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he New?: nd Ofos THE WEATHER . Fair Frlesy aad Satarday, mot maek change In tempera tire. ' " .. .' WATCH LABEL. nn'Mit. Bt rmswet t ' hafore rslratl! aa4 ereie iMiag S tiftl M). . erver T"" VOL CXI. NO. 51. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH AY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1920. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE t FIVE CENTS T ' j. A. ' '' ' '. 111 - " 1 REPLY OF WILSON TO ENTENTE NOTE IS NOW PREPARED Understood To Restate Ameri can Position On Adriatic s Matter With Finality TO BE CABLED EITHER . TONIGHT OR SATURDAY Premiers' Eeply To Original Note Argumentative, and , President Meets This Argu , ment Point By Point; London ':. Thinks Note and Reply Will Soon Be Made Public "Washington, Feb.J0. (By the Asso ciated Press.) President Wilson today prepared and sent to the Senate Depart ment a reply to the entente premiers' ' Bote on the Adriatie question. Be is understood to have restated the position ef the American government with a degree of finality. Although the President dictated his Communication in less thun two hours, it probably will not be put on the cables before tomorrow night or Saturday. Aa impression first went out that it tnigl.t be transmitte . tonight. The original draft aa prepared by Mr. Wilson was sent to Acting Secretary Polk for his personal study, as he was the head of the American mission when the Adriatic settlement of December ninth was reached at Paris with the eon Bent and approval of the President, and is therefore, thoroughly familiar with all the preliminary negotiations. After Mr. Polk Has completed hia examina tion of the document and it has been put in the usual diplomatic form, it ....probably will be returned to the White House for final approval before it it dispatched to Ambassador Davis at Ixn don for presentation to the premiers. The President is understood to have adhered to the position taken in his note of February the loth in which he in formed the allies that if they are to proceed to a settlement of the Adriatie question without the participation of the United States government, a situation, might be created where the American government"' wight have to consider wVct'-er H could become a party to the treaty of Versailles and the Franco- Amcratiu pact. While conciliatory, tfte premier's reply 1,1 to tills original note was argumentative. . Jlr. Wiliest, in hia answer, is understood ta have met this argument point by point, and is be'lefed to have, again called attention to the principle of self determination as enuueiated in his fourteen points and his other declara tions during the war, which were accep ted by the Central Powers as tlie basis for peace. Although it makes' clear that the Am erica government has not changed the - position it took when the original Ad riatic agreement was made at Paris, tho President's note tt not regarded at -'the final chapter in. the negotiations. The premiers in their reply to the original communication are said to have left tho way open for agreement along the lines previously accepted by the tTnited States and with the receipt of fha American not itwill be for them to decide whether the ultimatum prev iously pent to Jugo slavia embodying the settlement to which the United Htjtcs 'did not subrcribe will stand. f Publication Likely. London, Feb. 19. It is considered more than likely tonight that the Su preme council will agree to. the publi cation of President Wilson's note to the allied reply, authough whether here or at Washington hn not yet been decided. - Tha newspaper pressure in England, France, and the United States for publi- (J aeation of the documents in order to sup press erroneous reports and ruiuoTS con- aidered harmful was discussed in the Council today, but so far as has been ascertained a definite decision was not teiched. . . . The council eontinued its discussion of the Russian situation this afternoon but adjourued further consideration nn ttl the return of the French premier, M. HUTerandTIonday. SUMMARY OF POINTS IX ' ALLIES' KEPLY TO WILSON. Buenos Aires, Wednesday. Feb. 19. A ummary of the main , points In tho al lied reply to PreaidentjWilson'i Adriatic Vote, cabled by the Rome correspondent of La Nacion, discloses that President Wilson threatened to withdraw hia sig nature .front the British-French-Amer-Jcan treaty