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~ R.~ T ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 26 1915. established
' ORDER IN COUNCIL
. NOT BINDING U. S.
United States Determined Not to
, , Recognize or Be Bound By It.
. TROUBLE OVER SHIPPING.
Foreign Trade Advisers Suspend
Conferences? Page to Inquire
About Memorandum.
Washington, May 22.?The determination
of the United States Government
not to recognize or be bound
by the provisions of the British order
in council, which declared an
embargo on all commercial intercourse
directly with Germany, as well
* as inward or outward-bound through
neutral countries, was manifested in
several ways to-day.
The foreign trade advisers of the
State department announced that
+Viair VuiH HopiHpH to susnend all con
ferences with British embassy efficials
here with reference to the informal
arrangements which had been in
progress, not only to assist American
cotton exporters in obtaining payment
for cargoes detained, but also
to secure for American importers
American owned goods now in Germany,
contracted for before the order
in council went into effect. Secretary
Bryan said this step had been
taken in order to secure a better understanding
with the British Government
as to the capacity in which the
foreign trade advisers were acting.
Ambassador Page at London was
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instructed aiso to inquire ui luc
British foreign office the meaning of
the statement made in the memorandum
issued on Thursday that the
terms of an agreement between American
cotton representatives and the
British Government were acceptable
to the United .States Government.
I Sir Cecil's Views
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British
ambassador here, called on Secretary
Bryan during the day to explain also
that he always had understood the
? United States Government was not
to be considered as having recogniz
ed the British order in council.
The decision of the trade advisers
to suspend their conferences, however,
was reached before the British
,:1 foreign office memorandum was issued
and based on differences of a
practical character as to the shipment
of American-owned goods from
Germany through neutral countries.
The text of the trade advisers' statement
follows:
Suspension of the conferences was
announced by the department in the
following statement. "In view of
the differences in the official conferences
between Sir Walter Crawford,
the commercial adviser of the British
embassy, and Robert F. Rose
and W. B. Fleming, the trade advisers
of the department of State, who
have been in a personal capacity representing
the importers of the United
States, Mr. Rose and Mr. Fleming
have decided that they cannot continue
these conferences until certain
of the difficulties have been removed,
and they have therefore made a full
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ui vriiau uao kiivcii piacc iu
the department of State and will
s await its action."
American Owned Goods
While officials of the department
were reticent concerning differences
referred to by the trade advisers,
these are understood to relate to corrspondence
between British officials
and the advisers offering a plan for
the treatment of the American-owned
goods. Originally the time limit
for the shipment out of Germany of
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March 1 was set for June 1, but the
British Government announced that
period had been extended until June
15.
In granting that, British officials
are understood to have referred to it
as a concession to the United States
and this, as well as other features of
the plan whereby American-owned
^ goods were to be shipped through
neutral ports from Germany to the
United States, were of such a character
as to cause the State department
MEMORANDUM
BIG SURPRISE
HOKE SMITH DECLARES UNLESS
ORDER IN COUNCIL IS MODIFIED
CONGRESS WILL
ACT.
MAY PUT EMBARGO ON ARMS
Georgia Senator Takes Issue With
Statement in Regard to Cargoes
The News and Courier.
Washington, May 22.?As chairman
of the Congressional committee,
selected to study the subject of cotton
exports, Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, issued a statement tonight
in reply to the memorandum of the
British foreign office published
Thursday. He declares that the
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j Uritisn commumcauon - surpnseu au
familiar with the facts and astonished
students of international law."
"At the last session of Congress,"
he added, "there was a strong sentiment
in favor of stopping the exportation
of munitions of war to the allies.
Unless this order in council is
modified when Congress meets, the
I exportation of munitions of war will
! be stopped, and the action by Con1
gress may go much farther."
The statement quotes the provisions
as to shipment of cotton contained
in the British announcement,
also the statement that these were
described to the British ambassador
1 here by American cotton men as
| "conceding all that American. interests
could properly ask," and the further
statement that "the provisions
of the arrangement were acceptable
to the United States.'
Smith Takes Issue.
"I take issue with each of these
statements," Senator Smith continues.
"No representative of American
cotton interests was authorized
to make any such agreement. No
representative of American cotton
interests made any such agreement.
It is strange that the British govern;
ment should have reached the conclusion
that this arrangement was
ceptable to the United States liuv
1 ernment.
The Senator quotes from a communication
handed to the State department
October 26 by the British
ambassador, saying that the ambassador
had been advised by Sir Edward
Grey that cotton was and would
remain on the free list. On that assurance,
he says, American growers
contracted for sales in Europe in
January and February for delivery
in the subsequent months.
