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:.r - : i.;.: : 96-'-. k-.." v, -1"-"vf r(i ';:.; ":.v, ? : - - : ' ; " ; ' . . . 1 '' ' lAiCar-" x LL&Za&:-'i " - -. A J. ... The Weather Increasing cloudiness and warmer ' followed by rain Wednesday; Thursday fair nnd colder, , '. . . BlTer stage nt Fayettevllle Tester. nnrTn' iWfeSiSk' li&''i'' ' Wilmington's Only Xv b . '.-.V'' gigiJili v , JiUMMfe kJiLOOLV 1 Newspaper V VOL. CVL No. 172 . - ' : 1 . t ; , . - - s " : : : . HARDING HAS REACHED PERSONNEL OFFERS HOOVER PLAGE SECRETARY COMMERCE HE MAY ACCEPT president-Elect . Harding An nounces Tentatively Every Cabinet Member MELLON IS NAMED Pennsylvania Banker Finally Chosen for Portfolio of the Treasury r . Hoovrr nnid tiere tonlarht he had dla discrd "ith President-elect Hard ine over the telephone the accept ance of u cabinet . post, offered, io him. 11 r. Hoover's statement follows s It ik true that Senator Harding nnd I have hnd a conversation over ti-c loinihone this evening to my ncrrptluK a post in the cabinet. Nnt lirailj, there are matter re quiring; consideration, .and eoaally tlic.r sire not matter for me to dis- ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.. Feb. 22. (By tiie Associated Press). President-elect Harding has reached a tentative deci sion on every place in his cabinet, mtl unless there are last-minute changes the official circle of the next administration will be composed of these men: Secretary of State Charles Evans Huphts, of New York, former governor, jutice of the supreme court and. in 1916 Republican nominee for the presi iency. -. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew IV. Mellon, of Pennsylvania, a banker and financier,, m omb er . of a . m H y v re-: pitted to be among the wealthiest In :he countijy. - ' , , Secretary of War John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts, former United States senator and in 1916 a candidate for the presidential nomination. Attorney General Harry M. Daugh erty, of Ohio, who -managed the pre tonvention campaign resulting in Mr. Harding's nomination. Postmaster General Will H. Hays, "f Indiana, chairman of the Republi can national committee. Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, f Michigan, a former member of con gress, who has served as an enlisted man in both the navy and marine corps. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, now, a United Sates senator. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, of Iowa, editor of farm pub lications. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Horver. of California, former food ad ministrator and conspicuous leader in various movements for European re lief. Secretary of Labor J. J. Davis, of Pennsylvania and ' Illinois, a former union steel worker, who has - become the highest official of the Moose fra-t'-rnity. If changes are made they are most likely, to affect the appointments for lavy. commerce and labor, all of which are understood to have come to the Point of decision within the last twenty-four hours. fn regard to none of these has there en an exchange of formal . invita tion and acceptance, but in every case selections made by Mr. Harding a"e expected by his closest associates to stand. Assignment of the navy portfolio to Mr. Denby, who is a Detroit lawyer, 'Urnishert the first real surprise of the -aljinct situation, for his name had not """n mentioned publicly in connection with the place until today. It is'unT ""stood that from the first he has :jer-n under consideration, however, and hPid ;n reserve for just such a !Tiitintrency as Mr. Harding faced last "" k when former Gov. Frank O. Low of Illinois, declined to be consid ered for the navy secretaryship. Jt ir, expected that before the Presi-nt-eleot makes a formal tender to J'r Denby, he will call him into con Vf,rsation and go over with him the 'ai problems of the coming adminis j nation lonay Mr. Hariflnff' wan In inmmnnl at 'on with some of the Michigan mem ofrs r f r-ongress regarding the appoint mrnt Hnd it is understood to have se 'urd their approval. Rvr.r since the early days of the inp;,in ir. Hoover's name has been ' "f the storm centers of " the ' cabi i't. many Republicans' urging his ' '"fitment as secretary' of state, ln ,;'"r commerce or labor, and many !liciKinR it because -of' his decided i in favor of the League of Nations, -."tw.j. he will accept the commerce ''"'folio is not definitely known here. v'!' 