Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature. for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. todsy: Highes:, 73, at 2:30 p.m. 3 terday. Lowest. 47. at 5:46 a.m. today. Temperature Full report on page 5. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2. 2 _ No. 28861 ot ofico Wa Entered_as second-class matter ~ shington, D. C. 1. S. SPEEDS ACTION T0SAVE AMERICANS SEIZED AS CHINESE BANDITS KIDNAP 150 Briton Slain When Band of 1,000 Wrecks Train—One U. S. Citizen Reported Killed—Two Majors Held. LUCY ALDRICH RELEASED; ROBERT SCRIPPS CAPTIVE fMroops Pursuing Bigands, Who Threaten to Kill Prisoners Car- rvied Away in Nightclothes. American Woman Tells How She Was Torn From Her Husband. I the Asse \ situation apparently regarded 25 seriously menacing good relations between the United States and the 1ated Press. Peking government in China was | described today by American Mini: ter Schurman in the first official re- port to reach the State Department regarding the capture of American citizens by bandits near the Shan tung border. The Anferican minister is under- atood already to have made informal representations on his own respon: bility. and it is expected that he will De instructed by the government here | to pursue the most vigorous course to secure the release of the prisoners unharmed. Prisoners Still Unharmed, The report, was prepared by r. Schurman on the basis of information furnished him by an American citizen who was on the spot when the ban- dits attacked the tourist train on which many Americans were riding. It was indicated that so far as known none of those taken prisoner had been harmed, and the minister apparently was hopeful that they all would be released. Minister Schurman'’s report was dated midnight, May 6. at Tsinau Fu and de- scribed the situation as “very seri- ous” Paraphrase made public by the Department said: i i “An express train which left Sat- urday morning from Shanghai was held up about 2 am., Sunday by bandits near Lincheng, in the prov- ince of Shantung. “Out of twenty-six foreigners, nineteen were held captives, includ- ing a Mr. Powell of the Weekly Re- view. A Mr. Rothman, a British subject, was killed. Pursued by Small Foree. “The bandits are being pursued by a small military force. “Situation very serious. There is little information received so far. “Have telegraphed Shanghai to in- | quire if there were other Americans on train. ‘Information received from an American (unnamed) on the scene.” Should any American lose his life, the State Department is prepared to make vigorous . demands on the Peking authorities for restitution Not only will suitable apologies be required, but indemnity must be paid » and whose responsible must be pun- 5 ished if good relations hetween the two governments are to continue. In any case, the United States will fnsist that more effective steps be taken in the future to protect Ameri- cans who are in China on legitimate errands. The incident is regarded a8 more serious in view of the fact that it comes during negotiations for settlement of a controversy over an attack on another American, Charles Coltman, who was killed last fall by Chinese soldlers. BRITISH SUBJECT KILLED. Number of Americans Face Peril of Death From Bandits. By the Associated Press. PEKING, May 7.—Reports trickling in here slowly today from the Shan- tung border at Lincheng, were early vesterday 1,000 bandits seized the Shanghai-Peking express train on the Tientsin-Pukow railway and took cap- tive 150 of its passengers, indicate that one foreigner, a British subject named Rothman, was killed and that a number of Americans, probably all men, still stood in peril, at the mercy of the brigands this afternoon. Troops were believed to be pursu- ing the bandit army. Robert Scripps Prisoner. Among the Americans reported held were Robert Scripps, the newspaper publisher; Maj. Pinger, and two other, officers of the Amenjcan Army, named Roland and Allen, all three in the Philippine dervice; four others whose names were given as Henly, Lee, Solomon and Levy. The passengers included thirty- nine foreigners, and ten of them escaped or were released. The outlaw horde, having derailed the forward part of means of a broken track, volfey toward the coaches. Maj. Pinger's two sons also were taken prisoner, but Mrs. Pinger escaped. The captives Included J. B. Powell, editor of the Weekly Review at Shanghal. TWO U. S. MAJORS CAPTIVES. T American Wife Gives Graphic Ac- count of Kidnaping. R the Assoclated Press. TIENTSIN, May 7.