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_ \ r Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday, Jan. 7, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Yeai. - PENROSE ALTERS VIEW ON TARIFF SENATOR WILL SUPPORT FORDNEY BILL. OPPONENTS OF "EMERGENCY" MEASURE NOT DISMAYED BY CHANGE OF FRONT?MAY MODIFY TERMS Washington, Jan. 6.?Supporters of the Fordney emergency tariff were given encouragement today by the announcement of Chairman Penrose of the senate finance com mittee that he would use his influ ence to obtain passage of the bill. The Pennsylvania senator, in a for mal statement issued after his com-' mittee opened hearings on the meas ure, assured his Republican col leagues that he would join them in pushing the legislation through at this session but declared for modifi cation of the rates carried by the bill as it passed the house. _ ? Senate opponents of the Fordney bill, however, were not dishearten ed by the Penrose announcement. They were inclined to accept the public definition of his attitude as a political move, while Democratic senators, numbered among the op ponents asserted the statement was issued as a reply to Republican sen ators on the committee who had de I manded that Mr. Penrose say, in ef fect, whether he would stand wiih % , or against them. Democratic opponents of the bill pointed out that they with the aid of Senator Penrose^ had succeeded in getting open hearings and express ed confidence that the story cf "the other side" would carry sufficient weight to make passage difficult if possible at all. They added tha!; they hoped to annex so many amend ; ments to the present bill that the house would reject it in conference thereby defeating any tariff legisla tion until the extra session. While the senate committee was holding its initial hearings and while senators were attempting to arrest the effect of Senator Penrose's statement, the house ways and means committee heard more than 20 witnesses on revision of the pres ent Underwood tariff act. Tke house 7 # ) committee took ud schedule A and! the witness discussed from technical points questions of higher import duties on chemicals, paints and oils which are included under the first division of the Underwood law. Hearings before the house com mittee will continue indefinitely but but the senate plans to complete its work on the emergency tariff early next week. Conditions in the agricultural in dustry, described as deplorable and for which a remedy was declared to exist in the Fordne^ bill, were por trayed in testimony before the sen ate committee by F. J. Hagenbarth, president of the National Wool Growers' association; George M. Thurmond, secretary of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers' association, and W. F. Schilling, St. Paul, presi dent of the Twin City Milk Pro ducers' association. The last witness. Mr. Schilling. ~ askeif'tiiat a daty on butter and cheese be included m the- bill. - He proposed thsft'the committee fix a rate between six and ten cent a pound on cheese. MOVING TO ABBEVILLE Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wilson have moved to Abbeville and are com ? fortably settled in their home, the Dickson house yn Wardlaw street, which Mr. Wilson purchased from Mr. T. G. White some months ago. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are receiv ing a warm welcome, many pleasant social attentions being shown Mrs. Wilson by the ladies, while Mr. Wil son is taking the position of an au thority on Cotton Row and around the Court House. Wardlaw street is glad to have the Wilson's as neighbors and the city welcomes them as residents. CENSUS COMMITTEE AGREES ON 483 AS HOUSE MEMBERSHIP THIS IS AN INCREASE OF FOR TY-EIGHT OVER PRESENT MEMBERSH|IPf?^SOUTH CARO LINA WOULD GET ONE ADDI TIONAL?"NO SUPPORT FOR TINKHAM # Washington, Jan. 6.?The House committee agreed today to report to Congress the Siegel bill fixing the membership of the House to 483 an inore?5f? nf 48 over the present membership. It also recommended a constitutional amendment limiting the membership of future houses to 500. The basis for representation was fixed at one member for every 218,979 inhabitants. Under this bill the states would gain as follows: Alabama 1; Arkansas 1; Califor nia 5; Connecticut 1; Georgia 1; ! Illinois 3; Maryland 1; Massachu j setts 2; Michigan 4; Minnesota 1; I New Jersey 2; New Mexico 1; New York 4; North Carolina 2; Ohio 4; Oklahoma 1; Oregon 1; Pennsyl vania 4; South Carolina 1; Tennes see 1; Texas 3; Virginia 1; Wash ington 1; West Virginia 1 and Wis consin 1. Under the committee's bill the states would have representation as follows: Alabama 11; Arizona 1; Arkan sas 8; California 16; Colorado 4; Connecticut 6; ueiaware x; nonua 4; Georgia 13; Idaho 2; Illinois;30; Indiana 13; Iowa 11; Kansas 8; Kentucky 11; Louisiana 8; Maine! j 4; Maryland 7; Massachusetts 18; [Michigan 17; Minnesota 11; Mis sissippi 8; Missouri. 