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THK StJMTER TOATCEQEAX, Xetab Consolidated Aug. 2,1 MUCH WORK LIuTE TIME Legislature Has Crowded Calen dar of Important Bills and Should Adjourn Saturday. MUST EXTEND SESSIONS OR NEGLECT BUSINESS Appropriation Bill and Practical ly All Other Imporant Meas . ures Yet to Be Disposed Of. Columbia, Feb. 17.?The forty days of the general assembly will be up Saturday night but it appears un likely that the body will finish its work by that time. If it does some very important legislation will have .to be passed over, including the good roads bill. The bills will not be tak en up :r- ?*her house until tomorrow. The senate nas made them a special order tor tonight but it is hardly probable that it will discuss them be fore tomorrow. It certainly seems very unlikely that a vote will be reached on them before tomorrow or Wednes day. It will be impossible for the bills -to get through by Saturday night un less the Senate votes on and passes them tonight. Senator Christensen served notice ? on the senate last week that it would be humanly impossible for the legis lature to adjourn this week. He said the finance committee of the senate would have to have three or four days in which to consider the appropria tion bill. It will hardiy be able to re port it back before Thursday. The senate has much work ahead of it. The bill abolishing the tax commission has not yet been acted upcn. It will cause a fight. The bill preventing the sale of patent medi cines, extracts, etc. for use as bever age is also on the senate calendar "awaiting action as is the house bill pioviding for a memorial building at the University to the men who fell in France. ? The house has the constitutional convention resolution and several other important matters to dispose of. j The Chnst'ensen bill providing for' "^tTT^i(Tget system las not yet been j taken up. . ? There are so many important mat- j ter.s awaiting consideration in both i houses that it seems out of the ques tier, that adjournment can be reach- j ed this week. It is expected that the Senate will: get to work on the compulsory edu-1 cation bill this week. The bill will probably be amended somewhat in the upper house. The House cut the num ber of months a child is required to attend school down to four. The Senate may raise it back to six. The appropriation bill went through the house in splendid shape. There was probably less debate on it this year than in many, many years. Objection was raised only to about half a dozen items. The ways and means committee was sustained in practically every instance. The bill, as amended, carried a to tal ?20.'.'00 greater than reported. The levy was not affected. The greatest change was the addi tion of an item of 510.000 to cover the expenses of a delegation to the peace ccngress to look after the cot ton interests. There was a slight tilt over the law enforcement fund but the fight on it this year was tame indeed compar ed with last year and the previous year. Last year and in 1017 also the house oi representatives cut out the !aw enforcement fund. This year an effort was made to strike it out but H was rather weak and failed by an {iv-erwh^ming majority. The charge was made that the fund was used for political purposes in 1917 and 1918. Practically everybody connected with the State government gets a sal ary raise this year. The appropria tion bill gives all clerks, etc. a raise or ten per cent. The heads of all departments have already been rais ed. The fate of the supreme court justices' raise is somewhat indefinite as yet. The senate passed to third reading a bill allowing all supreme court justices who reside in Columbia $1.500 additional. Senator ?dcCoil made a tight on the measure on third reading though and held it up. ? The senator from Marlboro de clared that he did not object to pay ing the justices more?he t-h'nks *b?r-;.j are entitled to it and, ought to have It but he dislikes the plan hit upon to raise them. He thinks it an eva sion of the constitution. The bill introduced in the house j>y Representative McAdams to control venereal diseases is now a law of the land. It was signed by Governor Cooper Saturday. Another bill of interest signed by the governor Saturday was the Davis bill, which prohibits the location of 'i court house within eight miles of a county line. This bill was passed to i prevent ?lackvi?e from getting the court house of Barn well county. There has been very little display of factionalism at this session. There' is a minority group in the house tha? sticks together pretty well but they have not engaged in any factional talk on the floor of the general as sembly. The nearest approach to it came during the discussion of the, "law enforcement" fund Friday night, j Representative Dreher intimated that &*ed April, 18*0. "Be Jon & .881. SU3 RUNS CRITICISE PEACE COVENANT Berlin Newspapers Declare It is I Nothing More Than an Al liance of Big Nations. I FRANCE NOT REQUIRED TO OBEY DISARMAMENT I i ! ! "- j : They Resent Power of Allies to Admit or Exclude Other Na-j I tions as They Will. Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 16.?The Zei ' tung Am Muittang declares that tue I ieagrue of nations is simply an alli ' ance of the five great nations who preserve the right to admit or exclude ' other nations. The reservation in the disarmament clause that disarma i ment shall take into consideration the ! geographical situation of the nation ; concerned plainly means, the news | paper says, that France will be ex empted from its provision. The Paris 'dispatch covering the league covenant ; reached Berlin too late for comment j by the morning papers. I_ Boycott Instead j of Cannon j Americans Devise Effective League of Nations to Dis place Force, Washington, Feb. 18.?American ! financial and trade representatives j now in "Europe have demised extensive I plans for using the economic boycott ' as a weapon against nations failing to abide by decrees of *he proposed league of nations. According to of ficial information today they were ' preparing to urge upon the peace ! conference an option of measures making possible close international cooperation in the application of eco- J nomic principles to replace use of j armed force'to a great extent. Xo specific machinery for putting! into effect measures of economic boy- i cott aas been agreed upon even by j the American representatives pending i further developmht of the plan fori the league of nations. Tt has been suggested, however, that some' -sort j of an international trade commission be established to gath?r information j concerning commercial, industrial and financial operations of each country. | Official of the treasury- ' depart ment Ol commerce and war trade | : board familiar with the plans of the I ! American representatives at Paris, said this body might be entrusted | ? with powers to investigate unfair trade j ! practices, which might 'easily de velop into international irritation and i war. as well as to set in motion the economic forces against nations trans | grossing international agreements. Under the American plan the ma nipulation of- the supph of raw ma- I jterials and of the purchase .of manu-j j facte.red products and of financial ar- j j rangements between countries would be the principal means of effecting aj ! boycott. If these measures could be [ I made thoroughly effective American: representatives believe they would of-! .ten eliminate the necessity of using i armed force. The international commission also i might 'ievelon broad constructive powers to work out better plans for [international financial cooperation such as the Establishment of a foreign exchange gold 7'ocl and standardlza ; tion of a multitude of trade laws and practices. The international high j commission, including only North and i South American nations, might be taken as a pattern for developments! ; of some of the functions. Officials said the American plan.; ! which will be unfolded gradually and j subjected to general discussion. J i would recesitate continued coopera- , ; tion between the government and j i business in this country and possibly j j modifications of thr anti-trust laws, or j ! their application. Quiet at Archangel There Have Been No Attacks on Allies Recently. By Associated Press. Archangel, Saturday. Feb. 15.?The Bolsheviki have made no attacks, against the allies on the Archangel | from s;nce February 11th. Allied air-' planes report on troop movements be-1 hind the enemy lines during the last j few day.s. No Railroad Legislation Congress Abandons Plan to Consider Railroad Problem. Washington, Feb. 17.?All plans for the consideration of railroad legisla tion at this session of congress was abandoned today by the house inter state commerce committee. this money was used for factional po litical purposes. Representative Bradford, chairman < l.he ways and means committee, re plying to Tlr. Dreher declarer] that no governor of the State had ever en tered the office who had greater love from the people and greater respect than (Jovornor Cooper. The latter, he said, appreciated this and he be lieved was going to do all he could! to hold {Iiis love and respect of Utei people. ' nd Fear not?Det ail the ends Thon Ali BITER, S. C, WEDNES1 Gevernment Accepts Terms forj Extension of Armistice at Last Hour. | ;1 REALIZE THAT MARSHAL ' FOCH MEANS BUSINESS j Leaders of Various Parties At- i tend Meeting That Considered j i i i Terms. - Copenhagen, Fob. 17.?The German | [government on Sunday night accept-j jedthe allied terms for an extension ot | J the armistice, according to a Weimar j I dispatch to the Politiken. The meet- j ling at which acceptance was decided i Ion was attended by the leaders of the; ! various parties, the dispatch adds. | The outbreak at Nuremberg follow-' ed un attempt by government forces] to disperse TL proces. ion of Sparta- j cans who were protesting against thej reorganization of the Bavarian army. ? Shots are said to have been fired from j barracks into the crowd which took matters into its own hands and storm- ? ed army headquarters. \ SUFFRAGE FIGHT I RENEWED AGAIN! '- ! Susan B. Anthony Resolution; Reintroduced in Senate by Senator Jones. IT IS IDENTICAL WITH THE MEASURE REJECTED | ! ? j Resolution Was Referred to Wo-; i man Suffrage Committee and! '\ I Battle Goes On. . Washington. Feb. 17.?Another res- j oluticn providing for-the submission, to the States the constitutional amend ment granting woman suffrage was! ntroduced today by Senator Jones, oi ; Washington It was referred to the! woman suffrage committee. It is iden- j tical With the one. recently rejected in ! the senate. i ; ___________________________ British Relief Work j Great Tasri Efficiently Perform ed in Devastated Section ! of France. - i London, Feb. IG.?The part played; ' by British forces in feeding and as sisting the inhabitants in villages lib-: erated by the British advance from ' October 1 to November 25 is re\-ea!ed j j in a report by a French mission at- j ? tached to the British armies in j France. The report says the British ! ?army had to deal with 790.000 inhabi- j jtants of French villages, of whom' 1450.000 were in Lille, Roubaix and ?the Turcoing district. This work va ! ried from IS to 32 days, according to i I the conditions in different districts, j In spite of difficulties of transporta-.: tion, which cn several occasions com-; ! pel led the British troops to reduce '? their own rations, the British dis-: tributed a minimum Quantity of 5, [ OS4..000 civilian rations. At least ; 400.000 French people whom the Germans had systematically depriv-J ed of all means of subsistence were saved from starvation, the report says. In many case:: British troops car ried food into villages under shell tire and th-^ untiring, obliging spirit and i courage of British drivers in remov ing civilian refugees in motor lorries j while under bombardment is praised in the report. Where there were no doctors in liberated villages, the Brit ish medical service admitted wound ed, gassed or siek civilians to ambu lances or clearing hospitals and there was even a mobile field hospital for the exclusive use of civilians. The report says: "The French nation owes its deep est gratitude to the British officer;: and men who in the midst of heavy, victorious fighting thought about sav ing bun:an lives regardless of the cost." Premier Clemenceau. in forward ing the report on behalf of Marshal Foch to Field Marshal Haig. said: "Words can not express all that the British army endured in render ing this assistance. The government and people of France will never for got it." Memphis. Feb\ 17.?The local com mittee arranging for the possible holding of the l?*lf< reunion of Con federate veterans here today denied reports that the invitation extended the Veterans by Memphis had been | withdrawn, but said that the sugges tion had been made that it would probable be advisable to defer hold inging the reunion here until after < the completion of the proposed mu- i nicipal auditorium. It is understood 1 that Savannah will invite the veterans > if the rounin is not held here. 'i QM't at be Xhy OonntrVf Thy *3*odvB I 3 AY, FEBRUARY 19 1 Economical and Financial Prob lems the Big Question Now to Be Considered, i _ THE WORLD'S BUSINESS TO BE READJUSTED Special Commissions Now Ready to Report Conclusion to Peace Conference. Paris, Fob. 15.?With tho subject of the league of nations out of the way for some time to come the big gest problems before the peace con ference at present are believed to be the readjustment of the world's finan cial and economic relations. Throo different organizations have been created to deal with these sub jects, some of their conclusions are ready for consideration as soon as the conference will receive their reports. Paris. Sunday, Feb. If.?Reports of revolution at Bucharest is emphatical ly denied by the Rumanian press nu reau here. CASE OF RUSSIA TO BE DEBATED j The Peace Conference Delegates ' ? Concentrate Attention on Russian Problem. PRINCES ISLAND CONFER ENCE MAY BE ABANDONED Suggestion Made That Direct Negotiations Be Opened With Several Russian Factions. ?- j Paris, Feb. 17.?The attention of the peace conference delegates will focus on Russia today, the supreme council having decided that as the ftiine allowed for acceptance of thu iPrinkipo conference invitation had expired something else must be done. Several suggestions have been made 'that the invitation be renewed. If the supreme council accepts this po sition as seems possible, instead of a general meeting of represontath/es of the Russian fa.ctions.' direct negotia tions may be initiated or commis sions ne appointed to get in touch with the opposing elements. Suffragette Speakers in Charleston Crowds Throng Academy Forc ing Extra Meeting on Out side of Building?On to Columbia. Charleston, Feb. 1C.?Approimate ly 3,000 persons listened to speeches by members of the National Woman's Party here tonight. Crowds of such proportions sought entrance at the Academy of Music, where the meet ing was held that an op<-n air meet ing was conducted simultaneously with th-'i meeting on the inside. Fully 1.000 people were jammed at the en trance to the theater. To relieve the congestion, members of the party spoke to those on the outside, while a similar program was conducted for the audience on the inside. The meet ing in Charleston was regarded by j the women as a magnificent triumph for th<-ir cause. Meetings will also' be held here again tomorrow. Six of the women will go to Colum bia on the early morning train to- j morrow morning. These will be: Miss Anita Pollitzer of Charleston; Mrs. Abbe Scott Baker. Miss Sue' White. Miss Lucy Burns, Mrs. John Rogers. Jr.. and Miss Greiner. all members of the party on the "Pris on Special." These