Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 96, 3 March 1919 — Page 1

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LAST WEEK OF ASSEMBLY TO BE DEVOTED TOJUDGET Appropriation Measure Will Be Special Order of Business in House This Week-

Amendments Expected. MANY BILLS ARE LOST (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Mar. 3. Dis- ' posal of the specific appropriation measure, action upon Joint resolutions proposing changes to the basic laws of the state, and consideration of more than a hundred bills passed by the . senate are the Important business matters on the calendar of the house of the legislature for the seven remaining working days of the seventy-, first general assembly. The specific appropriation bill was the special order of business today. Many amendments are expected to be , proposed to the bill, which would ap- ' propriate $3,500,000 for different purposes of Btate' institutions, offices, commissions and departments. The amount which is almost double the specific appropriations given two years ago. Beginning Tuesday consideration of the proposed amendments to the state constitution are expected to be considered. A few of these are regarded as especially important, as they would enable the legislature ultimately to enact laws to change the methods of taxation. One of the emendraents provides that the "general assembly shall have powers to enact laws for taxation," thus not specifying the lim itations of the legislature, while another would make posible the enact ment of an income tax law. Adoption is Certain. Adoption of both resolutions by the house and their signatures by the governor is regarded by house leaders as certain. They will be presented to the 1921 session of the legislature and if adopted again by both houses and signed by the chief executive of the state, they must be ratified at a general or special election. y-" The rep! tJTTmr regtBtTalldil'f15w1 ' U expected to be one result of the . week's session. The measure providing for the repeal of the election law, passed by the house committee on elections Monday. The election committee cf the house has been holding back bHis providing for the repeal of this law, expecting that a bill would be introduced which would amend, the present law In a manner satisfactory to all. Several bills were introduced providing for permanent registration, but they did not meet the approval expected of them. The greater number of house bills introduced, which remained in committee or second or third reading upon adjournment Saturday afternoon, were regarded by members as dead measures. The house may consider them, but leaders were doubtful that they could be passed and Bent to the senate in time for action by that body. There are more than a hundred pending on third reading, a number of which are relatively much more important than the majority of the bills that have been passed. Bills for Consideration. The senate measures ready for consideration on third reading are for the most part of minor importance. Many would affect rural schools in a minor way, while there are several that concern the insurance business. Among the more important scheduled to be considered on passage are: Exemption of soldiers, sailors and marines from penalties of delinquent taxes, which resulted from their being in the military or naval service. Relief of contractors engaged in highway construction work during the war, enabling action by county com missioners upon petitions for claims for losses incurred on account of war conditions. Removing necessity for having credits for work done in study of German language in order to be graduated from high schools. Providing increase from $5 to $25 a day in payment of services of special Judges appointed by the governor. Making it a felony punishable by sentence of from one to five years in the state prison, for any public officer to demand directly or indirectly or to receive any part of compensation rightfully belonging to clerk or deputy under him. Oil Inspection Bill. , Administration oil inspection measure, providing for state food and drug commissioner overseeing inspection. If passed by the house this bill will bo sent to Governor Goodrich at the same time as is House Bill No. 76, already passed by both houses, which provides for oil inspectors being appointed on the fee basis until October, next, when the administration measure is scheduled to go into effect. Authorizing county to issue bonds to pay expense of maintenance of public hall in which public market is opcrated. Increasing allowance for boarding orphans from 40 to 50 cents each perdlera and to 60 cents a day for those under 5 years of age. Regulating administration of firemen's pension funds. Authorizing farmers to incorporate county farmers' mutual fire insurance companies. . Enabling county commissioners to borrow money to finish contracts. Giving common councils right to appropriate money to assist incorporated association in promotions of public health propositions. Establishing farm colony for feeble (Continued on Pafle Three)

