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~ PRESIDENT AGAINST HO DECISION TODAY ON ALLIES a + memorial * said, * WEATHER. Rain and possibly snow tonight and tomorrow ; somewhat colder tonight. -four hours Temperature for twenty. Full report on page 21. ended 2 p.m. today: Hig 3 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 3 today. hest, 69, at . at noon | | Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. No. : 27,620. Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION vening Star. — | All rights | dispatches The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein | Member of the Associated Press | : | | | of public tion of special herein are also reserved Saturday's 's Net Circulation, 88,683 Net Circulation, 86,298 WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, DEC EMBER 8, 1919 —TWENTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS. DIPLOMATIC SPLIT WITH MEXICO NOW Would Constitute Reversal of Constitutional Practice, | He Tells Senator Fall. | RESOLUTION “GRAVELY CONCERNS” EXECUTIVE ‘White House Confident It Has Sole | Authority to Direct Government's Foreign Affairs. President Wilson would be “gravely concerned to any such resolution pass the Congress” he wrote Senator Fall today in referring to the Fall resolution requesting the President to sever diplomatic relations with the Carranza government. It would constitute a reversal of eur constitutional practice which might lead to very grave confusion in regard to the guidance of our foreign affairs,” he wrote. The President expressed cgnfidence that he had the support of every com- petent constitutional authority in the Statement that the direction of the xovernment's foreign affairs was as- signed by the Constitution to the chief executive and to him alone. ‘The President's Letter. ‘The letter to Senator Fall follow: “Thank you very much for your kind Promptness in compiying with my re- quest that you send me a copy of the report of the subcommittee | on Mexican affairs of the committee on foreign affairs. I shall examine it with the greatest interest and care. What you told me of the investigation on Fri- day last prepares me to find in it mat- ter of greatest importance. “You ask an indication of my de- sire with regard to Ut ~)nding resolution to which you a’ fenator | Hitchcock called my attention on Friday. and I am glad to reply with the utmost frankness that I should be gravely concerned to see any such resolution pass the Congress. It would constitute a reversal of our constitutional practice, which might lead to very grave confusion in re- gard to the guidance of our foreign| affairs. I am convinced that I am supported by every competent Con- stitutional authority in the statement that the initiative in directing the! relations of our government with| foreign governments is assigned by | the Constitution to the Executive, | and to the Executive-only. “Only one of the Houses of Con- gress is associated with the President | by the Constitution in an advisory ca- pacity, and the advice of the Senate is provided for only when sought by the Executive in regard to explicit agree- ments with foreign governments and the appointment of the diplomatic representatives who fib to speak for this government at foreign capiti J ‘The only safe courséah ‘ant confident: is to adhere to the prescribed method of the Constitution. We might ery far afield if we departed from it. “I am very much obliged to you for having given me the opportunity to express this opinion. “Very truly yours, “WOODROW WILSON.” ‘ommittee Action Is Ended. When the President's letter was re- ceived, Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee. called Senator Fall and Senator Brandegee, republican. Connecticut, of the com-; mittee into conference and in a few minutes announced that no further gction on the Mexican situation would be taken by thé committee. ‘We wanted to help ,” Senator Lodge “but not with the entire Mexican situation goes to the President. The responsibility is upon his shoulders. Let it rest there.” It was expected Senator Fall would make public during the day the evi- dence upon which he based his reso- lution requesting the severance of diplomatic relations. Mr. Fall € Conference. Upon receipt of the President's let- ter Senator Fall called Senator Lodge | and Senator Brandegee, republican. Connecticut, another member of the Mexican investigating subcommittee. | into conference in the foreign rela- | lions committee room. “It was what I expected.” was Sen- ator Hitchcock’s comment after the confecence. He added he would have been surprised by any ot H thelbresidenty 1 oon Pee Senator Lodge added that th - mittee had wshed to assure the Presi. dent of its support, but th: appeared undesirable. he said, “he may deal w SENATOR NEWBERRY APPEARS IN COURT see He and 17 of His Campaign Lead- ers Face Fraud Charges at Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., December 8. Truman H. Newberry, United States senator from Michigan, and seventeen of his principal campaign leaders ap- peared in federal court today to plead Yo indictments charging