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SUE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Est CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,; LWuNIONT NOT ABOVE W LAW ^Supreme Court Ren ? ders Decision That Labor Organiza tions Are Subject to I Provisions of Sher man Anti-Trust Law * Washington, June 5.?Deciding The celebrated Coronado coal case, the supreme court today held that labor organizations although unin corporated, are amenable to the Sherman anti-trust act, and that under it such organization may be prosecuted for restraint of inter state commerce. The court also %eld that labor unions are sui'ble. Chief Justice Taft in announcing the decision did not indicate any dissent. * The case which presented the questions passed upon by the court was an appeal by the United Mine Workers of America, district No. 21 of that organization and the of ficers, 27 local unions in that dis trict and their officers and 65 in dividuals, some df the latter not members of any ^union, from a de cision by the United States dis trict court of Arkansas, approved by the circuit court of appeals ?holding them guilty of violation of the Sherman anti-trust act during the coal mine strikes in Arkansas in ?914, and imposing damages of x|20d,000. which were trebled un der the anti-trust law. Labor leaders in Washington, including officers of the American ^Federation of Labor, while express ing concern over the sweeping pro visions of the decision, declined to authorize > any statement in ad vance of a careful studjk of the ?findings of the court. They were particularly interested in that sec tion of the opinion which held that the treasury4 of labor organ izations could be held liable for damages caused by labor unions. The "Coronado cas.e'\? was the name applied to one of the most fa mous proceedings to reach supreme court within recent years. Its fame arose not only from the long period it remained the docket but from its importance, involving as,-it did the -question of whether organized ~ labor as represented in the United Mine Workers of America could be prosecuted under the Sherman anti trust law for restraint .of interstate commerce resulting from strikes. ; The Coronado and Associated Coal companies of Arkansas insti tuted iii the United States district court for Arkansas civil proceedings against the United Mine Workers to recover treble damages under the Sherman act for property losses suffered by them during a strike in the Arkansas coal fields in 1914. The coal companies alleged that the United Mine Workers had unlaw fuUy conspired to suppress non union competition, and that the de struction of the property had been resorted to, with attendant restraint of interstate commerce, to accom plish that end. The decision of the court dismissing the suit was set aside by the United SJtates circuit court of appeals for the Eighth cir cuit, and in the same court, on second trial, before a different fed eral judge, the jury found that the destruction of the mine property was due to a conspiracy to prevent the mining of coal by non-union labor, and' had resulted in a re straint of interstate commerce. The jury placed actual damage at $200, 000, which were trebled by the court under the Sherman law. The award, affirmed by the circuit court of appeals, was brought to the supreme court by the labor unions on the ground that being incorporated they could not be sued. Cincinnati, June 6.?A strike vote of approximately one million, two hundred thousand railway workers will be taken by the indi vidual union:- affected by wage re ductions recently ordered by the la bor board and pending, it was de cided at a conference of union leaders here today. UNIONS WILL NOT SURRENDER Cincinnati. June 5 (By the As sociated Press). ? Concerted ac tion against reductions in wages Of railroad workers recently made by the United States railroad labor beard will be the principal matter to be considered when heads of 11 railroad labor unions go into ses sion here tomorrow. The confer ence was called by B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employees* department, American federation of Labor, who will also* be pres ent at the sessions. Leaders who arrived here today held an informal conference and discussed ways and means to bring the question of wage reductions be fore their membership. Strike votes are expected in every organ ization, it was said, each tmion taking its vote separately accord ing to its own constitution. It was pointed out that the mat-1 ter of accepting or rejection of the cut rests with the member ship of each union and the meeting tomorrow will enable the execu tivesjto advise each other as to how to conform with the laws of their respective organizations in submitting the matter to their members. Unions to be represented in the conference are the machinists,"boil abashed April, 1850. im._ MY FORD i IS READY j TO START Whenever Congress Decides to Put Mus cle Shoals to Work Detroit Production Wizard is Ready to Do the Rest Detroit, June 6 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Henry Ford is pre pared to begin work on the de velopment of the Muscle Shoals water power and ritrate plants upon a few hours notice, should his offer to take over and operate the project be accepted by congress, it