Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 24, 1920, Page 1

= £ SO NORWICH, CONN., W ~THE REPLBLE tional Convention of the New Haven, Conn., March 23.—The republican state conventioh which to- morrow will choose a Corinecticut del- egation of fourteen to the national convention of the party at Chicago Jihe was opened tonight in Music ball United States Senator Frank B, , who is expected 0 bé r aeminated at the fall convention, Wi 18 temporary chairman and made what was termed a keynote speech. In congiderable part it was an expl_.nl- tion b: the senator of his attitude OWaras the peace treaty in the sen- Ale, and once when he declared that he could not upprove of such a contract s laid down in that treaty many del-’ sgute: stood and cheered and tossed taeir hats in the air. The program for the convention ad hared to party oustom of limiting the first session to the address of the temporary chairman and the naming committees of the iemporary .or- ganization. Tomorrow Senator Bran- degee will be made permanént chair- mun and Major John Buckley, A. W Creedon, J. ¥. Baker and W. Arthur Ceuntryman secretaries, upon recom- mendation of the commitiee on per- manent organization The conventipn was rapped to order 5y State Clairman J. Henry Roraback, who in presenting Mr. Brandegee re- ferred to him as “one of the men Who asd done the most to preserve the in- dependesice and integrity of the Unit- 4 States.” Senator Brandegee in ac- cnowliedging this introduction said the stand Be had taken and what he had done was dome “a sa citizen of Con- necticut and in support of the vonsti- Lutler. - Several times Mr. Brandegee was Interrupted by hearty and general ap- plauge, especislly wnen he sald ue souid no. support the prohibition unendmer*® because he velieved it in- ru ob the rights of the States. e Cimmitee on resolutions and that on credentials met at Hotel Taft and heard arguments, the latter on ne Stratford contested delegation, and Uie tormer on the matter of subjects o be dealt with in the resolutions. The resolutions committee was as fol- jows, by disiricts: J. T. Robinson, Putrick McGevern, I. C. Treat, . D. Hidweil, B H. Deming, E. N. Humph- rey, W. H. Leete, | ?. Uliman, ¥, L. Pecry, A J. Lorensi, J. V. Rattiesgor W, P. Tyler, C. C. Costelio, W. iys. L. M. Carpenter, J. T. King, A. L. agey, J. Y. Caldwell, J. Moss Ives, H. B Sherwood. £. B. Crofoct, J. R. Mead, Archibald Macdonald, O B. Robinson, G. C. Woodruff, M. D. Rudd, Boyd, A. V. McDonald, C. H. fi nd R. L. Keene. atherine |udington, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage ssséciation, after the committee mem- bérship had been made known. said She was satisfied to res: with the com- @ request that the resolutions 4 recommendation that an ex- 1 session of the general assembiy be galie dto act uyion the suffrage amend- “The congres:iondl district conven- tions to name district delegates will held in the morning. In the Fourth ot Mr. Jenrings of Fairfield with- drew his candidacy, leaving the field to Senmator Bissell of Ridgefeld, ana, uniess conditions should change, to Jobm T. King as the second delegate. The Pirst district is expected to Senator Arthur E. Bowers of hester. and State's Attorney Hugh M. Aicorn of Hartford: the See- district Colonel W. H. Hall ‘of ington and Fayette L. Wright of Pomfret; the Third Jistrict Colonel I M. Uliman of New Haven and Charles 1. Rockwell of Meriden; the Fifth district. State Automobile Commis- siofler R. B. Stosckel of Norfolk and Senator Charies A. Templeton Watesbury. The delegates-at-large are expected to be J. Henry Roraback, the state’ chairman: Charies Hopkins Clurk of Hartford, Charles F. Brook- er of Ansonia and Speaker James F. Walsh of Greenwich. Selections of members of the state tral committes were not complet- twoight. There was a report from Wingham county that Mayer C. A, Gates of Willimantic, for twenty vears on the committee, might be chosen as chgirman by the committee when it izes, but Mr. Roraback’s re-eléc- tioh is expected. In uddition his ‘elec- tion as nationa! committeeman was forecastfl The credentials committee - upheld the temporary roll for Newtown. The eontestant. was' Representative Samuel C, Shaw on a proxy, which was .re- jected. When the Stratford contest was called the committes, over pro- tests of many. voted on motion of Mil- ton Isbell of Ansonia te hold an :execu- tive session refusing. to. permit .news- D _to remain to ‘hear the evi- dence. Witnesses were called before the committee -singly ‘and examined: It was claimed by the contesting del- egation and many witnesses that the caucus was of the “snap” order and that a few voters under the thairman refused to allow more than « hundreéd others to_have a voice in the p gs. J. H. MacDonald of New Haven was chairman of the com- mittes and several hours were expect- » to be used in hearing the witness. B 'rz' resolutions to be offered the convention are expected to' be short with few recommendations, if any. h'l?:‘n will not be pledged. The resolutions committee, at th end of an open meeting, voted 25 to § to_submit to the convention tomorrow N lution endorsing woman suffrage ealling upon Governer Heicomb to ler his position and eall a sne- session of the legisiature to act suffrage am: t. Colonel x:ll:l, Miss Luddi and advocates, men After the vote Miss Lud- saill : % overwhelming vete by the we feel confident what the vote convention will be. We ek o Sl i such confidence in the fair- -} - '-:.I‘hlt we be- ¢ will consider a special has arisen.’ o Brandegee sail in part as oties the Convention: It | a sieaiure 1o Mo aa ‘oae of 'the Outburst Came When the Senator Declared He Could Not Approve Such a Contract as Laid Down in the l’eucl Treaty—Another Salvo Came When He Stated He Could | NdSmmlherl-‘bhionAmendmentBeamHeBe-‘ Tiaved it Infringed on the Rights of States—Convention ‘Will Today Choose Delegation of Fourteen to the Na- of | | Party in Chicago in June. * - | | representatives of the grand old State {of Connecticut, in the United States | Benate 1o mect with you in confusnce | upon this highly important occasion. i1 appreciate deeply the complimént implied and the honor conferred by this body, representative of the vast interests and welfare of over a mil- lion and a quarter of the best people in America, by vour designation of me as your presiding officer. The {repmblican conventions of 1905, 1914 and 196 called me to the same po- sition. Tonight we take first | mtep in that process of organizatiom,: deliberation. and selection which } am firmly convinced, will result in placing at the head of this nation, for the critical period of tne recently a congress of the sume policxal faith, The world has never had greater need of patience, poise and balance than it requires today. Under such conditions, it is inevitable that a fiood {of fanciful remedies saould be ad- vocated. The fundamentals of go ernment_and of :astitutions and of beliefs, have becn seriously disturbed, Many ships of state have dragged their anchors. New crews nave been | enlisted and new pilots and captains are navigating the cfaft. The politic- al; as well as the gesgraphical se:s of the world, have been sown with nlies and they are ‘charged with high ex- by green horns before the mast, as well as in the cageain’s quarters, able sea: men and skilled mariners. What is needed now is composure. The world has had enougn of artifictai stithulants and what it needs now is the anodyne of peaceful pursuits and liberty regulated by law. Lawless- ness 18 contagious. The mob is the symbol, the result, as-well as the cause of anarcny. Stability is the condition precedent of all readjust- ment and of ail progress. It is better not to move at all uniess one knows whither he is bound. 1f one 18 mot sure of his direction, he is more likely than not, to wander around in_circles. Fundamentally, there is nothing T matter with this government of its institutions. The jfamers of oup Consttution, es- tablished ,a representative Mrz cef ] goveriment, as well as a dual form of vernment. Our Reybiution against reat Britain, from the of WHICh We OWe UUY eXistence as A na- tion,_was a protest and ‘a revolt gainst autocracy and arbitrary pow- er. Our ancestors reéfused to assent to the doctrine of one man power. Tae only sovereign to which they would pledge allegiance, was = the . péople. They distributed the powers of gov' ernment among three great depart- mente, the exgcutive, the legisiative and the judicial, and by & system of checks and - balances, and = require- ments for coordination, they made it ig@possibzle for either department to become supreme’ to the exclusion of of the others. They irtended to form an_effective and a strong government Zthey intended < to make forever impossible, a dictator or an autoerat. They limited the powers of the fed- eral goyernment o such as were! wpecifically grautca und necessarily implied from those granted. As soon as the Union was formed, they amend- ed the - Constitution -by adopting the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights and provided that “the | tion, the W and na’ for the certain to den) by the rignts, shall not be construed | or disparage others retained people,” and also that - “the powers not delegated to the United Stales, by the Constitution, nor pro- hibitéd by it to -the States, -are re- served to ine States respectively, or! to the people.” These two amend- ments ‘to the Constitution, being ar- | | ticles 8- and 10, were proposed to the! legislatures of the several states by the very. first congress on the 25th| of September, 1789, and were duly rat- ified by toe necessary number of states, thus becoming a purc of the fundamental law, itself. They. dem- onstrate how jealous the founders of nur government were of the powers of the states and_of the people and how" careful they were to provide for what have since come to be known as the “reserved rights of the states.” rosanct. clusion. money and ed. related to secession and was extir- pated when the war of the Rebellion in 1361 was concluded. . The only state right so-called which was re- pudiated by thet war; was the alleged right of secession from the ' Union. No. weil-informed .. person, whether republican. ,democrat or whig, has ever claimed “that the rights ef the states ‘as defined in the constitution and as reserved in the tenth amend- ment. theretp, were not.in as full and complete existence today , as they were when the zovernment was found- ed. * The' several states should guard contest est vigilance. Powers of Congress. Any object which is praiseworthy in itself is sought to he brought to the consdideration of congress in order that means for its attainment , may be extended over the entire nation. A conspicuous example of this kind was afforded in the child labor law, by which an atfempt was made to prohibit the transportation from 6ne state to another of any article, in the production of which the labor of any| child under a certain age or who had worked ‘more Ihx a certain number of hours, had ehtered. This legis- iation wus claimed to be justifiable ynder tbe commerce clause of the constitution which conferred upon congress the power to regulate com- merce among the several states. If this