Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-18
Scraps aud faets.

loan Is floated In April. The head OF
the nations financial system also
urged that authority be given aa-
vapces to exporters not to exceed 81
900, ,000.0 900 and that the purpose tor
which the treasury may make loans TO
foreign governments be broadened. Mr..
Glass said both provisions were nee
essary to restoration Of the countrys
foreign trade and would be mutually
helpful to this government and the
Allies.
Following suggestions made In an
address to a Joint session of the gen
eral assembly last Thursday oy w. r.
Harding governor Of the federai re,
serve board. a bill will be introduced
in the legislature providing for the Or
ganization of q cotton corporation, un-
der the Webb act, to stimulate trade
in the European markets for cotton.
Mr.. Harding said in his address tnat
he wished to see the plan Incorporated
by some state legislature, the pro
posed scheme contemplating the or
eanization of two such corporations,
one for Texas and the remote west,
and another for the south Atlantic and
Gulf states. Conserving the value OF
the crop already produced Is the great
est problem confronting the cotton
grower, he said, and with the organ
ization Of a cotton corporation to pc
come the selling agent in foreign fields,
the ;yroWer can assign q definite por-
tion of his crop each year to the for
eign market and artificial stimulation
of the market would thus be elimlna.,
ted. and the cost of production ano
demand for the crop yield their naturai
influence upon the market.
Catherine Breshoysokaya, known
throughout the world as the grand.
mother of the Russian revolution,
was before the senate propaganda in
quiry committee. in Washington last
Friday, begging that agricultural ma
chinery, sewing machines, LEAD penciis,
everything, be sent to Russia TO assist
in the reconstruction or the rus
sian nation and Kidding 1t OF Bolsne-
yism. This remarkable woman, anec-
tionately known to all Russians as
"Babushka," or little grandmother, Is
75 years Of age. She was sent to ST.
IBERIA for preaching revolution TO the
peasants against the monarchy and
was kept there for 80 years, being re-
leased only after the deposition OF the
car. When she came back to MOS
COW the Bolsheviki were in control
They considered her too conservative,
and hunted her for three months with
a view to putting her out or the way.
She escaped to America and her ap-
pearance before the senate commlttee
was to ask help for her people. She
said that her people did not want tne
Bolsheyiki and they would welcome
intervention-that an army or eo,0oV
men could restore order. She said that
ANYTHING was preferable to Boishe-
yism, that Soviet was only gang
of plunderers.
Instances of severe sentences I'M
posed by courtmartial upon soldiers
found guilty of minor offenses were re-
cited before the senate military COM
mittee a few days ago by Brig. zen.
Samuel T. Ansell. acting judge advo-
cate general, whe appeared to urge
enactment Of a law authorizing re-
views of courtmartial sentences-by the
Judge advocate. General Ansen was
asked by members Of the commlt.ee
why It was that many CONSCIENTIOUS
directors had been discharged from
the army while enlisted and seiectlve
service men were required to remain
in camps, but he asked to be excused
from answering. Chairman Chamber
lain later announced that Secretary
Raker would be called for questioning
on this subject In discussing court
martial cases, General Ansell told the
COMMITTEES that personally he favored
the pending Chamberlain bill granting
broad mowers of review In courtmar-
tial cases, but said that generally
war department officials opposed the
provisions Of the measure. Prior 10
the war, he said, American courtrnar-
tial laws were more stringent tnaIi
those of any other country except
Spain, Germany and Russia REVIEW
General
Anselps opinion should be placed in
the hands of a judicial officer. Grant
ing of the power to the president, he
said. was tantamount to placing 1t In
the hands Of the chief of staff.
What Is declared to be the largest
private distillery ever found IN the
United States was unearthed In tne
basement of the Altmore apartment
house at Chattanooga, Tenn, last FRI
day by the police and the alleged op-
orator and owner Of the apartment, H.
Kelso HALEY, prominent club man and
business man, was placed upder arrest
along with three negroes, alleged to be
assisting him. The distillery was dis
covered by accident, City Detectives
Burks, Paradise and Gillespie having
been at the time chasing a negro
charged with housebreakinS, VINO
sought refuge in secret passage 10
the apartment. One apparatus OF lOO-
gallon capacity daily was in full opera
tion, they said, while arrangements
were being made to place tour Inops
stills at work, which would have turned
out a total of 5000 gallons day.
HALEY was discovered working on a
copper worm in one Of the many apart
ments under the building, the detec.
tives report, and great quantities OF
corn in various stages OF fermenta-
tion for making whiskey were found.
The fumes and smoke were carried
above the building in pipes and ploW
pipe was found in the room where the
still was. The equipment was new
but older apparatus which had peen
discarded in order to secure greater
capacity was found in the place. Hall
ey gave bond for his apparence In To-
cal and federal courts.
Philip Scheidemann. chancellor of
the new provisional government, speak
ing in the German national assembly
last Friday. elaborated upon the gov
ernment's recent statement OF its po-
licy. His speech was an effective one
and the representatives of all the part
les In the assembly, from right to left
listened to him attentively and, for the
most part, sympathetically. The in
dependent Socialists from time to time
interrupted the speaker with sarcastlc
remarks or laughed derisively, but the
remainder of the house was in no tenn
per to listen to these Interruptions
and there were many who Joined IN the
frequent attempts to repress them by
free use Of the sibilant sound. This
hushing process was particularly dir
ected against one of the independent
Socialist woman members. Herr Sch
eidemann gained the greatest applause
when he declared that President VIII
sons program had been wholly accep-
ted by the government and by a refer
ence he made to the retention by the
Allies of the German prisoners. He
sharply attacked the advocates or a
minority dictotarship, upon whom ne
laid all the blame for all the blood sheo
in the early days of the German reVo-
luton. The independent socialists who
entered the cabinet were, said Sch
eidemann, cursed with inherited sin
against the spirit of democracy" An
interruption by the independents al
this point was drowned by the ap-
plause from the remainder of the
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