—A relief train arrived here this morning with a party of forelgners who escaped when the Shanghai-Peking express train was held up yesterday by a, large force of bandits at Lincheng. In the party were Mrs. Robert Al- Jen and Mrs. Pinger and the latter’s /. younger son. The women stated that their hus- bands, who are majors in the Ameri- can Army, and the Pingers’ elder son were kidnaped. The Americans told ~ (Continued on page & column &) fired a the train by | Chinese Bandits Hold Him Captive ROBERT SCRIPPS. May Pursue Chinese Bandits| Holding U. S. Citizens Cap- tive If Peking Fails. | | Use of ! the releas American troc of the Ame captive was suggested today as among the possible features of the situation. | A force of 869 cnlisted men and 55! officers, with headquarters at Tier tsin, has been maintained in China, | for the purpose of policing and keep- ing open the Tientsin railway. In addition, there is a marine detach- | ment at Peking. The Peking government itself is ad- mittedly weak in the enforcement of | law and order in certain of the provinces, particularly Shantung and Hunan In the negotis s to secure ) cans held | | ions in the Coltman | case Secretary Hughes expressed his. firm conviction that the Ch au thorities must establish beyond que! tion their authorit, all their | provinces. i @h AMERICAN TROOPS | ¢ Fh WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are p ted. = Sunday’s Saturday's Net Circulation, 91,492 -culation, 98,547 WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 17, 1923—THIRTY-FOUR. PAGES. BRITAIN SUGGESTS NEW GERMAN OFFER WITH BETTER TERMS Drafting Note Advising Ger- many Cuno Proposals Were Insufficient. JOINT REPLY REFUSAL MAY PIQUE ENGLAND France, Holding Whiphand, Un- willing to Accept Media- tion of British. By thie Associated Press. LONDON, May reat Britain will dispateh a note to Germany with- in thirty-six hours expressing dis- approval of the latest German repara- tion proposals and urging Germany to present a more practical and liberal ution of the problem It is believed Great Britain's note ! | will have the general support of the | | ltalian government. although Italy | Iwill probably send a separate re-| sponse to the Wilhelmss BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. 7 Copyright, 1923 PARIS. M 7.—Curiosity rather than anxiety is felt here regarding the possible sequences of the latest ! Franco-British incident. m to be as follows: as France and Belgium were preparing to present their re- ply to the German reparations note. T.ord Curzon, the British foreign min- Ster, unexpectedly represented = to Both Paris and Brussels the desirabil- ity from the British point of view of all the allics replying in common. Felt Offer o Basis, The facts s Last Frida n it appeared that Great Britain agreed that the German proposal was inade- quate both regarding the total repara- tions and the wuarhnties offered. but, nevertheless, Great Britain considered a possible startinz point for further conversations. Great Britain was will- ing that to the common reply France and Belzium should add annexes giving their ing the Ruhr occupation. sence of the Franco-Belgian position As the e: An_order by President Harding | would. in the opinion of State and War Department officials, be sufficient | to start the American troops in China iin pursuit of the bandits to secure | the release of the American captives. Naturally, however, the Washington government first would ascertain | more definitely the ability of Peking to effectively deal with the situation. | S FROM ETNA. | LAVA FLOWS {Stream. Moving .Slowly, Touches Only Uncultivated Land. | By the Assariated Pross. | caTANIA, Sicily, May is uing from the crater in Mount na formed by the eruption of 1911 !"The stream, moving slowly. has ! 1eady progressed three Kkilome: | although it has only touched unculti vated land —Lava ai- that these powers will withdraw from the Ruhr area only in proportion as Germany pays on the basis of existing agreements and will refuse all discus- sion %o long as Germany continues her resjstance in the Ruhr, France and Bel- Eium decided to reject the British pro- posal to frame a common reply and their own replies were duly handed to Germany last night. British Plaue See It is fully understood here that the British - government may be piqued by this refusal to reconstitute the solid front of the allies, but the truth is that the French are unable to see any advantage in trying to form such a -front unless Great Britain will lagree to do so on the basis of associ- ating itself in some way Ruhr occupation policy ; Privately the French regard the British proposals as an effort by Great (Continued on page 4, eolumn with the 'New French Hint, U. S. Cancel Debt, Received Coldly Here The United States does not intend to be placed in the position of “hold- | ing the bag.” H This in brief is the first