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v ' 1 - ' . , , - ' - - . . . jlfefrofc " fi A Tl-? I H PAGES TODAY- I ;f The Weather ..,,1 showers and thunderstorms Saturday; Sunday partly, cloudy, prob- v,u- showers near iae cou.ni. a Klver Mage at Fayetteville . 0.tlo-k yesterday 3 feet. j. i . 8 ? Tn?WsSur 157. 'WILMIK I OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. 1ME I. . voLTcm. -No. ; 11 1 . i r- . t RESIDENT VETOES BILL TO ESTABLISH A BUDGET SYSTEM j rino flf Its Provisions Constitutional. DECLARES HIS SYMPATHY eturns It With Regret And Hopes Defect Will Be Remedied. HIS VETO HOLDS GOOD. ..-..himrton. June 4.- President Wilson tonight vetoed the U1 es (.j,lishlnK a national budget system and an unsuccessful attempt was made In house to pass the meas nrf over hi veto. ' ' The vote was 178 to 103, or. nine ,fM than the required two-thirds majority. Thirty-five democrats ,0lfd with the republicans In voting; to pa he measure. The vote onme at midnight and when the motion to over-ride was defeated leaders were undecided, what would be their next move. Sup portent of the measure were expect ed, however, to unee that It be amended to meet the President's ob jection nnd re-passed tomorrow. Washington, June 4. President Wil- fen tonight veioea ins vui w eiunon budget system of submitting tho ap opriation estimates of government de- artments. The President said that under the bill ongress would have authority to re move the comptroller general from of ce and that this authority should be eserved to the executive department. Notifying congress that he was re iTning the bill without his signature, President Wilson in his veto message Lid: - '. .? I Regrets Situation "I do this with the greatest regret. I am in entire svmnathv with the Ob- eets of this bill and would gladly ap- rove it, but for the fact that I regard fcne of the provisions contained In see- as -uneotFUiti-naV. Thi i he provision to the effect that the omptroller general and the assistant omptroller general, who are to be ap pointed by the President, with the ad- ice and consent of the senate, may be moved at any time by a concurrent resolution of congress after notice and earing, when in their judgment, the imptroller general or assistant comp troller general is incapacitated or in- fhcient or has been guilty of neglect duty, or of malfeasance of office or lot any felony or conduct involving Imoral turpitude, and for no other cause xcept either by impeachment. "Til. offont n V.j. . - . t ine kjl mis, la to iirevcnc ine smoval of these officers for any cause xcept either by impeachment or a con urrent resolution of congress. , i. uas, inmK, aiways Deen the ac cepted construction of the constitution that the power to appoint officers of tris kind carries with it, as an inci- fnt, tne power to remove. I am convinced that the congress is ithout constitutional nower tr iim the appointing power and its incident rower of removal derived from th. onstitution. Finds IVo Warrant "The section referred to not only for oxecutive commltfeA tn rm. "!ve these officers but undertakes to empower the congress by a concurrent "T IO remove an officer ap pointed by the President with th- a. ice and cont of the senate. I can na in tho rnnstifiii . r , "" ,e this Power by -the con m twt. is certa,nly no expressed ,T Lt0nfti;red and 1 n-unable llJ e that authoritv u- f thio . "l exercise fcA ""vneu in any ex pressed grant nf r.nnrA Eleven. ti, "..7"" T OI article at certain BCCLlon' aiter Providing certain enumerate offlr.ro -f, fficer re ,T . i - - f- " clii ted bvrt- e vice anri "ctluen' wnn the ad- the annntl.lnres.8 may by law vest aVthe b v r 8UCh lnfrior.offl jf alon. ,n t?k PrPer In the-Presl- n within u.pdrtment- " would have tokavev;;Jne-eatln theM Pfflces. nave vpstoq u in S . p ?.;H?7W. ot appoint or 1, CDiUC"- aione, in the th. lu. tne aivice aad consent ''fcnupnt ' Vn tne ad of Regarding aB i a er of do the ti,,wl '!ov om office as.an.a4 PCK-p, , --"i. to trie . onnll--. k. I 1 1 I I 1 1 0 n r J. lhat the ;Pstrr,0i thc conclusion' BlOVal ,e.stin of this nnw; r.