establishing security for Trance, to which tho alliea reply that anch action would destroy absolutely the "new French policy" for which President Wilson 1 invited protection. The fundamental pointa of the reply to President Wilson, according to. the correspondent, are: First The alliea answer the accusa tion of having prepared a .convention for the annexation of Fiume to Italy, which pre-supposes bad faith on the part of Italy, by aaying that President WUson ta unable to demonstrate this. Second The Italian petition for the establishment of territorial contiguity with Fiume is a Tery , email thing com pared with the cession of Dalmatia, which the whole world Is able to prove by merely examiinng the map of Europe, p - . '"L. - Third The allies observe that the prejeet of President Wilson which com prehends the creation of a buffer state, kas been rejected, by the Jugo-Slavs, and the allied nations hare been unable to insist upon it. Fourth The strip of territory neees aary. to establish the contiguity of Finrae with Italy has not sufficient value (Continued oa Pace Two.) WILL RECLAIM LANDS ! THROUGH BOND ISSUES' Senator Fletcher Offers Bill Providing For Reclamation ' On Mammoth Scale Washington, Feb. 19. Reclamation of unused lands in the West and South through a series of bond issues, operaWj ing similar to the Federal farm loan i system, would b. .uthoriwd by a bui introduced today by Senator Iletcher, Democrat. Florida. A similar measure j will be offered in the House tomorrow by Representative 8mith, Republican. Idaho. . Inder the plan f-.OOO rtW; bonds would be sold the first year, $,,0,-' 000,000 the second, 40,000,000 the third and $50,000,000 the fourth year, With a ZZlrkt.'VoM.CuTUlL Powers Which cher asserted money required for ton- struction would be furnished by the investing public without any burden be- ing placed upon the taxpayers. Work-1 benefit the small homesteader. The measure represents the concert of action of the South and the Weat for a great natioo.I, rather than a eectionil plan. The Southern interest, including . :...- j I. . j ne governors oi "" the Southern Commercial, t ongrees, mot here last month and evolved a biU.jiJiia the representatives of the West, under the chairmanship of Governor Davia of Idaho,- later approved. Ferraer Gover nor eipry ,of I'tah, .has remained in Washington in charge of the legislative program of the West. estimated that the program if adopted i The Southern Commercial Congress would mnke feasible the reclamalimi ' of O.OOO.OoO to 7,000,000 acres of land by the end of the tenth year. DIES AT RIPE AGE Prominent Business Man and! Beloved Citizen of Rocky Mount Passes Away Rocky Mount, Feb, 19. Robert Henry Ricks, publicist, philanthropist, Confed erate Veteran and one of the most prominent financial and business men of northeastern North Carolina, died at 7 o'clock tonight at his home in Nash county, five miles from thia city, after an ilinesa of less than one week. Mr. Ricks, commenced suffering with blood ; elot ea the brain aoveral day age. and his death bad" been expected aaomentar Uy for the last twenty-four hours. Although Mr. Ricks wae 81 years of ige, he had never b?n beset by the in firmities of old age, but remained vigor ous and active in hia numerous interests up until, the time of his fatal aickness. In his death Rocky Mount and the en tire Eastern section of North Carolina loses one of its foremost citizens and pioneer upbuilders who in all his dealing placed the public welfare before indi vidual gain. The only member of his immediate family to survive the deceased man is his wife, who was before mnrriage in 1874 Miss Tempo Thorn, of Nash county. However, numerous nieces and nephews survive in this immediate section of the State. Announcement was made to night that the f unCral wil be held from the Ricka family home, Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock. Robert Henry Ricka was born in Nash county April 4, 1839, aud was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Ricks. He re ceived his education at the public schools and at the very outbreak of the war-betwcen-the-sUtes enlisted in the fam- , I . l ) u : . IT ..f , v . I six men to volunteer to charge the house , at Bethel when Henry Wyatt offered: 1,1. it. .. it.. ;t H...ii,.rn.r in ;.