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r $ WF. ATHFH - WATCH LABEL. fan . Sa hhmI I ears Mat olfattea aae tnU " atnaa. m7 erver Fair Saturday, rbablyVl i night ar Sunday. . VOL CXL NO. 31. SIXTEr TODAY. . RALEIGH, N. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, J920. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: nVE CENTS Olbs mic. SPIRIT OF UNREST AMONG FARMERS OF COUNTRY,, HE SAYS Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Says Much Dissatis faction Exists Now SUMMARIZES RESULTS OF ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Inability To Obtain Labor To Work On Farms, High Profits Taken By Middlemen and Lack of Proper Agencies of ' Contact Between Parmer and - Consumer Given Causes Washington, Jan. 30, Indications of widespread spirit of unrest and dis eatiefaction among the faTmerrof lire country io threatening as likely to dis turb the existing economic structure, ia considered by government official! to be revealed in mora than 40.000 replies to a questionnaire recently aent out by the Postofllce Department. Ths repliea as thus far digested were fcununarized in a report prepared by George L. Wood, superintendent of Uie1 Postofiice Department's division of rural mails and read to the Senate post office - committee ' today by James I. Blakslee, fourth asaietant postmaster general. The views of the 40.000 or more farmers were obtained by tha broadcasting 'of 200.000 copies of a questionnaire throughout the agricul tural states, asking for suggestions whereby the Postofllce Department might aid in cutting dow the cost of living. Answers to the Questionnaires have been coining in ainee the mid lie of December at tha rate of a thousand day and, as summarized by officials, -show the major complaints of the farm era ia numerical order to be: Causes ef Dissatisfaction. ' 'Inability to obtain labor to work the farms, hired help and the farmers children having been lured to. the eitr ..by higher wages and easier living. "High profits taken by middlemen for the mere handling of food products, i "Lack of proper agencies of eontaet between tha farmer and the ultimate onsumer." Jinny of tha repliea, said one official. no had looked over then, probably aa jnany s SO pet cent, indicate that tha writers eontemplata either leaving their farms or curtailing acreage nnder culti vation because of one or more of the three major grievances and because of the growing feeling against non-producing city dwellers. CeastUntce Grave Menace. ! Commenting tonight on the replies. Assistant Postmaster Blakslee said: ' "Such a condition at a time when the predominant cry Is for production and still more production cannot but eon 'stitnte a grave menace" i Before the Senate committee he .char acterized the situation as "disquieting and portentous of disastrous conse quences." ." ' This opinion was Cipro wed bv Mr. Blakslee after a member of the Senate ebmmlttee had remarked that the re plica seemed to have come "mostly from a buach of Bolshevists." Must Cartail Projection. ' Kxeerpte from a number of letters, taken at random from the more than 40,000 already on file t the Poetoffiee Department, showed - the trend of thought among at least a considerable proportion of the fanners ef New Eng land, the Middle Western states and the Eastern agricultural section.- . The time Is very near," wrote a far mer at East Chatham, N. Y, "when we farmeri will have to eurtail production and ra'.se only what we need for our use and let the other fellows look oat for themselves. labor unions are more to blame for the high prices than any. one else. People are trying to get pay for what they don't earn." j , Writing from Palmyra, Missouri, an other farmer said :"" . "I almost fear a famine. Farm help everywhere ia flocking to the eity, lured by shert - hours, high wages and the promise of a good time. Some one, I fear, is going, to suffer if this, condi tion is not remedied shortly." . --.' rtedsrlnf that the whole onus ef the high eost of living rests with the mid dlrman, the Missouri producer "advo cated the establishment of . municipal markets to be served by parcel post di- . rert. . ' f . . ' Use Half In Distribution. ' r sell butter to the dealer for 45 - eents a pound," his letter said, "and the same hotter sells to the consumer for M, cents a pound. In the distribution we lose nearly half, and we lose money on the batter at the first prioa. Such eivfi ."