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Abbeville Press and E-tablicW 18U jj^OOYean Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, June 9,1922. Single Copies, Five Cents. 78thYear.J ? - f : " i SOLDIER BONUS COST OVER FOUR BILLIONS BILL MAKES NO ARRANGE MENT TO RAISE MONEY, WHICH MATTER IS DEFER ? SEP TO LATER DATE?THE , MqCUMBER BILL Washington, June 8.?An effort to present the soldiers' bonus 'bill today to the senate was blocked by t Senator Williams, Democrat, Mis sissippi. Chairman McCumber, of the finance committee, gave notice that he would make another effort later in the day to get the measure to the senate calendar. Because of the parliamentary procedure under which the senate was operating unanimous consent was necessary to present the bill and the report, which earlier in the day had been made public by Sena tor McCumber. Senator Williams, a member of the finance committee, , and an opponent of the legislation refused such consent. Washington, June, "8.?The sol diers' bonus bill was formally pre spnted todav in the senate by Chair man MeCumber of the finance com mittee with an accompanying report placing the probable cost to the fed- , eral government at $3,845,659,481, spread over a peroid of 43 years from next January 1. This is ap proximately $250,000,000 less than . the estimate under the House bill, which was $4,098,719,350, payable over 20 years. The senate bill estimate was pre pared by Treasury experts and is , based on the theory that 75 per cent , of the 4,458,199 veterans whoi, would be eligible for compensation j 1 would elect the adjusted service . certificate option"; 22 1-2 per cent 1 farm, home and land setlement aid, ] and 2 1.2 per cent vocational , training aid. Should all of the veter- ( ans select the certificate plan the w total cost would be $4,486,975. With reference to financing the . expenditure, Chairman McCumber's report said it was hoped that the re- . auction in governmental expendi- , tures plus payment of interest on ( the refunded foreign obligations would be sufTicient to obviate the j imposition of additional taxation. "If it does become necessary toj impose additional taxes," the report j continued, "it is believed -we can j better determine the amount of the j necessary levy and the methods of i distributing stfch burdens for the' future r(t a later date when the fu-1 tnro condition of the treasury will! be mure accurately established. A? to the refunded foreign obli-; rations lac hope was expressed that j these soon would be obtained, and j that it would be possible for the for-1 eijrn povi rnment to provide for the j immediate interest thereon, so that j interest can be used toward defray- j ir.cr the expenses authorized under j this act." } Senator McCumber explained that! ? * - ? ?^ J fa VOflnPO I to a minimum actual cash payments under the bill durng the next three years while the treasury is engaged in refunding the nearly seven bil-i lions dollars of maturing govern- j ment obligations. The estimated! cost of the bonus for three years j was $242,000,000. OFF TO HOT SPRINGS Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Tiddy left to-j day for a trip to Hot Springs, Ar_ | kansas 'where they will spend a j month. They are accompanied by Richard and Sara Tiddy and the family expect to derive great bene fit from the stay. Their home will be closed during this period. CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. Sam Young, a negro living on the place of ?7. S. Gibert, was arrested yesterday morning by Sheriff McLane charged with burglary. BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPY BELLEEK FAMOUS IRISH FORT CHANGES 1 HANDS? REPUBLICAN SOL DIERS RETIRE WHEN FIRE PROVES VERY ACCURATE. CASUALTIES LIGHT Belfast, June 8.?Belleek and its famous fort, which are in Free i State territory, were occupied this afternoon by British troops and the British ensign has displaced the Re- < publican tri-color which had flown < from the walls of the fort since it . was occupied some time ago by Irish i irregulars. The British troops moved to with- i in two miles of Belleek on the 1 south shore of LougH Erne and started operations. The artillery +/N.rN.V a i-krtoifirtn nwrlnnlcinc the twiv u D town and commanding a fine view of the fort which is on high 1 ground. ( The official report of the military ; authorities on the operations is as follows: "Orders were received to discover 1 whether forces from the Free State 1 were still in