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THE StJMTER WATCHMAN, Este CONSOLIDATED AtUG. 2,1 IRISH TREATY CAUSES WIDE SPLCTJN DAIL Fate of Agreement Still in Doubt After Two Lengthy Public i Sessions at Dublin Leaders Are Uncer-j tain I i Dublin, Dec. 19.?When-the Dail j Eireann adjourned tonight after! lengthy public sessions devoted to earnest debate, nothing- tangible had developed to indicate how the members would vote on the ques tion of ratifying the treaty de signed to set up the Irish Free j State. Immediately after adjournment, the correspondent interviewed four prominent Sinn Feiners. All of them declared it was impossible to make any estimate of the relative j strength of those favoring and j those opposing the treaty, or to j hazard a guess as to which side would eventually gain a majority. The - uncertainty of even the i prominent leaders regarding the re- | suit was reflected on the one side j on" Michael Collins' declaration that ne might never again address the Dail Eireann, and, on the other side, Charles Burgess* pointed statement that he was "still in of fice," indicating to the listener-* his apprehension that he might possi bly be defeated. The proceedings are certain to last through tomorrow as many of the minor member* have indicated their intention of speaking. Xo time limit has been ?et for the speeches, and seme think that the debate may even, continue through- j out the entire week. An outstanding feature was the j attempt by tne delegates to the London conference to deprive Mr. De Valera of his claim of adher ence to the republican principle by demanding the publication cf his plan for an alternative settlement, which it was_ revealed had been submitted at last week's private sessions of the DaiL The argu ment wa*? that the nation had a right to know what were the two policies they were expected to de cide upon, and.that_?ja.a matter of fact, neither was republican. Mr. De Valera defended publi cation of his alternative plan, ex plaining that it was put forward only in an attempt to secure unan- j imity in the Dail Eireann, and was now irrelevant. He promised, how ever, at a later time to indicate in his own way the alternative proposal. The division in the Sinn Fein parliament cuts across all ordinary lines. It is not a case, as today's proceedings clearly showed, of the Irish army arrayed against civil ians, for notable army leaders were found both for and against the treaty. De Valera, Griffith, Collins, Childers and several other promi nent men in the councils of the party spoke today on either side but it is generally agreed that the most sensational and most impres sive contribution was Robert Bar ton's narrative of the circumstances under which he and other delegates were, according to his statement, forced to sign the treaty without referring it back to the cabinet at Dublin. Mr. Barton said his oath to the republic was the most sacred bond on earth and he had broken it as the lesser of two alternative out rages forced upon him and he was compelled to choose immediately. Mr. Griffith, he explained, had repeatedly sought to have the terms referred back to the T*a?i Eireann, but this, Premier Lloyd George di rectly negatived. The signature of every member of the delegation was necessary or war would fol low at once, and the prime min ister gave the delegation until 10 o'clock to make up their minds. Griffith, Collins and Duggan were, he said, for the signature, but he and Gavan Duffy were against it. lie held out, and that placed the responsibility for war on him; so he signed, rather than commit the Irish people to war without consultation. "And so," he explained, "I now fulfill, my undertaking, and rec ommend to you this treaty." Loud applause followed his speech coming partly from the op ponents of the treaty, who appar ently recognize in Mr. Barton's narrative a serious attack on the agreement and partly from the supporters of the treaty, who wel comed preservation of the solidar ity of the London delegation, as there had been rumors in Dublin indicating Mr. Bartons intention to separate himself from the signa tories. s Hungry Christmas For Coal Miners _ j Many Are Destitute as Result! of Unemployment Washington, Dec. 21.?Wide- j spread, unemployment among coal j miners will cause a cheerless1 Christmas for the miners' children. ! according to the editor of the Unit - j ed Mine Workers' Journal. Miner*: are reported to be destitute in West Virginia, Alabama, Texas and Ten nessee, Wished April, 1850. 