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The stories coming, to me," said Senator Chamberlain in a statement to the senate, "many of them being verified, of the outrages being commit ted against young men . through the Paris. The full peace conditions tf the allied and associated powers are now in the hands of the . Austrians. The first sections of the terms were presented to the Austrian delegates at St. Germain on June 2; the final sections were delivered to them ut the same place without ceremony by M. Dusatta, secretary-general of the peace conference. The terms com- piise the whole treaty which Austria is asked to sign, including the repara tion, financial, military and certain instrumentality of the courts martial minor clauses which were not ready are so horrible that some legislation for presentation when the official cer ought to be acted upon to obtain re- emonytook place. lief. In addition to the published sum- "I want the people to understand mUT of the terms of June 2 the ne the terror inflicted upon our young clauses royide for reparation ar men by these sentences and also the Uangements very similar to those in cruelties practiced against them.- tne treatv with. Germany, including the "The Spanish inquisition was not a establishment of an Austrian sub-sec- mark to so ticed against Irance." of the cruelties prac these soldiers in F5 TENSION SOMEWHAT RELIEVED OVER SITUATION IN MEXICO. Washington. The Mexican situation 'occupied the attention of both the leg islative and executive branches of the government. Tension which was evident at the tate department when first reports -were received of the robbing of sail ors manning a small boat from the American monitor Cheyenne on the Tamesi river July 6, was relieved somewhat by a more detailed ac count of the incident received from Commander Finney, of the cruiser To peka, flagship of the American naval forces at Tampico. The report said the sailors, who were on official duty, were held up by three men in civilian clothes, two of -whom carried rifles, and that when informed of the incident, the Mexican novernment authorities at Tampico 2xad expressed deep regret. tion of the reparations commission, the payment of a reasonable sum in cash, the issuing of bondj and the de livery of livestock and certain histor ical and art documents. The financial terms provide that the Austrian pre-war debt shall be appor tioned among the various former parts of Austria and that the Austrian coinage and war bonds circulating in the separated territory shall be taken up by the new government and re deemed as they see fit. Under the military terms the Aus trian army is henceforth reduced to 30,000 men on a purely voluntary basis. ANOTHER SERIOUS BRANCH OF NEUTRALITY IS PERPETRATED CONGRESS UPHOLDS RIGHT OF HOME STORAGE OF LIQUORS. Washington. The prohibition en forcement bill, drastic provisions and all was adopted1 section by section by the housed but a man's right to store liquor in his home stood up ragainst all attacks. On the final count, only three votes were recorded in favor of an amendment to make home posses ion of intoxicants unlawful. After all perfecting amendments iiad been adopted and others designed to make the bill less severe were fowled over in a chorus of "Noes," an attempt was made to adjourn over night. This prevailed. Washington. The most serious of the recently growing list of attacks on Americans in Mexico came to light A boat load of American sailors from the U. S. S. Cheyenne were held up in the Temesi river, on July 6, nine miles east of the city of Tampico, and the sailors were robbed. The Ameri can flag was flying from the boat at the time. Although the sailors were fishing. they were on official duty bringing in food for their ship, and the American flag flying from the boat denoted that it was official business. 1. American troops parade in Paris I on Independence day. 2 Djemal Pasha, Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey, lead ers of the Turkish eovernment during tie war, condemned to death by a Turkish court-martial. 3 General Haig decorating Major General Squires, U. 1 A. HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Peace Treaty and League of Na tions Stir Up Lively Debate in the Senate. SHANTUNG AWARD SCORED Charge Is Made That Gift of Chinese Province Is Price of Japan's Signa tureWarning of Peril of War What Shall Be Done With Mexico? Daylight Law Saved by President. lAmerican independence, which would fpnquestlonably be, promptly accepted by the other nations." Curiously, enough these several fluestions distinctively American and uert;iore prusumaoiy or ine nignest pmportance to this country have tem porarily been lost sight of in a burst Ibf senatorial Indignation over the ac- Jfion of the peace conference by whichJ iShantung probably China's richest jruvince, wun so,wv,uuv people, ine Iplrthplace of Confucius is given to ijjapan. i President Wilson presented the visit him at the White House to dis cuss the treaty. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, an outstanding support er of the treaty and the league, was the first caller Thursday. Senator Colt, Rhode Island, was the second. UPPER SILESIA TO BE FREE, GERMANY DECIDES. GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO TAKE VIGOROUS ACTION Breslau. The Sileslan Economic News reports that the German govern ment' has finally agreed that Upper Silesia shall become a free state. Gustav Noske, minister of defense, ig said to be the choice of the govern-' fcnent to act m its representative before the entente commission for Upper Silesia. Galveston, Tex.. The Carranza gov- -rnment is preparing to assert full 'control in the oil regions and reduce the power of unattached bandit 3BTonps by sending 5,000 infantry, one r more battalions of machine guns, It to 15 airplanes, and five batteries of Held artillery into the Tampico field according to announcement here iij Meade Fierro, the Mexican consul. BELA KUN'S LAST SHIP SURRENDERS TO SERBIANS Berlin. Advices from Budapest say that during the launching of the new Hungarian monitor Marx on Friday the monitor Szamos, the last unit of the Danube flotilla which had remain ed loyal to Bela Kun, fled down the Danube and surrendered to the Serbians. CHORTAGE-OF $900,000 ADMITTED BY CASHIER FIGHT FOR SHIPS IN SOUTH MADE BY MARINE ASSOCIATION tHaxrisblurg, Pa. Commissioner of Banking John S. Fisher, announced tfcat Ralph T. Moyer, cashier of the 'Horth Pennsylvania bank of Phila delphia, had admitted to James W. -McBurney, receiver, in charge of the ank, that there was a shortage of 900,000. Washington. The ; National Mer chants Marine Association is making a fight for more ships jfor the South. "The full force of the " association is back: of the movement for a fair )d$strfbutton of the Vessels of the lemergency fleet corporation to the various ports of the United States." -GREAT DIRIGIBLE EXPLODES; CAUSES DEATH OF TEN PEOPLE INTEREST KEEN ON DISPOSAL OF GERMAN PROPERTY HERE Chicago. After crusilng back and tforth across Chicago's loop district r hours, a dirigible balloon bearing Ave persons exploded, the blazing wreckage crashing through the sky light of the Illinois Trust & Savings iBank in the financial district. The police fixed the list of dead as the .result of the accident at 10. Three of the dead were passengers n board the dirigible: The others -were employees of the bank. wasmngton. u-erman people are Interested in about $600,000,000 in the hands of the alien enemy property custodian of the United. States. Amer ican citizens are interested in about $100,000,000 held in like manner in Germany. The peace treaty provides that Germany shall return the Ameri can property and that the German property in America be liquidated so It can be used to pay claims against Germany. .AMNESTY WANTED FOR ' . . CHARLES A. McANALLY KONENKAMP RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT OF C. T. U. Washington. Representative Wood introduced a resolution to grant, am- joesty to Charles A, McAnally, a pri- Chicago. S. J. Konenkamp resign ed as president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. In irate in the army, who recently, was his letter to the executive board, ten- sentenced to six months Imprison- Bering his resignation, Mr. Konen roent after being found euiltv of amp saw ails reasons for this action "painting the German colors on the ar purely personal. atatue erected by the Daughters of Mr ivonenicamp stated the next the Confederacy at Andersonville. Ga.. convention of the telegraphers is awlson located there in the civil war." advanced to tAugust. His resignation may not be acted on until that time. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. "Many people have thought that the mere signing of the treaty with Germany marks the ending of the world peril. The situation today is still serious. The world's statesman ship will be sorely tried in the next few years. , "The peace conference 0ms been history's greatest instance of a uni fied world statesmanship directing the moral and. material resources of the "world's family of nations. To nl-. low the spirit behind it to disintegrate at this moment of emergency, when united action is Imperative, would be fatal to all the hopes of permanent peace with which we entered the war. "Out of it all has come the most 1 mportant international document ever drawn the treaty of peace with Germany a document which not only, meets the issues of the present war but also lays down new agreements; of the most helpful and most hopeful character. The nations are bound to gether to avert another, world catas trophe, backward peoples are given a new hope for their future ; several racial entities are liberated to form new states; a beginning is made to ward removing unjust economic re strictions, and the gre(t military au tocracies of central Europe are de stroyed as the first step in a general disarmament. "The treaty is, of course, not all that we had hoped for. Too many conflicting Interests were involved. Nearly every one will find in It weak- nesses, both of omission and commis sion. , "I come home pleased, but not over- complacent with the outcome of the last six months; hopfeul, but not In the Jeast unmindful of the problems yet to be solved." These are the words of Robert Lansing, United States - secretary of state. They sound like both fact and sense. Therefore they are welcome in these topsy-turvy days. ,- Admltting that the League of Na tions Is the hope of the world, is It one that America can accept In jus tice to herself? That is what thW United States senate Is trying to find out. It is the question of the hour. So many shades of Individual opinion are held among the senators that ac ceptance or rejection can hardly be said to be a party question. Any way, the Republican view is presum ably correctly set forth in the follow ing official statement by Chairmnn Will H. Hays of the Republican na tloual committee: "The situation respecting the league covenant is simply this: "There must be effective reserva tions. . These reservations must safe guard the sovereignty of the United h tates in every , particular ; must guarantee the Monroe doctrine fee yond the shadow