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3 Unsettled: | ecogler. Temperature _for §S: lowest, 64. Full report on page 14. twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, WEATHER. tomorrow fair and No. 846— No. 28,168. PEACE RESOLUTION WL BE PASSEDBY HOLSE TOMORRON Vote to Give Porter Proposal Precedence Over Knox’s Assures Its Success. REPUBLICANS ACCUSED OF SEEKING GERMAN VOTES Oppositior Says Measure Repu- diates Allies and Will Please Slackers and Traitors. The House will pass tomorrow after- noon the Porter peace resolution ter- minating “the state of war” between the United States and the central pow- ers, as a substitute for the Knox meas- ure repealing the declaration of war. This was assured last night after a flerce partisan fight. The final roll call is expected at 4:30 o'¢lock to- morrow afternoon, when more than a score of democrats have promised to vote with the republican majority. Passage of the resolution is cer- tain, any ¥ngering doubt in the minds of democratic leaders having been re- moved through adoption, 248 to 105, of a rule giving the Porter proposal right of way in place of the Knox resolution already passed by the Senate. Two republicans voted with the democrats opposing its consideration, while three Gemocrats stood with republicans in the fight to put it through. Democratic members, in beginning their attack yesterday on the meas- ure, first criticised what they char- acterized as the “throttling of the House” by forcing acceptance of a resolution which, they said, had been framed in secret by republican mem- bers of the foreign affairs committee, and would not permit of amendment. Then, turning sharply upon the reso- lution itself, the democrats declared it would meet the hearty approval “of every German, every slacker and every American traitor.” ‘Would Not Repudiate War. Chairman Porter of the foreign af- fairs committee, in charge of the measure, asserted the House was not ready to go as far as the Senats and repeal the war declaration, for that, he said, might be regarded as an ac- tual repudiatiomw et the war, I*Which thousands of American lives had been sacrificed. Statemsnts ef opponents of the res- olution that by officially declaring the state of war at an end America was abandoning the allies or its fight- ing associates were denied by Chair- man Porter as a “gross misstatement of faet”™ “All,nations that signed the treaty of Vermailles,™ Mr. Porter said, “did so with full knowledge that it was not effective, so far as the United States was concerned, until ratified by the Senate.” Mr. Porter insisted that since the allies had made peace in 1919, if there had been any abandonment, “it has been of ‘the United States by the allfes.™ Waiting for Germany. “It may not be out of place to call attention to the fact,” he said, “that when the peace resolution reached the House, the allies had invaded Germany for the enforcement of the adjustment of the reparations, and your committee decided it should forego action until Germany had conceded the demande of the allies, and had shown her good faith by payment of the earnest money in the form of the first installment of the indemnity. We have given the allies the traditional ‘square deal,’ and now intend to put our own house in order.” Representative Bourke Cockran, democrat, New York, declared he was ready to vote for peace, pbut not on the terms proposed by republican members of the foreign affairs com- mittee. Representative Cockran told the House that by delegating its great powers of legislation to a small committee it “could not get as much space in American news- papers as was given to a dance.” “The people,” he added, “have ceased to regard you seriously because you have tailed to exercise your rightful func- tions.” Entered as second-class matter Post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1921 UNION HEAD RETURNING AS SDVIET BARRED HIM FROM STUDYING RUSSIA By the Associated Press. RIGA, Letvia, June 11.—William H. Johnston, president of the In- ternational Association of Ma- Chinists. after 'waiting vainly a fortnight here for permission to enter soviet Russia fo: the pur- Pose of investigating the labor sit- uation and trade possibilities, left today for Berlin,.from which place he will return to the United States. The bolsheviki gave no reply to his repeated requests for permis- sion to enter Russia to learn how the International Association of Machinists could co-operate with” the soviet government in estab- lishiag trade relations with the TUnited States. _ BAVARIANS HURDER 10 FOMENT REVOLT Monarchists and Reaction- aries Resume Campaign to Block Government. IMPEDE ALLIED TERMS Against Disarming and Attempt Uprisings as Excuse for Mili- tary Organizations. By Wireless to The Star and New York Tribune Copyright, 1921. BERLIN, June 11.