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VoL, inn—uo. 48 FROM-OUR VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Marshall, in Address at New Haven, Recalls the Time When the Good, Old-Fashioned Citizens Were Consid- Grievances in Others — Titles Are Subordinate to That of American — States That Members of All Classes and Creeds Should Be More Tolerant. New Haven, Conn. Feb. 23.—Asso- ciations and individuals, seeking to !} cnlist the government: in aid of their | activities, were warned tonight by Vice President Marshall, speaking before the Chamber of Commerce here, that they should take care not to claim privileges which would create griev- ances for others. “The war disposed of the hyphenat- ed German-American at an awful price,” Mr. Marshall said. “Is Amer- ica now to be rehabilitated by a new brand of hyphenated Americans? Is the rehabilitation to be turned over to New England-manufacturer-Ameri- cans. agricultural-Americans, federa- tion-pf-labor-Americans, Protestant- Americans or Catholic-Americans? “Present your ciaims to congress from the standpoint of an rican who is interested in the gen- al welfare of the country. Let noth- g in the way of personal interests, private advantage or class hatred | ucceed in pulling you down from the | Ligh position of an American. You r be a manufacturer, but that title i pordinate to that of an American. You man He a laber union man, but you are an American ] Discussing intolérance, Mr. Marshall declared: _— Emphasizes the Fact That All ’ “One of the manifestations of para- noia is a fixed opinion that the victim himself is right and that everybody not agreeing with him is his personal enemy, seeking to injure him. Para- noia may be caused by shell shock. Have the thundering of the cannon in Europe reverberated across the Atlan. tic and caused many men. in America to suffer shell shock and paranoia? Where are the good, old-fashioned cit- izens who used to think that men could disagree totally and yet be equally patriotic?” The toastmaster of the dinner was Colonel I. M. Ullman, president of the chamber. The welcome was given by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb; who briefly related to Mar Marshall the circumstances which led to the writ- ing of the state ‘comstitution which gave Connecticut the title of Consti- tution State. He also spoke of the state’s part in the great war and as- sured the vice president that he was v welcome. “The oftemer you said the governor, “he- better we will like it.” 3 Besides Vice President Marshall was seated President Hadley of Yale uni- versity. Others at _the table were Former Governors Baldwin, Weeks and Woodruff and several judges of the higHer courts of the state. TO ENFCRCE PROHIBITION IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN Chicago, Feb 2 T bent on ironing out, by o difficult] » the\Michigan Upper Pen- rted from Chicago to- 3. — An expedition if nec- la wasy < Major A. V. Dalrymple, feder- prohib! n director for the central left with a party of prohibi- agents fer Iron Co y, Michi- gan, where county offici: have overpowered government agents iast week and taken contraband wine which bad been seized by the govern- ment men. z “We are not starting 2 show and we do not expect any armed resistance,” Major Dalrympie said. “If we do meet resistance, we will be pre- pared to cope with 1 intend to ar- rest Prosecutor McDonough of Iron; County, two deputy sheriffs and the police officials of Iron River and place them. in 3§ charged with conspiracy tc interfere with the carrying out of the prohibition law. A ‘We will ask United States Com-| missioner Hatch at Marquette to is- | sue federal warrants, but we will make the arrests regardless of whether he acts. 1 have been advised by Commis-y sioned Kramer at Washington, and! Assistant Commissioner Gaylord that| T have ample authurity to make thei arrests. £ 2 fajo: Dalrymple communicated h the headguarters of the Michigan | state constabulary at Lansing today and said he had been promised the nelp of the tfoop of state police sta- | tioned at Nafaunee in the upper pen-| sula. i Leo J. Grove, prohibition supervisor | for the upper peninsula, who reported to Dalrympie that he had been over- powered by the Iron County officials, accompanied the party from Chica- i i o X ¥%tajor Dalrvmple’s plan of campaign | involves a general “cleanup” of Iron! County in addition to the arrests of | the county officials, he said today. His/| men hold search warrants for ten per- | ted of making moonshine, he_ said. fron County, according to Mr. Grove, has heen the source of fre-| quent trouble betwen liquor manufac-; turers and state and federal officers. | The population is largely Italian and Sicilian. Captain Marsh of the Mich- ¢ igan state constabulary was shot and seriously wounded a few weeks ago near Iron River while attempting to! arrest an alleged bootlegger. Iron River is a mining town of about | 7,000 population. FAILED TO GIVE CREDIT TO BUREAU OF COMMERCE Washington, TFeb. 23.