fraud and corruption in the senator's nomina- tion and election in 1918. _Th names of these eighteen follow: Senator Newberry, Paul H. King, his campaign, manager; Allan A. Temple- ton, Thomas P. Phillips, B. Frank dimery. Charles A. Floyd, Hanabal A. Hopkins. Fred Cody, John S. New- berry. Milton Oakman, Harry O. Tur- ner, Frank P. Smith, Elbert V. Chil- son, William J. Mickel, Clarence L. Sibben. Mark K. McKee. James F. Me. id Frank W. Blair. liately after their arraign- ral battle began that is ex- pected to continue over at least two months Among the first moves of the de- fense attorneys, it was expected, would he motions to quash the charges axainst a number of the prominent joen included in the list in- Gicted. and pleas for seps trials, The senator and those gned with him faced the charges contained in the second indictment, the counts statement of election expenditures. TO DIRECT WOOD CAMPAIGN. ‘NATI, Ohio, December 8.— Col William Cooper Proctor, Cincin- nati manufacturer, has his acceptance of the chairmanship of he Wood national campaign commit- * Col INCL Proctor declined | bearing upon pr. RY ENFORCEMENT LAW No decision on the constitution- ality of the war-time prohibition and the Volstead enforcement act was- rendered today by the Supreme Court. and there was no indication when a decision would be handed down Arguments on the constitution- ality of the acts were advanced by the court at the request of the government, and a decision had been expected generally when the court recor ened today after a re- cess of two weeks. As Monday is the regular opin- ion day of the court. a decision is not to be expected before next Monday. if then ‘The cases on which the constitu- tionality of the war-time act was at- tacked were from Kentucky and New York, while that on which the valid- ity of the enforcement act was con- tested reached the supreme court from New York. Arguments in appeals from Balti- more, Md., and New Orleans involv- ing the right _to manufacture beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol are to be heard by the court this week. Government attorneys, it was un- derstood, offered to submit these cases on their printed briefs, but attorneys from the other side de- clined. Because of this insistence to argue the cases persons familiar with the court's procedure believed the court withheld returning its opinion in order to hear any further arguments attorneys for the brewers might desire to present. No further opinions will be rendered by the court until next Monday. G.0. P. ELEPHANT SOUNDS FIRST WAR NOTE WEDNESDAY National Committee to Pick Meeting Place of 1920 Convention. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. “Well, well, well, good people! Here we are again! Two big shows under the main canvas and a mar-vel-ous line of freaks in the side tents! Walk up and get your tickets—and bewore of the insinuating guy, with a shell game, the little pea that disappears while you !oox, for thers are fakers in our midst! Thus might a political barker her- ald the approaching presidential cam- paign of 1920. practical preliminaries to which will commence this week when the republican national mittee meets in this city next Wed- nesday, at the New Willard, at 11 o'clock, to arrange time and piace for holding the national convention to Romjnate a republican presidential ticket and frame a platform. for the elections of next November. The date will be.a day early in June. Many Little Side Shows. Aside from the two “big shows un- @er the matt canvag” there will be, indeed, side shows of thrilling inter- est, with “the bearded bolshevist” and ie Circastian beauties,” and an- archist snake charmers, an’ every- thin’, more in evidence than before. |In the menagerie, the G. O. P. eles phant will trumpet loudly this week the first war notes of the campaign. January 8, the adversary will sound defiance, when the democratic na- tional committee meets here. ‘The actual business of record to be transacted here commencing next Wednesday will be the selection of a place and fixing the date for the con- vention, doings on the side lines haviag a spective candidates for the nomination and much con- ferring and scheming by the political wisedcres from every state. And none of this will go into the record. Hays Talks to Newspaper Men. 1H. Hays, chairman of the na- tional committee, discussed the com- ing meeting with newspaper corre- spondents at republican headquarters in the Woodward building today. “In some respects, this quadrennial meeting of the national’ committee ill be a notable one,” said Mr. Hays. “It is expected that some 400 or 500 persons will be in attendance—na- tional committeemen, state chairmen and leaders, and friends of prospective candidates for the presidential nomi- nation. Women will take a prominent and active part in the proceedings of the committee, which are for the sole purpose of selecting the time and place for holding the national con- vention. New Feature Announced. “A feature of the meeting, which is new to such gatherings, will be an open ‘session at the outset which will be addressed