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" FACING CONGRESS grols. | | WEATHER. and warmer tonigh! cloudy, with moderate row |. tur m. today ; lowest, 32, at for twenty-four hours Highest, b Closing New York Stocks, t: tomor- 1 tempera- l 7, at to- 7am, Page 27. Che Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. = eredited to 1t paper and also the local news publishod hereis. the use for republication of all news dispatches The Associated Press Is exclusively entitied to | or not otherwise credited ia thls || | All Ezhts of publication of speclal dispated 0 Member of the Associated Press ” | | ! | 1 ea berein are also reserved. | Net Circulation, 97,846 o7 Entered as second DN rost ocr A office Washington, -class matter D C WASHI PAGES. VO CENTS. NGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921—-THIRTY-SIX RAILROAD LABOR AND WAGE ISSUES | [ | | Renewal of Agitatibn forU.S. | Ownership Expected, But | Republicans Will Oppose. | G. 0. P. PLATFORM GIVES FAIR NOTICE AGAINST PLAN |. | Roads and Employes Must Abide by Transportation Ket's 5 Terms. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Tt loon a certainty that railway wage and labor problem will BT OR the | confront Congress immediately upon the convening of the aordinary | menced on Wednesday a vigorous of- session in April. By a concerted fensive on the Petrograd front, but movement the great trunk lines east and w have declared that they can- mot operate with profit at the present ra of wages and under the restric-} tions of current practice. The trans- portation act requires that before re- ducing wates the roads must confer with their operative seeking to reach an agreement, failing which the case goes to the labor board. The roads have taken this initial step and called for conferences with the men. The chiefs of the railroad brother- hoods have declared within the last twenty-four hours that the me B! \ not acecept a reduction in wages; that prices of commodities which they' have to purchase have not fallen to a point to warrant acceptance of a re-{p, duction in pay. Probable Action by Congress. th. The part which Congress is expect- | |\ ed to take in the serious situation| which is threatened by this impasse | is to investigate the claims of the railroads that they are not earning enough under present conditions and to ascertain why this is so. Senator Cummins, chairman of the committee on interstate commerce in the Senate.| ¢ expresses surprise that the railroads are earning about one-fifteenth of one per cent a year on their value, and belleves that something must be wrong in such a condition. - i Senator Cummins prophesies that | Congress will go into the relation be- | tween increased wages and earnings and _consider the extent to which overhead charges may be too high ! and how much the increased price of materials affects conditions, as well as the railroads’ claim that their main troubles come from the swollen pay || | | | | Wage Increases were granted- to railroad operatives during 1916 and 1917 to the extent of $350,000,000. During the period of federal control the wage: increases amounted to $1. 050.000.000. Tn 1914 the average wage of railroad workers was $814, and to- day it .is $1,900. Since 1915 the pay roils of w Irom $L1. to Plan of Orderly Proeedure. / The orderiy procedure in the cantgit between the railroads and their wotk- men. which is now precipitated #ounld pa: be But congressmen apprehend that it} will be impossible to keep the ques- | tion out of Congress on account o | Whoritiex fear PARIS, March The delegates were assured, said, that all public liberties would died du be through conferences hetween the | world conflict and were buried in the employers and their men, with final | military cemetery near here. appeal to the Railroad Labor Board.;placed his tribute over the tombs of the Germans, he sai obedience to military orders,” jat the graves of the French he said Reds Plot Uprising In Luxemburg With Europe Final Goal By Calle to The Star and C b Copyright, 1921, D1 DORF, Germany, March 1L—A communist crixis ix momentarily expected in the tiny grand duchy of Luxemburg, according to a consular agent who hax just arrived from there. The government is said to have handed an ultimatum to the union labor leaders that be- fore Saturday evening they must xe accepting Russian and n zold and expel from ranks a number of notori- ous bolshevint agitators. While Luxemburz has than 500,000 inhabitants. and a 30 xoldicrs, it pro- e-fifth of the pig in Europe, and’ therefore offers a fertile fiefd for labor troubles. Wednesd - ny+" morninz. after several fapory riots, 500 French soldiers-airrived at the request of thp"ziand ducal government 10 praintain order, the local au- & that their lit- tle polic would be unable te control the situation. The story goes that an upris- ing in Luxemburg wax to be the iznal for a general holsxhevist demonxtration throughout west- ern Europe. GEN. ALLEN ABIDES BY ALLIED RULING American Commander Will Make Customs Decisions His Orders to U. S. Army. By the Associated Press. FRENCH MILITARY | TERS Gen. Henry T. Allen, HEADQUA March 11— commander MAYENCE, e regardi e collection of customs along tl ne as on other problems connect, lenz today. ien. Allen, it was stated, is awa ing notification of the commission’s decisions. Workers Voice Stand. city, Duisburg a tch to the Echo de Pari to eva it yment of just reparations. scrupulously respected. H.I;..I.TARY _HEADQUAR- Neuss; ’;n_:h 11.