will return to Charleston in the afternoon to join the group which will remain in Charleston, and all leave here to-: morrow night for Jacksonville. Reds Capture Nuremberg Spartacan Forces Develop Un expected Strength in Bavaria. Cop-mhagen. Feb. 17.?Telephone, telegraph and newspaper otfices at Nuremberg, Bavaria, have been oc cupied by Spartacans, according to reports received here. Hun Minister Quits Count Von Brockdorff Rantzau Resigns as Foreign Minister. Basel. Feb. 17.?Count von Brock- ' rlorfr' Rantzau, the German foreign minister, has resigned, according to a i Weimar dispatch to the Berlin Vos siacho Zeitung. There is no eonfirma- ' .i.jii from other sources. isuf rnu&f. ilELE fRUft 919. PRES. WILSON ! TALKS FOR PEACE I i I I 'President Reads Text of Pro-j posed Convenant of I Nations. i / ._ - I !all in agreement at final adoption :Represenatives of Fourteen Pow ers Represented on Commis ! sion Join in Returning Unani I mous Report. _ 1 Paris. Feb. 14.?President Wilson [was the central figure of the plenary ! peace conference which opened at j 3.30 o'clock this afternoon when in I person he read the covenant establish ! .ng a league of nations. I There was added interest in the ; session as it vas the last gathering of ? the delegates prior to the president's I departure as well as being the occa ! sion of presenting the document with j which his name is identified. ! The president was received with j military honors as he arrived at the I freign office and the large crowds j which nad congregated gave him a ! cordial welcome as he passed through. The de^gates already were assembled i when the president entered the coun i cil chamber. I When he entered the chamber the ! president was greeted by Premier Clemenceau, Foreign Secretary Bal four and- Viscount Milner of Great Britain and the American delegates at the head of the table. There was little formality. Premier Clemenceau. j who is president of the conference, j called the conference to order and j the president rose and addressed the ] gathering. "I have very great pleasure," said j President Wilson as he began," in j presenting the report of the com i mittee which has framed the consti I tution of a league of nations. I am ! particularly happy to be able to say I it Is a unanimous report, signed by j the representatives of all the powfcrs j on the committee." President Wilson spoke earnestly, J but without oratorical effect, j "The best report I can make/' the j president continued "is to ?fad the document itself." Thereupon he read from a printed sheet the constitution of the league, j while the assembly followed his read ) ing with the closest attention, j While the president was reading. ! _vlrs. Wilson accompanied by the pres I ^dent's naval aide, was escorted to I a place back of the delegates' table. The reading continued for 35 min j utes without intcruption or applause, ?j \& he closed the president laid aside [the document and spoke of what had j been accomplished. The delibera tions of the commission had been most instructive, and throughout the n-oceedin~s the^e was an undertone of enthusiasm in the great work be insr accomplished, he said, j. The results, said President Wilson, [embodied the judgment of 14 nations |. represented on the commission and I these 14 nations were a representative i~x"*iir> of thf conference itself. "This is a naron of will in a com- \ j mon purpose." the president proceed- j I ed. "It is a union which can not be i i resisted and T dare say one which no j j ration will attempt to resist." j i The president pointed out that the j ! document was no "straight .lacket." i fit was clastic, and not a vehicle of 4 I mifrht. he said. Tt was yet to be de-j veloped. and as yet care should be! : taken as to the clothes put on it.! : While elastic yet it was definite, i "Tt is definite." continued President j [ Wilson, "as a guarantee of peace. It I ! is definite as a guarantee against j aggression. Tt is definite against a j renewal of such a cataclysm as has j |?ust shaken civilization." The president spoke with especial! emphasis as he referred to the wrongs committed against helpless people. "There is one especially notable r feature of this document." he said.; "We are done with annexations of helpless people at times accomplish ed in the past for the purpose of the, exploiting of these peoples. In this! document we realize these helpless '?, communities are first to be helped! and developed and that their own in- j terest and well being shall come be-! fore any material advantage to the! mandatory entrusted with their case, j Too often in the past, the president added, the world had seen the lands of helpless communities appropriated ! for political purposes, "and so." he | raid, "while this is a practical docu ment, it is above all. a human docu- j mont. It is practical and at the same, time it is designed to purify, to rec tify, to elevate." ': President Wilson closed his address ' at 1.30 o'clock. having read and ' spoken just one hour. An interpreter:' then proceeded to render a discourse ' wh:ch occupied another hour. 1 Lord Robert Fecil. head of the Brit- s British commision on the league of ?' nations, followed the interpreter in an earnest speech. It was a good i omen, said Lord