Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 11, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—-NO. 37 < Does Not Think the Senate Will Change the Lodge Reserva-| tions in Article Ten and the Monroe Doctrine to Such an . Extent as to Mollify the -2 quered Peoples. London, Feb. 10.—Replying to ged-|have impoverished.” ~eral criticisms of policy +he government's made by William Adamson, a | iabor leader, Sir Donald MacLean and 'others who demanded especially the revision of the Versailles peace treaty, Premier Lioyd George declared in the| house of commons this evening that it would be impossible in a single speech | to deal with all the questions raised. He said, however, that he would re- mark that after the excitement of the great war nobody could expect any- thing but a period of reaction and dis- content. and even a certain measure of | disaffer Ireland, the premier hether Mr. Adamson meaift by “seif-determination” that if the ma- jort of the Irish people demanded a republic he would give i Unless Mr. Adamson meant that, said the premier, his talk of self-determin q There were able kind his S and . he her the member thought, government should withdraw all| its troops “and ve the assassins in| charge in Treland.” { Declaring that the duty of the gov-| ernment was te maintain law and or- | der in Ireland, the firemier turned to | the high cost of living, which he said | was attributable to the depreciation of money and not to profiteering. The | only remedy was to increase produc- | . he declared olving Sir Donald MacLean's inquiry. the premier said he was zlad! to be able to say that the coming| budset would balance, and more than | balan in Russia. Mr TLlovd George said he! agreed with the view that Rurope e restored without putting. hoall ¥ th and-re- to circu o ism . Bolshe: possibly effictent. | a must be restored shevik resime. annot be crushed by force of arms,” continued the premier. held that opinion a year ago, but my advice, tendered on that assamp- tion to the warfing factions, wis de- med. It w give the i-boishevists a chance to recoyer sia, but they failed. The failure was not due to lack of equipment, but to more fundamental canfes.” The premier contended that the suggested ‘ying of fire” to crush’the n “Bolshevism a bolshev impossible berause it was doubtful whether Finland would consent. and the Baltic states, he pointed . were making peace with Russi rile Rumania was really en- gaged in watching the Hungarian| front. and the Japanese ‘vere disin- clined toward the idea. Moreover, he ded. neither France, the TUnited! States, Italy nor Great Britain was| willing to provide the funds H “Until” added the premier. “they are assured that the bolsheviki have droppe; the methods of barbarism In favor of civilized government. no efv- itized community in the world is nre- pared to make peace with them. Fur- ther. there is no_established ~nvern- ment possessing the right to speak for the whole of Furopean Russia. We failed to restore Russia to sanity by force, 1 believe we can save her by trade.” BORAH ASSAILS HOOVER'S STAND ON PEACE TREATY Washington, Feb. 10.—_3bate on the ed today in the Ppeace treaty was Tev. senate although leadeérs technically had laid the pact aside for another week, Irreconcilable opponents of ratifica- tion who yesterday voted against re- suming consideration of the treaty to- day brought the subject to the senate floor. Senators Borah of Idaho and Knox of Pennsylvania, both republi- cans. denounced the treaty’s economic clauses as “cruel” and “murderous” in its efféct on the conquered peoples and in the less direct consequences on the rest of the world. Benator Borah aiso assailed Herbert Hogver's stand on the treaty and call- ed on him to reply to the list of ques- tions which ‘have been put by the Idahe senator to several republican and democratic candidates for the presidency. The debate was preceded by comple- tion of the parliamentary steps neces- sary to restore the treaty to a status: making formal consideration possible, the foreign relations committee report- ing the pact back to the senate with the republican reservations framed at! the last session of congress. The com- | mittee’s action, taken under instruc- | tions voted by the senate yesterday, ‘was entirely perfunctory and withouti disewussion or record vote. Notice that formal censi the senate would be reques was served by Senator Lodge of Mass- | achbusetts, the repuhlican leader, whoj gaidthe delay had boen agreed o2 he- | cause of the absence of many sena-| torg on toth sides of the chamb The arnounceme. eration in i Monday | leader ce was in the busine; that the treaty Lronz the fore by Senato: Both t vecish™ Gern 5 v and tha res:fit wos commereizl cornarstor ted the = Fitch=ock of > leader, a R of South Dakota, declarimg the o Tnited States no influence for st=b 3 party of the trea | “It is oue thing Senator | Borah, “to punish nany, but it fs{ an entirely different thing to recuce; countless thousands %o starvetion. It: s an unjust thing to put upon a debtor | 2 debt which he cannot pay. but it is} 1 eruel and murderous thing to put on | methods used by the navy intelligence : would 2 debt which involves indirectly as|in obtaining evidence regarding moral| exchange, inasmuch as Fra; this one does, the distress of others. “Yet we are asked here to agree to this treaty which will impoverish mil- ¥ons, and then we are asked to appro- - ONPEACE TREA' or Not They Must be Embodied in a Resolution of Rati- fication Which to Succeed Must Receive a Two-Thirds | Vote of the Senators Present—In Debate Yesterday Senator Borah Denounced the Treaty’s Economic Claus- es as “Cruel” and “Murderous” in Its Effect on the Con- | would be powerless to intercede. | guard the ct | addresses before a shipbuilders' trades! i “remedial i 060 shipyard workers present to join | way, ! the campaign. i «atv, progress.” money to feed the peopie we day. H R e g P POPULATION {20,919 «\ = t i PROCEDURE . President—Whether Changed | President Wilson, the Idaho sena- tor declared, had held out against some of the proposed exactions from Ger- many but had been overruled by Pre- miers ‘Clemenceau and Lloyd George. Afterward the European stntesmen, Mr. Borah asserted, were reported to have realized that they had gone too| far but to have been unable to con- vince President Wilson the conference should recede. ~ Suggestions that Lloyd George had been led to make “impossible exac- tions” of Germany by promises giv- en “in the heat of a political campaign” Senator Hitehcock declared the Unit- ed States,could best exert its influenve for aileviation of the peace terms by ratifying the treaty and accepting membership on the powerful repara- ions commission. Without such rep- resentation, he argued, this country To this Senator Borah replied that since the Eupropean nations had over- ruled the United States once on that proposal they could be expected to do | so again, while Senator Knox declar- | ed that while the Gerinan reparations bill could be increased under the treaty’s provisions by a simple majori- ty of the reparations commission, it would take unanimous consent to re- duce it. Mr. Hoover's statement Sunday | night that he was for the treaty with; reservations necessary to safe- | stitution and the nation’s traditions was declared by Senator Borah to put Mr. Hoover apparently in the same attitude as the irreconcila- | bles. TAKE PLACE OF 900 GERMANS| ‘Washington, Feb. 10. — President Wilson had before him tonight a per- sonal cablegram from Frederick Wil- helm, former crown prince of Ger- many ,suggesting “if ‘the allieq and associated. governments want a vic-| tim, let them take me instead of jthe 900 Germans who have committed no other offense than that of serving their country in the war.” What action the president might take on the message, which presuma- bly was_identical with tha orted in Amsterdam despati the rulers and, presidents other powers opposeq to Germany in the war, was not discloséd. There was a suggestion at the White House .that he might reply, making his message the vehicle for a re-expression of the oppositiort to trial of the former Cer- man emperor or other enemy officials expressed by American delegates at Paris. The president was said to believe that Germany should be permitted to work out her own salvation without the embarrassments that woulg be| involved in making possible ‘“mar- tyrs” out of offenders, whether the former emperor or his son, or any high officer or official. It is under- stood that contention that no govern- ment could remain in power in Ger-| many which agreed to surrender such ! fficials, is taken seriously by Mr.| Wilson and his advis of i RAIN HELPS CLEAN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK New York, Feb. 10.—Aided by a friendly rain and mild temperature, an army of snow shovelers made progress | today in cleaning the streets of the| city of the enormous masses of snow and ice which have almost paralyzed traffic for nearly a week. The work which has been done pales into insig- | nificance, however, compared ‘to what ! remains. | The Merchants’ association estirhat- ! ed that the traffic paralysis is costing merchants, manufacturers and transit companies $5,000,000 a day. Business of many kinds still is helpless in the grip of snow and ice filled streets. More than fifteen thousand men were at work on the streets today with a thousand trucks, but after the surface snow has been removed there remains a coating of ice many inches| deep over the pavements, and as this| melts the streets become quagmires. Bfforts were made to zet rid of the snow by building huge bonfires from boxes and debris, but this method made little progress. Hundreds of longshoremen worked as volunteers. GOMPERS OPENS LABOR'S