Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 1

OT CONFISCATOR POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., 'TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 1919 t h Rendering Decision Sustaining Valldlty of the War-Time Prohibition Act, the Court’s Opinion Declares That Presi-| dent Wilson Is Vested With Power to Terminate the Act By Proclamation Upon Ascertaining That Demobiliza-| tion Has Been Accomplished—Court Says That Distillers Were Given More Than Nine Months to Dispose of Their Stocks—No Decision Was Given Upon the Validity of the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Act Or Upon Ap- peals Involving the Alcoholic Content of Beer—Liquor| Interests Are Prepared to Combat Federal Prohibition Amendment. Washingten. Dec. 15.—By unani- #nous decision constitutionality of war time prohibition act was sustained today by the supreine . court. The opinion, given by Associate Justice Brandeis, held in effect, however, that the war-invoked “dry” period still may be terminated by presidential proclamation of demobilization. In' rendering its opinion the court, Jowever, did not act upon the Vi lidity of the Volstead prohibition en- forcement act or on appeals involv- ing the alcoholic content of beer, Jeaving those cases te future opinions which may be hanSNQ) down next| Monday before the couri recesses for the Christmas hoiidays. Today's de- | ‘cision practically swept away .all| hopes of a “wet” Christmas as e possibility of the war-time act being repeal before constitutional prohi- bition becomes effective one month from tomorrow were considered re- amote. The cases decided were those of the Kentucky Distillerie: ‘ond Warehouse | Company of Louisviile, foes. Blum und Compa York instituted to the purpose of compelling the govertiment to release whiskey from bond’ Tn both Ahe court denied contentions of E'ihu Root und other attorneys for the d! tillers that the act in violation of the 4 ‘which the aét was passed had.term-| indted, that the law was an interfer- ence with the state police powers and an undu exercise of the war powers of eongress, Congress did not intend for the war fime act to terminate’ on the conclu- ®idn of the war but at the.end of the period of demobilization. in. the view of the court, which held that the ‘“‘con- chision pf tpe war cleafly did" not mean cessdtion of hostilities,” “Congress, ‘therefore; provided.” the opinion added, f. the act-veased (o be gperative =nd! be fixed by the president’s ascertain- ing and proclaiming the date when démobilization had terminated.” “Had_the president on .October = 2 Jast, when he vetoed the .Volstead act, believed that flemohmz‘nion had terminated,. the court said, “he would doubtless have issued then a procla- mation to that effect, for ie: had man- ifested a strong conv n ‘lhaiqrb #triction uponm the of liquor should end.” s %% “Only by such proclamation could ! the purpose of eofigreks he nrtained; | and the serfous consequences at- tending uncertainty be obviated. i “In view.of facts of .pu know: | ag Jedze,” the opinion read, ome of |, which have been referred to. that the - had not yet beén concluded, the railways are still under na- 1 control by virtue of the warg pawers, that other war activities have not been hrought to a close, and that constitution takes ‘private property without ust compengations, that the péridd of the war emergency . for it can not even he s the man i Had beeh'in'no haste to nass »mon the power of the nation 1 restored 900 cases, owing to the uncertain con- te a peace footing. we are u | «titntichal status of the war time pro- eonclude that the act has cca ihibiflnn act. { frm of Root. Clark, Buckner & How< be valid. » The war time act, the court also held, fs ot confiscatory, asserting that more Tnail nine mWoNLAS Were giv- en distillers to’ dispose of their stocks, whicn time the court believed to be adequate. The act also was not re- pealed, the court held, by the prohi- bivon constitutional * amenament, which, it is asserted, is binding not: onty in peace but alsq in war time: Announcement was made tomght that tne house agriculture commutice will meet tomorrow to yote on the motion to table ‘the bill of Repre- seniaiive. Gallivan, democrat of Mas- sachusetts, which would repeal thei|j war time act. LIQUOR MEN TO CONTEST EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT New Yorls, Dec. 15.