—Gen. Gauc * Gecupation mch -and German soldiery the war of 1870 and ti As pressure which will be brought by, “They were our pioneers.” the railroad operatives. » The impending situation is regard- €d_everywhere as very serious. It be to prevent a general strike. best thought in Congress is that a gunboats nation-wide strike is improbable. The | Brin, “ railroads are united in their determi- st nation to wipe out some of the al-| leged inequalities of pay and practice. and a widespread strike with its dev- astation to all classes of industry and the misfortune it would bring to the operatives as well can be ob. viated, it is believed. Government ‘Ownership Move. the question by Congress it is ex- of ‘pected that there will be a renewal of agitation for govermment owner- ' view ship of the railroads through the Plumb plan. -0 This administration is steadfastly | opposed to anything of this kind. The | “a opposition will extend from the head of “the administration through the | se cabinet and into the Congress, where the overwhelming republ is deemed 1o foreciose favorable ac- tion. The republican platform opposed in the most downright manner any squint toward government ownership. 7 this subject it said “We are opposcd to government | gq ownership and operation or employe | pe operation of the railroad.” That open- ing paragraph in the platform dis- posed of the Plumb plan or any modi- | of it. The platform went on, : “In view of the conditions pre- vailing in this country. the experience of the last two years and the conclu- sions which may fairly be drawn, observation of the transportation or control | € su in tems of other countrs that adequate transport of both for the present and future b furnished more certainly, e cally and eff ownership and oper regulation and control dorse the transportation act of 1920 enacted by the republican Congr a most eonstructive achievem Seen ns Falr Notice. This de fair ne Congress upon pads and through private tion under proper n * % s Wein-lof not legislative th of ration is will insist their men e that the rail- the Congress erv- right to investigate = and the facts ax to r both sides are rms imposed by the act. ra d question. in the judg- f congresmen interested in the cl. promises 1o absorb attention with taxation and the tariff edence of both sub na| abiding by re ar o itself the as WESTERN ROADS IN LINE. Skilled Workers Face Reduction After Unskilled Pay Is Adjusted. ru th his the e mititary mater: the guns defending the Danube at Vien- eight miles northwest een miles The second would take ex- ception operation tering down Belg living up te ming of the world war. PREDICT WORKERS' CRISIS. German Exporters A French priest led the procession o the cemetery and was followed by | a band playing a funeral The main question, of course, will! Then followed French, Belgian and |bol$hevik commissars there. The | British soldiers and sailors from the |dispatch mentions street fighting be- Rhine, | tween the bolsheviki and anti-soviet ging up the rear was a strag- | units in Kief. anchored in the ing crowd of German civilians, Germans Cover. When the priest's prayer was fi ished, the band struck up “The Mar- i seillaise” and the Germans, who had | stood bareheaded during the invoca- | | tion, immediately put on their hats, | remaining covered while the French | national anthem was played and until | As a feature of the consideration of ' the band had completed its renditton God Save the King. After the ceremony n. Gaucher rrespondents. t is very quiet here.” he remarked, nd I am zoing to a theate Referring to telegrams from Due: idorf to Londen, in which lab unions protested again Gen. Gaucher's can majority | proclamation prohibiting strikes, the zeneral declared they were as a r it of an improper announcement. translation id that no strikes whateve, r wou permitted. EXCEPTS IN REPARATIONS. Austrian Republic’s Appeal in Mat- ter of Military Demobilization. the Austrian republic in accepti ente demand for the surrender al. The first would cov , Krems. cighty this cit rthwest. . and Tullin, sev to demands of military ird would relate the Vienna arsenal. prohibiting t schools, and t the demobilizati tions. The big gunx dems understgod to be of the same ty those us®d by the Germans in 1 Press Germany, March 10— of the confus Hies the the Associat DUISBER tement rising out that dvance the into mo er Ruhr, I ad American forces of occupation. | will follow the same polic; th the occupation, making the de- 11.