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THR S?MEEHR WATCHMAN, Estab'J ; Consolidated Auf?. 2,1 THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE Eeview of Legislation Enacted and Proposed up to Date. HUB EVANS' LONE WHISKEY BILL He Wants a Gallon a Month? Gentleman From York Would Make Flirting a Misdemeanor. (By Harold C. Booker.) Columbia, Feb. 3.?Neither branch of the General Assembly was in ses sion today, both houses having ad ' Mourned on Friday until Tuesday night. Today is salesday and all of the members wanted to be at home : for the day. When the senate reconvenes to morrow night it will find the com pulsory education bill from the house awaiting its attention. Also it will find a bill from the house providing for the election of the chief game ? warden by the general assembly. The " bill providing fox* the abolition of the ~ State tax commission and the substi tution therefor, of a State board of tax assesors composed of fourteen members, one from each judicial cir cuit, is another bill that has been sent over from the house for the : consideration of the upper body. ' The senate has sent over to the house for its consideration a joint ? resolution providing for an election on the question of holding a constitu tional convention. This will probably ' ccxhe. up :h the'house this week. The ? resolution passed the senate by. a big vote and many think that if will get by the house also. It is'-probable that good roads legis ? latlon will be taken up in both houses - this week. Senator Christensen of Beaufort" will Tuesday night intro duce h; the senate a biil providing for an election oh the question of is1 -~ suing $25,000,000 worth of bonds for the construction of permanent roads 2 and a companion bill making certain changes in the highway commission and ? otherwise paving the way f or j isueb a ? bond issue. Similar bills have already been in troduced in. the house by Representa tive. Burguson of Charleston. Friday night Dr. S. C. Byrd, presi dent of Chicora College, brought the Chioora student body down to the " capitol to see the general assembly in session. When he got down there he i 7S found that both houses had adjourn- i >ed*.early.lh the afternoon. Over in the senate chamber two of the senate elerks- and > two newspaper men were - ?dt&?iiag around when the student ^a*ls;.walked in, headed by the presi ? d^^l./rj3ome on^ suggested that a ^vc&jsmsibn of the senate be held. -Tfh^^ls fell for :the idea and elected ow'-Ot their number as . president and ty&Bev'as reading, clerk and proceed ^^&$?ld a session. ' ;'l^S^*'?Tst matter brought ,up was ^OmflUi's suffrage. This.was discussed ?Ptb;,and con and a vote finally taken, wfcsch showed that a majority of the glrjir'wanted woman's suffrage. .t 2Je?t the compulsory education bill was taken up and discussed pro and con and 3. .vote showed that a ma jor}^-of the girls favored compulsory Education. ? Finally the bouse bill by Represen tatiVB" John R. Kart of York to pro bat": young men from flirting with college girl* was taken up. All of th* discussion ou this, was one-sided? the- girls were all against it. Finally. ?r^.>i5yrd, the president, got up and made a strong-statement in support of the bill. As soon, as_he sat down one- , of-the girls demanded the pre vious question. The president then n.sked air who favored the bill to arise. | Not a girl arose. The president then asked all who opposed it to arise and j .exeryXgirl arose. "I killed the bill," j laughingly remarked Dr. Byrd. / The girls had a big time of it and \ the rwo clerks and the two newspa per '.men who happened to be in the: senate chamber enjoyed the evening very much also?especially the two clerks, who happed to be single. Only one whiskey bill has been in troduced at the present session of the general assembly. Its author is Rep- j resentative "Hub" Evans of Newberry,' and he wants to change the law so a 1 man can get a gallon a month instead of a guart a month as at present. The j bill'has-been referred to the police regulations committee, which is about the..last that will ever be heard of it. It has about as much chance of get-' ting through this legislature as the Kaiser has of becoming president of the-United States. The prohibitionists have not made any effort this session to pass a bone dry'law. They'-are content to wait for. national prohibition, venich will, be here soon. They will probably give their , support, however, to the bill: introduced in the house by Represen-; tative John R. Hart, a York, to prevent the purchase of patent medi cines and flavoring extracts for use. as beverages. . Columbia is beginning to miss the soldiers. The men are not seen on the streets in such large numbers and the cafes and soft drink stands which they patronized so freely report a great'failing off in business. It is ex pected that some of the numerous eating places that hove opened un here in the past eighteen months will shttt up shop. Health authorities are very much ejic??raged over the flu situation and ?rpress the belief that the epi ?fcted April, 1850. ?