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BUUST The Heart of the South.
WONDER G Grand Opera City of Dixie.
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= The “Pinnacle City” in Climate.
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VOL. XVIII
LODGE ATTACKS PRESIDENT’S LETTER
"STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS;
CONGRESS TO GIVE BONUS TO SERVICE MEN, FORNDEY SAYS
Congress Ledders Disapprove
Supreme Court Stand—Will
Raise Corporatioh Stock Values
(Bv Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—The
Supreme Court’s decision holding
stock dividends to be non-taxable
&paves the way for ‘“super-tax eva
sions to the annual extent of hun
dreds of millions, according to Rep
resentative Hull, Demoerat, of Ten
nessee. Mr. Hull is a member of the
Ways and Means Committee. which
reported out the war revenue bill and
is considered an expert on fiscal mat
ters. He was the auther of the in
come tax provision.
Reprasentative Kitchin, Democrat,
of North Carolina, 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
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 oni the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Representative Longwerth, Repub
ean, of Ohio, member of the com
mittee, said he was advised by the
astuary of the treasury department
Dacember 18 that refunds which
would have to be made under an
adverse decision would amount to
$38,000,000 for 1917 and 1918.
It was the consensus of opinion of
the 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 she probable course that will
be pjrsued temporarily will be the
issuance 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 confusion and sent
market stocks tumbling.
MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET.
Two of the news services which
eupply the ticker agencies sent out
bulleting announcing that the Su
preme ourt 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 marxset 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 decision. The
opening paragraphs of the decision
conveyed the impression that the
court’'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
runtil the entire declsion was read
that they learned of the error and
sought to correct it,
The International News Service, a
Hearst organization, was not one of
the offenders who carried the mis
information. Its correrpcendent wait
ed until the exact contents of the
court’s docizion wera known,
Three Coaches Burn on
Third Avenue ‘L’ Train
(By International News Service.)
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
buildifigs.
There were no passengers.
TAGGART WON'T RUN.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., March 9 —
Thomas Tazgart has withdrawn his
candidacy for the Democratic nomina
tion as a senator from Indiana. In
2 letter to A, C. Sallee, Democratic
State chairman, today he stated that
ill-health forced his action, and that
;fivimduwing was the hardest task
wbds _political carser.”
24-Hour{ Tni st Tniversas News F Service
Judge Pro Tem. Joe
Sentences Himself
For Being Drunk
Prisoners don’t often sentence
themselves. But Tuesday mor_'ning
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 his 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 judge and 1
were in your shoes what would
you do about it, Joe?”
“Change places and let my try it,
judge,” said Joe unabashed, who
has boasted that the fines he has
paid ths city for drunkenness wouid
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 prison on water. Chattahoochee
River water, with no bread,” intoned
Judge Joe pro tem. raising bleary
eyes to the recorder,
“Let it be the judgment of the
court,” affirmed Judge Johnson.
And it was written in the rec
ords of the court.
‘ -
‘Girl Shot by Brother
~ Dies From Pneumonia
. Unable to overcome an attack ot
pneumonia, Vivian Gray, 6, daugnter
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 survived
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 wouwd
recover until pneumonia set in.
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 automobile tires contain
ing cotton fabric, effective Monday.
Truck tires of solid rubber have ad
vanced approximately 10 per cent,
and carriage tires of rubber will re
main at former prices.
It is said the advance is not equal
to the advance in cotton fabrics,
which is made possible by an in
creased output. The advance in the
price of truck tires is caused chiefly
by advanced labor costs.
Another Georgia
Town Gets Fame!
You mnever can tell! The
Georgian, you know, l\ad
an incompleted Limerick
about a gay dog’ from
Grant Park who strolled
around quite a bit after
curfew.
One would think an Atlan
tan would get an idea
for a ‘‘last line’’—
wouldn’t you? ‘
But the winning last line
is from a Georgia town
not so very far from At
lanta. :
Just six words in the “last
line’’ which brings in SSO.
Next?
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Fifteen Per Cent Increase Or
dered for Street Railway Work
ers; Attorney for Men Objects.
Higher wages for street car em
ployees of the Georgia Railway and
Power Co. were granted Tuesday aft
ernoon by the board of arbitration
picked to settle the demands of the
men for an increased wage scale. An
increase of 15 per cent was recom
mended.
The board's decision was a com-
John D. Humphries, representing the
public; Luther Z. Rosser for the
county, and Madison Bell as repre
sentative of the car men.
The boards decision was a com
mentary on the high cost of living,
and recognized the justice of com
plaints by the men that they are un
able to live well under the existing
scale. At the same time it was rec
ognized that the companys plight is
the same as that of the men, with
every detail in.the operation of pub
lic utilities costing more than for
merly.