- '," '"" the farmers te leave the farm by the thousands. We hsve rwirhed a erUis. Ton may ask what we would do with the middlemen. I will suggest that it be arranged tor them to go on the farm and help pro duce things. I nnderstand that they might not relish working 14 hours a day but if we get by the near futnre there will have to be some useful work done by everyone." t"- A Declaring that "Great evils confront us today and bypoeriey is in full sway," ; n letter from a Hagerstown, Maryland (farmef read "to reduce the eost of snyi foodstuffs te the consumer yon must first furnish me with first class labor at reasonable wages, and second, yon must eliminate thousands of middlemen j who are robbing the people "wholesale." , Xt QUORUM IN SENATE ! ' ' ADJOURNS AHEAD OF TIME Washington, Jan. 30 Fo? the third successive day the Senate was unable to seenre a quorum today for considera tion of the Army and Kavy pay bill and it I? in adjourned nearly twe hours ahead ef the usual time. SUDDEN A ; ABRUPT END TO ALL EFFORTS TO BREAK THE DEADLbCK DEMOCRATIC SENATE LEADERS BEGIN PREPARATIONS TO BRING TREATY BACK INTO OPEN SENATE FOR - CONSIDERATION AFTER SENATOR LODGE RENEWS REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE ON ARTICLE TEN. Washington, Jan. 30. Efforts to break the peace treaty deadlock by unofficial bi-partisan negotiations ended sudden ly in failure today and Democratic Sen ate leadera began preparations to bring the treaty back into the- open Senate for consideration. ''-. It was over the long debated article ten that the bi-partisan movement, after bringing Bepublicans and Democrats to gether on many collateral issues. Anally met disaster. The end came after Sen ator Lodge,, of Massachusetts, the Re publican leader, had renewed his re fusal to compromise en that article and had rejected a reservation on the sub ject written by Former President Taft and presented to the bl-partiaaa con ciliation committee by the Democrats. ' Dessocrata Leave Conference. Walking out of the conference with the announcement that further delibera tions there were useless, the Democrats quickly drafted plans to .renew the fight in the open. The acting party leader. Senator. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, an nounced that notice would be given in the Senate tomorrow of his intention to move on February 10 to take np the treaty for ratification. Opinion was divided a to whether such a motion would prevail. If it does, Senator Hitchcock expects to propose, he said, that the -Senate adopt those reservations on - wbtrh tentative agreement had been reached in the committee and then fight out differences over the others. A draft of the committee's work made publie bv Mr. Hitchcock did not correspond with a review of its accomplishments given out by Senator Lodge.1 however, and a bitter aftermath resulted. Ledge Makee Statement. Senator Lodge would not indicate what his altitude would be on a motion to bring the treaty before the Senate. Speaking for myself alone. he said. "I waa unable to agree to any changes in reservations two and five dealing with article ten and the Monroe Doctrine. In my opinion, reservation No. 2. which provides that we Shall assume ne obli CIHAYNESTO BE CHIEF DEPUTY Surry Sheriff Gets Appointment In Office of Collec . tor Bailey . - News and Observer' Bureau, M District National Bank Bid., By R. E. POWELL. (Special Leased Wire.) Washington, D. C, Jan. 80 Internal Revenue Collector Roper has written Senator Lee. S. Overman that he will wli&in the next few days appoint Sheriff C. H. Haynes, of Surry county, as chief deputy of ths income tax division of Collector Bailey office ss a partial solution to the problem Coloael Ala Watts left when he quit the service, The selection of Sheriff Haynee for this berth was forecast in the News and Observer several days ago and at the same time the prediction was mads that the office of supervisor of North Carolina would be abolished "for the good of the 'service." Efforts pf Senators Simmons and Ov erman right now are being directed toward securing a place in the depart ment for Sheriff Manly McDowell that will be acceptable to the Sheriff and to this end Senator Overman has been urging