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j' . s Lad Observer . f "WEATHER: '.7'.; WATCH LABEL. aw fw . Wlll t . Sara Mm rotasiaa--a4afid . laela SU1(S . FTrl sad Vttiiit i;aad Thursday. 1YOL:cX.N0.156. , TWENTY PAGES TODAY. . 0 RALEIGH, N, C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1919. TWENTY PAGES TODAY. PRICES FIVE CENTS. C0AL1IIIIIIG III Government . Agencies '- Await Developments In Coal Strike v Situation NnwV- i PRODUCTION DROPS TO .LITTLE BELOW AVERAGE Congress Gives Situation Oen- . era! Attention, Starting With . ; Resolution Asking For Prof it! Figures; St. Louis Dis- trie! Adopts Early Closing For -Store ' Washington, . Dec 2-7Government fcgencles today awaited deTelopmentl in tli eoal strik situation, though action was taken In widely separated commun ities to tasks effective eoal rationing ordered by the fuel administrator. Bo fa aa report were available, produc tioa is the bltuminou fSelda dropped yesterday and today to a little below the daily totals of the previous week, bat thia.waa expected. Operatora and othera watching reeulta were told that the government intended to stand pat for the rest of the week, taking no other steps thai those outlined by the rationing order until it waa fully de termined' whether public demand would induce mine workers to resume work, la carrying out Dr. Garfield's program . for the maximum use of local discretion in rationing coal to meet emergencies find constantly changing conditions, the Kt. Louis regional coal committee or dered late opening and early eloaing for retail stores. In New York the Tide Water eoal exchange ordered the cessa tion of bunker eoal supply for foreign Vessels. Elsewhere state and municipal authorities took similar steps to eon serve the diminishing eoal supplies. la Congress the situation was given general attention! Senator JohnsoaJ Democrat, of South Dakota, introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to report the actual profits made by eoal operatora between IBIS- and 1019, subject much mooted since the Fuel Administration ordered miners' wages .increased ; 1 per ent without allowing any increase on the i prion of , .eoaU, 4ts immediate eonsid oration wss opposed by Senator, Braoot, Republican, of Utah, who gfst4 thai it go over for a dsy o two aa be be lieved concurrent action, by the House would be accessary to- justify publica tion of the figures. . , Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Colo rado,, put into the record an .open let ter sent by hint to President Oompers, of the tabor Federation, criticising the miners in strong terms for their walk out." ' I t "If this strike Is not a conspiracy in restraint of trade," the latter said, "worda bare no meaning. It is a strike in 'name only. It is a vsst upheaval, threatening alike the people aad their Institutions." The letter was intended by the Color ado Senator as response to speeches of Mr. Oompers, defending the strike. Senator Pbipps, Republican, of Colorado, added a statement by Colorado oper ator to ths effect that 1919 eoal pro duction bad resulted in a net loss for the first six months of the year of fonr cents par ton. Director General Einee today author lied regional directors, after careful is view of th eoal situation, to eliminate pasoeager trains that may be spared with the least inconvenience to the . traveling pnbli. BWBCPnrO CONSERVATION MEASURES IN ST. LOUIS fk. Louis, Dee. I. Sweeping eoal eon nervation measures were issued by th Sou tk west Regional Coal committee to day. They include restricting th hours of all retail store except drugstores and resident district grocery store to bvtwoea 9 a. m. and S p. m. daily. NEW PRJORITT LIST FOR . CHICAGO PUT INTO EFFECT Qtlaego, Hln Dee. I. A new priority . list for th control of retail eoal deal er, issued today by T. W. Proctor, Re gional Fuel Director, limit th deliv ery of oal to Uie following: Army, Navy, aad other branches f th Fed eral Government. Stat, County and Munlolpal iasti ra tions and privat hospital. Pnbli utilities, plants furnishing llgbt, heat water power, transportation and manufaetursrs of nrwaprint paper. Pnbli' buildings, offices, stores, bak riee, lauadries, residences, apartment building aad ether ball dings bousing families. ,. Cold taorag plant. Craamarie, milk bottling and milk aanning factories. ' N Refiaers ef petrolonm." , Dealers will not deliver eoal to any consumer la any of th foregoing elass e having a supply on hand equal t on week requirement. . No 'order km vat beea iasned eloeinc th the- trsa, daao kali and ehnxeh. STARTED IN MANY . .PARTS OF COUNTRY ALL SUNDAY KCURSJONS TO . BK CANCELLED AT ONCX. Philadelphia, Pa., Dee. S. Orders were isaned tonight to th various federal manager by regional director L' W. Baldwin, aaelUng all Sunday excur sion train on th several railroads throughout th Allegheny region. The order is effective next Sunday.