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WEATHER. Continued warm and partly cloudy weather today and tomorrow, except for probably local thundershowera. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Full report, page 13. || 83; lowest, 70.4. Highes: 898.—No. 28,532. ALL PLEDGES KEPT, SAYSFESSING.0.P. CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE Fight to Be Aggressive and on Record, Declares Sen- atorial Candidate. No. FLAN TO RAISE $500,000 APPROVED BY LEADERS Senator Harrison in Debate Says Party Is “Out 10 Buy Election”; McCormick Meets Attack. By the Asso COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 10.—Sound- Jug the keynote of the coming re- publican congressional campaign 1hroughout the nation, Representa- D. Fess of Ohio, chairman of republican natlonal congressional committee and senatorfal candidate, night declared that the republican gress had made good on every one *f the platform pledges of 1920 and at republican congressional candi- tes will face the voters this fall an “afirmative platform.” The #ddress was made before the Buck- Republican Club. ‘his campaign will be aggressive not defensive, because we are e the country with a rec- istructive legislation ac- which is the greatest and structive ever put through previous Congress in the his- of the nation. We have nothing to hide or be ashamed of,” said the congressman. - ed Press tive ce on and zoing befd ot complished, by any Itecord to Go Before Voters. \sserting that much which Congress has heen of international dealing with fundament- both national international. he said the repub- an party has “decided to go before rs with the record and un- the task of educating them real meaning and significance &l economic problem on t of what has been accomplished.” tee meeting Mr. Fess continued in part: “The problems to be solved by the Con- zress during the past two years were ready-made for the new administra- tion. They were created by the mis- tukes of the preceding administration — that is, they were made for and not by republican congressmen. “As legislators we have faced and suade good on the problem of reduc- ' ing the cost of living, cost+f govern- ment and the taxation burden on the citizensy of America. We through the adoption of the federal budget system established a perma- nent safeguard against further ex- travagance such as characterized the government in the preceding adminis- tration. us as Keeping With “We have arranged to finance the federal government by keeping within the budget and have arranged to rry immense special governmental ancial burdens and yet have re- duced the burden of taxation. “We have taken steps to fund th fwimense foreign debt which grew out of loans to the allied nations during the war. This is of immense signifi cance, as it means we have provided + ihe financing of these vast obliga tiona. Without these debts having been funded, the United States could not have collected the interest upon the debts. As it is, the Congress has placed these foreign debts upon a wasis whereby they can be financed by international bankers, such that the United States finds them avail- able in its governmental financlal op- erations. Had these debts not been funded by the Congress, it would have jneant they were practically merely « due bill and as such not available for banking use. yemoves the foreign debts from the yealm of politics and makes them a straight matter of finance. Three Pledges to Redeem. “The Congress has three problems 10 handle to complete the list of cam- paign pledges redeemed in full from | 1he 1920 campaign. These are enact- jnent of a federal ship subsidy law, ndoption of the bonus legislation and yevision of the tariff. “Some of these measures may not be fully understood by the voters in their 1eal slgnificance and actual effect upon the economics of the nation. It j= our speclal job to explain these juatters to the voters, so they will understand just what has been done. e will do so fully before election day. And we rest upon that showing, ¢atisfied that the voters, when they fully understand what has been done, will give hearty and unqualified in- dorsement to the Congress by electing & republican majority to carry on the * gplendid work of the past two years. Ship Subsidy for Labor. “As an instance of explanation, sake the ship subsidy biil; this is ab- polutely necessary legislation. It is yot designed to create an American mnerchant marine. That exists al- yeady. We have 10,000,000 tons of ghipping built by the government during the war at a lump cost of $3,- $00,000,000. Legislation is necessary 4¢ the government is not to lose that yast investment. “Fhe government cannot operate the enips. That's wasteful, as repeated experiments have shown In regard | 1o government operation of what is {jegitimately a private business en- terprise. The ship subsidy bill is not paying a premium to ships or ship owners. What It is in reality is a bsidy to American labor. American aw provides that ships sailing under American ownership or registry shall provide a andard of wages, work- r,.