*B? *U* a 881. su: AN PLACED HE U-BOATS [Submarine War Ships Will Bei Outlawed by League of i Nations. PRES. WILSON AND LORD ROBERT CECIL AGREE I Construction of League of Na tions in Process of Construe j tion?Economic Force to Re place Arms. London, Feb. 3.?The abolition of j submarines as warships may be de * elded- upon by the league of nations j committee during the coming week, ) according to the Paris correspondent of The Mail. It is said this was one j of the several understandings reach Jed during the conference Friday be I tween President Wilson, Col. House, ?'Jeneral Smuts, and Lord Robert Cecil j and it will probably be proposed j among' the first planks of platform at {this week's sessions, during which it ! is hoped the league's constitution will (be definitely formed, j The correspondent says it is hoped i the economic weapon may take the j place of all other weapons in future ' wars. Train Wreck in France i Eight American Soldiers Killed and Thirty Injured in Collision. Troyes, France: Feb. 3.?Eight American soldiers were killed and thirty injured when an American j troop" train collided with two German locomotives in the station at Mon tieramy, near here. The men were enroute to Brest for transportation home. Railroad Wins Suit j United States Supreme Court ! Reverse Georgia Case. I - I Washington, Feb. 3.?The Georgia j ? supreme court decrees denying .the Central of Georgia Railroad injunc- j ! tiohs* to restrain the State comptroller I general from collecting back taxes for Jthe years 190$ to 1914 inclusive, on j. its; louse hold interest in certain sub fsitiiary properties, was today reversed j by the supreme court \n deciding the [appeals brought by the railroad. Public Land Bill House and Senate Agree on Bill to Dispose of National Wealth. ; Washington, Feb. S.?Long existing controversies in congress over the j policy looking to opening and. de yelpment cf oil, gas and coal lands in j western States and Alaska, was ad IjuL-tcd today with the reaching of an I agreement by' the house and senate j conferees on the oil leasing bill. Shipping Hogs to Baltimore Three Car Loads of Sumter County Hogs Shipped Last Week. j Through the cooperative efforts of la number of Sumter county farmers i with Farm Demonstration Agent .T. j Frank Williams as the wheel horse of i the team, there were shipped last, 'week ISO Sumter county raised hogs: ?averaging 220 pounds each to Balti-j I more live stock yards. Sumter coun- j j-ty is raising a lot more pork than ? can be consumed on the local mar- i ; kets or at home, and Farm Demon strator Williams has to hustle to get: I rid of the surplus hog meat. He started out .to get one car of ; hogs. He had mor6 than one car load ' sent in but not enough for two cars, j He then phoned around the county : to set enough hogs to fill the second ! I car. He had more than enough sent: in to fill car no 2. He had then to try for more hogs for car no. 3. He j had more than enough sent in for the third car. He was in quandaiw at 6 o'clock last Saturday evening as he had plenty for the third car and not. quite enough for a fourth car. He was] nhoning hog raisers from the Cham- ? ber of Commerce to hold up until Monday. A farmer in the Sumter Chamber of Commerce remarked to the sec retary. "That man Mr. Williams is a funny sort of a fellow. In 1915 he. came to my neighborhood and was 3\ick:ner because Sumter county didn't raise enough hogs to feed the county one week. Now he is crying because we got so many hogs he dont' know what to do with them.** demic has about spent its forre. It did not claim anything like as many lives but at the same time the situa tion has been very distressing. South Carolina has never had as dreadful visitation from disease as from the flu. There is scarcely a family in the State but that has been called to give up some member by the disease. In some instances wholo families have been wiped out of ex-4' I$tence. 