POLITICAL CAMPAIGN | Washington, Feb. 10. — Organized | labor's campaign to elect a congress | friendly to it was opened formally to- day by Samuel Gompers, president, and J. A. O'Connkll, vice president of | the American Federation of Labor, in | convention here. Both speakers vig-| orously assailed the present congress 48 the “most reactionary in the history | of this country,” and declared that| from it labor meed expect not the slightest assistance in the shape of | legislation.” Inviting the renresentatives of 500,- the federation in its fight to “rewara our friends and defeat our enemies” s promised them every as- is organization in forcing | ine government to continde the war-1! time ship construction prozram to its| tates the “greatest mercharnt marine | the world.” { “We propose to move ahead no mat- | ‘hat obstacle is placed in onr! said Mr. Gompers, referring to! "The Jabor movement | carnot stand still; it must, of neces- i ter FAVORS FULL INQUIRY OF NEWPORT TRAINING STATION ‘Washingtoh, Feb. 10.—While favor- | ing ‘a full inquiry, the senate naval; sub-vommittee named to ' investigate . conditions at the Newport, R. I, train- | ing station will not make a decision | cials, Chairman Ball announced te. iy e R e S { tive asserted that Admoral Sims had { had not repeated it to Secretary Dan- { whom they had talked in France. He | Representative Ryrnes | tates.” What Sims Sai and | Conversation With Trio of | Members of Congress in Paris Dissected at War Decorations Inquiry. ) R ot Acmatiiie took Feb. 10.—The contro- a new turn today before the senate in- | vestigating committee, the question of } just-what was said in conversation be- tween Rear Admiral William S. Sims and .a trio of members of congress in Paris during the war, displacing to some extent inquiry into charges made by Secretary Daniels in _decorations recommended by Admiral Sims. 4 The officer was recalled to supple- ment his previous testimony, Chair- man Hale of the committee pointing out to him that the secretary had ap- peared since the admiral's first hear- ing. It was in answering some of, the statements made by Mr. Daniels (hat Admiral Sims touched upon the; question of conversations he had with Representatives Byrnes and Whaley ~f South Carolina, and Senator Glass, {hen representative from Virginia. Secretary Daniels, before the com- mittee, had referred to a speech in thg house by Represéentative Byrnes inI which the South Carolina representa- told him the armistice was forced on the allies by failure of the American nrmy to break through the German lines, the failure being due to a col- Iapse of the American service of sup- ply. “Admira! Sims today denied that he had madc such assertions, except as to repeating rumors then current in France, and which, he said, he warned his visitors not to believe. He denied flatly other statements attrib- uted to him by Representative Byrnes, said to belittle the part of the Amer: jean navy in the war, and asserted he had not told Byrnes and his assoct ntes that the American merchant ma- ! tine should not be developed and the veas be left to Great Britain. At the requtst of Senator Pittman vada, democratic member of the Investigating _ commitiee, Chairman s Byrnes Whaley and Senator G 10 come be- for the committee. Representative Byrnes, the first of the ‘three to be not reiterated all he had pre- > said, but added that he had personally reported his conversa with Admiral Sims to President W son before Mr, Wilson made his first rip to Pari Byrnes added that he iels, because, since the war was over, he did not wish to “stir anything up.” Senator Glass, while recalling the conversation with Admiral Sims, much ®#s Byrnes reported 'it, put a some- what different interpretation on what the officer had said. He did not under- wtand Admiral Sims to wish to “dis- eredit the army,” he said, adding: “I rather believe that he was sim- ply telling us what he had heard and thought to be true.” = Admiral Simg’ reference to the Paris ‘eonversations -which .prompted the calling of Represenmt(i‘ves Byrnes al’édg Whale: “Senator Glass was made |m;‘%‘§%"2%afi ‘prepared statement, reaffirming his position. as to naval uwards'and asserting that Mr, Daniels’ method of dealing with them had in- jected a “defeatist” policy into the havy department more dangerous than bolshevism to organized government. Taking up the statements of Repre- sentative Byrnes to the house, Ad- miral Sims sald the reprepentative either misunderstood him or confus- ed his remarks with those of others to had sought, he said, to disabuse his visitors’ minds of the idea that Amer- | iean forces were “winning the war” because that was “not true” and was “hurting us with the allies.’ It was this testimony that diverted the course of the hearing and wheni and Senator | Class were questioned, Admiral Sims| listened closely and subsequently was returned to the stand to make a brief statement. “If you believed the things you say | [ told you,” he said, turning to Repre- sentative Byrnes and Senator Glass, “all of you neglected your duty in not pufting up a howl to get me out of! there. You ought not to have rested! until yow got me out of there.” “You have no quarrel with me,” said Representative Byrnes, with some show of feeling. “I reported to Pres- ent Wilson personally and it was his quarrel, not mine.” In the couse of his testimony Repre- sentative Byrnes said hé had been “de- pressed and disappointed” at what/ Admiral Sims had told him in Paris and found relief from that feeling only when personal inquiry at General | Pershing’s headquarters and in the! service of ‘supply had convinced him there had been no breakdown. Com- ! menting on this statement, in his re- buttal, Admiral Sims said “all Ameri- cans who visited me abroad were! shocked at what I had to tell them of | the relative amount of work done by | our fore He added that the! American press fostered at home a| disproportionate idea of the part| America’ was riaying in the war. Vis-| itors as a rule, he said, imagined the! American navy was doing half the an- | ti-submarine patrol duty and always| were “shocked” to learn that the Unit- ! ed States had at no time contributed more than about seven per cent. of the | patrol craft. As -to the rumors heard in France of an American army breakdown, Adm:ra; Sims said reports were cur- rent bzt withdrawal of allied gen~ral staff representatives with the army had been followed by a staff break- down and collapse of the transporta- tion system behind the fighting lines. He had attributed such reports, he said, to the usual “jealousies between armies” and had warned all to whom | he spoke of these reports not to believe | them, GILLETT NOT DISTURBED BY LABOR'S BLACKLIST Vashington, Feb. 10.—Speaker Gil-| lett announced today that he was not! Gisturbed by reports that organized i Iogieal conclvsion, giving the United | !2bor had placed him on its political an prisoners of war in that country blackist. “The wage earners of my district,” he sald, “are an exceedingly intel zent, level-headed set of men, whose vote§ are not carried in the pocket of any labor leader or capitalist, but are cast ‘ag their own judgment dic- FéANCE IMPORTS FEW LUXURIES FROM THE U. 8. Paris, Monday, Feb. 9 (Exchange). That an absolute ban against imports of Juzuries inta France from America | have little effect on the rate of | ince import- | ed ‘virtually little or no luxuries from the . United States. the Assacfated | until after conference with navy offi- | Press was i0ld today by M. Le Cheva-' 14ding that & saving on thie u Tiam vector of statistics of the min- . =3 of commerce. lover the Spiptzbergen Archipelago was Northern Korea has boen by, the Japanese. hlpcrtl _that former Emperor Charles of Austria is financially em- warassed. are denied, g Postmasters nominated by Presi- ident. Wiison inc.uded Joseph P Con- ner, Portsmouth, N, H. Sunday's election Spain passed without incident according to .the minister of the interior. . S. Gordon Cumming, former mem- ber of the Virginia legislature, shot at Hamilton, Va., died Monday. The Bradboyne, formerly war Panther, left New York Jan 29 with a cargo of srain for Cherbowrs. Hotels requisitioned in France for government offices are to be returned to their owners within a few weeks _A life boat co ntaining 19 men from »q~'- Fiore. has been picked up by the steamship Miriners Viscount Astor is quoted by" the evening Standard as denying.that he had been offered the British food controllership. A school for instruction of Sunday! school . teachers, similar to that at Lake Geneva, Wis., will be established at Minn=pesaakee, Me. Irvestigation of the extent to which federal reserve banks have wita- wn loans on grain held in storage, was ordered by the senate, ; 2 The American Legion was exon- erated of any part in the planning of an alleged plot to raid the 1. W, W. hall at Centrali ‘Washington. Treaty giving Norway sovereignty signed in the clock room of the French foreign office in Paris. Sevenmotor cars, a morcycle and many accessories were . stolen from | government garages in Ireland. Mount Lassen, California, an active volcano errupted. The extent of dam- age is unknown. New York quoted silver at $1.33 an| ounce, compared with 81s 2d an ounce in London. Mail airplanes are being fitted with sled runners to keep the aerial mail service in operation. Letvia will not accept peace offers from soviet Russia pending ihe con- ference of representatives of the Bai- tic states to be held in April. The treaty by which Norway is given sovereignty over the Spitzberz- en archipelago was signed in the Clock hall, of the foreign ministry at Paris. Foreigners are absolutely barred from the hotel and restaurant busi- ness in France by the ‘provisions of ‘a bill introduced in parliament