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. ?? _ SKR SUMTFJR WATCHMAN, Estab Consolidated Aug. 2, ] BATTLE OVER Foreign Relations Committee Begins Consideration of Peace *' - ' Covenant ^PI^SIDEkT MAY BE CALL ; * v>* - . ED AND QUESTIONED Senator Swanson Will Open De bate in~ Senate For Hatifica lio'of Treaty Washington. July 14.?The foreign relations committee, to which the pe^ce treaty *was refered on its pre sentation by President Wilson Thurs - day, begins the consideration of. the document at today's session, which may bring action on several collateral issues, including the questions whoth er President Wilson will be invited to appear and he questioned. In the . senate chamber debate for ratifietf tioh will be opened by Senator Swan son, of Virginia. "Washington, July 13.?Consideration p by. the senate of the peace treaty with its league of nations covenant?actual ly to open tomorrow, with the meeting of the foreign relations committee? < transcends in interest anything ex pected to come before congress this . week. Both branches of congress, however, have a busy legislative week ahead . with debate on prohibition enforce ment legislation expected to continue in the house and with final disposi tion of the agricultural and sundry civil appropriation bills, vetoed by the president, to be decided. A number of; committees both those engaged in drafting legislation and those conduct - . ing investigations, will hold^ meetings. The sehate foreign relations com mittee will hold a special meeting to il morrow to decide on the course to be followed in corisidering the peace , treaty. .. Although opponents, of the league of nations covenant^ held. a conference, today, -there was no indi cation that "any plan of action had been .definitely agreed on. Committed sehiiment. as to inviting the presi dent^ attend hearings on the treat} Ka?;-ifr discuss the various clause: stiiV is divided with a number oi leaders strongly opposed to such in formal, procedure and still favoriu? : formal action by the senate through adoption of a resolution to obtain in - formation from the president or th State department. The immediate program lor con sideration of the treaty, Republican lexers said tonight, will be its care -fulr study by the foreign relations committee. In this connection it is planned tb act on several resolution: calling upon the State department fo: papers needed by the committee ir. its examination of the treaty. There are the resolutions of Chairman I#odge, requesting a copy of the alleg ed secret treaty between Japan and Germany, of Senator Borah. Republi i can, of Idaho, requesting a copy of an alleged memorandum by Secretary Lansing, Col. House and Gen. Bliss, protesting against tho Shantung agreement, and of Senator La Folette. Republican, of Wisconsin, calling for papers concerning alleged action of Costa Rica on peace c-uestions. Not for sometime.- probably two or three weeks, according to the Re pub lican leaders, it is planned to launch the reservations to the treaty Which are in process of drafting. Most of " this week, it is expected, will be re quired to study and discuss the lengthy treaty. Debate on treaty subjects will be renewed in the senate tomorrow with a prepared address by Senatoi Swanson. Democrat member of the foreign relations committee who dis cussed peace subjects at length re cently with President Wilson. The house tomorrow will take up the $34,000,000 agricultural appro priation bill vetoed by President Wil son yesterday because of its daylight saving repeal riders. ' Action is planned on a motion tc override, the president's veto, with .advocates Of the 'repeal provision? doubtful of obtaining the necessary two-thirds majority. If the veto is sustained, it is proposed to repass the bill., without change in its money provisions and with the daylight re peal clause eliminated. The measure, it is believed, then would be passed immediately by the senate and cham pions'of the repeal legislation forced to turn to the separate bill proposed by -the house early in the session for abandonment of the daylight . saving. The prohibition enforcement bill will follow the agricultural bill with wide, discussion under the five-minute rule. a final vote may not be reached until next week. The senate judi ciary subcommittee also will continue work this week on the senate en forcement bill and an effort to re port out the measure before the house takes a final vote. Long debate, ac cording to leaders, is assured in the senate. Besides the agricultural appropria tion bill, leaders plan to rush through this week, if possible, the $605.000.000 sundry civil appropria tion bill, also vetoed by President Wil son. The house appropriations com mittee plans an early meeting to con sider, steps to meet the president's op position to the limitation, made in the former-bill on appro