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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN WATCH LAICL ON YOUR PAP It Will Tail Vi Whan Vour ubeariptisn Esolrea. Renew five Days Safer aa. piratian, $a Vau Wan'l MIm An Iseua, SHOWERS. rXXXVlI, NO. 161 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1W21. PRICE FIVE CENTS MMONS wm si I 1 u ' - - inuinr mi ma mm. UN lOMBIAH TflEATlfi Ltor Kellogg Opposesj rtiflcation of the i $25,000,000 Pact. rflfl COMPLIMENT IS PAID SIMMONS Us Adoption of Treaty Would ureai x ium With Roosevelt. By H. c- Bryant V3H1N('1,J 4 ' hi0 gpoech In the senate today h. Panama-Colombian Bituation Later KH"PS i' ' ml high rompiimeni, vy iuu. TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE By BILLY BORic , libera lly from a speech he made - the Panama ii.-j . iwlns trie U1M u:1""" I jnbUn treaty .Mr. iyciios saia; 11 "m jovernmcnt van guilty of the J ii charged .L ,ne inoium.v irurij 1 ,?0J end 19M wo should have! ..de reparation men. ji mo uraiy i rtich Is new submitted to tho sen-. a good treaty as tnis date u a good one eigiu years ago. rten negotiated by tho democratic rfmililstration. l reauzo as mucn as uy one that our foreign relations hould not be made the subject of artisan strife but they were so made . H03 and 1901 and were so made irthe negotiations of this treaty im oediately after the inauguration of president Wilson in 1!13. irtnnot claim thaf all democratic wators took this position. A not- ,M exception was tue aisunguisneu nator from North. Ca-rotiria. Mr. ilmmonf, now nn nonorea memoer this body. While he did riot in all respects ,irte with the administration in pwer in 1303 his speech on the oc-1 iwcn or me aeoaie in 1110 mam pported the attitude Of . President Soosevelt, ana snowea a proao jninn- itateshlp for which ne Is noted. wish to recall to the senate the netiaee of the senator from North rollna. His speecn was so at va- nncc with the position taken by me of his colleagues that 1 ask the. indulgence- of the senate while I read wtala quotations." fOCLD XOT BE KfclCPlXG FAITH WITH I!OOSEEI-T WASHINGTON, April 13. (By Be Associu ted Press. ) Ratification the $25,000,000 Colombian treaty roald not be keeping faith with Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hello?, foubllcan, Minnesota, declared to day in openlhg debate for those op lii)g the pact in tho senate. Acceptance or u even as amended, Senator Kellogg asserted, would be pusillanimous act and "a shadow the brightest page of the history merieW"t,rompHhment. 'J The Minnesota senator reviewed in Ifctail the part played by the United Slates under President Roosevelt in fit events that attended the revolt 'ana ma from Colombia and quoted fi message he reoelved' in 1917 from I Br. Roosevelt saying that ratification ii this infamous treaty would set i dangerous precedent. "It makes precedent," Mr. Roose- ilt was quoted as saying, "for,, some weesror of Wilson to pay at least large a sium a piece to Costa Rica, Xicaragua, Hayti nd Saijto Domingo for what has been done to htem re cently and also to Chile for our inso lent and improper treatment of her in connection with the Alsop claim." senator KcKllokk also placed in 'he record a letter written by Mr. tlnosevelt in 1917 in which the for mer President declared the "crux of the matter is as to whether we ought r ought not to have recognized Panama." 'If. we did badly." Mr. Roosevelt rote in reference to Panama's rec- t'fnltlon "we are in honor bound nr to restore - both Panama and 'f canal zone to the bandits from "hom they were then severed. Mere Payment of blackmail is not enough. Of course no smallest nartiria of ev- nce to show that we engineered the revolution can be producod be muse our every action was open end has been pt ,.- v, My...,, rtt timu n minute detail. No revolution was jwr more justified than that of '"Mama against' Colombin and had ' not acted precisely ns I did there ouId now- he no can.il." Senator Kellogg called attention to 'ho objections raised to tho treaty or senate republicans when it was "! for consideraUon in 1J17 and de 11. , that tlle Passage then found ob lectionahlc had been Ulminatod. ' INDUSTRIAL PEACE IN ENGLAND HANGS UPON SLENDER THREAD AS "TRIPLE ALLIANCE" VOTES STRIKE HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO STAND AGAINST EMERGENCY TARIFF AND THE ANTI-DUMPING BILL PLAN FOR RENEWED Item War on political bossism wai the feature of the second annual convention of the national league of women voters. CONGRESS PROGRAM OUTL TiPKI FQI Wheeler Would Ban GENERAL PARDON NED I Passage of Tariff Bill Ex pected Friday. Knox Introduces Bill to End War Borah Wants Dis armament Bill. j Seeks to Impose Five Year Em : bargo on Importation I or Manufacture NOT PROGAB LE WOW Declare Proposed Tariff j Measure "Subtle and Dangerous Joker." CAUCUS ACTION IS ; TAKEN BY MINORITY ! Aver the Young Bill Would j Increase Living Cost i 1 Two Billion Yearly. j WASHINGTON. April 11. - 1 Imi.