by the government, : v o : Miss Elsa Scheiner, the only woma whose hame appeared on the list of, Germans demanded by the allies is a daugiiter of a prominent professor of | Berlin universit; American Red Cross officials have been asked by the Polish government to rush doctors into southeastern Ga- licia where typhoid fever is raging in epidemic form. Charged with being an undesirable alien and ordered deported, Martin De | Wal, known as “a man without a country” has been in custody on Ellis Island for a year. Fifty men who last week escaped from a train taking 1,500 Polish pris- oners of war back to their native land from France, have claimed sanc- tuary on Swiss soil. Five women were injured in Spring- | field, Mass, when a jitney ~bus in| whioh were more than a dozen pas- sengers was overturned in passing another automobile. | Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully, commander of American warnips in Russian waters, is at Novorossisk, on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, watching the situation there, . Continued improvement in the condition of Senator Johnson repub- lican California, who is confined to his home in Washington with an at- tack of influenza, was reported. The National prohibition enforce- ment act which prevents the publi- cation of liquor advertisements in newspapers published in tois coun- | try exempts thoseé of foreign publi- | cation. ; | i At least 25 dead, with some per- ! sons still missing, and thirty injured, | some seriously, was the foll taken by a fire which early swept the five story Berkshire apartment hdfel at| San Francisco. It became known that during the week-end one of the government'z garages in Dublin, was raided at night and seven motor cars, a motor- cycle and a large quantity of acces-| sories stolen. g The Order of St. Gregory, one of the highest distinctions whish may | be conferred upon a laytan hy the | c church, will be presented Admiral William: S, Benson A delegation from Welland county interviewed Sir_George Foster, acting | premier of Canada, and members of the government to urge construction of an international bridge betwesn Fort Erie and Buffale. o \ Former Hungarian soldiers who have retured to Hungary after es- caping from Russian prisons in Si- Dberia state there are 260.000 Hungari- and thdt their conditien is pitiable. Owing to slippery rails, 12 persons were injured by being thrown to the! floor and agains seats on the Point Pleasant express of. the Jersey Central railroad when the train pulled into the terminal at Jersey City and crashed into the conerete bumper. URGED ABOLITION OF e ALL SUB-TREASURIES Washingtor, Feb. 10.—Abolition £ all sub-treasuries was urzed today by Assistant Secretary Lefingwell before the house banking committee. - Fifty million - dollars in “the sub-treasurfes! would be released, Mr. Leffingwell said, H t i H { nkee"p of the .sub-treasuries “would be $650,000 | Enright, “King of the Gunmen, Because of Failure to Reach Agreement on Wage De- mands—Unions Are Press- ‘ing Hines. Washington, Feb. 10.—The railroad adm:nistration, nearing the end of its control over the nation’s rail trans- portation system, tonight faced a critical situation with respect to the wage demands of more than 2,000,000 empioyes. Conferencgs tomorrow be- tween D.rector General Hines and lcaders of the workers' unions, prob- ably will determine the outcome of the situation, » Officials, of the unions submitted to the dirgctor general . at today’s meetings a new - statement which served to open up all important questions, on which the two sides were at variance, and will require further discussion before a settle- ment can be reached. Mr. Hines in- formcq the union leaders he would reply tomorrow ic. their new state- ment of claims. Meanwhile, W. G. Lee, president.of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, was pressing Mr. Hines for an answer to the demands of his indi- vidual organization and insisting the trainmen were ready to strike unless a satisfactory settlement were reach- cd. Railroad administration officials also received informal notice, that they must contend with a strike call- ed by the Brotherhood of Mainte- nance of Ways Employes and Shop Laborers. Further than admitting that he had given the railroaq administration the required thirty days' notice of inten- tion to cancel the present wage con- tract on Webruary 23, Mr. Lee de- clined to discuss the pians of his or- ganization. The strike vote taken under his instructions was said o show a large majority of the train- men favorable to a strike, This last phase of the situation iving railroad administration because, should the trainmen walk out, an almost com- plete tieun of traftic could be the only result. The thousands of engi- neers, firemen and conductors could not operate the trains, for in many states they would be forbidden to work under “full crew’ ‘laws -uniess all trainmen requirej were on duty, it was explained. Union by-aws also prohibit other employes from taking out trains not manned by ‘ne regulation number ‘of brakemen. Officials of the-other three train- operating unions were declared not to be supporting Mr. Lee aggressively in his demands, although he was said to have communicated with ecah -of them before notifying Mr. Hines of his intention to ~cancel the wage agreement. The communication of the trainmen's president was said to have been merely a request for a statement from the other unions as ta. their objections, if any, ~to the proposed action. " The" leaders are understood to have replied they had no - dbjection but declined to commit themselges as to supporting the pro- posed itove. g , The action of President Barker of the Maintenance of Way Employes was_declared again by railroad ad- ministration officials to be in viola- tion of his wage agreement. It was said Mr.. Marker had signed ~the agreement only last November 22 and that it had gome into effect on December 16. A search of the files in Mr, Hines' office was. declared to have revealed no comminication can- celling the agreement with the gov- ernment. Mr. Barker and a commit- tee of ten are expected to reach Washington - tomorrow - to. attend the conference of union leaders with Mr. Hines. Both union leaders and railroad administration officiais carefully guarded the contents of the latest statement of claims and grievances made by the operating employes’ rep- resentatives. It was declareg to be a summary of the views of the union leaders on Mr. Hines proposals but whether it held out hope for a com- promise could not be ascertained. Union officials were not ready to make a statement as to their next step in event. Mr. Hines refused to! meet their demands. It ws sug- gested they might appeal again to President Wilson, who has been in- British Premier Contends Nobody Could a Period of Reaction and Disccatent After the Great ‘War—Claims High Cost of Living is Due to the Depre- ciation of Money and-Not to Profiteering—Declares It is Duty of the Governient to Maintain Law and Order in Ireland and not Leave It to the “Assassins in Charge”— - Says Russia Must be Restored Under an Anti-Bolshevik Regime. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C. Feb. 5.—Sena- tor Brandegee said in reply to ques- tions today: “I do not think the senate will| change the Lodge reservations on Ar- ticle Ten, and the Monroe Doctrine tg such an extent as to induce the pres- ident to file the instrument of ratifi- cation unless: he entirely 'abandons the position hitherto repeatedly an- nounced by him.” That seems to be the very general opinion of senators on the republican . side of the senate and also of the| democrats who have heretofore voted | for reservations. e ‘When asked to outline his opinion of the present status of the treaty and the probable outcome of the sen- ate action, Senator Brandegee said: | “The action of the senate instruct- ing the committee on foreign rela- tiong ‘to report the treaty back im- mediately together with »the said reservations_(being the Lodge reser- vations) and the ratification resolu- tion’ will bring “the lLodge reserva- tions again before the senate as in the committee of the whele. The| T.odge reservations will then be open| to debate without limit unless the| cloture rule shoyld be adopted by a| two-thirds vote. The senate can thenj medify or re-adopt the lodge reser-! vations in their present Yorm by al majority vote. Whether they are changed or.not . they must, when! agreed upon, be embodied in a reso- lution of ratification which to succeed must receive the, approval of two- Expect Auything but thirds of the senators present. It is expected thut the debate will be post- poned for 2 week to afford opportuni- ty for senators who are absent to re- turn to Washington. I do not think the senate will change the Lodge res- ervations on Article Ten and the Monroe Doctrine to such an extent as to induce the president to file the instrument of ratification, if the senate votes to ratify, unless he en- tirely abandons the position hitherto repeatedly announced by him.” The sentyment here is that if the drhaie 1uns beyond a proper Limit anl a fi ster develops the clotare ruie wi'l be invoked. But a suitarle time for discussion %and debate Will be allowed. Just what will consti- tute “a suitable time” is not easily foretold. - The leaders of all factions decline to make Kknown their views along that line, APPROVES VISCOUNT GREY'S LETTER ON PEACE TREATY T.ondon, Feb. 10.