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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2,00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, March 4, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. REPUBLICAN EFFORT | 1 FAILS TO SIOP BILL! | ''Victory Loan" Measure Passed by Senate Early Sunday When Attempted Filibuster Engineered by Sherman Fizzles Out?Important Legislation Doomed. * Washington, March 2.?The Sixty*fifth congress enters tomorrow upon its last full working day facing an unprecedented mass of legislation,' but with the contested "Victory loan" bill out of way. Both senate * ~ ~ "rX in fVlP and nouse aiter tuuvcuing ?? morning are expected to work stead-, ily until sine die adjournment at noon Tuesday. The senate remained in session all, last night to pass the loan bill, the 0 | keystone measure of the calendar,' adjourning shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. The house today held a business ^isnnsino' nf the conference OVOOiVU) U4U|/VW...0 ?? report on the hospital bill, and the senate held a brief session for eulo^ gies of deceased congressmen, but' business went over until tomorrow. Passage of the loan bill without a] record vote and in the identical form1 I in which'it came from the house defi-j nitely marked the course of future1 legislation and gave assurance that President Wilson would not find it ft ; necessary to change his plan of .de j ferring a call of the new congress un-| til after his return from France,' probably in June. Most Republicans favored an earlier session, but after Republican senators at a conference last night failed to reach any decision as to the advisability of obstruct ing the loan bill, no filibuster was undertaken. Although many important bills, including the $720,000,000 navy appropriation measure, with its authorization of new three year building program, and the $1,215,000,000 ' army J bill apparently are doomed to certain failure, administration leaders be ? lieve it is not of sufficient importance to require an earlier call of congress and that the president will adhere to his original plan announced last week after he arrived from Paris. v Final action by the house on the $1,000,000,00 wheat price guarantee bill is expected tomorrow with the measure then ready for the presi-| dent's signature. Another important bill now regarded as certain of enactment is the general deficiency appro-; priation measure carrying $750,000,-' 1 000 additional for the railroad administration. MORE MONEY THAN ASKED, j Mrs. Frank Nickles, who has had; charge of the campaign to raise funds for the Young Woman's Christian Association, reports that Abbe-! ville raised more than her share, one hundred dollars being assessed, and one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents being raised. Mrs. Nickles appreciates the liberal response and takes this method of thirl:ing those who contributed and til! ?fdies who helped make the canvis# T 1 NEW TRAINMASTER. Mr. C. L. Sauls, of Hamlet, has removed to Abbeville and has taken the position of trainmaster of the Seaboard Air Line, having charge of all trains between Abbeville and Monroe. Mr. Saula| arrived in the city last week, accompanied by his wife. The^ have apartments at the home of Mrs. John A. Harris, where they wfll make their home. GETTING RID OF THE SURPLUS. rm n:4.? o X lie y^ivy uvuatu uas mvcaucu in a Ford truck, which will be used to haul sand and cinders for the streets, I and we hope to improve Greenville gtreet. The Fire Truck has not yet arrived. PUPILS TO ATTEND fl UNDER COMPULSION J IU Hamblin Bill Ready for Governor's j Signature?Term of Four Months. Appropriation of $60,000 to Pay Officers to See That Children Are in School. 1 tii Columbia, S. C., March 1.?The jj house yesterday morning accepted w the senate's amendments to the m Hamblin bill, which provides a four, I months, or 80 days, compulsory at-,tc tendance and appropriates $60,000 to pay attendance officers to compel ! C2 compliance with the provisions of the act. _ | g( The law applies to all children be- j .. tween the ages of eight and 14 years. j No truant officer is to be paid in ex- . cess of $1,200 per year, and women ?? ; Si i* iL!- .'i.: i TX71_ are engiuie ior wns position, vvneie q indigent parents are unable to pur- a? chase books for their children it is' ^ incumbent upon the county board of ^ education to purchase these books for ^ the children. Any child living more I yc thkn two and one-half miles from a! school, or any child under 12 years ^ of age living more than two miles |j from a school, is exempt from the j | provisions of the act, unless a school j wagon route runs within one mile of; the home. Parents or guardians who violate the provisions of the law are punishable by a fine of not less thanj $5 nor more than $10 for each of-1 fense. It is incumbent upon teachers; to assist in the enforcement of the law. Failure to so assist is punish- J able by a fine of $5 for each offense,: to be deducted from the salary of; the teacher thus convicted. The senate amended the bill so as tc allow districts wishing a compul sory attendance period in excess of four months to apply the compulsory feature for a longer period where e(* the majority of the qualified electors ?e so petition. The senate amendments on were adopted by the house by a vote of 68 to 33. 