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STJMTER Sstah i ?-?-;-:- ' Consolidated Aug. 2,1 MAKES PROGRESS Small Powers Now in Agree ment With Supreme Council. DIPLOMACY OF JULES CAMBON IS EFFECTIVE Plain and Friendly Explanation of Policy of Big Nations Re moves Irritations and Opposi tion. sis ONE ,/ Paris, Jan. 27.?(By the Associat ed Press).?The peace conference to day made a distinct gain when the 19 small powers.gave full adhesion to . - the organization formulated by the ?ve ;great powers, thus securing a unitedv "front of the great and small - powers- at the outset of the work on the main subjects before the mem bers of the committee.' "Tliis was largely due to the skill * fuL&rectidn of Jules Cambon, French delegate and former ambassador at Washington, who was designated by ,the .council of the gerat powers -to t -preside over the meeting of the small T>owers held, this afternoon. This-, meeting cohvened at the foreign office at 3 o'clock, at the same time the- council of the- great powers to the two separate gatherings proceed ing. \simultaneously, one in the office oi%,a?. jPi/chon, the foreign minister, and the other in the Salle de la Pafx. F-or a time there was some appre hension of the sequel to the^different viewpoints expressed at Saturday's conference, b?t today's meeting of the small powers was without incident or renewal of the claims then set up for- increased representation on the various, committees. Belgium, Serbia, Roumafcia and all the other small powers had their full delegations at the^ afternoon meeting. M. Cambon, in' opening the meet ing' t??i occasion -to allude to the garfekt piart Belgiumhad. taken in the war. He then 'paid a tribute to the part played by . Serbia, Roumania, Greece ahC .the"others:,' This dissi-. p?t-e^>'?ay lingering shadows of dis: agreement, dnd the. meeting-proceed ed with entire: harmony. to . designate the^e?bership. of the srhall powers) ~^on_: the commission:' In the meantime j (3^ji|?jtt?^l Of the great powers held! \ t^o.-sesflions during: the day, resulting I " in thtfc, formation of two hew comzhte siohs to deal with financial subjects *i& the question jc private and, mari ?.l?ws. '/\ m .-;tV&le the official communiques I give no indication of the nature " of j th ft Question of maritime law/', it. Would' seem to be a term embracing; President Wilson's second point of j freedom! of the seas. The .council 4lsb proceeded to hear- j ihg&.on the disposition of the con quered German colonies in the Padflc i a:id.the- Far East, a final conclusion j not being reached. The conference '? is. giving evidence* of real progress; since the committees were named, and j most of these bodies began to initiate \ their work today. President Wilson, who is chairman i of the committee on the league of: nations, joined his colleague, Colonel j House, al6o a member of that com-; mfttee. during the noon recess of the; council. Later in the day Lord Rob- : ort Cecil, British member of the; committee, joined him in a further I ???nsideration of the questions which j the president and Colonel House had, examined. The labor commission also began to j get under way. President Wilson met Snmaei Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. James j Duncan. John R. Alpine and other ^ embers of the American labor dele gation, for a brief exchange of greet- 1 Jrgs* and later Mr. Gompers and Ed ward- X. Hurley, who are the Ameri- j can members of the labor commis-1 skm. held their first conference on the! work ahead. The military commission on demo- ! bilization also had a session whil#? M. Pichon completed the draft of instruc tions for the commission which leaves for Poland in a few days. Henry White, the ?American dele gate on the waterways commission, also established relations with his colleagues of that body. Thus real progress on all the main subjects, is becoming apparent as the commissions are beginning to form ulate detailed projects for presenta tion to the conference. Back to His Old Job >pt. Roy Pennell, State High way Engineer. Anderson, Jan. 27.?Cant. J. Roy Pennell, a member of the famous Rainbow division, reached New York about ten days ago, then went to Washington and secured his discharge and Is spending a few days at his ^ortifc in the country. About the mid dle of the week he will return to Co lumbia to take up his duties as State highway engineer. Knoxville. Jan. 28.?Dr. Brown Ayres, president of the University of Itnnessee died this morning, after a brief illness of heart disease. Lisbon, Jan. 2S.?A new Portuguese cabinet has been formed, headed by Jose JRevas. as premier und minister Of education. Hiked April, ?8*8. ?Ba *m 881. ~~ 81 HUN COLONIES CAUSE FRICTION ? * ?_... j ...... ?? , ? ? . _ - -. . ! Peace Conference Must Adjust f Many Conflicting Claims ; | i to Keep Peace. i -:- , ! BRITISH WOULD HOLD WHAT THEY TOOK ! One Fact Seems Settled?That Colonies Will Not Be Return ed to Germans. Paris, Jan. 28 (By the Associated Press.)?