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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1921)
50 PER CENT ON $200,000 INCOMES PRESIDENT HARDING HAD ASKED THAT THE RATE BE SET AT FORTY PER CENT BOTH SIDES ARE SATISFIED Ninety-Four Republicans Swell Major ity Vote To 201 Over 172 Against The Amendment Washington. -Disregarding the ex pressed wish of President Harding, the house has voted 201 to 173 to accept the senate amendment to the tax revi sion hill fixing the maximum Income surtax at 60 per cent on incomes of f 200,000 or more. Nim four Republicans, most of! them from the Middle and far West, joined with the practically solid Demo cratic minority in supporting the amendment. Announcement of Urn result brought, applause irom both sides of the (ham her with some of the Democrats break ing inlo cheers. Three hours before the vote was taken, the house listened to the read ing of a letter from President Harding to ( hairmnn Fordney, of the ways end means committee, suggesting that the house and senate compromise. The president said that he believed the original house rate of 32 per cent was “nearer to a just levy and the more j promising one in returns to the public treasury." hut that, in view of the legis lative situation, the thought it "wholly desirable " that there be a compromise at 40 per cent. Opposes Pending Changes In Act Washington.— Warning was given tin interstate commerce committee of the senate recently by S. Davies War field. of r.altlmore, president of tin*' National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, that pending and proposed legislation amending the rail road reorganization act, If adopted, will re-open the whole question of gov ernment ownership of the railroads. This legislation, which includes the pending Capper hill and amendments which il is learned have been offered to the railroad refunding hill, striking directly at the financial rate-making power of the interstate commerce com mission and at tlie control by that commission over Intrastate rates that interfere with Interstate rate struc ture I* regarded with grave alarm by tiie security owners. These invest ment Interests believe that tills legis lation would destroy confidence in railroad securities and would defeat the purposes of the transportation act, one of which was to make possible tiie financing of the railroads other than by the government. World Imperiled Methodists Are Told Detroit. Mich. The Christian church must awaken the people of the world to the fact that a great peril confronts mankind, that the downfall of civilization Is not un thinkable. G. Stitt Wilson, of Berkeley, Cal., church lecturer, told degclates to the Methodist Episcopal conference here recently. “The ruthless passion for gain and economic power in in j dlviduals and nations has eaten into . them oral and spiritual fiber of the i world." he said. Hoy A. Haynes, fed oral prohibition commissioner, and a prominent Methodist Episcopal lay man, asked the church to continue its tight against liquor. Says Normal life Os Man 100 Years New York A movement to edu- i cate tie' people of the world to live ! one hundred years is suggested by Dr. Stephen Smith, 09 years old, who de clared in an address to members of tiie American l’ubltc Health associa tion recently that the Mosaic law limiting the span of life three score years and ten was all wrong. “.Ylose himself proved the falsity of the law I>\ living forty years beyond his own allotted time," he said. “He died ap parently in good health, for it is writ tin that. “His eyes was undimmed and hi; natural force unabated.’ ” Is Re-elected Farmer’s Union Head Topeka, Kans. -Charles s Barrett, of Union City, Ga.. was unanimously ! re-elected president of the National Fanner's union, at the annual con* vcntlon here recently. Elevated Trains Crash In Chicago Chicago.- One man was killed, twen ty live persons were injured, one of them probably fatally, when two five cur elevated train, loop-bound from the "’"t side were wrecked in a rear end collision at the Crawford avenue sta tion on the Oak Park line. Three steel coaches were demolished and several V '’.ims pinned beneath the wreckage F.jcmen with acetyh no torches cut through the twisted metal to reach tla :n. Tin re was much suffering, and heart-rending cries rent the air as the injured were taken out. Hriue Os David Is Not Immoral Grand Rapids. Mich Denial of «'■ urges of immorality brought hy John " Hansel and Mrs Hans'el. formerly o: Nashville. Tenn.. against the House of David, a religious colony at Benton Harbor. is mace in tiie answer to the Hansel suit- filed in federal district < -sir. he”e. The Hansels, expeled from the co.ony a year ago, are suing to re r: in property said to have been turned over to the cult when they were ad milted and for <-. t.ipensa’fon for serv -I'o- up to the time they were expelled from the cult AMERICA TO FORM AGENCY America Is Expected To Offer Set Os Principles On Far Eastern Que: in Shortly Washington.