Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15

come 10 Iue ChltSSi othSSS.
derstanding is that while in Washing
ton his home will be in the White
House.
Gold imports to the value of el,-
OOO, 900 sterling have been recovered
by salvages from the wreck OF the
former White Star Dominion liner Lau-
rexfic. which was sunk Jan. %, 1917,
off Fasad Light, Ireland. The Lauren
tic, a vessel of 1892 tons. which was
acting as a British auxiliary cruiser,
struck a mine off the north coast OF
Ireland. Of a personnel of 40, only
l2O were saved. According to the test
imony of Captain Norton before the
Coroners hearing large NUMBER Oh
the men perished in open boats as
result of the bitter weather then pre-
vailing
Authority to- increase temporarily
the parcel post weight limit TO A-o
pounds so buyers of army food may
take full advantage of the opportunity
to purchase through postmasters ana
letter carriers has been granted to the
postmaster general by the interstate
commerce commission. 1t also an
nounced that during the sale buyers
might place several orders at the same
time without paying the initial postage
charge of cents pound more IMAM
once. The orders must be In wrltins
and in duplicate and the cost plus
postage will be collected with them.
They will be fitted in the oroer re-
ceived.
Offering to the public OF 2,O0O'oo0
surplus all wood, cotton and wool anu anu
cotton blankets has been announced
bv the war department arrangements
having been completed for their dls-
tribution through postoffice and NUM-
cipal channels on the same plan as that
adopted for foodstuffs. For lndlVldual
purchasers, prices will be Sc for new
wool blankets, and S5 for reclaimed
wool. SIS for new cotton mixed ana
$3.50 for reclaimed; So for new cotton
and s1.25 for reclaimed cotton; the
reclaimed, 1t is explained are plankets
used less than a year which nave peeh
renovated and laundered. Ihese sell
ing prices will be fixed for STOCKS re,
tailed through municipalities ana
nostmasters. In addition, the depart
ment will sell blankets in bale lots OF
20 at prices lower than the retaii ng-
ures. No more than 10000 blankets
will be sold to single purchaser.
The United States was diplomatic
outsider in the war with Germany ana
never did know until the war was over
how the allied nations had discussed
and agreed among themselves In re-
gard to territorial dispositions. Inc
limited States was then caDed on 10
ratify the secret agreements OF our al
lies, some of which were in direct OPP
position to the underlying prlncipIes
of this government. rms was tne ei-
feet and substance of the testimony
of Secretary of State Lansing before
the senate foreign relations committee
last Thursday. He admitted quite
frankly under close questioning these
facts in regard to the ignorance or the
United States of the agreements among
all the other allied nations: /. Ihat
ali during the discussions leading up
to the Lansing Ishii agreement the
canny diplomat, Viscount lshil, never
said a word about the understandings
which the government had with Great
Britain, France, Italy and RUSSIA IN
regard to Chinese territory. 2: lnat
neither Lord Balfour, British Forelgp
Minister. nor former Premier Viviana
of France; when they were In the
limited States, told this government OF
the various agreements of their gov
ernment in regard to territorial dis
positions at the end OF the war. ..
That the first knowledge OF the Unlteo
states in regard to the secret agree
ments came in the first part OF Fep-
ruary, 1919, after the peace conference
had assembled, when the information
was transmitted to the American de-
legation.
THE traditional decorum OF senate
procedure was upset today by an un-
usual demonstration of approval from
the galleries following an address py
Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts, cnair-
man of the foreign relations commit
tee, assailing provisions or the ieasue
of nations covenant. For more tHah
minute the gallery spectators appiauu-
ed and cheered in violation OF senate
rule, and then when order had been
restored they interrupted with hoWls
and Kisses a speech by Senator VIII
liams. Democrat, Mississippi, In reply
to Mr.. Lodge. In spite OF sharp ao-
monition from the chair, there were
more Kisses mingled with applause
when Senator Hitchcock, Democrat,
Nebraska, seconded Williams speech.
Vice president Marshal made no at
tempt to check the first demonstration
until it had begun to die out, put later
he twice threatened to clear the gal-
leries unless order was preserved. sen
ator Lodges address, itself unlnter-
rupted. was aimed chiefly against
league provisions which, he said would
make the United States "a subject ma
ton" and ended with an appeal Ior
the preservation of Americanism. Inc
convenant in it's present form, ne as
serted, would not establish league
of peace, but would destroy the Mon
roe doctrine and give other nauohs
the power to decide domestic American
question and to order American troops
into foreign service. Senator WlllaHls
bitterly assailed the foreign reiatlons
chairman, declaring that In three
months of preparation he had wordeI
his addresses to serve Republican poll
tical ends and to play to the galleries.
There was no appeal in senator
Lodges address for rejection or the
league altogether nor was there any
mention of the program or reservations
proposed by seven Republican sena-
tors as a basis of its acceptance. IL
was learned, however, that TINS pro
gram had been discussed with MIN py
some of it's sponsors and that CON
ference of Republicans would De helo
within a few days at which an attempt
will he made to bring the Massachu-
setts senator and several others into
agreement on such a plan. 1t was un-
derstood the reservation group 1ell
thew had good ground for believing
that their proposal would be accepted
by Mr.. Lodge and that enough Repup-
Iicans then could be lined up to insure
success of the movement should the
Democratic leaders give their assent
The railroad brotherhoods through
their counsel, Glenn 4. Plumb, on
TUESDAY laid before the house inter
state commerce committee their
charges of corruption in the manage
ment of the railroads under private
control. The charges, announced as
Forthcoming a week ago, were that
many of the great railway systems mad
been plundered Systematically by the
financial interests and that the rail-
roads illegally held millions of acres OF
public lands. Eighteen representative
railroads of the country, the brother-
hood attorney asserted, issued stock
aegregating S45O,4l4,0OO between !sOo
and 1910 as bonuses and paid millions
of dollars in dividends on these bonus
cs. These same railroads. he further
charged. were controlled in whole or
in part by the Morgan interests, the
Rockefeller interests anG the Gould in
terests." Coupled with the charges
which came just before the house com,
mittee closed its hearings on organized
lobor,S hi1 for elimination OF private