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A ti. Fair Thare!ay aad Friday sgneet probably showers Fri day la sxtr I west eertlea. Wan eiruMO bi stoats ease. VOL CXII , NO.; J 06. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER M, 1920 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CDn3 URGES RAISING OF FUND FOR PRINTING RESERVE BOARD TO ADOPT NEW POLICY FOR MAKING LOANS LAV IS SUSTAINED COPIES OF LEAGUE LEAGUE COVEtl UD III STATE T .EDS DANIELS DIES H0i"E APPEAL FOR FilMSOU SAILS INTO REPIEICAI ABSENTEE IfnTITIP VUILItO IE OUR To Friends of League To Sat isf y Demand For Text of The Covenant SAYS PEOPLE ASKING -FOR FACTS REGARDING , BIG CAMPAIGN ISSU Democratio Nominee Declares Voters ( Besent Methods Adopted To Deny ' Them .The Tacts; Delivers . Speeches la Indiana Towns, and Again' Centers His tack On Vacillating League y Policy of Senator Harding Denounces "Senatorial OIL v g archy" and Suppression of Pacts On Democratic Oanse - Logans port,-Oct. 15. Gov. Cox, v of Ohio, Demoeratie presidential eandi data, while touring Indian today. sued a statement urging friends of tha League of Nations to gather a fond for printing tha covenant. - "I u making thia appeal to Ih friandi of ponea in every community , In America to establish at ease a fund sufficient to print snougk eopiei of tha , league eovenaat to Uka cara of tha da manda for ft. :,: ;' ' Many Beducete For It "Everywhere we to.' people are uk Ing tor it. They want tha facta and they reient tha me mod adopted u denv them tha facta. Ia many in stances newspapers caa be induced to print tha document. Wherever - poeai die thia spirit of kelpfnlneaa ahonld be taken advantage of." i OoTeraor Cox gave hia views upon tha League of Nation! and a variety of other anbjeeta today at a number of rallies at Indiana county scats. Court- hoaae lawns war mostly tha eahdldate'i forums,' and Hoosier Democrats with tizt. badaeav brant ban da and automo bile- were out ia force for what the governor termed ail "town meetings. Ha was naked numsrous campaign quae - v Urres Tuggerta Elect lea - ; Besides aational issues, Governor Cos ' urged - election of Thomas Taggart, Damoeratia candidate for United Btatea Senator from Indiana, who ahared nodi- Governor Cox Appeals , eaeaa with tha Governor. Other Indiana Demoeratie candidates also spoke and aeeompaoied tha Oorernor's apeeial train. . Beiteratinc that tha ' league waa ,a - pledge to tha American soldiers and their mothers to make war impos sible," Oovarnor Cos emphaaiaed league arguments and again charged Senator Harding, his Bepablican op ponent, with vacillating. Be also re? pasted that Senator Harding waa tha candidate ' of tha "Senatorial Oligar chy"- and. "a reactionary who has fought every progressive movement for twenty years.1' " v Senatorial Candidate. "How asn yon expect-"n government responsive to tha people," tha governor naked, "if yon elect tha ' candidate of tha Senatorial Oligarchy 1" Governor Cos naked aia audiences to aot with a partisan spirit and as Americans, reiterating that he had no quarrel with tffe rank and file of tha Jtepublieans. but only with the "Sen atorial Oligarchy.'' .Ha charged again that there was a "eonapiraey of al ienee" against the Demoeratie causa In tha Bepablican press and tha Bepublt can officials' eamDaisn book in failing to print tha league covenant. Sentiment for Leagne. Tha governor said that there was "i ' great tidal wave of sentiment sweep ing America" tor tne leagne, and de claring that America waa aroused, be said many BeirabUeans forsook Ben ator Harding when ha disapproved the league at Pea Moines. Agricultural questions were discussed by the gover nor at Delphi. The candidate there, re iterated' that there was a conspiracy to change the Federal Beaerve . Act and that "Big Business" was oppoeinc him , "ia every State and la every county." - Ha declared for "a hard-headed, hard Sated, clear-thinking farmer oa ail regional boards and asserted that Sen tuff TTirdin mm m Amtaud from the . outsat to rural credit measures." Tlewa Oa Immisratioa, , Asked regarding his views en Immi sratioa, the governor replied: "Instead of having ao many officers at Ellis Island, we