Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and colder tonight and tomor- temperature lowest about 24 degrees. ‘Temperature for twenty-two hours Highest, 42, at 4:16 pm. yesterday; lowest, 23, at 6 Full report on page i4. ended at noon today: a.m, today. tonight New York Stock Market No. 28787. Closed Today Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. FRENCH LAUNCH ALLANCE ACANT 1.5 ANDENELAND Plan to Unite Belgium and Italy to Oppose Anglo- Americans Gains Form. RUSS0-GERMANS TARGET -OF VAST MILITARY PACT 150,000,000 People Would Be In- cluded in Gigantic Scheme to Protect Continent. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The PARIS, F —A movement, aiready foreshadowed, toward the formation under French leadership of a continental bloc as a defense, on the one hand, against the Russo- German military menace and. on the | other hand, against what is regarded here as a threatened Anglo-American fingneial menace, is beginning to take definite form. Sees Double Danger. Prof. Jacques Bardaux, a personal friend of Premier Poincare and one of the best known writers on inter- national affairs, says in Weekly Opin- 1o “Belglum and France with the little entente and if possible Italy, deflne a common policy before the double danger which threatens them equally, namely, Russo-German co- operation and Anglo-American co- operation. Of these dangers the former is distant and the latter is near; one is military and the other is financial. Neither can be parried save by the intimate, complete public and precise agreement of these states the chart of whose freedom is the treaty of Versailles.” Scents Definite Brenk. 1n L'Oeuvre, Senator Robert de Jou- venel declares: “However deep our desire to find ourselves once more in community of thought with people every day that has passed in the last four years has rendered more evident the impossibility of making Burope's future dependent on Great Britain's will.” Prof. Bardaux is a conservative,but . de Jouvenel is a liberal. Both the great political groups in France are therefore now tending in the same dis rection. Great Britain's traditional aim is to keep the continent divided, says de Jouvenel It looks with sus- picion on the continent, and =0 “child- ish” Is this suspicion that it even refuses to allow the construction of a railway tunnel under the English channel. The increasing influence of the British dominions is said to have strengthened the British tendency to regard itself as apart from Europe. Entente Immedinte Program. De Jouvenel's immediate program 18 a Franco-Italian entente, rendered possible, he believes, by the advent of the Mussolini government. France and Italy, he argues, have a commion interest in making the reparations settlement depend on the debt settle- ment. Italy needs French iron and the two countries both need coal and coke and should formulate a common policy not only as to these com- bustibles, but also as to oil. They should also make a naval agreement to control the Mediterranean between them, else the control is likely to pass to Great Britain. France, on its part, needs Italian labor. Military Pact In Aim. M. De Jouvenel's ultimate aim, how- ever, is a French-Italian-Belgian mill- | tary pact which would thus include, roughly, 150,000,000 people. around the Mediterranean and rein- forced by the little entente, it would render almost negligible the contin- ual Russo-German menace against European peace, whatever Great Bri- tain's attitude might be. When the war ended France based its foreign policy almost wholly on an alliance with Great Britain and the United States, keeping in the background, however, as a possible alternative. the so-called continental system. The withdrawal of the United States from European affairs, accent- uated now by Great Britain’s_barely concealed hostility to the French operations in the Ruhr area, which the French regard not only as equit- able and legitimate, but vital to the very existence of France, has forced this country virtually to ‘abandon Its idea of an ailiance with English speaking countries and fall back at least temporarily on the continental system, the more 80 as Great Britain has begun to threaten France with an Anglo-American understanding to bring pressure against the Ruhr oc- cupation and for the payment of the continental war debt. Hangs on V. 8. Policles. It is evident that the political de- velopment in Europe for the next few years depends in a large part upon the policy adopted by the United States regarding debts and repara- tions. g All experienced American observers, with whom the correspondent has talked are of the opinion that the United States should formulate forth- with a_definite - American policy in all world problems touching Ameri- oan issues. The immediate issue seems to be ‘whether the United States shall har- monize its policy with that of Great Britain, as Great Britain desires, thereby provoking the hostility of certain continental nations or whether the United States shall endeavor in defence of its own interests to hold @ just and equitable independent p sition between the European powers, including Great Britain itself. HOUSE ACTION PUTS . DEBTS BILL THROUGH Final