
house and the prospect of the same
thing happening in the senate, hope of
the big “wet" spell that would run
over the Christmas season vanished.
Prohibition leaders predicted refus
al of the house to accept the Presi
dent’s veto meant that the sale of li
quor would not be permitted again in
this and many other generations.
The reasons for vetoing the act were
set forth by the President in the fol
' lowing message to congress:
To the House of Representatives:
I am returning; without my signs
ture, H. R. 6810, “An act to prohibit
intoxicating beverages, and to regu
late the manufacture, production, use
^and sale of high proof spirits for
other than beverage purposes, and to
insure an ample supply of alcohol and
promote its use in scientific research
and in the development of fuel, dye
and other lawful industries."
The subject matter treated in this
measure deals with two distinct phases
of the prohibition legislation. One
part of the act under consideration
seeks to enforce war time prohibition.
The other provides for the enforce
ment which was made necessary by
the adoption of the constitutional
amendment. I object to and cannot
approve that part of this legislation
with reference to war time prohibi
tion.
“It has to do with the enforcement
of an act which was passed by reason
of the emergencies of the war and
whose objects have been satisfied in
the demobilization of the army and
navy and whose repeal I have already
sought at the hands wpf congress.
Where the purpose of particular legis
lation arising out of war emergency
have been satisfied, sound public pol
icy makes clear the reason and neces
sity for repeal.
It will not be difficult for congress
in considering this important matter
to separate these two questions and
effectively legislate regarding them;
making the proper distinction between
temporary causes which arose out of
war time emergencies and those like
the constitutional amendment of pro
hibition which is now part of the fun
damental laws of the country.
In all matters having to do with
the personal habits and customs of
larg£ numbers of our people, we must
be certain that the established pro-
ot»sses\of legal change are followed;
la m dtber way can the salutary ,ob-
CONTENES MONDAY
Only Equity Cases will be Heard First
Week of Term. Regular Roster to
be Heard Second Week.
Laurens, S. C., Oct.'29, (Special)—
The fall term of the Court of Com
mon Pleas will convene Monday morn
ing with Judge R. W. Memminger, of
Charleston, presiding. Following a
meeting of the Bar Association last
week, it was announced that only
equity cases would be heard the first
week of the term, the jury cases being
called for the second week. Jurors
for the second week were drawn Mon
day morning.
TBTT
Monday, Nov. KKh.
Owings & Owings vs Counts &
Cowan. Simpson, Cooper & Babb for
plaintiffs; Ri<shey„_&_Richey for de
fendants.
W. G. Lancaster vs B. R. Todd.
Simpson, Cooper dfc Babb for plain
tiff; Featherstone & Knight for de
fendant.
Moore & Hill vs C. & W. C. Ry. Co.
Featherstone & Knight for plaintiffs;
Dial & Todd for defendants.
J. W. McKee vs Dora Madden. H. S.
Blackwell for plaintiff.
Buzhardt vs Vaughn.
Tuesday, Nov. 11th.
Kentucky Horse and Mule Co. vs T.
W. Knight. Richey ft Richey for
plaintiffs; Simpson, Cooper ft Babb
for defendant. v
Rickman ft Tumblin vs C. & W. C.
Ry. Co./(two cases), F. P. McGowan
to plaintiff; Dial ft Todd for defend
ants.
Overland-Harper Company vs John
Abercrombie. F. P. McGowan for
plaintiff.
Oxweld Acetylen Gas Co. vs St. J.
Davis. Dial ft Todd for plaintiff; F.
P. McGowan for defendant.
Wednesday, Nov. 12th. ..
Culbertson vs Long. Phil. D. Huff
for plaintiff;^ Richey ft Richey for de
fendant., * ^ ^
Culbertson vs Crisp. P. D. Huff for
• ptathtiff.
John D. Childress vs D. P. Curry.
Simpson, Cooper & Babb for plaintiff;
Richey & Richey for defendant.
R. B. Childress vs D.* P. Curry. Simp
son, Cooper & Babb for plaintiff;
Richey & Richey for defendant.
Thursday, Nov. 18th.
J. H. Shaw vs American Railway Ex
press Co. F. P. McGowan for plain
tiff; Simpson, Cooper & Babb for de
fendant.
T. M. Shaw vs Bessie Shaw. Gray-
don ft Blease for plaintiff; Simpson,
Cooper ft Babb for defendant.
For Formal Trial.
Hagerty Cook Co. vs W. L. Terry.