-—The knockout delivered John Burieycorn today by the United States supreme court in declar- ing war time prohibition constitutiona came as a tremendous jolt Lo leaders of the “wets,” dispensers of liquors, the wiseacres who huve been predicting a wet as well as a merry Christmas, ana the average mah wit ha thirst. “*We @0 not care to criticise the su- preme court and have no comment to mike a tthis time,” was the onl ment forthcomung from A. W executive secretary of the Association ©Opposed to National Prohibition. ne added, however, by way of a “chaser,” that his organization was concerned chiefly with combatting the eighteenun amendment and had “no direct inter- est” in the war time act. But the “wets” had not entirely. lnst their optimism. 1. R. Buckner of the !%n(l, who have 16d the legal forces of & “dntis” declared it all rested with the president. ‘and senate - whether Amerlcgns were once more to taste “red liquor.” If the sepate ratifes the peace treaty before Jan..16, when the constitutional amendment becomes ef- tive, and the.r immediately issues (a -nroclamation declaring ' war and war timeprobibition at an . end; then all will be well, according to Mr. Buckner.* The lflnw-fen ‘hardest. unon ' the (hotisands of saloon kéeners and their white-aproned assistants, who ., had been-preparing. to pass the Yuletide | with _ saleg, - unprecedented. motor trucks were all tuned un awaiting the signal for a dash to the warehouse and return: advertising nosters and pam- phiats hadirélled from manv a vrinting In this cofnection A«Mafl Federal Dlsd Attorney Matthews, in charge secution of offenders against the law in- this distri v*to he ‘an acceleration of ome 300 offenders already arrested tor | lezal -»ale of liguor and a decrease. in | the number of arrests of new offend- ers Mr. Matthews said the federal corrts LIFTING RESTRICTIONS ON CONSUMPTION OF COAL Washington, ®n the co continued Dec. 15.—Restrictions mption of bituminbus coal 30 by the hoaml tofl now to ®s the railroad administratior in charge of the distribution of supplies, Teceived reports indicating that %0 per cent. of the str i turned to work. Orders wer By Director General. Hines d!lnwlrw bunker coal to be suppiied to foreign owned vessels in Amcrican h.\rlyo~s whenever the loca) to fill the requirements of cnastwlse and Ameri . Senatorial @etilement ¥ 3 Palted today, w! Chairman Fre] llvg- huysen and members of the inve: gating sub-committee considercd Ppolicy to be adopted. the Tt was said after & lpng executive session that a com- mittee had not decided as to whether ft would formally demand documents zl the poesession of Dr. Henry A. Gar- eld, former fuel administrator, who resigned because of his disagreement with the settlement proposals, o whether Attorney General Palmer @hd other officials would be cailed. The committee, however, dezided to Pesume hearings and surumoned R. B. Norris, one of the engineers of the fuel |dministration, to furnish the gics o which Dr. Garfieid ba suggestion that a 14 per cent. in in wakes be given the miner: ®ut of the operators’ profits without #aising prices of coal. .'!ARINGO ON ZONE SYSTEM ARE TO BEGIN THURSDAY Hartford, Conn.. Dec, 15—The pub- e utilities commission announced. at the close of today ne:xring on the ®one fure system recently installed Ly tha Connecticut- Compuny that hear- igs woull be held beginning Thurs- on the protests filed by Southiugton, * Bloomfield, Plainville, Berlin und Newington. On ¥riday petitfons Mane > *®ill come up. No hearings aff X the state. Tt l'l understood that at Jeast one hearing will be held in New Haven and one in Bridgeport, Piran details of the C given lines were inls 0% the com- pany. The greater part of the day was occupled with the testimony of Thom- J. McGreevy, of the system. 1f .was brought ou! that assistant comptro]- the cost of $ystalling the zone farc 5 § em on 11e $19,664. F Lm ay’'s -linex was $oatliz indebtednes ‘Qctober £1 wa ig to Mr. MeGreevy, w et the total phriical Y o company's property ic 886 ’l‘he HEARING ON THE ANTHONY NEwWS PRINT PAPER BILL Washington, L\L;_ -Provisions of the Antnuny il which would limit to uventy-four pages daily newspaper: and perivwieals using the sceon ail. privitege in oruer Lo DrINt paper were commendea and | opposed by more than a score or news- paper and magazine publishers today verore the house postotice committec. Opposition to lac meas came | n:huuy irom thé representatives of the | larger newspapers, who declared inct restriction on the size