-Germany's colonies occupied j the entire attention of two extended j executive sessions of the supremo ! council of the great powers today, ! and. the disposition of this small em j pire. scattered over the African main j land, in Asia and throughout the Pa j cific, is presenting a territorial ques jtion of the first magnitude. The hearings given today covered the entire rangre of these German col onies as the delegates of Australia, New Zealand and Japan presented . the respective . interests in the Pa cific groups of islands, Japan and Chi na their interest in Kiau Chou and the German concessions at many treaty ports, and the French minister of colonies, M. Simon, took up the African colonies, embracing Togo land, the Kamerun, and German East land Southwest Africa. I Gen. Jan. Christian . Smuts, the South African leader, and Gen. Louis Botha, the South African premier, already have been heard on the ques tion of German East Africa, and now it only remains to obtain the view point of the Belgians who are about to present their ideas of their inter ests on the colonies adjacent to .the Belgian Congo.. It appears to. be the generally? accepted view among those having interests in the matter that Germany's colonies should not be re turned to her. - ? / This in turn ? has developed another crucial. \ question,, .-.-namely "'- whether j German sovereignty-, -over... these- "col johfes. should. Pass j td the powers who j may receive- them or [ whether they ! should he entrusted' to a league of n.a .fcions whieh exercise international control while'giving mandate to such powers and administer the particular colonies. . ~ ': ' ; ? This larger question, affecting the general administration , of %e colo nies; was considered-"^ the council today as weil as the particular inter ests involved and the discussion will be continued tomorrow n>orning. ; German East Africa is t*.e most im portant" territorial possession involv ed as it has upward [of 7,000,000 in habitants: Besides being adjacent to the*British South' African common wealth, is a necessary link connecting the British in the south and in the north, thus completing the British territorial chain between Cairo and Cape Colony. German Southwest Africa is re-; garded as less important though the harbor in "VYalfish Bay has some ad vantages. Belgian interests are believed to bo related to Southwest Africa while the French interests are toward the Kameruns and Togoland, which ad join French Dahomey and. the French Congo. China's interest in the colonies i? in gtting back Kalu Chou after it passes from Germany to Japan and also in the/ termination x of German concessions at Tien-Tsin, Shanghai and other points. Japan's interests are both in Kiau Chou and the Pa cific islands. Th<? islands are being considered in two main groups, first New Guinea, Bismarck, and the Sa moa rrroup, in which Australia and New Zealand are presenting their in terests, and second the Marshall, Car oline and Marianne groups, lying east of the Philippines and south of Ja pan. The first group of islands is fertile and productive; trie second consists of coral islets, chiefly valuable as Stra tegie bases. It is this whole range of colonies, once constituting Ger many's hope of world extension, that are now under consideration in the session of the supreme council of the great powers. Paris. Jan. 28.?The official com munication issued today on the peace proceedings reads as follows: '?The president of the United States, the prime ministers and for eign ministers of the United States, the British empire. France and Italy and the representatives of Japan held two meetings today?the first from 11 a. m. until 12.20. and the sec ond from 4 to ?1.30 p. m. An exchange of views took place on the German colonies in the Far East and the Pacific and on those in Afri ca. "The representatives of the do minions werj present at these two sessions; the representatves of China at that in the morning, and the Mar quis Salvago (Italian) at that in the \ afternoon. In the morning, the dele gates of Australia. New Zealand, Chi na and Japan were heard. "In the afternoon Henri Simon. French minister of the colonies, ex plained the views of his department on colonial questions. "In addition, the fundamental prin ciples of the league of nations and their application were considered. ''The next meeting will take place J tomorrow at H o'clock." 1 md Fear Dot?let aH the end* Thou AtiMt at be tby Country**. Ttej t4oa*m i PMTEB, 8. C, SAT ?