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Newspaper Page Text©lje Atlanta Sawrnal VOL. XXII. NO. 37. , ffIIOWOGE TO, ■ s WEIWW IBEffl IK SENATE ,Reservation sts Declare Vis- ; 'count Grey’s Card in Lon don Paper Will Hasten Ratification WASHINGTON, Felj. 2.—A re newal of senate debate on the peace treaty next week was regarded ’as virtually assured today when -Re publican leaders decided to join with the Democrats in the movement to bring the treaty -back into the open senate. Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, gave notice' today that he , ' would move on next Monday to suspend the rules and proced to consnderation of the treaty. The Democrats already had announced they would, make a similar motion Tuesday of next week. In the form proposed by Senator Lodge the motion will require a two .thirds majority, but the general pre diction was more than that number would support it. Not only those who favored ratification in some form, but some of the treaty’s irrec oncilable foefe are ready to vote to reopen the debate. Should Senator Lodge’s motion' fail, however, the motion of the Democratic leaders the. following day will be- ip such form tliat f only a majority would be necessary to pkss it, the' p'aats* leaders say. The Dem ocrats i?ph,tertd that no. suspension 1 of the ruJAs would be necessafy to take up the treaty and that position is expected to be upheld by Vice President Marshall. On appeal from his decisjafa, a majority only, would, ’’be needed-, to sustain him.- . Senator Lodge’s announcement, made jusg. after th.e senate met, ap parently astounded Democratic sen-, ators wife-asked him to repeat it.' The surprise was due to the fact that last -week Senator -Walsh, of Montana, gave notice on behalf of Senator Hitchcock that the latter would move on February 10, to take up the treaty. Senator Lodge thus forestalled Sen ator Hitchcock by. setting the date of h'is. motion one day ahead of Sen ator Hireh'cock’s. < “J sincerely hope,” said Senator Lodge, in making his announcement, "that unanimous consent will not be ’ refused.’ If it is, I shall make the necessary motion.” ‘Why wait- so long?"- asked Sen ator Ashurst, Arizona, Democrat. "Why not tomorrow or next day?” "I’ll say to the senator,” replied Senator? Lodge, “that I’ve given that consideration. But so many senators are absent that I think it better to wait until next, Monday.” ■ Senator "Lodge’s ' decision was reached after conferences with other Republicans and a study of the rec ord of the treaty debate in the last Session. Democratic and Republican lead ers are understood to be preparing reservations to offer as soon as the treaty again is before the’ senate. In some quarters it was predicted many of the points at issue soon -would be eliminated by an agreement on the basis of the work done by the In formal bi-partisan compromise com mittee. The possibility that open de bate would facilitate agreement on article ten and the Monroe doctrine, however, was regarded by many of the senators as remote. The letter of Viscount Grey, for mer British ambassador here, to the London Times, in which he said American reservations to the peace treaty were justified from an Ameri can point of view, was believed hero today to have- hastened ratification. wl'.j favor reservations held that Grey’s letter took the ground out from under those mem bers who, were against any reserva tions whatever, and who have said that the allies would not accept them. It was pointed out that Brit ain, the principal associate of the United folates in the War, expressed through Viscount Grey a willingness to accept many of the reservations which have been proposed. His at titude, and the fact that he even went so far as to argue in favor of certain American reservations, is * expected to strengthen the stand of senators who favor quick reserva tion on a compromise basis, even if practically all of the Lodge reserva tions have to be accepted. Senators • today were watching closely for some sign of what the White House thinks about the Brit ish attitude. President Wilson’s stand all along has been that he could not accept changes in the treaty or the League of Nations covenant, because he had signed the original documents, thus promising the allies that they would be ac cepted by the United States. • Viscount Grey’s letter, it was be lieved, gives the president ah excel lent opportunity to change this po sition, if he so desires. In .fact, some senators thought Viscount Grey, had almost invited him to do so. The former ambassador’s letter represents the official policy of Great Britain oward American rati fication, it is understood here. While he was in Washington he consulted with many senators and "sized up"’ the situation at first hand, want home and reported to his goverment, and shortly there after wrote his letter to the Lon don Times. Campbell Grand Jury, Organized Monday, to Utudy Bradstreet Case AIRBURN. Ga„ Feb. 2.