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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN. Est CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, DAUGHERTY IMPEACHMENT HEARING Opening Session o f House Judiciary Committee Marred by Frequent Clashes Washington, Dec. 12.?Frequent clashes between. Chairman Vol stead of the house judiciary com mittee and Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for Representative Keller,; marked the opening of the com mittee hearing on Mr. Keller's im peachment proceedings against At torney General Daugherty. At torney Ralston told the committee he was not ready to proceed with the hearing in the order present ed, because it was an "absurd re quest" and "absolutely without precedent." Mr. Volstead declar ed the committee had already been "stalled off and wanted to proceed in an orderly manner.** After a lengthy argument Mr. Ral ston announced that he was ready to proceed on a,single, specification, saying that other attorneys would present other specifications. After wrangling an hour and a half the comrnittee voted to pro ceed with the impeachment hear ing in the manner ^insistedf on by Representative .^c^eV.. The first charge considered- that alleg ing that Attorney "^^feeral Daugh erty had namr? -cWBJ^nd dan gerous men GOING Counsel Ralston Serves JNotice on Committee That Case . Cannot be Smothered Washington, Dec. .13.?Jackson -:TdjL Ralston, counsel -for . Represen tative Keller. Republicah, of Mih nesotai in the impeachment pro-: ceedings against Attorney General Daugherty today served notice on the house judiciary committee that he would insist on his right before the committee even if ';he had- to go. to the hpnse" of representatives. George W. Wielrershatt^fm nier at torney general, and Samuel Gomp ers. the labor leader, were the chief witnesses summoned today. ' Gompers testified that the Amer ican Federation of- Labor had au thorized the employment of coun sel to aid Representative Keller. He said he protested, t? Attorney General Daugherty . against em ploying William J. Burns, as head of the investigating department. Asylum Lunatic Wh^&?|g|nes He is Heir to GrouW^MHIions Fails to Columbia, Die. 12.?W. Go Morrow, who appealed to the gov ernor of Virginia for aid in get ting him out of the State Hos pital, here, telling the governor of Virginia Ciat he is the foster son of the late Jay Gould, of New York, and heir to the Gould millions, failed to get his release by legal process when his habeas corpus proceedings were argued before Judge Mauldin yesterday. The court dismissed the petition. Mor row claimed that he was held il legally, though he has been a pa tient at the hospital for eighteen years. Last week new commit ment papers were issued against him. and he is held under these. The hospital authorities hold that Morrow is a dangerous man. He told Governor Harvey and a spe cial committee of investigation, at the hospital last week, that he was the owner of the Jerome Hotel and of one of the "skyscrapers" in Columbia. He labors under the impression that he is being sought by persons who would take his life to-get his money. He was brought to the hospital from Washington, D. C. Fire m Spartanburg Two Department Stores Dam aged $75,000 Spartanburg. Dec. 12. ? Fire originating in the cook stove of the Y. M. C. A. cafeteria, over the Hobbs-Henderson department store on east Main street, broke out at 12:45 a. m. today and before it was brought under control at 2:05 had done estimated damage of $75,000 to goods in the Hobbs-Henderson company, the Efird Department store, the Kress Five and Ten Cent store and the Woolworth Five and Ten Cent store. The damage was confined to water and smoke in the stores. MAY CONSOLIDATE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS Washington. Dec. 13.?Consoli dation of the war and navy de partments into one department of national defense was definitely rec ommended to the president by a commission appointed to prepare a plan for 'government reorgan ization. abBsited April, 18IS0. 1881,_ STRENGTH .OF ! CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING _ i The Farmers' Organi zation Has the Pow-j er to Combat and Defeat Price Manipr ulation by Manufac turers at Home and Abroad j The Atlanta Journal has been printing-a series of articles on the theory and practice of the Geor gia Cotton Growers' Cooperative j Association and the co-operative marketing of cotton in general, j These articles are being written j by Edwin Camp, a member of the editorial staff of The Journal. Be jlow is printed one of these ar ticles: (By Edwin Camp). In Sunday's Journal was discuss- 1 ed the 140-point decline in seven . days in the price of cotton, and it : was shown that such temporary j crashes in prices have little effect J on farmers .who are members of;1 the co-?perajtiVe selling} organ izations though they are disastrous to the so-called and mis-called "independent" producers. Here is something in the nature of. a great white light on the J causes behind such