881. ALL IRELAND ICK OVER TREATY ROW Little Probability of Settlement This; Week of Fight inj Dail Eireann Dublin, Dec. 20.?At the close of today's session of. the Dial Eireann it was clear that a decision on the treaty would not be taken before Thursday afternoon at the earliest. Some of the members were even of the opinion that adjournment over the Christmas holidays may be necessary, among them Michael Collins. Arthur Griffith, l>ead of the plen ipotentiaries, and Eamon De Va lera, who is strongly opposing the treaty, are agreed, however, that j suspense would be bad for th<; country. As a matter of fact judg- j ing by the attitude the people of ; Dublin, the whole country, is fairly sick with uncertainty and anxiety. It was made evident today that the Dail Erieann will tolerate no! form of cloture. Twenty additional members, the speaker announced, have sent in their names, and prob ably others will desire to be heard, the idea appearing to prevail that each member is in duty bound to expiain his vote to his constitu ents. The trend of sentiment in the parliament is eagerly watched, and observers present throughout the day's proceedings were of the opin ion tonight that the prospects of ratification have improved. One speaker sharply criticized the atti tude of some of the members, sug gesting that though they would vote against the treaty they really hoped it would be approved. This tended to confirm the reports that several deputies, though unwilling to expose the country to the conse quences of rejection, wish to main tain their personal position as true Republicans. The main force of the attack on them was based on the argument that even De Valera has abandoned ! the idea of a republic and framed j an eath recognizing the king as: head of the community of nations j with which Ireland is to be associ-! ated. The most exciting speech at to day's meeting was that of Dr. Pat rick McCarlin, known as the "first ambassador of the Irish Republic" to trie United States, who condemn ed everybody impartially and de clared emphatically that the repub lic had been abandoned in Dublin before the delegates crossed to London. He evoked great applause by expressing preference for Grif- i fith and Collins, who he said, did their best, over the "quibblers." j among whom he included De Va lera. who criticised the delegates in the Dail Eireann. while pro. ? or them on no difference of serious ' principles. Dr. McCartan denounced the wnole Dail Eireann, saying they all went into the boat of British im perialism. He was an uncompro mising Republican, recognizing kings as out of date, and he object ed to any association with the Brit ish empire. There was no real dif ference between the opposing sec tions of the cabinet, he asserted; they were all wrong. The men who died had died neither for this treaty nor for the De Valera docu ment. The republic of which Ea : mon De Valera was pres:"dent was dead. In conclusion Dr. McCartan saw ! no way out. for there was a divided ! cabinet, a divided Dail Eireann, a divided army and a divided country. ! He dtclined to vote for the treaty, j or for chaos, and therefore, would abstain from voting. The narrowing of the issue be tween the opposing sections in the Dail Eireann cabinet was the main feature of the debate. Several mem bers endeavored to elicit the terms submitted at the private session last week by Mr. De Valera. with the object of proving that his dis agreement with Mr. Griffith was not worth fighing for. One of the speakers suggested as a way out of the difficulty submission of the question to two typical constituen cies, naming South Cork and East Glare, the latter being De Valera's own constituency. De Valera laugh ed loudly at this suggestion. War as an alternative to the treaty was gent rally recognized by ali the speakers, and it is under stood that the retirement of the members into private session for an hour in the afternoon was for the purpose of examining the position of the Irish Republican army in ease the treaty was rejected; Children Used For Experiments Chicago, Dec. 21.?An in\ istiga tion has been ordered of (barges that the city contagious hospital physicians are using children pa tients for experimental clinical work. Mothers have complained that children have been innoculut ed with "ither diseases and kept in ho1-; . . " as long as four years. The health commissioner said the charges are falsehoods. FLORIDA WOMAN ILL WITH TYPHUS Boston. Dec. 21.?A woman trav eling from Jacksonville, Fla., was found here suffering from typhus. "Be Just and Fear WITNESSES FOR WATSON TESTIFY Investigation of Army Hangings Shift From France t o Army Camp at Ma con Washington, Dtc. 21.?Testifying before the senate committee that is hearing Senator Watson's charges, aMrion J. Wallis, Athens, Ga., said he saw a corporal shoot a private at Camp Wheeler. He said the corporal was named Craw ford and the private was named Halley. of Tampa, Fla. Wallis said Crawford was courtmartialled, giv en a thirty day furlough and then made a sergeant. A telegram was introduced from W. F. Brock, of Lindale, Ga., saying Halley was killed because he was ill and unable to work and that Crawford was not courtmartialed. Under the cross-examination Wal lis admitted that he had been courtmartialed twice for being ab sent without leave, losing ten days' pay and confined forty days. He said that reports that Halley was shot