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VOL. XXII. XO. 53. NEWBERRY GIVEN 2 YEARS; FINED SIO,OOO DEFUNCT LEAGUE SENT TO WHITE HOUSE PRESIDEIKT WILSON GIVENDEAOTREATY; WUR SfflUS 5M Peace Resolution Not to Be Acted on Before Latter Part of Week —Fourth De feat for Pact WASHINGTON. March 20.—After a troubled eight months’ sojourn in the senate, the treats' with Ger many was back in the keeping of President Wilson tonight with a note appended saying that ratifica tion had been refused. What the president’s next move would be remained conjecture. White House officials declined to comment. The general feeling of of ficials elsewhere about the capital, however, was that Mr. Wilson prob ably would let the treaty lie on his desk while the bitter controversy it has raised is fought out in the political campaign. The treaty was taken back to the White House early in the day by a bevy of officials and messen gers from the senate, in pursuance of an order adopted last night af ter a fourth • vote on ratification had failed to muster the necessary two-thirds.' It was delivered to Sec retary Tumulty, who receipted for it in the name of the president. Scarcely had the bulky document, the bone of senate contention through many weeks of stormy de bate and negotiation, passed physi cally out of the Capitol building when some of the senators who worked for ratification began a movement to recall it and try once mora, for a compromise. Mild res ervation Republicans and compro mise Democrats discussed the possi bilities of such an effort, without decision, however, and the predic tion of leaders on both sides was that no proposal for another re consideration ever would take ■ se rious form. The unsettled state of senate opinion, nevertheless, had the ef fect of slowing up the plans of the Republican leaders for passage of a declaration of peace and it was decided after many conferences that the resolution for that purpose probably would not be urged before late next week. Previously the pur pose had been to bring it up Mon day and press it for early action. Afraid of House In making this decision the majori ty managers in the senate are under stood to have been influenced in part by undetermined factors in the house, which also would have to act on a peace resolution and whose leaders balked at a similar proposal last De cember. Most of the ranking members of the house foreign affairs committee, in whose hands the peace resolution would fall, were out of town and had not informed their associates of their attitude. During the day the senate was not in session, but the question of a peace declaration was raised in the house by 'Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, who in troduced a declaratory resolution and had it referred without debate to the foreign affairs committee. In its general provisions it follows the resolution of Senator Knox, Republi can, Pennsylvania, which is backed by the Republican senate leaders. Both provide for repeal of the dec laration of war, for certain settle ments with Germany, and for a dec laration of international policy. Until some affirmative action is taken by congress or the president to end the war status legally, the technical position of the country re mains. officials say, just what it -was the day after the armistice was signed. War legislation thus in force and under the war department inter pretation of the situation the presi dent retains his war powers as com mander-in-chief to keep American troops at whatever posts in Germany he thinks necessary to enforce the armistice terms. The president has expressed em phatic disapproval of securing a technical peace status by any method except ratification of the treaty. Senators generally do not believe he had altered that position, and the Republican senate leaders confident ly expect that if they pass a peace resolution he will veto it. They hope, however, to secure enough Democrat ic support to repass it in both houses by the necessary two-thirds ma jority. Given to Tumulty - Senate officials who have had physcal custody of the treaty since July 10, when President Wilson him self carried it into the senate cham ber. lost no time today in obeying the mandate to return'll to the White House. Accompanied by several mes sengers, George A. Sanderson, secre tary of the senate, took it to the executive offices bright and early this morning and had to wait nearly an hour before Mr. Tumulty appear ed to receipt for it. The big volume, wrapped in brown paper nd bound up with red tape, at first was taken into the office of Rudolph Forster,' executive clerk the White House, but Mr. Sander- Mon -kilned to leave it until he had a receipt signed by the secretary to the president. When Mr. Tumulty arrived he went for a talk with the •president. Almost an hour elapsed before he returned to find the treaty on his desk and Mr. Sanderson and hl.