16; Montana 2; Nebraska 6; Nevada 1; New Hamp shire 2; New Jersey 14; New Mexi-i co 2; New York 47; North Caro lina 12; North Dakota 3; Ohio 26; Oklahoma 9; Oregon 4; Pennsyl vania 40; Rhode Island 3; South Carolina 8; South Dakota 3; Ten nessee 11; Texas 21; Utah 2; Ver mont 2; Virginia 11; Washington 6; West Virginia 7; Wisconsin 12; Wyoming 1. The bill provides that in case of any increase in the number of rep resentatives in any state such addi tional represetatives shall be elect ed at large until the state legisla tures pass redisricting laws. Some of the committee members said there was no support for the demand of Representatives Tink ham, republican, Massachusetts, that there be a reduction in the rep resentation of those states which # prevent from voting persons who fail to qualify on account of edu cational tests or poll tax payment requirements. Decisions of the sup reme court were read on this point j which were said to have satisfied | the committee memibers that the j states had the right to prescribe such suffrage qualifications. Mr. Tinkham had warned the committee [that if it failed to act he would i carry the matter to the courts. Representative Tinkham urged application. of the 14th amendment to those states in which alleged dis franchisement has taken place. He read what he said was a published report of a speech of Governor elect Hardwick of Georgia in which Mr. Hardwick was quoted as saying that he would recommend to the legislature laws governing the en franchisement of wohien, similar to those relating to the enfranchise ment of men. Representative Lar sen, democrat, Georgia, said his state would give justice to the ne gro as it had always done. SAVING MONEY Everybody who has one meal ahead - - - J-!-; lo auviblll^ LI1U UU1C1 Ifliuw tv tOIVC an "optimistic" view of the situation. One thing certain there will be mon ey in Abbeville next Christmas for both the County Savings Bank and the Planters Bank have an unusual number of Christmas Savings ac counts. This money is saved in small quantities and at the end of the year makes an attractive sum to be paid to the depositor. Both Banks are pleased with the number who have joined their clubs. THE COUNT'1 DEBT AI Settlement Sheet,in Sup County Owes Large A debtedness, Amounti ?County Spent Lai 000 According t Bridges Wo: On E The incoming Supervisor and Mrs. Evans, the clerk for Supervisor Ste venson, assisted by Mr. Cheves M. Sondley, the new clei'k have been checking the accounts of the county, in order to determine just how the county finances stand. From a statement prepared today it appears that the expenses of the county for the past year amount to $89,662.50. The taxes for the past year, in accordance with the law, were as signed to secure money with which to run on a cash basis. After ex hausting this money, there is a bal ance of unpaid bills against the county of $35,518.81. This balance, j however, includes about $12,000.001 which is due for steel bridges bought < something like a year ago, which onrl urVt i P V) Q VP - nave uccu itvti* tu u?iu ?? twv.. I now on hands, not haying been used, i It is presumed that most of the bills against the county have boen COMMISSIONS RECEIVED Sheriff Foster B. McLane and1 Supervisor L. W. Keller have re-J ceived their commissions, and are ready to assume the duties of the I office. Sheriff McLane is attending J to all the new business coming into j the office and as soon as Mr. Burts j can come down and turn matters over in the proper way, he wilj as sume complete charge of the office. Supervisor Keller and Mr. Stev enson have been working for sever al days on matters pertaining to this office, doing the necessary checking and other work, so that Mr. Keller could take immediate charge on receiving' his commission. He is now ready to take charge of the office. Mr. Keller states that he expects to give a good deal of personal at-j tention to the matter of working the | roads. He has appointed W. E. Kills of Lowndesville, and D. E. Newell, Jr., of Abbeville as Captains of the, chain gang forces, and they have as sumed charge. The chain gang for ces will be divded into two squads. One of these squads, the last few days has been busy making a gen eral cleaning up at the court house which has added to the appearance of things, as well as to the comfort of those who have business there. BACK IN ABBEVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Kay have returned to Abbeville after spending the past year in Elberton, and will make their home with us in the fu ture. Mr. Kay will be connected with Mr. Verchott at the opera house which will be good news to the movie fans. Mr. Kay is an artist in his line and good music may be expected at the pictures from now on. Mrs. Kay's friends are glad to hnv<? her hack and their voune son will profit by being "raised" in a town like Abbeville. In addition to being a good musi cian Mr. Kay is a first class job and ad man and has "helped out" at the Press and Banner office for the past few days. MISS RUDISAIL RETURNS Miss Mary Rudisail, of Spartan burg, has returned to Abbeville and will be in the office of W. P. Greene for the next month or two. Miss Rudisail has lived in Abbeville before and her many friends are delighted to have her back again. She is mak ing her heme with Mrs. John Little on Nickles street. \ f IN iOUT $35,000 jervisor's Office Shows Lmount of Unpaid In ng to About $35,000 3t Year About $90, ;o Statement.? v+h 9 nnn L til JL LJ j \J \J \J [and filed. It is possible that there are , some small bills out which have not been presented for payment, and , which may come in later, but it is not thought that these will material ly add to the unpaid bills of the county. 