while resisting arrest were un true. Fire at Camp Sevier Nine Young Women Welfare Workers Narrowly Escape Death Greenville, Dec. 19.?Nine young women, social welfare workers, and the seventy-year-old mother of one of the patients, trapped in the upper story of the Red Cross building, barely escaped with their lives today in a fire which de troyed this structure and damaged the Federal Vocational Building at the United States Health Ser vice Hospital, Number 26, at Camp Sevier. The women, who were rescued in scanty atire, lost all their ef fects and Recreational Director Staigg. champion swimmer of the Sourn. lost sixty-five medals. Col. James E. Dedman. com manding officer, said the fire was thought to have originated in the furnace room of the Red Cross building. He anounced he would appoint a board to investigate. -m ? ? - Kidnappers Busy at Belfast Belfast. Dec. 21.?Armed gangs last night kidnapped tifteen men and carried them to an unknown destination. m c? ? Bandit Holds Up B. & 0. Train i Chicago. Dec. 2! ?The police are investigating the report that a dap per bandit with suave manners held up single handed the observation car passengers on the Baltimore & Ohio flyer and escaped in automo bile driven by woman. Ho robbed j only men. Officer Sent To Chain Gang j Birmingham. Dec. 21.?The state I court of appeals in upholding the ! lower court decided that W. H. Knox, state law enforcement ollicer, must serve thirty days on public roads and pay a five hundred dol lar fine for assaulting Phil Paint er, a newspaper man. ? ? 4? <P Bloody Crime in Philadelphia Philadelphia. Dec. 21.?Two wo men were shot and killed, a third wounded and Cornelius Con*, the slayer, committed suicide. The outburst was caused by bis mar riage being opposed. BUTCHERY IN BIRMINGHAM Birmingham. Dec. 21.?Joseph Monteone and wife were found to j day mutilated in their home from I axe blows. Tlu- woman was dead J and tin* man is believed to be dy i iiig. PORTUGUESE PARLIA MENT DISSOLVED j Lisbon. dPc 20.?The Portugese j cabinet has issued a decree dis I solving parliament and fixing Jan | uary Sth for a general election. I MILLION DOLLAR ROBBER ARRESTED Chicago^ Dec. 2A.?George Kog ' ers. the Toledo. Ohio million dollar ; robbery suspect, bar; been arrested ! here. i - Atlanta. Dec. 20.?Two persons, j believed to be P.. L. Join s aid ! wife, of Fitzgerald, were killed j when their automobile ran off a I bridge to souther n tracks below and was struck by it passenger en gine. man Not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't a Sumter, S. C, Saturt DEBATE ON "~i IRISH TREATY I RUNNING OUT { Discussion in Dailj Eireann May Possi-j bly be Concluded! Tonight _ i Dublin, Dec. 21. (By the Associa- j : ted Press).?The possibility of con-'' eluding the debate on the Irish treaty and reaching a decision by tomorrow night was indicated by Eamon de Valera at the close of today's sessions when he suggested that if the discussions were con cluded tomorrow afternoon an [ evening session should be held to j "finish it." j Arthur Griffith, criticising Mary j McSwiney for speaking so long 1 (her address occupied two hours j and 40 minutes), thought that 15 minutes would be sufficient for each of the remaining speakers to express his views. One deputy ex pressed the opinion that no more J speeches were required, and in this he appeared to voice the Impati ence of many members to vote without further delay. For the first time there was a Disposition tonight on the part of certain members of the Dail Eireann supporting the- treaty to i predict difienitely that it will be ratified. The character of the ap plause today and the incidental re marks of the speakers tended to support this prediction. Near the close of her long speech, Miss McSwiney not only said that she might never have another opportunity to address that assembly unless Ireland became a republic, but marked out her future policy and that of the Re publican party of rebellion against the free state. She has had oppor tunities of ascertaining the views of the members of the Dail Eireann, and these references were taken as pointing to her considered opinion as to the probable result in Sinn ] Fein parliament. George Gavan Duffy and other j speakers for ratification seemed to j take it for granted that the Dailj Eireann would approve the treaty j but. despite these indications, a large element of the Dublin pepu- j latmn continued apprehensive re- ; gnrding the outcome. i There were several refer^nc? ? today as yesterday to a plebiscite, whatever the dail decision may be. in order to obtain a free exprsesion from the electorate on the issue and [ thus "clear the air." Mary McSwiney spoke passion- i j ately for a republic denying repeat- , I edly that the idea of a republic was , dead. j "If the president of a united cab- j [not stood for the treaty." she de- ! dared, "we would still stand for a i republic." i She asked for a plebiscite of the | women on the question