temporary declines, the quotation being from . the London Times of October 21: j "The European cotton trade is L faced with the question of whether j ( it would not be wise to close j ? down the spinning of American . cotton altogether for a brief period,! j say a month. That would tend to ' j ' bring, down the price of American , cotton. The rise in cotton this ; week, however, reassuring to those , who have bought yarn, or?to hold-', errs of stocks of yarn, is certainly ; not favorable to business in cloth ? at present." . Most persons know that tlfa?e < ; London Times is perhaps the' greatest ^newspaper in the world; <: ; that it is exceptionally careful and_ conservative in what it prints, es- , pecially concerning financial and trade matters. You may be sure,' then, that this quotation is an . understatement rather than an ex-jj , aggeration of the tempers ahd acta of the British spinners. 5 Has Happened Before ? The thing hinted by The Times newspaper has happened often be-J fore. When cotton has got higher; ; than the British spinners care to ; have it they have ceased buying temporarily, if necessary throwing their mills on part time or shut ting down completely for such pe- ; riods as were necessary to break the price. Unorganized farmers are unable i( to combat such tactics. They have! not the trade information at hand: i they have not the credit necessary, j' Ninety per ?ent of them must sell 1 the fruit ot. their year's labor asj soon as it is ginned, regardless of the state of the market. The other ' ten per cent are like nothing so much as children in the dark. If, 1 after holding, they sell at good ' prices it is good luck; if they sell at poor prices, it is hard luck. Blind -luck in either event. But : the co-operatives, having the fin- 1 ancial backing of the great banl^ ( which see ideal security in loans to i them, having further the financial ? backing of the United States gov ernment, which sees them as great agencies for the betterment of the ' farmer and. therefore, of the whole nation, and further having the 1 guidance of the best minds in the cotton trade, are ideally able to 1 meet such actions by the spinners. The temporary cessation of spin ning in order to break the price of cotton is nothing immoral. There 1 is no use to rail against it. as un- ( fair, even though it is an attempt ' I to get cotton for less than it is 1 I worth by thwarting temporarily .the justly-famous and little under- ' 'stood law of supply and demand.? It is just business. True, in its work . ings it has many a time meant poverty for the farmers forced to sell when the price has been beat en down for the moment, only to > soar again when the mills had got what they wanted at the bottom. Individuals Helpless. Unorganized farmers, I repeat, are helpless against such tactics. But the great co-operatives are not. They have their agents in tex tile centers. They know the state of the trade. They know as much as anyone can know about the world demand for the year and the world supply for the year. They can carry their cotton indefinitely, j So they can meet the spinner! at his own game, and beat him. When mills are not running, they are losing money. Fixed ex penses do not cease; depreciation ( keeps up its gnawing at the very, heart of the enterprise; the capi tal invested . is yielding no return [save the bitter fruit of loss. When the .spinners throw their mills on part time or shut them down for the sole purpose of breaking the price of the raw ma terial, they are playing a desper- | ate and costly game. They can; ) win at it. as they have often won iat it, when they have only the in jdividual farmers to deal with. ! But they cannot win against financially strong organizations controlling a considerable propor tion of the world crop and know "Be Just and Fear FRANCE WILL USE FORCE IF NECESSARY Premier Poincare Will Tell Parliament That France Retains Right to Collect Ger man Debt by Force Paris. Dec. 13.?France retains the right to use free hand in seizing security for the German debt, Pre mier Poincare will announce when parliament resumes debate on the foreign policy. He will refrain, however, from giving details or specifying what the policy will be. He told interviewers that he never had said he thought of occupying the Ruhr district, declaring he'did not know exactly what steps would be taken. He said the time for threats without acts had passed and France was fully re solved to act. French cabinet today approved Premier Poincare's attitude at the London conference and also agreed with him regarding the decla rations he will make Friday in parliament. \ ' A man has lived in Philadelphia! 