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VOL. XXII. NO. 49. REPUBUMHS PUN TO RSTIFY TREATY BYHEWRESQLUTIOW Senator Lodge Introduces New Resolution to Article Ten —Many Democrats to Support It WASHINGTON, March 12.—A sub-i stitute for the Republican Article X | reservation to the peace treaty was ■ introduced in the senate today by > tire Republican leader. Senator Lodge, i of Massachusetts. In general, it fol-; lows the form of the drafts agreed i on several days ago in bi-partisan ■ compromise negotiations. When the reservation was offered i it was declared among the Republi cans that the negotiations had lined up almost enough votes to ratify the treaty on that basis, but that final agreement had not yet been reached. The Republican leaders planned to obtain a vote late today. The compromise is a modification of the Watson-Simmons proposal which itself was a modification of the i original Lodge reservation. I Text of Compromise The compromise reads: “The United States assumes no ob- j ligation to preserve the territorial in- I tegrity or political independence ot I any other nation, by the employment of its military or naval forces, its re sources or any form of economic discrimination, or to interferein any way in controversies between na tions, whether members of the league or not. under the provisions of Ar ticle X, or to employ its military or naval forces under any article of the treaty for any purpose unless in any particular case the congress, which under the constitution has the sole power to declare war or to authorize ; the use of military and naval forces, | shall in the exercise of full liberty I of action by act or joint resolution so I provide.” In offering the proposal, Senator Lodge said: “I do this in consonance with what 1 have many times repeated to the senate—that I didn’t feel justified in insisting on the defeat of the treaty on a mere question of wording, ft' 1 thought what I have offered affected in any way the principle or sub stance of the original reservation, 1 not only would not have offered it, but I would v6te against the ratifi cation of the treaty.” The original com promise provided that the United States “assumes no obligation to em ploy” military, naval and economic forces or its resources in preserving other nations against aggression. The amended form provides that the United States “assumes no ob ligation to preserve” the territory and independence of other nations .against aggression..'- .. .. / The first draft, some Republicans thought, left the obligation "to pre serve” which was the very thing tney object to. It implied only refusal or an obligation “to employ” certain means in fulfilling the obligation "to preserve.” they said. The amende draft leaves no doubt, these senators think, about the in tent of the United States to Keep from pledging itself beforehand to engage in European wars. But while this change .may have gained some Republican votes, it may lose some Democratic ones. Hence the situation is still clouded and un certain. Immediately after Senator Lodge offered the compromise, Senator Fre linghuysen, New Jersey, began a speech opposing it. He is one ot those who told Senator Lodge some days ago he would not accept any modification of the original reserva tion. Senator Frelinghuysen offered a substitute for the modified Lodge reservation on Article X. The reser vation declares that the United States assumes no one obligation to protect the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country, interfere in controversies between foreign countries or employ its military or naval forces for “any purpose” under “any article” of’ the treaty. Senator McCormick, another Re publican “bitter-ender,” declared the Lodge compromise was a Republican, surrender* Senator Simmons, in charge of the compromise efforts on the Demo cratic side, said he could not give any promise of a definite number of votes on the proposal. Senator Simmons said he would have to make a new canvass anpng Democrats to see how many would support Senator Lodge’s proposal. Thirty were willing to support the original Watson-Simmons reserva tion, he said. Senators Hitchcock, Underwood and Swanson, administration leaders, have united against the Lodge pro posal. They said today they could muster enough* votes to block it. ■They have twelve Deiroc’'*- on rec ord against it, in addition to the Fiye Democratic irreconcsilables this # would leave a maximum of thirty Democratic votes for it. With seventeen Democrats against it, and at least sixteen Republican’ this reservation would not get the necessarv two-thirds on the final roll can. / Says Prohibition Is Helping Emmigration NEW YORK. March. 