Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 4, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 31 * POPULATION 29,685 . ONN., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922 PRESIDENT HARDING GIVES ~ Refuding B BRIGHT FINANCIAL FOREGAST Announced At Second Business Meeting of the Government That There is a Prospect Expenses When the Books Are Palanced June 30— Possible to Scale Expenditures From $4,500,000,000 to $3,974,000,000 a Year—Declares Budget System in Its Formative Period Has Justified_ “Our Most Confident Expectations”. Washington, Feb, 3.—President Hard- the second business meet- | the government, President Hard- announced that instead of a deficit vernmental finances as was fore- there now were pros- at n December, < of a surplus of receipts over ex- the books are balanced of next June. president further announced it had possible to reduce the government's scale based on $4, to a scale of §3 itures when sxpenditures from a 500,000,000 a year: and declared “that even in lts forma* period the budget system has justif our most confident expecta- More than a thousand officials from all s departments vernment met with the report of the various ating effocts, transmitted by Di- Dawes of the budget bureau, the president described as “the made possible the cut In ex- and establishments of | president | president and General Dawes, who made the only other address of the nounced a direct saving of | and indirect savings of more $104,080.000 accomplished in less * through the operation months rdinating agencies of the bud- further declared the ef- svernment towards econ- reflected among the people ne: that the = govern- < in this budget organization set f and thrift that has make saving fashion- 10 ¢ me extent the government der in o praiseworthy a al to be gratified to n the affairs. Much of o extrav g ance of government has be ack of sense of individual 1 and the same is true in t and the private It our efforts ard and inspire an bitlan for ceonomies. and h Mclener shall have served not oni & government but the whole public rlarly well. Perhaps our example W of servies to the world, president reiterated hiz npposition ancy apprepriations and made a an understanding among offi- the government that “the com- nat rate husinesses her greater 1 Aefi departmental advantage, t wiich all of us much aim.” the prosects of a surp) Aeficit as was generally ex- appealed for a con- careful and painstaking heen made continuonsly | half of the year” and = zreat as that of the ment nrequently unexpected reeceints n total of ams likely that true during the current «wa ear. e this possibility It now| prahahle that the restrictions un- n snditurs which have possi + by reason of administration’s genaral and vour splendid cooperation | sfrplus of re- prosnect of mpared with the of $24,500,000 that budget fizures sub- in December of much satisfaction . ave rosulted in year. TF fitw When' 1 in the aston Dawes deseribed the co-ordinat'ng boards as the of routine methods into the t. and as the only effort made are to enrh forma- n 130 T ‘the rintous and dis- axtravagancs ~of business or- that ran without a head. each ne to get what he could for his partment.” had heen some nizatln 2n tr sbstruction to conomy methods, he said, by among the officials who, ir prerogatives, had swell- and pu shed out their decorations.’ Mr awss estimated there had been a lack of cio-00eration in only two per of the cases handied. Critieism of the co-ordinators’ efforts, he said. had come frem some. who, using 1eir johs for “personal exploitation” had ed through the press “to throw a mon- wrench In the machinery.” The workings of the budget hureau, he sald. were tha oneration of routine business n government after the poli- s had been decided by the legislative and executive heads. DIRECTOR DAWES SUSTAINS “HELL AND MARIA" NICKNAME Washington, Feb. 3.—Brandishing a broom in either hand, striding rapidly from one end of the platform to the ther and stamping his feet until® the| schoes rang In D. A. R. hall where the ! arms conference meets dignified ses- sion, Charles G. Dawes, director of the get. brought home to more than & 1sand officlals assembled today in the second business meeting of the govern- ment the appropriateness of his “Hell Maria” nickname. For more than half an hour he poured forth criticism praise allke on officials of high and low degre Stopping suddenly in the midst of a el- tation of instanees of lack of co-opera- tion by governmental departments with budget bureau eo-ordinators, which in- stances he Aeseribed as “fiy specks” on the hureau's record of accomplishments, Mr. Dawes suddenly shouted: “Whera are those brooms? Three brooms wera produced from un- der a table by an assistant, “There,” the budget director exelaim- ed, pounding the floor with the handle of one of the brooms, your broom that meets navy specification. - And here are brooms