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SWEARWGEN IS HOTLY ATTACKED Member of House Charges Him .5 With Exercising Autocratic *n ?: Power. 4 - - ^ 'i ?w ????? ROW OVER MANAGEMENT OF TEACHERS* BUREAU . Dr.. W. S. Stokes Was Dismissed v -??Manager as the Result of .. Charges Against Him. Columbia, Feb. 11.?John E. Swear jn^en? State superintendent of educa tion, was warmly denounced on the ?ppr of the house of representatives &s?. night by Representative L. E. -prfcer, of Lexington county, who re reierred to him as the greatest auto mat iij South Carolina who declared thfct his conduct in office ought to be _ Unobligated. He said that when he went to consult Mr. Swearingen about k: bill which he proposed to introduce in ? the legislature and which he though: of interest to the people of g-outh Carolina. Swearingen asked him ^^hy didn't you come to me tirst? ' \The denunciation of Mr. Swearin gen-w&s; brought about by the con ^''j^ftnttion by-the house of a bill by 2^r. J.-R' Davis of Barnwell county xp establish a bureau for the regis tration and employment of teachers. &t nre#Mit this, bureau is under th? dj^ction of the Superintendent of; Kd$&tion and Stfr. W. S. Stokes has; ' Ip&wr:'te- eharge of it. During the past ? ~t$M'j&ys .Dr. Stokes has been dismiss-; :y *ftc-fc?r, }?r. Swearingen because of! preferred by trustees of the; Wes?nisfiter school In Oconee coun-' :^^|f^teitv he had ;advised teachers to. - iH^-f their contracts when more mon~. . w^was offered. This charge Dr. &$?es. has denied. 1 'Representative Orr of Occnee coun-| . ty. <le<:lared that the passage of Mr.: 'Bavis' bill would be a direct slap in t^e^^-ce of Superintendent of Educa "^n^Bwearingen. If that be true, the, . j&ipus? certainly gave the superintend-' y ?i'pf education a direct slap for the bill passed, by an almost overwhelm vote, without even a division be-! called for. . '^^epresentativ^ Dreher asked Mr. Pl^lf he knew why George D. Brown /'discharged as superintendent of -mill schools - of the State by I ^g^^jngen. Representative Orr re _ ?]jed'that, he did "not. Represeiita >^e;^Dreherr said-: that he understood .t^t-Swearingen.told him his resigns ?^S? Vbuld be,accepted because Brown %$$ed. ^permission tb go home bne day te.aUend to some affairs in connection Wjla'the winding up of an estate. >v*The Lexington man was particular ' ij. bitter in his denunciation of Mr. Swearingen and" predicted his retire ment at. the next-election. - -'.* 13x? house last night killed a bill( by Representative Meares to place all) male convicts in the State over 17 j yaaps of age under the control of the] board of directors of the State peni-a tjentiary and to abolish the county] Chaingang system: ? The sentiment of the lower house seemed alinost unanimously against j this measure. Representative Meares] made a brief speech in favor of thej .bill:. and Representatives Miley of] Bamberg and Gresham of Greenville' spoke against it. : .-This bill has been urged by the State Board of Charities and Correc tions. ;" "Dr. A. J. Oopr. president of the G4er Drug Company of Charleston nays that if the bill now pending in the house passes every wholesale druer ?tore !n the State wHl have to close its doors. It will be impossible, he says, to buy camphor or paregoric or Msterine and dozens of other house hold remedies which everybody uses. He says it will not be possible to buy lemon extracts or other extracts used for flavoring cakes, custards, etc. '"The druggists of the State are op posed to the sale of whiskey as a bev erage," says Dr. Gecr. "They are ready and willing to help enforce any reasonable law,-but the measure now before the house, is unnecessarily harsh and we hope that it will be Idlled." Representative Hub Evans of Xew berry county introduced in the House last night a bill to impose a tax of oD cents per gallon on extracts, com pounds and mixtures and ingredients for the manufacture of what is com monly known as soft drinks imported into this State and a tax of three cents per bottle on all goods, which tax Phall be paid by the person re ceiving or importing same within three days after arrival. The tax "would be used in the construction of permanent highways in the State. Bill to Abolish Office of Chief Game Warden Reported. ' Columbia. Feb. 11.?Favorable re port was made in the