—The Bavarian monarchists and reactionaries have resumed their campaign of assassina- tion and murder in an effort to block the government in its determination to disarm the country in compliance with the allied terms. Thereby they hope to provoke an uprising among the common people, which, in turn, would offer an excuse for the con- tinuation of the military organiza- tions built up in that monarchist stronghold. The murder yesterday of Herr Garois, chairman of the Bavarian in- dependent socialists, and an indefatig- able leader in the movement to dis- arm and disband the Einwohnerwehr and Oregegch, is looked upon as a crime second only to the assassina- tion of Kurt Eisner two years ago. Samuel Gompers of the federation, in CARPENTERS BOLT A.F.L.CONVENTION ON PENALTY 15SUE Building Trades Vote Means Suspension of Union With 340,000 Members. GOMPERS DEPLORES ROW, GIVING HOPE TO ENEMIES Rupture Follows Refusal of With- drawing Body to Comply With Jurisdictional Award. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, Colo., June 11.—Delegates of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, representing more than 325,000 workers, today with- drew from the convention of the Build- ing Trades department of the American Federation of Labor, when a resolution ‘was adopted suspending any inter- national union that failed to comply with the awards of the national board of jurisdictional awards. “Nothing sadder has come to my at- tention in a considerable time than what I have witnessed today,” said President an address to the convention, followi: the withdrawal of the carpenters. “I ask you to think for youmlv!‘ for. a moment now,” he added, “what will be the course pursued by the enemies of labor? What will there be flung to the world in America as to what has transpired in this con- vention? It will make the fight all the more difficult; it will make this struggle all the harder; it will not bring courage or encouragement to the great masses of the organized and it will not bring hope or en- couragement to the unorganized of a possible united labor movement. Gompers “Profoundly Serry.” “I am deeply and profoundly sorry and I would not be true to you, I ‘would not be true to the labor move- ment of our country and I would not’ be true to myself did I not express myself as I have done.” The labor leader said that the ar- guments on both sides were convine- ing, lucid and intelligent, but, he The reactionaries, as usual, offered |Said. the “human element” had been the assassin plenty of opportunity to | foFgotten. He said that he had re- escape. garded the national board of juris- : dictional swards “with tHé- greatést Uprisiag Believed Atm. +| satistaction and tully realized its me- The socialists of all shades of opin-| cessity. He sald, however, that it ion agree that the murder was de-|had questions that could not be set- signed to provoke an uprising. The | tled for all time, no matter what was three-day general strike, proclaimed | devised. : by all three Bavarian socialist par-| President Donlin of the department ties, is proceeding peacefully with|said that the executive cogncil of the every effort being made to prevent|department Would attempt to get a bloodshed. A great protest’ meeting | meeting with the carpenters’ execu- was held in Munich by the socialists| tive body and learn whether it in- this morning. The Freiheit, com-|tended to live up to the beard's de- menting on the incidents, says cision. “If they don't, they will be “The three days of general strike|suspended,” he said. which the Munich workers have de- Unfon Suspended Before. clared is their reply to the unheard of provocation which the Bavarian proletariat: has been submitting to for the past twelve months. Bavaria still is the center of Germany’'s em- The carpenters’ union, which is the largest union in the building trades department and the second largest in the federation, has twice before with- drawn or been suspended from the barrassments. The Berlin govern- ment must realize that the fate of|d¢Partment because of jurisdictional the republic depends on the wiping |COntroversies. out of the von Kap regime in Mu- nich.” The newspaper charges that the members of the Orgesch rave been The official roll call showed that if the carpenters’ delegates, who de- clined to vote, had cast a ballot the resolution for the suspension of transporting their arms to Tyrol and [UPions defying the board would bave storing them