+Representatives ot workers' unions having a member- | |ship of 60,000 have appeared before allied authorities at Duesseldorf and declared they did not consider occu- pation of that Ruhrort as a_hostile act, says a dis- They are | uoted as saying that occupation of the district wWas necessary against at- tempts by-German capital - troops _en-~ ©of the new Rlong the Rhine, yesterday | laced ~wpeaths on the graves of who march. | said there was a re- of the troops of occupation, and held a reception for In his proclama tion he said strikes of workmen oper- ating public necessities would not be | tolerated. but the German transiation VIENNA, March 10.—Three reserva- | tions have been made by the governman The zovernment is preparing an appeal to the league of nded by the allies | n forts at the begin- intend a fur- coming after the occupation of Hamborn, and | BOLSHEVIKS CUT P + South, But Untrustworthi- [ ness Balks Use. | IULTIMATUM IS SENT Still Spreading Over Country. By the Asso LONDO! general, 7 inforcements from ; manded — Anti-Red Movement | | od Press. . March 1 uchatschewski. received r suffered heavy losses, o the London Times from Rigi ) the Moscow commis; and demanded special instructions. Gen. Avroff, the dictator in | water power stations blown up. R- of at Kronstadt. The: supply of ammunition and mine their morale is excellent, 4.000 laborers are striking. It is:reported from' Shlisselburs. ng he ed Revolutionary authorities at | fortress of Konstadt have sent 1 it- !Pvlrogl‘ad demanding the of the city before March city is not given up. the surrende If the it is asserted in dn Abo. | Finland, dispatch to the Times. Wholesale arrests and execu { tions of workmen are said to have o {curred at Oranienbaum, Systerbal and Petrograd. Kronstadt last wireless dispatch statements that the fortress without food. says a telegram fro Stockholm. plenty of food and ammunition there. the message stated. bardment, nd ! de is been extremely well directed,’ 2 been isolated, th he he |G from the rest of the bolshevi forces.” Red Soldiers Mutiny. | the vicinity of Minsk, white Russi {is reported from Helsingfors. | Trustworthy news received | the interior of Russia, says a irmch the London Times, n- dis- to from are spreading throughout the coun- try. The food sitation is described as catastrophic, no food trains ha since February 11. made more serious through the con- | gestion of the transport system. On the main rallway from Perm to- Vo- logda 300 trains are being held up. 40,000 Approach Petrograd. 1t is announced, the dispatch con- tinues, that 40,000 communist trobps | are approaching Petrograd, but that their loyalty is doubted. A Chinese | regiment i3 reported to have been destroyed. Heavy fighting continues in Petro- grad. The Nikolavisk railway sta- tion has been bombed by airplanes from Kronstadt A Helsingfors messago reports the anti-soviet peasant leader has bady defeated the red | the Kursk region. MANCHURIA IS EXCITED. or of troops in 1d Insurgents Hold Railways as Wire Service Is Cut Off. Ry the Associated Press HARBIN, Manchuria, March 10.—Ex- citement here is inte The telegraph service to the west is interrupted. The Jast dispateh received here from Verkne- Udinsk., on the Transsiberian railway, st of Lake Baikal, was dated March It said the Chelyabinsk, I inburg and Petropaviovsk railways were in the he hands of the insurgents. The he ! held by the insurgents included on remkhove. the coal center. REBELS EXPLAIN PURPOSE. | i ng of ver Che- Trying to Prevent “Bloody Trot- sky" Destroying Will of People. RIGA, March 10.—A proclamation is- ued by the Kronstadt government to the world's workers constitutes a long document which is devoted mainly to pe - | Agitated by | howing that the new revolution is a !New Conditions Under Occupation. on the t of the laboring against attempts | movement t population of Ru: by “autocratic commuists, led by the | bloody fizld marshal, to: des stroy the free will of the laboring popu- Lation. JEWELER SHOT DEAD. to establish a new inland customs B thechosectu bolf Frdan. frontier, seize Esen and levy a heavy | CHICAGO. March 1L—Virtually all| Yy German steel. cont and otnes ohe | Bandits Then Escape With Whole of the farger western railroads today porting corporations today. and filled | Trays of Diamonds. i swung inte line in the policy | the streets with silent, staring crowds, started a few days ago by hich - packed the ' spaces ‘solidly | NEW YORK, March 11 severaly W castern yailroads of taking steps to baround the French and British head | Sy toduny - These gifis have been of a wide va bring ahout reductions in- the war. |quarters | bandits early today entered the Sth| The Sunday Star | riety, including a number of pieces time wage sc: of unskilled | 7As the day wore on the crowds|avenue Jewelry store of Abraham | s of handsome furniture. . ilson o P ™ | gradually dispersed, but the-German | Harri, tied his hands, shot him to |- ding adminis- has found it possible to ifStafl these reductions will he urged, rail- | exporters with whom the xlluul(on"""“;l’_" ;‘;‘d"flfll'ed with several uawl {:!‘m',,‘:":,‘ H:xrun"gfor reor- Bact) lgil‘(sp at they would not nkruptey and enable i |1y agitated. : r as- | t departments. to redyce traffic rates, | sertions that business .was being | | amen! Although a week old, the new Were whid to be “highes | ruined and declared that further occy: | ~BELIEF WORKER FLEES. | It is comprehensive and Wiison, housébold. 