‘ and living condition for crews g:hich the shipping laws of ether n « Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) havei | The funding also | Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. | | 100 Mountaineers ‘ Converted; Promise | To Quit Moonshining Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 10.— More th 100 mountaineers of Page county got down on their knees during the t week and prayed long hard that their sing might be forgiven. The most common “sin” ap- peared to be moonshining, for after the am: army of moun- taineers profemsed converaion more than half of their number i | stepped forward and took the { | pledge that they would make | | | no more moonshine liguor. Some others seemed to be in doubt an to taking 'h a ste Religion seemingly heen accomplishing far more good than the tlireat of the law throughout the mount dis- | tricts, an has been evidenced by | the sucecss which the revival | meetings of Rev. J. H. Frid- | ley. a Methodist clergyman nt Joletts, have met. These mountaineers have heen but | mhooting revenue officers, | sive to the evamgelist. | i JONES RESOLUTION 15 UP TOMORROW | Will Fight for Right of Way With Workmen’s Com- pensation Bill. Both the Jones resolution for an investigation into the fiscal relations | between the District and federal gov- | | ernment and the Fitzgerald work men's compensation measure havi been ordered up for consideration b | the House tomorrow. Interest de- veloped last night over which would be called up first, for the measure giverf® the right of way tomorrow may delay indefinitely action on the other. Chairman Focht was out of town| last night and it was impossible to ascertain his plans. In the commit- Chairman Focht said that the Jones resolution could prob- ably be disposed of quickly and would not delay the Fitzgerald bill House leaders expressed a contrary view last evening and said that, in their best judgment, if the Jones resolution is brought up there will not be time for the Fitzgerald bill It.is known that the latter measure will be bitterly contested. The question of which will have right-of-way is important in view of the fact that tomorrow probably will be the last District day this ses- sion. The House leaders are plan- ning for a recess to start in a couple of weeks, and if they can arrange it there would probably be no more District legislation considered after tomorrow. Two Measures Sidetracked. | This means that some of the most important matters referred to the | House District committee will die in committee. For example, at the first meeting of the committee Chairman | Focht explained that his policy was to make legislation to force a merger ¢ the street railway companies and {a comprehensive, constructive school | program the major work of the com- | mittee. The bill designed to force a i street railway merger was sent back to the committee after the enacting clause was strictkn out in the House as a committee of the whole. The school program has never been re- ported from the subcommittee, which has been holding joint ses- sions with a Senate subcommittee. Another important plece of legis- lation of great importance to the District is to grant the now disin- tranchised resident of the National | | Capital voting representation in both branches of Congress and in the elec- tion of the President and Vice Presi- {ident. Several bills for District rep- | resentation or a District delegate in | Congress are still unacted upon in the judiciary and District com- mittees. The proposal for extension of 14th treet through the Walter Reed Hos- pital grounds, opening up an impor- tant new entrance to the National Cupital on the north and opening up & big area for suburban homes with improved street railway transporta- tion facilities, is before the military affairs committee. Representative Hully of Towa promised that hearings on this matter would start this week. Other Matters Delayed. Other important measures, which await action in the District commit- tee included additional judges for the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court; a traffio court with distinct jurisdiction; the pawnbrokers’ bill, which was recalled by the committee after having been unfinished business for @ couple of months in the House on District day; to restrict the sale of firearms in the District; for an investigation regarding the need Yor a new bridge to replace the Chain bridge; blue sky legislation; a Sun- day blue law; the pure milk bill fathered by the District health office, which requires milk to come from tuberculin-tested herds; to extend the District parkway to include conser-| vatiofl of the river banks and a great national park about Great Falls; a parkway to connect the old civil war forts; several proposals to amend the! District code; a new comprehensive banking act for the District. An effort is being made to put through legislation to permit the Bal- timore and Ohio rallroad to run a spur track into the square south of New York avenue and east of 1st) street northeast. A bitter fight has been made against this measure on the ground that it would lead to the encroachment of rallroad trestles and | committee. ! dollar of money contributed by office- | competitor. WASHINGTON, D. GEYSTONE RENS TAKEN ENTRELY BY LD GUARD Pinchot Has Choice of Lone Fight or Accepting Fellowship. COMMITTEE HONORS TO BAKER AND PEPPER “Must Abandon Assessments or I Run Separately,” Says Ex-Forester. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. | PHILADELPHIA, June 10.—As re- | sult of the selection by the republi- | can state committee today of W.| Harry Baker to be state chairman and United States Senator Pepper to be national committeeman, the organ- ization machinery of the republican party In this state is completely in the hands of the regular, or old-line, republicans. Consequently, it will de- volve upon Mr. Pinchot to decide for himselt whether he will cast in his lot with the regular party organiza- tion or play a lone hand. This does not mean that Mr. Pin- chot and his faction are ostracized. On the contrary the hand of fellow- ship was held out by the regulars, who for obviously utilitarian reasons, if for no higher political motives, de- sire haemony in the party. The state committee unanimously re-elected Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton vice hairman, and in doing so obliterated actional lines. There are members of the Pinchot faction on the commit- tee. but in the minority. { One important fact should be borne in mind—today’s selection of the old- line candidate, W. Harry Baker, for | state chairman, was not by the “hana picking” progress. This state com- mittee was chosen at the primaries, May 16 last. and therefore comes di- rectly from the electorate. To be sure, many of them were re-elected, rep- resenting the old organization, but the sallent point is that it there was any violent and majority revolution in the republican electorate, the time to have shown it was when the pri- maries were held, from which may be deduced the conclusion that the re- publican voters, in the mass, prefer to run along with the old manner of management. Greeted With Cheers. The difference between the old line and the progressive style of manage- ment was graphically illustrated by Senator Pepper today in his address to the committee. He sald it would be futile to deny that there are two elements in the party—those who rely on organization and practical methods and those “who depend upon contagious enthusiasm in the pur- suit of great ideals.” This pointed differentiation aroused a storm of applause. He did not decry the ideal, but upheld it, though insisting upon practical organization as well. One of the most tumultuous epi- sodes of the meeting was when Maj. Reed, the other candidate for United States senator, declared that he woula abide by all decislons of the com- mittee, as he “did ‘mot hold himself bigger than the committee or bigger than the party.” This utterance brought the “hard-boiled” politicia: to their feet with shouts of applau: Mr. Pinchot, in addressing the com- mittee, declared for harmony and fer team work among all republicans. In the next breath, almost, he served notice that unless the committee re- pudiated the policy of assessment of officeholders for campaign purposes he would organize his own campaign He would not accept a holders under compulsion. The two senatorial candidates, while rejecting the policy of assess- ment, thought the committee could be trusted with working out a fiscal policy. Messrs. Pinchot, Pepper and Reed were all agreed, and with evi- dent seriousness and sincerity, in be- speaking and promising harmony of action for all the tickets—governor- ship, senatorial, national House of Representatives and state legislative. Deep Feeling Manifest. That there is deep ieeling between the two factions is indisputable. How far it will be submerged in working to a common end, is a ques- tion. The Pinchot faction undoubted- 1y is deeply chagrined over failure to elect its chairman. This was shown %when Joseph R. Grundy re- fused io agree to make Chairman Baker’s election unanimous. To the practical political mind the question is presented how either fac- tion can get along without the other to avoid losing some of the candi- dates on the state ticket. It does not seem to be on the cards that Pinchot can be defeated, because the old line republicans do not want to let the patronage of the governorship g0 to the democrats. Neither does it seem credible that either of tue sena- torial candidates can lose, because one of them, Maj. Reed, was unop- posed in the primaries, and the oth- er had a smashing majority over his But there mjght"be some casualties elsewhere down the list of candidates If the two factions resort to_the knife on election day. Notice was served by several woman speakers that the women's vote will have to be accaunted for and that it 1s not hidebound. It would seem that more women in the state committee voted for Baker, the old line candidate, for chairman than for Pinchot's man. .To Mra. 