ought to have somebody oa tha other side looking out wnere wey start." J ROXBORO WROUGHT UP BY THREATENING LETTERS Durham. Oct. IX The eitiaena of Boxboro, eotfnty seat of Parson county, - wnere aoacn, a negro, was iyacnea ia front of a negro church by a maaked mob some montha ago, ar wrought up . i l , : i , . i w sue sTHtnou point, is was learned tonight as a result of a series of anony ' mous letters, tha first of Which was , reeivedy a citissa a few days after th lynching. , - - The letters, It was learned tonight, are typewritten missives warning err taia negroes to leave Person eoaaty and in soma instances threatening the lives and property of prominent eiti ' nana for their business or friendly re late us With negroes. Last week a letter signed "Tha Box boro County Mob," warned - Bella Fields, a negrcss, to leave tha .com munity or be "blown to bits." . She did not go by the appointed time and her house was dynamited. She was aot injured. ' SATS HAKDING IS WINNING TOTES FOB GOVERNOR COX. New York, Oct, U-Geerga White, shairaaaa of the Dei erratic aatlaaal samaslttss, la a farms! statei today declared, "tarn ahappy day fer these waa f avn tha- Leagaa of ttattona, principally because Boaster Harding la agaia oa tha sterna. Every tlmo he has left the front porch aea aa nude fcaadrada of taoaaaada of votes for Governor Cox, and la Knntacky aad Taaaaa efecttvoaass la tha direction sttoald brook aU roeerda.' " "Ho u ao afraid of snsschss oa the leagne chnagoa them aa sooa aa thesa la print, aad that as a quality which does aot appeal to Ken tack- Una aad Ti ALEXANDER LIFE At Same Time Commutes Death , Sentence Imposed Upon Sinclair Connor " BOTH CONDEMNED MEN FROM IREDELL CUUNTY Bat White Friends of White Kan In Great Kumbers and Earnestness Besought Clem ency For Alexander, 'So Man In redeTl Would Put In Flea rot Metroes - believe with all my son! ia white supremacy, out it most be white in goal as wsll as ia alia and at tha State's mercy seat there h no color line," wrote Governor Blckett yesterday aa he fol lowed tha aommatatioa of Ed Alexan derV. death, aeatoaet to life toprioon. meat, .with a aomlnuUtioa to thirty I...! I S 0?-.H M nor, abnilariy sentenced. Both ate from Iredell aounty; both warn sen tenced for murder la tha first dewrm Alexander ia a white man and snanv sought his commutation; while Connor is a negro almost without friends to intercede. - 1 Clemency for Ed Alexander, convicted of murdering J. C Baric la a Stateeville pool room oa tha night of December 23, 1919, without provocation, eame after the governor's announced determi nation aot to Interfere in the ease. Tha commutation for Sinclair Connor, Governor Bickett granted, because la spite of the fact that uo long petitions bad been med la bis bcnalf, the negro's guilt was not nearly so dear aa the guilt or tha white man. Tho governor made it plain that Alexander's commutation was ia defl snce to his own conscientious belief that the prisoner was properly convicted. But able and conscientious mea ard ently besought tha governor to spars tha prisoner's life pa .the ground that ha waa mentally Irresponsible. Among them ware four justices of tha Supremo court, Attorney General J. 6. Manning, Assistant Attorney General Frank Nash, Dr. Hall of Weatbrook Sanatorium, a noted alienist, and Messrs. Heriot Clark- son nnd E. T. Canaler, of Charlotte. Ia deference to their opinion tha gov ernor signed the commutation papers. . Mother Makes Appeal, The mother and sister of tha prisoner called on Governor Bickett ia Lexing ton Tuesday and tha intercession moved the governor thoroughly. A letter from another sister' living in Oklahoma, re ceived by tha mother a few days after tha, tragedy, waa convincing corrobora tion of tha testimony of tha alienist snd others as to ths prisoner s sanity. Tha aister in that letter shown tha gov ernor, reminded the mother of frequent warnings which aba had given in the past of her brother"! mental condition. and recalled that aha had also declared repeatedly that the brother ought to be sent to Morgsntoa hospital. Mr. W. B. Alexander of Statesville and bin wife, tha mother and father of Ed Alexander, with tha boy's aister, ar rived ia