Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. tonight and tomorrow; change in temperature; lowest tem- perature tonight near freezing. ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 45, at . Fair no 2:20 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 30, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. 4 * Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as post_office No. 28,695. sacond:class iatter ‘Washington, D. C. The WASHINGTON, D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1922_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. bk o cits “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | The Star’s carrier system covers every block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington as the papers are printed. - Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,743 as fast TWO CENTS. * TURKEY DEMANIS ALLIFS RESTORE FRONTIERS O 191 «<Lausanne Delegate Refuses - to Argue Claims for West- ern Thrace. OTTOMAN ENVOYS RAP . LLOYD GEORGE SAYS LAW RULES BY MINORITY VOTE Only 6,000,000 Out of 15,000,000 Electoral “Freak” and Not Confidence, Former Premier Assert;. BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. Copyright, 1922, by the New York Times Com- pany. n Great Britain by the Lon- South America by Matin, in Press ' As- acSopn no party standing alone could hope to secure ti. “.easure of public sup- port which v. guarantee stable gov- ernment. It is .rue that the conserva- tives have succeeded in obtaining the return of a majority of the members to the new parliament, but the most notable feature of the elections is the Tidende return of u declsive mafority olxmem; SECRET SESSIONS RULE | speciat cabte. Ders by a very definite. minority o Venizelos Pleads That Greece Be, Recognized as Co-Victor and An- gora as Vanquished Foe. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 22.—It is the duty of every patriotic citizen, in view of the difficultics with which the country is confronted, to assist the government of the day by every means at his disposal. Factious criti- cism disturbs judgment and tends to unfierve. Governments today require a full command of mind and nerve to ilowance for uncontested scats, 1 observe that the prime minister in returning thanks to the nation claims _that he has recelved a vote of confidence from the people of this country. Out of a total poll of 15.000,000 his candidates secured less than §,000.000 votes. Making full al- this figure cannot be stretched out to a height much aboye 6,000.000. That means that only’ two-fifths of the electorate voted confidence in the LAUSANNE, November — The|enable them to arrive at sound de- | administration, while _three-fifths question of the disposition of western | cisions agd persevere in them. voted confidence in other leaders or Thrace came definitely beforo the| Faction is, therefore, treason to the | ErOUPS. powers today when lsmet Pasha pre- sented to the commission on military and territorial maters Turkey's Tlaim to ail the territory embraced within her frontiers of 1913. 1 M. Venizelos. for Greece, immedi- ately opposed the claim and was sup- ported by the Jugoslovs and Ruman- fans, who favored maintaining the Maritza river as the western boun- dary of Turkey in Europe and agreed with him that there should not even be o plebispite to decide the sov- ereignty of the disputed territory as 1smet _suggested. A delegation representing Syria ar- rived today demanding that the con- ‘erence grant independence to their country, which was given, the status of a French mandatory state by the allied supreme council at San Remo in 1920. Curzon Demands Reasons. In presenting his demands for west- ern Thrace, Ismet Pasha limited him- self to a bare claim for the territory and a vote by the inhabitants. Lord Curzon, who was presiding, pressed Ismet for an argument in support of the ' claim, but the Turkish delegate, while reinforcing his opening state- ment slightly, showed a disposition to wait until all the others had lald their ds on the table. Ex-Premier Venizelos began his ar- gument against the claim by feelingly contrasting the broken Greece of today h the Greece that, he said, had car- ried on the war against Turkey for the allies. Greece, after all, was one of the allies, he declared, while Turkey was on the enemy side. The present conference was not being held simply to -gettle the differences 3 Turkish victor and beaten 8 e pointed out. but to make peace be- tween the allies and one of, the cotifi- ries they had venquished. o At this afternoon’s session, Premier Stambouliski of Bulgaria was pre- _ pared to present his views on this _and ion and with regard to Bul- ‘s claim for her promised out- #he sea. 7z Tublic Sessions Overruled. The ‘eonference, .having organized for work, 18 ngw ready to take up its k of restoring peace in the near t. . The effort of -Ismet Pasha and his Turkish delegation for open sessions and “complete publicity for all con- forfenge programs has been overruled news announcements will be mited to formal communiques agreed upon by the secretariat of the conference. The Turkish delegates