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WMiaiB WATCHMAN, BAH Ocaiaolldated Aug. 3,1 Senators Have . practically Agreed on Basis of Com ? \-* ?' ? " ? ^ f promise. CONCESSIONS ARE MADE > TO SECURE ACTION Senator Lodge is Expected to Submit to the Will of the I Majority Washington, Aug. 13:?>The tend to ward agreement on reservations, ,in the peace treaty reached the stage to day where the group of Republican senators advocating reservations . re ceived' assuranee which they accepted as.;guaranteeing Democratic assent, to their/program. Word reached members of the group, it was said, that as soon? as they could pledge a score of Repub lican _Vb"tes. for, reservations to the league of nations covenant along the line recently agreed on by seven Re !publican. senators, the administration ?rces .In the senate would be -willing to line up on that basis for ratification of the .treaty. ^Tnere was an intimation also that the,^ T^eServationists had reason to be li*ve their ranks' eventually would in clude : Senator1Lodge chairman of the iorogn relations committee and Re publican leader .of the Senate. Jr./Twenty Republicans, it was declar "would be enough with the Dem |$? make up the two-thirds for ratification. The pro which it is sought to unite -?. elements contemplates reserva ^n\ttoVfurther. protect- the Monroe I>o<$:rlHe,"-' to insure .domestic'* controT ^^pestic .Qliesti?ns,Vto; amplify " Cof withdrawal and to-fortify of congress to decide -<jues ^of - peace " or war under Article, ^declared the information that Is w?re :Jn a ^receptiyer.mood ^p^-aVjroposai did'not .come Hitchcock of Nebraska, r le^d^Autfrbni;a . iretd entirely anthbrlta |e Nebraska \ senator, himself; kt. he,,had ,tak^;partvin any ;4}^^^i^^t^tion&<and;2i? advocacy of ui^served r^ratuicatton remained inn-r ^iag^fed.-. -'-?Er. Lodge also denied that j^V&ad-g^yen assent to the. proposed ^SseHations. ltime,. however,, after, a. .meet the foreign relations corimittee, Hitchcock gave notice that the committee completed with mt- uiidue delay its considerations of treaty, some independent action ?be.expected on the floor of the ite." ? In "the suggestion for speedy ftction Chairman Lodge concurred, and-the upshot of a heated discussion . M*as an - announcement that the com ?itttee would begin tomorrow the Iconsideration of proposed amend ments. : ^liAlth'ough Senator. Hitchcock said no definite plan for independent senate action had been formulated, it is known that the possibility of taking f, ?le treaty away from the committee ' arid bringing it to a vote has been dis cussed informally in many conferences anxong senators. Both the-'Democrats :??4i$fr.tiit' reservation Republicans have J .bjeeri insistent that public sentiment c^^temands disposition of the treaty :?&fiboxit delay. /"Among many, senators the day's de velopments were interpreted as mark ing the beginning of the end of the - long -treaty fight This prediction was > *ijy.' ho means, unanimous, however; ^f^me Republican members of . the committee believe they should have more information before they act and two of them,: Senators Johnson and ??rah,. of Idaho, wrote a letter to Chairman Lodge today asking that ; General Bliss, Colonel House and oth ers connected with the Versailles ne rgnti?ti?n be asked to appear before the committtee. f The general expectation was, how . ever, that the committee would not change the plan to proceed to a-decis ion on the. treaty and that outside ".the committee events might shape up even more rapidly. After they heard . fr?m - the Democrats today the reser vation Republicans began a "poll to assertain just how many of their party t&ey could count on in their negotia tiofi. ,; . It was asserted there has been sev eral additions to the group, but no senator has publicly amrrmced his j adherence to the plan since it was agreed on by the original seven sena tors. These seven are Senators Mc ~Cumber, McNary. Kellogg, Colt? Cum mins, Lenroot and Spencer. The exact basis for their hope that j Senator Lodge will join in the move-; meht was not revealed by the reserva- \ tloh leaders. It was pointed out | however, that in his adress to the 1 senate yesterday he did not plead for j rejection of the league entirely, but: (outlined objections to the covenant] provisions dealth with by the proposed reservations. In one instance he | spoke of changing one of these pro ' Visions. Kriends Of the foreign relations chairman have declared that he would insist at least on reservations or .amendments "with teeth in them" afld Republican members of the com mittee who want to defeat the league ? covenant entirely declared tonight ' they were confident that .Lodge woui a feted April, im. "?8 fts*| Butcherjr in Asia Minor Is Not Elided By the Coming of Peace EVEN ??YS CANNOT ES CAite TERRIBLE TURK The Allies Have Not Completed ? Task 'bt Making the World t Safe to Live In Londoh. Aug-. 