I . \ > / ' Abbeville Press and Banner - ,, $2.00 .he Year. AU*.iU?. S. C.. Tue.d.y, M.y 27,1919. Sjn.k Cpi.., F..? C?.>_78thYjg; WOMAN SUFFRAGE I PROBABLY TO PASS ingress Enters Second Week? waders Plan Swift Program? if Wire Bills Will Come Up?Repeal of Luxury Tax Will Be Proposed. Washington, May 25.?Congress I ters its second week tomorrow j th leaders planning to continufe the J rift pace in legislation set during; e opening week. II Organization 01 committees, uia-: [sal of the woman suffrage resolu- [ In probably by adoption, and furjer debate on peace questions and , p league of nations are the princi il features of the week's program ; the senate. . . Speed on appropriation bills is the mediate plan in the house. The ( 5,000,600 Indian bill, expected toj, jffssed tomorrow, will be followed' by the $31,000,000 agricultural!, sasure with others rapidly being i( ? Tnaiiommtinn of inves-l nations of administrative acts durI the war is planned by the house . mmittees. , The week's work at the capitol , II be curtailed by the memorial < y holiday next Friday, adjourn- j nts from next Thursday until the, . lowing Monday being planned. IntairMt u Resolution. ' > Contest over the woman suffrage 1 olution passed by the house last ' ek, as the first act of the congress 1 >mises to excite senate interest, j: jporters will call up the resolu-|] a tomorrow on the motion of Sen- iJ r Jones of Washington, to dis- 1 trge the senate woman suffrage 1 omittee from its consideration. ' is action woald place the' resolu- 1 a on the calendar ready for a final 1 e, possibly tomorrow and *at least 1 ore the weak-end. 'Belief is gen- 1 1 that the requisite two-thirds ma- 1 ity finally will be obtained, lepoblican senators will meet in 1 icutive conference tomorrow be- ' the senate convenes to ratify 1 committee assignments, including ' iee of Senators Penrose of Penn- ] rania and Warren of Wyoming * chairmen of the finance and apipriatdpn committees. Approval j the slate as drawn is expected, alugh many Progressives plan to abt themselves from the conference, few members of the progressite up are expected tovote against up are expected to votd against c6jnmittee assignments. are pre- < ted to the senate late in the week.' En of the Pennsylvania and senators ^pth - the rest of expected.-' r> r of the league 'of* nations planned tomorrow in the j enator JoKnson, Republi-; ilifornia, whose resolution ' the text of the German y is the senate's unfinished ( roposes to cart it up. Bession 4 of the resolution nocratic leaders are en-1 to have referred to th'ej ations committee, Senator | locrat, of Missouri, plans j criticism of the league of! Ions covenant and Senator Robin, Democrat, of Arkansas, has pre?d an address in its support, lommittees of both senate and se, after completion of organizaplan to get into action soon on ly bills. Among the first expectis that returning telegraph lines. I telephones to private ownership, [earing on the naval appropriate will be started by the house b Tuesday with appearance of Secry Daniels.' Appropriations f6r' army will also be considered on sday by the house military com;ee. * epeal of the 10 per cent, luxury of the vtar tax law is to be pro"J kir n Vaiiqa nTQTTO QT1/1 TYlOQTItl ICU U V lag UUUiJV ??MJ D HUU U*WM4tU . imittee a*s one of the many repfeal Isures introduced. Dyestuff and | pr. tariff-legislation- is not- expecthowever, until after July 1. V I I SENATE REPUBLICAN BY NARROW MARGIN Washington, May 23.?Suppose that by death, resignation or dis qualification there should be during j the present session of Congress a j shift in party control in the Senate, now held for the Republicans by the very slender margin of two votes? Would the Senate reorganize at once on such a change, ?r would it j wait until the next session? In other} words, do^s organization of the Sen-J ate at the beginning of a session fix J the organization for the remainder of that session, or is it lasting only so long as the actual party majority is at hand to support it? The answer is that a change in party control, if only by one vote, would be followed promptly by reorganization, even if the change were to occur only a week after the first organization had taken place. 