The decision of the board was not
unanimous. Madison Bell dissented.
Both sides to the arbitration al
ready have stated their intention to
abide by the boards finding. }
The wage demands of the union,|
on which the arbitration was held,
were 55 cents, 568 cents and 60 centsi
an hour, based on length of service,
and time and one-half for overtime
on the basis of a 10-hour day.
Five apnual holidays, New Year
Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas
Day, also were asked, time and one
half to be paid for work on them, l
The new scale will be first three
months of service, 42 cents an hour;
next nine months, 44 cents an hour;
after one year, 46 cents an hour.
The scale granted by the war la-'
bor board in 1918 was 36, 38 and 40
‘cems an hour for the respective
iclasses.
~ “I have absolutely nothing to say
regarding the decision,” said Hardy]
0. Teat, business agent for the union.
1 am surprised that the opinion o(’l
‘the arbitration was made public this
‘afternoon. It was agreed that it wusi
‘not to be given out to the public un
til after the meeting of the union
men Tuesday night, when an official
ireport was to be made.”
. Mr. Teat seemed surprised when
told that the board had granted the
men an increase of 15 per cent in
stead of 50 per cent, as asked for in
the union demands presented to the
!Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany early in December., He asked
that the figures be repeated and said
‘that he had nothing more to say other
than that the matter would be taien
up by the union at its regular
‘meeting.
When informed by The Georgian of |
the arbiters decision, H, M, Atkinson,
chairman of the board of directors of
the power company, said: ;
“The award means there wiil be an
inecrease in our payroll of $450,000 per
annum, including the scme rate of
increase in all other departments
which will necessarily follow. The'
company is not earning sufficient to
pay this and maintain the present
service,
“However, we submitted the wage
question to arbitration by agreement
and bound ‘ourselves to abide by the
result. We will, of course, carry out
the award. Additiona)] revenue will
be needed to meet it and I hawe no
doubt the public will be willing to{
see that the company receives suf-‘
ficient rates to permit it to pay the
wages fixed by the arbitration board
and in order to furnirh the service
which it demands.”
| Flu Ban Off at Tower;
. . - .
Visitors Again Admitted
The influenza ban at the Tower has
been lifted, it was announced Tues
day, which means that prisoners again
may receive visitors,
With the lifting of the ban also
came the announcement of a new
schedule of visiting hours. General
visitors will be admitted to the pris
on on Wednesdays between 8:30 a. m..
and noon, while lawyers will be ad
mitted between 2 o'clock and b o’clock
in thef afternoon on all days.
The jail is now entirely free of in
it was annownoced,
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1920.
Denies He Was ‘Pro-Britishy* and
Charges Vacillating Policy of
Navy Delayed the Armistice.
(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
vestigating 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
don't they send. a m»GQWY&%
here with a trunkfull nf bombs.”
While he said the “American navy’s
!part in the war was one of marked
efficiency once we got into it,”” Ad
miral Sims declared that the ‘“‘vacil
lating policy” of the navy department
during the early months of the wari
was responsible for prolonging the
war several months.
DELAY WAS SERIOUS.
“Had we been prepared at first
the war would have been shortened at
least four months,” Admiral Sims de- |
'clzu'ed. “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 unpfi-‘
'pared. despite two years in which we
saw it coming. We were unorgan
llzed and the department had no plan.
It pursued a vicilating policy dur
t!ng 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 thei
jfirst 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
;pllel.” 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 oncei
we got into it,” Sims said. He de-[
clared his first instructions were|
“vauge and unsatisfactory” and he‘
had labored under serious handicaps |
overseas because he was 3,000,000
miis away from the navy depart
‘ment.
“l have raised nmo question what
ever as to the efficiency of our navy
in the war viewed as a whole,” Sims
said. “And apart from those whol
directed it, the work the navy did,|
such as it was, was beyond alll
praise.
“My ecriticism was directed mainly |
at the faults committed in the firsL;
months of the war. and their f&llure;
to acdt promptly. |
“Apparently the navy dt-.partment.'
believed that I and allied officials had’
overestimated the seriousness of the
situation. - They failed to respond,
and I am convinced that this failure
to get adequate support during thel
first six months of the war seriously
endangered the outcome and pro
longed the war several months.” |
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,, 83,
Sunrise, 5:56; sunset, 5:41,
Professi
rofessions
Fan Insanity
Among Women
(B{ Universal Service.)