&DAY, FEBRUARY 1, 191 j ? H< ? ? t ""+""5 HIHtmi.M.IHHHHIIIIHt? * COTTON RATES REDUCED Shipping Board Cuts Freight Rate to Eu rope from $22.50 to $6.25 a Bale. By Associated Press. + Washington, Jan. 28.?'Southern senators announced after con- X |TJ Cerence with the shipping board today that trans-Atlantic freight ? \+* rates on cotton had been reduced from $22.50 to $6.25 a bale from "t. i'T South Atlantic points, and from $23.50 to $7.50 a bale from Gulf I \X Porta. These rates are effective immediately. * ' + ? ? System Earns $55,436,000 Dur ing 1918, Breaking All Records. THE PROFITS ARE FIVE TIMES THOSE OF 1917 i The - Richmond Banks, South eastern Federal Reserve Divi sion, Earned $2,325,257. ? Washington, Jan. 30.?The twelve federal reserve banks broke all rec ords in 1918 by piling up .an aggre gate of $55,436,000 in net earnings, i largely from rediscount operations, compared with $11.204,000 the year before. The net earnings of the Rich mond bank were $2,325,297. ?? - { j Trend of Events Indicate That I ? He Will Have to Return /, in Spring. THIS COURSE WILL BE JUSTIFIED BY CONGRES? jHe Will Meet and Answer Any i Criticisms in Address When He Returns.. I : Paris, Jan.:.29.?As much as Presi dent~WHson still hopes to avoid a sec ond European trip, it begins to look as if the trend of peace conference af ?fairs would impel him to recross the Atlantic early in the spring. President Wilson is said to have told those in his confidence that if future events pointed to the need of his return he felt that hl& course i would be found to be fully justified when he addressed congress on his return to the United States. " | j The president's friends here say he; I is prepared to answer any criticisms j {of his intended return to France with j facts that he will lay before congress, j I New York Ratifies Act _ ! j Forty-Fourth State to Approve I j Amendment Making Dry in Year. i ! ! j Albany, N. Y.. Jan. 29.?New York j became the 44th State to ratify the ; j federal prohibit ion amendment when . I the senate tonight by a vote of 27 to ! j 24 concurred in the McXab ratifying j I resolution, which was adopted by the j j assembly last week; The Democratic delegation of 22! voted as a unit aprainst ratification j and was assisted by two Republicans, j ' Henry M. Sage Of Albany and Charles ; !C. Lockwood of Kings, both of whom ; had refused to be bound by the action I of a Republican caucus Monday night j in making the question a party meas ure. - j Adoption of the resolution was ac- ; j complished after eight hours and 20 . minutes pi debate, j McAuley's Trip Is Interrupted -:. i Trans-Contiental Flyer Taking Wrecked Plan to Miami. Daytona, Fla.. Jan. 30.?Major Mc-! Auley. who while on a trans-conti nental airplane flight, made a forced landins: near Fort Lauderdale Satur day, left Fort Lauderdale this morn- ' ing by train for Miami, where he is taking the airplane for repairs, lie ' would not discuss his plans for con- ' tinning the fligl * KDGKITELD SEXATOKSHIF. _ i i Bx-Gov. Shepfwml May Succeed Nich- j ol son. Columbia. Jan. 20.?Reports from ! Edge?eld are to the effect that form er Governor John C. Sheppard will likelv succeed th<> late lamented R. S. Nicholson as State Senator from | Edgefield count v. Friends are urging; him to make the race and it is said) that if he consents to offer that he1 si-Hi ne unopposed. Peace Conference Has Elminat ed Intention of Collecting ? Indemnities From Huns. I t ? -; THE ALLIES WILL BEAR ENTIRE COST OF BIG WAR I r i .... ?' : Statement is Made by'?: Corres pondent of London Standard on Good Authority.. London. Jan. 30.?The peace con ference has eliminated any intention of calling upon Germany and her as sociates to pay the allied countries ffor the cost of the war, or to impose ! heavy indemnities upon enemy na 1 tions,- the Paris correspondent of the ^Evening Standard says he has rca . sons to report. SECRET TREA1ES IBEMOP Wilson's Colonial Theory Wipes i Out Great Britain's Agree ment With Allies. M#?? 0r-?? ? . ^ENGLAND SAID TO H&VE ACCEPTED THE'PLAN i i ?. r _______ Japan, France and Arabs Have j Territorial Understanding With England. j London, Jan. 30.?Great Britain's 'reported acceptance of President Wil : son's theory on the ifiternatiohailza | tion of the captured enemy colonies, the Parif correspondent of D-aily Mail \ says, involves an admission that the ' treaties with Japan regarding Xorth , ern Pacific islands, with the Arabs re garding Syria, and the ?nderstand ; ing with France as to the future stat es of Kamerun, must be arbitrarily ' modified or torn up. FRANCE ACCEPTS PLAN. wCapt. Tardicu Announces Adherence to Wilson's Colonial Theory Paris, Jan. 30.?The British and j French governments have accepted in' [principle Presdient "Wilson's plan con | cerning mandatories from a league of nations for the administration of captured territory. Captain Andre Tardicu, a member of the French pence delegation, stated today. Critical at Florence Health Officials Resign City | Council Elects New Board. Florence, Jan. 29.?The "influenza" I has certainly hit Florence county and j Eastern Carolina some very heavy blows, and has taken away from its citizenship numbers of the best men | and womer.. It is stil ltakinp; its toll; in this town and numerous citizens of j all walks of life and standing are now\ down with it, some of them critically ; ill. j R ith all these facts before them, the health officials of Florence have i failed to do anything to stay the dis ease in the way of quarantine, and af ter numerous discussions and some newspaper articles the entire board j resigned, leaving the city and its peo-! p'e without relief. 