1 What Death Might Do. There are now forty-nine Republi- I cans and forty-seven Democrats in the Senate. If one Republican Sena* ' tor1 from a State which has a Demo- 1 cratic Governor should be claimed by 1 death, the Governor would appoint 1 a Democrat to fill the vacancy pending an election. This would reduce 1 the Republican roll-call to forty-j1 eight and would-increase the Demo-J cratic roll-call to forty-eight, bringing about a tie, which the Democra-j' tie vote or Vice rrqsiaent marsnaii would break in favor of the adminis , \ 'f tration. c * . . Not only is it true that there are several States which have "Democratic Governors and Republican , Sen^-j tors, but it is to be remembered that j for the past five years the mortality j rate has been heavily against thet Democrats in the Senate as compared j with the Republicans. This was an; important underlying cause of thej loss of the Senate by the Democrats j in the election of last. November. Aaj & rule, a veteran Senator it harder' to defeat than a new candidate forj senatorial honors. All politicians appreciate this fact. * When the mortality pendulum starts to swing back to the Republi:an side, as, Of course, it eventually will, the situation in the Senate prill be a nerve-racking one for Republicans if the margin of control i? only one or two votes. R. D. PURDY DIES SUDDENLY FRIDAY , I Robert D. Purdy, 69 years old, . died suddenly of heart failure Friday ; night at his home on Church street. . He had been in apparently good , health until a few minutes before his ; death. When he became ill Dr. 6, ( A. Neuffer was called in. Mr. Purdy j lived only a few moments''after the' physician arrived. , Mr. Purdy was born and reared jnj the Cedar Springs neighborhood. He j joined the Cedar Springs church! when a young man and was a con-j sistent member of the A. R. P.j church until his death. Besides his wife, he is survived by four children: Mrs. J. M. Anderson, of Greenville; Thomas Purdy, of Abbeville; R. F. Purdy, of Fort Worth, Texas; and E. L. Purdy, of Union, S. C. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Cedar Springs church and interment was made in the Cedar Springs cemetery.- The Rev. M. R. Plaxco, pastor of the deceased, officiated. TO. ASSIST TAX-PAYERS. The United States Revenue Collector will |e in Abbeville Jurie 9-1011 'to assist all corporations in the preparation of returns. A limited time has been allowed to cover the territory and those who need assistance are urged to come early. The Revenue Collector will be in the following places on the dates given ^ kauhenB, May 26-27-28; Newberry, May 29-30-31; Greenwood, June 2, 3, 4, 12,-13, 14; McCormick, June 5, 6, 7. # \ FEEDING COTTON SEED TO HORSES AND HOG A reader has cotton seed whic he sayS he cannot sell. He asks if 1: "can use them to advantage t grinding them with corn and feedin to horses and hogs. What proportic of corn and cotton seed, and amoui to feed to 1,1000-pound horses < mule? Tried some and horse ate all right." Cotton seed have quite a hig feeding value, and in small quantil will be fully equal, pound for poum to corn. If too large a proportion < cotton seed is fed it is apt to caus too loose a condition of the bowe or scouring. Some horses and mul< are also likely to refuse to ,eat crusl a/^ coarl of flrof Knf a am a I* It VVVWVU 0VVU UlOV) UUV M OiUM allowance will be eaten by moi animals when crushed with corn. But corn and cotton seed will n< make a well balanced ration fc horses and mules unless fed with 1< grume hay. Whilp cottyi seed contai more protein and are better balan< ed than corn, except for the exce! of oil, they do not contain enoug protein to balance the large per cer of carbohydrates in corn. If three parts of corn to one pai of cotton seed, by weight, be mixe Bind ground, and from 1 ponud to 1-4 pounds be given daily for ever 100 pounds of the horse's or mule weight, the .mixture will prove a sai isfactory ration along with any 1< e:ume hay. If grass hay is used, the about one part of cottonseed met should be added to 12 parts,of th above mixture, by weight: In other words, our inquirer ca substitute three or four pounds c lotton seed per day for an equt weight of