Action by Congress Taken in Acceptances of Senate Changes in Measure. The last actlon necessary to con- gressional approval of the British debt settlement agreement was taken today by the House which, without a roll call, accepted Senate changes to the _bill ading the allied debt- tunding e il must | the British nation and | Grouped | Widow of Civil War Hero Dead MRS. JOHN A. LOGA RS, JOHN A, LOGAN DESATAGE OF B Widow of Famous Civil War Leader Il But Few Days of Influenza. Mrs. Mary Simmerton Cunningham Logan, widow of Gen. John A nationally known in patrioti |and ome of the last of the patriotic {women who distinguished themselves in promoting the success of the Un- ion armies in the civil war, died at the family residence, 1229 Clifton street northwest, this morning at 4:20 o'clock, following a ten-day illness of influenza. On the occasion of the Lincoln birthday celebration, February 12, at |the Willara Hotel, M Logan, against the advice of her physician, attended, and it is believed the ex- { posure brought about the illness that jcaused her death. Mrs. Logan would {have been eighty-five years old the coming August. No arrangements have been per- fected for the funeral. The interment will be in the family vault beside the body of her husband, at_the United States Soldiers’ Home. It is probable that the funeral will be Sat- urday morning. Born in Missouri. Mrs. Logan was of Irish-French extraction. She was born at Peters- burgh. Boone county, Mo., August 1838, a daughter of Capt. John M. |and Elizabeth H. Cunningham. She was educated in the Convent of St. Vincent, of Kentucky. She was mar- ried at Shawneetown, IIl., in 1856, to John A. Logan, afterward member of the House of Representatives, gen- eral Army of the ates Army, in war, and after the war tates senator from Illinois. She first came to Washington in 1858, when her husband was eclected to the House of Representatives, and since that time has made this city her home. During her husband's career as rep- resentative and senator here she was his confidential secretary. She came from a patriotic stock, her father having served in the Mexican war, her husband in the civil war, a son in the Spanish-American war, killed in the Philippines, and a grandson in the world war. During her husband's career as a | miember of the House and Senate Mrs. | Logan was a prominent figure in the |official and military life of the capi- tak a frequent visitor and friend of the administration at the White House. During the civil war Mrs Logan took a deep interest in the war, and particularly in the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Logan, frequently visiting her husband at the front and on the march. Her interest centered in the welfare of the sol- diers, and on many occasions follow- ing battles and in the hospitals, Mrs. Logan personally looked after the comfort of the wounded. She was deeply interested in the lives and comfort of veterans of the G. A, R. and their widows. Started Memorial Day. Mrs. Logan conceived the idea of holding annually a memorial day for the decoration of the graves of the fallen heroes of the civil war. Gen. Logan, then at the head of the G. A. R. organization, approved the idea and issued the order that made May 30 the annual memorial day gen- erally observed all over the country. Mrs, Logan was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Dames of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, at one time president of the -American Red Cross and for many years a member, of the board of directors of Garfield Hospital. Mrs. Logan was one of the few women of the civil war pe- riod who could reach President Lin- coln at the White House. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Logan has devoted much of her time as editor of the. Home Magazine and as the author of books treating of the civil war period and other his- torical matters. She was a contribu- tor to the daily press and magazines on current topics. She had traveled extensively in all parts of the world. One of her special works in life was devoted to the perpetuation of the political and military record of her husband. , Gave War Collectio; She contributed a valuable collec- tion of war and war-time souvenirs and war trophies as a memorial’ to her son, Maj. John A. Logan, killed in the batfle of San Jacinto, P. I, November 11, 1899, to the state of Illinols. The death of her son was a sorrow from which she had never re- covered, Mrs.. Logan Is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker; a grandson, John A. Logan, who was major of the 37th Division, 136th Ma- chine Gun Battalion, with the A. E. F., and two granddaughters, Mrs. D, W, Dilworth of New York city and Mme. Henrl de Sincay of Pari France, and several great-grandchil aren, It fs probable that the funeral of | Mrs. Logan will be attended by large delegations from ~Grand _Army ~ of tne Republic, - Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Women’ Corps. and other patriotic ory £ WASHINGTON, ROUND-UP OF 1,000 BEGUN N GIGANTIC GOUNTERFEIT RING Raids in Many Cities From Coast to Coast Expected to Start Today. OTHER NATIONS TO JOIN IN HUNT FOR SUSPECTS Chief Avenue of Bogus Money Dis- tribution Liquor Smugglers and Drug Peddlers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 22.