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showers late tonight no change in temperature. WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness, followed by or tomorrow; Temperature for twenty-four hours toda: lowest, 4 ended at 2 p.m. at 2 p.m. toda: today. Full report on page 12. Highest, 68, 5, at 6 a.m. Closing New York Stocks, Page 25. I No. 28078. Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, DIiC Che Zb WASHINGTON SENNTECONFRIS 0., HEADS FTER CONMITEE ACTS Report Favoring Oyster and| Rudolph as Commission- ers Is Unanimous. — ] H | OPPONENTS HAVE CHANCE | y TO PRESENT OBJECTIONS | | | | Nominees Make Sworn Statements They Do Not Own Stock in Public Utilities. " #he mominations of Cuno Rudolph and Capt. James F. Oyster to be Dis- trict Commissioners were confirmed by the Senate today. ; This action was taken following .u favorable report upon both the nomi- nees by the Senate District committee. The committee acted unanimously in recommending their gonfirmation after a hearing at which both op- ponents and supporters of the _nnm[- nees were given an opportunity to testify. ‘When the mominations were Te- t the Senate they wel ap- ;?;l\:’d practically without debate and without a roll call. s During the hearing preliminary to the committee's report. Edward F. Colladay, republican national com- mitteeman for the District, presented sworn statements from both Mr. Ru- 'dolph and Capt. Oyster stating that neither owned stock in any public utilities. W. B. Westlake for Delay. W. B. Westlake, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, was the first witness appearing in op- position to the immediate confirmation of Capt. Oyster and Mr. Rudolph. At the outset he said that he appeared as & private citizen and not as president of ‘the federation. He said, however, that several citizens had asked him to iappear. “This committee should get the sen- timent of the people of the District .and not the sentiment of a few influ- ential members of various civic or- . ganizations.” said Mr. Westlake. “I !am not opposing these men, but there are persons who oppose their confirma- | tie: ! hould be heard. The com- ee should take due time inidealing with this matter of so much impor- tance.” Mr. Westlake said that “the people” in the District were restless, that “red meetings" were being held, and that 100 hasty action would tend to increase this restlessness. Senator Pomerene of Ohio interrupt- en'llh nvm;.:llei'flon"cl lbo:l h:‘ed ptopaganda District, an w it affected !r' question of the con- firmation of Mr. Rudolph and Capt. Oyster. - Mr. Westlake insisted that there was a feeling among some peoplé in the District that they were not giWen due consideration, and that it was making for restlessness. He added that from 800 to 1,000 persons on the vern- ment pay roll in the District are spreading red propaganda, cause they helieve the people here. who have no vote, are not getting a square deal. “If these employes of the govern- ment are spreading red propaganda, they should have their official heads | chopped off.”” said Semator Fomerene. ! “1 agree with that,” said Mr. West-| lake. 1 Relations With Rallways. . i Mr. Westlake said that it had been| rumored quietly that the nominees for | District Commissioners have financial | relations with the street railways, and he urged that the matter be looked into. Any one who had relations with | the street railway, he sad, should not | be permitted to serve as a member of the Publi¢ Utilities Commiesion. ¢+ Senator Ball of Delaware said that ‘any one who was financially interested in the street railways, under the law, ,would not be eligible to serve as a blio utility commissioner. “Do you know if these nominees are financially interested in the street ‘railways?’ Senator Pomerene asked the witness. “*Personall . 1 do not.” replied Mr. Westlake, “but it is reported that they are, and 1 think the matter| should be looked into by the com- : mitte. The next witn: W. O ster. who said tha resident of the District for twenty | years. although he is a voter in Penn sylvania. His objection was devoted | Jargely to the confirmation of Mr.| Judoiph. He told the committee that | he had been much interested in the | ‘slum conditions in Washington. and 1the question of assessments of the poor people. On February 26, 1910. . 'he said, he wrote a letter to the board rof Commissioners, of which Mr. Ru- idolph ‘was a member, asking for a hearing. He said that he was put off from week to week, although he was promised a hearing, and.that finally, on May 17, he received a letter ask- ing_him to submit in writing what he had to say, and asserting that the Commissioners were very familiar With the question. “You come here.” said Senator Dil- lingham, “because you did not get a hearing. and because you did not like Mr. Rudolph. | :« was K that he considered vacillating man” and did not want to sce him added that he Commissioner. Statement Was Not Sent. | “Did you submit your statement in writing?” asked Senator Ne ! “No. T didn’'t want to waste my time writing paper which I knew % 'o:ld be yllrlvnn-hnl—d | “Are you related to Capt. Oyster?” | ed Senator