house today on the bill to abolish the office of chief game v/arden of the State and devolve the duties of the* same on county wardens. Representative Wise of Charleston introduced a resolution to allow mem bers of the legislature $100 addition al for expenses for this session. The house killed the bill to cut down the number of days jr. which checks may be .made good in to five days. Bolsheviks Met Defeat Attack on Allies Near Archangel Was Repulsed. London, Monday, Feb. 10 ?The Bolsheviki launched an infantry at tack Saturday against allied positions near Sredmakrenga. southeast of Archangel, but were repulsed, it was officially announced at the war office tonight. I NEGRO SOLDIERS GUILTY OF MUTINY Tried by Court Martial at Camp Jackson for Crime Commit mitted Last Summer. I ATTACKED OFFICERS AT PISGAH FOREST CAMP Twenty-Two Members of Labor Battalion/Were Involved in Serious Violation of Military Law. Columbia, Feb. 11.?While no an nouncement has been given out. it is understood in military circles here that twenty-tw? negro soldiers .from North and South Carolina, mostly sta tion*- it Camp Jackson, have been tried-recently on a charge of mutiny and found guilty. It is probable that 'no public announcement of the find ings of the courtmartial will be made until the records have been reviewed and approved by the war depart , ment at Washington. The negro soldiers who w^re tried were: Simon Radley .of Dillon; Monroe WingeM. of Ai?<m; Tom Nelson ,of Augusta, Ga.; John Love, of Drake, S. C: Ttichaiyl Phoenix, .of Miami, Fla.; F;ite Pitts, of Clinton; Thomas Riley, of Burton, S. C; Matthew Sim mons, of Beaufort; Lee "Williams* of Bennettsville; Talmage Williams, of Cades; Paul Warren, of Goldsboro, K. C; Peter Skinner of Woodwards, N". C: John Thomas Little. R. F. D. No, 1, Morven, N. C; Sam Richardson, of J Boykin, S.. C; Robert Murry, of Al colu; Ed Young, of Winnsboro; Jacob 1 Sease, of Bamberg; James Berry of Langley: Pomerey Jackson, of Win ston -Salem, N. C; Samuel Simons, of Hopkins: Headlcy Braveboy. of Lake City; Lemrille Inabilett, of Bamberg. The men were charged r-ith. viola ! tion of the 66th article of war in that Iwhile members of the 444th Reserve Labor Battalion, cf the Quartermas ter Corps, acting jointly and in pur suance of a common intent they did j attempt to create a mutiny at the ?camp of the battalion at Pisgah For mest, N- Cm on July 17. The men are alleged to have urged their com rades to refuse to obey orders of their ?uperlor officer, Capt. Cyrus G. Wood an* their superior officer Second Lieu tenant Aaron. B. Cronkrite. ' It is alleged that the men refused to .go to their tents under arrest and that they brandished clubs and stones land assaulted and threatened the life ?of their superior officers, j . It is further alleged thfit the men 1 assaulted Sergeant Miiton Floyd, j striking him on the head and about the body with knives, stones, sticks and clubs. ? Pisgah Forest is a small lumbering town in the mountainous district of North Carolina. It was about four miles and a-half from Avery Creek, where the camp was. to Pisgah Forest. There vas no telephone or telegraph j communication. It seems that.the trouble started on I'fte night of July 17. 1918 at supper ! mens. Headley Braveboy, the ring I leader, came back three or four itimes for lemonade and the last time got in the line ahead of some others wh?m ne was supposed to fall in be hind. He was placed under arrest i and taken to a guard tent and later v chains placed about his neck. A crowd j of negroe? gathered about shouting j "turn him loose." Finally they dis I pcrsod. 1 That same night Lieut. Oonkrite j and Top Sergeant Milton Floyd start | ed for headquarters four miles away !to get a detail to help them out. They ] went down to the sheds to saddle the t mules but the negroes headed by t Braveboy and others prevented them ['from saddling. So they started out 'on foot, and when, part way caught ja logging train. The negroes had [started in pursuit however and climb jcd onto the cab of the <mgino and ! forced Floyd off. He was scabbed and I pleted with sticks, stones, etc. While he j was trying to hold them hack another Slogging train came moving past and : they shouted to throw him under the ?wheels of the train. But Floyd was in a dugout and the negroes being un able to got behind him could not force him to the tracks to carry out th*-**- threat of murdering him. They j grabbed hold of him and took him j back to camp, on the way hauling j him through a river and threatening J to drown him. j' Fight on Naval Bill i _ {? Washington, Feb. 11.?To save tho I new three-year naval building pro | gram from defeat through a parlia mentary coup, the house rules com mittee today ordered a report or a rule making legislation authorizing the construction of ten battleships and ten cruisers in order for house consideration, as part of tlx* seven hundred twonty million n.