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3 I KUDU OlAllU ill DLiinLi v?
PENDING LEGISLATSONr?THE
LEADERS BELIEVE POWER OF
PRESIDENT WILL BE USED.
Washington, Dec. 1.?President
Harding has been urged to take a
strong stand in his address to the new
congress next week in behalf of pend
ing tariff legislation. Confidence waf
evidenced among many congressional
leaders today that the power of the
executive would be put behind the
bill which now reposes with the sen
ate finance committee.
The suggestion was said to have
been made to Mr. Harding that he
recommend, in the interest of speedj
deposition of the measure, the elim
ination of the American valuation
plan from the house bill and the
writing of a tariff law on the basis oi
the old method of invoice prices. ne
was understood to have been urged to
ask congress then to include in the
m bill a provision empowering the exe
cutive to apply the American valua
tion basis of assessing duties where
after surveys, it is shown that added
protection is needed.
Another suggestion reported to
have been given Mr. Harding was thai
the house bill provisions regarding
antidumping be stricken out and a
law described as "having teeth" be
enacted supplementary to the tariff.
A division of opinion among Re
publican senators was said to exist
as to the merits and practicability of
the?-American valuation plan* and it
wa3 understood this situation had
been outlined to the executive.
Some Republican members of the
finance committee declared that even
with a call by the president for more
speed, there could hardly be a tariff
law before March. One asserted it
would be the middle of May before
the bill finally becomes a law.
The suggestion that separate legis
lation be enacted giving the execu
' tive authority to impose the Ameri
can valuation basis in cases where
additional protection was found nec
essary, was said to embody a plan
making custom duties variable to
meet fluctuation of the depreciated
currency of exporting countries.
Those who advanced the plan held
that the fixing of tariff duties at any
definite figures in the present disor
ganized state of international cur
rencies would make it impossible to
adequately protect American indus
tries and labor from competition,
since the low price of foreign money
allows goods to be purchased abroad
in American dollars at far below
costs in American markets.
It was proposed therefore that the
president, presumably through the
tariff commission, be given power to
determine to what degree the cur
rency of a given country has depre
ciated, to what extent the fact has
made American producers unable to
- compete with its imported products
and to fix the import duty at a per
centage which will to some degree
equalize these disadvantages. At the
same time similar goods from a coun
try with stable currency and undis
torted production costs would be al
lrtwo/J tn (>nmo in at- lnwpr rnt.PS.
Carefully worked out estimates oi
the effect to be anticipated undei
operation of the plan have been sub
mitted to President Harding. The
American valuation system, also ad
vanced to meet the fluctuating cur
rency values at present encountered,
would fix the level of duty not or
cost price to the importers, but up
on the value of similar products pro
duced in the United States on Amer
ican markets at the moment of im
portation.
*
VISITING HER SISTER.
Miss Eva Reames leaves tomorrow
to tpend 's^veral days with her sister,
Miss Sophia Reames, who is teaching
school near Saluda.
S. J. Link's Death
Brings Severe Shock
i
One of City'i Foremost Citizen's
And Best Business Men Takes
Own Life.
; ' Brooding over'business conditions
is supposed to tyave been the cause
of the self inflicted death of S. J.
| Link, well known merchant and
.business man, which occurred yes
terday at noon in his store. Shortly
after the report of a pistol was heard
; on the street, Mr. Link's body was
i found on the second floor of his
' store, a 38-caliber bullet wound in
. the right temple and life already ex
i tinct.
i from his home on Vienna
? street about 11:30 o'clock, he enter
i ed his store and,went directly to the
. second floor, where,, after removing
his glasses and his coat, he lay down
i on a mattress stored there and short
. ly afterward the.-report of the pistol
r was heard downstairs and in the
. street, but the sound coming in the
i medley of other noises attracted no
> notice. A few minutes later Robert
: Cheatham, an employee of Mr. Link,
. had occasion to go \o the ware-room
) upstairs where he made the discov
i ery.
Mr. Link, one of the most methodi
cal and conservative business men
, in the community, was engaged in a
1 general merchandising business, a
large part of his transactions being
> in the supplying of farmers. Like
; many other business men he had had
: trouble in collecting money due him,
i due to the generally poor condition
! of business. But Mr. Link's conserva
tism and foresight are supposed to
have 'been such that he did not feel
; the effects of poor. - business to the
: same extent of many other mer
; chants. He is said to have remarked
I to Mr. Cheatham only the night (be
fore his death that he had lost every
thing except his real estate and stock
of goods. He left a note in which
the request was made that his broth
er, Robert S. Link, and J. Allen
Smith, Sr., act as executors in the
settlement of his business affairs.