—The American govern ment is expected ultimately to pro pose the formation of a permanent in ternational agency for the discussion i and settlement of future disputes re lating to the far east. The agency would grow out of the j far eastern program the powers rep-' resented in the conference on arms- j inents are now waiting for Secretary Hughes to submit. The American proposals will be a set of principles for which It is hoped universal agreement can he obtained. ! They will ho broad in character, and will s< rve as the basis for the future : conduct of the nations in Asia. The j reduction of naval strength is predi j : cated on their acceptance. The international agency would be i to put those principles into force, 1 and lo discuss tiie differences that would arise in their application and 1 interpretation. It would he the substitute for force | which has heretofore been the means of settlement, and which the confer ence hopes to make obsolete, with all navies on a defensive footing. It would he the means through which the pow ers would discuss their disagreements. | and arrive at decisions. Having sought j to elimlnatethe eauees of war. the j agency would be an instrument to pre- j i vent creatlonof new causes for war. Differences would be certain to ! arise in the future, it is agreed, no 1 matter in how great accord the powers find themselves as to principles. One | power would interpret agreements in j away entirely different from another, j ! The dispute as to the meaning of the ! Banning Ishii agreement, and the j ! Hay • I’aunceforte treaty are cited as | cases in point. In the Lansing - Ishii agreement the question at issue was what America meant by two words — "the special Interests” of Japan in China, which she recogni/«<R What form the international agency would take —whether it would he a union, or concert, or conference of powers— remains to be determined. It might lie a permanent tribunal of some sort, or it might be a confes ence to meet at stipulated intervals, or when need arose. Two things are certain: It would not be a "league! of nations" anything like the league j that grew out of the world war, and it would not have force at its com mand. America would not accept such an organization, in light of the last election. The weapons of the ! powers would lie moral. Company Leases Muscle Shoals Plant Washington. Temporary lease of power plant No. 2, of the Muscle Shoals, Ala , project has been made to the Alabama Power company, sec retary Weeks announced. The lease was made in order that the Alabama company might supply power princi pally to the mills in Georgia, Alabama and the Oarolinas, which have been forced to close down because of \ drought in those states. Minister Led Posse To Hiding Slayer Chattanooga,, Tenn.—Gus A. King, who shot and killed Daniel D. Web ster, near Fort Payne, Ala., was ar rested at the entrance of Little river ! gulch, in the mountains near his home. [ The arrest was made by a posse led [ by Rev. J. G. Hlossingame, a Baptist : preacher. King was found while eat ing his breakfast. The preacher claims lie was led to King’s hiding place by prayer | Committee Refuses Ship Board Probe Washington.- The senate commerce' ! committee declined to institute an in- ’ instigation of tiie shipping board, as proposed in a resolution by Senator Lai oliete. Republican of The lote was understood to have been unanimous, senators voicing ihe opin- ' ion that the proposed inquiry was un necessary and unwarranted," at this time Natives Ir, Bombay Create Disturbar.ee Bombay, India Coincident with a procession escorting the Prince of Wales through the city of Bombay recently, serious disturbances occur red in the native quarter, attributed 1 by the authorities to agitation by fob j lowers of Mahatma Gandhi, the Hindu ! I "son-co-o j -oration Dt ’; leader, resulting j in a number of casualties. The pro ve-sion itself, however, was not mar red by any untoward incident. Germany Will Meet Her Payments Berlin - Tiie report that Germany lias notified the allies that she will he unable to meet the next reparations installment is emphatically denied in official German quarters. A similar denial was made in entente diplomatic circles,'which are now in close touch with the negotiations now proceeding with the reparations commission. It Is not known how the report that Ger many would he unable to pay the next installment got in circulation, but it seems there is absolutely no ground for such rejort. P. O. Discrimination Is Charged Washington.