Second WVek Jurors.
The following jurors were drawn
Monday for the second week:
Laurens Township—A. C v Fuller, W.
H. Gilkerson, L. F. Nelson, Alison Lee.
Jacks—fW. S. Hatton, I.-O. Ray. '
Hunter—Edgar Todd, J. R. Todd, H.
Y. Abrams, M. D. Smith, T. M. Smith.
Youngs.—W. M. Nelson, W. E. Bur
dette, Frank Bobo, R. T. Crow, Lt
B. Bailey.
Waterloo—M. E. McDaniel, Jr., J.
W. Crawford, Geo. W. Washington, F.
L. Brown.
Sullivan—M. V. Manley, C. F. Beeks,
J. W. Fleming.
Dials—H. E. Hellams, W. £. Meeks,
J. W. Hand, A. Coke Babb, J. R.
Brownlee, J. K. W’illis, H. T. Cook,
L H. Robinson.
Cross Hill—J. W. Simmons, J. R.
Willcut, W. W. Watkins, Jas. C. Work
man.
Scuffletown—D. A. Glenn.
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Over King & Little’s Grocery Store
TIRED OF BACKGROUND.
WALL CAVES IX.
The back end wall of M. S.
Bailey & Sons store caved in Sun
day night and the buildinsr was
damaged considerably. Fortunate
ly no one was in tjie store at the
time. Workmen were at once on
the job repairing the damage and
everything around at “The Big
Store” is about straightened but
again and business is going right
ahead without'interruption.
The Rev. Mr. Steadman, the pre
siding elder of the Greenville dis
trict, occupied the Methodist pul
pit on last Sunday morning.
s*
Ject sought to*be accomplished by
great reforms of this character be
made satisfactory and permanent 1
(Signed) WOODROW WILSIN,
The White House, 27 October, 1919.
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Farmer Wants Same Consideration as
the City Worker.
American Agriculturist.
Speaking for the 125,000 members
of the New York state grange in re
gard to cost Of Aivrtrg toe fottowtftg
statement has been Issued by S. J.
I.owell, state master and W. N. Giles,
state secretary:
The first factor In a happy life is
three meals every day. The next Is
adequate clothing and housing to keep
the body warm. After these come the
minor necessities which are more easi
ly prlvided.
What has brought so suddenly into
prominence the food and clothing prob
lem? The war, to be sure, but it has
only hastened what every thinking
agriculturist has seen for years was
surely coming; that is that the rural
dweller was not receiving the support
and encouragement which his urban
brother so easily obtained. We mean
by this that . better schools, better
churches, better homes, shorter hours,
better wages for work under more
favorable conditions have had the re
sult of drawing from the country its
population to an alarming degree.
— Now, instead of going Into a study of
our situation and developing a remedy
of conditions, our laboring brothers of
the city propose to remedy our trouble
by arbitrary measures without any
real knowledge of the cost of the
necessaries of life. •
No class of Americans with red
blood in their veins will stand being
told they *nust labor long hours at in
adequate pay in order that another
class may have shorter hours and
higher wages.
If the saying of the city man that
“the farmers are rolling in wheat" is
true, why does he refrain so complete
ly from coming out to roll and why is
it that over half of our farms have
mortgages on them, and that two-
thirds are worked .by renters? Do the
laboring men of the city think that
by demanding that the government
be taxed to pay the deficit between
what they get and what they earn,
that farmers are going to pay the tax
cheerfully, when they (the laboring
men) use this added power to beat
down the cost of the product of the
farmer’s toil?
What is the farmer’s idea of rem
edy? First, let us say that every man
is a profiteer. The doctor,who comes
to usher us into the world is one; the
undertaker who consigns us to mother
earth is another, and all through life
every man is happy when he gets more
than his fellow. When this is accom
plished by the application of gift and
intelligeiice, he earns it and all is well.
When a class of men demand it, al
though their labor does not earn it,
some one else must pay and they be
come dishonest profiteers.
We here challenge the city laborer
to a cost accounting that all the world
may see who earns his wage. We have
asked the United States secretary of
agriculture time and again foi^a cost
accounting on farm crops. We want
the world to know just what we are
entitled to. -In order that there may
be Rd chance for complalfit ofi either
side, we desire that,the coat be figured
from the city laborer’s standard of
eight hours, ahd the conveniences
which surround the city labor. Let it
be complete and exact.
