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V . " - \ ' v-sa * / ... . fM Abbeville Press and Banner ] ^ ^ ^ .j.j j i _ _ 4vj Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, February 16, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Yearl SENSATION SPRUNG \ I Blf SEC. OF STATE ; ' ' . T Secretary of State Robert Lansing rA(t?r Run in W11h Y""" V""""V* * " " I 0 Wilson?Practically asked to . Resign?Wilson Charges Ur- I surpation of Executive j-. Powers. |_ ? Washington, Feb. 13.?Robert Lan-j 1 CJ sing ended his career as secretary of state today after President Wilson j !ai had charged him with usurping the, . | CJ powers of president by calling meet-jg(. ing of the cabinet during Mr. Wil-J son's illness. / i Mr. Lansing denied that be had ^ sought or intended to usurp the presi-!cj dential authority. He added, how-jp^ ever, that he believed then and still, 'iV ? believes that the cabinet conferences ? fc were "of the best interests of the re- g public;" that they were "proper and ' . necessary" because of the president's ^ condition and that he would have ^ been derelict in his duty if he had failed to act as he did. Y\ ' fi As the record stands Mr. Lansing ^ tendered his resignation and Mr. Wil-, son accepted it. The resignation was se offered, however, only after the presi- ^ dent, under date of February 7, had written asking if it were true that Mr ^ Lansing had called cabinet meetings ' N1 and stating that if such were the case he felt it necessary to say that . "under our constitutional law and practice, as developed hitherto, no . ; one but the president has the right to >.v.? ^ summ *n Me heads of the executive w ?? departments into conference." i Mr. Lansing answered two days j? later?last Monday?saying he had w called the cabinet conference because . ai ho anH r?+Viorc n-f t.hp nriosiflpnt.'s - 1 ^ , 3] al family "felt that, in view of the fact that we were .denied communication with you, it was wise for us w r to confer informally together on mat- ^ ters as to which action could not be postponed until your medical advisers ~ - permitted you io pass upon them." j o: Ready to Resign. ! o' The secretary concluded by saying w that if the president believed that he ? had failed in his "loyalty to him and if Mr. Wilson no longer had confi- 5 dence in him he was ready to "re-,ti ['- lieve you of any embarrassment by si . . * i placing my resignation in your .tl hands." The president replied last Wednes-, q day that he was "much disappointed" pj by Mr. Lansing's letter regarding d "the socalled cabinet meetings." He in said he found nothing in the secre-1 b tary'3 letter "which justified your as-1 Is sumption of presidential authority in such a matter," and added that hejtl must iranKiy xane advantage 01 your j si /V,'' r kind suggestion to resign." | g "I must say," continued the b president, "that it wiuld relieve mej ' of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the n ; embarrassment of feeling your reluc- v tance and divurgence of judgment, v if you would give up your present of- o fice and afford me an apportunity to j a select some one else whose mind|e ' would more willingly go abng with. iv -.: mine." j t Before this letter was written, the, I day for the regular cabinet meeting,' ri 7 last Tuesday?had passed and the; f ifl jL correspondence discloses why thee V. , cabinet did not meet. On the same r HfiV f Vl SJ t Kd fVlie loftap 1 f """ ? ~ v"~ V the president, Mr. Lansing announced li -i that he had written other cabinet \ f-t,.' officers that he would not call any ifl more cabinet conferences for the f ^A present, but no explanation was of- s fered. Inquiry at the White-House \ brought only the statement that Mr. c Wilson himself probably would call r I and preside at the next session of his A b official advisers. t But the difference between the ' president and secretai'v lone predated t the first cabinet call by Mr. Lansing, e which was issued last October, seven t days after Mr. Wilson returned from r his Western speaking tour and took i to his bed. They began at the peace t conference in Paris as Mr. Lansing r disclosed in his final ietter to the w president, under date of yesterday, a and had continued since iha; time? p I ' k;. . n ft. -i . k .. TENNESSEE WAR