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VOLUME XX.
UKRAINIANS AND HUNS AGREE ON NEW PEACE
Wi’Zson Opposes New War Cabinet
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY STRIKE CONTINUES
TOTY TO BE MADE.
WAR TERMINATED.
UNDER AGREEMENT
•
Reports Say Germany Is Send
ing Vast Numbers of Fresh
Troopa Into Belgium, Pre
sumably for Offensive
PETROGRAD. Sunday. Jan. 20.—A I.
,>b:ngaroff. minister of finance in the
Kerensky cabinet, and Prof. F. F. Ko
koshinc. state comptroller under Keren
sky. were murdered in their beds last
night in the marine hospital.
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 21.—The negotia
tions between the central powers and
the Ukrainian “people’s republic" at
Bresi-Litovsk have resulted in an
agreement on the principles pf a peace
treaty which is to be concluded and the
war be declared terminated. ..coord ing
to advices- from Brest-Litovsk today.
Ukrainians independence has been re-
• eg .tied by Petrograd but it had here
tofore been’thought and apparently un
derstood bj the Bolshevik! delegates
that L’krainia’s delegates at Brest-
Lllovsk would act in concert with
othet Russian representatives.
Cables last week carried a hint of the
displeasure of Bolshevik! delegates
vver the separate peace conferences
the Ukrainians were holding with
the Germans.
Onfihe conclusion of peace, the Brest-
Litovsn advices add. the troops of both
aidas will be .withdrawn. ***a it- is pro
vtd«4 Lp th* agreement that arrange
ments be* made in the peace treaty tor
the immediate resumption of economic
.ntercourse, and resumption of diplo
matic and consular relations as soon as
possible.
As both the delegations considered it
necessary to make a verbait report to
.heir governments, it is stated, a short
adjournment was agreed upon.
Russian Assembly Is
Dissolved by Bolsheviki
NEW TURK. Jan. 31. —(Summary of
European Cables.) —Russia’s constitu
ent assembly nad been in existence only
a tew hours before it was dissolved
early Saturday bjt the executive com
mittee of the congress of workmen's and
svldiera' delegates. It is reported it
will be succeeded by the workmen's and
soldiers' congress which has been sup
porting the Eenine government. Disso
lution came after the Bolsheviki ad
herents had been defeated in attempts
to gain control of the assembly. 801-heviki
-heviki troops now guard the deserted
assembly meeting place and Premier
l-enine announces he will not permit the
delegates to reassemble Whether the
social revolutionist majority will sub
mit to the Bolsheviki orders .without
protest is not yet clear.
British warships finally have evened
the score with the former German war
ships Goeben and Breslau. In an action
at the entrance to the Dardanelles Sun
day the Breslau was sunk and the
«ioeben. suffering serious damage, was
oeached. The British losses were two
monitors, one commanded by a nephew
of Earl Kitchener, and whose fate is
unknown. The former German ships
have been the mainstay of the naval
defense of Constantinople since they
found refuge there from pursuing Brit
ish and French vessels at the opening
of the war. Much damage had been
done to Russian transports and sup
ply ships in the Black sea by the two
esse Is.
Increased artillery and aerial activity
on the western front has been accom
panied by more frequent raids by both
sides. There have been no attacks tn
force, however, and there is little to in
dicate any serious break in the winter
inactivity. On the Italian front there
has been only artillery fighting, most
marked in the Monte Asolone sector and
along the Piave.
Sixteen German airplanes were
brought down Saturday in France by
• ’rench and British airmen. Entente
warships have bombarded Ostend, one
of the Important German submarine
bases on the Belgian coast
The Truth About
Bleeding Belgium
Fhe Greatest Story of the
War, Written by One
Who Knows
Brand Whitlock
U. S. minister to Belgium, has
written a series of articles on
' Hun atrocities in Belgium—The
Murder of Edith Cavell—The
Burning and Blasting—The Rap
ine and Desolation—The Crown
ing Brutality of all Brutalities—
A Nation Literally Enslaved.
