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~Sect'ion One*~~~u t t eto n Pagft Ito 12 Pgst VOL. XL MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1920 FORDN[Y BILL FINDS SHARP OPPOSIIIQI Emergency Tariff Measure Not t Have Smooth Sailing. HOUSE AND SENATE SCENE OF BATTIA Representative Rainey Gives Minorit Report, in Which Plan for Legis lation Covering Ten Months I Subjected to Severe Criticism Far From Alone in Stand. Washingt8n, Dec. 20.-Presentatio of the Fordney emergency tariff bi in the house and decision of its sup porters to call it up for consideratio Wednesday was followed today b expressions of open antagonism bot in the house and senate. The oppc sition, hitherto manifest only to slight extent, was intensified by th filing of minority views by Represen tative Jkainey, Democrat, IllinoiE scat)ingly' denouncing the measur from bedinning to end and by deci sion of the senate Democratic steer ing committee .to resist hasty enact ment of any such legislation. Chairman Fordney of the- hous ways and means committee in re porting the measure, urged actioi not because it was perfect but be cause it was the best obtainable un der the circumstances. The repoi declared that remedial legislation wa urgently necessary to correct a sit uation which was described as rap idly becoming worse and likely t bring ruin to the agricultural indus try. For Ten Months The reading of the report disclose that the measure is made applicabl for a period of ten months from pas sage instead of the one yea'r perio previously fixed. Chairman Fordne $submitted with the report estimate of the treasury department showin that, on the basis of available im'poi figures, approximately $130,000,000 ,i revenue would be derived from th duties to be imposed under the meas ure. The commodities enuremated h the bill now, produce less than $5, 000,000 annuAlly. As finally approved and reporte to the house, the bill carried impoi duties on commodities which togeti er with the rates agreed to in con mittee and the estimated revenue t come therefrom follow: Proposed -Estimate Commodity. Duty Revenu Wheat, 30c bu -- --- ---- $1,109,52 Wheat flour, 20 per cent. - -657,90 Corn, 15e bu. ----..-....-.137,62 Beans, 2c lb. .------.....-3,091,76 Peanuts, unshelled, 3c lb. .. .642,54 Peanuts, shelled, 3c lb. - ....4,405,41 Potatoes, 25c bu. ---..-.._1,650,00 Onions, 40c bu. -- --787,04 Rice, cleaned, 2c lb. ._.--2,900.66 Rice, uncleaned, 1-4c lb .. .235,57 Fiour, meal and broken rice, 1-2c lb.._ . -. ..- ..- --- .5,03 Rice, unhulled, 3-4c lb. _.. .. .70,67 Lemons, 1 1-4c lb. .. -- 881,25 Oils, peanut, 25c gal - ,333,42 Oils, cottonseed, 20c gal .... 2,479,40 Oils, soy bean, 20c gal. .. - .. 3,837,00 Cattle,.30 per cent ......._. 5,851,50 Sheep, $2 a head- ---..-...-.-102,48 Lambs, $1 a head (no estimate) Muttom and iamb, 2 1-2c lb. .--1,656,70 Wool, unwashed, 1 5e lb. ... -.- 9,900,00 Wool, washed, 30c lb. ... .. 28,500,00 Wool, manufacturers of, 45e lb.- --..- --....--...11,250,00 Wool, scoured, 45c lb. ... - - 45,000,00 MNvdid8.........shrd letao shrdlu n Six Vote In Negative On the vote In the ways and mean committee on reporting the bill, tw Rtepublicans andl four Democrats vol e'd in the negative. The Rtepubl icana committee membeom were said to have opposed the bill o the ground that if tariff legislatio was to be enacted it should includ protection for manufactured commoc itles, few of whic hwvere allowved t remain in the final dIraft. This cot tention appleared to have gained som strength among representatives froi textile and other manufacturing dii tricts and is expected to precipitat heated dlebate. Representtative Kaul son, Rlepublicain, -Minnesota, chairma of the recently organized donferenrc of representatives from farming dit tricts, anid ho was sure there woul be bitter oppositIon from the urba representatives, but added: * "We members who see the need c the farmers for help are prepare for a battle royal. We think we ea muster 200 votes for the bill, and * rersonallyT serve notiee on those pec TOLEDO BANDITS CONTINUE RAID Woman Bound apd Gagged Whil Home Is Lo-ted of Vauabes. V Toedo, Ohio, Dec. 21.