Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-29
Straps and faets,

there was danger that 1orelSn coi Poin
tions might otherwise control MUCH
Alaskan territory.
Washington, Sept. 90: Instructions
have been sent to all British consuls
that the government has no ooJectlon
TO the transfer Of ships from Brltlsh 10
American registry in cases where they
have been continuously American
owned according to q statement today
at the British embassy. The instruc-
tions reached Rio Janeiro after the
steamer Robert Dollar, which had been
held up pending a transfer OF registry'
had cleared.
Charges that a monopoly had cut
in half the price paid southern FARMERS
for cotton seed were laid before the de-
partment of justice today by RepreSen-
tatives Hughes of Georgia and Aber-
crombie of Alabama, says WashlnS-
ton dispatch of Saturday. Ihey con-
ferred with G. Carroll Todd, assistant
attorney general in charge OF trust
prosecutions, urging that some action
be taken. Mr.. Todd promised thor-
ough investigation. Mr.. Hughes estl
mated that this years crop OF SEED
would be worth $200,000,000 if purchas-
ed at the price prevailing year ago.
but said that where farmers had eX-
pected an increase in price on account
of the war, they had encountered an
unexplained reduction from SIS ton
to $14 ton.
A London dispatch to the New
York World says: The Times prints
a statement by an unnamed Belgian
nobleman concerning the sacking OF
Louvain. He says: THE American anu
Spanish legations in Brussels sent sec
retaries to Louvain to inquire ABOUT
= ,,,-nnn1inU
motored there, and the German COM
mander, to prove the civilian popula-
tion were still shooting, begged those
gentlemen to motor through certain
street where shots were indeed heard
The young secretaries came back 10
Brussels convinced Of the truth or the
German affirmations. At Louvaln every
one is convinced there was an organ
lied plot to mislead foreign public
opinion. One must have personally
seen the street in question ana the
neighborhood to realize the foolishness
of the allegation. Women had nown'
men had been imprisoned and the town
was entirely deserted 1t would have
been absurd for a civilian to dare TO
fire on q motor bearing a legation
flag"
Before Saline for Glasgow, Scot
land. on his way to st. Petersburg
aboard the Olympia from New YORK
Saturday, Alexander de Stalegsky,
Russian minister to Mexico, spoke free
ly on conditions in that country as ne
had found them. Mexico is without
a government and practically in a state
Of anarchy" he said. With the eX-
ception of the state Of Yucatan. where
some semblance Of order is still main
tanned, il is unsafe for person 10
hn
eands that rob. burn and pillage as
they please without interference from
the authorities are the cause Of the
trouble. There is no interference from
the national authorities simply be-
cause there is no national government
worth mentioning. The United States
should not withdraw its troops from
Vera Cruz From what l was able TO
observe there is no prospect that
stable government may be estabhshed
in Mexico. CarranZa is an able pollu-
cal chief, but he cannot compare with
Villa as a leader of men. l am frank
to state that conditions in Mexico to-
day are not one-half as good as they
were during the reign Of Madero.'
In an address delivered at Asheville
N. c., Friday night in the interest Of
Congressman James NJ. Gudger, Jr. the
Democratic congressional candidate in
the tenth North Carolina congressional
district, Secretary Bryan declared that
the election of a Democratic majority
in the house is vitality necessary to the
successful accomplishment of Presi-
dent Wilson's plans for remedial legis-
lation. Secretary Bryan paid glowing
tribute to President Wilson while
touching upon national and lnterna-
tional affairs. Il have been in politics
for 80 years." said Mr.. Bryan, and in
that time / have met no Drawer man
than Woodrow Wilson. He was the
bravest man in the nation when we
were passing through the recent Mex
lean crisis. The president knew the
situation better than anybody else, and
tonight every mother in the country is
thanking God because Woodrow Will
son did not send her son to war in
Mexico Had the president listened to
the clamor for war which came from
certain quarters he would not now be
in a position where the warning ma
tions of Europe ask the United States
to look after their diplomatic inter-
estS."
- Arrangements were perfected Sat
urday, says a Washington dispatch, by
the interstate commerce commission in
connection with the treasury depart
ment and the Federal reserve board to
relieve the cotton storage situation in
the south. These branches of the gov
ernment have Joined in assisting cotton
planters and railways Of the south in
meeting the extraordinary demand for
the storage of cotton occaSioned by the
European war. The commission, in an
announcement of new tariff and trans
portation regulations made today, says
that for the purpose OF providing
tom >c,p.Ny hn1 nc
storage of cotton, under arrangements
approved by the secretary of the treas
ury and the Federal reserve board;
and for the purpose of permitting the
carriers to recognize the warehouses as
points for the storage OF cotton, in or
der that such points should be given
the benefit of transit privileges, the in
terstate commerce commission has au-
thoriZed the carriers of the south to
publish and file tariffs establishing on
their lines rules, regulations and
charges governing the storage of cot
ton during the cotton year ending Au-
gust 81, 1915" The regulations issued
by the commission are expected not
only to relieve the storage situation,
but more Importantly, the financial
situation which, to cotton planters, has
become serious on account of the difti-
Guilty in marketing the cotton crop.
With warehouse receipts for their cot
ton the planters will be able to realize
at once upon it and then may await a
favorable time for forwarding the crop
to final destination. The expense of
the shipments and warehOusing has
been fixed at a minimum.
Secretary McAdoo has sent tele
grams to the chairmen of the clearing
house associations in New York,
Chicago. Boston and st. Louis, COM
planning of the high interest rates in
those cities, and appealing for aid in
remedying that condition. The tele-
grams said: Il have received COM
plants about the high rates of in
terest which are being charged by the
national banks of New York, Boston,
Chicago and other reserve cities. 1t is
alleged that the New York banks are
requiring their correspondent banks
throughout the country to pay { per
cent for loans and to maintain a bal
lance with the New York banks which
makes the money cost the correspond
ent bank the equivalent of per cent
or more. Specific cases have been
brought to my attention where banks
in cities of the south have been re-
quired to pay these high interest
rates. If New York charges the