there in readiness for the desired moment. It warns the government that the Bavarians are playing a treacherous game, which may provoke a new industrial revolt on a national scale. been lost by six votes. “We consider ourselves suspended and have no intention of appealing from the convention’s action,” said President Hutcheson of the carpen- ters this afternoon. “We will func- tion, progress and prosper as. we al- ways have done without the aid of ROTARIANS IN GLASGOW. |the building trades department. Scorns Federation Ald. “If they want to suspend us from Called a Party Issue. Attacking republican members of the foreign affairs committee framing the peace resolution secretly, Representative Flood, democrat, Virginia, opposed its consideration “under gag rule.” He de- clared it was the first time in the tory of Congress that an important qu tion bearing on Ameriea’s foreign rela- tions had been made a party issue. “The spirit of usurpation exercised by the republican steering committee,” said Mr. Flood, “has spread to other commit- tees until the House has become a mere @oot court. About the only right left 10 members is the privilege of debate.” Touching on the majority commit- tee report that repeal of the war resolution might be construed as a disavowal of the war, Mr. Flood, who introduced the war resolution, de- clared: Apolegy to Germamy. “If the republicans had expressed their true feelings they would have made the statement much stronger. ‘They would have sald that that part of the Knox resolution did' disavow and repudiate the war and that it was an apology to Germany for our par- ticipation therein.” Representative Fess, republican, Ohio, 2 member of the rules commit- tee, defended its action in giving the Ppeace resolution privileged status, de- 3850 Americans Welcomed on Way the American Federation of. Labor to Edinburgh Convention. they can do that, too. We can get GLASGOW, June 11.—Three hundred| along without that afliation amd and fifty delegates from American Ro-|save money. We don’t need their tary clubs arrived here today aboard the | help.” steamer Cameronia, from New York, to| President Hutcheson declared that participate in the international conven- |there could be no compromise settle- tion of Rotarians in Edinburgh, begin-|ment of the controversy. P ning June 13. They were welcomed by| Labor leaders said that the -laws the Glasgow Rotary Club. of the federation provided that mem- ber unions must have affiliation in a 14 KILLED IN WRECK. |carpenters winl face suspenston from the federation also. Crash in Spain. The resolution, which was adopted MADRID, June 11.—Fourteen per-|after s stormy debate, was. directed and many injured when an express | its refusal to comply with the award train from Madrid collided with a|rendered against it by the board in trades department. In this event the Many Also Injured When Trains Dispute Over Jurisdiction. wsons are known to have been killed|at the carpenters’ union, because of train from Toledo near Villaverde to- ‘day. Minister of ‘Public Works de la Cierva has left for the scene with a hospital train, - " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1,) NEW 'MYSTERIOUS AIRPLANE WING AIDS SPEED, CAPACITY AND LANDING’ its jurisdictional dispute with the sheet metal workers’ unfon. Previous to the adoption of the resolution the convention indorsed the work.of the NEW YORK, June 1l1—Inven- tion of a new airplane wing which it is claimed will increase the carry- ing capacity of a machine five times, add to its speed and permit landing in a compardtively small area was made known today by G. M. Willlams, general manager of the Dayton Wright Company. “The wing will increase the speed of an ordinary type of bomb- ing or commercial airplane from 125 to 150 miles an hour, and its load of explosives or merchandise from 430 to 2,500 pounds, in ad- dition to fuel for a thousand-mile flight. “It enables the commercial pfiot to load his machine to the maximum routes where ordinary landing fields are available, or on_ mnew routes over emergency and small fields he can so reduce his landing speed as to alight in a comparatively small area. This. makes possible the establishment of terminal fa. cllities only a’ few hundred feet square in the heart of large cities.” Mr. Willlams did not describe ~ construction of the mystery wing, as it will be known. "This has been surrounded with great secracy, as- hoth Army and Navy air services have been investigating the inven- tion for national defense. Repre: sentatives of foreign governments also have recently visited Dayton, where wind tunnel tests have been - | Pictou “‘county, 'to . from. VENGEFUL RANSOM SEEKERS KILL BOY Body of Seven-Year-Old Giuseppe Varotta Found in Hudson River. FIVE MEN NOW IN PRISON Band of Kidnapers Made Demand for $2,500—Those Arrested Held in $25,000 Each. By the Asseeiated Press. i . NEW YORK. Jun¢ 11—The body of a meven-year-old boy found floating in the Hudson river todEy off Pler- mont, N. Y., was identified tonight as thEt of Giuseppe Varotta, kidnaped May 24 and held for ransom. The identification was made by the boy’s . fathér, Salvatore Varotta, who went to Piermont with detectives as soon as the New York police were notified. The boy disappeared while at play before his home and his parents be- lieved he had been lost. After the po- days, the child’s mother received a letter demanding $2.500 for. the safe return of her son. The letter threat- ened the child and the other members of the family with death if the money was not paid. A woman detective posing as a cou- sin of Mrs. Varotta a few days later trapped five men who came in response to a letter from the mother oftering $500 for the return of her child. The police believed that the arrests of these five men would fright- en the otlers into returning Giuseppe. They continued their search; aided by private detectives and prominent wealthy persons who became interest- ed in the case, but no trace of the missing boy could be found. The five men are now in prison, awaiting trial under $25,000 bail each on indictments charging them with being implicated in the attempted ex- tortion of money from Varotta. U. S. FIRM GETS RIGHTS IN FAR EAST GOLD FIELD Republic Reserves Right to Buy Back Mines Before Expiration of Sixteen-Year Term. By the Associated Press. RIGA, June 11—A sixteen-year gold mining concesssion in the gold field area under its control has been granted to an American firm by the far eastern republic of Siberia, whose to & Moscow radio dispatch today. The government, however, reserves, the right to buy back: '.h(mlnet Dbe- fore the expiration of the term, If it 80 desires. The Izvestin of Moscow says that the Siberian gold fields, which before the war produced 108,000 pounds of gold annually, last year produckd only 2,700,pounds. In the Lena gold fields the newspaper estimates the cost of mining at 2% ounces of gold for every ounce produced. E ‘TIMBER AREAS BURNING. Pire Fighters Struggle in‘ Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. HALIFAX, N. 8,-June 11.—Wide stretches of fine timber land in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick today were being swept by fire. With thou- sands of dollars’ worth of Jumber turned to ashes and several hamlets threatened, Many sections reported fires, but the centers of gravestidanger were Cumberldnd, Cbichester and Pictou counties. The latest blaze was re- ported by Trenton, a mining town in ‘which men hav Glasgow, -sushed. lice had sear¢hed the city for lwo| headquarters are in Chita, m.fill‘l ATLAS. Right to Burn Doun Own Home is Upheld In Alabama Court MOBILE, Ala., June 11L—A man h ke right to burn down bis own home provided the home is not contiguous to and does not endamger other property, and, further, provided that there is no insurance on the home, according to a ruling of Judge N. R. Clarke in the. inferfor court here today. The decisio: was given in the case of Arthur Lane, a resident of the county charged with arson, the defend- ant being dismissed. Lane'w wife charged that he set fire to and burned down the home after a quarrel with her. CONDUIT APPROVAL RELIEVES OFFICIALS iBig Load Lifted When Con- ] ferees Decide to Adopt - D. C. Water Item. FAVORABLE ACTION SEEN Army Engineering Officers and Board of Trade Men in Happy Frame of Mind Over Result. 1.C.C. AUTHORIZES Court Orders Whip And No Movies for Fdur Boy Bandits By the Associated Press. SPARTANBURG, S. C, Jume 11~Recorder Burmett, in the i ecity police court teday sem- | tenced four youthful offemders to be whipped by their pareats and to refrain frem going toihe movies until they reach the age of twenty-one. The boys staged a robbery of a local store, wearing manks | in real ba . They sald ’ they got the idea from a sceme | they had witnessed in a moving | picture show. W.VA. FARE RAISE Flat Rate of 3 Cents a Mile May Be Charged Instead of 2.5 Cents. TRIP BOOKS TO COST MORE Higher Cash Payment to Terminal Here Unjustified—Road Found to Be Overcapitalized. Increased fares on the lines of the Washington-Virginia Raflway Com- pany were authorized last night by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission ordered the rail- way company to withdraw, on or be- fore July 12, present schedules pro- viding increased fares on the