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8*1332 S?MTER W?TCH3?AX, Estsb Consolidated Aug:. 2,1 PACKERS OBEY ORD i Under Threat of Government; Prosecution They Agree to j Dissolve Monopoly ^cock YARDS WILL BE SOLD Attorney General Palmer Makes. Public Agreement Made With \ .the Big Five ?????? i Washington, Dec. 17.?-The govern- j merit's anti-trust action against the great meat packers, begun at Presi- > ; dent Wilson's direction last summer j -as part of the fight on the high costj of living has been compromised un- ? der an agreement by which the pack-J . ers will confine themselves -hereafter! to the meat and provision business, j An injunction decree to which the! packers have acceded will be entered; in the federal courts to make the! agreement binding. Under its terms j the'. big five?Swift, Armour, Morris, i Wilson and Cudahy have agreed: - To sell under supervision of the j (United States district court, prefer- j . ably to the live stock producers and, the public all their holdings in public; stock yards. To sen, under the same supervision,! land in like manner all their inter-} est in stock yard railroads and ter-: iaina?s. ^7'To sell under the same supervision! and'in like manner all their interest , in market newspapers! ' :% To dispose of all their interest in 1 public cold storage warehouses ex-' oept as necessary for their own meat1 products. To forever disassociate themselves! with the retail meat business. To forever dissassociate themselves' with all 'unrelated lines" including wholesale groceries, fresh, canned.; dried and salt.fish, fresh, dried ori canned^ ?vegetabels, fresh, crushed, j dried; evaporated or canned fruits.! confecttonaries, syrups, soda water J fountain supplies, etc.. molasses, jams.j honey, jellies and preserves, ? ices, j sauces,, relishes, etc., coffee, chocolate ? ^>cpa??l^..T?Nj?r,' sugar, rice. and cer- i eals- '(-.with an exception to be not ed) bread, wafers .crackers, biscuits,. ^paghetti,^vermicelli, macaroni, cigars, j china, furniture, etc. To forever abandon the use of the branch houses, route cars and auto trucks, comprising their distribution ' System, for any other than their own: meat and dairy products. j To perpetually submit to the juris- j diction of the United States district i court under an injunction forbidding; ail the. defendants from directly or; indirectly maintaining any combina- j tion or conspiracy with each other or! any other person or persons, or mo- j nopolize any food or attempting to j monopolize any food products in the United States or indulging in any un fair and unlawful practices. The decree further provides thej jurisdiction is perpetually retained by j the courts for the purpose of taking; such ether action, or adding at the foot of the decree such other relief if; any. that may become necessary or [ appropriate for the carrying out and : enforcement of the decree or for the i purpose of entertaining at any time j parties may make with respect to this! hereafter an application which the, decree. Two years are given to comply with! the decree which affects 87 corpora-j tions and 49 individuals. "In general,", said Attorney General] Palmer's official announcement to- i night, "this decree prevents the de fendants from exercising any further; control over the marketing of live; stock. It forever prevents them from j any control over the retailing of meat i products. It eliminates them from the i field of meat substitutes, with the eK- j ception of eggs, butter, poultry andj cheese, which are left for future con-; sideration and appropriate action; '. and, therefore, the price of meat is1 within the control of the people them-! selves. It places the conduct of these j great aggregations of capital imme- [ cRately under the eye of a federal ; ?ourt with reference to their business i practices. "But greater than all. it establishes the principle that no group of men, no matter how powerful can e\-er at tempt to control the food table of the American people of any one of the necessities or component parts of it. "The department of justice, having in mind the necessities and interests of the whole American people in this critical reconstruction period, feels that by insisting upon this surrender on the part of the packing interests, it has acomplished more for the American people that could have hoped as the result of a long drawn out legal battle." Senators Kenyon, Republican, of Iowa and Kendrick, Democrat, of Wyoming, in statements issued imme diately after the attorney general's: announcement, said the agreement would not preclude enactment by con gress of bils introduced by them and now before the senate agriculture committee providing for government regulation of the meat packing indus try. "The terms of the settlement," said Senator Kendrick. "are in agreement with the fundamental principles of the bill whi?