51 years but we can't tell you why." ing as much as they know about! world supply, and world require-1 ment. The American co-operatives in eight states this year control about j one-n;nth of the American crop. It is likely that they will control about one-? bird next fall, for the marvelous success they are achiev ing is recruiting their membership every day. And when they do control, say, one-third of the American pro duction, you will see no further ef fort by British spinners to break, the price temporarily ~by curtail-j ing consumption for a month or ? so. . i I The price will become more and} more stabilized: more and more it: will be a fairly steady expression of the reaction of demand on sup ply. This is all the farmers' have any right to ask, that they shall be as- J sured a fair price, a price fair to.{ themselves, to the spinners and! the peoples of the. world who de-i pend on farmer and spinner for a necessity of life. ? They have never got it in the past, not even when cotton was selling for 40 cents. ? A Puzzled Reader A reader who was interested in the preceding articles in this se ries asks how the co-operative principle can be fair to all the farmers. "You say," he says. "The co-operatives sell gradually with the market. Won't that give some farmers more for their cotton than others will get? "Won't thlere be 3ome sort of favoritism in ft?" The reader doesn't understand the fundamental principle. It centers in the word "pooling." All the cotton handled bv each of the state associations is gather- I ed into pools. There are very many different grades of cotton, j varying according to color, classi fication and staple length. Some spinners use one sort, others the other sorts. The difference in price when middling is quoted at 25 cents runs nearly 20 cents. That Is. a poor grade of cotton! barely spinnable will be worth only 7 or 8 cents, middling will be worth 25 cents and a higher grade will bring 27 cents or .28. These pools are made up of the different grades of cotton handled by the association. From Uncle Ruben Smith's farm in Pike coun ty there may come to the associa tion twelve bales of cotton of three different grades. Uncle Ruben's cotton at-that moment loses all contact with itself and with him. He gets receipts for four bales of each of the three grades specified, draws $60.00 a bale advance from the association and waits till the end of the cotton year for final! statement. Each set of bales is put with other cotton of the same grade held by the association. Let us say four are good middling, four are middling and four are low middling. Averages are Struck When the association finishes selling its year's cotton, the "price! obtained for every bale of cotton | in every single grade is averaged. (Don't read this to mean that an average is struck of the prices for all grades; the average is struck for each grade). And settlement is made tor every bale in each grade on the basis of the average j price obtained for that grade dur ing the season. Some good middling may have: sold for 2."? eents. some for liG, some for 27. and so on. What Uncle Reuben's four bales brought will never be known. It might have been 25 or it might have been 2'v It makes no difference to him. He gets the average price. This, of course, is the very es sence of fairness. There can be no favoritism; there is no luck in it. He gets for his grade of cot ton just what all the other pro ducers of that grade get. The beauty about it is that the average price is bound to be higher than the independent producers will average. And it is a 100 to 1 shot that it is higher than. Uncle Reuben Sot?Let all the ends Thon Aims't f Sumter, S. C, Satucd; TURKS BLAME I EUROPE FOR MASSACRES Interference With In ternal Affair? o f Turkey by Russia and Other Nafjbfts Caused Al\u%e Trouble Says Ismet Lausanne. Dec. 12.?Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation, dashed the hopes of the Near East conference for a speedy and satis-'j factory settlement of the protection of minorities in Turkey, when; in an address at this afternoons ses sion, he insisted upon an exchange of the Greek populations- in Ana-; tolia for the Turks in Macedonia. He demanded exclusion of all for eign interference in Turkey, which he said would protect the remain-: ing minorities, as the Turks had. always been able to get along with other nationals when they kept out of politics and were not stirred up by outside influences. ? Ismet declared Turkey would not accept Lord Curzon's proposal to have the League of Nations ad minister the affairs of the trainQri ties, as that would mean tker.for eign powers would continue* their interference in Turkish affairs and encourage the> minorities ?to appeal to the League of Nations. This plan, he asserted,. would result in, the^ exploitation of minorities for. political ends under "the lying cloak of Ii manitarianism.' The Turkish chief delegate re-; viewed the entire history of Tur key from the time of the conqjaest of Constantinople. The Tufka>-he* said, had lived peacefully with the Greeks and Armenians until. - a hundred years ago when the Rus sians began agitating - againsti* the Mohammedans under the pretense, that Russia was the protector ,of orthodox Christians in . Turkey*.' He charged Russia with being responsible for the attack -Glad-, stone made on TuYkey-in behalf of the Armenians and maintained, that the so-called Turkish