—Secret service men began today drawing in the strings of a nation-wide net that they expect will enmesh 1,000 mem- bers of an international counter- feiting conspiracy that they believe has its tentacles gripped on every important city of the country. The ring Is believed to have manufac- tured and distributed between one and ten million dollars’ worth of bogus bills and spurious stamps. Arrests all over the country, with raids centering in Chicago, Detroit, San Frdncisco and other big cities, were forecast today by those federal officers who completed last night the jailing of sixty-four alleged, countar- feiters in the Metropolitan® district. Deprived of its brains the sleuths believe the organization to be in- capacitated. Trail Hit Eight ‘While secret service men are tracking the trail they hit upon eight months ago in Detroit the police of several countries will be hunting the members of the band which extended its opera- tion over three nations with amazing thoroughness. The haunts of its prin- cipal members are known, so the secret service men say. Twenty-one of those arrested were held in the Tombs in bail ranging from $2,500 to ten"times that amount and others were held in Newark, N. J., under bond. The raids that fetched the sixty-four —twenty-eight in the last two days— also developed huge stacks of counter- feit bills, stamps, liquor permits and liquor bottle labeis besides a complete | printing and engraving outfit planted | in_Greenwich Village. Seven distrib- uting_offices were found, one within shouting_distance of police headquar- ters on Broome street. Arrived Almost Too Late. The state of the printing plant in- dicated that the detectives arrived as the trail was going cold—disman- | tlement had been begun. Joseph A. Palma, chief of the spe- cial squad that bared the conspiracy, said that the chief avenue of distri- bution was through bootleggers and drug peddlers. Much counterfeit money was palmed off to “bootleg row,” while it swung_at anchor last month off Highland, N. J., discharg- ing liquor, he said. The thoroughness of the organiza- tion, Palma said, way astounding. It| was divided into manufacturers, wholesalers and their agents, retall- ers and their agents, gunmen and liaison officers, who kept each depart- ment in contact. 2 Ignorant immigrants of their own blood were declared to have been principal prey of the counterfeiters, whose various headquarters were cen- tered in Italian and Jewish centers. The bogus stuff was sold at from 50 to 17 cents on the dollar, the retailer getting most and the manufacturer least. SE Investigation of the activities of the gang, Palma explained, beg@n late in August, when the Treasury Depart- ment decided to suppress reported traffic in bogus money. Palma sald that when the supposed sources of supply were traced to New York it was discovered that each place was guarded by a score of gun- men, most of them ex-convicts. Agents surrepticiously bought bogus money at 50 cents on the dollar. Lower Rates Clue to Source. As the rate diminished the agents| knew they were approaching the source of supply. The manufacturer, it was found, sold at from 17 to 20 cents on the dollar. When the plant in Cornelia street was captured the presses were found dismantled, and those men, alleged to be the directors of the interna- tional _scheme, were caught. They were Dario Malolatesl and Antonia Fotior of Brookiyn and Vito Migli- orini of New York. Maiolatesi, it was stated, was arrested eight years ago and given a short sentence for having counterfeited Internal revenue stamps. LIEUT. COL. . L. LANHAM IS DEAD IN MANLA Months Age. Foen MORNING EDITION Widely Known In Business and Military Circles—Native of Maryland. A cablegram from Manila, P. I, re- ceived by the War Department, an- nounces the death In that city today of Lieut. Col. Charles L. Lanham, con- nected with the finance department of the United States Army, garrisoned there. No particulars of the death have been received by relatives. Col. Lanham was & native of Mary- Jand and was widely known in busi- ness and military circles in this city. For many years he was connected with the National Guard of the Dis- trict of Columbia. He is a brother of Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings for the District of Columbia government; Paul Lanham of the water department of the Dis- tris of Columbia government, and two sisters, Mrs. F. B. Haskell of this city and Mrs. B. Fitzsimons of Lan- ham, Md., the seat of the Lanham family home. Col. Lanham was a son of the late Trueman Lanham, for many years superintendent of trees and parkings for the District of Co lumbla, and Mrs. Emma Elisabeth Lanham. Mrs. Lanham, wife of Col. Lanham, who, before. her marriage was Miss Alice Lee Fearing, went to Manila with her husband and is there now. P S > WITH SUNDAY D. C., THURSDAY, OH, 04 a FEBRUARY 22, For GEORGE. WASHINGTON \ £ wgm HIS -} FRENCH TOSEZE MINSTERS I U Cabinet Officers Who Disobey Order to Keep Out to Be Arrested. NEW ‘GERMAN PROTESTS Fine of 100,000,000 Marks Fixed for Gelsenkirchen Brings Berlin Note. By tiie Associated Press. BERLIN, February 22.