—Senator Fletcher, Dem ocrat of Florida, charged in the sen ate the other day that Postmaster General Hays is discriminating against former service men in the appointment of in stmasters He asserted that Mr. Hays bad obtained a re-examination of applicants after it had been deter mined that former service man rank ed highest. Senator King. Democrat of Utah, demanded ir. consequence of the charges that a congressional in i quirv ,n;o Mr. Haves' policies be I held. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA. ENGLANDSTOPS ALL WAR SHIP BUILDING ADMIRALTY ORDER* WORK HELD UP ON FOUR GREAT BATTLESHIPS COST OF 40,000,000 POUNDS U. S. Naval Experts Not Surprised At Announcement—Japan Insists On Navy Larger Than Allotted London.-—Great Britain has ordered immediate cessation of construction work on capital ships to prove her desire for carrying out the Hughes program, it was offically stated re | cently. It was learned from reliable sources I that the suspension order originated | with Premier Lloyd George, who in structed the admiralty to take such action. After a sudden and unexpected an nouncement by the admiralty that work had been stopped on four new euper-dreadnaugbts, an official state ment was issued to the effect this move was Britain’s “first step to prove she is desirous of disarming in accord ! ance with the Hughes’ program.” Admiral Sir Percy Scott, noted na- I val expert, characterized the suspen ! sion as “a red letter day for the tax ! payer,’’ declaring “it will save him a 'hundred million pounds (normally* about $500,000,000.)” He further ex pressed the belief that the work on the four ships specified never would ! be resumed. The four vessels had been planned by British naval experts after more j than a year’s study as the world's I greatest. They were to be larger and j faster than the Japanese N'egato, now the world's greatest fighting ship. The proposed ships were known as the super-HAods and also as the “hush ship.’’ The latter name arose from the fact that the admiralty had given out only very meagre information about the plans of the big vessels. It was known, however, that they were destined to make an express train speed -more than 40 miles an hour, now made by the latest battle cruiser. In addition they were to j carry an armament not only greater ! than the best battle cruisers but greater than the biggest dreadnaughts. This combination of formidable arma ment with the speed of the vessels j were counted upon to make them the I most powerful afloat. Their guns j would have outranged the dreadnaught j and they were planned to outspeed ] almost any vessel except the latest de stroyers. The halting of a British battleship once planned is unprecedented. “The decision is the logical out come of what is occurifig in Wash ington,” declared Admiral Mark Kerr. “There is no use in spending money in building ships if all are to be scrap ped.” The Evening Star pointed out that j Great Britain now leads in steps to ! ward disarmament. The newspaper j emphasized that while there are mo tions before the‘American congress to suspend building no official action has been taken. Three of the super-Hoods tvere building at the River Clyde yards and ,one at New Castle-On-Tyne. They ! would have cost between 30,000.000 [ pounds and 40.000,000 pounds. The order was interpreted as be ing temporary, and that the construc tion work would be resumed if circum | stances should render it necessary, j These would have been the first Brit i ish ships of post-Jutland construction. London. —The admiralty announced j - recently that it had ordered the cessa- ! ! tion of all work on the four bettleships ! |of the super-Hood type. The ship building firms were notified recently not to incur any further liabilities on , new neval construction until further ! notice from the admiralty. These contracts were awarded only | two weeks ago. Officials explained that the prac tical effect of the admiralty's order would be the absolute cessation of all warship work pending the outcoma of the Washington conference. J. F. Hayes Found Dead In Hotel Washington.—J. F. Hayes, of Brev ard. N. C., retired railroad builder, was found dead in a room* of a local hotel recently. U. S. Consular Staffs For Germany Washington.—Complete diplomatic and consular staffs to represent the United States in Germany have been named by the state department. Ellis Loring Dresel. American commissioner at Berlin, whose nomination to be charge de'affaires. was sent to the sen ate by President Harding, has been instructed to request from the German government provisional recognition as charge de'affaires ad interim, pending arrival of his letters of credence. It is announced as likely that consular of ficers will assume office at once. Twin Sisters Drew Lots For Death Geneva The love tragedy of twin sisters who drew lots for death by poison be.ante known recently in the Innsbruck courts when one of them was tried for murder. She was ac i quitted after she told her story. The girls, daughters of a farmer named Goldhefm. fell in love with a former Hungarian officer, who was unable to distinguish the girls, and courted both, thinking he was always with the same sifter. The officer, when he realized the situation, asked the girls to de ride which should marrv him MORAL SUPPORT GIVEN CHINA Japan Expresses Approval In Part Os Bill Os Rights—China Would Pledge Retention Os Ail Her Territory Washington.