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." ffHK SCHIER WATCHMAN, SfeteWI Consolidated Aug. 2,1 6URLES0N FACES BIG OPPOSITION! i ? i Talk Heard of Congressional' Movement to Impeach Post- j master General %v - i .v. " ? I POLICIES DECLARED TO BE ARBITRARY | :?;:r :-- ? x I ? 1 Political Methods and Counsel! in Issue for President to j Handle Problem. ^ 'Washington, April 19.?What was! once a cloud no larger than a man's j hand has now spread pretty thor-! oughly over the political firmament as? 1 . si-en from this city.' ? ?? There is a big storm breaking over! Postmaster General Albert Sidney} Eur esciv. It is both an interparty and an intraparty affair. It is de vetopihg a serious factional breach within the Democratic organization in congress , as well as affording the Republican opposition an irresistible opportunity for'partisan assault. . It :s being freely suggested that a resolution will be offered in the next! ~; bouse of representatives to impeach the 'postmaster general, and that ifj i* is offered it will-receive a great many votes?possibly enough to car ry it and put Mr. Burleson on trial before the United States on the charge of arbitrary and tyrannous .use of his official powers. - The storm that is rapidly coming to a head over Mr. Burleson is due in large measure to the feeling that he has administered the postoffice de partment in a narrow and unsatisfac tory manner, sacrificing progressive! efficiency in the handling of the mails! to the Procrustean policy, inherited from former Postmaster General Hitchcock, .of "making the postal service pay." A Republican and a Democrat were discussing the "Burleson policies the other day. .'?'There is one thing that can be said in Burleson's favor, and anty one that I know of." said the Rep*,.bHcan.:<,and that is he is no worse i ban. Hit?fccock." "I don't agr.ee with yon." said the Democrat;"I think . r-^Shirleson^s administration- has been y iwoiT$e than Hitchcock's." I ? A Republican and a Democrat werej, " agreed ~ "that" ;"" "It' " comes broadly td yvthis: It is better to have the mails- collected and delivered jiaore accurately, frequently, and Speedily. as. the years go by and the j country grows, even though the j postoffice department show a deficit j of afew millions of dollars a year; or; to have the frequency and speed of '? the mall service diminished as theI country grows, for the sake of showing a- little balance every year on the '? right side of the ledger? The public' pays the piper in either cose; it pays j the deficit in postal revenues to main tain efficiency of-service, or it pays! in other ways for impairment of ser- ? vice to prevent the deficit. There is; nothing as yet to prove that the pub- j lie favors the Hitcheock-Burlcson idea ; of postal economy. i Postmaster General Burleson's j handling of the telephone and tele graph facilities of the country has; been such that the congressman who j introduced the measure empowering the administration to take over these i properties has recently announced that he owes an apology for having; offered the bill. The congressman says that he was led to believe that improved service at more reasonable j rates would be the result: but he re- j gards the outcome as having been distinctly opposite to what was sup- j posed to be the justification of the j empowering act. One of the two leading telegraph companies of the country complains, and goes into the courts with its con tention, that the Burleson policy is so shaped ;is to confiscate the property and rights of this concern for the benefit of the larger rival concerns, which has already once been required under the anti-trust laws to sever a corporate alliance tending to destroy competition. The opinion of most men in congress, if their private con versation is any criterion, is that the postmaster general need not have taken over the telegraph and tele phone lines at all, specially as lie worst of the war emergency had ap parently passed before he acted. The former congressman and pres ent tariff commissioner, who was call ed in by Mr. Burleson to take charge of the telegraph and telephone by rcau'of the postoffice department, was delighted to give up the job after he had been its supposed administrator for a few months. Mr. David J. Lewis, of Maryland, went to th?> work enthusiastically, under the im-v pression that it meant improvement of a public service and reduction of the charge to the public. He doubt less feels now like the Louisiana con gressman who fathered the law under which the postmaster general took over the lines. Another repeated assertion against Mr. Burleson is that he demoralized the civil service commission and Un civil service by arbitrarily undertak ing to dominate its administration in ^matters applying to the postoffice de partment. If the presdent continues on bis return to stand by the postmaster general a red-hot political and party issue will be defined and fought t?