-ivul ap propriation bill. j_ IA Greedy Fisherman Wants All 1 the Fish for Himself. j Columbia, Foh. 12.?The senato j passed today a bill prohibiting the lo- j i cation cf a court, house within eijs'ht miles of a county line. Resolution was introduced in the I senate looking to an investigation of! the feasibility of building a new j executive mansion. A favorable report was made in the j house on the resolution providing for a constitutional convention. A bill was introduced in the senate to require any resident of the State I to pay ? licenso fee of $2.LT> a day to, ' fish in any fresh water stream out- j side of his own county. Non-resi-j dents of the State would have to pay' $15 a day. The house spent the morning on minor matters. UFFRAGE BILL VOTED DOWN The Constitutional Amendment Lacked One Vote of Re quired Majority. SUFFRAGE LEADERS EX PECT TO WIN NEXT YEAR Senator Pollock Voted for the Amendment and Delivered Long Speech in Support of the Measure. "Washington. Fc-b. 10.?By a margin of on*? vote equal suffrage met its fourth defeat today in the senate. Xo further action at this session is now possible, but advocates announced the now nearly half century <>bi cam paign for submission of the Susan 13. Anthony constitutional amendment to the States would be renewed when the Sixty-sixth Congress convened. On the final roll call today 55 sena tors?one less than the two-thirds re quired?voted for adoption of the res olution and 29 senators east their bal lots against it. Comparatively brief debate preceded the vote which offi cially killed the resolution adopted by the house on January 10. 1?18, by a vote of 274 to 126. Defeat of the measure was witnessed by crowds of women in the galleries, but there were no demonstrations and dramatic in cidents which have marked previous senate votes on the question were lacking. Up to the last moment, man agers of the resolution expressed con fidence in securing the one vote they needed, but the opposition held f.rm. Immediately after the vote was an nounced suffrage leaders issued state ments, prepared in advance, criticis ing the senate action and announcing that the fight would be renewed in the next, congress. Supporters of the res olution generally predicted that suc cess would be attained then. Twenty-four Democrats and 21 Re publicans voted for the resolution to day while 18 Democrats and 11 Re publicans opposed, it. Of the senators absent and paired, eight were record ed in the affirmative and four in the negative, indicating that sentiment of the 96 members stood 63 to 23 in favor of- the resolution. :; .The roll call follows: Those voting in favor of the. resolu tion were: Democrats ? Ashurst, Culberson, Gerry, Core, Henderson, Johnson of South Dakota, Jones of New Mexico, j.eKndrick, K?rby, Lewis. McKellar, Myers, Nugent, Pittman, Pollock. Ransdell, Robinson. Shafroth. Shep pard, Smith of Ari2ona. Thomas, j Thompson, Vardaman and Walsh?24. Republicans ? Calder. Harding, Johnson of California, Jones of-Wash ington. Frelinghuysen. Curtis, Gronna Colt, Cummins. Fernald. France, Kel logg. Kenyon, La Follette, Lenroot, McCumber, McNary, Nelson. New, jNorris, Page. Poindexter, Sherman, Smith of Michigan, Smooth. Spencer, Sterling. Sutherland. Townsend, War ren and Watson?31. Total for. 55. Against: j Democrats ? Bankhead. Backham. Fletcher, Gay, Kardwick, Hitchcock, [Martin of Virginia, Overman, Pome ! rene, Saulsbury, Simmons, Smith of Georgia, Smith of South Carolina, Swanson. Trammell Underwood Wil liams and Woleott?IS. Republicans?Baird, Borah. Bran I degree, Dillingham, Halo. Lodge, Me j Lean. Moses, Penrose, Wadsworth j and-Weeks?II. j Total against. 