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THE LAWMAKERS OFh SOUTH CAM s ii ' WHITMAN BILL KILLED IN THE jj SENATE; AIMED AT HIGHWAY r COMMISSION ACT. | I t BOTH HOUSES ARF BUST : f( a Upper House Upholds State System ti of Roads in Slaughtering Meas- s ure?Other Matters. u H b Columbia. 0 The senate killed the Wightman bill ^ to allow the supervisor and county n commissioners of Saluda county to u use 80 per cent of the automobile a license fund in the county, at their c discretion. H By the killing of tie Saluda bill j, the senate refused to disrupt the state ^ highway act and thus begin an under- n mining of the highway commission, w according to several senators who t spoke against the measure. The sen- ^ ate was apparently surprised at itself s as the bill drew forth a long debate, 8 but when the vote was reached the g balloting was overwhelmingly against j the measure. The vote was 24 to 11 t to strike out the enacting words, this ^ being on the motion of Senator Young ^ of Charleston. p The concurrent resolution offered j. by Mr. Mclnnes in the house provid- c ing for conferences between the rail- j. road and highway commissions during v the year in an effort to derive a plan c to eliminate dangerous grade cross- c ings was slaughtered by a vote of 26 s to 6. Senator .Wightman moved to j strike out the resolving words and j. after a short debate pro and con the r resolution was killed. j Senator Hubbard's joint resolution c to prohibit the planting of cotton in t South Carolina for one year in order x to eradicate the boll weevil was killed t on a viva voce rote. This resolution would not have taken effect until sim- t ilar laws had been passed by s Louisiana. Georgia, Alabama and a North Carolina, but the senate did not r think the bill to be along the right r line3. Senator Moore moved to strike v out the resolving words and this was s done. t The senate likewise situck oui me ? resolving words of the Elerbe con- s current resolution asking the tax com- j mission to lower the assessments on v land by 25 (per cent. The resolution v was characterized as "confusing and u useless." Senator McGhee moved to a strike out the resolving words and the ote was 14 to 8 to kill the resolufion. y By a vote of 16 to 15 the senate killed the Simonhoff marriage licer/e v bill to require all males to pres/.nt 0 % certificates from reputable physicians c that they were free from venereal r diseases before they could procure 0 marriage licenses. The senate also passed and return- t ed to the house the university trus- v tee bill enlarging the board of trus- jtees of the University of South Caro- p Una to 21 elective members by 1926. s One amendment adopted by the sen- r ate merely changes the years as the v bill wr.i Introduced last year and $ this clerical change was necessary. r but a last minute amendment offered by Senator McGhee to provide that no s member of the general assembly shall t be eligible to be elected a trustee j under the terms of the act may pro- j voke opposition in the house. The ( senate agreed to the amendment. f By a vote of 26 to 10 the senate t adopted a resolution at the beginning j ? * xttrinnr oil tVm ro \'onno oi me seasiuu "6 a" >?>vi?.v measures now before the body and those yet to come right of way over all matters, with the exception of local, uncontested matters. Later an attempt was made to get up the income tax bills for the purpose of sending them to third reading with the understanding that the debate come then, and this brought on considerable debate as to the advisability of such procedure. The brokers' license tax bill, a new* comer among the series of revenue measures in the house, was reached on the calendar, but action on it was delayed on the objection of Julius S. Mclnnes of Darlington. Jesse S Leopard of Pickens is the author of the bill. Duplicate bills were introduced in the house and senate to provide for the transfer and annexation of 8.900 acres of Lexington county territory to Richland county and to ^lter the county lines so as to eonforih thereto, r The bills *re sponsored by the RichI land county delegation. ^ k The territory affected by the bills | lies in the extreme northeastern cor ner of Lexington county, fourteen j square miles of territory make up the plot, which is bounded by Broad river y on the east and north, on the south by t Richland and Lexington counties and on the west by Newberry county. r The house also refused to concur in the amendments of the senate on the P gasoline and inheritance tax bills. ( The senate insisted on its amend- e ments and a free conference committee consisting of Senators Johnson. ^ McColl and Laney was appointed for j the inheritance tax measure on the < part of the senate. 0 An unfavorable report was made by ^ the finance committee on the bill by ? Senator Wells to require state col- j, leges and other state institutions as f well as county supervisors to purchase supplies from the home mar- j, kets where practicable. ( Two New Charters. p, Boney & McCormick of Columbia whs chartered by the secretary if s'ate. with a capital stock of $1,000. v "he firm will engage in a general h brokerage business. Officers are: D. C R Bonev. president: D. L. McCormick. u vice-president and treasurer; J. L. V Or^en. secretary. e The Klloree Canery. incorporated, 1 - ..1 1 J ?:?u ? i. ol tiiioree. w,i? cuanereu wmi a ??? ?