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THE CHROWCP Strives to be t dean newspaper, complete, aewap and reliable. Stop If You Don't Read The Clinton Chronicle You Don’t Get The NEWS ; VOLUME XIX M 1 ■ CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18th, 1919 NUMBER 50 8* il SMITH Discrssas ■ SUGAR SHORTAGE SSBc, Senator Aakt Reason for Dlflereaee in Price la Soath Carolina^and In Now York. Washington, D» C., Doc. 11.—When the Senate was today considering the question of continuing the United States board of sugar equalisatio n Senator Smith of South Carolina, ris ing to the occasion, discussed the present sugar shortage and the opera tion of the law of supply and demand with much interest to the people of South Carolina. Sepator Smith said first that he warned nTronhaTutn nre someone was cornering the sugar market and would decline to vote un til he got information. Upon being informed that the bill under consideration merely gave the board the right to acquire raw sugar of the crop of 1921 under government Supervision, Senator Smith said in part: m <to' “The matter concerning me now is ihat this is a time of peace and we ire about to establish a precedent ijiere of the government entering to lieve a condition which it seems to those who engage in business in country are perfectly competent t6 remove. If somebody is buying this criop and cornering the market, why was the Sherman anti-trust law writ- teh upon the statute? '‘Why have we gone and solemnly committed ourselves to the farce of trying, to enact legislation which will deter the evil-minded from doing things, and then, while it is on the statute books invoke the government to t^o Into business in order to prevent the people themselves from coming in and ruining their business? “The government,” Senator Smith further stated, “is stepping in and taking half of the sugar business be- cause there is a fear that someone might corner the market.” He ob jected, he sajd, to the doctrine of so cialism. Senator Smith said also that is what is the matter with us now. We are not only assuming to become merchants, but we are absolutely be coming the guardians of labor and capital, telling capital how much it may make upon an investment and labor. how much it shall get. He wanted the buyers of sugar to settle thin question, he said, among them selves, and if they find someone who is really trying to corner‘the market, hale him before the courts and let the world know, than for us to cam ouflage the situation by the govern ment buying and selling. Let us go IRISH REPUBLIC Germanism on the part of the coun try threw the meeting into a furore which yie committee quieted with dif- ficuliy after the chairman sad warned against insults to any of the wit nesses. Interruptions so prolonged the hearing that the committee’s plan of concluding today was abandoned, and the arguments will be resumed to morrow. Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, of the New York state supreme court, and Frank P. Walsh, who beaded the Irish-American delegaCon sent to Paris during Lie peace negotiations, appeared to espouse thw cause of Irish freedom and ask for passage of the House Committee Hears Arguments on Recognition of Independent Gov ernment. Uproar is Caused by Pro- Germanism Charge. Washington, Dec. 12.—The claim'of the Irish republic for recognition as an independent government was brought to congress again today and was debated in militant fashion through a tempestuous alKday session of the house committee on foreigfl af fairs. . f A crowd was jammed in the room and blocked the adjoiniuv corridors which punctuated the proceedings with cheers and with hoots of disap proval as the opposin' 1 : speakers pre sented their arguments and many times threw the session into disorder by yelling gratuitious advice to com mittee and witnesses. The occasion was committee consid eration of a bill by Rerresentative Mason, Republican, Illinois, which would appropriate funds for dispatch of diplomatic and consular represen tatives to the government set up by the insurgent Irish Republicans. Its supporters declared it presented an opportunity for congress to do all it could constitutionally toward a full diplomatic recognition and its oppo nents conc'emned it as an effort to in volve the United States in a- danger- oufi foreign situation. Late in tuv °^ssion charges of pro- ITALY BeFfesES TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET Chamber of Deputies Approves Reply from Throne Refusing to Recognise Reds. . r - ___ Rome, Dec. 13.