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VOL. XVII 24-Hourd D 2o patiemes: News | Service
PRESIDENT LOSING HIS GRIP IN TREATY FIGHT
NEGOTIATIONS 10 END TROLLEY CAR STRIKE FAIL AGAIN; ,
U. S. OPERATION OF SHIPS EARNED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
Payne Gives Figures on Receipts
From All Vessels Since the
Signing of the Armistice.
(BY International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Net
earnings of the shippig board in a
period of slightly more than six
months following the ' armistice
amounted to $166,493,994.85, accord
ing to figures laid before the Senate
Commerce Committee Wednesday
afternoon by Chairman John Barton
Payne of the shipping board.
(Chairman Payne presented figures
to show that net revenue from opera
tions to June 30, 1919, were $166,493,"
904,85 and that the balance of re
ceipts over disbursements for opera
tions to December 31, 1919, was $137,-
549,508.97,
A total annual ‘saving of $8,659,-
072.13 has been effected by the pres
ent administration of the board,
Chairman Payne announced. Figures
were presented showing that on Feb
ruary 10 the total cargo fleet was
1,673 vessels, with a dead weight ton
nage of 9,282,122, It was shown that
159 cargo vessels with a dead weight
tonmage of 959,749 have been sold.
The passenger fleet now consists
o{ thirty-two vessels, the greater part
of which consist of the ex-German
passenger liners. Seven passenger
ships, built by the board, have been
sold.
The active program of the board
now calls for a fleet of 2,311 vessels
at a tonnage of 13,592,710, Chairman
Payne said.
The large earnings shown by Chair
man Payne's report were made dur
ing a period when the merchant ma
rine was being adjusted to peace
time" conditions, it was pointed out,
and indicates huge profits from the
operations of the vessels.
Anti-Saloon Chief Is :
Bitterly Assailed
(By International News Service.)
ALBANY, N. Y., March 11,.—Wil
liam D. Anderson, State superin
tendent of the Auti-Saloon lLeague,
which may be subjected t, legislative
investigation of its prohibition loh
bying, was today charged with fo
menting a revolution within the
United States by Assemblyman Louis
A. Cuvellier. -
‘“We have been asked to throw out
the Socialist,” declared Cuveillier,
who besides being a member of the
Judiciary Committee which conducted
the Socialist inquiry, is sponsor for
the investigation resolution aimed at
the .inti-Saloon League. "“We are
askeC to expel them 7 . giving aid
and comfort to an enemy outside the
eountry, but’ we n't done any
thing yet with Anderson, who is caus
ilg a rev lution within the country by
bringing the religious question to the
fore. |
“Mr. Anderson is 6 feet tall, 48
vears old, and big and healthy, blt 1
did not see him in any war for his
country,” continued Cuvellier. “He is
s moral and physical coward and the
thirty-five ex-service men n this As
sembly resent his threatening and
bulldozing. ‘Remember there was one
man €ent to the penitentiary for in
sulting the lLegislature. If the Re
publican party had a leadc in this
State, Anderson would be ir jail long
ago.”
No Passports Until
Colby Is Confirmed
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—The
issuance of passports by the state
department will cease on Monday
if Bainbridge Colby has not then
been confirmed as secretary of state.
This decision had been reached
Thursday afternoon by legal experts
of the department. Acting Secre
tary Polk must cease to function
under the law on Monday.
Liquor Smuggling
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Planes Darken Air l
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In Florida, She Says
(By Universal Service.)
CHICAGO, March 11, —Airplanes
and all types of seacraft are car
rying on an immense liquor smug
gling business along the Florida
coast, according to Mrs. Roland R.
Hurford, who spent six weeks near
Palm Beach.
“The ocean is crowded with all
kinds of vessels and the air is dark
with aircraft—mostly hydroplanes
—all engaged in smuggling whisky
to the Florida coast,” Mrs. Hurford
said.
“The source of supply is an island
called Bimini, under the British
protectorate, 65 miles off the coast.
