Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 1

! WEATHER. v : Increasirg cloudiness tonight, fol- lowed by showers late tonight or to- morrow; little change in t: ended at 2 p.m. today: today. i | Temperature for twenty-four hours High 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 56, Full report on page 7. emperature. 0, at est, 8 7 am. No. 28,521 Closing Stocks and Bonds, Puges 28-29 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. The WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MAY - 31, 1922—FORTY-TWO PAGES. g St ~ L 4 Yesterday's Net Circulation, 75,329 TWO CENTS. MCUMBER BONUS PLAN IS REPORTED TOSENATE TODAY Finance Committee Vote Stands Nine to Four in Favor of Measure. FORFEITURE PROVISION STRICKEN FROM BILL Committeemen Want Action on Tariff First—Simmons Sees Little * Real Aid for Soldiers. The commonly known McCumber soldier bonus plan was ordered favor- ably reported today by the Senate finance committee. The vote was 9 to 4 The effective date of the bill was changed, however, from next October to January 1, 1923, after Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts, told the majority that it would take six months to get the bonus machinery in operation. ! Forteiture cut out. The committee before approving the McCumber plan eliminated the forfeiture provision as contained in the House measure, under which vet- erans failing to pay loans to banks or to the government would have for- feited their adjusted service. certifi- cates. In such cases the Secretary of the Treasury would restore the certifi- cates to the veteran in whose name it was jssued at any time prior to its maturity upon receipg from him of the amount paid by the govern- ment to the bank, plus interest at e rate of 412 per cent. compounded nnually. Under another amendment approved by the committee veterans could make application for adjusted service compensation at any time after the passage of the law. The House measure would have limited the time to July 1, 1923. Smoot Plan Defeated. The Smoot plan, providing for paid- up life insurance, In lieu of all other forms of compensation, was defeated by a vote of 8 to 5, the three demo- erats present—Simmons, Walsh and Gerry—voting against it. Repub- licans supporting the Smoot/ pro- posal were Senators Smoot, McLean, Frelinghuysen, Calder and Dilling- ham. Republicans voting against it were McCumber, Curtis, Watson, Sutherland and La Follette. Senator McLean broke the tie which lLas existed among the republican inembers on the vote to report the McCumber plan, which e Houze. biil with some amendmen cluding elimination of the land setflement or reclamation project. Senators said reclamation was not discuissed, al- though House leaders and some Sen- ate supporters of reclamation legis- lation have urged that the Smith- McNary reclamation bill or some similar legislation be attached to the bonus measure. ‘Want Tarifft Action First. Several of the majority members of the committee gave notice to Chair- man McCumber that they would op- pose laying aside the tariff bill for Senate considbration of the bonus at any time in the near future. Chair- man McCumber replied that he in- tended to get as prompt. consideration of the bonus bill as could be worked out, but did not state whether the tariff measure would be laid aside. It was reported that the republican teaders hoped to work out some plan by which the bonus measure could be expedited without delaying seriously the tariff bill. Senator Simmons, ranking demo- | cratic member, announced on behalf | of the three democrats present that| they voted to report out the McCum- ber bill, only to get action promptly and not because they favored the measure. The democratic leader ex- pressed the belief that the McCumber | bill would be of little benefit to the former service men and sald the minority reserved the right to offer a substitute bill in the Senate or amendments to the McCumber plan. | Cash Payment Provided. The Senate bill, as reported, would provide for the payment of cash to veterans whose adjusted service credit would not exceed $50 as was| proposed in the House measure, and would give to other veterans one of these four options: ' Adjusted service certificates hav- ing a face value of 3.015 times the amount of the adjulted service credit computed at the rate of $1 a day for domestic service and $1.25 for foreign service, with provisions for loans by banks prior to January 1, 1326, and by the government thereafter. These certificates would mature in twenty | vears from the date of issue, or sooner upon the death of the veteran. Farm or home aid in an amount equal to the following percen‘ages | of a veteran's adjusted service credit: 100 per cent if payment were made during 1923, 105 per cent if pay- ment were ‘made in 1924, 110 per cent n 1925, 120 per cent in 1926, 130 per cent in 1927, and 140 per cent in 1928 or thereafter. Under the House bill the amount paid under wption would have been the total the adjusted service credit in- creased by 25 per cent. Bank Loan Provisions. Under the bank loan section of the bill, prior to January 1, 1926, any national bank or any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of any state, territory, possession or the District of Columbia, would be authorized to loan to any veteran upon his promissory note, secured by his adjust-d service certificate, any _nount not in excess of half of the mount of his adjusted service credit i It serves as an application record. mission stated today that they had been SIX MILLIONS STRICKEN IN CHINA FAMINE. BELT Mission Correspondence of the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, April 31.