15 said: to have. al- public can bear.’ | pations, particularly Of Zmen. might| JACKSONVILLE, Fla. March 11— based on Information de- ready scitied down to the smeoth rou- Cime came statements | precipitate a erisis among the work- | £ U1 pergason of th Sy wuthoritative tine of a well regulated American p e Assocla 1 hich- %o business indusf Robert L. B g s city, who rived from e = e v haacle O ior | samld weather 188 or industey| . taken prisoner by the Tarks last sources. It is, in fact, a home. Mr, Wilson, with the cares and «7 pav for skilled workers probably | Frencli headquarters, when it was October and who has been held with ovtd be sought after for un- [announced that the sceurity police| aijght other American relief workars 3 & mes had Beenactels | would he disbanded and replaced by |4y Hars, Armenia, has escaped from O i the Chicago ( t West- jtroons, showed no concern when hun- | by captory, according to advices re- ontinued on 1% 2, Columa 19 « o western | deeds of grepn uniformed policemen 4Coutinued on Page 2, Column 4.) . S Two armed 7| ce the Near Last Relief. BYREVOLUTIONISTS - ON'NORTH FRONT Trots}q} Orders Army From || TOPETROGRAD SOVIET | {City's Surrender by March 25 De- —The bolshevilk molensk and com- ! | says a |l'\p;l|(‘||; War Minister Trotsky ordered to | Tetrograd the entire bolshevist south- | army to the aid of Tuchatschewski, but | ary of that army ; replied that he could not trust his troops | Petro- | &rad, the dispatch adds, is reported to have ordered the. clectric light and | There are 40,000 sailors and soldiers have a plentiful and More than i mear Petrograd, that the sailors of the cets on Lakes Ladoga and Onega have the an ultimatum to the soviet authorities in ultimatum | declares, there will be a general bom- London K | Co night sent out alday by President Harding, Mr. Pot- denying bolshevik ey j commission, To the contrary, there is “Artillery fire from’ Kronstadt has e | wireless dispatch is quoted as saying. “The fortress of - Todleben and ali other soviet batteries on the Karelian peninsula have been completely de- four 12-inch have been si- lenced by shelis from the battleship Petropaviovsk, Brasnoye Gorka has railroad to' it has been destroyed and a thaw has placed the surrounding marehes in such con- dition that the fortress has been cut A great anti-bojshevik movement in in a Reuter's dispatch Soviet troops are to _have mutinied and murdered Another from Reval, shows that anti-soviet revolts ing reached the country from Siberia The situation is Antonioff places | ved at the Florida headquarters of | | MOTHER SLAYS CHILDREN THEN COMMITS SUICIDE ESCH AND POTTER | NAMEDFORI.C: Wife of Prominent Rancher in Kills Thiee ™ a ree; Qme Fatally. Wgun s Three; Qs y . Wyoming and | revolted and organized a revolutionary LOVEW., Wye harch '11.—Mrs | cisions of the Rhineland commission | FovoL's ' . f 5o, 3 committee. Jam ¥ il K "0 ent his orders to his army, according to | : iPresident Sends Long List 0f jsames Wittas,” wafé of a prominen | DY RSTeSnIe Boxesull | {rancher in (he Big Horn basin, last information received here from Cob- | ! cher § . i Nominations—Senate Confirms Some. night shot and killed three of her children, wounded three others, one fa< B R : of the wounded children di Nominations of former Representa- R T il e e tive John J. Esch of Wisconsin and ) states. : |Mark W. Potter of New York to be Watters' husband wa ting hbor when the tragedy occur- red. The children, whose ages ranged from five to-twelve years, were in bed at the time When the husband retuzned home shortly before midnight he found all dogrs to the house locked and all window shades drawn. Mrs. Watters fired nine bullets, according lo offi- cers. members of the Interstate Commerce mmission were included in a long to the Senate to- {list of names sent {ter having been nominated for the but never confirmed by Ithe Senate. .| Thomas O. Marvin of Massachusetts | !was named as a member of the tariff | {commission and William S. Culbert- | “INROLE OF CITIZEN ceed himself. The latter was con- firmed by the Senate today. | Meag, nominal Y {the Navi and Capt. Charles B. M- i Vay, jrg.was named as chief of th e | bureau ‘of ordnance of the Navy, with |the rank of rear afimiral. { Nommation of F. M. Dearing. i Fred Morris Dearing of Missouri'} a private citizen of the United States cé ending his cight-year residence tary of 5 confirmed by the Senate today: Wil- | his duties almost as arduous as when iliam H. Joyce of Los Angeles wasihe presided over the destinies of a rnnon!