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{ ' t - POLISH R. R. UNIONS my the Consiry Back on Peace bend VOL. LX. No. 21,382—DAILY. —————— Copyright, 1920, by Co. (The New The Press Enblshing York Worl NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 1G: "1920. Ratored a0 Second |-Clase Matter it Office, New York, N. ¥. La SE lel THE VERS erties 4 24 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS.. = CONGRESS PLAYING POLITICS, TOO BUSY 10 HEED DEMAND FOR PEACE TIME ECONOMY Tittle Hope Lert of Left of Relief for Nation’s Desperate Finan- cial Straits, G. O. P, CREATING ISSUES: Peace Treaty and Party Fence Repairs Leave No Time to } Consider Taxpayer. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Maroh 16.—The wheels of the machinery of the leg- fslative branch of the Government! are temporarily blocked by the ap- Proaching close of the Senate fight over the League of Nations and mat- ters of interest to taxpayers in con- | nection with appropriations are re- ceiving little attention these days. Yesterday the Senate held the centre} of the stage in Washington and prom- ises to bask in the spotlight until the final yote on the League is taken) possibly on Thursday. This Senate discussion of the | terms of the treaty and the | League of Nations has delayed all Government business touching the legislative branch. ‘The House and the Senate are eeks behind with important routine which will have to be cleaned up in @ little more than two months—pro- vided, of course, that the tracks will be cleared after the finai vote is taken on the League. However, the prospect of winding up in a whirlwind of activity, with all sorts of legislation, international as well as domestic, coming out of the hopper in unasgorted masses, is viewed by the Republican leaders with a cons{derable degree of satis- faction. The more noise and confu- sion attending the close of the ses- sion the easier it will be to avoid going on record on the great ques- tion of economy in Government and lowering of taxation. POLITICIANS REPAIRING FENCES —NO TIME FOR LEGISLATION. Several of the most important lead~ ers in the Senate will fade away as on the League is taken and will remain away for the rest of the session unless called back to Washington on Government busi- ness of the most urgent nature. The goon as the vote (Continued on Eleventh Page.) ASK REDUCED PAY They Also Ask That the Death Penalty Be Adopted for Profiteers. WARSAW, March 16 HE Brotherhood of Railroad | Workers of the district of Lublin has memorialized the Polish Dict asking for less pay. Three points are emphasized in the memorial: First, a demand for vi action to reduce the | cost of living; second, that the | death penalty be inflicted on prof- | iteers—both of which demands | are common—and, third, the de- | mand for less pay The railroad workers ask the Diet to take the question of prices firmly in hand, to fix maximum prices and to reduce wages to conform to these prices, thus in creasing (he buying power of money and strengthening its | values TO CUT | HIGH COST} NEW YORK WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF ON U. S. WARSHIP Writes Love Note to Young Officer and Fires Bullet Into Her Chest. NORFOLK, Va, March 16,—Mrs. Annie R. Worldoff, twenty-two, fired @ bullet into her left breast while a. guest on board the United States tor- pedo boat destroyer Haraden, about! {10 o'clock Sunday night. Details of| the affair did not become known here until to-day. The woman and two young men | were guests of Ensign W. B. Collier, | said to be of New York. Mrs, World- off left the party to go to a state- room to get her wraps, and shot her- self with a pistol that had been hang- Ing on the wall, On the floor near her chair was a note addressed to Ensign Collier, reading: “I love you more than life. has been a wreck, and I refuse to wreck yours, so I will end it all. Goodby.” The woman was sent to the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, where it was said to-day she had a chance to re- cover. Ensign CoWier said she had been estranged from her husband about seven months. He had known her only a short time. She had appeared to be in good spirits when she excused herself, ‘The shooting created a sensation in navy circles, and caused an order to be issued forbidding women on board warships without permission of the commanding officer, Collier's shipmates say he has al- ways borne an excellent reputation, ——— SPEED INCREASED PAY FOR TEACHERS. Salary Raises Granted in New York ment, and shall accept in payment City Will Be Paid on June of Germany's obligation under the 20 of This Year. contract the bonds of Germany, hav- ALBANY, N. Y., March 16—The]ing such security and priority us is Senate to-day passed Senator Lock-|Permitted by the treaty with Ger- Mae cate _| many. pibisagde) ROLE SIRS vte eet The dill also provides ‘that the : United States may be secured by the st year be paid them on) operty in the handa of the Alien une this yeas Property Custodian, after deducting The bil wa hed to the Assembly] 1,. amunt necessary to compensate and. adopted hat body Immedi-| 4 nerican citizens for losses incurred ately, The bill now goes to the ¢ in the war. Mr, Smith said that the ernor property hold by the Alien Property, ar Custodian is of the value of approxi- WILL INCREASE TAXES. mately oné billion dollars, and that the claims of American citizens will WIK Provide Revenues to Equal Lows |aggregate between two ang threo Stock Divide: hundred million dollars. This leaves WASHINGTON, March 16.