-Bandits coi tinued to terrorize Toedo citizens t< day, following a $16,500 iobbery laf - night at the offices of the Amer can Railway Express company i which ten guards were overpowere r by six masked men armed with shc - guns. Shortly before noon today thre automobile bandits kidnaped W. ( - Baldwin, a bookkeeper for the Olh Dairy company, and took him to th outskirts of the city, where the i threw him from their automobile al I ter robbing him of $650. Baldwin was seized while walkin i from his own automobile in tli V downtown section. A blanket wa 1 thrown around his head and he wa - lifted into the bandit's machine. 11 l, was on his way to a bank with th a money. - After being overcome with (!the: 1, Mrs. W. W. Simmons was bound an e gagged by two masked men who lool - ed her home of everything of valui The woman, who was alone whe - the bandits appeared, is said to be i I critical condition from the shoc e The authorities have been unabl - to pick up a clue to the identity c the six men vho robbed the expres - company, although a. diligent seare - of all hangouts for crooks has bee t in progress more than 24 hours. s - -0o STATE WAREHOUSES FULL OF COTTO More cotton is stored in stat warehouses over the state now tha in any previous time in the histor of South Carolina, the total numbe of bales being 144,000 yesterday, a< cording to J. Clifton Rivers, stat warehouse commissioner. The system no whas over 800 wart houses scattered over South Car< lina and these are filled to capacit, Each (lay several thousand bales aT added to the system while, of cours< some are taken out by sales, but th number being sold is small. Th previous record for the state systei was 58,000 bales as compared wit 144,000. t Mr. Rivers said yesterday that Ii had urged farmers to establish mot warehouses all during the summe and the campaign had been very su< cessful, yet many more of the house are needed to care fo rthe cotton. During the year the state war( houses will have handled over 250 000 bales of cotton, Mr. Rivers esti mates. Monday the receipts froi the various houses went above 4,001 Some days the receipts sexceed thi amount. CONN IS CAPTURED Washington, Dec. 21.-Isadoi (Nick) Conn, long sought by the p< 7 lice of New York, Washington an 2 other cities in connection with tI $5,000,000 bond theft conspiracy 4 Sa year ago in Wall street, was ai e restedl tonight at the union static D here while supposedly onc his wai 4 from Cleveland to New York. 2 o they will sweat blood before they g< 0 anything for their industries when comes to a permanent tariff unlec a thcy (do the fair thing now." 0 Fight in Senate Lu Against this came the statement< the senate Democratic steering con s mittee that they idl not regardl th 0 rlasure as an emergency propos. andI would demand that it be consit eredl by the fmnance committee In rei s ular order when it reaches the senata ni Senator Harrison Misissippji, D~em< nl crat, serve notice from the floor< e the senate that lie would oppose Li. -- bill. o "The Democratic party," he de - elared, "can not afford to stultify i e self at this time umponi so important ni questionl Of principle as that wvhie - the tariff prioposals involve." o "Let me say to my friend from Mic sissippi," Senator Thomas, Democra n Colorado, interjected, "that I sympc o thize with his view, and between 11 - we may be able to keep some part. dI the D)emocratic party in line." a Representative Ra iney,,*in present ing minority views, warned of dar f ge which, he saidl, would beset ti ai business of the country should th n emergency measure pass. lie declare I that the measure amounted to an ent bargo and that it would "Inevitabi t lnad to retalintory tnctics." "NUB"'. COMES AGAIN WITH A GOOD LETER Starting our second chapter on the economic situation of our country we t wish 'to state in the outset that we (10 not expect to advance the price of cot ton, neither lumber,'nor do we expect n tb run wages back up to the highest dI pitch. Of course there are some rea t sons why cotton should advance in e price, but surely some of the good far lmers who believe that some of the "lords" in the U. S. Senate control the o price fixing of cotton will get busy e iwith such "a cotton lord," and have the price regulated. Of course we (10 not agree with such an argument, but we have heard so many people give a certain senator so much credit as to g the above we sometimes wonder if this e nan is still in the Senate and cotton s selling on our streets