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yOLL)M12 XXXV. LAURENS, SOUIMH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920. PRSIDNT SiGn RAILROAD BILL Railroads Returned to Pri vate Control WALKER D. HINES DIRECTOR GENERAL No Reference is made to liteqiuest of Itallro(i Uiilons to Veto 1ill1. mines Vested with Executive Authorily Providedl for in the 11111. Wn'sing 1 1ton, .14(eb. 29.--Aierica's rail transportation systems, operated as one great public utility since De cenber 27, 1917, are again divided among their 2:10 respective corporate ow',ners. Tfe g:>vernment, has released (ont rol. Director General iines, as tihe a.gent of tle president, hands over tihe prop i'ties and equipment, value at ap prox.imately $2I,000,0 m i Gwim old direction, free, except for the jluris diction retailned by the government In 'the new railroad reorganization bill. .While all arrangements for formal restorat'ion of the nails. to their own ers were completed yesterday by Mtr. 11ines, instructions went out today to, operating ropresentativea of the rail ro0ad adminiistrat lon, Informing theit that they would "report to the proper otllcials of the corporations which re suime control at 12:01 a. i., March 1." Of the gigantic organization, creat. ed by former Director General N1c Adoo, as a wartime expedient, only a small part will remain. Regional offic ials, federal managers and treasurers and many high officials comprising the director general's staff, will cease to function as such at the designated hour. Some of these have gone back to their former places as oilcials of the corporations, while others have entered into new lines of endeavor. lain Hines will continue in his pres ent capacity until about May Ist. Al though without any railroads to di rect, he still faces the settlement of literally thousands of claims, contracts. and grievances. Only 147 of the 230 conipensaton contracts with the cor porations actually were signed dur ing government control, and the "e mainder will continue to be subject of negotiations. Diamage claims have arisen of which many still are pend ing. Labor has several thousand cas es before the government wage boards, and 'Mr. lines has assured the labor spokesmen these will be concluded. Sone will reqiuire the payient of ret roactive wages, if decided in favor of the workmers, and others will mviean the establiishmnent of interprmetation of agreement, which labor, of oourse, will refuse to have altered by theo cor)o rations. Alany effect genei'ai labo policies and represent viVlly impor tant questions from Ilie laior vie.iw. The reply given by- President Wil son to labor's objections to the reor ganiiziationi bill wvil be considered to morrow by the raIlroad union chiefs. All of the union ex ecuitives who are here will be1 caliled into conferenee for the purpose of agr'eeing on a pub1l1Ic expression of railroad labor's atti tudle. There wias no indiention ton ight as to setimient among the leader's who had( readI the priesidlent's statement In answver to ' 'eir~ request that lhe with hold his approval fr'om the bil1l. They said( they had rtated their case andl that tuntil a pol1icy can lhe dleterminued, they would remain ailent as '.o fu ture action. With the lines again under' 'private control there wvill be almost immedi ately a resuimptioni of the "(lays of competition." Corporation headls have been preparing for this for several months. Thue variouis r'oads will at tempt to dlivide again the business which has been handled jIointiy duir ing~ federal control, repor'ts indicated. Th'ie r'oads go back to private control under largely new cond(it1ions. The railroad bill, signed last night by the presidlent, gives the systems certaini newv privileges, hut as an offset, it enlarges the interstate commerce comn mision, both In powers and person nel. 