29. j The following were paired: j Chamberlain of Oregon and Martin jof Kentucky with Reed of Missouri. Goff of West Virginia, and Owen of i Oklahoma with Shields of Tennessee: Hollis of New Hampshire and King of Utah with Knox of Pennsylvania and Ph;.-lan of California, and Fall of New Mexico with Smith of Maryland, j The senate first voted on the Susan B. Anthony amendment in 1887. 16 {senators being recorded for it and j against it. The next vote was in 1914, I senators dividing 35 for and 3 1 j against. On October 1. 19IS. the vote ? was 54 to 3d. or two less than the ' necessary majority, j The one vote gained today was [that of Senator Pollock of South Car olina. Democrat, who spoke in vig orous support of the measure. Sen ator Pollock succeeded former Sena tor Benet, who voted last October in opposition, and will retire himself i next month. In his address today. I Mr. Pollock denied the eontention i that the amendment would affect Iwhite rule in the SouTh and declared {that women had earned the right of suffrage by their work in the war. j Thirtv-five of the women arrested yesterday for burning President Wil [ son in < ffigy in front of the White I House .-is a protest against the ex pected defeat of the suffrage amend j ment were tried in poliee court, j Twenty-five of them were sentenced J to five days in jail, one to two days land the cases against th<- others dis ; missed. j T1k> women announced from the 1 distriet jail tonight they would con jduci a "hunger strike." Flu in Mexico Mexico City. Jan. 20 (Correspond-1 ence) ? Four hundred thirty-six thou sand two hundred deaths were cans- j ed in Mexico during L91S by the in fluenza, according to data publish* -d by El Universal. This figure is be lieved to be conservative, according to the paper, as several states were an - j able to furnish figures <>n tii? - mortal- j by. In others, it is added, th?> epi domic still prevails. In Morelos. Inj particular, few families escaped ill ness. In fact, the influenza is credited with having destroyed the power oi Emiliano Zapata, long the rebel rub r of thru State. 1 f GERMANY NEEDS STERN HAND Military Ambitions Still Persist and Leaders Presume on Clemency of Allies. REAL DANGER OF THE RENEWAL OF CONFLICT Hun Army Has Not Demobilized and Hindenburg Holds Eigh teen Divisions on the Western Front. Paris, Feb. 10 (By the Associated | Press.)?The supreme war council, in ! which Marshal Foch and other mhi I tary commanders sit with the council i of the gr<>at powers, continued today j the discussion of the terms for the rc j aowal of the German armistice with i out reaching a decision. At the same time the league of nations commis sion virtually completed the final draft of that project, assuring its presenta tion at a plenary session the latter part of the work. Tho discussion of the armistice took a wide rang?;, including the failure to execute some of tho clauses of the previous armistice, the blockade and the use of enemy merchant shipping. Hut the main issue turned on a series of proposals of a rather drastic na ture, designed to place tho enemy be yond the possibility of rearming and renewing the conflict. From the French standpoint the menance of such renewal is not past, and it is urged as a matter of fore sight 'that suitable safeguards bo es tablished. What these safeguards are has not been disclosed, but it is gen erally understood that they include the limitation of the production v/ field and heavy guns, and an exact I accounting of heavy guns now on [hand, also some limitation of the mili ! tary organization which is to be po t iice service i I While some of the military com manders take the view that radical Imeasures aro needed to assure the al lies, particularly France, against pos sibility of renewed peril, yet other views tend to place reliance on eco nomic measures as the best means of averting any renewal of enemy ac tivity. Besides tho discussion of the armis tice terms, M. Klotz, the French min ister of fina,nce, presented documents of the German general staff showing a systematic plan to destroy French industry, not only as a military meas ure but as a m^ans to promote Ger man industrial interests. These doe | uments wore referred to the economic i conference recently established. The [discussion of the armistice terms vviil j be continued tomorrow. London. Feb. 10.?British wireless? British newspapers of all shades of