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SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
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LABOR DEI-
PROFITS IN
Address to America Public (s
. Signed By-3 Railway Broth
erhoods and the A. F. of L
KEY INDUSTRY'S" REMEDY
FOR HIGH COST OF LIVING
Formal, .Unequivocal Demand
' That Private Capital Be Be
- tired from Bailroads; Tri
Partite Control, Composed
of the Public, the Operating
Management and the Em.
ployei, it Demanded In
.. stead; to Be Carried Before
Congress Tomorrow
(By Tho Associated Press.)
WeshlngtoV, Aug. . Organised labor
came ent today with the unequivocal,
formal demand that private capital be
ret'rtd from tho railroad.
A tripartite eontrol, composed of (ht
public, the operating management and
the employes, ii demanded initead.
. Addressed to the American , publie,
.and signed by the engineers, the ire;
mek, the eoaduetora and the Amerieaa
Tederation of Labor, a formal state-
iratwae iaaned aaaonneiag thia pro
poial, which will be carried before
Congrats Wednesday.
"It marks," aaid the statement, "the
awn 07 waien orgamxeu lauor passou
from demanda for wage Increases to
deauads that the eystem of profit! in
i . . v . . . i I l M
sauusiiy lie oTerauuicu. .
Most Series Preaoattion.
Thli aentenee sum's up iu a few words
the proposal of which J hero hare been
Mute and Indications, bat which is now
latd before tho country for the first
time. Everywhere in official Wasklug
- toa it ia rceogn'vx.'J as the most serious
and frr-rcacUlag proposition the eouu
. try fill bo called on to face.
Characterising the proposal aa "la-
bora Wll," it ia put fer:b aa a remedy
for the high cost of living, b'fauie
' th nation. It demands the "genuine
cooperation and partaership, based en a
real community interest ana panieipar
tioa in control," of which. President
'Wilson spoke to Congress, and which
vine raieaf m wti bk-
,by labor and the private owners of the
' Ws nsk," it says, harSeraliroads
of the United States be vested in the
publie; that those actually engaged in
conducting that industry, not from Wall
8treet, but from the railroad offices and
yards and out on the railroad lines,
. shall take charge of thia service for the
publie.
1 .A M Ml
tiaiaae i i imwl.-
Briefly, labor's plan demands:.
ft.. n.t..... ..ni.al m .limlnatllfl
r. from the railroad. 7
Jhat the private owners i, receive for
them government bonds, "with a fiied
Interest return for every honest dollar
; that they .have invested."
1 That the tri-partite eontrol hereto-
tQT9 mil lvS rawujwuu .
porations which shall lease the roads
and in which the public, the operating
manasctnent and labor ahall be repre
sented equally.
. That the public, the operators and
tVm Mraan li.ra itniiallv all revfl
,HW v v - - -i .
... - . .1.. a.t 4 nvt-
nue W eiCCSS oi me luaranin y
. nti nilal bv araatina- to the opera
tors and the employes one-half the
aavines. which are expected to be made
by such a perfected organisation,
either by increasing service without
addlac costs or by reducing costs.
Thia role originates with labor," says
the statement, "because labor happens
' to have Arm orgaaitationa through
i WbtcR n may oeeome arncuunc
Trainmen te Ma la Demaad.
The traiamea are not represented in
a . . . i i 1 l CI lju nmli.
dent of the brotherhood, was out of the
city, but U was aaid tney vouia ynu
ia it .
Teal of Biaienw.
"The innuendoes in telegraphed dis-
Mtehea from Washington, appearing
lse ia' the speech of Bepresentstive
BUnton, of Tezaa, that the railroad
anions fero 'holding up Congress and
iha sovernment' may aa well tease.
This anneal is madt to the American
neople direct. It invokes the Judg-
aBt and common sense of. publie sen
timent, of all the public which earna a
wage or a strpead We recognise that
the only way ia which we eat exist
. under the present system i. to demand
further increases ia wages. But we
agree with Bpreaentative Blantoa that
affords but temporary relief. It
does not oiler a remedy.
r.ir'. hill" an tha other hand ttro-
vidoe a remedy and wo ask merely that
its terms be scrutinized. Uur run
"aftrameBt i a support of these terms
nUI be presented on Wednesdsy before
the Bouoe committee on Interstate com
' marca. 'In thia statement wo are
sounding tha note of our basic pria
inle. ' ' "'
. "That this role originates with labor
ia merely - because labor happens to
- have fira organisations through whleh
it may become articulate It ia not to
htaeflt labor aa labor alone i it is to
benefit Ihe consuming publie, of which
labor at present ia tha audible part.