Omsk Government To Elect New Assembly (By Associated Press) OMSK, March 3. The council of ministers of the Omsk government Is elaborating a plan for the immediate election of a general assembly. Admiral Kolchak's trip to the front is said to have produced good results, many elements of the population heretofore indifferent giving more hearty support to his regime. As a result of independent action taken by General Semenoff in the Chita district and allegedly with a view to combating possible claims by foreigners growing out , of concessions and special privileges offered by General Semenoff, the Omsk government has declared all acts of General Semenoff void. ; Members of the government are

alive to the fact 'that monarchistic aspirations are entertained by some elements in the country and are tak ing precautions against a possible ef fort to overthrow Admiral Kolchak. COAL MONOPOLY IS CHARGED IN SENATE REPORT ognt 1 ransportauon com panies Control ' Anthracite Coal, .Senator Vardaman Claims. " . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, chairman of the senate manufacturers committee, today inserted in the Congressional Record a statement on the commit tee's investigation ejf the anthracite co.al situation, charging that produc tion of anthracite coal in the United States is controlled by eight large transportation , companies, wnlcn through an almost complete monopoly were able to fx prices and determine the rate of production. Chairman Vardaman explained that tne committee was unable to present its report at this time, as not all of the testimony taking In hearings at Washington and in the Pennsylvania coal fields had been printed. He add ed, however, that he trusted he had "gathered together certain facts" which he trusted would be of help to the next congress in dealing with the anthracite coal question. Testimony before the committee, he asserted in his statement, had dis closed in his opinion that "there is no commodity In cot&mon use tha let 6absolutel jrondWteOjedaS-' -th anthracite coal production. Shortage of anthracite during the war and the existing high prices for the commodity, he said, were due almost entirely to this monopolistic control. Names Controlling Lines. Transportation corporations controlling production in the Pennsylvania fields the only source of marketable anthracite in North America were named In Senator Vardaman's statements as follows: "The Reading (the holding company of the Philadelphia and Reading- Coal and Iron company and the Jersey Central, which in turn owns all of the stock of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre company), the Lehigh Valley, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; the Delaware and Hudson r the Lehigh Navigation compony (which owns and controls the Lehigh and New England); the Erie, and the New York Ontario and Western." Although controlling but 72 percent of the actual production of anthracite, the statement asserted the eight companies had made it "Impossible -for independent operators to compete with them on any fair basis." Legislation Urged. "Notwithstanding the fact," said the statement, "that the constitution of Pennsylvania prohibits a transportation company from engaging in mining, these transportation companies are in this business of not only transporting this coal, but of mining it." Expressing the hope that congress might see the necessity of legislation to protect the people of the United States from what he described as "the greed, cupidity and avarice of these soulless corporations," the Mississippi senator recommended that "if the constitution of Pennsylvania, which forbids the transportation companies to mine coal is a dead letter in that state," the federal government under the interstate commerce clause of nation's constitution compel the divorcement of transportation companies from mining corporations. The statement made the additional recommendation that the price of coal be fixed by the government at a rate which would guarantee of fair returning to the mining companies and which would "vouchsafe to the people of America an ample suppoy of anthracite coal at a reasonable price." THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight. Tuesday, probably rain, colder Tuesday afternoon. Today's Temperature. Noon 50 Yesterday. Maximum 45 Minimum , 19 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Occasional rains. Colder sometime Tuesday. General Conditions ? Temperatures have risen all over the central states, being above normal, due to low barometric pressure west of the Mississippi. Storm over the west is of moderate size, moving slowly eastward and will cause unsettled weather with conditions favorable for fain. Weather continues quite cold' in the northwest and considerably below zero in western Canada, North Dakota and Minnesota.