- i< * Ital stock of $500 Officers are J. K. G rimer. president: D. E. Keller, rice- li ? president; P. P. Hungerpillar. secre- P tary and treastimr. It The ultimate passage by the house f the Sheppard-ikuuett "bad check" ras foreshadowed when the house. Iter considerable discussion of the leasure pro and con. sent the bill o third reading by an overwhelming lajority. The one test vote taken howed a majority of 73 to 34 favorag the measure, and the bill is ejected to encounter little, if any, oposition when it comes up for third ending. The bill, which was first introduced ist year with the idea of supplying eeth to the check law of the state, rovides "that it shall be unlawful nd felonious for any person in his wn name, or as an attorney in fact ar any other person or persons or s an officer or agent of any corporaion or unincorporated association, ociety or company, to obtain money r other property of any kind or naure whatever, with fraudulent intent y means of a check, draft or order, f which such person is maker or rawer, or which, though he is not laker or drawer, he, with like intent, tters or delivers or aids or abets nother to utter or deliver. If such heck, draft or order is not paid by he drawee, the person making, drawng or uttering the same shall be eemed guilty of the larceny of such loney or property or thing of value btaiced on such credit, and the fact bat such maker or drawer did not ave on deposit with the bank, peron, firm or corporation upon which uch check, draft or order is drawn, ufficient funds to pay the same in ull when presented, shall, as against he maker or drawer of such check, Iraft or order, be prima facie evilence of fraudulent intent, and any ierson so convicted shall be punished iy fine or imprisonment in the disretion of the court. Provided that t such check, draft or order be paid, nth costs and interest, upon "notice, ir at any time previous to the trial ir examination of such person, or if uch person be not tried or examined, f such check, draft or order be paid lefore indictment by a grand jury, 10 such presumption shall arise: 'rovided, further, that if the amount >f the check, draft or order be less han $20, the offense may be triable vithin the jurisdiction of the magisrate's court." Prospects for an adjournment of he general assembly within the conititutional 40 days look rather slim it present with the senate legislative nill grinding exceedingly slow in com >arison to the house. Those in touch vith the inner workings of the asembly seem to think that several exra weeks will be necessary unless more gas is turned on" and the mill peeded up. One official said that f much more speed was not shown rithin the next week he was con* inced the two bodies would be here intil April 1. That, however, is prob* .bly a little far-fetched. iighway Engineer Resigns. Charles H. Moorefield, state highway engineer, has placed in the hands f the chairman of the state highway ommission, R. Goodvyn Rhett, hi8 esignation, effective at the pleasure f the commission. Mr. Moorefield's action grows out of he construction put upon a letter written by him to Thomas H. Mac)onald, chief of the federal bureau o! mblic roads, a copy of which was ubmitted to members of the ways and neans committee of the house last reek, when highway matters were unler consideration before that com* nittee. , Certain leaders in the general as* embly have insisted that such a let or was an indiscretion on the port of dr. Moorefield. In tendering his resgnation to Mr. Rhett. chairman of he highway commission, Mr. Mooreield expressed his willingness to reire if his elimination would harmonze elements here that have been op osing the highway department and ts program. It is understood that cerain leaders in the house and the sente have assured Governor Cooper hat Mr.Moorefield's retirement would liminate the fight on the highway lepartment. Charles O. Hearon, of Spartanburg, nember of the state highway comnission, who was in Columbia recenty expressed surprise at the turn the lght on the state highway department lad taken in the demand for the resgnation of Mr. Moorefield, state highray engineer. It is possible, he said, hat Mr. Moorefield's letter might have >een an indiscretion, but in no way inlicated disloyalty or lack of interest n the development of highways in Jouth Carolina. , Appointments by Governor. Governor Cooper has made the folowing appointments: B. M. Hardy, rural policeman for 'larendon county. G. M. Brannon, magistrate at Har[eeville. Jasper county. J. D. Feldnr, J. G. Rhoad and T. H. barter, supervisors of registration for tamberg county. J. L. Reeder. W. M. Cobb and J. V. Bowen. supervisors of registration or Oconee county. D. E. Godbold. magistrate at Maion. vice C. B. Whilden. resigned. Miss Clare Jervey and A. J. Moorer, upcrvisors