> finish. The SEr^ril ?^rassla^^h?rfc n ShpJ -feed April, 1850. 881. SI CRIMEA OVERRUN BY BOLSHEVISTS I ______ Sronghold of Sebastopol Has| Been Surrendered by the Revolutionists GOVENMENT REMOVED TO CONSTANTINOPLE] Local Government Was too Weak j to. Withstand . Bolshevikij Army. i London, April 20 (By the Associat- j ed Press).?Sebastopol has been' evacuated by the Crimean government i ?which is proceeding to Constantinople. The government of Sebastopol is now j in the hands of . the revolutionary J committee. This announcement is made in a i Russian wireless dispatch which adds! that after negotiations with the allied 1 command, an agreement was reached for an eight days armistice, expiring April 25. . Early in April the allied troops were driven .back in Crimea when the j Bolshevik forces captured Perekop i The isthmus of Perekop had been j fortified by the allies for the pro I tection of the Russian naval base ai Sebastopol, but the allies were great ly outnumbered and have been con tinuously pressed back. One. report said recently that a French squadron was on the way to the Black Sea, presumably with the J object of saving the great naval base. I Russian wireless advices on April i 17 reported the soviet forces ad vancing in the direction of Simfero pol, the capital of Crimea. No Messengers Received Council of Four Notifies Ger many to Send Representatives With Real Power To Ver sailles Paris, April 20 (By the Associated Press.)?The council of four has no tified Germany that the associated powers can not receive reresenta Uvcs at Versailles who arc merely mes sengers. The German government must j appoint representatives with plenipo- i tentiary powers. Copenhagen. April 20?Foreign Min ist Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau of Germany has announced that three en voys will be sent to Versailles April 25 authorized to receive the text of the peace preliminaries, according to a dispatch from Berlin received here early today. The delegation will be headed by Minister Von Haniel. whose associates will be Harren von Keller and Ernst Schmitt, legation counselors. They will be attended by two officials and two ? chancery servants. ! _ i ????- ? America Won't Join Alliance Wont Join Union, Says Report, to Guarantee France's Safety j Paris. April 20 (By the Associated Press)?President AVilson had a con ference with Premier Clemenceau j this afternoon between drives about ! town with Mrs. Wilson. From a high source in the Ameri- j j can delegation it was learned today j that the American attitude on the re ported alliance between the powers to j guarantee the safety of France j j against attack by Germany was that j ; no alliance would be entered into by | ' the United States that was not con- j j sistent with the spirit of the league j of nations. Reparation and Damages i Commission Adopts Report of The Sub-Committee Paris. April 10?(By the Associated Press.)?An official statement said the commission on reparations and damages today unanimously adopted the second sub-committee's second report, dealing with the financial ca capacity of enemy States, and their means of payment and reparation. The report is directed particularly to the question of restitution to be made by Germany to the Allied and associated powers in connection with j for instance, ships, machinery, rolling; stock, plants and live stock. manager of the administration and j the most influential member of the cabinet. The idea is that "what he j says goes." . The impression may be; exaggerated, but it exists and tends j to solidify with time. And the Bur- j teson school ??f politics is a very dif ferent thing from what the Wilson school is supposed to be. It is the machine and steam-roller school. "The worst advice Edward M House gave to Woodrow Wilson." re marked a very well-known Democra' and administrator supporter in dis cu.iin^." the subject today, "was when he. a?sias? Jstsr. to mah- Albert ?ur jsscn posttttaster gfiiWal mm ad Fear not?ftet aO the end* Thon AI CTMTER, S. C. WEDNE SIGNS IN PARIS OF FRICTION President Not Present at Con ference of Premiers on Adri atic Problem TREATY NOT YET IN FINAL FORM Reply of Germany to Ultimatum Anxiously Awaited in Confer ence Circles Paris, April 21.?Doubts were ex pressed today whether the perfected peace treaty would be presented to the German represntatives on Friday as planned. While the treaty will be communicated to them in substance, it was said today in well informed quarters that it is physically impos sible to prepare the document in its complete, final form in the four days remaining:. Premiers Lloyd-George, Clemen ccau and Orlando met again this morning and resumed consideration of the Adriatic question. President Wil son again absented himself from the conference. The council of four will meet this afternoon, President Wil son and Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando attending. The German reply to the ultimat um of the council of four that