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TMI-. Kl M i l K NN M i UM AN. Kstaldls CONSOLIDATED \V&. 2, 18 MUND BIGHAM KILLED FAMILY Flomiee Coroner's Jury Charge? Bightim With Munier KW HIS MOTHER BROTHER AND SISTER Our of the Most Horrible Crimen in History of South Carolina l'ai i??i o. Jan. 17. The coroner's |ill \. vv hieb had beeil in voslUating the hilli ig im .luniia?y i:> nf livi fn?l ' i- .?I Uli1 llighutu iaiiiil\ near returned n verdict i.???? last h| hargln Kilmuml lUgham, now t hi Kloi ? ii' ? Jail w Uli i he crime. 'IL*? verdict. delivered ?*i * : about sni .ur.es of deliberation, hold* "that M Bf. Bighrnm Mrs Mar Jone U 0. Blgham and Jahn and IflcChacken cam* to their death gunshot wound* Inflicted at the fcds of Udmund Rifrham." lira. Pdgh.un wan the mother of accused man; Mrs lllnck, a als ter; L. 8. Blgham, a brother, and the two ?mall Met'rucken boys, adopted Children of Mrs. filack. The hearing hegan at ? 2 o'clock \e?terday and between IT. and 20 witnease* ' were examined. amoni theo-? bel?g Mrs. Edmund lhuham and her daughter Hevtral hundred people from the ?UfToumllng country were hi attend a ace. the court room being parked to capacity from the tune the in? quest started il 'i oclock until Ihn verdict waa announced after !<? oclock at night A number of wl;iiesHcs hstl'hil as to throats the> had heard made hy Udmund i>. Iilgtuuri against several of the murdered hom time to time, these aPios-. Poing workmen on ttie premises, both whit, and ne? gro. I'm n. the evidence, P seems that K. D. Dlgham. L. S lllgham and a n sip he i of negro men went to the wood* for the ipirpose oi taking up , the Weeks cutting wood Suturdu\ morning. January that whl'e In the woods one of the negro men re? quested I,. S IMnham to i/o with lum to look over some land to work 'his r; that K. I>. lilgham requested lm not to go ut that time that he. Mf D. Blgham, wanted to see him; tgg? one t>\ one the ( Uttel-g left the woods, leaving the two IMghams. One witness testilted that he heard ?hortty af er h aving the woods a pistol Shot hut did not renn inhcr ma r!n| he " hu pa\ m\ attention to the diretcuat fi ,.;n \\ hh h the sound of shot 'Mno . Another neuro testified that he saw Ii I >. I'dghum giSae out of the woods alone, about |ee yards from the Blgham home, join one of the Mcc'raken boys, and Walk oo up th? ond, turning Into the* IhKhant yard. This statement way also made h\ tin n> gro s Wife. who t ski wlili huo in .Id road ut the time, UW W>- .i? ? lcen hoy h iving heen s< at to i h ?? i M .\.. MlKhiim w ith go old \'s; which she hoi uivin the BjSf 11? 11? ? ??.?:?? ?! I - put the \ es; on gnd upon doing so looked back and saw Kdmund Dig ham conic, uul i>1 lh< woods .\o one testified t'? having h-aid any shooting around Die tilg h no In Bevern! of the cutters les Hied that th<> Kiw Me pistol, which was fount in the hand of I.. S. I'dgham. In tthe pocket of K I? Kmhnin while he was taking up their Wood. The pistol was |Modtivel\ nl? a iiii il liv On- witnesses. MONEY FOR WEAK SCHOOLS Columbia. Jan. 2*.?ThS depart no nt of public education and the state Mpeiindenl uf education par ticu'arly. will likely hud themselves in h -I w itcr, if the general assembly hil's a bill, miw on the house ? tlon ?gl to appropriate ti.u.imo lo t ?ver a geiest in tin- fulfillment of the act of U>20 to provide seven mon'hs terms for wank schools. I'rlmlnent iiM'iul'i in of tin- lorn - ure against the lull, and its death will mean !<?** to s< hoid leai hers in every count) or the state. Tin- .,ct oi i:?jn. lattiUd m d .n h. w.i>4 sonstrIi d b) the department of education as In lug i et roarflVc a nil on the strength of this interpretation teachers w<m. | aid ads.no d ^.ilat.ei f<.r tto entire I '? t 1 '.??_'?? *e??ion. in law. however, was not retroactive and. iccording to legislators, applied on!) to Ihe I.i*t half <>t the Hes-lon Tin iv is a disposition on tin past ><\ man legmiutors not to appropriate, the llfa.go, ( a-4' io Itsnki upt< > I iled. Chgrjeaton, Jan. l's.