FEDERAL AID IS PROMISED IN EFFECTING ADJUSTMENT

President Promises to Place Government at Service of States and Cities at Gov- ? ernor's Conference Today. WILSON OPENS SESSION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3.-Mpening tne white house conference of governors and mayors on peace tim business and labor problems today. Pres ident Wilson promised that the fed eral government would consider itself the servant of the state, municipali ties and counties in solving readjust ment problems and would perform its duty guided by suggestions of the con ference. The president said he hoped the conference discussion would assume a wide range, including means of restoring labor conditions to a . normal basis as soon as possible, "and to affecting such fresh allocation of labor and industry as the circumstances may make necessary." Touching upon the peace conference, he said the conferees at Paris regarded themselves only as servants of about 700 million people .of the world, and not as their masters. Federal Competition. Consequently, said "the president, the conferees are anxious to keep in close sympathy with the people whom they represent, "to find out. how we can best assist in making their lives what they wish them to be by giving the opportunity they ought to have." The president, spoke briefly, confin ing himself largely to welcoming the visitors and promising complete fed eral cooperation. He explained that the demands upon his time during the day and a half he could remain in Washington, made It impossible for him to participate in the conderence. Secretary of Labor Wilson, who presdes at the opening session, told the conference committee that the recent strie at Seattle, Butte, Lawrence, and other places, were not industrial economic disputes in their origin,, , but Were the result of a deliberate.-Ctjar nfted-attempt "af a -social and'jibtltical movement to establish Soviet government in the United States. CHINESE COUNCIL FAILS TO AGREE (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI, March 3. The dele gates of the northern Chinese government, In session here with representatives of the southern government for the purpose of adjusting differences which have led to fighting during the recent past, have telegraphed their resignations to Peking, asking that they be replaced by "more competent representatives who enjoy the complete confidence of the government." It is understood that the actual rea sons for the delegates tendering their resignations lie in the fact that the Peking government has failed to en force satisfactorily the armistice in the province of Shensi, where the military government is reported to have attacked southern forces, and also that Chu Chih-Chlen, the chief north ern delegate, is considered as a mouth piece not to be trusted, whereas the decisions of Tang Shao-Yl, the head of the southern delegation, are binding on the south. If Peking accepts the resignations, the peace conference will break up. Observers here believ that if the conference is dissolved the northern militarists will have won a triumph and that the Chino-Japanese military convention providing for the building up of the new army officered by men trained in Japan will go forward. The China Japanese military convention which has been extended by a special clause, signed February 5 to the time when the allies will withdraw their forces from Siberia, contains military and naval agreements, it is said, which apparently bind China very closely to Japanese advisership and control in military and naval matters. All the details, however, are kept secret, and have not been disclosed to the delegates here. NORTON RESIGNS AS COUNTY 'RVEYORj LEAVES MARCH 1 5 Howard Horton, who has been county surveyor for several years, offered his resignation to the county commissioners Monday morning to take effect Marcn 15. Horton will go to. the new division offices of the Portland Cement association at St. Louis to take a position as assistant in the office of the chief engineer. No discussion of a successor occurred at the Monday morning meeting of the commissioners, as the resignation does not take effect until March 15. . - Horton was assistant county surveyor in 1908 and 3)309, was elected as surveyor for 1911 and 1912, re-elected for 1917 and 1918, and had just gone into office to serve 1919 and 1920. He has lived in Richmond for many years, received his college training at Earlham and spent five years on engineering work with the Pennsylvania railroad. ,

"RUSSIA WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR RESPONSE TO ITS PLEA''

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President Tchaikovsky of North Russian government addressing American

The gratitude of the Russian people for the aid given them by the American soldiers was expressed directly to the U. S. boys by President Tchaikovsky of the North Russian government in a talk to them at Archangel.; "You came to Russia at our request and Russia will never forget your noble response," he told the American lads who