-_lnuledl‘:m uBrm-mdber SHate ffil; {hundred million Americans. L i o When the former President turned Ahomas R¥lonSwas amed oate et e e et urned | F the gRapialos of tis Aomy, With | eiguretion day i fach tasks as the rank of colonel. el i 5 j s Col. E. Lester dones of Virginia was | M. Wilsan he found waiting to be | inominated to succeed himself as di-jj itcrg and telegrams received from | rector. of the coast and geodetic sur-CitF SHC (GEBIETS rebrved from - vey.fanaghisgnomination SWass cotelworid. himsclf to this | firmed by the Senate today. and Col-{\ork with much of his old-time vigor Gustav Lukosh was selected as al,,q" i3 devoting practically every member of the Mississippl river com- | His afternoons are de- | |voted to recreation. e 1eorning to it. AR f Pittsburgh was Walter Lyon o P urgh was ! wppe former chief executive's health | nominated to be United States diStrict | is continuing to improve. Concern han attorney for the western distct of {peen felt that the trying demands Fennsylvania, and Clarence C. Chase of imade upon his strength a week ago New Mexico was nominated as col-|foday, when he made his first public | lector of customs for district No. 24. 1. Uncance after his long Three brigadier generals in the Ma- | would prove (0o severe and rine Corps were renominated 10 their hale his progress to recovery. But he present rank. They were Gens. Smed-|has come out of that experience with ley D. Butler, Logan Feland and Har- |colors flying—so much so that regu- ry Lee. lar visits from his physician, Dr. | ! Grayson, are understood to have been {discontinued. . ki Mr. Wilson occupies a sunny room | Gobaa RObEt Wooll (O"V'..':“,“’;ZZ,';,.;',‘,‘;,;{ facing the south in the new home he D 5 W member of | purchased recently at 2310 § sireet o to ot |He is an carly ciser and usuaily is at | illness, | might Records of Appointees. Mr. Esch. the new member of the Every U. S. Worker -two vears, and : A 5 state and foreign commerce commit. | i% his intention to personally answer et fere. He was co-author with|€very communication he has received. Senator Cummings of the transporta- | 2nd they run literally into the thou- | Bt orct, passed 4 year ago’ ilis!sands, with every mail adding to the month. e “..T:e“",f‘lfiz?::jdfime"“ are . Dearing, who will be a ta S Be | o Eiunhon, Dekan mastant | “ Fractically every afternoon Mr. and | matic career as second secretary of | Mrs. Wilson go for a drive. Plenty the legation at Havana, and since|Of outdoor recreation has been pre- that time has held positions of re-|scribed for Mr. Wilson, while social sponsjbility_in European and Asiatic|demands upon his time and strength | capitals. The post to which he has!Will be curtailed as much possible | | been named has been vacant since the | Until he is completely restored in| appointment of William Phillips as | health. . minister to the Netherlands two vears | as not indicatéd when he wil| ago. 1 is literary work. interrupted Williard J. Keville of M achu- | when he was called into public life as setts waf nominated to be United | Governor of New Jersey, or disclosed States mhurshal for the district of plans for forming a law partner Massachusetts, and the Senate imme- | «hip with former Secretary of State | Qiately confirmed the nomination. Colby. It is presumed, however, he D. R. Crissinger of Marion, Ohio,!will dispose of the heavy corre. appointed vesterday = by President | spondence which has accumulated Harding to be contreller of the cur-|jyring the past few days before cn \rencys [was confirmed today by the | iering actively upon the permanent el Zovernor of e 2 ems N Yor United States district attorney ' sons in inding a place in their home for the western Pennsylvania district. for the former President's library nator Knox called at the White containing some eight thousand vol- | House today to ask that the nomi-,umes. Bvery nook where a book coula nation be sent to the Senate at once. | be placed has been utilized. After all available space had been exhausted, it still was necessary to pack and store a considerable part of the fi-{ brary. | 3 Their home has been a veritable flower house since March 4. Flowers, have been sent them by friends in{ every part of the country, and, in, many instances, by anonymous ad-| mirers. Mr. Wilson's hold on the American people has been exemplified |in many ways since inauguration day, but probably no more forcibly than in gifts received from persons who did. Will be intensely inter- not give their names, but merely| ted in Wil P. nnedy’s wished him speedy return to health, article next Sunday in [that he might continue to champion the Editorial Section of i the causes for which he stood as Pres- i ident. | worries of the presidency lifted from him, has responded to the thrill of !was nomjnated to be assistant secre- jat the White House March 4, former ate, and his nomination was | President Woodrow Wilson is finding ling agencies as will | which at_present 1 Abolish Interior Department and Create Two. i I The bill the government departments, written 1 by Senator Medill McCormick, repub- {lican, of Iilinois after he had ob- i tained the views of many of his col- {lcagues in the Senate, will become | the# basis for the administration re- ! organization *bill. it was announced been submitted | Treasury Meilon. i This bill s it stands abolishes the i Interior Department and creates in s stead two new departments, one ! to be known as a department of pub- ilic works and the other as a depart- to Secretary of the functions not germane to the natjon- | al defense or the mnational finance, iand in general