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3 WEATHER. tomorrow probably ge in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 44.9, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest. 36.8, at 6:30 am. today. Full report on page 14 . Closing New York Stocks, Page 22 Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. No. 28,044 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - @he Toening Stae. Member of eredited to 1t or All rights Qispatches WASHINGTON, D: €., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. EGG PRICES SMASH WHEN MILD WINTER URGES HENS TO LAY “The bottom has dropped out of .the egg market,” one dealer said in outlining the situation today. He added: “We not tell how far the prices are going to drop.” Within the past week the retail prices of eggs have dropped 15 to 20 cents a dozen for rictly fresh eg The prevail ail for nearby strictly iresh ex da, 5 cents per dozs There were some dealers also who quoted their nearby fresh egss at 60 cents today. Some few dealers fresh western es slightly lower t riety. 2 The mild winter, which has 1 duced laying, was given by dealers as the cause of the recent slump in the market. SOUTHISPRESSING FOR CABINET PLACE - DRIVE IS LAUNGHED TOGET EMERGENCY FALLSLEGISLATION Board of Trade Takes Initia- tive in Ridding District of Water Menace. e price were an the nearby v APPROPRIATION TO BEGIN| TYLER PLAN IS SOUGHT| The I was born and raised and know ayd sympathize with their present polfitical hopes. The vote that made Oklahoma republican last | year was born and bred in the south- jern state. These people’ expect the south to be represented in your cab- inet, and the position they will ap- pre A | Agriculture. I have written to you appropriation subcom- iy the interest of John Field, Okl nate with the request ! homa's candidate. Weller Sees Senators and Asks Preliminary efforts looking toward sing the District water supply | | 3 board's action previously had | Agriculture Secretary, Sen- formed this morning a reporter | in theé sundry civil bill in the Senate|tracting attention just now. South- s sed by Maj. Tyler of the Bl o B south in the Harding cabinet. At hasten such a project would relieve!(ional committee is setting out to safely a med tha the Fede is | resentation in national conventions. gress favorable action on the Tyler |state by the men engincering the ef: The decision of the Board of Irade said to have the concurrence of ©of its water supply committee, nead- | ous southern republican the board Mr. Weller conferred at the republican, has sent this telegram to through an amendment to the sundry | sibility of the south not being repre- jon that the best plan would be to in the south time too short properly to present the Mr. Weller also conferred with Sena- Advice for Steps to Get Action | obtaining emergency appropria- | tartcd today at the Capitol by | ccel e _infor: ’ f : yeceived the informal sanction of | ator Harreld Wires Harding. for The Star that the trade body 10 hegin immediate construction of an | ern republicans are making a determ- Corps of Enzine of the Army, LR L P e | reorganize republican politics in that Power Commission, of which he Oklahoma. = ciassed as a southern power develepment and water supply | fort, is taking the lead in the move- to urge immediate action by Congress | Gov. Morrow of Kentucky and Goy. ed by Francis R. Weller. After con- | chambers of commerce. Senate today with Senator Jones as| President-elect Harding: civil nall. ented in vour cabinet. Oklahoma is take the matier up in connection witi matter to the Senate for consideration tor Ransdell, who declared the situ. This Session. i tion at this s on of Congress for} ashington Board of Trade. Secgetary of War Baker. When in- | Would endeavor to have an item put| Dixie land republican politics is at- additional conduit_from at Falls {110 arive for recognition of the Secretary Baker said action 10| the same time, the republican na- The Secretary indicated it might be ection and to eurtail southern rep- chairman. would recommend to Con-| Teport, which it is now considering, | ment for cabinet recognition, was reached vesterday at a mecting | Taylor of Tennessee, as well as vari Terring with President Bradley of | Senator-elect Harreld of Oklahoma, to the prospects of obtaining action| “I am much disturbed at the pos- Senator Jones expressed the opin-|not western Gr norihern. Its over- the deficiency bill, as he believed the | @s a part of the sundry civil bill. tion is of such seriousness that 1t} shouid be brought to the attention of | the District mittee of the | which leaders and ! whelming vote is intensely southern. | iaté most is that of Sccretary of | that it be handied as emergency legis- | { <enator. i conferences with Senators Rar™ell Mr. Weller ar £ 45 appointmen b dgsipmorro it Sensior Hmith o . Maryland, member of the Senate District com- mittee. He member for his advice as to the best ask the Maryland | will be effective in sa “Wipe Out Sectionalism.” “Jut if you shall determine that It is West in order to wipe out section- | alfism, our most deadly political foe, to ake a._map..from-the heart-of the Bouth and thus plant the flag of republicanism all over the south, it ] ing Oklahoma. { Failure to thus recognize the south GEDDES GETSFULL POWERS 10 PRESS British Ambassador En Route Back to Washington With Official Approval. WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT FORMAL WORD OF ACTION Would Mean Progress Toward World Peace if U. S. Acted Simultaneously. | By thes Aksceiated Pross. LONDON, February S—Sir Auck- land Geddes, the British ambassador to the United States, is returning to | | | Oklahoma--Wants Field as|wasnington armea with fun powers | to press forward proposals for a world conference on disarmament, ac- cerding to reports published in the afternoon papers. 