'rhe corpioations no longer are masters completely of their bond is sues, nor are they allowved to stand solidlly against labor for' labor's de mands, if not met by arbitration and negotiation between the par'ties con corned, go to the high court iprovided ja, the bIll and on which sit it ai-. (Conued on Paen Four,) CONTENDER FOlR CLElK'S PLACE. It. A. Sullivanl, Jr., A~nnounces Candi. daey for Clerk of Court. Politics Warinfg Up. 1). A. Sullivan, Jr., at present em loyed Iin the local post oice but a licutenant. of infantry in the I18th In fantry of the Thirtieth Division in the 'World War, has formally an ngunced his entrance into the race for Clerk of Court of this county, as will be seen in another column of this pa per. Mr. Sullivan states that he 1, out to winl and exiCects to give a good account of himself when tle canm paign starts. While no othtrc eatidi dates have as yet formally annoinced, the incumbent, Mr. C. A. Power, and a former clerk, .\lr. .John F. I3ol, have, both indicated to their frieitd 'hat they would be in the race. A contest for the sleriff's ollice is. also indicated by current re)orts. Co lIumbus I,. Owings, at present .i ief of the rural police, is undersi .'ia to b an avowed candidate in opposition to Sheriff S. 'Cr. Reid, ,xho will run for re-election. it is rumored that otheirs 'will'also seek this olice. A contest will likely develop for be county's seat in the state senate. Col. J. H. Wharton, the present senator, has not announced whether or not he will run again but numerous sugges tions are being made as to other like ly senatorial timber. Among those spoken of has been A. C. Todd, 1Ksq., nicinber of the local bar, but lie las not expressed himself on the question. 1on. R. ). Boyd, at present a iembe of the lower house of the general as sembly, Is another one mentioned for the race. While he is known to hav., the matter under consideration, he has made no definite announcement. The race for the lower house will likely bring out its usualy large num ber of candidates. lion. I). r. Kinard, of course, will not be in the race again because he expects to take up his resi dence in Ninety Six immediately after the present session adjourns. Ilon. .1. H11. Davls has not stated whether or. not 110 will he in the race and, as said above, Hon. R. ID. Boyd is considering the race for the senate. . Mr. A. II. Moore, at present a imlember of the county board of commissioners I spoken of as a probable contender ill this race. Senator Dial Here. 'Sen. N. 'B. Dial came down from Washington Oaturday afternoon and spent several days in the city. The senator is looking well and says that he is enjoying the best of health. He had nothing particular to give out as to his work in congress, but said that lie was working hard and trying to represent the state to the best of his ability. tic said that lie wished to compliment the work the local schools are doing here as evidenced by tile stand his owl children are tak ing in the Washington schools. They were able to take the next gradts from the last they spent here very easily and( are able to coni)te with the Washington children very successful ly in spite of tile fact thlat theC Wash ington 44ch0ols are condul~cted on a very high lplane withu teachers of the( best training. Senl. !Dal returned to Washington .\lday nighlt. W1ree(ks i 'lny TIrains. When twvo freight car's jumlped the track and rolled down the embllanlk ment near' tile l'ast Main street bridge of the C., N. & I. railroad yesterday ab~out 11oon, considerale dlamage was (lone to tile track and rolling stock, causinlg the (delay of lilassenger and freight trains for several hlours'. A wreck onl tile C. & W. C. railroad be tween hlere and( Augusta also delayed tile train from thlat dlirection last night. Both tracks were cleared last night and1( trains will mlake thleir regu lar schedules today. Sidney L. Madden D~ead. Tile remains of Sidney L. Madden, who died at thle Confederate Home in Columbia a few days ago, wvere brought to Mount Pleasant Church Wednesday afternloon and~ laidi to rest in tile churchyard. Mr. Madden was a l,aurens county citizen and as a boy lhe enlisted in thle 'Confederate service I wvith tile State or reserve guards. Hie was about 76 years old. 1tey. Vermlillion to Preach. .Rev. C. 10. Vermillon, *who hlas been confinedl to is home for soveral weeks on account of influenza, has suffieient ly recovered to be out again and an nounces that he will fill his5 regular appointments at Mt. .Pleasant end nnnvnrdanm churenhes nnyt .adin SENATE AGREES ' FIGHT G( Truce is Reached and Do Pressing Measures. I promise Will Be Dropr Washington, .irch t.