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VOL. XVIII
LODGE SCORES WILSON’S ‘SLUR’ ON FRANCE
STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS;
CONGRESS TO GIVE BONUS TO SERVICE MEN, FORDNEY SAYS
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WASHINGTON, March 9.—The
Supreme Court’s decision holding
{tock dividends to be non-taxable
paves the wayjfor “super-tax eva
slons to the annual extent of hun
dreds of millions, according to Rep
resentative Hull, Democrat, of Ten
nessee. Mr, Hull is a member of the
I Ways and Means Committee. which
E' reported out the war révenue bill. and
is considered an expert on fiscal mat
ters. He was the author of the in
come tax provision.
Representatiye Kitehin, Democrat,
of North Cafolina, chairman of the
committee at the time the revenue
bill was passed, said:
‘“This decision means that the gov
ernment no longer can collect any
taxes from corporations.. Hereafter
all dividends will be paid in stock
dividends. The decision also means
4 an increase in the value of stock of
corporations of at least $3,000,000,000.”
CALLED ALARMING.
“Very alarming,” was the comment
of Representative Henry T. Rainey,
Democrat, of Illinois, arother fiscal
expert on the Ways and Means Com
rrittee.
Representative Longwerth, Repub-
Hean, of Ohio, member of the com
wittes, said he was advised by the
artuary of the treasury department
Drcember 18 that refunds which
: would have to bhe made under an
adverse decision would amount to
$36,000,000 for 1917 and 1918,
It was the consensus of opinion of
tht¢ committee that no action will be
taken immediately to provide new
sources of revenue to take the place
of the stock dividend. It was said
that the probable course that will
be pursued temporarily will be the
issusnce of short term treasury cer
tificates.
The eagerness among correspon
\ dents of rival Wall Street ticker
agencies to be the first on the street
with the news of the decision led
to considerable confugion and sent
market stocks tumbling.
MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET.
Two of the news services which
& supply the ticker agencies sent out
bulletins announcing that the Su
preme Court had upheld the constitu
tionality of the law on this contested
point. The result was a sharp break
in the market. Ten minutes later
the correct news of the court’s de
cision flashed across the wires and
the marxet reacted sharply.
The ~rror appears to have been due
purely to the effort of certain of the
correspondents to “score a beat” on
the news of the court’s décision. The
opening paragraphs of the decision
‘gonveyed the impression that the
coul¥s opinion would he favorable to
the constitutionality of the law. The
correspondents rushed out upon their
wires the news that the law had been
declared constitutional It was not
until the entire decision was, read
that they learned of the error aund
sought to correct it, |
The International News Service, a
Hearst organization, was not one of
the offenders who carried the mis
information. Its correrpondent wait
k until the exact contents of the
sourt’s deci<ion wera known.
Three Coaches Burn on
Third Avenue ‘L’ Train
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A NEW YORK, March 9.—Fire on a
Third avenue elevated express train
at 142nd street early today destroyed
one car, badly damaged two others
and routed scores of tenants from
buildings. I
There were no passengers.
24-Hourq 131 fui Universas News p Service
Judge Pro Tem. Joe
Sentences Himself
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For Being Drunk
Prisoners ,don’'t often sentence
themselves, Bus Tuesday morning
Judge Johnson, at a loss what to
do with Joe Schmidt, an “old
timer,” up for drunknesses for no
one knows how many times, told
the prisoner to name hizs own
punishment.
“Joe,” said Judge Johnson, ‘T've
tried the buttermilk cure on you.
I've put you behind bars on water
and crackling bread. 've fined you.
I've suggested the trench cure and
yet you come back. Now, if you
were in my place as judgesand I
were in your shoes what would
you do abput it, Joe?”
“Change places and let my try it,
judge,” said Joe unabashed, who
has boasted that the fines he has
paid the city for drunkenness, would
buy the city prison.