Surviving Mr. "Link are his wife,
. formerly Miss Grace Smith, two
. daughters Miss Mary Quarles Link
. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy; one brother
: Robert S. Link, and his aged father,
. Dr. W. E. Link.
Funeral services were held at the
Presbyterian church this afternoon at
I o.on 1 I..J 1 n_ T?? T -
ijo;ov cuiiuucieu uy jl/i. oaz. u. iuoi
| t:n assisted by Rev. G. M. Telford,
[j Pallbearers were: W. M. Barnwell,
L. C. Haskell, J. C. King, Frank W.
Wilson, T. G. White, active. Dr. F.
E Harrison, W. P. Greene, Dr. S. G
> Thomson, Lewis Perrin, J D. Kerr,
- A. B. Morse, Robert Cheatham and
, Robert McCanty, honorary.
' Samuel Jenner Link was born Feb
l ruary 18, 1867, and had he lived un
r til February he would have been 55
years old. From Willington, his old
. home, Mr. Link came to Abbeville
i
j when he was sixteen years old andj
, for thirty-eight years he has been
. closely associated with the business
. and social life of the community. For
(Ja number of years he was connected
i with the A. M. Smith firm, later
( opening a store ty. be conducted on
. the same principles as that of Mr.
t Smith. As a business man many of
> his colleagues have been heard to say
. that Mr. Link was one of the moflt
. methodical and orderly they had
. ever known.
Mr. Link for a number of years
was uniformly successful in what
' ever business he undertook. Only in
the last two years did he meet with
reverses, and then only those of such
a nature as the best men of affairs
I hardly withstood. That his affairs are
> more than solvent now may be tak
i en as an indication of his foresight.
In 1891 Mr. Link was married to
Miss Leila Quarles who died about
25 years ago. Last December he was
married the second time to Miss
Grace Smith, who survives him.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGee, Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Dargan and children,
M^. T. P. Quartes, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Ever?tte and Miss." Annie Grier, all
of Spartanburg were here for the
funeral of Mr. Link.
. OLIN SAWYf
BROKE WITH BLEASE ON WAR
ISSUE AND BECAME ACTIVE.
LEADER IN. WAR WORK.
GEORGETOWN MAN MAY OF_
FER FOR GOVERNOR.
CONV
FIR'
SPE
LOV
TO
'Georgetown, Dec. 1.?Since Cole
Blease has announced himself as a
candidate for governor next year
the name of a certain former friend
and right hand man of Blease has
been frequently mentioned in these
parts as the proper and suitable per
son to oppose Blease and beat him
for governor. That man is Dr. Olin
Sawyer of Georgetown who when
Blease attacked bitterly the Wilson
administration and opposed his gov
ernment before and after the decla_
ration of war broke with his chief
and in a ringing letter published in
the state newspapers challenged the
position of the former governor and
denounced his principles.
For this Dr. Sawyer lost caste
with all his former political admir
ers and friends in the Blease camp.
On the other hand he was firmly
commended and given the glad
hand of fellowship by those on the
other side who wholeheartedlv sun
ported the government and worked
to the limit of their strength and
gave until it hurt to win the war of
righteousness and salvation.
Throughout that trying period Dr.
iSawyer contributed unsparingly of
his time and gifts as a public speak
er to promote the country's cause.
As mayor of Georgetown at the time
he was in position to do more than
ordinarily valuable work and as a
man and a citizen there are few
more worthy than he to hold the of
fice of governor. He is hardly with
out a superior as a stump speaker
and winner of votes and can easily
hold his own and more too against
any opposing candidate?not except
ing "Colie"? as a show down will
prove should the doctor decide to en
ter the lists. His many friends are
urging him to do so.
Washington, Qec. 1.?The record
of the Republican party in the extra
session of congress is described as a
"disgraceful failure" by Representa
tive Garrett of Tennessee, acting
Democratic leader of the house, in a
statement to appar in the Con
gressional Record tomorrow. Al
though the congress is not in session
it will issue and "extra" of the rec
ord to accommodate the many mem
i ?u.
uers wiiu uesue tu its viae anu ca
tend" their remarks of the last few
days of the session.
Mr. Garrett in his statement calls
the tax law a "makeshift thing for
which none should care to take re
publican claims of achievement, made
by Representative Mondell of Wyo
ming, the party's house leader, Mr.
Garrett says that "all of the legis
lation that was good was non-parti
san, presented as such, discussed as
suchtjjmd passed as such."
"Upon those matters of vital con
cern to the country, upon those which
the party in power had promised re
lief," he continues, "there has been
a disgraceful, a distressing, and what
is destined to be to that party, a dis
astrous failure."