'he general expectation is that he A formal invitation is expected J-? f'"-ward in a "few hours. " " . ' l"' former food administrator was ;;'0 rst national figure with whom Mr. arciing. conferred after his return to t? hington from the Chicago conven ;f'n last year and later Mr. Hoover rtiiif. to Marion among the firsts of l" "lfst minds" to be called into con - u-rsaiirm Shnnl V, ait- In cabinet he may be asked to head crnniiasion for re-organization . of - exeeilt lvft r1er rtm.ntl nf th firOV- the 'rMn,( nt. , . . . J;-ej?arling the labor portfolio, also, re. has been a flood of reconvmenda- ns and counter recommendations, 'th four avallables under serious oon '"ftration. it is understood that in . Anal line-up James .'Duncan- .of sachusetts, ranks close to Mr. Da. 8 should there be a change iti (Continued on Pag Two.) ilCH Qg CABINET William EvMcCombs Is Dead In New York William E. McCombs, who has ied in New York, after a period of illness during which no hope had been ex pressed for him. He had been suffer ing from heart trouble. LI C PI Yi hi UUIt SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS Former Chairman .Democratic Party Passes Away in ; . the Metropolis NEW YORK, FebV22.-T-Wiriiam F. McCombs, who organized the campaign that resulted in President ' Wilson's first nomination and election, dfed of heart trouble-today in Greenwich.'Conn. Stricken with a heart attack several months ago, the , former. Democratic national chairman grew steadily wese and his death hau been momentarily expected for the last few weeks. Funeral service will be held here on Thursday morning. The body will be taken to Little Rock, Ark., for burial. Known as a brilliant lawyer and successful politician in New York city, William F. McCombs received his first experience in national politics when he became campaign manager for Wood row Wilson in 1912. Later he became chairman . of the Democratic national committee and declined the post of am bassador, to France " offered him by President Wilson after his election. Born of southern parentage at Ham burg, Arkansas, i Dec 26, 1876. he re f . ceived an, elementary . education at Webb school in Tennessee and later was - graduated from Princeton uni versity. He studied law a : Harvard university and entered the profession in 1901., While still a clerk In a. New, York law office, he handled a suit . involving $20,000,000 ln railroad" "securities and received recognition which forecast his highly successful -career. , Prior to his appointment as cam paign manager to Woodrow Wilson in 1911, he served on -tne tariff revision committee oL the National Democratic club. He was appointed a trustee of the City college of New York by the late Mayor William F. Gaynor and act ed as counsel for William H. Edwards during the time he served as commis sioner of the street cleaning depart ment in New York. He successfully prosecuted a number or snow removal frajud cases. In 1912 he was elected chairman of the Democratic national committee fol lowing the nomination of Wilwn at Baltimore. He was a member of the American and New, York States Bar Association, the, Association of the Bar of the city I of New York, the Southern society and I numerous clubs in New York and Washington. - In 1913. he married Dorothy Wil liams, daughter of COI- JOHn a. Wil liams, of the United States army in London. -They were divorced in. 1916. For many years he made his home at the Vanderbilt hotel $n New Yore. LABOR DRAFTS BILL WHICH PROVIDES. FOR. ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON Feb. 22. Approval was given.today 'by international labor union heads and their allies to a ten tative draft of a bill to legalize the fight pf labor unions to organize all fields of industry despite individual contracts , between employers and em ployes prohibiting union membership v The bill, which Is designated to offset the effect of the United States supreme court decision in the Hltchman Coal and Coke company case, upholding the validity of the individual contracts; will be submitted at once to the execu tive council of the American Federation of Labor for final approval. , GREAT BRIT AIN'SKXFORTS ' INCREASED LAST YEAR LONDON, Feb. 22. Great Britain exported goods to the United " States last year to the value of over ?574, OOp.000, as compared with 1357,000,000 fotvl91&- . - ... . . This, according to the American chamber of commerce in London, was entirely due. tot the trade, boom In .the early months of last year, the -latter months of 1920 sbowln a continuous and striking decrease, ,," -) -v '. ' " .