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Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Feb. 18, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year., FORDNEY'S II IS FINDI . r BECOMES INVOLVED IN LEGIS-j LATIVE JAM. MASSACHU SETTS MEMBER SAYS HE IS AFRAID PRESIDENT MAY j SIGN TARIFF MEASURE?, HELD UP IN HOUSE I Washington, Feb. 17.?The Ford-i ney emergency tariff bill, with its ; burden of senate amendments got back to the house today only to get snagged in a legislative jam leaving; its immediate future uncertain. Soon after Chairman Fordney \>f the ways and means committee had started for St. Augustine, Fla., to consult President-elect Harding about jflatting through a second emergency tariff as a stop gap mea n sure, acting Chairman Green sought to compete the house formalities of sending the first bill to conference. Obtaining recognition just before the house adjourned, Representative Green asked the house to disagree with senate amendments and that a conference committee be named. Representative Treadway, Republi can, Massachusetts, failed to give the necessary unanimous consent and.hasty conference followed. Mr. Green sought to get the Massachu setts member to withdraw objection. Failing in that Mr. Green enlisted the support of Representative Mon dell, Republican floor leader, who also attempted to untangle the situ ation but nothing caitte ft. The Fordney bill thus was left over night with three possibilities,' all depending upon maneuvers by; Republican leaders; it m^y be sent to conference by a vote of the house, referred again to the ways and means committe, or an attempt may be made to have the house concur in the senate amendment. Mjj. Treadway was said by several ( members to have expressed taphouse 1 leaders a fear that the president 1 ""might sign that bill and get the 1 whole Republican party in a hole."'1 He also is said to have told the lead- j 1 ers that he regarded statements of j - Senator Underwood minority leader ! that the president would veto the | measure as "pure bait," explaining j that had the president intended ve- j1 toing the bill such "inspired" state ments would not have been made. ! As for the second emergency mea-11 ?if K.r TWy. Hor. , dUiC| W111VU IX a^/yivTcu Lfjr wik. ding, is to be rushed through the ex tra session ahead of all other legis lative, Republican leaders were ap parently in accord. It is proposed to to make it comparable to a perma nent tariff bill in scope and effect, and its rates according to the pro gram, will be based on information gathered iri the hearings just con cluded. The president-elect will be urged IEASURE NG TROUBLE WILL REARGUE Reargument of the Kenne'h Gos sett case before the stats supreme court will be necessary, it was learn cd yesterday, due to the refusal of the attorneys for the appellant- to agree to allow two absent justices who did not hear the arguments to participate in ti? findings of the court, . The.Gossett case was argued be fore the couxt last fall, but at the time Chief Justice Gary and the late Associate Justice Gage were not present, arid upon the death of Asso ciate Justice Hydrick it was announc ed that unless f attorneys for both sides agreed to let Justice Gary and Justice Gage participate a reargu ment would be necessary. Since then Justice Gage has also died. B#nham and Price and Gen. M. L. Bonham, attorneys for Gossett, who is now in the penitentiary under a 40 years sentence for alledge'd crimi nalassault on a young white woman of Abbeville, refused to allow the participation of the absent justices and by this refusal the case will be reargued at the next term ,of the court.?The State, 18th. J Washington, Feb. 15.?The world's :arry over of^cotton at the end of I the 1920-21 cotton year, July 31, j next, will be 10,648,550 bales, bas-j ?d on the present rate of consump-i tion the market reporter of the De partment of Agriculture announces. A. previous estimate based on the second forecast of India's crop was 1,809,200 bales higher. India's third forecast showed a crop that was much smaller because of decreased acreage and unfavorable weather. A second estimate of the carry over, basing the calculation on 25 per lent reduction in consumption fori the first five months?August to De cember?iand on a rate equal to that of the previous year for the remain ing seven months?January to July^? places the amount at 8,057,008 bales. so would increase revenue for the treasury. Committee members were said to fear that probably nine months would be required to get a permanent tariff bill through con gress, and that importers would take advantage of ttoe time to^pile up sur plus stocks. Lonnie Knox, of Sharon, was in town today on business. NO VOTE IS TAKEN ON 48 HOUR MEASURE Full $1.25 Must ' Go To Schools? Proceedings of the Legi|l*ture For The Past Few Days. Columbia, Feb. 17.?The* House tonight amended the state dog li cense law by providing that the full one dollar and twenty-five cents col lected as dog tax shall go to the edu cational funds of the county. The law as it obtained last year, allowed the county treasurer to retain twen ty-five cents. The county treasurer will be requested to collect the dog tax as he does other taxes and the money for the license tags will come out of the county funds. The House killed by a votS of six ty to thirty-five the bill by repre sentatives Sheppard, of Edgefield, and Representative Barnett, of Richland proposing to wipe out the thirty days limit for prosecution of persons issuing checks against banks where they carry no funds. The House spent more than two hours debating .the question of the county line between Clarendon and Sumter counties. * In the Senate practically the en tire night was given to a debate of the proposed nine hour day or 48 hour week textile bill _ for cotton ; mills. ^Near midnight no vote ! had been!taken. Senator Hubbard, of Jasper, will I introduce a resolution in the Senate j tomorrow proposing to make it a | misdemeanor to pianx or cultivate any cotton during this year and the! next. Violation would be punished with a fine or not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days for each offense. 