Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, March 16, 1922, Image 3
STATE LEGISLATURE
ADJOURNS SHE DIE
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FINAL CURTAIN OF GENERAL AS-1
SEMBLY RINGS DOWN ON
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
' INCOME TAX LAW IS PASSED1
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Governor Cooper Approves Appropriation
Bill Which Was Really Last
Work of the Body.
Columbia.
Ending perhaps its longest session,
the South Carolina general assembly
adjourned sine die Sunday afteri.oon.
the senate at 3:45 o'clock and the
house of representatives at 3:33
'clock.
Just before adjournment the gover
nor notified tne two nouses 01 u^- appro\al
of the general appropriation
bill carrying an aggregate ot $5..?39,106.04
and a levy of seven mills. This
Is a decrease of $928,029.2S, or .approximately
15}? per cent, of the appro- i
priations for 1921. The levy last year
was 12 mills.
The general assembly had been In
continuous session since early Saturday
morning, and the officers, members
and attaches of both bodies were
thoroughly fatigued when final adjournment
came Sunday afternoon.
The spirit of levity which characterized
the closing hours of former general
assemblies was entirely lacking
this year; there was too much work
piled up to indelge in horseplay, except
sporadically.
The engrossing department did an
J herculean job. The young women and j
the solicitors connected with that I
branch of legislative activity worked j
from 10 o'clock Saturday morning un |
til the legislature adjourned. The work
was so exacting and so thoroughly fatiguing
that many efforts were made
to adjourn both houses Saturday night, j
but without avail. The majority of the \
members were determined to stay un- !
til all the business was completed and ;
they could go home for good.
Throughout the long vigil the clerks j
and attaches of both houses and a
. handful of members of both bodies
were in constant attendance, keeping
company with the half dozen newspanor
enrresnondents who had contin
ually to nurse the general assembly
in its somnolent hours.
? The conferees on the general appropriation
bill worked incessantly until
the final sheet of the measure was sent
to the engrossing department. The
, act was completed just before the report
of the committee was sent to the
general assembly at 1:30 o'clock.
The senate adopted the report with I
very little debate, but it took the j
house of representatives just two '
hours to concur in the conference report.
A spirited effort, led by Edgar j
* A. Brown, of Barnwell, was made to
adjourn debate, or reject the measure j
in the house, but this proved unavailing.
There has been resentment among 1
the farmer members of the house
because the house conferees on the
general appropriations bill were all J
lawyers, and they blazed into open re- i
volt on the floor of the house in the I
discussion of the amendment to the j
measure. The house conferees con- j
sisted of E. T. Hughes. of Marion, a j
lawyer; Claud N. Sapp, of Columbia, j
a lawyer, and Eugene S. Blease. of
Newberry, a lawyer, and. on the part
of the senate. Senator H. H. Gross, of
Dorchester, planter and banker... Senator
Thomas B. Pearce. of Richland,
wholesale merchant, and W. S. Rog?rs.
of Spartanburg, insurance man.
The claim was that the interest of
fiae farmers, who have 54 represents- j
tives in the lower body, were not sufficiently
safeguarded. It had been
whispered that there was a movement
among the farmer members to organize
and reject the bill. but. after consideration
debate, opposition melted
away and the report of the conference
committee was adopted.
Both the house and senate accepted
the report of the conference committee
fixing a state income tax law.
* Under the agreement finally reached
every person who pays a federal income
tax must aiso make a return to
By a vote of 20 to 16 the senate
killed the Wightman bill to abolish
the state board of public welfare.
Senator Wightman asked that a vote
f be taken without debute as he was
willing for that and at his suggestion
I the bill was-killed.
The measure by Senators Laney and
) Bethea to authorize the superintendent
of the state penitentiary to sign
the cotton co-operative marketing association
was passed and sent to the
house after a motion to strike out the
enacting words had been lost by a
' vote of 31 to 2.
Governor C-ooper signed the Miller
railroad commission bill creating a
new railroad commission of seven
members and abolishing the existing
railroad and public service commissions.