atfoci-' ties, against Armenians frequently: had been in the nature fo reprisals for pogroms perpetrated by the Armenians through. encottage ment fom Russia, which wanted some excuse for invading Turkey. "The Armenians brought ; ."the massacres on themselves,** Ismet Pasha declared. Lord Curzon replied in a spirit ed manner' to Ismet saying* the conference was dealing with the affairs of peoples in the ? greatest distress and must find a solution for the problem of the miserable refugees, without, regard for . an cient history, and must form a treaty which will protect these un happy people. He called the atten tion of the conference to the fact' that Ismet Pasha had not .men tioned the Allied plans for solv ing'the difficulties of the minori ties in Turkey, which Curzon1 had presented at the opening of today's session, but had devoted himself to his story and an attack on the League of Nations, which might be useful to Turkey. Lausanne. Dec. 13.?Turkey to day refused to assign any special part of Turkey as an Armenian national home, at the session of', the Near East peace conference. They declared this to be merely a new attempt to dismember Turkey. He also asserted that Turkey would not accept any regulation of the rights of minorities by an in ternational commission. Lord Curzon warned Ismet that Turkey would be without sympathy J anywhere if the conference br,oke down over the question of rights f>" minorities. The question will be submitted to a subcommission. ** Ismet asserted that the Greeks and Armenians were unhappy be cause they put themselves in an aggressive position and had been supported by other countries in re sisting the authority of the Turkish government. - Rural photographer writes to say since hunting began he has made a fortune on six stuffed rab bits. would have got if he had sold in dependently. The reasons are three-fold: First: The cotton has been cor rectly graded by Uncle Reuben's agent instead of by the buyers' agent. Second: Uncle Reuben gets the profits that would otherwise have gone to thr^e or more middle-men. from which, of course, must be deducted th'? pro rate expense of the 'association in handling it. Third: The association, avoiding selling during the dumping periods of very low prices, has by gradual selling obtained its average price which is several cents higher than the actual average price of the year. Uncle Reuben acting independ ently would have had to do one of two things: Either sell as soon as he had ginned, if he were unable or un willing to hold; Or. if he were able and willing to hold, to guess when to sell. A little investigation will, show you that farmers are poor guess ers. 7 / tt be thy Country's. Thy God's and ly, December 16, 1922 LONDON i CONFERENCE A FAILURE Premiers of Entente Powers So Far) Apart on Repara tion Question That Agreement Seems ^Impossible London, Dec. 12 (By the Asso ciated Press).?The collapse of the allied premiers negotiations here, it is becoming evident, was even "nrore complete than at first s?p-' posed, since the rone outstanding development, which had been seiz ed upon by the optimists, namely the scrapping ?f the Balf?ur note by Great Britain', is how said to have been acclaimed premature ly Prime Minister Bonar Law ad mitted as m?ch in the house of commons this afternoon, and from other sources it is learned that the haste on the part of the con tinental press to consider Lord Bal four's utterance as. a thing of the past is unwarranted. . It is stated, thats Mr. Bonar Law. in talking with the other allied premiers, only indicated that Lord Balfour's principle (refusal to con-' sider any remission of the war debts) could be superseded as Great Britai*ajs contribution to. a general European settlement of the war debts and reparations questions, but with a definite gain for Britain in View and not merely because she wished to be gcneroujB. ? -\ The British policy is . said to be centered' an re^stablishment of trade and commerce, stabilization, of exchangesVand ^bringing. to an end the. almost-, continuous allied conferences and disputes' over rep-, arations and: war ;debtsr The - pessimlstsf believe such stabilization of Europe's economic life would not be- realized through Britain's cancellation of the debts due her if'at the same time the French were, permitted .to carry out Coercive measures to obtain their' ihdenmity' from Germany. ^ec^idhig- to the. official view, the/' British'are willing to make great sacrifices, but the other al-r lies- must also, sacrifice some ot their interests- i 5 ' Unless Great Britain sees an ul timate gain through the policy, of cancellation, it is stated, the gov ernment could not carry, out such a program, for the British taxpay ers would ?ebel at having to shoul der the debts- without benefit. Berlin, Dec. 12 (By the Asso ciated Press). ? Official German quarters were disinclined today -to discuss the failure - of the allied premiers to .arrive at a decision on the reparations question, as au thentic information regarding: the nature of their deliberations was lacking here. The German press views the postponement as a discouraging symptom, but it is not generally regarded as a misfortune for Ger many, inasmuch as it is believed the present denouement may act as an effective deterent to Premier Poincares plans for the occupa tion of the Ruhr. Washington, Dec. 12 (By the As sociated Press).