--Conv inced that for the present their labors to break the peace treaty deadlock are a Waste of time, senate leaders movd today to get the treaty out of the way of g;ressing lehalation and to let the issues rased by the ratification fight go into the political campaign for de cision. Under the plan agreed to and ap parently aciuiesced in by all eIlents of both parties, coimpromi)Ise negotla tions on the c Crueial reservatlon to article tenl are to he dropped, readop ion of the Republican reservation program of the last session is to be completed as a formality, and then a final ratiflcation vote Is to be taken to 1put the treaty out of the seniate and into the campaign. Some senators predicted tonight that the final vote, which It is conced (d on bo0 hsides will record another failure to ratify, would come within the next three days. Among most of the leaders, however, the plrediction was that the smouldering dobate would take at least the remainder of the week to burn itself out in spite of general co-operation to keep it sharp ly under control. The decision to hasten action was reached when the Republican leader convinced the Democrats would block ratification unless the article ten res crvation were modified, determined to stand by their guns and insist that the reservation go into the ratification resolution without any change of sub stance or of languaige. III this re affirmation they acceded to a demand GWLNENVIliJiE SYNDICATE CONTROLS WATTS COMMON Around 1,7004) Shares of Watts Mills Common Ilught by Greenville Syn. .dilcate at. Around $110 per Share. According to Information which may well be considered as authoritative, the majority of the common stock of the Watts Mills, this city, passed into the hands of a Greenville syndicate headed by 11. J. Haynsworth during the past few days. For some time spec ulation has been rife on account of activity An Watts Common and many rumors as to it have been abroad. J. W. Thackston and associates, of Greenville, were known to be buying or securing options on a majority of the stock and it was stated in some qiarters that this had been proffered to Mr. Stevens, of New York, selling agent andi owner of most of the pre ferred stock, but that Mir. Stevens had not accepted the proposition. It is now understood that Mr. Thackston made new overtures to the owners of the stock and secured a reduction in price to $1-10 per share. Hg~ thereup on) 11o1d hIs opt ions and holdings to the (Greenvi lle syndicate headedl by Mr. HIaynes(5wo rth. Since the preferred stock of the mill carries a v'otinag power, tihe majority common stock owners (10 not control the mill, according to mill authorities, and( wvill not control it until Ithe pre ferred stock is retired. Mr. .Haynesworthu is qluoted as say ing that no0 changes in the conduct of the mil1l1 i conteumplated. Krelsler at Simrlanburg1. The WVoman's Music Club, of Spar tanburg, has announced a concert by F'ritz Kreiser, the world renownued violinlist, to apepar at the Converse College auditorIum on the evenin~g of M\onday, March) 8th. As noted in the adivertisenment of the concert carried in) todlay's paper, tickets may beC 0) tained by writinag the *Ium Ire Book Store at Spartauburg. Concerts of such rare note are generally 'end ed by many music lovers of 1. ;vi ('inity and it is very probale that this one0 will lprove no0 excep~tion to the Incoome Tax Manm to B~etuirn. After spending sever~al ,days in the city helping local income tax payers to make out their blanks, the governm mlent assistants left for another city Thursday. Before leaving they an n)ounceed that they wvouild return here next Monday to render fur ther assist ance for thlose who were unable to see