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iSB GERMANS Germany Has Perfected Plans to Destroy the American Dye Industry (By Dr. Charles H. Herty in The Manufacturers Record.) ..(Dr.-Herty. has recently returned from Europe, where he went on a ^.zaission, approved by President Wil son/ to ascertain what could be done to -make enough vat dyes available to meet the needs of American consum ers. ./He also acted as a technical ad-| *iser for Reparation Commission in j Paris., Dr.--Herty was in touch with I tjae; dye situation from various angles, and came into direct contact with the heads 61 several of the Germsta color plants. He had the good fortune to get.in touch also with Mr. Irving A. Keene, chairman of the Advisory Com-; mittee on Drugs, Chemicals and J^yestuffs of the American Chamber tf? Commerce in London. Mr. Keene had given out a statement in which he; declared that he had visited the German factories and had found that they were not manufacturing dyes in sufficient quantities to be a menace to the industry in the United States. Dr. Herb" discovered that Mr. Keene was 3iot familiar even with the names of important standard dyes; that he had no "definite data; that he had never heard of the Badische plant; that he had; not. gone through any ware houses at all, and that it would have been of no benefit if 'he had, as he '^nuld not have known a dye from a. soap box.*' Yet the Keene statement ... K-^as given wide, publicity, as such re ports, usually are, and the correction is only now being ihade. .; Oh* dye matters Dr. Herty speaks ?with authority,, and there is no Amer ican better acquainted than he is with the Germ an plans for destroying ther: American dye industry. The fol lowing article is part of an address re . ceiitly delivered by Dr. Herty before the: Washington section of the Amer ican Chemical Society.?Editor of the Manufacturers Record): . ?Germany stands ready to seize again the dye trade of the world and to . stifle American competition unles J adequate, legislation is passed. The threat to the American dye interests, tnat is, to both the dye consumers and fne' dye producers, lies in the fact that until American manufacturers can take, care of all the American needs, Germany can charge extortionate prices for those dyes which we do not manuafcture. She is manufac turing dyes on. a large scale, and be cause of the present low valuation of tfte rnarfc-she* -.will be able.-to-under bid, the American dye producer in an op'ehv competitive market.'. The only ?solution of .-this problem is legislation 'hj\c6ngress and the .introduction of a license, system untiP -the American manufacturers -are able* to . supply all pur needs and "to meet the competi tion ?f Germany. , Congress before it " adjourned . adopted a resolution ex tending, so far as dyes are concern ed, - the .' license control ? of the War *Tr?de / Board until January 15. This act would" lapse with'the announce ment of peace, and in the meantime, without passing the Bongworth bill, the American dye industry would be at-., the mercy of the Germans. ? ?yWhen I visited the Badische plant recently smoke was issuing from 12 ofVthe 14 chimneys of that gigantic . Chemical -Vnd dye manufactory, and tHe executives at the plant were in a %ery comfortable mood. In the first fe^r \ minutes of our interview with jfhpsc' officials Director Krell volun teered the information that already ?Vhe lines had broken at home and he Twul in hand orders from individual consumers with the authority from the United States government to ship supplies through their American agents to the consumer. "Yes/* said Director Krell, "we are going to get back our old business in America, and through the medium of our former agencies." We sat listening to this statement in the offices of the chief plant of that great combination of manufacturers whose former control of our dyestuff supplies had led Von Bcrnstorff to ^ff?ggest to the Kaiser that through "shutting off these supplies he could ? ;thrpw 4,900,000 Americans out of employment; perhaps in the very room where milions had been voted1 ?to- corrupt American industrial life; and pear the spot where tons of ma-j "terial had been produced for poison gas by whose fatal action many a gal- j lanl douhgboy had "gone West" and j now sleeps beneath the soil of France. .Everywhere there were signs of ac .tfrrfty. The industrial war was on. .Tho words of Director Krell left no doubt about that. rTixe same confidence characterized the industrial German as had been recorded by the military German in his first advance through Belgium, thel same utter contempt shown of Amer- j . 