*h have been introduced by Senator Kenyon and myself. This does not mean, however, the aban ?ed April, 18S0. "Be Jus? i 881. SU] | Supreme Council Working Hard to Get Through By Christmas GERMANS ARE I BLOCKING PROGRESS j Only Hungarian and Turkish Treaties and Russian Prob lem Remains , Paris, Dec. 22.?The supreme coun cil, it became known today, is mak ing every -effort to reach an agree ment with Germany on reparation for the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, so that the protocol can be signed and the ratifications of the treaty of Versailles be exchanged be fore Christmas. The terms of the note replying to the last communica tion of the German representatives were considered by the council this morning. No decision was reached and it is planned to hold another ses sion tonight. With the exception of the Hun garian and Turkish treaties and the Russian situation, few details now re main to be disposed of by the coun cil to clean up the peace conference work. BONUS FOR THE CHILDREN New South Wales Will Subsidize Large Families Sydney. Dec. 22.?The new South Wales State Nationalist party has ap proved the goverorr ent's proposal. to subsidize children.exceeding the num ber of two in any family. PLOT AGAINST BELA KUN Vienna Polke Orctimvent Plans . to Kidnap Hungarian Vienna, Dec. 22.?A plot to kidnap Beia Kun, former Communist dicta tor of Hungary and hand him over to the Hungarian authorities was frus trated by the Austrian police. Two men who were arrested confessed to the authorities. donment of efforts to secure legisla tion. The attorney general's victory is merely a step, though a very long one, toward the goal we have been seeking to attain." "The prr? rement made by Attor ney Genera'. Palmer." said Senator Kenyoh. "eliminates the necessity of some provisions of the Kenyon and Kendrick bills. However, there re mains certain fundamental provis ions that must be met and are met by said bills. Th** control of the large lines of tmrelated business by the packers is apparent by the decrees." "It is evident." he can'duded. "that they were building the greatest mon opoly the country has ever known. /The government should maintain over them the control provided by the bill now pending." While Mr. Palmer views the pack ers'' submission to the government's contentions as a "surrender," Henry Veeder, counsel for Swift & Co., announced that the step was taken at the suggestion of the department of justice to avoid any appearance of an tagonizing the government and to re move causes of friction with live stock producers and food distribtitors. Em phatically Mr. Veeder stated that the decree was not to be construed as an admission that Swift & Co., had violated any law. "The company feels that the same spirit which caused the business men of the company to submit to personal sacrifice to win the war." he said, "is just as essential during this period of reconstruction as then and therefore it meets the request of the government for the sacrifice of its interests. The company has consented to the entry of a decree for injunction only upon the expressed condition that it should in so. many words recite that the decree does, not adjudicate that the company has violated any law of the United States." Attorney General Palmer said that overtures for a compromise came first from the packers, after the de partment had placed its evidence be fore a grand jury in Chicago. The attitude of Morris & Co.. was expressed by W. M. norders. gen eral counsel, who said the firm had consented to the decrees "in the spirit of true Americanism." "We gave up certain legal righ:s and made certain business! sacrifices in ordei to meet the views of the government" he con tinued and to forever set at rest th^ fear of monopjy of the American table by the packers. In this period of reeonstruction and unrest we de sired to promote coniider.ee. coopera tion and stable conditions." Fills proposing covernmcr.f regula tion of thep ackinc industry, now be fore the senate agriculture commit tee will not be abandoned as a result of the decree. Senator Kenyon. Iowa, and Kendrick, Wyoming, authors of the measures, announced tonight. sa? Kear not?Let an the ends Thon AU ETER, S. C, WEDNESI RG-GERMAN ! Berger, Who is Under Sentence ! For Alien Enemy Activities! ! j Re-elected I HOUSE REFUSED I TO SEAT HIM; He Is the Leader of Socialist, Partv and A Notorious Pro German ! Milwaukee. Wis., Dec. 19.?Victor L. j : Berger, socialist, today was reelected ' ! to congress from the Fifth Wisconsin j district, having defeated Henry H. { ! Bodenstab, Republican, running as a j j fusion candidate by 4.S?6 votes. ; Berber's total was 24,267 and Bod j er.stab's 19,501. The returns indicate! I that approximately 9,000 voters did , j not go to the polls. The total regis- j j tration in the district was about 53,-, 000 votes. Should the house again refuse to! seat Berger the Fifth Wisconsin dis-j ; trict will not be represented in con-; gress until after the regular election ? in 1920, Gov. E. L. Philipp announc-j j ed tonight. [ "I do not believe in spending any; I more of the people's money in that j ,' way," he declared. \ i ; Mr Berger made the following! : statement tonight: I '?While my election may undoubted-[ ly be charcterized as nothing short j ! of a revolutionary act in view of op- J I opposition by the entire capitalist j I class, not only of Milwaukee and Wis- j I consin but of the country?yet it can j j not exactly be called a victory of the I j Socialist party. "The Socialist party siniply took the! I lead and furnished the advance guard I j and foremost1 champions. : "As a matter of fact, my reelection | ; is simply the first sign of reawaken-1 ; ing of genuine democracy in this' ! country since, the days of the strug-; j gle for the emancipation of the black \ j race. " ( j "I don't know whether the house; will seat me, and I _caxe little, if on4y j the continued fight for my seat will' furnish the occasion to awaken com-! mon people of the United States cs-; pecially the working classes, to a; realization of the great dangers before us and the immense duties that vvc' must fufilJ if modern civilization is to progress or even to survive. "But as to the voters of the Fifth: district. I can only say: Well done, the eyes of the world are upon you. j You have vindicated one of the basic; principles of modem democracy?! representative government.' " Mr. Bodenstab said: "I feel that the' majority of the voters have been mis-, led by a false propaganda. I am; ready to continue in the fight to rid the community of these foreign agi tators and Bolshevist adherents and I call upon the good loyal people of Milwaukee to remain steadfast in their faitli, in their country and its ihstitu- ? f ions." Washington, Dec. D.<.?Xo move to j dispute for the second time the right . of Victor L. Berger, reelected to the house of representatives to a seat is expected until he presents himself to j he sworn in as a member. Representa- ] tive Dallinger. assistant chairman of j j the elections committee, said tonight. I j "I shall then object, as I did the j : previous time," Mr. Dallinger said. The house may take action on a ; resolution to d<my Merger a seat with- j out the formality of referring the mat- ; ter to the elections eommitte or re- . ; opening hearings on the case again, j j Mr. Dallinger explained. "The facts in the case," he said, . are exactly the same ts they were be : fore and will ever be. Berger. the committee decided, nave aid and com fort to the enemy, and any one so. judged is barred from membership in J the house under provision of the con stitution. His ineligibility is just as ] great as when he first presented him- j self. The house by a decisive vote j supported the resolution denying him. ? and similar action will be taken the ; second time." ; Berger was denied Iiis seat on the previous occasion by a vote of 211 to 1. The committee report suggesting that Berger be denied his seat was unanimous. Representative Rodenberg, \ Republican, Illinois, however, filing a report requesting delay by the house . until Bergcr's appeal-from the court sentence of 20 years in Lcavenworth orison was decided. : HUNS PAY IN GOLD Finance Minister Savs Thev Have Paid Greater Part of Twentv Billion Marks Berlin. Dec. 20.?Minister of Fin ance Assberger stated in the Nation al Assembly today that the greater part of twenty billion marks in gold, payable to the allies under the treaty has already been delivered, and add ed that the T.tento powers are there fore morally bound to supply Ger many with raw materials and food stuffs. Mrs. J. Y. Todd and children leave today to spend some time with rcla-! tives in Che ter. xirt at be tnj Conn try'&. Tity God's i )AY, DECEMBER 24. 1 (MRNMEilON THE STRIKE FIGHT Termination of Coal Strike Was Not a Compromise But a Victory For Law PALMER MAKES STATEMENT Attorney General Testifies Be fore Senate Investigating Committee Washington, Doc. 19.?Termination of the soft coal strike was not a settlement, but a victory for the gov ernment Attorney General Palmer to day told the senate subcommittee, in 'vestigating the strike. "The govern ment has won its fight," Palmer said. ; "There was no settlement in actual ity, men and union officers have com plied with our demands and returned to work." RIDDING COUNTRY OF ENEMIES Train Loads of Foreign Radi cals on Way to Ellis * Island . New York, Dee. 19.?Anarchists and undesirable^Trom all sections of the United States wore being rushed by special trains tonight to Ellis Island to join the large colony of radicals already ass*' M>led there awaiting de portation t ,'iet Russia. Immigration officials said that the transport which will take the radicals including Emma Goldman and Alex ander Berkman on their homeward journey, will probably sail some time Sunday. The radicals were told to night to hold themselves in readiness to go aboard the chip.' Three special ? trains?one . from Pittsburgh, another, from Buffalo and a third from Philadelphia?will ar rive here .tomorrow with contingents of- radicals for deportation, it was learned at Ellis Island: The Pitts burgh train will bring 4 0 anarchist:"-, but the number that will come on the other trains could not be learned. Wives of the Russian radicals be ing held at Eilis Island tonight scut a letter *o Commissioner General of Immigration Camminetti containing an appeal that they and their chil dren be deported to soviet Russia with their husbands. . The petition was; signed by eight Russian women as a committee repre senting the wives of the men held on the island. Ferguson, one of the party brought here is a native of Winnipeg, Canada, according to the police is national treasurer of the Communist party of America and editor of a periodical called "Communist" published in Chi cago. Ruthenberg another one of the party was a Socialist candidate for governor of Ohio in 1912 and was as sistant