The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1920, Page 3

RMUST VOTE AS A UNIT. United States, \ Unorganized They Lack Po- litical Power and They Are Ignored. Then Their Interests and Their Purses Will Win Consideration. By cea) Green ‘Special St rretpondent of The ‘ ! SeMoniag World}s WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.— ‘The otoging speebhes on the peace treaty in the Senate yesterday after- noon, taken in connection with vari- ous things that have happened in Congress recently, served to strength- | em a conviction which inevitably grows upon one watching the move- ments of the National Legislature that members of Congress, no matter ‘how inherently honest they may be in their conception of duty, are in- fluenced by the effect of their actions upon organized voters. The influence is part of the game, perhaps uncon- sciously felt, always present, gener- ally active. The taxpayers of the United States will not occupy the prom- iment place they deserve in the estimation of members of Con- gress until they are represented in Washington by some form of a homogeneous organization. At this time the taxpaying public is nted at Washington only by the press, but the press is requires to scatter its activities over the whole fel? of national activities in the Cap- itol, and it is not often that a news- paper sets about to inform the public on how the public money is spent, borg the lines The Evening World is folowing. “TAXPAYER VOTE” LACKS OR- "GANIZED POWER. 6 taxpayers have the votes. They wl votes in every interest but own, It is natural that the people should look to Congress, their serVant, to conserve their rights and property and money and Congress perlorms that task, after a fashion, ul Congress, like an individual, is in- Nuenced by forces which operate di- ‘ectly, and the foree of the sentiment of the people in relation to their thoughts about what they are com- polled to pay for the cost of Gov- srnment is exercised from sources so ote that it lacks power by the me it is felt in Washington. I started out to say something about the closing speeches in the Sena eon he peace treaty. Running through the oratory was a minor chord of ,pology or criticism or explanation or self congratulation over the res- olution adopted Thursday expressing the hope that Ireland will be free and be member of the League of Na- The harp that once through ‘a alls hummed soft accom- animent to the proceedings During the session on Thursday the accusation was made that the reso- lution, introduced by Senator Gerry of Rhode Island, conveying the sym- pathy of the United tSates to the Ireland in their struggle for ent was inspiried by po- 8. As the final vote ap- erday yarions members did proached ye: took pains to explain why they ar did not vote for ton in one form or another. All hands agreed that the Irish have ha aud time for seven hundred years and are y: citizens of the nd everything and al- together it was as though St. Pat- “ck's Day had stretched over to the 19th of March. WHY “IRISH VOTE” HAS REAL INFLUENCE, The reason is that there is sup- d to be an Irish vote. The Irish © supposed to vote pretty much as WHAT THEY WANT. ineut go tais Line of teought bs action Aire House yesterday in to conferente the bil! nit ‘ ‘4 sular Agents. Mce and struck him with a mon 9 i “oie unit on election day. and It is not | "vn eat organised business Inter-|wrenct, Afterwards wallet 329 Fifty-seventh Street, Brooklyn. She ne denied ay in many neaces | osts of th®vountry woke up. They | found in Harris's om and it w newer had received her husband's allot oe Teena very Shine AE the Pre: |bombarded Congress with telegrams ee ot is0 st Taweonce tater | ment or insurance money because It was | ° [etter Chocolates ata Lower Pree" most of our leading statesmen %04 letters. They sent agents tojnue, the Bronx. rds said he | paid to his mother, it how thal supposedly solid Irigh i hatin: on he sty Oe distress was nothing about wallet. He] When Mrs, Holman had heard the fase © head into the polls Heard. The House of Representatives, | was arrested. by Patrolman Ditmyer gata aha nted to withdra foing to head into the polla| eee, Overwhelming nen es Aiken “the ‘wutomobito AIC him, ite Fey ne ale eet re nequivee vestige, | SEVEN CONVENIENT. STORES a ettke | majo! e ( : |ankle ta broken, he charge. ne Jaw requires i os, matter of fact, the Tris mater: oe Pree ee es Be eet tion in such cases, however, and Mrs. Tnite Stat ar not polith i - n yned the property for = ’ ‘ | priated money for tts support Miellentz had pawne property At ats 5 Crna, nat the ii Ind vidual nave Prated money, font muppere “?”'