co-ordinates the ex- Completing today his first week as | isting agencies which now are scat- | DeC i terod throughout the whole govern- ment organization. i . Effect of the Measure. The net effect of the bill would be to add one more executive depart- ment to the government machinery. the department of public welfare. If the existing Department of Interior ; should give way to a department of | | public works, Mr. Fall, the new Sec- retary of the Interior. would, it is | expected. be made secretary of the { department of public works, an, it is asserted, would probably be made secretary of the department of public welfare should such a depart- ment be established. The McCormick bill seeks to bring jtogether in the department of public works all important engineering and i building sirvices of the government now scattered among various depart- ments and it authorizes the secretar: iof public works to make such changes | meeting Monday. in the organization df these exist- ncreasé their efficiency and lead to economy in ex- penditures. Army officers now de- tailed on engineering works would continue to hold their present a¥sign- ments for. three months, after the | measure goes into operation in order Department to give the secretary of public works sufficient time to make an appro- priate consolidation or rearrange- ment of those agencies without in- terrupting_important work. Campaizgn Promise Cited. The new administration is confront- ed with & campaign promise that a department of public welfare or so- cial welfare.would be established, and that this should be essentially a woman's department. Senator Mc- Cormick, through his bill, has pre- pared to assemble in this new depart- ment the various welfare agen the government, such as the wor 8 bureau in the Department of Labor, the pension bureau in the Department of the Interior, the public health serv fice and the bureau of war risk in surance in the Treasury Department, and the vocational training board, is an independent agency. When this bill was prepared. it is understood. the author did nof have in mind that a woman should be placed at the head of the depart- ment. Adds to Commerce Department. The McCormick measure, in addi- tion to creating the two new depart- ments. proposes an enlargement of the functions and activities of the Department of Commerce. Specifically it proposes to transfer the following bureau: offices and branches to Mr. Hoover's department: From the De- partment of Agriculture, the weather bureau; from the Department of the Interior, the patent office: from the Department of the Treasury, the co: guard service; from the Departm of War. the lake survey offic the Department of hydrographic office o servatory: from the Department of War, the inland and coastwise water- ways service. Secretary Hoover of the Depurtment of Commerce is thought to have in mind a larger transfer than is provid- ed in the bill now before Secretary Mellon. 1t is reported that lieves the public could served transferred Commerce. Abolition of Currency Office. If the McCormick bill should be ac- ent from the be better to the Department of |cepted by the administration the of- fico of the controller of the currency would be abolished, and the functions of that office_transferred to the Fed- eral Reserve Board. The Secretary of the Treasury would be the only ex- officio member of the Federal Reserve Board and -the membership of that board would be decreased from seven to six persons. An additional Secre- tary of State would be provided, who would have jurisdiction over insular affairs, and the alien property custo- being a private citizen again in a ! manner which, in the opinion of those who have seen him, is convincing that his - return to practically. normal health may be shortly expected. & Big News Story dian and the division of secret service would be placed under the, Depart- ment of Justice. The bureaus, offices and branches of (Continued on page 9, column 3) REORGAMIZING PLAY -~ OUTLINED INBILL {McCormick Measure Would: for the reorganization of ) today. after the senator's bill had ment of social welfare. It divests the | War and Treasury&departments of he be- | if the consular service were | Laddie Boy Thrills Over His New Stunt | As Paper Carrier # 1 Laddie oy, presidential pup. H first dog of the land and Irish- { finglish-American aristocrat of the first added another his President | When the President entered + wat down hix breakfast this ddie Bo door. bearing in hix mouth the ning papers, wagzing hix 1 for denr life, and restrain- with diffiealty all o dogzish impulses the diaing room a 0 th and xide- President, Laddie fully int *tepped who teok Hoy hax b nsk 1 roon th papers. up nevo the a parked his firs per forman, e’ the prondest pup in Ameriea ax a resalt. WILL REVIEW RULE TILTING BEER BAN New Attorney General to Act . Soon—Drys Plan War on Palmer Decision. icine under the Volstead act is [pected. Mr. Daugherty says h aware that the “whole country nd that he probably cnreful study. interested the opir Zulations to give effective, - Power Not Being Sought. garding the general subject ! prokibition enforcement, Mr. Daugh- Department of Justice erty says the is not se that it h. forcement work now under the Treas- ury Department. He added (had his own personal views on the subject. but declined to disclose them. i my Agpociated Press Antl-Saloon League Plan; BOSTON, March 11.