L(_L\DON, March 9.-—lnsanity
is increasing among women
because they are taking a much
greater share :n the world's
work, according to a report by
Dr. Edward Osward, superin
tendent of the Glasgow Royal
Asylum, .
The strain reacts mostly on
professional women, he says;
women of the working class are
not. so likely to break down.
There has been a notable in
crease in the number of school
teachers and students admitted
to insane asylums in Great
Britain,
Daniels Tells Committee of Need
for Additional Protection
of West.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Netes
sity for the strengthening of the na
val defense on the Pacific Coast was
'iexplained and urged before the House
Naval Affairs Committee Tuesday by
Secretary of the Navy Danieis in ex
ecutive session.
Daniels was accompanied by Rear
Admiral Coontz. The transfer of a
large part of the naval fleet to the
Pacific Coast and the need for addi
tional protection there was outliped
by Daniels. Y
| The secretary told the committee
‘the naval hase facilities available
were not sufficient for the proper op
eration of the Pacific fleet and for
the protection of the Philippines and
Hawaii. The establishment of an op
erating base on deep water in the
‘Ban Francisco bay was urged by
him %s indispensable in working out
the program of the department. The
Mare Island station would be used in
the event of the creation of a new
base as a repair and shipbuilding
depot.
The session was held behind closed
doors so that the actual necessity of
additional protection could be éx
plained. The extent of the immedi
ate necessity was divulged by the[
committee members. Basing his re
quest on the fact that the large num
ber of stations on the Atlantic Coast
did no more than fill the needs in
the recent war, where Atlantic Coast
operations were necessary, the secre
tary pointed out that a Pacific Coastl
war would find the country unpre
pared if only the present facilltlesl
were maintained. |
iHarris Asks Explosive
’ For Reclaiming Land
' WASHINGTON March 9.-—Senator
Harris has requested Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker to turn over
to the department of agriculture some
|ol’ the TNT re'malning from the
war supplies, for experimental and
demonstrational use in reclaiming the
cut over pine lands and overflow in
the State of Georgila. |
Senator Harris informed Secretary
Baker, who took ‘the matter under
‘consideration, that Georgla had large
;areu of uncleared fertile land avail
‘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 train
operated last summer by the Geor
gia State College of Agriculture and
the I'nited States Railroad Adminis
tration, with the opportunity of ac
complishing a great deal of work of
this kind. ’
Hoover Petition Is
. Started in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.—Peti
tion te the State Democratic Kxecu
tive Committee to put Hoovers name
in the primary was granted here to
day by W. H. Wade,
The petition exempts signatories
from support o'.&bHoover, askln;l
merely that the public may pass on
his preswned candidack,
{, W——
Chairman of Ways and Medns
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. TFordney'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
farmer soldiers in a manner satis
factory to them,
“Some member of this committee
'may be endeavoring to kill soldier
}bonus legislation by delay, but I, for
one, want to draft a bill and get this
question on the floor for action,” de
clared Chairman Fordney. ‘
The committee decided to call rep
resentatives of treasury department
Thursday. ‘ ‘
Representative Kitchin, Democratlc‘
minority leader, ‘gave his first inti
mation of hostility toward the bonus‘
proposition. “We must not do thls
hastily as a raid on the trcasury——thel
treasury can not stand it,” Kitchin
said. ]
Representative Frear, Republican,
Wisconsin, suggested that the" draft
ing of the bill be delayed until after
March 22, when the executive com
mittee of the American Legion will
meet to take up bonus suggestions.
Governor Harding of the Federa)
Reserve Board, Secretary of the!
Treasury Houston and Assistant Seo-i
retary Leffingwell will be called by
the committee, l
ICashier 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. McNellis, vice president,and Jam s
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 ralso}
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
ibandns.
AID RUSHED TO SHIP,
~ BOSTON, March 9.-Radio mes
sages Tuesday said the United States
coast guard cutter Seneca, from New
York, was rushing to the aid of the
shipping board steamer Lake Elli
thrope, reported disabled and adrift
near the rocks off Sable Island, N. 8,
Another wireless message stated that
the steamship M'aplomom was ut%nd
ing by endeavoring to take the Kili
thrope in tow.
kD , World’
Jack Dempsey, World's .
Champion, in New Senes
Followers of the boxing game ecan not afford to miss these
articles by the title holder in The Sunday American The
next tells how to develop powerful shoulders and is illus
trated with special photographs. It wil appear y
In Next Sunday’s American . ¢
"EDITION
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter st
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 187%
Baby Is Freed
Of ‘Burden’ of
Wilson’s Name
(By Universal Service.)
NBW BEDFORD, Mass., March
9.~Woodrow Wilson Wil
loughby of Edgartown, 14 months
old, is now Hobart Lockett
Willoughby.