—A dispatch from Essen says thas Gen. DeGoutte has issued an order forbidding.the entry of German cabinet ministers into the occupled area. The general Has imstructed the police and other authorities to arrest any minister disobeying the order and to bring the oftender before the military court. Failure to comply with this decree, the dispatch adds, will result in the infliction of punishment on the cities or towns concerned. No concessions whatever are to be made to the French occupation au- thorities in the Ruhr by the German police, under the orders these police received from Berlin last night. This announcempnt wps made by Herr Severing, Prussian minister of the in- terior, before a joirit meeting of Prussian police officials associations. New Protest Made. The German charge ' affaires at Paris has presented to the French governmen& a note in which the Ger- man government reports the actual occurrences at Gelsenkirchen on Feb- ruary 12, when two French gend- armes and a German police sergeant were wounded. The sergeant died later. The note calls attention to the sub- sequent measures undertaken by the French occupational authorities, refer- ring to the imposition of a fine of 100, 000,000 marks and to the arrest of mem- bers of the police force. The communi- cation alleges that the latter step was attended by “brutal excesses” on the part of the French troops. Blames Clash on French. “The German government, continues, “states that the clash with the individual officers of the Schutz- polizel, caused by French gendarmes, was considered by the French occupa- tional forces as sufficlent reason to proceed against the entire city with forceful measures, the severity of vhich could hardly be exaggerated. E\‘r‘en in case blame had rested with the German officers the punitive ex- pedition would have been a serious violation of law, as not even in war do acts of individuals permit the im- position of penalties upon the entire population. ""The French government apparently approves the action of the local com- manders, as these, without restraint, are continuing the maltreatment of the city. Protesting against the acts of violence, the German government reserves the right to demand full sat- isfaction, and demands at_this time the release of all police officers still under arrest.” STOPPING EXPORT COAL. e Rubr Trying to Make Neutral Nations Feel Occypation. By the Associated Press. ESSEN, February 22.—Steps to make the effect of the octupation of the Ruhr felt by neutral countries have been taken by German mine of- ficlals as part of the passive resist- ance program, according to informa- tion in the hands of the French. At a meeting_in Bochum, attended by (Continued on e 3, Column 6.) FEBRUARY 22, 1923. COMMITTEE IN FAVOR OF INAUGURATION CHANGE The Norris resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relat- ing to the change in the dates of in- auguration and the assembling of Congress ‘was favorably reported to- day by the House committee on eleo- tion of President and Vice President. | The resolution as reported is sub- | stantially the same as passed by the Senate. No arrangements have vet been made for its consideration in the House. RECLASSIFYING BILL DECISION REACHED | President Takes View of Smoot-Bureau of Efficiency Faction. The controversy over the method of reclassification of government em- ployes and the salary schedules be- tween the Sterling-Lehlbach faction on the one hand and the Smoot bu- reau of efficiency faction on the oth- er continues unabated today. The outstanding features of the situation are: The President, after a three-hour conference at the White House last night with Senator Sterling, chair- man of the civil service committee, and Senator Smoot, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee con- sidering reclassification legislation, has taken a position in support of the Smoot contention, which is that the reclassifiction worked out by the bureau of efficiency should be put into effect. Sterling's Proposal. Senator Sterling will go before the subcommittee on appropriations this afternoon and submit a compromise proposition. It will propose that the bureau-of efficiency work on reclassi- fication, done under executive order of October 24, 1921, shall be made use of as far as practicable and that | where there are differences between the proposals in the reclassification bill and the bureau plan in regard to salary schedules, the reclassification board set up by the bill shall deter- mine what is fair and put it into ef- fect. The chairmam of the civil service committee has reserved the right to submit this compromise. If it is re- jected, it is understood Senator Sterling will carry the fight to the floor of the Senate. : That the civil service committee's gontention will have much support Among the senators, if the matter reaches the floor, is believed to be the case. The situation is such that it is now doubtful that any reclassification leg- islation can be enacted at the present session. It is pointed out that the President has the power to put into effect the reclassification made by the bureau of efficiency under his order of 1921 But it is also true that unless Con- gress