Commissioner Roper to re-estab lish the office of Collector in the west ern District. Commissioner Roper, it is understood, is opposed to re-establishing the office but : is in thorough accord with ths plan to abolish the office of Supervisor. He has practically said to the Senators that he would not accept a man as suc cessor to Colonel Watta who was unfam iliar with the internal revenue work in the State. . . Then,' too, a supervisor is thought to be objectionable to Collector Bailey. While it seems te be true thst the Ra leigh office has not measured .up with soma of ths ethers in the matter of efficiency, Collector Roper ia disponed to excuse much of the rating en the ground that new men have been in the Collector's office and are just be ginning to get thoroughly late the in atrjietiona of revenue accounting. CAPTAIN DETZER GIVEN " FREEDOM BY OFFICERS New York, Jsn. 30. Captain Karf W. Detxer, whose court-martial on charges of cruelty to prisoners at Le Mans. France, where he waa in command ef a military police company, waa completed yesterday, was released today by orher of Major William F. Kelly, judge advo cate at Oovernor'a Island, where Detzef haa been in custody for several months. Major Kelly ia his order for the pris oner's release, set forth that the eoOrt martial had neither recommended his imprisonment nor dismiaaaL The ver dict will not be disclosed antil It has bees reviewed in Washington, but offi cers who have followed the trial closely profess to believe that if Detxer ia not acquitted .he will escape with a repri mand, .j.'t ' 1 J ' 1 ; BOUSE APPROPRIATES MILLION TO- l FORCE PROHIBITION ) Washington, Jan. 30. For enforce ment of national -prohibition, the House today voted to appropriate ene millioa dollars, in addition to two mil lion dollars previously granted by Con gress. The increase is needed to provide until next July for 2,500 guards at eight hundred bonded, warehouses, where 09, 000,000 gallons of whiskey is stored. -1 gation ef any kind under article ten except the one mentioned in the trcatv, that we should ourselves respect the boundaries of other nations, eaanot possibly permit of change; "The ehaage proposed in reservation No, S in regard to the Monroe Doctrine was an absolutely vital one because it was asserted as aa official interpreta tion by the representatives of Great Britain that the Monroe Doctrine under the treaty was to be interpreted - bv the league. ' To thia I. for one. could never assent and in view of -the stste ment made in Paris by the British delegation, to which I have referred. I regard the line which it was proposed to strike out a absolutely necessar." Aa American Policy. 'The United Statee has always inter preted the Monroe Doctrine alone. It is our poliry. No one else has ever attempted to interpret it and it ia some thing in , my judgment which ought never to be permitted even by the most remote implicatioa. If we should striks out that phrase now after it had been accepted by the' Senate, it would lead to a direct inference that we left that question open. The right to .interpret the Monroe Doctrine, pertaining to the United States alone must never be ooen to question." The proposed change referred to bv the Senator waa a suggestion by the Democrats to strike out of the Republi can reservation the words "us id doctrine ia to be interpreted by the United States alone." On the question of bringing the treaty into the Senate it was apparent that sentiment waa in aa indecisive state. There have been some indications that there might not be undivided Democratic support for the move, but some of the mild reservation Republi cans and some Senators of the irre concilable group have looked with favor upon it.' Senator Hitchcock said he did not know whether a majority favored it,' but believed auch waa the ease. He added he would confer with various Democrats and Bepublicans be fore he made his motion. v ERS BRAVE DANGERS OF DEATH but of 20 leaving Russia? Pass Barriers and Reach .America With Funds ? , Washington, Jan. 30. How the eour- iers of Soviet Russia, carrying funds to finance ila propaganda in America ro tlm Mantlet ef death and imprison ment in tha surrounding states ef Europe, was a story begun, but aban doned half -told today by Ludwing C. A. K. Martens, Soviet agent in the I'nlted States, before