—Failure to! realize the part played by the bureau of commerce and its commercial at- taches and trade commissioners in g American trade was blamed ‘match was said to B Beere : y Seeretary Alexander tonight for the action of the house appropriations committee in halving the estimates for the year rather than an intention to cripple the country’s commerce. Officials of the department of com- merce déeclared that foreign trade pro- motion work must be kept under that department if the best ends were to b2 served. “Had the committee known the atti- ! tude of the business community, it would have looked upon the matter in an entirely different light,” Secretary Alexander said. “T am sure that the committee did not know that business men by means of referendum by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States decided by an overwhelming majority that a commeicial attache service .should be established in the department of commerce to carry on trade promotion work that the con- sular service could not handle.” FALL OF TREE JS AN . ILL-OMEN FOR TURKEY Jerusalem, ‘Feb. 23.—During a re- eent snowstorm the famous tree nam- ed “El Butint” in the Garden of Geth- semane was blown down. According to tradition this tree would fall when Lthe !‘ufi:fi empire fell. Twice it was ommd nd with iron braces to pre- it it from falline. & occurrende has impressed the population. Jap Squadron at Marseilles. “Marseilles, Feb. 23.—(Havas). A Japanese sguadron arrived here to- day for a visit. The Japanese admi- ral_and the authorities at. Marseilles exchanged visits. Bulgarian Assembly Dissolved. - __Sef Feb. /23 —(Havas). flbm mwd:y decreed disso- mg";r the sobranje, or national assembly, because of difficulties #aused_by_the socislists, TO CONSIDER HIGH PRICES AND RATE OF EXCHANGE London, Feb. 23.—High prices of ties and the rate of exchange taken up soon by the Surpeme Council in conference with the finan- cial experts. Today's decision is sep- arte from the earlier London deci- sion to call the finance ministers of the powers together for adiscussion of the financial situation of the world. It is believed that the members of the council have not determined what the couneil might do toward stabi} in exchange and reducing the high prices, and will not reach a decision until they hear what the experts have to say. The proposition to take up the fin- L matter cime after Russid had occupied most of the day’s discussions. In this connection it is considered not that the members took under h newspapers that some settle- ment with Russia is necessary in order to reduce prices. It has been point- ed out that if Europe could get food and raw materials from Russia it would cut down purchases in América against the adverse exchange. In dealing with the Russian ques- fon today the members of the coun- cil are represented as recognizing an entirelv different state of affairs than when the question was last discussed at_the Paris meeting. James O'Grady, who represented the allies at the negotiations with Litvinoff, the Soviet representative at Copenhagen, was not called to the conference. Tt still maintained official- ly that he has been merely discussing' the question of prisoners with Litvin- off. but it is noted that he temporari- ly ceased these negotiations and came to London and conferred with Earl Curzon. the foreign secretary, a few days hefore Russia was taken under consideration by the council, and Earl Curzon is in daily attendance at the council meetings. Many phases of the question were discussed today, some time being de- voted to the position of the border states, It is believed that the coun- cil reached certain conclusions, but is u:wlvlmng to announce them immedi- ately. DUC DE CRUSSOL TO MOURN FOR GABY DESLYS New York, Feb. 2. Crussol arrived.in New York today on the French steamship La Savoie, and announced that he came as a volun- tary exile to mourn for Gaby Deslys, “in the land she loved and to be among the people she loved.” Before Gaby died, the Duc de Crussol said, his mother became reconciled to his contemplated marriage and after sail- ing he reN\ived a wireless message ex- tending her sympathy. When the dancer was in this city last the Duc de Crussol paid court to her and the ve encountered the strenuous opposition of his family. The French nobleman exhibited two large . pearls ‘bequethed to him from Gaby, one of which he said was from her famous necklace, valued at I,- 400,000 Nhes. He. left France the day after herdeathand said he intends’ to remain in America. The Duc de Crussol was one of the first among the French nobility to en- list in the war. He was wounded seven times. CONVENTIONS OF LETTER CARRIERS AND POSTMASTERS Bristol, Conn., Feb. 23.