legisiktion could have been fained, Cdhgress could have, with equal fegallty, passed a law prohibi ing: the transportation of commodi- ties from, one state to another into which negro labor_had entared as a factor or upon wi:n any member of a labor union had worked.' This law was declared to be unconstitutional by the supréme pourt of the United 234 out of 10.364; London, ing, Washn., mind. several states .a proposed tional amendment states from discriminating between | ment because !long as amendments to the federal constitu- prohibiting - the ! its citizens in relation to the elective i \/ franchise on account of sex, ; has already been ratified by the legis- latures of ‘nearly a’sufficient number of states to make it a part of the United States Constitution both of the great political parties had | in the platforms of taeir last national | conventions. favored the principle of | woman suffrage, be a matter railing more within the jurisdiction of the.states, | | than a subject for an amendment tol | the Constitution of the United States. | 1 was unable Lo support this amend- | .o retary of state, and Concillor Doye public policy for the several states to| IV been added to the list of those | | prescribe the qualifications of their | own electors, Constitution of the United States has been adopted which {‘ibits the manutacture, transportation | or sale of intoxicating liquors within ! the jurisdiction of the United States. I was unabie to support this amend- ment because 1 was of. that it was an infringement upon the reserved rights of the states, and a | violation of the principle of home rule. 1f this amendment to the Constitution | is sustained by the us 2 republican president and {1 am unable to perceive any limit be. i v - g : yond whieh the invasion of tue rights of the states may not proceed. The Constitution i States provides for i = iment by a twe-thirds vote of botn| I Hopses of Congress when approved ' 'S ne legislatures .of three-quarters | oL ,of the states. i voice whatever in this { state constitution h i without .tine proposed amendment be- | | ihg submitted for the approval of the | | cleciors of the state, arch | tution of the United States, however, | P.)—The conditions in {can be amended by the vote of the;Provinces, where two legislative bodies, ‘which although but declared it to| properly | 1 considered it wiser An amendment to the pro- | the Supreme Court, | of the own United amend- have no process. No | be amended The _people can i The Consti- referred if the amendment in the Federal daily Vocations. This resolution the future 1916, 1 re- It is my sed duty to nor It has, remedied its on-tae other Within ‘a ‘few months saved which _inevitably | of thei ineffciency; incombetencyh | | patriotic_people on the such criticism might afford aid comfort to the enemy. as Commander in Chief of the army v of a nation engaged in war| salvation of civilization, as- | sumed and exercised what was near- enumeration in the Gonstitution, of |ly-equivalenti to- a dictatorship. the minds and hearts of a patriotic and united people, his person and his words and deeds were well-nigh sac- Congress, in its recognition of a state of war,'had pldeged entire resources of the bring the war to a successful con- Whatever was demanded by the execiitive or the heads of h partments was granted in i almost without question. credit without stint. penditure ensued, based upon and ex- cused by the fact that we had enter- ed the. war .almost. enirely. unprepar- The condition of unpreparedness was largely the f For three years the allies had con- war was stating that we were too proud to fight that thel causes Many good but not well-informed peo- | were of no concern to u: ple seem to think that the doctrine of { was unable to discern any difference States rights” was an error clusely | batween the purposes of the two sets of helligerents, that it was our duty to be neutral even there must be peace without wictory. and that America must lead her own life and keep clear of European en- (Continued en Page Nine) ducting the WOOD LEADS LOWDEN AND JOHNSON IN S. D. Sioux Falls, S. between Wood, Senator Hiram*Johnson, Gov- ernor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and thege reservea rignts with tne ';rut-l Senator Miles Poindexter for the re- | publidan _presidential endorsement at the Seuth Dakota primary today became one of fluctuating suc- cesses. tonight so far three wepe concerned. 1740 Wood leading Lowden by 1323 votes and Jehnson closely pressing the Ii- linois. governor for second place. The | Teturns, which showed, only scattered votes. for Poindexter, follow: Lowden 8,041; Most of the precincts {leading cities of the state except Hu- ren were included. GEORGE ENSING SUICIDED WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND The body of Ensing, who has a widow living in Kalamazoo, Mich., was found in the Thames, Witnesses af 'the inquest said that, Ensing's wife had refused to live with him, owing to his actions as the re- sult of being gassed in Flanders. The coroner said Knsing had ' left which clearly showed his mind was unbalanced, March jury today gecided that George Ens- formerly a doctor who ‘was a captain British medical corps during the war, commitied suicide and extravagance of the grossest kind, { were overlooked by an indulgent and theory that| or The President, | In the | country to de- entirety Men_and were furnished | A veritable orgy of ex- 1t of fhe president. while the president of the that war e in thought, that D, March 25.—The General Leonard election as the first Returns from precincts _showed | Woed Johnson 8,943, in all the 23.