—Baron Charn- wood, seconding the address of thanks. in the house of lords for the king’s speech, expressed approval of the recent letter of Viscount Grey, British ambassudor at -Washington, with regard to the American position on.the peace treaty. He said: “We must allow the American people to choose their own rath. I am con- vinced, despite recent misleading ap- pearances, that we may confidently anticipate increasing participation by the United States in the worid’s af- fairs.” TO CHANGE SYSTEM OF OFFERING MONEY ON CALL New York, Feb. 10—A change in the present system of offering money on call is being considered by bank- ing . institutions which lend. much. of their funds for stock market purposes, it was learned today. Instead of pub- lishing an initial rate for call loans between 11 and 11,30 o'clock of the market session, it is proposed to fix a rate on the previous day, following the close of the market. = ‘Some banks are said te believe that this plan ~would dorréct conditions which® now tend to, unséitie the stock market ‘during the first hour's trading: Other ‘financial institutions, however, are opposed to any change from the present system on the ground that overnight events might make inadvis- able a rate fixed the day before. In connection with the proposed revision of the present system, it ap- pears that some banks recently adopt- | ed a plan of extending call loans fo two or three days, subject to a sligh fractional advance each day from the | original rate. STRIKING PRESSMEN WERE ORDERED BACK TO WORK ' Atlanta, Ga., Feh. 10.—Pressmen on | the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta! Georgian, who -walked out Saturday | night, returned to work today after | two international officers of the union | DIAGNOSIS GIVEN OF PRESIDENT’S ILLNESS Baltimore, Md., Feb. 10—The Balti- mor¢ Sun today published a copy- righted despatch from Washington in Wnih was given an interview with Dr. Huga H. Young of Johns Hopking Hospital at Baltimore on the condi- tion of Prgsident Wilson. Dr. Young has been one of the physicians ~in_at- tendance - upon. the ' president. Dx. Young, in “part smid: 7 odex Fo “¥ro¥ the very beginning the med- ical men assoclated with the case ‘have never had anytaing to conceal. When 1 ficst saw . the president in Oc- tober, a crisis had arisen -to- such gravity, owing, to the development of prostrate obsiruction that an emerg- ency operation to relive the situat- ion was contemplated, but by a for- tuitous and wholly unexpected change n tae president’s condition, the ob- struction began to aisappear. “The improvement in this respect | Which had been steady, is now. com- plete. The president- was organicadly sound when I saw him first, and | found him not only organically sound waen 1 visited him last week, further all ths organs were fun: ing in a. perfacily normai, manner. “The president’s general condition had arrived here and toid the men they | were in the wrong. The trouble, which was said to H arisen over .increased bonuses and| working conditions, caused the three Sunday morningpapers here to getout | limited editions. “Itwas found that the Atlanta pub-| lishers had not violated their contract and that the walkout was illegal and | unjustifiable and the men were in- tructed to return to work,” said a statement issued by J. O. Orr, inter- | national secretary, who came here to| have ! formed- of "the negotiations.” Reports that the union had such a step under ! consideration at. this time, however, | were denied consistently by all. The| -qualification was made, however, that events tomorrow would determire the | workers' future policy. i The union leaders brought up the cost of living question again today after permitting that puzzle to lie | dormant since Friday. Tor the first| time it was said, many of the lead- | ers urged their colleagues to take a| firmer stand and demand “something | definite” on this from the govern-| ment. They were said to have insist- ed that the promfise of the adm m:.l tration to reduce living costs had not ! been fulfilled ang that this should be used as additional pressure, in sup- port of their claims MILITARY PRECAUTIONS IN FORCE IN LEXINGTON Lexington, Ky., Feb. 10.—No lessen- ing of military precautions to prevent a recurrence of mob violence in Lex- | ington was apparent today. Federal | soldiers continued to surround the Fayette courthouse, where Wiil Loc ett, negro, slayer of 10-year-old Ge- neva Hardman ang center of the dis- turbance Monday in which five per- | sons lost their lives, was confined un- der heavy guard. H Brigadier General F. C. Marshall characterized these measures merely | as precautionary. { Lockett, heavily guarded, remained in_his cell in the courthouse. General Marshall announced that | the federal government had no au- | thority to take him out of Fayette | county, now under martial law, un- | less Governor Edwin P. Mo quested -it. CHARGED WITH MURDER OF “MOSSY” ENRIGHT | = i Chicago, Feb. 10.