that do not meet those specl- fications, but sweep just as well. The navy bought 18,000 of its specification brooms when it could have had 380,000 army brooms for nothing." The budget director went on to say It took a month's persuasion to make the marine corps adopt o slight change In and eolor in order to use 100,000 army shirts | mitted. to hiave autamobiles, axcapt in =t- told Hearotary | ooptfonal {nstasoes while follawing t Penby, however, the record, of the navy eourMcd v 2 it @nd save $24,000, Iie 'n the second trial that it submitted Its | | majority of the jury heen in faver of an | aequittal, T would have asked for a dis- i Ready For Signature By an Overwhelmingly Majors ity the House Agreed to the Senate Amendments—Bill Sent to President. Washington, Feb. 3 (By the' A. P.).— Congress finally cleared the way today for the opening of negotiations looking to the refunding of the eleven billion for- eign debt. The house by an overwhelming major- ity agreed ‘o the senate amendments to the refunding bill and the measure was sent to the president. Mr. Harding is expected to approve it. as he did not press his objections to the senate changes after he had discussed them today, first with Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, and later with Secretary Mellon, of a Surplus of Receipts Over for co-operation with the bureau was the best of the departments. : e Wwho is to head A= an instance of co-operation in the|ine commission of five authorized to con- treasury, he declared that when it Was|gucy the negotiations with the debtor found there were 18 different purchasing| nations. agencles in that department, their co- ordination was effected without delay. Secretary Mellon is a business man," he added. “His fur didn't go up, or his back arch when my co-ordinators came i Legislative and executive heads of the government “determine how the ship but the budget buréau ‘“deter- minés how far she sails”” Mr. Dawes said at another point and adde “If congress should decide that gar- Appointment of the other four com- missioners by the executive is looked for within a short time. It was made known today at the White House that Mr. Hard- ing planned to name two members of the cabinet and a member each of the senate and house. There was no indication at the White House who would be named. but among those mentioned elsewhere in connection with Secretaries Hoover and Weeks, Senator Watson of Indiana and Representative bage should be spread on the White | Longworth, Ohio. House steps—much as we love the pres-| While plans for conducting the nego- ident—it would be for the budget bureau tiations with the debtor nations have not yet been formulated, it was said today in informed quarters that they probably would be conducted both in this country and abroad. There has been some dis- cussion of a general conference of repre. sentatives of the United States and the principal allied powers -to cuss the whole subject of the war debts of those nations. Those favoring this plan have argued that it was not to be c that - the debts oved the United could be refunded without reference to advise how the largest amount of gar- bage could be spread in the most econo- mical manne ARBUCKLE JURY STOOD 10 FOR CONVICTION, 2 FOR ACQUITTAL San Francisco, Feb. 3.—The jury in e second trial of a manslaughter charge against Roscoe C. Arbuckle decided at the conciusfon of a forty-four hour ses. sion that it could not azree and was dis- charged today, with the final ballot States to the appointments were | Hoover's Views of Would Give Basic Raw Mate- rials Much Cheaper Trans- portation Than Finished Goods. Washington, Feb. 3.—General freight rate reductons are impossible at this time, because of the impoverished state i of the railroad systems of the country. JSecretary of Commerce Hoover testi- fied today before the interstate com- merce commission investigation of trans- portation rate levels. Until rates come down and rallroad expenditures for new construction and betterments climb up, Mr. Hoover declar- ed, “the economic machine will move siowly.” He added, however, that in his 1 opinion, railway operating costs, in which connection he mentioned wage scales, must come. down and railroad credit must be hettered before rates can be safely reduced Most of the existing economic depres- sion is due to the “spread” between the prices received by producers of raw ma- teriale and’ the prices paid out by con- isumers for finished goods, Mr. Hoover declared. Railroad rates, like wages, on their present hasis increase this gap, he asserted, giving this increased “spread” s the explanation of the lost purchasing power of the farm population. xpressing his belief that an oppor- tunity to cut rates uld be had In about a year. Mr. Hobver, who was called as a_witness by the United States Chamber of Commerce, said it would be an “economia crime” if rates sched- ules were not revised to give basic raw materials much cheaper transportation as compared with finished and high grade materi; Mr. Hoover's it brought views of raflroad cred- him into sharp conflict with Clifford Thorne, counsel for shippers and farm organizations, who demanded on cross-examination whether railroad users should be obliged to pay rates based “on stock securities issued as bonuses; with standing ten for conviction and two for acquittal. Arbuckle was accused of having caused the death of Miss Virginia Rappe of Los Angeles, a motion picture actress, who was taken ill a® a arinking party In Ar-| buck suite here at the Hotel St.