corn. If corn is wort ?1.68 a bushel, or 3 cents a pounc this will give a value of $60 a to for the cotton seed he can use in thi way. * ' ? . Por fppHinc hnom lift mnv Hp to feed corn and cotton seed in equi parts, by weight, if the hogs, are o legume pasture or have tankage c jome other protein feed to balanc the ration. But this is rather a larg proportion of cotton seed, and pro! ibly two parts of cofn to one of col ton-seed would be better. Moreove: there will be some danger in fee( ing the cotton seed to hogs for period of more than four or ft? areeks. But if after feeding the col ton seed for throe or four weeki they can at the end of this period c rest be safely returned to the cotfo seed mixture for another period c four or five weeks and' this alternai ing of the rations continued as Ion as desired.. More cotton seed ean b safely fed to hogs and for a greatc length of time Jf the cotten seed ai cooked than when fed raw, but it doubtful if this gain wity pay for th trouble - and cost of cooking.?Pr< gressive Farmer.,: . ' v ' i ' ' ' : DR. B. F. BROWN DEAD. / V Anderson, May 23.?Dr. B. ] Brown, of Williamston, died - th morning at his home. Dr. Brown ha been in failing health for man months. Dr. Brown was the fir male white child to be, born in ti town of Anderson and was born Fel ruary 4, 1883. Dr. Brown enlist* in the Confederate army in the Wi Between the States, and was first a sistant surgeon and then made fv surgeon with the rank of major, which capacity he served throughoi the war. The wife, of Dr. Brown was Mi Sarah Wideman of Abbeville, ar she preceded him to the grave* only few months. On Christmas eve 1905 they celebrated their gold* wedding. 1 < Dr. Brown is suryived by eig children, Mrs. James P. Gassett 1 Williamston, Mrs. G. Heyward M hon apd James Brown of Greenvill Ben F. Brown, Jr., of- New Yoi Daniel Brown of Anderson, ai Misses Mattie, Gertrude and Maui Brown of Williamston. The funer will be held at the home at 3 o'clo> "Saturday, and the interment will 1 in the Williamston Cemetery. / I ABBEVILLE COUNfY WILL S S, * NOT GET ROAD TRUCK J. Roy Pennell, State highway engineer, was advised from Washing- * ?y ton yesterday afternoon tfhat the first k l?: allotment of trucks to be used in * n building federal aided permanent * ** highways in South Carolina were * )r ready for shipment. In this initial ^ i* lot there are 79 trucks of the follow- * ing capacity and make: Two two-ton | 8 ft Internationals and 11 three-ton;t ? ;y Gramm-Bernsteins, Atlanta; 14 three . ton Aviation, Baltimore, and 52 two 1 ton Nash quadruple drive, Indianapo- ^ je lis. Immediately upon receipt of the . j telegram, Captain Pennell made the ] distribution among the counties, j1 where federal aid is being met for, ^ permanent highways, and instructed S*1 the department of agriculture where \ ^ I 1 ' 0 j to' have the trucks shipped at once. The trucks should be delivered im,r mediately. The highway department s" has received t assurance that 296 n trucks to help in highway construc- z c"j tion in this State' are to be made,t 531 available as soon as possible. Nine' _ v I i T " counties do not receive any of the j present shipment of trucks, as some . I t of these counties have made no pro n vision to meet federal aid. Several v !<* others are not yet ready for the ? 1 s x trucks. The counties not included in ^ y the first allotment are: "Abbeville, ? '? ; P Anderson, Barnwell, Berkeley, Clar- ^ ^ endon, Darlington, Dorchester, Jas- ^ per and Marlboro. n More than $45,000,000 worth of ^ motor trucks are about to be distri- | e buted by hte Secretary of Agricul- ^ i ture through the Bureau of Public j, n Roads to the State highway depart- j, ments. These trucks have been de- p ^ clkred surplus by the War Depart- ^ ^ ment and are being distributed to the States under the provisions of n section 7 of the Post Office appropri- ? 18 ation bill. They must be used by the States on roads constructed in whole ? or in part by eFderal aid. for which 1 $200,000,000 in addition to the for-j * n mer appropriation was giiren to thej * >r State* apder the saine bill. All that! ? 