by an eastern and a west- ern governor and by a woman. Mrs. Medill McCormick of the women’s ex- ecutive committee will speak and so will Gov. McKelvie of Nebraska and Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania.”” Asked whether the committee | probably take up any national ques- tions, Mr. Hays replied in the negative. | “I assume,” he said, “that the custom lof all the years will not be broken, and that there will be no discussion jof nor action on questions properly belonging to the platform.” An execu- tive session will follow the open meet- ing to take up plans for the future. ‘The committee will hear the conven- tion city delegations during the after- }moon and evening of Wednesday, and hopes to close by Wednesday night. |Thursday there will be a meeting of | the national 2 will men, at which the political conditions | in all the states will be gone over. | Republican “war horses” outside of |the membership of the national com- | mitee will be on hand—such familiar |figures as Joe Keeling of Indianap- olis and Frank H. Hitchcock and George W. Perkins and so on. A few faces’ will be missed from the quad- |rennial gathering, such as Fowell | Clayton and Mr. Fairbanks, who have | answered the final great roil call. | Chicago and St. Louis C testants. | After the claims of several cities have been presented, and their arguments heard, by way of compli-| the remainder of the government de- | ment, the actual contest for the honor |Cided to accept the allied terms, ! of entertaining the convention will|Noske replied that he could not say! leome on between Chicago and St., What he would do a week hence, but Louis. The word “honor” is used ad- that his present position had ‘been | visedly, since in these piping times of | deliberately adopted and was unalter- prohibition there is more honor than/ able. privilege in taking care of a con-! vention. “There is nothing in it” from a strictly business viewpoint, it exceed the gate receipts, ests, outside of the hotels. ‘And the hotels are to be required to is said, and not likely to have to include very much| and harbor material and the protocol returns to, the empowering the allies to enforce ex- il- a road fares for the delegates will fig- angunced ‘ure in the selection of the city and a central location will be a compelling | if keep down prices, it lin their excess profit |income tax collector that year. | consideration. There is only one bright com- j but there will be important | sociation of state chair- | other | Please.” is declared. and the necessary ex-| position, ef which alleged perjury in the sworn | penses of preparing for the show wil! with but small return to local business inter- ALLIES CONSENT “TOMODIY PARTS OF THE PROTOCOL Effect of Scapa Flow Indem- | nity on Germany Is Left to Arbitration. Assovia ted Tress December 8.—Andrew ww, the government spokesman, declared in the house of commons today there was little Fenson to doubt that the com- munications proceeding between | the allied and associated powers and Germany with reference to the | immediate ratification of the peace | renty would have a satisfactory insure. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December S.—The allies have consented to modify some of the terms | of the protocol putting the peace treaty | | into effect to which Germany has made } objection. | | The clause providing for the indem- nity for the destruction of the German fleet a Scapa Flow has been modified so as to refer to The Hague tribunal j the question whether the delivery of the tonnage demanded will cripple Germany, | it is understood. | Paragraphs Eliminated. The understanding also is that thet other features of the protocol most ob- Jectionable to the Germans have been | climinated. It is expected that the Ger- man plenipotenties will sign the proto- | col without much further delay. | The final paragraph ot the protocol | | providing that even after the peace has gone into effect the allies might use military measure of coercion to insure the execution of the treaty’s terms, has been eliminated entirely, as also has the clause relating to the evacuation of the Baltic provides by German troops. The imputation of responsibility to) Germany for the sinking of the Scapa | Flow fleet is left in the protocol. | It was expected that a note setting | forth the allied position wotld be handed today to Baron von Lersner. head of the German mission. i Considers Unfinished Business. | The supreme council this morning took up the unfinished business of the peace conference in an effort to dis- jpose of the more urgent questions. Its purpose also was to decide upon the reference of the other pending questions to the proper quarters for decision after the “big five” becomes | the “big four,” as it is expected the supreme council, with the four prin- (cipal allied powers represented, will continue to meet after the American delegates leave tomorrow. ‘As far as the Americans are con- cerned, the supreme council will cease to exist after the signing of the Hungarian peace treaty. It is as yet | not determined who will sign that document