- i- CONTEMPT PROCEEDING! TO BE STARTED AT ONCE. Indianapolis, Ind, Dee. 1 Convineed that effort to bring about resumption Vf operation ef eoal mine through offer of a 14 per eeaC wag advance " (Continued on Pssfe Two.) ' AFTER PUTTtJJO ONTH1 LID AGAINST THE USt Or COAL ' With the exaeptioi sf an fecssloaal light In a drug store, eaies aad hot) Raleigh nna.i darkness last night for th first time cine th Fuel Ad ministration eloaing order went into effect. Only the regular corner light burned en the strest. ; But .' few place included In - th regulations , f i'pfl to fomplyuf.MlL th closing order. Elevators were operated in practically all th elBc buildings,1-but it la expected, these will be discontinued today at . 4 o'clock. v i Inability to et. soft drinks after the closing hour was a big disap pointment to patron ef the foun tains, but th drinkers satisfied their thirst with milk aeeured at eafes. '-A casual glance during a tour in the business section revealed that Raleigh was truly closed up after 4 p.m. ... . :, South Dakota Republicans Back Military Leader; Dem . ocrats For Wilson ILLINOIS GOVERNOR RUNS SECOND IN RACE Neither Senator Milei Poin dexter Nor Senator Hiram ' Johnson Mentioned On floor; Vice-President Marshall En- doried By Democrats For Place, If He Wants It Pierre, 8. D, Dec. t. Major General Leonard Wood was indorsed for presi dent of the United State tonight by th Republican Stat convention, after spirited struggle in which Governor Frank 6. Lowden, of Illinois, came out second best. ' While the . Republicans were meeting in on legislative chamber at the State capital, ths Democratic stat convention in th opposite ehanv ber indorsed President Wilson for s third term' by a unanimous vote, and Vice-President Marshall for a third term, if ha i a candidate. Under th Ktcuards state . primary law, the country delegation east their vote on th basis or their Toting strength at th lajtt state election and a majority waa aeceaMry'to IndOra or 1 and Lowden' got 15,443. The necessary majority waa 20,00s. Th Kopublican convention was turned into a turbulent session late today, when on faction baited a roll call on presidential indorsement and urged that the county delegations with; hold their vote on that Question. After this move waa defeated, the supporters of this plan, who were classed as anti-Wood delegates, swung their strength to Lowden. The Republicans then quickly in dorsed Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, for th vie presidential nomination. Coolidge received a heavy majority. A few scattering votes were caat , for Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hiram Johnaon and Henry Allen, of Kansas. Democrats did not indorse a man for lee-president. Governor Peter Norbeck, was nomin ated for United States Senator by the Republicans to, oppose Senator Ed. S. Johnson, who was renominated by the Democrats. The only other presidential possi bility mentioned at the Democratic eon' vention waa William G. MeAdoo. After President Wilson was indorsed, a dels- gat moved that th convention indorse MeAdoo in th event that President Wilson decided not .to be a eondldate, but th motion was ruled out of order,; The Republicans adopted their plat form at th forenoon session. Th key not of th Democratic platform was permansnt peace under the League of Nations. Th paramount issue 01 tn Republican wss Americanism. Both parties indorsed the League 'ot Nations. The Democrats unreservedly indorsed President Wilson and his ad ministration and th League of Nations covenant without amendment or reser vations. Tho Republicans condemned th administration, but indorsed the covenant without amendments, but with reservations which "will tend to safe guard th integrity of the Nation aad preserve the Monro Doctrine." Although United State Senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington, was in th elty hi nam waa not mentioned on the floor of th convention. Poindexter' lieutenant declared that he would be an independent candidate for party in dorsement at th Stat primaries in March. Th candidacy of Hiram John son was indirectly referred to by a dele gat, but Johnson' nam waa aot placed before th convention. - : - PROPOSE TWO MILLION f. DOLLAR COTTON BANK Columbia,' B. 0 Dee. ty Meeting In Columbia thl afternoon, th South Carolina cotton association voted- t establish a eottoa bank and export cor