the Senate For- eien Relations sub-committee inves ti nt in Russian propaganda. Martens flatly declined te aaswer fur ther questions put te him by ths com mittee en the subject of the couriers. and left it to consider whether or not hie nlea of "diplomatic immunity" from further examination should be allowed. while he went on to recount hia per sonal activities in endeavoring to get hia government recognised by the State Department, and in placing provisional contracts for f25,000,000 wirth of food, clothing and machinery with American business houses. Thia latter effort, he said, had resulted in placing two or three letters before President Wilson, urging recognition, though the State De partment has remained firm in its re fusal to recognize him in any way. Out of twenty ef the mysterious mes senger who started during the last year from Moscow with funds and let tern to him, Martens said seven had got ten through the barrier of armies and international frontier. Several had been shot summarily ia Finland "three that I knew about,'' Martens said casually. Of ten who tried to get through Ger many, nine were .caught and jailed. The first man to reach him, however, car ried $30,000 and his credentials ss So viet ambassador to the United States. A list of goods entered into by Mar tens was submitted te the committee with the explanation that the firms named had ngreedtfl -furnish the goods 6nly ; upon conditions that they wsre given licenses by the State Department to export the products to Soviet Russia. The largest contract eited wan for. 4,- 500,000 worth of printing presses, to be furnished by the Lehigh, Machine Com pany, of Lehighton, Pa. , ARRANGE FOR RETURN v HOME OF ARMY AVIATORS Brownsville, Tsx Jan. I0 Arrange ments for the return to the United Bute of Li.uta. E. F. Davis and O. E. Grimes, army aviator who made a forced landing in Meiice opposite Sea Zapata county, Texas, Wednesday, when their fuel supply gave out, were sanc tioned today by the Mexican govern ment.::' , ' - . ' ' A ewpply ef oil and gMline win be sent by automobile from Zapata, Texas, to the stranded aviator tomorrow, it was made known here tonight. They art expected to fly back te MeAUea as sooa a they receive the supplies. They are stopping at a hotel at Guer rero, a Mexican village, 140 mile west of Matameroe. ' Three Beveaae Agents Indicted ' Chicago, His., aJa. 30 Three mem bers of the Internal Bevenue depart ment were indicted today. .John femo roski waa charged with accepting bribe and John Warren nnd Earl Tremblev were charged with disposing of seized liquor. Thirteen individuals asd firms were indicted en charge of profiiccyi,j ia sugar.- , ' .. .-wSi"'"1 01 DEAL INVOLVING MILLIONS CLOSED IN MOUNTAIN CITY S. A. Lynch Sells Half Interest In 135 Theatres To Movie Corporation AMUSEMENT HOUSES IN 12 SOUTHERN STATES Famoni Playen-Laskj Corpo ration Already Owned Half Interest In The Southern En terprUes, Which la Now Taken Over Entirely; Strik ing Rise of Asheville Man Asheville, Jan. 30.p deal involving millions, and said te be the biggest in the motjon' picture or theatrical world in the history of the South, has just been consummated, it was announced here tonight, whereby ..the S. A. Lynch Enterprises waa sold to the Famous Players-Lsaky Corporation. The deal in volve theatres in twelve Southern states, numbering 136. Mr. Lynch atill retains a manager's contract for fifteen years, while the five film exchanges owned by the Lynch Enterprises will go back to the Southern Enterprises ft five years' time. In 1918 the Lynch Enterprise nnd Famous Players - Lanky Corporation formed the Southern Enterprise and Famoua . Players - Leaky Corporation, each corporation putting in one mil lion dollars, and now Mr. Lynch disposes- of hi stock ia this corporation, which haa increased many times. Thea tres in North Carolina affected by ths deal include all those in Asheville and those owned by Lynch in Charlotte, ia addition to others in Spartanburg, Greenville, Columbia, Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, Montgomery, Memphis, Birmingham, Dallas, Jacksonville and other places. y The rise of 8.