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WEATHER. ‘Warmer tonight and tomorrow, with gflh‘bl! rain by tomorrow night; ywest temperature . tonight, 20 de- grees. ‘Temperature for twent; ending at 2 p.m. today: 11, 8 a.m. 24 y-four hours Highest, 24. to- Closing New York Stocks, Page 26. No. 28,024 EUROPEWILLNOT (GIVE UP LEAGUE TOMEETU.S.PLAN Ready for Concessions, But Oppose Substitution by Another “Association.” GREAT BRITAIN FIRM FOR SUCCESS OF BODY France Scoffs, But Great Leaders Nevertheless Want Treaty Pre- served Intact as Possible. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. @opyright. 1921. PARIS, January 19.—In view of the Tecurring reports from the United States that the leaders of the incoming admin- istration still cling to the idea that they may possibly substitute another associa- tion of nations for the existing league the writer thought it important to bring together in a single dispatch the points of view of the principai European pow- ers in this regard. The resultant testi- mony indicates that while Britain, France and Italy are eager to have the United States join the present league. and are ready to make large concessions to humor American sentiment, not one is disposed to surrender the league alto- gether in favor of some American sub- stitute, g View of Engh ‘The nl\lyf'!";:t European state which o American proposal is Germany. The country which has ‘worked hardest for the league up to the present time is undoubtedly Britain. Aft- er a careful investigation Edward Price Bell, London correspondent of The Star and Chicago Daily News, wires me as follows : “British statesmen and the British public are determined to do their ut-| most to make the league a success. Every one of moment in this country from the king down is of resolute mind on this subject. . Difficulties, instead of discouraging, inspire British in this en- terprse as in others. They are far keen- er on the league now than ever before. “The temporary absence of the United States from the league has spurred the leaders and- peoples of Britain to a firmer will about the matter. They have been immensely heartened by the ex- traordinary devotion of the small nations to the league, believing that neither the moral nor the physical significance of this can fail to impress the world. ‘Want Safeguard for Peace. “There is nothing hidebound about the British conception of the league !umul:..“'lll‘he lewuhue not l.eklvl;' to estal a particular Dlun.l. it to safeguard the peace of the world. jtiatiative affeciing. T even do their~ ut they will not ai even it the Unfted States. then stands. tainly 1 e project without as & fight as it can put up.” The cornerstone of the French| foreign policy is that the treaty of Vessailles must be preserved as near- 1y intact as possible. The French are a critical-minded race and they some- times enjoy scoffing at the league just as they seoff at all othey human in- stitutions, but the vyst majority of Frenchmen. including such leaders as President Millerand. ‘:ymond Poin- care, Rene Viviani and Premler Briand, all agree that whatever may @eem (o be the faults of the league to attempt to dissolve it would be disastrous, for it is so closely inter- ‘woven with the treaty that to destroy | the league would threaten the destruction of the treaty as well. Ready for Coucessions. ‘They are eager to have the United States join and are desirous of mak-! ing every possible concessjon to her, holding very little to the letter of this or that particular, but they will not glve up the league altogether, and they regard the idea of attempting to substitute another association for the league as chimerical. So far as I know the only people in France who want the United States to stay out of the league are a small group of grim reactionaries, who hope thus to profit by the bad blood which they think would inevitably be created between Britain within the league and the United States outside it. Viewpoint of Italy. Regarding the Italian point of view, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, the Rome corre- spondent of The Star and Chicago Daily News, telegraphs: “The Italians are too much attach- ed sentimentally and idealistically to some kind of an international organ- ization which shall eventually take! some of the harshness from interna- ! tional relations for the government | to relinquish the present league for anything else unless this other can cliearly be proved to be better. And better in this case means more prac- tical, more sincere and more univer- sal. Italians believe that no success is possible for the league until all nations are admitted on an equal footing, especially Russia and Ger- many. President Harding might win! Italy’s support for a new organiza- rrender the tion if he could show that it fllled! to these conditions. In all other circum- stances Italy would prefer and would use her influence to have the United States join the present league.” Finally, George Witte, the Berlin correspondent of The Star and Chi- cago Daily News, telegraphs: “The German attitude now is that; it is undesirable for this country to join the league In its present form. for Germany fears that she would be discriminated against in a league in which Britain and France, particu- larly the former, hold a controlling number of votes. If the United States Joined, then doubtless Germany would also want to join. A year ago there ‘was a strong movement here in favor of joining the league just as soon as the United States joined, but now it is felt that as the United States ap- parently does not intend to take part in it there is’ no sense in Germany taking part either, The question of Britain’s multiple vote and the ab- stention of the United States have re- sulted in the people here assuming 2 rather haughty air and saying: ‘We must receive a very nice invitation, indeed, before we will ever join.’ Mr.{ | Harding’y plan to form an entirely new league is generally hailed in Ger- the best solution of the many as COUPLE FOUND DEAD. GALVESTON, Tex., January 19.— Mrs Edna Brown and a- man iden- tified as M. Settle, residents et Galveston, were found shot to death on Avenue S road near 64th street y today. after Francis Brown, hushand of the dead woman, awaka sned a_constablo and gurrendereds during legt aight «nd agsin today by, They will welcome any American in- | secret service agents, who have been the. 2 the oage with the naval ities. de to the officers prove in, like the rest of llr*ir'.?. noon he gmm m° f Lo & sald. Miss Kavanaugh killed 8:30 or 9 o'clock last Friday while walking through the HOUSE TO INCREASE MEMBERSHIP Amendment to Reapportionment i Langdon of the United States ship Entered as second-class matts post office Washington, e D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JOHNSON AND BORAH LEFT ELINOMIE COUNCIL ouT OF lation o Iswful Dispatch to The Star. | MARION, Ohio, January 19.—As the best-mind conferences wear them- Selves away and the time draws near for the departure of the President- elect to the southland it has become a matter of comment that two rather distinguished American minds have not thus far appeared on the Marion horizon. They are minds that at one time and another have dwelt not lov- ingly but long upon the league of na- tions and the treaty of Versailles. In fact, if a search were made of the Senate records, it probably would be ascertained that those two minds have been about the most active in that au- gust body ever since the European pact came into the field of senatorial observation. The moment President Wilson set foot on French soil as head of the American mission those two minds became irreconcilable, and through storm and stress they have remained. irreconcilable unto the end. Senator Harding himself is not an irreconcilable and his mind does not 80 along with statesmen of that ilk. Conferences Prove Amisble. But it would appear as events have shaped themselves here in Marion that Mr. Harding has hesitated to draw Senator Willlam E. Borah of |1dalio and Senator Hiram Johnson of | California into the picture of party iaccord and harmony painted during the last six weeks. Without Senators COVESSES ILLNG 07U AVYNURSE Henry W. Brown, Colored, Says He Killed Miss K_avv-’ anaugh Friday Night. ‘Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Janvary 19.— Henry W. Brown, colored, mess at- tendant on the Cumberland. sta- tioned at the United States Naval Academy, confessed this afternoon to thé murder of Miss Harriet M. Kav- anaugh, the paval nurse, who wase: found dead last Friday night near the hospital at Annapolis. - Brown, who .was arrested-in Balti- ity Was qu 2 1 A pumber of statements Sieht lemy grounds. Bill Adopted, Retaining Present Number of Seats. The House of Representatives voted today against increasing its member- ship, now 435. This action was taken by adoption of an amendment to the reapportfon- ment bill, which sought to increase the total to 483. Under the amend- ment twelve Seats would be shifted from eleven to eight states. The vote to keep the membership at 435 was 198 for to 77 agains HONOR AMERICAN SHOT ‘BEST-MIND’ PARLEY Absence of Two Irreconcilables at Harding’s Conferences Brings Comment—Specu- n Cause. Johnson and Borah the conferences have been getting along amicably an in a manner which the President elect himself would characterize 2 “becoming.” Perhaps Mr. Harding has made up his mind it is useless to attempt to placate the irreconcilable Johnson and the irreconcilable Borah, Perhaps he feels the republican majority in the new Senate will be big enough to leave these two recalcitrants from the far west out of consideration. He has not expressed these views to any one so far as known, however, and there is not the slightest doubt that it would be one of the happiest moments of his life if the next President could be assured that Messrs. Borah and Johnson would some day let their minds go along with his. Many Hold No Terror. There are plenty of so-called ir- reconcilables and _“bitter-enders” in the Senate who hold no terror for the President-elect. The !mplacable Sen- ator Albert Fall of New Mexico has been to Marion and has gone away satisfled that whatever Senator Hard- ing works out in the way of a new association of nations will be right. The implacable Senator New of In-i diana. has been to Marion, and has; lent his comfort and support to Sen- | ator Harding in all that the latter contemplates. Senators Fall and New are really and truly irreconcilable only when a democratic administra- tion is in_the White House. When a (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) OPPOSES JAPANESE | VOTES DOWN MOVE | CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS California Legislature Sends Formal Protest to Three Sources Here. Formal protest by the legislature of the state of California has been made to President Wilson, the Secretary of State and the Senate of the United States againsf any treaty being made between Japan .and this country ‘whereby the rights of citizenship shall be. extended to the subjects of Japan. The protest comes in the miidst of the | 1 | pending negotiations between the two governments on the question. COTEMONS polls, under the Injtia..! tive and refersudum law. The ma- Jority. dn favor of the act was w(ui". ‘whelmin, attention to the treaty of 1911 between Japan and the United States which restrictéd Japanese entering the United States to traders and travelers, 100,000 in Califoraia. otwithstanding the provision o the treaty limiting the purposes fo? which subjects of Japan may enter, travel and reside in ! now residing in California, compara- | tively few of whom are engaged in | trade, while the great majority are | engaged in agriculture, owning, leas- ing and farming lands and now con- | trol one-eighth of the entire acreage | of rich irrigated lands df the state as | shown by official report of the state | board- of control.” The protest declares that “Japanese as well as American authorities con- cede the unamimilability of the two | races and grant that continuance of | existing conditions may develop a ra- BY JAPANESE SENTRY MANILA, P. I, January 19.—Im- pressive religious and military serv- ices were preformed yesterday in honor of Naval Lieut. Warren H. Albany, recently shot by a Japanese sentry, according to a Reuter dispatch today from Vladivostok. Gen. Oi, commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces in Siberia, Russian officials and all forefgn officials attended the serv- jces. Accident May Be.Expiained HONOLULU, T. H, January 18.— Vladivostok streets are 8o poorly lighted it -is necessary to carry a flashlight, according to J. W. Schued- dig, fur dealer of St. Louis, return- ing to the United States from Viadi- vostok, in discussing here_today the shooting of Naval Lient. Warren H. Langdon by a Japanese sentry in ‘Vladivostok recently. F. A. Smith, a Chicago newspaper correspondent, returning on the same steamer, asserted that it i{s so cold in Viadivostok that it is necessary ‘wear earmuffs, and that it was possible that Langdon, wearing muffs, did not hear the sentry’s &hallenge. GOV. HARDING MAY HEAD FOREIGN TRADE BODY NEW YORK, January 19.—Gov. Willlam P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board will be tendered the presidency of the proposed foreign trade financing corporation, it was announced here today by John Mc- Hugh, chairman of the organization committee. | NEW REPARATIONS PLAN. | DA PARIS, January 19.—Abandonment of the plan of fixing the total amount | of reparations to be paid by Germany and the substitution of annual pay- ments has been agreed upon by French, British and German delegates, says a Berlin dispatch to the-Journal The newspaper says that for a period of five years the annual pay- ments would be made in kind under the terms of the arrangement made. —_— RECORD IN PASSPORTS. All records for the number of pass- ports issued by the State Department went by the board in 1920, a total of 164,354 such documents being is- Sued to American citizen A comparative table made public to- day by the department shows that this total was nearly double that of 1919, when 97,952 were issued, and three times the total of 56,828 in 1918. <« cial question and grave international complications out of the present eco. nolmk‘:.problem; t assert that “the eviden before the House immigration 00:.\5 mittee in hearings held on the Pa- cific coast in July and August, 1920, clearly indicates the impracticability of making homogeneous American citizenship out of the material com- ing to us from Japan and the impos- sibility of a white community hold- ing its own against the racial advan- tages and high birth rate of the Japanese.” Prokibits Further Inmigration. In addition to insisting that noth- ing in the treaty to be negotiated shall nullify the alien land act, the California legislature demands that the treaty shall prohibit further im- migration from Japan except mer- chants, students, teachers and their servants and empioyes. , The communication from the legis- lature makes the point that the pro- posed_treaty, if drafted along the lines demanded by