would do httle | to remedy the situation resulting from the shortage of paper and would serve only to work a greal if not fatal hard- ship on the large wewspapers o1 ue country. The. bill was sunported by. publish- ers of small newspapers, wno declared they would be forced to suspend pub- lication unless something were done. In opehing the hearing, Representative thony of Kansas, auhor of the bill, eclared that from 2,500 to @900 smafi newspapers face suspeusion and per- ! extinction ghould the present shortage of news print paper continue, The shortage, the Kansas 1epresenta- tive charged. s due to the action of the great publishing concerns in buy- inz un practically the entire available Supply. Spealiing, for the Chicago Tribune, large user of paper, J. \n-dm Patter son declared that the twenty-four page restriction would affect only fifty to sixty newspapers, but to put it mto effect immediately would ban many of the papers. The larger pers, he told the committee, were will- mg to accept a 10 per cent. cut but were strongly onposed ot the Antnony nroposal which he cstimated in some cases would amount tc a eut of 60 per cent. Many of the larzer napers, ue added wulready had instituted reduc- ticns in size umouxnting to more than | 10 per cent. { Suggstion that an embargo be| placed on coal to Canada until nadian newspapers h, he o were using all the ‘sprint they de- eed to sulmit to the samelec ion programme ferced on { newspapers of the ‘United States a made by . L. Rogers, business ma: ager of the Chicago Daily News, This ‘act’on could be usified. he added. by the t that Canad d. Amercan . ccal’in produyet: The prospective shortage 7 of print paper. for 1920 was estimated at 200,- 000 tons by Frank P. Glass, pub- cr of the Birminzham, Ala.. News, and. president of the American Pub- lishers’ Association. He predicted. howeyer, that relief from the shortage pulp mii making their BITION CONSTITU j eorordination, onld come. within six month: (' zress, My, Glass declared, eith- *should glve the Federal = Trade (cermnuad on Page Three, Col. Three) 20 into effect next fall. [ONAL, , SUPREME COURT HOLDS Condensed Teiegrams British exports for October wese 779,000,000 pounds. General Gonsalez reports the sur- render of 700 Mexican rebels. British food ~ministry plans for a reduction quart in milk. announced of 2 cents a American Smelting & Refining Co. incheased price of lead from 6.90 to 7 cents a ‘pound. For political reasons the request of former Emperor Charles to reside In Czecho-Slovakia was denied. Gold amounting to $5.000,000 arrived in New York from Canada. This is part of $20,000,000 to be shipped. Arrangements were completed for | holding a second Worid Aviation Con- jeress in- Atlantic City next year. Roosevelt Memorial Association an- | nounced 40,000 persons in Hawaii had enrolled in the membership drive. i Queen of Rumania sent congratula- | tions to Lady Astor upon her winning a seat in the House of Commons. Reports of the Weather Bureau in- dicate severe weather for Christmas in New York and along the Atlantic| Coast, Britain will sopn end the control of meat. There is a sufficient supply on hand to cover all needs for several months. Sir Robert Borden, who is in ill} health, will retire from government| leadership of Canada next month it was announced. More than $10.000000 in Chrlstmnx‘ bonuses will be distributed to em- ployes of Chicago banks and stores | during the coming week. | Automobile fatalities in Chicago during the past vear averaged more than one 4 day. To date there were 391 direetly due to auto accidents. . Labor disturbances and rioting in Trinidad and Tobago, in the Wast Indies, .were quelled by sailors landed from the British warsAlp Calcutta. Hungarian Cabinet definitely de- cided upon the members of the dele- gation to sign the peace treaty be- tween the Allied powers and Hungary. s A Greek urldnm and irregular Turkish troops engmd in skirmishes during the “past.. days in , Western: Asia Mitior, amémng to Salonica reports. Esthonian ‘and _Bolsheviki reports received in London report heavy fight- ing on the Narva front. ‘The Esthoni- ans report beating off the Bolsheviki. | Secretary D ls ‘says the policy of selecting offic from men in the ranks of the marine corps originated during’ the war, will .be made perma- nent. Federal agents and police were busy in’ San TFrancisco working on a card index of more than a thousand | members ‘of the California Communist