reaction of | members of Congress in Washington to the suggestion contained in the note of the French premier, M. Poin- care. replying to the German repara {tions proposal, and to the more spe- | cific press dispatches from Paris stat- ling that a Franco-Belgian plan 100ks | |to reduction of the German repara- | tions, provided the United States is willing to cancel debts—or rather to| look to Germany for the payment of | !fhe debts of France and Belgium to | this country. ‘Will Not Cancel. Senator Smoot of Utah, republican. member of the United States World War Foreign Debt Commission and prospective chairman of the Senate finance committee in the next Con- grese, when his attention was calle to these suggestions today, said: “We are not going to cancel any of the foreign debts, and we are not going to be collector for any other nation. ‘We will deal with each na- tion individually that owesusmoney. At the Statc Department it was said today that the text of the French premier's note to Germany had been received. No comment, however, was made upon its contents. Proposal “Impudent.” In some official quarters the sugges- tion that the Unijed States should agree to take over the collection of those German reparations in excess of the amount which France and Bel- { gium and other allied nations might | insist upon being paid to them direct | as an offset of the debts of those na- | tions to the United States, was, de. i clared to be littie short of “impudent. The suggestion now ¢manating from | France is in line, it is sald, with that | advanced by Earl Balfour in a note 1]ast August on the interallied debts, | when he discussed a general cancel- Jation of interallied debts, depending { largely upon -the willingness of the United States to cancel the debts of Great Britain to this country. At the time of the Balfour note, spokesmen for the administration declared that there was no intention on the part of the United States to cancel the foreign debts. Secretary Mellort of the Treasury Department stated officially that there would be no change in the policy of this gov- ernment in regard to the collection of the foreign uebts. British Ready to Pay. Stnce that. time the World War Debt Funding Commission has ar: ranged for the funding of the Brit- ish debt to the United States and Cungress has ratified its action by a law agreeing arrangement. * Unless there is a decided change in the policy hitherto followed, it was pointed out today, this latest pro- posal that the United States agree to cancellation, or at least to look to another nation for the collection of money owed by the allied nations, will Teceive a cold reception here. The law creating the World War Foreign Debt Funding Commission contains the following provisions: “That this act shall not be construed to authorize the exchange of bonds or other obligations of any foreign government for those of any other foreign government, or cancellation of any part of such indebtedness ex- cept through payment thereof.” Makes Change Impossible. This language makes it impossible, it is said, for the commission, or any other agency of the government to agree to such a proposal as now ad- vanced. Only by congressional ac- tion could the law be changed, and to the terms of the 4] Congress is not to meet until nextj December, unless called in special session by the President earlier. It was pointed out today, However, that in the settlement of the British debt, the provisions of the original act creating the debt-funding com- mission, were departed from in the matter of time and rate of interest to be changed. The administration, it was said, had gone ahead and n gotiated the settlement, acting through the debt-funding commis- sion, and then had gone to Congress and had it ratified. If the admin- jistration so desired, it was said, it might now cancellation, or the substitution of German obligations for French, et and then make its appeal to Congres: But such a possibility was considered slim, indeed. That there is some sentiment in f vor of "cancellation of the foreign debts in the United States is admit- ted. In fact, there has been not a little advocacy of the proposal on the rart of some members of Congress and other public men. William Jen- go ahcad with negotiations ! nings Bryan is among those who have advocated the proposal. Th has been made that banking intereas ng interests | with debts of their own to collect from Europe have looked with favor on the proposed cancellation plan. Possibly there will be recruaesence now of the demand that the United States help in wiping the interna- tional slate clear of debts. This latest suggestion put forward | by the French would enlist Germany in the