—Six million people, out of a population of 27,000,000 in the province of Hunan; are starving and hundreds of thou- sands are certain to die before mid- summer, according to estimates of mission workers there. Literally, thousands have fallen, never to rise, in the flelds and by the roadsides. The bodies of the dead are stripped by the emaciated survivors and the pitiful rags that clothed the corpses sold for the few brass coins they may bring with which to buy a handful of rice. One missionary of the Augustinian order, writing from Yuancho said: REVISION PLANNED FOR CIVL SERVICE Geographic Apportionment Needs Change, Says Re- port to Congress. The apportionment method of ap- pointment to positions in the federal departments by the. Civil Servic Commission “plainly needs revision,” Herbert D. Brown, chief of the United States bureau of efficiency, says in a report to President Harding which has been transsftitted t5 Con- gress. Instead of a gedgraphlical dis- tribution of the jobs, the bureau of efficlency argues that there should be first a consideration of who will do the work best. In discussing this phase the report says: “The civil service act authorizes a geographic distribution of appoint- ments at Washington, but plainly in- dicates that an apportionment of ap- pointments shall be subservient to the requirements of good administra- tion. - The act gives the commission ample authority for an interpretation of the apportionment clause suffici- ently liberal to guard the ultimate end of the whole civil service act, namely, employment of the most effi- cient workers. “The present method of certification should be discontinued and the sys tem recommended by the President's commission on_economy and effici- ency on March 25, 1913, installed. That system gives more weight to the primary intent of the law. Principal Recommendations. Among the principal recommenda- tions in the report to the President for civil service improvements were: For definite recruiting system to seek out the best material for civil service jobs, changes in clerical tests so that those having special abilities for a particular kind of work will be appointed, tests for scientific and technical experts which will bring into the service those of the greatest talent and capability rather than those whose applications show past experience, and performance tests for those hired for manual work. Under a system of trade tests a me- chanic is not rated on his statement as to how long he has been at the trade, the report points out, as is done in most civil_service examinations, but he is rated on his ability to answer twenty- questions_about how he would do this, or why that. In the performance test he must do it. 1f the applicant is taking a mechanic’s test, beside other things, he must tell how many turns he would make on an index crank when he is milling the head on a hexagon screw. The trade test sets forth demonstrated evidence of the applicant’s actual ability. The non- assembled civil service examination for artisans is not truly an examination. The the longer the experience alleged, higher the rating. ‘Weeks Required for Rating. takes several weeks at the earllest, and in most instances much longe: before an applicant can obtain a r: ing and be certified. WIith trade tests an applicant is rated almost at the time he finishes the test. If trade tests were introduced in the civil service procedure not over one week need elapse between examination and certification. This time-saving is -of advantage to both the applicant and the government. If the dpplicant is out of work it is a hardship upon him to await for certification. He does not feel free to accept other work and is not, as a rule, too well prepared financially for the delay. In view of the superiority of trade tests over present civil service meth- ods, they should be installed by the commission, the Brown report empha- sizes. No better plan of developing and applying trade tests could be fol- lowed by the commission, Mr. Brown says, than that plan followed by the United States Army. The terial to begin work on, required the services of a staff of but thirty-five men in developing in great haste trade tests for eighty-three occup: tions. It does not appear, in view of the amount of material already de- veloped, that the services of more than ome or two experts would be needed by the Civil Service