** | g6.900 IN CLOTHING aie Md oere: ae eames | SS ee ta hl a politicians | There should be @ lesson here for the | PACKED IN TAXI | istrate Reynolds and the ¢ At Bleek 40th BL it. Hence the sojicitude, not | Unorganized taxpayers. | catene = | the money and the Between Streets mly in the National Congress but in —-—-- Three Me tmad Till Paliea Ca Slate Legislatures, for the Irish people COP KNOCKS OUT | Three Men Detained Till Police Can eir ambition to run their own Find Where Load Came in their own way | Py Irish think In ehorya on’ ee TWO HOLDUP MEN From, 5 ; Bammmon interest-siove of the Old Sod,| ° | 9, | an a tanica paneed under af are -See how easy it is heir 1 est makes them a| Saves Three From Armed Pair, Also | Ught at giaibus Avenue and Dean| gg . ry potential tical power of conse ete tH : “i Street, Brooklyn, early to-day Detec- ith P uence su ve the detetes| Cliatged With Raiding Saloon |fless*wuieet crocnte: ano en car w resto and u tr | and Poolroom, [ney saw it was filled with clothing, B n emera 1 Drawing their revolvers, they force “ ” ‘ tinge Jersey | Two men walked up to Edward Wenk- | the chauffeur to stop. : Presto” flour is ready to up f CONSAEUOR ier of No. 148 Maat $8th Greet, Meurion |yaen® “Uhe “slothing, “overccete “ond use. It contains the best of against "! ha fen on." | Scalkin of No. 674 Fox Street a Jo- | bolts of cloth packed ins were worth hi Il ed and Se ronigrt Halted States | goph Ring of No. $82 East 128th Street, | about” $5,000, but the pc have not | everything all measur n Bheulg’ be Well-being of {St the 6th Street entrance of the Lex- |Wearned where they came from. The mixed by a master of cooks. ther faniilies—~but }!nston Avenue subway at 4 o'clock this eq aay era not, Oat ily a member | Morning, and, pointing revolvers in their +] Famous recipes in and on or Con an . te remark that Nee f manded $40. He every package, for biscuits, he peoplg will call their yepresenta-| Policeman Cotter of the Bast 104th unningh ie cru iddle cake: fives to account wnlesg expenses are | Rtreet Station came from the shadow | treet, Brooklyr ne 1 im on ei 4 moueed and the people's Interests are! o¢ the subway booth and knocked both't or = MMPHRES cOnKien etc, served, ard bist ntarks are Puried | tootpads senseless to the sidewalk. At WOMEN HUNTERS Set of 50 recipes sent sda ihc SN ie : | he found that his prisoners. f 1d forsotio: | ree on request, and ere tltacerte cf the taxpayer |Paul MoCormick of No. 341 Zast 13 | INJURED AT AIKEN a jp his home, in hig bank account, /Strect and Walter Kelly of, No. 1178 BI or se trey in his job. all of which are vitally | Washington Avenue, the Bronx, were| AIKEN, 8. C, March 20.--Mrs, Jullan affected by the actiors of Con- |accused of having rdided the saloon of |. Peabody, daughter of Mrs. Thomas gr are stan from Washington |xf, Gormley at No. 1724 Third Avenue |Hitchcock, was among those injured tn | through a political telescops, and ang a pooiroom at Third Avenue and |accidents in this week's fox hunting, but the larco end cf the telescope ris | Ninety-wixth Street a few minutes car-|her hurts not erious, | she |wia | im he end the Congressmen look lier . ipitched from her mount in taking a jump. through | Gormiey said they took $75 from his| Several others have not been so fortn- S S ‘ae cash register, In the poolroom, after jnate. Miss Alexandra B. Dolan of Rose- @ DISCHARGED SOLDIERS GET jining all the patrons against the wall, |mont, Pa., was thrown and kicked in the Vins the Irish resolu- | NION OF VOTING TAXPAYERS NEEDED 10 FORCE CONGRESS ~ INTO PEACE TIME ECONOMY which provides for @ raise of pay for officers and enlisted men of the army and the navy. This bil has been wandering around the Capitol like an alley cat for months. Whenever it showed signs of ag@ivity somebody kicked It out of the way. Soldiers and sailors have no votes. ‘The alley cat bill found itself coaxed from dark and remote places and fed ‘up and stroked the right way when it occurred to some members of Con» gress that they were progressing