was learned today from sources j close to the manufacturer. Ac ceptance of his offer, it was said, would be followed immediately by | the dispatch of telegrams to va-; rious parts of the country that j would initiate the Detroit manu facturer's plan to create an indus trial center around Muscle Shoals that would be the "crowning achievement of his career." Mr. Ford believes acceptance of his proposaland fruition of his plans will prove the worth 6t> wa ter power and that an enterprise like Muscle Shoals can be made to become an asset to the public rath er than a liability. The project, it was pointed- out, will, under Mr. Ford's plans, have paid for itself before the lease expires. W. B. Mayo, chief engineer of the ^Ford' company, has returned to Detroit and Mr. Ford no long er is personally represented at Washington in connection with the shoals project. No plans have been made for further negotiations with congress, it was stated, be cause Mrr Ford's reply to the counter-proposal of the house mili tary committee was his final state ment. A MURDER OF LADY WHITE ELECTROCUTED London Pantry Boy Pays For Crime To-day London, .June. 7.?Henry. Jacobi, a nineteen year old pantry boy, was executed in Pontonville prison to day for the murder of Lady Alice White,on March 16th. . IN CRITICAL CONDITION Survivors of Union Tragedy May Not Survive Union. June 5.?Albert Whit lock and John W. McKeown, the two survivors of the automobile ac cident which occurred here on Sat urday afternoon, are said to be in a critical condition and X-ray pic tures were x made today to. locate their injuries, which are thought to be internal. An inquest over the bodies of the Misses Laura and Minnie Austin and B. J. and James Vaughan, who were killed, was held by Coroner T. D. Halcomh. j ermakers, blacksmiths, car men, electricians, sheet metal workers, clerks, signal men, telegraphers, j maintenance of way and stationary firemen and oilers. Chiefs of the "Big Four" broth erhoods?the transportation unions ?will not be presnet, it was said because the present reduction of the railroad labor .board has not affected members of their organ izations. It is considered prob able that some of the "big four" chiefs will sit in at the sessions as observers, it was said. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, was expected to arrive here to morrow morning from Washing ton to take part in the discussions. Leaders tonight predicted the con ference of the union officials will last for two and probably three weeks. Robertson Succeeds Carter. Houston, Texas, June 5.?David B. Robertson. Cleveland, Ohio, I was elected president of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen late today, succeeding W. S. Carter. Cincinnati, June 6.?The new j wage .reductions for shopmen or j dered today can but intensify the j present feeling of dissatisfaction 'with railway labor conditions and will at least result in an imme diate strike vote, returnable June 30th. according to B. M. Jewell, the; head oi the shop craft:-* union, who is here today for a railroad strike conference. Chicago, June 6. ? Over the strong protest of three labor rep resentatives on the United States Railway Labor Board a new wage I I cut of seven cents an hour for rail- j I way shop mechanics and' nine! I cents for freight carmen, cutting four hundred thousand shopmen and approximately sixty million a! year was ordered by the board to-j d;?y. The reduction followed on ;the heels of the fifty million dollar [cut in wages maintenance way la I borers last week. The cut is ef j fective July 1st. same as the pre vious one. A minority report stat ed the majority decision was made "with no consideration of human need" and held it fails to set "a just and reasonable" wage. "Be Just and Fear LABOR BOARD REDUCES ALL RAILWAY_WAGES The Last Cut Expect ed t o Precipitate Strike Vote by More Than a Million Em ployees Chicago, June 6 (By the Asso ciated Press).)?Over the strong protest of the three labor repre sentatives oh the United States railroad labor board a new wage cut of-seven cents an hour for rail way shop mechanics and nine cents for freight car men, cutting 400, 000 shopmen approximately $60, 000,000 a year, was ordered by the board today. The new wage re duction brought an estimated add ed saving of $59,669,347 annually to the railroads, following on the heels of a $50,000,000 cut in the wages of maintenance of way la borers last week. The shop crafts' decision becomes effective July 1, the same date as last week's or der. The minority report of the labor members pointedly stated that the majority decision was made "with no consideration of human needs" and charges that it fails to carry out the function of the board to set a "just and reasonable" wage. "The tendency of this decision is to vindicate the propaganda of the railroads and consequently condemn such statements .as the employees have been able to bring to public attention," the minority opinion said. Supervisory forces of the rail road shops were not decreased. Af ter due consideration, the decision said, it was felt that . the duties and responsibilities of such forces warranted maintenance of the present rates. The reduction for the mechanics average a little more than S per cent., all machinists, boiler makers