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. I ended at 10 p.m. last nij H!Theu, 86.3; ldwest. Full report on page §. No. 908.— No. 28,602. WEATHER. Partly cloudy today; tomorrow air. 5 ‘Temperature for twenty. 0 hours gh! 68.3. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. = WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1922.-;SEVENTY-TWO PAGES. { ——— : Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusis e tee- Tor republication of Al negs Bisneiohie credited to It or not otherwise credited in this Pap@ and also the iocal news published berein. All rights of publication of wpecial 5 ‘ I dispatches herein are aiso reserved. _l - FIVE CENTS SENATE APPROVES - TARIFF MEASURE BY 48-10:25 VOTE G. 0. P. Leaders Say Joint Conference on Bill to Last But Thirty Days. ESTIMATED TO NET U. S. $400,000,000 FIRST YEAR Borah Ballots With Opposition, While Three Democrats Vote to Adopt Schedules. By the Associated Press. The aaministration tariff bill, offi- cially “the tariff act of 1922 was passed late yesterday by the Senate after four months of debate. It now goes to conference. The vote was 48 to 25. Sepator Borah of Idaho was the only republican to vote against the measure. Three democrats—Brous- sard, Kendrick and Ransdell—voted for it. The roll call follows: For the bill: Republicans—Ball, Brandegee, Bursum, Calder, Cameron, Capper, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Dii- lingham, Edge, Ernst, France, Fre- linghuysen, Gooding. Hale. Harreld, Jones of Washington, Kellogg, Keyes. Lonroot, Lodge, McCormick, McCum- ber, McLean, McNary, Moses, Nelson. New, Newberry, Nicholson, Norbeck. ©Oddie, Pepper, Phipps, Rawson, Reed of Pennsylvania, Shortridge. Smoot, Stanfield. Sterling. Sutherland, Wads- worth, Warren and Watson of Indi- ana—45. Democrats—Broussard, Ken- drick and Ransdell Total, 48. Against the bil Republicans— Borah—1. Democrats—Ashurst, Cul- berson. 1, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Heflin, Hitchcock, Jones of New Mex- jco. McKellar, Myers, Overman, Reed | of Missouri, Robinson. Sheppard, Shields, Simmons, Smith, Stanley. Swanson, Trammell, Underwood, Walsh of Massachusetts, and Walsh of Montana—24. Total—. Two Paired; Twenty-One Absent. Senators present but unable to vote because paired, Harrison and Pom- crene. democrats—2. Senators absent were: Republicans— Du Pont, Elkins, Fernald, Johnson, ladd, La Follette, McKinley, Norris, | Tuge, Poindexter, Spencer, Townsend, Weller and Willis—14. Democrats—Caraway, Harris, K Owen. Pittman, Watson of Georg! and Williams—7. Senators Harrison and Pomerene announced that had they been per- mitted to vote they would have voted inst the bill, and the same an- nouncement was made in behalf of the seven democratic absentees. It was stated also that had Senators La Follette and Norris been present they would have voted against the measure, while the other twelve re- publican absentees would have voted for it. Senators Lenvoot and Jones of Waskington, republicans, announced that they supported the bill because of the provisions giving the President Lroad authority to increuse or deerease rates and in the hopes that the Senate and House confereces would reduce rates which they considered excessive. Senator Lerroot said that if this were not done he would vote against the conference report. Conferees Are Named. Immediately after the passage of the bill, Senator Cummins of Iowa, president pro tempore, announced the appointment of the Senate conferees: | Chairman McCumber and Senators | Smoot of Utah and McLean of Con- necticut, republicans, and Simmons of North Carolina and Jomes of New Mexico, democrats. Senator McLean is the fourth ranking republican on the finance committee, and was named! in place of Senator La Follette, who, under the usual rule, would have drawn the assignment, but who is op- posed to the bi}l The measure will be returned to the House tomorrow with a formal re- quest for a conference. Republicans of the House ways and means com- mittee. at a meeting vesterday, de- cided to have the measure sent to conference under a special rule, in- stead of to the ways and means com- mittee for preliminary consideration, a course that was suggested some time ago. American valuation will be the biggest issue in conference, but the general belief at the Capitol is that the House will yleld on this, ac- cepting the Senate “flexible” tariff plan as a substitute. Chairman Fordney said yesterday he would Wpld out for American valua- tion, asking instructions from the House. Under this plan the House would decide the issue by a direct vote, and the confcrees then would proceed with their work of adjusting the 2,000codd points In dispute be- tween the two houses. Mr. Fordney thought the work could be completed within a month, and the same view POCKET IS PICKED IN POLICE PATROL ON