—The Court of Campbell county and the Ck_s obeli county grand jury as sembled here this morning to con > sidcr. among other matters, the cases of William B. Green, Mrs. Catherine ’ Queen Bradstreet and her husband. Clarence Bradstreet, charged -with embezzlement from the Fairburn Backing company. i Organization of. the ■ -grand jury was effected today. It is probable that evidence against Green and the Bradstreets will not be submitted un fil Tuesday, when witnesses have been summoned 'to' appear. Solicitor George M. Napier will represent the state in presenting- the evidence. If indictments are returned against the three, the trials will be set for next week, as this is civil week in the court and next week is criminal ■ week. The state, is is understood, will ask for separate trials for each fiefapdant in case of indictments. LEADERS OF BOTH PARTES TO FIGHT AGAINST MEASURE • 1 <*•* ’ Senator. Borah and Other Republicans and Senator McKellar and Other Dem ocrats Against Bill WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—Party lines apparently have been wiped out in the senate in a growing move ment in opposition to universal military training. Members on both sides of the chamber are preparing to attack the senate army reorgani zation bill’s training provisions. On tne Republican side. Senators-- Borah, La‘Follette, Gronna, Capper and Lenroot are among the leading opponents of the plan. Senators Mc- Kellar and Sheppard, among Demo crats, have already declared against iL < Senator Borah today issued a for mal statement of his position. Aft er pointing out that universal train ing will add a heavy burden to the tax payers, he said: "But aside from the question of taxes, I have come to the conclusion that we do not want and do not need universal military training in this country. Militarism is just the same in a republic as it is anywhere else, as we have found out. Universal training and conscription in peace time are the top roots of militarism: I am opposed to both.” NEWMEMBERSOF WILSON CABINET TAKE THEIR SEATS WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Edwin T. Meredith of Des Moines, lowa, be came a member of the .cabinet today, succeeding David F. Houston as sec retary of agriculture. Mr. Houston was sworn in at noon as secretary of the treasury, replacing Carter Glass, who took his seat in the sen ate to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Martin, of Vir ginia. ! Mr. Meredith, the new agricultural department, is the pditor of the “Suc cessful Farming.” and president of the Associated ""Advertising Clubs of the World. He also is a director of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank and was one of the excess-profit ad visors of, the treasury department. Secretary Glass, then a member of the house of representatives, from Virginia, -was appointed about a year ago to succeed William G. McAdoo as secretary of the treasury. U. S. Aviators, Released By Mexicans, Cross Rio Grande at Laredo SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 2. Lieutenants E. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes, United States aviators who have been, held by Mexican authori ties since Wednesday 'last, when they made a forced landing near Guerrero, were released at Nuevo Laredo yesterday afternoon and crossed the Rio Grande to Laredo, Tex., Colonel J. E. Fochet, south ern department air service officer, announced last night. .. >. The aviators were released by or der of General Reynaldo Garza, com mander of the garrison at Nuevo Laredo, after a conference with Major Julian F. Saenz, commander at Matamoras, who accompanied the aviators to Nuevo Laredo. General Garza and Major Saenz called at the American consulate and informed Randolph Robertson, United States consul, who had ac companied the aviators , from- Guer rero, where he had gone to look into the circumstances of their de tention, that it would not be nec essary to' take them before General Murguia at Monterey, according -to reports to Colonel Foahet from La redo. Lieutenant Stoner, an aviator wit-h station at Laredo, was sent to San Rafael Las Tortillas, 30 miles west of Guerrero, and returned with the. airplane of Lieutenants Davis and Grimes, announced. German War Guilty Must Be Tried by Allies Separately PARIS, Feb. 2.