Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 13, 1920, Page 1

In Address to the Farmers’ Labor —Would Graduate -Taxation. Among the 2 Per Cent. Ownirg 60 Per Cent. of the Wealth, the 33 Per Cent. Owning 35 Per Cent., and the 65 Per Cent Who Own 5 Per Cent. — Says We Are Striving to Escape From the | Du_ruslmpocedbynGovemmentofaSmfllGroupof Dominant Men, to Obtain For Ourselves Independence in'Many Fields of Endeavor From: Which We Are Now Barred. Chicago, Feb, 12. Dischare, national debt b capital ievy up on property may be necessary, Glen E. Plumb, president of .the er-Labor Coeperative Conference. “Our problem in meeting tional debt”, Die said, “is so to adjust | munity. affairs that the two per cent. of | have a preferential call péople owning sixty per cent, of [credits of the bank within their con-| our the the wealth shall pay their per centag: of this indebtednes: the 33 per cent. of the people owning the wealth shall pay taeir percentage due /frggn them and that the 65 per cent of the people who own five per cent. of the wealth shali not be re- quired pay more than their portionate amount of this indebted- }f we meet this indebtedness by a tax on industry, we distribute the li- ability to each man in accordance ! h his purchasing power. When all | is said and dome, we may be com- pelled to accépt the solution already adopted in Geérmany, and now con- sidered as inevitable in Gigat Britain —the discharge of the entire national debt ty placing a capital levy upon property. The Farmer-Labor Conference looks to the establishment of & cooperafive enterprise. Mr. Plumb said, ing every step from the production of raw materials to collection, manufac- ture, storage and disgribution to the ultimate capsumer. If is hoped to in- ude 4,000,000 men representing up- wards of 2000000 citizens, in the project. “We are striving to escape from the duress imposed by a government of a small group of dominant men,”: the speaker said, “to free ourselves from a momopoly and gontrol of credit——te obtain for ourselves independence in many fields of sendeavor from which we are now:barred.” The present’monopoly of credits. he continued, “has projected us inte afan act of hate against property con- crisis, econoihic, industrial. political, ! stitutes sedition- againet the govern- that convicgs the administration and| ment” .., ¥ ¥ ical parties of absolute im- The people have the - inalienable, - unakerable and - indefeasible right t Mr. Plumb said those holding the | change or alter” their form of gov. credit mopopoly were “able to exhaust | ernment . syhenever - -the — the taxinge poWer of the government | peace and ‘prosperity of the people ané devote funds raised for purely |requiré #h” be said. “That unalter- governmental expefiditures 1o tae | able right is now threa®ned. It must profit of private industrial control” | be preserved.” pro- | embrac- | ‘of the He cited the operation of the federal the na- | industrial enterpris 35 per cent. of lume of currency. an inflation based | ledge any government liability at all.| .| lected t othe lawfulness o reserve system in ilustration, saying! “Members banks absolutely control of the ‘member usually composed of a sroup of men who control the great| s of that com-| enterprises naturally | upon - the | Suca P This if not backed by eal value, is an inflation of the vol pon liability. “I am reliably informed that the banks- of this couniry have advanced’j a biltion and a half on credit on rep-, resentations made of a supposed gov- | ernment liability to the insurer of the note. These aceeptances do not rep- resent goods received by the govern- ment or services-rendered to it, and! the treasury has refused to acknow- | u Yet hundreds of miliions of dollars of federal reserve notes have been is- | sued against such bills.” | The recent treasury department rul- | ing that federal reserve banks maght carry Liberty bonds as assets at the! ice paid when purchased was anj i national -~ credit, Mr.