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DEMOCRATIC SENATORS IN MOOD FOR TRUCE
LOAL OWNERS AGREE TO TO MEET WILSON’S INQUIRY BOARD;
RAILROAD UNIONS WILL TAKE ISSUE WITH HINES ON WAGES
Blans to Refute Charge That
Wage Increase Has Kept Pace
~With Living Cost, Leaders Say.
Men’s Wages. May Have Gone Up
130 Per Cent and Then Fallen
Short of Decent Standard.
* (By Internatronal News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Repre
sentatives of the railroad shopmen
are at issue tonight with the railroad
administration over the cost of living
figures submitted by Rail Director
Hines in his reply to the men’s wage
demands. They will “go to the mat”
with the director of railroads, they
announced.
“f They. are at work gathering expert‘
figures to refute those presented by |
Mr. Hines, who contends that the cost
of living has increased 102 per cent,
while the wages of the shopmen have
increased, on an average, 106 per cent.
They are also investigating on their
own account what the government is
*feally doing in the way of reducing
)f:,‘!ng costs.
“It does not mean anything to say
that the cost of living has gone up
102 per cent and the men’s wages 106
per cent,” said J. F. Anderson, vice
president of the International Ma
chinists’ Union, which has jurisdic
tion over 25 per cent of the railroad
shopmen.
“The men's wages might have in
creased 130 per cent and yet fall be- ‘
low a decent living standard. It all|
depends on what they were making
before living costs jumped upward. |
“When we go again to see Mr.
*Hines we'll have the best figures
available to refute his figures.” 1
Mr. Hines’ report, it is stated, was
based on statistics gathered by the
division of labor of the railroad a.d-‘
ministration, J‘
Rumor of Revolution in
Germany Not Verified
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—If there is
a revolution in Germany the officials
in charge of the great German wire
less station at Nauen evidently Mnow
r;(fthing about it. A representative
of the International News Service late
this afternoon “listened in” on a wire
less receiving station here to mes
sages being sen't out by the Nauen
station and they contained no news
of the overthrow of the Ebert govern
{ nt.
“t midnight tonight the New York
office of the International News Serv
ice had received no word of any kind
‘that would tend to confirm the Reuter
dispatch from Brussels of the revolu
tion. hTe last word received from
London stated that while no direct
word had been reecived from Berlin,
British foreign officials were confi
dent the report of a revolution was
erroneous.
Seven Mutineers Shot;
1,500 Arrested in Spain
© (By International News Service.)
. LONDON, Jan. Il.—Seven muti
neers in the garrison of Saragossa,
Spain, were shot after being court
martialed, said a Madrid dispatch to
the Sunday Express. Fifteen hun
' dred civilians have been arrested at
Barcelona as a result of disorders
growing out of labor and political
troubles.
Odds Favor Clemenceau
For French Presidency
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, Jan. Il.—Betting on the
presidential elections was 10 to 4 on
Clemenceau, 3 to 1 against Paul Des
c¢hahel, speaker of the Chamber of
Deputies; 8 to 1 against M. Dubost,
president of the Senate; 10 to 1
against Marshal Foch, and 60 to 1
acnin=t ex-Premier Barthou.
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Officer Foils
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Villain, Weds
Fair Victim
POLICEMAN C. D. Fitchett
has a bride and a new job,
and thereby hangs a story which
proves that Cupid can puncture
a blue uniform,
Mrs. C. M. Stahl came to At
lanta a few days ago and com
plained to Policeman Fitchett
that one Shirley Stiles-of Green
ville, 8. C., was attempting to
kidnap her daughter, Miss Mae
Stahl. :
Policeman Fitchett took up
the thread of the story by call
ing for a glimpse of the daugh
ter.
Then he arrested Stiles, got
him safely out of the way, and
married Miss Stahl, thereby ef
fectively putting an end to her
perils, for who would kidnap a
policeman's wife?