of registration for 'harleston county, vice W. B. Mitch11 and G. S. McDowell, resigned. J. T. Scott. J. W. Johnson. W. R. Jilchrist. W. T. Strom. J. P. Talbert. j. W. Ridlehover, W. B. White and \ R. Edmunds, members of the board f equalization for McCormick county. ,Tr. Edmunds succeeds W. H. Palmer. W. J. Condon, a member of the >oard of assessors for the city of 'harleston. ward 11. vice M. P. Clair. H. D Hartman. a member of the ioard of assessors for the city of "harleston. ward 3. vice A. J. Kealey. James Delegates to Harbors Meet. Delegates of the 17th annual conontion of the national rivers ted arbors congress were appointed by lovernor Cooper. The convention .ill be held at the New Willard hotel, Washington. March 1 and 2. The delgates are G. A. Guignard. Columbia; \ C. Williams. Colembla; D. L. Sonk?r, Charleston: A. F. McKissick, ireenville; r.right Williamson. Darngton ; Nells Christensen. Beaufort; I A. Hagood. Charleston; C. V. Boy- ! In M. Rutlec'ge Rivers, Charleston. | > <*$ J* ' .. V 1?Judge Theodore Brentano of C Guardsmen patrolling Newport, Ky., officers at Boiling Field, Washingtoc NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Arms Conference Ends and Its First Results Appear in an Order by Denby. / STOPS WORK ON BIG SHIPS Pope Pius XI Is Crowned in St. Peter's Basilica?Secretary Weeks Shows Flaws in Ford's Muscle Shoals Offer?Devising Revenue for Soldiers' Bonus. B>} EDWARD W. PICKARD Achievements of the conference on armaments signalize a new era of understanding In which prepar euness ior war win yieiu iu murui yitr paredness for peace, said President Harding to the delegates ut their lust session ou Monday. "Your achievement is supreme," he continued, "because no seed of conflict has been sown ; no reaction in regret or resentment ever can justify resort to arms. You have written the first deliberate and effective expression of great powers, in the conscientiousness of peace, of war's utter futility, and challenged the sanity of competitive preparation for each other's destruction." Although the President made no reference directly to the hope he had previously expressed that an association of nations would come from the conference, he predicted a continuance ol international discussion to carry forwurd the work. Before Mr. Harding made his address the five treaties agreed upon by the conference were formally signed nnd when the President concluded Secretary of State Hughes declared the conference adjourned sine die. Now it is up to the United States senate to put the stamp of approval on the work accomplished by the conference. President Harding indicated that he would transmit to it without delay the treaties, and the steering committee of the senate, which met witty liim Tuesday evening, promised that they should have the right of wnj until tlie tariff bill is reported. The debate probably will be prolonged, bui there seems little reason to doubt thai the treaties will be ratified. The first tangible results of the conference appeured Wednesday, when Secretary of the Navy Denby, undei direction of the President, ordered the suspension of work on eight battleships und six battle cruisers now under construction, pending finul octlor on the naval treaty. When the treat} has been ratified the contracts for the ships will be canceled. The building operations stopped by Secretary Denby's order have been costing the government about $5,000,000 a month. 01 the eight battleships, one will be completed later?either the West Virginia or thp Washington. The Colorado which is almost completed and is not included In the list, also will be flm ished. Two of the battle cruisers arc to be completed as airplane carriers. Of the foreign countries represented in the conference the only one where there seems to be any organized oppositlon to the treaties is Japan. Buron Sakamoto is leading the opposition in the house of peers and criticized severely the agreements reached. I'rc mier Takahashi and his ministers met the attack ably. The premier said that the government did not claim the conference was an unquulitled success, viewed from an Individual standpoint but that it did believe, with the other powers, that the agreements reached were the first step toward a real und lusting peace and would lead to a future understanding for the total abolition of defense equipments. Japan, like the United States, has stopiied construction work on Its new capital ships. AC1IILLE RATTI, who was cardinal archbishop of Milan, was crowned pope under the name of I'ius XI on February 11!. llis ascension PLANNING TO RETAIN POWER Opponents; of President Irigoyen ol A r-?~i a n f ini Prinn Ar.ru. " a sations Against Him. Iiuenos Aires.?Charges that President Irig iyen is planning to keep himself in power by postponing tlie national elec'lon, which otherwise would be held on April 12. are made by leaders of the opposition parties. There is a constitutional prohibition against a president succeeding himself in of hlcngo, appointed minister to Hungary. 