—Michael Carroz-| zo, president of the street sweepers'. union, today ~was formally charged | with the murder of Maurice “Mossy” | who ! was slain a week ago by two’ gun-| men, Carrozzo. according to State's! Attorney Maclay Hoyne,' conspired| with at least four other men to kill| Enright, leader of a rival union labor faction. [ “Big Tim” Murphy, president of the! zas house workers, Tony Cifaldo. a . Boston gunman’ recently released! from the penitentiary: Ralph Buglio, | owner of the automobile used by l-:n-‘ right's slayers. and two other men ara being held. i rrow re- ! [ Fig Bridgetown, Barbados, Monday, Feb. 9.—Admiral H. B. Wilson, | commander-in-chief of the Atiantic| fleet,~ arrived here today with - the| jan order of the secretary of the treas- investigate the affair. OFFERED TO SELL HER v il BABY BOY FOR S1,DOOE New York, Feb. - 10—Mrs. Anna| 5. was found wandering in the here ten days ago after a acking journey from _Provi- | R. L, where she said herhus- | had deserted her, today offered 1o self her week-old, blue-eyed baby Dboy for $1,000 to any respectable Jew- ish couple that will care for him. | Weak and emaciated, Mrs. Kaplan! was taken in by the janitress at 302! dast 100th street, who found her in| a terrible plight, she said. Shortly aft- erward little Morris Kaplan was born. Now the mother seeks some way (o provide forher infant. She came 1o denc b New York to find her huosband, she| s said. ATLANTIC FLEET HAS ARRIVED AT BARBADOS batticships Pensylvania, Arizona, OK- | latiomsa and Nevada, Shore liberiy as granted' to the officers and men | pon the arrival of the -warships. Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Wwith the battleships Utah, Florida and Delaware, is due to arrive ad| Port of Spain, Trinidad, today. SECRETARY OF TREASURY ! DOES NOT CREATE LAW New York, Feb. 10.—Violation of ury is not a criminal offence, United States Judge C. M. Hough declared in federal district court today, direct- ing the jury to find not guilty several| persons charged with trafficking in war savings stamps. The order of the secretary of the treasury forbade individuals to own_ more: than $1,000 worth of stamps. Judge Hough ruled that a person could traffic in and own as many as he liked. ASK STATEMENT ON LEVER ACT FOR PRICE CONTROL Washington, Féb. 10.-A statement.| from the president-as tc where the| power cxtended him under the Lever} act (& conigol fuel prizes apd Wistribu- | tion n is lodged, wip asked by the! somaie todar 1hra wcoption of a resolution _introduced. by . Senator Frelinghuysen, republican,’ Now Jer sey. 4 | first shown a stea | improvement. and specifically the slight impairmeff of his left arm and leg have im- proved more slowly, it is true, buf surely, steadily. There have been ne ibacks, no backward steps, and ra- mors to this effect are rubbish. s you know, in October last, we agnosed the president's illness ag cerebrai thrombosis, which = affy his left arm and leg, but at no time 1s_his brain power or the extreme visor and lucidity of his mental pro- esses in the slightest degree abated. This condition has from the very unwavering ten- solution and complete absorption. The increasing utility of the left arm and leg, greatly impaired at first, have closely followed on this The president walks sturdily now and without assistance and without fatigue. And he uses the still slightly injured arm moré and da; is mental vigor, it is sim- Indeed 1 think in many ways the presidenfy is in better shape than before the illness came. “You can say that the president is able-minded and able bodily and that he is giving splendid attention to af- fairs of state and that wg have every surace that e will bécome pro- gressively more active in these mat- h the advent of spring and which cannot now be long y dency toward FOUR FIREMEN INJURED AT FIRE IN HARTFORD Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 11.—Fire early this morning badly damaged the Hartford Market Com- pany’'s building in Main street. Seven persons were carried down ladders rom the second and thirq floors, while two others escaped. by way of the roof.. Four firemen. were injured by fiying glass, but were able to re- turn to their postS. The loss was placed at 350,000. The flames were discovered in the ground floor, occu- pied by the market company’'s store. The building is a three story brick structure, < $600,000 INHERITANCE TAX FROM CARNEGIE ESTATE New York, Feb. 10.—Advance pay- mejgt of $500,000 of the transfer in. heritance tax on the estate of Andrew Carnegie was received from executors of the estate by Eugene M. Travis, state,comnotreller, today. The payment was made within the six months' 1imit in order to have 6 per cent, of what- ever the total tax will be. The balance will be paid when the estate has been appraised. Andrew Carnegie, died Aug. 11, 1919, T SRR OBITUARY. Monsignor Jerome M. Cloarec. Burlington, Vt., Feb. 10.—Monsignor Jerome M. Cloaree, for more than 60 years a priest of the Roman Cathnlic church, died here today of pneumonta. He was born in Brittany, Franee, ana came to this country in 1853, In 1801 he was made domestic prelate by the pope. g ed *