Chief Beavers received a re
port about this unusual course
of action and asked Fitchétt to
explain the details. Fitchett re
torted by turning in his badge
and his resignation, saying he
had a better job in sight than
a policeman’s.
Mrs. Pearl o’Dell Who, With Her
Husband, Killed Former Lover,
- Fears Law's Requital.
(By Universal Service.)
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 'll.——Mrs.
Pearl O’Dell has at last apparently
begun to realize the desperate plight
in which she and her husband, James
L. O’Dell, have been placed by the
killing of Edward J. Kneip at an un
frequented spot in the outskirts of
this city Wednesday night, for which
they are charged with murder in the
first degree. Hitherto ghe had as
sumed somewhat the attitude of out
raged virtwe, a martyr to sophisticated
man, but today the defiant, extenuat
ing poise well-nigh vanished com
pletely and left only a slip of a girl
torn by anguish over the peril in
which her husband stands jointly
with her, and frequently racked by
apprehension over what requital the
law will exact of her,
The change is no doubt the reaction
from a high emotional stress that
swirled this young wife of 18 years
tempetuously to the frenzy of homi
cide. The story she now tells in her
calmer mood seems to indicate that
passion for revenge bereft her first of
‘normal reason and then communi
cated itself to her husband, robbing
him of any sane judgment he might
'have possessed. Yet District Attor
ney William F. Love is firmly per
suaded that the killing was painstak
|ingly planned; in short, deliberate
murder.
“DIDN'T MEAN IT.”
Nevertheless Mrs. O'Dell, with mo
notonous consistency reiterates to ev
ery one allowed to talk with her: ‘
This is one of two protestations
that interlard her recital of the af
fair. The other is: |
“If Jim goes to the chair 1 want‘
to go, too.” She says this stoutly,
but a frightened look that flashes to
her eyes and a distinet quiver that
comes to her underlip betray an in
ward shrinking from a perhaps none
too definite comprehended horror. It
isn’t, therefore, the courage of despair
‘that prompts her willingness to see
the play out with her husband re
gardiess of the nature of the climax.}
Men call it gameness. |
Here is Mrs. O’Dell’'s story of the
‘kllling taken up at a point where she,’
lher husband and the slain man were
‘being driven into the suburbs in a
‘taxicab, The husband had posed as
an officer to get Kneip.
RELATES CRIME.
~ “Wae didn’t intend to kill him,” said’
Mrs. O'Dell. “but to take him to po
lice headquarters and have him ar-;
rested. The car we were in broke
down. Then we got a taxi and
started. I don’t know how we did it.
1 know my husband was crazed by
Jealousy at Kneip’s acquaintance with
me before my marriage, when I was
only 16.”
~ The three left the cab in the coun
try, O’Dell menacing Kneip with a
revolver and walked away from the
roadside. Mrs. O’Dell carried a heavy
file. She continued:
“lI struck Kneip across the face
with the file. Even in the darkness
I see the mark the blow made -and
the blood that flowed. He said: ‘l'm
sorry I'm guilty of your downfall’
Afterward he called me by my first
name severnl times™
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Powers of Commission to Act in
Controversy May Be Ques
tioned, Owners’ Announcement.
First Formal Session of Commit
~ tee Named by President in
Mine Quarrel Set For Monday.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan, 11,—Bitumi
nous coal gperators have decided that
they will appear before the Presi
dent’s coal commission when its ses
sions are formally opened Monday for
a survey of the coal industry, but
with “reservations” as. to the extent
to which they will accept the find
ings of the commission. The oper
ators claim they’ were not consulted
in connection with the plan on which
the coal strike was settled and that
they have never agcépted the settle
ment as it was made. L
" Henry-N. Robifisbn -piblié ‘member
of the President's commission, was
tonight, selected as permanent presi
dent of the commission, The com
mission will meet on Monday in the
Red Cross Building. .