DBy court decree, Judge Everett
Allen Davis of the Dukes
County Probate Court changed
the child’s name on petition of
his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Leo
A. Willoughby.
The petition expresges the fear
that the future the appellation
“Woodrow Wilson” might be
come a burden to the child, but
did aot disclose whether politics,
national or interanational, made
“Woodrow Wilson" undesirable.
L ; : |
Missing Palmetto Banker Wrote
Letter Admitting Losses in
Speculation,
The bubble of fortune through cot
ton speculation still floats before the
vision of R. C. Bacheller, vice presi
dent of the Bank of Palmetto, whose
disappearance last wek was f6llowed
by discovery of a shortage in funds.
Dr. T. P. Bullard, president of the‘
bank, in a long distance telephone
’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
jhls flight, and that he ‘was confident
he could win the money to pay back
the shortage.
Doctor Bullard Tuesday swore out
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 #he 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 ao
counts had returned. C. J. Ander
son and J. D. Camp of Atlanta have
been obtained to make a new audit
of the bank’s affairs.
No definite clues as to Bacheller's
whereabouts were in the hands of
any investigators Tuesday. It was
indicated that a substantial reward
for his apprehension would be of
fered by the bank.
Boy Inventor Missing
With Wireless Device
(By International News Service.)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March s 9.—
Harold Sever, Harvard's “boy scien
tific marvel” of two years ago, has
disappeared, together with a priceless
wireless inverition in which the
United States government is inter
ested.
The boy inventor, who is 22, left
his workshop in Valparaiso, Ind., for
Chicago early in February. He had
with him all his plgmu and 200
pounds of apparatus reresenting his
finished invéntion. He has not been
seen since.
Word of Sever's disappearance was
brought to Cambridge today by de
gartment.of justicg agents tracing
is associations while at Harvard
radio school.
NO. 200.
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Also Flays President’s Stand on
Adriatic, Saying Italy Is En
‘ titled to Keep Hold on Fiume.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—What
he termed an “unfair and unfortu
nate reflection on France,” in the
President's latest letters to Senator
Hitehcock on the treaty was se
verely criticised in the Senate this
| afternoon by, Senator Lodge, the Ré
publican leader, v
Lodge also declared the Presidex\t'a
attitude in the Adriatic dispute to
be wrong and said Italy was enti
tled to possession of Fiume if only
as a strategic base to protect her
from future invasion.
RESERVATION ALTERED.
By a vote of 28 to 49, the four
teenth Lodge reservation was
amended this afternoon to make the
‘operiing part of it read:’ " v
“Until part one (of the peace
treaty), being the covenant of the
League of Nations, shall be 8o
amended a® to provide that the
United States shall be entiled to cast
a number of votes equal to that
rwhich any member of the league and
its self-governing dominions, colonies
‘or parts of empire in the aggregate
‘shail be entitled to cast, the *United
States assumes no obligation to be
Ibound by any election, decision, re
port or finding of the counecil or as
sembly in which any member of the
league and its self-governing domin
ions, colonies or parts of empire in
the aggregate have cast more than
one vote.” ‘.
Senator Lodge declared the Pres
ident “had reflected unjustly” on the
allies in that paragraph of his letter
in which he stated that “militaristic
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 tgo be associated in the tasks of
peace.”
CRITICIZES WILSON'S STAND. 5
“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 sald. 4
“l feel we owe France a great
debt of gratitude, I am sorry. the
Presideht saw fit to say what he dl&
I regret' also the President has
fit to assume the position he has in
the Adriatic dispute, §
“That Italy should desire to pro
tect herself by helding the strategic
points in the Adriatic is only right
under the pact of London. Since
when has it become a crime for Italy
to ‘protect herself? She has asked
for a city as a strategic base with
!which to protect herself from future
war, b
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-Slays.
“Arid 1 have no feeling against
Great Britain, I do not bhlame her
for looking out for herself. I only
wish the United States had bveen
looked after as well. And there has
been a resérvation proposed which
would have protected us,” Mr. Lodge
sald, referring to the Johnson reser
vation. .
Senator Owen, Democrat, of Okla«
’hnma announced he would support
the Lodge reservation program, as ap
’oxpresaion of the will of the majority
of the Senate, rather than stand in
the way of ratification. i
FINAL MOVE BEGINS. $1
Republican leaders declared today
they don’t propose to pemn‘t::
peace treaty to “be killed” 4n t
Senate without first seeking to place
full responsibility for its defeat on
President Wilson. :
They are prepared to 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 Senatéer
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