Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 92, 26 February 1919 — Page 1

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ASSAULT Ofl ' CLEUENCEAU SOLIDIFIES HIS PEOPLE

French Nation Rallies With Increased Determination About Principles of "Tiger New Mood is Shown. VILSOtl DISAPPOINTING ' By FRANK H. 8IM0ND8 (Copyright, by The McClure News- . paper Syndicate) PARIS, Feb. 26. It is essential to

' m ' recognise that the attempted assassin

v. , atlon of the French premier will have political and International conseflueneH of far reachinc character. It

la not merely that the most conspicuous single figure on the governmental aide in the world war. the man who was the symbol of victory, has been truck down by international anarchy, but It is also that the leading statesman of France has been stricken at the moment when, in the eyes of his country, he -was making determined and necessary efforts to save for his countrymen the victory won on the battlefield. Due to Wilson's Course. I have tried many times to point out the peculiar situation of France, with the-ruling condition of mind and of spirit. It is an unfortunate fact that at least one consequence of tbe course pursued by Mr. Wilson In Paris has been that tbe peace conference has come more and more, both In the minds of the French people and of the (Americans about the peace commission, to be a battle between Wilson and Clemenceau, In which Mr. Wilson has been championing abstract principles of justice and Mr. Clemenceau advocating measures which represent questions of life and death to France. France came to the peace conference at tbe end of four and a half years of war, fought mainly on her soil, with a population diminished by 3,000,000 as a consequence of the war, with half a dozen provinces in ruins and a score of cities wrecked, to aBk two things, reparation for material Injuries and guaranties against future attacks. : - ' . - -These demanus were not made by any separate faction in French politics. They represented the desire, the ly wounded, - to nave iron i uuw some assurance of that support wlth- . out which It might still have succumbed to the brutality of ..the German assault. . t -, What Premier Stood For. All this Clemenceau symbolised at Paris in some measure as be symboiiz-

t ed in tne closing year oi me war mo will for victory. Beyond all else, there was in the mind of this old man whom -the world not Inaccurately describes as "Father Victory" the determination

. - . t m a 4t.& to crown his labors by obtaining for his country the possibility of futureexistence. Like every other rrencn man he knew that the peace confer ence by its decisions would determine whether France was to live or die, and like every other Frenchman, he came from the battlefield to the green table resolved that France should live. Mr. Wilson came to Paris resolved that there should be a league of na tions. Encountering at Paris this unanimous French notion, finding French Interest and French attention

fixed on the salvation of France rather than on the formulation of the prini clples of a league of nations, Mr. Wilson and those associated with him were not successful in concealing i their disappointment or their disap

proval of what seemed to them a par

ticularistic national policy. ! When France as a whole asked Mr.

Wilson to co and see her devastated regions that he might understand her

! heart, he returned a cord ana unequiv-

ocal negative, and I do not think that .' ' any single act of any man ever car-

" ried with it prorounder alsappomt- ' ment than Mr. Wilson's refusal to go to the northern regions and see what the Boches had done. , French Attitude Changes. And we have had. week after week, slow but sure change in French emo tion with respect to the President. He was hailed by the little people of France as saviour. He was hailed as a man who came from another world to deliver France and other peoples of the world from the r.hadow of trag- ; edy which has been, and little by little, his course here had the effect at least of creating the lmpressdon that he , cared nothing for the lifw or death of France, that he was not concerned

with the things which the tragic cares of war had burned into the soul of ! every French man and woman. I do not think It Is possible accurately to represent how profound was the disappointment of France at this course of the American President, a sense first of desertion and then of utter Isolation crept into the French hearts, ns more and more the American attitude toward France passed from mere coldness with respect to French necessities to open criticism and hardly concealed suspicion. I do not think one would exaggerate by saying that three months ago France believed the war won, and today, as a result of what has occurred in the peace conference, there is some

thing amountine to real terror for

fear the war shall be lost after all, and France left alone again across . the pathway of Germany, increased in power and population by the last war. Before Bullet Hit Mark Before the assassin's bullet struck IsJjL. its distinguished mark there was periV' harts a certain amount of feeling in