—A ceroner's of Seattle, in the ‘hile of unsound letters | does Military Commander, Under Arrest. ajor ,General Von Luettwitz, milli(ary commander in the Kapp volt, it is officially announced. has also been arrested. Some of the ringleaders Kapp revolution against ceedings treason have di in ppeared. They clude Dr. Kapp himself, Von Jagow, Major. Pabst, Colonel Bauer, Shiele and Former Attorne: Baron Von Falkenhaus, a for te be prosecuted. FIGHTING ON LOWER RIGHT BANK OF RHINE Coblez, March 23.—(By the A. P.)— Heavy fighting has been going | since noon before Wesel, on the lower opimm}n;nt ‘bank of the Rhine. where the reds have attempted to yipe out stand of the Reichswehr. food stuffs this morning si xty employes and ficers were killed. te: money. RHINE PROVINCES IN Rotterdam, March the rtually evel to | is in the hands of the workmen, rap- !damsche Courant’s correspondents in constitution were confined to subjects | Bssen and Dortmund. the first sten germane taereto becomes unbearapie ! and undemocratic process is to be invoked for the pur- i pose of imbedding, | Comstitution matters relating to the food, drink ané intimate concerns of the people in their i With a view of providing a remedy for | the correction of this abuse, I intro- duced, and have secured a_favorabie report upon Senate Joint Resolution No 41 by the Committee on the Judi- ciary of the Senate. ! proposes o amend Article § of the Constitution 5o -that in | Congress may propose amendments to Dbe ratified by the electors in three- quarters of the states instead of by lekislatures, as now’ provided. : my address ta’ the . republican conventions of 1914 and 5 viewed; in So far as it could be done, in' the brief time which ‘could be de- | voted to the task, the character and! defects of ‘the present democratic ad ministratidn. s 3 announce‘that it has neither impro ed_its character short comings. band, gone from bad to worse. i president of the United States | ever been so shielded from criticism by events as has the president of the United States. ‘after the ruinous tariff law which his | timated will entail an annual cost of party enacted had gone 'into opera- | $200,000,000 and includes the fourteen the ' country was complete disaster, impended, by the outbreak ¥ great, war. During the entire period of ! minded by the president that unreas. onable prices must not result from the follo; and freeing not only pol der was an phasis was laid on_this by nouncement that failure fo an olutionary tribunal. GOVT. GIVES UP CONTROL Washington, March warning against profiteering, dent Wilson ment of government control - over tuminoith -control ‘overChair-denthw. tuminous coal prices and asked. €& and operators to negéiiate a new. working agreement on ‘the basis the majority report of the coal strike settlement commission. The president ordered of private gontrdl on April 1 when new workiug agreement becomes fective. 'This will partial absorption in coal prices of increase in miners wages, commission’s majority report. increase in wages the commission from | per cent. increase awarded the miners | remain &4 work after April 1, pend- in_settling the recent strike. The operators, however, were relinquishment of price control he addition of increased their expenses. The date of the joint conference of ulate a agreement had not been . president operators and miners to for! new wage ight. John T. Lewi Mine Workers while awaiting a conference with officers of his union on the mat- ter. said the miners were ready willing to narticipate in with the operators. The president in rescinding trol over prices Testored the fuel uation so far as bituminous is con- |was cerned to the status existing prior to bitumonius a_nationwide The executive order, however coal re-established November miners gtrike. 1, when went out the in not affect the exchange, which was February and which controls port of coal. tidewater GENERAL STRIVKE ON THE Madrid, March 23.—A general st on the railroads, of Spain, every line in the country, went effect at noon today. The cabinet min- isters have called into service railroad regiments, however, and with istance of numbers of voluntary workers from other departments hope to be able to maintain the full sched- ulé of mail and express trains in every | the a: direction. In the neighborhood of Madrid terminals generally presented a serted appearancq Xhis afternoon, the offices of the ralilway companies were besieged by disappointed pas- sengers who had hoped to depart for the provinces. King Alfonso returned to a fe whours. tracks. | HOUSE PASSED $425,000,000 NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL ‘Washington, appropriation bill carrying to the senate. aggregating $104,000,000 to carry construction .of new ships authorized in the 1916 three year programme and for an enlisted personnel averaging 125,000 in the navy and 20,000 in the marine corps. There was no provision for new con- in addition to vessels al- struction eady authorized and centracts’ which have been awarded. An amendment by Representative Hull, republican, Iowa, attaching the same provision against »stop watch hat had been usenglg stems in navy vards previously enacted for and navy 89. oth ‘ards, was adopted 213 unnecessary. Kapp Ringleaders |G Have Disappeared Major General Von Luettwit‘z, Berlin, March 23.—(By the A, P.)