12. —Prohibi- tion is causing so many foreign-born to reave t:.e united States mat emi gration is exceeding immigration, Recording to Congressman isaac Sie gel, a member of the house immigra tion committee. Ellis Island records today showed that immigration since January 1 to talled 53,00 V, while 61,000 persons left the country. Most of the latter have gone back to Poland and Czecho slovakia to stay. While a desire to live in rejuvenat ’d home lands is a factor in emigra tion, Mr. Siegel believes that prohibi tion is the principal reason. Inabil ity to buy beer or wine, he says, has created considerable ill-feeling among foreign-born residents, particularly in mining districts. May Vote on Suffrage in Mississippi Next Week JACKSON, Miss., March 12.—The ‘ lipper house of the state assembly to day took up consideration ot the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution, with the pros- of a vote early next week. Atlanta ©rMßetWjj Sonrtml Diplomat’s Wife Who Is Now a Movie Actress oolWMl MWwHOWr a - I : ’ l As® I' ; :< aSs " J I- :j KSk’ < iter® / 4! * • < « Dropping her social activities in Washington. Senora Dona Ana de Diaz, wife of the charge d’affaires of the Honduran legation, . has gone into the movies. She is now in New York, taking a prominent role in a big production. CENSUS GIVES MACON 52,52.5 POPULATION WASHINGTON. March 12.—Popu lation statistics for 1920 announced today by the census bureau included: Chattanooga, Tenn., 57,895, an in crease of 13<291, or 29.8 per cent. Macon, Ga., 52,525, an increase or 11,860, or 22. T per cent over 1910. Coatesville, Fa.. 14,515. an increase of 3,431, or 31.0 per cent. Macon showed mare rapid growth than did Chattanooga in the ten years from 1900 to 1910. Macons increase was 17,393 inhabitants, or 74.7 per cent, while Chattanooga’s in-; crease in the same period was 14,459 ■ or 47.9 per cent. In the previous decade, from 1890 | to 1900, Chattanooga’s increase was inhabitants increased 1.054, or 3 6 per cent, while Macon’s increase was 526, or 2.3 per cent. Palmer’s Supporters Called, to Meet Here By Hollins Randolph | Supporters of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for president have been called to meet at the Kimball house in Atlanta at 11 o’clock Saturday morning. Letters to Democrats all over the state, In viting them to attend a meeting far the purpose of forming a preliminary organization ir. Mr. Palmer’s behalf have been sent out by Hollins N. Randolph, of Atlanta; Judge Mosssj "Wright, of Rome, and John W. Ben nett, of Waycross. It is understood that letters have been sent to pros pective supporters of Mr. Palmer it.- every count yin Georgia. Following is a copy of the letter calling the meeting: Atlanta, Ga., March 9, 1920. Dear Sir: There will be a confer ence of the Georgia friends of Hon. Mitchell Palmer at the Kimball House, Atlanta, at 11 o’clock Satur day morning, the 13th inst. This conference is arranged at the sug gestion of Mr. Palmer, who has made [ formal announcement of his candi- j dacy for the Democratic presidential | nomination and has accordingly had | his name filed with the secretary of | the state committee. Mr. Palmer I has been furnished with a list of ! names of representative citizens I whose .support he hopes to enlist in his behalf. He has furnished us with this list, yours among them. Acting for him, we write. We urge you to atteiid this conference, which I is to be held for the purpose of.ef ! fecting a preliminary organization of his campaign in Georgia, Please send immediate reply to Hollins Randolph, Healey building Atlanta, and oblige Yours very truly, JOHN W. BENNETT, HOLLINS RANDOLPH, MOSES WRIGHT. Editor George Long, Os Telegraph, Buried MACON, Ga.. March 12.—Attended by many prominent persons from all parts of the state, the funeral of George H. Long, managing editor and chief editorial writer of the Macon Telegraph, was held at Vinevillc Methodist church here this after noon. Mr. Long died Wednesday night of pneumonia. The interment was in Rose Hill cemetery. The Rev. Bascom Anthony, pastor of the Vineville church, conducted the serv ices. I , Sells All-Wool Suit for $25. 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WILSON HOPES TO FIX DIFFERENCES IN COIL CONTROVERSY Increase of 50 to 60 Cents Per Ton iw Fuel Prices Is Forecast Minority Re port Filed WASHINGTON, March 12.