All the powers of the two old
commissions are vested in the new
body and additional powers.
Under the terms of the act the present
members of the old railroad commission
will remain as members of |
the new body until their term expires
and Frank Shealy will remain chair
?nan until nis term expires. .no provision
is made for the members of the
public service commission.
My an overwhelming vote of 30 to
10 the senate at the day session killed
the luxuries tax bill on motion of Senator
Hamilton of Chester to strike out
the enacting words.
The bill was taken up soon after the
morning session was begun and Senator
Johnstone's amendments which
were offered were read, but action on
them was deferred. These amendments
struck out automobiles, perfumes.
cologne and a number of other
. as well as reduced the tax on 1
all other articles in the bill to one-half
as originally provided. They were not
*cted upon, however.
the state and pay one-third of the
amount paid the government of tho
United States to the state. Corporations
are affected as well as iddividpals,
with the exception of insurance
companies, which are exempted. Other
exemptions include federal emoluments
and state employes.
The Goodwin resolution, which was
passed by the senate last week, met
with some little opposition in the
house, a number of members contending
that it was foolish to so attempt
to fix any definite hour of adjournment
when no one knows exactly when the
annual appropriation bill will be finally
agreed upon. Thomas S. McMillan
of Charleston and John B. Greer
of Greenville spoke in favor of the
resolution, while J. K. Owens of Bennettsville
opposed the measure on the
floor. An amendment proposed by
Representative F. G. Harris of Spartanburg,
to strike out the provision
In the resolution preventing the / rning
back of the clock also furnished a
minor contest and was killed after
brief debate. Representative W. R.
Bradford of York spoke against tho
amendment on the grounds that the
general assembly should not work on
Sunday. The resolution in its unamended
form was then agreed to.
Governor Cooper signed a number
of acts passed by the present general
assembly, chief among them being the
Blease law to prohibit carnivals or
like tented shows from exhibiting in
South Caolina except at state and
county fairs, and then when no gambling
devices or games of chancje are
allowed. This act does not effect
circuses, as they may be licensed for
48 hours at -any one place in the
state. Chautauquas, "Billy Sundays,"
dog and pony shews are not affected,
the entire object being to rid the state
of carnivals.
The text of the carnival act, which
became law with the signature of the
governor, follows:
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the stat? of
South Carolina, That on nad after the
approval of this act, no carnivals and
no traveling shows exhibiting .indor
tents shall be allowed licenses or allowed
to exhibited within this state;
Proyided, That the provisions of this
act shall not apply to circuses, which
may be licensed for a time not exceeding
48 hours at one place in any
one year; and provided, further, that
the provisions of this act shall not
apply to chautauquas and carnivals
at state and county fairs; Provided,
That only carnivals to which no
games of chance or gambling devices
are attached shall be allowed to exhibit
in this state, provided this shall
not apply to dog and pony shows.
"Section 2. Any person violating
the provisions of this act shall bo
mr.ro than SKdfl nr imnrison
1II1CU 11UI ittvt V v??v?? T" * ? r
ment of not more than three months
for each day said tent shows and carnivals
are exhibited.
"Section 3. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."
A general decrease*of all telophone
rates in the state to the charges in
force January 1, 1921, is carried in the
Foster telephone bill passed by the
senate and agreed to in its amended
form by the house and ordered enrolled
for ratification. The measure
therefore lacks the formal routine of
ratification and the signature of the
governor to become effective.
The bill as originally introduced by
the house provided for a scale cf
minimum rates for the state, but the
house judiciary committee to which
the bill was referred substituted instead
a measure to provide for a return
to the rates in force throughout
the state on January 1, 1921, prior
to the last increase granted by the
state railroad commission after several
months of hearings and deliberations.
The senate amended the bill
in two important particulars, providing,
first, for the reinstatement of
the free interurban toll service, which
the railroad commission had eliminated,
and. secondly, that the telephone
companies might, if they desire.
appeal to the state railroad commission
for any changes from the rate
sfhprlnip as nrovided in the bill. These
senate amendments were agreed to by
the house without rebate or opposition.