1t is declared that this was one of the most important questions the am- bassador discussed with the prime minister. London reports that Sir Auckland {Geddes, the British ambassador, is re- !turning to Washington armed with ! full powers to press forward pro- | pesals for a world conference on dis- larmament. have not reached the W House through any official Secretary Tumulty stated | channels, today. May Send Root Abroad. ‘While the reports have been accept- ed generally here at their fac lue, it is doubted if Sir Auckland will ar- rive in Washington in time to make administration. Speculation for the most part cen- tered in the opinion that one of the !first acts of Mr. Harding after being I sworn in as President will be to send Elihu Root to Europe for the purpose lof discussing disarmament with the kprincipal powers. Great progress toward world peace will have been made, it is suggested in the event the United States com- ! mences sounding out sentiment abroad at the same time | Great Britain’s representative secks | the opinion of this nation on the pro- posal. 50; i Debt Question Secondary. | It was know when the British am- i bagsador was called suddenly to Lon- don a few weeks ago that the ‘main purpose of his mission was to discuss { the disarmament question with his government, with the object of giving it a clear idea of the sentiment and 1 intention of the government, Congress and people of the United States. It “also has-beén indicated in Uls | patches from London that Sir Auck |1and has been instrusted with the {handling of negtiations with the | United States concerning arrange- course to follow in calling the Sen-| Will be a keen disappointment to the i ments for the payment of Great Brit- ate’'s attention to the importancé of taking action at this session fo pro- tect Washington against a break- down of its water works system, The Federa! Power report, which Secretary Baker is now writinz, is expected to be adfpted b the commission at its meefing n. Monday. and probably will be trans- mitted to Congress in tie for con- sideration as an emergency measurc. Inasmuch as any ameniment to the sundry civil or deficiency bills, anthor- 4zing a start on the Tvicr piar, would be subject to a point of order Mr. ‘Weller and other officigls of the Board of Trade today inclimed strongly to the belief that the best procedure would be to seek 2n emerzency bill from the Senate zpprovriations sub- committee of the District. Must Get Action Now. It is believed that this may not be difficult to accomplish after the Federal Fower Commission’s report reaches Congress. The report is ex- pected to show that deley in starting the work would be to invite dissster. There will Le no sumdry civil bill or regular appropriation bills the opening session of the new Congres: and unless the present Congre: authori: are inauguration of work he resuit, it is feared. scipil facts which will be the attention of the Senate ay | | pre-election belief that your el { would wipe cut sectionalism.” The call for the meeting of the re- lection { publican national committee in Wash- . . iington on Marci ammission’s | istoR on March 3 is announced to be twofold purpose of bring- ing the members together in a re- union_at the inauguration of Presi- dent Harding and enabling the com- mitlee to receive and discuss plans for a change m delegate representa- tion in future national conventions, as ordered in Chicago in Juae. It will be the first meeting of the general committee since the victory in No- vember. No reorganization of the ional committee is at present con- plated. nder the provisions of the re: lution passed by the last republican national convention just béfore its ad- journment the committee was “au- thorized and directed, within twelve months, to adopt a just and equitable b of representation in future na- tional conventions.” Primarily this is intended to bring about a reorgan- of the republican party in south, and the special committee -ently designated to evolve an ap portionment plan is now at work and will make a report. Will Not Affee Committ mp of | Virginia. Ea of Vermont and R. P. Howell of Nebraska form | the apportionment committee, with | Chairman Will H. Hays and Secre- [ ! 