1 It is supposed that the taxes as- i signed to secure the payment of bor- ' rowed money will be sufficient to pay i all sums borrowed. Whether there is any margin between the amount of j taxes levied and the money borrow- i ed was not learned, but it is likely ] that the one will about off-set the < othe\\ It will take a levy of six mills to (1 pay this past indebtedness if it is all to be paid in one year. It would seem that it will be necessary forj the county to borrow a large sum of | money and to pay it back in yearly J installments, or taxes will be increas- ' ed again next year. THE MARKET TODAY on The cotton market contii^ed the upward road today. January fu-j 9 { tures in New York closed at 16.24 which was an advance oyer yester-j day's close of 24 points. March fu-1: tures closed at 15.20, an advance of: 28 points. New Ybrk spots were up to 16.75, which was 25 points high-!' er than yesterday. The advance in I - the past few days has been about j: two cents. < The spot market in Abbeville did j not follow the futures market. The | best offered for cotton today was' 16 cents, and not much was sold at1 that ngure. i The general feeling in all lines of business is that the worst of the "defaltion" is over. The announce ment of Secretary Houston that the War Finance Corporation would commence operations at once in the { spirit in which Congress directs has I lent further support to the upward! trend of all kinds of commodities. J Temporary set-backs are looked for but the general opinion as expressed over the local cotton wires, is that things are brightening. , COST OF GOVERNMENT Washington, Jan. 6.?The cost of running the United States govern ment last year amounted to approxi mately $5,064,000,000 as against ; about $11,728,000,000 in 1919. The total expenditures outside of pay ments on the public debt were re vealed today in accounts obtained from the daily treasury statements. Treasury officials said tonight that while ordinary disbursements had not yet come down to the $4,0000,000, nnn mnrlf cpf hv Secretary Houston in his estimate of ths revenues need- ; ed for future fiscal years1 Texpendi tures Would continue to fall. Grad- , ual liquidation of war claims ex- , plained the drop in expenditures would they have been greater but for , the additional burdens such as loans and advances to the railroads impos ed on the treasury. Ordinary receipts for 1920 amount ed to $6,431,000,000 in round num bers as against $6,772,000,444 for < the previous year. Collections of in* ; come and profits taxes totalled $3, 570,000,000 in the past year com pared with $4,337,000,000 in 1919. VISITORS FROM WHITMIRE Dr. RT M. Duckett and Miss Willie Duckett, of Whitmire, will come to i Abbevnie sunaay ana win visit men sister, Mrs. Fuller Reese. Dr. Duck ett, will remain over Sunday while Miss Duckett will visit for some time. NINE MILLION DOLLARS NEEDED TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAW REVENUE OFFICERS ARE DE CLARED TO BE UP AGAINST A VERY TOUGH PROPOSITION ?DIFFICULT TO GET ENOUGH MEN?THE CROOKED ELE MENT TO FIGHT. Washington, Jan. 6.?Revenue offi cers under the Volstead act "are up against the toughest proposition any men were ever up against," ac cording to Paul F. Myers, assistant commissioner of internal revenue, whose testimony before the House appropriations committee was made public today. Discussing the need of a bier force and plenty of money with which to ?o after wholesale and retail boot leggers, Mr. Myers declared it was a 'tough proposition," because they were dealing with the worst element of crooks in the country. It developed at the hearings that the bureau would need about $7,000 000 for the next fiscal year for pro hibition enforcement. Members in sisted that with the deficiency to be taken care of later the amount would exceed $9,000,000. Commissioner Williams explained that the department was having diffi culty in finding the right type of men to go after violators at the rate of pay offered, and that they are open to all sorts of temptation, particular ly bribes. "Some of them have fallen and that j was to be expected," he said. "When j a man feels the pinch of hunger he! is apt to go wrong." Based cn the figures of Septem-! ber 30, Mr. Williams S?;id there were 48,000,000 gallons of liquors of all sorts in government warehouses, and that it was being withdrawn at the! rate of 4,000,000 gallons a month, j The commissioner declined to venture: an opinion how long it would be be-, fore the country was virtually 'bone ' dry." Brewerie* Giving Trouble. Chicago, Jan. 6.?Announcement