WAY TO COURT An unconcerned thief relieved Henry B. Allen of $14 yesterday morning while he was being escorted from the fourth precinct station to Police Court In the patrol wagon. And to the chagrin of the police, the loss was not discovered until Allen, still suf- fering from the effects of a hang- over, was halled before Judge Rob- ert Hardison. Allen was arrested the previdls night and charged with being intoxi- cated. The money was held by the fourth precinct police until the man was placed in the patrol for the trip to the courthouse, when it was again intrusted to his keeping. Several other prisoners were in the wagon with Allen, and when he searched for his wealth upon reach- ing the tribunal he discovered that a pickpocket had gone through his clothing unusually well during the brief trip. Judge Hardison severely criticized the police not only for failing to take proper care o ftheir prisoner, but alsc | for bringing him into vourt \while he was still suffering from the et- fects of alcoholism. He was ordered to a hospital for medical treatment and will be tried later. PECO COLPIE CUT 5PER GV §0-Day Supply Drops to 15 Since Fuel Control Enforced. ABBATOIR ALSO HARD HIT Benning Meat Storage Plant Faces Shutdown Wednesday Unless Fire Feed Replenished. The ecoal reserve of the Potomac Electric Power Company has gone down to a fifteen-day supply, it was learned at the office of the Public Utilitles Commission yesterday. Walter C. Allen, executive secretary to the commission, said officlals of the company were making every ef- fort to replenish the stock in storage at the Benning generating station. When the utilities commisison be- gan control of the fuel situation two weeks ago the power company, which furnishedes practically all of the cur- rent consumed in Washington, had a thirty-day eupply of coal. Since that time shipments have not been arriv- ing as regularly. The Washington Abbatoir Company at Benning, where a large stock of meat is stored, sought the aid of the commission yesterday to get an emergency coal order. This plant, Is was stated, has only enough coal to last until Wednesday. It is expected that in the meantime the commission will endeavor to get an additional supply for the abbatoir. Mr. Allen is easily the busiest man in the District building these days. Every day a steady stream of busi- ness men flow in and out of his office, seeking aid to obtaln coal. A number of restaurant kéepers who use coal-burning ranges fn their kitchens have been among Mr. Allen’s callers. TROOPS ARE RUSHED " T0 RALROAD SHOPS Trouble Feared at Spencer, N. C., Following Employment of Non-Union Men. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, August 19.—Five hundred National Guardsmen, the largest body of troops ever called out in a peace-time emergency in North Carolina, were ordered by Gov. Mor- rison today to Spencer, East Spencer 2nd Salisbury, where, according to representations of Southern Railwidy officials and the sheriff of Rowan county, the situation brought about by the attempt of the railroad to man its big shops with non-union workers is menacing. 5 Col. Don Scott of Graham, com- manding the 120th Infantry, is in command of the nine organizations, including a hospital detachment, that went into service at designated points in the strike area this afternoon. The froops, according to a statement is- sued by Gov. Morrison, are instructed to “uphold the law and respect every right of the striking laborers, protect life and property and to keep the peace.” — FIRE DESTROYS BLOCKS. WEST NEWTON, Pa, August 19.— was entertained by Senate leaders. There still was gossip at the Capi- tol that the bill might get into a deadlock in conference and there die, but majority leaders declared the conferees would report the measu out and that’ it probably would be ready for the President next month. Third Rewriting Likely. The judgment of leadefs generally, howaever, is that it will be rewritten in conference. If o it will be the third rewriting” since it passed the House on July 21, 1921. Two business blocks in the heart of the town and five ‘dwellings were dentroyed by fire here tonight. The blaze started in Seiskindu's butcher shop and rapidly ate its way to ad- joining structures. The Markle and the Melender blocks were destroyed. Loss was estimated at more than $100,000 before the blase was put under control. g HUGE OIL FIRM FORMED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., August 19.