5 tary Clarence B. Miller ex-offi members. The changes in representa- tion proposed will affect the northern states only in a very minor degree. | The plan must be in effect by June 12 next to meet the requirement of the mandatory convention resolution. Chairman Hays, who is now de- capacity, but is 0 | ieons v in use that it cannot be emptied for repairs. hat any serious break in the con- t. which could nct be repaired in ) 'or three days would leave financial affairs of the [ will report excellent | wiping out the deticit to his appeal through the press, con- tributions in sums anging from 10 cents to 8100 have been received at headquar- ters, and the balance remaining will be met under a quota system by states apportioned on the basis of 10 gents per republican vote cast at the last election. Boom for Marion Butler as Agriculture Secretary Gaining Impetus Rapidly Special Dispatch to The Sta; report, progress niduit and an ad ructed built to Gre. filtration pl Dalecarlia rese and a half itional 1 on th in about tw Mr. Weller 2 rs of the District believe that « much longer time will be required for the work HIS HOUSEBOAT FLOATED, HARDING AGAIN ON OUTING | President-Elect Abandons Purpose to Return at Once by Rail . AUGUSTINE, Fl February 9. W A {—A new drive has started against NEW SMY . Fla, February 9—|Henry C. Wallace of lowa as Secre- Abandoning his preparations for re.|tary of Agriculture in the Harding turning at once to St. Augustine by st it was the packers who rall, President-elect Harding decided | assailed the lowa farm editor. The 10 continue his vacation a little lon animus of the packers was plain, when his hoi t Victoria was however, for Mr. Wallace first as- ited today 1 the mud bank that them, and €0 Mr. Harding cast had l:n‘lnl her captive since Monday in | aside their critici: . Now the farm- the Victoria passed Oakhill shortly ations are taking a hand in the before noon, and with good luck thould be above Ormond by tonight. o seho drive is in the interest tor Marion Butler of . The movement pri- ¥ s of the south, but it is said | to be spreading to other parts of the | country and to be gaining daily in SORRY FOR SIGNATURE. trength. All of the farm organiza- Mrs. Pyke Says She Signed | 2 4 e od tion in the south. and virtually all of Robin Through Misunderstanding..: the Btate s mmi::;u.mr; ‘(;‘( agricul- s 5 e |ture in_this section of the count CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 9— | }i\%. indorscd Mr. Butler and ore pre. Mrs. A. P. Pyke, democratic national | pured to fight for him until Mr. Hard- committeewoman from Ohio. issued a | jng makes a definite decision one way statement today in which she declar- | op the other. ed her si ure to the I t to S George White of Mar rman | oo 3“':::.:"w::jm“:‘::"‘::]mm X of the national democratic committee, ome eleven or more states have wnation, | 101G for an appointment with Senn. om- | {or Harding, and are prepared to lay of Texas (oo to him if he ever returns to his ! headquarters here at St. Augustine. The President-elect has been putting off the evil hour of settling down to work and making positive his cabinet Selections until the last possible mo- telegraphed White at Marietta last | ment. The lure of the Indian river, nizht that she was a “firm and stanch | even as viewed from sind bars and supporter” of his, and requested that|mud reefs, has held him far beyond her signature on the round robin |the allotted time. Letters and tele. made public at Washington be dis- [grams which have accumulated for . (zegarded. (Continued on mitteeman Thoma Lov, through a misunderstanding. Mrs. Pyke, who was apbointed by White on the committee which is to meet next week in Washington to set a date for a reorganization meeting, voting his undivided attention to the | committee, in ggregating some $£300,000 | ain’s war indebtedness. ilieved here that the indebtedness question is considered by the British government as of secondary impor- tance to that of negotiating ‘active steps for world disarmament. SPURIOUS STAMPS ISSUE CAUSES ARREST OF FIVE Secret Service Men Seize Large Amount of Material in Raid on Printing Shop. Arrest of five men in Philadelpht {in a raid upon a printing shop where |alleged counterfeit interpal revenue liquor stamps were being produced was announced here today by Chief Moran of the secret service. The shop raided was that of Henry Gianelli of 208 North 3d street, Phila- delphia, and Chief Moran said about {100,000 strip stamps as well as liquor {labels and plates were seized. Besides ! Gianelli, those arrested were Carl | Weiss and Harry Milman, alieged to | be «aistributors of the stamps, and two printers employed at Gianelli's shop. Chief Moran said Weiss had 60,000 stamps ready for distribution. Recent raids by secret service agents, Chief Moran asserted, have disclosed liquor bearing internal reve- nue stamps and brand labels so cleverly counterfeited that the bottles could not be told from those regularly withdrawn from bond except upon the closest examination. Analysis of the liquor. contained in some of these bottles, Mr. Moran declared, showed that the contents were adulterated sufficiently to kill. Evidence to by brought out in one big case in Detroit, he added, would show death caused by such liquor, supposedly withdrawn from a