Exclusively in the
Semi-Weekly and
Sunday Journal
Beginning Feb. 19
See Announcement on Page 7
Full Associated Press Service
RAILWAYS. PLANTS
AND SHOPS REPORTED
CLOSED Bi STRIKERS
Emperor Summons a Mayor
for Conference, but Situation
Is So Grave He Cannot
Leave His Post
ZURICH. Jan. 21.—A1l Austrian-Hun
gary is crying out for peace. Reports
today show general strikes, declared Fri
day. spreading throughout the nation.
Beaders of the movement are prevent
ing violence everywhere. They have is
sued a manifesto demanding assurances
that the peace negotiations be not
frustrated through •‘territorial demands
of the pan-Gemans."
Dispatches today indicated that at
Budapest the entire railway, tramway
and underground services had stopped.
Thirty-one separate strikers’ meetings
were held.
At Cracow great demonstrations were
reported. The shops have been ordered
closed and the public forbidden to con
gregate on the streets after 6 o'clock
at night.
At Vienna the strike movement was
reported spreading throughout upper and
lower Austria into -Bohemia and Mol
davia.
Emperor Karl, according to one re
port here, summoned the mayor of Gratz
to Vienna, but tge mayor telephoned to
the palace that the situation at Gratz
was "too serious for him to leave.”
Country Is Stirred by
Wilson's Peace Measure
ROME, Jan. 21.—Greatly stirred by
President Wilson's democratic outline
of war aims. Austria-Hungary is smol
dering with a blaze of opposition to mil
itarist Germany, according to reports to
the Vatican received from the papal nun
cio at «ienna.
It was understood he described the
situation in the dual monarchy as most
critical.
President Wilson's speech to congress,
it was asserted, has given a remarkable
impulse to democratic peace ideas in the
whole nation. Industrial chaos of more
than mere local nature is reported.
Grievous differences have developed be
tween Emperor Karl and the pan-Ger
man leaders.
The kaiser, it was declared, is trying
to smooth out these disagreements by
supporting Foreign Minister von Kuehl
mann against von Bulow, who is violent
ly hated in Austria,
The Corr:ere d’ltklia, the Vatican or
gan. declared positively today:
“We are facing a true Austrian pro
nunciamento against Ludendorff, Hoff
man and German imperialism."
Bvidence of Austria-Hungary's bitter
opposition to the junker annexationist
plans is accumulating in scores of re
ports seeping across the Austrian-Swiss
border and being received here. Aus
trian newspapers do not hesitate violent
ly to attack General Hoffman or Prince
von Bulow himself for imperialist plans
and for their acquiescence in the schemes
of the German junkers. Strikes are
spreading throughout the dual monarchy
—due not only to demand for food but
to the people’s opposition to continuance
of the war purely to satisfy militarist
and junker cliques. •
Strike Is Really Demand
for Peace, Dispatch Says
LONDON Jan. 21.—The strike move
ment is spreading throughout Austria-
Hungary and it is associated with a de
mand for immediate peace, according
to dispatches received in London from
Swiss and Dutch sources. A general
strike was declared at Buda Pest Fri
day, when the entire transport system
came to a standstill, while from all
parts of the dual empire strikes and
demonstrations are reported.
The food situation and the question
of peace were the -sole subjects of dis
cussion at the sitting of the budget
committee of the Austrian chamber of
deputies Friday. The Socialists,* ac
cording to the dispatches, described the
situation as extremely serious, and de
clared that peace could not be post
poned.
Count von Toggenburg, the minister
of the interior, told the deputies that
Count Czemfn, the Austrian foreign
minister, and Leon Trotzky, the Rus
sian foreign minister, exhibited many
similarities, which fact, he added, of
fered a guarantee that the negotiations
at Brest-Litovsk would go well.
The socialist party of Austria has
published a declaration stating that the
workmen will only calm down when the
government can undertake that it will
not allow the negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk to down on the territo
rial question and that the system of
food distribution will be reorganized.
A general strike Is on throughout
Austria, according to an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch from Parts today, which
reports 100.000 men quitting work in
Vienna and Neustadt, closing down .al'
the war factories.
The strikers are described as openly
anti-German, and the movement is both
political and economic, and especially
aimed at securing peace.
Public demonstrations, It is added,
have been held in many places at which
hostility was voiced toward Berlin for
trying to force the Austrians to con
tinue the war.