1 lic | ca LIEUTENANT G. CARROL j ?? SWETENBURG DECORATED, I On last Friday, at Camp Jackson,' ' Fr thirty French decorations, awarded for conspicuous bravery on the field m< of battle, were awarded to officers re and men of the 371st. Regiemnt, the co presentation being by Col. Perry L.' Miles, commanding officer of the regi-J ^ ment. j111 Among those thus highly honored: an 1 was Lieut. G. Carrol Swetenburg, ' fell of Abbeville, who has just returned, home after seeing hard service in ap France. jar The State of Saturday has the fol-j eri lowing to say of the honors won byj no the young soldiers: "All the French decorations award ;in| ed were recommended by General at Goybet, who was in command of the:ar' One Hundred and Fifty-seventh j French Division, with which the I TV Three Hundred and Seventy-first was brigaded. The first presentations 153 were made last October by General ^ ' 11 Goybet at Breuperes, France. At { - - - -- - . tin this time (i'J awards were made, one ~~~ of which was the medal of the Le- e'1 gion of Honor, which was presented er< to Maj. J. B. Pate. Several Croix de t'? Guerre were also awarded. j ?'C< In Brest, shortly before the regiment sailed, the regimental colors at we^e decorated, and at the same time in* individuals were decorated, with the ^ Croix de Guerre, and American de-.110 | /Jo corations were also awarded. The colors were decorted by Vice Admiral Movau." of CHIEF JOHNSON ' j QUITS EXTRA WORK ?' j sio ! flxi With the first of March a change has been made in the street force by the City Council. Chief Johnson, 1 who has been for many years street V. overseer, also, has been relieved V. from this work and will look after. V the law breakers alone. Mr. Johnson A. has put down much of the cement 'V work over town which will stand as V. a monument to his energy. V. Mr. R. S. McCombs will take V charge of the street hands. V 1 0TTON FARMERS I IN COURT Delegates from the different sec ons of the county met in the Cour ouse on last Friday, in accordant ith the notice given, to discuss th< atter of reducing the acreage ii >tton. The meeting was well at nded, a full house greeting Chair an Stark when the meeting wa tiled to order. The delegates discussed the sug ;stions made as to the signing o te pledge prepared at the New Or ans meeting, and this discussioi uugni, uut views wiaeiy aivergen ; to the best plan to be followed ne of the farmers thought that tb :reage reduction was a good thing it he didn't think it applied t< bbeville Cjounty, as he suggestei at we were not now growing ou irt of the cotton. Another though ART OF RUSSIA IN AN AWFUL PLIGH1 ate Department Make* Reporl Public.?News From Refugees. Party of British, French, Belgian and Italian Citizens Passed Through. Washington, Feb. 28.?Additional ;ht on the situation in the portions Russia under Bolshevik control is yen by a summary of reports obtain recently from a number of refues who pased through Helsingfors their way from Moscow to Stock1m. The summary was made pubtoday by the state department be use 01 tne various conflicting acunts of conditions which have beer ceived recently. "The party of Helsingfors", said e summary, "was composed oi ench, Belgian and Italian citizens, )st of them Red Cross workers. The ports all agree as to the excessive st of all necessities and the scarcity food. Dog meat is quoted at foux bles ($2) a pound, horse meat at 15 bles per pound, pork at 60 rubles d bread at 15 rubles. The coun7 is practically stripped of manuctured articles, especially warming parel, and all grain and supplies e requiusitioned by the soviet govnment from peasants who receive thing in return. "Typhus is reported to be spread1,000 new cases being reported Moscow weekly and the hospitals e unable to take care of them, ick of milk has resulted in many aths of children from starvation, le food situation in Russia is very d and the food is disti'ibuted in fee categories, a full nortion to Dse doing heavy work, a half pcrn to employees of the soviet goviment and private houses and genal office work and one-fourth porn to people not engaged in any :upation. The portions depend on the supply hand, a full portion generally be* one pound of bread daily. Sol:rs get an army portion of two unds of bread, half pound meat ily and an additional monthly alvance of two and one-half pounds sugar and one and one-half pounds fats. "All clothes and other necessities i only be secured through permisn of government by cards and at ed prices." V COTTON MARKET. V V Good cotton on the Abbe- V