In labor s Dill providing mai ins puuue
take over ta railroads tnd establish a
tri-aartib reatrol between the public,
tha railroad operating management and
the employ-ws, tho labor organlntiona
of America have established thia new
policy Wuica faTmicv mvir cuuuii4va
' . , (CeaUaacd Pago Two.)
OVERHAULED PRESENTED
IANDS THAT
INDUSTRY BE
Efforts To Stop Strike, But
Unless There Is Prompt -Relief
Can't Answer
enanaaanaaaaBwaaMa
- (By tho Associated Press.)
Wachlagten, Aug. 4. President
Wilson waa told today , by B. M.
Jewell, aetlag prealdeat of the Rail
way Division of the American Fed
eration of Labor, that all railroad
employes Wtre opposed to the pro
poaal made to the President by
Director Ceaeral Hiaee that Cea- '
gross constitute a committee te pssa
on auestlone of wage increases for
the asen. Be aaid thia process would
be too. alow aad because of the
rising coot of living speedy relief
was nscessary.
. Mr. Jewell wsa accompanied to
the Whit Hoaae by the heads of
the six big railway shoo crafts, who
paWcd.ont to the Prealdeat that
thoaeaade of shopmen were aew on
an nnanthorlacdlatrlko aad that an
less the dcmaatii of tfceae men for -wage
Increases approximating IS
.per cent, presented last Jaaaary,
were granted promptly the situation
weald get beyond control of tho
anion officials. '
Efforts now arc being made by
the anion kadera to get the striken
to retire to work, the President
w,aa told. If a strike should become
necessary In order to enforce tho
, demaads of the shopmen, the Preai
- deal waa Informed, aalea officials
felt It should be coadaeted only
after a vote by tho Balsas' mem
bership. trite Ballota Mailed Today. .
Strike ballota will be mailed to 600,r
000 shop employes tomorrow Mr. Jewell
snnonncedsffer meeting of the six
shop crafe ofdcinls which followed tbo
call oa the President. The vote will be
tabulated August 21.
After the conference' with the Presi
dent, Mr. Jewell did not mince words
and declared emphatically tnit If Con
gress passed tha legislation proposed
by Director Oenersl Uines, "ws 11 tie up
the railroads so tight they will never
run." No union men could ever be
gbtten to sit on such an investigating
body ss contemplated by the Director
General and the President, Mr. Jewell
added.
President Wilson, the union official
said, liatened aympathetically to what
lh union officials had to say: regard
ing the situation, and appeared to
reeognise ita seriousness, but. did not
indieate aa intention to reeede from bis
nttitude that he had not the power 'to
grant the increases.
Jewell Qaotee President Wilson.
"President Wilson told as fraakly,"
Mr. Jewell aaid, "that while every agency
of the government was working on
plans to bring relief from the high cost
of living, tho country could not expect
a reduction to pre-war standards for a
good many years to cone. He made
clear that what the government now
wss doing would take time end Immcd
iste relief should not be looked for, and
that it would be a long time before
there was a marked reduction."
Earlier in the day the union officials
conferred with Mr. Hines at his re
quest aad informed him also that rail
road employes were a unit la opposing
his plan for the Congress authorized
committee. The Director General aaid
he had no other solution, according to
Mr. Jewell, aad insisted he slio had not
the authority to grant the increases de
manded. R. K. May Be Tied Up Tight la SI Days.
"All we con do," Mr. Jewyll aaid to
night ia summarising tha events of the
day, "is to prepare for the battle. The
battle ia coming and we will be rendy.
We expect the railroads will be tied up
tight ia thirty daya ualcss our demands
are settled."
The railroad employes, he said, would
back "to a man" tho Plumb plaa, for
government ownership and tri-partite
eontrol of the railroads by which they
would be paid for with a four per cent
bond issue aad added that eventually
the Plumb plan should be extended to
the coal, steel, packing and all basic
Industries.
NORTH CAROLINIAN LOCKED UP IX
WASHINGTON ON FRAUD CHARGE
Washington, August 4. Capt. Chas.