of the re- j public, saying that the women and children of Ireland would continue i to stand for it even if the men turned their backs on it. "Ireland should choose extermi- j nation before dishonor!" she ex- i claimed. j Miss McSwiney attacked Premier j Lloyd George, the treaty and the press, including the American press, j which she said was unfair to the republican cause. She bitterly re sented the action of a number of the supporters of the treaty who tiled out of the room when she be gan to speak. j Belfast, Dec. 21.?Fifteen men who were taken from their beds Tuesday night in the Limavdv dis trict of County Derry by alleged Sinn Feiners and made to tramp 15 miles through the mountains across the Derry border were rescued by a detachment of special constabu lary of County Tyrone after a spirited fight today. The constabulary at dawr. ob served the men coming out of Hi bernian hall at the foot of the Spring mountains and gave pursuit with bayonets fixed. The captur ed men made their escape and their former captors opened fire, to which the constabulary replied. After a chase of two miles, five of the alleged Sinn Feiners were seiz ed near a chapel in which w;is found an arsenal containing bombs and other explosives and trench ing tools. Bond..n. Dec. 21.?The Exchange Telegraph account of the figh i>? - tween the constabulary and Sinn Feiners in County Tyrone says that six Republicans arc reported killed and 20 wounded. Plans to Rehabili tate Europe Commission of Interested Powers to Be Named to Pre pare Plans i By the Associated Press. London, Dec. 22.?The allied su preme council, at the coming meet ing will be asked to invite interest ed powers to appoint a commission to elaborate a comprehensive scheme for the rehabilitation of central Europe and Russia. The United States will be invited to be represented. Germany will also be represented. t he thy Country's, Thy God's and lay, December 24, 1921 HARDING QUICK TO CHANGE % _ Recants' Opiniq^ on Pacific Treaty and Agrees With Arms Conference Delega tion Washington, Dec. 20.?President Harding, in a statement issued to night, stated that he had no objec tion to a construction by the armament conference delegates that the four power treaty include the principal islands of Japan in its application. The statement said: ??When the president was re sponding to press inquiries af the afternoon interview today he ex pressed the opinion that the home land of Japan did not come within the words 'insular possessions and insular dominions' under the four power agreement, except as the territory proper of any other na tion which i3 a party to the agree ment. "This expression," the statement continued, "has been emphasized as a division between the president and the delegates to the conference in construing the four power agree ment. "The. president announced to night that the difference in view in no wise will be permitted to em barrass the conference or the rat ification of the agreement. He had assumed all along that the spirit of the conference contemplates a confidence which pledges respect of territory in every way which tends to promote lasting peace. "lie has learned from the United States delegates to the conference that they have agreed to the con struction which includes the home land of Japan in the term *insu lixjr possessions and msular domin ions,' and ha? no objection to that construction." Tlie language of the treaty thus brought into question has also been the aubject of senate dsicussion, and in response to inquiries based on the. assertions of the opponents of ratification, spokesmen for the American delegation have said re peatedly that the major Japanese vrhup rnust be> regarded as includ ed within the provisions of the agreement. When he *>l forth an opposite view today, Mr. Harding was said by officials close to him to have acted without consultation with his state department advisers and with out any definite purpose of an nouncing the attitude of the admin istraton it was declared that he merely was voicing a personal opin ion, and had no thought of precipi tating a clash in conference cir cles. The effect on ths delegates, how ever, was immediately apparent. None of them wouid comment, but among Americans, British, French and Japanese alike there ? as evi dent a desire to have the attitude of the American government clarified at once. The American delegation held a meeting and as Senators Lodge and Underwood were hasten ing to the White House a British spokesman pot directly connected with the British delegation was telling newspaper correspondents that a view directly opposite to that of the president had been communicated to the other powers by the American plenipotentiaries during the negotiations. Baron Kato, head of the Japa nese **as one of those who show ed greatest interest in the presi dent's attitude. A pledge of secre cy, said the Japanese statesman, prevented him from divulging whether there had been an agree