government bonded warehouse. { { { —— ASKS NEW I.C.C. ESTIMATE Railroad Tells Court Yearly Operat- ing Incomes Were Underestimated. Alleging that the' Interstate Com- merce Commission has underestimated by $164,800 the company's average operating income for the three years ending June 30, 1917, the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Compan: today asked the District Supreme ‘ourt for a writ of review of the ac- tion of the commission. Justice Sid- dons has issued a rule against the Interstate Commerce Commission to show cause February 23 why the re View should not be had. The petitioner declires that the commission, in arriving at its income, has converted a contingent and dis- Duted liability of the company Into an Netual lability and has deducted the full amount. The question of its liability is now before & United States court In Michy igan. IGNORES AIRMEN’S ROW. Secretary Daniels Orders Report of Naval Court Revised. Secretary “Danicls has asked the naval court of inquiry which investi. gated the flight of the naval balloon. fits, Lieuts. Kloor, Hinton and Fap. rell, from Rockaway, Long Island, N, Y., to Moose Factory, Canada. to re. verse those sections of its report rel. ative to_the authority of the nava] commandant of Rockaway station to order _the flight. As Lieuts. Hinton and Farrell hag patched up their grievances, Secre- tary Daniels said, he was willing to “let bygones be bygones.” and had not called for any further imquiry in regard to the clash between the two officers at the conclusion of their grilling trip. a0 b l FOR DISARMANENT effective representations to the Wil-| disarmament | But it Is be- | al 1Do | Z | SUFFRAGE STATUE STIRS UP DISPUTE | tol Steps While Its Accept- ability is Argued. The statue of suffrage pioneers that the suffragists have had carved and planned to have placed in Statuary {Hall at the Capitol with appropriate i ceremony on February 15 has stirred {up a dispute on'the hill. The suf- | fragists neglected to get the approval | { i on the library. and before that ap- proval is given the statue has to be declared “a work of art” by the Fine Arts Commission. So when the marble was hauled to & Capitor™fi Statuary Hall. But, finally, through he cgurtesy of Elliott Woods, super- intendent of the Capitol building and grounds, who consented to become its custodian, the statue was placed temporarily under the steps on the east front. where it fs attracting considerable attention. Even if the Fine Arts Commission should approve the statue there is ino surety that the committee on the iibrary, ef which Senator Brandegee of Connecticut is chairman, will al- Jow it to be placed in the Capitol. Meanwhile the suffragists had sent out programs for thc exercises on February 15, with the announcement that the statue would be formally accepted by Speaker Gillett. The National Woman's Party, in a statement made public today, charges “a strong anti-suffrage feeling” in the committee. “Innumerable excuses are being of- fered,” the woman's party statement eclared, “such as that there are now enough statues in the Capitol—a fact not previously discovered—or there should be no statues, or that all statues before going into the Capitol should reside for three years in a mu- seum. Since none of these theories was ever produced before, the deduc- tion seems obvious. “The National Woman's Party, with thirty-six other national organiza- tions representing more than 8,000,000 women, participating in this memo- rial, have asked merely that they be allowed to present the statue to the | Capitol on February 15. The question of its acceptance can be decided at any time convenient to Congres | | The statue, which was madc for the woman's party, Includes portrait busts ‘of three suffrage nioneers, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. DENIES “WAR TALK.” British Charge d’Affaires Assures Colby of Falsity in Reports. By direction of his government, Leslie Craigie, British charge here, called today on Secretary Colby at the State Department to formally deny published reports that officials of the British foreign officc had told Amer- jcan newspaper correspondents in London that Great Britain and Amer- ica were treading the path leading to war. INDICTED FOR MURDER. | | | | I i 1 | { of D. C. Man in Texas. WICHITA FALLS, Tex., February 9. —Henry J. Toussaint a contractor, Was indicted by a specfal grand jury today on a charge of murder in con- nection with the death of his father, 0. H. Toussaint, a former Washington, D. C. hotel keeper, who was shot to death here Sunday night last. Hienry Tou saint was arrested Mon- day and is aileged to have confessed ‘o officers that he Kkilled his father, who the younger man is said to have Ssserted was responsible for a separa- tion between himself and his wife. He Also is =aid to have charged his fa- ther with responsibility for his mother's death. —_— WOMAN CHIEF EXECUTED. Mme. Rado and Ten Others Pay Penalty in Crimea as Plunderers. HALAKLAVA, Crimea, February, 8. _ Mme. Rado, chief of & band in the women'ssmilitary organization in the FOiea known as the “green army,” has been executed, together with ten DNer members of the band, it is an- hnced here. They were accused by the bolsheviki of organizing so-called soviets as a pretext for organizing plundering expeditions and indulging fo drunken orgies. AIR PATROL KILLED. QUEBEC, February 9.