| Francis on Labor day, 1921, and died| four days later as the result of a rup- tured bladder. The case was placed on the calendar | for next Mondav to be set for its third/| trial. Both prosecution and defense an- nounced that they would favor such trial So eure was the defense of its poSition Speaking before the Gas Sales recent meeting, F. W, Parsons ex; thoroughly in advertis 'age without final argument. This had | n effect ovposite from the one intended, ccording to Nate Friedman one of the| ors, in a formal statement. thought that when the defense ! leclined to argue it had thrown up its | '2nds" he said. “The first ten. ballots | tood nine to three for somviction, and | eafter until the fourteenth'and final | it was ten to two.” i line with the principles that newspa: one that depends upon the public its trade offerings as possible and better or as well accomplished as Arbuekie appeared to be somewhat the mewspaper. Tn this field ‘the dawneaet by the disagreement. Memhers Bulletin goes into practically all the homes in Norwich and vicinity, of his family were so bly perturbed | reaching over 50,000 readers each morning. that it was some moments hefore fthey greeted him or his'attorneys after the | resnlt was known. {} Bulletin for two cents a day : The jury was out one hour longer than | IS e ronlengee e Bulletin Telegraph Local General Total nounced a final ballot of ten to two for Saturday, Jan. 28..... 94 105 385 584 | acquittal | Monday, Jan. 30..... 67 95 270 432 When the jurers returned to court to- | 5 day they looked haggard and worn and Tiiesca dansaly = & e = - the lone woman juror, Mrs. Mary H. | Wednesday, Feb. 1.. 86 125 250 461 Somers, was visibly nervous. A crowded | Thursday, Eebse2 w5 89 95 191 375 || court room heard the result | - M Mm!fij Friday, Feb. 8..000 83 98 309 496 i tioh Tt was my intentlon to be guided by the opinion of a mafority of the jury,” District Attornev Brady said. “Had the Fotals il missal Newspaper Advertising Indispensable that he was willing to go on record as say- ing that a generous advertising appropriation should be as indispens- able an item in every gas company budget as coal and oil, the two basic raw materials of the industry. 5 Informing the public in regard to the gas business is right in the general mercantile business and what was said to the New Eng- land Association concerning gas can well be taken to heart by every- The public should be kept in as close touch with the business and In the past week the following news matter has appeared in The Association of New England, at its pressed himself as believing so per advertising is in connection with for business. there is no way. in which it can be through the advertisiug columne of service that is furnished by The 2814 519 630 As the jury stood ten for con- vietion to two for acauittal, it is mani. | the debts owned among the allied powers festiy my duty to try the case again.” themselves. In this connection it has been pointed out that Great Britain advanced dominions and allies, including France and Italy, approximately nine and one- half billlon dollars, while France loaned nearly three billion doilars to its allies, principally Russia and Ital !J)OKI.\'G FOR SUSPECT IN TAYLOR ®81URDER CASE to its Los Angeles, Feb. 3.—Efforts to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of William D. Ta or, internationally known | As finally enacted, the debt refunding motion picture <octor, were directed to- | bill was unsatisfactory both to the ad. day toward locat Edward P. Sands, | ministration and republican leaders of formely employed by the dead man as | the housa but it was said that objections a butler. to it were not pressed because of the de- lay that,would be involved in sending it to conference for the ironing out of dif- ferences between the two houses. Chief objection centered on the senate amendment requiring that the refunded At least two people have told the po- lice they saw Sands in Los Angeles with- In the past week. Another stated Tavior had declared he saw the missing butler within a few days of the trazedy. The | Police expressed interest in whether | obligations mature not later than June 5, Sands actually had been here, and if | 1947. and that the minimum interest rate not, why .such statements