at five cents a 1pound, which cost, without any doubt, s several times that price to make, yet e such is the fact. e Going bi k even one year, it was declared by our best business people that should we ever have low prices 1and a scarcity of money again, it d would be many years; that with all the wealth this country had, which wias said to be about one third of the whole n world, it would be impossible. While it is even said today: just take America that we have more money i. than ever before, real, honest-to-good e ness cash, in the United States as fithere is today. This country has been growing in wealth by leaps and s bounds, because we have the best h educated people in the world, the most n moral people, the most humane people, people with more initiative than ob tained among any other people on earth. Then we have a country whose uinlimited natural resotirees represent wealth untold. We were coming to the mastership -of the wealth of the world before the war. It is said in Q 1913 this country produced $14,000, Of ,000 more than it consumed. Then ater the war came on with the ur Y gent appeal to produce our production r wias increased and in 1917 we produced $18,000,000,000 more than we consum e. And we loaned to the nations of Europe in excess of $30,000,000,000. With the exception of some $3,000, - 000,000 this money remained in Ameri en and was spent by the borrowers in our markets which (lid not take the money out of our country; surely thiis c money is still here, and since the close !, of the war it is said that hundreds of e, millions of gold has been sent in the e United States by foreign countries as payments on their debts. While IC is saisl naturally a recon 1 structed period must follov after a world's conflict as did after our own e Civil War of 1861-1865, which was e about ten years duration when our money went down fifty cents on the r (ollar. But we expect to get through the present reconstruction period in s side of three years when our money will be at a premium the world over. And instead of laying off or throw ing out of employment the boys and girls who served you hard and faith ful during the past three years and made thousands and thousands of dol Jars for their employers, keep them employed. It is hard to be shoved out Oin the cold in a depren.Uned condition as now exists which we are compelled to believe will be of short duration and that we shall soon enter into nany years of intense prosperity when we won't have men and women enough to -e Supply the demand for help for we are going to he the h,ucdint nu-nnl that ' humanity has ever known andl perhaps d the richest. So let us go to it build and equip lo and prepare ourselves for a future, f somewhat rich in development as well ,as in pirodluction, good business, rea - sonable profits, living wages, lots of n work wvith the profiteer's eliminated, cheerfulness, courage, opt imisnm fill 'ting every nook and corner oif the American continent and let's hang our banners on the outer wvalls andl sound the t runmpets of trtiumph and success t will surely be ours. Who says amen ? R1ev. 'T. E. Morris, the beloved pas tnr of the Methodist church, lhsa been af suffering considerably for the past three weeks wvith a carbuncle on the back of his neef<, and wans taken to a hospital in Charleston latst week for ltreatmnlt. A repor't from the hos -~ ptab authorities say the ope(ra tion e was a success and lie is slowvly im pr )Ioving which is gratifying news to his manyv friends here. Mr. J1. A. I lunsucker, who has beeni with C. M. D)avis Son & Company as *salesman for the past few years, will leave January 1st for Hennettsville where he has a position with A. C. L,. Rail road Company. C Mrs. WV. J. Glodwin and son Luke spe(nt last week-end with relatives and friends in Scranton. Maniy complinientary remiarks are being heard of our' new supervisor and a his emclient co-workers for the good h wvork that he has (lone on the roads in this section of the county since as sumaing the oflice of county supervisor. Among those mientionedl for Magis Strate to suceceed the late Major A. J. L- Richbourg are his son Henry A. Rich s bourg, W. D. Carson and L. A. Brun son. Mr. Abe Ridgill (of tho U. S. Navy is home to spend the holiday wvith re latives. .There was a show ini town Fridlay and Saturday