-A. Lynch, an Asheville boy, who started out ten years ago without a penny's backing, te a point where he is one of the dominant fig ure in the motion picture world, reads likftjictlon. He is reputed by Asheville bankers tj be worth twenty-five millioa dollars. His Southsra headquarter are ia Atlanta, while the National head quarters are ia New York. ' i ;' ;Q PROMusENT CATTLtMEN lif FLORIDA ARE SHOT DOWN Pitched Battle Between Them and Deputy Sheriff! Result In Death of Threw ' Tampa, Fla, Jan. 30 Three promi nent cattlemen of Polk county were killed in a pitched battie and a fourth captured just before midnight last night near Chicor in Polk,. county by deputy sheriffs who claim they caught them ia the act of cutting the wire fences sur rounding a vast tract of phosphate land enclosed recently by the American Agri cultural Chemical Company, The dead men are i T. W. Albritton, a. large cattle owner and John Tinker, known as "Torn"; his brother, A. J, Bhan" Albritton, and Miram D. Alder man, a son-in-law of T. W. Albritton. Jesse Albritton, son of T, W. Albritton. wss captured. According to Deputy Sheriffs Newton Hatcher and Sam Williams, the three men were killed Sn a battle with the two deputies, when the deputies sur prised them in the set ef cutting the fence wiring. On two ceeesions reeent ly several miles of this wiring has been cut at night, ths wires being elipptd st alternate fence posts. Rewards bad been offered by the camp and county authorities and the two depuiies'were watching, for fence-cutters . last night when the four men came down the line, and according to the officers they were cutting the fence wires as they came. The offieera claim they called on the men to surrender and that T. W. Al britton opened fir on them. A pitehed battle resulted. . According to th authorities Jesse Al britton made a complete eonfeaaion, stating that the-men killed last night and himself have been cutting th fence wires. Tbete has been a feud en for years between large landowners and free range cattlemen who are fighting atainiV fences on the cattle ranges. , DEATH OF MAN IN PRISON , CAUSES ARRESTEE MADE Nashville, Tens- Jan. SO The first. arrest 1 connection with the aovern ment investigstioa of the death ef Fred Murphy, whose body waa found hang ing in hia cell ia .the jail at MeMinn ville last Saturday, was mad today. Xloyd Cummings, who haa been acting as special deputy under Sheriff A. D. Warren, ef Warren county, Waa lodged ia th jail at Cookeville. Tenn en a Federal warrant charging intimidation of a witness and violation of a citizen's constitutional rights. . Th body of Murphy was .exhumed at MeMinaville today. Examination was mad for trace of poison and for addi tional mark which might . indicate violence in addition to the hanging. '' GIRL FINDS H. C. L IN ' , BERN BAD PROPOSITION New Bcfni Jan. 30. Marie Laud, pretty, eighteen years old, of Savannah, Ua who tried to end her life a few day ago after she had struggled for weeks to live on a wage paid her by a local merchant, today .was discharged from a local hospital, fully recovered. The girl says the fight agsiast ht high eost of living was more than ehe could stand. Women who have interested themselves ia her behalf will see thst i get good Position, a QUARANTINE FOR HICKORY ORDERED BY CITY COUNCIL r ii j .. Acting Upon Advice of Physic ians, Town Fathers Put Lid On Tight SCHOOLS AND PICTURE SHOWS ALL CLOSED UP Not More Than 25 .Caiea Re ported But Think It. Beat To Play Safe; Ashe villa Shows Decrease In Number of Cases; F. L. Seely Starts Fund For Treatment Hlekory, Jan. 30,On recommendation of physicians of Hickory, eity. council tonight placed a quarantine on influenza and ordered schools, picturs shows and churches closed indefinitely. Not more than 23 cases have been reported here. Dr. H. C. Menxles, city health officer re ported, but he and other doctors thought it would be better to play safe. The cases in this immediate Section s're all mild, it is said. A telephone message from Dr. George W. Shipp, county health superintendent, said the epidemic was abating at long Island and Monbo and local physicians agreed thst fine weather of past three days had been helpfuL It is hoped the quarantine may bo raised in a week or two butia the council ia determined to prevent the spread of disease if humanly possible. Fewer Cases In Asheville. Asheville, Jan. 30. The appeal of the eity commissioners and Red Cross of ficials for permission to use beds and other equipment at Oteen