Every vessel that can be stolen,
bought, begged or chartered, is sent
to Bimini and loaded with liquors.
“They bring it to the three-mile
limit and then the hydroplanes fly
out. The whisky is thrown over
board with buoys atached and
picked up by the planes and
brought to land.” ‘
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Clemson Quiet, But f
Three Classes Gone
CLEMSON COLLEGEMarch 11.—
Everything wasapparently quiet at
('lemson Thursday with the juniors
and seniors at their regular duties.
Freshman, sophomore and one-year
agricultural classes practically all
left Wednesday afternoon. Presi
dent Riggs has asked the chairman
of the board of trustees to call a
meeting of that*body this week, and
it is practically certain that the
board will meet Saturday to consid
er the whole situation. Tt is not
likely that there will be any further
developments until that time, Presi
dent “Riggs says. He hopes the
board may be able to settle all the
difficulties. About a hundred of the
students who left got leave of ab
sence for ten days, so that their
leaving would not be in violation of
the rules of the college.
It has been decided because of so
many absences due to influenza and
mumps during this term, and be
cause of the psychological condi
tions that would make it hard for
the students to do themselves jus
tice on the examinations, to post
pone them till the end of the session
and to allow the students to go
home for the period of examinations,
extending from March 13 to 19.
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Palmer Wonr’t Make
j Long Speaking Tour
~ (By International News Service.)
| WASHINGTON, March 11.—T
‘have decided not to make any ex
tended canvass over the country,
owing to the pressure of public bus
iness.” declared Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer, candidate for
the presidential nomination on the
Democratig ticket, Thursday after
noon when asked what his political
plans are.
In response to an invitation from
Georgia, however, he said, and from
a few other States not too remote
from the capital, he would make a
few speeches at an early date.
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Scotland Going Dry,
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Bishop Welldon Thinks
By BISHOP WELLDON,
Dean of Durham.,
(Special to Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 11.—It is possible
within twelve months of a little more
that all Scotland will have followed
America’s example and gone dry.
,The experiment in Scotland by pro«
hibition forces will be a local experi
ment, and it is expected that the re
sulting officiency and morality will
induce other areas to follow suit,
I hope Scotland will be the
pioneer in reform in which England
will perhaps, at no distant date, fol
low suit.
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Foch Finds Politics
Lost in Clouds, He Says
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 11.—Paris newspa
pers publish the following statement
jby Marshal Foch in comment on his
ivlsit to the German occupied area:
| By MARSHAL FOCH.
i Politics is now lost in the clouds.
1 decline to follow it. All I can say
is that my visit to the occupied Rhine
;provlnces has assured me that the
‘American'and all other allied troops
retain the same excellent tpirit that
}l’llled them at the time of the armis
‘tice,
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J. H, Mills, President of Union,
Pleads To Be Allowed by Court
to Become Party Plaintiff.
J. H. Mills, as preéident of the
Georgia Farmers' Union has filed in
tervention through hig attorneys in
the T'nited States District Court here
in the cemplaint brought by J . J.
Brown, commissioner of zgriculture
against five local cotton firms,
;charxing violation of the Sherman
‘anti-trust law, adopting the allega
‘tions of Mr. Brown on behalf of
‘25,000 or more farmers he repre
‘sents and begging to be allowed to
intervene as party plaintiff,
Mr. Milis said the effect of a meet
ing in Atlanta February 28, held by
icompanies named in the complaint,
were that the price of cotton below
middling was reduced from 1 to 4
cents a pound, which has proven
disastrous to Georgia farmers, who
had a portion of their crop remain
.ing on hand. He declared they will
be forced to hold now indefinitely
land have been forced to borrow
money from banks to prepare the
11920 erop. i
| Mr, Mills sai.d the arbitrary price
reduction was made at the time the
farmers were preparing to sell to get
money to purchase fertilizers. He
said farmers all over Georgia are in
terested and are watching the out
come,
“The farmers of Georgia are just
beginning to be able to do business
on a cash basis,’ said Mr, Mills, “and
the remaining crop on hand has
been held by them for spring uses
|and this action, taken by the de
fendants has compelled the farmers
to hold their cotton until prices can
be restored, and either ‘buy their
fertilizer on credit or to again go in
‘debt for their fertilizers and spring
i supplies.”