1 The Senate will not vote on the 48 hour week textile bill until tomor row night. Several senators are yet I to be heard and the debate will be continued tomorrow night and the vote taken. Among the bills sent by the house to the senate this morning were the state inheritance tax measure pass I ed yesterday; the bill proposing a j state-wide stock law; and the bill byf j Representative Moon of Greenville which would prevent the showing of moving picture films, in which white actresses appear, in theatres of the opposite race; and vice vers^. I Representative 'Slmonhoffs bill proposing to allow the registration of women by giving the age above twenty-one and not stating specifi cally the age was killed after brief debate. , CAPT. GREER CHOICE FOR LEGISLATURE i Greenville, Feb. 17.?Unofficial returns from 48 of 63 precincts of Greenville county indicate that Capt. John G. Greer is the successful can didate in the general election yester day to fill the vacancy in the general assembly by reason of Thomas P. Cothran's election as associate jus tice of the supreme court. No elec tion was held in six precincts, and nine boxes to be heard from are not expected to change the results. THE PRICE OF COTTON The best price offered for strict middling cotton on the local market today was 14 1-2 cents. The price ranged from this figure down to 8 cents. Futures were stated to be off: about 20 points during the day. ATLANTA VISITORS. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Cromer, of At lanta, arrived in Abbeville this after noon and they will be the guests for some time of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Nickles. Measure Provides for Investigation of Amount of Cotton and Wheat Stocks Now on Hand in This ' Country. .. Washington, Feb. 17.?The senate today adopted the resolution of Sen ator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina rroviding for an investigation by the senate agriculture committee of the of cotton and wheat no-' on hand in this country, left over from recent crops. Senator Smith contend ed, in offering the resolution, that ' onflic"ing and uncertain marke: re ports had nee" made. Regarding his tecent statements that he i.ncerstood Secretary Hetier, of the New Orleans, Cotton Exchan/? was employe! by English cotton mil's Senator Sm.th today told the s*na:? that he had been misinformed. Sena tor Smith said he now was informed that Mr. "Hester's only employment was with the New Orleans Exchange. The resolution permits the Senate agriculture committee or a sub-com mittee thereof to sit at any time, even during thel recess of Congress, to make the investigation. Senator Smith said the committee would or ganize after the jam of the present legislative session was over and get down to work. All statistical commit .tees which gather cotton information in Washington would be called to ex-j plain the sources and methods theyj use, he said, and available informa-1 tion from all parts of the country would be obtained. The senator inti mated that if found necessary the committee might visit New York and New Orleans in the course of its in vestigations. Asserting he considered 'this matter of greater importance to all the people than any question that confronts the commercial public to day," Senator Smith, in a statement declared there "is so much' confusion | in the minds of the public as to the real facts in reference to cotton sta tistics that I introduced this resolu tion in order that the real facts may be obtained and given to the public by an official body of Congress ap pointed for that definite . purpose. Under the terms of the resolution the agriculture Committee of the sen ate is given ample time and power to do this thing. The facts as ascer tained will be given to the public in a satisfactory manner as it will be possible for the committee to give them." "There is without doubt," the Sen ator continued, "a vast amount of linters and other grades of cotton J unfit for ordinary commercial pur-J poses that have been taken into ac count as stocks of cotton on hapd. The committee will endeavor to 'as certain the amount of this cotton and all the facts in relation thereto. If in the investigations of the commit I tee it is found necessary to recom-j mend amendments to* the present of ficial methods of obtaining statistics or that new legislation is reeded the committee will do so." Senator Smith asserted he had re ceived information from th6 bureau of markets that they had reduced their estimate of the 'carry over, of the world's cotton by 1,809,200 bales due to the reduction by that amount of the estimate of the director gener al of commercial, intelligence of the India crop, making the bureau's esti mate of the "carry-over," now 8, 075,008 bales. Columbia, Feb. 17.?A bill intro aucea in tne soutn uaronna senate today provides for the infliction of the death penalty upon any person convicted of blovnng a safe for the purpose of robbery. A YOUNG CADET. Ralph Lyon, who is one of the promising young men at the Citadel I | is at home for a few days stay with ! his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Lyon. ' SUPREME EF MADE . ;T^e Rt. Rev. Kirkman G. Finlay, the ne^ly elected Bishop of,the Pied-j montjiection, will come to Abbeville tomomjw night oh his first episcopal; visitation here. Bishop Finlay is well knovjp to many people here, having conducted services and preached at various times to them in the past. On Sunday morning at the regular ser vice at 11 a. m. Bishop Finlay, will be the celebrant at the Holy Com munion. Sunday is tVie regular Sun dajr for Rev. Mr. Derbyshire to be at St.Stephen's Church, Willington, S. C., but owing to the episcopal