Army Hos pital near here In opening an emergency hospital "her. for the influenza epidemic was granted today in a telegram received from Surgeon General Ireland through Congressman Weaver. Ths hospital will be opened in the new high school. - A docrense in the number of sew esse was shown tddsy when only 107 were reported and this is due, the healh of ficer atatcs, to the splendid co-operation of the people. T, L. Beely, managor of Grove Park Inn, wired five hundred dollars froin P1 eBaeh and the chair man of the Red Croe appealed to the citizens for. additional funds. Th strict closing law will be eofVretof for a few day longer until the situation is well ia hsnd. . Ne Death la Reaneka V. r Roanoke, Va Jan. 30. One hundred and fifty-nine new cases of flu were re ported to the local health department tooay bringing, th total to 773. No deaths were reported. Health officials exnresscd the belief tonight that st a meeting or the board of heslth tomorrow d.'cision will be made to elnae all sub tle gathering plaee including schools, uuu me epiusmio is over. ELON TOSSERS BEAT DAVIDSON PLAYERS Elon College, Jan. 30. Davidson went down in defeat at the hands of the Klon quint with a acore of 24 te 18. Both teams were in ' good form and showed some fast' passing. Captain Sides, for Elon, did soma fast work. The line-up:. ' Davidson. Poeitiea. Elon. Roberts Sides Left Forward Chalmers Striebeek Sheperd . Atkinson . . . Perry Bight Forward ' Center . , . McCsulle v Lift Guard Bomefelt Johnson, E. S. Right Gusrd . , Summary t Substitutes Grav. for At kinson, Newmsn for Grav, Johnson. B. B., for Perry, White for Johnson. B. B. Field goals Roberta, 3; Sheperd. 1: Bomefelt, 3; Sides, 4 1 Atkinson. 2: Perry, 1 j Johnson. E. 8M I. Foul goal Robert, 3j Chalmers, 1; Sides, Z. Referee Stuart. , HUNDRED THOUSAND FINE FOR EMBEZZLING FUNDS : Warren Ohio, Jan. 80, Charles B. KUler. former city treasurerjtoday pleaded guilty to a chars of embezc-' ling eity funds and wss fined 1100 040.10. . double th amouat of mosev embezzled, asd sentenced to from en to twenty years in the Btet peniten tiary by Common z leas Judg Wilkin. v Sine th esoortage .1 Kialer eounta wa discovered early thia month, he haa maintained that h gave the bulk of the money to Mrs. Lillian Jaa Wil son, of Cleveland. - : A . we-et f the- arrest of Mrs. Wilson has bee Issued. 4 ' ' Agree t Settle Ml Strike . Rosse, Thursday Jan. 26. Under th agreement reported virtually to hav been reached by Premier Nitti, Minister ef Transport ds Vito asd the me- .bcr if the Central Committee of the Cell way strikers this afternoon for a settle ment of th strike an eight hour day will be established for ail railway men and ire member of ths railway aie.'. salon will be admitted te the board of directors of ths railways. ' Claim, te Have Isolated Germ 1 j- Borne, Jan. 80 Professor Magglom, of Bo'ogna' University is reported to here loeceedrd in isolating th germ of lethargic encephalitis, (sleeping sick ness) in the blood of patient, He is now said to be preparing a serum to combat the disease. -- , -., ' Slgas an America Contract ; ' New Vorh, Jan. SOThe first New Fork American club 1920 contract was signed todsv fey Pitcher Berbert Thor Btahle. ' - -, ' REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD AN OPEN AIR CONVENTION Asheville, Jan. - ls Permission ' waa granted the coaaty Rcpabli caaa today by the city beard ef health t hold aa open air county, convention tomorrow at noon on the lewa ef the ceart hease. The con vention had been widely' advertis ed end delgatea-wlUaJrsBt from every precinct ia the ceoety. Th parpeee ef the meeting Is to select delegates le the district ceagreeaieaal convention ef Feb nary 7th at which time a emigres sieaal caadldate will be reeem-. meaded. This will be the first oecm sir political convention aver held In Baaeombc cennty. It Is expected thst Llnaey will likely be endorsed fer Btet chairman, Merebead far National commltteaana and Brltt fer Governor. ' . LAW LICENSES ARE F These, Dut of Class of Fifty Eight Candidates May Prac tice In State Out, of a class of fifty-eight eandl dates, forty-three were yesterday li censed to practice law in North Caro tin Ths only women ia the batch of applicant who faced the Supreme Court's examination - Monday, Mis IVani-A. Elizabeth McKenxie, of Aabe- ville, passed, it is learned, with credit. Two ef the successful applicants whoss names Were announced yesterday a re from Raleigh, James HaU Rand and Kxnm Duvai Banks. North Carolina's newest lawyers are: L'hlman Seymour Alexander, Char lotte, 10 W. Hill street. Exnm. Duvai Banks, Raleigh. Ldwin Breathed Bridges, Charlotte. 