ment as to application of the treaty to the principal Japanese islands and he added, "the meaning adopt (?d at the time of signing might be changed in the future, so I can say nothing at this time." In Dritish quarters it was said that the Dritish and the Americans took the lead in framing the treaty so as to apply to all the Japanese group, and that the Japanese for a time oppo&ed the arrangement. Ar thur J. Balfour. head of the Brit ish, was declared to have been in sistent on Including the major Jap anese Islands if the Dritish domin ions Of Australia and New Zea land were to be taken in. Definition of the geographical scope of the treaty, as finally agreed, to, is included in Article 1 of the agreement, and is as follows: "The high contracting powers agree as between themsleve? 10 re spect their rights in relation to their insular posse^tdons and insular do minions in tlie region of tin- Pa cific oceau." Ah interpreted by Mr. Harding in his conference with the correspond ents, this language would not apply to the mainland or socalled "main land islands" of any of the con tracting powers. He was said to feel that Japan proper would no more be included among the Pa cific islands, tor purposes of tlie treaty, than would the mainland of the United States. The islands ot' the chief Japanese group were considered by him as constitut ing a party to the treaty rather I than a possession or dominion to be dealt with by it. Washington. Dec. 21.?Tin- Brit ish delegation has cancelled steam er reservatio!!;,- for December Ulst. believing that they will be unable to leave before the middle of Jan uary. Truth's." COURTS MAY ENJOIN STRIKE PICKETING Decision of Far Reach ing Importance Handed Down by United States Su preme Court Washington, Doc. 19?The states in the exercise of *heir police pow er have no authority through leg islative action to prohibit the courts from enjoining picketing in labor disputes, tho supreme court held today, in a decision involving an ye: of the state of Arizona. In the opinion, upon which the court divided five and four, it was held that the lower courts erred in refusing to consider an applica tion for an injunction which was sought to restrain certain methods of picketing. Chief Justice Taft delivered the opinion of tho court. Justices Holmes. Pitney and Brau dels separately stated dissenting views and Justice Clarke joined in the opinion announced by Justice Pitney. "The legislative powers of a state can only be exerted in subordina tion to the fundamental principles of right and justice which the guar anty of due process in the 1 -Itli amendment is intended to pre serve," declared the chief jtutiee, "and that a purely arbitrary or ca pricious exercise of that power whereby a wrongful and hightly in jurious invasion of property rights, as here, is practically sanctioned and the owner stripped of all real remedy is wholly at variance with these principles." The chief justice stated that ille gality of the means used in the present case to drive away custom ers was "withput doubt and fun damental." "Thu makes this plan an un I lawful conspiracy," the decision j continued, "the means used are the j libelous and abusive attacks on the J plantiff's remployers') reputation, i threats * * * of such attacks on ' would-be customer*, picketing and i patroling of the entrance of their j place of business with these ac I companiments and the consequent obstruction of free access thereto. all with the purpTse of depriving the plaintiffs of their business, to I give operation to a statute whereby j serious losses inflicted by such un ; lawful means are in effec t made j remediless ? The constitution ! was intended to prevent experl | mentation with the fundamental I rights of the individual." j The chief justice asserted that j holding the Arizona law invalid j would n?-? necessitate holding void j Section 20 of the Clayton act re j kiting to immunity of labor organ izations from certain laws prohibit I ing combinations in restraint of [commerce. The construction put } upon the Arizona law by the Ari zona supreme court makes that j law and the federal statute as dif ferent "in meaning as if the}' were in wholly different language," he said. Tho state court, however, in the I opinion of dissent delivered by I Justice Brandeis. should be sus tained "because in applying its rule in regard to boycott and peace ful picketing Arizona did not de prive the plaintiffs of property without due process of law or deny them equal protection of the law," and "because if Arizona was pro 1 hibited from adopting this rule of ! substantive law it was ?tili free I to restrict the extraordinary reme dies of equity where it considered their exercise to he detrimental to the puldic welfare, for such restric tion waH not a denial to the employ era of either due process of law or I equal protection of tin- fciws." i The real object of an injunction. Justice Brandeis said, was to pre , v. at injury to