were *made |be 4 1-2 per cent. Both the president concerning him and Secretary Mellon were represented Sands had een sought for several |as preferring a free hand for the com- months on & complaint of forgery made by Tavlor. The derector charged that the butler disappeared after forging his name to a check and that money and other valuables disappeared at the same time. The police adhered today ta the theory that Tavlor was slain for revenge, check- Ing of his possessions indicating nothing was taken by the persons who appar- ently surprised him in his home and shot him In the back, leaving the body to be found Thursday morning by a servant. Close acquaintances of Taylor in mo- tion pleture circles were today sub- Poenaed to testify at the inauest. Thi is to be held tomorrow. Those sum- moned Included Mahel Normand, film act- ress. who called 1mon Tavlor early Wed- nesday evening{ Magy Mileg Minter, an other actress who formerly was directed by Taylor; Mona Purviance, leading wo- man_for Charles Chaplin, and Douglas MacLean, an actor, neighbors of Taylor. Others summoned were Mrs. MacLean, wife of the actor; Willlam Davis, chauffeur for Miss Normand, who drove her to the Tavlor place and then to her own home and Henry Peavy, valet of mission as to the life of the bonds and the interest rate. The treasury secretary was said to have held, however, that these limitations would not be insurmountable in the re- funding of the debts of the larger nations and that if it should develop that they prevented the refunding of the debts of mission could seek add!tional authority from congress. MEETIN * OF MILITARY ORDER OF FORFEIGN WAKRSs Hartford, Conn. Feb. 3.—A tradition of fidelity and efficiency has marked t TUnited States Marine Corps from the time of the Revolution, Major General Wen- dell C. Neville former commander of the marine brizade In France in an address tonight' before the Mflitary Order of For- eign Wars, The first authentic record of marines acting @s mail guards the gemeral said, tells of a detachment of eight from Hart- ford detalled in May, 1775 to watch over mall and a chest con ®nz 500 pounds specle .en route with rcinforcements to Taylor, who found the body yesterday | mort Ticonderoga which had just been morning. captured from the British. General Ne Search for a man Mrs. MacLean told the police she saw lurking about the Taylor place Wednesday night contin- ued. The descriptisn given by Mrs. Mac- Lean did not tally with that of anyone who had been mentioned in connection with the case. Mrs. MacLean fixed the time she saw the man at between 8 and 9 o'clock. She and neighbors told of having heard a noise like a revolver shot at about 8.15. Miss Normand told investigators that when ghe went to her car from Taylor's aptrtments, Tavlor accompanied her to the street, leaving his door unlocked. His valet, the only person whom Miss Normand saw there, left shortly before this. The police sald they thought it possible the man seen by Mrs MacLean Al'mped into- the apartment after Tay- lor left with Miss Normand and was hid- den there when the-direstor returned. ville quoted a letter from Jesse Root 1o Sflas Dean president of the council © public safety to the effect that these ma- rines were “well equipped and well epir- ited” and exeouted their task in exceilen fashion. 2k Conmectiout the general said, furnished several hundred marines to the Colonial forces during the Revolution who partic- ipated with ofher marines in numerous naval battles and fought on land at Princeton and in other engagaments. LIBACCITI SENTENCED FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER New York, Feb. 3.—Joseph Libacciti today pleaded gmilty to murder in the second degree before Justice Van Biclen in supreme court, Long Island City, in connection with the killlng of Harry Garbe in Woodhaven on Oct. 27. Justice Van Siclen sentenced him to serve from twenty years to life imprisonment {n Sing Sing prisci. He was recently tried for Atudents at Yale unlversity are not per- - Glengreod. . 3§ g o the smaller and newer nations the com-* Al ritorial assurances to Mr. CoRins during murder In the first degree, but the jury nds, created for promoters’ and, generally, representing no men T've heard that talk all my life, joined the secretary, “but the comi is dealing with the future, not the p Its rates are based on its tentative val- ulations of existing railroad -property, not on the mass of paper in the mar- kets which sells for a dollar one day and a hundred the next." State railroad commissions centered their evidence today upon an attempt to get passenger fares reduced. Clyde M. Reed, chairman of the Kansag Utilities Commission, opened the discussion wit3 an argument that the present rate of | 3.6 cents per mile was economically fus- fied and had operated to reduce the incomes of railroads by restricting trav- el. Fred W. Putnam, of the Minnesota commission. and F. Shaughnessy chairman of the Nevada commission, pre. sented similar views. profits,” invest- The Pullman company also appealed to the commission to reduce the .sur- charge on travel in its cars, estimating the drop in its revenues from those of 1920, at $1,000,000 per month. . TROUBLE OER FIXING THE ] BOUNDARY LINE IN IRELAND London, Feb. 3.