-?The United States has hot been approached, directly or indirectly, in regard either to cancellation of, the French war debt or American par ticipation with allied premiers in the discussion of German* repara tions, according to ah officially au thorized statement today at the state department. Outside ''of this statement, no comment was forthcoming in offi cial quarters on press advices from London telling of the British in tention to; sound out the Washing ton government with * relation to French debt cancellation as a pos sible means for solving the con flict of views among the premiers which caused postponement of the council meeting over the year end. Earlier in the day the state ment was authorized at the White House that the reparations tangle was \-iewed by the Washington government as "one of the most acute European difficulties.' It was added that the Washington admin istration had not lacked an inti mate picture of the situation abroad nor been unconcerned or active with relation to problems pressing for solution in the inter est of world 'stability. It was not' indicated, however, that the ac tivities referred to bore directly or indirectly upon the immediate situation in London. Pending some further light as to the exact nature of proposals said to bo coming to Washington from London in regard to cancellation of the French debt to Great Brit ain and the United States the most official expression of American views in that regard indicated that the Washington government looks upon the allied debt matter as now in the hands of congress and out side the field of diplomatic agree ment. Creation of the debt re funding commission is known to be viewed by high administration officials as having had that effect. ? ? ? Proposal that women get a new husband every three years will not be popular because some would get lonely between husbands. Troth's." PARLIAMENT OF IRISH ! IN SESSION! ? 1 ' ?- I Governor General, Healy Outlines His Policy to Joint Ses sion of Two Houses Dublin, Dec. 12 (By the Asso ciated Press).?The two houses ofi the Irish parliament met today in join" session, at which Governor General Healy outlined the legis lative program prepared by the cabinet of the Irish Free State. * The governor general also read a message he had received from King George. The legislative program was more extensive than had been an ticipated. It covered the subject, of the electoral franchise, reform of judicial system, regularizing the civil police and the national army, compensation for damage and the questions of land purchase, patent law3 and copyright. Special inter est attached to the promise of a bill in pursuance of the pledge given by Michael Collins granting amnesty to the members of the British forces engaged, in military operations prior to the truce. Professor Michael Hayes, speak er of the dail. or chamber of depu ties, presided over the joint meet ing. Governor General Healy stood beside the speaker to de liver his address but before be ginning the pronouncement he read in impressive tones the mes sage he had received from the king. The entire assembly applauded at the conclusion of the govern mental ' address. It said: . :,Tt is my earnest hope that-by faithful observance by all sides of the pact so concluded, peace and prosperity in Ireland may be secured. In the spirit of that settlement I have chosen you to be the fivst representative of the crown in the Irish .Free State. "With all my. heart I pray that the blessing; of God may rest upon you and the ministers of the Iri3h Free State in the difficult. task committed to your charge." ;It was noted .as a remarkable fact'that^^n^niber of the labor, party in either house attended the joint session. Later when the sen ate and the governor general had retired, the labor members appear ed. ; Tom Johnson, the labor leader explained the absence of the labor members as being due to a desire to avoid -anything in the nature of a scene. The labor members thought something might arise to provoke a protest and believed it would be more tactful to stay away. Governor.