5 A meeting of the citizens was held Monday night, but even they "walked up-hill and back again." doing noth ing. Yesterday the city council met and elected an entirely new board of health, and the townspeople are now wondering what will be done. The j schools, churches, mo.dng picture theaters and other public gatherings are still permitted, but it is hoped some action will be taken when the new board of health gets on its job. i Fraud Charges Dropped Hearing of Case Against W. J. Oliver Indefinitely Postponed. Knoxville, Jan. 30.?The prelimin ary hearing of the ease of William J. Oliver and ten other defendants, charged with fraud in connection with the manufacture of munitions, was indefinitely postponed by Oomroissuon ?? Thornbrargh this morning. _ ! 'A ) ?4 Trsuas'B." THE TRCi 9. INSURANCE FIGHT IS NOT ENDED j Senator Laney Resumes Attack on South-Eastern Tariff Association. PEOPLE ARE UNDER THE HEELS OF MONOPOLY I State Has Right to Regulate In-1 surance Companies and Pro-i ! tect Public. (BY HAROLD C. BOOKER.) ! Columbia, Jan. oO.?South Carolina j is absolutely at the mercy of the i Southeastern Tariff Asociation, ac | cording to Senator G. K. Laney of ; Chesterfield county, who was one of i the authors of the Laney Odom act j passed by the general assembly a few j j'ears back and which drove the lire j insurance companies from the State. [ The bridle is off so far as these com } panics arc now concerned, he says, J an'dj they can do the people of the ; State just as they please, j "The law passed by this general as i sembiy two years ago. which purports { to regulate them, is not worth the j paper it is written on," declared the senator from Chesterfield in a speech j in, the senate on Tuesday afternoon, j "It is a farce, if you will excuse the I language, senators. We are in as bad shape now as we were before we pass ed the legislation a few years ago. Wc are under the heel, the hind heel, the iron heel,' of the tariff association and they axe bearing down on us. "The pity of it all is that we had jthe Sght nearly won two years ago if we had only known it. Lots of peo ple got panic stricken, however, and I we caved in. If we hadn't given up, j we would have won the fight just as \ the great State of Texas won her's and we would today have been inde pendent of the Southeastern Tariff Association.. , "The,question has not been settled right and therefore it has'not been j settled at all. rThe people.of the State j are growing tired of being trampled on by: these insurance companies. The j iron belt is rubbing theoi raw and I they are chafing under. it; " There is how absolutely no. restraint of^flre in surance companies in this State and look what , they have done. Look what they have done. Look at the raise in rates." ? The senator from .Chesterfield was urging the passage by the senate over the governor's veto of the bill.pro viding for State insurance for cotton [warehouses in the State. warehouse system. He declared that the insur jarice people did not like this because I it was the. entering wedge for the State in the insurance..business. The I insurance people don't, want the State ! In the insurance business. It would ruin their business. . Senator Laney declared that it was just as necessary to have regulation of fire insurance as it! is to control the railroads and the telegraph wires. He declared that the United States Supreme Court has decided that a ! State had the right to control the fire I insurance business. Fire insurance is j a public necessity and therefore some [ control must be exercised over it. IThe senator was referring to the de | cision of the United States Supreme j Court in the La Tourette case a few da?."s ago. This case grew out of the |Lanev-Odom act, the insurance com | missioner of the State refusing to li ! cense Phillip La Tourette of New j York under the provisions of the I Laney-Odom act. I Senator Laney in his speech inti I mated that ho was not through with j the insurance companies yet. He .predicted an uprising on the part of j r.h<? people against them. I The senate listened intently to his I remarks but did not follow his plea ' I for the passage of the warehouse in-1 j surance bill, killing it by a vote of 20 I to 13. ! j - j Came Warden Controversy. Present indications are that the j game warden row will be settled at! th's session of the general assembly I hv Th'^ paKsage of a bill providing for ; the election of the chief game war- j d^n of th State by the legislature, i This will end a row'of four years'; standing. Such a bill has been in-1 troduced in the house of representa- ' fives by Mr. McDonalds of Oconee' county and in the senate by Mr. Ron- i ham of Greenville. In the event the bill is passed it will j bo sip-ned by Governor Cooper. That i much is certain. The new governor; is desirous of being reheved of the | responsibility of naming the warden, i It was reported that he would send.' a message to the general assembly asking the passage of such a bill but! this may not be necessary. A hill placing the election of a game warden in the hands of the j gene?