In the session here the belief was
expressed by the operators that in
appearing before the commission
they should limit recognition of its
authority to the scope covered by
the plan of Doctor Garfield for the
settlement of the strike, which they
accepted, and hold themselves free
to accept or reject any propositions
outside of the confines of the Gar
field proposition,
The operators decided that theyfl_wm
not ask the President to increase the
personnel of the commission, or to
broaden the scope of the inquiry to
include matters which are not cov
ered by the President’s letter of ap
pointment of the commission.
Available data concerning the cost
of mine operation, the present wage
scales, and the cost of living, which
are now jin the hands of different
goverrment departments have been
carefully considered by the -commis
sion during the last two weeks, are
expected to constitute the basis on
which the inquiry will be conducted.
Representatives of the operators be
fore the commission, probably three
in number, have not been chosen
yet.
To Let U. S. Headquarters
.
In France; Connor Sails
(By Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The last
message from the headquarters of
the American expeditionary forces
was received from Paris by the war
department today. It was sent yes
terday by General Connor and reads
as follows:
“Headquarters American forces in
France closed last night. Am leaving
tonight for Antwerp. Expect to sail
on Northern Pacific January 11, ar
riving New York about January 18.
Everything finished, according to
schedule. “CONNOR.”
Lacking just two days, all Ameri
can army activities in France, which
were at their height on November 11,
1918, werp complete dfourteen months
after that momentous day on which
the armistice was signed.
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Convict Freed to Die,
Taken to Hospital
OSSINING, N. Y, Jan. 11.—When a
delayed pardon arriving at Sing Sing,
“Big Jim” Cummings raised himself
on his pillow in the hospital ward and
fairly shrieked his fervent thanks
that he would not die in prison.
The conviet was bundled into an
automobile and brought down to
Bellevue, where he will be operated
on in a last effort to save his life.
Cummings, convicted of assault in
Brooklyn and sentenced to five years,
had only a few weeks to serve when
‘he was stricken with a mysterious
‘malady that the hospital physicians
were unable to diagnose. It was
feared he would die soon, and as he
had only a short time to serve, War
lden Grant applied to the governor for
a pardon
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1920.
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Divorce Breaks
Out On Kaisers’
.
Sons Like Rash
(By International News Service.)
T HB HAGUE, Jan. 11.—An
epidemic of diverce and
marital estrangement has broken
out in the Hohenzollern family—
formerly the ruling family of
Germany. :
Following the report that two
of the kaiser’s sons—Prince Au
gust and Prince Joachim--had
brought suit for divorce, copies
of the Berlin newspaper Ach
tuhr Abendblatt, received here
today, revealed that Prince Fred
erick Willia mvon Preussen, the
second son of the ex-kaiser, is
preparing to sue his wife.
The former crown prince and
his wife were said to be es
tranged and on the point of di
vorce - proceedings, but. became
reconciled for the time being.
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Missing for Six Days, Mississippi
‘ Doctor Is Found by His
Brother.
" VICRSBURG, Miss, Jan. 11.—THe
dead body of Dr. D. 8. Alverson,
former city health officer, was found
on Fort Hill in a secluded spot near
here this morning. A bullet hole over
his left eye and a jagged wound in
the back of the head showed that the
physician had been murdered.
Thg physician has been misging six
days. The searching party was led
by Dr. Simon Alverson of Shreveport,
brother of the dead man.
Jess E, Watts, grocer, accused of
‘the murder, was taken from the War
ren County jail and . spirited away,
the sheriff fearing the formation of
a mob. A negro has also been ar
rested charged as an accessory to the
crime,
No attempt had zeen made to rob
the physician for rings were found
on his fingers and wateh in his
pocket.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Damaged $50,000 in Fire
BALTIMORE, Jan. 11.—Fire broke
out late tonight in the pathological
experimental laboratory of Johns
Hopkins Hospital and caused damage
estimated at close to $50,000.
While the blaze at no time en
dangered ‘the main bullding housing
hundreds of patients, everything was
gotten in readiness to remove the bed
ridden on a minute’s notice. Several
alarms were sounded and firemen lit
erally surrounded the more important
buildings, which are situated some
distance from the burned structure,
but which it was feared might be ig
nited by sparks.