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‘Tigner Backs
'Cotton Buyers
‘ J. Hope Tigner, secretary of the
lAflama Commercial Exchange, has
‘come to the support of C. B. Howard,
‘r\re-sidont of the North Georgia (‘ot
tyn Puyers’ and Manufacturers’ As
§sm'.atlon. in derial of irregularities
complained of by J. J. Brown, com
;mission(-‘r of agriculture, and L. B.
Jackson, State market director, in a
meeting of local cotton firms here
Febrouary Z&.
The State ortriciald in a petiti)n tor
injunction filed in Federal Courr,
charged five cotton firms violated the
Sherman anti-trust act by (fixing
prices, and brought about a drop in
eciton prices,
Mr. Howard issued a stalnml?nt up
hcid:ng the jega'ity of the meeting’s
action and his stand was substanti
ated Wednesday morning in the fol
lowing statement from Mr, Tigner
to The Georgian:
In the Sunday edition of your paper
appeared an article concerning a meet
ing held at the Atlanta Commercial Ex
change on February 28, and the determina
tion of differences of the various grades
of cotton The meeting was in no sense
secret, but was held on the fioor of the
exchange, and every one interested was
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Her SSO Will
Buy New Hat
There’s a Limerick winner
in town who has just got
her SSO in gold, and she
has told her hushand she
ig going to get a new hat.
The news of the latest Lim
erick winner and the new
incompleted Limerick are
in The Georgian today.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
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Reference to Militarism Is Passed
Up as Personal View and
Not Sufficient for ‘lncident.”
(By Universal Service.) |
PARIS, March 11.—After long de
liberation, the French cabinet has
decided to instruct the war office to
take no official notice of the passage
in President Wilson's letter to Sena
tor Hitchcock which refers to the al
leged enthronement of militarism ln‘
France. |
- The instructions are to the errect‘
that Mr. Wilson’s remarks are not}
to be regarded in the light of an ac-i
cusation, since the President wab
merely expressing his personal view
in a private letter to a senator undl
ifriend. and his chservations do not‘
offer sufficient ground for an interna-
Ltional gluarrel, or even for an ‘“inci
dent.” ‘
The concensus here is that the real
test of American feelihg towara
France will be giveh by the Senav:'g
final vote on the treaty of Versailles
and the Franco-British-American
“protective” agreement, Until them,
President Wilson’s personal npinionuj
are not to be made the subject of
official or semi-official policies. 1
PRESS IS INDIGNANT. |
There is no concealing the fact,
however, that publication of his le!-i
ter here has aroused the press and
public to redoubled indignation
against the President personally,
’many bitter commer‘ - being made by
’the leading newspapers of Paris. Here
are some excerpts from editorials:
1 L.« Petit Parisien—“lt is certain
President Wilson would not have
‘written the letter if he possessed full
control of his faculties and good
health. The letter unquestionably is
the work of a sick man, discrediting
his party as well as himself.”
Le Gaulois—"“President Wilson is
endeavoring to knock he strength of
those governments which advocate
order and discipline. His anti-im
perialistic formula is bound to nn-'
courage the international reds be
hind whom Germany is preparing for
future revenge. Kurope is disaps
pointed in the Presiden* whose ad-|
vertised ‘fair play’ is apparently n-|
cohc ‘ent.”
NOT NATION'S VIEW. ¢
1. Echo de Paris—'Mr. Wilson’'s in
feriority is now proved. He certainly
does not protect America’'s interests,
When he quits the White House’
America’s policy will change, fm‘l
America can not express its real
feelings towards Europe until it ].ani
‘a government in which it itself can
trust.” |
L.e Figaro—'"France regrets Sn-i
tensely having sacrificed the tangi-|
ble guarantees of her security fm'i
moral assurances which now are|
being disavowed by the very man who
has given them. We hope that the
vote of the Senate will enlighten Mr,
Wilson on his deplorable error of
judgment regarding France.”