«t assistants waiting. After the receipt had been signed, one of the messengers took up the treaty to hand it to Secretary Tu multy, but the latter demurred. “Det it lie there,” said Mr. Tumulty, and the delegation from the senate de parted. Except for the few hours it was at the government printing office tor making the first printed copies, the official text of the treaty brought from Versailles in the personal pos session of the president has reposed in a safe in Secretary Sanderson’s office since it was given to the senate. (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) Waufei ©rHßeeWa Souvnal SEMTOR SMITH ML! Em PRESIOENTILL i PRIMARY HU GEORGIA I i Says Democratic Voters Should Be Allowed Free Expression at Polls —De- feat of Treaty a Calamity Senator Hoke Smith, who returned from Washington Sunday, on Mon i day morning issued a statement con- I cerning the failure of the peace 1 treaty and the request for the use ■of his name in the Georgia presi- ■ dential primary. i Senator Smith states that he has j under serious consideration the re i quest for him to enter the primary. , It looks as if the views of the vast ! majority of the voters of Georgia will have no real opportunity for i expression, as matters now stand, ‘ says the senator, and some plan I should be adopted to give their views ■ a representation. Senator Smith regards the failure ! of the treaty as a national if not an ! international calamity. Senator Smith expects to be here this week and will be at the Pied- | mont hotel. Senator’s Statement I The senator's statement follows in j full: “The failure of the senate to rat j ify the peace treaty is a national, if not an international, calamity. It has left us technically in a state of war, hindering our commercial rela tions with Europe. It has prevent ed the contribution of our influence towards quieting conditions in Eu rope and towards establishing the business situation throughout that great continent. -This is a serious lossy to our country and a tragic loss to them. In my opinion, however, it would have been even more un ; fortunate to have accepted the treaty without the reservations necessary to protect American interests. “Fifty-seven senators either voted or were paired in favor of ratifi cation. Os the nineteen Democrats who voted against ratification, I do not believe more than four would have failed to support the treaty with reservations except fox- the fact that they had either promised the president eight or ten months ago to support the treaty without reser vations, or they believed he would pigeonhole it if ratified with reser vations. X Tko Hcubtful States “All the Democrats, except one. from doubtful states supported the treaty with reservations and they all believed that the people of their states favored ratification with sub stantial reservations. The failure of at least ffteen moe Democrats to support ratification with reserva tions was due to the attitude of the president on the subject. “It is a national calamity to take this question into the political campaign. It will be utterly impos sible, with the next congress, to ratify the treaty-' without reserva tions just as strong as those before the senate last week. We are not only kept in a state of technical war. but public attention- is withdrawn from domestic problems of the greatest importance. , Presidential Primary “I am considering the request that my name go before the people of Georgia in the coming preferential primary. “As the Hall county -Democrats have pointed out, an unfortunate sit uation has developed in the Georgia primary. It looks as if the views of the vast majority of the voters of this state will have no real opportu nity for expression. “Some plan should be adopted to give this view opportunity for ex pression in the coming Georgia pri mary. “The party should plant itself upon the great achievements of the Dem ocratic congress and administration, but it would be political suicide to indorse the Deague of Nations with out reservations or to indorse every phase of President Wilson’s admin istration. “It should then nominate candi dates who will not only serve ably when elected, but who can help win the fight.” Government Will Consider Quarantine Os 801 l Worm States WASHINGTON, March 20.—Dis covery of the pink boll worm in Louisiana and its reappearance in Texas caused the department of agri culture Friday to issue notice of public hearing to be held here April 6 to consider the advisability of quarantining those states. Lower Clohting Prices Mr. James D. Bell, head of the Pell Tailors, prominent colthing manufacturers, Adaijis at Green streets, Chicago, Illinois, says that by dealing direct with the manu facturer anyone can save from $12.50 to $30.00 oh every suit they buy. A typical value offered by this con cern is a guaranteed all wool cash mere suit made to individual meas ure for. only $25.00. This suit, Mr. Pell states, is in every respect equal to the ones generally sold at $37.50 to $40.03. The Beli Tailors offe.’ even greater savings on their high er priced suits which include wor steds. serges, flannels and other high grade fabrics of the latest pat terns and weaves. Readers of this paper interested in reducing their clothing costs should write, Mr. Bell for a free copy of his big new Spring and Summer Fashion Book No. 761. which contains simple charts for taking measures, a large assortment of samples and hand some illustrations of all the latest New York and Chicago styles. Write him today.—(Advt.) SITUATION BLACK. miimkm BERLINJECLARES General Strike Is Called at Munich Occupation o’r Ruhr District Termed Vio lation of Treaty PARIS. March 22.