2to suppress rioting in connection with stri i, playing volley ball In the snow, dressed in to the pnpal throne In St. Peter's basilica and assumption of the triple crown was accompanied by all the < stately ceremony that has grown up < about the crowning of a pope through I i the centuries of the Catholic church's t history. 1 Since the new pope Is an acknowl- 1 edged liberal and one of the group ' that supported the policies of Benedict 1 XV looking toward a reconciliation be- ] tween the church and the Italian gov- i ernraent, it may be that resumption of i relations will come during his reign, i This, though not especially desired by ! other European governments, is strongly favored by many prominent Italian Catholics. They believe the ( , church would greatly benefit beenuse | the pope would be free to visit other | countries. Americans in Itome hope | that Pius XI may even conte to this , country, the first pope ever to visit the | new world. ] Cardinal O'Connell was decidedly | vexed because the choice of a pope ( was made by the sacred college before | ? he and the other American cardinals . could reach Itome, and there is talk 4 of changing the papal constitution so that tills cannot happen in the future. The. incident may also be responsible for the report that two more American . cardinals are to be created-.goon. The . archbishops mentioned in this connection are Mundeleln of Chicago and Hayes of New York. HENRY FORD'S offer for the taking over of the government's 1 nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals was re' ferred to the agricultural committee of the senate. Acceptance of the offer ' was urged by Senator Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader, and it was predicted the committee would recoyimend it. Rut in the horse tnilli tary affairs committee the Ford proposition was having hard sledding. Secretary of War Weeks was called there as a witness nnd his testimony must have been rather saddening to the au tomobile magnate. It was thus suni' niarized by a Washington correspond, ent: I That Ford will pay $.",000,000 for 1 that portion of the Muscle Shoals project wmcn nns aireuuy cost me , i government $106,000,(XX). , I That the government, to complete ( the project, must spend $40,0(K),000 to ] I $50,000,000 additional, which Ford will , : repay under exceedingly liberal terms. ( ; That tlie government can realize be- | ; tween $8,000,000 and $16,000,000 snlv- , I age on tbe project which Ford wants | t to buy for $5,000,000. > That the government can realize , t more for the Warrior river plant and , I neighboring property tban Ford is ( willing to pay for the entire Muscle j . Shoals undertaking. ! In reply to a direct question as to , what lie would do with the offer if he . were a member of congress, the secretary said he would vote to accept it j . if he thought certainly it would proi duce cheaper fertilizer for the farm- ' > era, but that he was greatly in doubt t as to this, and he believed Ford and ; his engineers also were uncertain of it. He added that he would soon submit to congress two other offers for Muscle ' Shoals. TENTATIVE estimates of the cost of the proposed soldiers' bonus ' : place it at $350,(XX),000 a year, and the Republican members of the house ways ! and means committee spent a lot of time last week discussing how this I wus to be obtained. President Hari ding made it clear to the leaders that the bill must Include a provision for i the raising of the necessary revenue, ' i and thnt it must not be too oppressive 1 on the public; he agreed with Secre- ! tary Mellon that a bonus based on for- ' eign bonds Is out of the question. LlkeI wise, the plan of raising money by any i t form of general sales tax Is going Into 1 , the discard, for a majority of the Re- 1 , publicans evidently are opposed to It. I Consequently the mnjorlty members of I I the committee have agreed that varl- < I ous miscellaneous taxes shall be Ira- ' posed, but have not yet decided Just 1 what these shall be. Chairman Ford- 1 ney favors an lncrenseu tax on totiac- I ; co and cigurettes, u tax on real es- I ' tate transactions and a light tax on j stock and bond transfers. Other mem- ' hers urged taxes on gasoline and bank s checks, a federal automobile license t i tax based on horsepower, and an in- t i crease in tirst and second cluss post- i age rates. 1 | lice, but President Irigoyen's oppo- * nents allege that lie Intends to evade i f it by delaying the election by some < manufactured excuse. I They see proof of their charges in * the fact that the radical party, which ' now controls the government, lias > . | failed to announce a dale for I's convention to nominate a presidential can- < 1 didate. They openly say that the j radical party plans to continue the de- t > lay and that no candidate will lie noin- | Inated. t Dr. Francisco J. Iieazley, chairman | ( - |po- TV^'"'' IJ ?Army taaks manned by National ke of steel mill workers. 