of a doubt; must either eliminate article 10 entirely or so modify it that our own congress shall be morally as well as legally free after a specified period to de cide when and where and to what ex tent our soldiers shall be employed ; must retain our full control of im migration, tariff and all other purely domestic policies, and must provide full right to withdraw hindrance or conditions ; of any kind, upon giving suitable, notice. "It: is up to .the administration to decide whether It will or will , not ac cept these- essential guarantees of itreaty to the senate July 10. He said ?Hs ... . . Vnat tne treaty was nothing less than li world settlement and It was not pos- iiible for him in his address to sum marize it ; he would attempt only a general characterization of its scope j&nd purpose. He offered to be at the ervice of the senate or the foreign re lations committee. He did not mention the Shantung provision, or the Monroe fpoctrine, or our obligations under arti cle X. Typical expressions of opinion jj-egarding his address follow: The address," said Senator Swan- ion, Democrat, Virginia, "is magnifi cent, able, eloquent and inspiring. The reasons presented for the ratification pf the treaty, Including the League of (Nations, were strong, eggent and un Unswerable." ' ' ' "Soothing, mellifluous and uninform ng," was the comment of Senator Mc- jCormick, Illinois. Taking its stand on President Wil son's principle of "open covenants openly arrived at," the senate commit tee on foreign relations to consider the peace treaty met Monday. Senator Johnson, California, brought forward a resolution embodying d demand for data of every character relating to the treaty and its formulation. It called for the suppressed plan for a League of Nations submitted to the peace con ference by President Wilson, which the president admits was rejected in fa vor of the British plan, and also called for the stenographic reports of the peace negotiations. It was adopted jTuesday by the committee. ! Tuesday, after a heated debate, the senate, without a record vole, adopted penator Lodge's resolution calling on president Wilson to submit to the sen ate the text of the secret treaty nego tiated last year by Japan and Germany jind all other data showing overtures made by the mikado's government to J the central powers during the war. ! Throughout the debate thevfighting revolved about the Shantung incident. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, charged that the Shantung peninsula rwas "the purchase Drice for Janan's Signature to the League of Nations covenant." Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a Republican member of ihe foreign relations committee, called t a "bribe," and Senator Norris of Ne braska, Republican, denounced it as "an outrage" and "a betrayaL" I Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska un dertook to defend Japan's right to Shantung, but Senator Williams of Mississippi, Democratic member of the foreign relations committee, frankly Admitted that If President Wilson had bot yielded in the Shantung affair Japan would have broken off from the allies and negotiated a separate treaty fvith Germany. Realizing the close re Jations between Senator Williams and Ithe White House, senators attached much importance to the Mississippi member's statement that Japan would snever give up Shantung again without a war. "If that's the challenge we might as well, settle it now," said Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican. Thursday was. marked by lively sen ate proceedings. Senator Borah, Re publican, Idaho, called upon the league supporters to join him in securing a referendum. Senator Sherman, Repub ican, Illinois, made an address warn ing the danger of war with Japan and pointing out that such a war would be "Great Britain's opportunity to re gain commercial and financial suprem acy from, us." The senate adopted Sen ator Borah's resolution demanding the text of the United States protest at Paris ; against ; the Shantung award 1 President Wilson, -seeing the league making no headway, and receiving ; no Invitation to appear before the foreign i relations committee, began issuing In f vitations to Republican, senators v to What shall be done with Mexico? This question almost rivals the League of Nations in interest. Nobody seems ready with a complete program, but official Washington is guessing that something will be done soon. Re ports come from abroad that the ad ministration is pledged to interven tion. This is officially denied. Wednesday Mrs. John W. Correll, wbose tragic experience is well known, arrived in Washington with her fa therless son. She hopes to meet the president. . A list of 179 Americans murdered in Mexico since 1915 was made public by the National Associa tion for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. Mrs. Correll said she was leading the ghosts of the 500 Americans who had been murdered in Mexico since 1910. The exclusion of Mexico from the League of Nations was based upon the ground that it had been unable to give, proof of Intention to observe in ternational obligations. Aside from the murder of foreigners human life is cheap these days money matters will probably force action. Americans have about $655,000,000 invested in MexicoS; Great Britain about $670,000, 000 ; France about $285,000,000 ; Spain, Holland and other countries about $265,000,000. Great Britain and France hold the United States responsible for the Mex ican situation, under the Monroe doc trine and under the policy pursued since 1910. They want Mexico put in position so that this