New. P oxae “I have been asked that question ny times,” replied the witness. hen sny one asks me. I refer him Capt. Oyster, and when any one ks thg. Oyster. ho refers them to I mot care whether T am a rd cousin or a thirty-third cousin. supposs that all of the Oysters are ¥ Benater King wanted to know if the situation and the assessments been met by the Commissioners. ‘The witness said not entirely to his | Imtisfaction. Senator Dillingham said that he re- ealled making an investigation of the #lums as a_member of the District eommittee and that legisiation had been required to meet the situation “Did the Commissioners oppose | what you and 1 _were working for that connection?” asked Senator Dil- Lingham. Mr. Oyster said they did not A. D." Fairbairn urged the commit- e to delay action until it could make a further investigation of the eharge that the nominees for Com- |grimage missioner were interested in the strect | tomb of George Washington, at Mount various | Vernon, during the sixteenth annual railways. He said_that the @ssociations in the District had had no time to get together, and, while va. ¥ous representatives of civic organi- mations had given their indorsements %o Capt. Oyster and Mr. Rudolph, he d1d_mot think these men knew ' the weal sentiment of the ordinary citizen s well as he did. Statement Is Read. b JHe read to the committee a state- | “sseatinued on Page 2, Column 4.) | Clara Barton’s Home In Massachusetts To Be a Memorial NORTH OXFORD, Mass.. March 14—The North Oxford home- Mtead of Clara Barton was transferred today by Carl O. Carlxon to the Woman’s Nation- al Missionary Socfety of the Universalist Church, which ix to restore the place and make it a memoriul home to be used as a renort for visitors. All_avallable relics of Miss Barton’s Red Croas work are to be gathered from all parts of the world and made a part of the memorl PRESIDENT FILLS THREE MORE POSTS Names Wainright to War, Meyer to Finance Body and Wadsworth to Treasury. President Harding today announced the appointment of Col. J. Mayhew Wainright of New York to be assist- ant secretary of war, and of Eugene Meyer of New York to be a director of the War Finance Corporation, and El- iot Wadsworth of Massachusetts as assistant secretary of the Treasury. These appointments were immediately confirmed by the Senate. The announcement of Col. Wainright's selection was made immediately fol- lowing a conference between Secretary | i i i | EUGENE MEYER. of War Weeks, Col. Wainright and the President. Secretary Weeks and Col. Wainright afterward spent an hour or 50 together in the former's office in the War Department. during which time they discussed the more important mat- ters of the department, especially as they will come under the ncw assistant secretary. Walnright Has Fine Record. Col. Wainright is known to be a man of wide military experience and had the backing of Senators Wadsworth and Calder of New. York and is person- ally known to the mew War Secretary. He was a colonel and inspector on the staff of Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan dur- ing the world war, and served with much credit and distinction, according to those who urged his appointment. Eugene Meyer, jr., was managing director of the War Finance Corpora- tion under President Wilson. He is nominated for a term of four years. Mr. Meyer. who is a banker. served during the war on numerous govern- ment commissions, including the war savings committee, Council of Nation- al Defense and the War Finance Cor- poration. He first became a director of the corporation in April, 1918, and was a managing director in March 1919, until the corporation was dis- solved a year ago. Harvey's Selection Assured. There was no jndication at the White House this afternoon that the i | | i i H JAPANNOT IN YAP AGTION, BUT WILSON |Records Are Declared to Make No | WAS, TOKID STATES Oriental Leaders Deny They Were Responsible for Su- preme Council Act. ASSERT THAT AMERICA’S QUARREL S WITH LEAGUE | Reference to Reservation When Mandate Was Taken Up. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1821. TOKIO, Japan, March 14.—The Jap- anese governent in connection With the Yap controversy disclaims re- sponsibility for the aption of the supreme council in placing the former German islands in the Pacific under Japanese and British mandatories. This was the assertion made today by a representative of the foreign of- fice here. It was also stated that on the assumption that Japan was not directly a party to that action, Amer- ica's controver: was now with the leaguc of nations and not with Japan. For this reason the government con- siders that the criticism made by | some Americans that Japan is oppos- | ing the wishes of the United States is_unfair. “We have the secretary's report of the sessfon of the supreme council on May 7, 1919.," said the foreign office representative to the writer. *Those present were President Wilson, Pre- mier Clemenceau, Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando. Japan had no representative in the supreme council and consequently had no voice in the decision awarding the German islands in the Pacific north