—Three w overcoming what h { neous opinion | General A nd wine can be prescribed a cire, were outlined by Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel of the Ant aloon League of America, who w | this city today. “First,” he said. “we new Aftorner General opinion. the of former that beer 1o enforcement codes to do | other dry states have done, what dicinal purposes, “Finally, we w ssary to do so. n the meantime the brewers can- not make any real beer until the new | | regulations are made, and then only in very small quantities, as it can only be used in nine states under strict limitations.” {REORGANIZERS PLAN TO MEET ON MONDAY A wom- | Committee Hopes to Formally Or- ganize Then—Absent Mem- bers Notified. congressional committee of the govern- is to hold anothes T | on m nt recrganization 1t departments | Utah said today’ It is hoped that the committee will be able to formally organize then. Senator Smoot has notified absent members of the meet- ing. Senator ence with moot had a long confer- Secretary Hoover of the of Commerce last night in regard to reorganization matters. He said today that Mr. Hoover had <ome “splendid” ideas regarding re- ! arganiza This is the first member of the et with whom Senator i Smoot has taken up the question | reorganization. The Utah senator laid stress upon the necessity of consolidating all the purchasing agencies of the govern- ment, declaring that the government would save a tremendous amount of money under such an arrangement He said that as he understood it the joint committee would have authority cies of 1, ook into the matter of consolidat- | War and Navy departments, | ing the with assistant secretaries at the hea of #ach, and also’an assistant secre- tary in charge of aviation, in_ ac cordance with a plan that had been suggested. Senator Smoot said that the joint committee would make reports Congress from time to time. draft bills and probably bring about the re- | organization_in_piecemeal fashion. | Today’s News in Paragraphs Wilson extremely busy Ex-President x improved in health. i and greatly Gen. Allen abides by ailied customs rul- ings in Germany. Page 1 President sends many appointmbents for | U. S. officials to Senate. Page 1 ast | pudolph and Oyster considered assured | residence for District heads. Page 1 Senator McCormick’s bill for reorganiz- ing government departments basis for administration measure. ge 1 Bolsheviki suffer heavy losses near. Petrograd; revolution spreads. Page 1, Joseph A. Carey appointed secretary to | head of Navy. Page 2| | District gun toters falling one by one. Page 3 Mr. Wilson among contributors for | charity support. Page City Club to revive plans for new build- | ing. Pegn 4} Germans plot to get Silesia from Poland, | | says Paderewski. Page F Local gas rate hearing is put over to | Monday Page 13 | Reduced prices help paper supply for ! schools. Page 13 ecretary Fall soon will announce his s | S olicies for the Interior Department. Page 13 tangle now before U. 8. Supreme Court. Page 13 lliam Campbell, confessed negro slayer of Mrs. Gertrude Mann, pays death penalt Page 28 ! Col. Kutz, in address at meeting given in honor of ex-Rcpresentative Cald- well, defended the s for D. C. fire depasiment. age 28] | District boundary W | valid the prescription of beer as med- i rd with the opin- | {ion handed down by Mr. Palmer Jast|ton week are being drafted by offfcials | of the internal revenue bureau, bu no date has been set for it to becomne of inz additional powers, and | Mr. Harding. < not been suggested tohim | that hix department take over the en-| that he| medi- | his name as in| this point will ask the revise the i econd, we will endeavor to gp!!m,‘ o [ the remaining nine atates that have 1o | that he the| e and pro- | . I nibit the prescribing of beer for me- i1l _ask Congress toi change the law in this respect if it is |able ol | with NEW HEADS OFD.C. MAYBEF. OYSTER AND CUNO RUDOLPH |Assurance Given That Posts Will Be Filled Before To- morrow Night. {FENTON OUT OF RACE | AT HIS OWN REQUEST i}Ien Who Are Beligved to Have Been Decided Upen Were Also Named Previously by Taft. A\lthough definite announcement ha 1ot heen made, e was itive assuran | ®iven at the White Ho today that | he two existing vacancies on the llu rd of District mmissioners would { e filled before the special session of {the te ends tomorrow night. | The appointment of Cune H. Ru- ph to the be A s con dered cer- and it Qs anthoritatively inti- dames nt Capt F. uyster, member of ission, will b Early review by Attorney finally 1 upon by the Presiden Daugberty of the recent ruling of | for appointment as the other Commise {Attorney General Palmer making Sloner Request by Fenton, Consideration of Capt. Oyster for the board is known to haye followed the elimination of the name of John W. Fenton, jr, secretary to