Japan. would violate rights of all the states to enact legis- 1ation respecting the acquisition and ownership of land within their bor- ders by aliens, and would be destruc- tive of states’ rights reserved under the Constitution of the United States. Senator Johnson of California pre- sented the communication of the legislature to the Senate, and the legislative officials have sent copies to President Wilson, the Secretary of State and to each member of the Senate com- mittee on foreign relations. WIVES OF LABOR WANT AN 8-HOUR | among them are Tun Y, BETTER PAY Letters under & Brooklyn date line signed ‘“Wives and mothers of industrial workers’” reached mem- bers of .Congress today asking for a law to require childless married ‘women under sixty to do housework three days a week for mothers with <children and also for an eight-hour day for housewives. Reatriction of the use of gasoline by passenger cars was urged on the ground that no invention since gun- powder so lends itself to crime as the automobile. “Congress should realize,” it said, “that legislation should be less and less in favor of industrial workers and more and more to alleviate and improve the condition of the over- dishwashi: Ing the ife. It added that 60 per cent of members of Congress were paid more o than they were T0ADVISEHARDING ONBUSINESS URGED Leading Business Men Advo- cate Body Responsible Only to President. COULD CONSIDER TARIFF FROM NATIONAL ASPECT Supporters Believe Members Would Give New President Unbiased View of Issues. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Leading business men want Warren Harding on his assumption of the presidency to creat an informal eco- nomic council or cabinet, with which he could consult on legislation and other policies of government that af- fect the nation’s business. The council would be unofficial and responsible only to the chief execu- tive, who could, of course, accept or reject the suggestions made. The function of the council would be pure- ly advisory. The idea grows out of the splendid use which the govern- ment made during the war of just such advisory bodies. Business men of prominence who have been discussing the idea were at first inclined to take it to Marion, but they concluded that it was some- thing that could just as weil be taken up after Mr. Harding is inaugurated. The principal argument 'which s made in behalf of an economic coun- cil is that Congress shortly will be- gin to revise the tariff. Political pressure will be brought to bear by sections of the country and by indi- viduals whose particular interests are affected. No one agency would be inclined, it is contended. to look at the tariff question from a national aspect, con- sidering particularly the effect of a bill as a whole on the forelgn trade of the country or international ex- change. From whom would Mr. Hard- ing be able to get an unbiased and national point of view on the tariff? The tariff commission and members of the finance and ways and means committees of Congress would be ab- sorbed in the scientific application of tariff rules and formulas. us, the purely business point of view, as re- flected in the national business or- ganizations of the country and the b-n;l;t “world, might go unsepres. sen Suggest Coalition Body. “But the suthors of the’ iden—and of influence in particul; bl :I’lhhl.!. any cular em on, which he ‘wants advice or ggrmen y Many a dispute has jgen in “thé it over the jgrobable “effects of of Congress have ~ contend: rticular bill would ‘help foreign radeé others have argued that it would hurt. There has been no of - disinterested individuals & business viewpoint to whom. a Presi- dent could turn for an authoritative opinion or investigation. No Presi- dent knows all about business, and in the past chief executives have relied upon a few friends, some of whom have given good advice and some of ‘whom have innocently given bad ad- vice. Many business men who see a bad plece of legislation in the mak- ing are either too busy or too modest to write the President or to call on him and point out the flaws. The {pro and con of business legislation is usually fought out by the particular interests who are adversely ted, and very little noise i&¢ made by the large number of people who might be benefited. FEven such a powerful institution as the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States is made jup of a varied lot of interests, and it is not always advisable for the executives of that organization “to commit themselves without & referen- dum of members—a process that is satisfactory when a concrete proposal is voted upon, but which does not help 80 much when legislation is in the process of construction and advice is needed from day to day as to a variety of changing phases Ceongress Pulled Abott. Another reason advanced by those proposing an economic cabinet or council is that Washington is full of organizations of manufacturers, labor unions and agricultural organizations. Each tells Congress what ought to be done and implies political