—An ef fort to compose the differences be tween the majority and minority of • the bituminous coal strike commis sion will be made by President Wil son. it was said today at the White House. Officials said that neither the ma jority ncr minority report would be made public if there was a proba "b:';ty of bringing the members of the commission to an agreement on then principal differences the amount of the wage advance and the hour;, of work. Tim miners’ representatives or the commission refused to discuss his recommendations, but it was under stood he had held out for an increase in wages of Spnroximately 35 per cent, and for a seven-hour day. The majority, Henry Al. Robinson, re )■ resenting the public, and Rembrandt Beale, the operators’ representative, recommended a wage advance of ap proximately 25 per cent and no change in hours and conditions of work. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, who hurried here last night from New York, where he has been at tending the anthracite wage confer ence, conferred today with Mr. White and William Greer., secretary of the miners’ union, familiarizing himself with the facts. He still de clined to make any statement, but it was expected the full executive com mittee of the miners would be sum moned to consider the future action of the workers. ■ Secretary Green said the majority and Mr. White were not far apart or. the matter of wages and he was hopeful that the differences cculd be smoothed out in direct conferences. The failure of the majority to rec ommend improved working condi tions proved a efisappointment to the miners, it was said, as this had been one of the chief demands of the men. 50,000 U A Dead To Be Brought Home From the Battlefields WASHINGTON, March 12.—The bo4lU>s- of-ahwrt MW J eMftr Amer ican dead in France will be returned to the United States, while between 20.000 and 25,000 will remain perma nently interred overseas, Secretary Baker today informed Chairman Wadsworth, of the senate military committee. Masked Men Kill Alabama Negro MONTGOMERY. Ala.. March 12. Wilbur Smith, negro, former soldier, was Shot to death by six masked men rear Le Grand, Montgomery county, at dusk Thursday afternoon, after he had been arrested by Frank Robinson. white, farmer, charged with attacking a six-year-old daugh ter of a white farmer of that com munity. LOOK! 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Judge Cobb Declares Committee Has Set Dangerous Precedent Fair Play Is Demanded For Southeastern Ports At Greensboro Conference HE’S WHAT WE CALL “GOOD REPUBLICAN” aagF:r TO m/pA77O S EA/pLE DETROIT. —Launching his cam paign for governor with a kind of “elect-me-if-you-dare” defi to Michi gan voters, “Good Roads” (Horatio S.) Earle is making old line poli ticians take notice. “Good Roads,” always a fight&r for better highways, makes no speeches, no promises. His announcement reads: “This is to notify you that Lani a candidate for governor. I have not the consummate galL to tell .-th.e Hep iblicjn party that I know' it all, so I will have no platform until the Republican state conven tion meets and makes one. That will be my platform whether I am a nominee or not.” He invites delegations to visit him, eat doughnuts and drink cider. Atlanta Street Car Strike Called Off The street car strikers, in session at the Red Men’s Wigwam, voted unanimously at 1:30 o’clock to return to work at 5 o’clock Friday after noon. The vote was on a straight out proposition to return to work, and it is understood that the proposi tion carried no conditions. GREENSBORO, N. C., March 12. SWith leading business men, rate and traffic experts and foreign commerce specialists present from practically every section of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Matthew Hale, of Washington, at 11 o’clock this morning opened the big foreign trade conference in the O’Henry hotel, this city. Confer ences immediately set to work to translate into actual accomplishment long-cherished dreams of advance ment of the commercial interests of the southeast. Soon after the conference opened, it was manifest that today’s session would witness formation of a south Atlantic states foreign trade asso ciation, composed of chambers of commerce in four states, together with other laymen and experts and resolved to put an early end to dis crimination against Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, Jacksonville and the entire south eastern territory, with respect to transportation problems. Delegates, representing about thir ty cities, were welcomed by R. D. Douglas, of the Greensboro Cham ber of Commerce, and Matthew Hale responded. Air. Hale then outlined the purposes of the conference, stressing particularly the acute need of organization to combat efforts of the northeastern ports and the great railway trunk lines of that section to continue to force the southeast to accept a beggar’s share of foreign trade. He pictured the vast possi bilities of development .of trade be tween the southeast and Latin Amer ica, referred to existing land and in land rates which are unjustly dis criminatory against this section and unduly preferential to the northeast. Air. Hale also vigorously opposed the plan to sell the merchant ships of the government, arguing that this step should at least be postponed until definite ocean trade routes may be established. If is virtually certain that before adjournment the conference will adopt resolutions vigorously oppos ing the sale of government merchant ships. Speakers following Air. Hale on to day’s program included Senator Ed Smith, of South Carolina; Governor T. TV. Bickett, North Carolina; Hugh Alcßay, Wilmington; George McLeod.’ Washington, federal bureau foreign and domestic commerce; A. V. Snell, manager Charleston Chamber of Com merce, and E. P. Wharton, Greens boro. William A. Wimbish, Atlanta, wired he could not come to deliver a scheduled address. Governors Dor sey, Georgia; Catts, Florida, and Cooper, South Carolina, were invited, but couldn’t come, nor could sena tors from this state, Georgia and Florida be present. Senator Ed Smith Speaks Senator Smith made one of the (Continued on Page 6, Column 7) Oldest Congressmen Were Generals 11 l»J ■ M M ||| ■n «hi U LEFT TO WASHINGTON. —The two oldest members of the House of Representatives are former generals in the United States and Con federate armies. Photo shows, left, General Isaac R. Sherwood, Democrat, of Ohio, 85 years old. who enlisted in the U. S. A. in 1861 as a private. He fought in 43 battles and was mentioned ten times in general orders for gallant conduct and mustered out a brigadier general. General Charles Manley Stedman, right, Dem ocrat of North Carolina, 79 years old, enlisted in the Confederate army at the beginning of the war and was three times wounded and held the rank of brigadier general at the close of the war. California T Twenty-Six Democratic Delegates Will Fote for Hoover Far West Follows Far East. Rocky Mountain States Are Ready to Fall in Line (The Atlanta Journal News Bureau) 623 Riggs Building. BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, March 12.—De spite the declination of Herbert Hoover to permit his name to go on the Democratic primary ballot in California, Senator James D. Phelan, Democrat, of that state, said today that the 26 Democratic delegates from Califorrtia to the national convention would, all be for Hoover. That Hoover’s name did not go on the bal lot was solely in deference to his wishes, Senator Phelan said. A number of senators from the Rocky Mountain t and Pacific coas states report a strong Hoover sen timent in their sections. In conver sations with one another in the sen ate chdmber and cloakrooms, these senators are said, to admit that if Mr. Hoover would actively enter the Democratic contest, he could get most, if not all, of the states west of the Rocky Mountains. Herbert Hoover, however, is pur suing a consistent course. From Georgia across the country to Ore gon have come demands upon him that he enter the Democratic pri maries or conventions. In each in stance Mr. Hoover has said that he was not a candidate for the presi dency, that he was more interested in great national issues than in the political fortunes of an. man, him self included, and that he saw no reason why at such a juncture he should make a partisan alliance with any organization. If he were a can didate, Air. Hoover suggested, it would be another matter, but Air. Hoover is eschewing politics, al though he cannot help but be aware that friends in all sections of the country are clamoring to present him as the strongest man the party may put forward. New Hampshire’s Choice Senator Phelan’s statement that the California delegation will be for Mr. Hoover at the convention makes more significant the result in an other faraway corner of the United States. New Hampshire is going to send a Hoover delegation to San Francisco. Mr. Hoover was no more a candidate in New Hampshi: than in California or Georgia, but he ran away with the Democratic primary and the New Hampshire delegation tc San Francisco will go there to bring about if possible the nomina tion of the man the Democrats Os New Hampshire want. Up to this hour, Mr. Hoover’s pos’- ticn has been quite consistent. He has repeatedly declared that he was rot a party man and not in presi dential politics. But he has never said he would refuse the Democratic nomination. Air. Hoover ha*s frienis in both parties and in dealing with them under circumstances that are personally embarrassing to him, sim ply because he is not a candidate Mr. Hbdyer has never said that he would reject a nomination from c- her party. There are few, if ar.y. men who would reject a presidential nomina tion, and in his position in this re spect, Air. Hoover is quite human. Politicians here are rather amazed at the California and New Hamp shire developments. It is unusual* that a man not seeking delegates and bearing no party label should have delegates virtually forced upon hire by Democratic voters of two sov ereign states. This is what ’ v; hap pened. nevertheless, in the extreme southwestern part of the country and in the extreme northeastern part of the country. Had Air. Hoover allowed the use of his name in either California or New Hampshire, he would have be come a candidate for the nomina tion—which he doesn’t propose to do. It would have beer.