- i trov 11,... ----- .a UUOTI1BIHU" therefore I am unable to ap- e the "I so.t. iPrilrn - hat the'eon' r moment with the hope ifli0"rnmen gI!s! may. R& time before to remedy this defect." ..Chi'HA AT CHICAGO " Eamnnn A - v.i.l 'hUh Pblic, today "'ivert "need "hew",?0 New Yo' and J lank in th. ;r:r.."emPc to obtain Z 7r?Jnmon y the United lv th " tform h1 vf lank introduced ? v?ra kp J A. both Pities." Mr. r-a .. icuud ran n a s-. tfy to ; cr i Fh i, . "us convention the democrats to adopt it." - a.ii r rancisco to POST; leport on th J,V"e 5. The conference 5tai 0:?'; bill increasing the nav of iaPted .,..y?? inning July. 1 Was It now V 8 mornlnB y the sen. Tar Heel Nomin ate .Raleigh, June 4. The state-wide primary . in North Carolina tomorrow wiU undertake to nominate democratic candidates for United States senator, governor, lieuteriant-goverhor, ; state auditor, state treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, commis sioner of labor and printing, cqmniissioner of insurance, two as sociate justices of the supreme court, 'five' congressmen," three judges, and county and state legislative offices in the hundred counties of the state. r V ; v ' ' A second primary will probably be necessary to determine the nomination in- several of the contests. 1 - The spirit of the campaign thus' far points to - an unusually heavy, yote and with the state and county pickets to, be counted the results may not be known definitely foseveraV''ds. The republican candidates for office, recommended iri the state convention, have' already been certified as nominated with out opposition, except in the case of two' congressional races and the presidency. . V : ' A preferential vote will be cast between Hiram Johnson and Major General Leonard Wood for the republican presidential nomination; but its effect will 'be only moral since the republican national convention will be in session long before the state board of elections canvasses , the returns. MERCHANT MARINE BILL WINS PASSAGE Gets . Through Congress After . Stormy ydyage Now Goes To The President. ' Washington,' June 4.- After a tem pestuous voyage, the bill . establishing conditions under which the great gov ernment owned merchant fleet event ually Is to-' be sold to Americans If possible, to foreigners if not finally was passed tonight by congress. It will be sent to President-Wilson tomorrow. . It was reported out this week and the senate promptly approved the con ference report. The house, however, held that the conferees had exceeded their authority in writing in legisla tion and sent it back. . The conferees today struck out the section to ..which the house, objected and the senate ' again approved the conference report.. ' " Not so 'the house, however, the, measure again , going back to conference as the result of a parliamentary tangle. The , conferees made a third report tonight aft it was accepted by the house , by a rot pt 145 The shipping board of seven .tmem bers, created by the bill, Is directed to make the sale of the government 'fleet as expeditiously as , consistent- with, good business judgment. -Sales may be on an installment basis, payment to be made over a period of 15 years if the vessels are taken by Americans and ten years if taken by foreigners.' CHARLIE SCHOFFER REPORTED DROWNED Popular Engineer Believed Lost On Fishing Trip.. (Special to The Star.) Hamlet, June 4. Information reach ed Hamlet late Friday that Charles A. Schaffer, of Hamlet, was drowned In the Pee Dee river near Poston', S. C, where he, together with a number of friend3, was on a fishing trip.. The details have not been received . here. Charlie Schaffer was one of the most popular engineers on the Seaboard, having been on-a passenger run between "Hamlet and Wilmington for a number of years. He is survived by a widow and several children.' . j REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE IS ATTACKED BY OVERMAN Washington, June 4. Senator Over-, man. democrat, North Carolina, precipi tated an economic-political discussion in the senate today when he presented statistics to support a charge that the republicans had appropriated in ordi nary supply bills more than twice the amount expended by the democratic congress of 1916. Senator Smoot, re publican, Utah, promptly defended the nresent congress, asserting that the war- was responsible for much of-the Increase. ,v .. . . , Senator Overman aaid thirteen sup