poration with a proposed capital stock of $2,000,000. Th object of th organi sation as announced 1 net only to fl nance th farmer aad enable them to withhold distress aotto from- th market but also to establish foreign correspondent and to tak ear of th foreign shipments of th staple, so as to enable buyer from abroad to deal directly with th producers. s , ' ,it v Misers Ordered to Work. . Cheyenne, Wyo, Dee, I. Th 1,500 miners . who have been , on strik in Wyoming against th 14 par cent, in ere a in wage offered by th operators were ordered by district officer today of th United Mine Worker of Ameri ca, to return to work immediately. The walkout yesterday waa net sanctioned try union efSeials, according to th an-nonnccaent. POD ENDORSED BY ; " . 11 1 11 " . i AWAIT WORD FROM MEXICO IN 1PLY: , TO AMERICAN NOTE State Department Not Advised of Delivery lot Last Word f ToCarranza V MEXICAN PRESIDENT INt . ' tlUnnT AUUUI tnULANU When Great Britain 'Uemands , . Xelease of English Citiien, Machinery,' Including Mill' - tary, 2uickly Put " To Work To Tini Man; Cabrera Talks X About enkins; Arriestu Washington, Dee. 2. With much im patience th Stat Department today awaited word from Mexico City of th rcleas of Consular Agent Jenkins from tho penitentiary at Puebla in response to this government's second sharp not to Carranta. The department tonight had not been advised of the note delivery but of ficiate said it probably waa . presented during the day and that they expected prompt action by the Carranxa admin istration in acceding to the "request' of the United States. The not was forwarded early Sunday and a delayed despatch from the Mexican capital said the Mexican foreign office announced late last night that it had not been received. Errors in eable transmission were said to have delayed it presenta tion. A new sidelight on the general Msx lean kidnapping situation waa given to day in a report of the recent eaptur of Norman Rowe, a British subject by rebels at Zaeatecas, who held him for ransom but who quickly released him at the instance of the Carranxa admin istration. The British vice consul at Zaeatecas promptly notified the Mexican authori ties and reported the kidnapping to tho British consulate general at Mexico City. Representatives were quickly mad to th Mexican government and within a few hours the machinery, including the military, waa seeking to rescue Rowe. The kidnapping took place at -Fre- nillo a large mining eatnp at Zaeatecas, and in reporting th liberation and re turn of Row to Frssnillo, th vie eon-H Sl Sia mmMmt mlim y "The government troop and th stat authorities exercised all diligence in effecting the liberty ot Row and as a mr matter of justic this should b stated aa everything is duo to th effica cy with which the authorities moved in the matter. ' Luis Cabrera, secretary of the Treat pry under Carranxa j known to be bit terly anti-American and whose brother is governor of th Stat of Puebla, where th Jenkins kidnapping took place, has taken an active part in the Mexican government's prosecution of the ease against Jenkins, according to advices received here today. In a state ment prepared for th press of Mexico City, Cabrera said that Jenkins might be liberated on bond, but that the American government "now prefers to set him free by means of threat. It is inexplicable, Cabrera was quoted as Baying, "that the American government should have requested the immediate release of Jenkins even be fore tho court decision was rendered The United States government Is seek ing to have Jenkins declared innocent even before the investigations of the ease are completed. Aad if ths insin uations of another government in purely administrative matters cannot be accepted, how can foreign imposi tion be permitted to hurry a final sentence in a ease which is of the x- clusivs jurisdiction of th eourtst" J WOOD ALCOHOL IN BOTTLE FROM WOMAN HAD DRINK Baltimore, Md Dee. I. Wood alcohol. water and enough genuine liquor to make it palatable is what th ehemieal analysis shows was in th bottle from which Miss Lueill Sharp, Winston- Salem, N. C, and Mrs. Catherine Bristol, of Philadelphia, drank supposing it to be brandy, in the apartment of John Keiley, a former manufacturer of cere als, here about two week ago. Miss Sharp died soon afterward. Mrs. Bristol may recover, it was aaid today but her physician fear shs will be permanently blind. Keiley and Ali Osman. a Turk ef New York, were arrested in connection with th ess, but Osman was discharged from custody yesterday. Keiley was released on ball for a further hearing. Portion of Miss Sharp' stomach are undergoing ehemieal analyst. ' Goes To Benin New Work. New Bern, Dee. 8. Mr. and Mr. 3. E. Boswell left Monday for Tabor, Colum bus county, Mr. Boswtll having been elected cashier of the bank - at thst place. H was formerly assistant cash ier ef th Bank of Pamlico in charge of th Oriental branch. IMPORTANT! " Advertising la considerable quantity la being crowded out of Th 'News aad Observer dally, and a similar condition ha boea expe rienced for om tim past. . 