for the United States, al- though in all probability it will be Ambassador Wallace. Most of the unfinished business will thereafter be referred to the various governmenta and settled through the reguler dip- lomatic channels. . | Among the matters to be thug refer- red. will be the adminictratior~ of western Thrace, although the ulti- mate fate of that province thay be decided by the supreme council of four. Work of Reparations Co: jasion. | The reparations commission will in {herit a number of questions, including the distribution of the German. mer- chant shipping. | The revision of the treaty between | Belgium and Holland, and the Adriatic tand Baltic questions’ probably will be | put in the class of those to be referred }direct to the governments. The question of the continuation of | |the interallied war council is stil un- | \decided. The Americans are under- | stood to be unfavorable to its contin- | | uation and the French and the British | are said to be not yet in complete ac- | ccrd as to the details under which the organization may be continued. | Negotiations With Turkey Remain. The question of negotiations with | | Turkey is another one as yet undeter- mined. Great Britain still desires to transfer the negotiations to London, | but France has not yet given her con- | Sent. Among the questions remaining to! be disposed of is the disposition of the German shipping that was left in the hands of Brazil and Uruguay, the for- jmer having been operated’ by the French and the latter by the Ameri- cans. It is understood the American delegates favor the allotment of this tonnage to Brazil and Uruguay, re- spectively. Noske, Opposing Peace ; Protocol, Says to Yield | Means Prolonging War | LONDON, December 8.—Gustave, oske, German minister of defense, is absolutely determined not to sign the| | peace protocol handed Germany by) | the entente and is resolved to recom- |mend that the German government jadopt his attitude, come what may.) according to an interview he gave the | Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail |on Saturday. Gs ‘The time has come,” he said, “for ermany to resist to the uttermost.! cannot speak for the whole govern-| | ment, because it has not yet come to! Ja decision. but I shail recommend a| eae to sign the peace treaty pro- | Ke {1 tocol. “The limit has long been reached. |Let the allies occupy the country if they like. The peace now presented to | us is not peace, but a prolongation of jthe war. “Were such a treaty accepted, the! German nation would rise up’ and{ |avenge itself upon the men who sign- ed it, and it would be right. Great [Britain and France are deliberately | planning the destruction of Germany. All the confidence I ever had in the | pledges of the allies is gone forever. |. “By deceit and trickery the British and French governments are working up opinion in their countries to crip: {ple Germany still further beyond the crushing effect of the first treaty. We have yielded too often, and now must resist. Let the allies’ do what they Asked whether he would resign if The correspondent says that, al- {though Noske carefully emphasized that he was only defining his own, his words agreed with the intentions ascribed to the other mem- bers of the cabinet. The two straws which Noske repre- |sents as having broken the back of |! German endurance, says the eorre- are the demand for dock spondent, ecution of the peace treaty. The correspondent says that during | his talk with Noske he suggested that the Germans had not sunk the the de- warships in the Scapa Flow, to add any- prospect | mand of the allies for tugs and docke thing to his formal statement that he| ahead of the prospective hosts of the! would not have been made. To this, qwould assume control of the campaign| convention, and that is the fact that|he says, Noske replied: to make Gen Wood the republican | circumstances point to the next con-| “Oh, yes they woul British geeminee for President. (Continued on ze.) ~ (Continued on Sece ge.) a ¢ leastern sales agents’ contracts. ~ UNION MINERS ARE | WORKING STEADILY INNOW-UNION FIELD Big Daily Output of Coal, Good Wages Paid, in Beck- ~ ley, W. Va., Area. From a Staff Correspondent. BECKLEY, W. Va., December. 8. Every ton of coal coming out of the Pocahontas, New River and Winding Gulf fields now is being shipped west. Not a carload. except insignifi- cant quantities of the coal known as “gulf smokeless,” is going east, and that is shipped over the Norfolk and Western railroad to Norfolk for bunk- er coal. Here in the heart of the best coal mining section of West Virginia it is difficult. to realize that a strike of coal miners is on. The New River field proper, more than 100 of the big- gest-mines, are working. full forces on full time. The daily output is. in- creasing, a8 is shown by the loading reports to divisional headquarters of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at Hinton. Shipments from the New River field Friday were 1.144 tons more than for Thursday, with Thurs- day 1,230 tons ahead of Wednesday, and all of it going west, regardless of Report of One Day's