ply, bills passed in -1916 totaled $978, 000,000 as. against $2,189,000,000 appro priated by the- present congress. He insisted that Tie had1 not included war items In hjt sumrnary. Senator Thomas, Colorado, stopped the debate when he remarked that "the record of each party on the sub ject of economy. Is a record of shame." ADVOCATES RETALIATION ' , - " . AGAINST METJIODIST CHURCH .....i. ; ? ' " ' ' . New Tork, Jun6 4. Ratal.lation against the'Methodlst Episcopal church through refusaV to give benefit per formances under Its auspices until the church repeals Its "blue ,laws" forbid ding theatre attendance ' to 7 its mem bers, was urged here today by. Fran .cis;. Wllpon. : retiring president of the Actors' Equity association.. : "Until their blue .laws prohibiting their people from going to the 'thea tVe. dancing or . playing cards are re pealed, this association will ask. Its members to refuse to render any ser vice at performances or benefits sug gested or controlled by the Methodist church," said Wilson. CARSON CROWD BEATEN.' ; Belfast, June 4. The followers ; of Sir Edward Carson have been defeated In county and district council elec tions In their own strong holds in choosing boards of guardians. In ad dition to the Sinn' Felners' winning of county -Tyrone' for the first" time and maintaining their holdiOri county Fert rnanash, Michael Carolan, who was un seated by' the Belfast council -following his sentence at hard lbOr for an alleged seditious . speech, tcday. headed the poll in the . Spankhill division of Democrats Today v . PRESIDENT N AMES COAL COMMISSION To Settle Wage Controversy In The Anthracite Fields Three Members. Washington;,-June" commission of three members, ; one each represent ing the public, the 'miners and th,e op erators was appointed today by Presi dent Wilson to settle & wage contro versy In the anthracite "fields: "The members of the commission are: ' William 0. Thompson, president of Ohio State university, representing "the public; Neal J. Ferry, of. McAdoo, Pa,', a member of the executive committee of the United Mine Workers of Amer lea, representing- the-miners,-and- Wffl. Ly Connell, of Scranton, Pa., represent lng the operators. " T The .' commission' will hold - hearings, probably In Washington, and If pos sible-will render-its award within sixty days. Any increase in wages granted will be retroactive, to April .J.. and .the award will be . made . the' basis1' for a new wage agreement: replacing that CdMMITTEiTS "REPORT " SCORES A. R: F:AFFAIRS Many Faults Found With Con- Washington, June 4. The majority members of the house sub-committee which Investigated expenditures of the American expeditionary forces made public, tonight what 'they characterized as a preliminary report in which they criticize the sale of surplus equipment to the French government, charged that useless and criminal" waste of life, occurred, on Armistice day, con demned 'American' prison conditions overseas and asserted that junior offi cers and enlisted men had been ex eluded almost entirely from the award or war medals. . The report has not been accepted by the full war expenditures, invest! gating committee nor has the -minority report prepared by Representative Flood, Virginia, been acted upon: Rep resentative Graham, republican, . Illi nois, chairman of the full committee announced that action on both reports had been deferred until the next ses sion of congress. Representative Flood, in a , formal statement, said the full committee had rejected the report. He added that any report made by - the , sub-committee "would-be valueless and would be re jected by fair-minded men." 1 PRISONERS ESCAPE. Atlanta, June 4. Two more prls oners have escaped from the Atlanta federal penitentiary, It became known tonight, making ten this week. John Glbbs and Allen Mathlas, ne groes, serving a year each, broke away- yesterday while working , on a road . on the prison grounds and -got safety away. Bloodhounds were put on their trail but failed to catch them Five of the. eight prisoners - who sawed their -way through ' the window of a cell and escaped Tuesday after noon still are at large. Three- were taken within a few hours after get ting out. ELECTION RETURNS. Returns from today's state wide 'primary " will