quite rapidly toward the passage of legislation which is designed to give $1,000,000,000, or $2,000,000,000, to the soldiers who wore the uniform in the last war and have been discharged back into the civilian activities of the country. There are more than 4,000,- 000 of them. ‘They are organized and have votes; their mothers and sisters and wives have votes. It occurred to certain statesmen that the country might think it inoon- sistent for Congress, to hand out bill- ions to ex-soldiers Who will probably never be called upon to fight again and refuse to hand out a few millions to soldiers and sailors who are in the fighting business and form the fight- ing forces of the country. While the men of the army and navy have no votes, they would make an ominous khaki background in the forthcoming campaign if their demands for in- creased pay were ignored. And now the bill stands a prospect of coming out all decorated with red, white and tiue ribbons and bells and progress- ing through the National Legislature triumphantly. The Army Reorganjza- jon Bill carries a provision that chap- lains should have the pay and allow- ances of officers—but not the rank. Now there are many chaplains in the army who do not tare for rank, and there are many who do, and chap- lains have many friends and are backed by powerful religious organ!- zations. Friends and religious organizations control votes. Accordingly, on Thursday, the con- tention that chaplains commissioned as officers would be set apart from the enlisted men by the barrier of rank was cast aside and the section unranking them was amended. In the new army the chaplains will wear ,in addition to the cross, the insignia of officers of the army. NON-VOTING EMPLOYEES HAVE UNION CONTROLLING VOTES. ‘rhe Government employees in the District of Columbia were for many years the most conspicuously under- paid people in the country. They agitated, agitated and agitated for in- creases in pay and got nowhere. They had no votes. Recently they have been enjoying a war bonus of $240 a year and their pay is to be raised under the reclassl- fication system to the tune of gnany millions of dollars. The change has bewildered most of them, for still they have no votes—unless they go to their homes in all parts of the country to vote. But they have a union. ‘That union is an active, persistent force in Washington. The union leaders, foreseeing possible difficulties in the of the Reclassification Bill which would prevent tts passage, are now agitating that the bonus of $240 a year be doubled {f the bill in- creasing the salaries of all Govern- ment employees does not go through the current session, There are more than 100,000 of them and if they suc- ceed, in the event of the failure of passage of the Reclassification Bill, in getting Congress (o double their bonus the cost to the taxpayers will be $24,000,000. But their union offi- cers know an election is approaching. What the railroad employees and the coal miners have demanded and obtained is known to everybody. They are all taxpayers, but they are not united as taxpayers. They ure united in labor unions and their units have fone into practical politics on matters relating solely to wages and hours, Some weeks ago the Appropriations Committee of the House, through a sub-committee, in pruning the esti- mates of the Department of Commerce of the amount necessary to run the department next year, completely eliminated the sum providing for the maintenance of commercial agents looking after the interests of American business abroad. The committee figured that the commercial agents . over- lapped the Consuls General and Gon- ‘ding to the police ropor! up men walked out empty several of their Intended victims called them by their first names and- asked them not to be mean to old friends, the held- anded after Miss Annsley. ny . MRS. J. V. ONATIVIA WINS DIVORCE SUIT; ACTION KEPT SECRET wr v ONATIViA: Interlocutory Decree and Custody of Children Given to Wife at White Plains. That an interlocutory decree of di- vorce had been granted to Mrs, Clara B, Onativia from Jose Victor Onativia of this city by Justice Morschauser at White Plains, some weeks ago, became known to-day. An effort had been made to keep the suit a secret and a referee heard the testimony. The plaintiff was represented on the hearing by the law firm