3?Army bathing suits. IN ORDER to relieve the congestion in the federal courts, the senate juliciary committee has decided to recommend an Increase of 13 in the num ler of United States Judges. These lew Judgeships, according to the plan tvlll iro one each to the following dis :rlcts: Massachusetts, eastern New fork, southern New York, easterc Pennsylvania, northern Texas, eastern Michigan, northern Ohio, middle Ten lessee, northern Illinois, Minnesota lorthern California, northern Georgil ind Arizona. ALTHOUGH the United States hna not accepted, and Is not likely to iceept the invitation to take part in the economic and financial conference in Genoa next month, preparations fdi the opening of the meeting are being made by the Italian government. All the city's hotels and others along the Italian Riviera as far as ltapallo are leing requisitioned, rapid transporta tlon and communication arranged and the ancient palace put In order for the fittings of the conference. Baror Avezzuno, formerly ambassador to the United States, Is general secretary Ir charge of local arrangements, and Pre mier Bonoml, though he has resigned Is devoting most of his time to the affair, pending the appointment of his successor. If America avoids this conference It will be because, among other rea sons, the soviet Russian government not yet recognized, is to be represent cd; because certain European power? show no disposition to help matter? t>y reducing their military establish ments; because none, except England Is trying to balance its budget, and be cause few of thein recognize the rela tlon of the general recovery of Europt to the recovery of Germany. tiYITAR" broke out in Ireland again last week, this time be tween the Irish themselves and along the Ulster border. Presumably be cause they had nd't learned that thret political prisoners sentenced to death it I>erry had been reprieved, raiders who were identified with the army o) the Irish republic invaded Ulster anc curried off scores of prisoners, doing also if lot of shooting. A few of tht captured men were released at once t)Ut the others were held, supposedly as hostages. Naturally, tne nortnerr counties at once blazed with indigna tlon and thousands of armed mer swarmed to the border and formed 8 line of steel there. Of course the provisional govern ment of the Irish Free State was nol responsible for the kidnaplngs, noi could It prevent them. It was be lleved by some that the attacks wert planned largely to embarrass Michael Collins and his colleagues. Owen O'Duffy, chief of staff of th? Irish republican army, Issued this statement: "That there should be spontaneous and determined action In Ulster Is nol surprising. The patience of our peo pie there has been sorely tried lately t>y continued raids, urrests and tor Lures lulllcted upon them by agents ol the northern government. "The majority of those In prison Ir Belfast and Derry are suffering be cause they carried out my orders while I was liaison officer, to protect the lives and property of Catholic civilians from the ravages of Orangt mobs when those who are intrusted with law and order refuse to give pro tec tlon." Ulster and the Free State are still ilsputing over the settlement of th? boundaries of Ulster, and there Is some talk by British officials of calling an General Smuts to mediate. SECRETARY OF* THE TREAS URY MELLON announced last tveek that the government will pay off the Victory 3% per cent bonds on 01 Defore June 15 next, und after that late they will cease to bear Interest, These bonds, of which there are about ?400.000,000 outstanding, were Issued May 20, 1910, and mature May 20,1923, jut the government reserved t|ie right to call them for redemption this year, \t any time before June 15 the bonds ivlll be redeemed by the federal reserve banks at par and accrued interest. If they are held until June 15 they should have attached the coupons payable December 15, 1922, and May it), 1923, in order to obtain full value. >f the convention of the Concent radon Nacional, an opposition party, diarged, at the convention of that tarty, that President Irigoyen and bis supporters intended to do everything I, their power to retain control of the ,'overnment. "There has even been tulk," the speaker said, "of a general revolutiontry strike promoted secretly by the xeeutlve power and stimulated and trolonged by its tolerance so as to aford a pretext for the postponement >f the elections In April." BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURhED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE Qathsrsd From All Parts Of Thf Glob# And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign? The municipal employees of Berlin recently voted to continue their strike unless the municipality agrees to extend the present scale af wages to the end of December, instead of to June, as proposed by the arbitration court. Cardinal Achille Ratti, archbishop of Milan, has been chosen sunreme non tiff of the Roman Catholic church to succeed the late Benedict XV. His coronation as Pius XI will take place February 12. The British government has received a note %yn the French government making strong representations that the Genoa economic conference should be postponed three months. The celebrated pearl necklace, which once belonged