be flashed by The Morning Star tonight. AWangenients have been made to assemble the returns in bulletin form, as rapidly as possible, and a screen opposite The Morning Star office will convey:, the result to the pub lic. On account of the great "number of contests, with local races in ) many counties, the count in the state generally will be slow. A special-effort will - be made, however ; to facilitate, trie . returns ?. in tthe more important contests : The public is invited to watch The MoramgStarscreen.tonight. ' CAMPAIGN FUNDS : ARE CHIEF WORRY . OF PARTY LEADERS Possible Necessity "Of ferowing Lowden, Wood and Johnson - - Overboard Is Faced. x By- MARK - STJMiIVAN.J, (Copyright. 120, for The Star by If. '7 T. Evening Pot.) '' : -Chicago, June 4. This is what Is gor lng on at Chicago, what any reader would see if be were here-: - There are now in Chicago the fifty- two members of the republican na tional committee, or their proxies, to gether with enough other leaders of national prominence to make about a hundred In all. At 1 9 o'clock ; every morning they come together In a side room of the big coliseum, the. national committeemen formally and the oth ers informally, .-. . 4, , - - -a. .:' The national , committee takes up the business of .settling ; contests, and the room' in which they meet , takes on the appearance of partly -a-trial - In a court .room and partly a. Joint debato. At the head of the room, .on, a raised platform sit " the chairman and ; the secretaries. MNext are the- contesting delegations, ..at table -opposite . each other. The rest of the room Is tilled with the committee, acting as a kind of large jury, and the newspaper men. The contests are occasionally ; pictur esque, often dull and, Always more or less unimportant so far as the- - real work of the convention Is concerned next week. One gets tne impression that the contests aredeclded ' on 'Zlxeit merits, with a rather fine judicial spirit.' Of course. It Is true" that the results of the contests.' will not defi nltely make or mar the fortunes Aof any one of the -candidates, and -that there Is 'therefore" not the Incentive towards , strong feeling nor the temp tation - to be partisan that existed ln the famous" Taft-Roosevelt contests.. Sr Friendly to Lowden. ; ; Contests now open. But. one ought not to say this without recording that In this, as in other respects, there ts an appreciably advance in the spirit ofv.proprlety and -dignity.- For exam ple. On this occasion.-for the first time newspaper reporters are admitted to the room- where the contests"1 are heard. Also, It Is a . fact that , when the committee occasionally does seem to divide on partisan lines, Lowden seems to have markedly more . friends among the committeemen than. Wood has.' " But no inference can be drawn from; this asberinj:Qar:reeult8"next. week--, '-jCr V v.flv - rThex contest are wiaflveiy y unim portant. . They drone along with dull. I" though vehement speeches from' the contestants and .' tiresome , , affidavits The bulk" of the members of the com mittee, drift in and 'out' of the "room, and in the. big lobbies, mingle with the. other,.:, leaders. Drifting - . about they talk and talk and talk. In this i8 exchange of views and information most of what is either Important . or interesting in what is now going on in Chicago. ; . ' ! For the fast twenty-four hours this exchange of ; views and .information' dealt practically solely with one, topic. That topic Is: How will the country take the charges, brought out by : the senate investigating committee in re gard to Lowden ; in ' Missouri. That question is the burden of all the gos sip among- the politicians. , Of j every newcomer, they .ask the same question: How Is the country taking.lt? What they discuss is not whether this was Inherently' a wicked thing or an Inno cent thing. That question ought to be answered on its merits.' Some one ought to go oyer all thif testimony; be fore "the investigating committee and do. it in a judicial spirit. Doubtless in time some one will. But the politi cians here cannot wait for that. What they want is a rough and ready ..'an swer as to how the public feels about it. Face Aa Emergency. The politicians are confronted by an emergency. . They must