Commi sion. COMMISSION TO REPLY. {Statement to Be Prepared ag Soon| MAY DROP HAGUE PARLEY as Report Is Received. The members of the Civil Service Com- reading with muca interest the articles plus interest at the rate of 4% per cent from the date of issue. “’ rate of interest charged by the bank could not exceed by more than 2 per | cent the rate charged at the date of the loan for the discount of 90 days ~ommercial paper by the Federa} Re- serve Bank for the federal TVe district in Which the bank making the loan is located. i Should veteran fail to pay the principal and interest of :E: loan within six months after its maturity the bank would present the. note 10 the jury and be pald the amount of the principal and the interest. The certificate securing the note would be held by the [«nd would be restored to the veteran to its maturity prior [apon receipt from him of the amount jpaid by the Treasury to . the bank Jus_interest on such amount » Pipied n ae P, Colem to have been made in response to a resolution adopted than five years ago. had not by Congress more / issioners state that they from Work Se Victi Practi ‘ Thousands Fall by Roadside. \ t In the Civil Service Commission it} | I Army, having no tangible ma-| by Senator } Oregon; Lenroot, Wiscon: } Delaware. I'Undadded ‘Whether America Will appearing in The Star from day to day | apparently giving direct information as to the contents of the report of the bu- ¢|belig awaited from PRESIDENT RETAINS FAITHIN INTEGRITY | | Belief Held Attorney General Merely Made Poor Defense. “This aftérnoon I called upon a once prosperous family and found them eating, Each had a bowl of bolled grass and.n each bowl were a few grains of rice. The rice in all the bowls of the entire family would not fill a full tablespoon. It breaks my heart to see this people dying with no possible help, as the funds we have received are sufficlent only to aid a very limited number. In one part of the famine belt, as the last dreadful resort of the starv- ing, cannibalism is being practiced, according to Ma Ling-yl, former min- ister of education at Peking. Girl children are being given away on the mere promise that they will be fed, and boys are sold at from KNEW OF MORSE CASE BEFORE APPOINTMENT i | | Rumors Credit Attacks to Persons Desirous of Hampering War Fraud Probes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Attorney General Daugherty will not resign. President Harding has not asked him to do so and he never will. Mr. Harding has unlimited con- fidence in the integrity of his At- torney General and does not belleve | him gullty of anything wrong in the ! Morse case. | This is the inflexible attitude of the | administration as revealed today af- ter the President and his advisers re- turned from a crulse on the May- flower, where the impression caused by the attacks in the Senate against the Attorney General was the subject of informal discussion. Practically everybody in the ad- ministration group admits that Mr. Daugherty handled his own defense poorly and that the mix-up between him and Senator Watson of Indiana was most unfortunate. But on the basis of what has happened to date the administration feels no less con- fidence in Mr. Daugherty, nor does it feel that when all the facts and in- fluences attempting to injure the At- torney General are exposed in the forthcoming war prosecutions the public will have an unfavorable im- pression of the man at the head of the Department of Justice. WOULDN’T SEND JAZZ TO FRIENDLY BRAZIL, SAYS U. S. OFFICIAL Would introduction of “jazz music” into a country in which it is ‘unknown constitute an un- friendly act? Frank A. Harrison, United States commissioner to the Brazilian in- ternational centennial exposition at Rio de Janeiro, believes that it ‘would. In reply to a letter suggesting that the United States commission to the exposition “send down there a real first-class American jazz orchestra, as jazz is not used and not known in South America,” Commissioner Harrison replied that the commission would not be able to do so, and that, moreover, the American government section would have the services of the splendid - Navy bands from vessels in the harbor. “I cannot refrain from the ob- servation, however,” Comiissioner Harrison sald, “that Brasil is a friendly nation, to which we owe* every demonstration of good will, and " that if ‘jazz’ is unknown down there it would be nothing short of an unfriendly act to in- troduce such so-called music to an unoftending people. Certainly we would not want them to believe that such conglomeration of foolish sounds represents the musical taste of the United States. (REPUBLICANS 0.K. SENATE CLOTURE Decide to Draft and Press New Rule Ending Un- limited Debate. Republican senators 'today com- mitted themselves to the movement designed to bring about amendment of the existing Senate rules now per- mitting unlimited debate. By a vote of 32 to 1, the republican conference decided to draft and press a new cloture rule. ‘Whether the cloture effort