- impossible to regard Mr. Hoover as not a can didate bad be .gone ahead, and told voters of these two states that they were authorized to use his name. Irvin Cobb Picks Composite Candidate For the Presidency SAVANNAH, Ga., March 12. Irvin Cobb, the humorist, passed through Savannah today en route to Florida and he was asked whom he intended to support for pi;esident. “I am really in favorite of a composite candidate,” he said. “Aly ideal w r ould have Wood’s chest, Lansing’s gall, Hoover’s head, Governor Edw'ards’ appe tite and Bryan’s legs, still being a Democrat. I hope Hoover will run on the Democratic ticket. 1 am going to support him no mat ter what ticket he runs on. If Idwards is nominated by the Dem ocrats and Hoover doesn’t run, I will vote for Edwards. He will sweep the county on an anti-pro hibition platform. The Demo crats can win with Edwards on this plank alone.” Irvin Cobb is a Kentuckian by birth, a life-long Democrat and the son of a gallant Confederate soldier. « Manifestly, also, if Air. Hoover should authorize the use of his name by the Republican party he would immediately make himself a Repub lican candidate, whereas Mr. Hoover has been steadily trying to convince both parties that he is not a party mar., but intends to support the party whose platform shows the greatest grasp of national issues in the forthcoming campaign. Politicians Troubled What troubles the professional politicians in Washington is the steady sweep of Hoover sentiment among the rank and file—a senti ment that grows despite Mr. Hoov er’s reticence and his lack, so far, of partisan affiliation. Democratic pol iticians ask if Mr. Hoover was a good enough Democrat for California and New Hampshire (and Califor nia elected Woodrow Wilson in 1916 f), why is he not a good enough Democrat for Georgia, New York, Alabama or any other state? And coupled with this query is the Penrose edict saying that Mr. Hoov er is not a Republican, that he had "insulted” the party by asking elec tion of a Democratic congress in 1918. If Senator Penrose, a Repub lican “boss,” asserts that Mr. Hoover is not a Republican, and California and New Hampshire say he is a Democrat worthy of their suffrage, the splitting of hairs reveals once more merely the old tricks of the professional politcians. “Layer on of Hands” Works All Night on New Orleans People NEW ORLEANS, Alarch 12.—John Cudney, aged Canadian boatman, known as “Brother Isaiah,” retired at 6 o’clock this morning after work ing all night in his “treatments” of persons who braved rain, river fog and cold to await their turn before the lowly houseboat whereby “laying on of hands” the boatman is alleged to have “cured” many ailments. At dawn many persons unable to meet “Brother Isaiah” were return ing to their homes while hundreds of others were gathered on the levee at Calhoun street waiting for the boatman to appear again. Dr. Oscar F. Dowling, president ot the state board of health, stated to day he powerless to take legal action against the boatman because he was “accepting no money, pre scribing no medicines and violating none of the rules of religious prac tice.” The Orleans Parish Aledical so ciety asked Superintendent of Po lice Mooney to investigate the acts of the boatman. Names and ad dresses of persons who claimed to have been “healed” of more or less serious ailments already are in the hands of tse police. Scents a copy, 11.50 A YEAR. LIFELONG DEMOCRAT ADVOCATES HOOVER IS PIHIY NOMINEE ■ i ■ Subcommittee Has the Row-' er but Not the Right or Authority to Rule Out Can didates, Says Jurist BY ROGERS WINTER (Staff Correspondent of The Journal.) ATHENS, Ga., March 12.—That the action of the subcommittee on rules of the Democratic state execu tive committee in refusing to allow the Democrats of Georgia to. vote for Herbert Hoover in the presi- “ dential primary is the most danger- \ ous precedent established or attempt ed to be established in the Demo- .