1 ad Fear not?Let r S toe entii Tbtm AH MTBE, S. 0., WEDNESl HUN CONGRESS MEETS THURSDAY [ConstituentAssembly Will Con vene Next Week and Orga nize for Business. ! PRESIDENT OF ASSEMBLY I TO BE ELECTED FRIDAY Body Will Then Adjourn .to Permit-Committees to Discuss Proposed Constitution. Poris, Feb. 1.?Since Thursday;, no one has been aiiowed to\ enter [-the lefty of Weimar without permission, says a: Zurich dispatch to The Petit Parisisen. The opening session of the German j constituent assembly has been fixed [for next Thursday. On Friday -the j president of the assembly . willj'bc ; elected, after which the assembly Jwlll j adjourn to permit the committees to j discuss the proposed constitution*, of j the'German republic. |/ BE PRESENTED To Be Handed Germany This Month With Renewal of Armistice. - STEP TOWARD RETURN f TO THE PEACE BASIS ?Germans Will Be Given an Op portunity to Know What Con : ditions They Must Meet. Paris, Fen. I.?The preliminary peicce -terms will; probably ...be pre sented to Germany along with ~fte conditions for another renewal cf the armistice thfs month,' if the plans are not changed. Recognizing the need for the return of the world to a nor mal peace time basis, the nations as sociated against Germany are consid I ering thus making a start toward the ? actual peace treaty. This decision is i reflected also in the examination now Lunoer way to determine what Araeri ! can troops it will .be necessarv to i leave in occupied territory. Charleston Nary I Committee of House j Makes ; '. Tremendous Reduction- in. Navy Yard 4p?*v-'% pri?tionV ! . . .. -' :> ;?: I Washington, Jan. '21.?When the j tremendous cut in the Charleston j j item.3 in the. naval appropriation bill: : was made public here today, this cut i ! being .from a total of $705,000 to ! j $22^,000, Senator Smith said that, he. \ would gave the matter his immediate! j attention and malte what inyestiga- j ition might be necessary." . } *T have been informed," said Sena- j Itcr Smith, "that this bill of the j i house committee cuts ? the Charleston j i Xavy yard very serious and if I find j ! that there, has been any dlscrimina j tion T sliall use my best efforts to have i the situation corrected and Charles ! ton placed on a footing with other! places. I recognize, of course, that j a large part of the estimate asked for was submitted when the war was go- j \ ing on and that now, since the sign-! ing of the armistice, so much may not be necessary but this cut seems to; be very large." Chairman Padgett, of the house j committee said that practically every; navy yard in th<* country has suffer-' ed similar cuts. j This action of the committee was; a surprise here as it has been expect ed that there would be some substan- i tial increase for Charleston. ; Butter Going Down Thirty-Eight Cents Wholesale Kansas City. Kansas City, Jan. 31.?Butter quo tations on the local market today showed a decline of seven cents from yesterday's prices. Creamery butter came down to 29 cents wholesale, the lowest quotation on this kind of but ter here for several months. Eggs also declined, quotation rejr istermg a drop of four cents under yesterday's prices, ^irstr were whole saling today at cents. Georgia Loses Camp ! _ ] Camp Benning at Columbus Will 3e Abandoned. ? Washington. Feb. 1 ?The senate 1 military committee today udhered to ? the previous recommendation of the wor department for the abandonment of the small arms, machine gun and t tank training project at Camp Ben-it ning. Columbus. Ga.. by a vote of 3 seven to five. * 1 < ant at be thj Country**. Thj God'a * DAY, FEBRUARY 5. 18 MILLION MEN j LEAVE ARMY I - Demobilization of the American Army Has Been Carried on Rapidly. GENERAL OFFICERS NOW BEING DISCHARGED i < (Regular Army Officers Resume Their Place and Rank in Reg I ular Establishment. i Washington, Fob. 1.?The demcb | ilization of the army passed the mil i lion mark the past week. Gen. March j announced today. Dom obi libation has I proceeded to such a point that gener jal officers are being discharged from j the vir organization. Gen. March announced the honorable discharge of 33 generals, all except four being (regulars who will return to their rank ! in the regular establishments. PLAIN TALKS TO CONFEREE No Division of German Colonies Among the Allies, Says Mr. Wilson. WILL NOT BE PARTY TO PEACE OF LOOT 'President of United States Uses ! Plain Language in Supreme J Council. _ i ? ? ? .- ? ? i Pans. Jan. 31?(By the Associated j Press)--The crisis in the peace ne gotiations over the disposition to be ; made of Germany's colonies seems to ! have . passed, momentarily at least. ? It is to'early to say President WilJ j son's view has pre\*ailed in its entire ; ty, but in American Quarters there is : confidence that a compromise plan, ' which has been accepted in principle, j will be worked out with details which ; will be. acceptable to the American I viewpoint. When the supreme council of tbe I peace conference meets tcday it will I have before it the very plain state \ mnt made by President Wilson at [Wednesday's late session, so particu I far was Mr. Wiison to have an exact 'record of whnt he had said that soon j after entering the meeting he sum moned Qhe of his personal stenogra phers and kept him at'his side during the discussion. What he said did not appear in the official communique, nor has it. been disclosed with any official authori ty, but it may be stated that it was