So the judge sat and let old Joe
plead guilty and sentence him
self., :
“I sentence myself to three days
in ptison on water. Chattahoochee
River water, with no bread,” intoned
Judge Joe prg tem., raising bleary
eyes to the recorder, °, S
“Let it be the judgment of the
court,” affirmed Judge Johnson.
And it was written in the rec
ords of the ceurt.
Girl Shot by Brother
Dies From Pneumonia
Unable to overcome an attack ot
pneumonia, Vivian Gray, 6, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Gray, 396
Piedmont avenue, who was accident
ally shot by her 8-year-old brother
Harold March 3, died Tuesday at.a
private sanitarium.
'Besides her Brother, she is survivgd
by her parents, a'sister, Mildred, and
her grandmother, Mrs. C. E. Wells,
all of Atlanta. The funeral will take
place Wednesday afternoon from the
chapel of Barclay and Brandon, with
interment in Westview.
The child was shot through the
chest while playing with her broth
er in the Gray home. The boy play
fully pointed a pistol at is sister and
pulled the trigger, not knowing it
was loaded. She was rushed to a
hospital. It was thought she wowd
recover until pneumonia set in.
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Tire Prices Going Up;
Fabric and Labor Dear
Owing to the increased cost of cot
ton fabric and labor, principally the
former, the larger dealers have an
nounced an advance of from 18 to 20
per cent on artomobile tires contain
ing cotton fabric, effective Monday.
Truck tires of solid rubber have ad
vanced approximately 10 per cent,
and ecarriage tires of rubber will re
main at former prices. ;
It is said the advance is not equal
to the advance in cotton fabrics,
which ig made possible by an in
creased output. The advance in the
price of truck tires is caused chiefly
by advanced labor costs.
McAdoo’s Financing I
Attacked in Senate
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Charg
es that Willlam G. McAdoo, by “wild
extravagances in his mode of financ- |
ing while an official of our govern
ment, has cost this country more
than $1,000,000,000,” were made in the
Senate this aftermoon by Senator
Kellogg of Minnesota. |
Senator Kellogg attacked a pro
posal to reduce taxes, which he said
McAdoo made recently.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Granted New Trial
(By International News Service.)
ST. LOUIS. March 9.—The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, in
an opinign handed down here today,
reversed the verdict by which Mrs.
Rose Pastor Stokes, wealthy New
York Soclalist, was convicted in Kan
sas City in June, 1918, of violating
the espionage act and was sentenced
to ten years' imprisonment. It re
manded the case for a new trial
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~ing Pay Demands of Car Men.
The three arbiters in . the str_ee’c
railway wage dispute, who began
their deliberations Tuesday morning
at 9:30 oclock, adjourned at noon with
the announcement that a final ‘deci
sion was expected to be reached Tues
day afternoon.
The conference will be resumed’at
3 o’clock. No intimation was given
of a deadlock on any of the issues
involved. Judge John D. Humphries
on emerging from -the conference
chamber said: |
“The deliberations have sbeen of a.'
pleasant and harmonious nature. We
are going over the entire matter
thoroughly. We will resume the de
liberations ‘this afternoon with the
hope of reaching a decision.” '
The arbiters are Judge Humphries,
representing the public; Luther Z.
Rosser, for the Georgia Railway and
Power Co., and Madison ‘Bell; for the
employees. .
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-Harris Asks Explosive
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For Reclaiming Land
WASHINGTON March 9.—Senator
Harris has reguested Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker to turn over|
to the department of agriculture so'me‘l
of the TNT remaining from the/
war supplies, for experimental and!
demonstrational use in reclaiming the
cut over pine lands and overflow in
the State of Georgia.
Senator Harris informed Secretary
Baker, who took the matter under
consideration, that Georgla had large
areas of uncleared fertile land avau-l
able for agriculture, and one of the
most important things to be done!
toward getting this land under cul
ivation is clearing the cut over land
and draining the overflow land. He
told Secretary Baker of the special |
land clearing demonstration tra.ln’
operated last summer by the Geor-l
gia State Cellege of Agriculture and |
the United States Railroad Admlnls-l
tration, }ith the opportunity of ac-[
complishing a great deal of work of
this kind.