D LOSSES HEAVIEST OF NINE STATZ3 Washington, Feb. 13.?Tennessee, uffered heaviest of the nine sou-|w hern states east of the Mississippi jap iver, in casualties among her of- 'wl icers and men who were members Ti f the American Expeditionary Bi 'orces during the world war, Vir- ar inia's losses were second. North at arolina's third, and Alabama's and eorgia's fourth and firth respec- en vely. A statistical summary of all fn isualties prepared in the office of le adjutant general ui me auuj co nd just announced shows the total br isualties of these and four other w? mthern states to have been 37,266, icluding officers and men, out of W gran dtotal of 302,612 for the en- thj re country. These casualties in- ed ude losses from every cause which th< jt the men out of action. th; The total casualties for each state J >llow: Tennessee, 6,190; Virginia, 130; North Carolina, 5,799; Ala- ths ima, 5,160; Georgia, 4,425; South sti arolina 3,919; Mississippi, 2,303; gi\ ouisiana, 2,169 and Florida, 1,171. |G. North Carolina's losses from of-jC03 cers and men killed in action were iaviest, numbering 684; Tennese's losses from that cause wer?jap cond, totalling 680 and Virginia's, tird, aggregating 664. In deaths j'y om wounds Virginia was mirst with ^ >1. Tennessee second, with 250 and I orth Carolina third, witr 238. Hi wa | the Sick With Flu in New York. , I by jcoi Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran has been sickiho: ith flu in New York for the past sev-j ral days. Mr. Cochran received a raj stter from Mrs. Cochran today in't0? hich she said she was much better;fei nd would be able to return soon.'bn [rs. Cochran went to New York :6v bout two weeks ago to buy spring ju< nd summer goods. Her friends here! ill be glad to learn that her ccndi-' ? all on is so favorable. ? tai ne of the chief differences being asf ver the government's attitude to-jto ards Mexico. I Meeting in October. When the cabinet met on October > Joseph P. Tumulty, private secre- sa. lry to the president, issued a formal ^h iatement explaining the reasons for fie conference. He said: an i pj-r "The cabinet was called to consider| uestions in which more than one deirtment was concerned and also to' iscuss the industrial conference. He ws eferred to the first conference called Fe y the president with the hope of al-!th( tying the industrial unrest." I to In his statement, Mr. Tumulty said J an hat Kear Admiral urayson, Mr. wil- un on's physician, was present and 'sug-l ested that only urgent matters be iss rought to' the president's attention. jM< Thereafter until this week, the cabiet met more or less regularly. Dur- su ng the coal strike it met twice a *n reek in an effort to avert the walk t"1 ut of the miners and several weeks or go it was decided to have meetings to very Tuesday and Friday. During the coal wage controversy Pr he president was said at the White louse to have been advised of the neetings and to have been kept inormed as to the progress his advls- pr rs were making towards a settlen.ent of the controversy. He finally|S0 ook the matter out of the cabinet's re lands and suggested a settlement vbich the miners accepted. : _ The correspondence between the 11 (resident and Mr. Lansing which reulted in Mr. Lansing's resignation vas made public tonight at the state lepartment an hour after Under Secetary Polk had conferred at the tu Vhite House with Secretary Tumult- wl y. an Mr. Lansing, in his final letter to th he president, said that "in thus sev- bo tring our official association" he felt sc, hat Vip should make nnhlic a state- th nent he had prepared recently show- th ng that he had "not been unmindful m< hat the continuance of our present elations was impossible" and that it so ras his high duty to bring them to - o n enc^'at the earliest moment co.:i- ot atible with the public interest." la ENIAL OF GENERAL WAGE INCREASE IS BELIEF IN CAPITA1 Washington, Feb. 13.?"Presiden ilson g^ve no indicatoins, as far a >pearance was concerned, of a ma; ho has been ill for months," sail mothey Shea, president of th rotherhood of Locomotive Firemei id Engineers, after the conference the White House. "His gestures were decided, hi unciation absolutely clear, and hi equently smiled." Mr. Wilson shook hands with th< mmitteemen