— has been placed under arrest, Admiral Von Trotha, chief of the admiralty, whom pro- have been begun for high Brederek. The reds are trying to 2@t through communi- cation with Holland in order to obtain Troop movments to sur- round the Bssen.area are in progress. Tt is reported that in a spartacan {attack on the postoffice at Dortmund Thuringia the soviet zovernment id to have appointed a foreign and, to be printing bolshevik HANDS OF WORKMEN ~—(By The A. # the proclamation of Soviet republies was the opening of prisons cal prison- ers but also common prisoners. Com- ing closely upon the heels of thig or- invitation to the bour- | geoisie to surrender all firearms. Em- compl: | would entail prosecution by the rev- OF SOFT COAL PRICES[ —With a|settlement with Presi today ordered abandon- termination permit at’ least establish- jed at twenty-seven Der cent. by wages 10| reached by Apri a meeting con- RAILROADS OF SPAIN affecting Madrid early in the afternoon, missing the strike on the line from France by only Up to the present no disturbance has been reported, but many precautions have-been taken the vicinity of the Stations and the March 23.—The naval approxi- mately $425,000,000 passed the house today without a roll call and now goes It includes provisions Under the bill the navy enlisted strength would, be 143000 but that strength is not ex)ecled to be reach- | ed until the end of the year, making | America, signed by three influential appropriation for more than 125,000 7 ‘Week Wil Hurt Poor Will Increase Prices of Lower Grade Cuts Used by the Poorer Families. Washington, March 23—The cam- paign inaugtated by the department of justice'to stimulate the consump- tion of chleaper cuts of meat drew caustic criticism from members of the house agricultural = committee today during the hearing on legislation to regulate the packing industry. L. D. H. Weld, of and Company, told the committee tue packers were co- operating in the campaign. If. the campaign is successful” he testified. will be o increase the prices of lower grades and pro ably decrease the more expense cuts. “Then it reality the poorer families now using the cheaper cuts of meat more because of th! e Voight, re- publican, consin, commented, “while the people wio use the more expensive cuts will get theirs cheap- er.” DAMAGE Wfim STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN New York. March 2: lution of the strike of men. engaged in coa: “a_direct appeal to the White House,” R. Squires, of the National Wage Adjustment Commission, announced tonight. The announcement follow- ed receipt of telegrams from the Charleston, S. C., chamber of com- merce and from planters and farmers in_other southern districts demanding information of steps taken to settle the sirike by arbitration The texts of the telegrams were not isclosed but Mr. Squires said they urged that an appeal he made to Pres- ident Wilson unfess there was an indi- cation of a speedy af ment of the situation by the wage commission. Planters in the districts about Charleston, Hampton = Roads, Va.; the | re- the in- Dr. ‘mer on the —The only so- of- I < men, Jacksonwille, Fla., and New Orleans, plosives. We must for a long time fadove without any reference to the,idly are approaching a duplication of|paye hundreds of thousands of dol- | steer cautiously until we have swept people whatever, This condition) | the conditions prevailing in Soviet|,\. "worth of perishable foodstuffs on |away the mines and made of the|Which may have been tolerable soRuSSia. According to the Rotter- seaboard and_inland piers shipment to New York, according to the telegrams. Further delay of these shipmehts, they said. would cause “a very serious situation.” These foodstuffs represent the year's i work of the farmess and the Spring’s supply for a number of seaboard and inland cities, Mr. producers and consumers must depend upon coastwise steamships to move them. Strike leaders, who are demanding the strikers be granted wage increases and shorter hours, today asserted the Coastwise Steamship Managers' As- sociation “has persistently refused to | enter into any scheme looking toward the longshoremen using the commission as an arbitra- tion. machine. B. R.. Richardson, ¢hairman of the | steamship. managers’ association, said coastwise companies_haye lost $50,000 daily since the strike was called ten ‘days ago. Rather- than meet the pres- ent situation tiwough arbitration, he declared, “the coastwise companies will stand pat, even if forced to sus- pend operations. altogéther. awaiting an- bi- of the ef-1 S }DPERATDRS TO REPLY the | TO MINERS TONIGHT New York, March 3.—The anthra- Ciié_mine operators notified the mine workers late today that they would reply tomorrow nignt at § qclock to i the proposal of the coal diggers to the | Th es- ing negotiation of a new wage agree- ment, “providing the operators agree { to make any wage award retroacti to_that date.” Unless a new wage agreement re- and | is 1, when the present contract expi the reply of the an- thracite operafors will determine whether there will be a suspension of work in the hard coal region after that date. The general scale com- mittee of e miners, by virtually a unanimous vote today decided that taey would not remain in the mines at the expiration of the present wgreement unless the employers agreed to make any wage award re- troactive. The decision of the of and sit- mine workers presented to th eoperators this {afiarnoon at a meeting of the sub- columittee of miners and operators to negotiate a new wage agreement. ANOTHER STRIKE OF MINERS IN ENGLAND IMMINENT 23 London, March 23.