-. up all for the cause, was wounded five times at the battle of Cold Harbor, and belonged to the battery which fired j the last gun at Appomattox. Returning to Nash county on foot af- , ter the. war, he started to work as a lab- i orcr at a salary of 10 a month and by sheer determination, hard work and executive ability, gradually attained the foremost place in the business life of t' j community which he held at the time of hia death. Mr. Ricks had a hand in developing practically every industry 'in the city and when he died was presi dent of the . Rocky Mount Mills, vice president, director and one of the larg est stockholders of the National Bank of RoJiy Mount; president of the May odan and Washington Mills, president of 'the Bocky Mount Ice ami Fuel Com pany, president of the Enfield Hosiery mills, member of the firm of Bland and Rinks, who operate the Bland Hotel in Raleigh, the Louise- in Washington and the Ricks in this city, member of the firm of Thorpe and Ricks, local leaf tobacco dealers, member' of the firm of Bu E. Brewer and Company, of this city and part owner of the Jeffreys Ricks Clay works. In addition to these positions he was one of the largest planters in the State and possessed city and rural real estate of large value. .With all his business activities h alwaya found time to serve tho public. He was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1903, member of the 'State Senate in 1903, memter of the board of education and its president for four years, member of the county board of commissioners for a long term, a member of the board of directors of the State penitentiary and at one time a trustee of North Carolina State Col-H lege. He was also a member of the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar and a Bhriner. He was most prominent in Confederate veteran circle, being commander of the Nash county camp of Confederate veterans aad a loyal mem ber of the staff of General Metts, state commander. NO EFFORT TO BRING " PEACE TREATY FOR DEBATE Washington, Feb. 19. The peace treaty debate lapsed again 'today, neither aide snaking any effort to bring op the subject for 8enat consideration. ROBERT H R FIRST REPUBL1 GUN IS FIRbu - - Declines, However, To Be Can- dlfJate FOr Delegate at Large Pnnvont inn I O lUIIVcllllUII OUTLINES PLATFORM FOR PARTY TO STAND UPON - ( Make President "More Auto- . . i cratic Than Any Sovereign ; Want Treaty Ratified With Amendments Before Election j and Favors Americanization Now VorV, Fib. !!. Nalhan 1 Jlillcr, f Syracuse. as named a dclegate-af - , , ,, .. .. , 'arga.. to the Republican National con vrntion in place of Elihu Root ,who - declined to serve, by the informal State convention here tonight. Air. Boot definitely announced hia decision not to be a delegate iu a letter addressed to I State Chairman George Glynn. Mr. Root gave no reason in his letter of' withdrawal, but it is understood thabi he has decided to accept the appoint rue lit as a member of the committee which is to prepare a plan of organi atinn .for an international court of justice provided for under the covenant of the League of Nations. Mr. Root, is is understood desires to lie free from other duties, especially those of a parti san nature, while he is connected with tha international organization. Mr. Miller is a former judge of the State Court of Appeals. l Root Outliaea Platform. fm Tin miHinAl nl.tfnrm Hnnn which he believed the party should go to the polls in November. Most striking of his proposals were: Decentralization of the executive pow er which have made the President "more autocratic than any sovereign in the civilised world." Ratification of tha peace treaty with Senate amendments "long before the presidential elections. Reform of the League of Nation covenant by a Congreea of nations at the call of Republican President imme diately after March 4, 1921," to estab "the rule of public right rather than the role of mere expediency.1 Rigid -governmental economy and the idoytiow of an etecntiv ihndget. Limitation of the right to strike at a point -where it conflicts witjj self preservation of tho community; estab lishment of a labor tribunal with power to enforce-ite mandate. Revision of the cystem of taxation "which involves the tariff."' Americanization and the elimination of "i lot of Botebeviki r Bolsheviki sympathizers" from -public office. Universal military training. Mr. Root's address was regarded as the opening gun of the. campaign. It was prepared after informal conferences with the most distinguished Republicans of the stat-. End "Dictatorship." "More important, , than all," Mr. Root aaid, "is the necessity that we shall re store our Republican form of govern.