opinion are devoting serious attention to the attitude adopted by the Ger j man government towards the armis tice conditions. The Daily News Paris correspondent | .sends a dispatch from 'authoritative sources" on the subject in which he j says his informant told him that he j had the best reason to believe that ? Germany is not continuing to demob ilize. j "She has now concentrated more than IS divisions under von Hinden I burg on the Western front" the cor . respondent quotes his informant as saying. "We also have the best rea sons to believe that Germany is kcep i ing her troops under arms on the pre text of economic necessity. Some of j th<- military authorities chink that j Germany ha.s sought more material ! to give necessary armament to 3.000, ! 000 men. German demobilization is a condition to our demobilization and therefore disbandment is impossible so long as Germany does not continue to demobilize I "Allied military authorities consider the time has now arrived for Ger many to give up her military strength I?that she be brought to such a con dition that she can not resist later conditions of peace now being pre pared. The allied theory always has been that we shall frame conditions which Germany will have to accept, and that there is nothing to discuss, except as regards details. "For this reason, Germany is try ! ing to keep up her military strength so that she can send a delegation tc the peace conference for a thorough military discussion of the peace con ditions imposed. On this point the French Nationa' Socialist party and its extrem.- left wing is strongly opposed to anything being done to save Ger many from the consequences of de feat. Jn this matter the French gov ernment will be supported by the en tire nation." The correspondent says he has been I informed by a competent British au thority that Marshall Foch "made a [declaration of a somewhat serious character at a meeting of the supreme war council." "He feels," this authority is quoted as saying, "that the Germans are b<' ginning t<> forget that they are boat Mi. They are apt to forget that we are in a state of war. They have j been slow in handing over transport j and other things. They are causing i a great deal of difficulty. "We are demobilizing fast; they are not continuing :<> demobilize. There is danger of Germany saying. ?We do not care anything about your league of nations and we have got our troops.' Unless a change takes place we might be faced with a situa tion jn which Germany as regards rh> number of men in the field will have men as again a ihe allies | two. The question of demobiliza tion has been taken up by the! supreme war council. All the i i technical advisers have certainty been in fav.>r of taking what :.dnii ional ! measures as may be necessary to pre- j vent any (Tanger to tic allies ?u- tn *ir positions, or any danger of their not being able to dictate what peace term's they please."' The correspondent in Paris nf the Daily Mail credits .Marshal Foch as] Hostile Attitude of the French Newspapers Are Resented. POWERS NOT PLEASED WITH CONDITIONS THERE Quesion of Removal to Neutral Country May Be Considered at Paris Conference. / Paris. Feb. 10.?Th^ question of moving rhe peace conference from Paris to a neutral country may be considered by the conference if what I is characterized as the obstructive policy of the French press and certain French officials continues, it devel oped today. : Representatives of various other powers taking pan in the ponce con ference, it is declared, believe the work of the body Is being greatly hampered through unfriendly criticism by the French press of various leaders in the conference. They are repre sented therefore as inclined to consid er the removal of the conference if the attitude cf the French press is maintained. Should i; be deemed necessary to take up the matter it would be con sider d at full meeting of the peace conference. ?Tust what is meant in the forego ing dispatch by the ? obstructive po licy of tin* French press and certain French officials is not clear, probably for the reasott that there has been great difficulty in obtaining prompt and full reports of developments in Paris in connection with the peac< conference. During the war there was seldom any difficulty despite the s< rious han dicap cf tb" censorship in gettin? through news matter from France ir reasonable time and in plentiful vol ume, largely ova- the direct Frenct cable line. Since the delegates begar assembling for rhe peace conference howov.