—Reports that Lieut. G. Vezina of the air fire patrol guarding timber lands was killed yesterday when his airplane crashed near St. Anne de Chicoutimi were received Qore today, Marble Reposes Under Capi- ! of the joint congressional committee ‘eould not be taken into | Henry J. Toussaint Held in Dnthl Now FEEL'THAT { 77 NOT NEED) To GIve My \§ ENTIRE TIME TO\% 7~ BUSINESS™ B, | GOOD ATTACKS KRAMER. Volstead Then Defends Dry Agent in Lively Tilt in House. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer, jInternal Revenue Commissioner Wil- |ams and the Anti-Saloon League came in for sharp attack on the floor of the House today by Chairman Good iof the appropriations committee. Mr. 1Good's remarks about Mr. Kramer raised the ire of Representative Vol- Minnesota, author of the pro- on enforcement law, and for a few minutes the members had a live- Iy tilt. Representative Good charged that the appropriations committee, while {inquiring into the financial needs of the prohibition enforcement depart- ment had found “irregular things” {which “ought not to be permitted land ad enforcement officials did not “seem ‘to know what was going on in their department. Mr. Volstead defended Mr. Kramer, | asserting that the commissioner had flatly denied that there Wweré anmy ir- jregularities in his department. — SMUTS WINS VOTE O SOUTH AFRICA iOpponents in Election Were ’ Virtual Advocates of Se- cession Policy. By the Associated Press. PRETORIA, Union of South Africa, Fobruary 9.—Gen. Smuts, prime min- ister of the Union of South Africa, was olected to the house of assembly from the district of Pretoria West in the elections held throughout the union yesterday. Returns received up until an early | hour today indicated the South Afri- can party, under the leadership of Gen. Smuts, had won a victory. There was some uncertainty as to the vote in the rural districts. but the South African party scemed assured of a 1 | 1 { hibil i Bly. Tuesday's elections in the Union of South Africa were considered as vi- tally important to the future status of that British dominion. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, prime minister of the union, lieaded the South African party, which represented the larger British element of the population and Dutch, who believed that in the union had been found the wsolution of the political problems of the country. Gen. Hertzoz sponsored a policy which virtually amounted to seces- slon from the British empire, and numbered among his followers many of 'the men who fought with the Boers against Great Britain. Frederick H. Creswell was leader of the laborite party during the cam- valgn, and it was charged that a wtrike was called in the Rand district for the purpose of consolidating the ranks of the labor organization. |SENAT ORS VOTE AGAINST HALTING NAVAL PROGRAM Committee Decides to Wait While Experts Study Best Types of Warships. The Senate naval committee has concluded from testimony of naval ex- perts that it would be unwise and in- advisable to stop work for six months on capital ships building for the Navy while experts study the question of best types based on the lessons of the world war. In response to Senator Borah's res- olution of inquiry as to the advisa- bility of such a move, the committee will report its conclusions to the Sen- ate. The report ' will be submitted by Senator _Poindexter, republicap, ‘Washington. The committee acted in_ executive session, but 8o far as could be learned| there was no division of opinion, at least as expressed in the vote cast. Action was taken soon after members of the Navy general board appeared. Previous to that the committee had heard Secretary: Daniels and Rear Ad- mirals W. S. Sims, president of the Nayval War College at Newport, R. L, and Bradley A. Fiske, retired, former aid for operations. OIL PRICE CUT IN OKLAHOMA. TULSA, Okla., February 9.—The Sinclair Oil and Gas Company today announced a cut of 25 cents a barrel in mid-continent and Texas crude oil, reducing_the price of both grades to $1.75 a barrel. The Prairie Oil and as Company announced a similar ‘would, be made in mid-cotinent. ded that Mr. Kramer and other | good working majority in the assem- | CONFEREES AWA * HOUSED.C ACTION Certain Amendments Made by Senate Must Be_Sub- mitted to House. The Senate and House conferees on the District appropriation bill are I still unable to "agree. The confer- | ences have not ended until the House | conferees shall have submitted to the | House certain legislative amendments | made by the Senate. | necessary under the rule, adopted last June, which specifically prohibits | tho conferees from agreeing to any | legislative amendment which would have been subject to a point of or- der if it had origigated in the House. THe. trouble -a| that the gppropriation bills in the House origlnate in a single com- This step is' ALLIGATOR TO TAKE PLACE