-; ment, with the liberty of the individ ual eitizen preserved by limitations upon official power and put an end to the dictatorship which we created, in order, to carry on the war. By a series of statutes unprecedented iu scope and (Continued on Page Two.) LbuAL rluHT OVER pal r fC OA CUDC QHUC Kir ou omrd Temporary Injunction Granted Against Sale of German Pas senger Vessels W-t eli I ri nri on lVv Id VrariAMt m ft I ,p! unle to eompiife ,nBtT0 vorsy over shipping board efforts to dis pose of thirty former German passenger liners loomed large today when Asso ciate Justice Bailey, In the District Su preme Court, granted K temporary in junction against the sale on a tax-payer application filed by William Randolph Hearst. R0OTJNJD0RESS STATES ONCE MORE Joha-Barton Payne, enairmani;,,,, Observer, to make the paper sl of the " recommend appeal proceedings and also an effort to require Mr. Hearst to fur niih bond against- loss if the ships laid idle. He indicated that tho government would fight to the finish for its legal right to proceed with the sale. Simultaneously, Viee Chairman Stev ens, of the board, in disagreement with hia colleagues as to the wisdom of the rale continued hia testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. Still an other difference of opinion connected with these ships was developed at the hearing, John D. York, a marine engi neer of Chicago, contending that the Leviathan, largest of the tU-et, could he reconditioned for, passenger service only in the yard where she was built in Ger many, while R. It. Hague, engineer for the board, aaid the work could be don? in American yards. Chairman Jones, ot the committee, announced that the question of formulating leeommenda tions for the Senate on this question and also of framing legislation that mijrht be deemed neeoiiury would be taken up tomorrow ia executive session. - -r PARENTS OF ALLEGED VICTIM ' SAVE CONVICTED NEGRO Dumas, Ark., Feb.' 19. Jenkins Jeff erson, negro, convicted last aight at Arkansas City on a eharge of attempt ing to attack a 13-year-old white girl there last Friday and sentenced to 21 years ia the penitentiary, was saved front possible mob violence 1y the Desha county authorities with the aid of the ahild's parents, it became kaowa here today. No announcement ofih,peDer the department informed the Sen- attack or the trial was made nntit after Jefferson had been Convicted. 1 RUNNING FOR u7 OFFICE, DANIELS Latest Boom For. Secretary Appears In 'Exclusive' Story In Tar Heel Paper CONTEST PICTURED IN THIS POLITICAL YARN Struggle For Party leadership Between Daniels and McLean Described In Washington (N. 0.) News, Amuses Poli ticians In Bigger Washing ton; An Entertaining Story The Xewi and Observer Burean. 60r District National Bank Bldg., By R. E. POWEI-t. , (By Special Leased "Wire.) Washington, Feb. 19. Imaginative ," -'' I contemplating a wee little ehat with some oi me ueparwju nyjrna n muiun planet-fond it hard today to picture the 1924 struggle for party leadership jn North. Carolina betweaa Secretary Daniels and A. W. McLean so entertain ingly told in the "Washington (North Carolina) Daily News a day Or two ago. , ' As a scoop on the political situation, it stands in a class by itself. It bsd the effect of drawing hearty laughs from both principals and of driving Cameron Morrison from a discussion of his own campaign long enough to join in the chorus that shouted, "im possible." No Political Ambitions. Mr. McLean laughed and asked several questions about the political editor of the Washington paper. Secretary Dan iels also laughed and decided that he would set at rest all speculation regard ing his political 'ambitions. He hasn't any and most emphatically said so whea he read the famous exclusive story of tho Daily News. But the story itself, which has amused Washington readers in various and sun dry ways, occupies choice f n at page position, is printed ia bold f ee type and is iutroduced with ' the fallowing warning to other newspapers S, "This is an exclusive lr f News story. Other papers are fp jfi not to eopyfunlets full "wedlt Vntf It rends; - "Joseph us Daniels and A. W. Mc Lean will be the principal can di dates for Governor of North