—In- STORE CLERK SLAIN BY ROBBERS FRIEND TOOK FOR JESTERS Samuel Frey, 33, Killed and John P. Taylor, Manager, Shot Through Neck. PUSHED ASIDE GUN AIMED AT HEAD BY NEGROES Masked Men Make Escape After ! Murder in Northeast—Boys ;‘ Furnish Description. | His friend's belief that a well plan- ‘ ned hold-up was a practical joke cost iSamuel Frey, thirty-three vears old, | Seat Pleasant, Md., his life last night, | when he was shot down by one of two masked colored men attempting to rob a meat market at 405 61st strest northeast, where Frey was tempo- rarily employed as clerk. John P. Taylor, also thirty-three years of age, manager of the store, was shot through the neck and probably will recover. The negroes escaped. Frey, who was standing behind the counter, was felled with a bullet fired { point-blank at his face from an au- | tomatic revolver held at close range | when Manager Taylor, thinking the { affair a joke, started to brush the ! hold-up men aside. At the same time Taylor was shot through the neck, miraculously escaping death, the bul- let coming from a small pistol, ap- parently of toy size, held by the other negro. Dashed From Store. Immediately fololwing the shooting the men dashed from the store. At a late hour-last night headquarters detectives and police of the ninth precinct were Scouring the nearby countryside for the assassins, on de- scription furnished by two small boys who saw the men escape from the premises. Taylor was rushed to Casualty Hospital in an ambulance of that in- stitution, where Dr. Gardia dressed his wounds. It was found that a bullet had entered the left side of his nmeck, traversed the fiesh close to the jugular vein and emerged at the back of the neck. His injury would have been fatal if the bullet had sone slightly to one side, it was sald. Sitting upright in a chair in the operating room of the hospital last night, Tayior, displaying remarkable nerve, discussed the shooting freely with a Star reporter as the phy- siclans dressed his injuries. Thought Pistol a Toy. “A group of customers had just left the store and Frey and myself were alone when the men came into the place,” Taylor said. “Frey was behind the meat counter and I was in front of the counter, toward the center of the store. The negroes wore handkerchiefs below their eyes and one carried an automatic and the other a small revolver, which I supposed was a toy cap pistol. “‘Hold up your hands, both of you," said one of the men, pushing the small pistol toward my face. Think- ing it was only a couple of colored tellows playing a joke, I noncha- lantly brushed the gun aside and laughingly told them to cut out the foolishness. Almost simultaneously the automatic held by the other negro blazed forth and Frey crumpied up at the end of the counter, near the refrigerator, where he had moved, I now think, to block entrance be- hind the counter to the cash regis- ter, which held a good amount of money, acoumulated from Satur- day's business. Just thenm, too, I closed my eyes and felt a pain shoot through my neck. I took out my handkerchief and mopped away the blood, and when help came they car- ried me here.” Nerve Wins Admiration. The extraordinary grit manifested by Taylor in spite of his close call and his torn neck won the admiration of attendants at the hospital last night. He was allowed to go to his home, 1314 11th street southeast, there to remain in bed until the hole through his neck heals. Unless com- plications set in he will recover. From descriptions of the murderers furnished the police last night by Taylor and several persons who wit- nessed the escape, both of the men were young, one being about twenty years old and the other about twenty- three. The younger one was estimat- ed to be about five feet four inches tall, slender in build, of yellow com- plexion and wearing a dark suit and light cap. His accobmplice was about five feet seven inches tall, medium build, dark-brown skinned gnd wore a dark blue “monkey-back” suit, hav- ing a slit in the back. Lieut. Burlingame of the ninth precinct, who was in the neighbor- hood when the hold-up occurred, arrived on the scene as Patrolman Steele of the same precinct was re- portirxg the affair to the station house. Steele reached the store about five minutes after the shosting. Found Lying on Back. The dead man wag found lying at the counter entrance, flat on his back, arms outstretched, drenched in blood. Small cakes, finished weighing and placing in a sack, were scattered about. It is believed death was instantaneous. ‘Headquarters Detectives King and Final action on the bill ‘by the|corporation papers ,were filed with|Walsh have been assigned to the case. Senate was witnessed by crowded| the Secretary of State here today by | Detectives Davis, Kuehling-and Ger- galleries and many members of the House, who found nlaces on the Senate floor. In the last few min- utes before the vote, the séna- Mammioth Oil Company of Dela- re, capitalized at $200,500,000 and osganized by the Sinclair Ofl inter- ests, to develop the Teapot Dome tors relaxed after the loi strain | naval reserve under a contract se- {Continued on Page 10, Column 1) man, and Sergt. Thompson of . the ninth precinct hurried to the little store soon after word was flashed to the station house. Detectives Kuehl- ing_and German scoured the whole which Frey had just HOPE 10 PREVENT ENTENTE BREAK Reparation Mission’s Trip to Berlin Final Effort to Solve Situation. MEET WIRTH TOMORROW British Member and His Associates on Way From Paris Headquarters. By the Associated Press. X PARIS, August 19.