—The council of ambassadors today approved a draft of the allied reply to the German note asking moderation in the terms of the peace treaty demanding sur render of German war guilty. 3 The allies" reply will point out, It was learned, that under the terms of the treaty trial of the Teuton war guilty by the allies must be sepa rate from any German trial. Baron Kurt von Lersner, head of the German delegation here, will re ceive the allied reply tomorrow, ac cording to the council’s plans. At tne request of the French rep resentative, who pointed out Ger many is more than 1,000,000 tons of coal a month behind in her coal de liveries to France, the council de cided to ask Germany to speed up deliveries. There now is more coal per capita in Germany than in France, it was claimed. Hereafter the Belgian ambassador will attend the council’s meetings wjien matters of interest to Bel gium come up for discussion. Alleged Red to Get Hearing m Savannah SAVANNAH. Ga.. Feb. 2.—Martin Roentsch, Savannah's only alleged representative on the list cf reds marked for deportation, be given a hearing Friday before the local immigration commissioner. Roetsch recently spent some; time fn’the west s.nd it is alleged while there he joined a body of Socialists that later went oyer in a body to the Com n'-unist- party. York Escapes Knife and Returns to His Home NASH! II.LU. Tenn., 2.— Ser geant Alvin York, world’s war hero. • cached Nashville from New England yesterday, and after an ex amination by physicians' had deter mined that lie did not have appendi citis, went on to his home at Pall Mall. The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal That name carries good news to you, doesn’t it? And the paper will be better than its name. On March 9th The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal that has been coming to you twice each week, will be changed to The Atlanta Tri-J Weekly Journal, and will then come to you , Three-Times-A-Week In other words, instead of getting your Journal only twice-a-week, as heretofore, you will then get it every other day. The price of The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal will be $1.50 a year, payable in advance, but it will come to all Semi-Weekly Journal subscribers with out any additional cost to them until their subscrip tion expires. So if you are, paid in advance it will not cost you any more. 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D...i State ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1920. FLYNT APPHOHES GEORGE HUH FOB PBESIDEKCV Chaii'hiaii of State Demo- ciaiic Committee Says Preferential Primary Sur est Method Judge James J. Flynt, chairman of the Democratic state executive com mittee, on Monday stated that he is very much in favor of holding a pref erential primary to determine the choice of Georgia Democrats for the Democratic presidential nomination. The state executive committee will meet in Atlanta next Friday morn ing, February 6. at 10 o’clock, in the convention hall of the Kimball House, for ‘he purpose of deciding what method shall prevail in deter mining 'Georgia’s choice. Two methods .of procedure will be considered by the committee: 1. Whether to have a preferential primary, in which the Democrats of Georgia would make their choice among the candidates for the Demo cratic presidential information, or so many of the candidates as were en titled to a place on the ballot by vir tue of having their names filed by the requisite number of voters. 2. Whether' to have a state con vention of delegates elected by the county executive committees, tins convention to select the members of Georgia’s delegation to the na tional convention, and to send them instructed for a narticular candidate or send them without instructions, which would leave them free, to make their own choice after they got to San Francisco. In the newspapers Sunda?/ appear ed a statement by J. H. Mills, pres ident of the Georgia Farmers’ union, strongly urging a preferential pri ' mary for Democratic presidential | candidates. , Judge Flynt’s T'owr Discussing the matter Monday, | Judge Flynt, of Griffin, chairman of ; the state executive had the following to say: ‘'Speaking as one member of the committee, I would like very much to have a preferehtial primary. It would afford the Democrats of Geor gia an opportunity to express them selves concerning the candidates for > the presidential nomination of their | party, and to express also their I views on certain matters of national | party policy. It would remove all I doubt as to Which of the candidates was rhe ehoigp- of the party In Georgia, and would enable the Geor gia" -delegation to proceed to