} scribed for bonds at par but iever | paid for them. Such hoiders have de- | posited the bonds with their notes for | re-discount, ‘and federal reserve notes * have been issued against these credits, he said. Mr. Plumb expressed the beliet that | the aotion of the treasury was un- constitutional and added that the re- tirement of aM reserve notes issued against these obligations would de- flate the national currency by a bil- lion and a half. Mr. Plumb ° vigorously attacked pending sedition legislation as “the “first time the law has undertaken to | declare that ah injury to property or WITNESSES TO BE CALLED IN NEWPORT NAVAL CASE Newport, R. L, Feb. 12 tary and the assistant secretary of the navy and heads of various naval de- partment bureaus will be called as witnesses by tke naval court of in-} quiry which i zating condi- tions in ‘the Judge Adyocate Ho . Hyneman an- nounced today. The judge advocate asked Attorney F. F. Nolan, counsel for the Ministers' union. to ‘supply within a week’'s time “a list of witnesses he wishes called, together with a statement as to what he propdses.to show with these wit- nesses,” and added: “Counsel can exclude from that list the names of the secretary and the assistaht secretary of the navy and heads of various bureaus of the navy department, because I intend to call them myself.” It was said the court wouid probahly adjourn to Washington when the naval officials are calied. PEACE TREATY DISCUSSED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS London, Feb, 12.—Most of today’s session of the house of commons was occupied in a discussion of the motion of william James Thorne, labor mem- ber from West Ham, in favor of a re- vision of the peace treaty, which he subjected to severe criticism. The most interésting suggestion emanated from Lord Cecil that the league of na- tions should send two international commissions to Russia to ascertain the exact conditions nad to fixe the pro- visional boundaries of the border| Fleming dies In jail there will e pet states. - prisals against Lord 7 t Arthur J. Balfour, lord president of! French, lord }ieu!enu?;?%el‘:;;?ouml the council, who made a géneral de- | Frank Brooke (member of o) 2nd | fense of the treaty and the govern-{ roy's advisory counell, who il ico: | ment's_share therei id he feared | fer injuries as he Qigd."" o Lord Roberts' suggestion would not result in a new heaven on earth in Russia. He aiso denied that ‘the gov- ernment was enconraging Poland in a policy of adventure. SUSPENSION OF MEXICAN SITUATION INVESTIGATION El Paso, Tex., I'eb. 12—The senate sub-committee investigating the Mexi- can sityation suspender the hearings here today. The only. testimonv taken in public was that of Norman Walker, formeriy a correspondent for The As- ociafed Press. He told the committee that from time to time for ten vears the jesi dents of El, Paso had been forced te take ext dinary precautions te safeguard their !ives and property be- cause of the many attacks and rumors of attacks on Fuarez. the Megican town oppo: El Paso. GERMAN ARMY IS STILL 400,000 STRONG Paris, Feb. 12.—The German army is still 400,800 stronz, according to a re- port received by the committee of for- eign affairs today from General Nies- sel, head of the Baltic mission. . In addition, there are forcea. officers and non-commissioned | 29, wes’ crusbad in drifting . ice The secre- | | b 100,000 policing | mall boat Bestrics, HUGH M. ALCORN TO ASSIST IN PROSECUTION OF RUMELY! Hartford, Conn., Feb. 12.—Hugh M. Alcorn, state’s attornéy of . Hartford | county, has béen appoiuted to comduet the government's prosecution of Dr, Edward A. Rumely and others charged | vith concealing - their purchase ‘of the| New York Evening Mail for the al-| leged purpose of aiding Germany in| the war. This announcement will be printed in the Hartford Courant to- | morrow morning. | When teld of the announcement. Mr. Alcorn confirmed it. Hé would make | no statement other than to say that the case will come up on April 13 in the United States court for the south- ern district of New York. Mr. Alcorn has been in ‘Washington recently conferring with Attorney General A. Mitchell Paimer and As. sistant United States Attorney Harold Harper of New York. The case was to have come up Feb. 22, it was sald but a postponement ha: i e 8 been agreed SINN FEINER BARTON TRIED BY COURTMARTIAL Dublin, Feb. 12—Robert Sinu_Fein member of the h Sommons, who was March, escaped from the Mo j Jall, was' rearrested and agai‘r’xmi:! caped, only to be recaptured recently. was tridd today before a. courtmartial. The charge against Barton was that he delivered a speech in. which, pe- ferring to_the imprisonment of tHe lo. | cal Sinn Feiner Fleming, he said: T do not make a threat, but Barton, ouse of arrested 1 ast The court veserved i nfl‘:fld ey decision. Barton _report was in cireulation af: triai that Barton had been 'réiiu'e"a" This proved to be incorrect. Raiders intended fo effect the release of the pri;o;er,‘ but atiacked the wrong car, and Barton was carried i o : led to the jail and TR Lol Sia R SINN FEINERS RELEASED FROM BRIDWELL PRISON Dublin, Feb. 12 h.ssth“:l Fr‘ieinerl T urin raid on the offices of ‘the Sinn ]geh‘l parliament” were released from the Bridwell prison today. They included John O'Maheny, John - Fo--- angl Frank Lawless, Sinn Fein members of | the British' house of commons, O'Mahony.’ speaking on behalf of himself and the other prisoners at the trial, which resuited tn the Sinn Fein- A ¢ ivinced he would believe that Plumb | the distribution of credit which they | Plan League for a tripartite control of { make to Individuals-in the commun- railroads said in an address here to-!ity and directors night before the *Ail-American Farm- | banks are { the philosophy of unending warfare Abraham = Lincoln would hawe as-| sumed towards problems now '.con- fronting - America was discussed by Secretary LUane in an address tonight before the Philadelphia Lincoln club. “When- people-today talk:of revo- lution in the United States,” declared Mr. Lane, “they meet an answer in the words of Lincoln, who said: “In a | democracy wherg the majority rules by the ballot through the forms of law, physical rebellions are radically wrong, unconstitutional and are' treason.’ “Lincoln believed that the supreme achievement of civilization, the climb that we, have\been making through ten thousand years, was the fact that the wilfulness of the few had become sub. f the many “¥f ‘Lincoin looked out wupon the world and saw the sad state in which it is,” said the secretary, am con- there #hould be a_council of all the nations sitting in Europe at this very time tions and for the restoration of the peoples. 'The Leagye of Nations or | no league, his great soul cowdd not dis- regard the call of humanity; could not refuse the challenge of the occasion; could not see hope for American in & disordered world, and he would bear his part in lifting to their feet those who are in distress, whether friends or enemies. “Surveying America with its contin- LA DO Saturday NORWICH o M ‘ February 14th THE GREATEST DAY IN THE YEAR OMOTToW. ’mo{e th ha 3 ances he given of an immediate reduc- tion in the cost of living; leaders in the ‘wage negotiations declared tonight. As an alternative,” the ‘union’'representa tives: will-elaim’ increased wages, de. mands for ‘which were not pressed a Mr. Wilson's request last summer. Representatives of the workers, i was intimated’ tonight, bass' their hope | for higher wages 'largely on- the in- crease in the cost of living since the] last general wage ‘increase ‘in - 1918, The' cost of living qulestion] while ‘al- ways to the fore in the negotiations’ which the union men have -had with Director General Hines, will be ..em- ployed to the full extent of the unioms" power in’ the conference with the pres- ident; it was indicated. . 3 Immediatély after the announcement- trom the White House that. the presis dent would see a union committee. of three Jersonally, ‘a. meeting i'of. the unijon heads interested "in th triversy was called and preparations were begun, for._ possible presentation of verbal claims in amplification of the nvritten . statements submitted through Director General Fines. The employs es will be represented by B. M. Jewell; acting president of the Railway. Em- ployes’ Department, American Feder= ation of Lahor;.E. J. Manion, president R DAY uous picture of a discontented labur.! T am sure that he would hold that) there can be no lasting econemic life where the employed and the employer regard each other as enemies, where is .accepted as the shifting foundation of our Industrial life; a plan- of exist- ence in which® the women and the children of the workers, the mass of society, the public, are the supreme sufferers. He would regard it as the commanding duty of our time to find the way, the gradual expanding way., in which the methods of war—these | methods of economic war—would be abandoned, arg .in their stead. the way of a growing law be substituted. But the miracl of satisfying all, he would not attempt to work, for he put our situation clearly when he | said: ‘What's the matter with my two boys. Just what's the matter with the world, I have got three walnuts and each wants two.'” N OBITUARY. Henry B. Endicott. Boston, Feb. 12.