According to German advlees re
ceived here through Amsterdam, the
Frankfurter Zeitung sounds a note of
disquietude regarding events In Aus
tria and their effect on the situation.
The Frankfurter Zeitung's Vienna cor
respondent Interprets the serious strikes
and outspoken press utterances as re-
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ROOSEVELT SCORED
BY SENATOR STONE
IN SENATE SPEECH
Terms Ex-President “Most Po
tent Agent the Kaiser Has in
America”—Charges Republi
cans With Playing Politics
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The great
est political debate in the senate since
the United States went to war burst
out today when Senator Stone, disre
garding the advice of other administra
tion captains, arraigned lenders or the
Republican party as playing politics
with the war with the object of taking
the government into their own hands
by partisan criticism.
Fully prepared to reply, the Republi
can leaders took copious notes of the
denunciation and gave it closest atten
tion.
Making his general charges in most
vigorous terms, Senator Stone dramat
ically marshalled his “witnesses” as if
before a court, to prove them.
Senator Penrose came first; then
Chairman Willcox, of the Republican
national committee, and lastly, the
“star" witness, Colonel Roosevelt, whom
Senator Stone denounced as “the most
potent agent the kaiser has in Ameri
ca,” and "the most seditious man of
consequence in America.”
Depsite several conferences with
otbar leaders who were apprehensive of
a speech at this time the Mis-
■OWt senator delivered his speech with
characteristic emphasis and gestures,
and in full, and the Republicans openly
prepared to meet the onslaught.
Characterizing former President Roose
velt as “the most potent agent the kaiser
has in America,” and “the most seditious
man of consequence in America,” Sena
tor Stone addressing the senate today,
charged that Republican leaders are en
gaged in a studied effort to make poli
tics out-of the war. Their object is to
“take the government over into their
own hands” by partisan criticism of the
conduct of the war, he declared.
Senator Stone’s address, carefully pre
pared, the first of political significance
made in congress since the United
States entered the war, and regarded as
the forerunner of bitter partisan strife,
excoriated partisanship in the war. Be
sides Colonel Roosevelt, the Missouri
senator named Chairman Willcox, of the
Republican national committee, and Sen
ator Penrose among Republican leaders
as his “witnesses” to the political plot
he alleged. Investigations by congress
of war operations, Senator Stone also
declared, have almost entirely been
launched by Republicans and adroitly
exploited for partisan purposes.
Citing statements the Republican
leaders regarding the political plans, and
editorials of Colonel Roosevelt, which,
he said, are “villianous screeds” pub
lished for money, Senator Stone de
clared:
Menace to War
‘•On my responsibility as a senator I
charge that since our entrance into the
war Roosevelt, by his attacks on gov
ernment, has been a menace and ob
struction to the successful prosecution
of the war.
'The only possible effect of these
widely published utterances of this
man," said Senator Stone, “has been, as
they were designed to be, to discredit
and bring the present government into
public disfavor and*weaken .ts hold on
popular confidence. That seems to be
the Rooseveltian standard of patriot
ism.
Similar utterances made by less pow
erful citizens, Senator Stone asserted,
would subject them to prosecution for
disloyalty.
"Os all men,” the Missouri senator
continued, "Roosevelt Is most responsi
ble for what he denounces. He does his
work cunningly. In the front of his
propaganda he throws a deceptive polit
ical camouflage. I charge that Theo
dore Roosevelt, whether willingly or out
of sheer madness—l do not know—is
the most potent agent the kaiser has
in America.”
The Republican plans he cited. Sen
ator Stone said, have been "adroitly di
rected.”
Acting tn Concert
•’Many if not all Republican sena
tors,” he asserted, "are acting in mani
fest concert, with dominant Republican
leaders throughout the country to make
politics out of the war.”
As proof of Republican partisan plans
Senator Stone declared that there is no
need "to try to fool each other or to
fool the country," and declared that con
gressional Investigations of the war
proposed by Republicans were signi
ficant.
“There are various elements of dis
content in the country’. The natural dis
position of these discontented elements
will be to strike blindly at the party
in power. Therefore, in away, Republi
cans ally themselves with these discord
and elements of unrest.