property will not be confiscated and payment will be re sumed on national and other debts. In short, every indication points to a probable intervention by the United States, acting as mandatory for the League of Nations. The alternative which is unthinkable is that for eign nations will be allowed to inter vene, in spite of the Monroe doctrine. President Wilson has vetoed the ag ricultural appropriation bill, giving as his reason the fact that included in it was a , section repealing the daylight saving law. Debates In congress Indi cate that the farmers were all against the law, and bombarded congress. w?hile the rest of the country favored the law -and did nothing to support it. Aside from the actual merit of the law, students of government approve the veto on the ground that legisla tion of this kind is vicious. Legisla tion by rider Is never necessary, and is favored only by legislators who want to avoid responsibility. The house failed to pass the bill over the veto. Proceedings in congress seem to in dicate that the present "dry" spell will be prolonged and unrelieved. There are several preliminaries to the term inatlon of war-time prohibition and they all take time. First the treaty must be ratified. Then peace must be proclaimed. Finally complete demo bilization of the army must be achieved. Apparently the length of the dry spell depends largely upon how Germany and other countries behave. Don't think for a moment that, the high cost of living is not receiving Its share; of attention these days. The federal trade commission has reported an - approaching domination by the packers of all Important foods In the United States. The department of justice has begun the investigation of a "$100,000,000 food combine" among the canners Several resolutions have been Introduced In the house within the week calling for congressional In vestigation into prices and the - cost of living. People who moved out rath er than submit to an increase In rent. have found all the furniture storage warehouses full, with waiting ' lists. In 47 1 leading cities In 27 states 89 per cent of all the household storage si ace is occupied. And finally, "the apex of our woe, it now: costs more, to save our dough" -which is to say that a least one bank has raised Ihe' price of safety deposit boxes 50 cents t year. :J. jf. - V ; In the meantime, If anyone lacks ex citing reading, the newspapers are full of every possible variety and size of strike, with more In prospect. " Several Sharp Clashes Ma on Elimination of mri... the President's Veto. Washington. Renewed ah house .Republican w' . UCI Jr. I j "ov -.iu6 ui rough o ij M were defeated in the house d A publican, opponents f -HI with the Democrats in M inate the repeal nrnvi; , H ly afterward, without a $33,900,000 was passed T' N senate. TmH Final action on th aLi:, . repeal came after a da, sharp political clashes in both h auu committees, nm.,.. . Ing those favorine rpnoil ... join in making the repeal vA C b-yeecnes on the iw i v"v "cuunwns as "jiW POdrtlCS" Re-nnhlir. Jl " irauCTS W ever, insisted that the aJ would assure earlv nasRa!ra ricultural bill which Democrats $ wiu ut? vetoed anh-k President Wilson, if it include4 repeal provision. The senate, regarded n h.. favor of repeal now has beforeVi house bill to repeal the daylight Inor lour HTViv n n i , .-i. congressional leaders, mav pass n seua 10 xne president the separs repeal measure. WITNESSES TESTIFY TO THE STATUS OF TRACTION Lid Washingtoh.i Witnesses testjfri from their experienec in operat; traction lines since the begiipi the present era of high prices i me ieaerai eiecinc railways" coed sion again the story of failure to k ends meet In the industry, and, rea ed the warning of an approachii? sis unless public sentiment penq the general collection of greater if; nues for their services. By securing testimony bearing i; result in Scranton and Altoona, Portland, Me., and Wilmington. Dm the railways laid before the cose sion evidence designed to show t' higher fares had solved the proti in localities where tried. Francis H. Sisson. vice presideal the Guaranty Trust Company, of m York, ascribed most of the diffw of the street railways to a decline 50 per cent since 1914 in the purcia. ing power of the dollar. Street railroad companies, he & were' about the only utility which government had not assisted the war. FREIGHT EMBARGO PLACED ON COASTWISE TRAFR. New York. A freight embargo coastwise traffic was announced the coastwise steamship coining operating under federal contTol result of the strike of seamen w iHneprs sinn? the Atlantic ana coasts. The order for the emba? waa fnrwardpd to shipping po"13. the United States railroad ads Th an-harm has been forest i o,ro 3 a conseque& vf y,m. irfi r.ninr iin of creatip ties of freight, much of it at Atlantic and Gulf ports tnr- lying up pi snips u, - - t. urown, secreiaiy g hot the entire ' x he Yirts-! ping or tne counirj i-u- - tied up within two weeks if w gle continued. TUP AUSTRIANS MAY uti ' COMPLETE TREATY -ParisThe missing clauses rf j Austrian peace treaty wu - a tfinly be handed to the Am egation in a day or so. j- trians for consiaertu- l9 9t)H fnr flnv representations desire to make. The probably require iw which to reply. c0 & Consequently, the treaiy ( ly bo signed before Augus ..wiMllE J FOREST FIRES CON '- TO RAGE in t Spokane. Racing ' ridges of western Mntan forest fires cu-; spread destruction al: small towns whichJT ered by the flames from tion with the .United Sta vice headquarters at Mis The .fire has jumped & v, itrnilan Kulch 9f .it Is said, there is P'aCl of stopping it.