pressure if its advice is not taken. Congress is pulled from one side to the other and usually is glad when the chief execu- tive steps in and puts his foot down ®0 hard that the, member of Congress is not held to blame for failure to gratify the organizations that have held the club over him. But unless he were well posted, the President Wwould not be in a position to grapple with these same organizations, who would naturally appeal to him. It is not intended that the advisory body ©hall publish_its advice and put the members of the council in embarrass- ing positions if they happened to give advice which men i1 their own line of business did not like. But it is in- tended that the President should have the full benefit of all the advice®that a competent and disinterested body, representative of American business enterprise and labor and agricuiture, shall be able to give him, so that he may draw his own conclusions and frame his own policies without being compelled to rely on personal friends, whose motives may be excellent but whose experience and judgment has 80 often in the past proved inade- uate. q (Copyright, 1921.) WHITMAN EXTENDS PROBE Asks Indictment of Another Police Captain in Corruption Inquiry. NEW YORK, January 19.—Former Gov. Charles 8. Whitman, wpecial prosecuttor of the investigation of al- leged corruption in'the city adminis- tration, today went before the -addi- tional d jury to ask for the inm- dictment of another police captain. Mr. Whitman declined to make pub- lic the captaln’s name but said the officer in qcestion hsd applied for re- tirement, to take effect last night, and that the retirement order had been countermanded by Polic® Commis- gioner Enright at”Mr. Whitman’s re- t m;\re:. fl'}'u lr.l:ll_?‘u:mt lln;:. :.n: l.l-:- estigation s ‘Was retu! it ek agsinst Police Captain Willlam Foening JANUARY 19, 1921-T ‘What amounts to an illegal tax on business is resulting from duplica- tion of effort by government depart- ments, ¥. R. Hathaway, president of the Michigan Sugar Company of De- troit, declared today before the House ways and means committee. He ap- pealed for congressional action. which would prevent “a further Psussian- izing of the government in its rela- tion to industry.” Auditing staffs of the beet suga: manufacturers, Mr. Hathaway declar. ed, were kept busy half of their time supplying information in practically identical reports demanded by seven SUAYS HERTHREE ABES LS S 2 X A i & agee ¥ g it TLO R AR ab BT <Rt e | XD Mother, ‘Suiféring From in-|Appropriation Measure for favecing HESNER: Jmttal, 01l Sisgiments provii . fluenza, Shoats Sleeping ing Children. Special Dispatch to The Btar. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., January 19— Mrs. Mary Glenn Hicks, wife of Stan- léy H. Hicks, a farmer of Winchester, shot and killed three of her four children with a shotgun early today at her home here, then turned the weapon on herself, dying almest in- stantly. Mrs. Hicks is believed to have been mentally deranged incident to an attack of influenza from which sne and the three dead children were all_suffering. ‘The dead are:’ Mrs. Hicks, twenty- nine years; Walter Hicks, six years; Margaret Hicks, five years, and baby Edward Hicks, three years. quest will be held today. Mrs, Hicks and the three children had been ill for several days, accord- ing to Mr. Hicks. Last night Mrs. Hicks , complained of pains in her head. She told her husband and an- other daughter, Mary Led Hicks, nine years old, to go to bed, and then her- Belf went to sleep after putting the three il children in a single bed downstairs. Some time early this morning the mother obtained s single-barrel shot- gun from the room where her hus- band slept upstairs, and began shoot- ing, killing each of the three children in_the bed in turn. One shot went wild. The position of the children's bodies indicated that they had tried to defend themselves against theeat- tacks of thelr mother. After seeing that her little ones were dead, Mrs. Hicks turned the gun on herself, dy- ing almost instantly from the effects of_the load of birdshot. Mr. Hjcks, who had not been awak- ened by the sound of the shots, was aroused by his daughter Mary. and. going downstairs, found his wife and three children dead, the children in bed as they had been shot, and his wife lying on the floor with the shot- gun beside her. He is-sald to have been given medicine by the family doctor to enable him to sleep soundly and to this is attributed the fact that he slept through the noise down- stairs. ‘The father took his daughter and ran to the home of his father, about 2 mile distant, and informed him of the tragedy. An investigation was the coroner will hald an inquest to- day. Today’s News in Paragrap Lord Mayor O'Callaghan is ordered turned o’;rer to the immigration officer at Norfolk. (P.‘:“il tion of U. 8. demands for trade D‘:sl‘llfl‘?'-l?