of De Lanccy Nicoll. It is said Mrs, Onativia will be entitled to a final judgment on April 27. The couple were married in this city in 1908 and have two children, Clara Barelay, ‘nine, and ‘Dorothy, five, who are given to the exclusive custody of the mother. ‘The co-respondent in the action was described only as ‘an unknown woman whom Mr, Onativia is alleged to have met at No. 64 Bast 86th Street. Justice Morschauser ordered Onativia to pay his wife $600 a month for the maintenance and education of his chil- ren. oe CHAINS ALL READY ‘FOR NICKY ARNSTEIN Melodramatic Reception for Fugi- tive Failed When He Fails to Show Up. Like many other Incidents in the quest for “Nicky” Arnstein the repgrt of his approach to the District Attorney to surrender himself was revealed to- day as a merry jest. But it started a generous display of the intent of the authorities to ‘give “Nicky” a melo- dramatic reception. Deptuy Police Commissioner Lahey by way of proving false the’ -innuendoes that the police didn’t really want to find Nicky,” sent out nearly a hundred do- tectives to meet the fugitive, “Nicky” was not to have the satisfaction of sur- rendering, but was to be brought into the Criminal Court building in’ chains, if he only: wore them across the’ side walk of ‘Centre Street. Detectives were stationed in a cordon around the bujlc- ing. Others were sent to every ferry and rafiroad terminus In Manhattan and the Bronx. At half past eight o'clock last night. Lahey, having sat at a telephone for five hours, sald “Oh,” and went home. Because he said he understood there was to be an adjournment of his hear- ing before Bankruptcy Commissioner Gilchrist to-day, Eugene McGee, of Arn- stein’s counsel,’ did not appear at the Federal Building at half past nine o'clock. The commissioner declared him in default, but 8. S. Meyers, coun- sel for the National Surety Company, onducting McGee's examination, sald he did not mean to apply for a contempt order, ALLEGED THIEF RUN DOWN BY AN AUTO Broadway Crowd Chases Man cused of Hitting James Harris | With Monkey Wrench, rietor of the Harris Co., a Broadway, is at Bellevue Hospital suffering from a pos- sible fracture of the skull. Also at Beli vue is a man d oribing himself Stanley Edwards, of Palucer Hom odd Street and Lexington Avenue. | Edwards running out of Har- ris's office night with Harris pursuit. A hundred en to up th . which ende kod do} ‘columbus Cire wards entered n by an automob Harris said Iback ’ and cialists have been calle, daughter of Mra. James J, gland, broke her arm a Annsley ef ;Miss Ma gha ‘her thigh Lebus of Cynthia, by falls from horses. K THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920, COL. PORTER WHO HAS BEEN REMOVED AS ENRIGHT DEPUTY PORTER, REMOVED: ASENRIGHT DEPUTY, CRIES "FRAME UP” “Dirty, Mean Trick,” Is His Comment on Indictment— * Is Not Worrying. At about the time Police Commis- sioner Enright to-day issued an of- ficial notice that Col, Augustus Drum Porter had ‘been removed from office | a® Third Deputy Police Commissigner | Col, Porter appeared at the District | | Attorney's office to surrender on his | indictment charging a misdemeanor }in failure to do his duty in aiding the prosecution of a disordeffly house keeper. Col. Porter was accompanied by his counsel Frank Hendricks. At the bond office, where $1,000 bail was fur- nished by @ surety company, he showed outward indications of great cheerfulness, “I bave absolutely nothing to con- ceal,” he said. “I cannot eay it too strongly. This is a frame-up, pure and simple, I am not worrying, as you can see, and I think that is half the battle. “It is a dirty, mean, rotten trick on an official who is being made the goat in a fight that is being waged by an assistant district attorney for his own fends. Time remedies all injustice and time will prove I am the victim of a plot and not the criminal that cec- tain people would like to have the public believe. My friends know my character and I am sure they do not believe the nasty insinuations the charges contain.” Mayor Hylan had nothing to say about the Porter indictment to-day. Commissioner Enright’s comment was limited to the announcement that Porter’s office was vacant. Assistant, District Attorney Smith said that great pressure had been exerted by “high city officials” to keep the Grand Jury from hearing the evidence