-, , V 'V i ON, N. REVENUE CARRIES. AD VALOr- TAX THAT WAS NbrMNTICIPATED Declared That North Carolina Can Not Progress Without the Levy "DRY" BILL BEATEN Committee Votes Unfavorably on Measure Proposed By Rev. R. L. Davis Morning Str Bureau Ya rborough Hotel. By R. E. POWELL RALEIGH, Feb. 22. Carrying an ad valorem tax of five cents on the $100 for schools and a graduated income tax rariighg 'from l' to 3 per cent, the reve nue act for 1921 was introduced in the lower branch of the general assembly tonight and placed on its first rating. It anticipates a little more than ten millions of dollars for the maintenance of the state government during the coming year, and for the support of educational-and. eharitable institutions. The ad valorem tax is contrary to the hope of the "best minds" in the legis lature, but with its announcement is the statement that North Carolina can not hold a progressive stride without it. The introduction of this bill in the .house tonight by Doughton. and de feat before a committee this afternoon of . the 1921 prohibition bill, were the outstanding legislative " developments of the day. Tonight the clans are gathering for the educational and cen sorship . battles before committees to morrow afternoon, and an extra thrill has been given the capital In the an nouncement that Tom Dixon, in re sponse to many- wires, will come back to Raleigh again tomorrow and be pre pared to match wits with Col. Isaac Meekins and Senator R. S, McCoin, champions of the censorship program of the . ladies. There is in evidence muoh surprise that the finance committee should have incorporated the ad valorem tax in its revenue bill this time. Opponents are making a great deali of fuss over the Democratic pledges of 1920 not ' to again levy an' ad valorem for state purposes. - The proposal to put it in the bill was bitterly resisted -inv the .com- aentative Townsend of Harnett, and the committee once back-tracked. "At late meeting last nfght, however, fhey agreed to reinsert the clause' car rying the property tax for state pur poses and in this shape the bill came to the house -. tonight. av v ? , I. It will occasion a hard flg-htlbtil, on top of the announcement that -It is 4n eluded In the revenue program, is the statement tonight that a vigorous fight will be made In the senate to ; put an ad valorem tax in the road . bill. Against this Governor Morrison has pledged the weight of his influence and it is believed he will to some degree oppose the tax in the general revenue bill. A warm fight in the judiciary com mittee this afternoon developed when Representative Cook's bill to harmon-i ize the state laws with the oVlstead act was un for consideration. After a long hearing featured by the. presence of the Rev. R. L. Davis, and a tilt be tween the anti-saloon league superin tendent and Representative Townsend, the committee voted seven to one against reporting the bill to the house The lone member supporting the Cooke bill was Templeton, of Wake, who has a similar bill constituting a state con stabulary. The Cooke measure carried an ap propriation of ?20,000 and an extra court tax of $50 for each conviction, tha same to be employed as a special fund for organizing a state prefect of police and maintaining a legal force for assisting the attorney general to enforce the law. Townsend of Harnett, Williams of Cabarrus, and Parham of Granville, were opposed to the bill, as was Leach of Moore. Templeton was ' the lone member of the committee defending the bill, which, though aimed to re concile the state law with the federal statute, was regarded as even more drastic than the Volstead bill. "A law like this will retard prohibi tion enforcement in North Carolina," said Mr. Williams, "and will intensify public sentiment against the Volstead bill. It will make enforcement almost impossible." "There has been a natural flareback from the law and prohibition has made more criminals than any law I know," asserted Mr. Townsend. "This bill will not make them quit. Instead of passive violators we will have desperate violators of the exist ing statutes." Rev. Mr. Davis insisted that the sen timent is becoming aroused as a result of the recent law enforcement congress held at Greensboro but on this point Representatives Townsend and Gaston, of Gaston, took sharp issue with the dry superintendent. "The 'good folks' won't testify now against the violators of the law." said the Harnett member, who has' been prosecuting