5can. capacity to do things as was re-j jrcaled during 1917. But 1918 show-! cd : that the German had missed his . guess* and I make the prediction that . he has missed it again. Only one thing is needed to insure the cor-! s weetness of that prediction, namely, j >that. the mass of oUr people under- j /stand just what the situation is. Such [ y%r\ understanding will reflect itself inj .sympathetic protective legislation, and ' tjme will do the rest, for the American ? ohemist needs only time ro forge the "missing links in the chain of a com-: . pi?te self-sustained American dye in -dustry. In the commercial struggle that is before us the way is not plain sail ?,.teg for the German manufacturer. In :,ft<3<f;tlon to what we have already ac complished and arc determined to complete, the German faces a winter in which coal supply is destined to prove a more serious obstacle to con tend with than was the food problem resulting from the blockade. Trans-j ?portation problems are also very acute. J though the Rhine will furnish the natural transportation for dyes to! *'Rotterdam. Finally, the German is badly worried over the situation cre a-.ed by the seizure of those patents by which he had throttled American ^'industry for so many years. He sign ^oh the Treaty of Peace, agreeing that ?-43i$s?> seizures were valid, but al WAR OS H. ?. L. - { : War Loan Orgamzatron Will Co . operate in Movement Vigorous assistance in the move ment to reduce the high cost of liv ing, through encouraging sane spend ing, will he given by the War Loan Or ganization of the Fifth Federal Dis trict next year, acording to an an nouncement made today from Rich mond, Va., by Albert S. Jonnstone, di rector for. this district. "With the foundation of the gov ernment's Saving Movement firmly laid and with a full knowledge of the tremendous benefits which inevitably follow when the principles of thrift are adopted, the United States Treas ury Department will continue to push the movement in 1920," Director Johnstone said. "The War Loan Organization of this district has enjoyed .he cooper ation of many able citizens," the di triCt director continued. "Numeri uS banks and mercantile and industrial establishments have rendered whole hearted assistance, while the newspa pers of the district, by their patriotism and generosity, have accorded a ser vice of inestimable value. "It will be the policy cf the War Loan Organization of the Fifth Fed eral Reserve District during 1920 to continue to emphasize the import ance of spending wisely, of saving regularly and systematically, of in vesting in sound securities. It will endeavor to find or create new mar kets for government securities, and point out to investors the attrac tiveness of Liberty Bonds and Victory notes, particularly when bought at markel prices. Also especial em phasis wij' be given to the savings movement which is now popularly identified with War Saving.-; Stamps and Thrift Stamps. "A point to be mentioned, but which no longer needs to be empha sized, is that thrift does not mean miserliness. It means getting your money's worth; it means the elimina tion of waste; it means saving on what you do not need; it means the steadfast refusal to buy useless lux uries; it means the most efficient use of all natural and acquired resources; it means safeguarding against unfor seen emergencies and protection of the future. "Through this thrift movement, be gun in December 1917, the govern ment has marketed to millions of pur chasers savings securities to a total exceeding $1,121,000.000. Despite the falling off in interest on the part of the public in these securities following the armistice, the sales began to in crease last summer4, showing ,that the efforts of the treasury to stem the tide of extravagance and develop hah i its of saving were beginning to bear j fruit. "The development of this saving movement during recent months ha-i been very encouraging. Since the be ginning of the present school year, [more than 6,000 savings societies have been organized in the schools of the Fifth Federal Reserve District. In many school rooms and grades every r child' is a member of a savings so ; ciety. having agreed to save system ; atically and invest his savings in j thrift a id war savings stamps. How much this movement means poten tially is suggested by the fact that during the last two weeks in October children in the public schools in Bal timore alone saved $23.600, investing the whole amount in these securities "Upwards of 1.000 women's organ izations throughou' the distri<-* hav been actively enlisted in studying budget-making. promoting thrft among their members and associates, shopping more carefully, and in these ways fighting the high cost of living, 'and since August 1, we have carried on educational campaigns in behalf of systematic saving and wise invest ment in government securities in more than 600 concerns in this dis trict employing more than 3S3,000 people." Purebred Pay in Poultry. That the value of purebred males counts as much in poultry raising as in stock raising is shown by the rec ords of three flocks *-** Leghorns, the data for which have en supplied the United States Department of Ag riculture by the North Carolina Ex periment Station. Flock 1, the egg production of which is included in these records, consisted of common hens; flocks 2 was produced by breed ing these hens to common males; flock 3 was produced by breeding flock 1 to a rooster from a high producing hen. The following year the original llcck Ia:?i St* eggs a lien: flock 2 laid an average of SS eggs a hen; and flock G laid an average of 136 eggs a hen. This increase of 5-1 per cent in one year tells very speci fically the benefits of using a pure bred male. But the percentages alone do not tell the whole story, for a big proportion of the increase came at. a season?May and June?when the production of flock? 