—Addi-| in the possession of the United States tlonal tax legislation, to provide rev=| geyeral hundred million dollars which enues equal to tho: Government) oy pe made available as a fund for will ose as a result ‘ ‘ °f) the payment of the contract price of curity for payment to dney of the House| states of any advances AOE e, | ODI Lee, ANS | ate, emith told Be eh nd that ‘Treasury [correspondent that this bil in a |tion put by The Evening World to] edse 4 ; New York Congressmen as to w ip Higpaharne Miiens they have done and are doing for Pring Will Never: Dao “All invited. —Adve, My life | —= ASKED “TO LOAN GERMANY $1,000 00 000 | Bill by neti Smith | Would Guarantee Payment for Goods Here. YEARLY LIMIT FIXED. |America Urged to ‘Compete With Britain for Late Foe’s Trade. (Special Ftom a Staff Correspondent of ¢ Evening World.) WASHINGTON, sentative March 16,—Repre- Thomas F. Smith, of New York, introduced in the House to-day a Dill providing for the establish- ment in the United States of a credit in favor of Germany amounting to one billion dollars, to be expended for | foodstuffs and raw materials needed in Germany, the fund to be under the supervision of the War Finance Cor- The bill regulates the jamount to be expended here under | the credit to $20,000,000 a year and | provides for automatic regulation by jthe War Finance Corporation to Buard against an excess of exports |in any lines which might threaten a | in the United States nwith the effect of increasing prices. Smith’ in offering his bill said eat Britain has planned to give |Germany commercial credit to the ex- tent of $3,000,000,000, He called atten- tion to recent meeting in London of Lancashire members of Parliament and capitalists interested in the cotton in- dustry which desired plans for the es penditure of $75,000,000 in a cotton production campaign in the British col- onies with the view of ultimately con- trolling the business of selling cotton and cotton materials to Germany. The project of Great Britain is to borrow $3,000,000,000—largely in the United States—and use the money for the purpose of building up trade between Germany and_ her colonies. If the United States is to hold a place in trade with Germany, Mr, Smith said, quick action is necessary. ‘The pill proposes that the United States extend credit to Germany in the following manner: The War Finance Corporation sha!l pay the contract prices of such con- ‘tracts as it May approve between Germany and any person or associ- ation engaged business in the United: States for supplies of food- stuffs, raw material, &c., hereafter purchased by the German Govern- | poration, shortage Government shall in Weir constituents, + LAWS TOPUTEND TO RENT BOOSTING PLEDGED IN 10 DAYS | Legis ative ony Drafting | Bills to Meet Problem | From All Angles. LIMIT SET HRs GREED. | Bills Agreed Upon to Be. Rushed to Governor by End | of Next Week. By Joseph S. Jordan. | (Special Staff Cornespondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, N. Y., March 16.—Four Republican members and four Demo- cratic members constitute the special Senate Committee appointed to-day to consider the various bills designed to relieve the housing situation. The committee is charged with not only studying the bits; but to prepara @ bill embodying the best points in all bills, and one that it believes will ef- fectually check ‘profiteering by land- lords, as wel as devise a method to relieve the present scarcity of the houses "Dhe committee appointed is: Lock- ‘wood, Mullan, Carson and Brown, Re- publticans; Dunnigdn, Boylan, Lynch and Twomey, Democrats. The bills introduced or suggested by the Joint Committee on Housing, of which Senator C. C. Lockwood 1s Chairman, and all the other bills which have been introduced in either House bearing upon the subject, were considered yesterday afternoon by the leaders of both Houses and by repre- sentatives of real estate and of the| Attorney General, and are undergoing further inspection to-day. Out of the mass of bills which have been introduced, measures will be offered simultaneously in both Houses to cover, in the estimation of the men interested in their drafting, the situation in New York City in particular, Speaker Sweet gave his assurance this morning the bills wouldd be rushed to passage in the Assembly and Senator Lockwood said’ that they would be in the hands of the Governor before the end of next*week. Neither would say what the measures are. At the conference were Speaker Sweet of the Assembly and Senator J. Henry Walters, Majority Leader of the Senate; Senators Lockwood and Dunigan of the Housing Committee, with Elmer G. Sammis and Nathaniel Goldstein, of counsel; Judge Frederick Spigelberg, Chairman of the Municl- pal Court Committee on Housing and Rent Legislation; Robert Cummings, Chairman of the Bill Drafting Com- mission; Deputy Attorney General Je- rome I, Cheney and Attorney General Newton. BILLS READY FOR GOVERNOR NEXT WEEK. Ve have gone over the situation from every angle that could possibly present itself, or be presented to us,” (Continued on Second Page.) BANDITS GET $20,000. Rob Cashier of Seattl * Income Tax Receipt SEATTLE, Wash. March 16.