—The Washington con ference recently turned to considera tion of Far Eastern questions with al most the same momentum with which it tackled the question of naval arm aments. It was the Chinese delegates who led the way this time. In the com mittee of nine, at which ail nations participating were represented, they produced a basis for discussion which represents their views. The open sympathy of the United States with their position was at once manifest. The British supported it in many respects. The positions of the others were not so clearly defined, although members of the Japaneses delegation have given expressions of approval, in part at least, of China’s “bill of rights.” In brief, China wants guarantees for territorial integrity and political and administrative independence; she proposes the open door for all in all parts of the country; she wants all spheres of influence reliriquished; she wants no treaties made affecting her without being consulted about them. The full extent of China’s position is much broader than this, but these are the essentials. The last feature may he construed as affecting the Anglo-Japanese alliance, although the British take an opposite view. The recent sessions of the big nine was occupied entirely with the pre sentation of China's views. Immedi ately afterward it became known That they commanded the moral support of the United States. The British view points were made known a little later. The Japanese did not state their reac tion but previous pronouncements by some of their representatives have put them in line with some parts of China’s proposals. The discussion of Far Eastern af fairs will be continued at another meeting soon. Meanwhile the com mittee of admirals appointed at the recent meeting of the big five is con tinuing its examination of the Amer ican proposals for naval limitation. Acceptance in spirit and in letter of the principles suggested by China for solution of the Far Eastern problems would, in the opinion of some diplo matic experts, have a sweeping effect on the aspect of the whole Pacific and Oriental situation. As analyzed by some, the policies : proposed by the Chinese delegation might not only do away with the ex isting “spurious influence” in the Far East and put an end to extra terri torial rights within the Chinese re public, but might also erect a bar rier against renewal of the Anglo-Japa nese alliance unless China were given an opportunity of becoming a party to it. The British do not take this view. Responsible officials of all the dele gations reserved judgment regarding j the effects of the Chinese plan pre ferring to scrutinize it with greatest care. The*possible influence on the Anglo-Japanese alliance aroused live liest interest in the discussions of the delegates generally and every nation represented found much food for thought when its special * interests were considered in connection with the proposal. Eight Killed When Home Collapses Alena. Ark. —Eight members of the family of R. E. Weems at Wickes, Ark., twenty-five miles south of here, were killed when the Weems home | collapsed during a violent storm, ao 1 cording to a report received here. News of the deaths reached Mena when a call for eight coffins was re ceived. Details are lacking as are means of the dead members of the ! family, due to the fact that all wires in Wickes are down, but it is under stood that little damage was done ex cept on the Weems place. Ten Thousand Bales Os Cotton Burned Fort Smith, Ark.—Over five thou sand bales of cotton have been de stroyed and as many more are ex pected to be lost by a fire that is raging at the Fort Smith Compress company's plant here. The blaze is confined to the compress plant. Esti mated loss at present is about $500,-. 000. The origin of the blaze is attrib uted to a holt of lightning during a severe electrical storm. House Will Vote Rate For Surtax Washington.—The big issue in the tax revision bill —the senate amend ment fixing the maximum surtax rate, at 50 per cent —is to come to a vote in the house soon. Spokesmen for the “insurgent'• republicans and the demo cratic minority expressed confidence that they could muster the necessary votes to keep the high rate in the bill. While making no predictions, Republican leaders generally were hopeful that ultimately there would be a compromise as between the senate rate and the house rate of 30 per cent Asserts Soldiers Hanged After Trial Knoxville. Tenn.