make a nomi nation next Week ; and they must as sure themselves now how the public is going to feel at the .election rtext November after . the democratic ora tors and propagandists have made 'the most of the. fund investigation. Ever since the investigation commenced, and- since i the politicians began i to gather here, 5 the- fund Investigation has been the reenter of interest, and reports of the testimony from Wash ington have, had more importance than anything happening here, in Chicago. Just now; today , and .yesterday, nat-r u rally enough, 'the discussion focusses on the particular Lowden Missouri as pect of the investigation. About this one question "hang several others. Is Lowden" eliminated by the results of this Investigation? Has he improved the. cases of .Wood and Johnson? How is the country , reacting to the Inves tigation as . a whole? Is it worse for Lowden, as a 'rich man, to have given hundreds of thousands of his own money, than, for Johnson, and Wood, poor ; men. to :have " spent hundreds of thousands o.f their friends' money; or vice versa?, lit . Lowden Is eliminated by the Missouri scandal, is it not then best ) to throvr; overboard Johnson and Wood as well and to carry the nomi nation Into .the field of candidates who have taken no part "in the primaries whatever? 4 V . ' An answer to all these , questions which should- be fair would ' necessar ily take ttt consideration several fine distinctions. s There Is not" space here to do 'that Moreover, the present ar ticle does not aim to include "any at tempt at review,. of the fund testi mony; It -merely' aims to ; give ; j a sketchy picture of what Is going on here. That picture consists' chiefly of, roughly, a , hundred politicians, wan dering about- In groups and couples discussing the fund Investigation,, try ing' to figure out hpw tthe -country, feels -a-bout the- fa'cts brought out at Washington, .Mor.e exctty--theywant.. to' know how they ought ;-ter, fee themselves. J- 'CCoattOWB SnatenSevenX """" "r . -.'! "-'- ; - .-; -. e " - . DECLARES ARE Lowden Gains Through Decisions ? In National Committee Hearing; Booms And Near Boohis Develop Cnicaao. Jane 4 Colonel Procter and fered to the convention.' . ' . i.. nllfd n . conference .tOnlgat after a earing oi Senator HfoieV tatemt al It W,lr dieated -that ,a statement from, the Wood headquarters was under consid eration r From the Johnson camp came the declaration that Senator Moaes'- position indicated that both the Wood and John son forces could be expected to oppose nomination of any man named by the "Old Guard." "'The' friends of Senator Johnson, however, . scouted the present possibility of a coalition with the Wood strength in the convention in behalf of either Wood or Johnson.' :' Chlcaa-o. June 4-The national com mittee adjourned, leaving , the contests in the Seventh. Ninth and Tenth Georgia districts to be decided - tomorrow. - In the contests decided, the Johnson fac tion, listed as favorable to Governor Lowden, yot the four delegute-at-large and the delegates from Ave districts. The picket faction, regor'ted favor able to General Wood, was seated in the, sixth. LOWDEN GAINS TWENTY-FIVE , - Jiowden, forces counted twenty-five delegates intoj-the'tr column as the re sult of today's' decisions of contests by the republican .national committee. The Wood forces,' In? turn, lost an equal number" V; which would have ; been counted! -fprthem1 had the pending con tests been sustained. -All attempts at split decision were lost. While various committeemen pro fessed to Bee behind the arguments for party harmony which were advocated, ( .reflection of personal views as they might-be favorable to Governor Low den and General Wood, the committee in repeated roll calls refused to make compromises arid proceeded to make de cisions on the evidence of party regu larity in the local and district, ma chinery. ." , Lowden forces started off on a : win- fnihg streak by winning the' contests in the eight congressional districts of Mississippi. They , claim- all the&e dele gates. They won a half vote in the Second congressional district of Okla homa- -where ; the Wood f oroes t won a - half vote; also ; by the seating ot Dr. Hugh Scott,- -of . Holdenvill.e,.. end, Albert Kelly, of 