—Another strike of miners appeared tonight to be in prospect. After the ,recent trades union con: rejected the proposal . lof direct *xtion to attain nationaliz- rike | ation of the mines, the miners made a demand for an increase of 15 shillings ex- into | weekly in fages on order to bring in- dependent pressyre on the govern- the | ment, Negotiations with Premier Lloyd George and the coal controller have resuited in the demand of miners oir'8 rejected. The latter will meet in_conference tomorrow to de- termine upon their future couse of ac- tion. the de- but DESTROYER POPE WAS LAUNCHED AT CRAMP'S Philadelphia, March 23.—The de- stroyer Pope was launched today at Cramp's shipyard . Mary Augusta Wyse Benson, T Admiral Will- tions during the war, and chairman of the. .United States Shipping Board, was the sponsor. The vessel is named in honor of the late Commodore John Pope, Mrs. Benson's granfather. Ad- miral ‘Benson attended the launch- ing. STEAMER NORTHWESTERN " FOUNDERED; ONE MAN LOST Daytona, Fla. March 28 .— The steamer Northwestern, 1635 tons, foundered last night near Matanzas Inlet with the loss of one man and the serious injury of another, aeccording to Captain P. E. Jenassen, who brought the injured sailor fo a hos- pital here. The Northwestern was bound from Charleston to Havana with coa! on | CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS ARE CLASHING IN SYRIA New York, March 23—Sanguinary froubles between Christians and Mos- lems in Syria are expected as a re- sult of the boveott declared against France and England by Emir Feisal, to a cable despatch from Paris to the Syrian-Lebanese League of North leaders in the Syrian movement and “ made public here today. Squires said, and| the | iam S. Benson, chief of naval opera. | newly elected king of Syria, according Condensed Telegrams - fl:dr!fii;:m:mru}“fi Cleveland, Bolsheviks launched repeated ai- tacks Friday and Saturday agamnst Polish fore Bar silver wos quoted at §1.29 1-2 an-ounce in New. York compared with 77d in London. {20l of the battleship West Virginia sister ship of the Maryland, will be laid Wednesday. David P. Barrows was inaugurated yesterday as president of the Uni- versity of California. Bar gold was quoted at 108s 11 d a fie ounce in London, compared with 108 s 4d, at last close. According to reports received in Paris 8,000 persons were slain in Ger- many during the revolt. | Senator Gore itnroduced a resolu- tion asking for the repeal of the Lever | food and fuel control act. Buyers from all parts America and_Europe Montreal at Canada’s auction. of North| assembled at| first big fur| Dante Alighieri, of the Italion line, | from Naples, Palermo and Genoa, rived at Jersey City with 1,500 pas- sengers. | | Chairman ‘Butler of the House Nav- | al committee, declared by 1924 Amer- ica’s navy will equal that of Great| Britain. Representative ‘3ritten introduced a bill proposing a sepraate peace be- tween the United States and & Ger-| many and Austria. Gold output of Rand Mines, South Africa, totalled 625,730 fine ounces in February, compared with ounces in January. Brigadier General Charles Birl, U. 8.| | A., died at the Hamilton Hospital, a; private institution of Brookiyn, of- ce- rebral embolism. He was $2 years old. | Herbert “Kelly” Phillips, known owner of race horses, San Diégo, Cal, bullet flicted. Striking longshoremen of Bostory reached an agreement with the Clyde | ling 0 unload vessels containing palm | leaves for the - churches for Palm Sunday. . widely died at | the result of a wound ~accidentally self-in- | The Senate passed the House bill permitting the U. S. Grain Corpora- tion tG sell 5,000,000 barrels of flour for the slief of the stricken popula- tion of Europe. | Six hundred and nincij:iwe csaes of | Jiquor wvalued at nearly $200,000 was seized’ at Miami, Fla. 2Most of the liquer .was-<taken frem beats just in trom Bahuma Islands. Premier Bauer of Germany was no- tified by’ the American Mission ' that | the United States cannot furnish any, more food to Germany if a soviet| government is formed. i A resolution was ‘adopted by the! senate, requesting President Wilson to {state whetaer the island of. Yap will ibe ziven Japan and waether any | steps were taken by the United States | to secure it. | Organized labor is preparing to de- | ! feat SenaWr Cummins in the Novem- ;hm' elections. Cummins was respon- sible for the anti-strike provision of | {the railroad bill which was tarown | {out in conferehce. | Five hundred -lawyers ' rapresenting | i railroads and shippers from all parts lof the country were present in the| 1 hearing room of the Interstate Com- Esch-Cummins bill. which developed boiler trouble after leaving for Cherbourz and Southamp- | {ton, Feb. 28, and later put into Hali- | fax, returned to New York to have |new boiler tubes installed. Labor department records show that ! in the fiscal year ended June 1919 ap-{ proximately 2,300,000 workers were in- olved in strikes, lockouts and contro- versies referred to it for settlement. A loss of $100.000,000 was incurred by the strikers. | STEAMSHIP. ESPERANZA HAS BEEN REFLOATED New York, March 23—Fifty-six passengers of the steamship Esper- anza, which grounded March 11 on Madagascar Reef, while bound - for New York from Progreso, Mexico, ar- | vived here ‘téday on board the Ward | Line steamship Monterey. The Es- peranza, which subsequently was re- floated and towed back to Progreso, for temporary repairs, has resumcd | her voyage for this pert, where she| will underzo a general overhauling.| She will stop at Havana en route for an inspection. { WORK FOR MEN IN THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD New York, March 23—Fears of 000 workmen at the Brooklyn na: yard that they would be idle this spring through lack of work were re- | moved today when it was announced | that the army transport Buford, the | “Soviet Ark,” and the shipping board steamship Agamemnon would be re- paired there. About $1,000,000 will be spent on the Agamemnon and $400,000 on the Buford. The work .will take about two months and then it is ex- pected that construction of two 43,- 000 ton battleships will be bezun. SPREAD OF SMALLPOX AT BELLEVILLE, N, J. Belleville, N. J, March 23.