—Departure ot! the reparations mission for B(-r]ln' i tonight marked the beginning of its final effort to find a temporary solu- tion of the German indemnity prob- lem acceptable to both French and British public opinion and thersby prevent the threatened independent actlon by France, with a consequent breaking up of the entente. Sir John Bradbury, British member of the commission, and his associates left Paris at 7:40 o'clock and will arrive at Berlin tomorrow night. They have an appointment to see Chancellor Wirth Monday morning. Relative to the departure of this mission French official circles have rénewed with increased vigor the French plan for a comprehensive repargtion settlement, which Premier Poincare would have presented at| London but for the refusal of Mr. Lloyd George to permit discussion of | the allied debts. The reparations commission s being unofficially urged to take up the plan now that the governments themselves have failed to solve the problem. Briefly, the scheme pro- vides for a reduction of the interest- bearing reparations to fifty billion gold marks, including both cash and merchandise, and the gradual cancel- lation of the remainder of the 132,- 000,000,000 marks indemnity. U. S. Claims in Abeyance. This 82,000,000,000 gold marks would be canceled proportionately, as the fifty billions are paid by Ger- many and as the inter-allied debts are canceled. The plan leaves the United States claims in abeyance for adjustment later, the point being made _that the allled debts to the United States cannot at this time be considered with the general repar- ation settlement. The reparations commission would welcome the opportunity to settle the quesfion in such & broad way, but it is realized that the governments would have to give the commission special authority to proceed with such plans. Both the French and British officials regard some general sottlement such as the French pro- posal inevitable, but impossible at the present time. The purpose, therefore, of the com- mission is to find a temporary com- promise which would bridge the in- terval between now and November or Dedember by which time, it is expected, the allies will be ready formally to consider cancellation of debts and reduction of indemnity. ‘Whether such a scttlement would be left to the reparations commission (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) By the Associated Press. { JOHNSTOWN, Pa., August 19.—The Johnstown oasis was only a mirage and tonight Mayor Joseph 'Cauffiel sald he was satisfied with the “ac- tion” which followed his edict to saloon keepers and brewers that they eould make and sell real beer. The mayor was dissatisfied with the dry enforcement machinery and last night he issued his order and promised not to prosecute any dis- penser of pure beer. He said it was his idea to rid thé town of bootleg- gers and sellers of poisonous liquors. The “action” which the mayor to- night- said pleased him. was the ar- gival here of additionsl dry agents ) ’;5 STREET SMOKING RIGHTS OF WOMEN LEFT UNSETTLED NEW YORK, August 19.—Women of New York are still in the dark about their “right to smoke” on the streets, becausc Police Commissioner Enright today declined to give his opinion on the one case in point until it comes before him officially. When asked what position he would take on ths action of a patrolman who was said to have rapped the knuckles of Mrs. May Sladden after forbidding her to smoke on the street last night, he said: “The matter has not been officially brought before me and I have noth- ing to say at this time.” SENATE 10 TARE P BONUS WEDNESDAY Twe-Day- Recess Voted, M to 16, to Allow Respite After Tariff Struggle. The soldiers’ bonus bill, as a con- sequence of passage of the tarift bill vesterday, becomes the pending legislation before the Senate. The bonus measure was laid before the! Senate automatically but debate was deferred until next Wednesday, the Senate taking an adjournment over to give members a brief rest after their long tariff fight. Objection by Semators. A number of senators objected strenuously to even the brief re- cess ordered until Wednesday. Senator Robinson, democrat, Arkan- sas, lel a fight for immediate con- sideration of the bonus measure, be- ginning tomorrow, but his motion to adjourn until tomorrow was de- feated, 44 to 18, and the Senate adopted a motion by Senator Lodge of Massachusettes, republican leader, to adjourn until Wednesday. On both motions all party lines were divided and the roll