'Bristor, respectively. Then the Lowden chiefs claimed another ad dition of support when , the committee ;y6ted to eat' the- regularly ' reported delegates from South 'Carolina led by National Committeeman - Tolbert. Presidential hocnMtQf-GeoerehWpod, jSenator Johnson and Governor Lowden toaay nera ine Bpguigui ui. uunveuuuu city' snd -' shadows Of 'potential "dark horses"; were reported' : With " growing frequency. . ? : e. - . : .V, : '" r Lowden. forces wrev Jubilant over na tional committee decisions' in delegates contests which they ' claimed to add tw.enty-five delegates to. the -Lowden column, with a like loes to General Wood's. General- Wood, gave out a statement declaring. Colone Wm. Cooper Procter and. Frank H. Hitch eock, his managers, were working in complete harmony, and loyalty. ' " The general vigorously, de nied reports, that Colonel Procter was being subordinated, to Mr. -Hitchcock. - Improved prospects, of "the Johnson candidacy were claimed' and often con ceded in some opposition quarters. In .the-'latter,' it was frequently said that the Johnson' movement "appeared to be ; growing'.', and that although .be hind In Instructed delegates, the .sen ator: appeared to be formidable. Op ponents of : the ' Callfornlan.: however, were " equally confident "that he would not capture the convention by storm: -. In the : "dark horse" discussions, names figuring prominently- included Governor "'"Coolidgej of "Massachusetts; Allen, of Kansas;, and Sprbul, of Penn sylvania. " All- discussions continued to range about the-senate 'committee's in vestigation of campaign expenditures. - Another arrival, .but . of democratic persuaston, was Wm.-J. Bryan. He said he was' "only a reporTer" at the repub lican show and-did not plan to partici pate in. republican affairs even in the question of prohibition. He said he did not expect to appear before the resolu tions' committee.- ' . : r-.. i v. . -Women-In- Great .-Numbers -Veterans of many conventions; to gether with many neophytes, including women, arrived in numbers today. Can didates' headquarters took on the cus tomary turmoil and lobbies began ,'to seethe with groups wreathed in tobacco smoke.' ' '..;;.;.... New banners were patched, on already crowded walls, and buttons and badges emblossomed - forth on coat lapels and georgette blouses.. ; Women were espe cially numerous at the Johnson head, quarters and candidates were kept busy pumping' hands of lines of" visitors. Wood : headquarters distributed hun dreds of red feathers, while Johnson visitors were decked with silver bears. , Governor Lowden,. who ,has fully re covered from his illness," announced to night that he would - call on General Woodi, Senator ' Johnson and - Senator P6index.ter ... tomorrow and pay his re spects, . ,,.....'.-.: ,....,.. .:-,. ' . , . .... .1 ... Lowden Stands. By Dry Ijaw ' Preservation of the Volstead prohibi tion , enforcement -act wilh . whatever laws' are necessary to give it full ef fect was advocated by Governor Frank 0-: Lowden today: in his first pronounce ment on the liquor question f : In Van ' interview, with "newspapermen Governor Lowden announced; that he was i"not in favor of any evading" of the prohibition amendment. , .. :"4 -.Governor Lowden stated ' that he' had two- possible .planks for the republican platform- in. mlnd,-but -had -not- definite ly deelded whether they would be of- COMMITTEEMEN STEAM-ROLLING WOOD; SENA TOR MOSES IS BITTER xveiier-aung nis Biaieraeni reiusmg 10 accept the votes of delegates Goldstein, and Moore of . St. Louis, who each re- oejyed $2500 from Louis Emmerson, the Lowden" campaign manager,' according to testimony before, the senate investi gating committee, the governor de clared the national' committee on the convention . credentials com mi ttee should unseat the pair:; : . . Touching; on- the league" of nations, Governor Lowden; took issue with the program announced by ; Senator Hiram Johnson and declared he favored the peace treaty' and " league of nations covenant with ''substantially the Lodge reservations.", "I don't think," said Governor Low den, "that we can repudiate . the entire treaty. I favor,, the treaty with ' some reservations, and those drafted by Sen ator Lodge substantially meet "my de sires!" . . , , . . f