Appeal for Near East
Relief Up in Schools
Endorsement of the Near East re
lief appeal by the Atlanta schools was
announced Tuesday when Fred E.
Winburn, president of the Board of
Education, and W. F,-Dykes, superin
tendent of schools, gave permission
for the campaign organization to
present the appeal before the children.
The Junjor Red Cross, Miss May
Hardin, chairman, will conduct the
campaign in the schools. Talks will
be made in all the schools in the week
of April 4 to 10.
Wood to Stay Out of
California Primary
(By International News Service.)
LLOS ANGELES, March 9.—Major
General Leonard 'Wood has declined
to allow his name to be submitted in
the Presidential primary of Califor
nia, according to A. G. Browne, of
the local “Wood for President” Club.
It is said the reason is to avoid a
three-cornered ' split ‘'in the Repub
lican vote for Johnson, Hoover and
Wood.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair Tuesday night
and Wednesday; much warmer.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 30; 8
a. m, 36; 10 a, m., 43; 12 noon,
50; 1 p. m, 51; 2 p. m., 53.
Sunrise, 5:56; sunset, 5:41,
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920.
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IDenies Me Was ‘Pro-British,} and
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- (By International News Service.)
’ WASHINGTON, March 9.—Admiral
Sims declared there was a “cam
paign of deliberate propaganda to dis
credit him,” when he reappeared to
'day before the Senate.committee in-
Ivestlxatinx his controversy with Sec
retary Daniels, : .
Sims denied he was “pro-British.”
He said his father was an Ameri
can of revolutionary stock and he
chanced to be born in Canada be
cause his mother nappened at the
time to be on a visit to her father,
who was a Canadian.
}' -When he was told during the war
he was being accused of being “pro-
British” he said he replied: “Why
i‘ofi‘fluy gend a pro-German, over
here with a trunkfnlloLbombs .
While he said the “American ng,vy,'s
part in the war wass one of marked
refflclency‘once we got into it,” Ad-.
‘miral Sims declared that the “vacil
lating policy” of the navy department
‘during the early months of the war
was responsible for ‘prolonging the
war several months. |
DELAY WAS SERIOUS. |
“Had we Dbeen prepared at first,
the war would have been shortened at
.least four months,” Admiral Sims de
clared. ‘“As the war cost an average
of 3,000 lives a day and millions of
dollars, the seriousness of this delay
can be realized. |
“But we entered the war unpre
pared, despite two years in which we.
saw it coming. We were unorgan
ized and the department had no plan.
It pursued a vicilating policy dur
ing the first few months.
“The war was won by a fortunate
combination of circumstances, which
it is unwise to count on in the fu
ture,” Sims said.
The American army during the
first year of America's entrance into
the war was threatened with “being
all-dressed up and no place to go,”
Sims declared. “Our army ran the
risk at all times of being caught in a
position of being impotent to obtain
victory because of a lack of sup
plies,” Sims added.
“There was the gravest anxlety
about enough ships being available
to carry supplies as well as troops.”
HANDICAPPED, HE SAYS.
“The American navy's part in the
war was ‘of marked efficiency once
we got into it,” Sims .said. He de
clared - his - first instructions were
“vauge and unsatisfactory” and he
had labored under serious mmdlcapsJ
overseas because he was 3,000,000'
miics away from the navy depart
ment.
“I‘have raised no question what
ever as to the efficiency of our navy
in the war viewed as a whole,” §ims
said. “And apart from those who
directed it, the work the navy did,
such as it was, was beyond all
praise.
“My criticism was directed mainly
at the faults committed in the first
months of the war, and their failure
to act promptly. 1
“Apparently the navy department
believed that I and allied officials had
overestimated the seriousness of the
situation. They failed to reflpond.‘
and I am convinced that this failure
to get adequate support during the
first six months of the war seriously
endangered the outeome and pro
longed the war several months.”