14.?Nicholas Anger Wis, scout master, and twenty Greek Boy Scouts were murdered by Turks at Aidin, Asia Minor, according to of ficial advices. AN?REW CARNE GIE'S FUNERAL Simple Service Held at Country Home ;-':' Lenox, Mass., Aug. 14.?Andrew Carnegie's funeral was helil today at Snadow. -ferook, his country home, j There w?s ho eulogy and no palK bear ers. Tbfc service was the simple ritual of the Presbyterian church conduct ed by Dr. William Pierson Merrill, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church, ftew York, where the Carne gies attended. Sixty persons attended, half being members of the household. The body was taken to Tarrytown for burial in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The floral tributes were numerous. FORD LIBEL SUIT Judge's Charge in Favor pf ? ' ? Plaiittiff ?. ?jMount^emens, AugJ. 14.?rThe Ford* libel -p&e .jrerit; to the jury ,toda$*, the judge instructing the- jury ; that the 01aintif?.s charges of pro-Germanism ind s?ifi.sli interest in- advocating in bervehtt?n in Mexico /had not been ' ? ..... S;V-,.';. ... ? . V . ?., ',' -~-? ?ote .%itli them in that . proposal. The situation in the" committee; may >e. bfoii^ht .to.a head ,-byi the letter of j Senato'fe Johnson' and Borah asking| ifiat f?rfher witnesses be 'called/ The iuestton probably will come up to morrow. Senators Fall (Republican) of 'NSW,Mexico and-Moses Republi can) Ne w Hampshire also are un derstood to have sugested the call ing 6t. more witnesses with today's meeting. Senator Fall also is said to ha,rd declared the cofnmittee could not be. Expected to pass intelligently on all the obligations embodied in the treaty Until the other treaties being negotiated at Versailles were before It Senator Hitchcock told the commit tee that virtually every senator had made hp^ his mmd how he would vote and that the country wanted the treaty disposed of ens way or an other., v Besides General Bliss and Colonel House, both of whom were - members of the American Deace delegation, Senators Johnson and Borah are un dersto?d to have suggested in their iettef Hhat the committee hear E. T. WiUArfiBi former head of the State bepafi^nent's Far Eastern Division, S. K. Hornbeck and William Bullitt, all advisers to the commission who re signed while the negotiations were in progress. It has been reported that Messrs. Williams "and Hornbeck left the commission because of the Shan tung^, settlement and y[T. Bullitt be cause he was dissatisfied with provis ions-affecting Hussia. Although discussions about reser vations have centered in the league covenant the Shantung provision has not been lost sight of by opposition senators and it was said today that an amendment covering it would be urged.both in the committee and in the. senate. It is expected that Sena tors .will urge an amendment strik ing, but all reference to American rep resentation on jthe various commis sions to be set up to supervise recon struction in Europe. What amendments or reservations will be attached to the treaty in com mittee is said by members to depend largely oh Chairman Lodge. The Re publicans have a majority of three and one of them, Senator McCumber, is - expected to vote with the Demo crats against any radicol amendment. Should the Chairman also accept a reservation probram to the McCum ber-McNary plan, the anti-amendment group would be in the majority. Estimates of members as to how long the committee would require to consider amendments and reservations differed widely. Some thought a report might be possible within two weeks. Tomorrow sections other than the league covenant are to be taken up under present plans, the members having many proposals for change in the economic and political provis ions. What may have been the part play ed by the White House in the negotia tion between Democrats senators and reservations Republicans has not been revealed. Members of the latter group who h&vetafked with President Wil son h?ve been confident that he would be willing in the end to accept such a program but publicly there has been no change in his stand for unreserv ed ratifications. ...?,<..,. ^ ad Mar sot?Set ao the end* rboa At H7MTER, 8. C, SAT?R; ARMY FOOD SALES SUCCEED A Saving of Eighty Percent to Those Who Take Advan tage in Chicago PUTS THE FOOD PROFI TEERS ON THE RUN War Department Proposes to Continue the Sale of Large Stores of Food Washington Aug. 13.?Reports from Chicago and other cities that the first sale of army food had been a success, resulting: in the saving of eighty per j cent by purchasers. The, war depart ment is prepared to continue this aid to the government in reducing the living :cost. SOME SENATORS FOR REPUDIATION I_ Determined Fight On Treaty in Prospect on the Senate Floor BORAH AND JOHNSON ARE IRRECONCILABLE "- ...- . <; .? - Senator. Fall: Also Obstinate in; Opposition to League of Na tions Covenant ? / \ By Associated Kress.. Wash>bn,; .Aug. 14.