appropriates the money to make this effective, it will amount to little. ‘An estimate has been made of the exact amount which it will take to put this reclassification, as made by the bureau of efficiency, into effect. It is expected that an effort will be made to have an appropriation for it attached t the third deficiency bill. But it there is a deadlock over re- classification, then there will be nothing left to do but appropriate for the $240 bonus and let: reclassification legigla- tion wait for the next Congress. The contention is made that the sal- ary schedules proposed for the great mass of clerks and other employes in the bureau of efficiency reclassification are too low; that they do not do jus- tice to the employes. For the pro- fessional and scientific grades of serv- ice, howeéver, some of the salaries pro- posed by the bureau of efficiency rum a little higher than under the Sterling plan. A number of provisions in the, re- classification bill were agreed to by Senator Sterling and Senator Smoot at the conference last night, and the two senators will go over the bill again today. No 5:30 Star 'Toglay Today being a holiday, The Star will not iseue.a 5:30 edition 1923 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. D.C. GETS $5126% IN DEFICIENCY BILL Measure Reported to House $86,2_59 Less Than Rec- ommended by Budget. MANY BRANCHES AIDED Entire Measure Carries $153,804,- 843 for Varions Sections of Government. Appropriations amounting to $512,- 698.85 for the District of Columbla, which is $86,269.50 less than the rec- ommnedations of the budget bureau, are carrled in the third deficlency ap- propriation bill for the fiscal year 1923, reported to the House today. The total amount recommended to be appropriated is $153,804,843.65, of which 3270,115 {s for the legislative | branch, leaving $153,534,728.62 for the executive and judicial branches of the government. The amount recom- mended 1s $3,385,772.43 less than the total amount requested. The bill also carries $3,200 for the payment of extra services of messen- Bers at the government printing of- flce and $117,635 for repairing ana reconstructing the main conservatory in the Botanic Garden. Items for the District. The items for the District of Co- lumbia are as follows: Plumbing Inspection division, $1,000; surveyor's office, $3,000; postage, $4,000; suburban road repairs, $25,000, Which is just half of the recommenda- tion; for maintenance of Francis Scott Key bridge, $1,000. The items for the sewer department are: Twenty thousand dollars for the sewage pumping service, $32,000 for suburban sewers, $50,000 for assess- ment and permit work. The item of $7.600 for cleaning and repairing sew- ers was not allowed. For garbage disposal $50,000 is car- ried and for the electrical depart- ment, $2,500 for general supplies, and $15.000 for lighting. Amounts for Schools. The public school items are: assis- tant principal, Eastern High School, $800; allowance for principals, $2,000; janitors, $853.33; fuel, $492.14; text books and school supplies, $15,000, which is $10,000 less than the recom- mendations; teachers’ retirement fund $4,500, which is $1,600 less than the recommendations. The item of $10,000 for repair and extension of the old Eastern High School was not allowed. For the Metropolitan police, an item of $1,000 for fuel and $3,025 for maintenance of motor vehicles is carried in the bill, as is also $1,000 for fuel for the fire department. The health department is given $300 for repairs to the dispensary buildin, The items for the courts include Jurors’ fees, Supreme Court, $15,000; miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, $15,500; jurors’ fees, Police Court $4,000; writs of lunacy in 1921, $18.76, and in 1922, $1,123.99. Charities and Corrections. Under the heading of charities and’ corrections the following are recom- mended by the House appropriations committee: Fuel for the workhouse, $10,000, which is an increase of $5,000 over the amount asked; for the Board of Children's Guardians, an item of $11,300 for board and care of children is omitted, an item of $2,000 for main- tenance of feeble-minded children is car- ried; St. Elizabeth’s Hospital is given $105,000 for the support of indigent in- sane. - Items asked for the charities and corrections which were disallowed by the committee are as follows: Chil- dren’s. Hospital, $5,000; Central Dis- penstry and Emergency Hospital, $2,991.16 for 1922 and $8,000 for 1923; for Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, two items of $878.35 for 1922 and $9,000 for 1923 are disallowed. An’ appropriation of’$19,069.14 for judgments ‘is recommended, $3,967.46 for refund of erroneous collections and $649.08 for audited claims. ‘The bill carries a recommended ap- propriation of $50,000 for extension of the water department distribution system. 2 4 The items of $50,000 for mainte- nance of publio order and $4,000 for ump-ermvenhnu stations dur- ing the uw')m conveation are in- 4 e bill. Y {France to Reopen “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's cartier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,50; Negotiation With Soviet Russians By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 22.