are considerably agitated over this decision. contending that members of the other delegations are divulging what transpires in conference circles, whegeas they, as Mohammendan genefi’:men_ have kept their word. M. Barrere, head of the French de- legation, Lord Curzon and other es| B Tet diplomats of the old school have ap-| this | parently determined to give meeting a character different from that of past conferences in which Mr. Lloyd George has been a moving pirit. The former British premier planned this conference before the fall of his overnment. Round-table. gatherings Such as this are Mr. LIoyd George's specialty, but they apparently are not ‘o much to the taste of the new Brit- ish government. Mussolini of Same View.. +Neither does Premier Mussolini of “ltaly show the same enthusiasm for them- that has been manifested by previous Ttalian governments, and there are indications that Europe may not expect a conference every few weeks from this time on. “Make peace by Christmas, slogan which is being passed around conference circles. but indications are that the work will be scarcely well begun by that time if the delegates delve thoroughly into the tangled problems which have arisen from the destruction of the Sevres treaty and the defeat of the Greeks. “Fhe machinery of the present con- ference will apparently be much the same as that of the Genoa, Hague and San Remo meetings. These commis- _xions to deal with general problems are provided for in the preliminary arrangements. The afternoon session was devoted vhiefly to addresses in which a suc- cessful outcome of the conference was predicted. The United States played a brief part in the near eastern donference, Richard Washburn Child, American ambassador to Italy, ;making a decla- ration before the assembled delegates of the position of the official observers representing America. Amerieans Not to Vete. American participation in the con- ference will consist of joining in tiié discuseions and safeguarding as far as possible rights which the United States feels must be pro- tected in the interest of America and the rest of the world. The American observers will not vote or:act as members of any of the commissions. In hig statement Ambassador Child sai he American delegation desires to express its sense of pleasure ' in having association with the delegates of the powers composing the confer- ence of Lausanne. It is our under- sttnding, and we trust it is the un- derstanding of the conference and’ its secre our present posi- tion is that of representatives of the United States, who in plenary and other sessions, including those of commissions and committees, will ‘be entitled to be present and heard in equality with the other members “We are to have no right of -voting country. That does not, however, preclude a calm survey of the elettions and of their meaning. Quite the contrary, for we must think of the future and prepare for it. " The result of the elections has fully ' GUARDIS DOUBLED Letter Signed “A World War Veteran” Stirs Quick Ac- tion of N. Y. Police. RESTS AFTER ADDRESS Venerable Ex-Premier of France Says United States Should Help Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 2Z.—The police encort assigned to Georges Clemenceau during his stay in this city was doubled this afternoon, when. the Tiger reecived a letter threatening his life, signed “a _ World Wiy Yetpran? . NEW. YORK, November 22.—Georges Clemenceau today prepared to rest after having dalivered, in his first ad- dress in the United States, a warning | to Americans that German militarists were preparing for another war. | In his address, spoken in the Met- ropolitan Opera House last night’ be- fore an immense audience, the war premier of France voiced what he termed friendly criticisms of the United States for its post-war atti- tude, declaring that afier mixing its blood with that of the allles it had stepped out of international affairs, leaving Europe in a snarl. He urged America to renew con-| versations with France and Great Brit- ain to present a united front to Ger- many and show that the terms of the | ment of the reparations, must be car- ried out. He did not attempt to indi- cate how America should again take up her hand in international affairs, but said that he might speak of the league of nations as a practical ve- hicle. = The next address which the Tiger will make in his American tour will be in Boston. He leaves for that city tomorrow morning. About the only item remaining on his official New York_ appointment list is a review of the 106th Infantry in Brooklyn, this afternoon. Although he spoke fervently for nearly an hour and a half last night, the vigorous old man of Europe showed little fatigue. Back and forth he paced in front of his rostrum on the Metropolitan stage. The only boundary imposed on his rambles was a semi-circle of floral decorations. Franco-American Aflinity. America and France, he'said, “have a great deal in common in some of the greatest events” seen in war. And he expressed particular pleasurc in contemplation of “the beauty of this, that there was a romance between France and America”; that he did “not know of two other peoples with such a stretch of imagination”; that to- gether, they “had the good fortune to open a new era, not only in human thought, but to open the time, the era, when maybe justice. hope, good will and righgeousness would be real- ized on earth. Clemenceau assured his audience he He wanted “Something much more than that, much more valuable. “I want yourself, your heart and ul,” he explained. 