M. Bower, alias Steele, SI years old, of
8ratesvi)le, N. C is locked up hero by
the police, charged with obtaining va
rious sums of money from Washing
toniana en . a scheme to recover dia
monds and gold from Cocas Island, off
the coast of Costa Rica.
According to tho . complaint lodged
against him, Bower represented himself
as captain of the steamer Mary Die,
which ha aaid waa' captured by pirates
while carrying tho treasure to Pern.
Escaping from . hit captors, . Bower
claimed, according .to the complaint,
that he located the treasure ia the
cliffs of the Island. The informants
against htm allege that he waa collect
lag money-to finance aa expedition to
recover it. . - ' '- ; .t , V:
Woman Commits Saiddo." "
Charleston, 8. C. Aug. 4. Mrs, James
Ergle of Graniteville, near Aiken, threw
herself in. pond thia morning and was
drowned. 8Ue la avid to have been the
third of tha family to commit njeide
SPENCER
SHOP
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Strikers Include All Crafts, In
cluding The Helpers and
Apprentices
60 FOREMEN, MASTER
MECHANICS ALSO OUT
Tie-up at Big Southern Rail
way Shopi Ii Complete,
Only The Watchmen Are .On
Duty; Passenger Trains
Went
Night
Out As Usual Last
(Special to The Kows and Observer.)
Spencer, Aug. 4. Unable to secure a
aettlement of the wage question pend
ing between the employes on the South
ern Railway, aad the officials at Wash
ington, between 1,500 and 2,000 work
men at the Spencer shops quit work
promptly at 9:13 o'clock this morning.
II crafts, including machinists, boil
ermakers, blacksmiths, carmen, paint
ers, sheet-metal workers, pipe fitters,
electricians, helpers and apprentices
are affected by the strike. The big shop
whistle gave the signal and every man
quit work. There was a alight demon
stration, but no unbecoming conduct.
The tvu thousand men marched to the
baseball park and took the matter, good
naturedly. There the men were given a short
talk by the chairman of the federated
crafts, M. Wands, wo was listened
to with intense interest. All were urged
to conduct themselves in a gentlemanly
manner, by being first of all American
citizens; second, by observing order
about the shops had premises; and
third, by holding -their heads up and
standing firm for their rights. Heads
of the various unions announced sep
arate meetings preparstory to conduct
ing the strike on a business-like basis.
At the offices of the shops it was
stated that all departments were out,
including the roundhouse, nliere emer
gency repairs are made. It was stutfd,
however, that fire protection remains in
force for both the shops nn.l for the
city. v
No one was willing to offer a sug
gestion si to when a settlement will be
reschrd.
This is the largest strike at Spencer
since 1906, when the wage scale was 91
eeats per hour, and which was, settled
id less than a month The present
standard pay is bjw 68 cents per hour.
- - Foremen Join Strikers.
Sixty foremen, including alt except
the master meckanles mid ahop superin
teadeats employed by the Soufliera
Bnilwsjt t ttf shops here at 4 o'eleek
this afternoon joined the two thousaad
from the federated crafts which went
on strike this morning, and tlii tieup
is' complete here and the plant ia ale
solutely still and in -utter darkness to
night. Oil lamps are being used at passen
ger stations and other places instead
of electric lights, the electrie plant
being shut down. An adequate force
of' watchmen KM 'placed "On 'dory
around the shops tonight to prevent
possible fires from accident. Passen
gers trains went out as usual tonight,
(Continued en Page Two.)
Tl
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House Committee Reports Rate
Making Power Measure.
With Amendments '
Washington, Aug. 4. The Cummins
bill, to restore the rate-making powers
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
during the renisining period of Federal
eontrol was reported oitt today by the
Bouse Interstate Commerce Committee
by a vote of aix to five. The measure
which already has passed the Senate
waa amended by the committee in one
important respect, in that it would con
fer on State commissions the same au
thority over intrastate rates that, the
Federal body now has oTer Interstate
rates.
The committee concluded hearings
oa the bill more than a month ago and
representatives of 'shippers have made
insistent demands for its enactment.
Membera aaid the meeting todny for Its
final consideration was called before
Congress was sdvised by President
Wilson of wage demands of railroad
men, and that there was no significance
whatever attached to action bn the bill
at thia time. - The vote oa the motion
to report it out was not disclosed, al
though it is understood thst the voting
generally followed party lines.