attorney in his 'district, "and if they know a; man's "property depends on turning him: up, they cer tainly won't give evidence." During the discussion. Mr. Davis de clared that the present laws are chief ly Inadequate because of the loose con struction of the North Carolina courts. He chastised the venerable Judge Bond of Edenton. because that judge has held that the possession of a gallon of whiskey is no evidence tlat its holder is keeping it for sale. He did not know about isome of the other judges. LOW GRADE GAS FORCES AN AIRMAN TO COME DOWN AGAIN BRONTE, Tex., Feb. 22. Lieutenant Coney, en route from San Diego,., to Jacksonville. Fla!., ,. landed in Bronte, at 7-3f-a. m.," today, because he run out of gasoline. After procuring a supply he continued .hisfilsht, but the gaso line secured, he was of such low grade he was compelled to land again Sear' here and is : waiting for another plane from Dallas to continue his flight,' , ' "' WILP O, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1921. SENATE TAKES : JUDGES FROM THE OPERATION OF THE PRIMARY LAW Candidates for Superior and Supreme Courts, Are Ex empted in Law KILL LICENSE BILL Board of Health Measure to Register Marriage License At $4, Defeated Morning star Bnran, Yarborough . Htel. Br R. 13. POWELL RALEIGH. Fete . 22. The senate at this morning's session, without com ment, ordered tie judges, off supreme and .superior court taken from the operation of the primary. The bill will find the going rougher, perhaps, in the hiouse, with three Republicans andr Blue, of Scotland, who just can't say yes,, voting 'against it. " ; .' ; Showing, that t could, leave some things just, as they are, the senate merely glanced at the proposal to let the people vote. on the creation: of a board of pardons and by .43 to: 5 wrecked this measure without ' com punction. True, 1 the form the board would take, being .coraposed.of; the, gov ernor, secretary of state, and attorney general, operated to lose if votes,, put it is doubtful if the recording-angel as chairman of the new department ; of government would have gotten . the three-fifths required niaj&rlty.'- ' Among, the other public bills passed was one raising the salary" of; the as sistant attorney-general and the 4adju tantgeneral. Following' considera tion of the bills , increasing the salary' of tl)e assistant attorney-general, -'the senate 'passed a bill increasing the salary of .state librarian from. 1.5O0j to $2,500. .The keeper of the state house building was put on a par with other state officials in salary' by a blll -whjch gives the council of. state .the right to adjust these salaries. 'v The bill to increase the Salary .of the attorney general from $3,0O tb $4,000, was "held ud for further ; Investigation after Hhe itroducUOn of an' upwii ynatoH general of the .state" and1 turning this work over to' the aJutant-gJiral. It was-said by Senator Varser and Sena? tor McCoin that the duties of the paymaster-general are not 'very"Varduous and that they merely consist of keep ing a'record ot the checks and counter signing the checks made out by the office of the adjutant-general.. Senator Nash said' he had investigated the whole proposition and in his opinion the efficiency of the guard would not be impaired' by abolishing the office re ferred to. It not only carries a salary of $1,000 for very nominal work, but allows stenographic service amounting to $540 annually. If the change could be made, the salary of the attorney general could be increased and . the state would save $540. The bill went over until tomorrow in order that a more complete investigation could be made. Senators Walker and Gallet were ap pointed a committee to investigate the soldiers' home. With the California law as a. model and with Tobe Connor mildly opposing it is calculated to do violence to the ) Sherman anti-trust act. The house Tuesday morning passed a co-operative marketing law that will enable the farmers to pool their product for any period from ten seconds to ten years. By contract, a marketing association will be given full authority to sell as agent all manner and condition of pro duce. Bennett, of Anson, as usual, voted no, but the house seemed dis posed to take the view suggested by Everett, of Durham, when he asked Mr. Connor if the Serman law applies to farmers. The engineers bill, which requires the licensing of all sorts of engineers, civil,, incivll. electrical and mechani cal, which was beaten in committee spme days since, was brought