com- pany’s lines. It also authorized the ‘company to file, in compliance with a report issued concurrently with the order. new schedules on not less than five days’ notice to the commission and to the public, providing increases in the fare rate and changes in the commutation rates as outlined in the commission’s report. The company may immediately with- draw the proposed schedules, mow under suspension, and may immediate- 1y file supplementary schedules with increases in compliance with the find- ings of the commission. Fares con- tained in the new schedules would be effective soon after filing. Federal and District rnment of- folals had a big-load i from their shouiders yesterday when the Senate and House conferees on the Army bill approved the Great Falls conduit item for “increasing ‘the capital's water $Upply. These officials have carried the responsibility of informing Con- Bress of the seriousness of the water situation and they have felt it keenly. While the conduit item must still be approved by the House, it is belleved that body will act favorably in view of the representations of the Secre- tary of War and Army engineers as Policéman Frank Bauer of the harbor | (o the danger of the present conduit precinct, recently demoted from the(going out of commission at any time.’ STRICKEN OFFICER SAVED IN POTOMAG Policeman Bauer Near Death From Heart Attack on Launch. headquarters detective force, narrowly escaped death shortly after 8 o'clock The District Commissioners particu- larly were gratified by the conferees’ action. In the opinien of Engineer Under Suspension Simce February 13. The propeged schedules have been under suspension by the commission since February 13. They asked for an Increase in the flat fare on the lthe of the company from 2.5 cents a mile to 3 cents a mile; an increase of about 25 per cent in the cost of the fifty- two-trip commutation book; discon- tinuance of the twenty-five-trip fam- ily ticket, and an increase of one cent in the cash fare added to the ticket fare, from Rosslyn, Va. to the 12th street terminal of the company. The commission, in its report made public last night, found that the “pro- posed interstate single fares, which approximate 3 cents a mile, have been justified”; that the proposed fifty-two- trip commutation fares, including. commutation fares from points on the Falls Church division to Rossiyn, last night when he was stricken with a | Commissioner Kutz, provision for a heart attack and fell in the Potomac|safe water supply is the District's from a harbor police launch anchored | MOSt vital need. The Commissioners, at the foot of 34th;street near the Aque-~| duct Bridge. After being rescued from the water by Policeman R. C. Ault, who was with him at the time, he was taken in the seventh precinct patrol to Emer- gency Hospital, where it‘was said at a late hour his condition was serious. Bauer, who has suffered from heart trouble for some time, had arisen from his seat in the police boat and was start- ing to go around the cabin, with the an- nounced Intention of jumping to the wharf, when Policeman Ault heard a faint cry, followed by a splash. Rescue Made. in fact, were so anxious to impress uggn Congress the fieed of haste to insure Washington against a water when used as part of the interstate fares to 12th street, have been justi- fied, except that from Clarendon the fifty-two-trip interstate rate to Ross- | lyn should not exceed $3.22. Regarding the proposed discon- famine that, although they knew the|tinuance of the twenty-five trip family Senate and House military affairs committees would be submitted with a recommendation for a new conduit, for inclusion in the Army bill, they made a separate recommendation for this improvement in their deficiency estimates. Gen. Beach Delighted. ‘When Secretary of War Weeks later sent a special communication to the Senate military affairs committee ticket, on which attorneys for the railway company placed emphasis at hearings before the commission, the commission held that the discontinu- ance of the ticket was not justified by the evidence, but that thé ticket should be continued at not to exceed 70 per cent of the single fare and may be limited to use by five mem- bers of a family for two months, under conditions similar to those now existing in the use of the ticket. The commission found that the Ault jumped overboard and swam to|urging water legislation in connec- the side of the wharf with him. Police- [ tion with the Army bill, the Commis- man Charles M. Dirkigt of the seventh |sioners’ proposal that a conduit ap- precinct and William T. Reynolds, pro- | propriation be authorized in the -de- prietor of a boathouse, assisted in the | ficiency bill was abandoned by House rescue. members in charge of that measure. It was not until ten minutes later that| Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of en- the stricken man regained semi-con-|gineers of the United States Army, sciousness. At the hospital he was at-| was as much delighted by the confer- tended by Dr. H. W. B. Stibbs. Mrs.