6 the States most do to acquire thejc 6 use of these 20,000 tracks, which!8 ? range in capacity from 2 to 5 tons, is f to pay'the loading and freight chbrg- u r. _ e A es. J .Of the 20,000 motor vehicles to be ^ acquired practically free 'by the ^ States, 11,000 are new and 9,000 are * used, but all are declared to be in 8 serviceable t condition. The motors ^ will be apportioned-to States only ^ upon request of the State highway p . departments on the basis of the re- f ^ quests received from the respective ^ ie States, and in accordance with the ^ ,r apportionment provided in the Fed- | eral aid law approved in 1916- The ' is requirements of the law are such ie that the Bureau of I^blic Roads can ^ j_ not" distribute any . trucks ..to counties or individuals. , nt jK FIRE ENGINE ARRIVES. * v r r. | The Seagrave fire engine has ar- j is rived and the special representative B id of the Seagrave company, Columbus, j iy O., is in Abbeville today testing the a st engine out. After it has been ac- c ie cepted by the fire insurance under- j b- writers it will be formally taken over ? sd by the city ann age fire situation and is a vast improvement over the antiquated apht paratus which it displaces. 1 of j a_ ^fflSS HOWIE HOME. i le, Miss Ruth Howie is at home from jd Brenau, where she has completed a ' ie successful year, especially in music, al Later she will retairn for the summer ck school at Brenau, during which time be she will Have charge of the organ in the First Methodist church. ITRIKING RANGE IS DISCLOSED IN RETAIL FERTILIZER PRICE! The striking disclosure is made ii igures gathered by the Unite States Department' of Agricultur hat retail prices of fertilizer matei als paid by farmers at the presen ime very considerably as betwee States and regions and widely as be ween counties in the same States. I ome instances the variation is mor han 100 per cent. For insl^nce, armer in one county in Tennesse s paying $81 a ton and in anothe ounty $150 a ton for nitrate of sc la, and in Georgia a farmer is paj ng $17.50 in one county and $49.7 n another for acid phosphate. The department has made inquir hrough the county agricultural a rents, who work under the directio f the department and the Stat igricultural colleges, .of the rpta irice asked by dealers for the princi ial fertilizer constituents as of Ma; , 1919, in the States where fertili ers are used to a considerable ex ent. The data has not yet all beei eceived and the inquiry is bein] usnea, out tne results so xar od ained show such wide discrepancie n the price for fertilizer materia rithin the States, and, in many in tances, such an unreasonable spreai etween the wholesale and retai rices that the department feels jus ified in making a preliminary repor or the information of the farmers. The wholesale quotation . on ni rate of soda in NeW York City wa 88.50 per ton from December ,9 918, to February 24, 1919. Oi larch 3 it was $84 per ton and oi larch 10 it was quoted at $81.5( er ton, which price has prevhiled u] 9 and including April 28. REPUBLICANS ORGANIZE SENATE COMMITTER Washington, May 23.?Framing o: enate Republican committee slate ras reported completed today by thi Republican conference committee oi ommittees. The prograto,. it wa tated on reliable authorities pro osm Senator Penrose (Ponnsylvan 0? arid Warren of Wyoming, fo hairmanship of the finance and ap ropriations committees respectively espite opposition of the progressive The committee slates will be pre tinted at a conference of Republic*] enators to be held next Monday be ore convening .of the senate. 'Th rogressives at that time are expect d to take final action in oppositioi o Senator Penrose and Warren ut it was reported tonight that th actional troubles would ' be settle* n the conference and probably no each the senate'floor. > The chairmanship assignment indergtood to have been agreed npoi y the committee on committees fol aw: . Foreign relations, Locjge, Massa husetts; finance, Penrose, Pennsy] anit; appropriations, Warren, Wye aing; military affairs, Wadsworti lew York; naval affairs, Page, Vei nont; judiciary, Nelson, Minnesota nterstate commerce, Cummins, low fironna. North Dakota ommerce, Jones, Washington; rulei Cnox, Pennsylvania; public landi >moot, Utah; privileges and election Dillinghfim, Wisconsin; educatio