Output. | Complete loading reports of the} Chesapeake and Ohio for Thursday— the latest available—show shipments of 1,839 cars, totaling 91,950 tons. The Logan county field adjoining the New River led, with New River second. MORE SUGAR LIKELY BUT HIGHER PRICES Prospect of Larger Supply Due to Concession Mace to Producers. More sugar is in prospect for Wash- ington within the next few weeks, but at prices higher than those that have heretofore prevailed, as a result in in- creased prices allowed the producers. Whatever Louisiana sugar reaches this market will be sold for not less than 20 cents per pound. while if ef- forts to get a share of the beet sugar crop for Washington are successful the price will be 15 cents per pound, or pos- sibly a cent or two more. Rensons for Higher Price. According to the best obtainable, this increase cannot be laid either to the retailer or to the whole- saler. The Department of Justice has agreed that $17.60 per hundred pounds for choice Louisiana sugar and $12 per hundred pounds-for beet~sugar is not high enough to warrant interference by the government under the food con- trol act. Before these sugars can be sold over the counter in Washington there must be added to them the freight charges from the refinery, the probable loss in transit, the cost of de- livery to the retail store and the legi- timate profit of wholesaler and retailer. Wholesalers and representatives of chain stores in Washington have been in conference with officials of the Department of Justice during the last few days, and have been assured that there will be no objection to charging a high price for sugar when it is only a nor ge above (Continued on Second Page.) (Continued 01 Newsprint Paper Shortage There is today in the hands of the manufacturers less than three days’ supply of paper for the newspapers of the country. The Newsprint Service Bureau of New York, represent- ing the paper manufacturers, hi notified the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association that an immediate cut of 10 per cent in consumption is essential. The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association has notified every newspaper publisher of America that unless the newspapers throughout the United States reduce the average consumption of newsprint paper by at least 10 per cent many newspapers will soon be compelled partly or wholly to suspend publication. The association has asked all newspapers to comply strictly with the regulations of the War Industries Board for conservation of newsprint paper and that every economy in the use of paper be observed. Appeal to Advertisers In order to accomplish full the necessary and desired results every advertiser using display space in the newspapers printed in this district is requested to reduce his advertising space between now and Christmas by 10 per cent. It is essential that every advertiser comply with this request in order that the present danger of exhaustion may be averted and that all newspapers in the country may con- tinue regular publication. The existing cris can only be met by sincere and volun- tary co-operation on the part of all advertisers and news- papers. As chairman of this district, | am sending this appeal to every newspaper publisher in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia, asking that this public an- nouncement be printed prominently on the first page of his newspaper immediately. FLEMING NEWBOLD, Chairman, Newsprint Service Committee, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware Newspaper American Columbia, Association. and District of Publishers’ The Evening Star Newspaper Company heartily approves this plan of conservation advertisers as proposed by Service Committee. . affecting both newspapers and the Chairman of the Newsprint The Star will continue its existing rigorous economies in the use of print paper and will strictly observe the War Industries Board’s regulations in both its daily and Sunday editions. FRANK B. NOYES, President. information| of the traffic division of tke rail-| JNDIANAPOLIS HOLIDAY TRAVELING WILL BE DIFFICULT Standing Room Only Seems to Be in Store for Many in Fuel Shortage. Thousands of government employes and other persons leaving Washing- ton over the Christmas holidays will Probably be compelled to travel in crowded railway coaches as the re- sult of the railroad administration's edict cutting down passenger service on all lines leaving this city, to con- serve coal. Announcement to this effect was made today by Gerrit Fort. chairman road administration. Following the announcement last night that the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Washirgton Southern and the Sea- | bara Air Line railroads will have their rifpning schedules reduced be- ginnimg tomorrow, as the result of the fuel shortage, it was learned to- j day that additional cuts may be made by the various regional directors of the railroad administration. “There may be disappointment for home Christmas, because for some there will probably be standing room only,” said Mr. Fort. “Unlike previous years, there will be few