would be made while the tariff bill is pending was not decided. The prospects, how- ever, were said to be that action on the cloture proposal would go over until later. A committee was ap- pointed to draft the new cloture rule and another majority conference will be held to fix a time to bring the cloture plan before the Senate. Senator Wadsworth Dissents. Senator Wadsworth, republican, New York, was the only participant in today’s conference, the third on the cloture question, who opposed the cloture movement to the last. A number of cloture’ opponents, who were absent, have given notice that they would oppose § new cloture rule on the Senate floor. The resolution adopted at today's conference declared: “That it is the sense of this con- ference that the rules of the Senate be so amended as to provide for a limitation of debate on approlation and revenue bills by a majority vote, the time for the presentation of such amendment to be determined at a future conference. Presented by Senator Townsend. The motion was presented by Sen- ator Townsend of Michigan, a leader in the fight for cloture. The confer- ence also adopted a motion offered McCumber of North Dakota, to appoint -a subcommittee of five members to draft the new majority cloture rule. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, republican leader, appointed Senators Kellogg, Minne- sota; Jones, Washington; McNary, i n, and Ball, The original cloture pro. posal was drawn by Senators Kellogg and Lenroot. President Knew of Morse Case. There's something more than per. sonal friendship and loyalty in Mr. Harding’s attitude toward his life time associate and political mentor. It's true that to Harry Daugherty, more than any one else, Mr. Harding owes his nomination at Chicago in 1920, which was equivalent to an elec- tion. It's true that Mr. Harding is under obligation to Mr. Daugherty, but it is also a fact that Mr. Harding knew in the fall of 1920 everything about the part Harry Daugherty play- ed in obtaining a pardon for Morze under the Taft administration and that he did not cpnsider it a bar to the appointment of Mr. Daugherty. If Harry Daugherty had come out: rimmediately afteg -bis connection with Morse ‘case’ was mentioned in Senate debate by Mr. Caraway of Ar- kansas and said: *Yes, | was an attor- ney Yor Morse and helped get him a par- don—I was & private lawyer then and had a right to defend my client,” no one would have thought any more about the incident. But in a telephone conversation between Harry Daugn- erty and Senator Watson of ¥ndiana a misunderstanding occurred. - This correspondent is presenting the ver- sion of that conversation waich is told by friends of Mr. Daugherty. Senator Watson had communicated by telephone the fact that Senator Caraway had revived the Morse case. Mr. Daugherty, who had been hearing about the Morse case for eleven years, ‘was not perturbed by it. In Ohio politics Mt. Daugherty has some vio- lent opponents .as well as stanch friends. The skeleton of the Morsc case has been rattled every time Mr. Daugherty has been in the public eye. When Mr. Watson of Indiana told him it was up again, the Attor- ney General told him not to worry, as he hadn’t received a cent from Morse. Mr. Daugherty imagined that the con- versation related to whether he had received any money, and he author- ized Mr. Watson to deny it. During the course of the debate Senator ‘Watson went a step further and in- dicgted that the Attorney General had deniled his connection with the case altogether. Called Error in Judgment. In support of the contention that the Attorney General could not have claimed any such thing, administra-, tion supporters insist that Mr. ‘Daugherty would never deny what had been common knowledge, and what had been printed In the news- papers at the time of his connection with the Morse pardon. The error in judgment which Mr. Daugherty made in ignoring the Senate proceedings for nearly three weeks before issuing a statement of explanation is now freely admitted by the administration group, but this was due as much to Harry Daugherty’s own feeling that nothing new.had been developed, and nothing injurious, as it was to the feeling of others in the administra- tion circle who believed the whole thing a_ tempest in a teapot which would blow over if let alone, sThere is.reason to believe that the criticism which has swept the coun- try because of Mr. Daugherty’s be- Jated explanation has not penetrated very deeply here. The view prevails that the incident soon will be passed by, and that the continued confidence of President Harding in Attorney General Daugherty will be demon- ation enough ‘that he doesn’t think stration eno: (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) i s | S. REMAINS ALOOF | IF U. R Immediate steps lookmg toward such regulation of the air as will prevent the low-flying over a pub- lic ceremony, such as tended to mar the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial yesterday, will be taken by Lieut Col. C. O. Sherrill, in charge of public bulldings and unds. Despite the request of officials and & persol request from the Army sir officlals, & commercial airplane yesterday afternoon cir- cled the Lincoln Memorial twice while President Harding was Send Official Observer to the Economic Conference. BY LEOPOLD ALETRINO. Cable t The Star and Chic By ey Shee Daily News. AMSTERDAM, May 31.