—The American mission in Berlin has presented ! Premier Bauer with a communica tion declaring the United States can i not furnish any more food to Ger many if a soviet government is established, a Berlin dispatch today said. CONDITIONS SERIOUS, MINISTER DECLARES BERLIN, March 21.(8y the Asso ciated Press.) —Conditions in Ger many were described by the ministry of defense this morning as extreme ly serious. “You cannot paint the situation throughout Germany too black,’ an official at the ministry declared to the correspondent after a survey of the reports that had come in dur ing the night. An official report from Deipsic says that no further excesses oc curred on Saturday in that city and that several points evacuated by the workmen were occupied by troops. In the suburbs, however, the workmen refused to abandon their positions. Further communist reinforcements have arrived, the reports added. Railwa traffic in the Deipsic region was fully resumed on Sunday. In the Halle district the position was reported worse from a govern ment aspect. Counter-action among a section of the workingmen is threatened through the calling' of a strike if a soviet republic is pro claimed. Communists are declared to be preventing willing men front resuming their work. L Ten Thousand Attend Great Bible Conference At Baptist Tabernacl Ten thousand people attended the lour services of the Bible conference Sunday at the Baptist Tabernacle, and several thousand others were turned away. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, preaching ott the attitude of the world toward Christ, made three striking state ments Sunday night to the greatest crowd that has ever thronged the Tabernacle. “Kings are at a discount just now,” he exclaimed, “and statesmen are discredited because of their inability to deal with world problems. There are times when 1 feel like packing up my things and going back to Eng land to speak against much that is happening there; for instance, the damnable policy that has left the Turk in Constantinople. Your own country is partly to blame for this. If you had taken a mandate against it. he wouldn’t be there. They say he is to have no power. Then if he isn’t, why in the name of God is he left there? He is no ornament.” Speaks of Spiritualism Next Dr. Morgan spoke of spirit ualism. “Tell me,” he exclaimed, "at the seances and lappings that are being held all over the world, did anyone ever dare to call up Jesus? The spir itualists have got rid of Him. He is out of their scheme. Spiritualism is a black art born in hell.” He next took up the subject of democracy. “Your president uttered a great thought,” continued Dr. Morgan, “when he said that the world must be made safe for democracy. But democracy must also be made safe for the world. A Godless democracy will give us something worse than Germany. Dook to the ast, to Rus sia. There God is shut out, Christ is laughed at. There the effort to es tablish a democracy with Jesus Christ excluded has resulted in ty rannies and cruelties beyond expres sion. “Your nation is as strong as the men and women who make it up. The last and vital question is what are you going to do with Jesus. Upon the answer depends everything. For God’s sake be sane and honest.” The four sessions held Sunday at the Tabernacle constituted in many respects the most remarkable relig ion program ever observed in At lanta. When Dr. Morgan preached at night, the two galleries as well as the main floor were crowded to the last seat, and at least 500 people stood in the space at the rear of the church and along the sides. An au dience practically as large attended Dr. Morgan’s sermon in the morn ing. In the afternoon, two mass meetings were held, one at 2 o’clock, addressed by Dr. John Paul, of Wil more. Ky., another at 3 o’clock, ad dressed by Dr. George W. McPher son. of New York. The crowd at each of these services filled the main floor and the first gallery. Since the Tabernacle has a seating capacity of 3,200, it is estimated that about 3,500 people attended the morning service, and about 3,700 the evening service. The crowds at the afternoon meetings swelled the day’s attendance to total of at least 10,000. Mcnde.y’s Sessions Following the remarkable meetings ATI.ANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1920. / There you t ) ARE " ) I the \JQ\Ce or f / doajt ) JT | OVER ■ HE " A • sun- Jis j Sunday, the conference started the week Monday morning with a sermon at 10 o’clock by Dr. W. M. Evans and another at 11 o’clock by Dr. Mor gan. Dr. Den G. Broughton, formerly pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle and founder of the Bible conference, ar rived in Atlanta Monday morning, and made his first address to the conference Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. 