“But I especially protest against and
denounce the effort to put forward un
der the guise of patriotism to disparage
this congress and the present adminis
tration, to excite a wider feeling of dis
content and lack of confidence, and to
spread the poison of this impression
broadcast. Plainly this sort of move
ment Is afoot.”
As proof of this charge which. Senator
Stone said, he presented “deliberately
and regretfully,” the Republicans are
“harping” on alleged administration
blunders and staking their political
fortunes upon their criticisms.
Scores Penrose
“First I present the Honorable Boise
Penrose," Senator Stone continued, “who
as a great leader of the foremost Re
publican state, very properly occupies
the front seat in the Republican nation
al sanhedrin "
Citing alleged statements of Senator
Penrose that the Republican leaders
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ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, DIS.
liras WIT TBilt
OF ESCAPED CONViETS
*
Men Reported to Have Headed
Straight for Swamps Along
Chattahoochee River
After following a hot trial for almost
ten hours, a posse of more than a score
of county policemen, guards and special
officers, Monday noon temporarily aban
doned the chase of Dan Carr, J. P. Keel
and Jack Lunsford, three white convicts
who escaped about 1 o’clock Monday
morning from the Utoy convict camp.
The convicts evidently headed straight
for the dense swamps and thickets along
the Chattahoochee river and were last
heard of shortly after daybreak, when
they- passed the Owl Rock church In
Campbell county, some eight or nine
miles from Utoy camp.
Although the trail led down the pub
lic road for a considerable distance .n
Campbell county, the fugitives finally
succeeded in evading the blood hounds
leading the posse of officers and it was
found impossible to again pick it up.
The posse returned to the camp short
ly before noon to reorganize and renew
the chase, covering a larger territory.
Telegrams have been sent to surround
ing towns to warn the,authorities of the
escape. | ‘
Carr, who is a giant of a man, is serv
ing a sentence for holding up a street
car in the suburbs of Atlanta more than
a year ago, and it is feared that he will
give battle if brought to bay by his
pursuers.
With the three convicts already men
’ioned was Loyd Brewer, a soldier serv
ng a t welve-months' sentence for a mis
.'cmeanor. The quartM escaped simul
aneously from the Utoy camp, but
Brewer was recaptured within a few
hours near the intersection of Dill and
Stewart avenues. Deputy Warden Chas.
Cates, Guard Head and County Officer
Hornsby malting the capture.
Carr and Keel made their escape from
the gang only a few months ago, but
were recaptured within a day or two
and since that time extra precautions
have been taken to prevent a repetition
of the incident, but tn some manner they
procured a hacksaw and working Inter
mittently. managed to cut through their
shackles Sunday night without attract
ing the attention of the guard.
When the guard went to build a fire
in the camp kitchen shortly after mid
night, all four convicts made a break
and smashed the outside lock on the
guard room, dashing into the thick
woods along Utoy creek.
Carr has fifteen years to serve, while
Keel is under a ten-year sentence. The
night guard at the camp was discharged
immediately after the convicts made
their escape.
Execution of Objectors’
Sentences Is Granted
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Immediate
execution of all sentences against those
the supreme court found guilty of vio
lating the select service law, except Em
ma Goldmann and Alexander Berkrßan.
was asked by the government in the
court today.
A stay until February 21 of the order
as it would affect Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman, the New York an
archist. was granted on request of Har
ry Weinberger, their attorney.
A rehearing on their case will be
asked on the grounds that the evidence
against the anarchists was not sufficient
to convict them of conspiracy against
the selective service act.
Both Miss Goldman and Berkmapn
are now out on $25,000 bail. The re
quest was immediately granted by Chief
Justice White. Usually such orders are
not sent out until the end of the term
of court.
Keet Kidnapers Get
Long Terms in Prison
MARSHFIELD, Mo., Jan. 21.—Taylor
Adams and his son, Cletus Adams,
charged with kidnapping Bally Lloyd
Keet and also with conspiring to abduct
C. A. Clement, a Springfield jeweler,
entered pleas of guilty here today. Tay
lor Adams was sentenced to fifteen
years in the and Cletus
Adams to ten years.
Pyromaniac Confesses
Firing U. S. Warehouse
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Frederick
L. Woodward, a private in the army
quartermaster corps, confessed today
that he started the fire which threaten
ed the quartermaster storehouse here
last week and destroyed $50,000 worth
of food and other supplies.