Auto Companies at
Americus Consolidated
AMERICUS, Ga., March 11L.—A
deal concluded Wednesday has m-‘
sulted in the consolidation of Emory
Rylander’'s automobile establishment
with that of the Georgia Motor Com
pany. Mr. Rylander sold his busi
ness to L. €. Griffin, who in turn
purchased an interest in the Georgia
Motor Company. The business will
operate as the Gecpgia Motor Com
pany.
Macon and Chattanooga
Census Figures Friday
(By International News Service.) l
WASHINGTON, March 11.—~Pre- |
liminary population returns for 1920
will be announced by the census bu
reau Friday for Macon, Ga.: f'han.n-l
nooga, Tenn.; Cambridge, Md.; Shel
burn, Ind.; Coatesville, Pa.;, Forest
City, .Px.; lewiston, Pa.; andl
Waynesboro, Pa. ’
Wilson’s Name
Is Painted Off
French Street
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 11.—An illus
tration of the feeling
aroused here by President Wil
son’s letter to Senator Hitch
cock, which charges thLat mili
tarism and imperialism are in
the saddle in France, is the fact
that the press hailed as a na
tional patriot a joker who
painted out the President's name
from the street boards on the
Avenue Wilson and v ‘ote in its
ylace, “Avenue of the American
People.” ’
Announcement Taken to Mean
Renewal of Old Hardwick-
Watson Alliance.
Thomas E. Watson will support
James A. Reed of Missouri for Pres
ident in the Georgia preferential pri
mary, in the event his name is en
terad, which now seems fully assured,
This announcement is made by
former Representative Grover C. Ed=-
mondson of Bacon County, and is re
’garded as authoritative. Mr. Ed
‘mondson, who i& very close to Mr.
fWutson and was in recent confernce
‘with him, makes the statement in a
‘cigned card to the Macon Telegrapi,
'which reads as follows:
“You are authorized to say that
the ecandidacy of Senator Reed will
receive enthusiastic support from
Thomas E. Watson. (Signed) GROV
ER C. EDMONDSON.”
OLD ALLIANCE RENEWED.
This is taken generally to mean a
line-up in Georgia between Thomas
E. Watson and Thomas W. Hard
wick, former bitter political foes, It
really is a readjustment of ‘an old
alliance, however. as Mr. Watgon and
Mr. Hardwick years ago were close
allies, and Mr. Watson is generally
credited with having been responsible
for Mr. Hardwick's first election to
Congress
Senator Reed will begin a speak
ing tour of Georgia at Moultrie
March 20, to be followed by an ad
dress in ‘Atlanta at the Auditorium
March 22 and in Macon the 23rd. It
is expected these three addresses will
be followed by additional addresses
in Rome, Columbus and Statesboro,
but that has not yet been fully de
termined. |
It also may be stated that Senator
Reed already has tentatively agreed
to the use of his name in the Genr-‘
gia pfimary and Mr. Watson's nn-!
nouncement leaves little doubt lhatl
it will be 80 entered.
FIGHT ON ADMINISTRATION,
Mr. Edmondson’'s announcement lsi
taken to mean the withdrawal of a
petition now well under way to enter
Mr. Watson's name in the primary,
his promised support of Reed render
ing further progress with that un
necessary.
The Reed-Watson-Hardwick al
liance is accepted as meaning a
straight-away anti-administration
fight in Georgia, with the battle rag
ing around the League of Nations
proposal.
Is Hearse a Pleasure
Car? No, Says Maker
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March Il.—ls a
hearse a pleasure cat?