630 N. College street. Perry George Crnmpler, Clint os. Lellon Barnes Dawes, Elm City. Lyn Bond, Edenton. Charles Bloxton De Shazo, Bel ma. Dover Beese Fouts, Franklin. Onslow Talmage Glenn, Rougemoat, Person county. James Maaaey Center, Charlotte, IS N. Brevard street. - Isham Barney Hudson, Dunn. David Bunyan Johnson, White Oak, Bladen- county, John Henry LeRoy, Jr., Elizabeth Citv. Veeton Colboura Banks, Granteboro, Pamliea county. : William Monroe Lovelace, Moore ooro, uieveiana tvaniy. jro, Cleveland eounjV -Bine Arthur Jones, tuilf or d, Wven bora. ' : - ' - . William Marion Mann, Enfield. Albert HU1 King, Burlington. Deanl Bryan Leatherwoed, Wsynee ille. Hubert Ethridge Olive, Clayton. Samuel Edward Loftin, Wilmington, BOX XtW. Carl Howell Raglan d, Oxford. Zebulon vane McMillan, Ked Kprings. Oeorre Thoma Robertson. Hender-I son. Justn Coyte BuduviH. Maiden, Ca tawba county. Alfred Eugene Spivtty, Lewistos, Ber tie county. Frances Elisabeth McKenxie, Ashe ville. Henry Milton Watson, Wtilhalle. Samuel David McCullen, Goldaboro, 114 Virginia street, . George Fred Washburn, Mica, Mitchell county, ... . ... Charles Edward Btewcr, Reldsville. Ely Jackson Perry, Kinston. Luther Johnson Britt, Lumbsrton. Frank Oliver Bay, -Selmn. Clarence Ernest Blaekstock, Weaver ville. , , . - Jsmes Hsll Band, Raleigh. Irvine Beaufort Watkina, Henderson. Roswell Braekin Bobbins, Lexington. Elbert Exra Wilson, Bose Hill, Duplin county. Claude Bernard Woltz, Dobios, Surry county. Bynum Edgar Weathers, Shelby. William Lawrence ilsrshsU, Chsrlotte, Wilkinson building. Nash LeGrand, Hamlet. SECOND WEEIC OF TRIAL SOCIALISTS IS FINISHED Reported That Lieut. CoL Roosevelt Will Mot That They Be Seated Albany. K. Y- Jan. 30. Theaeeond week of the trial of the five suspended Socialist assemblymea charged with dis loyslty, ended tonight with counsel for the Assembly judiciary committee till unable to state when they would be able to complete presentation of their ease. .- . ' Thia morning waa consumed with a general exposition of Socialism and its history since 1864, but this afternoon th prosecution read into th record volume of documentary evidence bear ing on the anti-war program' of th Soeialiat party and th attitud of the Socialist delegation in tb assembly to ward war legislation. ' , Committee counsel also went into ths R1VFN FflRTY-THRF Socialist doctrine that politicel actioaJturjeddown every proposal mad by should be backed with industrial ac tio and obtained from Algernon Lee, of New York, treasurer of the Socialist ststs committee, aa admission that nn der certain conditiona Socialist con sidered a general strike a justifiable political weapon. It was reported tonight that a firth effort might be mad in th -lower House next Monday night to reeeat the ousted member and discharge the judi ciary committee. The report had it that Lieut. CoL Theodore Roosevelt would head the movement, ' but the Colonel would neither confirm nor deny th. re port v .- ' J' , , i Meanwhile", the stage is being set for a meeting here" tomorrow, arranged by member of civic, social and, labor or ganizations, t which a -protest will be made against suspension of ths Social ist. LODGE A ND BORAH FURNISH LEAVEN TO DIVIDE PARTY Massachusetts Senator Informs Democrats That Article 10 Can't Be Changed .. IDAHO MEMBER TAKES REPUBLICANS TO TASK Borah Attacks Abandonment of Promise To Cartail Public Expenses and Declares That "Platform Committee of 157 Varieties' Can't Undo Inac tivity of Congress New and Observer Bureau 03 District National Bank Bldg. - (By R.E. POWELL) (By Special cLeaed Wire) Washington, D. C, Ja. SO. What Henry Cabot Lodg failed to de today in putting the leaven to work for ene grand and -glorious "busi-tnp" la the -Republican party, William Edgar Borah, of Idaho, did. Between the twe they wrought havoe and with Bose Penros. ill in Philadelphia the ene repudiate. I ex-Preaidcmt Taft and the other de nounced Republican Chairman : Will Hays. When the late and lamented