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DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLIrANS AGAIN JOIN IN HEATED DEBATE Bi'fc \ Washinton, Feb. 16.?Laying aside its legislative business, the senate by unanimous consent took up the treaty of Versailles again today and resumed in all its vigor the ratification debate interrupted last November. k' ' 0 0 m \ The opening gun in the new phase of the fight was fired by one of the treaty's irreconcilable foes, Senator McCormick, Republican, Illinois, reopening the discussion with a speech ' bitterly assailing many propositions of the document and counseling the 1'-? ?a+ +r? consent to Kepumicau icaucij "W further compromise. $'* He was followed by Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, a leader among the treaty's Republican friends, who flayed the heads of both parties for their failure to compromise, and declared that "child's piay obstinacy" alone stood in the way of ratification. , Drawn into the debate by the charges of the North Dakota senator, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the Democratic^ leader, asserted that the Democrats already had "abandoned" 1 their previous stand and had offered compromises, but that the Republicans were demanding nothing short of complete Democratic surrender. Once it got under way the debate speedily revived the whole scale of issues which the senate had debated from May to November of last year. The subject technically under consideration, a motion by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts to modify the Republican reservations on withdrawal, was not mentioned until late in the day when Mr. Lodge took the floor to explain his reasons for mov-Prx** onrpo illg XVI bllV Settlement Far Off. When the debate was reopened the private negotiations for a compromise apparently passed into the doldrums and some of the treaty's most active friends on both sides of the chamber predicted there probably would be no settlement until discussion on the floor had spent itself. The negotiations are expected to continue however, and some senators believe thov mnv vofr ihrinc an V"VJ ^ vv ^**"0 "O"" that will permit ratification. Reinstatement of the treaty as the foremost subject of senate consideration was accompished without a word of debate and without any more of the dramatic than might attend the introduction of a private pension bill. The only outward evidence of "he unusual was the crowded galleries, where empty seats had been in the majority for many weeks, but where scores stood in line all of today hopeful of a glimpse into the senate cnamDer. Acting under an agreement with Democratic leaders, Senator Lodge asked unanimous consent that ths t:eaty be taken up and then presented - first of the proposed reservation changes he made public last week. His amendment would make the withdrawal of reservation stipulate that notice of withdrawal from membership in the league of nations could bo given "by the president or by congress action alone whenever the majority of both houses may deem it nopoecnrv M The French chamber vr.i.:e ' '"ailway fare:- 4"> to 5.1 pev ct-. i.. lair.-ly frros. hf.-.vever. were reduced. Famii; wittl'rec children are jrlven a iv. i su?::.. cf i ... v,.;, ^ . ^ ?. ' -;pv ;*,>p D: -able' !:!it-r< rid- :.t hu'f "nr?. ? WO DAY! "THE Admission "BULL MARKET" PREDICTED BY J. S. WANNAMAKER ! Columbia, Feb. 16.?"The recent I ' attack on the cotton market represents the dying efforts of the 'shorts' +ViQ ovnnrfntinri of COttOn piCVCUb irltv vA^/vfcw.v.?.. - - | by the American Cotton Association to the idle European mills," said J. jSkottOwe Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association last night. 1 Mr. Wannamaker says that the 'American and English mills know that the starting of the European mills will mean the restoration of a parity between cotton and cotton goods. j Mr. Wannamaker's statement follows in full: i "The recent attack on the cotton market represents the dying efforts of the "Shorts" to prevent the exporting of cotton by the American Cotton Association to the idle European mills. , I "The American and jEnglish mills know the available supply of cotton is short and are determined to prevent the now idle millfe of Europe getting cotton. They know every bale shipped to those mills diminished their possible supply and further what is more to the point, they know that the starting of European mills will be the beginnig of the restoration on a parity between cotton and cotton goods. All this talk about the exchange rates or value of the pound sterling is pure unadulterated nonsense, so far as England's shipping cotton is concerned. England buys our cotton and either ships the goods here to settle for cotton or else she ships her manufactured goods to the silver countries where our dollar is below par and there buys our money or credit for 98 cents and less on the dollar. The only place to exchange situation hurts now is in those countries who have not yet begun to export manufactured goods. The world needs manufactured goods fully as bad as Europe needs raw cotton?and no force, however, arbitrary and powerful can long delay j he supplying of raw cotton to idle ! mills. The margin of profit is now jand will continue to be too great to force mills. Wherever they are located to remain idle English mills fear I the competition of , European mills 'and gladly aid in the suppression of i the value of their money so lcnrr as they are able to pay in manufactured goods here or where ever our money is below par. "We believe we arc on the verge | ^ ^ JOHN A. HOLLAND, The Greenwood Piano Man. : * * <^i ffmi. 'X.'l'J lar^CST Ul*;i .'(."I iii mu.in .1. incnts in \Vc3tern Sikit'i; "a r'"l!s pirmos. sclf-playev pianos, organs run] sowing nini'Iiiiii'". ITpfi ii-iic. . The Bank in" Given->"OOu. t5ip olilcs; n:i<] Wrongest B?.uk iu Grecuvcad Ccun.