OF FORMER WHITE HOUSE PETS Because of the individual tastes or kobbies of Presidents or mem- bers of their immediate families the White House grounds have harbored many and varied pets in the form of animals, and since the olection of Senator Harding there have been many inquiries about the Whits House as to what “he Would turn loose in the grounds.” There were the sheep, which be- came such a familiar sight during President Wilson's occupancy of the White House; the famous cow, “Pauline,” during President Taft's regime, and the dogs and horses and ponies cf the Roosevelt family. Because ot the fondness of Sen- ator and Mrs. Harding for dogs it had been generally supposed that this animal would again come into his owrn at the White House, but this surmise was found to be ‘Wwrong today, when it was learned that an alligator is going to be in- troduced 1o the White House grounds for the first time. Senator Park Trammell of Flori- da, a caller at the executive of- fies today, brought the news. He said thal President-elect Harding already has accepted a fair sized “gator” from Henry M. Bennett of Jacksonville, Fla. HARDING ELECTION FORMALLY RATIFED Congress Declares Choice by - Electoral Vote for Presi- dent and Vice President. ‘Warren Gamallel Harding of Ohio and Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts were formally declared today by Con- | gress to be elected President and Vice | President of the United States for four years beginning next March 4. Thus was written the final chapter | in the history of the 1920 presiden- tial elections. The scene was laid | in the chamber of the House of Rep- | resentatives, with the democratic Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, presfding. The occasion was the canvassing of the electoral votes cast }"Y the electors chosen on November 2—404 for the republican candidates and 127 for the democratic candi- dates, former Gov. James M. Cox of IHyde Park, N. Y. Many to Witneas Ceremony. The recording of the votes was at- jtended by all the formality and | solemnity prescribed by the Consti- ‘The Associated Press is exciusively estitied the use for republication of all Sews Qivphi paper and also the local news publishcd Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt of | |doctor in charge the Associated Press » tches mot otherwise credited n e betela. of publication of specisl Derein are alse reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,401 TWO CENTS. SAYSU. . WORKERS ON LEGION BOARDS HINDER SOLDIERAID Hospital Chairman Davis Claims Committees ‘Packed’ by Bureau Employes. DECLARES HOSPITALS “INDESCRIBABLY FILTHY” Asserts Bureau Chiefs Spend “Most of Time on Alibis”—Postal Probe Ordered. Charges that government bureaus having to do with soldier relief are “Packing the committees of the Amer- ican Legion with bureau employes Who are members of the legion.” were made before the legion's executive committee here today by Abel Davis of Chicago. chairman of the hospitali- zation committee. “As a result the work of the legion in soldier rellef matters is being greatly handicapped,” sald Mr. Davis. Who ddded that at the Cleveland con- vention “the bureaus licked us to a frazzle in all matters relating to veterans' relief and the legion won- dered how it was done.” After hearing Mr. Davis the execu- tive committee recommended to the state divisions of the legion that they refrain from appointing government bureau employes on their committees. Davis Scores Hospitals. The report of Mr. Davis charged that former service men are being kept in private hospitals that are “indescribably filthy and in which conditions are terrible.” Mr. Davis said that after the men were placed in such hospitals they were left with- out visits or inspections by repre- sentatives of the public health serv- ice. He read a report of a survey of a hospital in Illinois made by repre- sentatives of the legion. This said that white and negro patients slept in the same room, that the pharmacy containing narcotics and drugs of ail sorts was left unlocked and that Wwhen asked if female patients used the same bathroom as the males the stated that “the women only remained about two weeks at a time and didn't take any | baths.” Service men are now being removed |from this hospital. Mr. Davis said, from the fact | tution, and there wee present not|as a result of pressure brought to only the members of the Senate and | Pé2T On public health service officials. | House, but many relativesand friends| _ Fimds Luck of Co-Operatiom. s Speaking on the proposed consolis of the successful candidates. dation. of the bureaus of vocational Two highly polished mrahogany |education, war risk imsurance and & | boxes, inlaid with rosewood and |part of the public health sgrvice, Mr. - hollywood, were dumb actors in this | Davis declared: : {drama of democratic f;ovemment.l_,;.}.