it will not receive any German delegation not fully empowered to conduct and negotiate peace is awaited anxiously in peace conference circles, the next 'steps toward peace depending upon the German reply. Fears are felt that this unexpected development may affect the program for the meeting Friday at Versailles. Tf the German government, in reply ing to the council's ultimatum, raises a controversy regarding the status of their delegates and the procedure to be followed, it is conceivable that the arrival of their delegates at Ver sailles may be postponed. Two Capitals For Germany Vienna Will Be Recognized as Seat of Government for New - i Germany Berlin, April 21.?The governmen; has a plan for recognizing Vienna as the second capital of Germany by having President Kbert reside there a part of the year, the transfer of certain imperial bureau there and even to hold some of the meetings of the national assembly there, accord ing to the newspaper Germania. Publishing The Treaty American Delegates Plan to Cable Official Summary Paris. April 21.?The council of four in the interval before the peace treaty is handed to the Germans will j take up the question of making the i document public. The plan propos j od in behalf of the United States is for the American delegates to cable first [a two hundred and fifty word official summary of the treaty then a five thousand word official summary, then the text. The final dispatch may to j ta! one hundred thous. nd words. j The Drive Is On ! Victory Loan Organization is Hard at Work Throughout Country i j Washington. April 21.?There was i no excitement apparent today at the j treasury on the opening of the Vic | tory loan campaign. The big nation wide machine for marketing the bonds ! was completed and organized in ad vance and went into operation al most automatically. The local com mittees throughout the country are apparently so busy today gathering the first subscriptions that they had no time to report progress, for most of the telegrams to the treasury were of a technical nature and told noth ing of the opening demonstrations throughout the country*. Petlura Defeats Bolsheviks Leader of Ukrainian Peasants Gaining in Power Vienna. April 2.1.?The forces com manded by Gen. Petlura. the Ukrain ian peasant leader, have retaken Zhitmir and Proskurov and have also secured the adhesion of ten thousand Bolshevik troops, according to a wire less message received here from Tar uopol. Sport on Sabbath Governor of New York Signs New Laws Ylbsny; v- V April ia- Governor L'v.vTh today i??n- d bilh authorising ur.d.f. baWball and movies. . . DOft't at be thy Country'* Tkj God's 1 SDAY, APRIL 23, 1919, JAP REPORT ON ! KOREAN REVOLT! i American Missionaries Suspect-1 ed of Inciting People Against j Japan i CONSUL GENERAL ISSUES OFFICIAL STATEMENT j j Denial of Report That Soldier j Attacked Woman Missionary At Ping Yang. New York, X. Y., April IS.?Tho Japanese government suspects "one or two American missionaries of a connection with the present uprising in, Korea" but has followed the most "considerate method of dealing with the matter and has not arrested a single of them," according to an of ficial cable message from Tokio made public here today by Chonosuke Ya da, Japanese consul general in New York. The cablegram denied reports that at Ping-Yang, "a Japanese soldier struck an American lady missionary with the butt end of his gun" or that at Noburu-Kawa "our soldiers searched the home of an American missionary and forced their way into i the bedroom of his wife." Thorough investigation of the Ping-Yang inci dent, the message said, showed "the report originated from the action of a Japanese soldier trying to force back the passage of a crowd with his gun held horizontally." Asserting that the riots have been sponsored by 'one Son Heiki, who is at the head of a cult called Tendo Kyo (heavenly way) and harbors amutinous de'etat." the message con tinued : "It is matter of exceeding regret that a certain portion of the mission ary body has inspired the suspicion that they have indulged in words and actions susceptible to political con struction. But the authorities have ever respected the freedom of faith 'and at no time and in no instance have they closed the churches con ducted by the missionaries. Ord; those among the leaders of the Tendo Cult and the Korean missionaries who have had an intimate connec tion with the present rioting have been put under arrest." The message asserted the reasor I certain native Christians and Korear ? students had joined the movement ! was because "they misinterpreted ? tho significance of the league of na I tions and the doctrine of self deter mination." After denying reports of cruelties practiced on the Koreans, the cable gram declared armed forces had oeen employed only in "certain remote sec tions where police powers were in adequate. "Such a report as that of a scl dier striking off a girl's arm is utter ly without foundation