special trains run. The only exception will be in the case- of colleges. Special trains will be run in that connection to per- mit the boys and girls attending school to return home during the Christmas holidays.” No Reduction in Sleepers. While the regular passenger trains will be reduced this Christmas, the Pullman service, it was understood, {will be kept up to the top notch, for {no reduction will be made in sleepers. The Pennsylvania railroad is affect- ed less than the other lines by the railroad administration’s “cutting down” order. The “Broadway lim- ited." for New York, which leav Washington at 3:10 p.m. daily, wil be temporarily withdrawn from serv- ice, starting tomorrow. No other cur- taiument, on this railroad has been ordered as yet, it was learned. ‘The following statement was issued today by the Southern railroad: “On account of the strike of the coal miners in many of the coal producing sections of the United States. the pro- duction of coal has been reduced to such an extent as to make it neces- sary to curtail passenger train serv- ice throughout the country beginning Tuesday morning, December 9, as 2 means of conserving coal in the in- terests of the public. A number c passenger trains on the Southern railroad will be taken off. and some through sleeping car lines will be dis- continued. In selecting the trains to be taken off consideration has been given to the frequency of the service and the patronage of the trains, en- deavoring to cause as little incon- venience to travelers as po: ble. No train will be taken off unless it is ab- solutely necessary. and trai will be restored to service as soon as it i possible to put them back. Pleas: call on the ticket agent for schedul information.” Southern Passenger Trali The following passenger trains on the Southern lines will be temporarily with- drawn, it was said today: Trains 23 and 24, Washington-Mem- phis express, now leaving Washington at 2:10 p.m. and arriving here at 5:1 aie m. Trains 137 and 138, operating between Washington and Atlanta, one leaving Washington at 10 p.m. and the other arriving here 8:45 a.m. Trains 35 and 47, operating between Washington and Atlanta, leaving Wash- ington at 8:30 and 9 a.m. are consoli- The following changes on the Wash- ington Southern and Seaboard Air Line | were announced : Train 55, which leaves Washington at 5 pm. for Atlanta, will be with- drawn. The last trip will take place today. Train 56. which arrives in Washington at 12:20 p.m. from Bir- mingham and Atlanta, will also be withdrawn. The Atlanta sleeper on these trains will pe orerated south- ward on train 61, which leaves at 7:50 p.m. and northward on train 92, which arrives at 9:40 a.m., in connec- tion with the local train between Hamlet, N. C., and Atlanta. W. E. Lowes, general traffic agent of the Baltimore and Ohio, said that starting 12:01 Wednesday no excur- sion trains, special trains or sections of regular trains will be operated on senger service will become cffective. Train 17, according to Mr. Lowes, h leaves Washingt w Pitt: drawn. Train 1b, which leaves Washington at 9:20 a.m., will not have through connections from Cum- berland to Wheeling and Parkersburg. but will have local train connections between Cumberland and Fairmont. Train 624, which leaves Washing- (Continued on Second Page.) a ¢ FROM WASHINGTON government employes who want to go | dated and leave Washington at 8:30, am. The Washington-Roanoke sleeping car on the Memphis special, leaing Washington 3:10 am. and’ arriing Washington at 12:30 a.m., will be dis- continued. that line and several changes in pas-} WHITE HOUSE HOPEFUL THAT COAL STRIKE WILL BE ENDED TOMORROW ACTS FAVORABLY 0 DLC. WATER SUPPLY, COMMISSION BILL: Senate Committee Supports | House Measure for Inves- tigation and Report. The House bill authorizing the ap- pointment ofa commission to investi- fate and report upon the available sources of water supply for the Dis- | trict of Columbia was ordered favor- ably reported to the Senate today by |the Senate District committee. The Jaction of the committee followed a brief hearing in which it was set ,forth that the limit of the present water supply for the District has |nearly been reached and that a serious situation may soon arise unless some additional water supply is provided. The Engineer Commissioner, Col Kutz; William T. Curtis, chairman of |the Washington suburban sanitary commission, and Emory H. Bogley, a member of the commission, appeared to urge the committee to act favor- ably and without delay on the bill. The bill provides for a commission of five. three of whom shall be select- {ed from the Engineer Corps of the Army, one from the Washington sub- urban sanitary commission, and one |from the engineering department of the District of Columbia. Its duty is to make full investiga-} | tion of sources of water supply from} rivers and streams near Washington and to report its findings at the |earliest’ possible date. A similar | measure has passed both the Senate and House in the past, but has never | become a law. notwithstanding the {need for developing further water | supplies