‘;fi::.'f{.,;":;flm::y‘gxusg mittee, then in the Senate they go to the variqus which are putt legislative amend- ments upon theth. The new rule was i designed to protect the House legis- lativé committees in. their respective Jurisdictionsa. -Unless the Senate is willin to strike from the appropriation bill any new legislation put on by the several legislative committees the House con- ferees are specifically forbidden to s the District appropriation‘bill is the first appropriation bill of this session, the -entire question of pro- cedure has to be settled upon this measure. Chairman Davis of the sub- committes in charge of the District of Columbia appropriation bill is in conference with republican leaders and with the conferees today, en- | deavoring to find some way out of the legislative tangle. Some of the prominent members of the House who have been closely associated with ap- priation legislation are advising that the new rule should be revoked and that the jurisdiction of the legislative committees in the House could be protected under the old rule, which required unanimous coni |a'8in'to conference. ©°nent to send |SAYS COAL MEN GAVE LAWYER LOVING CUP Pressing further its inquiry into charges that coal dealers in Wash- intgon had organized to maintain high prices and suppress competition, a Senate committee today received from John C. L. Ritter a story of the purchase by the dealers of a }loving cup for their attorney “be-' j cause he worked all these government. men during the war and got tha prices fixed high enou pHicesinzs gh to satisty all Mr. Ritter formerl a cooperative coal the larger dealers. Ernest H. Dan.. lels, a manufacturer, and~formerly a stockholder in the co-operative company, told the committee that an established coal dealer had bought out the co-operative organization. One deater had offered to buy for $45,000 r. Daniels said, but the deal did not }go through. Has ] | Yy was director of company among McGANNON JURY PICKED. Three Women and Nine Men to Set- tle Judge’s Fate. CLEVELAND, February 9.—The Jury that Is to decide the fate of Judge - Willlam H. McGannon, on trial for a second time, charged With sécond-degree murder in con- nection with the shooting of Harold C, Kagy, was completed this morn- ing. The jury is composed of three women and nine men. County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan- ton began his opening statement to the' jury-after Judge Homer G. Pow- ell refused to permit the jurors to visit the scene of the shooting. W. H. Boyd, chief counsel fot McGannon, followed Stanton in the opening statement for the defense. It is expected the first witness for the state will be called with th opening of the afternoon session. John W. Joyce, who was tried and acquitted of the Kagy murder, will be the second witness for the state. McADOO ON WAY HOME. MEXICO CITY, February 8.—William G. McAdoo, former American Secretary of the Treasury, who left for the United States tonight after a week's visit to | Mexico, denied that he had entered into | agy negotiations with the Mexican gov- ernment for the administration or su- pervision of the rehabilitation of the | rallroad system. . Conversations with government officlals concerning the railroads, he "declared, had been merely incidental to his trip in nio wise “significant legislative committees, | Resting on the Vice President’s desk, | for the best interests of the service they contained the official ballots of ' men. Statements by them, which they have made to us repeatedly, have no truth in them. They spend the i greater part of their time getting up jrecords, in other words preparing their alibis beforehsnd.” A committee was appointed to take | the electors of the forty-eight states. | | In alphabetical order, beginning with Alabama’s vote, the returns, in large “ envelopes blazing with seals. were i opened by the Vice President, handed to t . '8—0! H O e ioenate and Hollse tellers—one up with the incoming Rostmaster republican and one democrat repre- Senting each body——and read to the | General as soon as he has been named o I e L | by Mr. Harding, aileged discrimina- | tions against ex-service men. At the conclusion of the announc ments and tally Vice President Mar-! Joseph F. Buchanan, an employe shall declared formally that Mr,|Of the postal service in New York Harding had been chosen President | city, testified before the executive and Mr. Coolidge Vice President—in | Committee that upon his return from official language that the announce- | military service during the war hes ment should “be deemed a sufficient | had been told that the position he had declaration of the persons elected: held was abolished and he was put President and Vice President of the |at work that usually was given men United States, each for a term be- | who were beini d:sciplined. He said ginning March 4, 1921.” he was fifty-seven years old and had Senate Members Ushered In. Been in the civil service thirty-two years without ever having been charg- e o el oaaY gas ordered | ed wint breaches of regulations. y resolu any . House. At 1 o'clock, led by two Senate Claims Usfair Treatment. pages carrying the ballot boxes, the [ James Flanagan of New York city Senate, following the Vice President |said he had been reduced in the civil and escorted by. its Sergeant-at- |Service after taking a four-month arms, secretary and_other officials, [Cruise as a part of