A number of negro patients were
housed In a ward near the laboratory
and twenty-five of the sufferers who
became excited were carried to a more
distant ward.
An explosion of chemicals started
the fire,
Standard Oil Dividend
Of 100 Per Cent Rumored
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A report
current in Wall Street that a 100 per
cent dividend is about to be declared
by the Standard Oil Company, sent
the stock rocketing upward Saturday.
Opening at 762, a gain over night of
21 points, it soared swiftly to 775,
then made further gains. The report
was without confirmation from the
corporation.
The Standard Oil Company was
organized by John D. Rockefeller and
others fifty years ago today.
Durham Mill Awards
$2,000,000 Contracts
DURHAM, N. C, Jan. 11.—Con
tracts were let by the Durham Ho
siery Mills for five new plants entail
ing an expenditure or $3,000,000. The
contracts were awarded to the Aben
theau Construction Company of Bos
jton. Three of the buildings are to be
located here, one of tnem costing
' $1,000,000. A million dollar plant is
to be built in Mebane, N. C., and an
' other lsrge nlant at High Point.
Miss de Kay, Missing From Jane
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Adams’ Hull House, Believed
Possessor of Valuable Secrets.
Roumanian Woman Bringing Art
Treasures to U. S, Mentioned.
Mexican Factionists Hand Seen
(By Universal Service.)
CHICAGO, Jan. Ill.—Jeanne Anna
de Kay, the lost heiress, was believed
tonight to be the victim of interna
tional plotters. It “was. feared she
was ‘either being held captive or had
béen slain by her abductors.
The search, which opened Decem
ber 30, when ‘the girl disappeared
from Hull House where she was the
guest of Miss Jane Adams, had be
come nation-wide tonight and prom
ised to extend across the seas.
_John de Kay Jr, brother of the
Vifsutig heiréss “tad -cabléd to i
father, John Wesley de Kay, at Lu
cerne, Switzerland, that Jeanne had;
disappeared. The elder De Kay cabled
his son in care of the Hull House:l
“Received telegram, very anxious.
Jeanne confided in Roumanian lndy.'
Always send wires to Lucerne. Love.”
What confidence did Jeanne share
with the Roumanian lady?’ The
question ecould not be answered to
night, but from scraps of informa
tion gathered it was believed she had
told the Roumanian womar of n“
priceless art treasure being brought‘
across the seas or that she had re
vealed international secrets that had
been entrusted to her.
WOMAN (DENTIFIED.
The Roumanian lady referred to lni
the telegram was identified as Miss‘
Dedez Salter of Rounmania, who
came to .America on the same ship
with Miss De Kay and her brother,
John De Kay. Miss Salter boarded
the ship at Naples. She was ac
companied by her mother and they
told the brother and sister they were
coming to America to dispose of
somt art pictures of great value, to
retrieve their fortune lost in the wat.
The authorities tonight worked on
the theory that a coterie of thieves
—international crooks—aware of the
art treasures, trailed the party to
the United States. They believe be
caust the Roumanian woman was
an inseparable companion of Miss
De Kay during the voyage, the band
may have been misled into believing
Miss De Kay, instead of Miss Salter,
was owner of the pictures and knew
of their hiding place,
It bhecame known today that after
Miss De Kay disappeared Miss Sal
ter came to the Hull House from New
York and offered to aid in the search
for the missing girl. Miss Salter
returned to New York Tuesday night,
January 6. At the time nothing was
said o sher visit by Miss Addams of
the Hull House.
MEXICAN HAND SEEN.
There was another theory—a bolder
one. It was that Miss De Kay had
brought international secrets to
America. The elder De Kay, it was
said, was in official. disfavor in
France, England «and the United
States, His life in Mexico was re
called and it developed during the
war he had made numerous voyvages
from America to foreign countries.
When America entered the war he
took up his residence in Switzerland.