—(By the A. P.)—The latest disagreement between Michael Col- lins and Sir James Craig is drawing the anxlous attention of the British govern- ment, and it is recognized tha. the pound- ary fixing qiaition between North and South Ircianl s one of grave possibilities. But until an impasse is acknowledged by the North and South Irish spokesmen London will regard the affair as a matte to be handled without Britisn interfer ence, it was red in an officia quarter today. The drawing of the boundary must negessitate a give and take attitude on | the pari of boih parties, it was pointed out and officials here are continuing in the hope that Ulster and Soutn Ireland eventually will view the question in that light. Showid a @ead.ock be reached it is intirfated |that London might use fts g0od offices in a reconcilation move. The suggestion thst Prime Minister Lioyd George, or his colleaguss, gave ter- the negotiations that preceded the sign ing of the Anglo-Irish treaty—assurances of which Sir James was not apprised—is Iabelied as absurd. The diglomaTic correspondent of the Evening News attributes the hardening attitude of Mr. Coliiis and Arttrur Griffith to the imminience of the mewtings Railroad Situation; of the “Ard Fheis” (the Gaeldc League of Ireland), the suggestion that such an at- titude might placate the “féilowers of Eamonn De alera. The next move may result from the conferences which the Ulster premic proposes to continue in London for a few days, Sir James saw Winston Spen- cer .Churchill, the colonfal secrstary, and other momberw of the cablney committee witlch negetizt8d (he Angle-Frisiy treaty this afternson, Mr, Churehill went to Downping gtreet to diseusy (ye glatien AUh M, Lioyd Georms. g -~ 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE TWD CENTS BRIEF TELEGRAMS A general strike of miners throughout Czecho Slovakia was ocalled yesterday. Plans to form a federation of Central American republics have coilapsed. Negotiation of a treaty, of commerce and amity with Buigaria was said at the state department to be in progress. The first woman to file primary papers in the state of Maine is Abby T. Andrews of Fryeburg. Another death from poisonous alcohol —4he third here in two days—was report- ed to the Jersey City police. Counterfeits of the familiar two cent postage stamp have appeared for the firs: time sirice 1895, Major Jose Tllescas Anaya of the Mexi- can federal army ws executed in Mexico City following a courtmartial conviction for conspiracy. R A garage fire which spread to an ad- jolninz ‘buiding at River Cliff near Mil- ford, killed two dogs, and burned three machines in addition to the garage. A decrease of abont 18,000,000 in the poulation of soviet Russia as comypared with pre-war estimates is reported by the bolsiievik press. Arrangements were made to saivage the 76-ton schooner Senator, which keeled over on her beam ends four miles off shore at St. John, N. B. . The Union Bank of Vienna has offered, in exchange for the Uruguayan wool mo- nopoly to supply the Uruguayan govern- ment With all materials necessary for the electrification of the state tramways. Issuance by the state department of n license jo the Western Union Telegraph company for the landing of its Barbaioe: cable at Miami, Fla, may be expected within & few days. A surplus of $892.389 for the year of 21 as compared with a defic't of $660,- 5 for 1920, is shown in the nal re. zort of the public.trustees of ths Eastern Massachusetts street railway comyjany. Dr. William Gallagher, for mun years head master of Thaver Academy, South Braintree, died at the home of his s Oscar Gallagher, superintendent of schools in Brookline, Mass. An unidentified five-masted <chosner was discovered ashore on Metinio leige near the western enirance to Penoms:ot bay and about 20 miles south, southeast of Rockland, Me, Value of antomobies owned In New H: ven has been definitey fixed for taxation purposes at $2.699.466 by t assessdr: In 1918 the vauation of cars then held was $3,972,462, Twelve yesr old George Walter Cable is seriously ill at his home in South Nor- walk, with sleepimg sicknes:. The boy has been aslee: since being attacked la: Saturday. Fire early yesterday destroyel the mills of the Beaver Brook Paper Mils, Inc,, on the outskirts of Danbury, causing a loss estimated at $125009, partlally covered by nsurance. Train 41, the Chicago special, west- {bound on the Boston and Afbany, was stopped just in time to avert colllsion with a string of derailed cars near West- field. Mohamed ¥nus, of New York city, was arrested in New