calls gave no test of strength between advocates and opponents of the bonus measure, a large number of the former being found among the supporters of the Lodge motion, which was adopted, 46 to 16 May Seek Further Delay. Senator Lodge said he was. as anxious as any one to reach a final vote on the bonus measure, but knowing that many senators had made engagements and were tired after the four-month tarift battle, no time would be saved by proceed- ing immediately with the bill to- morrow. Senator Robinson and also Senator Jones, democrat, New Mexi- co, sald the question was not one of personal convenience of senators and that senators had had two months notice that the banus bill was to be ‘taken up immediately after the tariff. When the Senate reconvenes fort would be made to adjourn until the following Monday, but there was doubt whether such a motion would prevail over the wishes of those de- manding immediate consideration of the bonus bill JOHNSTOWN OASIS MIRAGE, ’ BUT MAYOR “GETS ACTION” chief federal this district. placed in temporary chatge. Johnstown's saloons, as a whole, prohibition agent In illegal alcoholic content. thort time and did a rushing business. “Efforts to close saloons throu; sary. Next week there will be thousand men in Johnstown attend- poisoned. Yes, 1 got action.” Wednesday it was said that an ef-| and the dismissal of O. R. Stiffier, gent E. A. Spragg was failed to offer their patrons beer of But some took advantage of the offer for a police power,” the mayor said 'to™ night, “were not very successful, so I 1 decided something drastic was neces- RSl a ing & convention, and with the trash that they sell’ in the saloons here, |second attempt to end his life. One one-third of them would go home |of his daughters then called on Miss 100D LOVE BARED BY DOUBLE SUICIDE Louis Koemmenich, Music Master, and Pretty Dancer End Lives. GIRL AT FIRST PROTEGE Elderly German Was Former Con- | ductor of New York f Oratorio Society. | By the Aswciated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—A strange story of an elderly German music master's infatuation for a youthful protege that led both the master and the girl to suicide, was unfolded to- day by the wife of Loufs Koemme- mich, a mnoted composed and con- ductor. r A week ago Vera Lehmann, a | youhg actress, known on the stage as | Vera d'Artelle, was taken to Flower | Hospital suffering from poisoning. | She had been found unconscious on the floor of her mother's costume shop in the heart of the “Roaring Forties.” She died last Monday morn- ing. | Twelve hours later the body of | Koemmenich, clad in silk pajamas, was found on the floor of an apart- ment in Ninety-first street, off River- side Drive. The gas cocks of a stove were turned on. Koemmenich had been asphyxiated. Note Explains Affair. | At nis side was found s note, ap- | parently scrawled in haste. It was not signed. “Just recelved word that Vera com- mitted suicide. This being a great loss to me, there is nothing eles left for me to do.” Koemmenich was fifty-five years old, had been married thirty-six years and was the father of a son and two daughters, one of them married. In 1912 he reached the height of hie career, succeeding Walter Dam- rosch as conductor of the Oratorio Soclety. Previous to that time he had charge of a large German choral organization here and had achieved fame as director of a Philadelphia maennerchor that won the Emperor Willlam prize three years under his leadership. The world war came; Koemmneich's heart was with Germany, and when it was over he was broken in fortune. He stifled his pride and a year later started out as musical director of a road company of “Aphrodite” His wife and family were a great deal concerned about him, but cheered him of his way. Writes of Youns Woma And then the change. The director wrote to his wife of a young woman in the company. Vera Lehmann, who gave promise of golden attainment; she had a voice, she was beautiful and she could dance. He was glving her vocal instruction. In nearly all his letters home, his wife said, he spoke of Vera. Miss Lehmann welcomed the as- | sistance Koemmenich gave her, and when the company returned from tour she was a frequent caller at his { home. “reople began to talk,”. said Mrs. Koemmenich toda; nd I began to realize that a harmless relationship of pupil and master had grown into something greater—infatutation. I [forbade Vera to call at my home when I was absent.” '+ One day one -of Koemmenich's | daughters returned home to find that her father had ‘attempted -suicide. They sent for Miss Lehms#nn and, Mrs. Koemmenich said, “she came | ana sat for nours, nolding his nana. I remained in the room all the time. “During his illness she sent him flowers. and they saw each other a great deal afterward. I saw it was useless to try to end the affair. We bad been married thirty-six years to him.” T Tries Second Time to Die. Ten days ago Koemmenich made a on Page 2, Columa 3.) y o St FARMER IS FREED IN MURDER °‘TRIAL’ BY MASKED COURT By the Aswociated Press. MONROE, La., August 19.