—Henry B..Endi- cott, shoe manufacturer, and statej food administrator and executive of the Massachusetts committee on pub- | lic. safety during the war, who was! widely known as an arbitrator of la-!| bor disputes, died at a hospital in Brookline tonight. He returned from the south a few days ago, when an illness developed requiring an opera- tion. The death was unexpected and | was directly due to meninigitis. Mr. | Endicoit was 66 years old. i Mr, Endicott was considered one of | the biggest personal forces in the state during the war. His success in settling labor disputes was said to be un- paralleled. A strike of términal em- ployes at the Boston and Maine rail-g road, which threatened to tie up the| whole svstem; textile disputes in Law-; rence, Loweli, Haverhill and Fall River; a suspension of the shoe indus- try in Lynn because of labor troubles that lasted five months in 1917, and| the strike of several thousand Boston; Elevated Railway company employes! in 1918 were adjusted mainly through! his efforts. } President Wilson personally ocmpH- mented Mr. Endicott on his efforta! during the war and appointed him a/| member of *the industrial conference which met in Washington last Octo-| ber. t As a member of the Endicott-John-! son company he was one of the largest( employers of labor in the country. and | was said never to have had a strike in} his factorles. | Mr. Bndicott was born in Dedham! and always mairtained a residence in that town. He 7¢t entered the wool| business in Bostun and later became! interested in leather. Besides his in-| terest in several large shoe factories, | he conducted tanneries in Maine and in this state. , Juliug Chambers, New York, Feb. 12—Junlius Cham- bers, widely known newSpaper man, CREW: PERISH _sp‘?fi? 3 ICE CRUSHED MAIL BOAT Rockland, J4e., Feb. 12.The. 34-foot Jan. ! and short story ' writer, exploded and playw: t, died tonight of pneumo- nia. was born in Bellefontaine, Ohlo, in 1847.. Mr. Chambers entered the news- paper field after his graduation from Cornppll iUniversity and was asso- ciated with several New York dailies. officers. Germany also is well supplied | went dowsn with her crew. This be-|Hs established the Paris edition of with planes. tanks, machine guns and air-!came uw-u.wg_ in the neutral zone alone on| maijl bags and when some of the upper part of the the right bank of the Rbine the po- | heat, showing its name were washed licing forces number 15,000. ashore on Green Isiand near Vinal the New York Hi in 1887, having ‘been that mwr:u:menondent at verious times in London, Paris, Ma- drig and Havana. - In 1873 he fitted General Niessel adds that the Ger-| Haven. . » out an joring ex el man minister of defense, Noske, is in| The crew consisted of Bur- ui’nk I‘An Minn., v:'f the hands of the general staff and| ton. W and Faward' of | ters of the Mississippi river. He was that the Germah government is capa-| Matinicus and' Leo Hupper of Port|a member of the National Geo- ble. if willing, of obtaining execution were bound frem this| graphic Society and a Feliow of the of the treaty elauses by the country. e e S ‘Royal Geographic Society of England. Boston in-1842. S e L e At R NG T e G Y A IR jance of way workers of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and Timothy 'Shed, acting p’re-x?em’o! the, Brothérhpod «of Locomotice -Kire+ men and Enginemen. The conferenc will be:held. on the south lawn of the 2 “where Mr.. Wilson spends. a portioh: of shis, mornings. Thers was unmistakable evidence. t¢ night among. the union officials of a fear that the: president wouid refuse 1o grant their -wage demands. A few said frankly they: could see- no hope to a settlement favorable to them. The view seemed to have been based on the arguments ‘offeréd in rebuital by Mr. Hines a§ the union leaders pre- sented new claims or preposai: Director General” Hines -in ‘trans- mitting data ,on the controversy to President -Wilson today,was " under- stood to haye made. “suggestions” rel- ative to. a final - dispesition on the problems. - These, however, did " not take the form of definite recommenda- tions, it was said. Union leaders had knowledge of what Mr.' Hines' stand Wwas and they were understood to fear the president’s decision would follow closely along the same lines. The director general in'his confer- ences with the union heads fold them that he could not grant their demands because of the early terminatior of federal control and . explained that pending legislation, passage of which was