—The chamber ofll^ rliament 18 sovereign. It is free to deputies tonight voted oplproval of the reply to the speech from the throne after rejecting by a vote of 289 to 124 an amendment offered by the Socialists providing for the imme diate recognition of the Russian sov iet government and the rsumption of relations with Russia. Premier Nitti summed up the de bate on the reply in a speech of con- Aai- Th^arguments in -otredslttea f^rahl^T^th. ^sir^Srst. BF —Thcrfcawtp. were, mhde by George L‘Wk, whielf Haven, Conn., George T. uomon. of ! was causing national concern and to Troy, N. Y., president .of the NaMonal Federation of Presbyterian Patriotic Societies and others. Eamon DeValera, president of the deny the report tftat the government was about to conclude new interna tional agreements creating fresh re sponsibilities. The premier’s refer- Irigh Republican government, who J ence was to a report that the meet- came to Washington yesterday to ■ j n g 0 f Pemiers Lloyd George and confer with Irish-American leaders, ciemenceau and Foreign Minister Sci- did not appear at the meeting, but a i 0 j a j n London had considered a mll- Harry Boland, secretary ot the repub-1 i tary convention, lie’s “parliament,” sat with Justice Cohalan and Walsh and frequently Answering different speakers who presented motions for the convocation There ig noi-fiecessity to convoke one purposely. The Italian constitution, granted on March 4, 1843, was quickly modified by the parliament on May 19, 1848^ and later has been changed constantly according to necessity. The modify by enactment any article of the constitution. What you now wish is to change article V, which nominal ly gives the king the right to declare war. But do you really believe that the last war was declared without the assent of the parliament?” At this the Socialists shouted: “Yes, against the will of parlia ment.” Arc the: ^ tivMuteikmtM. advised them in the pre -entation of, of a constltuent a8sembly> glgnor Nltt , th^ir case. The provisional governrae^f, these speakers argued, clearly was a de facto government, having a complete executive and politically organized ef fective organization of 100,000 and united in popular support. The gov ernment, they asserted, is functioning in many important matters, while the British authoritie s have abandoned their attempt to carry out many of the duties of government. These statements all said: “But we consider the parliament as a permanent constituent assembly. lies in winning the war. An under standing between Irlsh-Americans and German-Americans was charged by Mr. Lemon and Mr. Fox carried the suggestion a step further by turning to M. Walsh and declaring that during the war “this man was thinking to were denied! help Germany.” The crowd in which by Mr. Lemon and Mr. Fox, who said j the tri-color Irish republic was con- there was a great division of senti-1 spicuous along with the Stars and ment among the Irish both in Ireland i Stripes, hooted down the assertion and and the United States, and that little j cheered committeemen when they ob- real headway had been made by the 1 jected. republic as a governmental agency. They declared the Sinn Fein party backing the republic was one of three Mr. Fox will continue his speech when the committee meets tomorrow and Bourke Cockran, of New York, powerful political organizations in . will make the concludirg address for Ireland and had handicapped the al-j the advocates of the b which Premier Nitti resumed his re marks. “The law granting full power to the cabinet,” he went on, “was passed by the chamber on May 22, 1915. It was equivalent to a declaration of war." The entire socialist group shouted: “No, no! The cabinet already had concluded an alliance with entente.” The premier begged for the support of all parties to help ItalyVut of her present difficulties. He explained she must import one-third of the necessi ties of life, needing, for instance 42,- 000,000 quintals of wheat aflnually, of which 24,000,009 came from abroad. “With regard to our relations with Russia,” ( said the premier, “I am cer tain we shall soon resume commercial relations with that country, but I am not certain that they will soon be ad vantageous. “The Idea,” he added, “that the An glo-American bloc is interested in Iso lating Russia in ordedr to have a monopoly of raw materials is non sense.’* BETTER THAN WHISKEY FOR COIDSAND FLU New Elixir, Called Aspiron- al, Medicated With latest Scientific Remedies, Used and Endorsed by Euro- S ean and American Army urgeons to Cut Short a Cold and Prevent Compli- +i/\na - - i/cLulVUw«_—.. * i nrtr mi"“TZ - [ EveryTJftljggiSrTn TJrS.TK^' structed to Refund Price While You Wait at Count er If Relief Does Not Come Within Two Minutes. 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