Haven and later heid for trial under $2,000 bonds on a cemolaint of compatriots, who are East Indians, that he defrauded them of their savings. Ten men wer, serfously burned by an explosfon in the engine room of the Ca- radian Pacific liner Empress of Scot- land, docked in her North River pler, New York. While blsting honldrs, and Leon Polley, owners farms, in the Courtland, N. Y bituminous coal. Arthur Bell of the Drvden villaze of Dryden, rear , uncovered two veins of More than a thousand cattle bave been slaughterad since the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Englamd. The dis- easc has attacked some of the best herds of dairy cattle. —— Frank E. Boston, manager of the Wins- low and Gardiper plants of the Hollins worth & Whitney company, pulp and peber manufacturers, Gardmer, Mas, died at his home there at the age of i3. A plague of red ants has invaded cer- ‘ain diftricts in the department of the ‘war in France. Besldes causing consider- able damage in the fields and gardens they have infested the houses. Bootleggers throughont the country are evolving a new Industry—the rectifica- tion of denatured alcohol—prohibitioa of- ficiale said, which probably will nece tate a complete revision of the gove ment's system of distrfbution, The largest raid in amount of material seized that ever took place in Springfield, was carried out yesterday by police and dry agents when from the garag: of John Luvera two 25-gallon stills, 25 gallons of moonshine whiskey and 30 barrels of mash were taken, The scale committee of the United Mine Workers of America which wii form- vlate the demands of the miners to re- place the wage agreement with the opera‘- ors which expires March 31, will meet in Indianapclis next Wednesday. Ludwig Bartolls, 66, of 58 Washington | street . Wal ord, a f 1 €80 nad cois totalling $213.- 95 tn the Meriden police court when he s ariaigien or a sccond time on prac- ng me®ine in Meriden withoat license. — @ Mrs, Charles Carlson, of Jamestown, N. Y, committed suicide by drowninz at Faiconer. It was her her third at- tewpt to end her iife. Her sister, Mcs Vaneie Cammon Finch, committed suicide at the same place and n the same way 2 month ago. Chicago. the biggest port on the largest chain of Tresh water lakes in the world, begay eating fish caught in the Canadian northwest, transported from 300 to 400 miles by dog sledze and horsc drawn sieighs, and then shipped more than 1,000 miles by rail Two new compounds belonging to a new dye group have been produced by Pro- fessor Maitland C. Boswell, of the Uni- wersity of Toronto, which it is announced, will have an important bearing on the future of the North American dye indus: try. Refusal to give $36,000 a year to his wite, Helen Elwood Stokes, who s sulns for restoration of her dower rizhts, was declared by W. E. D. Stokes, eldery mil- Honalre, on the witnees stand - to have provoked an assault by her which caused him, to be under a docter's care for n Nlong erlofh > _¢ . WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON SOLDIER BONUS NEXT WEK President Harding and Republican Leaders Are to Discuss Ways and Means of Financing the Project—Various Sug- gestions Advanced Will be Analyzed With the View of Deciding Upon a Definite Program—Committee Report to be Submitted to the House, Probably Within Twe Weeks, Will Provide For Beginning Cash Payments ta Former Service Men on January 1, 1923. Washngon, Feb. 3.—Ways and inans of financing the sodiers’ bonus will be discussed at a conference between Pres- ident Harding and recublican leaders of the house and senate early next week, it was stated today at the Whise House. 1t ungerstgod that the various suggesti advanced will be canvassed w determining upon a definite prozr: A decision as to methods of r necessary revenue, reached in agreement between the administration and congr: sional leaders would solve the most diffi- cult problem before the house committes charged with drafting the adjusted com- pensation legislation and woud be ex- pected to speed up final enactment of measure by removing what . therw might prove subjects of serious di ment between the house and s Menfers of the ways and mean mittee g:id today that the bili to ported .o the hou within two weeks would provide for beginning the cash payments to the former service men on January 1 1923. They =aid this weuld give time in which to raise revenue ani pass upon the applications for the ca: bonus. Re enactment of ¢he excess profi a method of financing the bonus ed before the w: today by Rep tax a as urg- and means committee entative Woodruff of Michizan and Brown of Wisconsin, both republicans. They said this was a jus: tax which would be more popular thas some other: Oopposition to such a pro- posal was volced by some of the repub- lican members of the committee and the colloquy that fallowed Mr. Woodruff declarad that the repeal of this tax wa “one of the most