of last week andl per e haps carried off a good bit of "change" e that wouldl have (lone sonie of our (1 merchants or doctors some good who ihave been helping wve poor and needy folks along during the depr'essed Y time. .While the folks wei'e on their Iway to church Sunday a. mn. the ahow BRADHAM HOG FARM SALE N[XT TUESDAY Forty-two So*a and Open Gilts Will IHe Auctioned Off-Clarendon Farmers Should Stock Up Now. Next Tuesday, Decemebr 28th, the Bradham Duroc Farm will hold their ieconl sale of the year. At 12 o'clock A Barbecue Dinner will be served to all the out-of-town people attending the sale. At 1 o'clock Auctioneers Co!. 11. L. Iglehart of Elizabethtown, Ky., A11d Col. F. D. Iengst of Louisville, Ky., will commence the sale of 42 Bred Sow- and Open Gilts. These -;ows have been bred to champion aoars 4uc11h as Jack's Friend 7th and Fancy Dlrion Chief, both of which are from rize-wilnning stock and both of these )oars have taken many ribbons them selves. ihe Bradham Duroc Farm is known il over the South for the quality of 1he hogs it is turning out. The Duroc log is on a pedestal When it comes to stamina and meat. Many packing louses have demonstrated the quality >f the Duroc meat over other breeds >f hogs and the cost per pouni1d is be vond comparison. Clarendon with its thousands of Icres of fertile land is an ideal county ror hog production. Its nearness to the big markets of the South is an aher item in its favor. So we be lieve that it would be a great thing for our farmers to purchase these Durocs and start ill with a few sows. It is only a hiuestion of a short time mitil the ir'irease Would justify the imvestment. On account of the low price of cot [oll and to give the farmers a chance who really want to buy these hogs the management of The Duroc Farm ire offering these logs on the follow img terms: 10 per cent cash and a 'ote for the balance due October 1st., 1921. To those who pay all cash a liscount of 7 per cent will be given. With these terms we cannot see how it would be possible to pass 01) this )pportun ity of securing pure-bred prize-wiming animals. We hope to see a large attendance >f our Clarendon farmers at this sale m next Tuesday, December 28th at 1 o'clock p. ill. --0 TIIREE MEET )EATH 4 Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 21.--Ollie laitheock and his sister, Mrs. Floyd Whitt, were instantly killed, and an 3ther sister, Miss Ada Haithcock, fa tally injured, and George Whitt, brother-in-law of Mrs. Floyd Whitt, badly hurt this afternoon at 2:2. >'clock at Buffalo Creek crossing, rix imiles east of Greensboro, whein the tutoillobile ill which they Were riding was struck by Southern railway train No. 16, Greensboro to Raleigh, Miss Flaithcock was brought here and died in a local hospital at 6 o'clock this 'veiing. All of those ini the car were rrom Burlington, N. C. 'rowd were leaving the city. Mr. J. C. Guilds, President of Co lumbia College, visited Summillertonl Sunday and gave us two very strong anlld helpful addresses. Ile ICpo kE to the Men's Bible Class at the Metho list church on the lessons of the Christlas oceasioni and then later he addressed the mlorniig coigregationl on the subject of tle imprtanilce of Christin edulcation. The school will close oil Wednest'i .yV a fternoon, 22nd(, for the Chlristmas hiolithiys' and1( work will be resumed on1 Tuesday a. in. .January 4Ith. The sixth and1( seventh grade r'ooms, uinder Miss Van Land11inlgham ilnd10 Miss G;lascock, had( 13 iparets aniy last 1idaiy intl (juite ai numlber ofi parieiits spenlt a whlile withl the schlool children. Thie high school boys and1( girls aire t(o give a play, ''A Case of Suspen siln,'' unlder' the dIirect ion tof Miss Cook. This will be given tin Tues lay even~ling, 21st, at 7:30 and1( the p~roc'eedls will be turnued over to t he library fund. AlIreadly about $175.00 has1 been I'alisedt for botok s and thIIis p~lay will make it poissible to add mail terially to tile small collection1 of books already in hand. Plans1 for t he enlaigiung of the play groundl ale also( under' discuspion and0 it is hoped tilatI several acres of land adIjacenit to the present. ground~ ('an( be secured. It. is the hope of those ill charge (If the school1 that. it mal~y lie possible some1 timel ini tile near1 future to cenltralize the rural schlool wtirk