Senator Bikins of West Virginia, whe, it is under asked the President to_eliminate him from consideration. Thix action on the part of Mr. Fen it is explained, is believed to ave been due to the fact that he has jvoted in West Virginia within the | Bast three vears, and this would nee- | essarily make him ineligible under the lurn,..n ¢ mct of the District for such 1 While making thisx admission, Mr. | ! “n appointment. Fenton toduy said that he has not only voted in West Virginia, but that a delegate to the Chicago con- last summer which nominated Proud of Indorsesrent. Realizing the opposition, because of his voting in West Virginia, which | had presented itself at the White House during hte last few days, Mr. “nton s understood to have written a letter to the President, in which he xpressed himself as proud of the ve of!intercst being taken in his behalf by termed the erro-| his friends and the compliment paid Attorney : him H by the republican but said that further c f orgunization. nsideration of would be embarrassing be- the obstacle mentioned. Ikins, when asked regarding said he was mighty glad that he was not to lose a good sec- | retary. Capt. Oyster, who has been classed as a democrat, when asked regarding - sible appointment, said today h knew nothiag whatever about Capt. Oyster is probably ome of llhe best known men in Washil on, jhaving been prominent in civic a | business affairs for many- years. Presiden! Statement. That these- Commissioners will be named tomorrow is believed to be sure, inasmuch as President Harding ‘hfls within the last twelve hours glven ‘)nl\ te assurance that the District of | Columbia would have a full board of { Commissioners on the job Monday morning i This same combination of Cuno H. | Rudolph and James Oyster was | chosen by President Taft in 1913, on | the eve of his retirement. The nomi- ! nations were sent to the Senate, but | were, with many others. not eon- {firmed. These selections gJso restore ' {the former custom of a bi-partisan { board of District Commissioners. John W. Fenton said today that the {fact had been called to his attention i that opposition to his appointment { had becn voiced in some quarters on { the ground that he had voted in West | Virginia, but he calfed attention on he other hand to the fact that he was born and brought up in the District of Columbin, obtained his education {here. and. except for a comparatively {short interval, Lad lived all his life !in the District. |LAW ON D. C. COMMISSIONERS |Question of Residence .| cause enator. Always Most Important Issue. | The organic act providing “a per- {manent form of guvernment for the | District of Columbia,” approved June {11, 1878, makes the following defin | tion of eligibility for appointment to { the office of civilian District Commis- sioner: “The two persons appointed from vil life shail, at the time of their i appointment, ‘be citizens of the United States and shall have been ictual residents of the District of Columbia for three years next be- | fore their appointment, ana have during that period claimed resi- dence nowhere els | This provision has been invoked on ::-'P\'«'rul occasions in the past to bar from the office of District Commis- sioner persons who have been other- wise well qualified for that position. ~ For instance, some years ago former | Representative 4. 9. Hemphifl ot | South Carolina, upon his retirement {from Congress.’ tgok up his residence jin the District anfl practiced law here, | He had been chairman of the House | District committee, was a strong advo-. !cate of the development of the Na- ]nmm! Capital apd took a keen inter- est in the local welfare. His name was proposed and was 1| seriously considered for appointment | ax Commissioner. That a would have been g altogether accept- the score of Mr. Hemphill's qualifications. But the fact was noted that he had retained his legal voting in South Carolina and had cast his vote in that state within the period prescribed by the law. In con- sequence his nomination was not sent to the Senate. Newman Case Reecalled. Oliver P. Newman was selected by President Wilson as a District Com-. missioner, and his nomination was | challenged on the ground of a failu {to comply with the residence qualific cation of the organic act. A citizer of the District, after Mr. Newman nos been confirmed against protests filed the Senate, entered suit for ouster on the ground that Mr. New- man had claimed residence elsewhere . within threc years prior to his ap= | pointment. The jury in the trial court rendered a verdict of ineligibility. - - The case, however, was carried ta the Supreme Court of the unn= States, which ruled that the testing citizen was incompetent in the law to bring suit inasmuch as he was not a party having the “interest” in the office which the law reqmized as the basis of such a challenge. The. highest court did not pass upon.the facts in the case concerning which a jury had delivered itg verdict., -+ Dr. John Van Schaick, jr., was nomis, - nated, after a long local residence, {2 « - the same position of Distri (Mr“,?;“ (Continued on Page 7, Colutuw 3.) -4 el