print ions for vo afted April, 18*0. "hMl ,881. TROOPS MARCH THROUGH PARIS American and Allied Soldiers Hold Triumphal Parade in Capital of France j WOUNDED SOLDIERS HEAD PROCESSION General Pershing and Other j American Generals Were Greeted With Great Enthusi asm Paris, July 11.?The triumphal I amrch of the allied and American j troops through Paris began at eight ! o'clock this morning. The weather [was brilliant, being more like Octob er than midsummer. Thousands of wounded soldiers, with crutches or in wheel chairs and clad, for the most part in civilians clothes, led the pa rade. Gen. Pershing, with a number of American generals, were in lino and were received with enthusiasm. Forty American organizations of sol diers and marines, marching with wonderful precision were greeted by a sea of waving handkerchiefs, Hags and deafening cheers. Cheats the Courts L. G. Stripling, Former City De tective, Indicted for Murder, Shoots Self. i Macon, Ga., July. 13.?L. Strip ping, 38, one of the six former city de tectives recently indicted for the mur der of Phillip Lamar .and Abraham Kimbrcll, alleged robbers, shot and killed himself at his home here this morning. W. O. Swift, who was with Stripling when the shooting occurred and who is alleged to have fired one of the shots, was convicted of murder by a jury here' on Friday and given a life term on the recommendation of the jury.. . , _ .... Stripling was on bail and was to come to trial at the November term of court. When he was released1 from jail on bail he told the jailer that he would never turn the key on him again, it developed at the coroner's 'nepjest today. Stripling was a member of a prom inent middle Georgia family, married , and the father of a 14-year-old boy. Pershing to Return Soon ? ? i Recent Dispatches Indicate Homecoming I Washington, July 13.?Preparations for the early return of Gen. Pershing and his personal staff from France s indicated, army officials said to lay, in recent dispatches from abroad. Orders have been issued conferring upon Mojar General Allen, new com mander of the American forces on the Rhine, many of the prerogatives held by Gen. Pershing and recent transpart; mailings have shown an increasing number of "casual officers," whose j work has been intimately connected { with the general headquarters at j Chaumont. j Reports of friction between Gen. : Perilling and Gen. March, chief of < staff, were declared to be without, j foundation by War Department of- ] jficials, that there have been instances ; of decided differences of opinion is I admitted but even these cases were said to have been exceptional. Marine Strike Unsettled i ?? ! Labor Union Leaders Have Notj j Accepted Offer of Shipping Board j Washington. July 14.?Shipping j I board officials said today that no re- j j ply had been received from union of- j I ficcrs concerning the announcement i ! of increase in wages of ten dollars a 1 month granted to employes on the! shipping board's ships and that the { iext move in the strike would have to i come from the men. i cational education of soldiers and j sailors. Leaders hoped that both the j agricultural and sundry civil bills' would be enacted before July 15. ] Committees of both senate and ! house this week are prepared to in - j crease their activities. With a senate j interstate commerce subcommittee en- ,! gaged in drafting tentative railroad ' legislation defining a permanent rail-! road policy, the house committee Wednesday will begin hearings on the; same subject, with many prominent i j railroad authorities as witnesses. Investigation by the house commit-j tee of war department affairs will ' be continued, with especial attention I to charge by Representative Ballinger.! Republican, of Massachusetts, of] 'cruelty to soldiers in France. There j also will be a number of other com-, i mitttee investigations. The hous"; I public lands committee will report soon on the bill providing homesteads, for discharged sodiers and sailors and I the senate joint committee on water-j power development will begin work i shortly on ih^ waterpower bill recent-' ly- passed by ?he house, I ttwu od Fear not?Dot an the ends Thon AI SUMTES,, S. C, WEPK MACE GRANTED1 I TO. GERMANY j ^Versailles Conference Informs I Germans That Ratification Has Been Accepted j 'blockade will j be raised i j j ' j Council of Five Takes Action on ; Final Stage of Peace Negotia ! ti?ns i j Paris, July 12.?The German dele i nation at Versailles was informed to ! day in a letter from the peace con ference thai the ratification of the treaty of peace by Germany had been accepted and that the raising of the blockade was about to occur. The decision to raise the blockade was J taken- by the council of five Friday. EFFORT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT V - Republicans Plans to Pass Bill ^Over His Veto as Test of Strength