are fighting the Bolshevik!. Thirtieth Division to Return to U. S. Soon (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. Units as signed to early convoy home from France, announced today by the war department Included the complete 30th division (Tennesseef North Caro lina and the South Carolina national guard.) NO POSSIBILITY FOR PASSAGE OF DEFENSE BILLS ew. Remaining Measures toi vjo inrouTiixpect rassage of Wheat Bill. (By Associated . Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. With the victory liberty loan bill out of the way passage of which early yesterday prac' tically ended an effort to force an extra session of congress in advance of the president's return from France, both branches of congress went to work early today with the hope of clearing up a mass of bills, few of which leaders thought would be put through. . Democratic leaders predicted that while the army and navy appropriation measures would not be passed this session, tfrey. were certain the billion-dollar wheat guarantee bill and the general deficiency appropriation measure, carrying $150,000,000 , additional for the railroad administration, would be enacted before sine die adjournment at noon tomorrow. A speech by Senator Sherman of Illinois, Republican, attacking the league of nations, was set for today although Democratic leaders Intimated there would be no farther discussions of this subject In the closing hours. Suffragists Fear Delay - There seemed little chance of getting through nearly a dozen bills, including the agricultural bill with a rider to repeal the daylight saving act; the sundry civil bill carrying $600,000,000 for the shipping board, omnibus building bills, and the meas-1 ure providing for federal control and regulation of the meat packing industry. These are only a few of the measures that are expected to die on the calendar. " Hope virtually was abandoned by suffrage leaders of preventing a filibuster on the equal suffrage constitutional amendment which Senator Jones of New Mexico expected to call if opportunity ofFered. Agreement was reached today by the senate judiciary committee to take no action on legislation to enforce war-time prohibition which becomes effective July 1. The committee decided there was no chance of passage of the pending bill at this session. . Appropriation Measure - Signed by President . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. The bill validating and authorizing adjustment of more than 2y2 billion dollars of war . . 1 il. . AOO AAA AAA nnn ana naruors approyriauwu uuia were signed today by President Wilson. . i i . : v. 1 1 1 ! PROBE NAVY GRAFT AT GREAT LAKES WASHINGTON, March. 3. Secretary Daniels instructed the commandant of the Great Laes naval training station to investigate reports that a number of men there have been involved i in irregularities similar to those recently disclosed in the New York district. " i WOULD COMMUTE SENTENCES WASHINGTON, March 3 Attorney general Gregory recommended to President Wilson, commutation of sentences of persons convicted under the espionage low, whose cases on review by officials of the department of justice, were Jound too severe. .

TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION FORMED HERE FOR AUBURN COMPANY

A temporary organization has been formed here for the Auburn Ignition Manufacturing company of Richmond, the new industry which has been ob tained for this city. The company will come here under the new name It has previously been known as the Auburn Ignition Manufacturing com pany of Auburn, New York. . The temporary officers are as follows: George Seidel, president; Sam uel Kitchen, vice-president; Ben T. Hill, treasurer, and Harry Kitchen, secretary. The board of directors is as follows : George Seidel, Samuel Kitchen, Harry Kitchen, Ben T. Hill, J. M. Lontz, George ; JSggemeyer; and Henry Golda The company has been- Incorporated and $100,000 stock has been called. It is incorporated for $200,000, one-half of which is preferred and one-half common. - Ten thousand dollars preferred stock has been taken by the Richmond Commercial club. The company will come to Richmond as soon as a suitable location can be obtained. It expects to employ between 60 and 60 men. The company hopes to expand its capacity to turn BEALLVIEW AND NATCO TO ASK ADMISSION TO CORPORATION Beallview, south of the city, and the territory surrounding the National Automatic Tool company, which are both outside the present corporation, will probably as to be admitted to the city of Richmond in the near future. Rumors to this effect have been heard from time to time, and Henry Bode, of the Improvement association, when questioned Monday morning, said that the matter would be presnted to the Improvement association at its meeting Tuesday evening. Bode would not discuss the matter further, saying that he did not care to present it to the public until the Tuesday night meeting. Improvements, including sewerage, will be asked for almost at once by th.e new suburb in case'lt is admitted to the city, it was said Monday. " Beallview has a population of about 100 and many persons will be affected near the Natco plant. ' INDIANA TROOPS IN HOME PORT (By Associated Press -NEW YORK, March 3. With 1,562 troops the cruiser Frederick arrived here today from Brest Units on board included third battalion headquarters and companies I and D ten officers and 288 men of the 162nd infantry of the forty-first division (national guard of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, assigned to Camp3 Pike, Lee, Lewis and Dix) ; detachment of; 81st infantry brigade headquarters, of the forty-first division; the 95th, 103rd, 456th, 835th and 1099th aero squadrons; casual company numhfrs 271 nf Tennessee. 908 of Indlanri and 1203 of Massachusetts; and mo I bile hospital number 104 for Camp Custer. The steamship Siboney, from Bordeaux, brought 3,151 troops, including detachment headquarters, 40th division (national guard men of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Arizona and New Mexico); a detachment of 16 officers and 997 men of the 348th infantry of the 87th division (national army men of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi), and a small sanitary detachment of the 348th infantry; and a number of convalescent and casual detachments of various branches of the service. The Siboney's troops Included 45 officers and 1,887 men sick or wounded. . Major General Frederick S. Strong, commanding the 40th division, came home In command of the Siboney's troops, and Brig.-Gen. William O. Johnson traveled as a casual. w