expected, would set up machinery which would provide “impartial and unbiased” handling of the wage claims. The union argument to this was.that they were thus compelled to face an- Fl};er daley with no assurances of re- ief. While the controversies with. the other ‘unions were quiescent because of a switch in the center of interest from the railroad administration to the ‘White House, Mr. Hines conferred with représentatives of the Brother- hood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Shop Laborers, who have called a strike of their 300,080 - members Tuesday, officials of Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employes and chiefs ¢4 _the longshoremen’s union. The conference with the mainten- L1 4 resulted prac- tically in placing their demands in the same category with those now before the president. Mr. Hines told the com- mittee " frankly that he would -not agree, to their demands’for higher pay at this time but informed them of his willingness _to leave the case o pending decision of the president. Differences between the railroad ad- ministration And the station employ- es and longshoremen were understood to have been settied 'several days ago but Mr. Hines ‘told them' at.that time he would discuss _their grievances further whenever they desired. P, J. Coyle, president of station employes, said . after the .conferenee he had. not been given what he “intended get- ting” 'but that the question had . not been: disposed’of finally. Senate ‘Appreciates: President Poinca Paris, ‘Feb. 12 (Havas).—The senate today adopted a formal declaration that President Poincare “deserved well of the country.” A similar declaration was adopted by the chamber of depu. ties'on Tuesdmy. , . A2 "1t in far better to have a policeman call you down than take you-up. : Charles - E.” Lauriat. Brookline, . Mass. E. Lauriat, . pregident- 6 the' Charles E. Lauriat. Company, publishers and bocksellers of - Boston, died . at- his | it-is impracticable ‘to continue classes 4 eemm lots. which ' department ‘President’ Wilson accepted the res- T ‘of Henry P.-Fletcher as am- ‘bassador to Mexico., . 2 recedented demand for_ gu.N *| bals; indicates there wall be a record- breaking play this year. _ “Miss" ison Capen, aged 81, prineipal of the Capen School for giris, died at Northampton, ° “For the second time within a week’ flonr dropped 50 cents a barrell it the market at Minneapolis, Minn. Advices from Teneriffe, Canary ls- | nt report that a' severe gale is rag- ng. Some ships have been sunk. Enactment of the .oil land leasing bill was completed with the a®sption of the conference report by the senate. e influenza wave in Boston city jand generally - through northeastern MassachusetZs 'has passed its heignt. Senator John'J. Boyland, democrat, | jof New York, introduced a bill to pro- | wvide for the abolition of capital pun- ishment. The receipts of the French treasury' for the month, 1920, totalled 885.441‘.-i 900 francs, as compared with 533,838,- 800 francs in January, 1919, the Norwegian schooner Poile, wreck- * @ff Bahamg Banks, h&® been land- ed at Isabella De Sagua, Cuba. In sending President Wilson a wild | turkey, S. B. McMaster. a Columibia | 8. sportsman, violated a state game law and was fine ten dollars. Two hundred thousand men em-| ployed in chemical factories, includink | §0,000 workmen in pharmaceutical | plants, are on strike-at Milan, Rtaly. 3 / | ‘Hamburger steak will not be bought for the men of the navy fhereafter, be- cause “therd xre 50 many opportunities for_introducing low-grade products. War-time heat and light regula- tions may be necessary in Massachu- setts, and possibiy in the rest of New England, as a result of the coal short- age. The Massachutts board - of arbitra- tion has fied a decision with the shoe | manufacturers of Brockten, granting | sole Jeathw: workers a' maximum raise of $6. Dr. Harry J. Tate, 30 years of age [of . Pittofield, Mass., . city . physician and captain in the United States| army in the worid war, died of pneu- | mon'i& v i of all the workmen's lencia, 0, were eadquarters of thel ;olosed by the 'au-| et B ; assay ; commission which starteéd testing the fineness of coins rointed during 1919 ‘at the Philadel- phia mint. x 'y Owing to @ fact. that so. many membéns. of tae facuity and students at Haly Cross college ara ill with colds | of the: for et o . Henry Dorrance of Plainfield was elected president of the Sheep Breed- i ers’ association