reprenensible acis ever ed by congress.” Both Mr. Woodruff and, Mr. Brown posed any form of saless tax, as did predy {3 Wincsses, includ H O McKenzie, of Walton, N. Y., represent- American. Farm Bureau Federa- 1 Edward F. McaGrady, legisia- tive representatives of the ,American Fed- eration of Lahdr. Mr. Brown suczested that the treasur, might be able to abtain comsiderable sums from the sources proposad) in the originae bonus bill, offered by Chajirman Fordney, such as slight increases in income sur- on stock dividends and a tax- on stock dividends and ttax of onefith of one per cent. on thes sales of stocks and bonds. Representative Nolan wrepublican, Cali- fornia, told the committee therz was B nead to levy any additianal taxes to pay the bonus if congress wonld cut down the army and navy apprepriations. Pointing 10 the agreemenf 4t the arme conference for a naval holiday and the scrapping ef existing shivs, Mr. Nolan declared that great savings could be made in the cost of the naval establishment. He also urged that the army be cut to 100,000 men. Opnosition to the kind of eash bonus was voiced by Representative Geiffin, d at New York a veteran of the Spanish-American war. He =111 the gov- ernment as a cash proposition snoni@ re- turn the money the solciers paid for in- surance and as family fonal training, and be rut into force as Jjustice, he added. 4 mattr of BALLOTING FOR POFPE HAS FAILED OF RESULT Rome, Feb. 3 (By the A, P.)—Within the walls of the vatican balloting is pro- ceeding for the election of a successor to Pope Benedict XV, Today's balloting failed of result. The cardinals were en- gaged for several hours during the morning in an endeavor to select an oc- cupant for the papal throne, but shortly after noon a thick volume of sulphur- hued smoke indicated that mo decision had been reached. The deliberations in the afternoon ap- parently were somewhat shorter, as the great clock,of St. Peter's registered 5.25 when the chimney emitted a feeble cloud of black smoke, telling mutely to the vast assemblage in St. Peter's square that the momentous question was still undecided. At the termination of the morning sit- ting of the cardinals, the irregular emis- sion of light-colored smoke led the crowds to believe that a new pontiff had been chosen. The vatican officials. it s had not used sufficient tow Wwith the burning straw. This incident was almost répeated at the conclusion of the afternoon’s deliberations, when grayisn smoke began issuing from one of the chimneys in the vatican palace, causing confusion among the thousands of on- lookers as to whether the smoke could be considered white or black. The better informed among the as- semblage, however, drew attenion to the fact that the smoke was not issuing from the proper chimney, but rom one near- by. A portion of the multitude never- theless surged forward so as to be near the balcony of St. Peter's in case the new pontiff came out to give a blessing. A moment later the people were dis- appointed to observe the secend chim- ney, which this time was the right ome, blowing a dense cloud that came direct- 1y from the Sistine chael. Hushed cries went up from the spectators. “They have not chosen him” thousands of voices repeated in unison. The illness of three of the cardinals within the vatican makes it necessary for the ballot takers to leave the S chapel. with due ceremony, and repair to the apartmemts of the invallds. Cardi- nai Marini has 3een ill for several days from influenza, and there is some appre- hension over his condition because of his age. Two other cardin: Pompilj and Bacilieri, are suffering from colds. One of the reasons the smoke an- nouncements are so late is-that the bal- lots of the three invalids must be taken In their rooms. Several hours before the convening of the conclave in the afterncon thous- ands gathered in. the historic square in front of twe sttican, many of them com- ing from distant pothts. By 4 o'clock fully ten thousand persons had taken up positions of vantage on the steps of St. Peter's or along the cobbled pavement or on balconies and roofs of the neighbor- ing houses. The favored few, for the most part members of the papal court or the Roman aristocracy, occupled places in the left loggia of the vatican, the en- vy of the crowds assembled below. All eyes eagerly centered on the sle: der metal chimney of the vatican, which is so old that it includes sharply to one side, making identification easier among the other flue pipes. MRS, STEPHENS MARREID VONSIATSKY LAST NIGHT New York, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Marion Buck- ingham Ream Stephens, 45, Chicago heir- ess, and Anastase Andrevitch Vonsiat- skoy-Vonsiatsky, 23 yvears old Russian workman of Philadelphia, were married at 8 o'clock tonight in the Russian Ca- thedra of St. Nicholas. The wedding had been publicly announced for 4 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. No announcement of the change of plans had been made, and virtually no | complished faci ARMS CONFERENCE IS READY FOR ADJOURNMENT Washington, Feb. 3.