1 and 2 was rela tively low and the prices were good. ready he is beginning to whine and to try to carefully manufacture senti ment against the splendid work in behalf of American commercial free dom so courageously carried out. un der the authority of congress, by the Alien Property Custodian. In spite of these handicaps the Ger man dye manufacturer is strong to day. His plants are evn greater than before the war. The personnel of these plants is practically intact, large stores of material are acumu lated and he is determines to regain his markets. It would be foolish to belittle his ability or his fighting strength, but in the light of the accomplishments of American chemists during the past four years, and indeed of the great achievements during the short time vehich I was abroad, my mind turns back with supreme confidence in the correctness of tho prediction of the Swiss professor who 20 years ago said to me. "The natural home of the dyestuff industry is in your country.! and some day it will flourish rhere!" Speed the day, oh yc chemists of America! 1 ALIEN RADICALS MAY BE EXPELLED New Proposals Presented in House?Now Time For Action I Washington, Dec. 16,?Legislative I proposals of the house immigration ! - omiintt.ee to aid in ridding the j country o faiien radicals, framed af ter prolonged hearings here and in 1 New York. were presented to the ! house today by Chairman Johnson, Republican, Washington, who declar ed the bill was so drawn as to force the department of labor to act against alien agitators. Secretary Wilson has held, Air. ? Johnson said, that mere membership in the I. W. W. or kindred organiza tions was not sufficient under the law to warrant deportation. The eommit : tee's bill, he added, made the "letter and intent of the law plain and un mistakable" as under it affiliation or any financial connection with organ izations teaching- radical doctrines, without the commission of any overt act. meant deportation. At the same time the house judici ary committee began work on the va rious" proposals aimed at suppression of radical activities generally, to reach citizens as well a.s aliens. Represen tatives Blanton, Democrat, Texas, de clared the department of labor was "honeycombed with the spirit of an archism" from Secretary Wilson down; and Representative Davey, Democrat, Ohio, warned the committee that the public would take matters into itf own hands and "string these -wild eyed radicals to telephone poles j throughout the country unless con ! gress hastened to act." I Under a resolution introduced by Senator Kenyon. Republican, Iowa ! the senate foreign relations commit j tee would investigate the activities ol Ludwig C. A. K. .Martens, who claims ;j to be the "self-styled" Russian so j viet ambassador with headejuarters ir j New York. The resolution which wai : referred to the committee said Mar : tens had been charged with directin? ' propaganda aginst the American gov : ernment and referred to his refusa J to testify before the Lusk legislativ? \\ committee in New York which is con '! ducting an investigation of radicals. ;! MEXICO RE ;| LEASES EUGC .[State'Department Notified Tha; He Had Returned Home ? Washington. Dec. 15.?The State de ? Jp'artraen? was ..'notified officially la:< , today ihat Frederick Hugo, the Arner . kan seized by ban':.:s in Lhe re.cen ,| raid on Muzimz, Mexico, had been re . j leased ana. had returned to Muzemiz i Conditions upon which he was re [ I free were, not stated in the message i I but the department's announeemen j I -aid ir was supposed no ransom ha< .: been paid. *The I'iiiriai report came from th< .'American consul m . i':-dras Xegras ,| Mexico, and added ihai .it was pos , j sible iha: Phillips, an American alsi ? . during the raid, and whos< j first name was not known here, hac .