ISSUE RAISED ON DAYLIGHT BILL Fight Will Be Made in the House Beginning This Afternoon Washington, July 1*.?Under unan; I mous consent agreement, the nVncuF j tural appropriation bill, with its ridei for the repeal of the daylight saving* [ law, was to be taken up in the housr j today with the Republican leader* j hopeful -of passing the measure ovei J President' Wilson's veto. ? . " Order For Strike Italian Socialists Protest Against Peace Treaty j Rome. July 13 (By the Associated Press).?The Infransigeant (Socialist) [ has published a. manifesto proclaiming a general strike on July 20 and 21 a* a protest against the peace treaty, which is denounced as an "attempt by ihe allies to suffocate Bolshevism in ! Russia and Hungary." J "Workmen of France will do like j wise." the manifesto says. "Workmen j of England will also show their in tention to bring to bear the powerfu' j action of their trade unions. Work | men in Switzerland, Holland. Denmark ? and Sweden will join in the movement. I Thu:; the flag of the internationale will j be unfurled against the new premedi tated terms of the Pov.rgoisie. The [manifesto was also signed by the gen | oral confederation of labor, i "The Socialist Italian Union." ccm I prising the more moderate elements. I has published another manifesto [ agreeing to a genera! strike, btit warning workmen that the English proletariat does not join in the strike, "although its government has j the greatest responsibility as to inter i vention in .Russia." The manifesto states that the strike j in France is a protest against the j high cost of living and not in behalf of Russia and Hungary. Protest Against League Meetings Arranged for Many Cities, Says Announcement Washington. July 13.?A mass meet ing in protest against the league of nations has been arranged "in nearly every large city," said an announce ment tonight by the League for the Preservation of American Independ ence. Speakers who will appear un der the auspices of the organization include Senator Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, and Senators Borah of Idaho. Johnson of California. Poindex ter of Washington and former Sena tor Beveridge. of Indiana, all Repub lican?. No dates for itinerary were announced, but it was said that efforts would be concentrated in Western States. Conference At White House Number of Senators and Repre tatives Called on President Washington. July 1 I.?President Wilson today received a number of senators and representatives who call ed at the White House to discuss a j variety of subjects. These engage ments were the first made for the 'president since his return from Paris, Unst at be thy Country's, Thy God'i 0 ESDAY, JULY 16, 1919 JOHN BEL OUT FOR BUSINESS! Regular Stampede to Resume j Trade With Ger many i FOREIGN OFFICE i f HELPS MERCHANTS i British Firms Given Every Fac ulty to Distribute Goods in Germany London, July 12.?Great Britain is preparing to resume her consular ser- j vice in Germany soon and to give ev-j ery facility for British firms to dis tribute goods there, says The Daily Mail. A special committee of the for eign office is selecting the men for the consular work and it is -xpected that an ambassador to Berlin will be appointed in the near future. ADMIRAL BLUE TO RETIRE Chief of Bureau of Navigation; Disabled By Long Illness I _ HE WON FAME IN SPANISH WAR He Is The Most Distinguished South Carolinian in Service.. ^ Washington, July 14.?Rear Ad miral Flu?*, chief of the bureau of navigation, who has been ill for sever il months, has been rcommended for retirement by the board of naval medical officers. Secretary Daniels announced that Admiral Blue's suc cessor would be named as soon a* 1 President Wilson approved the board's recommendation. Opposes League Of Nations ????? De Valera Speaks to Fifty Thou sand People in Chicago I _ - j Chicago. July 13.?An audience of HO.000 persons, it was estimated to day, heard Eamonn de Valera, "presi dent of the Irish Republic," appeal for aid and recognition of Irish inde pendence. It was an open air meet ing held at the Chicago National ? League baseball park, where all seal-' were taken and nearly all available (space occupied. Mr. de Valera. when he rose to speak, was greeted by a demonstra tion that lasted 31 minutes. A soldiei in uniform led the cheering. Some of j the spectators . hissed the names ot j F'rcsident Wilson. Premier Lloy? George and Sir Edward Carson, Irisfc Unionists leader, but were stopped b: Persons on the speakers' platform Pr^nk P. Walsh and Edward F. j Dunne, members of the delegation {sent by Irish societies in America, tc present to the peace conference a peti I tion for settlement of the Irish ques j tion. and Mayor Thompson of Chicago ! were other speakers. Mr. Walsh rc J ferred to Premier Lloyd George as the j ; trick mule of Great Britain, whose ac i tions, he said, nobody