The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 14

BRANDS PACKER’S PROFITS TREASON “We Know of Revolutions That Have Been| Justified,”” Declares Senator BY RAYMOND CLAPPER | Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug, 18.—With a) 7 Statement by Senator Kenyon that ‘the American people refused to stand for “treasonable profits” the senate Bgriculture committee yesterday be- - gan hearings on packer regulation tion, The committee has before it both | the Kenyon and Kendrick bills, the former being more drastic. ‘The hearings opened with a state Ment by Kenyon in which he ex ‘plained the purpose of his message “The people will stand for reason able profits,” Kenyon declared. ‘ “And the profits that are being | made by the packing monopoly come | near being ‘treasonable profits,’ maid. \ The bill, he explained, is not a it ownership bill j “We are not trying to injure the | or ruin business,” Kenyon | oon “It is true that the bill| lofige tremendous power in the! of one man. Have Teeth in ‘Em “These are radical bills. It is use- to pretend they are not. They teeth in them. They propose a Method of corporate control. “But in the view of the facts dis in the federal trade commis investigation and in the con ‘of unrest in the country, we congress could not sit idly by of necesstties of life ible and intolerable, These ‘are to destroy that monopoly. @ monopoly reaches that stage can't say it is a private business. ie @ public utility.” explained that his bill ts d business which the pack: absorbing and formulates a/ Pig i SHE permission to testify The Kenyon bill, in addition to proposing strict regulations of big packers, opens the way for starting co-operative packing houses and cold storage plants of a local nature. Municipal Storage Any municipality or local organi zation ia authorized to set up its own slaughtering and storage houses and the of agriculture ts ordered by the-bill to give every am sistance and advice. This section was included on sug: gestion of former Congressman Wil liam M. Kent, California, a& @ pro: posal to bring the cattle grower and the city meateater closer toge Another section calls for r secretary he | ship in the public interest when a/ packer violates the rigid lHeense un-| der which he would operate, The secretary of agriculture under this section could commandeer a plant, operate it for the public benefit and allo wthe packer to seek redress in court where he would have an opportunity to ait bis case fully The measure is the joint product of long conferences by ,the federal trade commission, following {ts ex- haustive investigation of the packing industry, the National Consumers’ league, farmers’ organizations and various senators and members of congress. Packers will center their efforts on obtaining radical modift- cations of the bill in the senate com mittee where they hope to have a Milder measure substituted. AUTO KILLS BOY PLAYING AT TAG Parents Learn of Tragedy on Return From Theatre Eluding another boy who sought to catch him at a game of tag Monday night In the street in front of his home, at 119 10th ave. N. Joseph W. Coles, jr. 5 years old, was struck down and fatally in- jured by an automobile with R. W. Montgomery, 1002 E. Denny way, at the wheel. The boy died an hour later. According to H. W. Corrin, 10th ave. N., on his automobile in the street at the time of the accident, the Coles boy dashed into the thorofare from behind his car and into the path of Montgomery's machine. Mont- gomery was not traveling more than 15 miles an hour when his car struck the boy. The rear right wheel passed over the boy's head, crushing the skull. The boy's father, J. W. Coles, a chauffeur, and Mrs. Coles did not jearn. of the fatal accident until they returned home from the the atre nearly two hours after Mont- gomery’s machine struck the little EXTRAORDINARY who was working| a TEXT OF WILSON STATEMENT TO | ‘The text of the president's address } to the senate foreign relations com: | mittee, urging speed in ratification | of the peace treaty, follows | ‘Lam sincerely glad that the com mittees should have responded in this way to my intimation would like to be of service to it I welcome the opportunity for a} | frank and full interchange of views I hope, too, that this confer will serve to expedite your ‘ eration of the treaty of peace, I beg that you will pardon and indulge} me if I again urge that practically | the whole task of bringing the coun try back to norma! conditions of life} jand industry waits upon the decision of the senate with regard to the} terms of the peace. | Urges More Speed I venture thus « to urge my advice that the action of the senate with regard to the treaty be taken! at the earliest practicable moment, | because the problems with which we | are face to face in the readjustment of our national life are of the most pressing and critical character will} require for their