in fact," said the official statement. "As a matter j of fact the sword now carried by thf {soldiers is entirely too dull to cut off { an arm." j Soldiers Ask Daniels How Soon jMen Serving in Germany Tired } of Generalities _ Coblenz. April 19.?Secretary Dan | ?els. speaking to the men of the sec j ond division yesterday, said he hoped 1 the army would be taken home as isoon as possible, which brought forth I cheers and shouts of "how soon." Aviator Got Ducking Maj. Wood Fell Into Irish Sea Yesterday j j ! Limerick, April 19.?Major Wood. the British aviator who left East j Church, England yesterday in an air- ] i plane for Limerick to begin a trans- i j Atlantic flight, fell into the Trish sea j during the night. Xeither Maj. Wood nor Capt. Wylie. his navigator, was I injured. The airplane was recovered j j and taken to Holyhead where will j j be repaired. Maj. Wood hopes tc j ! begin the trans-Atlantic (light Mon- 1 i day. I i ? i Another Information Bureau i - Assistant Secretary of War Chief Advisor of Soldiers Washington. April 19.?Col. Arthui Woods, special assistant to the sec- j rotary of war, announced the estab Lishment of an information bureau tc assist discharged soldiers regarding bonus insurance, civil rights, voca tional training and generally jusi what the government is doing t" help them reestablish themselves in civil life. Letters of inquiry should j be addressed to him at the war de-j partment. Berlin. April in.?Serious fighting between Bavarian communist and government troops which occurred t?*rij.- i d in j.nrlv considerable losses or. both sides. md Tratlea.0 TBE TBUE PLAN FOR FUTURE! OF RUSSIA! Allies Have Matter of Policy to! Be Adopted Under Con sideration CONCERTED ACTION BY i i THE GREAT POWERS The Anti Bolshevist Government I At Omsk Will Probably be J Recognized. Washington. April IS.?Great in terest has been aroused in official and diplomatic circles here, it was learn- [ cd today, by private advices from London stating that Great Britain France, Italy and the United States propose to recognize the Omsk gov ernment as the de facto government of non-Bolshevik Russia, as soon as the peace treaty is signed and the details incident to it have been con cluded. This proposed solution of the Rus sian problem is said in these private advices to have been intimated by Premier Lloyd George in discussions of the situation with British and Russian leaders in London. Some of ficials here after reading the advices suggested that portions of the ad dress of the British premier in the house of commons this week could be taken as indicating that the asso ciated powers had agreed to recognize the Omsk government. President Wilson, it was learned authoritatively today, has information that an appearance of Bolshevik strength is now being made through the concentration of the armed forces at single points at the sacrifice of the rest of Russia. The president also has been informed, it was said that Bolshevism rapidly is losing ground among the peasant class and even in some of the cities and that with the receipt of the food supplies which the associated governments have decided to furnish the movement will quickly collapse. The Paris conferees have been kept advised of the situation in Siberia, where the Omsk government general ly has been successful despite local troubles in the eastern portion, offi cials said. The London advices art said to point out that the stability of all sections of non-European Russia under the control of non-Bolshevists i had led to the derision to recognize ! the Omsk government as the de facto i government. I Distinct improvement in the finan j cial situation in Siberia is indicated I in a cablegram received by the Rus jsian embassy hero from the ministry^ j of foreign affairs at Omsk. The cable gram, made public today, asserts that while the ready money in state credit institutions last July l amounted to only 210.000.000 rubles, at present the ready money in these institu tions amount to 1,500.000.000 rubles. Payments of taxes and customs are said to have been increased morej j than 12 times since the Omsk govern-; ment came into existence. j Clash at Marion Square! Bluejackets and Citadel Cadets j In a Collision i Charleston. April IS.?A near-riot occurred last night as a result of an altercation between a Citadel cadet ,l and a bluejacket. Two or three fist j fights ensued, but shortly after mid- j i night the trouble had subsided, no I j arrests being made. It is said that the affair was the j I result of heated language between a I j bluejacket and a Citadel cadet at the! ! Red Circle Hall. A dance was in progress and the bluejackets resented ! [the presence of the cadets with the i i result as stated. / j j The cadets backed up their com- j I fade and the bluejackets did like-1 j wise and the affair was continued in j the streets. At King and Calhoun | streets it culminated in several fightsl [ in which it is said that one cadet was ] j