Chairman Eschsaid that the wide
spread demand from carriers that the
Interstate Commerce Commission be
given its former - right to . fix rates
through authority to approve and sus
pend those initiated by carriers, aa pro
vided in the bill, wss due lsrgely to
the present uncertainty over the whole
question of freight tariffs. During
FsderaKeoatrol rates were fixed by the
President through the Director General
of Railroads. Shippers, however, con
tended that it waa vitally important
to all business industries to, have this
system changed while the roads atill
were la the haade of the government
. Tha committee eliminated from the
bill aa It passed the Senate all refer
enee to the .Director -General of Bail
roads, inserting therefor the words "the
President. Thia waa done, Chairman
Eseb explained, to that tha office ef
the Director Geaeral would not be rec
ognized or, made a statutory office. .
WORKERS WALK OU
NEW PROVISIONS !N
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ii mi in ii ii 1,1 nit
IL. UUIIIIIIIIIV Via-
VICE - PRESIDENT DELIVERS - .
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THOMAS R.s
War Department Will Deal Only
With Authorized Officials
Of Towns
SHIPPED IN CARLOAD '
LOTS BUT MAY BE MIXED
Municipalities Desjring tQ.Talf
Adrantage of Oovernment's
Offer Should negotiate With
Surplus Property Officer at
Nearest Zone Supply Office;
Comparison of Prices
The News and Observer Bureau, -603
District National Bank Bldf.
By 8. R. WINTERS.
(By Special Leased Wire.)
Washington, Aug. 4. The mrthod of
procccdiire whereby . North Caroliaa
cities can take advantage of the re
duced prices offered by the Wsr De
psrtnient in its sale of surplus canned
and cured meats has been announced.
The prices as heretofore announce! in
dicate that a body blow is directed at
Old H. C. L., ani North Carolina towns
may well take sdvontugo of the cur
tailr.1 prices.
The surplus products are offered to
the n unioipulities in not less than car
load lots, but at these warehouses at
which slocks of vegetables and meats
are stored a municipality will bo per
mitted to purchase mixed carloads of
either vegetables or meats, or both vege
tables and meats. The prices quoted are
f. o. b. location. The War Department
docs not pay freight charges or trans
port tho goods. The responsibility for
such detail must be assumed by the
municipality.
To make these food supplies as ac
cessible as possible to the general pub
lic, the War Department will permit
town.-' to purchase the surplus stocks
and defer payment until they shall have
been disposed of, provided this exten
sion of credit shajl not exceed a period
of ten days, after the goods shall ac
tually have been delivered to the
municipality. .
Will Deal Directly.
The War Department will negotiate
only with a properly accredited official
of a town for the sale of thia subsis
tence. It will not eoncera itself with
tho manner in which the municipality
having obtained the goods shall offer
it to the public, further than to stip
ulate that the town shall, sell at eost
Tbs municipal government is at lib
erty to conduct the aula of the food
stuffs under th- direction of muniris!
officers or civic bodies, to whom it may
delegate authority.
Municipalities desiring to take sd
vantage of the War Department's offer
are requested to negotiate directly with
the surplus property officer, at the near
est of the aone supply offices, which are
located in the following cities: Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Newport News, Atlanta, Chicago, St.
Louis, New Orleans, Fort Sam Houston
El Paso, Omaha aad San Francisco.
These surplus property offices have
been instructed by tbo War Department
to mak,e sales to towns under, the con
ditions prescribed by the War Depart
ment, aad are supplied with eonmlcte
information concerning the commodities
available in each of the aonea and the
actual prices at which they may be
disposed at. ' t .
; Comparison of Prices f
-Compare tha following prices with
those you have to pay la North Caro
lina: Cora beef, No. I cans, $3.00 per
dosea; No. I cane, t&M No. 6 pound
cans, S3S per doxen; react beef. No. 1
cans, $3.40 per dozen j roast beef, No. .1
pound cans, $443 per down; roast beef,
- ''. (Continued oa Pago Two-) , '
HOW TO PURCHASE
SURPLUSVARGOQDS
pacm eaoa
MRRSHRLL
IRlLLiS
it
Speaks at Know-Your-Neigtv
bor Dinner of Raleigh Cham
ber of Commerce
GOVERNOR MAKES
RECORD PRESENTATION
f eaHBsnsassaaaaaaBaai
Vice-President Declares That
. Menace of World Is Not Oer-
' nan- Imperialism But . Ten
denoj Toward Ko Govern
mini at AD; Urges league of
Nations As World Stabilizer
The menace of the world is not Ger
man Imperialism now, but the teadeaey
toward ao gnvcrament at all, Hon.