of the equator to Japan. The copy of the document in our possession seems to show that President Wilson agreed to the decision. It does not show that he entered any exception as to Yap.” Rests on Official Record. ‘When the correspondent suggested the possibility that an objection had been made but that the secretary had| failed to record it, the official re- plied: “Japan, not being represented in the council, is unable to zo beyond the official record of what happened.” The present controversy recalls the practice followed by the august bodies deliberating upon the peace terms. It was considered ludicrous at the time, the serious consequences not then being foreseen. Stenographers were excluded from the sessions of the su- preme war councll discussing _the armistice terms. Some of tHe other bodies which later negotiated ‘the treaty, in deference to medieval Egro- pean prejudices, permitted longhand notes to be taken at the sessions by certain trusted persons deemeéd worthy of hearing the great secrets. These secretaries recorded such por- tions of the proceedings as they in- dividually considered important, their longhand notes after careful revision becoming the official record. In view of the present controversy |- it is possibly pertinent to ascertain whether the reservation as to Yap. which President Wilson claims to have made, was omitted from the offi- cial roword because the secretary either had the writers' cramp at that particular moment or personally con- sidered the matter unimportant. Rights of Missl ries. Another significant comment on the mandate situation, in view of the previous work of American mission- aries in the Caroline, Marshall and Gilbert groups, was made by the for- eign office representative, who sais “"According to the mandate, the mis- sionaries of any of the allied powers located on these islands must be per- mitted to continue as formerly.” The status of the missionaries under the Japanese mandatory has already been changed. Numerous schools have been closed under the naval pol- icy government the islands, and even- tually all missionary secular teaching will be prohibited. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Assoclated Press The Amsociated Press is exclusively eatitied to the use for republicatioa of all news dispatches eredited to 1t or Dot etherwise credited ia this Paper and also the local Rews publishod herein. ening Star. Al rights @ispatches of publicatioa of special ‘ Dberein are alse reserved. Net Circulation, 94,480 Net Circulation, 95,89 D. MONDAY, MARCH 14, TWO CENTS. A HEARTY W SIX IRISHMEN HANG; 20,000 ABOUT JAIL Prayers Fail to Save Con- victed Prisoners—Hundreds Burn Candles Along Roads. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, March 14—Six prisoners convicted of complicity with the kill- ing of British intelligence officers and {members of the crown forces in Ire- land were executed in Mount Joy prison, this city. this morning. The men were hanged in pairs at inter- vals of an hour. Twenty thousand people gathered outside the prison during the hours that the executions were going on. and all wark in the city stopped until 11 o'clock. Even the post office was closed and telegraph service was sus- pended. "Ehe scene in front of the prison was impressive. The crowd gan as- sembling at dawn, and by 6 o'clock the prison yard was packed. An hour Jater the crowd had filled the road- way leading to the prison and all the abutting strets. An altar had been improvised near the prison doors. and on the walls and trees in the prison yard sacred images and pictures had been placed. Hundreds Kneel in Roadway. Everywhere candles were burned, scores of persons in the heart of the | dense _ throng holding them aloft throughout the long vigil. Here and there priests or women led in prayers or hymns, in which every one joined earnestly. Hundreds kneeling in roadway were forced to rise when an armored car forced its way through the crowd. From 5 o'clock this morn- ing it had moved back and forth in front of the prison. On the roof of the jail. overlooking the entrance, a cast-iron sentry box had been erected overnight, from~ which a soldier kept careful watch on the crowd. Two of the men executed, Patrick Moran and Thomas Whelan, were charged with complicity in the killing of intelligence officers in Dublin on November 21 last. Vhelan’s two brothers are in the United States, one of them in the The other four men to die, Frank Flood, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Bryan and Patrick Doyle, were accused of participating in an ambush near here in January. in which American Army. SCOME the | nam the New the he had been a YOrk Senate of & eorge Harv would be e of « Sol. itor, . James. sent or appointment to the Court But those in a position | to know say that Col. Harvey's selec- 10 fBLAST FELT FIFTY MILES. }Explusion Wrecks Magazine at | ELIOT WADSWORTH. tion is assured and that the Presi- dent has been advised that a recent poll of the foreign relations commit- teo of the Senate indicated that he would meet with no difficulty in being confirmed when the time arrives. The appointment of R. E. Creager of Texas us ambassador to Mexico is Alabama Coal Mines. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March 14.— Birmingham and the country for fifty miles around were shaken at 6:30 o'clock this morning by an explosion in the magazine of the Dolomite mines, coal property of the Wood- ward Iron Company, fourteen miles from this city. No one was injured, according to early reports, The mag- azine was a_complete wreck. County authorities announced after a preliminary investigation that the | explosion was evidently the work of incendiaries. Today’s News in Paragraphs| Senate confirms Rudolph and Oyster as | Commissioners, Page 1! President Harding fills three more im- ' portant government positions. Page 1 Kutz again delays gas rate hearing. The British 1 esti DL e British naval estimates sh - duction of about two million pounds from last year. Page 1 Protests pour into White H choice of Harvey for Londo:’lu" :v = age 1 Doctors expose selves to infection to study course of diseases. Page 1 Ex-U. S. Senator Burton escorted out of Kansas town and associates tarred, Heads of fa il 2 cads of four railways were to testify by the Railway L.?J?'i'afi'.’fifi ooked upon with equal certainty, al- in response to the request of the unions. Page 2 | {one member of the attacking party was killed. Not since the executions following the 1916 uprising, with the possible excep- tion of the hanging of Keven Barry in November last for an attack on a mil tary escort, has Ireland been moré pro- foundly stirred. Although 6 o'clock had been named for the execution of the firat pair, it was not until 8:20 that the crowd knew the fate of the prisoners. At that time the following notice was posted outside the Jail gatcs: “The sentence of the law passed on Thomas Whalen and Patrick Moran, found guilty of murder, and on Thomas Bryan, Patrick Doyle, Frank Flood and Bernard Ryan, found guilty of high treason in levying war, has been carried into execution.” No hint reached the watching multi- tude of the grim proceedings going on in a distant wing of the big prison, but hourly, beginning at 6 o'clock, the rosary was recited. But for a number of rever- ent voices and the occasional sob of a woman. profound silence was main- tained. Attend Baby's Funeral. Shortly after posting of the notice that the executions had been carried out the vast gathering dispersed silent- Iy, many later attending the funeral of Patrick Doyle's twin baby. Mrs. Doyle, with the other twin in her arm, visited her husband yesterday to say good-by Mrs. Bryan, who was taken suddenly ill before her husband's sentence was confirmed, was not told until yesterday that he was to be executed today. She, ‘was conveyed to the prison Sunday aft- ernoon for a farewell visit. Every church was crowded at masses cele- brated after the execution for the re- pose of the souls of the six men. ‘The atmosphere of the city is rife with anxiety and expectation of devel- opments to follow the hangings. Except for a few lorry loads of military, on the alert with rifles at the ‘“ready.”. there was a conspicuous absence of crown forces on the streets today and not an hough announcement to this effect A v is not expected for several weeks, | BOSUNS In banks. stores and hotels as- probably mot until after the coming | . SRS mageiis ‘xtra session ix well under way | Young woman's mutilated .body found elson O'Shaughnessy, former floating in river. Page 4 charge d'affaire American em- | Russian_children are provided for in bassy at Mexi o) another one | great garden system. Page 13 who is known to be slated for an im- | Former kaiser in book tells of his ef- | portant diplomatic post fort to form league. Page 18 Accepts Masonic Invitatios | Auimal ship from Germany to resemble President Harding today accepted] Noah's ark. Page 13 an invitation to take part in the pil- | Nation-wide back-to-travel 2 mo of mas! Masons to the| is reported. l:':;n.ufi Queen Marie of Rumania to visit U, e sit United convention of the National League of Masonic Clubs, May 10, 11 and 12 next. In response to the delegation which extended the invitation to him today to make a formal address on this oc. casion, he said he deeply appreiated Page 13 Bolsheviki recapture Russian fortress, Page 16 Secretary of Labor Davis pushes sane to adjust wage crisis betwee; and employes. N Packe Page 16 the honor, but that he would rather | Norwegians attack unity of Scandina. just go along as one of the pllgrims, The invitation was handsomely en- graved on a plaque of gold, which ~ (Continued on Paze 2, Column 7.) vian kingdoms. More than 200,000 lives have been saved | normal surfaces of the air passages by American contributions for rélief of | afford a very unfavorable environ- famine suffcrers in China. Page 16 Paze 17 unarmed soldier was visible. | | | By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md, March 14.—In studying mouth and throat disease germs physicians of the bacterio- logical department of Johns Hopkins Hospital have personally submitted to repeated tests during the past year, according to a report compiled by Dr. A. 8. Bloomfleld. As a result the: tests, Dr. Bloomfleld con- cludes that disease germs are all the time coming and going. and that the ment for foreign organizms to colo- FOR GENUINE EARTH SHOCK RECORDED. Tremors Felt in Indiana and Illi- nois—Houses Rocked. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.,, March 14.—A was left in Terre nity at 6:15 o'clock damage was re- Haute and Vi this morning. ported here or from surrounding towns ] DANVILLE. Tll, March 14—What is believed to have been a heav earth shock occurred in this vicinity early today. Telephone calls from a radius of at least fifty miles reported | the same shock. Houses rocked on their foundations, but no serious damage was reported CHICAGO. March 14.—The seismo- graph at the University of Chicago istered “a slight blur” at 6:14 am. but officials said it was im- possible to whether this meant an_earthquake. The “blur’’ was re orded from all directions, it was said. HAMON ASSOCIATE TELLS OF SHOOTING Erret Dunlap First Witness at Trial Today—Widow Able to Attend. By the Associated Press. ARDMORE, Okla,, March 14.—Clara Hamon, on trial charged with the mur- der of Jake L. Hamon, shot the for- mer Oklahoma republican national committeeman while he was lying on the bed in his room Erret Dunlap to- day testified Hamon had told him two days after the shootinz. Dunlap was a former business associate of Hamon. “He told me he went over to his room late in the evening, threw off his coat and vest, and lay down on the bed for a rest,” Dunlap testified. Dunlap quoted Hamon as having said: “I had been there only a short time when 1 heard Clara come in. She laid her left hand on my head and 1 felt her right on my shoulder, when e shot me.” course, I have been looking for Dunlap quoted Hamon as hav- { ing said. The reply was objected to and_sustained. “He said he did not have a_chance to protect himself.” Dunlap testified. “He said he did not have a chance to protect himself: that she walked up to the fool of the bed and shot him,” Dunlap further quoted Hamon. Mr. Dunlap was asked if he had made any report to the county atlorney or sheriff and said he had not. Admits Prosecution Talk. He admitted he had had two or three conferences with. the prosecu- ion, but denied he had stated he had taken charge of the prosecution. Dunlap said _he was not present when Clara Hamon was furnished $5,000 with which to leave town. Mr. Dunlap said he had not asked the county attorney to dismiss the case, stating there was nothing to i He said he had asked that a statutory charge filed at the same time against Hamon and Clara, be dismissed. The defendant was in the courtroom early. She was dressed in the blue suit and sailor hat she wore on the opening day of her trial. Widow Again in Court. Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the widow, leaning on her son’s arm and in full mourning attire, came into the coure- room a moment before court opened. She took her accustomed seat directly opposite Clara Smith Hamon. Erret Dunlap. bus Hamon, the first witness called today, told of a visit to Hamon in a sanita- rium here two days after the shooting. Dunlap said Hamon told him he was lying on his bed resting when Clara came to his room, laid her left hand on his head and that he “felt her right on my shoulder when she shot me.” “Of course, T had been looking for this,” Dunlap quoted Hamon as hav- ing said. The reply was objected to andl the objection sustained. A laugh rippled over the court- room when Dunlap denied Hamon had presented him the home in which the Dunlap family lives. and Attor- ney General Freeling told the court he would insist on the room being cleared at the next demonstration. Doctors Exposed to Infections to Study Course of Diseases , nize and develop a real discased con- dition. Those who figured in the tests were at all times exposed to infectious diseases of all sorts. From the lengthy tables that have been com- piled it is clear that repeated swab- bing ‘of throats, palates and the pharyngeal wall must have been an- noying. The importance of the data depended upon the completeness and thus upon frequency of making tests. The work extended over many months. It took four hours to handle cach plate upon whichl the organisms had been “fished.” % DISTRICT | i iness associate of | COMMISSIONERS. NAMING OF HARVEY Complaints Pour Into White House and Congress—Not Askéd by Senate. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Protests against the appointment of Col. George Harvey as American am- | bassador to Great Britain have been ipouring into the White House, as iwell as to folks in Congress who are presumed to have influence with President Harding. These protests scem to be based in the slightest upon Col. Harvey, some distinguished American whose republicanism was based on service to the party other than mere criticism o be given the place. appreciation of the fact that the bril- perhaps than anything else to dis- {credit President “Wilson before the publicans - insist that there are other men {can tradition and foreign policy who ought to be considered. | Harvey has written taint of Wilsonism from the make-up, liant pen of Col. Harvey did more ioyrs of the world, the protesting re- more closely ‘identified