party. Lloyd George government in Eng- land Is being severely criticised. As- quith declared it a government of no of meither principles nor- party. Airship Co. began | to construet A propose aid_service between Germany and the United States. Reports reaching Nogales. Ariz., nounce a fight be eral troops and Yaqui Indians ‘apitan, south and cast of a station. v 5 to the International sociation of Teachers, at Brus preliminary international confercnce on April 17-19, 1920. As- Flra Commxsslontr Brennan. of New | York., anncr- Mids for $300,- 000 worth of modern fire fighting a: paratus w i, W equip- ment would IN received. Secretary Bakor and General erch) arrived at Hoboken on the army| transport Northern Pacific after two weeks' inspection of the Panama Ca- nal Zone and Puerto Rico. Professor Alfred F. Italian astromrmer ~ves great storms m—obably the heaviest on record. will American coast be- Porta, 7T and the end of the month. Major Seneral Reinhardt, former Prussian Minister of War, charged with direct responsibility for the exe- cution of twenty-nine Ber- lin last. March, wa from the army. 'OFFICES FILLED BY THE YALE CORPORATION New Haven. Conn., Dec. 15.—The Yale Corporation at a meeting Sat- urday filled the offices of provost of the university and dean of freshmen, two new posts provided for in the re- organization programme adopted last spring. Williston' Walker, who is Ti- tus Street professor of ccclesias eal history, was elected provost, it was Professor for duate of Amherst, | . and known as a Jead- ing, church_historian. , professor of ps ctor “of the psycho- | was elected dean of | Professor Angier was d from Harvard in 1897 and cobnected with Yale thir- He served in the war as having 2 nnou need tonight. teen a captajn in the signal corps, charge of certain psychological tesv.s for army aviatozs at Mineola, L, 1. vears, assume his Professor An- ew work January ill ‘take up plans for the freshman year which® is - to Both nominz- tions had the endorsement of the con- Professor Waltker will new duties next Ju gier will begin his 1, wheén e common ¥ sory hoard, (Reports Receive of ! Northwind | U ress of Swiss school tvach-‘ Walt | cizhteen | ference committes of the alumni ad- | Marine Dasasters Repetted Attempts Fnled to Float Three Steamers| Ashore In Vineyard Sound. Vineyard Taven, Mass., Dec. 15— Repeated attempts by the coast guard cutters Acushnet and Gresham today to pull afloat the steamers Northwind and Lake Crystal, stranded on Nau- shon Island, were unsuccessful. The 1nairfield also remained fast steamer aground tonight in Martha's Vineyard. One of the holds of the Lake Crystal was filled with water. Water also was entering the holds of the Northwind, but her pumps were controlling it to- night. A wrecking plant sent from New London will begin salvage work on the as soon as the zale sub- sides somewhat. Two other wrecking expeditions were reported on the way from New London to assist in float- ing the other two steamers. The three vessels are carrying more than 10,000 tons of bituminous coal. The crews remained aboard tonight. TEN PERSONS SAVED FROM WRECK OF THE LIBENTELO Basle, Dec. 15 (Havas).—Advices r ceived here today from Stettin report that the steamer Kriemhild met a ship baving on board ten persons saved from a wreck. The advices say these | persons declared they were on the| American steamer Libentelo, 10,000 | tons, bound from New York to Eng- | land, which struck a mine and’ sank. No trace of the resi of the crew of ! forty-two men could be found, it was said. The steamer Libentelo referred to in the foregoing is not listed in shipping records, and it is believed that it may have bécome confused with the Amer- ican steamer Liberty Glo, wh was reported to have struck a mine off Terschelling, Holland. Dec. 4, A London despaich Dec. 12 said six- teen men of the crew of the Liberty Glo had been saved and the others unaccounted or had perished. Previous reports from The IHague | said all but twenty-three of the crew i had landed at Terschelling. Later the agents of the ship were adyised from Emend that ten of the crew had been landed at that port, which would have made thirteen men still missing. BRITISH SCHOONER ST. CLAIRE | THERIAULT PROBABLY LOST St. John, N. B, Dec. 15.