Robert, that docu- 1 ment had been laid before the world * before Veins' finally enacted, so that < people everywhere could advise upon ? and criticise it. The problem had I been one of greal difficulty for it was v to r> reserve the peace of the world ' with the least possible interference e with national sovereignty. r The results accomplished, he con tinned, embraces two main prinei- v pies: First?no nation shall go to c war untii every other means of set- v tlement shall be fully and fairly h Vol. XLVIII. No. a. PACKERS HAVE S?PREMEPOWER Murdock Says They May Be Already Beyond Control of Government. .. THE BIG FIVE WERE STRONGER THAN HOOV?fit j Member of Federal Commission j Gives Testimony Before Inter I state Commerce Committee of I House. j - I Washington, Feb. 14.?Victor Mur I dock, member of the federal trade 'commission, told the house interstate I commerce committee today that lie ! feared the five big packers had ac i quired so much power that even the i Jnited States government might not j be strong enough to combat it. ".Even Food Administrator Hoover** (Mr. Murdock said, "could not reack j into Chicago and take the license ja great malefactor, although he couJd ? rescind the license of one of the lit jtle fellows." This testimony of the trade eom l missioner followed his statement that facts gathered during the commis Ision's investigation of :he meat pacfc jing industry had been turned over to [the department of justice and that . ! he had no doubt that proceeding's j under the anti-trust law would rc ! suit. Mr. Murdock expressed fear that the legislative branch of the govern ment would deal weakly instead of vigorously with the packers. His statement that the packers were well j aware vvhere there would be vacan cies on the senate an*, house com mittes which would consider their. ; case and that they would try .to see J j to it that "their friends" got on these/ I committees as vacancies occurred, I brought shap questioning from mena^ I bers of the committee. Mr. Mur- . dock said he did not mean that any improper means would be used and that he did not in any way mean to., infer that there had been "stuffing - j or padding" of committees in the j-past." ' ' j "But I do say," the witness con tinued, "that even while we her^^su? t discussing things that have' happened in the past, the big interests of tft$ j country are thinking in terms of fn* future. They are always well ahead of us. And you can depend upon "it that they are doing it now." '?? ([ Commissioner Murdock strongly urged enactment of legislation before the committee for government con trol and regulation of the meat in dustry. Replying to questions of committee members, he said it was j entirely possible that if the meat in dustry were made subject to legisla ; tion sueh ??s that proposed every oth I er business might be made subject to ! *;miliar 'egislation. The committee closed its hearing j with the examination of Mr. Mur ; dock, who devoted considerable time j to discussion of the socalled inter i national meat pool, which was sharp j ly criticised in the commission's re ! port to the president last summer. ! "The packers," he said, "have come [before this committee to testify, but : where they did not evade entirely the subject of the international meat ! poo!, they answered erroneously. This is a combination of American packers which In s for one of its purposes, among ether things, the allotment of space for me?..t shinments from South America to the United States, as well to "Prance. "They say that the restrictions and apportionment of space was sanction ed by the British government in whose ships the meats from South America was carried. They have said that the British government as a war measure to insure she feeding of civilian popu lations abroad and the armies of the allies arranged the percentage these packers were to have cargo space. However, it is a fact that a meeting was held in Chicago at which these very percentages were agreed upon by the r epresentatives of the packers and that meeting took place two years befcre the outbreak of war in Europe." "All this in itself offers proof of the charge made by the federal trade com mission." Washington. Feb. 15.?Approval of a proposal to establish a government price adjustment board to stabilise conditions during the post war pe riod was cabled by President Wilson today to Secretary Redfield. tried; second, no netion shall forcibly seek to disturb a territory's Integrity >r interefere with the political inde ?x?7vlenee of the nations of the world. These were the great principles but later another great principle must be aid down, namely, that no nation mould retain armaments fit only for aggressive purposes. Hr. Vittorio Orlando, the Italian ^rin-.e minister, expressed deep satis nction at having collaborated in what vas going to be one of the greatest locuments of history. He would not :peak of the merits of the scheme. ")r. Orlando continued, as these had ?M en exn'amed by one whose nobie nspiration had brough!^ it into exist ence The war had brought forth the te^ossitv for this document. "Thus born out of the pains- of rar." the premier exclaimed "this Is a loeument of freedom and right rhieh represents the redemption of lumantty by sacrifice." , _