a very clear rcamrmation of the principles for which the president hed previously contended. In phrases j strip'jed of diplomatic niceties, it is) understood Mr. Wilson told.the mem-j bers of the supreme council he would j not be a party to a division of Ger- j raany's colonial possessions among the J powers which now hold them and be--; come party to a league of nations | whfoh. in effect, would ^guarantee f their .title. There are inferences that! the president even referred to a peace j of "loot." The net result of the past j two days of discussion on the colonial j Question, in the .opinion of many | Americans has been to clear the at- j mosphere generally and to force a j clear definition of aims on all sides, i The opinion is rather generally ex- j pressed that with this question set tled it will be much easier to go on tp other subjects that are awaiting at- .! tent ion. Whether the compromise program of internationalization will J meet President Wilson's views de- j bends wholly, it appears, upon the; way in which the details will bo,j worked out. This working out was i expected to be taken up, in some j measure at least, at today's supreme j council session. _ j Ship on the Rocks American Transport With Brit- j ish Troops Ashore on Eng lish Coast. \{ i London, Feb. 1.?The American; transport Narragansett is ashore on ihe English coast, high on tbe rocks, i with a heavy sea running and falling " snow, but reports to American array' headquarters are that the vessel is in no danger and will l>e lioated. l_ife, boats and tugs are taking off the trops which are reported to number about two thousand, of whom sixty.1 ire Americans. The transport had * been loaned to the British to tak2 to < England British troops on leave. j Southampton, Feb. 1.?All troops jhr.jrd the transport Xarragansett vhh'h is ashore off Bembridge. have 1 3een removed by tugs and life boats, c iesp le the snow storm and high seas. 1 Washington, Feb. 1.?Several cas- * jal companies containing Georgia sol- t liers arc due to arrive at New York t February Sth on the battleship North t Carolina, ''c a* TnKfc'o." THE TROT H9. HINES AGAINST RAIL OWNERSHIP (Director General of Railways ^Tesifies Before Senate Committee. I I - 'does not believe in public ownership : But Advocates Consolidation t I and Strict Government Super i vision. * Washington, Fob. 3.?Director Gen eral Hines, testifying .today before the senate interstate commerce com mittee for the first time since his ap pointment as railroad head declared he did not believe in government ownership, but in the organization of I a few big railway companies, subject I to close governmental supervision. I Cotton Mill Strike j Operatives in Horse Creek Val ! ley Demand Eight Hour Day. i - j Columbia, Feb. 3.?Three of the i cotton mills in the Horse Creek Val [ley may be closed as a result of oper atives' demand %for an 8 hour day. About 1,500 operatives may be affect ed. - The management of the Granite ville mili discharged twelve officers of the union Saturday. The Hickman Mill at Graniteville shut down Satur day and the operatives of the Gran iteville Manufacturing Company are expected to walk out this afternoon. The Bolsheviki Capture Kiev \ - [Ukranian Capital Falls Into the Hands of Red Terror. j - Warsaw. Friday. Jan. 31:?Kiev has {been taken by. the Bolsheviki, Gener; ial Petulars troops partially going ovei {to the enemy. Greece Presents Claims j Premier Venizelos Makes State ment Before Supreme Council. j. Paris, Feb. 3.?Premier Venizelos, j of Greece, before the supreme council I today made a statement on the claims jof Greece. He will continue his pre jsentation at'tomorrow's session. War on Roumania Ukranian Army Preparing for j Attack on Neighbor. j. London, Feb. 3.?Ukranian troops are preparing to attack Rumania which is said to have mobilized to j'meet the assaults according to Copen hagen advices to The Daily Mail. -?-; Union Doer Not i Approve Strike Strike in Lawrence Not Backed By Textile Union. Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 2.?Textile ' operatives in large numbers joined the : strike today to enforce their demands; for fifty hours pay for forty-eight! hours' work, under the new weekly schedule which has been generally' adopted by the mills here. The fact that the United Textile ; workers had withheld its sanction of the strike kept many operatives at work. Srike in Sweden Workmen of Nineteen Railroads Quit Work. Copenhagen. Feb. 3.?A serious; railway strike has broken out in Swed en. Workmen of nineteen different lines stopped work last night. Quick Demobilization Is Ordered Every Soldier Who Has Sickness or Trouble in Family Gets Out Immediately. j< _________ ; J Washington. Feb. 3.?Gen. Persh- ' 1 ing has been ordered to send home it ior immediate discharge any drafted ; * >r