them lnnt week. 10 LET TREATY ) INTO CAMPAIGN :ument Will Give Way to legotiations to Get Corn ied. by th Itepuiliicans Iirreconeilably op Iosed to ratification, who had intima led that. they might adopt methods of their own to wreck the Repuiblicall program if they saw signs of weak Cning onil article teln. The coitp of the irreconcilables in this Iringinog the treaty fight to a truee was a virtual repetition' oi the Iove by Which several weeks ago they ild(led the bmipartisan compromise ne gotiations by bringing pressiure to bear (;n the lepublican leaders when ani ag reeTim enIt. seem 'ed imm ien iil din1g thi balalee of pOWer, their votes have to be counted on by the Rtepublicans to adopt any of the pro nosedl reservations, and in addition they are understood to have pointed out thit if their counsels were disre garded they easily could talk the treaty over into the campaign under tihe senate rule of utgimnited debate. In fact a program of extensive de bate already had been inaugurated by tlie irreconcilables, members of the group having held the floor several hours each day during last week's sessions. I'nder today's agreemeint. are expected not only to discontinue that program but to vote with the Re publieans as they did last session In alopting reservations. The senate took no action on tile treaty during today's session, which was cut. short by adjournment on ac count of the death of Senator Bank head. Under iinan imous consent the vote to have lien taken today on the domnestie questions reservation %was put over until tomorrow. VOLD WEATHER DDAMPEN.4 liE AL ESTATE A ll) i Smia'dl Crowds Attend nleH of Ieal Estate Last TIhu rsday and Friday. I-xtremely cold weather prevented a large crowd from attending the n ion sales of Laurens Trust Company iroperty held last Thursday and Fri lay, but a part of the several proper les was sold and confirmed. Two of the three stores of the S!m nons property on the public square 6vere sold, the store on the east end eing bought by Mr. John A. Franks or $22,500 and the store on the West m1(d going to Dr. CIlifton -Jones for $20,0)5. ,Both of these sales )were -onflrined, but the center lot remained misold. On Todd Avenue, one lot ext to Mr. James \lilam was sold to Alr. J. Willie Hlenderson for $1,550. Mr. .lilai bought tile lot ill tile rear of his hoimle ror' $t 10. The sr.le of the Jrby home, and lots was called off, while several of the lots Oil Gray's liiill werie 90' I andl lie r'emainder' left for another sal. New Ituiral Pulicemeni. Tlhie Clerle of (Courit's offlee has been ')fllilally notifiedl of the aini~iiiitmn 'if tile followving as 'llural P'olic'emeni for' 12aureais counity f'or thle next two vear is: Columlbus La. Owens, chief; A. I. Bloyd, Sam M1. Thompson, 'T. I). Abr'aims andl (laud 12. Owings. All of these offieers have sei'ved in this ('a pacity biefor'e except ('laud I2. Owings, who is a new man, aluthough lie has had experience in this k indl of work, having serv~edl as de'puity iuderu J. I . W. Watts in the sheriff's ofllee. As linioun (Cd previously, the nummbei' has been m'ed uced( from seven to live. As soonl as bond Is arirainged thmeiri coin miissions will be isued. Duiibar Male Quartet. Thme 'Dunbar Male Quar t et, thle fourithI inumber' of Ijie local TLyceumi Course, will be thme attriaction at the school aud11toiuim thIs eveninug. TIh Is quiar' let is compoi~sel of versatile singer's, inst ru mental. musiains as vwell ais Swviss 'Hell Ilinger's. This will proh libly b~e one of the most entertaIning numbei's of the entire courise and a larg~e audience Is expiectedl from the ity' ando surrmounding teirritory. Sale ('alled Oft. The sale of the dr'uig store owned by he late Dr. fl. F., Posey, announced last week as having beeni madec to Dr. 3. L. -Bolt, of Ware Shoals, has been 3alle'd off. Dr'. Bolt has bought a drug utorn in Grennville, Capt. AthuIrtit Lee Joins Force of Abl hei e-41 reentwood 1u1ua11 il Insurant Vce Comipany. Iinoicemeii ,vas made in The lidex-Jonilal, of Greeiwood, several days ago that Capt. Arttir 14e, for m11(1r