Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-08
Scraps aud faets.

AOn motion of labor members the
British house of commons on last Fri
day adopted the following: That this
house warmly approves Of the meeting
of the international conference at
Washington and trusts that supreme
effort will be made to arrive at such
measures of agreement as will secure
a substantial and progressive reouc-
tion of the crushing burden of arma-
nfpt.
1.-The Smoot plan for business sales
tax of l-2 Of one per cent. on gross
sales exceeding 5000 year has been
rejected by the senate, 46 to 25. All
those supporting the Smoot plan were
Republicans. The Democrats vote
solidly in the opposition and were join
ed by 22 Republicans. This was re-
garded as ending the efforts to include
sales tax provision in the penolns
revenue revisitn bill.
- Important British financial and in
dustrial interests are making repre-
sentations to the British government
that steps be taken with the question
of the inter allied debts. The chancel-
lor of the eXchequer received from the
, British national committee Of the In
ternational Chamber of Commerce
resolution suggesting immediate action
for the reopening Of negotiations to-
wards reduction or cancellation Of the
allied debts.
- Washington, November 4:-Com-
pletion OF. the general reduction of re-
discount rates in all II federal reserve
districts was announced today by the
federal reserve board with the ap-
preyal of reductions in the Cleveland
rate from 5 IL to per cent. and IN
the Minneapolis rate from to IL
per cent The rates in these districts
are effective on Monday while reaue-
tions in,the other districts are already
in 'effecttI The new schedule of redis-
count rates, which covers paper of all
classes and maturities, is as follows.
-Four and a half per cent, Boston, New
York and philadelphia; per cent,
Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas
City and San Francisco, . IL per
cent, Richmond, Atlanta, Minneapolis
and Dallas
ASenator Tom Watson, of Georgia, is
still presenting charges that American
soldiers were hanged overseas without
codftmartials. While he had the floor
last Saturday night he turned his nSht
on General Pershing and Secretary
Weeks because Of their denial OF his
assertions. He said he would leave IL
to the public to judge whether he or
Weeks was more decent. He dis
claimed any general reflection on army
nurses and said that his words bore
,out his disclaimer He was in posi-
ton to prove such charges as he had
made. With regard TO General PERISH
ings statement that the charges as 10
hangings were most outrageous ana
untrue" Senator Watson said that the
general had no warrant to call sena-
tor a liar and intimated that the gen.
eral would have to answer betore the
bar of the senate for what he had sald.
Senator Watson announced the receipt
of numerous kilograms and letters
from all parts of the county, oferlng
testimony in persoI or b. affidavit TO
substantiate the charges he had made.
George Carborrough, of Aaron, CD
who said that he had served in 6O5ta
engineer corps, said he would come TO
Washington and testify as to illegal
hangings, and another testified as 10
witnessing the hanging of four negro
soldiers at one time on the same gal
lows. each clad in the uniform that
General Pershing wears.
-A-Thirty- five soft coal miners of the
Central states went on strike last week
because of an injunction order py
Judge A. B. Anderson, of Indianapolis
forbidding the operation OF the "checK
of" system. The check off system Is
an ARRANGEMENT under which the. mine
operations with held from the pay OF
the miners the amounts they are
assessed as union dues. A large ma
iority Of the miners are organized by
agreement with the operators, dues
are collected out Of the wages OF the
miners and paid over to the unions
Non union miners have been protest
ing against being assessed for dues,
and they have been sustained by Judge
Anderson. This caused the strike. The
matter is now in the United States
court ofSappeals and the miners agreed
Saturday that they wou d not go BACK
to work until the case is settled. Inc
operators give ii as their opinion that
unless the agreement with the union
whereby dues are neither helu from
the pay Of all miners, whether union
or nom union, and paid over TO the
union, the strike will be resumed. Cold
weather having commenced the Stu
alton is serious.
Fresh details of the shipment of
German arms to Ireland, says British
dispatch. show that early in September
a Dutch ship named the Disponieble
was chartered to carry n cargo of tools
and machinery to Tralee bay in Coun-
ty Kerry. Rifles and ammunitions
were all encased and some boxes Of
tools were added for the benefit OF
customs inspectors. 1t is also reported
that thousand mark notes were liber-
ally handed to everybody around the
Danzig docks. On September 16, the
ship Disponieble steamed into the Bal
tic and after a stormy voyage reached
Tralee Bay, where the arms were un-
loaded secretly Although the ship
flew the Dutch flag, many of the Of
ficers were former German naval men
and the crew was also strengthened
with selected men who had taken part
in the Irish rebellion of 1916 or who
had gone through the war. This Ger
man group was composed Of two sorts,
adventurers and others doing the
work for pay and former followers of
Sir Roger Easement, who even today
are willing TO risk their lives and
liberty for Irish freedom. One of the
German leaders of the expedition was
a friend of former Kaiser Willie m
with a high title. Some time ago the
German admiralty received secret
report from Danzig that much ammu-
milton was being loaded for shipment
TO a foreign country The supplies
were formerly German and to be on
the safe side the German government,