"For Great Britain to seize cotton
after the first of March under these
circumstances," he added, "became
an act especially severe and will subject
Great Britain to heavy damages.
Almost entirely as a result of the illegal
action of Great Britain, cotton
has increased in price over two cents
a pound in Great Britain and in the
United States."
Concluding his statement, Senator
Smith says:
"Let me hope that the British Government,"
in accordance with the cordial
good will which has existed between
the people of the two countries
for more than a hundred years,
will cease disregarding international
law to the injury of our people."
to believe that any acquiescence
would be constructed as a leeal re
cognition of the British order in
council.
Until a different understanding is
reached or the plan for the handling
of American-owned goods is virtually
changed, the foreign trade advisers
will not participate in any conferences
on behalf of American importers
or exporters. Individually,
American merchants can continue
their negotiations with the British
Government.
British embassy officials here are
silent as to the causes of the difficulty,
and there is some reason to expect
a statement clarifying the situ
ation from the British foreign office
or through the embassy here.
"HEMPHILL FUND" "
: HONORS CAROLINIAN
It Named in Honor of South Carolinian.
LOUISVILLE SEMINARY
Presbyterians of Kentucky Dedicate
Endowment to Native of
Chester County.
The Columbia State.
The endowment fund of -200,000
which is being raised for the Presbyterian
Theological seminary in Louisville
has been named for and dedicated
to a South Carolinian, t;.ie Rev.
Charles R. Hemphill, D. D., w'ao with
the Rev. T. D. Witherspoon founded
the seminary in 1893. The money
contributed, it is specified, shall go to
maL-o "fVio PVinrlps Hemnhill
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endowment fund, in honorable recognition
of the life and devoted service
of one of the most distinguished men
in Louisville, and one of the most
useful and widely known ministers
and theologians in the country."
Dr. Hemphill was born in Chester,
April 18, 1852, of Scotch-Irish
stock. His father, James Hemphill
was a lawyer in Chester, his grandfather
was a minister of the Aitsociate
Reformed Presbyterian Church; his
great-grandfather, Col. John Nixon,
was killed while serving in the Revolutionary
war.
Dr Hemphill graduated at t ie University
of South Carolina in 3i869, at
the University of Virginia in 1871,
and at the Presbyterian Thejlogical
:?ia7a m>1o
' ocuiiiiai wiuiiiuiO) in i-v i-zi ?? i?mv
I at-Columbia seminary he had as professors
Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, father
of President Woodrow Wflsoa, and
Dr. James Woodrow, his uncle. He
knew President Wilson jn his boyhood,
and has had the pleasure of acquaintance
with him through all of
the years since, having been a guest
at the White House since Mr. Wilson
has been in office.
After having been ordained as a
Presbyterian minister Dr. Hemphill
was an instructor of Hebrew in Columbia
Theological seminary, his alma
mater, from 1874 to 1878. During
the session of 1878-1879 he was
a fellow in Greek in Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, and while
there was a student of the celebrated
Greek scholar, Basil L. Gildersleeve.
After finishing his year of post graduate
work at Johns Hopkins university,
he became professor of Greek and
Latin in the Southwestern Presbyterian
university, and held this position
from 1879 to 1882; was professor of
Biblical literature in Columbia seminary
1882-1885; pastor of the Second
Presbyterian church of Louisville,
Ky., 1885-1889. In 1389 he
became, with the Rev. Dr. T. D.
Witherspoon, one of the two founders
of the Louisville Presbyterian
Theological seminary, for six years
both teaching in this school and
maintaining his work as pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church of
Louisville. In 1899 he resigned his
pastorate to give full time to the
seminary. In 1901 the Louisville
seminary was consolidated with the
Danville Theological seminary under
the name it has since borne, the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
of Kentucky. From 1893 up to the
present date Dr. Hemphill has been
professor in the school of New Testament
exegesis, first in the Louisville
seminary and then in the consolidated
institution. With the school of
New Testament exegesis has been
combined also the school of practi
cal theology, of which he is the head.
In 1910, Dr. Hemphill was elected
president of the Presbyterian seminary,
and has filled the office with
distinction since.
Through these many years Dr.
Hemphill has been showered with
honors. He was made honorary A.
M. of Davidson college, North Carolina,
in 1878, and the same institution
conferred the degree of doctor
of divinity upon him in 1884, as did
Central University of Kentucky in
the same year. Hanover college in
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JURY FINDS FOR
COL ROOSEVELI
After 42 Hours Consideration Twelve
Men Decide Barnes Was Not
Libelled
PLAINTIFF TO PAY COSTS
Colonel Declares Conclusion of Jury
to be "Typically American."
The News and Courier.