occupation of Belleeck. ' Strict orders were issued that Free State territory was not to he enter- ( ed unless fire was opened upon the troops while in Ulster. Water trans- ' port was arranged as the stretch of 1 road entering the town from the : south is in Free State territory. "The infantry divided into two columns, one column on each sida of Lough Erne. Armored cars were sent ahead to reconnoiter. These 1 were fired on from the Free State 1 while still in Ulster. The infantry 1 then advanced under a brisk fire from the north. The artillery shelled the fort and also the ridge to the J north, from which fire had been di rected on the northern column, and 1 Cliff House, the headquarters of the 1 forces occupying Belleeck. c "Our fire was very accurate, and , the enemy retired. At 1 o'clock this afternoon our advance column en tered Belleeck. Our casualties were one man slightly wounded. The enemy's casualties are unknown. "The fort was taken by a platoon | ^ of the Lincolnshire regiment which j ( captured the tri-color flying from j, the main wall. The wall was badly j damaged by six direct hits out of | twenty high explosive shells which were fired." THE ONLY LINCOLN MILITARY GUARD SURVIVOR, HELPS DEDICATE LINCOLN urMnniAi In command of the military guard at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the only survivor of the guard, Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. Gordon Kane, of Washington, D. C. eighty- ! two years of age, actively assisted in i the dedication ceremonies of the Lin coln Memorials on Decoration Day at Washington. in NfcnniTiiM Ill MLUUIinilUllU CHILE AND PERU UNABLE TO AGREE?RELIEVED IN WASH INGTON THAT UNITED STATES WILL HAVE TO TAKE PART Washington, June 8.?The Chile an-Peruvian conference brought its differences to so delicate a stage to day that some of those in closest r?r>?+aH- txrifh "hVio nwntiationS COn ceded privately that only mediation by the United States could avert an open brealc. Chile, replying at last to the Peruvian proposal for arbitration of the sovereignty of Tacna and Arica, maintained her traditional determination that a plebiscite must Kn iioiii in +V10 Hi?nnW "Drovinces as provided in the treaty of Ancon and consented only to arbitrate the con ditions under which the election should be carried into effect. The Peruviana not only flatly re jected that counter proposal, but de clined to transmit it to their gov arnTYionf. 'P-harcinc asrain that the provinces had been denuded of Peruvians, since the date of 1894 originally fixed for the plebiscite, a Peruvian spokesman declared to ac lept the Chilean plan would be nothing short of "a humiliating and shameful surrender for Peru.'" Confronted thus with a situation svhich had all the outward appear ances of a deadlock the delegations adjourned their joint session with-1 jut date, each side declaring it hadi iothinp further to surest now and :hat the next move must come from ;he other side. In some quarters there was a dis position to look upon this ;ole affirmative result of the four veeks of negotiations as opening) ;he door for mediation at once by :he Washington government. No >tep to ask for an exercisa of 'good offices" had been taken to_ light, however, and state depart ment officials remained quiet as to their intentions. There were many jvidences, however, that should both sides sow their willingness, Secre ;ary Hughes would step in and ;ry to bring the conference back to i definite basis of negotiation. MEMORIAL SERVICE Df Jno. H. Winder Division to be l-J ?l J Qnn/litr F voninrr The annual memorial services of .he Jno. II. Winder Division 498, B. >f L. E. will be held in the Opera louse Sunday evening, June 11th at > o'clock. The following program vill he carried out with probably a .CW t'llcUI^UO* 1. Hymn?All Hail the Power of Jesus Name. 2. Prayer?Rev. C. E. Peele. 3. Duet?Jesus Lover of My Soul, Miss Stark, and Mrs. J. D. Kerr. 4. Recitation?Our Heroes?By M;ss Mary Shaw Gilliam. 5. Roll Call of Deceased Brothers. 6. Response by Little Girls. 7. Solo?Life's Railway to Heav en?Mr. J. S. Cochran. 8. Address?Prof. J. D. Fulp. 9. Hymn?How Firm a Founda tion. LO. Sermon?Rev. H. L. Weeks. LI. Quartette. L2. Prayer?Rev M. R. Plaxco. 13. Hymn?God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again. 