-General Healy's reply to the message from the king was as follows: "I have tlie honor to acknowl edge the gracious message by which your majesty has inaugurat ed the self-governing dominion of the Irish Free State. "The terms of the message will touch all hearts, while the thought which inspired it must everywhere evoke the admiration of men of good will. May I, too. humbly join your majesty in beseeching the Al mighty that the reign of freedom now established in Ireland will bring early peace and assured prosperity, as well as lasting re conciliation between the British and Irish nations." Thanks for the governor gener al's address and approval of the measures were moved by the mem bers, who took occasion to assure the government that the rank? and file of the membership would sup port all the government's measures for repression "of the Irregular's campaign. NO TRACE OF AVIATORS American Machines Fly Over Portion of Mexico Nogales. Ariz., Dec. IT.?No trace] of the missing aviators was re-i ported here tonight by Capt. It. G.j Ervin, who returned with four] planes from the interior of Mexico, j where they scouted today in their search for Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. C. L. Webber. No attempts were made to land, in Mexico, he announced. The, squadron flew low and "gridironed" a wide area, eighty miles across the j border. The planes crossed the border not.far from Nogales. Capt. Ervin , stated, and then turned south to Magdalena, then turned west for a distance of sixty miles, and returning, reentered the United States near Ruby, west of Nogales, late this afternoon. CHARITY FOR IDLE WORKERS House of Commons Make Do nation to Aid Unemployed London. Dec. 13.?The house of commons today agreed to appro priate one million pounds for the relief of unemployment. The agreement came after a sixteen hour session which was prolong ed by the tactics of the labor party, which insisted that the gov ernment take further steps to al leviate unemployment. THE TRUE SO? RURAL CREDITS STRONGER THAN SHIP SUBSroY: Friends of Farmers in Congress Surprise Proponents of Ad-| ministration Bill to' Subsidize Shipping; Trust I _ . ! Washington, Dec. 12.?The ad-' ministration Wll to extend govern ment aid to the merchant marine was drawn into a serious tangle with rural credits and bonus legis-; lation today in^the senate! j After the advocates of early ac-' tion for reiief of the fanner had.? counted noses and announced theyj had a majority in favor of enacting} such legislation ahead of, the ship bill, the Republican leaders con-J ceded on the senate floor that the! ship measure sponsored by Presi-' dent Harding would have to be laid i aside* whenever a rural credits bill j was ready. Earlier in the day two senate) committees had held hearings con-| currently, receiving many sugges-! tions for agricultural relief and! hearing the authors of several credits proposals which already are pending in congress. On the senate floor both Sena tors Harrison, Democrat, Missis sippi, and Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, offered rural cred its bills, the fomer attempting without success to attach the Len root-Anderson bill to the annual treasury appropriation bill and Senator Simmons offering an agri cultural measure of his own aa an amendment to the shipping bill. , Senator Simmons also" present ed again the soldiers' bonus bill ve toed by President Harding, and told the senate he wanted to see whether the country would .vote , ? bonus to shipping interests before it helped the farmer and the for iner service man. Senator Simmons called the Len root-Anderson measure "a little pop-gun bill." "This is no time -for pop-gun legislation," sal* Senator Simmons, picturing the plight of the farm er. "The conditions should-he met adequately. I serve notice that if ft is proposed to . bring forth a. j mere temporary expedient I shall j not support it." The shipping bill, which had,) been laid aside, in favor .of thej treasury appropriation measure, ? j was taken up late in the day and ] Chairman Jones of the commerce committee proceeded ?with the opening statement in behaif ? of the legislation. ' N ? Senator Jones urged the senate "to pass on the measure on its merits" and declared election re-1 suits "afforded no more argument for laying the bill aside for aban donment of the whole administra tion program." CITY COUNCIL MEETING Auction Sales by Merchants Discussed. Routine Busi ness Transacted The regular meeting of council was held in the council chamber Tuesday night, there being pres ent Councilmen Raffield and Mc-? Leod for the first part of the meet ing. Ma vor Jennings coming in iacer in the evening. The minutes of the special meeting of Decem ber 6th were read and approved. The clerk read reports from the city physician. Civic League nurse and police department for the month of November which were received as information. Mayor Jennings stated that he I had received a report that some, merchants of the city were con-i ducting auction sales at this season' of the year and possibly shipping' into the city merchandise to be! disposed of under such auction in connection with their own stocks: that tliis practice had a bad in fluence upon the trade, and worked \ a hardship upon other merchants.! He stated that as there is no pro-j vision made in the license ordi-1 nance for merchants disposing of; merchandise at auction, nor is j there any provision for any one not a merchant, disposing of mer chandise at auction in the city of Sumter. he was in favor of. fixing a license of $10 per day on all merchants selling their stocks at auction sales, this to apply to any individual or firm selling merchan dise of any description at auction in the city of Sumter. Councilman McLeod was not in j favor of charging a merchant of Sumter an additional license for auction sales where a regular year ly license had been paid by such merchant. Councilman Raffield agreed with Councilman McLecd, and no change was made in the present license ordinance. After a general discussion of routine matters, council adjourn ed. Washington, Dec. 13.?The an nual naval bill was reported to the house today and contains a request that the president seek to bring small war craft and air craft with in the scope of the naval limita tion agreement. The nil* carrie3 two l.urdred and ninetf-tfcree mil" lion dollars. in RON, Established June 1. 