France that some part of the responnihility for the division between America and France might be charged to

French leadership. There was a reeling that no sacrifice could be too great , , (Continued on Page Eight.) y - - ,-...-...'......,

To Aid Government In Cutting Prices

'Avis v r W. M. Ritter. W. M. . Bitter Is chairman of the price conference committee which will suggest the- prices the government will pay for principal commodities during the readjustment period. Bit ter will suDervise the organization of the conference with the definite ob ject of bringing prices down. He was formerly head of tbe hardwood iumDer section of the war industries hoard. WILSON TO ASK QUICK ACTION ON LAND BILL Favorable Report Given Measure for Soldiers Land Report Naval, Bill. ' (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. President Wilson will go to the capltol today if his engagements permit to meet senators and discuss the legislative situa tion with them.' - v In addition to urging prompt action at thia session on the bur aDDroprlattc UttHf TrastdeTrt "Wltton wttT e deavor to expedite passing of the oil leasing and water power bills, the pro vision continuing the united states employment service, and Secretary Lane's bill to appropriate sioo,ooo,ooo for the reclamation of lands to be opened to soldiers and sailors. A favorable report on tne Dili to ap propriate $100,000,000 to make reclaimed pub'lic lands available for set tlement by discharged soldiers and sailors was ordered today by the senate public lands committee after Sec retary Lane had appealed for action. on the ground' that this was a great Reconstruction meaesure. A similar bill has been reported to the house. War Contract Compromise . The senate naval committee today without a record vote, ordered the $72,000,000 naval appropriation bill fa vorably reported to the senate. By a partisan vote of 8 to 6 the committee approved the new building program, the Bepublicans opposing It.- The provision empowering the president to curtail the program in his discretion was retained. The deadlock between the house and senate on the bill legalizing informal war contracts was broken today with a compromise agreement limiting the amendment providing for settlement of claims growing out of the stimulation of mineral production to manganese, chrome, pyrites and tungsten. ASK PAYMENT ON AUSTRIAN DEBT (By Associated Press) PARIS, Tuesday, Feh. '25 The supreme council of the peace conference has decided, according to a Havas report, to telegraph to Vienna, asking that coupons of the AustroHungarian debt falling due on March first, be paid. This action followed a report before the council by Signor Crespl, of, Italy in behalf of the InterAllied financial commission, , who pointed out that there are funds in Au3tro-Hungarian banks to make the payment but expressed a fear -that such yapment might create a kino or precedent which could later be used against the different states of the former Austro-Hungarlan empire. The telegram to be sent to Vienna will say that payments made on the coupons will not effect the AustroHungarlan debt among the different states which formed the dual monarchy, it is reported. CUMMINGS ELECTED DEMOCRAT CHAIRMAN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Homer S. Cummings of Connecticut was elected chairman of the national democratic committee today and the committee voted a complete reorganization for an aggressive campaign in 1920. Hugh Wallace Nominated For French Ambassador WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Hugh Campbell Wallace, of Tacoma, Wash., was nominated by President Wilson today to be American ambassador to Franc to succeed Ambassador Sharpe.