1t was pointed out by those who
connected the heiress with apart—
innocent, perhaps—in international
intrigue, that she was a girl of spirit
—daring and frequently expressed &
desire to “do something big—some
thing worth while in “ge world.”
Under the Diaz administration in
Mexico Jokn Wesley De Kay estab
lished a great packing plant in Mex
ico and grew wealthy. With the
overthrow of Diaz he fled the coun
try. He favored the Madero faction.
for a t'me, but with the passing of
Madero's regime he was not directly
connected with affairs of the South
ern republic. It was charged, at
times, that he was in Europe to
gecure arms for a counter revolution
in Mexico. At the outbreak of the
Puropean war. it was said, a ship
ment of 200,000 arms intended for
the Huerta administration were di
verted to Belgium.
That Miss De Kayv mayv have heen
captured by representatives of a for
eign government to wring secrets
from her was be'ieved possible in
some well informed riroles
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Savant Who Disappeared in 1917
Swoons as Naval Officer Cries
‘Father, Don’t You Know Me?’
Physician Now Without Name or:
Past—Knows Nothing of War,
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or Kaiser's Abdication,
(By Universal Service.) |
LAMBERTVILLE, N. J,, Jan, 11.—/
“Doctor X,” the highly educated and
cultured amnesia victim, whose lost
identity excited nation wide lnterest.i
was identified here by his son as
}Doctor John L, Brand, 64, a promi
‘nent physician and scientist who dls-}
‘appeared from his home in Worches
ter, Mass., in March 1917. The identi
fication, which took place in the par
lor of the Rev. J. T. Benzley, who
iha.d given “Doctor X,” a home, was
made by Lieut. Com. Charles L.
.8 N, whe lives in-Phil-
Lfieg p&ia. ”C"c’;’rfimafig'é'x‘gfi?i%& ; bfifi‘{%‘
}leave and hurried here after seeing
'in the newspaper a description of)
“Doctor X,” which was a word plc-‘
ture of his missing father.
~ The scene was an affecting one. The
‘naval officer entered the parlor as
“Doctor X” was about to pose for a
photograph. There was a tense mo
ment as son and father confronted
one another, then the tall, uniformed
man’s eyes filled with tears and his
voice trembled as he said:
“Father! Don't you recognize me?
I'm your son, Charles?”
DIDN'T KNOW SON.
There was a hush among the news
papermen and others in the room as
the aged man of mystery made what
was very evidently a supreme efton‘
to concentrate his mind and cause it
to clutch from its vague - shadows
memory of the other. He grew pale
and his breath came in panting gasps,
while his eyes in their fixed stare
sought to see what his memory re
fused to reveal, |
“No,” he whispered faintly, and the !
word was freighted with hopelessness,
As if to make doubly sure, the aged
man raised trembling hands to his
son’s epauletted shoulders and rest
ing them there, stared searchingly
into his eyes. Then with a sobbing
intake of breath, he swoonéd, |
“There is no doubt whatever of the
complete identifiation,” said Lewis
C. Williams, who had been studying‘
“Doctor X's” case. “The son de
gcribed to me before he saw his father ‘
a number of identifation marks on
his body, among them being a broken
finger.”
ONLY MEMORY MISSING.
Doctor Brand was fully aware that
he was a victim of amnesia, and his
gcientific mind, orderly in every re
spect save that of memory, had been
working methodically in a patient
endeavor to recall his identity and the
names of relatives and friends. He
retained certain facts, such as the
titanic disaster, the fact that he was
an Oxford graduate, a physician and
that he had devoted more time ro
research than to medical practise.
But he had ho recollection of cross
ing the ocean, knew nothing of the
world war, or that the czar had been
slain, and the kaiser had fled panic
stricken from Germany.
Commander Brand said *his father
was a native of England and that he
had made a specialty of research in
the fields of chemistry and biology.
His father, he said, was belleved to
have recovered from a slight amnesia
attack a short time before he dis
appeared. Doctor Brand will be taken
first to his son’'s home and after rest
ing will be taken to Worchester,
where his wife now is.