ind labor, Kenyon, Iowa; minei 'oindexter, Washington; immi^ri ion, Colt, Rhode Island; Indian ai 'airs, Curtis, Kan; irrigation and r< :lamation, McNary, Oregon; Philij lines, Harding, Ohio; printing, Moi >s, New Hampshire; library, Brand* ?ee, Connecticut. MR. PRATT PREACHES. Rev. H. Waddell Pratt preachf the baccalaureate sermon to tt graduating class of The Womai College Sunday morning at the Fir Presbyterian church in Columbia. " AT THE BASE HOSPITAL. W. P. Kennedy went up to Gree: ville Friday and went to the Ba Hospital at Camp Sevier, where 1 will undergo a slight operation. f - DARING AVIATORS i RESCUED AT SEA Found Monday 800 Miles Off Irish ^ Coast?Picked Up By Danish n Steamer?Machine is Lost? ' Hawker and Grieve Will n Reach London Tuesday. e a London, May 25.?Missing for six r days and virtually given up for lost, fearry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieut. Comndr. Mackenzie Grieve, Tm q British airman, who essayed a flight ^across the Atlantic- Ocoan without protection against disaster save what y their frail airplane afforded, are safe n tonight aboard a British warship off the Orkneys. Tomorrow tley will reach the mainland and procecd to , London, where they will be acclaimed as men returned to.life. y Some 1,}00 miles out from New' foundland and 800 from the Irish coast on Monday, May \19, the avia, tors making the best of an engine ^ xuaa failinor to ... wvr milVblVU U1 WpW H \ ' ' ? ly, were forced to alight on the wa> ^ ter. y The little Danish steamer Mary, bound from New Orleans and Nor^ folk for Aarhuusu, Denmark, picked 1 the wayfarers up and continued om her northward voyage. ^ Lacking a wireless outfit, the ceptjain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good things of the rescue until he was opposite Butut of Lewis, where the information was ' signalled by metonS of flags that Hawker and Grieve were aboard his j ship. Quickly word was flashed to th? ) \British admiralty, which sent out destroyers to overtake ttite Danish ves- ' sel and obtain confirmation. This was done and one of the destroyers took > 5 the airmen off and later transferred them to the flagship Revenge. f Frem this safe haven Hawker sent b a message tonight that his machine 5, had stopped; owing to the blocking 1 pf the water circulation system. b| When the airplane sped ?way fro* - her starting point, Hawker let loo?a - his wheels and undergearing, thereby r lightening the weight of the machine - by a . considerable amount bu t making a possible landing on the soiV?f i ?_-! 1 * - * 0^ ireiana a more nazaraous vendue, -j This however, probably proved of 1 much advantage when it bee am* - necessary to alight on the surface of 8 the water. The airplane remained i- Vfloat with apt difficulty daring the 1 hoar and a half it took the Danish I if J steamer to come up and effect a res?! cue. 3 All England is stirred by the news tj of the safety of the two stoat heart^ ( ed aviators, but owing to the difflcul8; ties of communication , some time n tnust pass before the full details of L- one of the most remarkable -voyages fever undertaken are known. l*j. The one person in England Who I- V-J .1 L_1 J tln? ' ji/iau aiYVttya ueiu nuyc r>aa juls. lAmrr'"|ker. She always maintained that Providence would protect her maa v ?nd though she received condolences > ?rom all classes of people, including a the king, she..said today that she had never ceased to believe that some J? time and in some way her husband Hwould come back. .s! n CENTENARY CAMPAIGN J' CLOSES HERE WITH j QUOTA OVER-SUBSCRIBED I * 1 ft. | 1 ,_| The Centenary campaign has clos1 ? *1* ?- ?j i.i.? ' ed in ADDevnie ana me juctuuuu? s.j church here reports that $18,542 ! have been subscribed to the fund. This is more than $6,000 above the quota. The Cokesbury District has sub!(] scribed $195,000 and it is expected ie that this will reach $200,000", which 1S far exceeds the quota. Reports from st all the churches in the district show that in practically every instance th* quota assigned was oversubscribed. In Abbeville the over-subscriptio* was 50 percent. n- - . se Wm. P.. Greene was a business vishe itor in Atlanta Saturday, Teturning to Abbeville Sunday morning.