of Connecticut at the annuel meeting held in Hartford last| night. The first m: Mexico dirget from Geérmany since ‘the beginning of the war_ asrived at Vera . Cruz on board the German steamer ,k Marie, from Hamburg. H. H. Ford a Lawrence, Mass., bar- tender was held in $1,000 bail. for al- leged - violation of the prohibition law by ‘Federal agents disguised as work- ment in overails. present. Fire broke out in an ammunition dump- belong to the British army at Bethune, France, in which five thousand tons of munitions of aill kinds are stored. Fire which followed the breaking of a gas pipe in the cellar destroyed much of the interior of the Portches- ter Imn., on the Boston post road in Portchester, N. Y. Two super-dirigibles, the largest in the world, are planned by tne navy, and one of them now being built in! { Bngland, ' will attempt a trans-At- lantic flight next fail. ! in Rome Italy, schools have been closed because of ‘the increase in the | | influenza epidentics Thbrel - Mt deaths on the average, every day from | this disease in AWme. & in Wis election campaign speech last might at Paisley, former Premier As-| quith charactefized the king's speech at the opening of the parliament yes- terday as a colorless document. The railroad administration inform- | ed Mayor Peterson of Boston that| steps would ‘be -taken at once to re-. lieve the ghortage of cocal which; thratened to - force the closing of | schools. Plans for the - establishment of a | government whiskey dispensary were taken by United States Attorney Ross of Brookiyn because of profiteering by druggists and the poor quality they have soid. it —e ' Dollar bills autographed by Alexan- ‘der ‘Berkmran while he and 248 other Russians: were being deported on the | soyiet ark Buford were brought to} New York by Martin Berkshire, immi- | gration . inspector. * The Boston and Albany railroad de- clared embargo on shipments from ; AMang ‘and Rensselear, N. Y. except | livestocik, perishable freight anthracite , and bituminous ceal,” foodstuffs and n‘uvq:r(n" papers. * 5 Telegraphic orders have been sent out by the department of agriculture ting sale of canuned olives from in- L believe have caused recent |deaths in various cities. % ] . Te . the entry of boll worms, 'inte this country jn cottonseed mixed 'with corn, imported from -Mexico, the department of agriculture s consid- ering the’ prohibition or limitation of - Nineteen members of the crew of |, i tary Jof state, | was Announces That the Last of the Short ~ Term Certificates of Indebtedness,’ About $60,000,000, Will be Redeemed on Mond‘ny—Dou Not Agree With ! Men Who Forecast a Financial Crash—Claims the De- pression in High Grade Securities is Due to Selling by Foreign Holders—Estimates That Europe Has Received Approximately $4,000,000,000 From This Coun Since the Amistice Was Signed. : AghiEton: Folis 95 S0 Gonniihde § krokfie ist bons eson with their rettre- that Europe's monetary problems will | ment. be settled satisfactorily was expresse‘d‘ today by Secretary Houston In a re- uation. view of the international financial sll-i This country is constantlv furn ing Europe capital with which tc CONSLrict the ‘econoniic lite . kit there, said Mr. Houston, explaining that advances are being made in the same way. that Europe aided this country in time of depression in the past, not by government loans so much as by indirect methods, such as private loans, sale of ‘surplus army equipment, and the ahsorp here by European holders. The secre- tary estimated that BEurope had ceived approximately $4.000.000.000 from this country since the armistice s signed. The po: the - United States treasury v the s be very strong and on Monday issue of “loan” certificates of ness, about $60,000,000, will he redeem- ed, leaving no outstanding lcan in the sense of short term ce icates requ turity. Tax certi outsan amount {o $2.935949.500, 1 of w will be paid by forthcoming income and profits taxes. Altogether, Secretary Houston de- clined to agree wtih the p view of some public men, who fore- cast a financial erash and ! that while there were many diff ties' to be overcome, there was noth in the s tremely grave. Secretary Houston's statement fol- lows. in part: “The rapid reduction of government expenditure and realization of the sur- plus stocks accumulated for war pur- poses have been important making possible the reduction of the floating. debt and ' the™ gross debt of the government in