with republi- Strangely enough, after all that Col. it is still remembered that he was the \for” George Harvey's | Wilson might have rema { president. are reverting to republicanism, cannot forgi writings, Mr. th Col. Harvey’s original atone for the same. Most Sensational Imcident. sensational administration thus far. BRINGING PROTESTS upon the idea that, without reflecting the Wilson administration might ‘While there is in the republican party much ; to remove any | original Wilson man and that except ined a college Insofar as the republicans sin—the creation of Wilson—much as he has done in the last few years to Broadly speaking, the opposition to Col. Harvey's appointment is the most incident of the Harding ‘Whether or not he is appointed, the true story of | 120 BOLSHEVIST DIVISIONS ADVANCE ON POLAND CKHOLM, March 14 e | Aftonbladet’s Riga correspondent says !today that from eighteen to twenty “ bolshevik division with artillery and i lan ation corps, advancing | gainst Poland in the distr of | | Smotensk, Vitebsk, € Enmxh of those places. ! Near Polotsk, northwest of Vitebsk, cavalry divisions with light artillery are Ivancing with the object of a wpid attack in the direction of Vilna, ha, Mohilev and | the correspondent adds. London dispatcn of March Riga advices as reportit from hi of Al oviet pe the Rus would b sivility of pe, Saster. PROSPECT WORRIES FOES OF LEACUE Report of Proposed Over- tures From France Disturbs Irreconcilables in Senate. The irreconc abies in the Senate in France, speaking for the other first- class powers in the league of nation i will shortly r authoritatively, so they say, that | H notify President Harding ! that the United States will be wel- | comed into the league of nations on | its own terms. This information, coupled with the additional informa- | tion that President Harding and Sec- | | retdry of State Hughes will give the | | French'proposal careful consideration, Is causing some unrest among those | senators “who supposed the lcague was dead and buried. i, The opponents of the Versailles |treaty and the league are already | genuinely concerned over the pro | pect of the administration being im | pressed with the invitation that is |to be extended. Some of the senators | | believe, so they say. that Ambas- sador Jusserand has already broached | the subject of the league in the con- | | versations he has had with Secre- tary Hughes in the last few days, { but if he has brought up the subject, even in an informal way. the State Department has made no mention of the fact. It is presumed that Rene | Viviani, ‘the former French premier, | | who will shortly sail for the United | { States, will be the messenger to carry | | whatever France, as the nation with | most at stake and as the spokesman | | for the allies, has to present to the! American government. It is regarded as interesting, whether significant or not, that within ten days after the new regime took hold here the question as to whether the league of nations is dead so far as the United States is con- cerned should be raised, and raised in such a way as to make the ir- reconcilable senators prick up their ears. Less Talk of New Associatio There is not as much talk about a new association of nations as there was—an association that would be a substitute for the league of nations. | Now that the responsibility for ac- tion rests with the republicans there is noted a freer disposition to take account of the obstacles in the way of a new association of nations. The { league covenant up with the Versailles treaty persons who have talked glibl |the United States being influential | enough to kill the league have over- looked this fact. The men who must now handle the | situation for the United States know that the league cannot be killed without tearing the treaty to pieces, and France, as the chief beneficiary under the treaty, does not want to see it disturbed. Well informed men _express the belief that France, as the spokesman for the leaguc, will re- mind the United States that many of the provisions of the treaty—pro- |Amount Recommended Is ! doing—in BRITISH REDUCE CAPITAL SHIPS FROM20T0 16 Naval Estimates Announced by the First Lord of Admiralty. UNUSUAL RISKS TAKEN, DECLARED BY LORD LEE £82- 479,000 Net, About Two Millions Less Than Last Year. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 14.—The British naval estimates for 1921-22 amount to £91.186,869 gross and £82,479,000 met. it was announced today by Lerd Lee of Farcham, first lord of admiralty. In a statement explaining the esti- mates Lord Lee said they were based the government's policy of main- taining a “one-power standard.” “It is the duty of the admiralty to carry out that policy as cconomically possible,” Lord Lee's statement continued, “giving full weight to the geographical, ternational and other considerations which have arisen since the war. This tney are ) no mechanical spirit nor with insistence upon numerical equal- ity—and recognizing to the full the necessity of reducing expenditure to the lowest limits compatible with na- tional security. The admiralty hav effected drastic economies and have agreed to assume risks