Thomas B. Marshall, Vice President of
the United Stntes, last night told five
hundred guests from Baleigh and Wake
county" it" tha" Chamber of (Jommcrre
Know-Tour-Neighbor dinner.
"The time haa come in America for
rlasa government to cease, Mr. Marshall
declared. I'm for' justice. I am. But
I want justice to be dealt out to the
American citizea, as an American citi-j
sea, and not to the butehei the bakrr,
the candlestick maker, the dictor, or the
lawyer." 1 s
Mr. Marshall had the honor of the
briefest introductory address delivered
in Balcigh in ninny days. Possibly it is
a record. Governor Uirkett did it in
twelve words. .
"The warm heart of Carolina gives
loving welcome to the Vice-President of
the United States,", he said, and with
the audience rising in his honor, the
Vlee President lH-gnn his speech.
At the Sneaker's Tshle.
The' speaker's table raa east and weat
across the Auditorium arena nenr the
stage, and the other tallies were
stretched lengthwise the -hall. At the
speaker's table sat :
Vice President and Mrs. Thomas B.
Marshall. Mr. sad Mrs. William J. An
drews, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Unilcy, Mr.
nnd Mrs. C. B. Barhee, Judge J. Craw
ford Biggs, Mr.' and Mrs. Joseph U.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Broughton,
Col. snd Mrs. Albert) L. Cox, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Drake, Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Crow, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Duncan, Col.
J. Bryan Grimes, Mayor aad Mrs. James
I. Johnson, Dr. snd Mrs. J. Y. Jnyner,
Mr and Mrs. J. K. O'Donnell, Prof, and
Mrs. C. B. Park, Mr. and Mra. John A
Park, Mr and Mra. James II. Pon, Dr.
snd Mrs. W. ('. Riddick, Mr. and Mrs.
Willi.im II. Knnycr, dr. and Mrs. Charles
Lee Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Howard White,
Judge B. W. Winston, Mr. arlrt Mrs. R.
D. W. Connor, Judge ii. (1. Connor, Mr.
and Mrs. C. V. York, Governor snd Mrs.
T. W. Bickett, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Crabtree, Dr. and Mrs, B. W. Kilgore,
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Maupin, Mr. nnd
Mrs. R. H. Merritt, Mr. and Mrs.
Willinm Perlstein, Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Rear let te. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Beaman,
Mrs. A. L .Baker, Miss Elsie Haywood,
Dr. aad Mrs. Weston Bruner.
' Service Very Prompt.
The service of the dinner was prompt
and there' was little delay before Mr.
Howard White, makiug announcements,
turned the dinner over to Mr. J. M.
Broughton, a former president . of the
Chamber of Commerce, who served as
toastmasteri s
Mr. . II. Moser, of Zebuloa, and
Mr. T. E. Holding, of Wake Forest,
represented the out-of-town guest's in
brief addresses, after a call had been
made for all county men to stand.
There was a good 'showing. Mr. Moser
aad Mr. Holding did their talking, the'
first appealing for the promotion of
community feeling and the last for Ral
eigh's ntilizatioa of the county's tobaeee
crop.
"Eleven years agnail; I knew of North
- (CJnUaaad on rage Two.)
im
FIMS
HIGH COS!
HOLDS THE FLOOR AT THE
CAPITOL WHITE HOUSE
JAPINTENTI
To Be Set Forth in Formal
Declaration By Tokio
, Government"
ITS POSSIBLE EFFECT ON
RATIFICATION OF TREATY
Nature of Declaration Believed
To Include Return of Prov
ince to China Eventually;
Appearance of Secretary
Lansing Today Before Com
mittee On Foreign delations
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 4. Japan's inten
tions in the Chinese province of Shan
tuna, where she is given eontrol by the
Versailles treaty, soon are to be sent
forth in a formal declaration from tbe
Tokio government, according to infor
matioa received today la official circles
here.