Syracuse, N. Y, May 22.?Twelve
men chosen as a jury to determine
whether Theodore Roosevelt libelled
William Barnes when he charged that
he worked through a "corrupt' alliance
between crooked business and
crooked politics" and that he was
"corruptly allied with Charles W.
Murphy, of Tammany Hall," to-day,
returned a verdict in favor of the
former President. In the belief of
the jury everything Col. Roosevelt
said about the foi-mer chairman of
the Republican State committee was
true and, therefore, Mr. Barnes was
not libelled.
The verdict was returned after
forty ballots had been taken and the
jury had considered for 42 hours the
evidence which w;is presented during
five weeks of the trial. Nineteen
hours were consumed before eleven
of the jurymen, w ho since the second
ballot had stood together, persuaded
Juror No. 11?Edward Burns, a Syracuse
motor-man, and a Republican
?to join with them in returning a
verdict which Col. Roosevelt later declared
to be "typically American."
For eleven of this nineteen hours
the jurors in favor of a a unconditional
verdict for the defendant talked
to the one who, while himself favq
oirwilqt? inaiofoH fKof
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the Court costs and disbursements
should be divided between the two
principals.
In Jail Dormitory
The verdict was reached in the
dormitory of the jail attached to the
Onondaga County Court House and
not in the jury room. Juror Burns
agreed to vote with liisi companions
soon after the twelve arose this
morning, following their second
night in custody.
Mr. Barnes was not in Court and
neither was his chief counsel, Wm.
M. Ivins, when the verdict was returned.
The Colonel was there,
however, with his staff of counsel
sometime before Justice Andrews ascended
the Bench and opened Court.
Immediately thereafter Henry
Wolff, one of Mr. Barnes' attorneys,
entered an objection to the verdict
being received as the jury had once
been polled in open Court. That objection
as wel! as a similar one entered
after the vordict had been le
ported, was overruled.
When the j jry had been called in
from its room and its members had
seated themselves, the fj rem:?.n,
Warren W. Sommers, announced almost
in awhisper that the verdict was
for the defendant In"rPf.pjr.se to
a request from Mr. Wolff, the jury
then was polled.
Cheered Juror Burn*
A crowd at the Court House door
cheered Juror Burns as lie left the
building. Col. Roosevelt's attorney,
John M. Bowers, issued a statement,
saying:
"The victory that Mr. Roosevelt
has won is a victory for g:ood government.
The issue put to the jury
was whether machine government or
government by the people should prevail.
"The verdict certainly assures us
that the Anglo-S;ixori system of determining
questions between litinonfe
ia rifrVit'v 1 Ti tVlP VlflTlHs
BttUWU v..w
of a jury of twelve men. Moreover,
it determines that jurors holding political
views opposed to those held by
a party will not be swayed thereby in
determining the questions submitted
to them."
The foreman of the jury in a
statement said:
"After the first ballot we stood
eleven to one in favor of the defendant.
These figures were never
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LATEST WAR NEWS
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London,. May 24.?Little or no
time has been allowed to pass between
the declaration of war and
actual fighting between Italy and
Austria. Austrian aeroplanes, destroyer*
and torpedo boats early today
descended on the Italian coast
of the Adriatic and bombarded several
towns, Including Venice; while
in the Tyrol and on the eastern frontier
Italian, and Austrian advance
guards have fired the first shots.
The plan, of campaign, has not yet
been disclosed^ but it is generally believed
attempts to inflict a quick and
decisive defeat,, or at least, one that
will discourage the Italians^will be
undertaken,, by the Germans under
Field Marshal von Hindenbtxrg.
It is said the German troops, with
heavy guns, aeroplanes and Zeppelins,
already are passing through the
valley of the river Adlge in the direction
of Verona, and that rapid
and fierce blows wiTT be delivered almost
immediately at the Italian center.
This, the Germans doubtless be*
lieve, would serve to hold off an Italian
advance fron* the province of
Venice, where the flat nature of the
country would give the Itafians a
greater chance of racettt.
General News
Macon, Ga, has started a buss line
which is to be one hundred and
twelve miles long- and is to have a
fare of four cents a mile. The distance
is made in six hours.
The health department of the
Greenville City Council is working
out a plan by which the city can have
a cold storage plant at the abbatoir
and have all meats stored before being
sold.
In the practice with the twelve
inch mortars at Fort Moultrie last
week over six tons of metal was used.
Jos. T. Johnson, Jr. son of the new '
district judge has been appointed in- ,
ternal revenue inspector for the
state and has been sworn into office.
The pay is three thousand a year.
The young man is twenty-one years
old.
The Baptist Church at Anderson
has extended a call to the Rev. John
E. White for many years pastor of
the Capitol Avenue Baptist church.