which, in or- dinary circumstances they would re- gagd as difficult to reconcile with full mdintenance of the government’s de- clared policy Lord Lee pointed out that the econo- mies included a reduction in the num- ber of capital ships in full commission from twenty to sixteen, as compared with thirty-eight in 1914. *This is the smallest number that will enable the essential seagoing technical training of ofticers and men to be carried out prop- erly,” the statement asserted. Other ¢ Ees. Other changes announced by Lord Lee are the placing in reserve of one of the four destroyer flotillas of the | Atlantic fleet, reduction of the North American and South African squad- rons by one light cruiser each, com- plete temporary withdrawal of the South American squadron and the re- duction of the personnel of the fleet during 1921 to 121,700 men, as com- pared with 127,500 men in 1920. These changes, dictated almost en- tirely by the need of ecomomy, ac- cording to Lord Lee, “make it incum- bent on the admiraity to maintain a { reduced Navy in a state of the high- est possibly efficiency,” .1In pursuance of this policy eight battieships, armed with twelve-inch guns, now in re- serve, will be transferred to the dis- posal list. R Vi The number of capitdl ships on the effective list will thus be reduced to thirty. including the Australia. which belongs to the Australian common- 4 4 wealth, and those which belong to the Dominion of Canada. of which fcurteen will be in reserve. Of these older types are be- coming obsoles t and cannot | freckoned as efficient Aghting ships for more than a few vears, the state- ment said, and the sum of £2500,000 therefore has been included in the estimates for replacement shipa. “It cannot be too strongly empha ized that in making this long-de- ayed beginning with the replacement of obsolete ships.,” Lord Lee declared. “the government neither commits it- self to, nor contemplates any build- ing programs In answer to those of any other power. Indeed, it trusts it may be possible, as a result of' frank and friendly discussion with the principal naval powers, to avoid vthing approaching i building. cither now or in the future.’ thirty ships the visions that vitally concern France— o why he was selected will ever be alare being adminisiered by the league, et el source of curiosity. It is known that | For instance. France will be able to| ONDON. March 13 the leaders in the Senate lhavenn?(‘nm‘nl out that the league is adminis- (mates will show a reduction of som asked for the appointment. s | tering the Saar basin anzi illions . et esti- Known that some of them while ad | has Supervislon aver disarmansint i | Millions of el u"fi‘?' it mitting Col. Harvey's brillia Germany and what was Austria and |Mate for the last financial 3 ear A S e it e which was £S1,372.300, according . fit for the post Politics enters into| Obviously. nothing would please |the forccast of the political cor- | comewhat, too, for the writer has it | Germany more than to have e { respond of . imes on reliable authority that Col. Harvey ! treaty, of which it is unn|-l;¢m|:1r:. { e ma !:":ho:.»{ wilh |w]:m|?:f;‘uet'lrr;r’|“of is mot con dered h_] l;romd@nl Har effort to kil | possibly £19.000.000, and undérstands e nalble forthemomins This is pre- | {Lat, following upon the findings of the tion a hicago last June. v has hoped for | subcommittee of the committee of im- It will be recalled that many pub- and worked for since she signed the lished reports said that Col. Harvey helped nominate Warrcn Harding. There is good reason to believe that President Harding held a contrary view as to how he was nominated and that he still believes Col. Harvey was much more interested t " can- didacy of Will Hays than anybody else at Chicago. Not “Original Harding” Wing. Col. Harvey and William Boyce Thompson, the man who was chair- man of the ways and means committee of the Tepublican finance organiza- tion, are intimate friends. Mr. Thomp- son has been largely concerned with ways and means of making up the campaign deficit and he is a power in republican circles just now. But the point is that Col. Harvey comes from a wing of the republican party which has not always been considered the “original Harding” wing. Neverthe- less, this bit of friction has been to a t patcl Haryey ha been virtuall decided upon for the ambassadorship to Great Britain is taken as proof positive that Warren Harding has for- given such activity as Col. Harvey manifested against him at Chicago. There is another question involved in the Harvey appointment. It is the future of Harvey's Weekly, which has been 5o bitterly critical of the Wilson administration that unless it were to adopt a similar role toward the Harding administration it would have to proceed on an altogether new line of tactics—a defensive and apolo- getic role. Some of my British friends, who are curious to know the reasons for the appointment, say they have been told Mr. Harding is as eager to have Harvey's Weekly discontinued as others in the republican party are ed up, and the fact | | treaty under protest. | Problem of the Administration. The really difficult problem of