proper solution the | moat intimate and disinterested co- jOperation of all parties and all in-| |terests and cannot be postponed | | without manifest peril to our people | }and to all the national advantages | we hold most dear “May I mention a few of the mat |ters which cannot be handled with | | intelligence unul the country knows | the character of the peace it ts to have? I do so only by a very few examples. “The copper mines of Arizona, Montana and Alaska, for example, are being kept open and in opera tion at a great cont and loss in part upon borrowed money; the zinc mines of Missourt, Tennessee and Wiscon sin are being operated qt about one- half thelr capacity; the lead mines of Idaho, Ilinois and Missourt reach only a portion of this former market: | there ts an immediate need for cotton | | belting and also for lubricating ol | | which cannot be met—all because the | channels of trade are barred by war, when there is no war, | Cotton Products Delayed “The same is true of raw cotton ot which the central empires alone formerly purchased nearly four mil lion bales, And these are only ex- amples, There ts hardly a single raw material, a single important food stuff or a single class of manufac | tured goods which is not in the mame | case; our full, normal, profitable pro- duction ws its on peace. } Military Plans Waiting | “Our military plans, of course, wait upon it. We cannot intelligent: | ly or wisely decide how large a na- | | val or military force we shall main: | tain or what our polley with regard | to military training In to be until we | |have peace, not only, but also until we know how peace is to be sustain ed, whether by the armas of single na- }tions or by the concert of all the great peoples. “And there in more than that of difficulty involved. The vast sur. plus of the armies include, not food and clothing merely, whose |male will affect normal production, but great manufacturing establish- ments also, which should be restored to their former uses; great stores of machine tools and all sorts of mer- chandise which must be idle, until peace and military policy are defi Ba THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Smart Short Coats of Plush and Beaverette The Dolman will still be popular this Fall and Winter in the Plush and Beaverette materials, while the cloth coats tend toward closer fitting models with tighter sleeves. Short lengths. The Beaverette Fall Coats featured Wednesday are splendid exam- ples of the Dolman, and their rich folds are very becoming. The pock- ets are vertical, the collar is deep and the cuffs are trimmed with large buttons of self material. The lining is of figured silk in bright colors. The black Plush Fall Coats have a large collar, bell cuffs, big pock- ets and are trimmed with large plush buttons. |} folds from a square yoke, showing the rich material to advantage. A fancy figured lining adds to the attractiveness of this garment. | Both these models are splendid values. Be sure to see them if you i are thinking of buying a coat this Autumn. The back falls in two ¢ | ently nitely determined, By the same token there can be no properly stud fed national budget until then. “The nations that ratify the treaty such as Great Britain, Belgium and France, will be in a position to lay their plans for controlling the mar kets of central Europe without com: petition from us, if we do n act. We have no ¢ no trade representatives to. look after our Interents, American Trade Hindered agents, there “There are large areas of Europe whose future will le uncertain and questionable until their people know the final settlements of peace and the forces which are to administer and sustain it. Without determinate markets our production cannot pro- ceed with intelligence and confi dence, There can be no stabilization of wages because there can be no settled conditions of employment There ean be no easy or normal in dustrial credits beonuse there can be | ho confident or permanent revival of business. “But I will not weary you with obvious examples, 1 only will ven: ture to repeat that every element of normal life amongst us depends of normal life amongst us deepnds upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty of peace; and also that we cannot afford to lose a single sum mer's day by not doing all that we can to mitigate the winter's suffer ing, Which, unless we find means to prevent it, may prove disastrous to @ large portion of the world and may At Its worst bring upon Europe con ditions even more terrible than those wrought by the war itself. Nothing in Way “Nothing, I am led to believe, stands in the way of the ratification | of the treaty, except certain doub with regard to the meaning and im. Piication of certain articles of the covenant of the league of nations, and I must frankly say that I am unable to understand why such doubts should be entertainer. You will recall that