This measure in reinstating the
January, 1921. rate schedule provides
tor decreases in practically every
city and town in the state, with the
exception of one. in which the commission
in drawing up its new schedule
reduced the charges to make them
conform to the rates in other exchanges
of the same size in the state.
The house of representatives, by a
vote of 41 to 44. sustained the governor's
veto of the bill to increase the
number of the members of the board
of trustees of the University of fcouth
Carolina. The bill was passed almost
unanimously by the house last year
and was supported over the governor's
objections by practically every
alumnus of the institution in the
house.
The Leopard chiropractic bill was
sent to its legislative grave by the
house of representatives by the overwhelming
vote of 39 to 19. after a
lengthy and very heated debate.
Tho hill would have rtrovide4 for
the creation of a board of chiroprtce
tic examiners to examine and license
chiropractors for the practice of their
profession in the state. Dr. E. H.
Barnwell of Charleston, Dr. S. T. D.
Lancaster of Spartanburg. J. W. Hanahen
of Winnsboro and A. O. Kennedy
of Union bore the brunt of the fight
against the measure, while Claud N.
Sapp of Columbia made practically the
only argument in favor of the bill.
James DeTreville of Colleton spoko
briefiy in opposition to the bill, while
J. R. O'Rourke of Charleston asked
that the measure be passed. 1
Parole For Vaughn.
Lewis Vaughn, convicted of stealing
an automobile in Greenville in
January of this year and sentenced
to serve time in jail, was given a parole
during his good behavior by the
governor. Vaughn was convicted be- !
fore Judge Frank B. Gary.
Bank Gets Charter.
The Merchants Bank of Columbia !
was chartered by * > secretary of
state with a capital stock of $200,000.
The firm will do a general banking
business '
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1?Former Postmaster General
he'g talking to Vice President Cool
Den by. 2?Mrs. P. Itadlck, Fields,
testified before Senate Agricultural
inews review of
! current events
Warren G. Harding Completes
His First Year as President
of United States.
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FALL AND WALLACE IN CLASH
American Government Declines to Participate
in Genoa Conference?
L.'oyd George's Threatened
Resignation ? Fourteenth
Canadian Parliament
Opened?Fium?
Fumes Again.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
WARREN G. HARDING at noon of
March 4 completed bis first year
as President of the United States. He
was asked for an expression regarding
the accomplishments of his administration
to date and authorized this statement
:
"The record of the administration
nnank-s for itself: it would be a poor
administration that required the executive
to speak for It."
At an entertainment by the National*
Press club In honor of the first official
birthday the President said:
"The long step toward petting back
toward normal ways of government
would seem to me to have been the
achievement of the year."
Representative Fess of Ohio, chalrmnn
of the Republican congressional
committee, made In the house a speech
setting forth In detail the accomplishments
of the year from the Republican
viewpoint. He dwelt on economies,
actual and prospective. He said that
the United States would be the only
' government In the world living within
Its revenues next year. If It could keep
| within the estimates outlined by the
administration. Reviewing the work
of the amis conference, he said: "I
; challenge the record to produce a
greater achievement In the history of
j diplomacy."
Democratic members then proceeded
to tear to pieces the Fess eulogy from
1 their standpoint. Cordell Hull, chairman
of the Democratic national com
i mlttoe, also took Issue with the Fess
statement. His general position Is that
while the Republican congress has enacted
a multiplicity of unimportant
laws and the arms conference provldI
ed for a limited program of naval reduction
the Republican party has
failed to carry out its major promises
made in the campaign of 1020.
Now, In the house debate over the
administration's statement of economies
Fess talked exnctly as If he believed
everything he said and the
Democrats talked back exactly as If
they believed everything they said.