Carolina ia the 1924 gubernatorial campaign, accord ing to highly authoritative information scoured by the Daily New today from political7 leaders of the State. This in formation, it is stated, is absolutely au thentic and initial step in the campaign have already been taken, although so publicity has 'been given the matter to date. The Daily News is the first pa per to make known the facts. "The campaign will bring forth a fight for leadership of the Democratic party of the State, the Daily News Is told. McLean will be the candidate for the Simmons regime and the race for Governor will really be a struggle be tween Simmons and Daniels for theV coniroi oi pany pontics in iortu Car olina." That part of the comment among lead ing Tar Heel politicians who stay here regularly and among those who might be counted as a part of Washington's floating population which was serious dealt entirely with the absurdity of a political fight between Mr. Daniels and Mr. McLean. It would tax the mind less to picture Wood row Wilson anking the Senate to reject the treaty with Ger many, or William Jennings Bryan ask ing that the Uemoerats write a wot plank in the next platform. .Daniels' One Ambition. "A man who can look forward to going back to Raleigh and helping to edit the' News and Observer and try and help the State," Secretary Daniels said, "who would have in his mind a candidacy for any office is unimagin able to me. "The only idea I have ever had aad it is tho same idea I bad when I was twenty years old is tn spend my life in Raleigh trying, in co-operation with 111. .KI. Mn !,. mt,,f ,.t ,1.. tA0rfniV fftf -VP r agency for everything that will bless the State. " ' , ''Never before I was Secretary of the Navy-did I have any ambition for politi- heeMeadership. I rather prefer to return to the congenial duties t ' which I have given most of my life.'' Boom ef Four Yean Ago. Thst settles it for Mr Daniels and Mr. McLean settled the gubernatorial boom his friends launched for him four years ngo. At that time there was much pressure- hrouglit to bear to hive him make the Biekett-Danghtridge con test a three-cornered affr.ir. He's a little busy right now with Ihe 1920 campaign. His job as National committeeman is. enough to satisfy the political appetite. ff a normal man and he is about as human as folks get to be rated now. , . "Why should he want to W gover nor" one of his friend asked today. "He has all the law practice he wsnts if he chooses to return to it, he has a railroad, large farming interests and a bank or two in Eastern Carolina. And. as for the glory of the thing, he can certainly get all , the1 political glory he wants where be is." But everybody agrees that it was an entertaining story. Mayaard Going to Ashevlllc The Adjutant General todiiy advised Senator Simmons that he had issued orders for Lieutenant Belvin W. May nard the ''flying, parson," to ttop in Asheville on his recruiting flight from Knoxville to Greensbcro. Mayaard Is today at Aulaader with a broken pro (ContiBned Pare Twe.) SAYS SOCIALISTS T BE FORCED Hillquit Predicts, However, They Will Control Country By Peaceful Means CITES H STORY TO SHOW HIS ARGUMENT IS TRUEj Testifying at Investigation of Ousted Assemblymen, Social ist Leader Defends Berger and Debs, Declaring Latter, Though In Prison, Should Eun For President Albany, K. T., Feb. 19. Morris Hni quit,. Socialist leader,' today predicted that control of the United States govern ment would pass peacefully- into the hands of the. Socialist party when it j enrolls the working class. He isaued a I warning, however, that ""it is not iropos-1 siblo the people of thia counfry will ; be compelled to supplement )heir poli tical action' with a little shooting, if j the profiteering class revolts after tho f majority ef the people are ready to introdnce "substantial reforms ty legal constitutional methods." Testifying before the assembly judi ciary committee at the investigation of the five suspended Socialist assembly men charged with disloyalty, Mr. Hill- quit denied that the Socialist party in tended to promote its program by other than "legislative action, parliamentary j action and in a peaceful way." Not Plotting Revelation But, ww He he asserted the jarty was not plotting bloody revolution to achieve its aim, Mr., Hillquit declared history has shown that "when the privileged minority is about to lose its privileges, it