|ence vote on the item as were the Bauer was summoned to her husband's | Commissioners. The Army officer, un- side. T der whose general direction the Great Falls water supply and power devel- (Avmeinted tn 1008 opment studies were made by Maj. Bauer was appointed $o the:police | myler, has stated’ repeatedly that force July 1, 1890, and was promoted | washington, in relying upon the pres- to the rank of detective October 6,|ent conduit without making provision 1897. _His reduction to the grade of | for jts replacement, is inviting a ca- private and assignment 1o the fifth|igmity. Soon after Mr. Weeks be- precinct was effected by -Maj. Gess-|came the Secretary of War Gen. Peach ford April 13 of this year. Bduer was{ngormed the cabinet member a real- known generally as one of the best{)y ' aangerous situation confronts | detectives at headquarters‘and an ex- pert on diamonds and jewelry. - Immediately . following : his . demo- tion Bauer went on leave of absence, during which period a:number of ‘business men’s organizattions inter- ceded in his behalf to the District, Commissioners and, Maj. Gessford. It was pointed out. that Bauer’s known physical’ condition incapacitated him for street duty, and on May 4 he was transterred to the: Harbor. precinct. Indiana Woman Found Dead After Search by Relatives. NEW ALBANY, Ind., June ‘11— The body of Miss Bessié A. Stanley, Edinburg, Ind, school teacher and graduate of the University of Indiana, was found in the Ohlo river, two miles below New Albany, last night. Wide search for Miss Stanley has been conducted by relatives, who-had announced receipt of letters from her since her previous disappearance last December indicating a disturbed mental condition. . Miss Stanley was twenty-seven ‘Washington fn the matter of its water supsly: The statement of the chief of ‘enginéers was responsible for the Secretary making & special recom- proposed increase from 5 to 6 cents in the cash fare charged in addition to the Rosslyn transportation coupon for transportatug) to the 12th street terminal of the ; snpany from points on the Falls Clasch division has not been justified. ‘The report was made by Commis- sioners'B. H. Meyer, C. C. McChord and C. B. Aftchison. Road Overeapitalized. “The record as a whole plainly in- dicates that the road is greatly over- capitalized,” the report said, “and affords no tangible basis on which alone to determine what should be the measure of a reasonable system of charges on a basis of the fair value of the property devoted to the publi¢ Total outstanding stocks and bonds of the company are $7,462,000, the report said, adding that the consult- ing engineering company now oper- ating the road claimed a.fair value /(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) MENOHER AND MITCHELL WARNED chief of the Army -air service, ‘and Brig. Gen. Mitohell, assistant chief, have been advised by Secretary Weeks that their financial connections with the company - publishing - the United States ' Air, ‘Seryvice, a magasine, are not, i view of: their official positions, deemed to be to the best interests of the Army. Secretary Weeks declined yester- ‘day to discuss the matter further than to say that it had no relation to the present row in the air serv- ice which led to the request of Gen. Menoher for the removal of Gen. Mitchell. The War Secretary ex- investigation of-the friatian. in the | | ‘AGAJJ_VST INTEREST IN MAGAZINE TEACHER'S BODY IN'RIVER| s’ cen. tenoher, service. ' Several senators-are threatening to intervene in the controversy and are discussing the advisability of airing the matter on the "Senate floor and also of conducting a con- greéssional inquiry. ¢ Some of the senators who are taking an interest in the case said yesterday that they were examin- ing especially the possible bearing of the dispute on the forthooming bombing tests to be conducted by the Army air service and the Navy. Gen. Mitchell is in charge of the Army pians and his removal, the ‘senators said, undoubtedly would embarrass the effectiveness of the ADMIRAL'S RECALL ORDER EXPLANED - BY HEAD OF VY Sims, in London, Has Not Received Instructions, But Will Sail June 15. NO CHAR:ES ARE FILED AGAINST OFFICER HERE fStill Commands Navy War College. | Action Not Influenced by White House or Congress. | [ BF the Assoriated Press LONDON, June 11.