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out an annual minimum of three million spark plugs. Last year it turned out 404.000. During 1918 ninety million spark plugs were sold in the United States and Canada and the company feels that there is a large field for this industry. The company has been in business for ten years. ' The committee which went to New York to investigate the company has returned and will report to the board of directors of the Commercial club Monday evening. The committee is composed of George H. Eggemeyer, William Blackmore and. - Williapi H, DIIOIMFCO AN DUOINCOO If DIES FOLLOWING BRIEF ILLNESS Howard Campbell, 66 years old, one of Richmond's most prominent citizens, died attis home, 2019 Main street, Sunday . afternoon at 2:20 o'clock. He had been seriously ill for three weeks. - He was born in Richmond in April, 1852, and was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gaar Campbell. He attended the public schools of Richmond and attended Earlham college. When he left school he entered the Gaar-Scott company in which bis father was a stockholder. He began at the bottom of the ladder to learn the business, and learned thetrade of pattern making. He finalljrbecame superintendent and general manager and in 1900 became president of the company, and remained in that office until the company Bold out l& 1911. Mr. Campbell then retired from business life. He was married February 28, 1878, to Margaret Beelor, of a prominent old Richmond family. Mrs. Can nbell died in January, 1913,' in Lob Angeles, Cal. They had one-child. Frances, now Mrs. Robert E. iHeun; who resides in Otaro, Japan. Prominent Business Man. Mr. and Mrs. "Campbell resided In the Beelor homestead, 144 Fort Wayne avenue, until they built their home In 1907 at 2019 Main street. Mr. Campbell was one of Richmond's best business men. His long years of affiliation with the Gaar-Scott company and th success which & attained gained him many friends and much admiration. He was also vicepresident of the" Wayne Works, vicepresident of the , Nicholson Printing company, vice-president of the Second National bank and vice-president of the Dickinson Trust company. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the Elks Lodge. . . His sister, Mrs. George R. Williams, who has been spending the winter In Miami, Florida, will arrive In Richmond tomorrow. ; Mr. Campbell is survived by bis daughter, Frances Campbell Heun, and two grandsons, Howard and Donald, of Japan, one brother. Will H. Campbell, and one sister, Mrs. George R. Williams, two nieces. Miss Marie Campbell and Mrs. Dudley Elmer, all of Richmond, and one nephew, Gaar C. Williams of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home, t&e. Rev. J. J. Rae officiating. Burial will be: in Earlham cemetery. Friends may tall any time after Tuesday noon. It Is requested that flowers be omitted. I r ; ; Germans Resume Attacks Against Polish Line (By "Associated resl POSEN, March 3,- The Germans, after three days of comparative quiet, resumed attacks all along the Una tipon the Poles Sunday, according to reports from the German frontier.