Although the exact nature of the de
duration was not forecast, it was as
sumed it would follow the lines of the
repeated statements of Japan that the
province eventually ia to be returned to
China. Ia some quarters it ' wss be
lieved Japan might even set a dste for
the restoration, and acknowledge pub
lirly the secret understanding she is
said to have with China on that subject.
Why Made.
The reported decision of the Japaaeae
government to make known its pur
poses is believed to 1 tho outgrowth
of informal diplomatic conversations
between Washington and Tokio reflect
ing the American government's desire
that all tho facts in the esse be given
to the publie. President Wilson has
told many Senators that a complete ex
pecwro ef thiTaso would thrwwTi now
light on the Shantung provision which
has been one of the points of attack
en the Senate opposition to the treaty's
ratification.
Conjectare Shifts.
Although it had bcoa kaowa for sev
eral dnys that a development waa immi
nent, there had been much speculation
in Senatorial and diplomatic circles
whether tbe Japanese government itself
would speak on the subject or would
remain silent and permit the disclosure
of Japan's promises regarding Shan
tung to come from Mr. Wilson. Tonight
conjecture had shifted to the questions
whether the Jspanese declaratioa would
lie considered by the President as fully
disclosing the situation aad what effet-t
it would have oa tbe prospect of ratifi
cation of tbe treaty,
Secretary Laaslag Befwre Committee
Todsy.
News of the expected development
retarding Shantung reached the capitol
after the foreign relations committee
had opened the wry to other important
disclosures by asking Secretary Lans
ing to. come before it Wednesday to
discuss fentures of, the treaty. It is
expected the eessiona will be publie and
that some of tho committee members
will Want the Secretary to tell much of
the inside story ef how ths treaty with
its League of Nation covenant was
drawn up at Versailles.
With the reassembling of the Senate
after tho week-end recess, there was
much discussion among Senators as to
the possible effect of the prohibition
issue on the ratification fight. The sub
ject became conspicuous through an in
terview between a representative ef the
llquo" interests and Nonator Hitchcock,
Democrat,, of Nebraska, leader of the
pro-treaty forces, at which the former
is ssid to have urged that peace be
concluded so President Wilsoa could
suspend war-time prohibition.
"Wets" Not Flgarlag la Treaty
Ratification.
Senator Hitchcock said he told his
callers that the only way a atate of
peace could b established was by rat
ification of the treaty and remarked
that ratification was being opposed by
some Senators with whom tho "wets
had been influential.
Ever since President Wilson made it
clear a month ago, that he considered it
impossible to declare demobilization
complete snd thus mske prohibition
suspension possible until peace has
been established, treaty opponents have
rhargeM thst the liquor Interests weie
being lined op to force ratification.
Senator Hitchcock said todny, however,
that there had beea no effort of that
sort, and none waa contemplated.
Mr. Hitchcock said the call from the
liquor agent was entirely at the bit
ter's solicitation and that the treaty
hsd been discussed only after the agent
hnd asked him to, use his influence with
the President to have prohibition sus
pended. This the Senator said he re
fused to do.
Although the Senate spent most of
its day discussingrtjis Iriacost of liv
ing,' Senator Sterling, Republican, of
South Dakota, made . a speech iu
nouncing he eould not vote for the
treaty, without reservations, and Sena
tor Sherman, Republican, ef Illinois,
criticized President Wilson for his at
titude regarding Flume.
Treaty Discaseed la Senate.
Senator Swanson, Democrat, of Vir
ginia, put into .the record a letter from
David nunter Miller, who was con
nected with the . League ' of Nations
section of the Feaee Conference, de-
(Cantlaawd on Pago Twsu '
BUS
M IIS
LIVING STILL
Meeting Today of Officials Ex
pected To Recommend a
Course of Procedure :
WILSON UNEXPECTEDLY
VISITS CHAIRMAN COLVER
President Deeply Interested and
, Actively at Work on Proh- .
lem; High. Prices and Unrest ,
Main Topio of Discusiion in '
Senate; Claims That Law if ' ,
Mow Ample to Punish Profit'
eering; Senate Committee
on Agriculture Rolls Up Its .