San Francisco with definite instructions “The only difficult that oopurs to .me in connection with holding a preferential primary Is how to pro vide i’dr the expense. I would like for members of the state executive committee, and other interested Democrats, to "but their minds on ( the subject and present suggestions as to how to finance the cost of the primary. I believe if this question can be adjusted satisfactorily, there .11 oe nothing in the way of hold ing a primary. "One suggestion has been to un ,dertake to bring the counties to gether on a uniform date for their county primaries, and to hold the preferential primary on that date, merging the two together without additional expense to the county candidates. This would seem to be a solution if some counties had not held their primaries already, and if the others could be-brought to gether to agree on a uniform date. The state executive committee, course, would have no authonty to require them to have the same date, though I have no doubt that a re quest from the state committee would be given due consideration.” The 1912 Primary Georgia’s last preferential pri mary was held in 1912, vffien Wood row Wilson and Oscar Underwood were the contesting candidates for the nomination in this state. Walter P. Andrews, Atlanta law yer, who assisted In the manage ment of the Wilson campaign, a.nd Hollins N. Randolph, Atlanta law yer, who managed the Underwood campaign, have the same recollec tion concerning the manner in which the cost of that primary was financed. I "My recollection.” said Mr. An drews Monday, “is that the state ex ecutive committee requested the county executive committee to make their own arrangements for defray ing the expense of the primary, and suggested that friends of the op posing .candidates would probably 'be glad to volunteer their services :is managers and clerks. The num ber of polling precincts was cut down in some of the large counties, to reduce the number of managers and clerks needed. In a great ma jority of counties, if I remember I correctly the friends of the candi ; dates volunteered their services in ; the manner suggested, and the pri i mary went off nicely with very lit '■ tie expense.” i Said Mr. Randolph: “My reCol ; lection coincides with that of Mr. ; I believe the expense of ; printing the ballots was borne by ! the friends of the candidates. The [ballots were printed under the su ' pervision of the state executive ! committee. and were distributed i among the counties by the state i committee. There were only/ a few •counties, if I remember correctly; where it was necessary to pay the managers and clerks, as there was a general willingness to serve for the purpose of enabling the Democratic voters to express themselves."' Plans an Artificial Eclipse of the Sun iNEW YORK, Feb. 2A—ElinilmGion of urn.- . intles and long delays i. study inp ct ic-stiai phenomena from [ altitudos above 30,000 feet willl be ; afleetc-.i under plans teihg matur-J j by Da’-1 - Todd, of Amherst college, according to ar. announce ment made here I-,- the Aero os • Americ.. - ' * ' Pi of. Todd plar.s to - te eel.pros ihe sm. using a blr.c.i b.:.doo;; as e shade i:. front! of sit .nscending ahplane. .r b»l- Icc:, will shut off the ray:- of the I sun, and by equipping the airplane with the "supor-ehargei’.” prevent ing loss of engine power in rarified air, accurate data on the sun's 1 co- I rona can obtained. SfEN’TS A CO!" $1.25 A YE.vr HIM PLOT 008KIKHW., SAYS PROSECUTOR iVast Sums Spent for Cor ruption, He Charges—Says ! Newberry Tried to Pick . Democratic Opponent GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. Jan. 2. The fraudulent election conspiracy which the* government charge: i against United States Senator New j berry and his co-defendants. had IL | inception in New York in 1917, ac i cording to the opening statement ‘which Frank C. Dailey, assistant ai -1 torney general, made to the jury in j federal court here today. He named Senator Newberry and Frederic-v I Cody, whom he described as “a legis ; lative agent for large corporations. ! particularly the American Telephone ' •and Telegraph company and ths ! American Book company,” as the • men who made the "preliminary ai- rangements.” He added: “They had determined to purchase I the United States senatorship in I Michigan for Mr. Newberry." : Mr. Dailey told the jury the sen: - •tor was then on "patriotic work” js (New York City as a lieutenant con. f : mantier in the navy, adding tha . I the American Book company "wa ' • largely controlled by the Barne I family, to which Mr. Newberry wu.- related by marriage.” • Mr. Dailey said Cody was con.