—In connec- tlon - with newspaper reports that Louis A. Sussdorf, jr, American charge d’affaires at The Hague, would attend the economic conference here as observer, the legation informs the writer that no décision has been made up to this time. Instructions are Washington, ‘where the matter will be determined. It is considered not Wnlikely here speaking. The plane, flying as low as 200 feet, according to. Col. Sherrill, . caused much oyance to those é :.u':bla ror“t:': c.:::clul :::. Presiden though - {ottar kept an with s address safeguarding against dangers of war centive for future war by taking the prospect of large profit by manufac- vate business. nation. It $s proposed in the plan that private orders which will give the taxpayers the benefit of the lowest possible price. gives the civilian employes at the arsenals and navy yards a chance for steady employment if they make their performance so efficient that the pub- lic plants underbid private plants for government work. saved by lower upkeep cost of the ravy yard as well as by lower manu- facturing costs, it is neering analysis of the navy yard and arsenal capacity to fill govern- ment requirements, not only for mu- nitions of war, but for paint, rope, electrjcal equipment, clothing, steel, furniture, engines, motor trucks, road machinery, boilers, cutlery, flour bags and countless other items. mobile bandits today held up three men in an automoblle at Long Ifland City and robbed them of a $15,000 pay roll belonging to H. L. Mallinson, New York silk dealer. AIR RULE SOUGHT TO CURB FLYING 'SUCH AS MARRED MEMORIAL EVENT ~ TARIFF " BACKYARD L ABOR URGES WORK G0 T0 NAVY YARDS House Committeemen Re- quested to Pass Measure to Further Employment. Officials of the American Federation of Labor and of the metal trades Vou WILLIE; UNTIL THAT YARD'S IN SHAPE! CABINET MAY DEBATE RETURN OF OLD HOURS IN BUREAUS Present Daylight-Saving Scheme Aban-| doned Practically by All Except in Government Departments. ENGLAND WILL NOT TOLERATE STARTING - OFIRISH REPUBLIC British to Hold Dublin as Basis for Operations, Says Churchill. {FINDS ANGLO-IRISH PACT ! IN VERY GRAVE DANGER : Factional Agreement Strikes Direct Blow at Treaty, He Tells Commons. By thie Associated Press. LONDON, May 31. — Secretary | Churchill, in the course of the de- bate following his statement on the |Irish situation, reiterated that Grea! | Britain would not tolerate the es- | tablishment of a republic in Ireland | He #ald the British troops remaining in Dublin were militarily secure and were awaiting eventualities. “In the event a republic is set up. iadded the colonial secretary, “it is | the intention of the British govern- ment to hold Dublin as one of the preliminary and essential steps of military operations.” Sees Direct Blow at Treaty. | Mr. Churchill, secretary for the | colonies, , asserted in the house of icommuns today that the agreement reached between the political fac- tions in southern Ireland last Satur | day strikes directly at the provi | sions of the Anglo-Irish treaty. | No one disputed, said the secretar | that the wish of the Irish people was | reconciliation which would give Ir {land her freedom, her place in the world and the hope of final unity | Up 10 anF ys ago the leaders of the | provisional government had appeared to be resolved to march steadily for- word through a free election, and put down, if necessary by force, all | TODAY’'S VOTE ON DAYLIGHT-SAVING armed persons who tried to prevent | them. The agreement - reached between unions and efficiency experts who have made a complete survey of the situation in government navy yards | Michael Collins, head of the provis- | ional government, and Eamon De Valera, the republican leader, how- ever, struck directly at the provision and arsenals urged a subcommittee of the House naval affairs committee Present Moving Clocks 5 System. Ahead. For | Against For | Against today to pass a bill fathered by Rep- resentative Howe of Iowa, which will call all government work possible into the navy yards and arsenals. It is hoped by the passage of this Governmentemployes Others. ....... 462 61 207 | 250 11 49 legislation to provide continuous em- ployment for the 3,800 employes of the Washington navy yard, which will Today's totals. . . 