blacksmiths, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, carmen (ex cept freight carmen), moulders, cupulo tenders and carmakers and the regular and helper ap prentices receiving a cut of: seven cents an hour. Freight carmen,''commonly known as "ear knockers" and the- objeet of some of the heaviest assults by the roads in their battle for lower wages, were cut nine centsf^ The larger cut was ordered for the "car knockers" because the board said it believed that their work did not require the same skilled service as other branches of carmen's work. This heavier re duction for the freight carmen came under especially severe criti cism in the minority report, the labor members declaring there was no justification for discrimination in car work. Car cleaners, who now receive an average of $3.18 a day, were cut five cents an hour, or 40 cents a day. The mechanics, whose daily rate now averages from $6.11 for elec trical workers to $6.28 for black smiths, will lose 56 cents a day un der the new decision, bring their daily wage to approximately $5.70. The board's latest decision, which is to be followed shortly by reduc tions for railway clerks, telegraph ers and all other classes of railway employees except the train service men. was brief and offered no ex planation of how the new rates were arrived at. This omission brought more fire from the dis senters, who declared the majority did not consider "human needs," ignored the pleas of the employees for "a living wage" and made "no attempt to show that mechanics are not entitled to such a stand ard." Suggestion for "some recognized standard" to be worked out by the board and used as a basis for fu ture wage adjustments was con tained in the minority report. The labor members felt, they said, that the board "should Initiate a study which shall determine the amount necessary to meet some recognized standard and that it must use its results as a basis for its decisions and that it must, through those decisions, transmit this information to the public." The decision, the minority . re port continued, tended "to substan tiate the positions of the railroads that wages need not be made with reference to the needs of the fam ily." contending that a minimum wage for the shop crafts "should be 50 cents an hour, which would mean a. rate of ?7 cents for skill ed mechanics. "The savings to the railroads far exceed anything justified by the savings to the public in reduced rates." the dissenters said, add ing that payroll slashes during the last six months of 1921 had been made, including layoffs, at the an nual rate of $1,300,000,000 "in strong contrast to the increasing prosperity of the roads." Cincinnati. June 6 (By the As sociated Press).?Railroad wages under the new railroad labor board orders for seven of the larger groups of the country's railway workers, soon will he at a level which does not measure up to the American standard of living and which will make vigorous protest necessary, according to B. M. Jewell, head of the railway em ployees' department of the Amer ican Federation of Labor in ex plaining the quick strike vote ac tion of the conference of railway union heads today. In less than two hours' time Not?Let all the eods Thon Ainis't Sumter, S. C, Satui LAFOLLETTE CRITICIZES SUPREME COURT Decision in Coal Case He Says, "Most Ominous For Future of Union Labor" Washington, June 7.?Declar ing that supreme court decision in the Coronade coal case was "most ominous 'in what it foreshadows for the future of union labor in this country." Senator LaFollette today issued a statement in which he criticized the court. "The said opinion is significant because of I what the court says on questions i not involved in the case, rather than anything actually decided." j Nomination of j Brookhart Victoryiv Fer Democrats j -, _ .'Applies to Interstate Com I merce Commission For Au thority Washington, June 7.?The nomi nation by Iowa Republicans of Smith W. Bookhart for the senate is declared by Chairman Hullr -at the Democratic National commitr tee, in statement issued today-"ail even more emphatic repudiation* -of the Harding administration and j Republican congress than the votes ! for Beveridge, in Indiana and for Pinchot in Pennsylvania." heads of 11 railroad unions arriv ed at an understanding whereby i each organization will take a strike vote immediately on issuance of wage reductions, orders from the labor board for its membership. The vote will be returnable in 30 days and the strike vote for the shop crafts, sent out by President Jewell's orders today, will be in hi.