enlisted m:m. who presents con vine-j 1 m; evidence of sicklies or other dis-'i tress in his family. r If the quantity of seed distributed >y the Chamber of Commerce is a sorrect index of acreage to be planted n tobacco, this year will be the bail- * ler tobacco year in the history of Sumter county. The seed distribu ion indicates an increase of between wo and three hundred per cent, in p he tobacco crop of Sumter county ja iver the crop of 1918. ir G SOtTTHRON, EtfabMsbed ?na?. IW VoLXLVIL Ko. 50. WAR C?S?ALTIEI Approximately 10,000 Men Are Wholly Unaccounted For? Grand-Total 56,592. PRICE UNITED STATES PAID FOR WORLD PEACE Total Casualties of Thirtieth Division 1772?List is Only 95 Per Cent. Complete. Washington, Fet? 2.?Official tables of the maj ">r battle casualties .Of the American forces in France, made pub-, !ic today by Gen. March, chief of staff, I show that approximately 10,000 men remain wholly unaccounted for,^near ly three months after the. ending- of hostilities! The deaths, missing and known prisoners are tabulated, "up- to January 10, for each of the thirty . combatant divisions of Gen. Persh ing's army. The total is 56,592, of whom 17,424 are classified as .nilssing T or captured. An appended state1-'' ment shows that only twenty-nine American military prisoners were be lieved to be still in Germany on Jan-'.: uary 8, and that 4.800 prisoners had i been checked up as returned and 118 died in captivity. Some portion of the great body cf missing men may be located as the return of the army thins out -the ! American force in France. Indica | tions are, however, that the major ity of the 10,000 finally will be- added I to the roll of honor shown in the [tables of those killed or died of : wounds, now recorded as 39,158 men. I To that figure also must be added i 1.551 men of the marine brigade, fig juies for which, not carried in theta } bles, were obtained from . official * sources. This brings the grand aggre gate of deaths from battle-up to 4<J, ,709 on returns, estimated officially to ib'e':95 per cent complete. -As figures ?on missing and prisoners of't&e'ma ! rines are lacking the number, of rUh" [accounted for. which finally will ~T5e j added to the roll of the dead, .cannot be accurately estimated. v' j- The army tables, ho w ever;'grre y a j total of 14.64 9 men missingi4n ac??h land 2,785 known prisoners, making~up ;the 17,434 missing or captured. Thie j appended statement shows: that t?e (army rolls record 4,918 American mii ! Stary prisoners accounted for. Admit i tedly there are many possibilities Oi i error, but the statement says it is an j ticipated that the unaccounted for list ;of 12.516 will be brought "down to 'less than 10,000." * j The tables do not furnish any data j as to the wounded or deaths other than those resulting directly from bat | tie. A new estimate of the complete figures on Ameriean casualties, there i for", is not possible. It is significant 'however, that up to tonight the war ..department has published the names j of 43.8S2 men killed or died .of i wounds, as against 39,159 shown in ; the 95 per cent tables. The difference j is made up by additional returns since , the tables were closed on January 10. On November 12 Gen. Pershing es ! timated that his total killed, and died jof wounds would be 45,455. Presuma ; bly publication of the lists of these j known deaths, and exclusive of the ; unaccounted for is nearly completed, ! having exceeded the estimate by more than 3,000. due in part to additional deaths from wounds and to the list ing as dead of men formerly reported missing. The names of 149,418 wounded had been published up to tonight, com pared with a November estimated to tal of #59.S5. Of those missing in ac tion 11,676 have been published, against the estimtaed 14,260 total, and compared with the 17,434 missing and prisoners shown in today's tables. Fighting in Russia Bo?3heviki Troops Continne Their Pressure on Allies in Archangel Sector. Archangel, Sunday. Feb. 2.?Bol sheviki patrols were in touch with American patrols today about fifteen miles south of Stredmakrenga. With the exception of widespread patrol ac tivity and heavy shelling on the Vologda railway line there was com parative q1 iet yesterday in all sec tors of the front. Soap Factory Fire Eplosion in PJant of Colgate and Company Does Great Dam age. Jersey City. Feb. 3.~An explosion ^f chemicals in the laboratory of the oap plant of the Colgate Company his morning started a fire which' hreatened the destruction of the en ire plant. Continuing explosions node fighting the blaze difficult. It ?< reported that there were a number ;" victims of the explosion. Georgia Troops Arrive 'asual Company 133 Land at New York. New York. Feb. , "3.?Casual com* any 133, composed of Georgia troops, r rived today on the steamship Sa? aarinda.