523 | 218 299 prevent _further depletion in this force of the expert machinists and possibly provide for the reinstate- Present Moving Clocks ment of some of the 1,400 who were furloughed without pay several months ago. of the treaty, Mr. Churchill declared Comsequences Very Serious. The consequences of the agreement were very serious, he said, and it { seemed prébable that the Irish people | would not be able to give free ex- pression to their views. If Mr. De Valera or any of.the others who might be ministers in the irish government sign the deciaration prescribed in the treaty, the secretary continued, the. treaty was broken by that fact and the perial government resumed such 1fb- erty of action—whether in regard to the resumption of the powers = Delegation at Hearing. Among those at the hearing today were Edgar Wallace, legislative agent for the American Federation of La- bof; James O'Connell, president of Governmentemployes Others........... System. Ahead. For | Against For | Against 520 | 3,673 1,091 | 2,712 323 | 3,478 1,135 | 2,586 the metal trades department, A. F. L.; William H. Huddley, president of the National Supervisors’ Assoclation, representing all the leading men and quartermen in the.navy yards, and N. P. Alif; president of District 44, International Assocfation of Machin- ists, comprising ell machinists in the government service. The appeal for legislation was along four lines! Humanity toward the men now engaged in these industrial plants, economy for the government in manufacturing its own munitions, Grand totals. ‘The Supreme Court of tI triet today al saving. veme at 10 o’clock the court will not open to: til 9 o'clock, and will open until 4 o’clock. in the future, and lessening the in- turers of munitions away from pri-|ed at the White House today Plans Saving of $100,000,000 a Year. One plan proposes to save $100,000, 000 per year to the taxpayers of the 8gainst the present plan, the public plants shall bid against |cabinet meeting tomorrow. plants, thereby obtaining Cows and chickens refuse It is set forth that the plan|,p gun time exclusively, District for work in_ office daytime and run their litt Funds will be The proposal is based upon engi- BANDITS GET $15,000. E Opening of Conferenc NEW YORK, May 31.—Seven auto- Operators. price on spot coal during of union and non-uniof ope clared that any agreement motor noise tremendous. While fiying in front and to the rear no less than four distinet. times ‘was the President’s voice drowned out. - v ! *“T will take up immediately with Congress the necessity for secur- ing legislation for the protection him upon in their respective districts. _pointment .of committees r !ing each producing district with him upon“a fair.price in the mornings and evenings. That's HOOVER WOULD FIX - FAIR COAL PRIGE |Assumes Responsibility at|Court Overrules Demurrers Secretary Hoover today assumed the responsibllity for fixing a reasonable the producing fields, Mr. Hoover de- the operators looking toward the- fix- ing of the price of coal, even though | gency Fleet Corporation. in the interest of the public, would |ernment's contention that there was Dbe illegal, and therefore he asked the ja conspiracy sufficiently charged and individual operators to agree with|that the alleged defrauding of the Shipping Board constituted a fraud of which an agency, was | -easonable price for coal he Dis- doned daylight Beginning tomorrow, all \the branches of the court will con- instead of 9 oclock: The office of the clerk of morrow remain Change of the hours of the govern- ment departments back to normal is not being contemplated, it was learn- and from several of the cabinet officers. It is thought that in view of the sentiment shown to be very strong that the matter might be discussed at the Domestic Animals Rebel. to work on daylight-saving time; they work according to ‘suburbanties who commute to the s in the le farms e With the con- tinuance of the present coal strike. Opening the conference here today rators in between epresent- to advise for coal DERAL NG haatn st o0 to elr respective districts. He also fying of sirplanes over sueh pun: . |in, thols ermseiite Saicte, BS 20e assemblages,” stated. He declared Justice Taft, chairman of the m. morial commission, felt Kkeenly over the matter. ce, cases of their d cts and act at hi cases. ¥ ‘Called at President’s rations, that any avistor would !dred éperators assembled 0 violate our desires as' to -fiy |meeting that the conference over the memorial while the cere- |called by him at the request “monies were in progress” Col |ident Harding to consult as Mr. Hoover told the several hun- in existence and report to er the determination of a prices in s request as might be necessary to meet such at - the had been f Pres- what 85117,674 He suggested the immediate ap-|the Shipping Board i 2,444 15,597 then waste it ing for the cows and chickens. veral didn’t want her the reason many of them are ugainst any form of daylight saving. writes one correspondent to The Star. They save the hour from the work and sitting around wait- things have been over- looked in this thing for suburban ies” writes this correspondent, who | name mentioned, | how which had been transferred or the reoccupation of territory—as it might think appropriate to the gravity of the breach. - { The imperial government wouid Inot in any circumstances agree to { deviate from the treaty, either in the | strict