—The British | schooner St. Claire Theriault. recently reported in a sinking condition, five miles off ‘shore, with part of crew sick and disabled, is bel have gone down. A report that the ship| had reached Yarmouth, N. S. proved to be erroneous. A wircless message received here Saturday told of & vessel heing sighted floating bot- tom ‘up by ‘a’paseenger steamer. ‘rhe location’ of it mdg. it |‘mssfl]lo that it was themng scenoorer” TWO SCHOONERS ASHORE ON THEIR MAIDEN TRIPS Sydney, N. S. Dec. 15.—The, Ameri can steamer Lake Galewood, which went ashore at Port Hood -durir g the| gale of last night. has been refloated, according to ‘advices received here to- amer - Lake . Elmdale, which also was blown ashore at Har- bour. Au Douche, is exnected to be refloated this week if weather vermits. Both steamers are owned by the ited States shinding board and we being .brought out from Great Lakes zhip:,‘urds on their maiden trips. [ WAR TIME EXPENDITURES HAS PRIORITY IN HOUSE\ ‘Washington, Dec. 15.—Twelve 1‘011 calls interspersed with charges and counte arges, extending over two i legislative days, brought adoption late | 1 { tod in the house of a special rule | permitting immediate consideration of | | the report of the committee which in- vestigated time expenditures of the ment. . members throughout the ed a hard fight 1o ijon of the report. ried made no specific only a series of veil- Tn,reply, republi- | charged the dem- with ng proceedings i Wl the fraud and incompetencs the war department.” The report, which was filed several weeks ago by the committee of whic Representative Graham of Illinois is | | chairman, attacked war department, officials for alleged wasteful expendi- ture of money and suggested reopen- ing of all claims for unexpired con- tracts settled by the war department ! and submission of these claims to an two se; prevent cons which they a: charges and v cd h can ocr conc 1 with Mexicans Release Fredarick Hugo | Conditions Are Unknown—-It Is* Supposed No Ransom Was Paid. ‘Washington, Dec. 15.—The state de- partment was notitied officially late today that Frederick - Hugo. the American seized by bandits in the recent raid on Muzquiz, Mexico, had been releasgd and had returned 1o Muzquiz Conditions upon which he was® set frec were not stated in the message, but the department’s an- nouncement said it was supposed no ransom had been paid. . The official report came from the American Consul at Piedras Negras, 1 Mexico, and added that it was possible that Phillips, an American also cap- tured during the raid and whose first| name was not known' here, had been released likewise. The announcement followed earlier bassy at Mexico City, and the consul action by the department. the em- at Piedras Negras having been in- structed to make [epresentation to the Carranza government - officials a view to securing the release of the two Americans. Details ‘of the abduction of the two Americans were lacking, the depart- ment’s advices as made publie s the morely that the town, had . béen looted before the Villistas evacuated. Pnding more complete information as to the manner of the release of the at the state department of the extent captives no intimation was available to which the latest incident has af- ifected the admittedly increasingly delicate relations beiween the United | States and the Carranza government. The department’s statement fol- low: ‘The department of smte was ad- vised late.today by the American Consulate at Piedras Negras Mexicq, that according to a telegram received there from Muzquiz,’ Frederick Hugo, captured by Villistas, has been re- d and is now at Muzquiz It is ble that Phillips. the other American taken by the Villistas also has been released. The telegram from iz does not state the conditions which Hugo was released ,but| supposed at Piedras Negras was released without pay- upen it that he mest of ransom.” NO DETAILS OF THE RELEASE OF FRED HUGO Eagle Pass, Te: Dec, 15.—Ameri- can and Mexican government officials here had not received details tonight of the release of Fred G. Hugo, Amer- ican ranch manager, by Villistas with- out payment of the $10,000 ransom de- manded by Francisco Villa. Hugo was released when the Vi left Muz- quiz, Coahuila, last week, after loot- ing the place, and he is still iv town.. Severgl . prominent Me: held by Villa were relensed without payment of ransom.” Announcement . of the Hugo, manager of the J. ranch in Coahuila, and the Mexicans was made today by G. M. Seguin, Mexican consul here. The news came release of M. Dobies in a brief telegram from General Al- \fredo Ricant, commander of federal| troops sent to