—The State Letter Carriers’ Association, at its an- nual convention here today, elected the following officers: President, Samuel R. Merritt, Bridge- port; vice president, Charles H. ‘White, Wallingford; secretary, Joseph R. Kenny, New. Haven;. treasurer, Grover Monahan, Ansonia; executive committee, William J.. Cahill, Nor- walk; E. L. Smith, Torrington, George H. Sargent, Greenwich. The Connecticut Postmasters’ As- sociation, also in annual session here, elected officers as follows: President, Willlam A. Hayes, Bris- ton; vice president, D, J. McCarthy, Middletown; secretary and treasurer, D. J. Teevan, Shelton. I PERSHING'S TRIBUTE TO o SMITH COLLEGE UNIT Northampton, Mass., Feb. 23.—An excellent tribute was paid the famous Smith . College relief unit by General John J. Pershing, in a letter read by President W. A. Neilson of the college at the- annual Washington’s birthday commemoration exercises today. Among other words, General Pershing wrote that “the graduates of the col- lege served efficiently and well' and with a high sense of duty and respon- sibility, which marked -the work of France.’ rican women in -rPeh-1..t - 2915 - NORWICH, - Writes of Conditions in Soviet Russia t Says All the Ablebodied Men of the Country Have Been Mobil- ized, From Minimum Fight- ing Age Up to 35 Years. Amsterdam, Feb. 12.—A tour of Soviet Russia has been made by a staff correspondent of the Handels- blad, who is writing a series of arti- cles describing conditions through- out the country and in the army as coming under his personal observa- tion. He deals with the morale of the Soviet armies, the compulsory mili- tary system, the ridicule of atrocities reported in the foreign press, divis- ions in the Red army, over bolshevism and the well-to-do as weil as the poor in the Soviet regime. “Russia has been completely mo- bilized,” he says, ‘with all the able- {bodied men of the country from the minimum- fighting age up to 35 years, and with officers regardless of age. There is no alternative and they are obliged to fizht under the general ad- ministration of the commissionaires who are bolshevist to the backbone. This operates very effectively. A sol- dier who deserts, betrays the cause or otherwise fails in his duty is shot; or -if he succeeds in ‘escaping, ‘his family is held- accountable.” The correspondent who apparently tried. to. view things from a fair and { neutral standpoint, dined with sev- eral bolshevik officers’ messes while en route to Moscow from the Polish front. and ‘had - an opportunity to study the Red army in detail. “The soldiers,” he says, “are po- lite anq there seems to be a quiet and agreeable discipline. The pay is 800 roubles a month for a soldier, 3,- 200. for 2 company leader and 4,200 for a regimental leader. The former generals of the czar’s army, six of whom are now serving on Trotzky’s staff, get €.000 roubles a month. No- body in Russia receives a larger sal- ary, with the exception of Lenine, who now gets 8,000 roubles a month. “Every Red army corps has a board of commissars and besides there is & commissar . for every regiment, bat- talion, brigade and division. They wear as distinction a red star on the left breast on which aré embossed a hammer and a plough with a silver laurel branch all around ang under it the distinction of their arms, a small machine gun, two crossed sabres, etc. “The officers in this army are call- ed leaders, and they wear an arm band bearing the Soviet coat of arms, and - embroidered beneath are the grade markings, one, two, three or four golden blocks. “The Aed army,” he says, “is not led by the young proletariat but by the decadent bourgeoise.” The contrast between various types in the officers ' mess at Kreepke (near the Polish front) proved stril ing,. the orrespondent says. “The brigade immander was a charming gentleman, formerly a colonel in the czar’'s army and speaking “beautiful French. Of the two commissars, one has almest an aristocratic _appear- ance: the other iz 'a big, tall unshav- en brute with a“sin‘stér fice, “After so Jong under-estimating the strength of the Red army, one must not’ now exaggerate it,”” = the correspondent concludes, declaring that a year ago it would have been a ridiculous army, but now its strength lief chiefly in the fact that its op- ponents are worse off.” ! i i TO MEET DEMANDS 8Y SAILORS FOR A BONUS ‘Washington, Feb. 23—J. A. H. Dit- chy, a supercargo for ping Board, suggested that the gov ernment meet the demand by sol and sailors for a bonus by forming a corporation, giving it a thousand of the vessels now on .its hands,” and t I £ corporation among the service men. The idea was given some attention by committee members. All of the government vessels, Dit- chy said, should be provided with American captains and other officers “and then we’ll nnt have so muc! grafting.” He explained his meaning by telling how a couple of valuable ship’s anchors were dropped in Liv- erpool, England, harbor by an officer whose home was in tae city and fished up lated to the profit_of the salvag- ers. WICKERSHAM KNEW WILL WAS IN VIOLATION OF LAW New York, Feb. 23.