-a petition f?u IgVululttary hankruptc) supported by sgg large wholesali concerns was filed In the United s ntes il sti i- t court here ) cstenla> against ilo- |,i minoii and Hritton Dry Ooods company, of Sun ter. Thou- joinno; the petition woi's the Mtssrthuttng Corporation. <?f New York; the liowen Dugufi romiainy, ol 1'hlhole'phi , i 'luftins, Ins of NeW York; Um Armstrong-?'ator company, of kjgltlmore; in llltiff t 'It;, Shoe i om pany, of Hannibal, Mo., uul (lie Klee St Ix Dr> tjoods compaiiN, of St. M*uls Adelaidi . Au>ti . i t. Jan .'. I \V ?r Ul Keuloha. the I lawn I bin swim por inoki tils world s record hnndi ed no t. t e\?, of here rgMtklng the dlstancs in lift>" on* h Of seconds. iit-ii April, IM* MBc Jost i SI. TERMS STATED TO GERMANY Condition! of Reparations Pay? ment Set Forth in Note ANHWfeR RBQUJREO WITHOUT DELAY Allies United in Purpose to Make Germany Pay For War Damages ' Paris, .im. ;;<r Tile doe ii men * i signed bj the supreme council of the I allies last night by Which Ihc n rut Ion and disarmament decision* <>i the Allies w|ll be conveyed to Ger? many, was delivered today to ClUUTlsS Bergmann, Oer man under secretary of state for the treasury and head of the German delegation In Paris, with a letter of transmlttal marked "confidential." The letter, with two notes on reparations and disarma? ment, totals 2,.r>U0 words. i The letter of transmural, which is dated January 2S. reads: "Sir: The allied conference which i met in Paris from the 24th to the IHh of January, 1921, has taken the following decisions: "i. Ab regards the disarmament of Crcniiiin:', tin- allied governments have Approved the conclusions for? mulated in the note attached1 hereto. "2. A? regards the Question of i? pa nations the Rilled governments have unanimously approved the pro? posals formulated in that document, also attached hereto. The allied covernnn nts have no former occasions ami amain today, m consenting to fresh delays in the matter of disarmament, had due re? gard to the ditticulties that surround 1 the Herman government in the vxeeu tlOfl of the obligations Which have resulted from the treaty of Vor sallies, They have formed the hope that the German government will not place the allies, who confirm their previous decisions under the n tees sity of envisaging the grave situa? tion which will be created If Qer many persists in failing to meet her Oblige/ ions. "Quallfhd delegates of the German government will he Invited to a meeting In London at the end ol February with delegates of the al? lied gsassoo) snoots/' The reparations note hears the title, "An Agreement Between the Allied Towers for the Settlement Of Certain Questions Relating to Execu? tion of the Treaty oi Versailles*" The note reads: "Ar.ic'.e r? For the purpose of satisfying the obligations Imposed upon hot hv Articles ||] and 182 of the treaty of Versailles, Germany ?hall, Irrespeel I ve of the restitution , she is to make Undei Article 838 and i?f any other obligation under the treaty, pay: "1 Fixed annuities payable half Marly in equal par's as follows: (al tWO annuities of 8,000,tieO.iOO gold marks from May I, 1031, to May l, I !??_'::; ih) three annuities ..I 8.0?0.? uoo.ooo g dd marks from May i. Iff", 10 May 1. ISItj M ) three iili nvttles of I,Ooe.oeii.ooc gold marks from May I, 192?;. to May 1. l?39; oi? time annuities of &,000,000.000 i gold marks from May |, i to Ma) t. I?91 K i thirty-one annuities of j I.OOO.ooo.tos g'.hi marks from Maj l. I9is, to May I, IMS. "2. Fort y - one annuities running from May I. 1081, equal In amount to i- per cent, ad valorem of Gorman ? sports, payable in gold two months af'er Hn close of each half year. "in order to insure complete ful nilment of I Paragraph 2 above, Ger? many win give to tin- reparation com- j nihgdon uvery facility for verifying he amount ol the Oerman exports i id for l he establishment of the su? per Vis) Oil necessary for this purpose. MArtlvle I, The German govern? ment will transmit forthwith to the reparations commission notes to hearer, payable at the da es specified in Article I, Paragraph I. of the present arrangement. The amount of these notes shall be equivalent to each of the half yearly sums pay? able nmh r s.od paragraph, ''Instructions shall be given to the eintrat Ion commission with a view. tq facilitating realization by the powers which so demand, the share to Is attributed to I hem In accord- 1 a nee with the agreements in force between them. "Article ::. German) shall be at liberty at any time pa make pay men s in advance on account of the fixed portion Of the summoning "Advance payments shall be ap? plied In the reduction in the Hxed annuities provided for In the Ural paragraph oi Article i. |?