And the tnxpayer In the gallery knew
rhat everybody couldn't be telling the
truth, the whole truth and nothing hut
the truth. The upshot was that Representative
Byrns of Tennessee, ranking
Democratic member of the appropriations
committee, secured the passage
of a resolution calling upon the
I President to Inform the house In what
way the savings had been made, from
! what particular appropriations and In
what specific amounts. Thereupon the
President Instructed General Dawes
! of the budget bureau to prepare a
complete statement covering the entire
situation. One thing at least
stands out clearly: Nobody doubts
that "H?1 and Maria" Dawes will give
the facts and figures as they are.
President and Mrs. Harding left
Washington Wednesday evening by
train for St. Augustine. Fla. The presidential
party Included Attorney Gen
eral lJaugberty, speatter union, undersecretary
of State Fletcher. Brigadier
General Sawyer. his personal
physician, and George B. Christian,
his secretary. Mr. Christian said the
President would occupy his time In
"rest and recreation," In Florida for
a week or so.
PITCHED battle between the Interior
and Agricultural departments
which* has long been watched
by official Washington with absorbing
Interest has now become "public"
through a statement by Secretary Fall
INCREASE IN OIL PRODUCTION
United States and Mexico Now Producing
Almost 90 Per Cent of
Petroleum Consumed.
New York.?The world's production
of petroleum last year N estimated in
the summary of t.':e American Petroleum
institute at ToO.tKW.t hmi barrels.
This compares with (504.8.~i4.(iiKI
barrels reported by the I'nited States
geological survey for 1020.
The figures show tin increase in Unl
Will Ilays leaving his last cabinet meetl
ldge; left to right are Secretaries Melln
Minn., with Senators Ladd (N. D.) and 3
commltte. 3?Prince Faud Pasha, heir
that he had protested to President
llur^ig against the circulation of
"viflmus propaganda emanating from
the Department of Agriculture." The
battle, in brief, Is over legislation,
pending and prospective, which would
transfer the forest sendee from the
Agriculture department to the Interior
department and practically turn over
the development of the natural resources
of Alaska to the Interior department,
with responsibility to the
President. This battle Is not a petty
quarrel between two departments. It
Is a real battle between two cabinet
members. Some of the old-timers take
It so seriously as to predict the resignation
of one or the other of the
secretaries. Moreover, the battle Is
significant as Indicating the difficulties
that lie in the way of the proposed
reorganization of ull the executive
departments.
Until 1905 the Interior department
controlled all the public lands. The
national forests were then created for
the application of scientific lumbering
and grnzlng and the forest service
was established to administer tnein.
The Interior department retained control
of the remaining public lands and
the ten national parks, established for
recreational purposes. In the national
forests the Interior department Is
charged with the execution of all
laws "relating to surveying, prospecting,
locating, appropriating, entering,
reconveylng or patenting of' public
lands and to the granting of rights
of wny amounting to easements." The
national forests now number 168 in 21
states and territories nnd contain
about 242,200 square miles. The national
parks now number 19 and contain
10,8T)9 square miles.
The national park service was created
In 1916 to administer the national
parks under the secretary of the Interior.
The Agricultural department
then began a campaign in print, and
from the platform, for the transfer of
the national park service to the Agricultural
department. It also set up
the national forests as recreational
rivals of the national parks.
Then came the proposed reorganization
of the executive departments,
approved by the President. Under
tills reorganization, the Interior department
would become practically a
public works department. One contemplated
transfer is that of the forest
service from the Agricultural department.
On top of'this came the concern
about the plight of Alaska, which is
not prospering. "Too much bureaucratic
government" was une cry that
was rnised. It is now proposed to
take Alaska out of the hands of the
many bureaus nnd hand It over to the
interior department for administra
tlon and development. The secretary
is already building the government
Alaskan railroad and controls the oil
and mineral deposits In the national
forests. The two big national forests
in Alaska are the Tongass and
Chugac, containing 220,000 acres. Secretary
Fall approves this disposition
of Alaska. It has been announced
that President Harding will visit Alaska
this summer to get first-hand Information.