the. -past five months. The result of the elimination of loan certificates and the great re- duction in the floating debt and gross debt have both been contributed to by the application to the payment of loan certificates of an important part of the balance in the general fund, which it' had been necessary to retaln at a high figure as long as the loan cer- tificates ‘were ~outsanding in order to provide for these frequent maturities, and_which it “was" possible” to “Feduce WM. PHILLIPS APPOINTED MINISTER TO NETHERLANDS ‘Washington, Feb. 12—(By The A. P.) , President Wilson is understood to have decided on the appointment of . William Phillips, assistant secre- as minister to The Netherlands. \ The nemination ~ of Mr. Phillips, who will arrive in New. York within a few days after a trip to England made necessary by the ‘illness there of Mrs. Phillips' mother, is expected to be sent to the senate soon, per- haps together with the nomination of Robert Underwood Johnson of N York, recently selected as- ambassa- dor to ltaly. Changes in the diplomatic service which haye occurred since the ending of the world war, had led to numer- ous reports that Secretary would be offered a foreign post, the vacancies of minister to. China and ambassador to Italy being mentioned. However, these reports had been dis- counted by the general belief that Mr. Phillips desireq to retire to re- cuperate from the heavy work of the state department incident to the | war. The legation at The Hagyge has been without a minister since last October when John W, Garrett of Baltimore resigned. Secretary Phillips, who is a native of Massachusetts, 'entered the di- plomatic service fifteen years ago as second secretary of the Peking. With the exception of two years, 1912-1914, whéeh he obtained leave of absence and served tary of the Harvard University poration, he has been connected . ever since with the dipiomatic branch of the government. In 1308 he acted chief of the division of Far affairs, leaving that office to become third assistant secretary of state, When the democratic administrs tion came into power in 1913, Mr. Phillips, although a republican in politics, was asked fice of thirq assistant secretary of state, owing to experience in diplo- matic matters. He was made first a sistant secretary when Frank 1. Pol promoted from that office counselor, to. accept the of- NEW HAVEN PAPERS SUSPEND - WHEN PRINTERS RE'SIGNED New Haven, Conn., Feb. 12--There will be no news issue of the New Haven Journal-Courier tomorrow. It will run an edition containing a notice that “owing to' the violation by the typographical union of their contract with the New Haven publishers” there will be a temporary suspension of all four daily papers, itself included. The notice will be-on the front page and the other. three pages will be blank. The mechanical force of the Journal- Caurier was at work tonight as al. The publishers state that there is nothing further to add to the notice , already given. None of ‘the union members who have resigned their places would make a statement, and none of those who were at work today expressed any wish to comment on the situation. NEW ENGLAND RAILROADS | _HANDLE 300 CARS OF COAL Boston, Feb. 1. ‘The three largest New FEngland «railroads . today han- ‘dled nearly 300 cars of coal at differ- ent points ‘along their lines, it was said tonight. L. Tamoure: chairman of - the New England sub-committee on coal, tonight promised: to - this . city four cars \daily for three days for use by the schools and hospitals, which have feit the rtage keenly, Phillips | legation at | as | Eastern on of high grade in- | | vestment_securities offered in markets re- | indebted- | floating i this help in just the w: ion to be regarded as ex- | i factors in | i | | ! ed. |is v | today “Although the treasury will, - of course, be obliged to horrow from time to time to meet the current defieit in the intervals between income and profit tax installment payments, and the current requirement of the War inance Corporation the fact that the treasury ‘has no uncovered maturities is of immense importance, “The position of the treasury today and the future of the market for the outstanding issugs of Liberty bonds and Victory notes is very bright, The whole color of the pieture would, of course, be changed if congress should emhark upon new expenditures on a large scale, The whole problem to- day is that of giving the people time and