ibefore and after th< ief conference. They said his gri] is firm. Mr. Shea, who conferred with Mr ilson when the strike of 1917 wai reatened , said the president look much the same today as he die *n. His face is full, his color heal y and his eyes clear, said Mr. Shea Washington, Feb. 13.?Indications it there would be no independenl ike of railroad trainmen wer< ren late today when President W Lee announced after a lengthj nversation with Director Genera! nes, that his organization "was und by the White House decision" plicable to all the railroad unions, e trainmen had acted independentin cancelling their wage contract Active February 25. Mr. Lee said he had given Mr, nes the trainmen's reply in the ge negotiations and would not see > director general again. There will a meeting later of the trainmen's rmnittee, after which they will gc me. * An "unalterable" decision in the lorad wage controversy was made lay by President Wilson in con ence with representatives of the >therhoods. The president said the ?ernment's policy "was based or stice to all interests." The president's decision was not nounced at the White House. Ofials said it was "a decision conning a proposal." From this it was jumed the president had refused grant general wage increases, bul d made a counter-proposition tc i men. The brotherhood men would nol y what the proposal was, Timothj ea, acting president of the Brothlood of Firmen and Enginemen nouncing that they would make nc itement today. To "Put It Up to Men" B. M. Jewell, president of the railly department of the Americar daration of Labor, announced tha s president's proposal would hav< be "put up to the men" before an', nouncement could be made by thi ion representatives. The White House was expected U :ue a statement later in the day janwhile there was no intimatioi lether the president had offered < bstitute for an increase in wage: the nature of a continuation o: e fight on the high cost of livinj whether he has asked the ".vor'rrr delay pressing their demands lithe railroads were returned to '-h: ivate owners March 1. Besides Mr. Jewell and Mr. Shea J. Manion, president of the Or r of Railway Telegraphers, wa; esent at the conference. The pres snt met the representatives on th< uth portico of the White House anc ad a statement which he had pre red after a study of the report 01 e wage negotiations presented t< m by Director General Hines. Return from New York. W. D. Wilson and W. H. White re med Sunday from New York lere they have been buying sprinj id summer goods. Mr. Wilson spi' is morning that New York was if" und and "dry"; that goods wer< arce and advancing every day, bu at he managed to secure every in^ he wanted except an abate ent of the weather conditions. Mr.-. Wilson and Miss Marv Law n Link, who accompanied Mr. Wil p. to New York, will remain an 'tier week in order to "take in" th< test shows on Broadway. / ... BROTHERHOOD REPLY 1* AND WILSON'S PLAN L ARE BOTH ANNOUNCED I t Washintgon, Feb. 14.?Following s delivery of the reply of the brother- ^ n hood chiefs to President Wilson, the ^ d labor conference telegraphed immeSI e diately to A. E. Barker, president of n the maintenance of way employes and e shop men, and advised him to call off M the strike. o s I . ' It is understood Mr. Barker was j. e informed the proposed strike would gravely embarrass the position of g n the other railroad organizations. 5 I ^ j Washington, Feb. 14.?The rail- ^ road employes' representatives have ]? agreed to accept the recommesda- H 3 tion of President Wilson to hold A _ their wage demands in abeyance tern-' 1 porarily, it was announced today. jw President Wilson informed the D . men of his intention to appoint a t! commission of wage experts to go s thoroughly into their claims. On,ie t this basis, the union leaders agreed w > to delay further demands for in. creased wages and called a conven-1 r tion of their general committeemen 1 to be held in Washington Febru-j s ary 23. , j P ' The union leaders' reply to the a President's proposal to handle the ^ controversy in this manner did not; s' ' end the question finally. They made : r( it* clear that they desired word from I O officials who are in closer touch with ! their membership than they, the ^ ! delegates who have been conferring ' with Director General Hines since Ci ! February 3. ? i . I 1.1 ' As one part of his reply the president requested the maintenance of ^ - V ' t s way^ men to withdraw their strike " t ordjpr. p ' iu The presid&nty set forth these ^ principles, as'wvenng me manner ! j in which the grievances of the union w 11 could be dealth with: j ^ Wilton's Plan. I "In event that in connection with " j the return to private control , provision shall be made :by law for maj * I ^ chinery for , dealing with railroad fi wage matters. I shall promptly use S< my influence, and so far as such S< * law confers power upon me I shall m promptly exercise that power to w ' bring about the earliest practicable A r organization bf the machinery thus provided. tc ) "In the even that no such provision is made by law for dealing with these matters, I shall employ the influence of the executive to get the railroad companies and the raili n read employes to join promptly in ^ the creation of a tribunal to take up; . ' these problems and carry them to ^ a conclusion." !.. ! The union answer to bhis proposal , j was a reiteration of their previous j statement demanding immediate re1 j lief. They urged that the president! t j not require them to await the crea- ^ I tion of a tribunal by legislation.1 ? f j They warned that they did not ibe- q r j lieve the railroad employes would be ^ j willing to accept any plan which1 s contemplated delay. ' j i h Parent-Teacher Meeting Postponed. - ' The regular monthly meeting of s the Parent-Teacher association due - to be held Tuesday afternoon in the u - high school building, has been postI i poned until next Tuesday afternoon, ^ -1 February 24, at four o'clock, on ac- 0 II count of the schools having been ^ >| closed for the past ten days. . r [ Small Fire Sunday. i ? : r! The fire department answered a j "I fire call at the home of W. S. Coth ?| ran Sunday, a small outbuilding: be' j inpr ablaze. Ihe fire was put out, ' though the building was practically destroyed before the engine arrived. .. ?I' j? t! ib Schools Open. ; \\ .? . jp j The Abl)eville high, graded and tl .. Mill schools opened Monday after be- :: . ign closed for ten days on account IV ., of the flu. Most of the teachers and b ? about 70 percent, of ^he pupils were i.1 in attendance. . . t JEW SUPERINTENDENT ^OR WATER AND ELECTRIC PLANT HAS BEEN SECURED C. P. Townsend, Jr., Atlanta, has een secured by the Board of Public Vorks as superintendent of the Abeville Water and Electric Plant to ucceed C. E. Hix, resigned. Mr. 'ownsend will come to Abbeville J.1 1_ OA J 1 <1 a nun me nexi au aays ana taKe harge. Mr. Hix will leave for Conord, N. C., sometime in the next wo weeks. Mr. Townsend comes highly recomlended. He is at present connected dth the Western Electric people rith headquarters in Atlanta. In the ist year he has installed several ghting and water plants in Georgia, Jabama and Florida. Dnring the war he was an officer ith the Engineers of the Rainbow ivision and saw active service at le front. He is a garduate of Clemson ' Colige and has taken bost-graduate ork in New York City. COL. COTHRAN IMPROVES. Col. W. S. Cothran is slowly imroving from his recent indisposition nd hopes to be up town with the oys in a few days. While he is :ck Col. Patsy Roche is keeping him sfreshed with all the gossip about ie town. The "kinging" of Dick ondley will not take place until olonel Cothran is able to attend as e wishes to be present to carry a indie. The Colonel was not pleased with ie directions of his new doctor in endersomniie. The doctor lorbade im to do any work or even to walk p a flight of steps for six months. '.e does not mind staying downstairs a tells us, but this thing of not orking don't suit a busy man like im. Anyway we hope to see him on le Square at an early date. EDWIN SCHOEN News was -received here Saturday om Atlanta of the death of Edwin :hoen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. choen, formerly of Abbeville, pneuonia being the cause. Mrs. Schcen as formerly a Miss Cr.lhoun, el bbeville, and has many relatives jre. Mr. Lewis Perrin left Monday > attend the funeral, which was ?ld Monday afternoon in Atlanta. Moving In. t Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Williamson loved in Monday to their