120 BILLIONS IS ESTIMATED AS INDEMNITY

due entente Immediate Payment of Five Billion to Be RequiredRest Payable "from 25 to 35 Years. PROTECTION IS URGED i By Associated Pressl PARIS, March 3. Th9 peace conference on reparations has estimated that 24,000,000,000 is the amount which the enemy countries ought to pay the allied and associated powers, says a Havas agency statement today. France, the statement auda, demands immediate payment by enemy ' of 1,000,000,000, part in gold, part in materials and part in foreign securities, recommending that tho remain-, der of the amount be payable in a period of from 25 to 35 years. Require Strong Barrier. ' LONDON, March 3. Commenting upon the terms which Marshal Foch will present to the Germans, the Times says: "They will be severe and such as will effectively disarm the central powers on the side nearest France. France has a just right to extra military guarantees on her frontier toward Germany, and these guarantees may well have to take the form of special territorial readjustments. la any case, France may count on our sympathy and assistance in obtaining all these necessary guarantees. "But the chief weakness in the fu- . ture will be in eastern Europe and , that is why a barrier of new states to be erected between the Baltic and Adriatic will need strengthening by every means in our power. Although France has a particular interest in the west front, the defection of Bolshevik Russia makes it desirable that she should find some substitute on the east for her old Russian alliance, and that this substitute .-should take the form of "a barrier line of free peoples. ' "Our own position has many points of resemblance to that of France. The main" avenues of the league or nation" communication with free peoples between the Baltic and Adriatic will be over the sea and therefore we are anxious about free passage into the Baltic and also that there should be at Its eastern end friendly powers to provide the navies of the league after they have entered the Baltic, with repairs and facilities of operation. Protection in East "But that is not all. As in Eastern Europe, we hope to see a barrier of free states erected so that England, which has India to think of, may be protected in the middle east. No one substitute will cover all the ground once occupied by the Ottoman empire. Its old functions will have to be divided between new Arabia, new Armenia, and new Palestine. This is why the question of Syria Is so important to us. "France has a right to the best frontiers possible on the side of Germany, and we have a similar right in the middle east, for it Is not our way to keeD huge armies garrisoning fron tiers. Our way is to diminish our military liabilities by a system of buffer states. "Our position in Egypt gives us especial interest in the future of Palestine and the same applies to Arabia. Such conditions as there are not Inconsistent with the principles of the league of nations. On the contrary, the nearer an ideal carries its head to the clouds, the more firmly must its feet be planted on solid ground." The Times concludes by speaking of the value of American support, sayIng: "We want all the assistance she can see it In her way to give." ASK RIDS LET FOR SOUTH SIDE BRIDGE UNDER FORMER FUND The South G Btreet bridge was dragged before the county commissioners again Monday morning, when Will Reller, speaking lor the citizens' improvement committee asked the commissioners to forward the letting of bids for the bridge under the original appropriation. The board deferred action until its Saturday meeting. - Reller said the committee now asked for a one street-car-track bridge, the roadway of which would be 36 feet wide and the sidewalks seven feet wide. The committee recommended the one track, he said, after consulting Superintendent Jeffreys: of the street car company, who said he believed one track would be ample. Jack Mueller, county engineer, believes the bridge can be built for the original appropriation If this six-foot seam is taken out of the middle, said Reller, and he asked that the engineer be instructed to change the bridge plans accordingly. The bridge would yet be larger than the old Main street bridge and six feet wider tha the Doran bridge, he Bald. ' Henrr Rode and John Johnson alfeo annlra in favor of zoinc ahead with thA revised nlana. and Osorn Seldal was quoted as being in favor of It. MONARCHIST TAKE8 LIFE. CBr Associated Press) LISBON, March 3 The ulclde of Henrique De Paiva Coucelro, leader of the recent, monarchist's revolt in Portugal, is reported by travelers arriving here from Tuy, Spain. t ;