An official statement says Woodward
declare?! himself a pyromaniac and had
in 1916 fired a lodging house in Wor
cester, Mass.
Royal Arcanum Bill Dismissed
BOSTON, Jan. 21.—Federal Judge
Hale today dismissed a bill in equity
filed by Arthur S. Cummings and James
E. Upstone, of New Hampshire, seeking
the appointment of a receiver for the
supreme council. Royal Arcanum.
GEORGIA’S FIRST
WAR HERO COMES
HOME WOUNDED
Private Tatum, Shot Through
the Knee “Going Over Top,”
Passes Through Atlanta En
Route to Tifton
Expressing profound regret that he
cannot qualify again for military serv
ice as the result of an injured knee.
W. E. Tatum, Georgia's first wounded
hero of the war to return from
the European battlefronts, stopped in
Atlanta for anl hour Monday morning
en route to his home in Tifton. Ga.
Private Tatum was a member of com
pany A. One Hundred and Sixteenth in
fantry, that reached a French port June
14, on the way to the war zone. He
returned to this country December 17.
Before going to Europe, Tatum was in
active service with his company along
the Mexican border.
Despite the fact he had received the
French croix de guerre in recognition
of his services and was honorably dis
charged from active duty with the
American army because of his injured
right knee, which was almost shattered
by a bullet from the German side of
No Man’s Land, Tatum modestly told
the story of his experiences without
manifesting any evidence of ostentation.
He brought home several interesting
souvenirs of the war, including a piece
of a torpedo from a German subma
rine that struck an American transport
on which he was a passenger. He alsq
had a strap taken from a German air
plane that fell behind the French lines.
Uppermost in his mind was the
thought that he soon would be home
with his mother, who was waiting for
him in Tlftoh. He expressed his
chagrin, however, because he could not
get back into the fight against the
kaiser's men.
"I regret very keenly that I should
have been incapacitated so early in the
war,” said Tatum to one of the passen-.
gers on the train, which arrived here
Monday morning from Washington.
“This is a great war and I wanted to
stay at the front to show the Huns what
Uncle Sam’s men could do in this fight
for humanity and democracy. We are
out to win and every man with our
country's forces in Europe feels just
that way about it.
*T am glad, however, to return to
Georgia to see my mother, hut I hope it
will be possible for me to get into the
trenches again some day. Before leav
ing France I tried to persuade the of
ficers to allow me to get back into ac
tive service in the quartermaster de
partment.”
Tatum is a robust-looking young man
of twenty-four’years— the type of soldier
of whom Uncle Sajn is proud to send into
battle against the Prussians. He said
he was wounded in the right knee by a
stray German bullet one day while he
was "going over the top after Fritz.”
| Georgia’s first war hero has returned
| and Tifton is rejoicing over the arrival
’of her honored son.
M’flDOO OPPOSED TO
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Thinks, However, Control of
Roads Should Continue
After War Ends
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Director
General McAdoo told the senate com
merce committee today he thought the
government should retain operation of
the realroads for some time after peace
comes and not return them to private
ownership until new and comprehensive
laws have been enacted to govern
them.
Director General McAdoo ddnied that
he had anything to do with the fuel
restriction order issued. He said he
approved of the order and thought it
would be very beneficial.
"It should be borne in mind,” said Mc-
Adoo, “that by the end of the war the
public and shippers will be accustomed
I to dealing with the and I
I ain convinced that a thorough time
should be given at the end of the war
before the railroads are turned back to
their owners.”
An entirb new situation, he thought,
would be faced when peace came that
would have to be met by new and com
prehensive laws and that it would be I
injurious to the stockholders to throw
the railroads back into private operation,
without first adopting "comprehensive
and rational legislation.” This, he
thought, would take time.
Against Ownership
“Do you personally believe in govern
ment ownership,” asked .Senator Wit
son.
"No,” replied Mr. McAdoo, ‘but 1 do
believe it will be impossible to turn the
roads back to their owners under ex
actly the same system by which they
were operated when the government took
them over. There must be some form of
government control.”
Senator Watson asked If the railroads,
under government control, would not
continue to operate under their old man
agement except for orders from time to
time by the director general.