< office in Chicago by June 30. I The strike votes decided on to jday will affect about 1,200 of the country's railway employees?all . except the train service men, whose I wages are not in dispute before the I board; Although wage cuts have not been announced for any classes but the shop crafts and mainten ance of way, pending decisions are expected to add five other classes of labor to the general slash. Un ion executives of these organiza tions today decided to print their ballots and have them ready to send out to the memberships im mediately in the board, as antici pated, orders further reductions in their pay. "The new wages do not permit a i minimum living wage," declared Mr. Jewell today, "and they are wholly at variance with the saving wage championed by Secretary of Labor Davis and President Hard ing. The labor board, has totally disregarded the secretary's attitude as well as the employees' own evi dence showing the amount neces sary to maintain a railroad man's family." No further action will be taken by the union heads at this time pending return of the strike bal lots. When the result is known? and the union heads freely predict an overwhelming vote to walkout? a working agreement is expected to be made by which any stoppage of work would take place simul taneously by all organizations. Meanwhile, President Jewell inti mated that a persistent fight would be made to keep the neces sity for gaining a "living wage" before the board and other re sponsible authorities. Cincinnati, June 6.?Character izing the shops crafts wage cut de cision as "a hastily dressed up and obviously unfair apology" for $60, 000.000 slash B. M. Jewell head of the six shop crafts unions, declar ed today that the evidence in the case had been totally ignored and that the decisions gave rise to the belief- that the board was trying '*to help the railroads carry out their labor policy." The labor union head, here for a conference of union heads which today called for a strike vote of 1.? 200,000 railway workers, said that the board's latest cut "could be justified by no stretch of the facts." "The board was offered evidence as to the amount necessary to se cure the necessities of life for rail road families." he said. "The rates in this decision are so far be low those necessary that this evi dence must have been ignored." Chicago. June 6 (By the Asso ciated Press).)?The railroad labor board tonight sent a communica tion to B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employees department of the American Federation of La bor, asserting that the board is in a position to handle expeditiously disputes between the shop crafts and carriers involving alleged un authorized wage reduction* piece work disputes and the contracting out of shop work by railroads. The communication was in reply to a request of Mr. Jewell on June 1. when he appeared before the board and cited a number of carriers which he said were vio lating the provisions of the trans portation act and asked the board to assume jurisdiction and restore the status quo prior to hearings on pending decisions. The board today refused to es tablish the wages in effect prior to assuming jurisdiction of the case in question. at be thy Country's, Thy God's and day, June 10, 1922 IJ. KIRBY f TELLS STORY I OF MURDER Leader of Trio That Killed Brazell Pro tests Against Clem ency For Gappins i Columbia, June 8.?That Jesse j ? ? I ? Gappins. one of the trio who will go ] to the electric chair on Friday of j next week, for the murder of Wil j-liam Brazell. for whom an effort ' has been made to secure a commu ! tation to life imprisonment, is just j as guilty of the crime as either Fox } or Kirby. was the substance of a I statement made at the death house j Wednesday afternoon by S. J. 'sKirby, the oldest of the trio. Kirby ] sent for a reporter and asked that ' his statement be published, j Through the bars of the cell he j told again the details of the crime, [and C. O. Fox, substantiating these t facts and the part each played in the crime, joined in the rehearsal of the crime. Through the corri dors of the death house rang the arguments between the prisoners as to their parts in the crime. Gappins j charged that Kirby and Fox had j made false statements as to him. J and "if. the-truth were known. I'd J not go to the chair." he declared. . Recently Gappins made a state ment to the press to the effect that heX did not have a part in the ac tual killing of Brazell. and on the strength of this an effort has been made to have Governor Harvey commute the sentence of Gappins to life imprisonment. To a repre sentative of the press yesterday afternoon Kirby and Fox denied this and told the gruesome story of thfs killing, implicating all three. ThfrTeporter was accompanied into the] death house by Colonel A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, and frequently he >was called on to hear what the prisoners swore was the truth. "J hope to meet God with the truth on my lips,"4Cirby began his recitation to the reporter through the double bars of his cell. "We came up town on the night of Aug ust 7th. ' Gappins told me to go up and see "Big Bill"~a taxi driver, and. I went to see him twice, but his I car was burned up. We went to the Gospel Mission and then went up Assembly: came down Main street: passed a big red car: Gappins said, "That's the kind of car we want.: but we went on to Lady street and then found some white boys who j drive cars. I had never seen the ! Brazell boy before that night. We ] alL got in and went to Leesville and (stopped several times on the way. j We got gas in Leesville and came j back to a hill near Lexington. I Gappins and myself got out* of the ? car. Gappins said he would not j hit the boy. He gave Fox the j black jack, but I had given it to J Gappins. Fox hit the Brazell boy j in the head and Gappins caught him. The black jack broke all to pieces." Kirby then went into details of how the Brazell boy was stabbed to death and the part all three had in the crime. "Fox