{been released likewise... The announcement followed earliei . action by the department, the embas sy at Mexico City and the consul ai Piedras Xegras having been instruct , '--i so ;., iivA representations to th< j-Carrarisa government officials with z view to securing the reiease of th< two Americans. \ Details of the abduction of the tw?. Americans were lacking the depart ment advises as made public saying ? merely that the town had been lootet before the Villistas evacuated it. Pend ng more complete information as u ihe manner of their release of ?.h* captives no intimation was available at the State department of the cxtcnl ?o which this latest incident has af fected the admitedly increasingly del icate relations between the United States and the Carranza government. ' The department of State was ad vised late today by the American con sulate at Piedras Negras, Mexico, thai according to a telegram received there v from Muzquiz, Frederick Hugo, cap ! tured by Villistas, has been released iand is now at Muzquiz. It is possible ! that Phillips, the other American tak 1 cn by the Villistas, also has boon re I leased. The telegram from Muzqui2 does not state the conditions upon which Hugo was released, but it was supposed at Piedras Negras that he was released without payment of ran som. CLEMS0N TRUS TEES MEET _ Clemson College, Dec. 16.?The an nual fall meeting of the board of trustees of Clemson college was held this week, and considerable routine work was accomplished, though there was little of public interest excepting tho memorial exercises to Senator Tiilman, and the creation of a new j instructorship in the textile depart ment, which was made necessary by the great increase in the number of j students now taking textile work, i To this instructorship the board ; e'.c.cted William Ferrier, a native of I Scotland and a graduate of the Lud I low textile school in the class of 1011. j and of the Fall River textile school in , the class of It*3 S. Mr. Ferrier has j been instructor in weaving at the Fail River Textile school since his gradua tion, and has had wide experience both of a practical and theoretical na ture in the textile industry. During the war he was in the chemical re search division. After January 1. 1920, according to a resolution of tin- hoard a! this meeting, the farm will he under the direction of the experiment station, and all of the farm operations will be in charge of a superintendent un der the direction of the director of the periment station. Appropriations were made looking to the further development of pure bred swine, and also of the sheep and beef cattle industry. =r ^ Brick, ?(cine: ? filing, ? dins, Casing. Mouldings, Framing Lumber, Bc:i Cedar Shingles. Pino and Cypress Shingles, Metal and Composition Shingles, Terra Cotta Thimbles Doors. Sash and Blinds, Poicli Columns and Ballasters, Beaver I3oardL Valley Tin and Ridzc Roll, nt, Plaster, Fire Brick Fire Clay, Sewer Pipe, Stove Flue, uiidin ateriai Mortar Colors and litains Water Proofing Mineral. Corrugated Metal Roofing, Asbetos and Composition Roofing. F.t.-cks, i inges, Vails, Grates, Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Door Hangers, Carpenter's Tools, Paint Brushes, Paints and Oils, Inside Decorations, Calsomincs and Cold Water Paints, Hardware, paints, Oils WIRE FENdSCG, IRON AND WOOD POSTS EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE Inc. SOUTH CAROLINA ; LEGION USING ; . ITS INFLUENCE j Overseas Soldiers' Organization Making Its Power Felt In Congress 5 Washington, Dec. 16.?Tho Amer . j ican Legion, through Franklin D'Ol'.er. 11 it grand commander, tonight called jjon congress for immediate enactment . i cf legislation giving former service r men "the consideration they deserve . i at the hands of their government." 1 j Mr. D'Olier in a formal statement i | warned that no policy cf false econ omy should1 be pursued now with re spect to the disabled soldiers if '"se rious difficulties" are to be avoided la tor by the government. Principles upon which the present government, insurance laws were )\founded were described by Mr. D'Olier as being ''entirely sound." but the ex isting legislation "entirely inade - j quate." Ke added that as a result of i informal conferences today between ~jmembers of congross and delegates to { the convention it was evident that "! "congress is: not yet alive to the r.e 5 . c^:-:-:i:ies cf : he situation." Greetings were extended the de!e ? g&tes i. "."a. by President Wilson in a " letter to R. G. Chomley Jones, direc - tcr cf the bureau of war risk insur *; ance at whose invitation the confer ?1 once was called. M "May I ask" the president wrote, '"hat you be kind enourh to convey : my warm gv:er ln~s .;"i vho ma; ~! a'ttond this conference.and .press my '{regret ?'c:tt ?? thus' den.' my:;e:i the " {pleasure of receiving ,h m in person." J A message was received also from Genera; Pershing who said he favored i liberal attitude toward disabled sol diers and that he felt sure congres; would enact the legislation necessar; " I to provide for them properly." j The legion sent a formal demand to t|Secretary Dakerjgfet Alan S. Broms. bo was released recently from the Lcavenworth disciplinary barracks be rearrested and compelled to serve the remainder of a three year sentence. In ]|a letter to Mr. Baker, Mr. D'Olier de ^iclared that since his release, Broms' I