'ar- burton will the task of co; fat- ing her sistér voters before N ber, and. she is & good rep r No precise forecast for the future | coal dumps along North tol | in this state is- possible- until Mr. street all the way from New York | Pinchot demonstral by . word, and avenue to Unfon Station, destroying |deed, whether he intands .to fall in church, school snd hospital proper- ties. i r's line with the majority organisation or play for ‘his own hand. & C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1922.—EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES. A PROBLEM. BIDS T0 BE ASKED ON NEW AQUEDUCT Maj. Tyler Will Push Work to Save Danger of Water Famine. The first step toward building Washington's new water supply sys- tem will be taken this week, when Maj. M. C. Taylor, engineer officer in charge of the agueduct, will adver- tise for bids to begin construction. Although the District appropriation bill, carrying funds for the water project, has not yet become a law, the engineer office will seek bids im- mediately, so that dirt will begin to fly as soon as possible after the bill passes. ‘The advertisement for bids will g0 out June 17 #nd the proposals re- ceived from contraetors will be open- ed on July 17. No time will be lost In letting contracts after that date. The appropriation bill as it now stands makes $1,500,000 immediately available and authorizes the engl- neer's office to contract for $1,450,000 mor Line to Reservoir First. Realizing the danger of a water shortage which Washington will con- tinue to face until the new supply line is finished, Maj. Tyler intends to build the conduit from Great Falls to Dalecarlia reservoir first and let the new filtration plant and additional reservoir be the last part of the proj- ect. Maj. Tyler said yesterday that work on the conduit will be started simul- taneously at three points on the nine- mile stretch from Great Falls to the District. It is probable that the building of the big supply pipe will be going on at the Great Falls end, the District end and midway between the two terminals. It is the hope of the engineers to have eight of the nine miles of con- duit built within two years. Maj. Tyler explained that when the conduit {8 completed it can be put into service immediately, without waliting for completion of the new filtration plant and reservoirs. The new supply line will parallel the existing conduit on the river side. The old conduit is circular in shape, nine feet in diameter, and constructed of brick and stone ma- sonry. The new conduit will be built of concrete and will have a horse- shoe shape. The two huge water tubes will be connected by cross-sections at sev- .eral points so that short stretches of either conduit may be emptied at any time for repairs. No Chamce for Repairs. The greatest menace which the city faces today is the fact that the sin- gle conduit cannot be closed long enough to permit of extensive re- pairs, which are bound to become necessary in the course of time in a brick tunnel carrying milllons of gal- ions of water every day. Although the 435,000 residents of Washington have cause to rejoice that the additional water supply. for which they have been waiting so many years 18 soon to be a reality, officials of the District water department hope that they will not cease to save water during the two or three summers that must elapse before the new conduit Is in service. Industrial plants using large quanti- ties of water and householders are urged to save the preglous fluld during theze hot months of the year, when the exis ing reservoirs are taxed nearly to their capacities. FARMER SLAIN, WIFE SHOT Armed Men Seek Negro Assailant in Texas. FORT WORTH, Tex., June 10.— Park Rayburn, a farmer near Car- thage, was shot ai killed and his wife seriously wounded today by a n , Zack King. Armed men are scouring the country for King. Rayburn, it is ‘said, went to’King’'s house to rebuke him for breaking ‘window es. Kb chased hin urn armed hiz wife r‘;{lmd. STILL OF 900 GALLONS SEIZED NEAR QUANTICO; _MARINES’ TRUCK AIDS Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., June 10.—A 900- gallon copper still, the largest ever { captured in Virginia, was found by prohibition officers about five miles from Quantico yesterday. With the still were taken 104 gallons of whisky., while 18,000 gallons of mash were destroyed. The big still. other paraphernalia and nineteen dozen half-gallon con- tainers were so bulky that officers called for help from Quantico, and marines were dispatched with a big truck to bring the material to camp. Warrants have been sworn out for four men alleged to have been oper- ating the still. When discovered the moonshine factory was merrily bubbling, the mash going through the still for the second time. State Prohibition Commissioner H. B. Smith said the su_%wu 200 gal- lons larger than the huge one cap- tured recently in Goochland county. By the Arsociated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 10.