'l _want that ing that we call in France the thing that cannot be weighed in hu- man skins, a little thing, which is a ot thi kind of kin feling of one human be- ing toward another; that may exist, and does exist, between such nations as ours, and that is what I want of you.” 5 He hoped, he.said. to cause his hearers “to change 'their hearts” if they had been thinking ill of France, “as France's heart has been changed toward America. 3 He then summarized his thoughts— the thoughts he had been thinking| since he went Into solitude in France —about the war and its aftermath, “a great crisis, the greatest crisis in €vents,” of which no one could.fore- see the end. i “Why should peace be so hard for us_to Ilve?” he asked. . “Why cannot we find common means for preserving peace?” He spoke of the arrival of Amefl-‘ can troops on French soil during the war; of the controversy between al- | lied leaders and Gen. Pershing about the distribution of American soldiers. “I sometimes had quarrels with Gen. }’andl‘:ln‘. beautiful quarrels,” he re- ate: But since then he had come to think “he . (Pershing) was right and so ‘was L" Of the period before the war, and his demands for preparation against German invasion and threa '3 vasion, Clemenceau | Versailles treaty, including the pay- |- rying air mail matter at Checkerboard Flying Fleld for transfer to a mail “Hardly Vote of Confidence.” A minority of 3,000,000 in the na- tional referendum could hardly be claimed as a vote of confidence. It might be argued that when the question of confidence or mo confi- dence comes to be stated the na- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) |[Mussolini Blames | Allies for Failing To Throttle Foes By the Associated Press, PARIS, November 22.—Benito Mussolini, the Italian premier, in an interview with the Lausanne correspondent of Le Matin, said that the allies should have finished the war, “you in Berlin and we in Vienna and Budapest.” “The enemy ought to have been throttled,” the premier is quoted as saying. “Now you realize that you have little chance of getting your due and you are disappointed. Ger- many is resolved not to pay. in addition she is threatening for you and threatening for us, for a Teu- tonic flood is at our gates. The "lfyrol is but a geographical defini- ion. Europe, according to M. Mus- solini, is troubled with a chaotic condition which the continent has no power to resist. He therefore urged fascism for Belgium, France, Italy and Great Britain to defend western culture against Germany and sovjet Ruesia. WOMAN SENATOR INMAIDEN SPEECH First and Last Address Closes Mrs. Felton’s Ca- reer in Chamber. A woman's voice was raised, for the first time in the history of the coun- try, in the Senate chamber today. Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, who was sworn in as senator from Geofgia vesterday, delivered her first speech in the Senate, and her last, soon after that body met today. Almost imme- diately after she had taken her seat Judge Walter F. George, recently elected senator from Georgia, present- ed his credentials and took the oath of office, Mrs. Felton automatically becoming an ex-senator after ‘an “ac- tual service of twenty-two hours'and | twenty-five minutes. Mrs. Felton was on her feet asking recognition as soon as the prayer and reading of the journal had been con- cluded and a quorum had been called. “The junior senator from Georgia,’ said Senator Cummins, president pro tem of the Senate, in the chair. Voice Is Steady. In a voice that was extraordinarily firm and full in view of her eighty- seven years, the junior senator de- livered her first and only address in the Senate. “In my very remarkable campaign in Georgia,” she said, “which, con- trary to precedent, all came along after 1 was selected, one of the very amusing things that came.to me by mail was a cartoon from San Antonio, ex,” she said. “The cartoon repre- sented the United States fenate in session. The seats seemed to be firm- ly occupied, and there appeared in the picture the figure of a woman who had evidently entered Wlll’l%.\lt sending in her card. “The gentlemen in the Senate took the situation varigusly. Some seemed to be a little bit hysterical, but most’ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) BANDITS GET AIR MAIL INCAPTURE OF TRUCK Eidnaped Driver Beveals Hold-Up After Being Dumped From : Vehicle. By the Associated-Press. CHICAGO, November 22.