It was planned that Secretary
Fall should be in the presidential
party.
Naturally the Department of Agriculture
is not pleased with this program.
The American Forestry association
has sent out much "literature" protesting
against It. Some of It Is pretty
strong. The gist of It Is that the
transfer of the nntlonal forests means
their exploitation by "private Interests."
Anyway, Secretary Fall says
lie Is being held up to "execration,
public abuse and private calumny."
THE United States has formally declined
the invitation of the allied
powers to participate In the European
financial and economic conference
which Is now set for April 10 at Genoa.
The declination runs from Secretary
of State Hughes to the Italian amhnsJ
? ri ni 1 rtM? .1
saaor, aenuior lucci. me uouuuiem
is a gem of purest ray serene. The
language is friendly, the statements
are plain, the meaning unmistakable.
In diplomatic terms he says that the
conference is not primarily economic
but is rather a conference of a i>olltlcal
character In which the United
States cannot helpfully participate.
"Nothing doing. See you inter. Wishing
you good luck, I remain, etc."?
is about tbe way it would read in the
vernacular. Of course Europe is disappointed.
It is generally admitted
ted States production in 11)21 of 5.1)
per cent and In Mexico's production
j of 19.3 per cent. The United States
supplied 61.9 per cent of the estimated
total world production and Mexico 25.7
per cent.
Tbe estimated daily average gross <
crude oil production in the United
States for the week ended March 4
! was 1,-120.(150 barrels, an increase of
9.000 barrels over the preceding week, i
Cams were shown in Oklahoma and In I
j the Ilaynesville pool of north Louisi- I
| ana. The Mexia pool in central Texas !
ug to become motion picture arbiter;
n, Wullftce, Davis, Fnll, Hoover and
Morris (Xeb.) on left and right; she
to Khedive of Egypt.
that the absence of the United States
will detract from the usefulness of
the conference. But If Europe will not
hold the kind of conference In which
the United States can helpfully participate,
It must not expect us unnecessarily
to become Involved In European
questions. Better luck next time,
maybe, when things get down to brass
tacks.
LLOYD GEORGE resigning the British
premiership doesn't fit In with
American notions of the little Welsh
wizard. But either he had It seriously
In mind?or he ran a gorgeous
bluff. Anyway, he served an ultimatum
on the Tory leaders of the coalition
party that unless he could be
assured of loyal support and co-operation
he would resign. Whereupon all
Britain buzzed like a disturbed, beehive.
Sir Arthur Balfour was named
everywhere as the probable successor.
But the coalition chiefs got busy at
once. Sir George Younger, the unionist
"die-hard" lender, was made to
step back Into the line; it was his
speeches that had forced the Issue.
Other leaders publicly voiced their
confidence In the premier. Balfour,
as a conservative lender, put the fin!e)?lnrr
Kv omnhot.
loiuiife iwuv.il ivj vjvvmtiiig vtu|#i<uv
Ically for h continuance of the coalition
government and Indorsing the
leadership of Lloyd George, who he
declared was incomparably the greatest
figure of the greatest age In British
history. So the crisis has apparently
been passed?though possibly
only for the present.
Sir Arthur, by the way, is very much
In the British public eye Just now.
King George has bestowed upon him a
knighthood of the Order of the Garter.
His achievements at the Washington
arms conference are universally acclaimed
as regaining for Great Britain
the world dominance lost during the
World war. Anyhow, in declaring for
Lloyd George he bowed himself out
of the premiership.
CANADA'S fourteenth parliament
was opened Wednesday by Govnor-General
Byng. W. L. Mackenzie
King Is "the first liberal prime minister
to hold the reins of government
since Sir Wilfred Laurier was defeated
ten years ago on his policy of reciprocity
with the United States. Premier
King is a veteran of the Laurier ministry
of 1011, in which he served as
minister of labor. Rodolphe Lemleux
of Montreal, selected by Premier King,
is speaker. The gov-ernmepr commands
about one-half of the members
of parliament. The official opposition
group, numbering about fifty In a
house of 235 members, Is led by Arthur
Melghen, the defeated premier.