person^ or lungible property, and unless there was a ! threat of such violence an injunc ; tion should not be granted in the i Arizona case. j Justice Pitney's line of reasoning j in announcing his dissenting views wus .similar to that of Justice Bran ded, holding it within the police power of ilie state to regulate and control all acts in breach of peace or of violence whether originating in labor disputes or otherwise, lie stated that the employers had ample protection of all their rights in the courts through other meas ures than injunction. The case arose our of a strike in i Bisbee. Ariz., in which William Truax and other employers sought Jan injunction to prohibit former j employees from picketing. ?? o-? Second Savannah Bank Fails Savannah. Dec. 20.--The Realty Savings and Trust Company posted notice today that it would suspend payment of further demands on account of unusual withdrawals by deposit OVS. Savannah. Dec 20.?The Peo ples' Bank failed to oper. today af ter a run yesterday. 4M 4P 4> MOLASSES FOR ARMY HORSES New York. Dei1. 21. - Army horses ami mules are being given an experimental diet of horse bricks containing molasses and oats, as campaign rations. THE TRUE SOt" LL CAUSES TTERDEBATE j House of Representa tives Engaged in a; Hot Fight Over Re-! publican Measure Washington, Dec. 20.?The de- j ? bate on the anti-lynching bill was ; continued-in the house today. IANTI-LYNCHING BILL DEBATE CONTINUES Washington, .Dec. 19.?After a j bitter fight the house tonight vot i ed to take up the Dyer anti-lynch j ing bill under a rule limiting gen i eral debate to ten hours. Leaders, I however, have agreed that the I measure will not be pressed to a i final vote before the Christmas i recess. j The vote was 17? to 42, with five members voting "present." and . was reached only after more than i two hours' delay through quorum : calis demanded by Representative j Garrett, of Tennessee, the Demo cratic leader who directed the op 1 position to the bill. Twice the ! seargeant-at-arms was sent out ! with warrants to arrest absentees i before quorums were obtained. Two hours uv-re devoted to the de | bate, which ended in the bill be i Ing given the right of way in the ; house. General debate on the measure, j according to plans of leaders, will ! be stretched over the days remain I ing before the rece-ss, which prob | ably will begin Thursday.\ More j than ten hours may be devoted to I discussing the bill's features, Chair ; man Campbell of the rules commit j tee said, "to permit comprehen sive consideration of a question that cannot be side-stepped." j The bill, introduced by Repre ! sentative Dyer, Republican, of J Missouri, would provide heavy fines j and imprisonment for persons par i ticipating in lynchings and for of ! ficials who failed through negli : gence to prevent mob violence? It j would also require counties in ! which iynehings occurred to for ' feit $10,000 to the family of the j person killed. j Among those urging passage of ! the measure were Mr. Campbell, i of Kansas, and Representatives j Fess, of Ohio, and Ansorge of New ; York. Republicans, while those who ; spoke in opposition included Mr. i Garrett and Representative Pou, ; of North Carolina; Byrnes, of j South Carolina, and Aswell, of I Louisiana, Democrats, j Mr. Fess declared the bill was .not aimed at the south but was ; designed to deal effectively with j mob violence wherever it occurred. One of the most "indescribable" lynchings had occurred in his own j state, he added. Mr. Ansorge said j passage of the Dyer bill would j "forevermore wipe the stain of j lynching from the pages of Amer i ican history." j On the other hand, Mr. Garrett I asserted the measure should be en i titled "a bill to encourage rape" j and Mr. Pou said its purpose was "to pay a political debt." Mr. Byrnes characterized the measure , as a proposal which, if enacted and ! held constitutional, would prove in ; effective, while Mr. Aswell con tended passage of the bill would j have a tendency to increase rather j than prevent lynchings. ! Representative Begg, Republi j can. Ohio, broke into the discussion to tell of the robbing of a bank in Cleveland. Citizens he said, turn t ed out to apprehend the robbers j and one of the bandits was shot. ! "Under the terms of this bill." ' he asked Mr. Campbell "would that county be required to forfeit $10, I OOu because a criminal met death i at the hands of a group of citi I Zens? : "I'm not prepared to answer that question." replied Mr. Camp i bell. j When Representative Kelley, Re i publican. Michigan, followed with j a query as to whether the bill j would penalize a county which did ? its best to prevent mob violence ! but failed Mr. Campbell said ap plication of the bill's various pro I visions would have to be determin j ed during the debate. ! Representative Bankhead, Dem l oerat. Alabama, inquired what i would be gained by passage of the j bill transferring jurisdiction to the I federal courts. j "Aren't judges and jurcrs in state and federal courts actuated by the same desire to enforce i law impartially?" he asked. Misuse of Bank Funds : Charles D Jones Placed Un j I der Bond to Answer Five i Charges j Charleston, Dec. 20.?Charles D. Jones of Lancaster was arrested to . day on five warrants charging him. with "fraudulent appropriation and conversion" of funds of the Lancas ter Mercantile company, of which he was preside; t ami general man ag* r, in the aggregate sum of ?30.000 on various days. With Ira P.. Jones. Sr.. former chief justice of tlie state supreme court, as surety. Jones was released on bonds of $10.000. Leroy Springs and John T. Stevens, respectively, president and manager of the con eern at this time, made affidavits in support of the warrants. ?KR?N', Established Jnne 1, 1866. * VOL. LIL NO, 38 si?TT~" PASSES TH RELIEF BILL 0 Twenty Million Dol lars Appropriated to Feed the Starving Russians Washington. Dec. 20.?The sem.te' late today passed the house bill ap propriating $20,000,000 for the re lief of the starving and distressed in Russia, with two amendments, one appropriating $500,000 to be uaed for the hoepitalizafion of former service men in Arizona, an 1 the other netting aside $100.000 for the use of the government hf relieving unemployment. The United States government can not escape some responsibility for present conditions in Russia, Senator Borah (Republican) of Ida ho declared during the discussion on the measure. He urged a change in the attitude of the Amer ican government toward Russia, adding that, in hie opinion, 'the de facto government, as such, ought to be recognized." $ i The present government in Rus sia, the senator said, had stood four' years and -had demonstrated that it could stand against the situation. ? "And I regard Lenin," he contin ued, "as one of, the two or three great intellects uncovered by the war. I may say, too, that the*gov ernment there is better than the czar's government. It has poten tialities and possibilities." With respect to respon ^bi3tie3 which he said this country bore, Mr. ;Eorah asserted that the gov ernment "by not raising its voice, has connived" against Russia at times when she most needed a friend. He said that the allies had used an "indefensible, cruel, bru tal, and unendurable policy" to wards Russia after the armistice and that France had further ag gravated conditions by sending military expeditions into Russia to "harass them." In the course of the debate Sena tor -Wadswortb (Republican) of New York declared that he did not propose to let the senate "con tinue to fool the farmer.". His statement followed an explanation by Senator Nelson (Republican) of Minnesota that tho bill would r. \ only permit absorption of som/ the grain now held throughcu country but would open trikde chan nels with Russia. . "Such talk," Mr. Wadswcrth said, "is misleading to t ie farmer. It may make him think that the purchase of the grain wiil enhance prices of his products. That's net true, its fallacious in every respect," the move is not economic. I* is purely charitable, and 1 want the county to know it." The question of the censrltutlon ality of the measure' was injected by Senators Dial of South Carolina, and Watson of Georgia, Democrats, who claimed that the cougr >ss was turning the government Into 'an international alms hous*." and "a world Santa Claus." Mr. Dial sought, however, to amend the measure to appropriate $10.000,000 instead of 520.e00.003 but the amendment was rejected. Florence For Bonds $350,000 Issue Authorized For Paved Streets Florence, Dec. 20. ? Florence voted for paved streets today 10 to r. Out of a total vote of 926 only sixty-one people cast their ballots against the proposed bond issue of $350,000 for street improvements. ; Under the property abutting plan the bond issue will make $1,000, 0?C worth of paving available. This amount will go a long way toward paving all of the principal streets of Florence. There was rejoicing here tonight when the vote was announced. All day long a hundred automobiles have sought out voters and carried them to the polls. Under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce the effort 1 to carry the election was strongiy organized. ? ?? ? Ohio Bank Robbed [ Columbus, Ohio. Dec. 21.?Five j armed bandits held up a bank hero ! today escaping with ten thousand I dollars. I ? ^ YOUNG NEGRO HANG ED AT AUGUSTA Augusta, Dec. 21.?Henry Lacf-y, a young n<*gro who was convicted of an attack on an eight-year-old white girl, was hanged today. ARMS CONFERENCE TAKES RECESS Washington. Dec. 21.?The arms conference stood in recess today pending the preparation of data by the foreign delegations. Washington, Dec. 21.?A bill pro hibiting blocs in congress for af fecting legislation introduced by i Representative Ansorge, Republi can, of New Y'ork, would fine sen ators five thousand dollars for bloc affiliation. He said blocs encoura^ led class and sectional legislation.0