- i missioned to hire a manager for th-' [campaign and that J. G. Hayden. Washington correspondent of th Detorit News, was offered SSOO a month but refused the position b". cause "he did not want that kind oi i a job.” Mr. Dailey said solicita [ tions of Hayden ceased sudden!; I after the latter had advised M, Newberry “not to conduct a ‘barr<. 1 campaign.’ ” | Mr. DailAy then shifted the seem :to Detroit, where he said in Febru i ary there was a conference of Mier, igan politicians known as "Cod. men.” This conference, he sale, selected Paul H. King, one of Th defendants, as manager of the can; paign. Posed for Movies "During the campaign.” said Mr Dailey, “Mr. King visited practical!; every county in Michigan. He em ployed many general agents and pair out a vast sum of money." The prosecutor then sketched tl;- pubiicity campaign of the Newbevr. organization. charging that ths - sought advertising space in “ever, newspaper and magazine in th' state. " He named several publioa tions in which he said the advert! ing appeared, including Russian. Ft’- uish, Italian and Hungarian net/; papers, “and some published in th German language.” He then turned, to the use of mo ing pictures, saying Thomas R. Phi' lips, of Detroit, one of the defend ants, was sent to New York to no gotiate for them. "Phillips purchased about’ l.Vv't feet of an old film showing a revie •> of the United States' navy,” said Mr Dailey. "The sub-titles were chang ed so as to make the pictures applic able to the propaganda for whiei they were intended. Mr. Phillip.- also employed a moving picture com ; pany tq take 125 feet of new films. "Mr. Newberry posed in variou attitudes in the new film. He wen to a battleship located on dry kin in a New York park and stood on th bridge of the ship and turned slow!; to face the audience while the earner caught him in this attitude. “He next played that he was pay ing a visit of inspection to tin battleship. "To divert attention from the fee that the film wits a Nbwberry adver tisement and render it more mislead ing, the film terminated with an ap peal for enlistments in the navy." Mr. Dailey said the film was dis tributed in Michigan, advertised b Newberry agents posing as theatr. cal advance men but that “patrons o the moving picture houses over th state paid, the regular price of ad mission to see this film.” Tied to Piok Opponent . The prosecutor read a telegram which lie said was sent in Septem | her, 1918, to Colonel Theodore Rooc< • j velt at Oyster Buy. bidding for h!- approval of the Newberry candidacy He said this telegram was Signe. I Newberry Volunteer Committee. Charles A. Floyd, secretary.” The telegram stated that SI7G,OC i had been contributed to the cam [ paign by many subscribers but, ac cording to the prosecutor, the earn- ■ paign statement of the committc I showed that five contributors alon i gave $lo9)000, and named John it . Newberry, a defendant and brotbe [of the senator; Mrs. Henry B. Jo; ' a sister, and her husband, and Vis ! tor Barnes and Lyman E. Smith, c." ■ (lie American Book company. How the government charges tin money was scattered was describe i !in detail by Mr. Dailey. He said [ went, for automobiles and halls. ! workers at the polls. votes, ban ! quets, liquor, cigars and flowers. H<- [charged that some custodians os' I money used it to pay personal debts. • There was also, he said, a syste'i ’of gratuities; A SSO bill was place.J j in a bqok so that it could be found by one citizen, and a banker wc ! giver. SSOO fur his influence, tu? prosecutor charged. “They employed r. t:. to work par ticularly among railroad unions” said* Mr. Dailey. “They paid th • editor of a railroad magazine so ■ articles i;; the magazine and guv • him additional n.os.ey to atten I meetings of the union over th.; state." He sa.t: special- agents were hired to work among the Indians, lumber jacks, iiegtoes. fa.C_orv workers ami sailors on tlic Great laaea.. “They ingratiated themselves into the churches wherever possible > ' !he use of money,” continued M". Dailey. He said Senator Newberr" made a personal subscription to a church to further his candidacy. Bolsheviki Peace Proposal to Russia Reported Withdrawn W ASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—The pc“c - proposal submitted recently to Po land by soviet Russia has been with drawn, according to unofficial advices to the stale department today. No reason for this was given, hut it was thought that this might n further evidence that .the Bolshevi’ i intend to launch a spring off-ns^» against Poland.

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, February 03, 1920, Image 1