Carolina Minstrel Stuff - The -contesting, delegates In t the South Carolina case, stirred up a row I In which the lie was frequently passed, I l Jl L l 1 . t A. A. tuSef, ol "ia le 4 .SBrpel; further charges that conditions were such that the republican vote had been reduced by the alleged methods to a minimum, were made. '. " - v The hearing furnished flre7works and vaudeville. Gales - of laughter, cheers, waves of applause swept the commit tee room. National Committeeman Tol. I bert " became so enthusiastic "In his de scription of his republicanism that he actually did a dozen steps of a jig and pranced up and -down the aisle. Negro witnesses supporting the. claims of the contesting - delegation, "testifying to their Inability to take part in the Tolbert-faction conventions, -declared they had been threatened .with death If they attempted to attend them. Stacks of affidavits presented iasupport,; of the claims of the regularity of theTolbert delegates, they .declared had ( . been "cooked up" since-, the convention and there were broad , Intimations of how the ' signatures might ' have' been ob tained, j-'-..-.'f- -.-ik 'i .:-.'"-.:.,.:. ;v'i.---'jj,". The committee decided, however, that so far as the evidence before It went, Tolbert hadtthe; evidence,' of regularity in; the . Sbth-Carollna oayntloa pro ceedings and seated Tolberfs delegates. Renewed pleas for a special decision came with the- calling -of: the Georgia case. National Committeeman Jackson,' of Georgia, who - is-retiring from the committee and withdrawing from the state, made a special plea that the na. tional committee ' establish harmony among the factions there and preclude contests at the. next national conven tipn by seating all the .delegates and giving-each a half vote.' The committee,- however, bowled the : suggestion over with a quick vote and stood tight on. the, principle. Johnson and ' his small army of ne gro cohorts were Waiting in the ante rooms waiting for the . decision and when the news of the' decision favor able "to him'reached.-there,,scenes which are familiar to. ; any .one. who had at tended an old-fashioned, southern camp meeting were- re-enacted. The shouts and ; screams of "the ! Johnson party, re sounded throughout the coliseum. Ad miring negroes ." danced . about ..their leader.' In ' a wild , 'delirium,' and . raised such a , din that".th'e .committee in the next room had .difficulty., in proceeding to the consideratlonvof the district con tests. ' . ; ". ' i." . METAL TRADES WALKOUT DELAYED, Foil' CONFERENCE New. Orleans, - June 4. Calling of a general strike of members of the metal trades - councils.! at- aH sports on the gulf coast and. South Atlantic seaboard has 'been temporarily held up pending action by a conference arranged today between a local business men's com mittee arid officials of the metal trades council and the federated metal trades crafts. , - - . ..' ; , , It had been piahnd,;; according to information given out by union offi cials today," to call 'oxt metal workers from the Rio Grafide to Savannah In the event, local employers did not re voke their decision to open their plants Monday on a strictly "open shop" basis. ... The metal workers went on strike about two weeks ago, several thousand being out. The conference, will be "held probably .Monday" "night. ACTION ON EQUAL RIGHTS . BILL IN LOUISIANA DELATED - Baton Rouge, La., June- 4. Expected action in the senate on the state rights suffrage bill falled"to materialize today when' the Louisiana " legislature ad journed until next Monday. It was expected the -bill, providing '. for an amendment to the constitution grant ing the ballot to women would be call ed up for passage today. About ten senators were absent. LIKE BON AMI, HASN'T SCRATCHED Dr. Jerry Freeman had a patient brought to" .the ; Walker Memorial hospital yesterday, a baby who seemed quite well. The mother, ..however, wanted It examined. ' Nothing coul$ be 'found; the child was apparently sound. V A relieved mother was about "to return home uwithiher offspring when Dr. Free man Inquired that he -was slightly curious to know what she feared was ailing, the baby. ; ' To which she replied, , "he swal lowed a pin last Sunday, and I just happened " to think that