visita tion at that time, he will go down to Willington on the 27th. It is hoped that the many friends of Bishop Finlay will take this opportnuity ,of greeting him in his new capacity, and give him the warm welcome they already have felt in their hearts. An invitation is hereby repeated, to those who would "rest'while in prayer," to come to the Lenten services on Wed nesday and Friday at 4 p. m. WATER 'AND LIGHT j PLANT TO COUNCIL ' j Four or five years ago the Cityj Council decided to turn the water and light plant over to.a Board of Com-, missioners of Public Works, and ac-' cordingly without consulting anyone, else an Act was passed at the request, of council making provision for this, j It seems now that the City Coun-. cil i^\again dissatisfied for an Act: Vioe Knort noQcarl of flia rArtllPflf. flVtP. members to abolish the Commission ers of Public Works and to put the / , management of the water and light plant in the hands of the City Coun-, cil. At present the Commissioners of Public Works are J. L. McMillan, J. Allen Long and W. H. White. These automatically go out of office upon approval of the Act passed. They become statesmen without jobs. The Water and Light plant is stat ed by Chairman McMillan to be in a J prosperous condition at present. Noi money has been made the last few. months on account of extraordinary expenses due to the tearing up of the | "ines on account of the regrading ofj the streets. But none that these ex penses are over Chairman McMillan i-U:~lr~ vU? XX7n + rt?< onrl T.icrVlf Plant. j L/JUI1A3 bliC TTo^i uiiu ? ? can maintain itself and turn into the ity something like $1,000.00 per month. It is prepared-to do this the present month, Mr. McMillan says. In addition to this the city is secur ing water and lights for all public NEW YORK 1 EVERY New York, Feb. 17.?Roused to ex-j tra vigilance by the discovery today i of vermin-infected immigrants ar riving from Boston on coastwise; | steamships, municipal health authori ties tonight concluded one of their j most thorough examinations \of the incoming crowds from Ellis Island. Of more than 300 persons inspected only one case of a suspicious nature, however, that of a 12 year old girl, believed to be suffering from scarlet fever, necessitated further detention The patient had been discharged from the immigration station after having been treated for sore throat, but her real malady, city health offi cials declared, evidently had been scarlet fever.- A diagnosis, it was FORT IS BY LEADERS 5 _______ JEWELL ASKS BOARD TO AL LOW EMPLOYEES UNTIL MARCH 14 TO COMPLETE RE BUTTAL?IN OPPOSITION TO DRIVE OF EXECUTIVES?RE QUESTS FOR TIME Chicago, Feb. 17.?Labor today | appeared before the railroad labor | board in a supreme effort to checlf | the railway executives' drive against | national agreements. This drive, B. M. Jewell, chairman j of the employees' committee, de ! clared, was intended to obscure the J fundamental issues at stake, which, ' th^ employers have declared, were r ; the open shop movement and an at j tmpt to crush organized labor. Mf. Jewell requested the board to allow the employees ^until March 14 .. X to complete their rebuttal to the ob jections to national agreements made by the roads. He also pro- '!M posed that the whole case be thrown out of court and the points taken up in conference ^etween the carriers and employees. Protest immediately was entered by T. W. White of the carriers' com | mittee against delay and to any pro- , posals of further conferences. He declared that the question the board now faced was merely whether these agreements should be continued. Frank P. Walsh counsel for the brotherhoods in an address likened the principles being laid down by the labor board to those of ttfe su preme court in its early history. He said that the utterances and acts of railway executives indicated that if' not restrained, the excutives would "render the transportation act emasculated and abortive this board will be destroyed in so far as its ef ficient functioning is concerned and we shall have endless turmoil and instability in the railroad industry." Mr. Walsh declared that if the carrers cjid not comply with the law, . the employees ' would inform the public as to "the real situation" in an attcmpi tu picTcuw vvugi^Ok] from enacting Iffw ?or financial ii lief of the railroadB. "At this mo ment the carriers are attempting to dip their hands into the United States treasury and extract the enormbus sum of $750,000,000 which is only their initial effort,'' Mr. Walsh asserted, > The speaker reiterated , the right of the employees to organize and act as unit and declared such action was contemplated in the transposi tion act. The hearing adjourned until Mon day. Meanwhile executives of the railroads will gather here tomorrow. I ! purposes for nothing; that is, the j city has been paying nothing for the : street lights, nor for water for hy | drants, flush tanks, etc. According I to this the water and light plant be comes a well paying institution. - a f A LTfMO i AMHVj PRECAUTION said, showed the girl to be in the peeling stage of the disease. Health Commissioner Copeland an nounced tonight that a third case of typhus had been reported to him from a hospital. The patierfl, ap parently had been suffering with it for several weeks and is now recov ering. Health officials are tracing she case to find its origin. As a precaution against introduc tion or spreading of typhus, J. How land Gardner, vice president of the New England Steamship company, announced tonight that the company would not bring into New York any European immigrant passengers on steamships of the Fall River line :md the New London line until all danger of an epidemic had passed. to lend his support to the proposi- j tion on the ground that checking of the imports through an additional tariff would permit revival of Am erican industries now complaining of heavy importations and that it al- 1