effort to bring about a change in the policy of the United States— provided, of course, that Germany looks with favor on the plan. The sums owed the United States by the foreign nations on account of the war total more than - $10,000,000,000 in interest and principal. In round numbers, the debts of France to this country are $3,000,000,000; of Great Britain, $4,700,000,000; Italy, $1,800,- 000,000; Belgium, $350,000,000. The United States made no claim for repa- rations against Germany under the treaty of peace. ticular points of view regard- | looking to settlement through | 1 | 5.3, GOLF STARS * BEATEN IN BRITAIN |Sweetser, Gardner Out; Six Americans Win; Standi- fer Defeated. Py the Associated I DEAL, England, May 7.—America’s | team of amateur golfing stars re- jceived a severe jolt in the opening' |round of the British amateur cham- pionship tournament here today, when | it suffered the loss of two of itsj leading members. | Jess Sweetser, American amateur! champion, was eliminated by E. Nueli {Layton of the Roval Cinque Ports [ Club, 4 and 3, and Robert A. Gard- ner of Chicago, captain of the Walker cup team, and rated as one of the | steadiest of the American competitors, was 2 down at the finish to G. D. i Forrester of Woking. | Gardner's golf was never very good. His iron shots were continually off { the line; he topped several shots, both ! with the irons and wood, and missed quite a few easy putts at critical times. His conqueror, Forrester, was cham- | pion of India In 1920, and was previous- {1y captain of the Oxford golf team. Six Americans Win. As compensation stood the victory of Francis Ouimet, the Boston stnr.’ | winner of the St. George's cup last| | week, while John F. Neville of San | Francisco, Robert Hunter, another | | Californian; Maxwell R. Marston of Philadelphia. George V. Rotan of | Houston, Tex., and Harrison R. Joh ston of St. Paul also won their { matches. Hunter had to defeat an | other American, H. S. Lake of Hart- | ford, to keep in the running. Reginald M. Lewis of Greenwich. Conn., and | Guy M. Standifer of Washington were { eliminated by their British opponents. | Dr. 0. F. Willing of Portland. Ore.. drew a bye for the first rouml, and it was doubtful if S. Davison Her- ron of Chicago could play his first- round match today because of the late hour. Standifer was putting well, but was | handicapped by his injured foot, as he suffered a%roken toe in an accident on | shipboard on the way over. Layton Able Veteran. Layton, who defeated Swectser, is one of England's stablest® veterans and was counted upon to glve the American champion a %hard battle, particularly in view of the poor form | Sweetser had displayed on the Eng- | lish links. Gardner's defeat was even more of an upset, as it was not thought he would have much dificulty in surviving the first rcund. H. Ernest Le Bas, Walton Heath, defeated Guy M. Standifer of Wash- ington, D. C., 3 and 2. Francls Ouimet of Boston defeated A. H. Read of Sunningdale, England, |4 and 3. i " G. D. Forester of Woking. England | aefeated Robert A. Gardner, Chicago, 12 5Px. Layton. Royal Cinque Ports, | @efeated ~ Jess Sweetser, Siwanoy | (American amateur champion), 4i {and 3. | t the negotiations which followed | i | | | | | | | John E. Neville. San Francisco, de- | feated Viscount Maidstone, Royal St. | George's, 5 and 4 | “Roger Wethered, the Oxford star, | defeated E. R. Campbell, Sunningdale, 1 up. i Rotan Wins, 6-4. George V. Rotan, Houston. Tex.. de. feated J. A. Board, Home Park, Eng- {1and, 6 and 4. Robert Hunter, Claremont, Calif.,, ! defeated H. S. Lake, Hartford, Conn., 4 and 2. . Leslle Schon, Royal Cinque Ports, England, defeated Reginald M. Lewls, Greenwich, Conn., 1 up. Maxwell R. Marston, Philadelphia, !deteated Lieut. Commander Guy Mil- ter, Shanklin and Sandown, England, 7 and 5. ison R. Johnston of St. Paul,| Minne defeatea H.'S. Holden, Bowdon, | , 9 and 7. E&fldm H. Toiley, Rye, defeated W. L. Hartley, Cooden’ Beach, 3 and 1. ‘G. Tweedale, Wilmslow, defeated E. ‘Martin Smith, Royal St. Georges, 4 and 3. Fred Wright, jr., of Los Angeles delt.e?ted Commander B. Bannerman, Rowland's Castle, England, 2 up. MARK LUSITANIA SINKING. NEW YORK, May 7.