intercept the Villistas. So far a: been no c is known here there have between these forces. | DENIES SHE TOSSED HER BOY INTO THE OCEAN Atlantic Ch fined to’ the guard wher: Dec. 15— Con- inder police recovering habit-formi; she is slowly cts of a according to_al Mrs. James M. Bl |with lhl‘ murder of her - old James’ “Bunny” Blake, i that she tos; into the ocean. . . Souder. At- County Blake tting s the kid napping stor: telling nce the child irted to re “Sie kid- ran 1sking her how she-accounted for her handbag heing found on the Ventno pier, she replied that the ehi As she approaches rom Cambridge @ air, the child ran ahead of The boy headed for the d- she added, and must ha ten_on the Ventnor pi Mrs., Bl as to how the hoy could ave got into the water. She said one day three or foux months ago th boy tried to get under the railing of | the Steel Pier in th o 2 W caught in time, she said, or he might have been drowned. impartial board for final approval, esentative ' Campbell, republi-| s, speaking on the proposal | to permit consideration of the report, | renewed - his attack on R. H. Long, democratic candidate in the recent gn-‘ bernatorial election in Massachusetts, | declaring that “millions of dollars| ! were taken from the people and turn- | ed over to such men as R. H. Long. a | democratic politician, and a favorite | with the war department, who got more than a million dollars in clear Representative Jeffvi republican member s, Nebraska, a| of .the' committee, ceclared -that the war department | bought. 945.000 saddles and 1,000, fiOfll sets of ha ss for an army wh had only 391,000 horses and mules. Representative Garrett, Tennessee, | democratic members of the committee, ! defending the war department, said | speedy settlement of unfinished war contracts had been essential to the welfare of the country. “In hundreds of cases” said Repre- | sentative Garrett, “the character of | these contracts had been filled was al- jmost completeiy changed by reason of { their war contracts. Commercial pro- duetion was abandoned and every en- crey and facility had been bent on supplying war needs. It was of su- | preme importance to the public that | these institutions might return 1o a Die is and Again enter commer- cial production. giving emplevment to tabor and sup the peace nceds | of the count GERARD WOULD BE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE |- Pierre, S. D. James W, ! Gerard, of New York, 'has signed al l minority nominating petition as al candidate for president of the United | | States at the state primaries in ‘Mareh, it wi unced here today. i The petition also was signedq by si J‘e!ugale:htu the’ récent ‘state proposal cre., accompanyin the peti- E summarized being to ‘make and keep the noum v safe for d(-mO( racy.” %m%wm,.&as hospital the institutions and factories at which b Dr. Souder said he had ordered an, inquest but that it will not be held for several day o 11l endeavor (0 de- termine the woman's mental jtion,” he sai E what ex her ac County authorities today located the conductor were on the r with Mrs. and the ho; riday when she rode with “Bunn to Vent- nor. They deny Mrs. Blake's state- m(-llt that two colmP«] men were on| Blake #.d the au- had been kidnapped men “ho got off the avenue. As pasengers who | Blake afternoon | handed him fifty tmas present. She Lu]d the conducter that the child was making her nervous. James M. Blake, a Philadelphia in- surance broker, visited his e in the today and Jater M'r for Phifadelph Mr. and M Blake have heen ranged, but he sald. to {be standing by her in her present rouble. One of the theories of the po- e that Mrs. Blake might have hallucination that if she got an rid ‘of the child she and her hnsb.xnd might become reconciled. A BEQUEST OF $421,233 FOR YALE UNIVERSITY Dec. 1 New York. 1 receiv —TYale university under the will of w and Greenwich. Ce: ed today. The univer ccive: the remainder interest from life estates of - various relatives. Mr. Mead, a Yale graduate, had heen a tea merchant Ticre for any vears. 1After his graduation he jcined an ex- pedition to collect fossils for the Pea- body Museum. His estate is estimated at 3504614, there 15 found 1d. of glow-worm, strong red light from cen light t was annour - s that the roads would be el “but I told | ahead of | e ate Prederick Mead of New York ; ty also will re- i CUMMINS A Stanley. Washington, Dee. 15.