1 Th print paper shortage ha compelled The News and Observer t establish A limited schsdul averaging not more than It page per day for week-day Issue, and advertiser ar argsd to restrict their demands for ipse a far a possible. . f i .. - . 1 1 la many ease half pages might b used instead of ful page, and lik reductions on smaller advertisements. If every large advertiser will help out, all might bs accommodated. , , - Lata copy, however, will necessarily have to be first excluded wher ipse ordered exceeds that available. . v THE NEWS AND OBSERVER diiti rnt OREhEAD DUlLLU'l IE G. 0. OF STATE Tar Heel Republicans Ask Na tional Committee "To Call ;. . Off Its Dogs" VISIT OF DUNCAN TO 4 - ..CAPITAL; STARTS TALK Ocnerafly Understood That Ra . lelfh Man Okies To Washing , ton To Deliver Message To Party Leaders; Bealizes Danger To ' Tntnre Prom -Turn of Things Just Now Th New and Observer Bureau, 803 District National Bank Bldg. By R. B. POWELL. (By Special Leassd Wire.) ' Washington, D. O- Dec. t. Republi cans in North Carolina who are trying to sav th party from the Morehx-ad-Butler combine ar exhausting every known meana to get the National com mittee to "call off it dogs" and let th Ninth North Carolina district take ear of itself. They didn't send, but E. Carl Dnn ean earn and it is generally under stood aroun dthe Senate and House office buildings today that he brought the 8. O. 8, with him and delivered it with a few adjectives to the level heads of th Bepubliean party. Jbt visit her today of Mr. Duncan has added eolor to a suggestion that the latter -doesn't wsnt Morehead elected to Congress. If this is true, and it come from natural source, it isn't because Mr. Duncan has an acute per sonal distaste for the Charlotte man but more beeaus Mr. Duncan. Frank Linney and other Republican are really alarmed at th tun thing ar taking. res M vanning Away. They never wanted Butler to oooose th League of Nstions and now that Morehead has chosen to make an issue of the League it i a ease of jumping out of 'the frying pan into th fire. And, Jnapit of a tendency to moot th Butler and Alexander fusion, th fact remains that the Doctor and the ex-Senator still bar hopes ot duplica ting a well known performance pulled os in tn mi nineties. aa2 TiT!!! . - th Stat la now heaped the "interfei ence, as. sen ef the North Carolina Bepubliean ar wont to term it, of nepresenauv Jess, ehairmaa af the republican congressional committee. Dr. Fes believes is social equality between th races. He so declared himself on th floor of th Hons when ha tmlnted with onie prid to having entertained wnit ana colored students in hi home, Mr. Duncan perhaps knows better than any other man in th party what a dangerous doctrine this la" to be preaching in North Carolina. And Mr. linncan atanda higher in the estimation or senator Boise Penrose, boss of th Republicans, than a half dozen lita Fes. Senator Penrose has nrirntalv said that h was afraid Fees was run ning away. Dsncaa Stands Hih. Mr. Duncan has the nr nf .....v .- In th party a Senator Knute Nelson. Senator Nelson is a veteran of th Middle West. He eame hero with Sen ator Ben Tillman nnd Senator Martin, ui urg-mia, ana served in the Senate with Judge Pritchard and Senator But ler. It isn't exnggerating to any that he loath the Sampson politician. It nssnt been long since he told the North Carolina Senator that he would have to discount ths assault on District At torney Warren in view of the faef that Mr. Butler had a finger in i.t What the Raleigh man said to the nepuDitean leader here today is not "available for publication." He called at th offices of Republican Senators ana JtepresentaVve and paid hi re speet to Senator 8immona. Mr. Duncan is understood, however, w navo importuned the National com mittee not to send Rodenberg to North Carolinn or any of his ilk. On reason for this is that Rodenberg has never been right en the war. Another is that ns wouldn't vote in committee to unseat Victor Berger. 