letter or the lonest spirit of | the document, Mr. Churchill declared. Irish People Hampered. “It is almost certain,” Mr. Churchill went on, “that the Irish people will | ot be able to say in an intelligible way whether they accept or reject the treaty offered by Great Britain A certain number of labor or inde- | pendent candidates may doubtless se- cure election, but it is difficult to see the parlizment resuiting from “and two of them are that the cows | the election and the government to will not give down their milk so early and the chickens will not come | be based on that parliament after the | election can Pave either representa- off their roosts for feed. So we can- We work only about | ity, as it is usually understood. not get ahead. as nature intended.” The Star's poll of the city on the | daylight-saving plan closed yesterday | afternoon, and the final vote shows, | for those voting, that there is large sentiment both against present form of daylight saving and against daylight saving, change of the clocks. with of the poll will be 1 authorities. The government departments and | public schools are more affected by | than any other group, as all of the departments, with the present plan The votes will ! be kept for reference, and the results d before mem- bers of the cabinet and the District tive or democratic quality or author- In reply to a question Mr. Churchil said that the Free State governmen: did not, as was charged, issue a leaf- let urging the Irish voters to sup- port the treaty candidaics in tu coming election on the ground th: they could thus secure & republic a | “through the safe, short road of the treaty.” “The provision of the agreement that four anti-treaty men will be included in the government after the election strikes dire at the pro- visions of the treaty,” Mr. Churchill said, adding that the British, in mak- ing the treaty, did not demand that |the members’ of the parliament (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) MORSELOSES AT ON ERALD CHARGE of Shipbuilder, His Sons and Eight Others. Chief Justice McCoy of the against the United States, sustained by the chief justice. before the summer recess. The court held that the charges are laid with sufficient definiteness as to time and as to the issues which will be raised by a plea of not guilty to enable the court to see that a crime is_charged and to make the judgment fendants a ~ protection against court points out that to the del the authoriti: hol too numerous for citation. licted with Morse are his three in A., Harry F. and Benlln‘:l: el M. Burditt, N rt M. Su- preme Court of the Diatrict of Co- lumbia today overruled the demurrers of Charles W. Morse, the New York shipbuilder; his three sons and eight others indicted for conspiracy to de- fraud the United States in connec- tion with war contracts with the Tnited States Shipping Board Emer- The gov- United States Attorney Gordon will ask the court to set a date for trial further prosecution. Thi lding such an indictment good are | should. take the oath prescribed by the treaty for the Free State parlia- ment when nally constituted How Treaty May Be Brokena. “We were content,” he said, “with the provision inserted in article 17 of the treaty, that the members of the government should in this interim period sign a declaration of adherence to the treaty, which heretofore has been signed willingly by ‘all the members of the provisional govern ment. “If Mr. de Valera and his three anti-treaty men, or whoever the min- isters are to be who are to come into the government after the elec- tion, are willing to sign that dec- laration in a bona fide manner we will have no grounds for complaint. but if they become members of the government without signing that declaration the treaty is broken by t very fact.” lh;lr. Churchiil -then made his dec- laration that in the event of the re- fusal of Mr. De Valera or others made ministers after the election to Sign the declaration, thus breaking the treaty, the British government's Jiberty of action would be resumed in a way appropriate to the gravity of the situation, as the governmen! Would not agree in any circumstances to deviate from the treaty, either in the strict letter or the honest spirii Reasen for Faction Pact. «] must now in fairness,” continued the secretary, “set forth the reasonx which I understand Jed or forced the provisional government to enter this compact which is fundamentally op- posed to the treaty. They declared conditions in southern Ireland were degenerating so rapidly that they had not the power to hold a freely con- ection; that sporadic conflicts Lerted Sheve resulted in many parcs: that the ballot boxes would have been bu! and persons and candidates intimidated or prevented from taking in the election, and that nc coherent expression of the national will would have resulted.” “J¢f that is trume” continued Mr. Churchill, “it is a very terrible re- flection upon the I“‘t"l‘! p:vplc l‘:fld ity to use the democratic e iions 1n hich they have xo premTvRe