‘Dr. X’ Once Music
Teacher in Worcester
WORCHESTER, Mass., Jan. 10.—
Dr. John 1. Brand, who was located
in New Jersey suffering from am
nesia, taught music in this city for
deveral yvears,
He disappeared while his wife was
visiting their married daugher, Mrs.’
Archibald Sunderland, in 1917, Mr,
Sunderland is a captain in the army
\a.nd was awarded the dlstinguhhed‘
gervice medal during the war
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the Postoffice st Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
700 Drown as
Vessel Sink
essel Sinks,
Says Report
LONDON, * Jan. 11.—An un
confirmed report that the Italian
steamship Principessa Mafalda
had been sunk at sea by a mine
with the loss of 700 lives was
received from Genoa Saturday.
Agents of the owners, the So
cletie de Navagacion Lloyd Ital
jano, said tonighi they had re
received no word of the Te
ported disaster. Shipping rec
ords show that the Princeipessa
Mafalda arrived at Buenos Aires
from Mediterranean ports on
December 18,
There is na record of her de
parture from that port. She is
a vessel of 9,210 tons and during
the war was used by the Italian
government as a transport,
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‘Envoy Declares He Will Appear
Before Senate Committee
b e -Monday,
| (By Universal Service.)
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Express
ling the hope that the ‘“whole uncol
ored truth about Russia” would be
‘brought out by the Senate subcom
‘mittee investigating Russian propa
‘ga,nda. in the United States, Ludwig
C. A. K. Martens, Russian soviet
“ambassador” to the United States,
gave assurance that he would appear
‘betore the committee Monday.
| In a statement issued from his
‘headquarters at the Hotel LaFayette,
Martens expressed confidence that “a
Maxr and thorough investigation will
‘dispell the bitterness artificially cre
ated against the workers of Russia.”
~ In the meanwhile the soviet “am
‘bagsador” will not be ‘“disturbed,” it
was stated at the department of jus
tice. Although officials made it plain
that no attempt would be made to
prevent his appearance before the
Senate probers, his arrest on a depor
tation warrant probably would imme-~
| diately follow his testimony.
“WORLD NEEDS RUSSIA.”
- “Russia needs the world, and the
‘world needs Russia,” Martens assert~
ed in his statement today. “It is clear
that now that the Russian soviet re
public has been in existence for two‘
vears and that at this particular time
its strength and stability has been
gloriously demonstrated by the com
plete victory of the Russian workers’
forces over the reactionary czarist |
‘element in Russia, the world as aJ
whole will find it possible and abso
lutely necessary to establish rela
tions with Soviet Russia.
“Soviet Russia has no unfriendly
designs on the United States. On the
contrary, it sincerely wishes to dispel
the clouds which prevent an under
standing at this time. We do not
want to mmpose ourselves on the
American people. We only know that
relations will be established sooner‘
or later and if my presence is not de
sired in America somebody else will
be the medium received by the United
States government as the establish
ment of such relations, If I can in
any way lay the foundation for these
relations I shall have fulfilled my mis~
sion.” :
KERENSKY ENVOY ACCUSED.
, Martens said he would lay before
the Senate committee evidence in his
possession regarding the expenditure
of American loans to the Russian
government of $187,000,000 so lvaned.
Martens charges Boris Bakhmeteff,
Kerensky representative, with respon
sibility for squandering $80,000,000.
+Martens asserted that he had been
iegally a citizen of Russia since 1917,
the country in which he was born
and reared. His parents were Ger
man, he stated.
Santeri Nuorteva, secretary of the
soviet bureau, charged that the Lusk
investigation was unfair.
“Questions were pre-arranged and
of an insidious nature. It was what
Americans call a ‘frame-up,’” he as
serted.