ville market brought 27 cents V. yesterday. March futures V closed in New York at 22.31. ^ V ED MEETING HOUSE .LAST FRIDAY - that the merchants and bankers t should now give notice that they will e extend credit to no man for the pure pose of procuring bread and meat afi ter 1920. Some thought that acre age reduction was the thing, but as -[they had rented out their lands, they s would be compelled to leave the mat I ter to their tenants. -| After much discussion, it was re f j solved that the farmers of this coun ty be requested to plant not more i than twelve acres of cotton to the t horse, and that they be asked to .' sign a pledge to this effect. Nothing e was determined as to the price at ,: which cotton should be held, and it j seemed to be the sense of the meeti | ing that farmers should make their r own decision as to the amount of t; fertilizers to be used. WOULD COMMUTE ' THEIR SENTENCES t Gregory Urges Clemency for Those Convicted for Espionage?President May Take Action Upon Recommendation Before Sailing for France. I] Washington, Marrh 2.?Attorney s General Gregory has recommended i to resident Wilson commutation of i the sentences^ of persons convicted .J under the Espionage Act, a review i of which cases by officials of the DeI partment of Justice has revealed that the evidence of wilful intent to vio ' late the law was too circumstantial to . warrant tne carrying out ot tfie full i sentences fixed by the trial jury, i Officials of the Department of Jus[ tice, in making public tonight Mr. ; Gregory's letter the President, said commutation had been recom, mended for several hundred persons ,;now held in prison, but they were r unable to even estimate the number. . Names of the persons involved were not given out. Mr. Gregory said in his letter to . the President that the reviewing com J mission in the department were exJ amining the records in the cases of j: all the other convictions under the I espionage law, and^ that recommen, dations as to these would be subj mitted later. The President was expected to act on the cases now before [i him within a short time, possibly be,! fore sailing for France next Wednes! day. WINTER SHOES. I Mr. M. T. Coleman is leaving in a 1 few days for St. Louis, where he rces to get up his samples for next -,;nter. Shoe men are usually pretty live men and travel six months ahead of time. FOR THE ARMENIANS. Last Sabbath the collection at the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church was to go for the benefit of the Armenians and the very credit able sum of thirty-three dollars was realized. TO SEE DADDY. I Mrs. W. P. Kennedy and young 1 Pat went down to Troy Sunday in | response to a telegram from Corp.: | W. P. Kennedy that he would arrive i from Camp Jackson on Monday or I Tuesday. HEARING THE SPEAKERS. * ' I Miss Jane Evans came to Abbeville Sunday for a visit of a few days to her sister, Mrs. Frank B. Gary. Miss Evans had been in Atlanta hearing the speeches by Mr. Taft and others j on the League of Nations. NINE MILLS LEVY FOR STATE TAXE! i Appropriation Bill Carries Four Mil lion?Blelow Last Session?Free Conference Works All Day to Adjust Differences Between Two Houses. Columbia, S. C., March 1.?A lev; of nine mills was made by the gener al assembly to meet the appropria tions for the State government thi I year. The total amount carried ii i the appropriation bill is approximate i ly $4,200,000, which calls for a lev; I of nine mills on a total taxable pro ! perty of $370,000,000. i This is one-half mill below thi flexible levy imposed last year, J)u j which was later reduced by the comp ,| troller general to eight and one fourth mills by the increased value | ol taxable property put on the ta: i bool:?. ' The diiTernets between the biils a: ; they left the two houses amounte< to $689,767.34. Items appropriatet by the house, but which were not in corporated in the house appropriatioi bill, as these bills had not been pass ed when the appropriation bill wa: serft to the senate, amounted t< ' $335,000, thus leaving a contestec amount of $354,757.34. The University of South Carolinz apportionment was trimmed consid erably in the free conference. Items j put in by the senate, but which were i rejected in the free conference, were Summer school, $10,000; furnishing j dormitories, $3,000; printing plant I $5,000. The university will receive ! from the State this year $136,800. The State health department was also reduced by the free conference, The item for venereal disease con1 trol was cut from $15,000 to $10,1000, and intensive county health | work from $22,000 to $17,500. The : amount appropriated for the healtli department is $137,448.89. Another department to have its j apportionment badly cut was that oi 1 the adjutant general. This was cut ! from $36,846.70, as recommended by the senate, to $25,400. Equipment for the reserve militia was reduced from $9,150 to $4,000, and miscellal - I neous expenses for the