and Gappins got out of the car with the Brazell boy, on the left hand side." Kirby stat ed. "I had hold of the Brazell boy. and so did Gappins. Fox stuck the knife in him. Gappins threw Brazell down and took money and cigarettes out of his pocket. Then Ganpins turned the car around ? and he and Fox put the body of i Brazell in the car." At this point some words were j passed between cells. "Do you ! want me to tell about the $1.50 for i the black jack." Kirby shouted across the death house to Gappins. and the,reply came back. "Tell it .all: you've got to answer to God for this." /; t Kirby then told of the journey to 1 Augusta, after Brazell hoy's body ! was hid. He told of the break j down of the car at Augusta, and of I their proceeding thence on foot to 1 a station near Augusta, and of his plan to go to still another station to wire Fox's father for money. "By some means I didn't do this," he declared: "we passed a chains gang, after leaving Augusta, and I saw a Mr. Roberts, a road engi neer. After leaving the little rail way station I went back to Mr. Roberts and told him of the thing we had done during the night. Mr. Roberts phoned for the sheriff and took me to the chain gang camp. After dinner there we went for the car and waited for the sheriff. He and the sheriff went after Fox and Gappins. and we were all brought to Augusta, and lodged in jail, and later I was brought to Lexington and thence to Colonel Sanders." Expressing regret for the crime. Kirby said: "Gentlemen. 1 am sorry and ashamed 1 ever got mixed up in a crime like this: it's the second time I have served any time. 1 hope my case will be a warning to young men never to keep bad company. 1 have lived a good life for years. 1 am leaving a wife and a little girl; my wife has been like a moth er to me. and my last prayer will I l??> that Cod take care of them." Kfrby said he -wanted Mr. Bra zell, father of the man the trio killed, to come and see him. that he might ask that the father of the murdered boy forgive him. He said he wanted to tell the father how sorry he was he had killed his son. He asked Colonel Sanders Truth's." US. READY TO DISCUSS WAR DEBTS Notification Present ed to French Gov ernment and Com mission Named Paris, June $.?Notification from Washington that the United States government was ready to discuss the settlement of war debts was presented to the foreign office to day by Sheldon Whitehouse, coun sellor of the American embassy. Though fixing no date, thi3 notifi cation is understood in official cir cles as a reply to Premier Poin care's note to the debt commission informing it that a French mission headed by Jean V. Parmentier had been appointed and was ready to proceed to the United States when ever the commission deemed it ad visable. Mr. Parmentier js only awaiting the word from Premier Poincare, it was explained at the ministry ot finance this afternoon. While the foreign office is reticent, pending the premier's decision, which may be delayed until the bankers' com mittee and the reparations com mission finish their work, or ar rive at a point where it may be foreseen with some certainty what the results will be. The payment of reparations and the payment of war debts are closely allied, in the French view point, and it is held that M. Poin care in opposing any reduction of the total due from Germany, is really protecting the interests of the creditors of France, whose ca pacity for payment is affected by any reductions or postponements of payments by Germany. Conse quently, it is thought that final in structions to M. Parmentier may be modified by any action of the reparations commission tomorrow. The secret of today's delibera tions of the commission is closely guarded: the delegates are dumb as to what action they are likely to take at the official meeting in the morning. It is forecast in well informed quarters, -however, "that the French, attitude. will . be sus tained so f?r ?s^^?ncerns the reduction of Germany's reparations debts. There is much, speculation as to whether this will end the mission of the international bankers' com mittee. It hV suggested in some quarters that it will affect only the amount of the proposed inter national loan and that the bankers' committee may still find it possible to float a billion dollars. In French official circles tonight, however the feeling is.pessimistic as regards the. complete success of the loan plan. SUICIDE AT~ HAMPTON J. R. Taylor, County Commis sioner, Fire* Bullet Into Brain Hampton, June 7.?County com missioner, J. R. ^Taylor of Early Branch, took his own life at his home at an early hour this morn ing by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. Mr. Taylor was at Hampton both Monday and Tuesday and was apparently in the best of health and In his usual good spirits. Those not closely con nected with hint.? did not suspect that he had any kind of trouble preying upon him. but it is stated that his actions were being in vestigated by' the grand jury now in session, it being charged that he had been "padding" claims against the county for the past several months and he had been notified to appear before that body this morn ing at 9:30 o'clock. Mr. Taylor was a very popular man and his many friends are greatly shocked at the news of his death. He leaves a large