utterances have "become notoriously ' J seditious" and the legion felt imme }; diate apprehension of the man was * j necessary. Mr. Paker was said to ' j have made no definite promise that ' j the legion's request would be carried ' j out. '! Senator Smoofs proposal to abolish 1 the bureau and distribute its func tions among several departments was opposed by half a dozen delegates. Sixteen wounded men from Walter ; j Reed hospital in Washington were ' j called by the legion commander as '! "concrete evidence cf the inadequacy II of the war risk and vocational educa itional laws." They complained they j had been unable "to get action." at \ I the war risk bureau and declared Their ': morale had been lowered because they j had not received from the government the treatment they believed they I should have had. j At a dinner given the legion reprc j sentatives at the capitol tonight by j members of congress assurance was j given that they would carefully com ply with the request of ex-service men regarding war risk insurance. Sena j tor Smoot. chairman of the senate i finance committee, in charge of af I fairs, pledged his support to the ? Sweet bill. Discussion of the legislation which j the Minneapolis convention of the le gion had set out to obtain grew ?acrimonious at times. The delegates i stated their case frankly and drew from the senators and representatives ! present similar argument, i The war risk insurance bureau came in for severe criticism. GOODS TO BE RELEASED England Now Ready to Restore j American Property ! Wasrington, Dec. 17.?Great Britain j i is prepared now to release American j j owned goods seized during the war j upon" the establishment of theii American ownership at the time th< , ods were shipped, the State depart \ ment was advised toda> by the British ! foreign office. London. Dec. 17.?Capture of Kiev and the occupation of Kupiansk, southeast of Karhkov is claimed in a Bolshevik wireless from Moscow to dav. COTTON CROP OVER-ESTIMATED Cotton Association President Criticises Last Government Report Columbia. Dec. J 5.?The govern iment estimate of the 19 DJ cotton crop I is sharply criticized by R. M. Mixson ' president of the South Carolina Cot? [ cor. Association. In a statement is ! sued here tonight, the production is I estimated by Col. .Mixson at 9,342,"73 i bales. He says that lie does nut be [licve that there will be S,000,000 bales i of spinable cutton marketed out of ; the crop. I "I spent August, September, Oc j toter and November in the 'Vest in ; the interest of the American Cotton : Associative," said Col. Mixson in his ; statement. "I traveled all over Texas, j Louisiana, a large part of Alabama [and the cotton section of Florida. I j also went into Tennessee and Arkan ; .-.as. I studied the cotton crop very \ closely. Everywhere I went the crop ? was poor. I found the largest aban | -roned acreage over known in the his | lory of cotton planting, fctock was tied ir.i ? hundred of thousands of ! acres to graze. j "After a thorough canvass and I careful- study of crop conditions I j made an estimate of the probable crop ?of 9,4SI'.350 bales. You can imagine j my surprise when the government on i December 11 published an estimate of : L020.OO0 bales for :he crop of 1919. I>a:-ed on ginning figures of S,SS i,7l2 ]??:?- ?? ? i D? ''ember 1. 'I an': well satisfied that the gov . i is in erioj in placing the probably crop at 11,030,000 bales that ( am going to challenge these figures and let the th:nking people draw their ??wn deductions. "For the last three years the gin nings to December 1 and the final .ieids wore as follows: In. 1918 gin ii-ig.s :?? December were 9."57.414 oales an i the Lotai crop was 1 i.j*06, iSO bales, showing that nearly 20 per ? ent was ginned-afier December 1; in :17 ginnings to December 1 were 9, 713.520 and the total crop was 11, 248,242 bales, showing that nearly 14 per cent was ginned after December ? ; in 1916 ginnings to December 1 were 10.352.031 bales and the total crop 11,363,916, showing that about ?j per cent was ginned after Decem ber 1. Never in the history of cotton planting has there been such a large percentage of the crop ginned up to December 1 as has been this year. "The States of South Carolina, Georgia. Florida and Alabama have practically finished gathering their *rops by that time. The States of Ten nessee. Arkansas. Texas and Oklaho ma were nearer through picking than they had ever been before. Mis | souri. Virginia. California, and Ari zona produce but little and they had gathered the larger part of their crop on December 1. The South had less cotton to gather and gin than ever in the history of the business. "I do not believe, taking the en tire, col ton producing section into ac count, that there was over 5 per cent left to gin after December 1. Now let's take the crop of 1919. On Decem ber 1 the government report showed i.S?,3.712 bales ginned. Add 10 per cent to these figures for cotton re maining to be ginned after December 1. and you would have a crop of 9, $15,033 bales; add 7 1-2 per cent for crop to be ginned after December 1 and you have a crop of 9.569.703 bales, but add 5 per cent to December j ! ginning figures, which, in my opin- j ion. is nearer correct, and you have! a crop of 0.324.