'arch-Socialist. hoM Congress turned out a few weeks sgo. increases rore Kesolutlau. - Coincident with the nnlitiml .tuit. her today affecting North Carolina U in rore resolution offered in the Sen ate today by Senator Moses, of Now ixampsnire, to redne thw nhmunt,. tio in Conner of Sonthera ftl.t. This it th sam old resolution that Senator Lodge, who is th oldest Be- puoiiean, in point of service, in th Senat offered, when he first cam U longreas. Tnts-tim it ha reason for it revival the, disposition of the Dem- so roreeinn investigation by th Senate into the eorrUDtion tli.rn. sgainst Senator Truman Newberry, f It's nothing new." Unay nin.. said thm afternoon. "It has been intro- aneeq at leset SO time sine I have (CoaMaoed a Pag Tw.) COII WORRIES PRESIDENT OUTLINES DIVERSIFIED -PROGRAM FOR RESTORING COUNTRY ' TO PEACE-TIME BUSINESS STATUS CONGRESS BEGINS OH LEGISLATION Body Gets Into Full Swing With Receipt of President's Annual Message SENATE STARTS WORK ON RAILROAD PROBLEM House Adopts Bill Authorizing Foreign Trade Corporations; No Formal Move Toward Final Disposition of German Peace Treaty; May Probe Ford-Newberry Contest Washington, Doe. 2. Congress got into full swing today with receipt of the President's annual message and in auguration of actual legislation in both the Senate and House. The message was read separately to each body with floors and galleries crowded. When it was concluded both Senato and House began on th mouths of work ahesd. The Senate took up the Cummins rail road bill, hoping of its passage before th Christmas holidays. House leaders arranged for iintnediate attack on the annual appropriation bills carrying al most five billions as submitted by th department. The House adopted during th dsy th conference report on the Edge bill, authorizing foreign trade financing cor porations and the meusnre now goes to the President. for approval. : In tho Senate no- farmal snovs toward final disposition of tho German peaca ....t. ...1 i. u r- aessag mad brief raferene to it with a view to a special messag later.' Con' grew1 vrili receiv a special message : Th Senate may set tomorrow on reso lution authorising investigation of the Ford-Newberry election contest from Michigan, aad of charges by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, that Fad' oral trad commission employes were engaged in socialist! propaganda. Adop tion of both was predicted. An effort to broaden the federal trade commission inquiry to include investigation of many general activities waa eipecteil. Republican House leaders, in confer ence today, considered the legislative program but without final decision Representative Mondoll, majority lead er, aaid appropriation must bo "held down" as much as possible and confer ences with the legislative steering com mittee for further discussion of a more definite program for. th supply bills will be held later. Tim pension bill will be first to reach the House, preparation being .more or less perfunctory with the total it car ries fixed by other Jaws. Next will come the legislative bill, probably, and none of the big appropriation measures is expected to be disposed of by the House before the Christinas recess. uraners pian to enact an army reorgan ization bill and a meaaur fixing th permanent personnel of th navy be for providing th fund for 'ths serv ices. Chairman Good, of the House appro priations committee, said today ths bill providing fundi for the Railroad Ad ministration to wind up it affairs would be considered soon. H expected that at leant 1400,000,000 would be asked ef Congress, and announced that he would eoafcr -later in .the week with Railroad Administration, regarding its Swager Sherlry, finnne director of th financial needs. H0EY PLANS INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN IN THE NINTH Congressman , Tom ' Eeflin Speaks In Charlotte In Be r half of Shelby Man " ' Shelby. Dec .-.Hon. Clrd R. Heer. Democrat! nomine for Congress in tho Ninth district in th election to b held December 16th., returned today from Charlotte wher he had a confer ence, with th Democratic leader and found verything in splendid shape. Indication ar for a tweeplng witeory over his opponent 3. M. Morehead, of nieetienonrg. ( 1 The fact that Bepubliean will make a hard fight to capture th diitriet ha served to arouse tho Democratic force in vsry county and they are vigorous ly at work in behalf of Mr. Hoey, who will visit every part af the district and sank speeches at aa many place aa possibla. 