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INS DENIES a GUARANTEES RAILWAY INCOME Declares Labor Unions Are ‘ Not Justified in Their Complaints. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The con- ference report of the railroad bill, Pansed Gaturday night by the House, ‘Was called up in the Senate by Sena- for Cummins, chairman of the Inter- | ®tate Commerce Committee. Its , Speedy adoption was predicted. ). Preseriting the conference report Genator Cummins emphasized that whe rate guarantee section did not take a dottar out of the public treasury. “In order to prejudice it among the people it hag been termed a guaranty of income,” he said. “This is not trya” He said, “the bill merely G@irected the Interstate Commerce Commission that (insofar as was prac- @icable it should make rates that would yield a net operating income #6 1-2 per cent. “upon the true value of the railway property.” The income ‘would depend wholly upon location of the roads, the Iowa Senator pointed out, asserting that some roads would earn more than two per eent. “To 1 it a guaranty Is to be either Batcioesy false or stupidly ignor- ant,” he declared. “With respect to the labor provis- tons of the conference report,” Sen- ator Cummins added, “I am utterly to understand the opposition which they haves aroused among labor , for they leave all free men, ‘whether employees or employers, to do whatsrever they please at any ny place or under any gir- matances.” ““genator Cummins said that $1, %0,- penditure by the Railroad Adminis- ) @00,000 had been appropriated for ex- | tration. “We are now appropriating $50,000,000 more,” he said, “and before the close of the present fiseal year we will be compelled to make another appropriation af $40,000,000; in all, $2,150,000,000. It is expected the rail- roads wil during the next decade pay Back sums which Will reduce the Gov- ‘ernment’s expenditures to something Tike $850,000,000, and this will represent the loes incurred in two years and two months of Government opera- tion.” LAMBS SHEPHERD ISSUES STATEMENT. Burnside Gives Reason for Prof- fered Resignation as “Protest to a Change in Policy.” R WW. Burnside, Shepherd of the ‘Lambs Club, whose resignation has been {nm the hands of the Exeoutive Commit- tee ince tast Friday, issued a statement to-day, tut did not answer the question that is being echoed up and down Broadway: Why? “The proffer of my resignation,” he waid, is not an aftermath of the Equity strike. Tt is not a matter of personali- ties. It has nothing to do with persons in the ctub. “AN I can eay at this time is that it has to do with a policy which has been proposed and to which I object. My resignation was proffered as an ad- @itional emphasis on my protest against “There will be a meeting of the Ex- @eutive Committee next Thursday. A vote will be taken. If the vote is e@gainst me my resignation will be ao . Twil be out, and that will be all ‘there is to it. If the vote is the other way, all well and good. I wil make a statement Thursday night or Friday » At this time it would not be prover for me to say any inore, be the matter is in the hands of th goative Committee and has not bee —_———_—— CONSUL DENIES CAPTAIN’S CHARGES. American Naval Attache Recom- mends Disciplinary Action Against Master of Lake Elkwood. WASHINGTON, Fe, 23.—In a tele- “rem to the State Department, A. T. Haeberle, American Consul at Rio J neiro, to-day denied charges that he caused the loss of $500,000 to the Gov- ernment and the charterers af the Ship- ping Board steamer Lake Hkwood, "The Shipping Board ts investigating the charges made by Captain William H. Chamiss, formerly in command of the Lake Elkwood and who was removed by Consul Haeberle. The American Naval attache at Rio] Janeiro had recommended that disciplin- ary action be taken against Chambliss Heoause of his charges, peed he HOOVER GETS " DEGREE. fenator Calder, Novelist Thanes MacVeagh Also Honored. ‘WASHINGTON, Fob. 23.—The hon- orary degree of Doctor of Letters was @onferred to-day upon Vicente Blasco Yanez, the Spanish novelist, by George Washington Universtiy at the midwin- ter convocation Herbert C. Hoov: ministrator; Senator W of New York, and Franklin M Tr ecretary of the BOSTON, Feb. 25.—Clarence C, Pell of New York, playing through in the National Amateur Raquets Champlion- retained his Mortimer The ship Tournament, to-day title by defeating Stanley G. @ New York in the final match, stores were 9—16, 16—9, 1. ‘ oVlED. MOLANDER.—-BARBARA. CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 66th ot, Fob, 24, 10 A. M WILSON REPLY TO THE PREMIERS | (Continued From First Page.) sions of world partnership which ad- vocates for the League in both the: | Republican antl Democratic Parties ‘have been making, | So far as can be determined here, ‘the Allies mean no disrespect to President Wilson. They would have Nked to go along with him, but the Practicabilities of the situation are staring them in the face, For the moment the associated powers have been brought to realize that the President might withdraw the treaty altogether and definitely cut off American co-operation. This, of course, makes the Alliés hesitate, |NEW NOTE MUST BE, FRAMED ON BROAD LINES. But with the prospect that the Sen- | ate will fail to ratify the treaty anyway, | the European Governments may not be affected by Mr. Wilson's threat after jall. So the next note to Great Britain, France and Italy must argue the case before the public opinion of the world, Irrespective of America’s own oppor- tunity to be of assistance in Eu-ope. ‘The President may have lost influence in this country, but the power of his appeal on a broad principle of Bure pean affairs is