—Fed- eral prohibition agents, operating in Virginia, captured 101 complete il- licit distilleries during the month of May, according to figures compiled by Federal Prohibition Director Fulweiler. In addition, seventy-five incomplete plants were seized and 123 arrests made. For the five months of this year the federal dry agents have made 567 arrests for prohibition law violations and de- stroyed 493 stills, according to Ful- weiler's report. 'ROME SENDS PHOTO BYRADIOTOU.S. Amazing Feat Proves Basic Long-Distance Transmis- sion Method Sound. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 10.—A photo- graph transmitted by ‘wireless Harbor, Maine, is reproJuced in Sun- day editions of the World. The process by which the feat of modern sclence was performed was invented by Dr. Arthur Korn, pro- tessor of electrophysics at the Berlin High School of Technology. Forty minutes from the time the photograph was “filed” at the radjo station in Rome it had been taken in by @ naval radio operator at Bar Harbor. Method Proved Sound. The World points out that the ex- periment, while far from perfect, shows the way to an achievement that seems now to-be in the near future. Over shorter distances and under more favorable conditions pictures have been transmitted with surpri ing clarity of detail. The picture reproduced in the World is evidence, it is said, that the basic method of transmission is sound and that with refinements of the mechanical process and certain elaborations of their. use it may soon be possible to have pictorial reports of events throughout the. world speedily and as accurately as written descriptions. 23 Years Invention, Dr. Rorn has been working on ‘his invention since 1900. His sending m: chine does the translating ot coding automatically and the receiving ma- chine decodes back into a picture automatitally. The photographs are translated at the sending end into groups of letters, each letter repre- senting a certain degrse of darkness or lightness and the code words form- ed by the groups are sent as in'an or- dinary message. i 3 —_—— announced .at Brighton. of:the Earl of Westmoreland,- who. . was-aide ‘de camp to King George. three years ofd. - ° telegraphy from Rome, Italy, to Bar! | DEATH OLAIMS .EARL.AT 63.| include: Attorney Gene: LONDON, ‘June 10.—The - death -ig| | erty.> ‘The plan was said to be to He was sixty- |SENATE CANVASS FAVORS BONUS 3 Informal Straw Vote Dis- closes 20 Republicans and 10 Democrats Opposed. Informal canvasses made by lead- ing opponents of the soldiers’ bonus bill were said yesterday to have dis- closed a Senate majority for the measure of practically three to one. This compares with the nearly five to one vote by which the bill passed the House. Both sides in the impending fight were understood to have found some satisfaction in the result of the can- vasses. Opponents said defeat of any o rule to limit debate on the bill practically was assured, while some proponents pointed out that if a three-to-one majority could be held there would be.the necessary votes, to pass the memgure over President] Harding’s veto 'should he disapprove it, a» some opponents contend that he | will if passed in Its present form. Thirty senators were listed as def- initely against the amended House bill with this number possibly to be augmented by one Senstor, who is absent from Washington and whose position has not yet been definitely established. The thirty senators were divided, twenty on the republican side and ten on ‘he democratic side. A number of senators, who are counted now as supporters of the present bill if no different one can be | put through, will join in a fight to amend the measure reported by the finance committee. Some of them favor a cash feature with other im- portant changes, but the extent to which it will be possible to change the pending bill is regarded now as problematical. OIL MAGNATE ASKS LOVE BALM FROM ACTRESS Defendant in $50,000 Suit Says| Texas Rancher Is “Second Jake Hamon.” CHICAGO, June 10.—John R. Rob- erts, Texas rancher and wealthy oil man, has filed the praecipe of a $50, 000 breach ‘of promise suit against Mis: Gladys Wells, actress, now of Chi- cago. “Because he presented me with furs and jewels, valued, he claimed, at $50,000, I was his property,” Miss Wells said. “He was a friend of Jake Hambn before the latter was killed in OkTa- homa and it was a Jake Hamon case in every respect. . “I moved to Mexia, Tex., where he lived, and during two years there he used to hurl such words at me as: ‘1 bought ‘your soul. You belong to me He demanded that I marry him and pestered me until I was frantic. I had to escape from him and I left him “six months ago, hiding like & fugitive. What he wants, I think, is to force me to marry him or return his gifts.” ' Roberts is sald to have hecome wealthy overnight when oil was dis- coveréd on his ranch. PRESIDENTIAL PARTY LEAVES UNEXPECTEDLY ON ‘MAYFLOWER TRIP President Harding, accompanied by Mrs. Harding and a small party of friends, left Washington unex- pectedly early last night for an over-Sunday cruise on the May- flower. No announcement Was made from the White House of ‘the ; Euests . of ‘the Presideht and Mrs. ' Harding, but they were known to Daugh- remain in Chesapeake bay without ‘to Yuum tomorrow morn- Member The Associated Press is exclusively enmtitlied to the use for republication of all bews tehes credited to it or not otberwise crdited in this paper and also the local news published hercin. of the Associated Press ANl rights of publication of speeial dispatches Berein are also reserved. == GUARD KATO AGAINST ATTACK WHEN HE IS FAVORED FOR PREMIER By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 10.