—Congress was warned today that if the ailroad {were turned back to their owners without enactment of legislation for protection of the properties, two- thirds of the roads would be in hands of receivers within thirty da; Speaking with earnestness and frankness, Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce commit- tee that drafted the pending: railroad Dbill, declared the senate (‘ou!d not af- ford to set it e or delay its con- sideration in view of the apparent de- termination of President Wilson, to end government control the first' day of the new year. Breaking into the debate while sen- ators were pleading for postponement for action on all railroad legislation until after the recess, Senator Cum- mins told the semate its duty was plain. “If the roads are returned without effective legislation they could dkist for a month,” the lowa senator de- clared amidst, unusual silence, “and ithen fall into hopeless confusion, with {two thirds of them quickly ending in receivership.” Senator Cummins insisted con; should turn back the roads if sa the people believed in that policy. “They can go back on January 1 in perfect safety,” he said “if the country is assured of the bill's enactment in one month’s time.” In hope of expediting the measure the senate remained In session tonight but as new. fields of opened there developed little tion of final action this week. Le: ers insisted, however, that the bill sed by aturday, expected a narrow margin hen the holiday re- to begin. enator Smith, democrat. Georgia, rising to inquire if it would not be best to defer consideration of a road legislation until ivoked a storm of discu: from republican senators a- that there was mno indication of change of mind on the president’s part. Reminding the senate of the pre: dent’'s statement to congress in \Lw 1 fat the end of the caléndar ator Watson. ed attention that' no word had come from the White House to indicate a change in the president's position. Answering Senator Smith, who said he could not believe the president would carry out his 'xnnunm‘cd inten- tion, the Indiana senator sai asmuch as no additional xmonn._\txon has been forthcoming the senate w warranted in assuming Lhul the pres PROTECTION Senator Warns Congress That If Railroads Are Turned Back to the Owners Without Enactment of Necessary Legisla- tion"Two-Thirds of the Roads Would Be In the Hands of the Receivers Within Thirty Days—Asserts That They Would Fall Into Hopeless Confusion—Attacks Were ‘Made On the Cummins Bill By Senators Lenroot and argument were | republican. Indiana, call- | OF RALROA dent stood pat, in which event, he de> clared, it was imperative to “remain here and enact necessary legislation.” During the all-day debate the prin- cipal attacks on the Cummins bill were made by Senators Lenroot, republican, Wisconsin, and Staniey. democrat, Kentucky, the former insisting’ that the roads should be retained by the gov- ernment until spring. Senator Stanley, speaking in support of his amend to eliminate the an¥-sirike prov viciously assailed the section as most dras and exasperating” ever devised to afflict laboring people. The anti-strike provision, Senator Stanley asseretd, was put in the bill over the protest of 2,090,000 men who had declared they would not wear the yoke. It was so drastic, he added, that if a man employed with his wife in a waybill office, tock a better job with another road, and the wife went with him, both could be arrested and put in jail for conspiracy. General discussion of the anti-strike clause brought numerous reierences tc the coal strike, and Senator Stanley in arguing against anti-strike laws said that in the case of the miners they were held back both by an in- junction and by solemn notice of the president of the United States thal their strike was unlawful. They would have not gone back te work because an act of congress saic so when they refused after bein: named in an injunction issued by Fed- { eral Judge Anderson, a man they knew to be as devoid of the touch of huma\ i sympathy as a marble columm,” d&- clared Senator Stanley. Senator Cummins interjected that it there h2d been a law under which the miners’ dispute could have been sub- {mitted to an impartial tribunal there would have been no strike. Even within sound of the "r\)\fl o! j the Bolshevist. Senator St BV LGON- tinued, attemnts were being made tc try out new fangled ideas and he pre- dicted that it might not be long before i r Senator Stanley had deferrec t of his speech until