editor of the "Communist" The radicals were arrested early this month in Chicago and put up a light against extradition. The section of the manifesto drawn up at the communist convention upon which the indictment is said to have based, reads: "The Communist does not propose to capture the Stale, but to conquer and destroy." This manifesto, the po?ce said, was published and distributed in large numbers. MEW IRISH BILL READY Lloyd George Will Outline Plan of Government Monday London. Dec. 20.?The proposed Irish bill which Premier Lloyd George will outline to the h<>i:se of commons Monday, will it is believed, forecast a government for Ireland analogous to the State governmental system of the United States. I? is expected the pre mier's announcement will be most conciliatory and comprehensive in outlining what he hopet will be an acceptable plan. v TRAGEDY OF SEA Oil Steamer Wrecked Off Ore gon Coast Gandon. Oregon. Dee. 20.?At least thirty lives wore lost when the oil si earner Jaehansler, Portland for San Francisco was wrecked off Cape Blanco, Thursday night, according to Earl Dooley, a member of the crew, who was washed ashore near here early today. Besides Dooley another unidentified man was saved. The ship , struck a reef. The crew of fifty-one are still unaccounted for. London. Dec. 20.?Bolstnaia. south west of Tomsk, has been captured with twenty-live hundred prisoners by ih$ Bolsheviki. according to an offi cial .soviet statement at Moscow. A fierce engagement is being fought fourteen miles southwest of Narva. ' ?ad Traia'u." THE TRU1 919. THE IRISH ADOPT ANARCHIST PLAN Bold Attempt Made to Assassi nate Lord Lieutenant French BOMBS AND PISTOLS WEAPONS USED i One of the Assassins Killed in : Fight With Police Escort i Dublin, Dec. 19 (By the Associated Press).?A determined but unsucess ful attempt was made today to as sassinate Viscount French, lord lieu tenant of Ireland. The attack evidently had been most carefully organized at a spot in a narrow winding road with high walls and hedges, affording the assassins l good hiding places. One of the at , tacking party was killed and a de : teetive seated with the chauffeur -of ; the viceregal car was slightly injured ; in the hand. Viscount French was j not injured. Some distance away a j policeman, patrolling his beat was shot in the ankle. j '* Both bombs and revolvers were ? used by the assassins, the number of j whom is variously estimated at from five to 15. The smaller number, how ' ever, is considered more probale. The viceregal party fired on the assassins as they fled across the fields, but all i escaped except the one man killed i who was shot through the head, j Viscount French had been visiting j Boyle and Roscommon and returned ' today by train at 1 o'clock. He alight" j ed at the suburban station at Phoenix j Park, near the spot where in 1*82 j Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief sec | retary for Ireland, and Thomas H. j Burke, his undersecretary, were.as ! sassinated. The station is about a ! mile from the viceroyal lodge, j The ambuscade had. been carefully \ planned, the. assassins placing ob i si ruction in the narrow part- of the rroad. hoping to compel the motor cars j in which the viceregal party was j traveling to stop. Eehind the hedges l and walls, in favorable-positions, ztirny j had stationed themselves for firing I upon the lord lieutenant and his ; party. j When the automobiles appeared re i volvers were fired and bombs were ; thrown. The assassins evidently ex ! pectcd Viscount French would be in j the second car in the line, and at it I most of the shots were aimed. He, ! however, was in the first car, into .which, only a few bullets penetrated. iA shot, however, directed at the first i car, struck the detective who was sit i ting beside the driver, in the head, j Almost immediately the viceregal ! party opened fire on the ambuscaded men, who took flight on bicycles across the fied. During thig shooting one of the men, later identified as having fired directly at Viscount French's car, was seen to throw up his hands and fall. Several of his friends slopped and lifted the body in ? tending to carry it away, but they abandoned it when they found the man was dead. Around the fingers of the fallen man was found the ring of a discharg ; ed hand grenade and in his pockets ! were two revolvers?one of Spanish I make and the other an old German I model. Also there was found in his j pockets a bank book; which identified j him as Savage, the clerk of a spirit ! and grocery dealer, employed on : Xorth Strand. Dublin. From this book it was -ascertained that he had deposited a sum of money early in the day belonging to his employer. The police hope through this Identi fication to track the man's associates. During the shooting a ponce con stable patrolling the neighborhood on : a bicycle was shot in the ankle. The : entire affair lasted about half a min ute, but during this time the firing from both sides was rapid, j Viscount French proceeded imme ? diately to the vice regal lodge, where he had luncheon as usual. The police went out and searched the roads and i fields in the neighborhood of the shooting, but late tonight had not reported making any arrests. They found some undischarged hand qren