—George W. Wickersham, former attorney gener- al of the United States, testifying un- der cross examination today at the contest over the will of Mrs. Rosa F. Spang, widow of a millionaire Pitts- | burgh steel manufacturer, under one clause of which he would have been one of the three beneficiaries, ad- mitted that when he drew the instru- ment he knew some of its provisions were in conflict with the laws of New York and Pennsylvania and that under certain circumstances one third of the $2,000,000 fund intedned to . charity would have reverted to his personal estate. S This admission was made under the questioning by Edgar T. Brackett, counsel for Mrs, Mabel Spang Anck- er of Copenhagen, Denmark, the only child, who was left an annuity of $10,000 by her mother in addition to another $20,000 left her by her father. HINES ISSUES ORCERS FOR / ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—Director Gen- eral Hines today issued orders which previde for the formal transfer of au- therity now exercised by raflroad’ad- ministration officials to the corpora- ‘lons which resume control of the lines Murch 1. In a telegram to regional di-ectors Mr. Hines directed that the nzmnes of corporate officers be ascer- tained to whom department heads will report after federal operation ends and that appropriate instructions be issued to employes. ‘ FIRE IN SALVATION ARMY HOME IN NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23 —The Salvation Army home, a three-story brick building in Chapel street, was badly damaged by fire tonight. The loss- was- estimated at $10,000. Defec- tive wiring was given as the cause, BUDGET PASSED BY THE JAPANESE LOWER HOUSE 'Toio, Friday, Feb. 13.—The budget introduced by the government today passed. the lower house without for the Ship-| i thereafter distributing the stock in the | SURRENDER OF RAILWAYS ! Condensed Teiegrams Gold valued ‘at 114,300,000, has besn withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment to Argentina. Negotiations for shipping 20,000,000 pounds of Danish sugar to the United States are under way. A dry land Ii{:'p'_hurnr is the latest device to tried as a means of circumventing prohibitien. Clifton S. Webber, aged about 60, was electrocuted in. the engine room of a shoe factory at Belfast, Me. The four-masted double-decked schooner Robert L. Bean named for builder was launched at Camden, Me. The Celestial, the first American gov- ernment ship ‘ever built in a Chinese shipyard will be launched at Shanghai in March. The large cold storage plant under construction at St. Plerre, Mig, for the fishing interests, was, heavily damaged by a fire. The secretary of agriculture was asked by the senate to determine how far depletion of forests has proceeded in the United States. Soviet Russia, in proposing favor- able peace terms to Finland, has made its offer conditional upon permission to use Finnish harbors. . Admiral Nicholas Horthy, command« er in chief of the ‘Hungarian army is reported to have been named regent of Hungary by the national assembly. Dwight W. Pardee, secretary of the New York Central railroad for 25 years, died at his home at Islip, N. from hardening of the arteries. The steamer Tullamore which ar- rived at Boston from Liverpool re- ported steaming for 24 hours through ice fields off the Newfoundland coast. Three divisions of the American Writing Paper company ~were clos- ed indefinitely owing to pulp shortage, due to poor transportation conditions. The union of retail clerks of Lynn, Mass., ended a strike which has been in effect for several months with a formal statement admitting its fail- ure. The ten thousand ton tanker Ario, built by the Bethlehem ship- building company at Sparrows Point for the Standard Oil Company, was launched. Il | { A system of cooperative farm credit, based on personal security as disting- uished from mortgage loans, was pro- posed in a bill introduced by Repre- sentative McFadden. A movement to unionize the 12,000 telephone operators in New York city was launched by Miss Teresa Sullivan, erators’ Union of Boston. News of the loss at sea of the Ca- nadian schooner Associate, from Gi- braitar for St. John's, N. F, was brought to Hayre, ,_ France ..by- the French linét La Touraine. The presence of large icebergs and floes off the Nova Scotia coast and in the path of transatlantic shipping was reported by the British steamer Ard- groom in a wireless message. The American Woolen Company has at its four mills in Lawrence,r Mass, in an effort to reduce the cost of liv- ing for the 15,000 operatives. British cotton operatives to the number of 400,000 are preparing to send an application to the emploFers for an increase of one hundred per cent in wages over the prewar rates. A charge of $10 for Cuba Bermuda the ~Bahama Islands and Mexico has (feen tentatidely agreed upon by the conferees on the g.irphma.f.m land conswlar appropia- ill. passports to 1 Profiting by war experience in the use of, seaplanes to locate submerged submafines the bureau of fisheries plans to use aircraft in aiding tuna and sardine fishermen in finding schools of fish. Life for those in the “treat-em- rough” corps