11 apeak Friday nisht at Hlckorv and Saturday afternoon at Morganton. Kepresentativs Tom lieflln. of Alabama, speak tonight in Charlotte and Wed nesday night in Gaatonia in th inter est of th Democratic nominee. - Mr. Hoey is planning an intensive campaign for all next week and i as sured of splendid rapport by' tho De mocratic orgsnixationa in every county is th district. . indication, ar that full Democratic vote will be polled' and that h will hav four thousand ma jority over Morehead. -- Married In Now York. ' ,J Bursa w. Dee. 1 Wednesday in New York City Mr. Burk E. Moor and Miss Li la Herring, of this plae, wr mar ried. Both hav lived in Wnshinston OMISSION OF REFERENCE TO TREATY SATISFACTORY. Washington, Dee. J. Omission of any direct reference to th peace treaty from President Wilson's message to Congreo met with gen eral satisfaction among both. Re publican and Democratic Senate leaders, who sr quit willing to lesve the treaty in its pigeon hole ntll important legislation ha been passed, or a compromise effected. The possibility that the President might . renew. . hta seousst Jos. ratinV, cation had been regarded aa the only element In tho situation which might revive the Issue In ths Im mediate future. It now is the ex pectation of the leader that th whole question will be permitted to remain as pending a compromise or .at least natll th leglslativo work ef the aeasioa la well aader wsy. Likelihood that th cones r rent resolution declaring a atats of peace may also b subjected to long delay Increased today whea the Senate Repablicane canvassed the chancea of early action la either Senate or Hons. It had been dc. elded to ask the House to adopt the measare first, but todsy some of the leaders of the lower branch pre dicted that ouch a roars might arosse considerable opposition. SENATORS PRAISE LATEST DOCUMENT Tar Heel Legislators Declare President's Message Typi cal Wilson Paper OVERMAN RETURNS FROM STAY IN NINTH DISTRICT Declares Clyde Hoey.,Wi!l Be p-Eectetf-To -- Congre .By Handsome Majority; Mem u bers of N. C. Corporation ' Commission In Washington On Railroad Bate Case The News and Observer Bureau 003 District National Bank Building, By R. E. POWELL. (By Special Leased Wire) Washington, D. C Dec 2. Senator Lee S. Overman, returning to Washing ton this morning in tim to hear th reading of the President's message to Congress, declares that Clyde Hoey will be elected from the Ninth by a majority as handsome as ever given a Democrat from that District. Ths senator was unable to make apeeeh there on account of tho neces sity' of his being here today. He talked however, with the Democratic leaders in several of the counties. "Mecklenburg will do just as she has been doing for the past hundred and twenty-five years," declared the Senator, ' and roll np her usual big majority for Mr. Hoey. There' ar no more loyal citizen in the State than in Mecklen burg and I am confident that she will do nobly by ths Democratic candidate "The situation- in the other counties is fine. I am glad that Senator Robin son and Tom Heflin ar going down to speak for I think they will carry a new interest to our people in th affairs of their government. There is, however, no reason for any alarm." Senator Simmons, wiring Chairman Edgar Lev today, said that he waa making plans to get away for on speech in the Ninth and would lik to make that on in Charlotte. It 1 probable that he will get awny early next week. Senator Praia Message, Both ths North Carolina Senators praised th President's message today. "I think it was a very fine messag dealing with the practical problems of reconstruction is a sane and eonaerva tlv way," ald Senator 8immon. "There was some disappointment that the President didn't discuss th treaty any more than he did. I think, how ever, he held that in abeyance for fu tore treatment" "It was a fine paper and a fitting rs- buk to th scandal monger," Senator Overman " declared. He regarded it typically Wilsonian in every sens and a potential factor, in curbing th indus trial aim social unrest . "Th finest State .paper he has writ ten, declared Representative Hannibal Godwin. Mr. Godwin doean't think Congress will do anything nntll after th reees but is highly elated that tn President ha th majority in a quan dary one snore. . : , Representatives weaver ana Brinson wet both highly pleased with th mes sage. .