Balelgh yesterday, tha father coming, ia last alght, about thirty mis utee - after Governor Biehett had an nounced that ha would allow commuta tion. Two other sons were killed in France id it waa tha mother's plea that- the at ona, afflicted as ha was, be not car ried away ia tha eleetrie chair, that played an Important part ia tha extea- aioa oi elemenev. - "I am still of opinion in thia ease, the Governor said by his statement .of reasons, "that-iae prisoner was property ecuvieted of murder in the first degree. My opinion ia that if I had been a member f the ury I would have voted as'rthe 3uiy did "However, a great and good alienist. Dr. Hall of Weatbrook Sanatorium, Bichmond Virginia, and who wna for a number of years oa tha medical staff of tha Morgsntoa Hospital for tha la sane, appeared before me la persoa aad testified that ha waa absolutely certain that Alexander ia insane, and wna at tha time of tha commission of the of fense. This opinion is shared by four of tha Justices of ths Supreme Court, all of whom write ma earnest letters in'.behalf of tha prisoner. Tbeea Jus tices do not simply , make a formal recommendation for executive eleav (Continued oa Fags TweJ After Thirty-four Years Secre- V A -A hi awe, a ana ' iary ot navy neiums 10 Harnett County, ; THOUSANDS GREET HIM AT DUNN'S BIG FAIR Manrels at Mighty Traasfor. nation Wrought In Town Since Last Visit; Mighty Cheers Greet Beference To League of Nations; School Children In Parade - By BEN DIXON MacNXILL. (Staff Correspondent). Dunn, Ost H-It waa called Luck sow aad tha and at tha Short Una thirty foar years ago whea Joaephue Daniels first came to what is today tha towa of Dunn aad tha embedment of progress and eivie pride. Then Lnckaow was ant..! a place at which to debark from a train, and Joseph as Danlela was a aonntrv editor en route to Bvit" Creek Academy so uia to ua xoiks about tha vaeed af pubHe school. It waa the question tt tha forefront of tha Dublia mind W thea." : Today tha country editor came back aa Secretary af tha Navy of the area tost country ia tha world. Lncknow was ne wborn in sight when Aa stepped off the train at daybreak, bat the "fiaftst town ander ths son wss eominsf vp out of tha early mists. A little later tho brned smooth streets were thronged with I score of thousand of prosperous Intelli gent people coma to tha big day of the Harnett county fair. Today tha Secretary spoke to the sons aad daughters of the peonle to whom ha had spokea thirty-four years ago about schools, but ha -talked to them about tha League af Nations that destined to aad tha devastation of wars. Ha found a saw country and a aew peo ple, keenly intelligent aad reaponsive to tha force of his appeal. , Marvel at Tranoformatloa. Time and agaia tha Secretary slopped today to marvel at tho transformation that throe decades have brought to this pleasant spot ia tha fertile Cape Fear valley. Whoa he had many thoaaanda of. ha eitiaena gathered around aim ia ths spaeieua grandstand at tha fair grouada, ho told them a little of his early visit, aad rejoiced with them at tha things that time nan brooght them. A score of thoaaaad would hardly measure tha people who eame hero tedar for woman s day at the fair. Hpoclooi aa ie tha towa there was aot room eeough for then, aad spacious as was tha arraadstaad at tho fair (rounds, thousands who sought their way seats therein ware turned away. waa tho-blggest of all tho big dnya that tha towa has marked dowa ia its aotabls catalogue of great dare. - For tha second time during tha month, the Secretary waa introduced to the waiting audienee by one of tho newly enfranchised womea of tha State, this time by Mrs. W. J. Jones, the moving rpirit nt Finelnnd School for girls .in Sampson eountys banner community. Mra. Jonea la aa effective, speaker, and tha Secretary declared that he eame all tha way from Washington to hear her speak. She combined philosophy, some stories, aad a little of politics ia her brief sneech which preceded Mr. Daniels nnd won roand after round of applause She waa presented to tha audienee by Charlea Boss, Haraetfa county Demo cratic chairman. Strong Appeal For Leagae. . Polities figured but little in the ad dress