when I had the Pleasure of a conference with your committee and with the committee of the houxe of representatives on foreign affairs at the White House in March last, the questions now most frequently asked about the league of nations were all canvassed, with a view to thelr immediate clart fieation. “The covenant of the league was then in its first draft and subject to revision. It was pointed out that j no ¢@xpreme recognition was given to the Monroe doctrine, that it was not expressly provided that the | league should have no authority to act or tO express a judgment on matters of domestic policy at the right to withdraw from the league Was not expressly recognized and that the constitutional right of con- gress to determine all questions of peace and war was not sufficiently safeguarded. On my return to Paris all these matters were taken up again by the commission on the league of nations and every sugges tion of the United States was ac- cepted. . “The view of the United States with regard to the questions I have mentioned had, in fact, already been accepted by the commiasion and there wan suppored to be nothing in- consistent with them in the draft of the covenant first adopted—the draft which waa the subject of our dis cussion in March—but no objection was made to saying explicitly in the text what all had supposed to be ex- plicit in it. “There was absolutely no doubt as to the meaning of any one of the resulting provisions of the coven- ant in the minds of those who par. icipated in drafting them, and I re spectfully subrnit that there is noth- ing vague or doubtful in their word- ing. “The Monroe doctrine ts expressly mentioned as an understanding which is in no way to be impaired or interfered with by anything con- tained in the covenant and the ex- pression, ‘regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine,’ was used, not because any one of the conferees thought there was any comparable agreement anywhere else in existence or in contemplation, but only because it was thought best to avoid the ap- pearance of dealing in such a docu- ment with the policy of @ single na- tion. Absolutely nothing is con- cealed in the phrase. “With regard to domestic ques- tions, Article XVI of the covenant expressly provides that, if in case of any dispute arising between mem- bers of the league, the matter in volved is claimed by one of the parties and is found by the council to arise out of a matter which by international law ts solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the council shall #0 report and shall make no recommendations as to its settlement. “The United States was by no means the oniy government interest- ed in the explicit adoption of this provision and there is no doubt in the mind of any authoritative student of international law that such mat ters as immigration, tariffs and naturalization are incontestibly domestic questions with which no international body would deal with out expressed authority to do so, No enumeration of domestic questions was undertaken because to under. take it even by sample would have involved the danger of seeming to exclude those not mentioned, Right of Withdrawal “The right of any sovereign state to withdraw has been taken for granted, but no objection was made to making it explicit. Indeed, #0 soon as the views expressed at the White House were laid before the commission it was at once ceded that it was best not to leave the answer to so important a ques- tion of inference. No proposal was made to set up any tribunal to pass judgment upon the question whether @ withdrawing nation had in fact ful- filled ‘all its international obliga- tions and all its obligations under the covenan: “It was recognized that the ques- tion must be left to be resolved by the conscience of the nation propos ing to withdraw and I must say it did not seem to me worth while to Propose that the article be made more explicit, because I knew that the United States would never it- self propose to withdraw from the league if its conscience was not en- tirely clear as to the fulfillment of all its international obligations, It jand that engagement constitutes a SENATORS ON TREATY OF PEACE SAYS CHINA IS IN ANGRY MOOD Japan in Shantung Means War, Says T. F. Millard | BY 1. C. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—The Shantung decision means war in the opinion of all the American ex- perts at Paris, Thomas F. Millard declared before the senate foreign relations committee. Millard said he understands the | Bliss White-Lansing letter to Pres- ident Wilson, opposing the dect- sion, predicted war if Japan was given Shantung, President Wilson refused to make this letter public. If something is not done about Shantung, we may Bolshevik, swept by an intense wave of anthforeign feeling, in American missionaries; and others will be killed,” declared Millard. Mil lard was unofficial adviser | that it was on his advice that China | refused to nign the peace treaty |timony were: That China got into the war at the urgent request of the United States and on the United | States’ assurance that we would | guard her territorial integrity before the peace conference. That Japan and the allies let the United States get into the war, with | these assurances. | That Japan construes the Lansing Ishii agreement as giving her a para mount interest in China and has | acted on that interpretation. That President Wilson was “about the only man in Paris who didn't | think Japan's threat to bolt the |Peace conference if she didn't get | Shantung was a bluff.” | ‘That Japan, though the treaty | gave her only rights Germany had in| Shantung, has already “gone much | |further than Germany ever dreamed of going.” “The peace treaty,” declared Mil. | jlard, “helped Japan nail China down.” has never failed to fulfill them and| | never will, | “Article X is in no respect of | doubtful meaning when read in the |Maht of the covenant as a whole. | The council of the league can only | ‘advine upon’ the means by which the obligation of that great article are to be given effect to. Unies the United States in a party to the policy or action in question, her own affirmative vote in the council is Necessary before any advice can be given for a unanimous vote of the council tw required. If she in a party the trouble is her's anyhow. And the unanimous vote of the council is only advice in any case. Each government is free to reject it if It pleases. “Nothing could have been mado more clear to the conference than the right of our congress, under our constitution, to exercise its inde pendence tn all matters of peace and war, No attempt wan made to ques. tion or limit that right. The United Staten will, indeed, undertake under Article X to ‘respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing po-! Utical independence of the league’ very grave and solemn obligation, But it is a moral, not a legal obli- gation, and leaves our congress ab- solutely free to put its own interpre. tation upon it in all cases that call for action. “Article X seems to me to const!: | tute the very backbone of the whole covenant. Without it the league would hardly be more than an influ ential debating society. “It hag several times been sug- gested, in public debate, and in pri- vate conference, that interpretations of the sense in which the United States accepts the engagements of the covenant should be embodied in| the instrument of ratification. There can be no reasonable objection to such interpretations accompanying the act of ratification provided they do not form a part of the ratification itwelf.” “Most of the interpretations which have been suggested to me embody what seems to me the plain mean ing of the instrument itself. But if such interpretation should constitute a part of the formal resolution of ratification long delays would be the inevitable consequence, inasmuch as all the many governments concerned | would have to accept, in effect, the language of the senate as the lan- guage of the treaty before ratifica- tion would be complete. The assent of the German assembly at Weimar would have to be obtained, among | the rest, and I must frankly say that 1 could only with the greatest reluc: | tance approach that assembly for | permission to read the treaty as we understand {t, and as those who framed it quite certainly under- stood it. Opposes Reservations, “If the United States were to qual- ify the document in any way, more- over, I am confident from what I know of the many conferences and debates which accompanied the for- mulation of the treaty that our ex- ample would immediately be fol lowed in many quarters, in many in stances with very serious reserva: tions, and that the meaning and operative force of the treaty would presently be clouded from one end of its clauses to the other. “Pardon me, Mr, Chairman, if 1 have been entirely unreserved and plain spoken in speaking of the great matters we all have #o much at heart. If excuse Is needed I trust that the critical situation of affairs may serve as my justification, The issues that manifestly hang upon the conclusion of the senate with regard to peace and upon the time of ity action are so grave and so clearly insusceptible of being thrust on one side or postponed that I have felt it necessary in the public interest to make this urgent plea and to make it as simply and unreservedly as pos- sible." strong men believe in cause and effect. see China turn | which | of the | | Chinese delegation at Paris, He said ‘The salient points of Millard’s tes. | BLACK SILKS AND SATINS Very Popular for Autumn Apparel What is there nicer than black silks or satins—and doubly nice when they are so popular. They may be worn by old or young, for street or evening—and be equally smart. 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