> cratic party in Georgia in recent years, was the opinion expressed here today to The Journal correspondent by Judge Andrew J. Cobb. As stated in yesterday’s Journal in a dispatch from this city, Judge Cobb is one of the most vigorous protestants in Georgia against the subcommittee's action. He is a Dem ocrat of lifelong tradition and un broken record. His father was the famous Howell Cobb, Democratic speaker of the national house of rep resentatives in the days of illustrious statesmanship before the Civil war. He has served with eminent dis tinction as a judge- of the supreme court of Georgia. For the past sev eral years he has presided over the superior courts of the western cir cuit. He is one of the leading yers and jurists of Georgia. Durirtg the war he took an active and promi nent part in all of the patriotic en terprises. making-many speeches for the loans, the Red Cross and other campaigns, fighting disloyalty and slackerism wherever they showed themselves. Judge Cobb would like to see Her bert Hoover nominated by the Demo cratic party because he believes Air. Hoover would be the party’s strong est candidate in the presidential elec tion. He would like to vote for Mr Hoover in the Democratic prefer ential primary to be held in Georgia the twentieth of April. He protests the action of the subcommittee m depriving him of his sovereign ria of a free choice. But if the su ■ committee persists in its positio , he will bow gracefully and vote second choice, which will be Alitchell Palmer if the choice i rows down to Palmer and Reed. His First Ballot “The first ballot I cast on coming of age," said Judge Cobb, discussing the primary with The Journal coi respondent, “was in the congressional election in the old Ninth district of Georgia in 1878. The late Judge Em ory Speer, then a young man, was an independent candidate for congress against Joel A. Billups. Judge Speer was a man of hypnotic personality and marvelous eloquence. He was sweeping people before him. The young men, especially, were flocking to him.» He was raised here in Ath ens and I knew him and liked him. Naturally I was tempted to vote tor him/ . , . “But I had always been taught r that two great parties were essential to sound government in this republic. that the Democratic party was the party to which I must cling stead lastly because of our peculiar racial situation in the south; that 1 must stay inside of the party and never leave it; that its mistakes and evils, if any there be. must be fought with in the party by it loyal adherents and not without the party by leaving it and attacking it from the outside. That was my teaching and training, so when I came of age and cast my first ballot 1 stayed inside of the party and voted for Billups against Speer, although the temptation to follow Speer, my brilliant young friend, was very strong indeed. “The next election came in the presidential year, and I cast my vote for Hancock, the nominee of the Dem ocratic party, and again cast my vote against Emory Speer, who was again running as an independent and was opposed by the late Colonel Hiram r. Bell. The vote tor Bell was 187, and I was one of those. . “Thus I made my political debut, so to speak, as an ‘organized Demo crat,’ as we called it then, in other words, I had to make up my mind at the threshold of my career as a citi zen whether I would stay in the par ty or go outside, and I decided to stay inside and support the organiza tion. Has Voted Regularly “Since that first election in 1878, when ‘indenpendentism’ was running rampant in this community under the leadership of the brilliant and magnetic Emory Speer, I have ai-. ways voted in every election when I was at home and not sick. I have voted in every election from presi dential elections down to elections for city council members. I consider it my sacred duty to vote when I can get to the polls. I have always vot ed a straight Democratic ticket, and never for a bolter or an independent. “So much for my record as a Democrat, though in conclusion I might remark that I have voted three times for. William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic nominee for presi dent. If any higher evidence of my party regularity is wanted, I cannot furnish it. I may be obliged to vote for Mr. Bryan again, though God forbid. “Now getting down to the particu lar issue with which we are con fronted in our presidential primary. The sovereignty of the party rests in the mass of its members. AH au thority exercised by the party organ ization is derived from the mass. Os course, it is impossible for, the mass to come together and. express itself except In a primary, which makes it indispensable to have a convention, meeting from time to time to express the will of the mass. The convention , cannot be constantly in session, so • we have the executive committee, (Continued on Page 6, Column 3/