could forcca-st I j Resolutions that congress be urge, j ! to "recognize the Irish republic as {now established" and to establish I trade relations with Ireland for th< | benefit of American commerce and la j bor and s'rongly opposing the leagU' ? of nations were adopted. j Mr. de Valera opposed the league or* ! the ground that it would prevent th? j I Irish people from receiving outside I j assistance in obtainii g freedom from | i Great Britain. ? Swiss Tor League - 1 Federal Counsellor Tells Radical i Congress That He Favors i League j_ Berne. July 14.?Edmund Schult-1 I less, federal counsellor, in the course | j of a long address before the congress rot the radical party here today dis I cussed Switzerland's entry into the i League of Nations, giving arguments! j on both sides of the question. He said i \ "I can only declare myself expressly in | favor of our entry." j _i - German War Tax ! Copenhagen. July 11.?Mathias | Erzberger. German minister of: ! finance, has issued a statement, ac- j cording to a Berlin dispatch to The! (Tiedende. that the proposed levy on j property in Germany will begin at I f.jfive thousand marks and be graduated j Juip to ten percent for property valued j nt fifty thousand marks. The levy I .will be payable by installments, ^_ ' ad Trmtfcf" THE TBTJI INCREASED WAGES FOR SAILORS Shipping Board Expects Action That Has Been Taken Will End Strike SHIPPING TIED UP FOUR DAYS American Merchant Marine Heretofore Highest Paid in World, Under New Scale Washington, July 13.?Wage in creases of approximately 10 per cent were granted today to employes of vessels operated from Atlantic and Gulf ports by the shipping board. The advance, announced after an all-day conference of shipping board officials, is expected to end the strike of ma rine engineers, firemen and oilers which began last Thursday. Deck officers ?and seamen are- af fected by the increase as well as-'water tenders, oilers, engineers, firemen, stewards and cooks. While the new scale will apply only to employes on shipping board operated vessels* -it was said by officials, it undoubtedly Would form the basis for new wage agreements to be concluded between private lines and their employes. As such agreements are made, it is ex pected that the striking marine work ers will return to their work, there by ending the tieup of Atlantic and Gulf shipping in effect for the past four days. Congress Lacks Power Untermyer Denies Right to Fix I What is Intoxicant Washington, July 12.?The right of congress to define intoxicating "bever ages was denied today by Samuel, Un termyer, a. New York lawyer, in tes tifying before the senate judiciary subcommittee which is considering prohibition enforcement "legislation. Mr. Untermyer told the committee that neither under the war-time pro hibition act nor the constitutional amendment could congress say that any particular percentage of alcoholic content constitutes an intoxicating iiquor. Both the act and the amend ment, he argued, left this as a ques tion of fact, which could be determin ed only before a jury. In support of his contention- that beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol was not. in fact, intoxicating, Mr. CJntermyer submitted a mass of affi davits, reports on scientific experi ments and similar data, much of which was used in behalf of the brew ers in the recent 2 3-4 per cent beer cases in the New York courts. "You will endanger, if not defeat, the constitutional amendment," said Mr. Untermyer, "if you fix the limit it one-half of 1 per cent. Such a pro vision would circumvent and destroy its validity." One-half of ? per cent alcohol, Mr. UnVrrmyer declared, is less thai; that generated from an ordinary meal, without liquids. Reiterating that he did not believe congress had the right to define al coholic percentages of intoxicants. Mr. Untermyer said the act would be a 'vicious precedent." "If you can define it at one-half of I per cent another congress could fix it at 10 or 20 per cent," he added. Mr. Untermyer said that. with peace signed, the military forces be ing demobilized, trading with the ene my reopened and other peace condi tions restored, the war-time law was "false pretense." "I do not believe any court will permit the farce," he added. "I am not at all fearful of what will happen lo this war-time law in the courts if congress puts this extension bill on the statutes." Newspapers by Airship Anderson Daily Mail Delivered By Sky Route Anderson. July 12.?Special: The Anderson Daily Mail gave its readers a novel sensation today by having its papers delivered by airplane. Lieut. Jess Simpson. of the Scott Field, reached this place yesterday in an air plane and will spend a few days here. He flew to Anderson in about s:x hours from Scott Field, Illinois, and this afternoon carried sacks of the Daily Mail to the towns of Starr and 1 Iva