tomorros the sengte went to work on amend- ments. . Senater Walsh, demo* ermitting he roads.te new construe- of ten years, wan adopted amendment by ~ Senator . republican, Washington, limit- jurisdiction of the transportation hoard over water transportation to in- An amendment W &) republican. Kansas. o ng the bill's pro ons to short roads, was nassed over tem- | as was an porarily. LEGIONERS TO CONDUCT A DRIVE ON CONGRESS Washington, De National and | ha \ the opening ses- developed prac- of the ion of the conferencc tically unanimous approval Sweet bill, many of the s plainly were in any matter Frequent I I a | muvm!ml in partisan polit | Several delegates t the proposed visit construed as having par gnificance, but Fr national commander, explain- the chief purpose of the visit “to explain to members of con- the needs in legislation for the to | might be political O'Olier. i dizabled soldis nd nec y changes in the war risk law as we] view them.” In opening their conference, the legion cificers heard addresses by Di retor Chomely-Jones of the War I | Bureau and Secretary Gk both of whom expressed sympathy with eie purposes of the meeting and emph: > recommendations made n representatives would received. Le gratefully {VETERAN OF TWO WARS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE New Yo Dec. 15.—Captain Clar- ience L. Wiener, member of a welathy { Philadelphia family, who foug!“ with Ithe British army during the Boer war tand with the American army in the world, attempted suicide here tonigit n a Broadway hotel. He was remoy ’d © a hospital with a pistol shot wound ljustbelow the heart and his condition is- raid to be- critical. aptain Wiener left two letters, one |a note tp motify his uncle, J. L. Ket- | terlinus of 1826 Spruce street, Phil delphia. and the other to a friend, Ar- ton Tewson, head of a local news service CLEMENCEAU FRACTURED EIGHT RIB ON LEFT SIDE h.wm Tuffier and examin: ier (,l'\."lr‘n(. 1°this even- igsued the fol- ing- bulletin: “The ' X-ray examiy fracture of the eig! side, with a little on shows a th rib on the left placement. There ained at homwe, but rc(m\w‘l Ire~!dr-m Peincare and vz, the Austrian chnntellnr. izave f Tenee DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ¢ DANSEY MURDER CASE Hammonton, Dee. 15.—Coun- state officers of the American Legion sel for Charles S. White,* the Ham- decided today at the initial monton dahlia grower charged with the murder of Billy sey, an- ry dir nounced tonight that he would appiy fight for Siion. benehiing vet- vrobabiy tomorrow for a writ of | erans of the world wa babeas corpus for the release of fe on COngre: 0 White and Mrs. Jones, housekeeper b undertaken zy the ne 4 Mrs. Jones s tion—will develop about the 4 ACCessOry to extend the benefits of the war risk legal b insurance , it was indicated. Tne The appt ! measure s been passed by the » to Supreme Court i se and the legio o s, i Liacl , would go to the ¢ Jr., . Atiantic \tian of making dir in charge of the enators why no action on the e d tonight that e hr\(n |a)\|\n Il\ he senate, prepared to m S and if the accused w would not stop him fr8m an indictment. Mr. would uoL give would rm al long with other cases. for White the prosecuti : 10 prepare case against his and tha s umair o hold ent persons-n i . Bolte still claims the no evidence on whiclf INCREASE IN THE ACREAGE Washington, D. C, 5—A @¢ cided increase in the acreage plant. for winter wheat this fall is shown i Dec. Acreage planted to rye also showed marked decre he arca heig By 53,000 acre: 90 acres less than that a year ago. own and Penn., 916,00 and 82 K Oklahor 2,811,000 avd 978.000 and 91. W and 84. BOGUS PASSPORTS FOR BOLSHEVIST AGITATORE Washington, Due, Fapers taken from Bolshevik couriers in castern Europe arc said in state department adviees tog thal American, I'rench and B < forms are heing engrav ed an - com- munists in Berlin for use i 1 -sendil Bolshevik agitators ‘abroad. IK ALLEGED “LEAKS” ON THE SUPREME COURT DICI%IONS Washington, . 15—, 1L was made late tonig partment of justice that anoince. ‘y tm de- “I\I' h s . brofit PLANT FOR WINTER WHEAT: first estimates today by the depart- 88.770,000 acres is 11.719,60) less thar ment of agriculture. he total ol the record acreage in 1918, Tt is, hoWe eyer, the fourth largest ever plant- ed. Conditions of the p on Dee. 1 was 85.2 per cent. of normal, or four points lower than ‘the ten yearav- erage and 13 points below that last year,