Mr. Garrett quotes the words of
Senator Penrose (Republican) of
Pennsylvania, made in connection
with the consideration of tax bill
in the senate, that the measure did
not place the tax system of the coun
try on a stable bask, and inquired
when the country can expect some-'
thing of a permanent nature.
10 GUILL01
ICTED OF MURDER
5T DEGREE?ELOQUEf
ECH BY LAWYER FO
VED BY BRIEF ADDREi
JURY BY DEFENDANT.
vailles Dec. 1.?Heiari Land
is been on trial ror more tn
weeks in the assizes coi
barged with the murder
romen and a boy was fou
of murder in the first degi
k. Landru was sentenced
the guillotine.
ill the 48 questions which t
rabmitted to the Jury on t
ins of the guilty, innocence
I capacity of the prison
aras a verdict of guilty of pi
ted murder. No extenuati
stances were included in tl
iru had borne himself throu
e lengthy trial without sho
e slightest weakness and
the sentence of death impos
tim without emotion.
jury required three hours :
* a brief respite for dinner
e their replies to the 48 qui
;he court submitted.
Moro Giafferi counsel for t
e in an eloquent plea finishi
mming up today after whi
Gilbert read 48 questions
ry. The first of these v
ir Landru was gx^ilty of mi
th premeditation in .the c?
e. Cochet. Questions also
to the mental condition
isoner.
Moro-^Giafferi m his addr<
ioubt on all the evidence pi
by the prosecution. He ]
1 the jury that a pers
be proclaimed legally dead c
n they had been missing
In support of his client
:ases tff persons who we
r having returned years afti
when hope for them had be
>ned. He also Referred to n<
ises of alleged miscarriage
based on -circumstantial e
I
ago, Dec. 1.?A decisi
izing the "open shop" pri
s applied to the railroads a
[gating 148 new working rul
ern the six federated railro
rafts will be handed down
lited States railroad lab
tomorrow. The decision, whi
its the national agreemer
i by the employees with t
States railroad administi
nil form the ground work
the adjudication of all futu
lisputes between railroads a:
niployees will be based,
ruling opens the way for t
ds to ask for lower wages f
op crafts employees the ]
ard having announced that
consider no further wage J
is for any class of employe
working rules for that els
een disposed of.
new rules will affect appro:
400,000 employees and b
effective immediately. Wh
I conditions are restored it
ted that fully 450,000 m
affected and railroads w
n annual payroll saving of a
ately $50,000,000.
decision, transcending
mnnrton/ia +Vip 5400.000.01
:ut of last July, was unan
no gToup of the labor boa
ting a dissenting opinion.
American Legion consist
rly ten thousand posts at t!
ing of this year.
Announce Speakers
For Teachers' Institute
Swearingen, Mis* Thomas and Mr*.
Boyer Among Educators to Give
Instruction Next Week.
Supt. J. D. Fulp, chairman the
program committee of the Abbevilla
County Taachers' Association, is hav
ing splendid success securing the
speakers and leaders for the three
day institute which is to be held in
Abbeville next Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
Thursday the opening day of the
institute Supt. John E. Swearingen
will positively be present for both
the afternoon and evening sessions,
Mr. (Fulp says. The afternoon confer
ence will be in the nature of a round
table discussion of problems peculiar
to rural schools and Dr. Swearingen
will lead this discussion which will
be held in the court house at 3:30.
' That evening at 8 o'clcok Dr.
Swearingen will deliver an address
to the teachers of Abbeville County
in the court house, to which meeting
the public is cordially invited. The
aaaress wll (be one of vital interest
to every parent and taxpayer of the
county and should be heard by every
one' nterested in school affairs. The
members of the Abbeville Parent
Teacher association and members of
any school improvement societies
throughout the county are especially
urged to hear Dr. Swearingen next
Thursday evening.
Friday afternoon another round
table conference will foe held in the
court house lead "by Supt. Frank
Evans of the Spartanburg schools,
who will discuss the teaching of geo
graphy in secondary schools. Dr.
Evans is probably the best posted
man in the state on the teaching, of
this important subject and geography
is probably ibetter taught in Spar
i nnUrta1 n 4>Vn?i onr
ittlliuuig dtuuuio viian ah auj vvuva
schools in the state. Therefore it he
hooves every teacher in the county
to be present at his discussion. The
conference will be so arranged as not
to interfere with the ten minute re
ception planned for Marshal Ferdi
nand Foch and his party at the Sea
board station between. 3 and 4 o'
clock that afternoon.
Friday evening a musical enter
tainment is to be given in the Opera
House to whch the visiting teachers
will be given complimentary tickets
by the Abbeville Parent-teacher as_
sociation.