14. Benediction?Rev. G. M. Tel ford. The churches of the community lave very kindly consented to dis pense with the evening services and join in these memorial services. C. A. Haigler, H. B. Wilson, T. V. Howie, Mrs. Henry Gilliam, Mrs. L A. Stephens and Miss Ruth Howie have charge of the program. The public is invited to attend the exer cises. Major J. D. Fulp went down to Columbia today on business. PENDING MEASURE piTTERLY ATTACKED BY EXPERT. CRITIC WAS ADVISER TO PRESIDENTS ROOSEVELT AND TAFT New Orleans, June 8.?H. E. Miles of Racine, Wis., chairman of the National Tariff Commission and former tariff adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft bitterly attack ed the tariff bill now .pending in congress in an address here today before the 26th annual convention of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' asSocation. Mr; Miles declared that the tariff rate charged by the United States for the last SO years had been id.1 1-1? J biiuruugiuy uisiiuueai, auu es pecially hurtful to wage earners or people of small income. The country has lost and is still losing a large amount of foreign trade on account of the excessive tariffs, he said. The present high tariffs, he continued, have added at least ?2.000.000.000 to living costs in the country and he declared that if congress passes the tariff bill now ibefore it at least, $4,000,000,000 more will be added to the cost of living. He urged the cotton seed oil pro ducts manufacturers to take meas ures against the proposed tariff bill and to use their efforts with their representatives in congress to vote against the measure. President P. S. Grogan of the as sociation delivered his annual ad dress and reports from various committees were presented. MR. WARE PASSES THROUGH Joel Ware of Ninety Six passed through Abbeville this morning on his way to Athens to visit his sister,! Mrs. Kate Ware Winn who has re cently undergone an operation. COST OF COURT The cost of the June term of court for Abbeville County was about 5525. The fines collected for the violation of the prohibition law amounted to $475. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS; And Arranges County Campaign and Fix Assessments. The Democratic Executive com mittee met June the 7th at the Court House. A new voting precinct called | | Brownlee was established from the j school district of Brownlee. Another voting precinct called Watts is made of the Warrenton school district. The i j assessments of candidates were fixed j as follows: Probate Judge, $10; | Treasurer, $10; Auditor, $10; State! Senator, $10; and members of the House of Representatives, $10. Mag istrates of Abbeville, $5, and all oth- j er magistrates of the county $2.50, j assessments to be used for campaign expenses. 12 o'clock noon on July the 15th is the last day to file pledges and pay assessments. A motion to allow each club that voted in the last primary election less than 100 votes $1.50; clubs voting less than 200 to be allow ed $2.50; clubs voting over 200 votes I to be allowed $3.50 to pay for the voting booths, was passed. A motion was carried to pay the managers of c-lection $1.00 each day for the car rying out and the bringing in of the boxes. The dates for the County Cam paign meetings are as follows: Calhoun Falls, August 17th. Lowndesville, August 18th. Antreville, August 19th. Diip West. Auerust 24th. Donalds, August 25th. Abbeville, August 26th. The executive committee from each club is requested to send the names of three persons to act as managers of the election to the County Chair man Hon. J. Howard Moore. railway employees seek aid of president?read ers of workers who have been notified of reduc tions will appear Cincinnati, June 8.?(President Harding will be appealed to by the leaders of 1,200,000 railway work ers, part of whom have already re ceived wage cuts from the railroad labor board due July 1, in an effort to stave off further reductions in their envelopes, it was decided at a conference of rail union heads to night. Leaders of the 11 railway em ployees' organizations which Tues day decided to take a strike vote of their memberships agreed tonight to outline a letter to the president presenting their argument for high er wages, or at least no further re ductions. A committee of union exe cutives was appointed" by B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employees department of the Amer ican Federation of Labor to draft the letter. Approximately $100,000,000 will be lopped from the payrolls of the 400,000 shop crafts and the 500,000 maintenance of way men under or ders of the board July 1. The new rates of pay will range from 54 cents an hour for