*or tins pur? pose annuities shall be discounted at the rale of x per cent, until May. 1922; per cent, irom May I. 1023, to May It I03fcj ?? per cent, from Mi. ' 1 92.*.. "Arti i? t Get man) shall mu dl reetly embark on any credit opera lion "ut-i le hei own territory with" out the approval of the reparations commission. This provision applies to tin- government of the German em? pire, to the governments of German states, to the German provincial ami municipal authorities ami to an> ?.ipanb'k or undertakings under control of Mild governments or Uli? i horlt u s. Arti. Is V In pUI mam i? of Al llele 11n i,i tin m aty of Versailles all the aSSetS and revenues of the empire land of the German states shun be lopiuahie tu insure complete ex ecu* It log by Germany of the provisions gf 11 it I Fear Not?Lei Oil tlio ends Thou I SUMTER, S. C WEDNES1 SENTRY SHOOTS NAVAL OFFICER Lieut. John C. Taylor Killed at Hampton Roads* Va. Washington, Jan. SI. A navnl court of nuiulry hau been ordered lo I luve? Iguto the shooting ot Lieut. John <'. Taylor, of Greenville, N. U., a naval medical olflcer, at the oper lotlng hast'. Hampton Roods, Va., by In sentry lasl night. In the mean? time Hocretnry Daniels has asked for 1 ii full report, the one hoi has rc ! eelved merely ? nted that the officer 'was shot and killed af er he failed I to hall when challenged by the sen* try. WORKMEN'S COM? PENSATION TBILL Proposed Law1 to Settle Claims Without Recourse to Damage Suits 1 Cpluntbla^Jan. SI.?An Importahl bill to he Introduced this week in the state senate hy Benotor Kohinson, of MoCormlck, la tlio workmen's com penaailon bill, it lias been engross ad ami is ready for Introduction, probably at the drat senate session of he week, Tuesday afternoon at 3. The hill is ?II? pagea in length, the most VOlUmlnOUa measure of the pres? ent st BSion sa far. The hill provides a achedule of I compensations, to he paid to em? ployes injured |n service of employ? ers. There is an exemption In all c lasses, of th e da' s, no compensa? tion being paid until after this period of line.-. The bill provides that for total in copacityi the weekly compensation shall be fifty per vent of the regular wage, not over $20 and not less than *<h during incapacity. After ">0i> weeks the eompensation would be re? duced lo one-third the usual wage. For partial incapacity the com? pensation would be fifty per cent of the difference between the wage be? fore the accident and that after re? turn to work. The following schedule of com? pensations would be provided for tin' loss* of parts of the body; thumb, fifty per cent of wages, for aixty weeks; rust finger, thirty-five weeks; second linger, thirty weeks: third Anger, twenty weeks; fourth finger, i weeks; hist phalange of any finger, one-fourth of the above liguree. Lobs of a great toe would !>?? compensated .it the rote of half the najrular wage oefoi e tin- accident, extending for thin'y weeks time; one of the other toes, halt pay for ten weeks. The loss of a hand would, under tlie provisions of the bill, coll for ? otnpenaatlon to the exti nl of soventy ive per cent of the wages received before the accident, for a period of l&O weeks; the loss of an arm would call for the sann propor Ion of rom.ucnsntlo/1, for n period of 200 weeks; the loss of .a foot, for I jr. weeks; the h'^s of a leg, for 17.', weeks; tin- total Insa of vision In >M" eye, fifty per cent of wages foi 100 wrecks. The less ,of both hands, hoth arms, both feet, both legs or both eyes, is '"gurded, in the hill, as otal Incapae ay. The hill would