—Rear Admiral | William S. Simms received the first | news of his recall by Secretary of the |Navy Denby from the Associated | Press after attending a dinner given |in his honor by the Royal Thames Inum Club this evening. s | The Admiral said that he had not | yet received a cablegram to this ef- fect from Secretary Denby. and se« { cordingly declined to comment on the itext forwarded here by the special | dispatches. At present, added the { Admiral. he had no intention of al- tering the date of his saiing, which ! was June 15. ° In an editorial on the speech of Rear Admiral William S. Sims the | Sunday Express says: “The remainder of Admiral Sims' | leave is short, as it was cancelled. He has been guilty of the crime of many i great sailors—speaking his mind | without attempt at subterfuge. The {late Admiral Lord Beresford and the {1ate Admiral Lord Fisher were offend- | ers of the same sinew. There is somes | thing in the vastness of the ocean as¥d | the majesty of the unharnessed ele~ | ments that makes men of the sea ime { patient of such laws as sway smalls i er men of political affairs. “ “Admiral Sims may have been -fse discreet—that depends on the views point—but he has done more for Anglo-American good feeling than alf the studied phrases of a hundred di {lomats. He returns to America hans ored and beloved of England.” <& & Secretary Explains Action. ‘% NEW YORK, June 11.—A Washinges ton dispatch to the New York Werld says: a 134 Secretary of the Navy Denby, after revoking the remainder of Rear A@S miral 8ims’ Jeave of absence and ors dering him to “report in pergon to the Secretary of the Navy at once,” ex+ plained that he had received no rep from Admiral Sims in response to | cable of last Wednesday asking if the {admiral had been correctly quoted by the press as denouncing “disloyal activities of Americans of sympa- thies” While Admiral Sims is re ported as having stated last Thursday that he was sending a reply to the Secretary, the reply has not vet been received in Washington. - At 2 late hour no acknowledgement of this cable had been received at the Navy Department, nor has the de- partment official notice that the ad- miral will sail from England June 13, as he has announced in London. Means What It Says. Secretary Denby tonight said the cable to Admiral Sims means only {what it says. He insidts that mo | i mo formal charges have been filed, that | Sims has not been relieved of com- {mand of the Navy War College; that the action was not influenced either by the White House or Congress and !that mo definite action of any ki {will be taken until Admiral Sims his lacknowledged or denied the utterances | attributed to him. 3 The “jackass” speech of Admirmd Sims threatens to become a serious issue in the Senate. Members of that jdody may divide into two factiend This slignment will not come until.a | report on the London address is by the committee on naval which was instructed to make an 4§~ vestigation. The line-up for or against Sis being hastenéd by a deluge of grams and letters, chiefly tele to senators from “back home.” parently the flow has only begun. Many Mensages Favorable. A large proportion of the me—&' thus far are strongly favorable to urging senators to stand by him his patriotism and because he is a full- blooded American. They insist that mo punishment whatever should be visited upon Sims, but that, on the contrary, he should be praised for his attitude and boldness of speech. The smaller number of eomn.fi tions bitterly condemning Sims for they consider “insult” to the citizens of Irish descent and demand that h* [ < driven from the Navy. SIMS INQUIRY HELD UP. ¥ The Senate naval affairs commituesy directed under a resolution int g« duced by Senator Harrison of Missise sippl and adopted by the engy Thursday, to investigate the ddress of Rear Admiral Wi slm: in London on :the--frish q tion, probably will not take up matter of the investigation for 1 days. er;‘e ranking members of the ed in a conf: with the House representatives on’ naval appropriation bill and are ing their attention to that imost exclusively, it was night. There appears, therefore, tle chance for a meeting of o mittee on the Sims matter unth controversy over the appropriat bill is out of the way. In the meantime, the Sims may be cleared up one way or through the investigation instit: by the Secretary: ; should be, - the Senate might not act in the matter. ; other hand, the Senate committ: iikely to proceed with the im tion v‘lmnt reference o the fact n. authorities are attentions