inl adjacent commlunities I(ilt'n stronIig well-maled school in a central loca tionl and1( th us give all the adlvanitagesi that comei from a longer termll and1 bet ter mnannled schlool. Already this year' one or two oif thet smilaller schoo05 ls ave bI(en forced to ulose andt the pupils hav(' had to suf fer because of a lack of oplportlimity to rttendl school. If thei'( were cooplera-1 tionl in thesie mlatters this need not 11e. Thie oml1pulIsory attendance terml will begin mn the Summer'ton school 31n the 4thl of January 1921. All chlil tIren oif school0 age undter 14 ai'e re quiriedl to atteiid schoo1l at. least 4 months in the year. Wishinlg the e'ditor' and1 his emei(itt ro-wor'kers and the read~ers (of The Times a nmerr'v Chr'istmlas and1 a pros perousi New Yeark hligh heaped with all the good things of life. "NUtil" POLICE SEARCH FOR CRIMINALS Patrolmen Ordered to Shoot Every Mat Who Attempts to Escape. New York, Dec. 21.-Arim.i with repeating rifles, 20 sharpshooters of the New York police force tonight scoured the city in automobiles in a hunt for bandits. Each sharpshooter, a picked man fro mthe police rifle squad, was ac complanied by three lcdetectives and a uniformed patrolman. Under orders to shoot every suspect who attempted to escape them the men searched the highways and byways of the city throughout the night. Other drastic measures to curb New York's crime wave which today swept beyond the city's. border into nearby New Jersey towns were launched by police officials and judges. Removal of Police Commis sioner Enright was proposed in a resolution introduced at a meeting of the board of aldermen. The reso lution was tabled, however. Similar action was taken on a resolution to appoint a special committee to inves tigate the police department and re port to Governor-elect Miller and on another to request the police commis sioner to furnish the board with in formation concerning all tirrests made in New York city during 1920. An increase in the police force of 769 men was authorized by the board of estimate and in order to provide funds for paying the extra patrolmen an issue of special reve nue bonds in 1921 was approved. Judge McIntyre of the court of gen eral sessions ordered 150 persons now on bail of from $1,500 to $10,000 on robbery charges to appear tomor row when he said, their bails will be increased. In five cases today men previously released on bail for simi Tar charges were held in $25,000 each. New Jersey police, aroused by to day's crimes --a man attempted bank robbery in Milltown, the chloroform ing and robbing of a girl and two holdups--gave orders that all tube stations and ferries in Jersey City he kept under guard to prevent the influx of criminals driven from New York. -----------O- ----- PlEAS OF G171;l1'Y IN PHILIl'PINES Manila, Dec. 21.-Seventy members of the Philippine constabulary plead ed guilty here today on charges of sedition in connection with the riot with Filipino military police last Thursday night which resulted in I I deaths. I Seven other constabulary men ar rested in connection with the riot pleaded not guilty. iearing of the cases of the seven pleading not guilty was set for Jan uaitry 3. SenoIZc upol t le 70 plead ing guilty will not he pronounced iuntil the trial of the other seven is completed. The maximumi penalty for sed itioni ini ten yea rs' im prison mint. Mfurder charges against the constabul ary meni will not be tried un t i the sedlit ion charges are 4dis posed of. A ttoirneys for the defense 'i nonineed the const abula ry men moulId pleadl not guilty to t he mu rder charg~es, uand the case would lhe fiought th rough thle highest cou11rt s if neces C'omphiits were tiled yeste4rday ini t he courit of the Iirist instance c-harig in g the 77 constabulary men with aissmantionm and 'onispiracy in con nectioni with the fatal riots. Al A RINS. TO GV E I'P' Wash ington, IDec. 2L i -Formal suc. render of Ludwig C. A. K. Martein, self styled Russian Soviet ''amabassa dor")' t~o thle United States to the (ie 1-artmnenlt of labor January 3 was de c ided on at. a conference here t olhv between department ofliial s an-l colunsel for Martens. Formal ord4er for the dleportiiat ioni of the Bolshevik envoy will be mad' on Janua ry 3 by the immniigration au thorities, and at the sa me timnie coun sel for Martens is expectedl to applly to the cour t for a writ of habeas corn pusi to( stay the deportation. Miss Gertrude IHailey returned home Friday from D~anvil'e, Vam., foi he Christias holidays. Mrs. J. C. Land died at Foreston this mo- ning at. 7 o'clock. Funeral services win be held tomorrow morning at. 11 o'clock with inte'rment in Foreston MANY HIGH OfFICIALS PROFITE[R[D IN COAL C(shinig Tells Senlate m0111mnitt e of -lleged Ope-ration on Part of Officials. $600,000 PROFIT MADE ON DEAL No Names of Men to Be Announced Until Investigation Is Completed. Washington, Dec. 21.