badly bruised. Whether or not any of! j the enlisted men were injured is not | j of record. i The police department was called ?upon to render aid and a squad of! j men was sent to the scene at once i and others called from adjoining) beats to help them. Cob O. J. Bond. | superintendent of the Citadel, order-! ed the cadets to their barracks and j after some time, i; was reported that i all were in. A naval officer assisted in quieting the disturbance by going j among the bluejackets and issuing' orders to them. It was not necessary to call either a riot squad or provost j guards to the scene. Religious Freedom Promised; Hungarian Bolsheviks More De- . cent Than Russians Budapest. April 21.?The commis sary of education has instructed the clergy to declare from the pulpits that ? he soviet government guarantees full' religious freedom for all and that ?here can be no interference with .d"rgy or churches: that the soviet < ivill not ?mang?? present order of mar *iage and family life nor will it com- i nunize *'or.:bn. I" SOUTHRON, E*tm**? Jaaa, ?4M VoLXLVIII. No. 20. VICTORS DICTATE PEACE TERMS Gen. ?Foch Says Conditions Must Be Fixed to Pro tect France . . THEY WILL KEEP WATCH ON RHINE A War-Seeking Germany Wfip Its Teeming Population a Menace to France I t London. April 19.?-The correspond ent of the Daily Mail in Paris sends an interview he had with Marshal Foch in which the marshal is quoted as declaring that 'our peace must bit a peace of victors and not of van quished." "We must stay on the Rhine" Maj> shal Foch said. "Pray impress that on your countrymen. It is our only safety and their only safety. We must double lock the door. "Remember those 70,000,000 Ger mans will always be a menace to us. They are an envious and warlike peo ple. Their characteristics are not changed. Fifty years hence they wfU be what they are today. Do not trusit the appearance of the moment." Marshal Foch then discussed with the correspondent the possibilities- of another war. Asserting that what saved the allies at the beginning of % the present war was Russia, he asked on whose side Russia would be" in the next war, "with us or with the Cermans?" The marshal then argued that only on the Rhine itself would it be possible to' arrest the Germans in the event of another attack. Ho talked long and earnestly about the Rhine and said that some people would object that it would take "too many troops to hold the River.. "But it will not take so many, as it would to hold a political frontier for the Rhine may be, crossed bnl^ at certain points whereas a new *p?'-' litical frontier to France can be bro_-> cn anywhere," he said. ' "The next time, remember, the Get*? mans may not be stopped," said' Marshal Foch. "They will break through into northern France ? and seize the channel ports as a base of operations against England.'. They 'failed the last time beeause- -^-?ejr ? did not believe Enfeiand would" cof^ j in and when they found she was com ing it was too late to change their plans. j "You think the Germans will have no arms for another attack. 'Hp! How do you know? By the time you found out they _ad got them it would be too late." ??- ?-. Two Stills Located Officers Find Outfits and Arrest One Negro at Bishopville Bishopville, April IS.?R. R. Shaw, deputy sheriff, S. L. Folsom,' rural policeman, and E. W. Folsom, con stable, took possession of two whis key stills this afternoon. The first one was at the home of Frank Mickle, a negro, in Mohawk, a negro section of Bishopville and the other was at John Fulton's, also a negro, about two miles from here. Both stills were small and cheaply made of hve gal lon tin cans and one or two tubs. The negroes had about one gallon each of new corn whiskey and about 25 or 30 gallons of beer. Frank Mickle has been landed in jail and the officers expect to arrest Fulton and lock him up at once. 7 Indian Uprising Serious Argentina Has Difficult Situation To Contend With Buenos Aires. April 19.?-General Ceazar, commander of the Argentine troops in the northern districts says the Indian uprising in Formosa and Chacow is the worst of recent years, and the task of suppressing the up rising will be difficult owing to the extensive territory it covers. Victory Drive Started Hundreds of Committees 'Al ready at Work Obtaining Subscriptions Washington. April 19.?First re ports of the Victory Liberty Loan campaign reaching the treasury to day disclosed that the drive has been started in hundreds of communities without awaiting the formal opening. Many committees are actively obtain ing subscriptions to be officially re corded Monday. To raise four and a half billion dollar loan the country must subscribe at the rate of a quar ter of a million dollars daily. Bolsheviks Capture Americans rhree Soldiers Being Taken To Moscow Washington. April 19.?The capture ^f three American soldiers by the Bolsheviki in north Russia was re tried today to the war department. Fhe men _rt hem*- taken to ilQ?co\"&