‘lled “Prussianizing.” Page 1 Economic council to advise Harding on business urged. % : E;u:e : hnson and Borah left out of ‘“bes Jomndfl conferences. Page 1 Finger prints on pipe may give clue to x‘nnapo\u slayer. Page 2 Soclal community Congress o o et wilson says cholce of national t Wilson m:: 48 ‘diMcult because of rich variety of forests. Page 4 teen D. S es and activities curtailed at "twenty ty centers by re‘ducug;xs 0%% ropriation from $25, s Page 2 C. dentists volunteer serv- open free clinic for little Page 5 Coal association official at hearing de- nies profiteering. — P-;. bt fires sweep Worcester. Mass. $1,000,000 ) itisens indorse measure for P%,'.oé,‘hr:prmnuuon. Page 17 -one_other Russians to sail with m!?vht Envoy Martens on Saturday. Untermyer calls (nrJ:’uiry into De- . partment-of alien property “ office. | Page 30 An in- | immediately begun by the sheriff, and | 18 | usual emergency. | 1 | The Asscciated Mress s exclusively eutitied the uee for repuidiication of all news dixptches credited to it or’ not otherwse eredited in this baper and atso e local news published herein Al rights of publication of speclal dispatcls'berein are also reserved HIRTY PAGES. branches of the government at va- rious periods in the year. “For ejght years," he continued, “the departments have been going from bad to worse in this respect. They have been Prussianized to the extent that we can almost expect to see drill sergeants come out to teach -us the goose step. We are ordered to furnish information and told that there Is no alternative but to_supply it.” Mr. Hathaway’s denunclation of gov- ernmental methods was made in connec- tion with his appearance to urge a tariff of 2 cents a pound on beet sugar. He declared the beet sugar industry could not thrive and expand unless it were given additional protection from Cuban importations, AGRICULTURE BILL LA e Fiscal Year 1922 Is Re- ported to House. The annual appropriation bill cov- ering the fiscal year 1922 for the De- Partment of Agriculture, which em- ploys more clerks in Washington than any other goyernment establishment, was reported to the House today. It carried $33,617,459. This is $19,511.- 925 less than the amount requested in the departmental estimates, and is $1,804,675 more than the appropri- ation for the current fiscal year. With a view to increasing efficiency the bill as reported from committee carries an increase in the number of positions and salaries in higher grades, whiie eliminating a larger number of employes in the lower grades. A feature of the bill is the omission of $239,416 for the purchase and dis- tribution of seed. This item has been a bone of contention in Congress for many ‘years, and has frequently been referred to on the floor as “free seed graft.” The sum of $1,000,000 is appropri- ated for national forests reservation commission for the acquisition of ad- ditional land at headwaters of navi- gable streams. Salary Increases Discussed. Representative Sidney Y. Anderson, chairman of the subcommittee which handled this bill, in his report re- garding the salary-increases says: “In general, in considering the stat- | utory rolis of the several bureaus, it was not the policy of the committee to allow increases in salary, but in some cases the committee did allow !an additional number of persons in the higher grades, at the same time in these cascs reducing the number of persons in the lower grades of the same class, thus_effecting a reduction in the number of employes as well as a reduction in the amount appro- priated for the given class of em- ployment. In all of these cases the committee undertook to provide only for such grades as were authorized by law. It was the unanimous opin- ion of the bureau chiefs who ap- peared before this committee that this policy would result in a higher degree of efficiency.” In the $19,511.925 reductions from the departmental estimates, $10,511,- 925 represtnts a reduction in the esti- mates submitted by the Department of Agriculture, and $8,000,000 rep- resents a.reduction in the estimates subrmitted by the national forests reservation commission. Of. the' $1,- 804,676 increase over the appropria- tion for the current fiscal year, $804,- 675 represents a net increase in the appropriations for the department $1,000,000 is recommended for the forests reservation commis- Mr. Anderson Explains. Representative Anderson explained that in considering the large in- creases in current appropriation es- mated for by the Secretary of Agri- culture, it was impossible for the committee to lay down any general rules, but it was in every case a mat- ter of the committee’s best judgment, taking into. consideration the neces- sity of exercising the most rigid economy. In considering the lump sum ap- propriations. Representative Ander- son explained that it was the policy of the committee not to allow in- creased appropriations representing 7{ only increased investigational or ex- tension work of the same kind as; ‘was being done under the appropria- tion., It was the belief of the com- mittee that the present financial con- dition of the government did not Justify increased activities along lines which presented no particular or un- Notable