The fundamental principles of opera
tion have been changed by orders al
ready given, Mr. McAdoo said, and others
are in contemplation which change en
tirely the routine of traffic.
WELD ORDER
\ MAY DE MODIFIED
8¥ FEBRUARY 15
First of Ten Fuelless,Mondays
Finds People of Nation Co
operating With Order for
Fuel Conservation
s
Only 19 Business
Days in February
There will be only nineteen busi
j ness days in February.
Besides four combinations of Sun
day and Monday holidays, there is
one regular legal holiday—Washing
ton's birthday on the c22d.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Within thir
ty days application of the Garfield Mon
day holiday order may be discontinued.
Director General McAdoo declared today
before the senate interstate commerce
committee.
Summoned before . the committee to
explain further the proposed operation
of the railroads under federal control,
McAdoo declared the "holiday” .probably
will not be necessary beyond the mid
dle of P'ebruary.
Business activity generally east of
the Mississippi river was suspended to
day for the first of the series of ten heat
iess Mondays ordered by the fuel admin
istration to release coal for private con
sumption and trans-Atlantic shipping.
At the same time manufacturing
plants throughout the east were idle for
the fourth Successive day in compli
ance with the administration’s five-day
closing order, effective last Friday and
designed also to save coal and assist
materially in relieving the traffic con
gestion.
Fuel officials declared there had been
a radical change of feeling in the coun
try regarding the orders. Industries
were co-operating fully, they said, and
virtually complete acquiescence was ex
pected of concerns affected by the Mon
day closing program begun today.
Although this order only forbids the
use of fuel for heating, officials were
sure business would cease and Dr. Gar
field last night issued a direct request
that all retail establishments, except
food and drug stores, close their doors
for the day. Theaters, whose closing
day was changed to Tuesday, by a
special ruling Saturday, opened as usual.
Owners and leaders of office buildings
today received requests to observe the
spirit as well as the letter of the order
and operate no lights and elevators ex
cept for the use of exempted persons
or concerns such as dentists and doc
tors who are housed in their buildings.
Stores handling food, permitted to
keep open until noon by the original
order, were granted special dispensation
last night under which they may sell
goods throughout the day. Drug stores
are expected to use fuel for the sale of
drugs only, but officials pointed out that
there was no way to prohibit the eale
, of other articles unless store proprietors
followed the intent of the order.
Handicapped by another cold wave,
covering the greater part of the country
east of the Rockies and adding to the
winter’s record of the severest weath
er in recent years, railroads endeavor
ed to increase the movement of coal to
favored classes and straighten the
freight tangle.
Reports at the office of the fuel ad
ministration said that the supply to
householders and steamship interests
had been increased but officials direct
ing the railroads asserted there was lit
tle hope for material improvement in
traffic conditions until the weather mod-
I erated.
Those who have urged a general em
bargo against shipments of freight from
i plants shut down by the closing order
i still believed today that such action i
1 would be necessary before the conges- ■
I tion is improved. A general embargo
on freight was put into operation on the
Pennsylvania railroad today and other
roads are expected to institute similar
embargoes on other heatless Mondays if
the jam Is not broken.
New York Streets Nearly
Deserted; Business Ceases
NEW YORK, Jan. 21. —Almost de- |
serted streets in the downtown busi
ness section and shiping district gave
evidence today that industrial New
York generally observed the first of the
I "heatless Mondays.” Skyscraper office
buildings virtually were untenanted; I
doors; hundreds of factories and small
business houses were idle. All trans
portation lines in the city and com
muting service were run on holiday
schedules, food stores were open, as
were specially exempted industries but
many of them operated on a restricted
basis.
The New York stock exchange opened
for business but without heat and banks
did business as usual. Saloons were I
privileged to open until sunset on con- i
dition that they did not use either fuel i
or light. Local fuel i
even forbade the use of lamps, lanterns i
or candles as substitutes for gas or
electricity.
To assist the fuel administrators In
enforcing the order a special force of I
detectives under United States Marshal
McCarthy was detailed for duty, as
sisted by volunteer workers from vari
ous federal and city departments. The
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NUMBER 34.
SENATE DEMOCRATS .