to Maria Theresa, i queen of Hungary, which was pawned by ex-Emperor Charles before his last attempt to regain the throne of Hungary, has been sold to Jeferson Davis 1 Colin of England for a million dollars. Dispatches from London report that the British Indian police fired on a mob of ten thousand natives during a serious riot at Tiruvannamalai, about ' eight-five miles southwest of Madras, in the Tanjore district, killing three persons and wounding eight others. Dissolution of the Italian parliament and the holding of a general election has been practically decided upon 1 in the event of the failure of Pre1 mler Orlando to form a government J to succeed the Bononi ministry, which recently resigned. Signor Orlando has been invited by the (king to at[ tempt the formation of a new cabinet. Count Admiral Sukenori Kabayama, a member of the Japanese privy counI cil, and former minister of war, died at his home at Tokio at the age of 85 | years. He had been suffering from , cancer for some time. It is unlikely that the French government's request for a three months' delay in the opening of the Genoa conference will be met by Great Brit, ain, it is stated in London. The Irish situation has taken a , startling turn with the news of wholesale and organized kidnaping raids against prominent Ulster unionists in | the early hours of the morning. In, eluded among the numerous victims , are many special constables who had been dispatched to aid in stopping the raids, some of whom are said to have ! been spirited to unknown destinations. Statements made openly in official ; 'quarters in London^ coupled with dispatches from India, indicate that as o <-r,e.,n /->f (ho inrmftsine disturb ances throughout the eastern empire, and the stubborn defiance of Mahatma Gandhi, "prophet" of the non-co' operative native elements, the goyern| ment is about to adopt an iron policy, ; possibly beginning with the arrest of J Gandhi?to restore order. I \ Washington? i Construction work on fourteen cap, ital ships was suspended recently by r order of Secretary Denby under direci tion of President Harding. The step wa3 taken in anticipation of ratificai tion of the naval limitation treaty t which resulted from the Washington conferene and under which only three of the vessels involved will be comt pleted as war craft. : A bill appropriating $25,000 for es tablishment by the department of agrii culture of an experiment station to de1 velop pecan nut culture was introduced by Senator Harris, democrat, Geori gla. ' A legislative program, contemplating ratification of the treaties grow? ing out of the arms conference and t passage of the tariff, soldiers' bonus, farm credit and merchant marine ' bills, with adjournment of congress about June 1, was said to have been t- agreed upon at a white house dinner recently. 1 The house co-operative marketing bill, a measure designed to aid the 1 agricultural interests and pressed by : the farm bloc passed the senate, there : being recorded only one vote against ! the measure?that of Senator Gerry of ' Rhode Island, who is a Democrat. Funds to pay the soldier bonus will be raised by direct taxation, imposing a burden of at least $400^)00,000 a ! year for three years. The house, ways | and means committee has reached this ' conclusion, and is now seeking the taxes that can best be utilized. Included in the general scheme is the raising of first class postage from 2 : cents to 3 cents. Means of lending the aid of the government's credit to the railroads of the country are under consideration in administration circles. The bill creating a commission and otherwise making provision for the conversion of the eleven billion dollar debt owed the United States by the | allied powers has been signed by the president. The field of possible soldiers' bonus i' taxes has been virtually narrowed to i eight sources by the Republican members of the house ways and means committee. The first effect of the armament conference on the employment situation was felt when several thousand : mechanics and artificers in navy yards were temporarily laid off. after I Secretary Denby had ordered suspend- j ed all ordnance work designed for na- , val vessels slated for "scrapping" under the naval limitation treaty. The j instructions wore issued in line with , President Harding's order suspending work on the vessels under construe- j tion effected by the treaty. Probably eleven thousand employees will be effected by the order. While the parents of 16-year-old Marlin Mathis were preparing to escort the body of a youth from Amarillo, Texas, to Haynesville, La., for burial, having postively identified him as their son, the boy returned home here after an absence of several days, and wired his parents that he was in good health. A blow to senatorial dignity is not soon forgotten. This was shown when. In the midst of belated debate on the Newberry election case, several senators rose from their seats and denounced the war department for placing the senate far back, as they said, in the funeral procession for the unknown soldier last Armistice Day. Japan