Hoover Petition Is
Started in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.—Peti
tion to the State Democratic Execu
tive Committee to put Hoovers name
in the primary was granted here to
day by W. H. Wade.
The petition exempts signatories
from support of Hoover, asking
merely that the public may pass on
Hhis presumed candidacy.
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Professions
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Fan Insanity
AmongWormmen
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 9—lnsanity
is increasing among women
because they are taking a much
greater share i the world's
work, according to a report by
Dr. Edward Osward, superin
tendent of the Glasgow Royal
Asylum,
The strfin reacts mostly on
profession. women, he says;
women of the working class are
not so likely to break down.
Therd has been a notable in
crease in the number of schgol
teachers and students admitted
to: insane asylums in Great
Britain.
Forecaster Says Cold Weather [s
Broken for the
; Year.
_Spring is here!
.In" spite of SO-degree weather, a
heavy frost and frozen radiators, C.
IF. von Herrmann, official foracaster,
said Tuesday marks the beginning
'ot spring.
The mercury stayed well above 30
;
‘degrees Monday night and through
‘the ' early morning, and commenced
climbing with the sun. The ther
mometer wjll not drop below 45 de
grees Tuesday night, and will climb
to 60 Wednesday. It was indicated
that the last of the bitter weather is
past, and that the coal problem auto
matically will solve itself. |
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Flu Ban Off at Tower;
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Visitors Again Admitted
~ The influenza ban at the Tower has
been lifted, it was announced Tuos~i
Iduy, which means that prisoners ngu!n|
may receive visitors. ‘
| With the lifting of (the ban also
cdame the announcement of a new
ischedule of visiting hours. Genora.l‘
jvisltors will be admitted to the pris
on on Wednesdays between 8:30 a, m.l
and noon, while lawyers will be ad»i
mitted between 2 o’clock and § o’clock
in the afternoon on all days. ‘
. The jail is now entirely free of in
fluenza, it was announced.
Earthquake Shocks Are
- Felt in Tuscany, Italy
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 9.-—Earthquake
shocks were felt throughout Tuscany,
Italy, today, said a Central News dis- |
patch from Rome. Many persons |
fled from their homes but the dam- |
age is believed to be slight. ‘l
Tuscany is a department in |
Northwestern Italy bordering the
Mediterranean Sea. It contamns a
number of industrial cénters, chief
of them being Florence, Leghorn,
Pisa and Pistoja.
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American Murdered
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By Mexican Clerk
(By International News Service.).
WASHINGTON, March 9.-—Ray
mond A. Corcoran, an American cit
izen, aged 36, a superintendent of the
Santa Gurtedis Mining Company, an
American eoncern near Pachuca, Mex- I
fco, was murdered by his Mexican
clerk on the afternoon of l-’s-hruury’
28, according tc state department ad
vices today from the American con
sul at Nuevo Laredo,
The clerk is under arrest,
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Titus Declines To Be
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Shipping Board Member
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9-—Louis
Titus of California, nominated by the
President to be a member of the
shipping board, has asked l’rnsidnml
Wilson to withdraw his nomination
because of criticismn of the appoint-l
ment.
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Chairman of Ways and Means
Committee Declares Country
Can Well Afford to Pay Bonus.
(By Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Con
gress will provide for some form of
bonus for ex-service men, Chairman
Fordney of the House Ways and
Means Committee predicted at the
hearing on soldier beneficial legis
lation.
Mr. Fordney's statement was
prompted by the repeated assertions
of other members of the committee
that the financial condition of the
treasury might make it impossible
to do anything for the veterans of the
world war,
He declared the United States is
the richest nation in the world and
could well afford to compensate the
former soldiers in a manner satis
factory to them,
Cashier Slain,Others Shot
In Attempted Robbery
(By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 9.—
Glen M. Shawkey, cashier of the
South Side Bank, was killed and J.