mechanics' helpers to 70 cents- for mechanics. The maintenance of way men will get from 23 to 33 cents an hour. These rates were branded as "starvation wages" by the union leaders ?hd it is their intention in the letter to President Harding to demand whether the country's chief executive thinks^ these wages suffici ent "to maintain an American stan dard of living and properly sustain a family." It is understood that the letter will contain specific figures, on what the railroad men consider an ade o.uate wage and will endeavor to re fute the position of the railroad la bor board as set forth in their re cent wage reduction decisions. The letter was only in tentative form to_ night, and may not be ready for transmission to Washington before tomorrow night union leaders said. Miss Gertrude Penney and Mrs. Charlie Schram were in the city shopping this morning. ' ' BREAKS CENTURY MARK IN CAMBRIDGE MEET Although the University of Cali fornia won the Inter-Collegiate track and field championships at Cambridge, Mass., recently, it was left to A1 Leconey crack runner of LaFayette to lower the time for the century run to 9 7-10 seconds. Le coney won both the 100 and 200 J J__l ~U?,TTr, A 1 T.O. yaru uasues. x uutu ouvno coney. EFFORTS MADE TO BRING OP ERATORS AND COAL MINERS TOGETHER WITH VIEW TO SETTLING STRIKE WITHOUT SUCCESS THUS FAR. Washington, June 8.?-Efforts of . the government to bring operators.' and miners together with a view-^to ; settling the coal strike now in pro- ' gress were disclosed for the first |j time today by Secretary Hoover- in J a statement sent to the senate in compliance with a resolution of iH- < quiry introduced recently "by Sena tor Walsh (Democrat) of Massachn- i setts. "Informally and repeatedly,": < Mr. Hoover's statement said, "sug- i gestions as to propositions on whidi Vj tho /1iann+on+o ?11 ? *? uii^uu wcu tviuct % and hope for a settlement have been made through the department of la bor and this department or both, bat thus far these suggestions have been without result." ,'ji The secretary prefaced his state-'; ment with the declaration that.the^ efforts had been made Ma 1m* > lief that "governmental agencies " have no legal authority to terminate * or intervene in the strike." Measurable success has been ob tained, however, Mr. Hoover add ed, in the government's effort to prevent large price increases re-> suiting from the industries tie-up?$ through informal conferences witi; the operators. iHe made the same? point clear in a telegram sent from.; Youngstown, Ohio, today to thai coal section of the commerce , de*1 Op partment in connection with press J reports that Senators Borah (Reputo.-; lican) of Idaho and Walsh (Demo-; crat) of Massachusetts had held' conference with a delegation of re tail coal dealers with a view to "re-3 straining" coal prices. '-'-ia "If congress will provide a bet- j ter emergency method," said the'j telegram "I will indeed be glad if they would do so, as 'the adminM strauon nas no power out persua^ sion and the willingness of the ma-J jority of the operators to cooperate;' In the meantime, as many retailers. 1 have upwards of 30 days' supply on; hand of pre-strike coal, much of it , from districts of short rail haul, 11 i hope the senators will get the re tailers to comply with my requ that the retailers do not mark up-; the price of this coal to the public."^ The report sent by Mr. Hoover to ^ the senate, answering the question | as to the department's mformatioa. i on "the present supply of mined j bituminous coal," said: ' "As there has been considerable^ j industrial recovery from the situa-g ! i _ - 1 Am j i xU ? m I i/ion of ljzi ana less acuviy ui<ami 1920," Mr. Hoover added, "ouri rough guess is that the total' con-J sumption from April 1- to June 4 J was about 65,000,000 tons. Upon J this data the stocks of coal remain-;] ing on hand for the week ending June 4 should be about 32,000,000^ tons and in addition coal in transit may amount to 10,000,000 tons." AN HONOR BOY * Blanding Holman of Batesburg is in the city spending a few days with his aunts, Mrs. J. Allen Smith, Jr. and Mrs. W. H. White. Blanding' is a young man of parts, having j finished this year at the Batesburg Grammar School and last year car-'J ried off the honors in the oratorical' contest. He has a distinguished" name to live up to. -ft COTTON MARKET Cotton on the local market brought 22 cents today. Futures closed , I July 22.03 3 October 22.02 'i December 21.88 January ? 21.72