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SPARTACAHS

IN CONTROL OF CENTERS IN SAXONY Effort is Made by Radicals to Set Up Soviet RepublicGeneral Strike Proclaimed and Industries Seized. MANIFESTO IS ISSUED (By Associated Press) BERLIN. Tuesday. Feb. 25 Sparta cans ana radical eociaiisia nave launched a movement to overthrow the existing government in Saxony, where the newly elected diet was to assemble today. A general strike has been proclaimed and railway com munlcation with Halle, one of the principal junction point--' A Saxony, has been broken; T -lUicans are reported to have taken possession of Plausen and other Industrial centers. Independent Socialists In Leipsig have issued a manifesto demanding the retirement of the Weimar govern ment, declaring that it is "an impediment to Socialism and the liberation of the proletariat." The Independent Socialists are working feverishly for a proclamation of a soviet republic in Saxony. After radical demonstrations at PIrna and Plausen, the radicals eeiz ed the plants of non-socialist news papers and ordered the officers of the seized nlants to leave. Work has been stopped In many Saxon lactones by the seizure of power stations and the interruption of overland trans mission of electric power. The break in railway communications at Halle suspends through service between Berlin and Weimar and Municn ror the time being, as the only expresses running have been routed through Halle. Revolt In Mannheim A fresh revolt broke out at Mann heim today. Spartacan forces occu pied the postoffice, the telegraph of fice and the railway station and com munication with the city is interrunted. ' During the debate In the German national assembly at Weimar of the bill creating a "relchawehr" national defence force, Gustav Noske, who is in charge of military- affairs in " the German cabinet, said the force would rfweBMnrrowrM pTorectmg me irontiers, according to a Berlin oispatcn received here. '...-"-"'':..'' , "It would be criminal carelessness," he said, "not to protect our Eastern frontier, which is menaced Dy tne uoishevlkL The strength of the reichwehr would not, under the bill, be one-

tnira tnac oi handed down to committees by Lieucountries, therefore, have no occasion . . . . ,

merelv to meet the most urgent neeaa of the empire. It would bo a lively Limaginatlon that could see in it the spectre of militarism." After the adoption of several amendments, the bill passed second reading. It will come up for third reading on Thursday. Provisional Bill The following bill, having a provisional character, will, according to advices from Weimar, be submitted to the Oerman national assembly:

, Arl"tiii; in iXTn remedTthe ing tuition or other fees in state colis authorized, In order to remedy the MtmMiiv Indian university.

disadvantages resulting from the occupation of Alsace Lorraine, to promulgate decrees having the force of law. These decrees must be approved by the commissions of the states ana also must berTSubmltted to the national assembly. . m Article 2 The prerogatives conferred upon the lieutenant governor or other authorities by the constitution of Alsace-Lorraine and uy ny-iaws win be exercised for the present by the minister of the interior. Article 3 This law will become effective the day it is promulgated and the government will fix the date for its abrogation, Will Prosecute Civilians , In Navy Bribery Scandal (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The department of Justice will be asked by the navy department, Secretary Daniels said today, to prosecute civilians and others who do not come under naval jurisdiction found to have been implicated In the bribery scandal in the third naval district at New York. , For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair; slightly warmer tonight Thursday cloudy and warmer. Probably snow or rain. Today's Temperature. Noon 2B 45 18 Yesterday. Maximum Minimum

j THE WEATHER

For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Increasing cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Continued cold tonight Rising temperature Thursday. General Conditions The storm of yesterday has moved to the Atlantic seacoast, and cold weather prevails east of the Rockies except along the Atlantic coast Temperatures are very low In the west and northwest ranging from zero to 30 below, west of the lakes. Another storm of . considerable energy Is moving southwestward from the northern Rocky mountain plateau, " attended by general snows, the center of the cold wave continues over western Canada and remains undiminished In energy. The cold extends as far south as Gulf of Mexico with, snow in central Texas. - '