becomes desperate and tries to de stroy reform or lawful revolutionary movements by force.'' "In that ease it will be up to the majority of the people to defend their rights against such lawless, powerful, privileged minorities and in a ease of that kind it may conic to shooting," he aaid. Mr. Hillquit made his "prophecy" toward the close of bit cross-examination by Martin Conbov, of committee counsel, who quoted Victor K Berger aa saying Socialists and worker wait be 'prepared to back up their ballots with their bullets." Extols Berger and Debs. Mr. Hillquit, who extolled Berger, interpreted that aa meaning to dofend themselves after they had come into power through the ballot. j Mr. Hillquit also eulogized Eugene Y. Debs, serving sentence for violation of the espionage act, and asserted that if he had his way Debs would become the Socialist candidate for President. After Mr. Hillquit had left the stand he was succeeded by Otto Branstetter. national secretary of the Socialist party, who testified that, exclusive of the foreign-speaking branches, only one per rent of the ducAparing members of the party are aliens and seventy-one per cent are American-born. He was called rpfi0 .harm., that the uartv was dominated by aliens, who controlled members elected to public office through resignations filed with party organiza tions on receiving nominations. Ha testified that the ''resignation clause" was no longer in the national party constitution and was a dead letter. SHERMAN RAPS FORD. HIS FAMILY AND AUTO Senator Watson Calls .Meeting To Count Votes In Michigan Senatorial Race Washington, Fob. 19. Bitter partisan debate on the fraud charges agninst Senator Newberry .Republican of Jich igan, took up much of ths 6jmateV.timo today, s yesterday, precipitated by Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois, continuing his attack on Henry Ford, the dcefated Democratic candidate. the defeated Democratic candidate. While the debate was running its course. Senator Watson, Republican of Indiana, called a meeting for Monday of the sub-committee appointed to re count the ballots in the contested elec tion. It was indicated, however, that the snb-coinmittee probably would post pone its task until the trial of Senator Newberry and his campaign workers now in progress at Grand Rapids, was fin ished. Senator Sherman included the mem bers of Mr. Ford's family, the auto mobile which ha manufactures and all his activities in his vigorous attack. He declared Mr. Ford had furthered his financial and political fortunes by en- Hutinff thn krrlria nf tha mvurnmiint The Illinois Senator wo taken sharply ' ta task h Senator. Hunlrv of Ken. ' tuckr, and Walcott, of Delaware, both Democrats, who declared he had violated Senate decorum, the latter charging that Mr. Sherman had been "addressing a jury in Michigan," for which he would have been in contempt of court if done in that State. Senator Townsrnd, Republican, col league of . Senator Newberry, injected a ne element of bitterness by declaring that while the truth was being learned about Michigan he would like to see the facta brought. Out concerning the last senatorial contest in .Kentucky. , NAVf TP.APLANB TL'RNS . TURTLE IN MOBILE BAY. ' Mobile. Ala, Feb. 19 Navy acaplane 2,429 turVed turtle in Mobile Bay 14 miles below the city this afternoon while returning to Pensacola. The accident was caused by a defective pontoon. The crew of two were rescued by a launch from shore. The 'saiaa will be towed J ashore. IW N USING GUNS MEXICANS RELEASE MINE OFFICIAL FROM CfSTODT Los Angeles, C'al, Fb. Will iam Welch Adams. American mine saperiateadeat, reported kidnapped In Zazatecaa, Mexice, Febraary IX. has bees released. acco'rdfng M snes sages which his wife said tonight aha had received from the American Metala Compaay eflicc U New York aad Mexico and. the American Cen tal at Monterey, Mexico. PELL QUITS FIGHT -X Fl Believes Maxwell Will Receive Appointment To I. C. Commission TAKES ACTION, HE SAYS. OUT OF REGARD FOR STATE Declares He Has Ho Resent ment Toward Those Who Op posed Him and" Trusts That Every Effort Will Be ''Made To Land Harwell On Com mission Predicting that A. J. Maxwell, young est member of the State Cotporation Commission would within the next 49 hours be appointed to fill a vacancy on the Inter-State Commerce Com mission, Judge George P. Pell him self a member of the Htate Commission