*-r. and especially r.in^e The rca work of the conference started, tht communist ion with France has boo: of the rocs: uncertain sort. Virtual!} no news has been, received over th< French cable line, the best and quick' est means cf communication since th< conferen< began. Ali the cable ant wireless services have been greatb congested, but the chief difficulty ha.< been that, although the French cabb was nominally in service there ha: been complete inability to transmii news matter over V and that all tin cable communications for weeks pas; j has been by roundabout routes. AUTOMOBILES WITHOUT LICEN SES. Columbia. Feb. 12.?J. Roy Pen nell. State highway engineer, yester day sent letters to all sheriffs and chiefs of police in the State, calling upon these officers for enforcement ol thf State law relative to procuring automobile licenses for the current year. Mr. Pennell emphasizes that j thf time for procuring the licenses ex pired December 31. 1918, and that the operation of all machines at this time without the 101!) license plates hs punishable by a fine of $25. Mr. Pen nell says there are IS.U?O machines of last year's registration not yet li censed. The letter to the sheriffs and chiefs of police follows: 'For your information an extract of the law providing for the licensing of motor driven vehicles operating upon the highways of South Carolina is quoted as follows: *' 'All licenses Shall expire on the 31st day of December following the date of issue. Annual licenses shall hereafter be issued between the 1st day of January and the ist day of February of each year.' 'i'p to date about 18,000 automo j biles that were registered by this de partment for the year 1918 have not applied for license for the year 1919. The law provides fc ra maximum pen alty of $23 or imprisonment for 13 days for each offense. According to the provisions of the act, any motor driven vehicle operating over the highways of the State after February without the license of the year 1919 is operating in violation of the law. "This department has employed ex tra clerks for the issuing of the li censes and I shall appreciate it very much if you will use every effort pos sible to see that the licenses are taken out without delay." [having said to the supreme war coun cil that tin re wore many instances of I Germany's failure to comply with the armistice terms, notably in the hand ing over of artillery, submarines and agricultural machinery. "As evidence of the German spirit." the correspondent continued. "Mar shal Foch mentiom-d an occasion when he summoned a German com mission to meet him and they failed to appear at the time and place indi cated. It was only after strong pres sure on his part that the meeting eventually took place. "According to Marshal Foch's esti mate the Germans are now capable of placing an army of 3.000.000 in the field in two months time." The correspondent adds: "if is desired to make a renewal of war impossible under the conditions! to be laid down February IT. The terms suggested include handing over] of the entire German artillery. :om pulsory reduction of the German army to 2r> divisions with machine guns for the internal policing of the empire and occupation by the allies of the Ruhr district, which includes Essen. "During an important debate on >?-se proposals the further sugges tion was made that in view of G-r many's attitude the allies should a/so revert to the initial demand for the: handing over of transport, which was modified on account of Germany's plea of impossibility." j JAPAN BULLY TOWARD CHINA Determined to Hold Territory Taken from Germany and Threatens War on China. CHINA BOUND BY TREATIES EXACTED BY JAPAN Japan's Attitude is Tautamount to Defiance of Other Allied Powers and League of Nations Plans. Paris, Feb. II.?Japan has reiterat ed her intention to hold Marshall, Caroline Islands in the Pacific which she took from Germany during the war, as well as insist upon .execution 01* her agreement reached in Sep tember last with China regarding Shantung. A formal statement to this effect to Japanese representatives has been made public here. Japan Threatens War