—All churches, theaters and clubrooms have been closed here because of the spread of smallpox. The schools were closed’ today and 3,000 pupils vacci- nated. Two more cases of smallpox today were admitted to the Essex County iselation hospital, bringing the total to 12, with 13 other cases under observation. FRANK H. WIGGIN RETIRES AS TREASURER OF A. M. OF F. M. Bosten, March u:ls.—ne American hoard commissioners for foreign foday .n...'é::.a the resig- missiens nation of Frank H. as treas- urer because of ill health. He had held the office 25 . Frederick A. Gaskins of Milton ‘chosen to suc- ceed him. - %12 PAGES—88 COLS. necticut Company. g ;i tod’ 4 . vy L :rs‘.’?EZ’?n”p"."r'i':';’ pared’ et 14| Harttora, Conn. March 23.—General [ say what the New Haven road will o frs. 68c at previoys close. approval was expressed today by | if Tegard to the daylight saving law, { manufacturers, we serve,” said W n P. Bristol, its | effective March 28, to provide for the marager, “and if Hartford and sur- | handling of local trains between New rounding towns agree to adopt day- | Canaan, Stamford and New York upen light saving we shall of course fall in | the basis of daylight saving time. = . with it. But unless this change is| The letter says the system is pre- | made all over the state I anticipate | pared to revise the schedules so as 46 trouble at the points where trolleys of | conform the state laws in )n= different localities make connections. |chusetts and Rhode lsland upon thels merce Commission in connection wita | ° 11,348 or 8.5 per cent. | LOST TIME CAUSED BY DAYLIGHT SAVING CAUSE EONFLSION N HARTF Industrial Leaders Were Not Prepared For Sudden Act the Board of Aldernien Setting Date Forward From Sunday in April to March 20— Meets Approval of ufacturers and Department Store Proprietors—Matter to" Be Taken Up With the New Haven Road and the Con- was the statement given out at Supt. Carl A. Mitchell's office. It was said that schedules would no doubt be ar- ranged to meet the needs of the G- muters. . 3 “The New Haven railroad, as the principal ‘transportation agency DBes iween Boston, Providence, New York and intermediate point: Rl heads of insurance companies and department store pro- prielors of the action taken by the board of aldermen Monday evening in advancing daylight saying from the last Sunday in April to March 29, The snddenness of the decision found industrial leaders unprepared to say Just how they would be governed by | obliged to operate its. trains upon day~ the new inance, but all expressed | light saving time,” is a declaration ina their desire that the law could be |letter received by Mayor Kinsella from made ef C. L. Bardon, general manager, who “The Cor ut company will be | explains that arrangements have governed the needs of the people | made for a new timetable, becoming “Later in the day we will be able'to | effective dates. PROBABILITY OF DEFEAT OF 8U. “RAGE IN DELAWARE Dover, Del, March 23—With the ibilities of the defeat of the rat- ification of the suffrage amendment looming larger and larger, prepara- tions were made by the Delaware leg- DENIAL OF SOME OF ; ADMIRAL SIMS' STATEMENTS ‘Washington, March 23.—The -4 troversy started by Rear Sims’ criticism of the navy depart- ment's conduct of its war activities was broadened tonight by the ature during its sess.on today to|of the war department to deny the ratification measure pre-|of the admiral’s, statements regam- sented to both houses tomorrow|ing the land forces. v morning. Arguments for and against| Geneml Tasker H. Bliss, American suffrage will be heard on Thursday and leaders of the anti-suffrag.sts are working hard to have the measure acted upon by Friday afternoon. Sen- timent against suffrage was crystal- lized today and all party lines drop- ped when republican and democratic legislators refused to be bound by caucuses on the suffrage question. At meetings this morning state lead- ers of both parties appeared before the members of the assembly and pleaded with them for an early rati- fication. When a caucus was asked only a few members were willing to tie themselves down to the. dictates of their party dnd the motion was de- feated. Senator Thomas F. Gormley, dem- ocrat, informed the senate that he would introduce a biil tomorrow that all amendments to the national com. stitution be submitied to. A reterans dum of the people. An attempt was made 16 present the bill today but was defeated by the solid republican vote, An effort is being made by the suf- fragists to have William G. McAdoo and Will H.,Hays present Thursday ut tie hearing on ratification to make addresses favorable 10 the passage of the .amendment. In a letter made public here today,! by the anti-suffragists Miss Betty Gram, national organizer of the wo- men’s party, is alleged to have writ- ten that “suffrage could never win here unless something extraordinary happened. She described the situa- tion as desperate in the letter which was an appeal for aid. representative in the supreme WAr council, not only denied cai that he bad recommended the Ing of United States trosps with fée- eign armies, as testified by Sims, but testified “the truth is =~ actly the reverse.” . General Bliss made his denial in-a_ letter 10 Secretary Baker, who trans= mitted it, together with a copy