business imanger of The Adver tiser and still part owner of the Pa her. had becoile affiliated with tlie Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Fire Ini sura nce Association1 as assistalit to General Agent J. It. Blake. Capt. Lee has been iII the ,Ilsirance business with newspaper work as a sidelinel, or in the newspaper blisiless wlit in sut ranIce as a sideline since h is returnI'll from i'France(, bitt will now devote ils entire tnie to the developmtent of Ihe insurlance busini QsS. His dlties will call iIIII to 14lurens from time to time, affordiig imti anl opportunity to Check up1)" his local interests which Ie still reta ins. The following is the anniitounticenoent of his ciange as C-r r'ied in tihe Greelwoo(I paptIr: Capt. Arthiir Le has resignedI as city editor of The Index-Journ111al to be affiliated with ithe Abbeviilie-4ireenei wood Mutual Fire 1Isuirance company as assistant geieral agent. Nr. .1. 11. Blake Is general agent of this com pany. This addition to the officers Is made necessary because of ilcreased business, the total inistiranice now inl force beig approximately $12,000,000. Mlr. Lee has had considerable experi ence in fire insirance work ( and will be a valuable addition to the coll jany's force. 'le Will travel the great er part of the time and will cover tile 11; counties ini this state In which the com1paly is now writing businiess. \1r. I've has been colnected with the I ndex-l ournal for the past severLl moitlis and](] will be greatly Imlissed, not onl ly by the other imemtbers of the staff, btt also by the matiy people! .w\it whomu It has Come in coILact while doing newspaper work. GLEE CLUll COM3NG. Greenville Womai's College Gle' Cilb to be HIere Next 3ouday Evenltig. The Greenville Woman's College Glee Clib of seventeelnembers, will entertain a Laurl'ens audience at the Opera 1louse next Monday evning. Miss Flora hientt, who is a student at 0. AW. C. this year, was In the city visiting her parents for the week-end and arranging for the concert. It is understood that the Glee 'lIib is (nle of the hest that the co!lege has ever Plt out anldo lunch initerest is beltig taken hleer. ill their cotiing. Deatih of 31r. 1. T. 3monroe. 3.\lr. h'ugetne II. .lonroe died at hlis hoie inar Ninety Six yesterday at two o'(lIock] an(d Was laid to rest this afternoon at three In the Saletm Chu1itrich eemetery, tlie services being condliucted by Rtev. 0. A. JeffCoat. The deceased was boril itn Liten'I(s Coity May 12, 1876 and has been imakinag hi is home in this coutniy for a n1umliber of years. lesides his wife he is sur viv~ed by fouir (hi ldreni, I orroh, age 15,, I'ug(ene, age 12, D~an iel age 5 and~ .1 (s5 ph1, a.ge 2. Thle follow intg brothi (ers and1( sisters also survive: .lrs. h1fl tie I lturnsi, I arksda le: . s. ILeil1a Shock ley, Iliark sdalIe; .ls. Zinnne11r man11, Saluda; .\rs. Mat tie Illerson., Laurens; .\l iss Sarah Mon roe, Lau rens and10 Mr. Vernonl Mon roe, L aurenis. Hie was a Chri ist ian genitiman of a high typ te and leaves many frietnsdl who join withi the famiil y In thieir hereave Illenlt. M..31Oi Moro died of pnleumon111ia followin'1 g inf I luenz'a and1( at t he prtes elit timIle Itis wife, four chil d ren , 01ne sister ando onec br'other-iln-law are at is home ill withi thle flut.-G reen wood I ndex-.1 stlornl (Tuiesday, Feb. 2.1.) liest lloom~ (losedh Next Week. On account (of court beint in session thle ladies rest room1 in the courti house will he closed duHring all oif tnext week. A business session of thte (lulb~V wi be hield TIuesday evenling at t; o'clock, It being thboughtI thtat thle work oif the outfor that day wilibe finiished by Gets AnnaptiOills ApplnIment. Walker W. 1 loller, soni of 11ev. and Mt's. A. 10. Holler, of this city, has I'een tnmed by Senator Dial as the successful appllicant for tihe scholar siIp at the Alinapolis nlaval laeemy. Mr'. I lollet' is now a stud~ent at \Vof.. ford Collego. (Criminial (Court Next Week. Thle March term of CrimInal Court wvIll convene nlext 'Mondtay morninig. Judge TP. S. Sense, of Spartanhutrg, will nresidle. TO RAl1IY TR[ATY Split Kills Hope for Early Agreement ,SENATE LEADERS ARE DEADLOCKED i-teheoek "I4obllobs" wI ii Ieetn e(lables. 