^Acfh>n* on: the' peace treaty is .being: hastened" by" the Senate, foreign committee with in dications that a determined fijjht will be made on-the floor to eliminate the league o? nations. Senators Borah and Jbhnsi^ ;are determined to ad vocate repudiation of th.e league by the senate. ,. Senator Fall wants to strike out' all references to American participation .on the yaridUs commis sions of the league, which "would nsu pcrihtend reconstruction In Europe. * While gratified that the senate committee"has "decided to speed up treaty, consideration, President Wil son has not receded from his posi tion against reservation. Washington, Aug. 14.?Secretary Tumulty said the President would very likely start on a speaking tour as soon as the treaty was ratified. LICENSES FOR SUGAR DEALERS Attempt is Made to Reach the Profiteers Washington, Aug. 14.?The depart ment of justice hopes to reach sugar profiteers through license regulations and the power of the food adminis tration to cancel licenses. I GREAT BRITAIN IS TO WITHDRAW Troops to Be Recalled From the Caucasus Region Paris, Aug. 14.?Great Britain is-ex pected to withdravr troops from Cau casus tomorrow. THREE QUITTERS ARE TO TESTIFY Senate Will Call Members of Peace Delegation Who Resigned Washington, Aug. 14.?The senate foreign committee will call three members of the American peace dele-, gation who resigned because of dis j agreement with the conference decis ion. KOLCHACK ARMY FALLING BACKi London. Aug. 14.?Admiral Kol-j chak's forces continue their retreat < toward the Ural mountains. The Bol jsheviki drove a force of Cossacks back i sixty miles south of the Urals \nd are endeavoring to separate them from j j the main body. It is admitted here j j that these reverses are a serious blow! I to the policy of the Entente in Rus- j j sia. j COTTON CONSUMP TION STATISTICS "Washington, Aug. 14.?Cotton con sumed during July was 509,793. bates, lint, and 21,177 lintfrs. tho cen sus bureau reports. Btt M he thy riantrjr'?, I*j Gcd'i I PAY, AUGUST 16, 191fi CAN CONGRSS FIX PRICES? Attorney General Submits the Opinion of the Food Ad- . ministration ELEVEN CENTS STAND ARD PRICE FOR SUGAR i Committee at Present Wrestling With the Question of Legal Authority Washington, Aug. 14.?The attor ney general has transmitted to the state committee investigating the high cost of living an opinion of the food administration officials that 11 cents a pound is a fair price for sug ar. Committee members are doubt ful if the government can ? fix prices except during the actual'war-period. SENATE CALLS THE RRESIDENT Will Ask Him to Discuss the Peace Treaty From Many Different Angles NEW MOVE INAUGURATED BY PARTISAN LEADERS What They Expect; to/Gain By j Making Such a Request * is Unknown ?-? - - i; Washington, Aug. 14. , The sen %fe~f6reign committee has jnotified-the President it wished. to c?H; cm him to discuss the peace treaty. COTTON CROP REPORT ISSUED General Prospect is N.eax Ten Year Average;" Reports as of Aug. 8?-sent in by correspondents of the Commercial Ap peal indicate that there has..been ho marked change in the general condi tion of the cotton crop since the e?id of the July period,, and that fair to ex cellent progress has been made. We place the condition of August 8 at something between 68 and 69 per cent of a normal, compared with our condition figure, 69.9 per cent as of July 20. Definite percentage fig ures as of Aug. 20 will be issued' with our summary and condition report of August 25. The ten-year average de" terioration between July 25 and Au gust 25, as shown by the government, was 7.6 points. The reports herewith cover a pe ripd of nearly three weeks from July 20 to August 8, and is based on correspondence covering in detail 782 counties embraced in the ten princi pal cotton growing states. Boll weevil numerous 'in South and Central'Alabama, but less active, scat tered complaints plant fruiting poor ly; but general condition- Alabama crop exhibits no marked change. Ar kansas ha9 held its own or better. Georgia crop going backward in south but improved elsewherte. iwithout much alteration percentage condition as a whole. Looks much better in Louisiana. Mississippi delta counties showing splendid progress, but else where in the state only fair to good. Oklahoma reduced by drouth, but still a brilliant prospect except for late rress. Both the Carolina's holding up in most encouraging way, and little change in crop prospect during period: Tennessee shows improvement but rain would help. Boll worm in 14 counties of Central Texas, but with exception east and southeast divisions looks better than a few weeks ago. Picking has started in a few counties :in Southwest Texas and in Florida. Scattered open bolls in many sections of the belt. Crop a few days to about <a month late. TAKE ADVICE TO LEAVE BUDAPEST ^Roumanians Heed the Advice of Paris Council Amsterdam. Aug. 14.?The Ruman ian troops are about to leave Budapest following the receipt of the note from the peace conference, a Vienna dis patch states. NAVY NEEDS MONEY Asks For Fifteen Millions For Repairs j Washington, Aug. 14.?The navy department has decided to ask for fifteen million dollars more to re pair ships. ?6 3Mfc*> EBB TB?I I. OFFICE HUNTERS MAKE CHARGES Campaign Meeting at Lexington \ Characterized by Person alities COOPER MAKES ATTACK ON MANN'S WAR RECORD Race For Lever's Old Shoes Bids Fair to Be Free For All Scramble Lexington, Aug. 13.?Voters in Lex ington county here today got a slice of political campaigning of the qual ity ib which the state has been period ically subjected for more than a quar- j ter-.of a century when candidates for i public office dissect the opposition j without a sympathetic quake of the nerves or a, qualm of conscience for ^he writhing victim on the impro-. vised operating table. And the audi ence was like most crowds at political campaign meetings in South Carolina and like the Irish, always pretty ev enly, divided, if not quartered in about three halves. The two rifts in the meeting today about which interest mainly centered was a tilt between John Hughes Coop er and "W. A. Coleman, of Columbia, relative to the "Gervais street ring," on which Mr. Cooper let down a bar rage at the meeting in. Columbia Tuesday and some exchanges between Mr.- Cooper and Ed. C. Mann, whose war record Mr. Cooper brought out in answer to the Calhoun county candi date's statement in Columbia about "Mr. Cooper's failure to get in the war. The meeting was attended by pos sibly more than 400 voters, the court -house being fairly well jammed, some .good - Democrats sitting on the floor and their neighbars' feet nudging each other occasionally for a little more room. . The speaking moved along with an even; shamble, only here" and there ? an occasional wave or sunny spot which /elicited a thin volume of applause, until George Bell Timmer - man. "tfee""fifth and next to the. last speaker, had* conciu^e^T^MrT Trmmef man, like McGregor,: was "on his na .tive heath"- and a .goodly portion of his.clan was around-him. Consequent ly at the end. ofc this, fifth iialf hour speech, the last being Lexington's ?own candidate, a good many of the crowd began- to; shuffle and go out. "Don't go, the.show is just about to start," John Hughes Cooper, the last speaker shouted -out, half in banter, and full of the ring of prophecy. And the show began.without the formality of preliminaries.- -- Briefly sketching what he thought the qualifications of a candidate for congress ought to be, Mr. Cooper got down to yesterday's meeting in Colum bia and charged that Mr. Mann in Co lumbia had uttered a veiled insult and indirectly insinuated that every man was a coward who was not in the war. He was referring to Mr. Mann's retort yesterday when the Calhoun county candidate expressed the hope that Mr. Cooper would walk over him, shod in the hobnailed boots "he wore on the field of Flanders." Mr. Cooper was not in the war, but produced official papers here today which showed he had volunteered for service in the navy and his name was among-those on . the waiting list. He had also made application for an of ficers' training camp, stood the physi cal examination, was accepted and was then prevented from going be cause of the discontinuance of the camp when preliminaries to conclude the war were begun. After Mr. Cooper had called several times, "Where, O where, is Ed C. Mann?" Mr. Mann came into the room from the' rear entrance, and the speaker, without waiting for a reply, kept challenging, "I volunteered for the navy. Did yt<u? I tried to get in the army. Did you? In filling out my questionnaire. I waived all exemp tions and asked that I be put in Class 1. Did you?" Mr. Mann made sev eral attempts to get in a. reply, but Mr; Cooper would not allow any in fringement upon his time. "You have .made your speech and I propose to make mine. I expect to punch you from now on.^ When all the drives and campaigns were on over the state, where were you ? In every commun ity all the available public speakers were out, calling on the people to conserve food and buy liberty bonds. Why weren't you speaking for civic preparedness?" At the St. Matthews meeting tomorrow the speaker prom ised to try to show that Mr. Mann hid behind his wife's skirt when the coun try was mobilizing its man power. Mr. Cooper showed letters thanking him for his services in these campaigns, in which he said Mr. Mann had no pa rt. When this cross fire had ceased Mr. Cooper looked to the oppositte side of the room where Colin S. Monteith, congressional candidate also from Co lumbia, was sitting, and calmly said: "Don't look so scared. Mr. Ring Man. I'm not going to jump on ymt today." W. A Coleman, of Columbia, who Mr. Cooper says, it at t&e- head of the "Gervais street ring.