ades in the vicinity. Viscount French received numerous telegrams during the day congratulating him on his es cape. Among the first of these were messages from King George and Pre mier Lloyd George. That the attack-on Viscount French had been carefully and coolly planned is indicated by the fact that his as sailants played hand ball at a public park near the scene <>f the shooting while awaiting the viceroy's arrival. Further evidence of this is conveyed by the fact that the assassins flung a cart across the road at the scene of the ambuscade, which stopped the' vioere.iral procession of four cars. After the attack a case of Mills bombs, similar to those used in the j war. was found. The viceroy had with him four armed policemen. These men. had: or ders not to leave the viceroy, no.mat ter what happened. Acordingly,. they were unable to pursue the attacking party. Police and soldiers today raid en the. premises of a grocer named Kirk in South Strand. Dublin, where :?3.vage was employed, and seized some documents. Mr. G. G. Tisdale of Timmonsville spent sometime this week in the city! on business. t southron, EeaMtabed <m > *?? VoLXLIX. No. 38. NEW RAILROADS NEEDED IN SOUTH I ! Senator E. D. Smith Wants i i Cummins Bill Amended i MEASURE HARMFUL TO THIS STATE I South Cai*olina Senator Argues I Against Too Rigid Cheek on i Development t Washington, Dec. 18.?Senator E. i D. Smith, ranking Democratic mem | ber of the senate committee on inter state commerce, and its former chair man, made an extended speech today j in support of an amendment which j he has proposed, striking out of ^the pending railroad bill the section pro | hibiting railroads subject to the legis ! lation from extending their lines or. constructing new lines ?without per mission from the board .0? transpor j tation. ? I The South Carolina senator dcclar J ed that the greatest need of the j country today is adequate railroad fa i cilities, which are enjoyed at present j only by the East and Northeast. He } favored giving the Interstate Com-' ! merce Commission and their feder ! al tribunals proper restriction and' j supervisory rights over the use of I capital in the raiiroad field, but held ihat it would be wrong to forbid any community to build or extend a road without the conseint of some federal I authority. The senator said that the people of the South and West, where there was a condition of arrested de velopment, were better judges of whether a road was needed than would be a political board, composed of three of one party and. two. of the other.'. ^ ?Senator Smith said that, , if neces-^ sary, the new roads built during their period of development should be given i cpeciar rates; otherwise .-they could I not compete with the. older.. roads, j which might say to the mernhjiarts: . /?>y.e.Jia^? a mej*opo^-=?^tfrfe terri tory-?nd you will have to ,ship lo^QF our lines. Get your freight and prod juee to us as best'you can; we are not' j interested how yoa dO It." i As an illustration of the injury that ! could and would be wrought by fed-' i era! licensing of construction of roads j Senator Smith pointed out the case of ! Sahtee-Cooper canal in South ? Car j olina. Here, he said, was an enier. I prise to be built by private capital, I not costing the government a penny, j and which would connect interior j points with port terminals besides ; furnishing 15,000-horse power by hy j dro-electric methods. The Santee j river, from which the water would ; flow, is a navigable stream, and hence j comes under federal supervision. The I project is held up by the water power j bill, which has been . pending for; many years, ahd the senator said that* i while he could probably-get: an act I through granting permission to dig. this canal, the threat of impending; j legislation would be a deterrent to inV I vestors. It would be the threat of alv ways impending legislation which ; would act as a deterrent in the con-' i struction of railroads. ! CHURCHMEN PLAN ? WORLD CRUSADE - . ? ? < j Great Conference of Inter I Church Movement at At lantic City New York, Dec. 20.?Plans for a conference of a thousand delegates to determine the program for world ae> tivity by American protestantism were* announced today by the Inter-Church: world movement of North America-' P.epresentating nearly one hundred denominations and denominational boards, including two hundred thou sand churches, with a memebrship oX more than twenty-five million. deiej> gates will meet at Atlantic City Jans uary 7th for a four days odnference.^ BELGIANS MAKING NEW TREATIES Economical Agreement With France More Favorable Brussels, Dec. 20.?The Belgian, foreign office announces that the con?; elusion of an economic agreement, with France, presenting numerous ad-: vantages over the former treaty, is imminent. Negotiations with Paris and London for a political treaty have encountered great difficulties, her said, but whatever the result the Bel gian neutrality would not be revived, in any form. FEDERAL SUGAR CONTROL Law Enacted Covering Next Year Washington. Dec. 20.?Legislation, continuing federal control of sugar, through 1920. but limiting - licensing . power of sugar equalization* boards to period ending June 20th next was completed in the senate and sent to the president.