ereilte lin "Industrial Commission," to have charge of ad ministering tho provisions of Ihn hill, thig i? consist of three no minis sinners, each lo receive u salary of $4.000. An appropriation of len thou? sand dollars would Is made to finance .lie commission and fts work, this to i,e collected by the state as a lax against all liability insurance eonf panies. three per cent on all prem? iums paid within the stale. The MIn? dust rial Gommiaaiou" would keep rec nnds of all .n rldenta in Ihe ato'e and would he employed full-time in enforcing tin compensation law. This hill Is not expected t'? pass the legislature, however. It is stated that there is much opposition to it al? ready. e ?mmmmmm* the present arrangement. "The proi ecda of the < lerman maritime ami land cuatoma, Including in ?he proceeda of all import and ex? port duties ami of any tOX suhsidi ir> thereto, shall he constituted special security for the execution of the pres ? id agreement. "No modification which might diminish tin proceeda ot the cus'.oms shall he made in the Herman cus? toms luwa of regulution without up pi oval ot the reparation commission. All German customs receipts shall be encashed en lamalf of the Herman h'overntueul b> ?* recelvor general <?t German customs appointed by the rlermnn government with Hie ap? proval ot reparation commission. 'In t.oe Ge"maiiy shall make de? fault in on) payment provided for In i to present aria ngeinenl ? "( i i Ah or part ot the proceeda of the German customs in thi* bonds of the receiver general of German cus? toms niu) i" attached b> the repara? tion commission und applied in meet? ing, tin obligations in reaped of which Germany has defaulted. in such case tin- reparation commission may, it it Hunk necessary, Itself un? dertake the administration and re* ee.pi ot tio cuatoilia duties. ? (r'i Tin1 reparation commission also nut> formally invi'.e tio- German aovernmenl lo proceed to such In? creases of duties or to lake auch pteps for tie- purpose of Increasing its resources as tin commission may 1 thjnk necessary.'1 Unis'i at bei tliy Country's, Thy Hod's a DAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1921 THE LEGISLATURE I THIS WEEK Forecast of The Meas? ures of Importance That Will Be Con i sidered i I'vltuiililtl}, Jan. 31. Possibly' I lav most Imiioriant, though not 111? - most I spectacular event In the general us Jsemhlv (Iiis wirk will be the intro? duction uf ihe general appropriation I bill, by (ho ways ami means cum* mlttee of the house of representa? tive* it is expected thai Uns will be I placed ?m the desk of 111 ? - speaker of the house mi Thursday, ten days sooner than it was Introduced List yen r, Oiiu of the most interesting events of \im week in the halls of legisla? tion will be the election of a speaker of the houae, to succeed Hon. Thoe. P. Cothran, who Friday quahfled as aosooiaAe justice of the supreme court. Speaker Pro Tern J. B. At? kinson, of Bpartanlburg, will in all probability be elected, though Claude N. Bappi of Columbia, will be nomi? nated and will make a Strong race. Representative! Owens and Mower ire also mentioned for the position. As soon as he is elected the new speaker will likely announce a date for the election of a new member from Greenville county, tins to he done at tin- Instigation ot* the Green? ville delegation. It is expected thai the stock law light, which has held an exciting place on (he boards during recent days, will produce a new sensation With the introduction during the j week of a state-wide stock law, al I lowing no county or township exemp I lions, and putting an end, if passed. j to "free grass" forever. Among the h?ls that will bring forth debate this week are the two j moving picture censorship hills, one I in each legislative branch, both In? troduced from Bpartanburg, by Rep? resentative Harris and Senator Rog? ers, and both on the calendars with unfavorable reports, hut with pros I poets of a battle scene, the bill by ' Representative .1. B. Atkinson to em j power th" public service commission to regulate rates and service of all public