for the District Former Investigation Pla The last time it passed the , it was incorporated in the District ap- Propriation bill and at that time an amendment was adopted extending the investigation to cover an investigation of the proposal for a water power project at Great Falls. The District | bill failed and in the end, when it was | enacted into law in the special session jof Congress last summer, the item for this investigation was left out. | Senator Jones of Washingtoy asked if | there was any reason why the investi- | Bation of the power project shi | Be included in this bill, es Col. Kutz replied that he feared it | might cause delay at a time when it is most necessary to provide for fur- ther development of the water sup- ply for the District. He pointed out {ines a very full report in 1912 had deen made-by the-Engineer Corps of j the Army on the power project, and | hat it was still available. This caused Senator Jones to sug- gest that if all the facts had been ob- | tained with regard to the power proj- ect, it would not take long, if the new commission was willing to accept | these facts, to frame a report on the power project. But Col. Kutz replied | that engineers as a rule like to make linvestigations of their own before recommending work to be done. He | said, too, that the great change in the cost of materials and labor since 1912 might have a strong bearing on any project for water power at Great Falls / “Given Notice of Amendment. Senator Jones said that while he did {not intend to offer such an amend- jment, an amendment extending the investigation to cover the power pro- ject might be offered on the floor. He id that if the power project was ‘eventually to be adopted he thought it should be considered in connection with any increase in the water supply |for the District. | Col. Kutz said he thought the water- | power project should be undertaken iby the government, but he laid stress upon the need of immediate investi- | gation of increases in the water sup-| | ply. and said he hoped nothing would | | | | be done to cause delay. Urges Early Action by Congress. Mr. Curtis pointed out that the Maryland legislature is to meet this | winter, and that, as legislation re- | garding the development of the water supply for the District may be neces- sary, it was advisable for Congress |to act as soon as possible on the | pending bill. The Maryland legis- ‘jature meets only once in two years | He and Col. Kutz told the committee that the st alled Patuxent project for increasing the water supply of the District had been regarded fa- | vorably by the engineers of the Army land by the District Commissione who preferred it to the two Poton river projects which have been sug- gested. VANNUNZIO DENIES INVASION INTENT Officials Sure Out- put Will Be Near Normal in Week. PLAN TO SETTLE STILL WITHHELD Said to Adhere to 14 Per Cent Raise; Com- mission to Adjust. The White House today issued a format statement expressing hope that the controversy between the miners, the operators and the govern- ment will be satisfactorily settled in a conference at Indianapolis tomor- row afternoon. Belief was voiced other official quarters that soft co Production would be almost fully sumed by the first of next week Result of Secret Meeting. The Indianapolis conference, com- posed of district officials of the United Mine Workers, is the outcome of the Secret meeting in Washington, Satur- day afternoon and night, when At- torney General Palmer and Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the President. submitted to John L. Lewis, actin president, and William Green, secr tary treasurer of the United Mine Workers, President Wilson's own pre posal for settlement of the strike and resumption of mining. in Attorney General Palmer and As- sistant Attorney General Ames will be in Indianapolis tonight for the purpose of participating in the hear ing of Lewis, Green and others b fore Federal Judge Anderson tomor- row in connection with the alleged violation of the federal strike in- junction by officials of the United Mine Workers. It is understood the proceedings in Judge Anderson's court likely will be postponed until after Lewis and Green present the strike solution proposal to the district union leaders. If the miners’ spokesmen indicate they are disposed to bring peace in the indu: try and take steps immediately to save the country from a fuel famine. it was explained, legal proceedings against them will not be made. White House Statement. Today’s statement from the White House said: “It is hoped that there will be a sei- tlement on Tuesday afternoon of the controversy between the miners, the operators and the goernment through the acceptance by the miners of the plan for a definite settlement pro- posed by the President. which pro- posal was submitted to Acting Presi- dent Lewis of the miners by Attorney General Palmer Saturdayspight.” The utmost secrecy stijt surrounds the proposal je bythe President to the United Mine Workers. Secretary Tumulty and others refused to su plement the foregoing statemen! News of developments in the negoti» tions