of the army has been made a little more comfortable through tae devising of means to take some of the engine-generated heat from the inside of tank. Christopher Borishevich, 7, was drowned but his'sister Alice, 8, was saved when she Went to her brother's rescue and failed'to reach him after he had fallen through a hole in the ice in Leonard’s pond Providence. Eight masked gunmen entered the Tammany Hall, Bighth assembly dis- trict, New York and robbed forty members who were playing cards, of about §$5,000 in money and Jewelry. They escaped before an alarm could be given. — A bull fight stagéd in the corral of an El Paso, Texas, packing plant, with matadors picadores, banderillas* and all ‘the traditiondl appurtenances of the Spanish national sport, was in- terrupted by the police. Nineteen Mexicans were taken to jail. Harriet Holland,: = 34; Sylvanus Thresher, 47, and his eleven year old daughter, Gladyn&wéig found dead in the hallway of & lodging house In | Providence in which Thresher had i lodgings, after .other eecupants of the house heard four revolver shots. - —— Robert Barton, Sinn Fein member of parliament for Bast 'Whitlow, who was convicted February. 42 on a charge that Shillelagh last year he made threats against 'Vistount French, lord lieutenant of ‘Freland, has been segtenced to threé years penal servi- tude. il Protest against the action of the house appropriations - committee f§ry jcutting the foreign trade estimate of | the department of commerce from §1,- £58,000 to $480,000 was sent by the acting scretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to every member of the house. SILK RIBBON WEAVERS IN PATERSON TO STRIKE Paterson, N. J., 'Feb. 23.—The Silk Ribbon Weavers' union, comprising abeut 1, workers tonight informed Paterson silk manufacturers that the members of the organization would strike on Wednesday morning unless granted an increase of approximately 11 per cent. in wages. About 3,000 silk ribbon workers who do not belong to * the dnfon’ will falle=, it was declared. CONN. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1920 vice president of the Telephone Op-| inaugurated a system of retail stores| Rairozd Labor is l Pas-age ! the Senate Has Served to ' Add More Bitterness to the Talk of Leaders of the Un- ion Workers. - ‘Washington, Feb, 23.—Railroad labor is not satisfied with the way things are going with respect to its wage de- mands, This was indicated in unmis- takable manner in conferences here today of union officials. and general committeemen, called to pass on the presidents settlement proposal. Pas- sage of the railroad bill by the senate tonight only served to add more bit- terness to the talk of the union work- ers. Arrival of scores of committee chairmen—the union leaders closest to the rank and file of their membership —brought out strike talk. ‘The higher officers were inclined to discount this evidence of the workers feelings, hut hotel lobbies where the delegates were quartered buzzed with the possibilities of thesituation. There were indica- tions ‘that the union heads who have dealt with Director General Hines in the controversy were worried lest all that has been accomplished might, be [ wrecked. Committee chairmen spoke frankly of the sentiment in the local groups, describing it thus: > “Thelr_temper is not such as to war- rant us being optimistic.” Union spokesmen helieved there was no way to avoid a direct appeal to the president to “veto the Cummins-Esch measure. - They déclared it must be done to satisfy the workers who have not had a “close up” of the situation. But as to hope that the legislation might yet be kicked overboard, there was little expression. Labor's appeal to congress having been rebuffed, some- leaders were said to have as- sumed the attitude that the lezislators were “trying to see how far they can go by nagging us.” Heated discussions marked all of the conferences .of the fifteen organiza- tions, which met separately. None was able to finish éxamination of the docu- ments which were transmitted be- tween the union officials, the director general and the White liouse, as dele- gates continued to insist on assailing “the unfairness with which congress and the government generally has dealt with us.,” The president’'s pro- posal.is by no means sure of accept- ance by the unions. It drew attack from yvarious angles, according to in- formation which leaked out of the se- cret meetings. The gist of the strike talk, as ex- pressed by several influential union offigers, was that the railroad organ- izations have reason to aksert their strength through a walkout but it was deemed inadvisable, by them at least, to carry out such a program now. Put- ting it frankly, one leader declared that the action of the Brotherhood of Maintenance' of Way BEmployes and Shop Laborers in .issuing the recent strike call had hurt the workers’ cause materially. He characterized that sart of.thing as “damning us-in the eyes of 1hu?nmwm We must have as our