—Popular feel- ing is running so high over the recommendation of the Genro that Admiral Baron Kato regarded by many of the people as a reac- tionary, be asked to form a cabi- net to succeed that of Viscount Takahashi, that the admiral's resi- dence is being closely guarded. Constitutionalists, supported by a majority of vernacular papers, are carrying on a vigorous campaign against the formation of a bureau- cratic or non-party cabinet such as they declare Kato's would be. Parades formed in protest against the Kato-for-premier movement visited the residence of the ad- miral and of Genro members. Kato | is sounding out his friends on the situation and is reported to have decided to refuse the premiership unless he can obtain the strongest possible cabinet. * ON SMELL OF RUM él,OOO Quarts Seized on Naval Vessel Under Guard at Norfolk. | | i |60 CASES GO OVERBOARD Mysterious Source of Carge From West Indies to Be Investigated. By the Associated Press NORFOLK, Va.. June 10.—Approxi- mately 1,000 quarts of liquor, valued at more than $10,000, were seized by | the marine guard of the navy vard to- ! day in a raid on the naval transport Sirius under orders of Rear Admiral Philip Andrews. commandant of the | Norfolk navy vard. Officers and men | of the ship are confined to their ship { under guara. | The Sirlus is commanded by Com- | mander W. J. Kelton, U. S. N. R. F. {and Ensign Harry C. Mechtold, pay- ! master, in charge of cargo. Both |were among those confined the to { phip at the time of the raid, but Ad-| Andrews announced tonight with some other officers ‘miral | that they, | the vessel. Information came to Admiral An- drews that a strong smell of whisk was evident in cargo being unloaded from the Sirius onto barges along- side for shipment to the naval sup- ply station at the naval base. Wait- | ing until the barges had been loaded Admiral Andrews ordered a search of the contents of the shipment and then had the ship searched by the marine guard. Vessel Placed Under Guard. Guards were placed on board the transport and alongside the vessel at the dock and orders were issued for- bidding any one to board the vessel lor to come ashore without orders from the commandant. While search of the ship was in progress it was reported that sixty cases of whiskey was thrown over- board by members of the crew. The Sirius returned roads about a week ago from the ‘West Indies and has been at the navy yard since. The whisky, according to information received from Admiral Andrews, was put aboard the vessel as cargo at one of the West Indian ports. The commanding officer of the Sirfus, according t¢ Admiral Andrews, was detached from the vessel today and ordered to the receiving barracks at the naval base. i Inquiry Board Convenes. | A board of investigation has been | convened, and until the board has made its report it is doubtful whether charges will be preferred against any of the officers or members of the crew of the vessel The liquor cargo was mot listed on the vessel's manifest, and there was 5o method of ascertaining today at which port the contraband was load- ed. The whisky, In thirteen large packing cases, was consigned to the marine quartermaster depoti at the naval operating base. R. Hamilton, collector of customs, that the liquor would be retained under guard at the navy yard for the present. Mr. Hamilton said that his office was notified by naval officials of the arrival of the Sirius last week from the West Indies and a customs inspector boarded the ves- sel and received the statement of the commanding officer that the vessel carried no contraband cargo, and it was entered. —_— LENIN’S CONDITION GRAVE Soviet Mission in Berlin Says It Has No News. BERLIN, June 10.—The soviet mis- sion here claims to be without news regarding the condition of Premier Lenin, although the inference is per- mitted that his condition is con- sidered grave. : George Tchitcherin and his per- sonal staff are still in Berlin. —_— THREE KILLED AT CROSSING. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 10.