-al assembly was passed during Gov. Manning's administration but! was vetoed by the governor and j enough vote., could not be mustered to insure its passage over the veto. In the event the bills now pending in the two houses pass it is expected that Wade Hampton Gibbes. who is now chief game warden by virtue of bis appointment by Governor Man- : ning. will be a candidate* and it is expected that Col. A. A. Richardson, i former chief warden, will also be a ; candidate. i Good Roads Speeches. Carl J. Heer, of Chicago, president of the Community Development Com pany of America, and It. Coodwyn I Rhctt, of Charleston, deiiveied ad-' SOUTHRON, Et?bHuftwrt two, 3WS VoLXLVH. No. 40, WAR TIE BREAD No Reduction for. at Least Eighteen Months, Say Flour Millers. MILLING INDUSTRY AT A STANDSTILL NOW Northwestern Miliers Will Re sume Activities on Govern ment Guarantee. / j Minneapolis, Jan. SO.?War time I bread prices will prevail thro?ghout I the world for another eighteen : months, leading Minneapolis i millers predicted today when inf ! ed of the statement yesterday by ? lius Barnes, president of the Un j States Grain Corporation, regarding [the American guaranteed price of wheat in relation to the world price. The milling industry of the cou has been practically at a stan 'since the government agency" ceased j buying flour six weeks ago and was. 1 awaiting just such an announcement; ' as Mr. Barnes made, said H. P. Gal-, iagher, vice president of the North-: western Consolidated Milling ? Com pany. Immediate resumption of flour mill activities will follow, he said.' Mann Attacks Daniels Republican Leader Declares in Speech That Secretary Daniels Should Be Impeached. ! Washington, Jan. 29.?Republican i Leader .Mann, speaking in the house today, attacl-:ed Secretary Daniefe tot J purchasing wireless communication ! systems, saying the secretary had vio j lated the law and "ought .to be ip?r i peached." Secretary Daniels recently told t&e house merchant marine committee that the short stations, and radio'ship sets of the Marconi Wireless-& Fed eral Telegraph Company had- been bought for about '$3,000,000 from funds carried in the last naval appro priation bill: In his speech today Mr I Mann .declares that-not.a line of that J appropriation bill authorized the pur j chases. ' '"Utterly regardless of law,".??-said iMrr-Mann. v"in violation- of- the iatsr-?or which he ought to be impeached and removed from office?and it is not un likely 'that he may be?he has. gone ahead and spent money out of the appropriation for the purchase of ra dio systems. ? "lie came before the congress and asked authority to make these-guv chases and was refused. If he had authority he did not need ask con j gress for it and the failure of con j gross to legislate on the subject'-is'a I refusal of authority." 1 Secretary Daniels declined i*o dis J cuss Mr. Mann's statements further , than to say that before the land ra j dio stations were taken over he and j Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, with j the department's solicitor had examin I ed very carefully into the question i of the department's authority to act. Future Status of German Colonies President Wilson's Plan of .In ternational Control Will Be v Adopted. j London, Jan. 30 (Thursday)?The ! British imperial war cabinet has ac i cepted President Wilson's theory of j internationalization as applied to the ! captured German colonies, notwith-. 'standing energetic protests from the representatives of the dominions, says The Daily Mail's Paris correspond ent. "These protests," says the corre spondent, "have been of the grayest* character. The South African repre sentatives believe acceptance will give the greatest encouragement to the rebel e-ement in South Africa which it ever has received during British ad minirtration. The Australian dele gates fear that Australian public opin ion will regard it as extremely unsat isfactory and inexplicable The do minion representatives generaUy, though very reticent, are greatly per turbed." Harding- Quite Job Resigns as Managing Dir of War Finance Corporate Washington. Jan. "29.?W. Harding todav resigned as man director of the war linance corpo tion because of the increasing pr ef duties as governor of the federal' res -rve hoard. He was succeeded as. managing director of the finance corporation by Kugene Meyer, Jr.. now a director, but will retain his of fice as a director of the organization. The war linance corporation now is making no new loans except to rail roads and is preparing to wind up its aftVirs a.ftvr the declaration of pea^jr dn-ses last n;,rht to members of th Ken era] a<-se<nblv on the question of freed roads. Govern or Cooper was ?rezent by special invitation. It is exported th-t hills embodying Lin- plans advocated by Mr. Beer and M- Khctr ir :- t-'ks last? night, uill he intiodmed ;n the legislature this week.