of the original order assigning General shing to command the forces seas, to Secretary Daniels and turn sent both on to Chairman of the senate naval sub-committee, . at the same time making all the correés- pondence public. > “The only times that I ever in contact with Admiral Sims in Eu- rope,” said General Bliss, “were { was in London with the mission (the. so-called House mis- sion) beiween the Sth and 22nd November, 1817. During that time the idea of brigading or gamating American “troops with" armies had not, as far as I know, entered the head of anyome, nor did 1 ever make such a sugges-, tion, much Jess a recommendation.” General Bliss said he told the preme council that such a thi permanent amalgamation of Amefi- can units with the British or d Would' be “intolerable jo Ameren sentiment,” which led the officer, Mr. Clemenceau, to that “this point was settled” * nothing wag heard thereafter om subject. INSISTS “BOOK ACCOUNTS® OF RAILROARDS ARE WORTHLESS Washington, March 23,—Solid al ment of state commissioners, senting the public, against . . ation of the “unreliable” investment | . LATEST FIGURES GIVEN OUT BY THE CENSUS BUREAU Washington, March Population s lor 1920 announced tonignt census bureau_included: accounts of the roads for valuation P 17,431, imcrease | PUrposes developed today before the . per cent. Interstate Commerce 2 N. Y. 33524, an in- | Which is holding hearings to crease 1910, Glens F the basis for payment of dividend under (% or Insisting that the “book of the railroads were worthiess as an index to the values of the John E. Benton of the Association State Raiiroad Co; ioners, criticised the argument advanced the sarriers than any valuation of the roads found to be less than the gate accounts would be a blow 1o, m‘fium' centers of the worldl epresentatives of the shippers gen- erally concurred in the proposals eof the carriers that the “book accounts” be considered by advised that be checked In the light of the ‘aformation available to the sion. | Expressing themseives concerned with the development transportation facilities to meet * needs of the country than in the ter of rates, the shippers confine recommendation mainly to the q tion of the grouping of the roads for - rate-fixing purposes. The majority of the shippers favored the continuation of the commi established grouping of the railroads on the ground that the ddjustment should be effected with the least @is- turbance to existing rate relations. Smaller divisions, it was argued, made for less flexibility. per cent. over Y. 16,591, increase i, 38,378, 50.3 per cent. Richmon Ind., 6, 4464, or 15.7 per tent. umont, ~exas, 40,432, or 9.3 per cent. increase 12, increasd increase (revised 1ig- ures). AGED MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN NAUGATUCK Naugatuck, Conn., March 23.—Ter- rence Boylan, 70 years old, was burn- ed to death tonignt when fire stroyed the upper part of the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Mur- h whom he lived here. Mr. d been an invalid for the three years and was unable to N Firemen found his body after they had checked the flumes. bie g2 i STRIKES IN CANADA Ottawa, March 23.—Strikes in Can- ada for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1919, caused an cstimated loss of 763,341 working days, compared with 1,134,970 gays lost the previous year, according to the report of the minis- ter of labor made public today. There were 186 strikes in 1915-19, 41 of which were of less than three days duration, RAIROAD JOINT WAGE BOARD CONSIDERS DEMANDS Washington, March 23—Formil consideration of tite wage demands of the 2,000,000 railroad workers was be- gun today by the jonit wage board, of- ganized yesterda yby the conference ‘N-mnd It took up first data om SIR WILLIAM SUTHERLAND REELECTED TO COMMONS London, March 23—Sir William Sutherland, coalition liberal. who was obliged to scek re-election on accept- ing the post of junior lord of the treasury, was re-elected to the house of commons in the bye eleetion in Ar- gyleshire, Scotland a fortnight ago, it was announced today. Mr. Suth- erland received 10,157 votes while his opponent, the Rev. Malcolm MacCul- lom, laborite, received 5,498. - Tae la- bor vote was thus doubled as com- pared with the last election. wage' questions obtained by the. rail- road administration board of adjust m!m;d Leaders of both sides said tonight they were giving attention to all dés tails of every claim -in order when agreement was reached the im« dividual or class demand would néf come up for further discussion excepd in its relation to living costs and rateg of pay in other industries. There wiff no indicatiom of what particulsf claims - would be considered 3 Chairman Whiter _said the would withhold public statements ulis til “progress of moment” had made. EXHIBIT OF THREE GRAMS OF RADIUM VALUED AT $375,000 New York. March 23.—Three grams of radium, valued at $375,000, intended for deposit in a national radium bank establishri™at of which is planned for American pnysicians and scientists, was exhibited today at the annual meeting of the New York Medical So. ciety by Dr. 8. A. V. Sochocky. The radium was in two small glass tubes protected by lead clyinders eight inch- es in diameéter. Dr. Sochocky said this was the largest collection , of American-mined radium and the most valuable individual eollection in the worid, » been a2 BUNKER COAL BIDS RAm_;s $629 TO §1286 ‘Washington, March 23—Bids ering bunker coal sufficient for & riod of six months, received ‘nmm Board today. ranged. - price from $6.29 per ton deli Baltimore, to $12.60 at ‘The board's requirements 5 i " ek