friends—those. who really have no direct interest except as they desire to_see fair play.” Leadegs were confident of thelr power to call a strike which iwould successfully tie up-all means of trans- portation, but their attitude was that peaceable means should be employed if possible. Those who sat through the discussions with Director General Hines were especially desirous of ne- gotiating as long as there was hope of success. Beeause of the dissatisfaction which permeated all of the meetings, most of the individual organizations probably will not complete formulation of their views of the settlement pronosal for severaldays. B. M. Jewell, acting president of the railway emnloves' des partment of the American Federation of Labor, said the organizations un- der his leadership would not through before Wednesdav at the ear- liest. Conferences of the four broth- erhoods of operating employes may complete a statement of thetr attitude by tomorrow night.® The union officials who conducted the negotiations with Mr. Hines were called together tonight, but the nature of the conference was not revealed. Tt was s=id. however, that they tnok up consideration of the .railroad legisla- tion which the senate had acted on only a few hours before, | 1 t | LABOR PARTY PROTESTS RETURN OF RAILWAYS Cleveland, O., Feb. 23—Max _S. Hays, national chairman of the La- bor Party of the United States. today sent a telegram to President Wilson. voicing u protest against the proposed Cummins-Esch bill for returning the railways to private ownership. Mr. Hayes denounced the measure as legislation for the benefit of spe- cial interests and demanded that the resident vto it. Declaring that he spoke not only for organized labor but for the general public, Mr. Hayes assailed particular- ly clauses of the bill which he said guarantee the revenues of the railway awners. The adoption of the Cummins-Esch bill, Mr. Hayes said, would place on the people of the country generally the burden of another billion dollars in the shape of increased passenger and freight rates on the railroads. Social unrest, he asserted, was fed by the popular resentment of acon- #ress which represented not the Amer- ican masses but “a few groups of financial monarchists.” Mr. Hayes declared that the labor varty undoubtedly would put in the field this year a full presidential tick- et as well as congressional tickets. i FRENCH TROOPS SLAUGHTERED BY TURKS AND ARABS London, Feb. 23—It is reported from Damascus that 400 French prisoner by a forée of Turks and Arabs near Houran, Palestine, says a Cen- tra} News despatch from Cair, Egypt, dated last Wednesday. The corre- spondent added that it aso is reported that the French arg evacuating Baal- bek (thirty miles north of Damascus) and the El Bikm valley, lying between Tebanon and Anti-Libunis. There is no confirmation of the re- ports. GREAT EARTHQUAKE TO < NORTH OF TIFLIS, ITALY Rome, Feb. 23.—(Havas)—Tiflis des- patches say that a great iearthquake has occurred in the district of which the town of Gori is the center. Gori ies about thirty miles northwest of Tiflis. . ‘There ‘have - -beem ~ numerous casualties and serions damaze. of the Railroad Bill by | eet |, troops either have been killed or made ! Was Pmdlh the Senate by a ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—By a vote of nearly three.’ to one—forty-seven to seventeen—the senate tonight passed and sent to the president the modified railroad reorganization - bill under which the carriers of the country will attempt to adjust themselves to con- ditions arising with the end of gov- ! ernment control. Thirty-two republicans joined with fifteen democrats in voting for adop- tion of the conference report, while three republicans and fourteen demo- crats comprised the seventeen voting against it. There was never any| doubt as to what the senate would do, in view of the wide margin by which the Cummins. bill, fore drastic than the compromise measure, was pass- ed. The bill will go immediately to President Wilson and the general opinion around the capitol was that he would sign it,”although labor lead- ers will urge its veto. During the five hours of debate, led by Chairman Cummins of the inter- state commerce committee, senators expressed varying opinions/as to how the public and the railroads would fare under the bill, which was warm- ly defended and attacked. But the intense interest, which characterized proceedings Saturday in the house, was lacking, frequent quorum calls being necessary to get members in the chamber. Around six o’clock the pa- tience of the senate apparently was exhausted after the long season of speechmaking and insistent demands for a vote cdt short the desire to prolong the presentation of individ- ual views. Discussion today related largely to the iabor and rate making provisions. Senator Cummins, with great feeling, denouriced widespread claims that in fixing freight and passenger charges calculated to give the roads a return of 5 1-2 per cent. meant taking