hv Mr. Duaiels. . Be confined him sen entirely so noma rauwiwiKn vi his first trip to this country aad to s powerful appeal for the League of Na tions. Of tha good things ho had to say about ths country, tha thousands of people had hearty appreciation for and, for ths appeal to keep faith with their dead who died to aad the war, ha woa a deep and sincere tribute. Ths sndienea to a maa and to woman cheered him. After tha speaking, hundreds crowded around ths speaker's stand to grasp his hand, and hia party almost had to fight their way out of tha fair grounds so greet was tha crush. The way to ths fair gr ouads waa led by hundreds sf marching school children, carrying flags. At tha school grounds, the child ren lined ap and aang, winding np with a cheer for Mr. Daniels, which he acknowledged with a salute. Tha pa rade waa made np of veterana of the late war, and a guard of honor waa made up of, local youths who served ia the navy during tha war. Sampson and Harnett veterans marched immediately ia froat. TJpoa hia arrival here thia moralng. Mr. Daniels wss taken to ths home of Representative Grantham, where break fast waa aerved to tha party. Repre sentative Godwin, Captain G. M. Tilgh msa aad Allen L. Newberry were guests with Mr. Daniels, and nt lunch the party were guesta af Mr. Marvia Wade. Mr. Daaiela left at t e'eloek for Bed Springs, where be spoke tonight. Win By "False Pretense The Bcpublicaa victory of 1918 was wra 'by false pretense' and whew fivs million msa were away from home in the army or nary or engaged ia war work. Secretary Daniels declared la hia address, "tho House was woa by tha home vote and the Sonata- was woa by purchase," ha declared. . "If tha men who fought in uniform aad fashioned munitions ia overalls could have voted ia that eleetiM, a Republican Congress could not have dallied aad delayed aad diahoaered America by refusal to eo-operate with its nllies la securing world peace and world atabilitr," ha continued. Bainbow chasing prophets hsva for- gottea that theae fighters and toilers, (Continued pa Page Twe.). Issues Statement ' Showing That John Parker Engages In Misrepresentation REPUBLICAN TRYING TO MISLEAD THE VOTERS More Women Than Men In Lin. . eolnton Audience . To Hear Morrison; Candidate Disre. gards ' Physician's Advice and v Makes Most Militant Address of Campaign - , By M. B. POWELL, ' (Staff Correspondent.) Lin eolnton, Oct. 13. The disappear ing cold of tha Demoeratie candidate for governor silently took- flight last night at Hickory and today the party's standard-bearer same to historic Lincoln and delivered the most militant speech of tha campaign. Disregarding wholly the warning of hia physician, Mr. Morrison insisted on filling hia engagement hero when ha learned oa passing through en route to Charlotte this morning that a change had been made ia ths hour of appoint ment which would permit him to talk thia afternoon. Col. Albert Cox, who was to have spoken thia aftoraeon, want to Catawba instead. ' Ths first audience af the tour com posed of more women than mea greeted him here. Sixty to seventy per cent of the crowd that overflowed the court house were new voters. Lincoln, next to Catawba, has registered mora women ia nroDortion to its vota - than any county ia tha State. Catawba probably holds the record for there are already more womea registered thsa mea. Wil- soa Warlirk has , dona a big Job over there and Edgar Love, whose untimely death broqgbt much sorrow to his home folks here aad his legion of friends through the State, had accomplished much ia the same direetioa before he waa killed. Sails Into Bepablleaaa. Mr. Morrison today sailed into the Republicans. Ho began assailing their campaign ia tha nation, brought it to u stan ana ioun s-arser, aaia a lew things about district politico aad took a parting shot at Charles A. Jonas, local Republican, whom he . denominated gimlet headed radical Politician." Ia sdmirabls taste, he paid his re spects te Mrs. Mary Settle Sharps, Bo- pu oucan candidate ror superintendent of Public Instruction, who made a carping attaek here last night oa the Lieague or Aations. According to re porta of her speeeh hero. Mrs. Shane denounced the . Demoeratie party of norm utrouna aad with manifest pride referred to tha faet that shs has inherited the political conceptions of her father. Judge Tom Settle, and her distinguished brother, Thomas Settle, jr. The women, and some of the man npplauded warmly when Mr. Morrison declared that if her" father had de feated Zew Vance North Carolotna would have been unfit for tha habit. Uon of a white woman. Falsehoods, misrepresentations 5nd onaauiteraiea lies, as black as arsr hatched in the brain of a peanut poli tician, characterizes ths Republican campaign now' being waged in North Carolina, the Demoeratie candidate de els red hero today. Tha origin of soma oi the yarns tin t far away, either, but ha called Jonas by aams a minuta later wbea fee warned the womea who aigni- fied hearty approval of hia remarks bearing upoa the League of Nations not to be misled by tha small mean eriti eisms of Jonss. t Ths appointment for the Democratic candidate nt Gaston la tomorrow night nas oeen eaneeuea Dy mate Chairman Warren, and Mr. Morrison drove from here to his horns ia Charlotte Uils aft (Coatlaced oa. Page Two.) IDEAL WEATHER FOR PICKING OF COTTON Week Ending Wednesdav Practically Without Bain; Satisfactory Progress Washington, Oct. 13 With ideal weather prevailing, gathering of cot ton progressed satiafactorily ia all sec tions of the belt during the past wek, aunng& there was some local complaint of labor ahortage, according to the aa tional weather and crop bulletin, made public today by the Department of Agriculture. Temperatures averaged somewhat below normal ia moeh of the cotton belt snd the week wss practically rainless, very little ehsnge was re ported ia the general condition, the ouiieun said, oi tne erop since last wees. Ths report declared the crop matur ed ia central sad southern South Caro lina, adding that picking waa complete in ths southern sections of Georgia and Arkansas aad la soms sections of Ala- bams j that harvesting wss practically finished, ia Louisiana, nearly complete ia southern sections and well advsaeed eliwhere ia Texas and that a fair top erop was ia sight ia ths Utter Bute. WILSON CONGRATULATES MANAGER OF INDIANS Cleveland. Ohio. Oct. 13. Mansirer Tria Speaker of the world champion Cleveland Indiana today received a tele- s of congratulation front. President Wilson. The telegram washes follows: Kay I hot congratulate, yoi on the sueceas ef your honest and sincere ef forts. . . . -r.W.D0D8QW. WILSON.1 Associate Justice Brown Writes . Opinion of Court Uphold- ' , Ing Statute. . CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK IN CONCURRING OPINION - . .4- v,..; - Court Affirms Judge John E. Kerr's Denial of Jtepublican Motion Tor 1 Injunction To . Bestrain . State Board of Sections and State Officers Prom Carrying Out Law The Supreme Court of North Caro lina yesterday declared its faith la the constitutionality of ths Absentee Voters Act aad affirmed Judge Joha H. Kerr's denial of the Bepubllean motioa to en Join the State Board of Elections, h'e State Auditor, snd 'ths State Treasurer from complying with the provisions of ths InwV. . : The civil action entitled J. J. Jen kins v. State Board ef Elections, st sL wna heard before Judge Kerr in Wake Superior Court September 15, Judge George H. Browa wrote the opln ionion of the court filed yesterday aad Chief Justice Wslter Clark filed a con curring opinion. - Both opinions are firm oa tho point that the secrecy of the ballot ia a mut ter ef privilege for the protection of kths voter and may be waived as a per sonal right and neither finds anything in the way of constitutional violatio ia the faet that election officials view tha ballot of the .absentee voter before it is east'- In addition, Judge Browa points out that the . language of the constitution "is susceptible to a fair interpretation which will sustain the statute" and ia thia case it is the duty of tho court "to uphold it and to give it tho benefit of the doubt." Moreover, passing the consideration of the text of tha Constitution, Judge Brown holds that the context ef Article C of the Con stitution "indicates that the personal preeenee of he voter Is aot required to east hie ballot. : "That