Washington. Feb. 11.?Japan's at | ^tude toward China in the peace con ference is causing grave apprehen sion among representatives of the J cth r associated powers. I According to official diplomatic in j formation reaching here, Japan vir- \ 'tualiy threatened war, if China makes public the secret treaties between the two countries, or fails to carry out the agreement to make Japan the suc i cessor of Germany in the rights, property and concessions held by Ger many at the outbreak of the war. . Officials of the State department de- { j dined to make formal comment on * I the situation. ! Copies of Treaties I Are Stolen ? Washington. Feb. 11.?According to II reports current here the threats ? against China, were conveyed to the 1 Chinese foreign minister by the Jap- , 1 ano.-.e minister at Peking. In thinly | ? veiled terms the Japanese minister is I 1 said to have pointed out that Japan i % I has an at my of a million men idle at l'home. fully equipped for a long war, | and more than a half million tons of shipping, with the intimation that this | will be icady on short notice for active work. When the Chinese delegates \ arrived at Paris, information now ; "va 'able discloses, that they reported . that their copies of secret treaties i with Japan weer stolen from bag- | gag<> while passing through Japan, consequently they were unable ? to mal e them public. New Army Plan Washington, Feb. 11.?A temporary | [military establishment of 2S.579 offi-1 ? leers und ?O'J.'JOO enlisted men is pro- % I j vid< J for in the annual army appro- % :|priation hill reported to the house to- | ?jday by the military committee. The | measure carries a total of $1,117,-1 289,400. The committee said an army | of the size recommended would be 5 I necessary '"during the period of de- !a mobilization." ^ Chairman Dent said * the bill, ; whi- h appropriates about $6S,000,000 > iesi than was asked by the war de- J partment, would be taken up in the J [house as soon as the naval appropria-1 ! lion bill is passed or about the middle* j of the week. j Legislation affecting the national ^ I guard is among the features of the ^ j bill. A national guard organization ^ l of 106.200 men is contemplated, r | Equipm? ni and supplies would be pro- | j videil without charge by the war de- % [partment from the war stores. The a total appropriations for the guard ag- I gregate $10.173.000. | } Other leading features of the bill ?? [are: , % Dual organization of the temporary "{ [army of .'37,588 men so that part will ' ! be constituted as prescribed in the national defense act of 101G providing : for organization of infantry, cavalry and artillery units, and the remainder1 i SO as to permit retention of new units ; ?aviation, tank corps and others, the j (Usefulness A which was demonstrated ?; j during the^ar. | ! Return of the war department or- > ! gani::ation to bureau chiefs instead . I of entering its organization in the . j general staff. j Restoration of recruiting, with pro- J [vision for one and three year enlist- * ? ments. ; j Abolishment of distinctive stripes 3 j for overseas or service at home dur- . I mg the war. j Continuation of tho increased war : pay for enlisted men. j Provision for the promotion of off icers and men. recommended for such [before the signing of the armistice. The c-mimittee's report on the bill emphasizes that by establishing a temporary army of 27.",79 officers and SO'O.POO men no suggestion is made that such should constitute the perma nent standing army. In the section on organization pro vision also is made that it shall apply only for the year beginning next July, and that "the president shall form or continue such corps, including the construction corps, field or tactical units or organizations as he shall deem necessary to he organized as may pre sch he. ' Child! "Lahor Law. P; ris. Monday, Feb. 10.?Prohibi tion of child labor under sixteen and uniformity of seamen's wages are two important features of the Amer-S ican British labor program adopted today by the commission on internat ional labor legislation. Knowille. Feb. H.?George and D-eatur Crawley and Blaine Stewart, members of a gang of alleged army deserters wanted in Georgia on the charge of murder were captured in the Tennessee mountains yesterday bj Special Agent Glenn Young an* >rought to jail hare