—Relatives of| those lost on the Lusitania were ob- ! serving today the eighth anniversary of the sinking of the giant Cunarder by two torpedoes from a German submarine off Kinsale, Ireland. Of 1198 who lost their lives 124 were Americans. | { SMITH'S SOLILOQUY. Lost D. C. Indian Boy Found With Minnesota Tribe Dwight William Madison, fourteen-year-old Indian boy, who has been missing from this city since rch 5, has been located. His father and mother, of 616 Massachusetts avenue, received a telegram from the boy sayving that he was at his old home, on the White Barth Indian reserva- tion, Minnesota The boy's telegram stated that he had made his way back there with only 75 cents. Young Madi- son also stated that he had gone there to investigate the calls of distress that he, being in line by heredity the chieftainship, could settle. The parents are overjoyed at hearing from their son and will join the boy in a week or so. -They stat hat he acted like “a true Indian” and that they are proud of him. to IBAD CHECKS START WILD STOCK BREAK. Wall Street Flooded With Bogus Buying Orders From Eastern Cities. By the Associated Dress, NEW YORK, May 7.—Post office Inspectors this afternoon went on the trail of a band of check forgers who wsent out over the week end mearly 100 checks, aggregnting more than a million dollars, ac- companied by letters to stock brok- ers in New York, Philadelphin, Bos- ton and Chicago, ordering Inrge purchases of stock. EW YORK, May 7.—Prices on the New York Stock Exchange were sent tumbling today by reaction from heavy buying started on a floed of orders which it was disclosed were backed by worthless checks, drawn on several Pennsylvania banks. More than a score of worthless checks were received by Wall street houses over the week end. One of the checks was for $15,000, drawn on the Keystone National Bank of Reading. Pa., to cover buying orders in Westinghouse, Reading and American Car and Foundry. Others accompanied orders to buy New York Central stock. Reports from Philadelphia and Boston said brokers in those cities had received similar bogus orders. The checks in almost every case bore forged certifications which trick- ed some of the brokers into executing buying orders for large blocks of stock Selling_ operations, started when the fraud was discovered, s prices down, practically the entire li being carried to new low levels. Bankers Start Swindle Probe. The protective department of the American Bankers' Association imme- diately put fifteen investigators at work tracing down the worthless paper, while the Philadelphia Stock Ex- change sent out a warning, as follows: “Members of the exchange report having received orders to buy 300 or 400 shares of different stocks, accom- panied by certified checks on out-of: town banks, which, it has been ascer: tained, have been forged. Among the New York banks named as correspondents in the fake orders were the Guaranty Trust Company, National City Bank, Chase National Bank, Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Company, Hanover _National Bank, Bank of Commerce, Seaboard National Bank, American Exchange National Bank and National Park Bank. On Same Kind of Paper. Although the orders were mailed at widely. separated cities in_Pennsyl- vania, Massachusetts and New York, all the letters were written on the same brand of water-marked paper, and the checks accompanying them also had been printed on a uniform brand. The orders, all posted so as to reach New York simultaneously be- fore the opening of the stock ex- change _this_ morning, came from Harrisburg, York, Allentown, Bethle- hem and Reading, Pa.; Amsterdam, Schenectady and Utica,” N. Y., and North Adams and Pittsfield, Mass, Most of the names menticned as clients in the letters, for whom stocks were to be boughf, were those of companies in the baking, grocery and produce business. 3 ‘While a complete tabulation of the spurious checks had not been made, it was believed in Wall street that more than half million in the bogus paper had been put n circulation. Effort to “Rig” Market. Wall street brokers, declaring the perpetrators of the hoax obviously could not have expected to gain pos- (Continued ol Page 2, Columd 2.) - OFD. Episcopal Committee Fixes| FLEGTNEW BISHOP £ ONHAY3 Date to Name Harding’s Successor. ! May 31, at 10 o'clock a.m., at the Church of the Ascension, 12th and | Massachusetts avenue, was selected {as the day and place for the conven- {l on of the diocese to elect a bishop !(-l the Diocese of Washington, by the { standing committee at a meeting this jafternoon at the Church of the | Epiphany. The standing committee, with the Rev. George F. Dudley presiding, went into executive session at noon. Dr. Dudley declared, following the meet- ing, that there is.no chance of the convention electing a bishop suffra. |gan, as has been reported, because such a step would be contrary to the law of the church, which expressly states that a suffragan can be elected only upon the consent or request of the bishop of the diocese. Since there is no bl diocese of Washington and there will not be one until he is elected May 31. it is manifestly im- possibly, Dr. Dudley pointed out, that @ bishop suffragan be chosen. Those Not