hom^ on rreenville street recently purchased rom Mr. J. D. Kerr. Mr. and Mrs. [err have taken rooms with Mr. Wiliamson and are comfortable upstairs. Birds Get a Rest. Mr. W. D. Tusten, of New York, Ir. Campbell Miller, and Mr. G. B. Greene came in Saturday night from Jol. W. D. Morrah's where they have een enjoying a bird hunt, and pent the night with Col. W. W. iradlev. who was also amone the unters. A. R. P.'s Worship. There were church services only ,'ith the A. R. P.'s Sunday, despite he fact that the flu quarantine had een lifted. Sickness in the families f pastors was the chief cause. The [ev. Louis J. Bristow, pastor of the aptist church is just recovering . om flu and several members of the imily of the Rev. C. E. Peele, pas:>r of the Methodist church, are just ecovertng from the same ailment, he Presbyterians have no pastor. Combination of Thirteen*. Trying to sell a horse thirteen oars old on Friday the 13th, is a bad usiness judgment says R. L. Mabry, ho put an advertisement in the ress and Banner Friday to the effect nat he had such an animal of said re for sale. There was no sale and Ir. Mabry is considerate enough to lame the day and not the paper for ie failure of buyers to respond. WILSON TAKES 1 HAND IN ADRIATIC I I ' i i ... ~?~~~ Criticizm of Lloyd George's Plan? ! America Will Withdraw If | | Not Consulted?Disapproves of Tenor of Plan?Reply has Been Drafted To President's Note. I Paris, Feb. 15.??Hiigh C. Wallace, ,the American ambassador, yesterday delivered to the foreign office a memorandum from President Wilson .according to the Temps, in which the President said he could not approve of Premier Lloyd George's proposed settlement of the Adriatic question which has been submitted to the Jugo I Slavs. The newspaper says that an identical memorandum was delivered (to the British foreign office in Lon:don. ' i ^ ! The Temps says President Wilson | allowed it to be understood that the ! United States would find it impossible to continue in conference if the allies settle the Adriatic ques| tion without consulting the United States. The premiers have drafted a reply to President Wilson's note on the Adriatic question, which will be transmitted through the American ambassadors at London and Paris, according to a member of Premier Millerand's staff, who arrived in Paris tonight. The contents of the reply will not be made public until after it is received by the President of the United States. However, another delay 'K in the Adriatic settlement as a conJ "X sequence of the incident is foreseen TT1 _ 1 * ' * in rrencn uniciai circles. Disapproves of Tenor , In his memorandum President Wilson criticizes Premier Lloyd George's plan as communicated to the Jugo Slavs by the supreme coun-' cin on January 20. The President examined the plan, but declares he cannot approve of its tenor. He particularly opposes the idea which | consists of giving the Jugo-Slavs the choice between this plan and execution pure and simple of the London pact. i In addition, according to the Temps ,the President finds the Lloyd George plan too divergent from the memorandum drawn up at London | last December by Premiers Lloyd* George and Clemenceau, with the collaboration of the American representative. i The memorandum was immediately examined by the chiefs of the allied governments before the French I premier left London for Paris this i morning. I GOVERNOR PAYS FIVE. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 14.?Governor Dorsey paid a fine of $5.75 for speedI / * ing today when the automobile in 1 which he was enroute to Newnan to make an address exceeded the 15i milc-an-ihour speed limit of Hapsville, ;Ga. The special policemen recently put ! or. to break up speeding through Hapsville apparently did not recognize the governor who, however, went tc the mayor of the town, and after anolocizin? insisted on Duttine' un the money for the .fine before leaving. Claude A. West, the governor's executive secretary, was driving the automobile. Miss Bessie Lee Prince, Anderson, and Miss Marion Prince, Greenwood, were visitors in Abbeville Saturday and Sunday. v COTTON MARKET. \i \ * s V February 16. Vl V Spot Cotton 39.50 V \ V \ March 36.45 v May 34.15 V v July 31.92 V V October 29.7-" V December 29.2" K. \%>>>\>>\>>>>>>>