T. A. Crerar lends an unofficial progressive
group of about G5, who are
expected to support the government
In most of Its policies, especially on
the tariff. Both liberals and progres
sives Deueve in customs outies iur
revenue only," as agulnst the conservative
policy of protection. Who said
"reciprocity?"
FIUME Is on the map again and
seems to be trying to rival Vesuvius.
The Fascist! and their adherents
have chased out President Znnella
of the Free City government set
up under the treaty of Itnpallo between
Italy and Jugo-Slavla. Gabrlelle
d'Annunzlo has sent word that he
supports the "uprising." The Italian
parties have chosen Giovanni Giurlatl,
former chief of the poet-warrior's
cabinet, as head of another provisional
government, for the Free State. The
Jugo-Slavs are rushing troops to the
frontier, ostensibly to repel threatened
raids by the Fasclstl. They are
Insisting upon observance of the treaty
of Rapnllo. Italy apparently. Intends
to restore order In Flume and enforce
the Rapallo treaty. She also has
moved troops forward.
MAX says he Isn't marrying Mathllde
for her money. Mathilde
hpirnn fhp rnninncp nt eleven hv call
Ing Max "Uncle." Max has taught Mathilde
the "Swiss language." Let the
wedding hells ring out and the Swiss
navy fire a salute!
"Politics makes strange bedfellows'*
?which Is to say that the new treaty
gives Yap prohibition, with Americans
exempted.
William Jennings Bryan, crusading
against Darwinism, says nobody can
make a monkey of him. Mr. Bryan
is a self-made man.
also showed a slight increase. The
dally average production of the midcontinent
Held was 834,.'100 barrels.
Crude oil prices of major districts
during the last week showed no
changes. Midcontinent crude is quoted
at a barrel, Pennsylvania crude
at .$3."o a barrel and gulf coast crude
tit $1.'Jo a barrel.
Imports of petroleum at the principal
United States ports for the
month of February totaled 10,.">70.000
barrels, a dally average of 377,822, the
summary continues.
8RIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT KA8 OCCURhED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Qatltsrod From All Parts Of Th#
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign?
A strike of ship officers has been
declared at Vera Cruz, Mex., against
vessels owned by the Mexican Steamship
company, which is controlled by
the Mexican government.
Arrival of Dr. Williiam J. Mayo, of
Rnr>hoQt?r \Tinn at Moviprk Pifv Mov
revived rumors that President Obregon
must submit to an operation on
his right arm.
Overthrow of the cabinet of Premier
Takahashi, the governmental crisis
growing out of disagreement on the
new budget, seemed averted temporarily.
Sir Robert Home, chancellor of the
British exchequer, and Colonel Jasper
Theunys, Belgian premier and minister
of finance, enlivened the first conference
of finance ministers of Great
Britain, Italy, Belgium and France,
according to newspaper reports.
The house of commons will probably
adjourn to debate the situation created
by unprecedented public recommendations
on the part of the government
of India, relating to Turkey and revision
of the Sevres treaty.
When Luis Freg, leading matador,
was seriously gored during a benefit
corrida recently, Dr. William J. Mayo,
American surgeon, who is visiting
Mexico City, was requested by President
Obrego nto examine Freg.
The government has defintely decided
to arrest Mohandas K. Gandhi, the
non-co-operationist leader. He is 6ow
in the Ajmere district, about 220 miles
southwest of Delhi, India.
Removal of Lord Reading as viceroy
of India, it is believed in some quarters,
will be the denouncement to the
publication of the Indian government's
note. There is nothing tangible on
which to base this belief, but it is not
improbable as a sequel to the virtual
dismissal of Edwin S. Montagu as secretary
for IndiaLittle
princes and princesses by the
score are available in Russia for adoption
by wealthy foreigners. The parents,
where there are any, are willing,
and even anxious, to let their
children go because of their own poverty
and inability properly to care for
and educate them.