huge sums of money from the public treas- ury. - The bill, & declared, would not take c\e dollar in that way. Such reports he said were merely a pdrt of the propaganda put forth in an ef- fort to defeat all legislation on the eve of return of the roads to their owners on March 1. Those voting for the conferenee re- port were: Republicans—Ball, - Brandegee, Cal- der, Capper, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Elkins, Fernald Frelinghuysen, Hale, Jones (Washington); Kellogg, Kenyon, Keys, Lenroot, Lodge, McLean, Me- Lean,; McNary, Nelson, - New, Page, Phipps Poindexter, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland, Townsend, ‘Wadsworth, Warren and Watson. To- tal republicans for 32. - Democrats—Beckham, Fletcher, Gay, Glass, Meyers, Phelan, Pomerene, Ransdell, Robinson, Shields, Smith (Georgia); Smith (Maryland); Un- derwood, Walsh (Wontana) and Will- iams. Total democrats for, 15, Total for adoption 47. Those voting against were: Republicans—Borah, France, and Gronna. Total republicans against, the report Vote of 47 to 17 After Five .~ Hours of Debate Which Related Largely to the Labor and 'Rate Making Provisions—The General Opinion Around the Capitol Was That President Wilson Would Sign the " Bill, Although Labor Leaders Will Urge Its Veto. three. Democrats—Ashurst, Dial, Gore, Harris, Harrison, Johnson (South Da- kota); Jones (New Mexico);' King, McKellar; Nugent, Overman, Pittman, Sheppard and Trammell. Total demo- crats against 14. Total against adoption 17. Those paired follow: Bankhead for with Culberson against; McCormick for with Henderson against; Dilling- ham for with Swanson against; Fall for with Kendrick against; Simmons for with Kirby against; McCumber for with Lafollette against; Harding for with Walsh _(Massachusetts) against; Edge for with Owen against. Annpuncement was made that if Senators Hitchcock, Nebraska; Stan- ley, Kentucky, and ‘Chamberlain, Ore- gon, all democrats, had been present they would have voted in support of the conference report. The section relating to road earn- ings was attacked during the debate as “communistic and bolshevistic,” by Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennes- see, one of those who led in the *ht against the bill during its first con- sideration in the senate. ~While the conference committee had greatly im- proved the measure, he said, it still remained ‘“unfair and unjust to the American_people.” J “The bill does contain a government guarantee,” said Senator MecKellar, “gnd also takes away the excess prof- its of the good roads and turns them into a fund for bad roads. To these two principles of legislation I cannot subscribe. I doubt very much wheth- er they can be maintained under our constitution,” Announcing that he would vote for the conference report although he vot- ed against the Cummins bill, Senator Lenroot, republican, Wisconsin, said he realized he might “be blacklisted by labor.” “I cannot let that alter my stand,” said Senator Lenroot. *If organized labor unjustly attacks any senator for his stand regarding labor legislation he ought to be willing to go down ta defeat if necessary, if he does so se- cure in the conviction that he voted for the greatest good for the greatest number.” The Wisconsin senator explained that he voted against the Cummins bill because of the anti-strike provi- sions but the portions of the bill ob- noxious, to him had been eliminated in conference, Senator Pittman, democrat, Nevada, predicted that “turmoil and chos” in the industrial world would follow close upon enactment of the bill. “I think it would be-far better,” he said, “to return the roads without any legislation than to return them with legislation framed to meet a political expediency. I am opposed to govern- ment ownership and I believe if there is anything that will bring govern- ment ownership it is passage of this bill. It throws on the government all the responsibiliiy and liability, and at the same time deprives the govern- ment of any right of ownership.”. EXHIBITS BARRED FROM NEWBERRY ELECTION CASE Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 23.—The government won and lost today in at- fempts to introduce testimony relating to Senator Truman ~H. Newberry’s connection with others of the 122 men on trial with him in United States dis- L court on charges of conspiracy to | .ate the federal elections and mail fraud laws. At the end of the mdrn- ing session Frank E. Dailey succeeded in bringing before the jury the fact that the chief defendant had contrib- uted $1.500 to the state central com- mittee of the republican committee. At | tne close of the afternoon proceedings he was balked in an effort to introduce letters relating to 147 subscriptions to | Harvey's Weekly. The barred exhibits were offered through George M. Gottfried, business manager of the North American’ Re- view and Harvey's Weekly, who came ; bere from New York to identify the! coirespopdence. There were letters from Senator Newberry and the pub- lishing company about the yearly sub- scription price and finally an order from the senator for 147 subscriptio: “tc friends in Michigan.” This list in- clud=d 3?2 of the defendants. BREAK PRCBABLE IN DEM. PEACE TREATY RECORDS Washington, Feb. 23.