—Armed bandits early today held- up -and robbed a post office motor truck car- plane, kidnaped the truck driver and escaped. $ The robbe: more ' than Ty occurred three miles west of the central post office. William "Hogan, driver of the mail truck, turned up later on the North Side, several miles from the HOUSE COMMITTEE | TOACT ON DISTRICT BILLS NEXT WEEK Schools, Traction Merger, Police and Firemen’s Re- tirement Pay on List. ZIHLMAN SAYS MUCH HEADWAY IS PROBABLE Injusticc That Unsatisfactory Street Car Conditions Con- tinue, He Says. § There will be a meeting of the House District committee not later than Wednesday of next week to consider legislation vital to the District con- cerning school needs, solution of the street car muddle and equalizing the retirement pay of vetersn pclice and firemen who were separatel from the service before the increased rLay achdules went Into effec:. Owing to the fact that Chairman Focht of the District of Columbia committee has been in a hospital n Pennsylvania, recovering from a slight operation, the District com- mittee has not yet been called to-! | gether. -1t Chairman Focht does not | jreturn before the end cf the week, a | meeting will be called for next Wed- | | nesday, ranking members of the com- | 1 mittee said today. ] FARM I- |nEAS Progress Expected. | ~Now that the Senate has passed; s permissive legislation to allow the| street car companies to morge ‘""‘Will Push Legislafion to Ald with provision for cManging the tax | system from a 4 per cent gross levy . e e v pronts ex pro | GrOWerS, Irrespective of vision, the House really ought to put | P through some effective legislation at! Shlp BI“ S Fate' this session of Congress,” Representa- | V;lve l-‘re‘dde:icdk N. Zihlman of Mary-| BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘;;‘:‘p:med‘)ofl that it is an injustice | President Harding’s purpose in in- to the taxpayers of the city, to (he;serllng a paragraph about farmer aid riding public und to those wifo have in his message to Congress on ship erty that the unsatisfactory condition |Subsidy has naturally stirred up 2 should be allowed to continue. espe- | §ood deal of curlosity. The special cially since one company is receiving |session was called for consideration abnormal profits, - which the riding o the merchant marine bill, only. P epresentative. Zihlman also em-|The regular session begins in Decem- phasized that the school condition in |ber, when Mr. Harding's annual mes- the National Capital needs immediate | sage, covering a variety of subjects. remedial ‘legislation is not passed by | Will be read. There was no, OUtWRI! the House within the next month or|reason why promises of far; %fi.“wy”“:‘flam_dune for iliet need have been included in, the must not be aliowed to. continue, mt““ subsidy address. WhY Wiy waid, pspecially aince the members of me“r Py < o 3 tration quarter. Congreas generally are well hfl‘ohnedi and appreciate the dire needs of the| is that President g Svon Y adimihint | nor obligation of taking office, pre- siding, or otherwise, or of becoming tignatories of agreéments or reports. ““The American delegation will make one contribution to the conference; its " (Contipuéd on Page 7, Column 1.) ik may call me imperialisti nat accept the reproach. It was when he “was promenading everywhere with the predicti ‘we. are going toward a it_war; Ger- hfllfln (Continued on Page 3 scene of the holdup, and reported that the bandits had dumped him out and escaped with thé truck, containing 450 pounds of air mail, mostly registered mail - of . the_highest class, destined Jor.weatern points, g 3 District school system. {SIX OF FAMILY FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOME Father and Mother Sitting. Up- right in Chairs, Children in Bed, All Fully Dressed. By the Associated Press. LANCASTER, Ohio, November 22.— Six members of a family of Irvine Henderson, thirty-two years old, were found dead in their home here today. Death is believed to have resulted from some kind of medicine. The father and mother were found sitting in upright posi- tions in chairs before the fire and four children were in a bed. All were fully dressed. The children ranged in ages from seven years to eighteen months. The family moved here three months ago from Nelsonville, Ohio. Henderson was employed as a stationary en- gineer by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. —_— COHEN NOMINATED. President Names Colored Man for New Orleans Post. Walter L. Cohen, a negro of New Orleans, was nominated today by President Harding to be controller of customs at that city, a position to which he previously had been ap- pointed durinfi the recess of Con- gress. Prospects of a fight against the confirmation of Cohen, who was given a recess appointment several weeks ago, have been apparent since the return of the two Louisiana senators ington for the extra session. The visit of Gov. Parker of Louisiana to | to have been in part for the purpose of urging that Cohen's nomination be refused confirmation. {CONTROLS C0-OPERATIVES Bill Affecting Unincbrporated Loan Concerns Introduced. A bill to regulate and control un- incorporated co-operative contract loans, savings and investment insti- tutions operating in the District of Columbia_was -introduced today by Senator -Sterling of South Dakota for Senator Oddie of Nevada. ‘The bill provides that such