While this is being done, let us give
you a little food for thought. When
wheat was $1 a bushel, one bushel paid
for a day’s work. Wheat, by govern
ment fiat, is $2.25 a bushel and it now
requires two to three bushels of wheat
to equal the pay received by- labor for
one day’s work.
Formerly, the farmer received three
ctnts a quart for milk; the distributor
received three cents and the consumer
got it for six cents. One day’s labor
at $1.50, which was then a high wage,
paid for 2." quarts of milk. Today the
farmer receives eight cents and trans-
I>ertation —and -distribution receive
eight cents, the consumer paying 16
cents. One day’s pay for labor at $5 a
"day buys 3t quarts of milk.
When wool was 30 cents a pound,
allowing four pounds for a suit of
clothes, the farmer received, for the
product $1.25. Figuring the cost of a
suit of clothes at $20, 12 days’ labor at
$1.50 paid for a suit. Today wool is
65 cents a pound, four pounds bring
ing $2.60, the amount received by the
farmer. The same suit of clothes is
now $40, and the laborer can obtain a
suit by eight days of labor at $5 a
day.
The eomirarison will hold with every
farm product. In view of these facts,
if agriculture is to be preserved and
the world fed, an economic adjustment
must he made.
May we call the attention of the
city dweller to two facts: The farmer
does not have to strike; he can not he
discharged. No farmer ever did strike.
The statement that the Dairymen’s
league went on a strike is not true.
Not a man quit his job; every man
milked his cow and the milk went into
food as usual. No, we do not strike.
We want to state here, in all fair
ness, just what will be done if our
president, with the cabinet cooperating
with leaders of ^labor organizations,
continues to tell us we are not of equal
importance, but are to serve their pur
poses: we will take a summer vacation
(something we have never had) until
the time when we can all come to
gether and be fair to each other.
We are asking for no favors. We
will feed all but feel that we must
be on the same level with others. May
we begin now by a cost accounting of
farm products and a wage scale for
labor, the base of which shall be its
earning potters?
V
Again Permitted*!© Transact Home
Public Business. One of Best Nights
Since Illness.
Washington, Oct. 2^.-^President
Wilson was permitted again today to
transact some public business. After
what his physicians described as one
of the best nights he has had since his
illness began, he signed the amend
ments to the food controf act provid
ing penalties for hoarding and proflt-
ee r ing In food and clothing and three
more measures of minor importance.
Tomorrow the prohibition enforce
ment bill will be returned to the
White House by the department of jus-
lics-MdthOhft .PDialon .M.loJ&. consU-
tutionality and it is expected that if
no>#l-sMaata.ifrom
his work yesterday and today he will
be allowed to study the opinion and
pass on the bill. He has until mid
night of October 28th to act before the
bill becomes a law without his signa-
ture. ,
The president’s physicians announc
ed today that his temperature; pulse
and respiration continued normal and
that his ('igestion was more, satisfac
tory
Dr Hugh H. Young, the Baltimore
specialisi who was called in last week
in connection with the prostatic com
plications, again came to the White
House late today, hUs visiting having
been arranged at the time of his last
call. He was accompanied by Dr. H.
A. Fowler.
■Doctors Young and Fowler, it was
said tonight at the White House, were
well satisfied with the prostatlc con
dition of the president.
Dr. Grayson supplemened his night
bulletin with the information that the
patient’s condition was as good as
could be expected. The increased ac
tivity of the president was not an in
dication of any decided improvement
in his condition, Dr. Grayson said,
adding that It was thought that per-
New Dining Room and Kit
chen at Orphanage Thrown
Open First Time on Friday.
The new dining room and kitchen
at the Orphanage was formally
thrown open for the public’s in
spection last Friday afternoon from
four to six o’clock. A number of
friends caJled duriii'g the aften-
■<>v^r-4k»
mitting the president to sign bills
would perhaps be -better -for-him-than- peeler, baking -oven.
.to .withhold the bilU and allow the ]
consequent anxiety to take action on
such matters.
Immediately after breakfast this
morning the president turned his at
tention to the national industrial con
ference to which he addressed a let
ter yesterday. Mrs. Wilson telephoned
Secretary Tumulty that the president
desired to know the situation in the
conference and a report was given
him. Later in the day some executive
business was laid before the presi
dent. Besides signing the four hills.