** and who is managing Mr. Monteith's campaign, thought the injunction was directed to him and replied, advancing to the middle of the floor as he did so: "Don't for a minute think I'm scar ed." "I was talking to Mr. Monteith" (Mr. Cooper retorted, "but I do say ! SOUTHBOW, ZfaabltlM Jua, MM VoLXtlX. Nb.lwJ BOLSHEVIK RULE GAINING GROUND All Russian Government of Ad* miral Kolchack Near - Collapse ; WILL BE FORCED" t OUT OF O Only Strong Support by the ?R lies Can Prevent Triumph of the Reds - Washington, Aug. ll.-M"Tompifet&v collapse of the Kolchak movement^ Siberia ?was forecast in reports reach ing Washington today. The Kolchak forces have fallen back almost 2ff0 miles from their former advanced lines and Omsk was said to be. threat-' ened with evacuation. : Failure of the allies and associate^ governments to . get adequate'supplies - to Admiral Kolchak, the advices said. " had forced him to fall-back steaigty A before the greatly : superior Bols?e viki forces composed of veter??ta^^^ whose officers include many GerxbaB*^^ who fled: to Russia when the armistice was signed. Officials here arc known to regard," Kolchak's efforts at ah. end unless most radical measures are adopted b^ ;.:-; outside governments and it was sug* gested that the President might .call the attention of congress to the;im minence of Bolshevik control of al! Siberia. The proposition of extending aid to Admiral Kolchak received the support of President Wilson and his asso ciates at the peace : conference . ein Paris, but the getting of supplies to him was found to be more of a jn?ir tary than a diplomatic problem. France, England and Japan were/'in position politically to offer- supplies;, but the position of the United States . was not so clear oq that "point. : Some' officials here held-r* that the United" States to participate in any extens^fe support, either in supplying the force or ' in adding manpower to .th^ .a^Dtty, congressional: action wguld Jb^e, neccflr :sary. ? , - ' :v V ^^^8^" The American forces alreadyM?9tl beria is far from thf Kolcha1c-B( viki lines. It. .was "placed there the announced specific purposev?T ' guarding of supplies at Vladiyoslbk and the' protection of the trans-Sibe rian railroad. : The status of .' Che* ish force was quite -sunlcient^fjor;the & mission of that, army was to^ estate v lish a communication rwith Admiral Kolchak's army making possible?the 1 ufee of Archangel as ? base of -sup plies. It lias failed. The stretch be- ; tween Archangel and Kolchak-has in- \ creased until it is now apparent little1' hope remains of Kolchak recovering unless much large forces are sent* to his support. The supplies the French and Brit ish have succeeded in getting through have been almost negligible and: Ja pan, because of the distance and her location, has not been able to con tribute even a small part. Thje probable withdrawal of Wie British volunteer forces before \ an other winter is construed officially here as due to a desire of the govern ment not to add to the already rse-A rious disturbances of political condfc; tions at hom?. ?H?i JUSTICE FORTJ FOOD SHARKS Government Agents Redouble Efforts Against Profiteers Washington, Aug. 14.?Fbllowmg the conviction and fine of the '-first.' profiteer in New York, government'' agencies redoubled their effort^ to bring food sharks to justice and/?ore' convictions are expecte'd in the near future._ .'_ - you are the head of the ring." . The two men got up' directly in front of each other and a general mixup was possibly averted by C. M. E^rd, coun ty chairman, who walked between .and asked that there be no disturbance. Mr. Montieth also urged Mr. Coleman back to his seat and the meeting-^pro ceeded without further confusion.- . John T. Duncan, who was thevj.Brst speaker, made a slight variance today from his speech of yesterday,. being ? somewhat liberal in his criticism of those who are directing the forma- . tion of the American Cotton Associa tion in South Carolina and in .,the South in general. Mr. Duncan says , he fears the organization is now in the hands of manipulators since:-J. Skottowe Wannamaker and "his logr rollers" have got In full control. .... Candidates Fulnxer. Mann, Mon teith and Timmerman made little. change in their speeches here today ! from those delivered yesterday in Co lumbia. Mr. Mann, Mr. Timmerman, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Cooper reiterated their opinion of a man who has claim ed tc be a Democrat and who now "bolted" the party and went into the general election, thereby endangering white supremacy, as the act was equivalent "to inviting the negro vote. At the conclusion of the meeting; Mr. Mann took time to say he would be glad to answer any charge car ,h> sinuation Mr. Cooper might litter. The meeting tomorow will be In St. Matthews, Calhoun county. ...