LEM DECISION DF
PRESIDENT TO FIGHT
, Measure Introduced in Senate
by Chairman Chamberlain,
of Military Affairs Commit
tee, Despite Opposition
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Presidenl
Wilson has served notice on Democratic
leaders in the senate that he will use
all his influence and power to beat the
bill to create a war council.
“The president will fight to the fin
ish,” was the word brought to the cap
ito! today.
Establishment of a war cabinet of
"three distinguished citizens of demon
strated executive ability” is provided in
the senate military committee's bill, as
introduced today by Chairman Chamber
lain.
Despite the president's announced de
termination to oppose the bill with all
his resources, it was introduced in the
senate today as planned, by Chairman
Chamberlain, of the military committee,
and with the approval of practically all
the democrats of the committee, who
showed no disposition to recede.
Members of congress saw in the sit
uations the making of an historical con
test between the executive and con
gress.
President Wilson told the leaders
with whom he consulted today that he
considered the creation of a war coun
cil would take the personal direction
of America’s part in the conflict out of
his hands and likened it to the attempts
to curtail the authority of President
Lincoln.
Senator Chamberlain’s action follow
ed conferences between President Wil
son and Senators Martin and Simmons,
democratic leders, today, at which the
president* announced his opposition to
the measure.
That one of the most vigorous fights
In congress “will ensue over the bill ap
pears certain. The president has enter-*
ed the lists against the measure, call
ing in numerous legislators today for
conferences at The white house. He
talked with Majority Leader Kitchin and
Representatives Kahn and Dent of the
house military committee among others
—apparently to frustrate ac
tion on the bill.
The war cabinet, the bill provides, shall
be appointed by the president with the
consent of the senate and is to have
the following jurisdiction authority:
“To consider, devise and formulate
plans and policies, general and special
for the effectual conduct and vigorous
prosecution of the existing war and.
.... to direct and procure the exe
cution of-the same.
“To supervise, co-ordinate, direct and
control the functions ana activities of
all executive departments, officials and
I agencies of the government insofar as,
in the judgment of the war cabinet,, it
may be necessary or advisable ....
for the effectual conduct and vigorous
prosecution of the existing war.
"To consider and determine, upon its
own motion or upon submission to it.
subject to review by the president, ail
differences and questions relating to the
conduct and prosecution of* the war that
may arise between any such depart
ments, officials and agencies of the gov
ernment.”
Another section would give the war
cabinet power to use the service of any
or all executive departments and bu
reaus.
Subject to review by the president, the
proposed cabinet would have authority
to make any necessary orders to any de
partment or bureau and all the necessary
rules and regulations. The secretaries
of war and navy are directed to assign
to the cabinet such commisisoned offi
cers as may be requested, and the pres
ident may appoint other officials to
! serve as subordinates to the cabinet
each with a salary of $12,000 annually.
An intial appropriation of $500,000 is
proposed. •
A provision limiting the life of the
war cabinet to six after the ter
mination of the war, or at any earlier
date after peace, which the president
may designate is provided.
The cabinet would be given authority
over construction of appropriation acts,
subject to the president’s revision.
SIO,OOO Damage Suit
Settled With Consent
Verdict for Only $25
A SIO,OOO damage suit was settled for
$25 and costs Monday morning in Judge
George L. Bell’s division of the Fulton
superior court, when a consent verdict
was taken in favor of Mrs. A. C. Nichols
against the Superior Motor company.
The suit was brought in behalf of
Clarence Nichols, a minor,- who, It was
alleged, was injured by being caught in
an elevator shaft in the company's plant
on October 1, 1917. The plaintiff was
represented by the firm of Dorsey, Shel
ton & Do«-sey.
Intoxicants on Train
Seized; Two Arrested
ALBANY, Ga.. Jan. 21.—One thou
sand bottles of beer and one hundred
bottles of whisky comprised a haul
made by Sheriff O. F. Tarver and depu
ties from the northbound Seminole lim
ited Saturday morning. R. C. Ken
nedy and J. S. Bates, two Smithville
men, were arrested on the charge of
bringing the intoxicants from Florida.
The beer and whisky would have been
worth more than SI,OOO at the prices
prevailing in this section when sold by
blind tigers. The two men were lock
ed up in the cells at the Dougherty
county jaiL