exceptio; to this rule are e in the case of an_increase of $500,000 for the ap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) DuplicateU.S.DemandsforTrade |() Reporis Held io Be Prussianizing’ !U CALLACHAN ST REPORT IN NORFOLK Secretary Wilson Directs That Immigration Officer Take Charge. Counsel for Donal O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork., who arrived in this Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 53,295_ TWO CENTS. KNG LEADS FCHT IN SENATE 10 CUT DISTRCT BUDGET Bill Reconsidered After Its Passage on Protest by Harrison. jwouLn CUT NUMBER OF U. S. EMPLOYES HERE | Mississippi Senator Expected to | Offer Amendments for New | School Buildings. District appropriation roximately restoring the Ralf-and-half plan of appropri- atine for the District, was the Senate todny. The bill was pansed pract 17 an it wax reported from the Senate approprintion commit- tee. It authorizes the use of the nues of the District ex for th $2.276,500 ~ provision. Before passing the bill Se: the te voted down a motie by Semator Harrisen te recom- mit the with instruetions to report the bill back with ments providing fer ditional wchool buildings. The vote was 44 to 24. A determined effort to curtail the appropriations for thée District of Co- lumbia was launched in the Senate today by Senator King of Utah, dem- ocrat, a member of the Senate Distric: committee. Acting upon information which he said had been conveyed to him by an official of the District gov- ernment, who claimed there are too many employes mow in the District offices, Senator King proposed a se- country recently without a passport, ries of amendments red ; t ucing th - was directed today by Secretary Wil-|ber of employes. Sy s0n to deliver the lord mayor “prompt- Iy" to the immigration inspector at Norfolk. The Secretary of Labor's order was described by Labor Department officials as merely the formal notification to! Judge Lawless, in whose custody OICallaghan was placed by the Depart- | of | Sation, the conferees determined the ment of Labor when he was paroled, the Secre O'Callaghan su¢h should reship on a vessel road. maye Wilson was fluenced, by a rence _ yésterday with Acting Secretary. Davis of th State Department, whose order of de. | portation of O'Callaghan has been ig- nored by the Labor Department. This conference was held after the regular meeting of President Wilson's cabinet, ! but it was reiterated that the Presi- dent had reaffirmed his decision not to interfere in the controversy between the two departments. Officials of both departments said; the immediate surrender of O'Calla-! ghan to the immigratiop inspector in Norfolk would compése the differences which have developed over the meth- od of exclusion of O'Callaghan. State Department officials declared, how- fever, that as a result of this contro- versy it was expected that a full un- derstanding would be reached in fu- ture as ‘to the authority of the State Department in immigration cases. DESCRIBES IRISH FIR! | Mayor Frank Dempsey of Mallow Testifies Here. | Prefacing his testimony with the brleli ! description of the peaceful conditions | existing in the prosperous town of Mal- i low, Ireland, previous to the fire which laid it in ashes, Frank Dembsey, its mayor, was the first witness to testify at the reopening of the hearings of the unofficial American commission investi- gating conditions in Ireland, at the Ho- tel Lafayette today. Mayor Dempsey said that burning of Mallow was a result of a raid made on the British military barracks by a small number of Irishmen, which resulted in the death of one British officer. The | and the condensed milk creamery, which | employed more than 600" of the 4,000 in- habitants, was razed. Evidence showed petrol had been Jfreely used he testified. and added that the volunteer fire department of the place was prevented from attend- {pg the fires when they first star! The witness, who gave his occupa- tion as a raiiroad engineer, said his home had been raided by the military four times since 1916, the object of which, he declared, was to secure seditious literature he was suspected of possessing. ! When questioned by Senator Norris [relative to the rallway workers’ strike in Ireland, Mayor Dempsey defined the -standpoint taken by the railway men in regard to their refusal to only emulating the example set by English railway men in refusing to carry arms to Poland to be used against Russia. He said, however, that the Irish railway workers would carry any troops that were unarmed, The Irish railway workers receiv: nothing but sympathy from the Bri ish‘railway men. he said, J. H. Thoi as, the English labor leader, contend- ing the matter should be settled by Irishmen alone. Miss Loie Bennett of the International Woman’s League of Dublin will follow Mayor Dempsey on the stand. 