-' Neither of the North Carolina Sen ator expect action on th treaty tor several days. , ' v Senator Simmons thinks a eompromis mar be reached before a recess, but 8enator Overman i leas hopeful Both are opposed to calling a eaueu to select th new' leader until after the treaty la out of th way. - T Args Rat Caa. - Members of the North Carolina Cor poration Commission and representa tives of th Bute Traffic Asaoclation arrived her tonight for th argument tomorrow before th Interstate Com mere Commission involving th relief v ' (Csatlnsed a Pag Tw.) , WILSON SUGGESTS E Urges Legislation To Revise Tax System, Curb Unrest . and Reduce H. C. L necessity OFmvma NEW TARIFF LAWS SHOWN Railroad Problem Seitrred For Future Message and Wilson Tiakei No Statement of Intentions Regarding Peace Treaty or Mexico In Annual Message To Congress Washington, Dec. 2. A diversified legislative program to restore a peace time business status, re via th tax system, eurb unrest, reduce the cost ef living and rectify labor and farming condition! was recommended by Presi dent Wilson today in his message to the new aeaaion of Congress. The President ssked for new tariff laws baaed on th Nation's changed re lation to the rest of the world, sug gested fhat the ineom and excess profits tax schedules be simplified, advocated steps to improve rural conditions and promote production, and declared for a "genuine democratization of industry" to protect both labor and capital, The railroad problem he reserved for a futur message and he mad no state ment of his intentions regarding th -peace treaty or Mexico. Many of his ' recommendation war th same as thoe submitted to the special sesaloa last spring and several of them ar m braeed Mn legislation -already being -formulated in ths two houses. ' ' Th Can at Uarwst. ' T meet th cost of living th Pres ident asked extension of th war-time 'lowit eoufjcl bilV redeial rnutttlbw f cold storage, readjustment of food trans portation and establishment of a system of Federal licensing for all corporations agsged in Interstate commerce. He declared th causes ot unrest to -be superficial and temporary, and mad hi aly refersne t th Senate's fail ore to ratify th peac treaty in say-. lug that rcttlcMnce was due largely to the Nation's hesitation in determin ing it peac pnsisy. Th Federal gov ernment, he declared, should bs armsd with full authority to deal ia the criminal courts with tho who promote violence, y In an extended diseuaeio f labor conditions h declared the workers had just csum for eomplaint in many mat- , ters and that there should be a "full recognition ef th right ef those who work, in whatever rank, to participate In som organic way in (very decision that directly affect their welfare." He asserted that the right of Indi vidual to strike must be held inviolate but added, that ther must be a firm stand against "the attempt by any class to usurp a power that only government Itself has a right to exercise as a pro tection to all." SeggMta Industrial Arbitration. Finally, h suggeeted th establish ment of a tribunal for peaceful deci sion of industrial dispute. He renewed hi reeommendatloa of a budget eystem of national finanets. asked for special protection to promote the dye stuffs and ehemieal Indnatrie and declared th administration bill providing farm for soldiers should b passed without delay. - The message about 0,000 words la length, was transmitted to th eapitol by messenger, th President sxpreeslng ' regret that hi health would not per mit hi delivery ef it in person. It waa read separately ia Senate and House wher it draw mixed sxpressions f ap probation and disappointment, TU Democrats generally praised it a set ting forth decisively a practical program of reform, while on th Republican aid ther were many eomplaint that il lacked dafinlteness and omitted mention of important problems. Does aae at Caaaea Ssecalatlon. In all of th privat discussion among member and ia som puDitc expressions regarding . it, ther was . much speculation a to what exteat ths President's illness had handicapped him in its actual preparation. Democrats declared that Mr. Wilson's vigorous be- : ' liefs on public questions were shown . by th language of th messag to b unimpaired by hi long confinement aad weakness, while in - Republican -. Cloak room gossip thers waa evident a disposition to speculate n how far his : advisers had gon In framing th de tails. : , .' ' ' V ' This disposition was msnifest ia a pnbli statement by Senator Freling- , huysen, Republican, of New Jersey, de claring th document failed to tak np Soma important pnbli problems. ' "Th message, said Senator Freling-. huysen, "reflect th view of Attorney ' General Palmer, Secretary --of Labor Wilson nnd Samuel Oompers,, nnd un doubtedly they assisted in its prepara tion." . .-',..; Senator Edge, Bepubliean, New Jer sey, said in a statement mat it was rather academie and "certainly lacks th usual Wilson punch." It waa characterised as "a genuine un adulterated Wilson message,' by Sen ator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, sad Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala bama, declared it "np to th President' NEEDED REM DIES for several years, , (Catlasd on Fag Tw.) 1
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