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The no tice added that the shortage had been made good and that the bank would open as usual Monday, R. P. Pea cock having been elected cashier. Senator Reed Makes Address Here Monday On Treaty of Peace Senator James A. Reed, of Mis ( souri, arrived in Atlanta Monday noon speaking Monday evening at 8 o’clock to a public meeting in the auditorium —the first speech of a campaign series In Georgia and Florida. He was introduced by Thomas W. Hardwick. Senator Reed discussed the League of Nations and associated issues. He will speak in Macon Tuesday evening, and then will go to Florida for five addresses, after •which he will return to Georgia for a tour of a week or more. FORMER CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS NAMEOJN PROBE Sims Declares That Caution Against British Was Re peated in Paris Three Months After First Given WASHINGTON, March 22.—1 t wae Admiral W. S. Benson who warned Admiral Sims: “Don’t let the British pull the wool over your eyes,” Ad miral Sims declared at the senate naval inquiry today. Admiral Sims several weeks ago told the senate naval subcommittee that the warning had been given to him during a conference at the navy department as he was about to sail for Europe only a few -weeks be fore this coutry entered the war. Admiral Benson, at the time of the alleged utterance, was chief of naval operations. He is now head of the shipping board. Gave Name Reluctantly It was only with apparent reluc tance that Admiral Sims divulged Mr. Benson’s name after Chairman Hale had twice requested it. Admiral Sims said the incident oc curred either just before or just aft er he had been In Secretary Daniel'S’ office receiving his orders to go to Europe. “It was just after I came out of the secretary’s office or just before I went in. I can’t remember which, except that I was In somebody else’a office, I think it was the chief of naval operations, and I think he waa present—that these Instructions -were given by a certain official of the navy department,” Admiral Sims said. “I have tried to avoid any personal reference.” “I think the committee should have the name of the officer,” Chairman Hale stated. "Well, it was Admiral Benson, who was then chief of naval operations,” Admiral Sims said. “I received no other instructions from him. It was preceded by nothing, followed by nothing and told me In all serious ness. I Ibft immediately.” Calls Benson “Anti-Britlsh” Admiral Sims referred tb Admirai Benson as being “Intensely antt- British” and said his statements were repeated In substance on two subsequent occasions. Admiral Sims said that when he met Admiral Benson In Paris six months later the admonitions were repeated in substance and that a third time the same thing happened in Dondon. “I had known of the opinion that he was Intensely anti-British,” Ad miral Sims said. “I regarded this as a personal prejudice on the part of Admiral Benson.” Admiral Sims said he included Ad miral Benson’s remark in his letter to Secretary Daniels on January 7 regarding the navy’s part In the war because “if a man has a prejudice against men fighting alongside of him it has an unconscious Influence on him.” Calls Benson Honest The admiral told the committee he had always regarded the admonition as “a personal prejudice on the part of Admiral Benson.” He .described the former chief of operations as “an upstanding, honest man who has strong convictions,” and said he be lieved everything that Admiral Ben son did during the war was done “conscientiously.” It was due largely to Admiral Ben sjn’s confidence in him that he was elected to the high post he occupied during the war, Admiral Sims said, adding that in urging his selection Admiral Benson incurred the dislike cf many officers senior to Admiral Sims, who desired the post. Senator Pittman brought out that Admiral Sims had shown a copy of his letter of January 7 to H. P. Da vison, of New York, while he was a guest at Mr. Davison’s home about the middle of January. The officer could not recall the date, but said liis aide thought it was on January 14. He admitted that showing the letter was “an indiscretion.” 3 Killed, Others Hurt, In Destruction of Four-Story Building ROANOKE, Va., March 22.—Ex plosion of an ammonia pipe in the plant of the Griggs Packing company here this morning caused the col lapse of three brick walls, killing three men and injuring eight to twelve others. One body has been identified as that of Rob-- D. Carden, of Roa noke, an elevator engineer. Another body, horribly mutilated, is uniden tified, while another was blown into one of the tanks and has not been recovered. Cause of the explosion has not been determined by officials of the plant. The collapsing walls were of a new four- ,tory annex to the plant upon which the roof was being placed by contractors. HEALS “STOMACH ‘TROU BLE AND TAPE WORM AT HOME A sample home treatment which gives quick and lasting relief in all forms of stomach trouble, including tape worms or other worms, is being supplied to sufferers by Walter A. Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis. He is so confident of results that he guarantees absolute satisfaction in every case or there is no charge for the treatment. If you suffer from stomach trouble or any kind of worms, send him your name and address today, as this notice may not apj ear again.—(Advt.) Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. SIXTEEN FOLLOWERS ALSO GET PRISON TESmniNES Case to Be Taken to Su preme Court Senate Committeeto Recount Vote in Ford-Newberry Contest, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 20. United States Senator Truman H. Newberry, maker of laws, today felt the weight of the law. Standing In federal court here, he was sentenced to two years in the ' Deavenworth federal penitentiary and to pay a SIO,OOO fine. Sixteen followers, con victed with him of fraudulent prac- ‘ tices in the elections of 1918, were sentenced to imprisonment or fines or both, as follows: Frederick Cody, two years, $lO,- 000; Paul H. King, two years, $lO,- 000; Charles A. Floyd, two years. $5,000; William Mickel, two years; Allan Templeton, one year, six months; Roger Andrews, one year, si months; Mil ton Oakman, one year, six months; Richard Fletcher, one year, three months; James F. Mc- Gregor, one year, three months; John S. Newberry, $10,000; Harry O. Tur ner, $2,000; B. F. Emery, $2,000; Fred Henry, one year, three months; H.i Hopkins, one year, one day; E. V.‘ Chilson, one year, one day; George • S. Dadd, SI,OOO. Judge Clarence W. Sessions grant ed the convicted men a sixty-day stay of sentence, to permit appeals. Bonds for all the men were posted by Sen ator Newberry, who asserted he was not ashamed of conviction. He will take the case to the su preme court, he said, for a ruling on the merits of the corrupt practices act. His greatest concern was for those who had helped him win his office, and who, at the end of an eight weeks’ trial, had been found guilty with him. Sixty-eight de fendants were acquitted by the jury. The trial ending today with the . sentencing of the senator and six teen of his workers, had brought out a story of lavish use of money in Newberry’s campaign against Henry Forth- in 1918. The eight weeks of strained attention to detailed testi mony had engraved lines in the faces of the defendants. One of them, Paul H. King, had collapsed and was unable to attend the last sessions. Men Hazed, Wives Wssp With the verdict came the reaction. The court room was crowded. De-, fendants and their wives occupied the front rows. Spectators jammed the room to the doors and an over-. flow struggled down the outside walks. The verdict was read. Wom en began crying as the list of con victed onen increased. Then there xfras a burst of laughter. A hysterical woman was led from the room by her friends. Others followed her. Tears coursed down the cheeks of men acquitted as they were embraced by wives and friends. The convicted men appeared dazed, ; but the women sensed the situation, , and the troubles of the defendants i were momentarily forgotten in caring for them. Joy over acquittal was ‘ tempered for some as they tried to cheer close friends who had been found guilty. Mrs. Newberry, wife of the chief defendant, was calm at the rendering i of the verdict. But she retired to her room at the hotel immediately on adjournment of court and did not appear until tonight when, with her husband and son, she left for De troit. When sentences were passed, after a noon recess, the women were not * in evidence. The shock of the verdict was too great for most of them. Newberry Issues Statement “The great satisfaction to be drawn from the conclusion of these proceedings is that there is not one word in the record that will ever cause any member of my family or any friends to apologize for or explain, or to feel ashamed. All charges of corruption, fraud or bri bery in the primary or election were dismissed by the court, and not one word of evidence was introduced in connection therewith. “My life-long memory of the loyal ty and devotion of the men who * were indicted with me will be always of the greatest value and the fact that 118 have been acquitted and five counts of the indictment have been eliminated Is some evidence of the extravagance of the charges as presented. My heartfelt congratula- ■ tlons go out to these men whose ac- ; tlons have been justified and who have been completely vindicated and 1 acquitted. “The charge that I am convicted of is conspiracy to violate an election law, which has never yet been re- '■ viewed by any appellate court, nor i has any judicial determination of that law ever been recorded until j now.* I am charged with partici- ; pating, as a candidate, in an election ; for senator from Michigan, with knowledge that the cost of the cam paign would exceed $3,750, which sum was to be contributed by my friends. If any one had ever men tioned to me that the law could be interpreted to bring about this re sult, certainly neither I, myself, nor any intelligent human being could possibly have entered Into a cam paign under the circumstances that confronted me at that time. Will Not Resign “I certainly shall not* resign my seat in the senate, unless required to do so by the senate itself, or un til the supreme court of the United States has affirmed the interpreta tion of this law under which the alleged conspiracy is said to have occurred. Moreover, unless my as sociates in the senate deem it un wise, I expect to continue to repre sent the people of Michigan, who sent me to the United States senate.” Testimony offered by the defense was the determining factor in bring ing the jury to the verdict of guilty. “Without Paul King’s testimony that he told Senator Newberry the campaign would cost S-SO.OOO, the (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) 4