4,100 ARMY OFFICERS MAY GET LOWER RANK Forty-one hundred officers of the Army will be demoted one grade, and, in some cases, two grades, on March 4 next in case the pending Army promo- tions,_are not confirmed in the Senate before that time, it was sald today by Adjt. Gén. Peter C. Harris. The list includes 657 colonels, 780 lleutemant colonels and 2,442 majors, comprising iall officers of those grades in the Army except a few colonels who held that rank prior to June 30 last. Several hundred of these officers, Gen. Harris sald, commanded brigades during the world war, and a few of the colonels commanded divisions. Unless confirmed they will be demoted auto- matically, and will be outranked and co! ed by officers who were subor- dinated in their commands during the Senator Curtis of Kansas, in cha of the District bill, announced lhl!r.he\ would agree to the adoption of thesc amendments, with the idea that the conferees of the Senate and Housc would give consideration to the letter received by Semator King from the District official to whom the Utua senator had referred. He made it tary's decision last week that! sary. the was a ~“seaman.” and as. bill would be "m | town was practically wiped out, he said, | bill. jcarry munitions, declaring they were | Clear, however, that if, upon investi- | proposed reductions ! Senator Harrison of Mississippi was expected today 1o offer & mumber of new achoo: The District bill . way passed by | Senate within two minutes .neryt::: body met today. with only three four senators present. The Semate {had been in recess and the District | bill Wwas before the Sepate for action as s0on as that body met. ! Immediately upon its psssage Sena- | tor Penrose, chairmag-of the finance | committee. moved that the Senate pro-~ j ceed to the consideration of the Ford- jhey emergency tariff bitl.” But before the motion could be put. a point of !no quorum was made by Senator |Robinson of Arkansas, democrat. | Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, hurried into the chamber a few mo- ments after the passage of the Dis- trict bill. He had several amend- ments to offer, So did Senator King of Utah, both democrats and both op- posed to the enactment of the Ford- ney emergency tariff bill into law. Reconsideration Is Asked. As soon as a querum was present Senator Harrison asked the vote by which the District bill had passed the Senate be reconsidered. He pointed out that he had two or three impor- {tant amendments to offer, including amendments providing for new school { buildings. | Senator Curtis of Kansas. in charge of the District bill, said that he had believed yesterday. that senators were {trying to delay the passage of the {bill, but that if Senator Harrison really desired to offer amendments in good faith, he would make no ob- pection to reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was passed. Senator Harrison replied that both he and Senator King had some amend- ments to offer. Senator Penrose then said that he wag willing to permit reconsideration. He' gave notice, however, that he | would press for action on the tariff After the Senate had reconsidered | its action in passing the District bill, | Senator King said that he had been informed there were too many em- | ployes provided in the bill for some of | the District government departments, |and he moved to reduce from four to two the number of assistant engineers | provided for care of the District build- in 8. Senator King: protested against a | growing tendency -to increase -offi | in Washington, when one of the jects of the budget system is. to. cur- tail ‘the number .of officials. “He sald that he was glad the appropriations ccmmittee had refused . to "atcept | recommendations . for increases . in numbers of clerks and salaries. He said that he believed the Dis- trict_appropriation bill should be.r. duced by at least $2,000,000 from the total carried in_the bill as reported to the Senate. He added that he-in- tended to offer a motion to recommit the bill to the committes with in- | stryctions to report it back with a cut of $2,080,000. Senator Curtis of Kansas explained that the bill as reported contained items made necessary because of the conditions in the ?Istrlct arising’ from the war, including® a large increase in | population Z |7 . Kinsg Offers Amendments: Senator King offered other amend- ments, after he had obtained an agre ment from Senator Curtis to permit the adoption of - these amendments, with the understanding that. they would be given further consideration in conference, cutting down the nui ber of employes in the office of the personal tax , the license bureau, the collector's office, the Engineer Commissioner's office and the sur- veyor's office. X | YSenator King aquestioned Senitor | Ceiages and streets of the the parks, ges an o Dlltl?h:L He said that he belisved the District government shouid have complete control over all the ] 2nd the bridges snd the streets, in- Stead of having the War Department control them. EER When Senator King had com his amendments to the bill: Senstor Harrison offered a number of amend- ments dealing with the public schools, the first providing for an addiilonal assistant superintendent who ' should be business r. Senator Cur- Curtis regarding & kY