^ mnunnamiHU 5 Fri. and ' HEART ( Children of the greatest, "Bull Market" ever experienced. Spot cotton is firmly held. Spot cotton is not following the decline in futures. Neither the fall in the value of the pound sterling not the action of the Federal reserve banks to refuse to loan money on Liberty bonds will stampede the holders of cotton?we prefer to hold what we have for a fair price based on manufactured goods rather than raise another crop \ under present conditions and with the present labor situation. "The cotton producer is deter J mined for once not be smoked out like a rat. If allowed a man's chance we can hold the balance of our crop until we can realize what we think it is worth. If we are denied a man's chance to hold it and raise another crop we will let the 1920 crop go hand and hold what we have in hand. "This will be one of the chief subjects of discussion at the coming meeting in Montgomery. "There has not been a plow stuck in the ground as yet to prepare for the cotton crop. The development of the next 30 days, will determine largely future actions of the cotton growers. SENATE RECALLS PEACE TREATY, OUTLOOK HOPEFUL The Peace Treaty is again pending before the Senate. Yesterday Senator Lodge, pursu!ant to the notice to that effect given a few days ago, initiated measures which resulted in placing the treaty again before the Senate, and in tho same status as that which it occupied during the prolonged debate last November. In putting through this plan for ithe revival of the treaty sixty-three Democratic and Republican Senaators supported Mr. Lodge all but (nine?those known as the "irrecondilablos"?opposed him. The final move yesterday was to refer the treaty to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with ir.if Vvo/?lr of nr -a j Ol/JL UtliUUO l?U ICUVib 11/ wavx\ CAW VII W together with the Lodge reservv tions. This procedure will be carrk' I out promptly and the matter will I then be open for substitute reservations and full debate. Owing, howSever ,to the desire of Senators to disi ipose of the railroad bill and certain ' other important pending measures j first and thus clear the decks for (action, it is regarded as unlikely that |the treaty fight in the open Senate will occur before next week. CHEAPER SUGAR THE PROSPECT i Washintgon, Feb. 17.?Sugar's going down in price in March or April, j If the strike in Cuba doesn't interfere; j If the Forto Rico crop reaches exjpectations; And :f nothing elso happorr, rlisi uvb the sugar market. j President Wilson has decided not i o exercirc the authority conferred by the McNary sugar ret of Dec. 20 ' o far as purchasing the Cuban crop concerned. I i if the Sugar Board should appear iow in the Cuban market r. f i i hase of sugar, it would have to : v.y * ? Infc in Wlfh I tl IIIUX* J WO bV Will J/V %V ? . . w .. private buyer.; and the t^nrlcjicy would be to strengthen the market and further increase the price. Furthermore, it would have to buy at *i time when sugar prices are ni* ''v :' . i and thus risk a very considerable loss. The refiners' price in January vns 15.20 cents per pound wholesale, a ? ? 3aPFeb. 2( \ )F HUMA 15c considerable reduction. The offerings of refined sugar for February deliveries are at 13.50 cents per pound wholesale. Still further reductions are in sight for March. Of the Cuban crop of 4,800,000 tons, it is estimbated that the allied governments will take approximately 1,250,000 tons, leaving 2,550000 tons for the U. S. Last year the United States consumeu over 4,500,000 tons of sugar. The crops for Louisiana, the west, Porto Rica, and Hawaii will aggregate approximately 2,000,000 tons. Together this is 50,000 tons more than the United States used in 1919. In 1919 the United States need 600,000 tons more than in 1918. and 300,000 tons more than were ever used in the history of the country. Ot seems, therefore, that the supply is ample, and if normal conditions obtain', prices to the housewife should go lower in the spring and summer months. I Notice CITY REGISTRATION. The City Books of Registration ! are open for registration of qualified electors, and will remain open until April 6th, 1920, at the ocffie of the City Clerk. T. G. PERRIN, 2-13-20?2t. Registrar. TINS CSSLY ? ggP ." ^ AT YOUR GROCERS N H#!XWEUL house i jSAYS HOT WATER 1 WASHES POISONS FROM THE LIVER Everyone should drink hot water | with phosphate In it, before breakfast. To feel as fine as the proverbial fiddle, we must keep the liver washed ; clean, almost every morning, to pre i vent its sponge-like pores from clog ging with indigestible material, soui bile and poisonous toxins, says a note;! physician. If you get headaches, it's your liver If you catch cold easily, it's your liver. If you wake up with a bad taste, furred tongue, nasty breath or stomach bocomes rancid, it's your liver. Sallow skin, muddy complexion, watery eyci all denote liver uncleanliness. Your livjr is the most important, also the mu^t abused and neglected organ o; th'. body. Few know its function or ho~' to release the dammed-up boiy waste, bile and toxins. Most folks resort to violent calomel, which if- r dangerous, salivating chemical wliicli can- only be used occasioually heeau*-' it accumulates in the tissue 'lacks the bones. 3 very man and woman, si?;. <>: ..< 11, should drink each nioruiab 1 fore breakfast a glass of hot v.; '.villi a teaspoonful of limestone phr>o, phate in it, to wash from the liver a:iii bowels the previous day's iacligts.l'v. material, the poisons, sour bile avc' ?\ins; thus cleansing, sweetening 1 freshening the entire alimentary ...11 before pitting more food inic stomach. ..idiestone phosphate does not re lit the diet like calomel, because itj . n r*it salivate, for it is harmless an.l i cr.:i eat anything afterwards. 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