---Charges that government officials joineld in coal profiteering during the period of shortage last summer were rade by George 11. Cushing, managing director of the A merican Wholesale Coal Asso ciation, testifying under oath today befori a Senate investigating commit tce. Ii ai executive session the comn. mittee, according to Senator Calder, Republican, New York, its chairman was furnished by Mr. Cushing with the name11 of, onle manl Said to have been a principal in an operation by which a group of men in government service obtained 450,000 tons of coal, which they sold later at a profit of $600,00o. Railroad officials and one army officer also participated in the pro'i4-making, Mr. Cushing was said by Chairman Calder to have charged. This phase of Mr. Cushing's testi money before the committee overshad owed the rest of his statement, which was to the effect that the coal short age last summer was due to. "panic" and largely caused by statements of the Interstate Commerce Commisison, the Geological Survey, the Railroad Administration, and the Senate Inter state Commerce Commission telling the consuming public about a coal shortage this winter. Morrow on Stand .1. A. ). Morrow vice president of the National Coal Association an or ganization of operators, the office rec ords of which wvere examined last week by the Senate committee, took the stand late in the day and began a denial of the "panie" theory ad vanced by Cushing to explain the shortage. Mr. Morrow was excused until tomorrow when the committee took Mr. Cushing into executive ses sion. Chairman Calder at the close of the executive session recounted a part of Mr. Cushing's statement, saying that no name would he made public by the committee until investigation of the charges was completed. Certain officials, it, was said Cushing testi fied, were able to secure information as to communities where shortage con(ditions were particularly feared and possessed information as to the effects of priority orders on the fur nishing of coa! cars. These officials also were said to have obtained in formation as to coal in transit and to have been able to obtain supplies which cotild he diverted to more lucrative markets. One "pool" named by Cushi ng. Sena tor tCalder sa id, in volved 60,000 tons while other opera tions were Siaid to have bteen initi inat ed. Tlhe govern men t officials named by ('ushing was said by the witniess toi have resignte dsomne time ago. ltailroad (OllicialIs .Join Mir. (Cushing, in the opten sessioin, said that railroad oflicials had joined in the profit making "by diverting sh ipmnents going over their own rails to ntew destinationis," lbut refused to give the tnames excep1t in confidence, "becuse myi V mh rak iing lays arc o(ver."' On the subject of the .shurtage last: snmmer, the wvitness said it "'had re.. leased the worst 'lemoents in human "The statemineats ofI puli. otlicialIs of impending fuel famine this winter,'' he said, "dtidn't c'auise the hiigh prices, lbut gave the opportunity' for thenm.'' As to the condlitioni t oday, he ion. tendIed that "'anybody can buy coal al most at his ownr price."' a nd remarked that "'if the ra ilrondu lold tup, and there isn 't. any resump lt ion of WVorld Warm i, A mer'ican s can forget t hey have ai coal prttoblemi for 25 years. Pro dulction would exceedl all known r'ee o'rds, he said, if nmaintainedl at the presentt r'ate until A pr'il I, wvhen the coal year enids.'' Mr. Morrow toldl the cormmitteec there was an "'aetuaol shortage of 20,000,000 tons in produiction last. spring, aris ing from the coal strike of 1919 and the stikes on the railroads.'' Senator IEdge, llpublicain, New JTersey, p~ro ('ceded to question the assertioin, but it was left for final settlement tomor