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Blizzards Leave Trail
Of Horror in Balkans
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Jan. 11.—The most terrific
blizzards in years are sweeping the
war scarred Balkans, adding to the
Lorrors of famine and the suffering
from floods, according to advices
reaching Red Cross headquarters from
Belgrade. Many persons are dying of
cold and many lives have been lost in
floods. The Save and Danube Rivers
are ont of their banks.
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Lodge is Firm on Article X Resers
vation But Willing to Soften
~ Preamble and Lenroot Changes
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Possibility Wilson Will Refuse to
Accept Amended Pact Fails to
Deter Friends of Covenanty
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By JAMES R. NOURSE. ’
Staff Correspondent Universal Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Nu<
merous conferences between the op«
posing sides in the treaty fight imk
the Senate ' strengthened the hopes
of those who believe that by a come
promise of reservatlons, ratification
of the treaty will be possible. !
Administration senators showed &
disposition to make greater conces<
sions to-thé Republican leaders than
they have manifested at any time
since the fight began. !
The fact that they might be brought.
to s}n acceptance of the Lodge reser
vations with slight modifications,
which would mean that the President
would refuse to accept the ratifica
tion, did not deter the Democratic
'senators from offering to go a long
way in the direction of compromis=
ing. ‘C /
Senator Curtis, the Republican .
whip, .declared that in his opinion the
Democrats will yield to the essens
tial provisions of the Lodge resers
vations and that the treaty will ba
ratified next week.
SENATORS CONFIDENT.
Sernators Lenroot, McNary, Colt and,
others of the “mild reservation” group
among the Republicans were equally
confident,
Senator Lodge in his conference
with Democrats and Republicans alike
refused to make any concession or:
the reservation on Article X, but i
is understood he will not oppose
a slight modification of the pre-;
amble and a redrafting of the Len:
root reservation on the equality off
voting. §
Further than this, it is undmtom
Senator Lodge will not go, and
advice to the Democrats is that thew
will have to accept the reservatio
with these modifications or ag
witness the failure of the resolu
of ratification. !
Conferences were the order of t.='
day in the Senate. They began
soon as the Senate session opened
and were continued long after thea
hour of adjournment. Senator Lo&
discussed the treaty with Sena
Lenroot, McNary, and Underwoo&
and there were conferences also
which Sendtors Swanson, Hltehefi
Moses, Frelinghuysen and Colt
ticipated. '
LODGE RECEIVES ENVOYS. ¥
The “mild reservationists” fl
Senators Colt, McNary and Lenroot t
talk things over with Sénator Lodfi
and afterwards they conferred w
Senators McKellar and Kendrioks
Democrats, who prepared the r
vations which are said to have
sponsored by Mr, Bryan. In the lat
ter conference, Senator Colt inquir
of Senators McKellar and Kendri
how many Democratic votés thes®
would be able to deliver for the res
ervation in the event the “mild res
eravtionists” accepted them. Th
were advised to make a canvass off
the Democratic membership and as<
certain just how many would snpd‘
port the Bryan idea, 3
Senators McKellar and Kendrle‘
explained they thought it would be
possible to get enough votes amongl
the Democrats to put the reservatio
through. They told the Republical
that the sentiment in favor of res
ervations among the Democrats was
growing and that there would be &
considerable number of Democrats
who would vote for strong relervn 3
tions, even though they might be tod
strong to suit the President. Lo
Bryan Warns Democrats
Against Treaty Issue
(By International News Service.) \g
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—William Je "
nings Bryan rode into Chicago thig
morning and out again tonight, heads
ed West, leaving in his wake a buz§
of political speculation and an em«
phatic warning to Mid-Hestern Dems
ocrats that the treaty fight cannot b@
carried into the 1920 campaign. =
Mr. Bryan made but one forma§
speech during his stay in Chicago. H&
addressed a large audience at the
Iroquois Club, and declared withe
vigor that the time has come for &
show down and some action on the
treaty. y i s
“We. can't afford to delay this mate
ter,” he said. “We can’t afford to g 8
before. the people. with. an attack .of
the right of the majqrity in the Sen: g\“
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