—(By The A. P) —Except for the formalities and frille that are to attend its adjournment the Washington conference on limitation eof armament and Far Eeastern questions is over. At a plenary session tomorrow the re- maining treaties and resodutions are to be formally approved and the _chief delegates are to say good-bye to gne an- other in speeches éxpressing the gratifi- cation of thelr governments over the conference accomplishmer's. On Mon- day, at another ppblic meeting. the treaties will be signed and sealed and President Harding will deliver the con- ference validictory in a brief address. Already the administration, lopking upon the conference agreements as ac- is moving to suspend work on thirteen battleships and battle cruisers now under construction, but destined for the scrap heap under the naval treaty. The president does not plan to actually begin the scrapping process until the treaty has been ratified by all the powers, but he has asked the navy department for information on which an order suspending construction seon is to be issued. In their final round-up of the = Far Eastern situation, the conference leaders decided today to put their conclustens into two Far E n treatles and a number of supplementary resolutions. One of the treaties will-deal with revision of the Chinese tariff and the other will embody the Root “four points and the open door policy.” Both will have as ignatories all nine of the powers repre- nted here. Actual negotiations on the Far Bam. ern problems came to an end todav with statements delivered in the Far Eastern committee setting forth the position of the American and Chinese governments toward the “twenty-one demrands.” Speaking for Ch'na, Dr. Wang sald his government viewed with satisfaction Ja. pan’s announcement yesterday that greup five and some other clauses of tha “de- reands” would he withdrawn, but ressrv- ed her right to protest the parts remaln- ing. Secretary Hughes asserted that the American government still stosd on ity rights in the matter, as It had asserted them when the “demands” were Iaid down by Japan in 1915, and there the discussion ended without action. The only treatles 15 be formally glven conference approval at tom#-Tow'e plen- ary session are the two relating to China hut at the same time there will be a final atification of the sunplementary resolu- ns that have been adopted fn the Far Eastern committee and probably an ex. change of notes to definitely exclude the Japanese homeland from the scope of the four-power Pacific treaty signed De- cember 13. The session will begin at 10.30 a. m., a half hour earlier than the customary meeting time of the comfer- ence, and its committees, in anticipation of several hours of farewell oratory. On Monday the delezates will sign the naval t eaty. the submarine and pois- on gas treaty, the two treaties relating to China and th esupplementary netes to be attached to the four-power Pa- cific treaty. The agreement regarding Yap to which the United Stateg and Japan alone are parties, and the six-power set- tiement allocating the former German ea- bles in the Pacific are not yet in treaty form but they are considered as hav- ing only incifental connection -with the conference and will not delay the @e- parture of the delegates for home. It is expected they will be pressed to eon- clusion in the near future though the regular diplomatic channels. WOULD NOT LEGALIZE F CHESS PLAYING ON SUNDAY 3. Boston, Feb. The house of repre- one outside the wedding party of about | Sntatives today defeated a bill to legal- a dozen knew that the céremon taken place. Mr. and Mrs. Von left immediately afterward for the home of the bride’s mother, Carolyn Hall, at Thompson, Conn. —_— PHILIP TROUP RESIGNS AS POSTMASTER OF NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn, Feb. 3.—Phillp Troup, postmaster of New Haven for nearly eight years, tonight announced that he had resigned effective March 1. Mr. Troup will return to the newspaper profession as editor of the New Hayen had Unlon, founded by his father, the late Alexander Tronp, which he left on Magoh 1, 1914 ize the playing of checkers and chess on Sunday. atsiy | Sunday. Committee members whose repert against the measure was accepted ex- plained that there was nothing in the law forbidding the games indoors en Sunday. * They come under the ban of old blue lawa, however, when played out- doors; and -a cripple was recently eon- victed- and fined at Brockton for playing checkers on Sunday in a public park. It was after this incident that the Massachusetts State Checker association sought to amend the Sunday sports law to include checkers among the “athletie outdoor sports or games” permitted be- tween 2 and € o'clock on Sunday aftee- noolA . -4