18?*, vol. Lin. ^o:s6 His Former Stenog ; rapher Loses Dam age Suit For Breach of Promise and Se duction Oxford, Miss., Dec. 11.?A ver dict for the defendant was return ed, by a -jury In United States dis^ trict court here early tonight in the trial of the suit of Miss Frances Cleveland: Birkhead, stenographer, against Lee M. Russell, governor of' Mississippi for damages based on charges of seduction and other se rious'allegations. The verdict?-the climax of ,ohe. of the most sensational lawsuits ever filed in a Mississippi court was returned at 6:08 o'clock, just 26 minutes after' the arguments^ were- coTicUided, instructions given and the case- submitted. Neither of the principals was in the court room when the jury pre sented its .yerdict. Governor $$&r) sell with Mrs. Russell went to the home of his" - brother?immediate ly after the jury retired. Members of : his counsel . 'also had left" the. court room. 'Miss Birkhead and her attorneys left at the same; time or their hotel. And the crowd - which for a week had packed the court; room to its capacity bad*". passed- from the building, evident ly in the belief that no immediate yerdict was .'in prospect. Several newspaper men, court attaches and. a handful of the more determined . of those .who had followed the trial during its', week of sensational'de velopments?not more than' a score .of men^remained when the jury filed in .with its verdict It contained, : only the seven words: irWe, the jury, fi 4 for the defendant," . I NewBaildht^ Fortimversity legislature to Be Asked For [. Additional Appropriations p<tta?e "" ^ " ; .''Columbia. Dec,-'.i3.-~2??mey "w^ii 'whfch to, erectthe woman's dor mitary/ the; University. ;-and to \ establishschools of jouxnalism and ] trafflp management is to be asked I oft*>e legislature, which meets in ; January, by. the trustees of the .UnfVBrjrity.V according to decisions reached by the board at the reg ular December meeting here yes- - terdayy ' The board went thor oughly i?to.the University budget for 192fc; ' President - Melton was instructed j to prepare a tentative course of I studyfor ^he two proposed -new j schools. The school of traffic man i agemest will cover railroad and : steamboat rate making and other subjects - connected with transpor tation-ind commerce. For each [school.there would be one profes sor. It is -pointed out that there is great ;need for instruction-4n ijournahsm and also that rthere is a great; demand for traffic experts. There are 125 women-'.students j at the. University this year.- aiKS ,the dormitory equipment for them 1 is whoHy'inadequate, it was point ed; out at the.-trustee meeting' yes terday,' Tfie 1922 legislature made a small appropriation . for the drawing of plans for^ttoe*Vomen^ j dormitory, and the trustees hope ; the general assembly. w.Ul^bisjsar ; provide t?te funds f or **Y j of the "building. - * v- +>?. ? Reports made by President "^tT. |Dy Melton to the trustees vyester Jday showed that the enrollment ! this year is the greatest in tTi'e "KTs jtory of the University. There ;are [already 6S6 students oh the'^rclis. and President Melton stated:', that : indications ? are it will reach 750 with the opening of the second semester after Christmas. Of the total enrollment 137 are law stu dents. , Attending the trustee ?'meeting" were Governor Harvey. State Su perintend *ht of Education John E. Swecririge-n: August Kohtf arrd W. J. Cermack, Columbia; -B. A. Hagood. Charleston: J. Gordon Hughes, Union; Dr. R. O. ? Mc Cutcheon. of Bishopvillc. and James VL Sullivan, of Laurens. ?'" NO MORE LIQUOR PERMITS State Health Officer Havnes Will Obey State Law" Columbia, Dec. 13.?Dr. James. A. Hayne. state health officer, an nounced today that hereafter . Ue will discontinue the issuance of endorsements of requests for whis key to be used for medicinal pur poses. There is a conflict between slate and federal laws, as to *he issuance of permits, and the state law being the stricter, prohibiting druggists to honor whiskey pre scriptions. Dr. Hayne states that he will observe the stricter law, under a recent ruling of the Unit ed States supreme court, to the ef fect that where two laws conflict the stricter Nls to be observed. King Boris of Bulgaria was rob bed of $LS5, all he had. The king business has been slack lately.