Fifteen o fthe crew of the Bolshevik
transport Gorki were killed and
many wounded when the ship's cargo
of hand grenades exploded at Trebizond
on the Black sea. The explosion
did some damage to the town,
where great quantities of munitions
have been received lately from Russia.
A number ot American shoe companies
and tanneries are establishing a
common sales agency in Hamburg for
dealing with Germany.
The decision of the United States
not toparticipate in the Genoa conference
will not afect the date of
| nor the place for the conference as
far as Great Brittain is concerned, it
j is officially stated.
I Since the first of the year the Mexican
government has repatriated several
hundred Mexicans from the UnitJ
ed States. Most of them are from Toledo
and Detroit.
Washington?
Hearings by the house military com'
mittee on the various proposals it has
j received for private development of
j the government properties at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., will be continued in
definitely, Chairman Kahn announced
The bureau of insular affairs announces
the need for sixty teachers
in the Philippine school: salaries will
range from $ 1,500 to $1,(100.
An import duty of seven cents a
pound on long staple cotton?the figure
in the emergency tariff law?is
understood to have been agreed upon
by Republican members of the senate
finance committee , who are rewriting
the Fordney tariff bill.
Investigation by the house military
committee of the various offers from
private interests for purchase, lease,
completion and operation of the government's
power and nitrate projects
at Muscle Shoals, Ala., is moving
i rapidly nearer a conclusion, committee
members report to the press.
Prison employees of the Atlanta
, federal penitentiary have earned approximately
$45,000 under a bonus
1 system installed by Attorney Gen;
ral Daugherty, according to a report
! on federal prison conditions submit
ted to President Harding.
The prohibition "navy" will be ready
for action in Atlantic coastal waters
in search of liquor smugglers some
time this month, it is declared at enforcement
headquarters.
Charging that the four-power Pacific
treaty resulted from a JapaneseBritish
plan to offset the embarrassing
effect of the Anglo-Japanese alliance,'
opponents of the pact sought
without success in the senate to learn
exactly by whom the original draft
of the document was prepared.
Comptroller of the Currency Crissinger
announced that in event of the
I enactment of soldiers' bonus legislation
1 providing for payment by adjusted ser-i
j vice certificates he would advise national
banks to decline to accept the
certificates as security for loans.
Approximately 8,000 government
employees, holding their positions by
| presidental order, are held to be not
| entitled to the benefits of the retirement
act in an opinion rendered by :
Attorney General Daugherty and trans-1
; mitted to the interior department,
which administers the act.
The country will be without an arm- j
ed force large enough to handle do- j
mestic emergencies, "let alone pos-1
sible foreign trouble or invasion," if
congress cut her army to 113.000 men,1
General Pershing declared before the i
house military affairs committee. J
The government In making a final
effort to avert the bituminous coal
strike threatened for April 1, has issued
a warning that "it has a duty to
safeguard the interests of the people."
This was considered an indication that
the government would intervene
should the strike materialize and menace
public safety. The declaration was
contained in a final appeal from Secretary
of Labor Davis to the miners
and operators to meet in conference in
an effort to settle their differences.
Seven naval subchasers now are
cruising South Atlantic waters in
search of rum smugglers, it was learned
at the treasury.
Major General Peter C. Harris, adjutant
general of the army since September
1, 1918, plans to leave the active
service about April 1, it was
learned.
Refusal of the United States to participate
in the Genoa conference may
be viewed as the firit step in a campaign
of "tactful pressure" to promote
economic rehabilitation of Europe, it
was said by a high officials of the
American 'government. It should not
be regarded, this official said, as an
indication of the United States' desire
to hold aloof from the grave problems.
Domestic?
Members of the United Mine Workers
of America, in the Alabama field,
known as district No. 20, have voted ,
overwhelmingly to strike on April 1,
it became known here.
That the "pay-as-you-leave" plan
adopted at fiend, pre., by two motion
picture theaters is resulting in bigger
houses and at least as large revenue
as formerly was the declaration of the
manager of the theaters.