forward and passed as amended. The house sidestepped the emergency judge bill and the question of the 8 per cent interest contract, the measures being deferred. The bill repealing an act of the 1919 session transferring the state's prison to the state hospital for the insane passed all three readings following favorable report by the committee on penal institutions, made by Repre sentative Glover. For the committee on insane, Representative Bolton said that members of the committee of the house and senate ; had made a study of the proposition and were unanimous In the opinion that It would be both unwise and expensive to convert the peniten tiary into a hospital for the insane. With Douffhton,' he . urged the passage of the measure repealing the 1919 act, which was done without a dissentifrg vote.- , Death was done to the bill provid ing for the registration of all marri ages in North Carolina, which would have increased the fees from $3 to $4 for licenses. ..The bill had the Indorse ment of the state board of health and was intended to provide a record of all marriages In the state. It was de feated by a vote of 56 to 32. NO WAR MATERIALS ARE TO v BE SHIPPED- BY GERMANY LONDON; Feb. 22. The allied coni trol commissions, in,. Germany will pro hibit shipments of war. materials from Germany ' to Argentina or ' any other neutral country, if ,such countries per sist in trying to buy ' munitions. This announcement -was made in British, of ficial circles here today. EXCHANGE OPPOSES TRANSFER -. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Senator Harris,; Democrat,, Georgia, presented in the senate today , resolutions from the Savannah, Ga.', cotton exchange op posing transfer of the hydrographic office from the navy, department to the department Of commerce. WINSLOW GUARANTY BILL EASILY PASSES IN SENATE Measures to Permit Partial Payment to Railroads Has Smooth Sailing in the Upper House Senator Townsend Insists and Wins That Not One Line of the Bill Be Changed No Opposition Is Expressed WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Opposition to the Winslbw bill to permit partial payment to railroads from the govern ment guaranty fund collapsed com pletely today in the senate and the measure, was passed without a . record vote two 'hours before the expiration of time allotted for debate on it. Senator Townsend, - Republican. Michigan, in charge of the measure, in sisted that not one line in the bill as passed by the house should be changed in the senate, lest conference and en suing parliamentary obstruction delay what he described as action absolutely necessary to prevent bankruptcy not Only among railroad, but also among railroad creditors. The senate follow ed his advice and the measure was sent to the President. Debate on the bill today was very brief, barring a six-hour speech by Senator LaFollette, Republican, Wis consin, who attacked it as designed to enlarge . the government's original guarantee to the railroads. On-a roll all, the senate defeated, 47 to 19, an amendment offered by Senator LaFol lette which would have required the Interstate Commerce commission to in vestigate railroad expenditures before further payments are made. Senator Townsend, describing the situation which he said made the bill emergency legislation, lasse'rted that the . railroads because of reduced earn BELIEVE SMALL PLANS FOR SENATORIAL RACE Retiring Congressman, in First District Preaches State's Rights . (Special to The Star) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22: Represen tative John H.. Small, onej of North Cailhia's Vstaunchest1 defenders : of rurnw. xms tnawe.are irin state's rights, thinks thatwe are drift- W v ' l x-r i . j i . idly amendments,, would tend taicentratize the, sTOnuneafJin Washington. He be lieves the Interstate" Commerce" "com mission's decision in the rates case has gqn a long, way toward depriving the state of what few rights it has left. "Twenty states." said he, "have united to contest In the "supreme court the jurisdiction and power of -the com mission to Increase intrastate rates tq correspond with the interstate State rates recently advanced under the law by the commission. Evidently' the several states consider this a very Im portant question, not only because it advances the intrastate rates, but be cause the action of the commission as sails? the right of. the states heretofore exercised to regulate intrastate rates. "The states have probaoly awakened too late. - Beginning with the