It tmlght have hurt him." ,"'"'- Decisions Favorable To Lowden Bring Forth Denunciation' F r o m General's Lieutenant ILLEGAL, HE SAYS' Asserts Committee lis Displaying Unf air Leaning, To Illinois Governor In Rulings. TO BE REPUDIATED? Chicago, June 4 Senator Moses statement was Issued on his own re-, sponslbillty and without either the knowledge or . approval ,. of , other Wood managers. ' ' It was predicted by some of the Wood partisans that repudiations might develop and possibly entail a readjustment of the Wood manage ment. ' Will Hays, chairman of the repub lican national committee, saldi "I have nothing to say. Not word. The action of the committee, taken In open session, speaks for it self.' Chicago, June 4. Decisions of the renubliean nnfinnnl rnmmK. tee, which today disposed of ' twenty-five contests for seats in the national convention of the party, tonight brought a charge of "steam roller'' tabetics' from Senator Moses of New Hamp shire, who conducted General Wood's, pre-convention campaign in the southern states. : He issued a lengthy statement, the tone of which was in sharp contrast to the jubilant . notes that 7 came, from the Lowden headquarters. . . 'Evidently a mistake has been made,"; said . Senator Moses' statement. ; , : 'tThe steam-roller which was used so effectively.-in the con vention of 1912 and with such disastrous results to the party hi the' election following has noy been scrapped after all. ;It has merely been in the machine shop for repairs and for some new, at tachments." - ' "The most Important of the latter? appears to be a patent reversing ap paratus y which enables the national committee at will - to; disregard its prior formal action in recognition of certain national , committeemen and state chairmen against whose organi zations there have , been trumped up a series of fraudulent contests. Mechanism U Described. The chain of procedure which the national committee formed at its ,St. Louis meeting in 1917 and at the Wash ington meeting In 1919 contained three links. The first connected", the national chairman with the recognised committeemen in the states, to whdm were sent the official calls for the con ventlon which assembles next' week. The national committeemen transmit-, ted this call to the recognized state chairmen, thus constituting-the second link in the chain. The third link con nected the state chairman with his organization in the counties. Through the operation of this mechanism dele gates friendly to General Wood "have been elected, with entire 'regularity In every southern state . save two.- The function of the national committee at .this juncture, is not -to determine qualifications of members - of the na tional convention; it , Is established that regularity1 which' entitles a dele gate to be placed upon the temporary roll, leaving the ultimate question of his right to a seat to be ; determined by the convention through its com mittee on credentials. i; . "Yet the " national committee, with Chairman Hays . conveniently - absent from the chair,' Is assuming to decide the . matter in advance but to decide it upon the narrow lines of the com mittee's personal preference. Favorable "to Lowden. ' "General Wood's friends have always understood that the national commit tee 'as at present -constituted f stored the nomination'- of Governor Lowden. We have 'never' questioned their right to hold such" a' preference but we do question seriously and -vigorously their right to" color their, decisions, which should1 be merely ministerial . if not Judicial," by "such preference and the conditions under which so many of the present - national committeemen hold their places only increases the strength with which we now-aseail the course which they are pursuing."' - '. . -. "As a result " of -the - primaries and conventions" held throughout the union, substantially one-third of the mem bers of the present national commit tee have failed to get In the confidence of their constituents and they , will go put of office the day the convention ad- mltteemen , iri defiance, ot the . popular judgment already rendered, are seek (Continued on Pag Eight.) S i '..
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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