—tTwo unmasked men held up R. E. Stafford, cashier in the Internal Revenue Col. lector's office in the Federal Building to-day and robbed the strong box of $20,000 in currency. ‘They excaped The money represented nearly all the cash returns from Monday's income tax| collections J SE To-Night's the Night Wedding | pelle” the HatrisTowtre Talking suocem. =“ Ady oe FAURANT. KAPP FAILS IN PLEA TO EBERT; WILL FALL, WASHINGION TOLD ‘Fifty Reported Killed and 200!0ld Government Refuses to Treat: Wounded at Dresden— 30 Die in Clashes at Hamburg, 30 at! Leipsic and 19 in. the Suburbs of ‘Berlin. PARIS, March 16.—Fifty pers have been killed and 200 wounded jin fighting between Communists and Reichswehr troops at Dresden, ac- I eoniag to a Berlin despatch quoting The Communists, the despatch, and casualties followed when the Reichswehr troops attempted to re-! capture it. Bloody fighting, with many casual- ® ies, has occurred at Leipsig, Weimar | and Gorlitz, the despatch said. . At Hamburg Baltic troops, sup- porting the revolutionists, were re- ported intmenched before the city, held by trogps loyal to the Bbert Government. The loyal troops have repulsed efforts of the revolutionary forces to ehter the city. COPENHAGE March 16. persons were killed, ‘Thirty | including some women and children, in yesterday's fighting in Hamburg between Citi-| zen's Guards and Raltic troops, ad-| vices from that city state. Among the killed was Capt. Berch- told, commanding the Baltic troops The Hamburg advices report the} resignation last night of Baron von) Wangenhein, the senior garrison of- ficer there, Herr Lamplar, a support- er of the Wbert Government, suc- ceeded him. A number of persons were killed and many wounded in Berlin when soldiers turned machine guns on the crowds after a bomb had been thrown at Gen, von Luettwitz's headquarters on Potsdam Square LONDON, March 16. demonstration Leipsic troops fired on a crowd, killing more than twenty persons and wounding about sixty, says the Copenhagen cor- respondent of the Cenral News. BERLIN, March 16.—Vifeen persons reported to have been killed and many wounded in fighting yesterday at Staglitz, in the south west out- skirts of Berlin, ‘During a at yesterday are At Charlottenburg, a — western suburb of Berlin, four persons are said to have been killed and six wounded as a result of collisions, VOTE MACHINE TEST BEATEN Tammany Aldermen Line Up Solid Against Resoluti: A solid Tammany vote and a scat- tering Republican to-day de-| feated a resolution introduced in the Board of Aldermen by Iderman Braunstein, Socialist, which provided vote for a test of various types of voting machines at the next primary elec- tion. Braunstein claimed that if yoting machines ‘had been used at the last election Algernon Lee, Socialist, dh ave been ro-eh > is now contesting the nr Alderman Viadeck, said he didnt we the necessity voting shines, “Hasn't Tammany the oiled voting machine that was ever manipulated to defeat an anti- Tammany candidate?” he asked Bhd $424,450,000 FOR NAVY. Houne Committee Cuts $300,000,000 Asked. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Ignoring the declaration of Secretary Dar r navy is needed > the Pence Treat the House Naval Afta 1920 a ia ecause a Make your mayonnaine w m.! Ay ’ s the Dresden Vossische Zeitung. said, KAPP DENOUNCED AS A TRATOR BY SOGUALIST PARTS Berlin ‘Organizations Demand His Resignation — Centre Party Also Against Him, BERLIN, March Majority Joined in denouncing the revolution- ary Government Pp. Following a conference, 16.—Independent and Socialists yesterday of Dictator von leaders of the two Soclalist grgups served notice Dr, he will be considered a traitor to Ger- on Kapp that unless he resigns many The Socialists’ decision was con- to Kapp by the Ober Burg- Meister of Scoenenberg, a suburb of Berlin. ° The Tagablatt, in a special edition, published Socialist circulars declaring that all officials of the new regime, who do not resign at once, will be considered traitous Socialists’ action followed issu- circular in which they denied sport that Ernst Daumig, Socialist leader, had joined the revolutionists, COPENHAG March 16.—The Executive Committee of the Centre Party has adopted a resolution brand- ing Chancellor Kapp and his associates as criminals and traitors, according to a Berlin despatch to the Politiken, _ SOVIET DECLARED IN BAVARIAN CITY Military Is Reported in Full Control at Munich, Bavarian Capital, AMSTERDA March 16.