decision of. the supreme court in the Shreveport case, the tendency has gradually grown in. the. federal courts and the congress to regard all railroads within the states, with interchanges of traffic with roads outside of the state, as being en gaged in interstate, commerce. The su preme court will probably uphold the transportation act of 1920, which vests the- Interstate Commerce commission with power to fix intrastate rates. "The states have been sleeping on their rights. I refer to fundamental rights. A great principle of govern ment .cannot yiejd .to .considerations of exigency or popular ' favor. Such a principle must be maintained' in its in tegrity or it will lapse into a condi tion of inertia. "Then Mr. Small cited a few illus trations, among them, nationwide pro hibition and woman's rights. "However,"- said he, "these two maters are past history and are the supreme law of the land, and I only mention them as warnings for - the future." Mr. Small says that the only remedy is enlightened public sentiment. It is believed by some who read Mr. Small's statement that It forecasts a campaign for the senate three' years from now, when Senator Simmons and Secretary Daniels will lock horns. Friends of Mr. Small believe that he is trimming his sails for that race. EDUCATIONAL HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT (Special to The Star) GREENSBORO, Feb. 22.- Tomorrow night proponents of the six-year $20, 000,000 building program for the state's educational and charitable institutions will foregather in Raleigh to present their case before a Joint hearing by the appropriation and finance committees of the legislature. The hour of the hearing is 8 o'clock Wednesday night, and the movement of delegations to the capital to attend it has already be gun. A special car from Asheyille and an other from Charlotte passed through Greensboro' tonight en route to tomor row's secene of action. A special "edu cational special" from Greensboro will leave tomorrow afternoon at . 4:15, carrying delegations from this city and the Immediate section, Including towns to the north and west. .This train will provide a special dining car servlce . and - leaving Raleigh shortly after midnight, will bring practically all delegations from the western sec tion to this potntfor cohnecTTon with early morning trains to. all points.' FEDERAL COURT IN SESSION' RALEIGH, Feb. 22. The selection of a Jury and the denial of a motion on the part-of counsel for the defense to quash, the .Indictments, were the only features of the first day of United States court for the; eastern district of Japanese garrison -at Vladivostok, had North Carolina, which today . started j been removed from the active list of into the trial of : sixty v merchants j the Japanese army; and that various charged with conspiracy and with " officers under the command of Gen using th-UniUd State mails t d eral - NIshihara had been subjected to fraud. 1 - punlshmen ot various degrees. OLDEST ing were entitled to a payment of $600,000,000 under the government guarantee against losses during the six months following the ending of gov ernment control. The carriers, he said, had received $350,000,000 of that amount and con gress supposed in passing the trans portation act that the balance of ap proximately $350,000,000 could be paid them on installments in certificates of the Interstate Commerce commission, though in the nature of the case, many settlements cannot be completed in years. The comptroller of the treasury, Sen ator Townsend, further explained, had ruled that a final account must be ren dered the government before the roads could receive any additional amounts, and said this "threatens to bring about bankruptcy not only of weaker rail roads, but of many business concerns which have sold to railroads materials for which payments cannot be made until the government acts." Railroad credit in general, he said, was en dangered by delay. The bill as passed would require the Interstate Commerce commission to certify to the treasury amounts which it actually finds to be due railroads, i regardless of whether they constitute the entire claims of the carriers. It further would require the secretary of the treasury to pay out all sums so certified. RIGOROUS MEASURES TAKEN IN NEW YORK Officials Very Active Against Chance of Typhus Being Brought In MKW YORK, Feb. 22. Rigorous measures to prevent possible introduc tion of typhus fever and other dis eases through this port resulted in the