Mr. Wilson remitted the sentences of
two military prisoners and signed ex
tradition papers for Augustino Spin-
ozedi who is held in France at the re
quest of federal officers at Pittsburg to
answer charges of theft of $.10,000 a ]i e g e( j ^ave acted as agents of
wor4h ©f . whiskey and of failing to_j)ai’ German«4* buying the newspaper
revenue-tax at $12,000 on it.
FRENCH SPY PAYS
PRICE FOR CHIME
Pierre Lenoir Executed at Prison Yes
terday Morning for Dealing with
Enemy. Third Execution.
Paris, Oct. 24.—Pierre Lenoir, con
victed on a charge of having held In
telligence with the enemy, was execut
ed at Sante prison at 7 o'clock this
morning.
Lenoir, who had been ill for some
time, suffering from paralysis of both'
legs, had to be carried to the place
of execution. His attorney, M. Mo-
lene, asked early today that the pris
oner be examined mentally and phys
ically.
“It is an impossible thing to execute
a sick man,” the attorney claimed.
The officials decided, however, to
proceed with the execution regardless
of this protest.
Lenoir was able to sign the register
of the prison, but was unable to take
a step; The guards carried him out,
his attorney crying, “It is a shame to
carry a man in this way to his exe
cution."
Pieyre Lenoir was the third person
to be executed on charges arising out
of attempts made by German agents
to conduct a “defeatist" campaign in
France in 1915 and 1916. The others
who met their death as a result of
revelations made against them were
Bolo Pasha, executed April 17, 1918,
and M. Duval, who faced the firing
squad July 17, 1918. Both were direc
tors of the Germanophile newspaper
Bonnet Rouge.
Lenoir, who, as a young man, had
led an idle and dissolute life, came
into public notice early in 1918, when
the arrest of Senator Humbert, owner
of the Paris Journal, was followed by
buikjmg by members of the senior
class and matrons, after which re-
freshments were served. The visi
tors all spoke in th<? highest praise
of the building an<j the modem
manner in which it has been
equipped.
The Turner building is one of the
best on the grounds, being substan
tially constructed of granite which
was quarried on the farm of the
late G. 'G. Young, two miles from
here. „ The stone was donated by
Mr. Young, who throughout his
lifetime was one of the institution’s
most devoted friends. C. O. Wil
son of Columlbla was the architect
and €. L. Rounds the builder.
The present Orphanage family
numlbrs about 31115, but the building
has a seating capacity of 500., The
entire work of menus, preparation
and serving of meals is under the
direction of a well trained dieti
tian.
The modem equipment for the
kitchen consisting of a large' range,
steam cookers, steam table, potato
ct<*., was furnished by M!rs. R. P.
a
Hamer of Hamer, S. (\, as a memo
rial to her daughter. The dish room
is equipped with a steam dish wash
er furnished by the Rev. L. C. MeC.
S my the of Japan.
The dining hall is a beautiful,
well-lighted room and hassani-onyx
(white glLss) tables and the chairs
are golden oak bent wood. All
meals are cooked and served from
Ibis central building, thus eliminat
ing the cottage system adopted sev
eral years ago following the burn
ing of The Memorial dining hall.
charges against several men who w^ere [ker..
from M. Humbert, it was shown early
in the investigation that Lenoir ha<l
paid M. Humbert large sums of molley
which he had received from Ger
mans, and that Lenoir had received”
a commission of about $200,000 for
his work. The money handled by
T^noir 6ame Into France by the way
of Switzerland, a German agent named
Schoeller acting for Germany in that
country.
Lenoir was doomed to death on
May 8, 1918, and desperate, but fu
tile efforts were made to gain a com
mutation of his sentence. Lenoir was
removed to 'Sente prison after what
appeared to he his last chance for
life had vanished, hut on September
19. last, when the firing squad was
in position and all preparations for his
execution had been made his life was
spared for a time in a most dramatic
manner. His attorney asserted that
Lenoir could give evidence wanted in
the case of Jos. Uaillaux. who was yes
terday brought before the high court
of the French senate on a chars'e of
conspiring to bring about a prema
ture and dishonorable peace with
Germany. Lenoir was given a search
ing examination but subsequently it
was announced that nothing he had
laid before the officials would Justify
a mitigation of the sentence of death
passed upon him.
SELIA* ITTK IIOMfE.
Capt. J. W. Copeland has sold
his beautiful" homo on Woodrow
street to Mr. R. Z. Wright, and Mr.
Wright and family will move into
their new residence in the next few
days.
Mr. Wright has sold his present
home on South Broadway to Miss
Sue Henderson and Miss Lula Par.
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