reserve milij tia from $10,000 to $5,000. The senate appropriated $25,000 for intensive work throughout the ! State to put property on the tax | books. This was cut in the free conj ference to $15,000. j The appropriation for the office oi i the State superintendent of educaj tion was cut from $24,200 to $19,; 050. This is for the general maintenance of. the office and operation oi J the department. The appropriation | for the public school system is $524,j 602.66, plus unexpended balances to I bring the total up to $719,687.83. HE LITTLE CRUSADERS. Miss Ann Murphy was in Abbeville Saturday in the interest of the Health Campaign, which is being taken up by the different schools of the State. The Campaign is under the auspices of the Junior Red Cross and in the absence of Miss Epting, Mrs. Frank Nickles conferred with Miss Murphy. The children will be organized into bands of "Little Crusaders" and an energetic campaign in the interest of good health will be entered into. UNDERGOES OPERATION. Mr. S. B. White, of Route 5, was in the city on Friday. He had just heard from his son, Frank, who was operated on in Charlotte on 21st. for appendicitis, the news being that the young man was recovering ranidlv. Mr. White left vesterrlav for Charlotte to accompany him home. LENT. Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of the Lenten' season. Easter comes in April. 1 PLAN NOW ON FOOT ' TO AMEND LEAGUE France to Offer Amendments Relating to International Force?French Fearing Anarchy in Germany, f Desire to Hasten Treaty and Formation of League. / s, Paris, March 2.?The eighth week 1 j of the peace conference opens with " increased effort by the working comV, missions to get their projects ready "jfor consideration when President j Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and e Premier Orlando return to Paris. t No one is more anxious for prompt - action thaif the French commission- m - ers, who want to hasten not only the s completion of the peac^ treaty, but * tne aaopuon 01 tne league 01 nations .plan as an integral part of it. An s! opening for a revision of the plan 1 that will not threaten the integrity 1 of the league appears to be broad.[ening. M. Pichon, French foreign v 1: minister, has indicated that he will -j offer amendments relating to an in3 ternational force. \ ) Other Amendments. i It is thought that the conference I may consider other amendments, J such as may be regarded in America J as necessary to remove the ambiguity ! of clauses that might affect the Mon1 roe Doctrine, the right of succession from the league and the methods of using force against recalcitrant na j tions. The American delegates, it; is , said, may consider the presentation | of such amendments, but are awaiting the return of the President bei fore defining their attitude. Fear Anarchy. 1 French apprehension is growing I over the danger of anarchy in Ger! many, and the French delegates 'j therefore desire to hasten the con? ' elusion -of the peace treaty and in[ corporate in it measures for the proi tection which they have expected j from the league of nations. M. Pi'j chon, reflecting this view, said every ' r; one wants a responsible government ' pcfnVilicVipH in riornianw with -arViipVi '} peace may be concluded. "| Some immediately pressing work ";has been sensibly advanced, it is j^thought, by the creation of a commit1; tee on boundaries, which will take up !| all reports on frontiers and get them ready for consideration by the end j of the week, as declared by the coun| cil of ten. This task will be facilitated, it is believed, by the decision ;to deal now only with boundary .] claims growing out of the war and |not admitting retroactive discussions. SYRIAN SPEAKS. (| Mr. Boyajian, a native Syrian, n o m n frv A KKoin'llo r\n on/1 I uw jiit VH kj ai/Ui. uttj j auu | on yesterday he spoke twice to the people in the interest of the camj paign for relief o^ the people in the ; Near East. In the morning he spoke to the pupils and teachers of the 'Baptist Sunday School and in the evening he spoke to a union meeting of the different congregations at a meeting held'in the Methodist church. Much information was given to those who are expected to help in the campaign, and the people who heard the speaker were greatly pleased with him. Mr. Boyajian came to Abbeville on the invitation of Rev. M. R. Plaxco, who has charge of the campaign to raise two thousand dollars in this 1 county. He is one of the accredited speakers of the Syrian-Armenian Re! lief Commission. ; ANOTHER MILEPOST Our son Bill has passed another i milpnnst nn thp Viio-hwav nf lifp Sabbath afternoon he and William McCombs "swapped" watches. Bill's ; watch was of the wrist variety with radium face. The watch is opposed | to running or keeping time and muck spare cash has been spent on crystals. William's watch is a diminutive alarm clock, minus one hand and has a loose crystal. Both boys are satisfied with the bargain.