insti- | tutions must submit a plan of busi- { ness to the controller of the currency and that if he approves the plan he shall issue certificates authorizing the institutions to do business upon payment of $50. : The controller also is authorized to require the institutions to give bond if it is considered necessary. The bill was referred to the District committee. —_— SOLDIER BONUS BILL INTRODUCED AGAIN of South Dakota, reintroduced in the House today the soldiers’ bonus measure, which was vetoed by. Presi- dent Harding st the last sessiomof - Congress, z —Broussard and Ransdell—to Wash-\ ‘Washington this week i{s understood' Representative Johnson, republicans | Harding expects to be conferring in |the next ten days with members of the farm bloc in Congress, who are more or lesé hostile to ship subsidy. He will be conferring with them primgrily to get their ideas on the recommendations he should make tc Congress during the regular session beginning in December.. He will also be discussing ship subsidy. "Not Intended as Trade. Mr. Harding wanted to prevent the inipression from being spread that he was trading an agricultural credit plan to win farm support for the ship subsidy. | He deliberately inserted a para- graph in his ship subsidy message about it, so that the farming inter- ests would recognize that he stands committed to government aid for the farmer. He wants it understood that he is for that plan irrespective of the outcome of the ship subsidy contro- versy. His purpose, therefore, was to give a public pledge to the farmers before he began any conferences with farm bloc senators about ship sub- sidy. T isn't a trade, therefore, or a quid pro quo in the sense in which di ferent measures have been offered in many instances heretofore by party leaders in Congress. It's an out-and- out promise to the farmer. It is done with the knowledge that even before the recent primaries and elections the discontent of the rural sections of the country over low farm prices was so acute that it could no longer be neglected. Farm Legislation Next. Even if there had been no shipping question to solve, the administration would have been face to face ;vmg ural credit problem. In fact, g‘ithrship subsidy out of the way the administration will concentrate’ cn farm legislation almost entireiy. 3 The hostility of members of Con- gress. from rural districts to the ship subsidy bill has appeared to the administration to be to a large ex- tent based on a lack of knowledge of what 1is involved, but mostly on the idea that the farm problem is more acute than any other and should be given preference. Mr. Harding's idea s to overcome the opposition of the farm elements by showing them that he is tackling farm questions coincident with ship subsidy, and that the building up of a merchant marine is important so that the products of the farmer may be carried to all parts of the globe at cheap rates of transpor- tation. Must®Meet Rafl Problems. this phase of the farmer obfom i not the énly one which inistration must tackle. It's the transportation rates on Aand Which are at the root of the trpuble. i The farmer has been clamoring for lower freight rates, and has resented government guarantees to . the rail- roads, while no assurances or guar: antees of a concrete financial char- acter have been given to the farmer. The zailroad labor prablem is also a factor. It would not be surprising to see the railroad and farm prob- lems taken up simultaneously in the December session of Congress, and some recommendations from Presi- dent Harding to amend the Esch- Cummins transportation act are looked for. That's why Mr. Harding wants to get ship subsidy out of the way and provide a friendly atmos- phere. for consultation with - the farmer _bloc,_in Congress, who un- doubtedly will be more active than ever in view of the discontent mani- fested in their constituencles in re- cent months. 3 (Copyright, 1922.) . — A Pensions_of $72 a month fer civil war and Mexican veterans are pro- posed in a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Foster, republican, Ohio. Widows of civil war veterans would be ‘y‘!d $50 a month and $6 for each child of the veteran. The bill -also would provide pensions of 350 a month for widows of veterans of the war of 1812 Civil war Army nurses would réceive §60 per month. | i problem The adm Sued Wife Turns To Hunger Strike To Rewin Spouse By the Associated Press. SKOWHEGAN, Me., November 22. —Mrs. Louis C. Britton of this Place now is in the second week of a “hunger” strike, undertaken, she announced, in the hope of win- ning back the affections of her husband, who has brought suit for divorce. Neighbors who' called to- day at the farmhouse where the woman lives alone said the strain of hunger and cold was becoming apparent in her appearance. Doing without heat as well as food, Mrs. Britton remained for days alone in the farmhouse, with the temperaturs hovering a few degrees short of the freezing point. Newspaper men who visited the place after hearing the story of the “hunger strike” built a fire in a stove and called in a physician. ghbors have kept the fire go- ®nd have arranged that the Will' have company at aight. e husband, who lives on an ining furm, refused to discuss wife's actign. 