—(By the A. P.)—Possibiities of-, a substantial break in the democratic peace treaty ranks in the senate impelled influen- tial democratic senators to move to- day for a caucus ii discuss a possible change in party policy, and revived the hopes of the republicans that the treaty might yet be ratified with the 1hputfidan reservations adopted fat the last session of congress. On the republican side it was as- serated that twenty-two democrats, only a dozen short of the number re- quired to insure ratification, had sig- nified a willingnes sto quit the lead of President Wilson and take tie repub- lican reservation programme as it is. This total the administration chiefs declared exaggerated, but they com- ceded that were a vote taken tomor- row on the republican resoution of ratification, it would command more an'the seven democratic vtes it got t Novermber. The movement for a demoecratic caucus may bring into the open, its sponsore believe, the dissatisfaction that has smoldered in some democrat- Mr. Littleton opened the objection | for the defense when he noted that the ! iritial letter was dated April 17, 1919. | Ho argued that this late §ate put the | cotrespondence beyond the pale of the | ¢ at trial, which was, he said, lim- | ed tc charges of (onspiracy in the | campaign ending Nov.,5, 1918. Mr. Dailey contended that the let- ters showed a knowledze and continu- ation of the relationships established by the allezed conspiracy. Judge Clarence 'W. Sessions held with th) defense. MOTHER AND HER TWO Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 23.—While- Herbert Thompson, a police sergeant, | sat before his kitchen stove reading 4 newspaper, fire in the attic of his home tonight burred to death his wife, 12 year old daughter and an adopted daughter of the same age. When screams- of the victims attracted his attention, he attemptel to rush up the stairs but encountered a sheet of! flame and. was partially overcome, ! falling down the stairs and fracturing | a rib. ‘With the aid of a neighbor, Thomp- | son succeeded in securing a ladder and reachinz the attic f'o mthe ou- gide, mt Wi~ o0 "lidren were dead when he found them. PRESIDENT' APPROVES DRAFT OF THE ADRIATIC REPLY Washington, Feb. 23. — President ‘Wilson gdve his final approval today to the draft of his latest.reply to the entente premiers on the Adriatic ques- tion. . While official .confirmation was lacking, it was understood that the| communication tonight either was he- ing coded for transmission or actually was going: forward to Ambassador Da- vis at London for presentation. Delivery: of the reply to tne ententc premiers is expected to be followed by the making public of the entire serieés of’ notes. . The foreign® govern- CHILDREN INCINERATED ! < ic quarters since the president sent his memorable letter to the caucus of November 19.asking that the sena- ~ tors of his party vote against rati- tication on the basis of the republican rvations., The seven senators who arded his advice have been ac- tive constantly in their efiort to di suade others from the stand then t: en, and it has been on open secret that their move, coupied with current political developments, has met with some success. But among both democrats and re- cans, it is realized that thie en- or to break down democratic re- sistance still has a long way to go if it is to succeed. Sixty-four votes are ired to ratify the treaty and al- though 34 republicans voted for ratifi- cation in November, the party leaders are now sure of the support of only thirty. That leaves 34 to bhe deliv- en more than the figure which repre- ered by the democrats! an even doz- sented the peak of republican claims today. In the belief that time is fighting on heir side, the plan of the republican leaders is to first ciear away collat- eral issues of the treaty disagree- ment waen the subject comes again befofe the senate, probably tomorrow. TO EXPLORE ANCIENT : CLIFF CITIES OF UTAH Salt Iake City, Feb. 23.—Efforts to reach and explore ruins of ancient cliff citie: nown toexist in Zion canyon, Utah's newly creaied national park in the southwestern part of the state, will be made during the coming summer by a party of archeologists and geologists, several of whom are attached to the University of Utan, here. The cliff cities never have been vis- ited because of their inacessible loca- tions on the high bluil: It is brned, however, that the v* culty + N Be overcome by the low€ring of the ex- plorers from the tops of the bluffs by ropes. Long range photosraphs tak- en show that the cities are large and ments are understood to have consent- ¢d, to publication of the complete cor- respondence. their adobe houses are clearly outlin- ed and appear to be in erfect preser- vation.