the constitution makers did not mean that the words 'offer to vote' ahonld aoeeasarny Imply the - personal presence of ths voter is Indicated In Section a" says Judge Brown's opinion. "in' that section the language ia 'every person presenting himself for registra tion'. Those words plainly require the personal presence of the voter. It the personal presence of the voter had been required in Section 2, those who framed the article could easily here usgd ths words 'ia which he presents himself te vote'.'' About Fraadaleat Voting. The real gravamen and basis of this proceeding," says Chief Justice Walter Clark ia his concurring option, ''is the statement in tho plaintiff s brief admit ting that the absentee voters law was undoubtedly passed for the meritorious purpose of allowing our soldiers absent ia the great war to vvote. The soldiers are a noma uu jpv uioriiwriuu yur- pose' is ' past. Tha atatute remains, shorn of its meritorious features and divested of every safegusrd which might prevent its becoming an instru ment in the sid of fraud and illegal voting. - ''Absentee voters statutes, continues Chief Jnstics Clark, "have been passed in this Stats and in nearly all others not for the purpose of creating oppor tunities for fraud in elections, which would be unwarranted, and to assert the contrary would be a libel oa public opinion throughout the country which demands fair elections and an honest return of the votes east. These stat utes have been enacted for the purpose of procuring a fuller expression of the publie will at ths ballot box.' Ia North Carolina, we rarely havo seen a vote east of mors than seventy per cent of the eligible votes of the State. The other thirty out of the hundred eligible white voters are absent by reason or indifference or detained by work or business or illness or physical dlsabil itv. Tha Chief Justice eloscs his opinion with a citation of forty-three States in tht' Union which have absentee voters laws. Jadgs Brown's Opinion. ... Jn'do-e Brown's opinion follows: "The Braver of the complaint is that the defendants be enjoined irora prim in and distributing the forms re quired by the provisions of the Act of 1917 aid 1018 and fromesrrying out any ef provisions of ssid acts upon ths ground that they are un constitu tions! nnd void. This legislation is known ns the Absentee Voters' Uw, being Chapter 23, Publie Laws 117, re-enscted snd brought forward In Article 8r Chapter OS of the Consoli dated Statutes of North Carolina as amended by Chapter 322, Publie Laws 1919. It is claimed thnt the law ia un. constitutional because H Is repagnsnt to Article VI, Section 2 snd Article TI, Section S of t'-e State Constitution. "Section 2 provides that ths voters shall have resided in the State for two years. In the county six months snd in ths precinct, wsrd. or other election district, in which he offers to volo, four months, next, preceding the elec tion. Section III declares thnt every per., t offering to vote shall bo at the time a legally registered voter. "Section VI declares that all elec tions by the people shs 11 1) by ballot snd all elections by the General Assem bly shall be viva voce. . The question presented and ably argued, by tha learaed counsel on both sides, Is -olra, of grave importance to the consideration of which we have (Coatiaasd pa Fags Kins.) - GOV. COX CHALLENGES HARDING TO DEBATE New York, Oct 13-On behalf of Governor . Cox, Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, today issued 'a, formal challenge to Senator Harding to meet the Demo eratie presidential candidate in joint debate pn the subject of the League of Nations. . OUTLOOK BETTER Senator, Gives Impressions of Cotton Conference In Wash . ing ton; Small Talks ' The News aad Observer Bureau, 90S District National Bank Building. (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, Oct. 1S Senator Over man oa being questioned concerning the work of the agricultural eoafereaee ia session for the last two days said the meeting had served to emphasise the real situation ia tha marketing of farm 'products, such as cotton, tobacco, wool and wheat, and that he wna eonddeat ths Fetferal Beserve Board and the haeikere ef the eoutary would now solve the problem to the satisfaction ot the farmers. Contemporaneous with the conferences of the farmers' organ isations here today are tha conferences of tho "federal Beserve Board aad tha bankers from every part of the country and, on Saturday ths results of theae conferences will be announced.