M. Mc¢Nellis, vice president,and Jb.meu}
Smith, negro porter, wounded in a
gun battle with four bandits who|
attempted to hold up the institution
just before 10 o'clock this morning.
The robbers drove to the bank in
a nautomobile and three entered. Mc-
Nellis and Shawkey refused to raise
their hands. The bandits opened fire.
Shawkey fell dead. McNellis was
wounded. Smith, attracted by the
shooting, ran into the corridor and
was shot.
Five arrests were made soon after
ward, Police declared four of the
suspects answer’ the description of
bandits. V
Advertising Club 20
Hear Expert Thursday
P. F. Nichols, Atlanta advertiser,
will speak on “Advertising as a Pro
fession” before the Atlanta Adver
tising Club dat noon Thursday in the
Kimball House. Howard See will
act as harpoonisgst and music will be
furnished by Joe Elliott and singers.
Mr. Nichols is with the Advertising
and Sales.course at the (Georgia
School of Technology.
Twenty new members will be
elected. Plans for the membership
campaign now being waged will he
announced. The club plans to double
its membership in four months There
are.more than 250 members enrolled.
Reports will be submitted by the vig
ilance and educational committees
with a special report by the commn-]
tee on Americans. |
Atlanta Girl Is
Winner of No. 24
And, having got over the
best last line to Limerick
24 in The Georgian’s
series, she is going to cele
brate with the other girls
in the office. A six-cents
a glass celebration, you
know ! .
It’s a right good last line—
the one about the IHigh
Cost and Pants Problem.
There’s another incom
pleted Limerick in The
Georgian today for you
to complete in the hopes
of getting over ‘‘the
best’’ and getting that
SSO.
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Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Clasa Matter at
the Postoflice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Baby Is Freed
Of ‘Burden’ of
Wilson’s Name
(By Universal Service.)
NBVV BEDFORD, Mass., March
9.—Woodrow Wilson Wil
loughby of Edgartown, 14 months
old, is now Hobart Lockett
‘Willoughby.
By court decree, Judge Everett
Allen Davis of the Dukes
County Probate Court changed
the child’s name on petition of
hig parents, Mr, and Mrs. Leo
A. Willoughby.
The petition expresses the fear
that the future the appellation
“Woodrow Wilzgon” might be
come a burden to the child, but
did no* disclose whether politics,
national or international, made
“Woodrow Wilson" undesirable.
Missing Palmetto Banker Wrote
Letter Admitting Losses in
- Speculation,
. The bubble of fortune through cot
!ton speeulation still floats before the
vision of R. C. Bacheller, vice presi
dent of the Bank of Palmetto, whose
disappearance last wek was followed
by discovery of a shortage in funds.
Dr. T. P. Bullard, president of the
bank, in a long distance telephcne
message from Palmetto Tuesday, told
The Georgian that a letter had been
received from Bacheller, mailed in
Atlanta, saying he intended to keep
up the speculation which had forced
his flight, and that he was confident
he could win the money to pay back
the shortage.
Doctor Bullard Tuesday swore ouf
a warrant charging Bacheller with
embezzlement. Rumors were afloat
about Palmetto that Bacheller had
not left town, and the warrant was
taken out in. consequence, being
placed in the hands of the Campbell
County sheriff,
Doctor Bullard insisted, however,
that the rumors were without foun
dation., He gave his opinion that
Bacheller was in New Orleans or
New York.
Doctor Bullard said confidence in
the bank had been completely re
stored, and that a number of depos
itors who had withdrawn their acs
counts had returned. C. J. Ander
son and J. D. Camp of Atlanta have
been ebtained to make a new audit
of the bank's affairs’' “
No definite clues as to Bacheiler's
whereabouts were in the hands of
any investigators Tuesday. It was
indicated that a substantial reward
for his apprehension would be rof
fered by the bank |
Shopmen Decide to
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Call Off Strike Plans
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Allan
Barker, president of the Brotherhood
of Maintenance of Way Employees,
today announced here that his or
ganization has decided not to strike.