examination of 6,355 persons during the week ended yesterday, and 272 t weejound Jnf ested with vermln-sald -statement - issued today - by Deputy ileal th commissioner Monae'han. ' i- Examination ' of. ? Immigrants contin ued today on Steamships, at the bat tery -receiving station and in railway terminals. Eighty-nine steerage pas sengers on uhe Acquitania had vermin and three lice-covered immigrants were found ashore and taken to hos pitals. . Health Commissioner popeland made public a letter from Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, saying officers of the public health service now . are stationed abroad to advise consuls and enforce quarantine regu lations. The. letter was in reply to telegrams from Dr. Oopeland1, calling the President's attention to entry of typhus here. Sir Aukland Geddes, British ambas sador, Who returned.' on the Acquitania; left. the. vessel, with his party . at noon ana . was conveyed to the city by a coast guard cutter. At dusk, however, Sao Sez, newly appointed Chinesd min ister to the United States, still remain ed aboard and it seemed likely he would spend the night in his cabin The steamer was held at quarantine all day for fumigation by health authori ties, who . said they had received re ports of bubonic plague cases in Porto Rico, from where the ship came. None of the passengers was .found infected. On the Leopoldlna and the La Savoie, both from Havre, 21 immigrants in fested with vermin were detained. PRESIDENT TO DEVOTE LIFE TOWARD PEACE Will Continue to Work for Peace in the World WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. President Wilson expressed the determination to day to devote himself upon retirement to private life to a continuation of his efforts toward world peace. In his. first public utterance since the November election, the President, in receiving a delegation from the Woodrow Wilson club of Harvard uni versity at the white house, declared he had no intention; of writing a history of the Paris peace; conference. He add ed that was a task he preferred lo leave to the professional historian, as the public might be prone to take into consideration the personal equation in any account of the peace proceedings he might write. ' After their visit members of the delegation stated that they "were deeply impressed with the great heart of the, President as he seemed in re flection to think over the question of peace" and said that they were "deep ly touched by the President's faith in the ultmate accomplishment of his efforts toward peace and by the almost brilliant good humor with which he is leaving the white 'house." JAPAN EXPRESSES REGRET FOR DEATH OF LANGDON WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Regret on the part of the Japanese government over the fatal shooting of Lieut. W. H. Langdon, an American naval officer. at Vladivostok earlv in Januarv is reiterated in the reply of that govern- ment ' to the note from the United States. The hope .was . expressed by the Jap anese government "that the govern ment of . the United States will fully appreciate sincerity of spirit in which the Japanese government has acted in dealing with this most unfortunate Incident." The . Japanese government informed the-. American government that Major ! General Nlshlhaxa, commanding the DAILY IN THE STATE. JOHNSON NOT AVERSE TO NAMING OF HUGHES FOR STATE PORTFOLIO California "Irreconciliable" Sen ator Pleased By Appointment "MIND OF HIS OWN" Says Hughes Is "Independent- Minded" and Speaks What He Thinks By DAVID LAWRENCE iCZYTlKsKt' 192l br The Morning Star) WASHINGTON. Fh ? Hiram Johnson, one of the leaders or which has opposed the ratification of the Paris treaty in anv f-m o, .n as the entrance of the United States E 5 present league of Nations, , toda7 that the appointment of Charles Evans Hughes as secretary of state in the Harding cabinet was not at all displeasing to him. ine appointment of Mr. Hughes'' remarked the California senator in 'a talk with the writer todav. "i h. no means unsatisfactory to me. I was not one of the group Svho opposed the appointment. As to international pol icies, I understand that Mr Wnn-i,- i one of his early talks with Mr. Hard- is inuowea me tentative policy which Mr. Harding has had In mind for for eign affairs. As to Mr. Hurhei he is an independent-minded man. I liked particularly th WO V Via. rJ nounced those Republicans who ex pelled the Socialists from the New York state legislature. I liked also the warm way in which he