which resulted in Col. Porter's indict- ment. e It was not clear from the statements made at the District Attorney's otfice whether Sorger and Wheelwright, the detectives who swore they had trapped Porter in a raid on a house conducted by Adele Goodell in West 96th ‘Street, were transferred to uniformed patrol duty before or after they were culled upon by Smith to come to his office and tell what they knew. They ad- hered stubbornly to-day to their as- sertions they had made no mistaké as to the Identity of the man they found in the Goddell flat, and that the acquittal of the Goodell woman in Special Sessiona was due to their in- ability to use Porter as a witness or to reveal their discovery of him in the house, due to his order to them to “forget it.” and his promise to “take care of them as long as he was in the “BORTER PARENTS AND NIE CHILDREN PUT OUT OF HOME IN SNOU Indignant Neighbors _ Pelt Evieting Force, Then Care for Shelterless Family. Indignation among the neighbors of Abraham Rosenberg, a tailor, who for seven years has been a tenant at No. 448 Georgia Avenue, in the Browns- ville district of Brooklyn, reached the botling over point this morning at the sight of the little heap of furniture thrown into the street yesterday afternoon during the snowstorm by Marshal David Goldberg, acting on an eviction order from Municipal Judge Charles B. Law. Rosenberg and his wife, Fanny, left their eldest daughter, seventeen, in charge of their eight other children yesterday while they resumed their hunt for an apartment. They had been searching for eleven weeks, but whenever they mentioned the fact that they had nine children landlords and agents turned a deaf ear to their appeals for room in which to live, In their absence Goldberg and his assistants appeared and bexan moving department.” the furniture into the street. Neigh- Assistant District Attorney Smith] bors protested vainly: Then. sticks issued a statement in reply to Col.|/and stones begun flying, windows Porter's conspiracy charge in which | were broken and faces scratched he said the newspapers would find| "sn. dusehter took her pl evidence of “other activities of this ames schceae ped facet sae NG bureau, partly shielded by a quilt and Po oct ales | mounted guard over the family be- COURT AIDS WIDOW longings and the children, L it might | | neighbors found beds for the youn | sters. Rosenberg was stil < | WHO ADMITS THEFT [fit nie'house’nunt toed — The house is a three-family one ; : ; lowned by Abraham Werbowski anc Raises Money for Woman Whose | ?“iaerne, 7 BR ond Husband V jain in War, PE Aa eg WARRANT FOR JESS WILLARD LAWRENCE, and She Is Freed, A war widow, twenty-one i} y | | Kan. March 20.—A was arraigned before Magistrate Rey warrant for arrest of Jess Willard nolds in the Fifth Avenue Court, former heavywel pusilistic cham- Brooklyn, to-day on a charge of petty pion, for disturbances of the peace. was arcency, She was arraigned under her SWorn out yesterday by Fred Logan, said her real name was jertrude Miell- Willard attempted to pass in a motor entz, Herghusbgnd was’ killed in the Car. ats . ward her infant son died. challenging him to ht. Logan refused Ghe confessed that, being in desperate the challenge, he sald, and took the circumatances, she had stolen $52 worth Matter to a Justice of the Peace. of jewelry and toilet articles from her former landlady, Mrs. Lena Holman, No. as omy THREATEN TO HALE ANDERSON BEFORE BAR OF ASSEMBLY by Anti-Saloon Head, Rouses Ire, ALBANY, March /20.—William HA. Anderson, superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League, may be haled before the bar of the Assembly as result of his gratuitious slashing of the obaracter of the members of tho low- er House and especially those who are insisting upon his investigation. His letter Col. Ransom H. Gillett, who I leading the fights of the wets in the Assembly, has stirred all par- @ resolution on Monday night, calling Anderson before the Assembly bar and demanding that he apologize or be punished, In this letter Anderson sald in so many words that Col. Gillett, because he introduced a light wines and beer bul, was a “disgrace” to the men he captained in France during the World War. It charged him with working for “nullification” of the Eighteenth Amendment, and said men “more in- telligent” than he had tried to do