0 1 T0BE PERPETUATED poration Pledge War on Accidents. Safety week is to be perpetuated in the District of Columbia. The Wash- ington Safety Council, an organiza- jtion composed of influential men and women, after its meeting tomorrow will become a permanent agency for the promotion and énforcement of laws and regulations designed to re- duce accidents to a minimum. Articles of incorporation for the Washington Safety Council have been drawn up and will be presented to the present temporary body of that name for adoption. In the papers asking legal authority to incorporate the council pledges itself to operate in the District for the following purposes: 1. Promote public interest in laws, rules and regulations providing for the safety of human life and the pre- vention of accidents. 2. Encourage ‘the knowledge of all such laws, rules and regulatiors. 3. Promote public_ interest in the fullest observance of and compliance with all such laws, rules and regula- tions. . . 4. Educate and encourage persons to think of and take precautions for the safety of themselves and others. 5. Assist in preventing accidents and reduce the everyday risk to human life. 6. Encourage care in the driving of all vehicles, in the movement of pedestrians and the playing of chil- dren in the streets, alleys and public and private places. 7. Promote knowledge of all traf- fio laws, rules and regulations; pro- .mote interest In fire prevention, pub- lic health -and sanitation and encour- D. . ‘SAFETY WEEK' Council’s Articles of Incor- \} N IPREDICT SHIP BILL ~ WILL PASS HOUSE i | {Forecasters Expect Fight in| ! - senate to Delay Action Until Next Congress. ! I 1 | | | | BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Forecasts of the probable action in House and Senate on the merchant | marine bill point to the early passage of the bill by the House by a gratify- ing majority. When it reaches the| | Senate it will be fought by obstructive | tactics; with arguments of those who | | sincerely” oppose it on principle and al- | j legations of others who who will use it as a vehicle for general hostility to the administration. The tactics of delay will be used in leffort to force the proposed legisla- | tion over until the first session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, recently elect- ed, when party lines will be drawn closer in both House and Senate, and when the bloc within the republican membership of the Senate, presumed to oppose the bill will hold the bal- ance of power. . Water over the whee) of the obstruc- tionists—colloquially termed “filibus- terers”—will be supplied by the pres- sure of the apmgopriation bills, which be enacted Into law before March . with the alternative of an extraord- { inary session of the new Congress in the spring or prior to June 30, the ex- piration of the fiscal year. Mr. Harding's Views. I1f_that plan is effective, as Presi- dent' Harding pointed out in his ad- dress to Congress yesterday, its result | will be “to continue government op- erations and attending government losses and discourage private enter- prise by government competition, un- der whicl losses are met by the pub- lic treasury, and witness continued tosses and deterioration until the co- lossal failure ends in sheer exhaus- tion.” That picture of the American mer- {chant marne dsappearng from the locean lanes will be made plainer and plainer to the people as the debate ! progresses in House and Senate. By | the "time the predicted catastrophe oc- {curs, f t should befall, the voters may be in frame of mind to lay the responsi- bility for it where it belongs. } i STRICT PARTY VOTE GIVES CLEAR TRACK \' TOHOUSE SHIP BILL Final Vote on Passage to Be Taken November 29, by Agreement. FARMERS WILL DEMAND SHARE IN THE BENEFITS Bloc Shows Attitude Toward Ad- ministration Measure in Speech by Dickinson of Iowa. The vote on the resolution was 200 0 110, and the resolution was passed. By a straight party vote, the House rules committee today brought in resolution glving the administration shipping bill right of way in the House, with provision for unlimited amendment and final vote on its pas- sage November 29. Two republican members, Dale of Vedmont and Johnson of South Dakota, declined to® vote on an amendment to the resolution, which was adopted, preventing appropria- tions carried in the measure from being thrown out on a point of order. Representative Johnson told the committee it was to be understood that members voting for the resolu- tion giving the bill privileged status would not be necessarily bound to vote for the bill itself. Te Ask 25 Per Cent. The first indication of the farm bloc's attitude in the House toward the ship- ping bill was given by Representative Dickinson, republican, of Iowa, who an- nounced that he would offer an amend- ment granting a 25 per cent compensi- tion on transportation charges from producer to exporting point. Mr. Dick- inson’s amendment would take from the merchant marine fund the