- . Senator Overman said . ths drastic criticism IS the farmers , conferences of tha Federal Beserve Board was called for. for oa January . 1920, there was an authorised credit for the farmers la the banks ef the country the sum of 250 POO .000, and. ea Octo ber 8 tha sum hsd been increased to 13,320,000,009. The money If ea tap end can be had for the purpose for which it is put with the banks. ; firebrands Ven Wrath. The Senator declared that eertala firebrands had takea advantage of the conferences to vent their wrath oa the sdminlstration. Soma of the critics arc good Democrats, but there were Ke publieana present who attempted to get in work for their party. The Senator did not want to. be quoted but a bystander remarked that ex-Senntor Marion Butler aeiied the opportunity to hurl into tha conference hia stock of firsbrands with the hope of making some assets for himself with Harding and Will Have. Butler is quite well aware that hia criticism of ths administration will not help the chances of his party ia North Caro lina. But he wante to keep la tne lime light. . Senator Overman's 'friends ssy hie trip hers has helped to harmonise the confereneea and their relations to the administration. He has been unflagging in his efforts with ths Federal Beserve board and the Treasury Department. He said that he might be of service ia that direction was why he dropped his cam paign specking ia North, Carolina to come here. He eould coma without risk as he has no fear about tha result of the election ia North Carolina, where he says the white womea will this time save the Democracy. The Senator will leave Washington tomorrow night to speak in Wilaon Friday eight. Small (itves imnreoaions. Bepresentative John H. Small, who is leaving for his hoas ia Washington, H. thia afternoon, gave some impres sions which hs received during his visit to the Orient. "My visit to the Orient was most in forming, about which much might be said, but I will, with pleaaure, at thia time give 'a few outstanding imprea sions. First, ss to tha Philippines. 1 am convinced that Congress, represent ing the people ef the United mates, shoul grant independence to the Philip pines. Soma of my reasons may be Philippines in IWH, the Philippines briefly stated. At ths time wc took the for veara been seekina their indepen dence from Spain. After the acquisition of the Islands by the United State. declarations were made by President McEinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, to the effect thst we would only hold the islands pending the preparation ef the people for self government. In the Jones re-organisation act of 1916, an exprese promise waa made' by Congress that their independence would be granted as sooa aa they eould establish a ctable government The Philippine mission visited the United States la 1919 sua submitted to a joint committee of Congress very strong evi dence intended to show that they had established a stable government. The people of the "stands are very grateful to the United 8tates and entertain the warmest friendship. . The last National Democratic platform also declared for their independence. For nil of these and other reasons, which I might sub mit, I "believe Congress should take early action. - - , "I may add, however, that ia my opinion independence should be coupled with eonditiona substantially similar to tliose which, wsrs applied to Cuba. These conditions . would provide for ptrvlsioa over iheir foreign relations and the creatioa of any Indebtedness. aad 'also contain a provision that the (Ceatlaaed oa rage Twe.) . Governor Harding, of Federal Reserve System, Says State . ment May Be Made Pub lic Saturday REPRESENTATIVES OF FARMERS ASK RELIEF ! v FROM MONEY TROUBLES Committee Irora federal Be. serve Board ' listens '. Tor ; 4 Three Honrs To Accounts of Conditions Which - AgricuL tnral Delegations Declared , , Threatened t Life of - Nation ' Through "Reduction of 7ood ; Production ;v Adopt ; Besolu. tlon Tor Seducing Acreage of Cotton; Beeommend . Bonded Tobacco Storage . Warehouses KZQUCST H BASING BBFOM FULL BOABD MKM BKKSHIP Wasblagtoa, Oct. llTho -agri, enkarni ooafsreasa. la sisslsa Isoro, decided toaigtst to roaaost hearing tefaro tho fan sam stomal s of tho Federal Bsssrvs Board ' aad Ma ageata assssahlsd- for the fogulat fan policy coafetoaea, boforo that poller saall tee fanaalatod by the board Insofar aa M effects asjrlcal. laral credlta. Tho rsaolatWa waa adopted after a delcgatlaa from tho . agrlcaUaral latoroota rsoiossatod had - oeeat three aoare la osmfeawaeo with Gov. oraor Hardin af (ho Bsasrvs Board. Tho ooavoatloa Banted Sea. atera Heaa. Smith, Georgia t K. D. SssMa, Soatfa Carolina, aad Ova, saaa. North CaroUaa, to aaavsy Ma reeaoat to tap hoard la writing to- Daring thsa ooafeioaso today Gov, ernor Bardlag said tho Federal Be orrva Bank's aaaaaacisneat of a credit BoUcy wna la presses of form. alattoa aad probably wwald be toady for pablicatloM by SaUrday. The rosolatloa adopted by the coavsa Uaa reaaosta farther hearing ta or. dor that demands of the varioos ag-rlcaM-iral latoreota Buy bo folly pseaoatod boforo (be baahatre arrive at aay caarlasssa. Washiagsea, Oct. TO (By the dated Fresnj - Tha Federal Beserve Board Is preparing to make a aew statement of policy covering all phases of tho credit situation. Governor Hard ing told representatives of agricultural iatesests in eoaveatioa hero, who ap pealed to hia today for relief from "stringent" credit conditions. The statement, ' Governor Harding said. probably would be made publie Satur day after the conclusion of the fall eoafereaee of Federal Beserve ' ageata aad reserve beak governors hero. A committee from the Beserve Board listened for three hoars to aoeoaate ef conditions, which tho agriealtaral dele- gstioa said threatened tha life af tha aatioa through a redaetioa of food production. Difficulties ef the farmers were laid almost wholly to inability te ebtaia financial assistance. It was asserted that banks ef the reserve sys tem were aot supply inn needed fuada aad that many local bankers claimed to bo acting ander instructions from tha. Federal Beserve Board. Sympathy For Farskota. Governor Harding .denied that tha board had issued instructions which would result in eartailin farmers' credit. The board and officials af tha reserve banks were ia armoathr with ths plight of the farmers, he said, aad were eaeouraging loaas t aid them, hat the board waa without authority te la st rue t member basks as to loans they, eould or would aot make. - "la the first nlaee. tha mmroa mlA "I can see no practical value ia your visit to the board. Oar acta era dsfia ed by law.- Tear conference hero with' ns has resulted only ia your retelUag wrat wo aireoay snow. Tho hnarW knows your trials aad year difficulties and is ia entire sympathy with yea. mny mot boo WUeea, afeaawhiie. the deleaatoa considered whether they should press their request for a conference with President w ilsoa aad hia cabinet. . Some had thought it would be aaaeecosary to lay their grievaaeea before tha cabinet after the conference with tha Beserve Board. It waa said also that most of ths cabinet were oat of tha eirv and that na ths delegates already expected to confer with Secrets rice Houston nnd Meredith to sorrow a cabinet conference might act be Insisted a pen. . uoveraor Harding tNd tha delegation that German Interests had informed him they were ia the market for 2,000,000 bales of America a cotton. A German commercial agent, who called oa him. he ssid had told him that German maau- faeturers were eager to buy, but the cottoa producers must accept paper ma turing in nine months ia payment The governor suggested to the cottoa in terests represented that they make ase ' of tha German market after the dele gates had ssid there waa ao domestic ' market. ' Banking Coafideaco Shakes. Sookesmea for the cottoa mea said also that eosfldeace of banking Inter ests in sotton appeared to have beea shaken. They offered ao oxpiaaatioa for, it, but complaiaed that it was de .(Csatlaaod ea Page TwoJ ' .