^73 bales for 1919. ! "There is another thing which I would like to call your attention to; this fall hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton sprouted on the staik: I therefore, yen would lind the largest J percentage of dog-tail unspinnable j cotton in the crop than has ever been gathered before. "I do not believe there will be S. 000,000 bales of .spinnablc cotton ! marketed of this crop. Take this with ;he large demand of spinnable cotton i and where will the price of cotton go j to?" RHODE ISLAND ? FOR LIQUOR; Asks Permission to Test Prohi-j bition Amendment j Washington. Dec. 17.?Rhode Ts-1 and. through its attorney general, ask- ] ?d the Supreme Court today for per-;( mission to institute original pro-;] feedings to test the validity of the' i national prohibition amendment. il BOY MURDERED IN LEXINGTON Twelve Year Old Lad is Shot to Death Peak. Dec. 1G.?On Friday, De cember 12, this community was shock ed by a terrible tragedy when the young 12 year old son of .Mr. and. j Mrs. W. H. Suber of Peak was found j dead in the woods with a shot gui\ j wound in the head. Exactly how the j young boy met his death is hot known. I He left home in the afternoon on . I horse back with his father's shotgun; {to go hunting. Not very long after I he left, the horse he was riding came j home. Nothing at first was thought ! of this as it was expected that the - boy would return in a short while. Near night the family becoming alarmed over his absence, searching i parties were formed and near $ p. m. ! his body was found in a patch of j woods. , At the incraest which was held Mon day it developed that his body was in a patch of woods about 200 yards from the main road, stretched'out on I his back with head up the hill. ~The ' wound was done with a shotgun,' en tering back of the head behind . the (right ear perforating the skull, rang ing downward and to the left making its entrance through left lower ja*. ' No marks of violence was found on body. The cap which he wore . at ! the time was still on his head, showed ! no powder burns. An empty gun shell was found near the body also?gtjtr? wad. Iiis horse had been hitched ! about 4 0 steps from where he was [and nearer the road. The chain ! v? hi- h the horse was hitched with was not found. No trace of the gun with which he left home has been found [although repeatedly search has been j made. The jury did not return a ver jdict, the case being continued for fur I ther investigation, although a young : negro boy was placed in jail on the j evidence of his 12 year old brother who testified that his brother told jhim that he had killed Harold Suber and hid the gun. The boy arrested denies any knowledge of. the affair.. Sheriff Miller is still at work on the case and it is hoped the mystery stir rounding the young boy's death will soon be cleared up. . 3 HEALTH WORK Eight Counties to Have Unit3 in 1820?Riser Gets Letters " Columbia, Dec. 17.?County health work will be carried on in eight coun ties during the year 1920, according to Dr. L. A. Riser, director of county health work for the State board of health. Las., year, the work was car ried on in six counties. At the present time, Dr. Riser, is sending out letters to the various county delegations asking them whether or not they intend making provision for health work this year, and already a number of replies have been received. "We shall be able to carry on the health work in only eight counties this ye?r,' Dr, Riser said yesterday, "and the first eight that send in pledges to the effect that they are going to make appropriations for this work will secure the units." Some of the six counties that have had health units during the past year or more may be omitted this year unless they make known their inten tions int he near future. Dr. Riser said. In 1919, the counties of Lexing ton, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Lee, Sum ter and Darlington had health units. CLYDE HOEY WINS FQR CONGRESS Democrat Wins Congressional Race in North Carolina Charlotte; Dec. 17.?Additional a id almost complete returns early today from yesterday's special election in [he Ninth North Carolina District did not materially change the result, srhich showed that Clyde Hoey, De: ) ?crat. was the winner over John M. Morehead. Republican, for the seit n congress vacted by E. Yates Webb! vho was recently appointed federal udge. Paris. Dec. 17.?The head of the French military mission in Berlin has ?ailed upon the French war prisoners ?emaining voluntarily in Germany to eturn to France, according to advices 'mm thp German capital.