monex necessary for this rebate, and he said {it would serve to link up the whoie country in the direct benefit of the leg- islation, instead of having the seaboard Teap the greatest immediate rewards. The Dickingon amendment provides that rebates to consignores at interio: points would be conditioned on the ultimate transportation of the con- signment in a vessel receiving gov- ernment compensation under the law Mr. Dickinson said 96 per cent of the food exports of the country was produced west of Pittsburgh. north of the Arkansas-Tennessee line and east of the Rocky mountains and 47 per cent of the industrial exports came from the same territory. H» said he wanted these producers tc share mote directly. - Regarding the change under which mail-carrying ships would receive lhlgller compensation, the committee report said this was deemed necessary by reason of possible losses under the prohibition ruling. Dry Law Hurts Revenue. “Application of the eighteenti amendment and the Volstead act seriously affects revenues of passen- ger ships” said the report. “It ir these ships which usually carry the mails, and the commlittee feels that the slight additional compensation which would thereby ‘accrue to pas- senger vesseis is highly desirable m view of the difficulty experienced in maintaining under our laws American passenger service in competition with foreign services on which these laws were not applicable.”. Representative Davis, Tenn cratic member of the committec, given until Saturday to file a minority report opposing the bill. There was a varlety of comment by members on the Fresident's address but for the most part tais followe¢ party lines. Representative Mondell, the republican leader, said: “I consider the President’s message an exceptionally strong and forcefu one. 1.do not recall ever having heard a case more logically or convineingly presented. The President's arguments Wyoming For the immediate future one devel- opment is expected. The beneficiaries of the subsidies granted by Congress to special industries and interests, to the estimated extent of $150,000,000 a year, will find themselves called upon by the grantors, the appropriation commit- tees of the Senate and House, to take a more receptive attitude toward anoth- er interest just as important to the whole people as theirs, the merchant marine. .When Definitions Differ. The recipients of this estimated to- tal of $150,000,000 a year of government appropriations are pleased to term their favors “government aid"” while they stig- matize the proposed government as- sistance to the merchant marine a “subsidy.” In their own case it is worthy bestowal from the revenues derived from taxation, but in the pending prop- osition it is denounced as “a raid on the Treasury.” . The funds that are taken from the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ! (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) “} i | This is the first of a by “The Tiger of F newspapers associate Newspaper Alliance. Washington for home delivery. Clemenceau’s First Article “The Myth. of French Imperialism” will be published tomorrow in rance” for- d with the North American They will be publi only in The Star. In order to be sure of not missing any of them, place order with your newsdealer today . or Telephone Main 5000, Circulation Manager, articles written The Star and series of shed in in favor of legislation along the line: proposed are unanswerable.” The view-of opponents of the bil. was expressed by Representative Gar- rett, Tennessee, democratic leader who said: “From the standpoint of those whe favor the bill the President piaced the matter in what I suppose will be generally regarded as a strong light Of course, from the standpoint of those of us who are opposed to the measure, he did not answer the funda- mental objections.” DILL DECLINES TO MEET “PROGRESSIVE LEADERS” Invitation From La Follette and Huddleston Premature, Says ‘Washington Senator-Elect. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash,, November 22— United States Senator-elect Clarence Dill, democrat, announced today he would not accept an invitation from Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Huddleston of Ala- bama to attend a conference of “pro- gressive leaders” In Washington, D.’C. s ‘Mr. Dill stated he was sympathetic with any “progressive” program, but since recently elected democrats and progressives would not take seats until March there’ would be plenty of time. NOMINATES GENERALS. President Names Men for Rank as Brigadiers and Majors. President Harding today nominated the fallowing to be major generalt in the United States Army: A. W Rrewster, A. M. Lewis, Edgar Russell F. L. Winn, J. B. Duncan, Ernes! Hinds and Robert L. Howze. At the same time he nominated the following to be brigddier generals ir the United States Army; R. P. Dawvis C. H. Barth, J. McA. «Paimer, B. H Wellg, E. L. l\'lnF. Harold B. Fiske F. R. McCoy, Halstead Dorey, H. A Drum, Stuart Heintzelman, Wil loughby Wajker and: John C. Mec: Donald. To be brigadier generals, Officera Reserve Corps F. W. Ward, Cox and C. L. Martin were nominat