—A de- spatch to the Handelsbiad from Rerlin to-day says that a soviet republic has been proclaimed at Hof, Bavaria, {Hof is in Northeastern Bavaria, thirty miles northeast of Bayreuth, It has a population of about 33,000.) LOND( March 16.—The workmen re reported to have proclaimed a ‘Council Republic” at Essen and in the Ruhr District The civil and, milit authorities at Cassel and Olden sald to be orting the rnment COPB Munich telegra prevails t March erlin TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and seo ow fine GOOD DIGESTION makes you (gel. Adu. Country. | ernment. regaining control, VON HINDENBURG REFUSES 10 JOIN IN KAPP REVOLT Makes Public , Announcement of ‘His Disapproval of Uprising. ’ COPENHAGBEN, March 16.—Work- ers at Kiel have suppressed an at- tempted military counter-revolution there, and the situation is well in hand, says advices’! to the Social Demokraten from that city. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, former Commander in Chief of the German Armies, has made a public with the counter-revolution, of which he disapproves, says the Hanover ‘Tageblatt STUTTGART, March 16.—Refusal to negotiate with the reactionary fac- tlon headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, head of the new Government at Ber- lin, was decided upon here last night by the council of the old Cabinet, over | which President Ebert presided. Un- | conditional resignation of the leaders !ot the new Government was de- manded by the bert Cabinet, arrived here in the afternoon by a special train from Dresden. The Na- tional Assembly will meet in this city to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock Announcement was made that the | Wert Government is almost all points in DUTCH WARSHIP GUARDS PRINCE. Arrival in the Harbor of Oosterland Harbor, Wieringen Island, Is Reported. WASHINGTON, March 16,—Official information from» Berlin is that the new revolutionary Government of Dr. Kapp has “only a shork time to last,” it was learned to-day, It is believed the Kapp Government seized the telegraph building, | will be overthrown and that the old Government will retum to power, PARIS, March 16.—Herr Mayer, the German charge-d’affaires to’ informed Premier Millerand officially that no compromise ‘nas beer’ reached between the revolutionary forces in Berlin and the Ebert gov+ declaratipn that he is not connected.| which | | despatch to the THE HAGUE, March 16.—A Duteh |! torpedo boat has arrived in the hanvor of Oosterland, Wie Island, to QUIZ PARSONS ON COLBY. WASHINGTON to-day wa \ witness ions Conunittee Bain re committee has not reached a de- cision, With Kapp and He Threatens Leaders in Strike With Death— Railroad Strike in Force All Over a LONDON, March 16.—The collapse of tie Kapp-von Luettwitz ; Government has come apparently-as rapidly as the coup by which the Ebert-Noske Government was temporarily overthrown. President Ebert has rejected the compromise “peace” offers of Kapp and his followers and, using the general strike as his weapon, seems to-day to be speedily. ‘® In many circles it is believed the Kapp regime will attempt to plunge |the new German Republic into civil (war, in view of Ebert's refusal to deal with them. It is the consensus of opin- jon, however, that Ebert will soon wing the German working classes having shown by their response to his call for ists, Junkers and Pan-Germans to re- gain control. All despatches from the continent to- day indicate that bert and His ad- |herents are firm in their demand for |an unconditional surrender of Kapp |and his followers. Mathias Erzberger, former Finance | Minister of the Ebert Government, has been arrested, according to a dee spatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company filed night. ‘The despatch states an official communique has been issued by the Ebert Government at Stuttgart, de- claring: he new rulers ate trying to make the people believe the Con- stitutional Government has en- tered into negotiations with Dr. | Kapp, Gen, Merker acting os mediary, ‘This is untrue, “The Constitutional Governe ment refuses to negotiate, being responsible to the people for the | maintenance of the constitution, and negotiations would only occa sion distrust and confusion and would prolong disorders.” The national strike on the German railways is set to begin this (Tues- day) morning, says a message to the Exchange Telegraph Company, Tho railwaymen’s officials have declared themselves in solidarity with the |workingmen of the country, The Railwaymen’s Central Committee is moving from place to place, fearing arrest by officials of the Kapp gov- ernment » ‘The new Government at Berlin held a Cabinet Council last night which was attended by Gen. Ludendorff, former First Quartermaster General of the German Army, according to & Exchange Telegraph, brett KAPP LOSES HOPE, OFFERS TO RESIGN, SAYS PARIS REPORT, Military ‘Backers Said Determined to Hold Out to the End, Mayeh Foreign Office to-day. that Dry, His to Be PARIS, ~The French received information Kapp, realakmg the . r r @ general strike that they have ne |stomach for permitting the monazehe » Evert’s return to Berlin’ with his Ministers is expected shortly, . in Berlin Monday ~ seas bee ES ne