—Colonel W. R. Sample, of the Slst division, United States army, which now has headquar ters in this city, recently stated that three n -gVo soldiers were executed in France as a result of his orders, after they had been tried and convicted by rourtmartial He also issued orders for the construction of the scaffold, he said. or. which the men were executed. Colonel Sami le denied that any sol i litr wes hanged in France without a 1 .rial. ‘OPENDOOR’BACKED BY NINE NATIONS PRINCIPLES OF EQUAL OPPOR. TUNITY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY UPHELD AMERICAN DELEGATES MEET Baron Shidehara, For Japan, Says No Objection Will Be Raised To The Chinese Proposal • Washington.—Heads of the delega tions of the nine nations participating in discussion of far eastern questions were understood at the executive com mittee sessions to have expressed themselves as heartily adhering to the principles of the open door, equal op portunity and territorial integrity of China. A statement on behalf of Japan on several questions relating to the far east was made at the session. It was arranged that a complete public state ment would be issued later through the state department. ✓ The delegates were in session two hours, and it is announced that they will hold another meeting. Another meeting of the American delegates to the armament conference has been called by Secretary Hughes. Further information from the teehincal committee on the naval limitation pro gram is expected. The ten proposals Submitted by the Chinese delegation, as had been expect ed, formed the basis for the discussion of the last meeting, and all of the del egation heads are understood to have expressed agreement at least in princi ple with Chinese views. Baron Shidehara,. who presented the Japanese viewpoint, is said to have shown a friendly attitude toward the Chinese proposals, and to have indi cated no material objection that Japan would have toward making them a part of the proposed agreement on far eastern and Pacific problems. Secretary Hughes and Elihu Root laid the American views with respect to “China’s bill of rights” before the other delegates, and after the heads of the other delegations had spoken, j Dr. Wellington Koo of the Chinese delegation thanked the delegates for the sympathetic manner in which they had received the proposals. It is indicated that the statement dealing with the session may be given out at an early date. After adjournment of the commit tee session it is learned that Secre tary Hughes and Premier Briand will confer at the state department later. It is not indicated whether the confer ence will have to do with France’s views on naval armament limitation or with land armament, a subject which j the French premier is expected to dis cuss before the conference meeting in plenary session. Auto Association Convenes In Detroit Detroit. Mich—An effort to increase the number of automobile clubs throughout the country and to bring about closer co operation between va rious clubs for the benefit of members will be the chief consideration of the annual meeting of the American Auto mobile association. George C. Diehl, of Buffalo, president of the national or ganization, and presidents, secretaries and members of city clubs from nearly every state are here for the meet ing. Two Electrocuted By Strange Chance Knoxville, Tenn. —One of the most peculiar electrical accidents of record occurred her recently as a result of wh-ich Mrs. T. J. Underwood, wife of a clothing merchant, and Joseph Carep, a laborer, were almost simul taneously killed. Mrs. Underwood was electrocuted while manipulating a vac uum cleaner and Carey was killed as he stepped into a charged pool of water in a street gutter near the Un derwood home. Postmasters Aid In Finding Missing Washington.—Postmasters through out the country have been asked by Postmaster-General Hays to lend a , hand in attempts to locate missing people. Never before, the department announced, has it offered such assis tance. Foch Begins Visit To New York City New York. —It is a tired marshal of France who went to rest long be fore New York's bedtime. November 19, terminating the first hectic day of a three-day visit to America's larg est city. There had been talk of can celing. or. at least, curtailing the great projected swing through the far west, but Foch would not hear of it. For, arduous as his tour has been, the mar shal avers that he has enjoyed every minute of it. and is eager to “see more of this wonderland.” He may go as far so tuhas Atlanta. Charters Revoked By Miners' Unior. Pittsburg. Kans.—The provisional government of District 14. 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