“We don't feel we have had a
square deal but we will go along with
the others,” Barker said. “We'll try
the new plan for railroad labor.”
The organization has been consid
ering strike action for seevral weeks,
Seven Vessels Sold
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By U. S. Shipping Board
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Sale of
four. vessels of the shipping board to
the Lloyd Royal Belge and three to
the Societie Maritime Francais, at
the standard terms of S2OO per dead
weight ton, were announced by the
ship sales division of the Shipping
Board today. , The sales were made
through the Anderson Overseas Cor
poration.
The vessels range from 3,000 to
4,000 tons each. k
SCAFFOLD FALLS; 2 KILLED.
ST. LOUIS, March 9—Two_ men
were killed and thirteen injured,
gome of them seriously, when a scaf
folding on which they were workingi
at the plant of the Ceneral Motors
Company, Union and Natural Bridge
avenue, collapsed. y
NO. 199.
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Also Flays President’s Stand on
Adriatic, Saying ltaly Is En«
titled to Keep Hold on Fiume,
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. s.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—What
he termed an “unfair and unfortus
nate reflection on France,” in the
President's latest letters, to Senator
Hitchcock on the treaty was see
verely criticised in the Senate this
afternoon by Senator Lodge, the Re«
publican leader,
Lodge also declared the President’s
attitude in the Adriatic dispute to
be wrong and said Italy was entie
tled to possession of Fiume if only
as a strategic base to protect her
from future invasion.
Senator Lodge declared the Prese
| ident “had reflected unjustly” on the
allies in that paragraph of his letter
in which he stated that “militaristie
ambitions and imperialistic policies
are by no means dead, even in the
councils of the nations whom we
most trust and with whom we most
desire to be associated in the tasks of
peace.” ¥
CRITICIZES WILSON'S STAND. ¢
“I think that is something that
should not be said about France, and
I regret exceedingly such a reflec=
tion upon one of our allies in the
great war,” Lodge said.
“I feel we owe France a great
debt of gratitude, I am sorry the
President saw fit to say what he did,
1 regret also the President has seen
fit"to assume. the position he has in
‘the Adriatic dispute,
“That Italy should desire to proe
tect herself by holding the strategic
ipolnts in the Adriatic is only right
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'when has it become a erime for Italy
to protect herself? She has asked
for a city as a strategic base with
which to protect herself from future
war,
DOES NOT CONCERN US.
“From my point of view, it is to be
regretted that the President should
interfere with a question that does
not concern us. We desire to be
friendly to Italy and the Jugo-Slavs,
“And I have no feeling against
Great Britain. "1 do not blame her
for looking out for herself. I:only
wish the United ,States had been
ldoked after as well. And there has
been a reservation proposed which
would have protgcted us,” Mr. Lodge
said, referring to the Johnson reser
vation.
Senator Owen, Democrat, of Okla«
homa announced he would support
the Lodge reservation program, as an
expression of the will of the majority
of the Senate, rather than stand’ in
the way of ratification.
FINAL MOVE BEGINS.
Fepublican leaders declared today
they don't propose to permit the
peace treaty to “be killed” in the
Senate without first seeking to place
full responsibility for its defeat on
President Wilson.
They are prepared so meet the
President squarely -in the campaign
on the issue of reservations or no
reservations, on the Americanization
of the treaty, as described in the
President’'s latest letter to Senator
Hitcheock,
The Republican leaders decided to '
make the administration side one last
offer of a compromise on Article X.
Senator Watson of. Indiana, one of
their number, was selected to join
with Senators Kellogg of Minnesota
and Hale of Maine, two of the Ree
publican “mild - reservationists,” in
preparing such a compromise.
ROOT AT CONFERENCE., !
The decision of the Republican
leaders was discussed at a confers
ence in Senator Lodge's office at
which Elihu Root was present. Mr,
Root agreed with them there was
scant prospect for ratification and
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