utilities; the bin to appropriate $170,000, to make up the deficit in the carrying out of the provisions of [the even-months school term act of pthe 1080 legislature, about which Governor Cooper will likely have t<? i semi some message to the legislature; land Representative Owens' bill to re? peal the act providing for Insurance of public buildings by the state sink? ing fund commission. Op the house calendar this week are four bills proposing amendments to the state highway uct, all with un | favora'ble or divided committee re ! ports Twit of these, one introduced by Diekens delegation and one by Rep resenatlve Owens, of Marlboro, would put the lasuing of automobile UcctlHC on the clerks Of court. An? other by the Darn well delegation w<?n!(i provide for the expenditure of the two-mill levy for roads in the counties, The fourth, Intrpdu i d by Representatives Bradford and l>i?i< son, would reduce tins licenses on mot or t rucks. Tuesday night at s 'In senate will I resume debate on tic- hill Introduced by Senator Jeremiah Smith, of llor l*y, to exempt his conn'..- from the I state Stock law. During tie week :i hill "fathered" j by (he league ol Women Vo ei s of ?he state, will (,?? introduce! in ^h. legislature, to rutse tin age of consent from I! lo |6, ami also providing tor prosecution of women found guilty of leading young boyB from the straight ' a ml na t row path. The sena/.c will Tuesday night also con.1 ah-r a resolution, already pass? ed by the house, directing the state treasurer to pay to the Palmetto -Nat tonal hank, of Columbia, the sum of $15,000, with interest at 1 ft per cent from maturity, which was inn t owed Ion behalf of the National Guard, by direction of the iMihi genoral assem? bly. Roth branches of the general ns sembly have invited Mrs. .Maude Wood Park, president of the Nation? al League of Women Voters, a resi? dent uf Washington, to addresH the legislature on the fvenlng of Feb? ruary U). int behalf of tin- Winnens organisations of the state ami their legislative program. The women are Interest? d In a number of measures now passing through the legislative mill. During ihe next few days a hi!) will he introduced, i- is said, tu require the weinen t<? pay poll t;i\. This is suggested by the League of Women V'ot eis. DETROIT BANK SHOT UP I let i olt, .la n. ?". 1 - Three dt tectivOB were shut bj three bandits who held I up the Morton llond company's office 'in die public sq lari downtown this morning and escaped with ten thou? sand dollars In Liberty hotels. Two de et 1 iv es W ill pi'Obabl) die. IIORSKS AND MULES SMOTHER Italelgh, N. C, dan. :h> - Thirty ihree horses ami mules, property of ihe United Bta*es government, were removed from h<?\ cars her,- today, having smothered to death between Norllno and Raleigh, while they were en route from Camp Lee to Camp i Jackson, at Columbia % t>. c t ml Truth'*," TUE TRUK S< GREAT HORROR IN SOVIET RUSSIA Twenty Million People Suffering Acute Starvation According i 1 to information Brought to I Light ! _ Ilenine's early DOWNFALL predicted Prominent Russians Who Op psoe Radical Rule Submerging Differences and Planning United Front New York, Jan. 30.?The veil which for many months has completely hid? den" conditions in Russia, due to the actior soviet leaders in barring visitors] from the rest of the wrorld, is being withdrawn a little by the conference, now in session in Paris, of ; the all Russian constituent asse/nbly. 1 Prominent exiled Russians who op? posed the rule of Lenlne and Trotsky ax- now submerging their differences in an effort to present a united front against bolshevism. They are disclos? ing in Paris reports from associates 'still in Russia picturing conditions not before clearly presetted to the i world. These reports arc being re I cefved by cable by A. .1. Sack, direc? tor of the Russian Information bu? reau, who is the authorised spokes 'man in Uiis country of all the Rus? sian elements opposed to bolshevism [attending the Parle conference, in a statement today summing up the re? ports which have reached him, Mr. Sack explains why the conference Ifl to be regarded as an event of Inter I national Importance and Incidentally he discloses for the first time that there is a famine in Russian villages this winter I'probobly not less acute than iti China.