lUxican Federal Troops

Guard American Mines (By Associated Press) JUAREZ. Mex, Feb. 26 Mexican federal troops have been ordered to guard American mining properties in northern Mexico, It was announced to-1 day and 200 troopers have been sta tioned at Santa Eulalia, Cuslhuiriachic. and Madra. This was done to I prevent Francisco Villa from carrying out his threat to destroy American properties and kill American employ es unless $1,000,000 were paid him by March 1. Additional supplies' of ammunition have been sent from the United States to these points under a special permit ROAD MEASURE GIVEN SENATE BY COMMITTEE Bill With Amendments Places Before Upper HouseChange Election Clause. H (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb.. 26. Elimi nating the provision that $800,000 of the state auto taxes be returned to the county and returning the taxation to ten cents instead of 15, the senate committee on roads today placed the house bill creating a new state highway commission before the senate. The house changed the bill from its original form to make these provisions, on the insistence of representatives who wish that portion of the automobile fees be returned to the coun ty and increased the taxation to overcome the deficit this caused. Another amendment adopted on suggestion of the committee would provide that the highway commission map out a proposed state highway system before April 1, 1920, and that the roads on this proposed system be kept in repair by the state before and after they are constructed. Several other amendments were adopted to re duce the power conferred upon tne commission director. . If the bill pass es the senate In its present form, it will be returned to the house for concurrence. . The house administration measure creating a conservation commission to embody several state offices, was also the subject of a committee report recommending passage. , 1 Change Election BUI. Instead of permitting the Introduc tion of a new bill covering the reglstratlon ot voters, the senate committee on elections trdt out U after the nactiay emamri tattr-reg istration bill and substituted a I bill drawn at the suggestion of a sub-committee of the house and senate" com mittees. The bill would permit regis tration by mail or messenger and fixes the dates of registration 60 days and one thirty days before elections. Several important house bills were the regular appropriation measure, which he referred to the senate, asi committee of the whole. Consldera tion of this bill will be delayed until it is printed and placed on the desk. The garnishee bill passed by the house yesterday was referred to the committee on rights and privileges and the bill repealing the two-cent fare law, went to the committee on rail roads. Roll call for introduction of bills brought out one to exempt soldiers and sailors of the world war from payPurdue and State Normal school. Senator Ratts proposed a joint resolution for amending the constitution to abolish courts of justice of the peace. Appropriation Cut , When the Strode bill for placing prosecuting attorneys on a salary basis Instead of by fees came up for second reading Senator Hogston made an un successful effort to decrease the proposed salaries on an average of $500 under the standard fixed in the bill. Much time was taken up by committee reports, Represent? Ive Phelps' bill, requiring interurbar to keep restaurants, toilets and w' ting stations In sanitary condition y s killed. The appronrlation' jn the StrodeVanAuken bill creating a state employment bureau to cooperate with the federal government was cut from $75,000 to $38,000. Senator Selfs bill fixing the rates of publishing legal notices passed 41 to 2 after it had been amended to pre vent it from applying to cities of the first class. - - Time Wasted in House. "We certainly have wasted the time this morning," said Speaker Eschbach addressing memers of the house of legislature Just before adjournment this noon until 2 o'clock this aftertu on. "I hooe the members when they come will be determined to keep up the good record tney maae lasi nieht." . The house received six new measures and spent the remainder of the two-hour session in receiving reports of committees and in considering bills on second reading. The volume of business transacted was regarded as the lightest thus far this session. Governor James P. Goodrich signed six measures, Including those to provide for $2,000 appropriation annually to the G. A. R. for establishing charges for protecting commercial paper, -and' for authorizing -town boards, city councils and township trustees right to petition for drainage projects. " ' " V ' Amendment Fails. Futile effort was made by farmer members to amend the measure providing for the creation of a sanitary live stock commission to provide that the governor shall have tbe deciding vote in case of a tie. The bill provides that the state veterinarian shall have this power. The Harris measure,, providing for physicians paying an annual license fee of $2 to practice In Indiana, was advanced to third reading after be ing amended to give the governor , Continued On Page Eleven.)

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iff, 4m, President Wilson explaining his league The above nhoto which has lust Wilson delivering his historv-makincr chamber of deputies, the delegates to notables. Up to the day he outlined not know exactly what bis league of lining of his plan the world league was began plans for formulating it.