fa mil y. Blows Brains Out Dynamite Explodes, Killing York Convict York. June 7.?Floyd "Pappy" Pat Craven, white convict on the York county chain gang, was killed this morning when dynamite with which he attempted to blow a hole in rock in the road which the gang was building, exploded, blowing out his brains. He was a native of Concord. X. C, and was 30 year* old. The body was sent to Con cord for burial. Craven was serv ing two years and a half, follow ing conviction on a charge of steal ing a watch and a suit of clothes. TRUST PROMOTER IN CONTEMPT New York. June S.?Thomas L. Chadbourne. who promoted the Kenublie-Midvale-Tnland steel mer ger was today adjudged in con tempt by the Lockwood legisla tive committee when he refused to turn over to experts the reports on seven companies which were originally intended to be brought into the consolidation. if Mr. Brazell could see him. and the reply was in the affirmative. The electrocution of the trio will take place Friday of next week, presumably at noon. THE TRUE SOU THE GREAT GAME OF i JOUTICS With a Few Side Lights on the Wild and Wily Ways of the Republican Ad ministration ( By Wallace Bassford i (Special Correspondent) Washington. D. C, June 5.? Shortly before the election of Pres . ident Harding, Senator Lodge. Judge Hughes and some twenty I nine other men, whose names were thought sufficiently impressive to 11 make the people believe an other i wise improbable tale, issued a 11 statement in which they said tha* ? the way to get into the League of Nations was to vote for Harding, j It is far from the province or the [ intention of this writer to fall afoul ; j of those who may have their own ; j views on that momentous question, ' I Cut it is healthful and harmless to ( laugh and to rejoice at having been : born a Missourian, with all of the ' inborn incredulity of that race of j disciples of Aristotle. For was it j not that great Greek philospher j who said that "Incredulity is the source of all wisdom"? How Lodge : and Hughes and the other twenty nine must chuckle at the gullibility ! i of the average voter! Thousands ! j fell for it. Thousands are now fall I ing for that other great piece of bunkern, the president's claim to ! great economics in the administra i tion of the government. When this ' session of congress adjourns along in the Dog Days of August, or later, if will be found that the appropria : tions for the support of the gov ernment will be fully as large as for the previous year, and that sat urnalia of extravagance was. also ! a republican financial debauch. H. H. Kohlsaat, for many years ! the editor of Chicago's great re , I publican newspaper and the friend ? of McKinley and Hanna, tells in his autobiography a little tale of Lodge which, had it been, known in the fall of 1920, would hVve caused the public to take with a grain of salt his promise that Harding would i lead the country into the league of j nations. Of course his manifesto was given out in order to hold to Harding those republicans who fa vored the league. Kohlsaat tells how he urged Hanna to show to Lodge the draft of the financial plank on which McKinley was to run?a plank sawed out in the of fices of J. P. M. & Co., in Wall Street, just opposite the New York Stock Exchange. Hanna swore a mighty oath and refused saying that Lodge couldn't be trusted to keep it under his hat. Kohlsaat I over-persuaded him, however, and with Hanna's reluctant permission, showed 'the plank to Lodge, whoj begged a copy on promise of se-j crecy. What was: Kohlsaat's chagrin to find that the Boston papers had it the next morning with Lodge i headlined as the author of the plank, and the Associated Press wiring it to St. Louis under a Bos ton date-line! And thus Lodge slip ped under the canvas and made all Massachusetts believe that it was his brain that achieved that monu mental financial hocus-pocus that fooled the people in the year 1896. Now the question naturally arises, who engineered the hocus-pocus of 1920? No matter who is entitled to wear the leather medal as the champion bull-shooter of the par ty, certain it is that they always -have a number of both experts and amateurs warming up to take their place in the pitcher's box in case the man assigned to the job should blow up. The Memorial Day exercises in Washington were very impressive: i the hub and center of the day's celebration was at the beautiful i Greek temple of white marble ! which the people, have erected to {commemorate forever the life and j services of the Great Rail Splitter. I Abraham Lincoln. This wonder I ful and exquisitely beautiful build ! ing stands in a vast open space on j the hank of the Potomac, on an ' eminence well above the river level: ! while its back is toward the river, i it fronts the east, where lies a long ! pool in which its beautiful columns (are reflected. In all the world ! there is no more stately memorial, j none more significant, none more j impressive. It was given by all the ; people, north and south, east and ! west, without reference to political J faith or "previous condition of l servitude." It represents the set ! tied conviction of the American j people as to the character and ser ! vices of Lincoln. On Memorial Day i it was dedicated in the presence of j many thousands of people. Able ! speeches