Eligible. Dr. Dudley also stated that of the jout-of-town bishops who have been mentioned as possible selections for the bishopric of Washington, only Bishop Howden, a missionary bishop of New Mexico, would be eligible for lection. The chairman of the stan®- ing committee stated that the law of the ehurch make it impossible that any of the following bishops be elect- ed: Bishops Gailor. Manning, Rhine- {lander, Brent and Lloyd. ! These last named churchmen are already elected as diocesan bishops, |and no one but a bishop suffragan o a missionary bishop who has been five s in his jurisdiction would be ecligible as bishop of Washington, | Dr. Dudley d. ' The other members of the standing committee who met today are_the | tev. J. W. Clark and _the Rev. Her- bert Scott Smith, and W. C. Rives, H. M. Bowen and J.'H. Gordon, All clergymen of the Washington Episco diocese with the lay dele- gates will be entitled to vote for the | election of the bishop on May 31. The two orders vote by ballot, separately, in open convention. The candidate |receiving a majority of the vote of hop of the of the laity shall be elected, provided that at least two-thirds of all the clergy entitled to seats and at least two-thirds of all the laymen ‘entitled to seats are present. BOYS ADMIT SLAYING GIRL IN VACANT LOT By the Assoaiatod Press DETROIT, Mich., May 7.—Max Nova, nineteen, and Edward Przy- bylski, seventeen, confessed today, the police announced, that they kill- ed Helen Yesh, seventeen, in a vacant lot here late Sunday night, choking her when she resisted their ad- vances. The two young men were held after they had notified persons in a house near the vacant lot that a woman had fainted. They at first declared they had found the girl, who died a few minutes after being removed to the house. The girl was identified today by her mother, Mrs. Mary Yesh, who collapsed upon seeing the body. Upheld by The science of osteopathy has be- tity the classification of its practl- tioners as “regular practicing phy- sicians,” according to a decision of the District Court of Appeals today by Justice Van Orsdel. The court re- versed the judgment of the Police Court, which had imposed a fine on Thomas J. Howerton, an osteopath, for alleged violation of the law against the practice of podiatry without a license. The act in question, passed May 23, 1918, excepts regular prac- ticing physicians and surgeons. The case was heard on an agreed statement of facts which showed that Mr. Howerton treated one Glover for a sprained foot. Howerton was }a graduate of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., and had practiced that profession for twelve years. He first massaged the patient’s foot with his bare hands and later used a small device con- t this time, | I the clergy and a majoriiy of the vote | come sufficiently established to jus- | \Hardison in Party !F ined as Speeders {In Rockville, Md. b “But we were going only twenty-seven miles an hour.” “No you were not. Our speed- ometers showed fifty.” And so Judge Robert Hardison of the District Police Court, who puts fear in the hearts of traffic violators, cogether with Attornevs Campbell Howard and D. ¥dward Clarke and Court Bailiff Roy Moore, found themselves arrested yesterday by two Maryland motor cycle police on a charge of violat- ing the thirty-five-mile sperd limit near Bethesda. They were di- rected to 1 $7 with Judge Riggs at Rockville; they obeyed and continucd on their journey to Frederick, Md., highly fndignant at the treatment handed them by the law enforcers. Clarke was operating the machine. GOMES T0 DEFENSE OF FLEXIBLE TARIFF President Tells Southern Delegates He Would Act Only in Extremity. President Harding told a delega- { tion from the south which protested to him today against opening of the vege- table oil McCumber tariff act that he, acting under the flexible provision of the i tariff law, would modify rates “only necessity for such a change in rates. “I can tell you surely,” the Pres !dent said to the delegation, “that the éPrl‘sidcnl would proclaim no reduc- ition of the tariff unless there were {very pronounced reasons for it In replying to the protest filed by | the delegation which was headed by Gov.-elect Walker of Gov. McLeod of South Carolina, the | President explained his view of the | flexible | which provision was enacted by Con- {gress largely at the insistence of the ! executive. The provision, the Presi- | Gent told the delegation, is designed “to protect the American consumer against inordinate charges as well as I the American producer against un- ; fair competition.’ Explain Flexible Tariff. The President sgid to the delega- it | “Now let me say briefly in reply— |it will be very brief—I am just as | cordially in favor of everything con- | sistently possible to promote agricul- { tural prosperity as any of you. 1 pre- {sume I am a more ardent protection- ist than any of vou. I believe in it with all my heart as an American policy, but I rather infer from your | presentation of the case that you have not understood precisely ‘the flexible provisjon of the tariff law. | “Your argument proceeds on the | theory that® the authority of the President, on the advice of the Tariff Commission, is to lower the tariff, when, as a matter of fact, the pro- vision was inserted with equal pur- pose to authorize the elevation of it. We were considering a provision to correct the difficulties growing out of world conditions—out of the great differences in exchange—and we wanted a provision by which we could {protect American -industry against | unfair and destructive competition. !'So one inspiration of the flexible tariff {1s protection, and reduction only in | | case of excessive rates. It is designed ‘# | to operate either way—to protect the | i American consumer against inordi- | nate charges as well as the American | producer against unfair competition. | "You stress your objection to the policy of docketing. A policy has been agreed upon by the tariff com- mission and the President. We can- not deny the filing of petitions for modifications, but. before action is taken, the tariff commission makes a preliminary survey to determine whether the facts justify recommend- ng a hearing on the question. You nnot forbid surveys, If you under- itook to do that, you would make the i provision_of a flexible tariff a dead {letter. But I have cautioned the commission that the government does not mean ‘to throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery’ at a time when we are all trying to recover fully {from industrial and agricultural de- | pression. “I can tell you surely that the Presi- dent would proclaim no reduction of the tariff unless there were very pro- nounced reasons for it, and the Presi- dent would be justified in modific tion either way only on the most striking evidence of the necessity for such a change in rates. I can under- stand, of course, how the suggestion of inquiry and the announcement of a hearing might spread a feeling of anxiety to any given industry. 1 wish that were not so. It is g rea- sonable function when the Tariff”Com- mission makes these surveys, and they come to the Fresident, and the situation is laid before him presum- ably without prejudice. { "I know the commission is in har- i mony with the general policy which {1 have tried to enunciate to you. After you have gotten a survey of any field of production and the neces- sary information on which to base a decision, then, of course, there is only one of two things to do—elevate or lower the tariff. I do not see how, in these circumstances, you could be injured in any way. You cannot be, under any circumstance, if the tariff is a fair one, because it is the intent of the law and of the President to give that just protection to Amer- fcan tndustry, which is the purpose of the new law. - Osteopathy Practice in D. C. Appellate Court | sisting_of a rubber nodule held in place in the palm of the hand by means of a leather strap. The nodule was used to manipulate the bones and tissues of the foot more easily. The court finds that the. plaintift was pursuing a treatment common among osteopaths, and in using the nodule on the foot he was merely hpracticing osteopathysand not podia- try. It he was practicing podiatry he was.exempt from prosecution, the court points out, because he came Within the other exception of the law —practitiopers of more than one year before the passage of the act. Interpretation of the Act. The act is not intended, the court decides, to interfere with the general practice of any recognized branch of medical science; nor that a general practitioner_shall be limited in the treatment of his patients to all parts of the body except the foot. Plain- tiff was practicing his profession within lawful limits and was guilty of no infringement of the law, the court concludes. schedule of the Fordney-| l'on the most striking evidence of the | Georgia and| vision of the tariff law,| | gitor of the | TWO CENTS. GEN.WOOD PROBES MONEY SENT HERE T0 FREE FILPINOS U. S. Legislators and Other Officials Said to Be on Island Pay Roll. SUMS DECLARED TO RUN UP INTO FIVE FIGURES Insular Auditor Reports Many Vouchers for Which He Can Obtain No Explanation. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Wircless to The Star and Chicago Da ! News. Copyright, 1623 MANILA. May 7—Disclosures in volving high Washington official cir cles and other reputed altruistic ad vocates of Philippine independence are promising as the result of the action today by Gen. Leonard Wood, preliminary to making public the names of persons on the pay roll of the Philippine independ ence commission, which has been dis persing a million pesos voted from government funds for independence propaganda. Senators, representatives, prominent officials in Washington, lawyers, turers and writers in the tates, as well as a host of who have been consistently ing independence for the Philippine: have been receiving payments run ning into five figures from the fund according to admission today by local government official. Gov Letter Precipitates Action. These same officials expressed them- selves as doubtful whether the action { of the Philippine legislator involving government funds for such purpose is legal. A letter written by Charles Edward Russell, American writer and lecturer, and published in the Philippine Her- ald, which has been the mouthpiece of ‘the independence faction in the islands, precipitated the action by Gen. Wood. i | _ Finds Unexplained Vouchers. ! Wood asked E. M. Fullington, au- insular government ex- penditures, whether he held vouchers showing to whom disbursements of the Independence’fund had been made Fullington said that he had the vouchers. but that in several in- stances he had been unable to secure requested explanations of the pur- poses to which lavish payments, run ning into thousands of dollars, had been put | “According to records in the insular auditor’s office, considerable corre- spondence passed regarding a voucher paying 20,000 pesos to Russell at about the time he was fn Manila pre- paring a book advocating Philippine independence. The voucher merely records “paid Charles Russell,” with- out stating why payment was made RUSSELL EXPLAINS. Declares He Was Engaged to Write Eleven Articles for $1,500. The letter referred to as having pre- | cipitated the disclosure of possible ir- | regularities in the activities of cham- pions of Filipino independence in this city was written by Charles Edward { Russell in reply to one he had re- ceived from the auditing department of the insular government in Manlla. Mr. Russell, socialist and a well known author and magazine writer |living at 2011 T street northwest plained his connections with the Philippine Independence Bureau. He said that while he was in San Frai cisco attending the democratic na tional convention, he was approached by several members of that commis- sion. The commissioners. Mr, Russell as serted. suggested that he should visit |the islands and write a series of | eleven articles on his impressions. It | was explicitly agreed, the writer said that he would not be bound to write in favor of independence if his in- quiries did not warrant such an event Mr. Russell said his salary was to be $1.500 for the eleven articles and his expenses, the latter of which ran be- tween @3,000 and $3.000. A Philippine press bureau is main- tained in this city, occupying a suite of offices in the Munsey building. At present the bureau was said to be costing about $2,000 a month. Of that sum $1.000 was spent on the publi- cation of a press clipping sheet and the remainder to pay the salaries of the bureau’s employe STREET BOOK SALES LEGAL, COURT HOLDS ex- the Die- 27 The regulation by which trict Commissioners March 1922, attempted to stop the sale on the public streets of books. pamphlets, | programs, tags and the like was'de- |clared invalid today by the District Court of Appeals in an opinion by Judge James F. Smith of the United States Court of Customs Appeals. The appellate court reversed the decision of the Police Court, which had convicted Francis S. Crane of violating the regulation by selling his book called “Hostorical Guide to Washington.” and had fined him $10. Chiet Justice Smyth Dissented. The appellate court holds the regu- lation is beyond the scope of author- ity granted by Congress to the Com- missioners. The court finds that prior to January, 1887, there was no statute or ordinance which denied to street vendors the use of the streets; that the act of January 26, 1887, authorized the Commissioners to locate and regulate conduct of licensed vendors. but did not authorize the prohibition of street sales by street vendors whether licensed or unlicensed and that the act of 1892 to pass police regulations for pretection of life. health and comfort did not preclude street sales. The regulation, there- fore, is beyond the powers of the Commissioners, the court declares. ‘Attorney P.'B. Morehouse for Mr Crane contended that if strictly en- forced the regulation would have pre- vented the newsboys from selling newspapers on the street on