will save capital sufficient to en- able them to absorb that part of® the war_ issues which is still owed or loaned upon by banks and as well the flood of securities which are being pressed upon our markets from foreign uence of the extreme an exchanges. , it is interesting depression in high the grad nent securit in this country at the present time is to a very important extent the result of heavy selling of such securities in our markets from foreign sources. sorbing these high grade securities, the American peopl furnishing capital to Furope &t a time of Europe®: need and are giving that Europe helped Amer in the period of Amer- "s growth and of her own monetary r es. “Yet in those day Elrope was far better able to meet the relatively small demands of Ameri than in Amer- ica now. burdened as she is by gov- ernment expenditures since the hegin- ning of the war to the aggregate amount of about $36,700,000,000; to meet the stupendous demands of Burope toda “T am confident that the solution of Burope's problems will be found by the wisdom and courage of European statesmen in facing the monetary dif- alkities imposed . upon them by the great war and by the = enlightened, sympathetic and friendly co-operation of the business men and workmen of America and Europe when peace is restored and the hope -and fear of government interferences are remov- 'CONGHESS OF LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Chicago, Feh, 12.—Six conferences, attended by 2,000 delegates and al- ternates, representing woman voters of the north, south, east and west, were held today, preliminary to"the opening tomorrow of the final con- vention of the National American Woeman Suffrage Association, and the initial congress of the Ledgue of Woman Voters. The purpose of the conferences was the formulation of a legislative pro- gramme, and the topics discussed to- day were American Citizenship, Pro- tection of Women in Industry, Child Welfare, Food Supply and Demand, Social ‘Hygiene .and Unification of Laws foncerning Women. This convention marks the dissola- tion of the suffrage association, and the taking over of the woman voters’ interests by the League of Woman Voters. The dissolution of the asso- ciation does not mean that the work of obtaining the ratification of suf- frage the necessary thirty-six states be stopped or diminished. Thirty-one states ‘have ratified the suffrage amendment. “Our. headquarters will- remain in- tact yntil the other six states are ured,” said Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president. “We expect Ari- zona, New Mexico and Oklahéma to ratify before the convention closes, and Delaware. West Virginia and Connecticut are our hope for the ad- ditional three states.” TO HURRY APPROPRIATION BILLS THROUGH CONGRESS ‘Washington, Feh. 12.—Passage of all appropriation bills within the next six weeks, as a step toward early ad- journment, possi time for the June conventions, was decided on to- day by the house steering committee, which discussed the whole question of governmental economy. Senate leaders are understood to have prom- ised their co-operation ‘in the ‘legis- lative programme. Continued economy in the reduction of all appropriation measures was urged by all of the committee mem- ibers. The quetion of bonuses for ex- soldiers may be referred to a spenial house committee or to a joint com- mittee of both houses ‘and senate, but members stated that no definite pro- gramme to hear advocates of addition al bonuses would be mapped out un- til later. Washington, olu government at Vladivostok y friendly to the United States. Major General Graves, commander of the American expeditionary forces in Siberia, informed the war department a despatch which also. safd in that Vladivostok was quiet and there was apparently no desire for revenge on the part of the revolutionists,. - confrol, Genera! The number of ths those The zemstvos are in full with Medvedeff as president, Graves reported. revolutionists. including Viadivostok and Nikols] ed at 15,000. The revelution brought great re- joicinz on the part of a great majority of the peonle, General Graves said. Schleswig Plebiscites Delayed. Copenhagen, Feb. 12.~The interna- tional’ commission having in charge the plebiscites to determine’ the status of Schleswig has decided to postpone the veting in the second zone to March 14, it was announced today. The self-made man 1s often the or- 1y one who is sakisfied with the joh.