1(lenders See P'rospect. of Trenlly Fie-ht1 (4,41ng Into ('am1pign,. fillei(Ok and llorah ('onfer. \\ashinvgton, Feb. 28.--.-Another lay of oratory anl maneuverilg in the senate en(le(d toillght with virtually all elelents inl the treaty fight agree ing that ratifleation seemed far away. Cetting <lown to rock bot tomt in their calculations, tle leade's are tin (lerto00(d to have agree that, tunless some lne'xpee(d circmilstalces alters tle selate alignment, elouglih votes can not be brought togethIiei to either m11o(ify the Republican article 10 res (rvation or secure ratifleation of the treaty without such a modifieation. in this situation, a disposition be v'ane alparntt anong the treaty's friends and foes alike to bring the senate debate to an end, and let the issue go iideci(le(d into th(' political campaign. By unaninons consent it was a;eed to vote Monday on the reservation, which has been pending for two( days, and in some ii arters it was predIcted that a final vote on the. treaty itself would be reacled Cbefore the end of next week. At least twenty l)mocrats, it was saiI on both sides apparently were (letermined to stand steadfastly with President Wilson in opposing ratifica in unlesi a change could be made in the article 10 reservation which tio President had said would cut the heart out of the treaty. In administration (uarters it was predicted that the itiliber WOul Id be well in excess of twenty, bit the latter figure was ac cepted generally as ant absolute in imunm. In. adition there are at least. four tven Republicans and Democrats handed together in the Irreconcilable camp against ratification in any form and It would take a total of only thirty-three votes to defeat any rati fleation re.1olution.. The dletertilnat-ion of the adinis Iration Democrats to fight to the last Oitch for their position became mark cd diiuing the (lay's conferences and in se 1 quarters it was intimated that th y had. h lar(d again from the White llou:we rewrdirI ng article 1W. The party le:uler, Senator 'HIitehcock of Nebras ka, sai( no new coniuii eationt on the aubiect had come throngh hin, but added that he had no reason to be lieve the President had chianged his mind. As ol( restult of te sit uatioll, t lie a(llinistration fo( ces andt(1 the i'o ''ontcilab tles, who htave bleen arch- cie iis lthrotughouit the I lng trety'lI 'Oil troversy~:, have been t hr owni togethier1 in iterest 'endI throutghi thteir leader'is ar tunitde rstood1( tot have a greed to keep it (lose' touch dutrintg the ntext week's mtantr'uvint. Theiiy did( so t oday, Pen ator1 llitchIem k andu Senta tto' Dorahi. lRepulican. Idaho, a leader' amoitg the 'i(it'irr telablIe grou p, hiol dinig freqttet ontsiilt ationls. it the same way the break hot weun Sentaltor Ili tchi(ock anid thIt ttiitd r'es er'vationt liepubilits, witht whtoit he has worked for' tmanty weeks for a comn promttise', was brotughtt to an open1 breach dluing the day's debate. In sha rp etashtes withi Sen atotrs Kellogg, both Itof the iitd i'eset'vat ion gr'ou'jp, Ste Demtocratic Ieadei' declared thain whIile they had ptosedl as frlinds of thte ti'eaty they htad worked by '"contemt tile''"t means to linte u p thle Repubi Iltans for (lestrloying r'eserv'at ions. Sentatot' lIitchceock also chtar'ged thIat Sentator1 K ellogg hadl contspi red "ito tia ci" thte foreign relations commtttit tee witht enemies of thte trteaty, att as sCt ort whichi drtew a heat ed dlential fi'omi the Aillitnnesat o sen ator., l(' saidl hte had( wanted t'at if'at ion from thte first and1( added that while he "'(oni gi'at ulated"' Sentator1s I1i t.hcock aitd Borah and '"ttheir new alinee,'' he Iilthock and Kellogg recal led thte fact titat thte Miinnesota sentator had htittse'lf been unsuccessfutllIy urged for a place on thte for'eign relatIons comt miittee by htis friends it thj senate. Senator' Kellogg mtade no~ refe'rence to thti nn the floor, htnwuvei'.