not gone. And there are many elements in Great Britain, and France which would be responsive to such an appeal. In other words, the President has not stopped fighting on the Fiume question. It is one of the’ few principles not sacrificed at Paris for the sake of expediency, and the out- cry for a rev itself which many quarters is producing in Washington a sense of greater responsibility to stick by prin- ciple now than when the world was all absorbed in the details of a complex settlement and nations everywhere were urging precipitate haste in getting a compromise treaty signed. ‘To surrender on the Fiume question involves something bigger than reser- vations, for instance, in the United States. If the President did accept all the Lodge reservations, it might, of course, happen that the contin- gencies provided for in those reserva- tions would never arise. The reserva- tions aim at hypothetical emengen- cies, utte FIUME QUESTION” @aLLED’ A TEST OF PRINCIPLE. The Fiume question is an unfortu- Nate reality—a test of principle, It will show whether the new partner- ship of nations ts going to function along the old lines of imperialism and territorial greed, or the new liberal- ‘iam which means self-determination and an equal opportunity for the weak as well as the strong in Europe. it is @ fact that @ settlement was practically reached last August on the Fiume problem when Frank Polk was head of the American Mission in Paris. Then caine the D'Annunzio episode. The Italian aviator brushed de principle and simply seized Fiume. He applied the doctrine of violence and arbitrary force, some- thing that had been repudiated in the eace treaty itself when Germany invaded Belgium. The whole document was bi of a desire to substitute nego tion for arbitrary eros Wf Presi- dent Wilson id the Al- xpediency, the | not be worth starting and the tre: might as well be withdrawn and America go back to isolation. That is why the threat to with- draw the treaty on the part of the President is not mere pique or camou- flage but a deliberate weighing of the facts In the case coupled with the unfortunate tendency abroad to construe the inaction of the Senate of the Unfted States on the peace treaty as the real desire of the Amer- ican people on the question of help- in urape back to a peace basis, The Allies will think twice before forcing the issue with the President. Hut failure of the treaty in the Sen- ate may answer their doubts for them pefore long. And to-day prospects ot American ratification of the treaty are far from bright. HAS A REAL PUNCH, eR a FOR SPENDING, | (Continued From First Page.) that never slecps ts looking after the | fhe interests of the people at this time. T have read The Evening World's articles and editorials carefully and I have obtained from them informa- tion and ideas of great value. “It ls so unusual for a newspaper to take up @ task of this kind that the action of The Evening World is, I might say, surprising. Newspapers and legislators who tell the truth about the financial condition of the country and come right out and say that the Government must retrench and that the greatest and richest country on the face of the glove is in danger of financial difficulties, to say the least, if we don’t wake up, run the tisk of making themselves unpopular. “We are now in ‘the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.’ but I'm afraid that the general run of people who realize that something ie the matter do not appreciate the canse of the trouble. The delirium of pa- triotic enthusiasm which banished all thoughts of caution in expenditures has not worn itself out in official cir- gles. “The world is broke—outside the United States. We are not broke, but we are at a point where a little push would be enough to topple us over into disaster. “By slashing great slices out of the appropriations for next year we can avoid an additional deficit of a billion or more, and by continuance of economy thereafter we can reduce our existing deficit, approaching $3,500,000,000, which we are carrying by various forms of short-time obliga- tions. To call for another bond issue for Government cost purposes three years after the war would be a ca- lamitious blunder. “I wish the entire press of the coun- try could be aroused to the situation as The Evening World sees it and im- press upon the people that if they want to carry on any éxtra enter- prises of government they will have to pay ‘for it out of their own pock- ets and that the expense will be an additional drain upon them in the form of taxution. Congress is here to do the will of the people, but Congress ‘has to go to the people for money.” DEPARTMENT BUDGETS MUST BE “ASSASSINATED.” Mr. Mondell says he expects that the estimates of! expenses for fortifi- cations, amounting to neatly $118,000,- 000, will be cut 70 per cent.: for the army, amounting to over $1,000,000,000, ‘will be cut 50 per cent.; for the navy, amounting to $573,000,000, will be cut 25 per cent or more, and for the Sun- iry Civil Bill, amounting to appro: imately $907,000,000, will be cut at least 30 per cent. and perbaps 40 per cent. ‘The Rivers and Harbors Bill has al- ready been scaled down to a $12,000,000 appropriation, a saving from the estimates of $40,000,000, but the cries of agony which are coming from the Mississippi Valley and other districts which profit by the expenditure of Government moneys on rivers and harbors are increasing in volume with the passage of each succeeding day. ‘The legislative, executive and judicial demands were cut $18,000,000 in com- mittee and may be further reduced. With what has already been cut out and what Mr. Mondell, reflecting to a considerable