yesterday withdrew his candidacy for the appointment. His withdrawal oc casioned no surprise here, since he had indicated several days sgn that he would withdraw if friends of Mr. Maxwell in sisted on pressing the younger mem ber's candidacy. Withdrawing his name from the race and throwing his support to Mr. Max well, Judlge Pell issued a formal state ment la which he declared this action was taken "out of a proper regard for the interest of my state. The statement follows: ! am informed from Wathingtftn that the President refuses to consider the names of Mr. Maxwell ot myself for appointment to the Inter-state Com merce Commission as long aa both names are before him, and our Honators art divided. Thia being the ease and not withstanding that m;" neme was first prese-ltcd and I tt haU had the tight to expect no opposition within my of ficial 'family, and now notwithstanding tha fact that Senator Overman, Secre tary Dahiela and eight out of tl ten North Carolina Congressmen endorsed me I feel that the proper regard for the interest of my State compel me to withdraw, which I have done. "This appointment, is of such vital importance to the State that 1 trust every effort will be made to land Mr. Maxwell. I ' have some information which causes ine to predict his ap pointment ' within t hours sftcr my withdrawal reaches Washington. "I have no resentment towards those who oppose mo for they have the te merity to offer the excuse that they feared the President would not ap point a lnme man. This is certainly a lame exeuse'for my lameness is an as set to the Mate. It reqoires me to sit on my job and not I running around. I en joy-the distinction of hav ing been in my office more days 'inn any man who ever sot on our com mission." PELL NOTIFIES OVERMAN THAT HE HAS WITHDRAWN By R. E. POWELL. Washington, Feb. 19. Judge George P. Pell today notified Senator Overman that he was bo longer seeking presiden tial appointment to the Interstate Com ' interstate lorn- merca Commission a Commission and immediately thereafter Senator Overman, employing a riding page, dispatched to the Pres ident a letter In which he strongly urged that Commissioner Maxwell be appointed. The Pell notice of withdrawal arrived too late for Senator Overman to hold a conference with Senator Simmons aad National Committeeman McLean re garding the Maxwell candidacy, but it was a subject of di&cnssion on Capitol nill lodny trnyway. Mr. McLean con ferred with Senator Simmons and a!o with prominen t Democrats from the State who are here interested in seeing that Maxwell lands. The retirement of Judre Pell in favor of Maxwell removes tho complication that has existed in the. matter of seeking the support of other Senators and Congressmen in Southern classifica tion territory. There is a pronounced feeling that this territory should be given recognition and while it appears bard for the Georgia. Alabama and liouisiana dclegationM to desert "favor ite sons" it. ran be stated on good authority that the Maxwell boom now aptiears more formidable than any other In prewnting the stronger endorse ment's from Southern business men and traffic representatives, the. Tar Heel Senators believe thst thev caa expect favorable action from the President. On the other hand, if the President is to follow hia well-knon policy of pick ing the man that strikes him as the best qualified applicant, irrespective of the number of endorsements he presents, the friends of Mr. Maxwell believe that be will tower above any man so far proposed. . It is altogether probable that the President will appoint some man who lias not been suggested publicly. He may . follow- the suggestion of party lesders and look to the West or to the North for a fommissioner. If the argu ment that Southern classification terri-1 tory needs a man on the commission sympathetic with its troubles is coa- (Continued pa Fag Two.) ' EOERAL PLAC 'LABOR'S METHODS WARMLY ASSAILED ! BY CONGRESSMAN j Sanders Accuses Leaders of i Trying. To Command Con--gress On Rail Bill M EETtMGr' IS SCENE OF CONSIDERABLE UPROAR ! Bailroad Workers and Friends ! Gather To .Voice Protest Against Proposed Beot ration Bill, Asking For De feat In Its Entirety; Kemo-a rial Is Addressed To Public Washington, Feb. 10. Charges by Representative Sanders, Republican, In diana, that members of Congress had been called into "caucus" to be dictated to by union labor on the railroad