Approval of Wilsons Boston Speech

is Expressed by London Newspapers

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 26. Comment on President Wilson's Boston speech takes first place on the editorial pages of this morning's London newspapers. They unite in expressing the hope that the president's appeal for support of the league of nations will meet with a favorable response In the United States. , "We can be as confident as President Wilson Is," says the Dally Mail, "that their generous X impuipe. disinterested aid and guidance will not fall strength and permanence as tne neea for It. was never greater. The alternative is that the United States should return to her traditional isolation and regard the welter of Europe from afar. Such a decision is unthinkable. The United States is in the war; she must be in the peace." The Daily News says: "President Wilson knows that America has only begun its task and that the breach with Washington's policy is final. " Every pacific interest in Europe will be with the president in his appeal to his people. We do not think that the appeal will be In vain, for the president has a grand gospel and knows how to preach it grandly." The Daily Telegraph says: "The deliberations of the peace conference constitute a signal to the world that it is at the cross-roads in Its destiny. The president is not wrong in assuming that Europe looks toward the people of the United States with new conference. Of America's sympathy with the essential ideals for which President Wilson is laboring BALTIC PORTS TAKEN FROM BOLSHEVIKI (By' Associated Press) ; COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26. The ports of LIbau and Windau, in Courland on the Baltic sea which were taken by the Bolshevikl Jan. 31, have been recaptured. Greek Troops Drive Back . Bolsheviki Near Odessa ATHENS, Tuesday, Feb. 25 Greek troops operating with detachments of French and Rumanians have advanc ed north of Odessa, pursuing Bolshevik forces along the Dniester river. After a short fight they have occupied the fort and town of Tiraspol, on the right bank of the Dniester, fifty three miles from Odessa, according to a Saloniki dispatch. , The retreating Bolsheviki have abandoned many dead and wounded and have left guns and munitions in the' hands of the allied forces. ' Communists Held for Rebellion in Hungary (By Associated Press) BASLE, Feb. 26 Seventy-six communists have been arrested on charges of rebellion against the Hungarian republic at Budapest, according to advices from that city. It is reported that during their examinations they have admitted that the money necessary to set up an anti-republican government came from Russia and that during the past month the expenses amounted to $300,000 crbwns. - They refused to reveal where the funds are being kept it is said. APPROVE BOLIVIAN PLAN (By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 26. According to dispatches from Lapaz, the Bolivian minister at Paris, has reported that Great Britain and France have favorably received Bolivia's proposal to. settle the Tacna-Arica question by annexing both provinces to Bolivia.

of nations Idea before world leaders reached this country shows President address before the French senate and the peace confernce and other world his plan at this meeting tne wona am nations idea embraced. With the out really born as the world powers then ' so devotedly none need have any doubt, and we are confident she will continue to take her full share In the great task of regeneration which confronts the world." The Dally Chronicle says of the president's speech: . "He appeals to America for the first time to play her part in policing tbe unsettled territories of the old - world and protecting the young nations. If he succeeds In carrying his people with him in this new crusade be will have succeeded In Tendering a second service of mankia4a .great that -in bfitoglngTn: the United States to finish the war.". JENKINS-VULCAN PLANT DOUBLES WORKING FORCE Announce Addition of 1 25 Employes to Pay-roll -Expect Doubled Output. Working forces of the Jenkins Vulcan Spring company are to be doubled on Monday, March 3, when a night shift of 125 men is to be added to the day shift of 125 already emm.. pioyea. With the addition of the night shift the total pay-roll of the company in this city will be about 275. The majority of the additional men have been hired In the last two or three days and T. B. Jenkins, president of the company does not look for any trou ble in getting the rest. Twenty-five men will be on the road for the company by the first of June, the- road force now being fifteen, eight of whom are Richmond boys. - Additional factory branches are to be opened In Boston, Mass., and Richmond, Va., as Boon as rooms can be rented. s Expect Large Output. Jenkins predicts the plant will double its last year's output of 1,000 springs a day la 1919. He expects to start work soon on the new home of the company on Eighth street, and believes that it will be completed some time this summer. .... Jenkins said, however, that people who were coming into Richmond from other cities to join his sales forces were having difficulty, In finding suitable homes. Chinese Commerce Bodies Approve Nation League i (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Messages from the chamber of commerce of Peking and Shanghai, representing all the commercial organizations of China f applauded President Wilson s effort in behalf of a league of nations, were made public here today by the chamber tf commerce of the state of New York, after copies had been forwarded to the president The message from Shanghai addressed to President Wilson in care of the New York organization, declared that the "Chinese people are deeply indebted to you for the organization of the league of nations," and said that his "fourteen points," especially the one calling for the settlement of questions of, territory, sovereignty, economic arrangement and political relationship on the basis of "free acceptance of the settlement by the people Immediately concerned," had been circulated and recited by everyone in our country." ' -; - The message' from the Peking organization, after praising President Wilson's work for the league, requested the aid of America "in securing an equitable national tariff system," for China. , . . - . ' .