The national office of the Socialist
party began sending out an appeal
from Eugene V. Debs to all its mem
bers and affiliated organization urging
to work for amnesty for all socalled
political prisoners.
William Koifenstein, fifty, of Cincinnati,
has started on a twenty-day,
self-imposed sentence in the Binghamton
jail. Sentenced for ten days for
intoxication, Koifenstein found his
nerves so improved by his rest cure
that he begged for permission to stay
a month. His request was granted.
Funeral arrangements were being
made at Bartow, Fla., for Dr. C. M.
Law, prominent physician of Arcadia,
fla., who was accidentally electrocuted.
Dr. Law was shocked to death
while taking an x-ray picture of a
child's fractured arm.
One hundred pounds of narcotic and
one alleged drug vender were In the
hands of the police at New York as a
result of a raid on the headquarters
of a drug peddling gang believed to
have engaged in the wholesale smuggling
of the habit-forming poisons.
Jacksonville is to entertain its population
with a spring meet of some of
the best horses in the country, it was
learned, when announcement was received
from Havana that some of the
best horses now racing in the Cuban
metropolis will come to Jacksonville,
Fhi., for a nine-day spring meet.
Damages amounting to $21,621.63
from the man whoqa she charges killed
her husband are expected to reach
Mrs. Parish McCranie, Pavo, Ga., in
the next few days.
The first arrest in the Arlington ,
hank robbery murder case occurred at
Bronwood, near Dawson, Ga., when
Chief Hill, of the police, and Sheriff
Wood arrested a man named "Lanier,"
alias "Barron.''
Dr. H. P. Brown fell dead in the
county treasurer's office at Davenport,
la., after being told the amount of his
taxes. He was 75 years old.
Ralph A. Day, prohibition enforcement
director for New York, has gone
to Washington to confer with authorities
in regard to preventing establishment
of a "floating booze palace" outside
the three-mile limit with a ferry
service to New York.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
against Theodore Bear, said to be the
inventor of the "teddy bear,'1 a woman's
earment. His financial difficul
ties were caused by competition and
changes in the styles, it was claimed.
Residents of Porterville, Los Angeles,
and Fresno, Cal., were awakened
recently by an earthquake, which rattled
windows, moved doors off their
hinges and threw furniture around.
People rushed into the streets, but no
damage was done.
Seven persons are known to have
been killed and scores were injured
in the wind and rain storm which
flooded streams and caused heavy
property damage in eastern Georgia
and western South Carolina in the section
around Augusta, Ga.
Joseph B. Sugarman, head of the
brokerage firm of J. B. Sugarman &
Co., surrendered himself to District
Attorney Banton in New York and
pleaded not guilty to a charge of grand
larceny in the first degree.
Four men were killed and nine injured
when a compressed air tank
at the Kansas City Railway company's
barn exploded, tearing out 20 feet
of brick wall of the plant and derailing
many street cars standing on nearby
tracks.
A man riding a bicycle pulled up
alongside a man and woman in an automobile
in the northern part of Detroit,
Mich., flourished a pistol, demanded
and nhtained the motorists'
money, then pedaled himself to &
hiding place.
Governor Russ.tll of Mississippi, recently
signed the Stone bill abating
the billion dollar anti-trust suit recently
filed in the chancery court of
Covington county by District Attorney
A. J. Browning against the life,
casualty and indemnity insurance companies
doing business in the state.
The Arctic Mills, in Arctic, R. I.,
one of the several plants in the Pawtuxet
yalley owned by B. B. and R.
Knight, Inc., were the scene of mass
picketing. Rumors that the plant was
to reopen had been circulated throughout
the valley, but no attempt was
made to resume operations.
New Orleans is to have a bathing
beach and board walk modeled after
Coney Island. Nine members of the
Louisiana board of levee called upon
Borough President Riegelmann, of
Brooklyn, and inspected Coney's famous
board walk.