This question is put to Daniel C,
Roper, commissioner of internal rev
enue, in a brief filed Thursday by
David J. Nevin, who, as attorney for
the Michigan Hears and Motor Com
pany of Grad Rapids, Mich, build
re of motor trucks, is asking the
commissioner to reclassify in the ex
cise tax regulations motor hearses as
automobile tri#ks, subjected to & 3
per cent manuw.acturers tax, and not
an automobile or pleasure car, which
is taxed b per cent.
Nevin, in his brief, asserted that a
motor hearse i 8 by no means a pleas
ure car—that a fbhody can not dic- |
tate as to where -‘1 shall go or whore{
it should be carrid.”
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Key Wants to Name Board of Cit
izens to Solve Problem, Includ
ing Proposed Increase in Fares,
Negotiations started early Thurs
day afternoon to end the street car
strike failed when the union exec
utive committee calld on officials of
th Georgia Railway and Power (Com
pany and both sides resolved to
stand pat.
The conference, held in the office
of H. M. Atkinson, chairman of the
company's beard of directors, coim
menced at 12:45 o'clock and lasted
an hour. Following the meeting
Mr. Atkinson issued a statement
setting forth what transpired and
declarin gthe intention of the ‘com
pany to refuse any furiher contract
with the men until they return to
work and abide with the decision of
ithe board of arbitration.
J. H. Reardon, Madison Bell and
l}{ardy O, Teat, members of the uns
> BA G, Sy
ion executive committee vefused 1o
i'commem on Mr. Atkinson's state
-ment, although Reardon said that
‘no further progress had been made
in the negotiations,
The union committee will hold a
conferenc at 5 o'clock Thursday uft
rnoon in the office of Mp, Bell to
consider recommendations to make
to the union men Friday morning
when they meet at 10 o'clock.
Other developments of the dav
were:
1. The decision of the union offi
cials to “stand pat” in their position
in the face of orders from their in
ternational headquarters instructing
the union men to return to work and
abide by the decision of the arbitra
tion board.
KEY'S SUGGESTION,
2. Adoption of resolutions by the
Atianta Chamber of Commerce con
demning the sirike as being “unwar
ranted and unfair” and caliing on all
labor unions to join in asking the
strikers “as Atlantans” to return to
their posts of duty.
3. Suggestion by Mavor Key that
the entire problem, including the
question of granting the street rail
way company increases in fare, be
turned over to a commission for set
tlement, the commission to be com
posed of Atlanta cltizens appointed
by the mayor. This suggestion was
made to the directors of the L‘ham-;
ber of Commerce at a special session. |
The order from the internatlonal:
board came as a reply from a re
quest sent to Vice President FKFitz
gerald at Detroit Wednegday. Recog
nition was refusea the Atlanta walk
vut on the basis that the workers
struck after refusing to accept the
aecision of the board of arbitration,
which awarded them a 15 per cent
increase in pay effective from Jan
uary 1, 1920. Rules of the interna~
tional recognize Grbitration as a
means of settli.g wage disputes.
VOTE TO “STAND PAT.”
Decision of the international as
read at the morning meeting of the
strikers by J. H. Reardon, member
of the bourd, who is here Lo assist
in the strike and who sent the tele
gram to Vice President Fitzgerald
Wednesday.
Immediately a motion was made
that the union vote to “stand pat”
until granted a “living wage.” Shouts
seconded it from all parts of the room'
and after the meeting it was declared
that a unanimous vote had been cast
for its adoption.
The meting was addressed by Hars
dy O. Teat, business agent fur the
local union; Madison Bell, :lllornvy'
for the men, and Mr. Reardon,
Attorney Bell declared after the
meeting that it had also been voted
to seek a conference with Mr. Atkin- |
son Thursday afternoon to make a|
further effort to get the company Lu;
acce t the scale offered by the union |
in its demands. “
LOWEST WAGE PAID,
“The street car worker in Atlanta
has been receiving a lower wage than
the commonest laborer and far less
than he reteived in other cities,"” sald
Mr. Bell. “In Augusta and Columbia
the men are paid 62 centa an hour
with two weeks' vacation in the sum
mer, Seattle pays her men 60 cents
an hour and in Clicago they get 65
cents an hour. In a hundred other
cities the 52 cents an hour scale pre
vails. The increases asked for ny
the Atlanta men is just the average
paid in manv cities and is not in
Keeping with the advanced cost of
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"EDITION
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Atkinson Gives
Company’s Last
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|Word on Strike
‘ By H. M. ATKINSON,
In response to a request from the
officials of the local union, I had a
conference with them today in my
office at 12:80' o'clock. The union
was represented at the conference by
its executive committee and also Mr.