the same thing with the Anti-Slavery Amendment and had “failed inlser- | ably.” This Anderson sttack has aroused the resentment of the drys as well as the wets, Decorated by France and America for conspicuous valor, Col, Gillett is partially crippled, his right arm being useless because of bayonet wounds and gas infection sustdined in the war, “Were it not for the fact that my right arm is useless as a consequence of wounds sustained in the service’ of my country,” said Col, Gillett, “I would personally hunt out this as- sissin of character, Anderson, and give him the trouncing he deserves. Far be it from me to capitalize my war record, but might I not ask An- derson what he did for his country while the menace of German militar- ism way casting a shadow over this country, - “1 know what he did. He remained in America and continued to réceive his fat fi from the Anti-Saloon Slur Upon Gillett, War Hero, ties, and there is talk of introducing | MAY DAY WEDDING FOR MARY GOSSLER | AND SIDNEY HUGHES Betrothal of the Pair Is Announced by Mrs. M. Claflin ; Gossler. Mrs. M, Claflin Gossler of No. 9 Bast 398th Street, bas announced the enga ment of her daughter, Miss Mary Go: ler, to Mr. Sidney W. Hughes of this city, son of the late Rev, Dr. Thornton BP. Hughes, The wedding will take place on May 1 in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, | ebechdhnae we ee chee esha {League and millionaire employers who are the leagu suppayt.” Louis A. main financial Cuvillier, author of the resolution to investigate Anderson and his Anti-Saloon League, and other war veterans, are searching for precedents to justify the passage of a resolution haling Anderson before the Assembly for punishment. They have found a guffictent prece- dent In the case of James Garrison, publicity man for ex-Gov, William Sulzer, when Sulzer was under im- peachment. At that time Garrison } published remarks reflecting upon the integrity of the Assembly. He was called before 't refused to apologize for what ne had said and was im- prisoned in the Albany County Jail for two months upon order of Alfred FE. Smith, then Speaker of the Assem- MISS SPRING’S ACT. CRABBED AT START’ BY SLUSHY SETTING: « ATHER OBSERVER JIM SCARR wag telking about the weather to the snow reporters to-day when the tele- phone rang. “This is Mis Spring,” said « girl prettier than any Mr. Zieg-,. « feld ever set eye upon. » “Weleome, Spring!” valid the @ Observer. Your act-let me see— ~~ yes, you gO on at 4.39 thls afters noon Provided, ing “You “How about the setting? Does 4; anybody in New York think I'm boob enough to put the sketch om with the junk you've got up now? Snow, i¢y rain water, furs, what chanst would I have getting it across?” Stage ager Searr, “of course Winter opens jthe show. That isn't the best ay place @) the bill, but f think it only fair to say he hag been @ knockout.” “So T hear,” suid Gentle Spring, “go L hear. Well, let me tel you one thing, Mr.’Scarr, you run that dig boob off'n the stage this at ternoon and have my stuff set up —green grass, a practical sun, skip rope, marbles, return balls and the rest of it—or I'll cancel and you can keep the big stiff untt! Summer comes on. See how the Public will like that!” Mr. Searr, who heaven knows does the best he can, was quite cut up about it. The precipita. tion, Mr. Scarr said, speaking of the rain, was almost ended, The temperature would remain sta- tionary during the day. ‘To-mor . row will be fair, It isn’t going ( to be much warmer right away. AMERICA’S GIFT TO FRANCE ct ave the Statue of erty to America. All America is joining now to give a /great statue to France to commemorate the battle of the Marne. Sena checks to: CHARLES H. SABIN, Treasurer 160 Nassau Streqp New York City bly and now the Governor, In case Anderson is called on to ex- plain or apologize, it is likely the pro- cedure followed in Garrison's case will be adopted. MONDAY competition els MATERIALS— " messaline flou COLORS— brown. Fourteenth Stroet STORE OPEN 9 A. M. TO 5 P. M. HEARN West of Fifth Avenue TUESDAY 1,200 Petticoats Petticoats of rich, durable silks, made in the new ways which the Spring silhouette demands, are offered at a price which needs no comment in view of the known rise in the silk market. Sale price is absolutely beyond ewhere. 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