J that three government experts on brewery investigations are expected here today from the east to facilitate the closing of Chicago breweries sus- j pected of making real instead of! near-beer followed closely the refus-i al of prohibition director Ralph W. I Stone to renew the federal permits I of 313 wholesale liquor dealers in! Illinois. They are said to be the same [ men whose activities resulted in the | closing of plants where beer wasj made in the east. Evidence against numerous brew eries has been collected by agents under Frank D. Richardson, super vising prohibition agent of the Cen- j tral district, and in a majority of cases the samples have contained more than one-half of one per cent, of alcohol, he declares. Only 40 wholesale liquor firms in Illinois were granted federal permits. 'Physicians and druggists have sim ply been substituted for saloon-keep ! ers in supplying the thirsty with whis key," Mr. Stone said. 'It is ridiculous to believe that more than a third of the whiskey prescribed is used as medicine." Mr. Stone said numerous physici ans in I'ndiiwu?rwhere whiskey cannot be procured for medicinal use, had opened branch offices in Illinois in order to obtain prescription books. He added that he had revoked many of these permits. READING TO INDIA London, Jan. 6.?Lord Reading, j fVio r?Vnof -inst-.ire and former! special ambassador to the United Statse, has decided to accept the post of viceroy of India, according to the evening papers. The appointment of Lord Read ing as viceroy of India was an nounced several days ago, and at tention was then called to the fact I that for the first time in history a chief justice has been named as viceroy. Mrs. Motte Gilliam, of Sharon was in town Thursday shopping. ready to return to m f CORPORATION NOW REVIVED, SAYS HOUSTON. PLANS MUST BE MADE?LOANS NOT TO BE NEGOTIATED UNTIL DEVEL OPMENTS SHOW EXTENT NEEDED Washington, Jan. 6.?The war fi nance corporation is open for busi ness Secretary Houston said today, adding that the corporation would carry out the law creating it in the spirit in which the statue was drawn as a result of the action of congress in overriding the president's veto of the resolution .to revive the corpora tions activities. The treasury secretary said the means to be adopted by the corpora tion in making advances to export ers would not be determined until it was known what needs the cor poration would be called upon to meet. Funds for making the loans must be borrowed by the corpora tion or the treasury he said, but un til it is known how much money will be required it would be poor policy to pay interest on its loan fund. The corporation, therefore, will wait until applications for advances under the terms of the law are# made he added. Secretary Houston said the fact that the corporation can not make advances directly to producers but must extend its loans to "exporters or institutions financing exports should not be lost sight of. Appli cants are required by law, he ex plained, to satisfy the corporation that they can not obtain the desired loan elsewhere on reasonable terms, must produce adequate security and the export proposition must meet with the approval of the corpora tion. From this it would appear, he added, that an exporter must have his contract before a loan from the corporation can be obtained. Addition of another member of the corporation's board of directors may be necessary the secretary said before applications can have the fullest attention. New York, Jan. 6.?Submission of a report opposing revival of the war finance corporation aroused op position at today's meeting of the is ew i ont cuainuer ui cuuimcict and precipitated a discussion that ended in tabling the report. The committee on finance and currency, of which Thomas W. La mont was acting chairman submit ted the report and the opposition was led by Eugene Meyer, Jr., for mer managing director of the corpo ration. The report of Mr. Lamont point ed out in submitting it, contained no definite recommendation but was prepared at the request of the chamber for information on foreign trade relief and particularly whe ther such relief should be made through revival of the war finance corporation. Mr. Meyer asserted acceptance of the report would be an evidence on the part of the chamber of opposi tion to the corporation. The report . ... fKuMisseri economic conditions and .' declared the general trouble is not domestic but worldwide, and is due less to overproduction than to under consumption. Any attempt o revive the corporation as a measure of re lief, it declared would prive "inef fective and unwise." A REVOLUTIONARY CANNNON The Andrew Hamilton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Rev olution have asked the street paving company for the Revolutionary can non found on South Main street when t-he e-radine for the paving was made. The cannon was thrown into the yard of Mr. Sam Evans and the Paving Company will be glad to turn it over to the Daughters whenever they want it. The Daughters will mount it and -reserve it as a Revolutionary relic.