—The French government has decided to resume negotiations with soviet Russia, according to the Echo National. The newspaper says that the cabi- net ministers discussed this ques- tion at their last meeting and de- cided to send a mission to Russia in a month or so, although Pre mier Poincare opposed such a step. There has been considerable tallk about the resumption of relations between the two countries since l!le recent visit to Moscow of Edouard Herriot, former minister of natlonal subsistence and labor. The government has contendes however, _that Herriot's visi was entirely .personal and that France was in no way bound by any negotiations undertaken by e e M. de Chevilly, who spoke for France at The Hague conference last July, left for Moscow tod: It was reported that his visit was to be In the nature of a more or less semi-official mission and that he would endeavor to ascertain Wwhether Moscow would be disposed to accept conditions that would make a resumption of relations possible. EVEN WASHIGTON HELPS FLBUSTER Farewell Address Read by Senator Glass, Consuming Nearly an Hour. George Washington was uninten- tionally enlisted today in the filibus- ter in the Senate against the admin- tstration shipping bill. When the Senate convened, with a metion pending to take up the ship- ping measure, which was displaced last night to allow adoption of con- ference reports on two appropria- tion bills, the presiding officer rec- ognized Senator Glass, democrat, Vir- ginia, who, in accordance with an order made by the Senate several weeks ago, proceeded to read Wash- ington's farewell address. Occupies Nearly an Hour. Reading of the address occupied the Senate for the first three-quarters of an hour and gave opponents of the ship bill an opportunity to map out their program of further dilatory tactics. Senator Jones, republican, Washing- ton, in charge of the ship bill, ex- pressed himself as satisfied with the turn of events last night which took the measure out of its position as the unfinished business of the Senate, pointing out that his motion to take it up again now was the pending business and must be disposed of be- fore any other action could be taken. | Until last night the pending business had been a motion by Senator Ladd, republican, North Dakota, in effect to lay the ship bill aside. No Excuse for Seasion. Although before the Senate recessed at 9 o'clock last night the fillbuster, which had been maintained air-tight throughout the day, was relaxed to per- | mit adoption of conference reports on the Army and District of Columbia ap- propriation bills, this marked only a lull in the obstructive program. Adop- | tion of the reports, however, for which administration leaders were in accord in seizing the first opportunity and lay- ing aside momentarily the shipping bill, was said to have removed the last pos- sible excuse for an extra session after March 4. Before laying aside the ship bill for the conference reports last night the Senate had heard lengthy speeches from | half a dozen members on both sides of | the chamber on questions remote from | the subject of the bill, which consumea | the entire day. These included a two- | hour address by Senator Borah, repub- | lican, 1daho, on recognition of Russia, | which drew a reply from Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader. Day’s Schedule. The following shows in brief how the Senate spent yesterday: 11.00 a.m.—Convened after the re- cess taken at 11:30 o'clock last night. Senator Harrison, democrat, Missis- sippi, made the point of no quorum and fifty-nine senators, some of them rather sleepy-eyed, answered to their names. - 11:13 a.m.—Senator Reed. democrat, Missourl, resumed his address begun last night, in support of his resolu- tion looking toward purchase by the United States from Great Britain and France of their Caribbean posses- sions. B 1:50 p.m.—Senator Reed concluded and on & quorum call demanded by him, in closing, sixty-nine senators answered. 1:57 p.m.—Senator Borah began his speech on recognition of Russia. 4:00 p.m.—Senator Borah concluded and Senator Lodge began a reply. 7 p.m.—Senator Lodge finished his reply and Senator Williams, demo- crat, Mississippi, took the floor to give an address analyzing the preceding speeches. 5:30 p.m.—Senator Willlams gave up the floor, Senator Harrison called for a quorum, seventy senators an- swered, and Senator Lenroot, repub- lican, Wisconsin, began a speech on farm credits that carried the Senate into the night session. The first open effort to conclude the session was made early in the night when Senator Heflin moved to ad- journ. "The motion was defeated, 42 to 18 s Filibuster in House. The House late vesterday wearied of the way in which the Senate was carrying off the filibuster publicity started operations along that line it- self. It took the proposed govern- as an excuse, but other clements, in- cluding the refusal of the rules com- mittee to give right of way to Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals, were declared to have entered into it. The conference report on the Army appropriation bill, which was taken up Tuesday furnished the vehicle Consideration of it