Theo dore tfebosevelt bolted the organization in 1112 and started out te establish a party of hia own, he staged nothing mows haa a dainty pink tea compare! vtfth the Lodge and Borah show ef today. Hew Baet-ap Happeaea The two thinga that happened in order were: - - First: Senator Borah, 'attackiag the Republican abandonment ef a promise to eurtail publie expeditures, declare! that the party had ereataed a ''platform committee of 1S7 varieties" whereas the. Republican platform will b written by th Congress now in session. " Second: Senator Lodge, attended enlr by Senator. Leitroot, of the reservation group, informed Democratic member of tli quasi-eoneilitio"tt committee that further conferences looking te a med: (I cation of article 10 were useless; tha in th Lodg reservation on 'the heart of the covenant" mu stand or fall. The two big blow fell in rapid sue cession. The Borah outburst didn't ere at any sensation antil thia afteraooat when Senator-Ledgt mot the Demoeret: conferees and informed then, thst n change in Artie! Ten Could h con sidered further off th. floor of tha Senate. It must be determined there, he said, and after tha conference, ha loid Senator Underwood that ha wilt mov to bring it op gstn noises th Democrat move to do o first. i i T Call Up Treaty Again Accordingly, Democratic members of the conference diseussed their plan ofl continuing th fight with th -result thst aa agreement ' wa reached with Senator Hitchcock to servs notice ia the Senate that thetreaty win Ho . called np within tha next ten day sad a set of reservations, approximating th reservations agreed upon np te tLe s time ef the fizat break with Senator Lodg a few days ago, offered. - On these reservations, which ar acceptable to ths mild reservationists on both side of the chamber, the administration forces will' let th treaty stand or fall. If it stands, the deck ia stripped fur action without the treaty as a campaign issue; if it fails, the Democrats bar an abiding faith that th people will ratify it jby their verdict next Novem ber. '.' .;. . - i At the conference this afternoon, whea Senator Lodge informed Democrat.. Senators that neither ths Simmons oe any other reservation to Article Tea would be accepted by tha Republicans on th conference committee, the Demo crat, proposed th Taft substitute for Article Ten which preserve only moral obligation to thia country. Thia was ss flatly declined aa the reservation which Senator Simmons had offered and which, before the irreconciliahles de- I Ilvered an ultimatum te Lodge, hsd been tentatively agreed upoe. . -"; Mr. Taft'a Analysis.. ' Mr. Taft's analysis of his own suhstit . tute which wss spurned by Senstor Lodged is: " "By the changed form ef the rsser ration, all legal obligation of the United ' States to de anything under Article 1'i to preserve the integrity, territorial r governmental of another eouatry is eliminated, a in the present reserva tion, and th only thing that remain is the poesibl existence of a moral ob ligation which 1 give life only by the . decision of Congress nader the par . titular circumstance of each ease a 1 it arises. Congress maetitsrlf recog nize th obligation- before it become one. It maybe said that Congress haa that -right now.' While regretting that ther i the possibility of atill further delay in rati- r (ration of the pact. Democratic senators see ia the turn of evente today nothing - but good omena for toe Democrat! party. ' Not only haa Senator Lodg th Democrat, bnt he haa virtually re pudiated ex-Presideat Taft. -- Th next move of the Democrats, a agreed upon today, will be to serve aotice that the treaty will be called so again, and thia will probably be- don tomorrow by Senator Walsh, ef Montana- who has been a member ef the committee of five. Senator - Hitchcock will be absent tomorrow, but will be beck before the treaty ia again be fore the Senate. Unless present plans are changed, ten 'daya notice will be - given to both sides. There 'is only a "remote ahanee that v Senstor Vederrood will insist on hia resolution.: calling for th appointment ' of a conciliation committee of te Sen ators, five Democrat, and five Republi cans.. Tbij v. aa considered several d.-a .A .Ttt Two.)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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