the new administration is to do what it | would like to do about the treaty and the league without helping Germany to win the war—win it even at this late day. ‘The republican members of the for- eign relations committee were con- | fident until recently that (1) the Ver- | sailles treaty would never receive i further consideration from the Sen- ate, that the Knox resolution o June 1919, for a separate pea with Germany could be and would be |adopted at an extra s Congress to be held this spring and on of th: 1(3) that tI st_had been heard of the possibil of the United States becoming a member of the league of | nations. The entire program of the republi- | can members of the foreign relations | committee has been upsel by recent developments. The committee as au ! whole and the Senate 2 whole ! would not touch the Knox resolution | (¢ legation to Barton Hall, the first ‘;«'zm:nrep Drosent time. 'r{.‘» I'ripnds of | secretary, who will act as charge 1 s express the hope that | q'attaj Vi | Shortly ‘after the obening of (e Lhat|daMaires until the arrival of Mr. cial session the situation in Europe | C3PPS’ successor. may clear up So as to make it ex-| Universal regret over the retire- pedient for the Congress to put resolution through. Vest Early Decision Not Expected. As the time for the extra session approaches the impression that the ' | administration is not likely to reach |a decision with respect to the treaty- league situation for many months gains ground. The short and easy ! way out of the dilemma is the way {that has been opened since the day perial defense, the government has de- cided in principle that the capital ship must continue to be the main unit of an effective fleet. The correspondent refers to the es- timates as embodying a comparatively moderate building program. and says it would hardly be possible to spend more than £1,000,000 on each new bat- tleship laid down. He declares that expert opinion tends strongly to the view that delay in the construction of the new “post-Jutland ships” would not be justified, owing to the necessity of ordering the material in advance and utilizing the lessons of the war. CAPPS QUITS AT ATHENS. American Minister on Year's Leave From Princeton Ends Term. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, March 1 Ameri n minister to Greece, from his post yesterday, turning over dward Capps. retired ment of Mr. Capps is expressed in Athens, as he has been extremely popular and has shown an intimate grasp of Greek affairs, knowing the country, language and customs thor- oughly. In Greek royalist circles his resig- nation is interpreted as the fizst step toward recognition of King Constan- tine by the new United States admin- istration. Mr. Capps, who is professor of Greek at Princeton University, ha: anxious that it should be continued,|the Versailles treat These latter folks think Col. Harvey | the ought to be on the job (o answer demo- | hav cratic criticisms. Expected to Be Acceptable. | Senate—to rat g made pro reservations. Bat the powers that be within the | oper was laid before the treaty after safeguarding e N |party now in power. having said so | If these werc normal times the ! often that the treaty is dead, are not British government would decline to gisposed to let the thought of giving accept ol Harvey because of his|it further consideration enter their | anti-British writings. but every bit| minds. of information available here jndicates | that Great Britain will not make an!ment to work out and suggest t o issuc over the appointment, but will| the foreign relations committee a accept the distinguished author with- | way out of the dilemma. President out protest. Col. Harvey became very close to Harding and his cabinet will in due It will be for the executive depart- | Mr. Harding during the latter part of the summer at Marion. He is credited with the authorship of a large part of the famous speech wherein Mr. Harding turned his back on the league of nations. It was just prior to that speech that Elihu Root cabled from London urging Mr. Harding not to say that the present league “is ‘dead.” " That : cablegram, ConLmEtG U fuas -, Lolumn 2) time propose a way out. Secretary Hughes, it is well known, has already given the subject carefui consideration, and it may be that he will have a Solution to propose be- fore the extra session of the Con- been in this country on a year's leav of absence, and it is probable he will eturn to America within a month. —_— WALLACES ARE HONORED. Ambassador and Wife to Attend House Party in England. PARIS, March 14—Hugh C. Wal- lace, the American ambassador, and Mrs. Wallace and their niece, Miss Sally Beecher, will leave here tomor- row to attend a house party which is to be given by Lord and Lady Derby at Kowsley, in Lancashire, England. gress is very old. In the meantime the administration has its ear to the ground, eager to assess public senti- ment with respect to a proposed sep- arate peace and ith respect to a proposed new assoei: ~* lome. rincipal gues at the house Tty will be King George and Queen r. fitece will be absent from Paris threce days. and Mrs. Wallace and their Ed 2. T 7y TR, TR ¢