was concluded be. fore adjournment, but not until there had been eight quorum and rollcall: which took up about haif of the se ston of nearly six hours. Majority leaders said the time spent by the House in disposing of this mat- ter had threatened their legislative program 'for the remainder of this session of Congress: ‘Aside_from the Cape Cod measure, ment purchase of the Cape Cod canal | the rules cvommittee has voted out rules for ten other bills, including the farm credits legislation. In ad- dition the British debt settlement agreement remains to be acted upon. TWO CENTS. BAERCSES TOLALD IASHINGTON HELD INALLPARTSOF D Ceremony at Foot of Monu- ment at 9 0’Clock This Mprning Led Day. REVOLUTION SOCIETIES AT CONTINENTAL HALL Association of Oldest Inhabitants Meets at 0ld Engine House, 19th and H Streets. George Washington wa the heart of the city today as the anniversary of his birth was cele- brated with exercises at the foot of the great shaft named after him, in the halls of Congress and at other places in the city. First of the ceremonies today was that at the Washington Monument at 9 am., when forty-eight Ameri- can flags, one for each state of the Union, “were unfurled to the breeze, while the sounds of bugle and human voice were flashed by radio to all the states first in Large Crowd Attends, It seemed as if the spirit of the great American looked doWn from the majestic heights of the Monument as his people of today laid wreaths and flowers at the foot of the shaft. The exercises were attended by a large throng. Later in the morning the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the Revolution and the American Revolution Memorial Conti al elaborate ¢ Sons of the gathered at Hall and held Oldest Inhabitants Meet. The Association of the Oldest In- habitants met at 11 o'clock at the old engine house at 19th and H streets. The Washington National Monu- ment Soclety held its ninetieth an- nual meeting at noon, but owing to illness of members the meeting was adjourned, to be called again in the near future. Tonight the Washington general assembly of the fourth degree, Knights of Columbus, will hold a pa’ riotic celebration at the C High School. S The midwinter George Washington University, at which sixty-two students will re- ceive their degrees, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Memorial Continental Hall. John Garland Pol lard, professor of William and Mary College, will make the convocation address and President Hodgkins of the university will also ad graduates. ARTECISEN convocation of Places Wreath On Tomb. Charles Getty Chilton, counselor for the British embassy, acting for Ambassador Geddes, who is confined to his residence with illness, yester- day placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington in honor of the anniversary of his birth Mr. Chilton was accompanied by Mrs. ' William Cumming Story, homn. orary president gen of the Daugh- ters’ of the American Revolution, Wwho also placed a wreath in the in- fer tomb. Col and irs. Robert Kel- on accompanied Mrs, Story and Mr. Chilton to Mount Vernon, Will Never Be Dictator. That the United tes would never assume the role of a dictator in Eu- rope was asserted by Arthur Deerin Call, in an address at the Washing- ton’s birthday exercises at Friends' School, 1811 1 vesterday after- noon. Mr. Call's topic w “How America Can Help Europe.” After calling ate tention to the fact that the United States government is one based on the consent of those gove rned, and is one not of men, but of laws, the speaker sald that Europe may well profit by organizing after the method of the "American republic, where a balance between the rights of large and small states has been s has preserved for a century and a quarter. ALEXANDRIA IN GAY ATTIRE FOR PARADE Center of City Riot of Color. 50,000 on Hand to View Brilliant Procession. street, Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February This city is gay with flags and bunt- ing for the big military, fire and fra- ternal parade which will move promptly at 2:30 o'clock. The crowds began to arrive early in the morning. It is estimated 50,000 persons will witness the parade. Gov. Trinkle, members of his stafr and their wives and the famous Rich- mond Light Infantry Blues arrived shortly after noon. Both the Army and Navy are well represented and Commissioners Oyster and Keller are here with other distinguished guests from the District. Fourteen bands and * uniformed troops and organizations have been on the move since early morniug. Approx- imately 7,000 will march In the pag- eant, which will be in charge of Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, United States Marine Corps, and Col. Kenneth W. Ogden, this city, chief of staff. Airpianes flew over the city this forenoon, going as far as Mount Ver- non, and they will circle over the city during the parade. Many persons. visited the destrover Reuben James, which was sent here for this event. First in Nine Years. It is the first celebration of its kind staged here in nine years and since the movement was launched much interest has been shown by the members of the ‘Washington Birthday Assoctation, under (Continuva on Page 2, Column 8.) '