*' ' "Thirteen million people have be? gun to suffer acute starvation this January," he said, ' and seven million I already in December of the past ' year/' On I'ho basis of the data he has submitted, he declares, on behalf of ins astcociates, that the downfall of I bolshevism i* Inevitable. , tils statement says in part: I "The situation within bolshevist Russia is critical. The economic life iof tin- country is destroyed, according j even to tin- bolshevist official data. . According to No. 256, of the official bolshevist daily Pravda. which Con? tains a comparative table of manu? facturing outputs for the first hah year of 1920, as compared with the corresponding period of 1914, the presi nt output id* Iron in bolshevist Russia is only 12 per eent of 111?- out? put before the war; steel, 1 per cent; cotton, 20 per cen*; coal 25 per cent. 'I'ho area under cultivation is only u I per cent ;|S compared w ith iand cultivated in 1014. "The bolshevist regime is both a political and economic failure and its downfall may !>?? expected at any mo? ment. After ihn Russia may plunge into complete unarchy. if tins will happen the Russian crisis will last for many years, keeping all Europe and tin- rest of Ihe world under grca' strain and preventing everywhere the return to normal economic and politi? cal conditions. "It is of Importance therefor, for [the entire world that the downfall of boh |v vi m in Russia should not mark an increase of anar hy in the coun tr> but, on lh< contrary should stir up processes thai would bring about I speed) political and economic recu? peration of Russia, This is possible only on two conditions: "First that the Russia democratic forces should be properly organised and roads- to work at the time Rus? sia opens for their activity, and the other is that the w n id should come to tho realisation thai Ihe Russian problem is the central European and therefore the central world problem of today, ami that the forcea that work for Russia's regeneration should be given .ill tie- moral and material support they need for the successful fulfillment of the great task before them. "The importance of the present Russian conference In Paris is in that it lays the foundation for unity of ?ill the Russian democrotlc forces opposed o bolsheVism, and that it secures for tin m active sympathy and cooperation of the international democratic tones. \\e look upon this conference with great hope, trusting that h opens the way for Russia's and tin- world's regenera? tion." KIDNAPPED IN CALIFORNIA T.os Angeles, Jan. 11.?Mrs. Gladys Withered, who disappeared from her hom,? Tuesday was found today a prisoner in a house on a ranch sev rnty miles from here. Two men Will a . rested. ALAB AMA LYNCH, ERS ON TRI,ft. Hamilton, Ala., Jan, 3d. The trial of Sergeant Robert Lancaster, one of the nine members of the Alabama Nation.il (lliard, who was indicted in connection with the lynching of WM? ham Fiaird, a miner, was sot to begin lo re today. Bach man will be given separate trial, the state's attorney I deciding against group trial. .. a .. . . ? h yhkon. liiiaMtaM <luiu i, isr.fi. VOL. LI. NO. 48 NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN ISenator Makes Attack on Pro I posed Japanese Agreement : SAYS IT IS CAMOUFLAGE Colby Declares California^ at Error in Matter and Unduly I Alarmed j' Washington, Jan. 2?.?The attack un the proposed agreement bctwceji Japan and the l'11it? ?