Saturday morning at 10:00 o'clock
an address will be made to the teach
ers on school improvement clubs by
Miss Mattie E. Thomas of Columbia
who is the school community orga
nizer for the state.
Following this Mrs. B. P. Boyer,
formerly a supervisor in the Rich
mond,Va., city schools, will illus
trate the use of the stereopticon in
the teaching of subjects in the lower
grades. Visual education has al
ready found a permanent berth in
' -i- --J a:- i'IIhbIvq+a/I folk
1 scnooi worK auu mis uiuubia^K
will be of special interest to teach
ers.
The institute will adjourn iby noon
Saturday $o that the teachers will
fiave ample opportunity to visit the
stores in Abbeville and reach home
Saturday evening.
There are a few places still needed
to entertain the teachers who are
coming to this meeting. Persons de
siring to entertain one or more of
these teachers will please notify ei
ther Mrs. Henry Gilliam or Miss Mayj
Rofbertson not later than noon Mon-i
day. 1
1
COTTON MARKET
Spot, 18 cents.
Futures sluggish. Practically
no change.
lose
Points off
January
17.12
.05
March
17.10
.02
May
16.85
.02
July
16.40
.09
December
17,25
.01
MRS. LOMAX SICK.
The friends of Mrs. J. R. Lomax
will regret to learn of her illness. It
is hoped she soon may be able to be
out again.
IE
CENTER OF STAGE
3THER GOVERNMENT BUSU
NESS GIVES WAY IN LONDON.
LORD BIRKENHEAD FORCED
TO CANCEL ENGAGEMENT IN
LIVERPOOL TO ATTEND.
London Dec. 1.?All government
business is giving way to the gravi
ty of the Irish situation. Both gov
ernment and Irish circles express
the feeling that only a miracle can
avert the collapse of the conference
and a renewal of warfare.
It had been intended to hold a
cabinet council otnight to consider
German reparations in connection -
with the visit of Dr. Walter Rathe
nau but this had to be postponed in
order to permit the special' cabinet
committee dealing with Irish af
fairs to hold a sitting. Lord Birken
head due to speak at a political .
meeting in Liverpool was obliged to
stay in London. He sent a message
of apology explaining that his afcjv^
sence was owing to "grave pubflfr -
affairs." . A
Premier Lloyd George also wired
to the meeting explaining that Lord
Birkenhead's presence in London
was "imperatively demanded by the
present position of the Irish nego- * ...
tiations."
A spokesman of the Sinn Fein de- .(
clared this evening that there Was
do intention on the part of the Sinn
Fein to alter its attitude regarding
either tfte unity ol Ireland or alle
giance to the crown.
Regarding the suggestion that the
government will propose, a new
scheme to Ulster the Sinn Fein dele
gates say whey are hot concerned
with it and refuse to share the gov
ernment's responsibility for it. There
was another session this evening of
the British delegates but nothing
was forthcoming as a result of it.
"Whatever the result Mr. Lloyd
George will go to Washington" a
Downing street official said tonight.
Respecting this it was stated at
Sinn Fein headquarters that "such a
move on the part of the premier
would not be viewed with patience
or without suspicion for the reason
that if Irish-American support was
weakened on the question of the pre
mier's visit to the United States Sinn
Fein might be forced to modify- its
demands upon which it feels now in
a position to persist."
. , y>
Ennis Ireland Dec. 1.?Eamonn
De Valera today delivered an ad
dress in the town hall here in which
tie declared if peace in Ireland was
not brought about "it would not be
because there is not the will on the
part of ours to make it but because
those oppose to us in Ireland do not
svant to make peace with us."
"I may tell you" Mr. De Valera
continued "that we Stand today no
natter what other peoples say ex_
ictly where we stood and for the
principles for which we stood four
/ears ago. We have gone as far as
? ?- nrifVi flincn tvrin.
kVC can gU Tfivu ifuvxv |.....
:iples for peace we can not and will
not go any further. If we go further
t would be for us to betr%y those
principles which have been fought
for by generations of Irishmen for
;he past 700 years."
Mr. De Valera had an onthusias
nc reception. He spoke with great
irmness when he declared that "all
:he power of the empire can not
jreak the spirit of one true nation."
ASSOCIATION MEETS
Member* of Cotton Body Hold Ses
sion Monday
A meeting of the Abbeville coun
;y branch of the American Cotton
Association has been called for
VIonday morning in the court house,
3apt. G. N. Nickles of Due West,
president issuing the call. One of the
jurposes of the meeting will be the
ilection of delegates to the boll wee
ril conference in Columlbia. The hpur
lesignated is 11 o'?loek.