—Samuel Richards, & farmer, was seized by a band of fifteen masked men late yes- terday, carried into the woods and given a trial before a masked judge, twelve masked jurors, with masked prosecuting and defense attorneys, on a charge of complicity in the at- tempted murder of Dr. B. M. McKoin, according to reports here late today. He was acquitted and returned to his home. OMPERS ASSAILS PRESIDENT'S PLAN Message to Congress Has Increased Industrial Trou- ble, He Declares. ARBITRATION LON OBSTACLE BARRING ANTHRACITE PEAGE Operators Are Anxious to Re- sume Production, Philadel- phia Conference Discloses. LONG-TERM AGREEMEN:I'S ARE URGED BY WORKERS Mine Owners Willing to Sign Con- tracts Providing for Wage Changes. PHILADELPHIA, August 19.—Two thln{gl today were disclosed by the conference between the leaders of th United Mine Workers of America zln; the operators to settle the coal strike n the anthracite fielde, according to information obtained after the ad- Journment of the third meeting. The first was that the only stum- :llinx block that lies in the way of gTeement was the arbitra offered by the operators. ] The second was ! Samuel Gompers, president of the| were anxious to z::-te t.:‘: ao:e;a::: American Federation of Labor, ex-|ment and resume the produc’iusn 4 pressed the opinion yesterday that|coal at once. b President Harding had added to the| The latter d difficulties of the present industrial| with the do!iret::lorhr:"x‘-:rt w:p];d situation by his_message of Friday|mine workers to return to we, k‘ . and likewise had chosen an' unfortu- | was pointed out. augurs well ror e nate time for its delivery. success of the conference. How n ‘hn. The labor chief in a critical discus- | time will elapse before the represen. sion of the President's message, an- | tatives of the two sides get mp cme:- nounced that his organizations would | however, proved speculative even L oppose any legislation carrying out| their own numbers. 725 the suggestions that the Railroad Labor Board be given power to en- Hope for Adjustment. force its decisions or to allow the| Although the conference today federal government to punish crimes|lasted only an hour znd a half. both against aliens such as those alleged [8!des emerged still hopeful for an to have been committed during the|€arly adjustment. The terse state- Herrin, 1il, massacre, while he de-|ment distributed at its adjournment scribed the President's proposals for | announced that no agreement had legislation to control coal distribution | been reached, and concluded with the as “probably lmpractici sentence that another conference “It was unfortunate that the Presi- | Would be held on Monday afternoon. dent should have gone to Congress| Neither John L. Lewls, internation- yesterday,” Mr. Gompers said. “The |al president of the miners, nor Samuel coal miners had just effected an|D. Warriner, president of the Lehigh agreement with a part of the bitu-|Coal and Navigation Company and minous operators. On the morning|the spokesman for the operators, before the President spoke the repre- | Would elaborate on the statement, de- sentatives of railroad workers and |claring that both sides felt that the executives of the railroads were in|success of the conferences might be conference over the rail strike. Prog- |jeopardized by the undue publicity. ress was being made; but they took a| From an official source, however, it recess over the noon hour. When the | Was learned that the proposal for the executives came back in the after-|anthracite conciliation commission noon, after hearing of the President’s|to settle the dispute as advanced by speech, they were in a different mood. | the operators had been sudbmicted to WILL FIGHT LEGISLATION Proposal to Augment Labor Board Power Called Plan to En- slave Workers. The meeting adjourned. To Oppose Legislation. “It is a matter of common knowl- edge that Senator Watson, republio- an, Indiana, who was a member of the House, was a representative of big business and before his election to the Senate was a lobbyist and is now believed to have close relations with the President, was in frequent communication with the executives in New York. Notwithstanding, un- til the President spoke, it seemed the matter was being worked out to the satisfaction of both sides. He could well have deferred to await.a cooler and later judgment of the sit- uation. It was misapplied psychol 0gy to go when he did.” In declaring that labor would re- sist legislation to give the Railroad Labor Board power to enforce its decisions Mr. Gompers “faith that the people will not give up the princinles of guaranteed free- dom, and that Congress will not en- act a law to deprive working people of the right to strike.” Such a meas- ure, he said. would mean “slavery’ and “railroad workers would have to g0 to work whether they felt like it or not.” “I'm not willing to believe the. President had in mind the full con- sequences of his act”” Mr. Gompers commented. “If there can be compul- sory labor for working people will it not raise the probability of enforc- ing labor on every one, whether wage workers or not?’ Denies Conspiracy. Mr. Gompers said that while the Herrin massacre was “a nasty piece of business” which “nobedy could Justify,” there was “no reason in it to override the Constitution and set aside the rights of states” by giving the federal government power to pro- tect aliens. “What is in the back of the hcads of those who'father this sort of leg- islation is that it might be used as a method giving federal protection to {aliens while using them as strike- breakers,” he asserted. Mr. Gompers also criticized the President’s statement that the coal strike had showed the country “at the mercy of the United Mine Weork- ers.” “If high finance and big business can enforce wage reductions that de- stroy the buying power of the pco- ple,” he said, “that will be a greater menace to the public than any or- ganization of labor. The Fresident is wrong when he says thers was a conspiracy to, stop-trains on the rail- roads and a conspiracy between the miners and the rail workers. Trains were stopped because locomotives were unfit for service. Knowmg the heads of the railroad and miners’ unions as 1 know them, I can say he was wrong in conveying the Imrre&i sion that they were conspiring against the government or the com- mon welfare.” CONTINUE WORLD FLIGHT. CALCUTTA., India, August 19.—Capt. Norman MacMullan and Capt. Nallins, the British aviators who have taken up the round-the-world flight which Maj. W. T. Blake abandoned because of indisposition, left here today for Akyab, Burma. expressed | the miners. The proposal resulted in some discord at the meetings yester- day and today, it was stated, ani oc- casioned a desire on the part of the mine workers to substitute some other plan of arbitration. Suggest Three Umplres. The proposition, as it was handed to the mine workers for considera- tion, it was learned, provides that the commission continue as at pres- ent constituted with three mine workers' representatives and three representatives of the operators, with the proviso that, in the event of a disagreement, the dispute be referred to three umpires, instead of one, as formerly, and with the understand- ing that the two additional umpires be neutrals of high personal stand- ing. ‘ The incumbent umpire, Charles P. { Neill of Washington, under the plan would be retained. Another provision embodied in the proposal is that the conciliation commission, which was established by the Roosevelt commission in 1903, be required to render a decision on or before March 31, 1923. The oper- ators, who heretofore have opposed long-term contracts with the mine workers, were said to be withdrawing their opposition to some extent. They were reported to have assumed the position that a four or five year contract would not be objectionable if provisions are made for periodical changes as to wages only. FAIR PRICES ARE URGED. Ohio Governor Calls on Hoover to Protect Public. Immediate action for the proper protection of the public in the price of coal produced in Ohio was asked of Gov. H. L. Davis yesterday by Secretary Hoover. In a telegram to the Ohio governor the Commerce Sec- retary declared that coal operators in that stafe would welcome some | sort of voluntary arrangement for establishing fair prices in Ohio. “I am informed,” Mr. Hoover said, “that coal mines now opening under the Cleveland agreement in Ohio are demanding from $7 to $10 a ton for coal. In the meantime the public utilities of Ohio are asking us for priority orders against southern fields, where the price is $3.50. You will recognize that in this situation it we are to give priorities as re- quested it would not be just either to the operators or to persons in great need of coal in other states, in view of the additional supplies in Ohio.” Mr. Hpover recalled that under the | Garfield scale the average price for | run-of-mine coal in the Pittsburgh district was about $2.50 a ton,’ but added that the recent wage scale represents a large increase over the { basis of pay at the time the Garfield scale was fixed. However, he added. in Kentucky, where $4.50 a ton had been allowed as a maximum fair price, production costs are higher than in Obio. | Price Increase Granted. West Virginla was brought into line with Kentucky prices yesterday by Federal Fuel Distributer Spencer, lem allowed coal operators in ti (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.)