Hardy Teat, business agent; Mr.
Madison Bell, attorney and Mr. J.
H. Reardon, member of the national
executive committee of the union.
I invited the representatives of the
union to make such statements as
they desired. Mr. Reardon made the
first statement and spoke partly as
follows:
. “I notified headquarters’ vesterday
morning that the men had voted not
to accept the award of the arbitra
tion and had suspended work. [ got
a telegram last night notifying me to
notify thée membership that they
should return to work and comply
with the award; that the Internation
al Association did not endorse the ac
tion of the men. I received a further
telegram stating that I should try to
get in communication with you: that
vou had communicated with the of.
fice and reaquested that the Interna
tional Association do what it could to
see that the award and contract were
carried out. I read those telegrams
to the men this morning and advised
the international headquarfers that
the men had refused to comply with
the order of the International Asso
ciation and that I was seeking a con
ference with you today, The situa
tion briefly is this: The men will not
resume work -under the award of the
ternational representative everything
that I can do to prevent a strike and
have done everything that I know of{
to try to get the men to go back to
|work. But that they refused to do
by their unanimous vote this morn
|ing. So that is the situation. We
have asked for this conference in the
hope that you will do something that
will induce the men to return to
work.”
After Mr. Reardon .all of those
present representing the union were
invited to make further statements.
When they had finishe. I read to
them the following telegram which I
sent to Mr. W. D, Mahon, interna
tional president of the union, on|
Marech 10:
“Liocal seventy thirty-two and tuis
company signed a written agreement
to submit wages to board of arbitra
tion, having previously agreed on ev
ery other detail of new contract cov
ering operations for nineteen twenty.
Umpire suggested by union. being
one of the judges of the Superior
Court here, was accepted by us. After
| full hearing arbitration board by ma-
Jority decision rendered written
‘nward Tuesday evening, March ninth.
‘Union at meeting Tuesday night,
}March ninth, repudiated award with
out cause or notice to company or
public and ordered strike effective at
three o'clock this morning. Actlon;
of local union violates written con
tract with us and violates agreement
for arbitration. Action also, as we
understand it, contrary to your gen
eral laws and constitution. Strike is
on ang no effort being made to oper
ate cars, H. M. ATKINSON"
And copy of a reply dated Marcn
10, which I received from Mr. W. B.
Fitzgerald, first vice president of the
International Association, as follows:
“Telegram received. We are also in
receipt of telegram from genpml ex
ecutive board member, Reardon. I
immdiately wired Reardon to instruct
men to return to work and carry outi
agreement. Would advise that you
request conference with Mr. Reardon
and committee. I am so instructing
Reardon.”
I merely reported to the Xnternn-]
tional Association the facts, in com
pliance with a request that 1 had pre
viously received from Mr. W. D. Ma
hon, sinternational president, and 1
made no request that the Internation
al Association take any action, leav
ing it strictly up to themn.
I replied to the statements that
had been made by the representa
tives of the union as follows, stat
ing that what I said was final:
“While 1 still have the Kkindest
feeling for the rank and file of the
men and believe that they have bern
misled, it is out of my power, repre
genting the company, to undertake
to make any more contracts with
the union until it calls the men back
to work and carries out the rpresent
agreement,
“It is impossible to make anonmrl
contract with the union that will be
more binding than this one is lt‘
was thoroughly discussed, agreed
upon and signed. It was submitted
to and approved by the public, If
this contract does not bind the un
fon, then no contract can be made
that will bind it, and it is utterly
useless to be going through the cere
mony of making agreements and
signing up econtracts when the union
will not live up to this contraet.”