< 1 Skatee aa to tho atatiiH of Japanese In this country which was made today by Hen at or Johnson, of California, was charac teriged by Secretary of sTate ?'ylliy in a statement tonight as proceeding "upon a quite erroneous assumption as to the trend and purport of the conversations which have been going on for some weeks between Ambas? sador Morris and the Japanese am? bassador." The plan, for agreement is now before the two governments and was ?aid by Senator Johnson on the basis of statements "from authoritative sources" its to its provisions to mean in the end "a continuance of Japan? ese immigration and increase in the 'Japanese population in the west." J In his statement Of reply tonight I Secretary COlby said that Senator Johnson was "not uninformed as to the course of these conversations and 1 am therefore surprised that he should feel called upon to throw him ?elt into a defensive posture against dangers which he described, but Which, I am informed, he has been assured olo not present themselves. 'The stau- department is charged wit the duty of pursuing those im? portant discussions with sober regard to the facts." the secretary's state? ment COtninued, "and this it has sought to d<> with a proper < onsidera tion for every Interested point of view. I "I am not sneaking In any spirit of criticism of Senator Johnson, with i whom I have long had the most agree* I aide and friendly relations, but he ' must know, as a member of the for 1 eign re ations committee of the sen ' ate. that even if the fear to Which he. I gives expression, that the state de partment is moving too rapidly in the direction of a treaty, that a treaty can have no effect without its sub 1 mission in die- coarse to the senate, 1 and, under the hitter's practice, its i minute examination by the senator's Committee." Senator Johnson issued a statement [ Cl it telling the reported agreement be i tween Japanese Ambassador Shidah ara and American Ambassador Morris dealing with the status of Japanese in America. When "stripped of diplomatic case* aufl?ge," Senator Johnson said, that i reliable information he had regarding j the agreement was that it provided for repeal of California's anti-alien 1 laws. A new "gentleniens agreement** far exclusion of Japanese which "doOS [not exclude" also is proposed, Sena? tor Johnson declared. It Senator Johnson's statement fol? lows: SJ| "Kroni authoritative sources it is stated thai the agreement between Ambassadors Shidahara and Morris embraces (1) an exchange Of diplo I ma tic notes defining passport regatta* j tions, etc., which would 'tighten up' the present gentleman's agreement relating to exclusion ol Japanese from this country, and ?J? a treaty defining tie rights of the nationals of eaeh country, and which will, in effect^ abrogate and destroy the alien land , laws of *he state of California. "Stripped of diplomatic camouflage this means that our representative and Japan1* have agreed upon the re? peal of the land laws passed by the state of California and prohibit the i passage of those contemplated by I many other western stales. Japan has ever Insisted upon the control of lur own people, and. therefore, will not agree to an exclusion treaty, but will enter mto a so-called gentlemen's agreement which will not exclude. The i new gentlemen's agreement, notwith? standing Its additional phases; can be just as loosely administered as the present one. and just as in the cu?e of the present gentlemen's agreement it will be honored more ip the breach than In the observance. The result will be under the suggested arrange* num. if adopted, a continuance of Japan's immigration and Increase W the Japanese population in the west." Auto tdocnee lax. Columbia, Jan. 31.?Monday is the last day on w hieb automobile SgSg. truck ami motorcycle owners and dealers can operate in the state Without a Jicemse. and remain Wt bin the law. The month of Janu? ary is allowed, under the law, for se curing of new licenses. In recent ? Los the state highway oMices have he,n rushed, to de'lver the license plates called for. The license buroan reported this morning.that up to the beginning of operations tod a) there had been is clied iL'.'.plates for till, of which ->T.o TT were au'omobile licenses, 3. trink licenses. t,fi?u dealers' Il? euses ami K<7 motorcycle licenses. There remained to he issmd. when ihe incus, department heran bind? ness for the last day of January a total of 51.971 plates to be issued for automobiles and trOckS Monday, and 7&1 fof motorcycles The total col? lections to dat,. have' amounted to