dropping them at those places j where they were picked up and the papers delivered to subscribers. Lieut.. Simpson is a native of this place and several months ago was reported kill ed in an airplane accident. Enemy Nations -? No Compromise and No Goodj Will Between Poles and Ukrainians Vienna. aSturday. Jhly li.?The; Ukrainians will never give up terri-; tory to the Poles, according to a mes- i sage received here from M. Termky, j the premier of the Ukranian govern- j ment of General Petlura. He added j that the Ukranians would not join rhei Russian federation, I I SOOTHEON, XttsbBfte* Jan* MM Vol. XLVIII. No. 44. FROM KOREA Japanese Accused of Wantonly* Shooting and MOST OF THE VICTIMS MEN Presbyterian Church Makes Pub lic J^0Jt^rS%^^^6^^ vestigators \ New York,.July 12.^-A reppr.t of Al leged Japanese atrocities in KpreaV wits made public today, at hea?q??rieirs of jthe ? Presbyterian' Church. m" Ahi<5r?ca. J It is a report of inyeatigatidns;^ ! resentatives in Korea of the ,:church, following the ihipris?nment^?f :SOnj[e of its missionaries by the Japanese authorities. The' information ./.froW. Korea was transmitted;.by such .means that it escaped the: Japanese; jpenskrtv The report, which Vis .se-vor^-ihou sand words in length, is described-"by. i the Presbyterian. ch'?rcTj in"iti;intrb ' duction to the p r e sen tme n t ?s. f ol lows ? "The American'papers,are air^dy full to oVe^jtfw^nJ^ of atrocities in Koreal"-*, * * Knfowhig that another Belgium Is on the world's hands, it becomes, necessary that; the facts be stated by someone and that these be held to form the fcasisT of constructive retornmticm- 'laier \ qn. This article is written with thig idea in mind. - - . ? / " . ? "What is reported here can be; du plicated in scored of,places"-in' Korea, and some of the reportsthus;far*re ceived are even more, harrowing than the ones we report.'.-But.as. they /have not been definitely established hy com petent witnesses we pm-it;thehr, but confine ourselves strictly .to/incidents which are known, beyond .the shadow of a;dpubt \to.;i>e-fcruev.V'V' \ C.-^:-'_v?S. "Many: of ?th^se\ftej^t^;^^e^^l sive in 'the-.ex\re^4}^^^p^fe?jS^np^ ?blood bbil;. wit^i, :"ind??t|O?f as, seivies who * hay^:;w^^^-X)^oj^^f * * * leave the f?cts\tb;con^y'J?^ir "own lesson^' '-^r . Hundreds of Kpre^i^whXK>h^a^v' fessedi Christianity; are-*- said :,tpl:.^ V*eri driven by Japaueae 'gehd^Li^i the - point of bayonet, into. ehur<: there to be fired;.upon thr?u?hj; windows as they huddled jUvter^?r, and later to. "perish -.-in .-the?fte&e$fj$s the places/of w6r^n^p Vye,re pui .to;?ie torch.. Most of these ^victims/6ir/i:Is narrated, were. men.'Survivfa^/wo^^h and children were left iir des^tut&n'l. American Peace Poikgr Bernstorff Points to Place s For Germany . f Berlin, July 13 (By the Associated Press).?Count von Bernstortf, former German ambassador at Washington; writing in The Weekly. Democratic Germany, advocated a -pro-American policy^fnd :i>oih-ts,out that, a: revision of the treaty of peaWsKcan only- como j through the League of Nations. "When Germany is received into the league," he says, "she can hope for. a world order checking imperialism..'by individual powers and bringeng. about a system binding peoples, together across the frontiers'of states. I hardly j need to point out that'such-a poHcy would lead us to the side of the United States. The idea o'f a Lea'guk-of ' Na tions is a living one; There alone are funds to he foem'd. and there^ the prin cipal champion of the league idea will be at the helm for another-' 20 months." Count von Bernstorff says that so cialism is unpopular in the United States and therefore if Germany wishes to cultivate friendly relations with that country they must con vince Americans not only that mili tarism is dead, but that new Germany has no intention of fostering world revolution. -,- * \ Sails For Home ; ' Secretary Lansing Took Ship at Brest To-day Brest, July 14.?The steamship Bot-, terdam, with Secretary of State Lan sing aboard, left here for New York this afternoon. Townley is Convibt^d He and Gilbert Found Guilty Of Disloyalty Charge Jackson. Minn.. July 12/?The -jury in the trial of President A. E. Town ley and Joseph Gilbert, of the non partisan league, late tonight found the defendants guilty of the charge of conspiracy to teach disloyalty in vio lation of the Minnesota law. Geneva, July 14.-?The Rumanian bureau at Berne announces that Ser bian forces which have been occupy ing the city of Temesvar are evacuat ing the place and taking with them everything of value. The bureau states that population of the city is making indignant pro test against the action of Serbians. The Rumanian government, accord ing to the bureau, has declined-an other offer from Nikolai Lenine; the Bolshevik premier of Russia, for the arrangement of an alliance between Rumania and Russia.