There was more or less gomvrali
conversation, the substance of all of |
which was appeals by the repre
sentatives of the union for more
money, which concluded the confer
ence.
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Many Wilson Followers Said To
Be-Shifting to Bryan’s View of
Ratification in Some Form,
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the |I. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Oppo
sition to the treaty being made a
campaign issue developed S 0
strongly today among Democratic
senators that it was claimed thirty
of them were prepared to desert
their leadership of Senator Hiteh
cock of Nebraska, the administra
tion's treaty manager. }
Senator Simmons of North Caro
lina, leader of the Democratic sena
tors seeking ratification, openly de
clared he was bending every effort
' to effect a compromise on Article X
that would lead to ratification. :
Senator Hitchcock asked for &
show-down on Article X today, This
was refused by Republican senators,
including “the ‘mild renervationl& o
who ane working with Simmons to
‘etfect ‘& change in the Lodge rése -
vation to Article X that will prevent
the defeat of the treaty for the see=
,ond time, A
' SIMMONS STILL FIGHTING, ;
' The compromise suggested byi
'Senator Watson, Republican of In
' diana, which the Republicans with
sdrcw yesterday, was being ul’fl_-‘
again today as a basis for the ré
newed negotiations, it was said. =
“l shall continue the fight for rat=
ification until the last vote is taken”
Simmons said,
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ar
(izona, scored ‘‘politicians in and out
‘of the Senate,” who, he declared,
{"are using the treaty as a screen to
keep themselves from having to face
’the real issues.” ;
Senator Ashurst declared that a
“number of agile politicians in both
‘political camps have for some weeks
been maneuvering with rare dexter
ity to make the league covenant the
overshadowing topic of discussion im
th ecoming campaign,”
“If these shrewd men are able to
keep the league covenant to the
forefront as the paramount issue this
fall,” Ashurst continued, “it will al
low them a plan of escape trom].,
discussion of such imminent ques=
tions as these following:
“The appropriation of 3250,000,M0§
or so much thereof as may be nec
essary (o lend to the reclamation
fund. :
“Giovernment ownership of publio
utilities. ; 4 :
“Universal military ‘training. P
“Bonus in recognition of the pa
triotic serviece of the private soldier |
during the great war, 4
“Soldier settlement bill, ; i
“Curbing the profiteer and regulas
tion of the high cost of living. |
“Merchant marine so that we may |
establish lines of «hips to Alaska, |
Honolulu, South A. erica .nd othef
ports without depending on foreign |
bottoms to convey our commerce. |
“How shall we prohibit treasonable
speeches ? ial
“Shall we free the American busi= |
ness man from the red tape entan- |
glements that now enmesh him and |
shall we say to him once in a whila,
‘vou may’ instead of always saying
‘you may not/'"” =
Pending the outcome of the pend- |
ing negotiations for a compromise
#enate leaders agreed there should |
be no vote on Article X until next
week. This was construed to mean
that there would be no final shows
down on ratification for at least an
other week,
Senator Penrose this afternoon
telegraphed from Florida to col
leagues in the Senate that he wished
to be counted as an irreconeilable
on the treaty question and asked to|
have a pair arranged for him with
that understanding. =
Bryan is expected to re-appear, in]
the Senate lobbies and ante rooms |
before the last ditch of the treaty
fight is reached. He hopes to fan |
the hot resentment among mang
Democratic senators at the Pre o
dent’s insistence upon injecting the
League of Nations into the campaign.
THE WEATHER,
Forecast — Cloudy Thulsdey
night and Friday; probably nil‘
Temperatures—6 a. m., 49; 8
a. m, 53; 10 a..m, 59; 12 n,
64; 1 p. m., 65; 2 p. m,, 67.
Sunrise, 5:54, Sunset, 5: vy