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Discussion CONTINUED IN SENATE Debates Pro and Con on Wil son's Proposal for League Covenant Owen to Speak in Support. ; CUMMINS HAS A PLAI1 (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 While de claring his full sympathy with the purpose to form an International peace tribunal. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, Republican, declared in an address to day in the senate that he was opposed : to the proposed constitution " or the -league of nations because he believed . some of its provisions would strike at American sovereignty Presenting tbe - outline of agreements he would favor. Senator Cummins said the league draft as presented at Paris would for ' a "world nation" with "polyglot and Incoherent power" which would ' submerge the American republic. - - - In the course of his. address, he urged speedy conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany and Immediate inauguration of reconstruction work to avert unrest. v-. v-,---. The Iowa senator expressed approval of many of the provisions of the tentative charter of the world league. Those he attacked deal -with submission of national questions, disarmament and provisions for mandatories and for reciprocal territorial . guarantees. . ' "There Is some good In It (the proposed constitution)" said the "Senator. "There Is more that is bad in It As now proposed, I would unhesitat ingly vote against it." -, , Presents New League Plan In presenting definite proposals for a league which he declared could be formed -without - any.- surrender of American sovereignty, Senator Cummins said: - to - :-. . i . "First we ought' to agree, and all other nations ought to agree, that justifiable diaputae those Issues which can be determine by the application of recognised law io established facta shouil te settUd either by arbitration or adroatoa; aadjreccsttjo ttreeTaiXtl'otSer nations ought to agree, without equivocation or reserve that, we will abide by and perform the award or judgment "Second, we ought to agree and all other nations ought to agree, that with respect to other International dis putes war shall not be made until some permanent regular ' and Inter national body shall have a fair oppor tunity to discuss and examine it Upon such questions there should be no award, no Judgment, and the sanction should be confined to moral Influences which time, thought and free discussion will awaken. - ; "Third, if any nation should refuse to submit a proper controversy to judgment or refuse to perform the judgment when rendered, or refuse to delay war, I am willing to agree that ostracism shall he the penalty inflicted. Disarmament Program. "Fourth, the compact should obtain a program of disarmament and, after all. In disarmament lies the hope of permanent peace. The constitution proposed is most disappointing in this regard, for a careful study gives us little right to believe that there will be any disarmament among the strong powers." : . - - - - - - -7. ?-'.. The Iowa senator eald the proposed constitution would "neutralize all the benefits of a peaceful settlement of disputes between nations, affirmatively destroy the national structure and commit the United States to a program which must end in humiliation and disaster." Some of the provisions, he asserted, were In direct conflict with the United States constitution and under the charter -this nation would .cease "to be exist" . , , Analyzing the principal provisions of the league's constitution. Senator Cummins said article 10. providing guarantees against aggression and for territorial and political independence of states, is "the most destructive, unjust and reactionary proposal ever submitted." "It will be rejected with a storm of obloquy," he declared. "We are solv emnly asked to guarantee that the boundaries of nations as they now exist, or when the peace conference has re-drawn the map of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceanica. shall remain without change forever." The league's provision for manaa ' ; Continued On Page Eleven. 37TII DIVISION TO : COME HOME SOOII By Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. General Pershing notified the war department today that the complete 37th division, (Ohio and West. Virginia national guards) : have been placed -on priority for early convoy borne. .u. ; , Bringing 4.729 . American Midlers. Including 756 wounded, the transport President Grant arrived today from Brest The principal units aboard were the headquarters company of the 184th infantry, the " supply company and Company K, of the 162nd Infantry from Camp Diz, and the 164th infantry, complete, 87 officers and S,369 men, also from Camo Dlx. Brest convalescent detachments 44 to S8 and scattered casual -units . made up the balance of the passenger list j V -' , The ranking off cer aboard was Brigadier General Albert H. JB. tihHit of the 184th Infantry brigade. . . .