re organisation bill almost broke no so Informal conference tonight between Congressmen friendly to labor and labor leaders. Mr. Pander said he had received aa invitation to attend a 'eauena' in the House office building and found in stead an assembly at which labor lead ers were prepared to present their commands to the legislators. "I charge that this meeting was called to defeat the railroad bilL" he shoutsd. in order to fore government ownei ship upon the country ' '" Mr. Sanders bitterly arraigned "Prcs ident Uompers, of fan American Federa tion of Iabor, for having "ne justifiably and Indiscriminately insulted the pret ent Congress." . Turning; about to face tha murmurs of disapprobation which had arisen at his - unexpected remark, Mr. Sanders shook a belligerent finger in the air at the labor leaders aa he said: "You cannot have your, owa way about . everything." ,r , Lie la Passed. Immediately Representative Mead. Democrat, of New York, arose sad de clared: . "The mas who will say this meeting was surreptitiously called ia a liar." A dozen congressmen present, inerun Ing Mr. Sanders, jumped to their feet and turmoil reigned until the chairman had called the meeting to order. Kcp reseittative Meade coaseawa . to wiwi ara Ms assertion, insofar aa it might have been construed to include Mr. Sanders. .,-.-' Bill Called PestracUva. Organized railroad - workers aad union isnur in geaerai. Homing ii d rafted railroad reorganization bill to be destructive of the employes' constitu tional privileges and liberties, tonight called on Congress to defeat the meas ure in its entirety. Representatives of the fifteen rail road onions at the close of aa all-day conference, attended by President Gom pers and- Secretary Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, made publie a memorial to Congress embody ing thisdaclaration : ''The . pending bill deprives siUaent employed upon railways of the inviolate right to enjoy gains of their own in dustry. The returns to capital are fixed upon an arbitrary basis, tha rate which the public must pay and wages which labor must receive must accommodate themselves to this basis fixed for cap ital. Thia makes the public and labor subservient to capital. Fo.' ' these rea sons herein sot forth and many others, we rcouest and reaneetfullv urn that I the bilH. defeated in its entirety." Protest Wage Previsions. During- the alt-day conference Infor mation was given out that letters of protest against the wage provisions of the bill would be sent to President Wil son and Director General Hines. Later HrrUUi to mnke tha rt fiirht , f;onlrri, ..d intimation, war, vivos that if defeated there, the workers then would carry the battle to the White House hoping that the President might' veto the legislation. The memorial, addressed to the peo ple of the United States as well aa to the two bouses of Congress, declares' that' the bill in enunciating a principle for basing the financial' return cf . in vestors subverts the principles of Amer ican government. This provision, the memorial hold, would Constitute "an -nhandonuient of iO,vernmenifor the common good, the establishment ef gov ernment fur private interest, special privilege and class benefits." Provisions of the measure for arbi tration of disputes are attacked because of the manner in which the special arbi- tratioa boards would be constituted and because of the way in which they would operate. This arbitration board, in cluding the permanent Federal Board ' of nine members, might be so composed, the memorial declares, as to eliminate -labor from representation and preen--dure of these boards, as set forth in the bill, the memorials states, woul. -"destroy all discipline and lead to chaos." ' . , cV. DESCHANEL ALSO CALLS THIRTEEN LUCKY NUMBER Paris, Feb. 12, Another famous ' statesman has' come forward to . ' keep President .Wilson company la claiming that 13 Is a lucky number. This new follower of what hi ordi- . narily. called an ill-starred number , is, by coincidence, also the preai dent of a great republic. He is M. , Dojchanel, newly elected chief ex ecutive ef France. Just after the" ' election, M. Deschanel remarked: ' 4 "My life is simplicity itself. I , ' was born oa the 13th: 1 was married en the 1.1th, and it waa oa the 13th , that 'the chamber declared me candidate for tha presidency." 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