extent, the wishes of the majority, anticipates will be cut out before the Appropriations Bill is fin- ally adopted, there looms up an ap- parent saving, under the demands made for next year, of about $1,10U, 000,000. ‘This, in the judgment of thc men best qualified by experience it Congress to look into the future, wil not be enough. It is $150,000,000 unde Mr, Mondell’s esttmate of what h now believes should be the minimum There exists danger that, eve: though an apparent saving of mor than — $1,000,000,000 be effected by cutting the demands for appro priations, this will be a ficti tious measure of economy, be cause, if all efforts are devotec to cutting down appropriations now and no though ts given to insurin: that the demands of the department and bureaus be curbed in years t: come, until the country bas recovere: from the war and can afford to pre pare for another war, we will be ir worse state in 1921 than we promise, to be on July 1, 1920, with the de partments and bureaus running wild (S THE MOST Prices Plaii Popularity Based on Merit "SALADA” ORANGE PEKOE TEA Try Our NATURAL GREEN. 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Although severe Penalties are provided for spending More money than is appropriated, the Prospect of the imposition of a pen- alty never bothers a bureau or de- partmental chief. He spends all he can get while he has it and when he run in debt he goes to Congress and asks for more. The Senate has furnished illumi- ing proof of this in the past week during periodical struggles with the General Deficiency Bill. For the infor. mation of the public it may be s: that a deficiency bill is a device en- abling Government agents to spend more money than hag been allowed them. Congress appropriated for the ex- penses of Government for the year ending June 30 next $5,004,149 513. To one unfamiliar with the conduct of: the Government it would appear that by this appropriation Congress had restricted the expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 1919- 1920 to $5,004,149,513, unless there should arise some great emergency calling for eudden and extraordinary outlay. No such an emergency came up. ‘The demobilization of the army was completed, the last of our soldiers were returned from France, The war had ended in November, 1918, and there was presented to ail Govern- ment departments and bureaus the opportunity to grade down expenses toward the requirements of peace and save money for the people, But what happened? Before the fiscal year was five months old Gov- ernment departments and bureaus had made demands upon Congress for $117,000,000, which, it was represented, option house in Belmont Avenue, sea East 188th Street, $1,000 for burst & pistol without permit cove, Art nue, heid in $300 for having FF Shi and Domonic Gallo, same addre: in $500 for havini t dented to-day by representatly before Committee, nesses having been assembled to sup- THE EVENING wOuLD, mow Day, #aunc cat a3, 1920. U. ; MUST “SLAUGHTER” PROECTS POLICE ON IMMEN CASE ARREST 3. Prisoners All Accused of Violating Sullivan Law—Slain Policeman's Funeral To-morrow. Detectives of the Italian squad this morning arrested three Itaens in their investigation into the murder of Pa- trolman Innes, found slain early Gatur- day morning at Bainbridge Gun ‘HON Road beside a loot enue and toad of The men, who were arrested in a natnes of Vincenzo Dellacove, lary ai his brother, No. #4’ igtol and Pati Sill be aie to- morrow morning {rom ‘ea ive home, No, 3249 Webster Avenue, with ful! po- 8 of ion of were of the the builders, it ghoale nitrate pl Air Nitrates Corporation, the House War Expenditures more than a score of wit- port the corporation's contentions. 3000000000000000000000000 Lest You Forget that the fish and oysters, clams, eggs and vegetables taste flat and unpalatable when not properly seasoned, remember to keep a bottle of “Eddys” Sauce on hand. MADE INU. S. A. At Grocers and Delicatessen Stores. E. Pritchard, 327 Spring St., N. Y. RD ott pa Dieser Cf EW YORKERS ad- mit that it is simple to get an acceptable gift at Ovington’s, but it isa common complaint that such a splendid variety makes it hard to decide uponany particularthing. OVINGTON’S, e "The Git Shap of Pith Avenue” * 314 Fifth Ave nr. 32d St. The MIET during & after INFLUENZA woukl be required, over and above /* he appropriations made and appor- tioned to carry on the work of the departments and bureaus until June 20, 1920. The S.xty-sixth Congress, en- tering on its second session at the be- ginning of December, 1919, found these deficiency obligations waiting and all of them were marked “ur- ent.” "The General Deficiency Bill was passed by the Senate and became a law last Friday. It carried $90,000,000 to pay the expenses up to June 30 next of departments and bureaus which were awarded by Congress what was considered an ample allow- ance in the appropriation bili for the fiscal year. ‘The demands for appropriations were not severely trimmed last year, The cuts were nominal. Here is a question which forces itself for con- sideration: If the departments and bureaus which were awarded over $5,000,000,- 000 for the current fiscal year got close to what they asked for and then shea for $117,000°000 in addition what are the departments and bureaus go- ing to ask for to cover deficiencies next year when their estimates have been cut to the bone? i Catalogue. PEASE PIANO COMPANY, 128 West 42nd Street. 34 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. 87 Halsey St., Newark, N. J. ita BROADWAY Flushing and Graham Aves, BROOKLYN AF i Bi yi aR ju (ANI a rer Confi fet Noe caplere rer ference. 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