must come from the Attorney General, from Judge Anderson's cout’ there and from the miners’ confe- ence in that city, it was declared. Said to Provide Commission. Doubt as to the terms of the Pres dent's proposal to the mine worke for the settlement of the strike wa= pretty well cleared up in official cir- cles, however. though the constru tion placed upon the facts still showed considerable variance. In outline the government has suggested to th» miners that a 14 per cent advance b accepted for the present, and the fina! adjustment of wages and workings conditions be left to a commission to be appointed by the President Though this is exactly similar to Fuel Administrator Garfield's origi nal proposal, some assurances are saiv to have been given as to the person nel of the commission, the method obtaining data which will be put be- fore it and other points which hav induced the miners to consider their prospects under it more favorable than they otherwise would be. Fuel Administrator Garfield’s participation in the assurances given is to b doubted. but the exact situation wa not discussed today in official quar ters. Mr. ewin Sees Difficulties. In agreeing Saturday to urge upe the miners’ representatives accept ance of the President's proposals John L. Lewis was said to hav frankly informed Attorney Genera! Palmer of the difficulties he was hav ing in view of the feeling created mong the mainers by the injunetion proceedings and the general attitude of the government Lewis was said to have expressed willingness to attempt to change this | feeling if given assistanc from re- | sponsible government officials in deal- ing with the men. Senators Consider Situatioi The coal situation was considere: today by the Senate Yabor committee bet action was deferred becaus+ Chairman Kenyon said the committee did not desire to interfere now in ne gotfations between the goveramen and miners which promise to end the strike. The resolution of Senator Jones, republican, of Washington, pro posing congressional investigation of FIUME, Sunday, December 7 (by the Associated Press).—Gabriele d’Annunzio | assured the correspondent today that he | was not preparing an expedition against Spalato or Laibach. He gave his word | of honor that this statement was true. | ROME, December —The Popolo Roman today says that 'Annunzio has assured the Italtian government that he I not undertake any expeditions or go the coal strike and the other propo- sals before the committee went over Statement of Operators. The executive committee of th erators issued a statement today ing that “the strike situation appears to be distinctly more favorable frem the viewpoint of adjustment.” “The executive committee that the matter of adjustment the mine workers is in th » op- states with hands of |beyond the armistice line. Suggests Fiume Solution. | Giuriati, chief of the cabinet of | Ma: briele d’Annunzio, the Italian insur- gent leader, accompanied by Commander | Rizzo of the d’Annunzio naval forces, | arrived here today from Fiume. It is, reported they are the bearers of d’An- | nunzio’s suggestions for a solution of | the Fiume and Zara questions. It is rumored that d’Annunzio’s funds | are exhausted and that he is in an em- | barrassing situation There is much speculation in Rome as to how he will j manage to pay his troops unless an / agreement is reached with the Italian | government ! ! Scheme Reported in London. | D'Annunzio was credited in London |dispatches from Dalmatian sources on | Saturday with having arranged an| lambitious scheme for the advance-| |ment of his cause revolving about anj Jattack on Spalato. | } It | were that instigate was also declared being made to up- land that the Bulgarians were being urged to attack the Jugosla' [the government.” the statement [It h land {neutral (staff to govern the country. "| tion said the utmost confidence in the efforts of the government to reach an agreement that will be fair and equitable.” COUNCIL TO HEAR RENNER VIENNA, Saturday, December 6. Dr. Karl Renner, the chancellor, c has been notified by the supreme council that it is willing to receive him per- lsonally at Paris to plead his coun- ngerous plight Renner will beg for immediate help, proposing, as an alternative, the retirement of the present government the election by the allies of a dictator and administrative Brazil to Regulate Food Prices. RIO JANEIRO, Decemser 8.—A efforts) ing on the recommendation of Presi- ident Pessoa. the congressional finance n for |risings in Montenegro and Albania as| and sburgh at 10:15 p.m., will be with-|4 part of the Spalato undertaking. | proved organization of an affice to | regulate food prices and the exporta- justice commissions have ap- of foodstuffs. An order issued was suggested that the project us re-! prohibits exportation of cold storage ported was not entirely d’Annunzio’ plan, but had the support of his ad-| herents in Italy. Laibach is the capital of Carniola | in Jugoslavia. meats up to the end of February. made in cases where ixceptions are the meat already is prepared or is in the port. process of preparation for ex-