promises to prove the center of congressional fireworks when discussion of the arms conference treaties begins. A renewed outburst of "yellow peril" talk already has occurred in the house and Senator Johnson of California is Understood to be preparing to discuss the conference treaties with particular reference to Japan's position. Preparation of a deficiency appropriation bill will be begun shortly by a committee of the house appropriations committee, Chairman Mad den announces. The measure will ne ready for the house in a few weeks and passage will be expedited to relieve urgent deficiencies which fiave arisen in various government departments. An increase of thirteen in *be number of United States district judges was agreed upon by the senate judiciary committee as a means of relieving the congestion in the nation's fderal courts. The fatal shooting from the Mexican line of the border about twelve miles above Laredo, Texas, on the' Rio Grande river, on February 5, of Walter G. Swinn,y, of Del Rio, TexaB, an American citizen, has been reported to the state department. The opening sessions of the house military committee'^ investigation of the Ford contract offer for purchase and lease of the governments' properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala., revolves principaly about the clauses relating to manufacture of fertilisers for the nation's agriculral needs. The interior department appropriation bill, carrying $295,622,112 has been reported by the house appropriations committee. The total is $19,513,037.67 less than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year and $3,754,920 less than the amount requested in the budget estimates. Further efforts are being made by the senate committee investigating the charges that American soldiers were hanged without trial in France, to clear up the alleged shooting of a soldier by a firing squad near Cha? teau Thierry, in July, 1918. ^ ' Domestic? Dental work on the uper left molars in his mouth served to identify the charred body taken from the ruins of . the Lexington hotel, Richmond, Va., as that of Captain Frank Linwood Shaw, 64 years old, native of Goshen, and veteran conductor of the James river division of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. Eighteen of the crew of the Furness line ffreighter, Thistlemore, which Tiron f o rrr*/"\i i rt A nn Don Hill rioar "cui o^i vuiiu uu x wancu inti, uuui Highland Light, Mass., bars were rescued by breeche* buoy. Four hundred gallons of whiskey consigned to Washington. D. C., was seized in a car on the Norfolk and Western railway atl Roanoke; Va., by revenue agents on morning recently. The mayor of Pascagoula, Miss., has requested the naval air station at Pensacola, Fla., for airplanes to search for John Westfall, ex-service man who has been missing for some time, having bene blown out to sea on the fishing smack X-Ray. The fire which destroyed the liner Northern Pacific off Cape May, N. J., with the loss of four shipyard men,, started on t,he lower deck amidships, and burned for hours before it was discovered. The origin of the fire remains a mystery. The British steamer Thistlemore went aground on Peaked Hill bar, four miles north of Highland light, at the tip of Cane Cod, Mass. A coast guard ' crew went to the rescue. Sale of the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad which suspended operation last July, by its receiver, has been ordered in a decree issued by United States District Judge Jacob Trieber at Little Rock, Ark. Eight men killed, two badly injured tviiaolnor ta tVl/> rP91llt of a auu UliC 111 igutug vu-w a vwwav v. ? mine explosion which wrecked a mine of the Marietta Coal- company on Pond creek, Pinson Fork, Ky, Six known dead, thirty reported missing or unaccounted for, twentyeight known injured, fourteen of whom are believed to be fatally hurt, is the toll of the fire whi:h swept over an area of half a city block at Richmond, Va., destroying the Lexington hotel and several other buildings, and en- , tailing a loss estimated at from $250.000 to J500.000. Private T, W. Willis of the United States marine corps, who shot and killed Wiley Clark ut Blanchard, La., while serving as a mail guard on a Kansas City Southern passenger train several weeks ago, will be tried by general courtmartial at the naval air station at fensacota, r ia., uu a cuaigg of manslaughter. , Officers trying to solve the mystery of the murder of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director at Los t Angeles. Cal.. report that they have made only slight progress in the case thus far. One man was killed and a number of others wounded in a fight at the plant of the Wheeling Steel company ai Yorkville, Ohio. The dead man was Elmer Cost, a resident of Tiltonville, and was said to have been on duty as a union picket when the shooting occurred. The fourth southern forestry congress, in session at Jackson, Miss... adjourned after electing W. D. Tyler of Dante, Va? as president, and reelecting other officials and adopting resolutions relating to national/ and state forestry matters.