—A man, woman and boy were killed and three other children were seriously injured today when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania rail- road train at Absecon. The dead man is belleved to have been John H. Stratton “of Atlantic City, and men, had been permitted to leave |. to Hampton | Admiral Andrews notified Norman | today | FIVE CENTS. BANKERS EXPLAIN DELAY IN MAKING LOAN TO GERMANY {Morgan Says Lack of Allied Unanimity Halts U. S. i Investors. | REPARATIONS MUDDLE | ALSO HELD OBSTACLE American Financier Denies French Charge That Committee Aimed | at Cutting Berlin Debt. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 10.—Complete agree ment among the allles on repara- tions, & solvent Germany and settle | ment once for all of the full repars- tions debt, the international bank ers’ committee finds in its repor: to the reparations commission are essential to the success of an Inter | national loan to Germany. ! In view of the fact that these con ditions are lacking and because of the objections of France to a revi sion of the total reparations dus {from Germany, the committee hax { decided to suspend its study of the question, though confident that substantial loan to Germany could be floated if these conditions were fulfilled, and it holds itself ready to resume consideration of the question on the unanimous invitation of the reparations comjmittee. The committee recognizes that there is @ certain dependency of a repara tion settiement upon the question of the interallied war debts, which i outside of the committee’s jurisdic {tien, and it points out the danger jof a collapse of German credit if the | negotiations for a settlement are tou long delayed. A short-term interin | loan, however, could be made, which would remove that danger. But short-term small loan, it is said, | weald be of no benefit to certain of the allies, who would receive little or none of the proceeds. French Delegate Dissents. | The French delegate, Charles Ser geant, dissented from the report saying he was unable to accept any | reductions in German liability under the treaty of Versailles or any dimi- nution whatever of France's rights under the treaty. “The committee decided that could not usefully continue the stud: as it was extremely unxious that nv action of the commitiee should | injure the interests of France, and that it France did not at the present time desire any inquiry into the | more general conditions necessary | for re-establishing of Germany's ex- { ternal credit the committee did not | feel justinied in undertaking that in- quiry. . Solution of the European economic problems in o far as they depend for | their solution upca an international it | 1oan to Germany, in which the Ameri- | can investor would take part, is not | possible without a general settle- | ment of the reparations question, and | only as a part of such settlement, de- | clared J. Pierpont Morgan, New York banker, in a statement made tonight. sites Lacking. ‘ Two Re { Mr. Morgan, the American repre sentative on the international com mittee of bankers which has been ad | vising with the allied reparations commission concerning the possibility of an international loan to Germany !said that in his opinion the two funda | mental conditions of American par- ticipation in such an enterprise were unanimity among the lenders and th | establishment of the credit of thw | borrower. | The reparations commission, by | voting three to one to the effect tha ! the committee of bankers should dix | cuss all questions which might hav. |a bearing upon the general re-estab | lishment of German credit, Mr. Mor gan sald, had shown that the first | condition, namely, unanimity, had not been met. Official French govern ment statements, made white the bamkers were deliberating, to the ef fect that they were attempting to decrease - the German debt, and that this could not be tolerated by the French government, had served to convince the bankers that the sec lond condition, the establishment of | Germany's credit, could not be met. | He declared, however, that the com | mittee had never thqught that it had any power to pass upon the sums ow | ing by the German government, but merely that it had been requested to advise the reparations commission as to a basis upon which Germany could raise a loan. He sald there had been no discussion of capital amounts reparations, but only of a possible arrangement of the annual payments and these, either in cash or in kind were the only method whereby Ger- many could effect payment of her just debts. Statement by Morgan. The text of Mr*Morgan’s statement follows. | “When 1 was invited by he repas { rations commission to serve on the bankers’ committee 1 had some hesi- tation in accepting. as it appeared that under the terms of the con: ference 1 could accomplish littie more by coming to Paris than by cable advice from New York. Upou further consideration, however, 1 felt that the matter was of such enor- ‘mous importance to Europe and also’ to the United States because of its commercial relations with Europe. I could not well refuse. Therefore, in the hope that something constructive could be arrived at, T came purely as & private citizen, holding no au- thority from my government to dis- nued on umn