were made by President i Hardinfi ex-president Taft and the j negro educator. Moton. who S&C I ceeded Booker Washington as the j head of Tuskegee Institute. This ; writer has heard dozens of opinions ! expressed by those who heard all j of the speeches, and it is no dis ? paragement of the others to say that it was the consensus of these opinions that, of the three eloquent and able speakers. Moton's was the most impressive. He made himself a reputation that day that will probablv stand for generations as j the high water mark of his race. Even the Washington Post, whose I editor deserted the party of his THRON, Established June 1, IStML VOL. LIL NO. 34 r PHILLIPS IS PLACED UNDER HEAVY BOND Georgia Republi can State Chairman Blames Politics When He Surrend ers to Marshall in Washington . ? ?. -> Washington, June 5.?John "Lewir Phillips, Repub'ican State chairs man for Georgia, for whose arrest a warrant was issued late Hatur day on complaint of the depart ment of justice alleging conspiracy to defraud the United Staten in connection with a war contract for the disposal of surplus lum-^ ber, surrendered to a deputy Unit-' ed States marshal"on his arrival here today from Philadelphia. He was immediately . arraigned befor? United States Commissioner Isaac r R. Hitt, who issued the warrant, waived examination and was re leased in $25,000 bail for action of the grand jury. The warrant for Mr. Phillips* arm rest sworn to by Marcus Botchanti special assistant, to the attorney general acting for Assistant Attor7 ney General John W. Crim wc\s is sued while the special grand jury was still conducting its investiga> tion of the lumber disposal con tract made by the war department with the firm of Phillips & Steph ens acting as agents for the lum ber interests. Xo indictment has yet been returned by the grand , jury and it was. understood by Mh Phillips today that witnesses were still being heard. Much mystery surrounded the obtaining of the warrant. Untile copy of the complaint was made public at the department of justice late today following the arrest cof Mr. Phillips, spokesmen of the de partment. denied that a warrant had been sought. While the formalities of the bail bond were being atttended to in . Commissioner: Hitt's office Mc. Phil lips said that he had hastened to Washington, ?s soon as he had beea informed: of the issuance of-the warrant. . Before leaving that. city he notified Marshall Snyder through an atto^iej^ihat -he^was coming. A deputy inet him at the railroad sta^ tion and formally placed him into custody. At the moment Mr. Phillips was being arraigned, C. Willing Hare, of Philadelphia, who as di rector of sales for the war depart ment signed the contract with Phillips and Stephens was at the department- of justice to tell what, he knew of the lumber disposal case. Later the department of j'tstiee, r announced Mr. Hare's \ and said that tie would coopsr^e^jn every way possible with the de partment in the prosecution of the lumber case. The firsfc-disclosure of tho gov ernment's hand in this particular one of so-called war fraud cased came during the arraignment of Mr. Phillips. . Appearing for the department of justice, Special As sistant Attorney General Ciim, in charge of all commercial matters for the department; Special Assist ant General H. W. Anderson, of Virginia and Borchart, tho.com plainant/ H was decided to swear out the warrant notwithstanding the fact no indictment had yet been returned. Mr. Phillips tonight refused to make a formal statement at this time but declared that all his trans actions with the government, had always "been clean .^and above board" and were matters of rec ord. He saicl he was surprised at the issuance of a warrant for his arrest before the grand jury .had indicted him and attributed it to politics. "It is the j>enalty one must pay for being in politics," he sv?jd. Columbia, June 8.?-B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture, today announces his candidacy for re election. So far he has no oppo sition. ,- i| father's to enjoy the social entree at the White House, can see no good in the performance of the present congress. In reading the following extract from a Post edi torial, it is well to remember that^ there are sixty republican mem* hers of the senate. "The situation in the senate at this moment constitutes an indict ment of the*jg&od sense of the re publican party. At this moment, when .congress is under the fire of criticism, and the record of the republican party is under scrutiny, when millions of voters are malt ing up their minds on the evidence presented, the republicans of .the senate are making a record of ab-* senteeism and neglect of . public business that will surely return to plague them. - "On yesterday, when a call of the senate was made, only 30 re publican senators answered to their names. Possibly each of the ab sentees had a good excuse for his absence; but in the list appeared the names of several who have been habitually absent, although th?y are reported to be in good health and anxious to serve their country as senators. So anxious are some of them, in fact, that they have de serted the senate chamber for the stump, where they rely upon their eloquence to convince the voter that this is the best congress th&i has evpr met." v