his duties as a proceeded to the House chamber, |naval reservist. b Where it was announced with| Members of the committee were ceremony, the House membership|&iven two hours and a half by the Tising as the senatorial party en-|chair to “go to the Hill and work for tered. ~As prescribed by law, the|veterans' relicf measures and to re- Vice President took clturge of the |frain from wasting time talking with session, with Speaker Gillett seated | members of Congress about how the 3 folks were at home.” 5 :ltgr:’tuot}en';e‘gfn'a#fi:o"! TS At the | O e "executive committes votéd to Mr. openin; the ceremanies stand solidly back of Dr. S. C. Smith. MamehoP I o (the “usual warning | who s in charge of the tubercular against demanstrations by the spec- tators—a warning which always has been honored in the breach until the galleries lost their enthusiasm under the verbal procession of formal an- nouncements by the four tellers. ‘A custom of procedure followed to- day. as usual, in the joint congres- sional session was an opportunity for ohjections to the recording of the votes. After each state's vote was announced the Vice President asked if there were any objections. These, by law, are required to be in writing, and, in event of filing. to be voted on by the Senate and House separately. Today’s News in Paragraphs South African secessionists lose: Smuts wins in election. Page 1 Suffrage statue delivered at Capitol starts discussion. Page 1 South starts drive on Harding for real southerner in cabinet. Page 1 Drive is launched to get emergency ap- propriation to start construction of. water conduit from Great Falls. - Page 1 Geddes en route back to America armed ‘with full powers to press for disarma- ment parley. Page 1 Amgrican Legion executive hears com- plaint that U. S. bureau employes “pack” legion committees. Page 1 France is at end of rope of: reparations concessions; will force acceptance of latest plans. Page 2 John E. Laskey to resign as U. S. at- torney for D. C. Page 2 Civic leaders believe reduced ofl cost will -lower price of gas in the Dis- trict. Page 2 Misunderstanding is basis of clash over | foreign loans. Page 2| Man whom sheriff forgot to hang may be rated as legally dead. Page 2 Lenten seasor opened with special serv- | ices in churches. Page 11 Protest to Navy likely in halting of officers pursuing crimifals with dogs. Page 12 Secretary Ullman of A. A. A. for law against jay walking trict. Lincoln Park citizens favor D. C. curfew law and $240 donus for police and fire- pleads in Dis- | Page 12| from American lines. Arabs, in protest to mandates. ! Page 15 {TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY. patients of the public health service, and who, it was reported, had in- . curred the enmity of certain members of Congress because he ordered sol- dier patfents evacuated from the hos- pital at Markelton, Pa. At one time there ‘Were ninety such patients there, and an investigation by the leglon showed they were not receiving ade- quate care. The case was taken up with the public- health service, anid they were removed. When the committee was tcld today that members of Congress were “after his job” it instructed its legislative committee to block such action, if possible. s The legislative .committee aiso was ordered to look into the case of cer- tzin nava] reservists in the New York post office, who were unable to go on a practice cruise with the Navy unless they resigned their positions. They were told they would be reinstated on their return, but this was not done and the cémmittee will ask the in- coming Postmaster General to see that they are taken back. A resolution asking the Senate to confirm all of the former service men who have been appointed to postmas- terships, a list of several hundred, was tabled after some discussion. DISCUSS BAKERS’ WAGES. Committees of émploying journey- man bakers are meeting today in- the office of Conciliator John B. Colpoys {at the Department of Labor in an endeavor to thrash out problems aris- ing from the tentative authorization by Conciliator Rowland B. Mahany of a 15 per cent decrease in wages o be effective February, 1. A committee from the Bakers and Confectioners’ Union, No. 118, is pres- ent with instructions from the or- ganization to refuse any decrease. Tbon the stand of the committee of | employers®will depend the action re-- ing a “walk-out,” to be voted ' e‘;":! ® special meeting of the union next Saturday afternoon. A ————ee In .accordance with their annual cus-." tom of meeting at dinner on or about the anniversary of the of the sinking of the Maine in Havana har- bor. ‘the ' members of the District of . Anon. Page 13 | Columbia Commandery. Nlig‘)_ lot to ruin U. 8. transport Order of the ‘Spanish-American Gen;‘:::t wl}ernon is brought to u,,m_w | War, have arranged to this. Page 13 | year next Tuesday m:l';?!l.lt'l:w s Independent rail unions heard by labor o'clock in th:' Ar:::r avy, g‘..a‘ de- board. Page 14| Members of com es. p: = siding_in Washington or, have | Mexican government leases railway | peen invited to attend. equipment valued at 5,500,000 pesos | Ferree, 3465 Macoml &