recently de fended the direct primary system which is so much under attack. Acts like these in the face of th Republican bosses show that Mr. Huehes has a mind of his own." t Generally speaking men at the capl itol whether they have any personal enthusiasm or not for Mr. Hughes were frank- to admit that in accepting the portfolio of secretary of state, Mr. Hughes had again responded to the call of service for the Republican party and the country. . Everybody here knows that Mr.. Hughes was reluctant io leave tne supreme courtof the JJn ited States -to-WMwre- In-a--noTrfikn -Vf campaign and he" was of course not ' anxious tb .go into the cabinet which Jn a sense means a 'resumption- of po litical burdens for on no one question " is there just now t such bitter feeling " and sharp division of opinion as on foreign policy.' - v t-.'...; Entirely apart from Mr. Hughes ex-ceptI6ri'ar'tualIfltationS-'and prestige" the selection of,' Mr. Hughes has an other significance that may not be im mediately apparent Dut which will be revealed after Mr. Hughes has been in office a short time. Mr. Hughes thinks in straight lines. He will endeavor of course to meet the pledges which t:e Republican party gave at Chicago but he will work out a foreign policy in his own way. The fact that Sen--ator Johnson of California, Is pleased with the selection of Mr. Hughes does not mean that the new secretary of state has said something or is com mitted to some policy that is pleasing to the irreconcilable group in the senate. On the contrary an examination of Mr. Hughes' utterances on foreign pol icy shows that he has maintained a cer tain flexibility of viewpoint which will come in handy when the many factions of the Republican party start pulling and hauling rather their own theories. Here for Instance are the main points which Mr. Hujfhes made on the cov enant Indicating the conditions upon which he might favor the entrance of the Lnited States into the present League of Nations: (1) Omitting the guarantee in ar ticle ten. (2) Suitable limitation as to the field of league's inquiries and action so as to leave no doubt that the in- ' ternal concerns of states such as Im migration and tariff laws are not em braced. (3) Provision that ho foreign pow er shall acquire by conquest, purchase, or in any other way, any possession on the American continent or the islands adjacent thereto. (4) Provision, that the settlement of purely. American questions shall be remitted primarily to the American nations and that European nations shall not Intervene unless requested to do so ,by American nations. (5) Provision that no member of the league shall be constituted a man datory without its consent and no Eu ropean or Asiatic .power shall be con stituted a mandatory of any American people.' (6) Explicit provision that unani mous agreement or decision is required. (7) Provision that, any member of the league may withdraw s,t its pleas- ' ure on a specified notice. Mr. Hughes has inclined toward th ' view that there was a substantial" basis in the treaty of Versailles which could be utilized in negotiating a new understanding- with Europe. Whether ; that amount of good in the treaty can best be retained by ratifying the pact with a ne set of specific reservations or by negotiating an , ertirely new treaty with Germany !s the particular problem whic'i Mr. Harding has asked Mr. Hughes to solve. vft mt Hughes says will be done. President-elect Harding believes that a man who came' within a few electoral votes, of being elected President of the United States and a man , who has held a position on the supreme ;urt bench of the United States will -je trusted by- American public opinion no matter what his conclusions may be after studying the-' facts. During the campaign Mr. Harding"- expressed broad principles and did not attempt a formula. ,itr. Hughes will endeavor to work out a 3 tailed form-, ula and whether it squares absolutely with the utterances of the 'campaign ' is not going, to worry Mr. Harding so long as it dies square with the plank ; In the Republican national platform written by: L'llhu Root, wfclch commit- ted the party to an "agreement" cov, ering substantially the same general ; objects as vrere, .from the . Republican viewpoint, wrongly phrased bv th ' Democratic administration. , t it e c ;i V.1 Ml i ' 1 1 1 !! r ! r.V j! - 4 ! .- V '.. " 4. -i v. V V-'
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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