King (Jonstantine of Ureece is ill
with pleurisy and an expert physician
has been sent for to Berlin.
<
Artificial limbs factories in England,
Germany and France are utter
ly helpless under the pressure of orders
for peg-legs and arms. Consular i
appeals have been made to manufac- 1
turers in this country and factories ]
here are swamped with orders, which
will result in overtime for months.
C. W. Feick, a local limb manufacturer,
says that artificial eyes
and noses even will be in demand 1
for the next 20 years as a result of j
the war. <
The French Red Cross reports 15,- j
000 amputations already. Make-be- 5
lieve legs range in price from $35 j
to $125; cheap bucket arms, $12,50, ]
while stumps may be brought from J
$7.50 upward. ]
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The Government will hereafter ]
use flags made of cotton instead of j
wool, on all public buildings and i
coast guard vessels. The cotton flag j
V>qc Kaon taaforl nnt onH fnnn/l QQ+- ^
isfactory. i
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It Pay* to Advertise.
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Last week there was a small read- t
ing notice in the Press and Banner
about the many delightful strawberries
being sold in Abbeville. We
gave the price as two quarts for a
quarter. The notice was copied in t
our exchanges and we wore out a I
good pair of shoes answering the t
many inquirires over the phone as to a
where berries at such a price were \
to be found. It pays to advertise. '
CLOSING EXERCISES
OF IH SCHOOL
The closing exercises of the Abbeville
High School were held in the
Opera House Monday night. The contest
for the medals offered by Mr. J.
Allen Smith and Mr. W. E. Johnson
was held Friday night and was a success
in every way. The young people
taking part were earnest m their endeavors
to do their best and the
exercises were of a high order.
Monday night the exercises began
with a song by the graduating- class,
"Voices of the Woods," which was
well rendered. The following program
was carried through, each
young graduate acquiting themselves
with credit to their parents and the
school.
PROGRAM.
Invocation Rev. J. M. Lawson
Salutatory Allen Harden
Prophecy Miss Julia McAllister
Duet "Charge of the Uhlans"
Misses Sara Haigler and Margaret
Perrin.
Poem Allen Harden
Class History Miss Ruth McLane
Class Will Miss Mary E. Cox
Address Dr. J. Henry Harms
Piano Solo -"Polish Dance"?Cham
inade?Miss Ruth McLane.
Presentation of Medals.
Delivery of Diplomas and Certificates
Supt. R. B. Cheatham.
Valedictory _ Miss Georgia Wardlaw
CLASS ROLL.
Amelia Anderson, Ethel Baer,
William Bradley, Ulysses Bauknight,
Mary Cox, Sara Haigler, Amy? Hall, (
Allen Harden, Percy Leach, Susie
Mabry, Julia McAllister, Ruth McLane,
Margaret Perrin, Kathleen
Richey, Lila Belle Richey, Neil
Swetenberg, Georgia Wardlaw, Walter
Wilkinson.
The address to the graduating
class by Dr. J.Henry Harms was the
feature of the pvcmin<* woo
heard with pleasure and profit by
the large audience which filled . the
Opera House. The Doctor urged the
young people to join the army of
men and women who hoped to do
something worth while in the world.
He drew a lesson from Tennyson's
Idyls of the Kings and admonished
the young Knights to ride forth into
life resolved to do something for
others and not have others do for
them. His address was a polished literary
effort.
After the address Superintendent
Cheatham delivered the diplomas
and told of the progress of the
school in the past year.
The decision of the judges for the
Friday night contest were announced,
the bnyg medal going to Mr. Billy
Bradley and the young lady's to Miss
Ruth McLane.
The young people were the recipients
of many beautiful flowers and
the stage at the close of the evening
presented a lovely appearance.
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
County Demonstrator J. E. Cheatlam
has arranged for a meeting of
farmers to be held at Lowndesville
>n Friday afternoon at four o'clock
md one at Buffalo school ho^ise on
Saturday morning at eleven o'clock,
it which Assistant State Agent W. H.
Barton and District Agent W. P.
Stewart and W. W. Fitzpatrick,
Dairymen, will make addresses. All
;hese men come from Clemson Colege
and they will talk on live stock
ind Dairying. Mr. Cheatham is tryng
for a cream route for Abbeville
ind is meeting with success. Messrs.
W. E. Leslie and R. S. McComb are
ilready shipping butter fat at profit
ible prices.
Mr. Cheatham urges the farmers
o attend these meetings and get
;he benefits of experts talks.
Attending Commencement.
Mrs. J. Foster Barnwell went out
;o Cleveland, Tenn., last week to be
jresent at the graduation of her sis;er,
Miss Gladys Thomson, after
vhich she goes on to Pell City for a
risit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
rhomson. . i?