Sleeves and Will Get on the
Job Today 1 V ,
' i ,TlKi
.Washington, Aug. ,4. Becommtnda
tions to President Wilson aa to how '
the government should proceed ia its
efforts to lower the cost of living are
expeeted to result from tbo second meet-. ',
ing tomorrow of cabinet members nnd
other officials eslled into conference' by
Attorney Getferal Palmer,
There atill was no indication tonight
of how the conference would view tho :
problem. Director General of Bail ,
roada Hines, Assistant Secretary of tho
Treasury Leffingwcll snd Chairman CoW
ver of the Federad Trade Commission,
appointed a committee to prestat ug
gestlons to the conference have beea
engaged in aa exchange of memoranda,
but it was aaid authoritatively that they
had reached no decision aa, to wjhat
steps should be taken. ,
President's Act I titles
That President' Wilson was taking a
deep interest in the situation wss Indl-
eated again late today when without an
aouneemept ho called at the offices of
the Federal Trade Commlsaioa and held
a lengthy conference with' Chairman
ColveY and Commissioner . Murdoch.
Neither of tha two commission msio
berg would discuss the aubjeets brought
up at the conference but admitted that ,
it dealt with posses of tha living cost
problem. - , ' ,
Win Big I Be Preofcnted?
Attorney General Palmer has sum
moned District Attorney Clyne of Chi
esgo to report oa tho progress of la
vestigationa which have beea under way
there. Mr. Clyne's -rlsil was' reiftirdd"
as significant also because an early do
eision is expected by tho atturuey gen- .
ersl aa to whether information submit
ted by the FedersI Trade -CoHtaiuiinn
warrants prosecutions against the "big
five'' packing companies.
la the Senate. '
High prices snd the resulting unrest
expressed in strike threats by hundreds
of thousands of railroad men occupied
much of the lime of th Beam today.
Senators from wheat growing states aa
sorted thst the government guaranteed
price of a bushel was aot respoi
aiblo for the high cost of bread, dVelar
ing that wheat wss selling at terminals
at higher figures. Senator Gronas.-of
North Dakota, said tho crop would bo
nearer 650,000,000 bushels ths a 1,090,
000,000 bushels forecast by the depart
ment of agriculture.
Revive Food Adsnlnlstratlon.
Suggestions that the food edmlaistro
tion be revived to eontrol prices led
Senator Gronna to aay that the peck
ers and all food dealers "never nude
higher prices" than under the wa
licensing system.
Several Senators declared there waa
amplo law to punish profiteering. Ben
ator Borah, of Idahb, commented that
it would be ao task to find the profiteer,
but that he would be "as safs tho next
four years as the past four." Ho urg
ed that speculation bo curbed.
Senator Reed deplored efforts to 1
nance and feed Europe. ' ;
Chairman Gronna, of the Senate agrl ;
culture committee, announced dnring
the day that his committee would meet
tomorrow to consider the exeessivo liv
ing cost problem.
Public Tee Easily Goaged.
Condemnation of extravagsaec on tho
part of the publie was heard in several
quarters today, one high official ia eloee
tourh with National expenditures do
clnrlng no relief from high prices could
be exported while "100,000,(100 people .
continued to demand the highest qual
ity of everything and were willing to
pay any price to get it." It ia eon
sidered probable that the treasury May
begin a new campaign for economy by -urging
popular investment ia treasury ,
certifiratea and savings stsmps aa a '
means of easing tbe situstlon.
FATHER DROWNED IN ATTEMPT -TO
SAVE HIS DAUGHTERS
Tampa, Fla., Aug. I.-William H,
Morgan and his two daughters, Edna,
fifteen, and Bessie, thirteen, were
drowned in 8ix-Mile creek, near tha
city, late this afternoon,- The older
girl was caught in the swift current Of -the
stream, and the younger went te -her
rescue, and waa being swept away
when the father attempted to swine ts
their aid, and all three went down, '
The man's body has beea recovered.
The children's mother and four emaller
children witnessed tbe triple tragedy
from the bank of the stream.
BUDAPEST OCCUPIED
BY RUMANIAN TROOPS,
Budapest', 'Aug. 4. Budapest waa oc
cupied today by Bnsaiaa troops who ad -vnuced
from tha fiiver-Tneiss in oplto
of representations made by Lieutenant
Colonel Komanelll, the Italian repre
seatativ ef-the-alliea at Vienna, '
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