-e I I democrats bound themselves through 'mucus nctirni today to stand nalnsl the emergency tariff and ant i-ilump- ling MM, and Representative Kltchln, minority leader, made puM!'- simul i tuncouly a statement of vji-ws i'f 'minority iniinbers of the ,-jvi and I means committee bitterly assailing the republican temporary tariff pro gram. Sharp differences arose in the can ens on the question of Instructing the democratic members to vote unre servedly against the emergency mens-. ure, hut It finally wa curried by a ! vote of 77 to 29. After the mucus.; .Mr. Kitchln predicted that "less than; a few democratic votes will be cast for the Young bill." ! In Ihe minority report the repub-. lleans are accused of tossing Into tin lap of "three great trusts," the pack-i ers. the sugur trust and the woolen trust. 775,OOO.o0 a year ago," and' NEGOTIATIONS r j o w FIVE KILLED, FIFTY HURT BY TORNADO; FIRE BREAKS OUT McKINNEY, Texan. April IV Flva penona were killed and from 25 to 60 othera Injured, tome probably fataf, when a tornado iwept down from the weat on Melii, near here, todiy. Fire followed In the debris of Ihe buildings rated bv the twister and virtually tha entn'e buslneis aection, except tha bank, and In the east kida, were destroyed. A school building In which 24S .-ktl. dren were at claites. also caved In, but aeelng the tornado approaclig. the principal and teachers had mar. shalled their charges Into the bae ment and no child was hurt. Tha tornado originated near Frank. Iln, six miles of Melissa, swept east ward, destroying farm buildings along tha way at Boland and Chambersv1. then missed the west side of Melhisa only to sweep down from the east. The three-year.old daughter o yt. and Mrs. Wheeler Loftlce was killed In her mother's arms by a flying piece - scantling. Tha mother was not Injured. Tonight 25 Injured persons wera In hospitals here. APPEARS HOPELESS Organized Labor Steadily Consolidating on the Side of Miners. VIRGINIA Y GET FEDERAL POSIT ON WASHINGTON, April 13 Con gress squared away today on the ad ministration program outlined in President Harding's address yester day. In harmony with the President's recommendations the house today ar ranged to expedite the emergency tariff bill, jiassage of which is ex pected Friday, while in the senate the resolution to end the state of war with Germany and Austria was in troduced by Senator Knox, republi can, Pennsylvania. The latter is to be tjrought up for debate next week. Many bills in both senate and house, designed to meet legislative proposals of Mr. Harding also were introduced. In the senate. Senator Borah, ' republican, Idaho, reintro duced his naval disarmament resolu tion, proposing to that end a three power conference of the United Stater, Great Britain and France.' In preparation for the emergency tariff debate, the house today received the formal report on the bill, and after an eleven minute session ad journed until tomorrow, which was set aside for general tariff discussion. Debate Friday is to be limited under the five minute rule and a final vote on passage ia hoped for before ad journment. Discussion of the $25,000,000 Colombian treaty was resumed today in the senate with Senator Kellogg, republican, Minnesota, - speaking in opposition to ratification. The sen ate also took up its committee organi zation, precipitating the first partisan clash between republicans and demo crats. Opposition of the latter, who charged that excessive committee representation was ''being grabbed" by "an autocratic republican major ity" forced over final action. Committees of both senate and house plan to begin work immediate ly on the long program of domestic legislation. The army and navy ap WASHINGTON. April 13. Prohibition of beer as a medicine and steps to in duce the nation's supply of splrltous li quors to "250.000 gallons or some reason able amount," were urged by Wayne H. Wheeler, legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, today In outlining the league's program to a legislative con ference of representatives of a score of national temperance organizations. The beer prohibition was necessary, he said, because of Air. Palmer's beer opinion." To reduce the supply of liquor .Mr. Wheeler proposed a five-year embargo on Importation or manufacture. He also urged authority to concentrate the exist ing stock In fewer warehouses and m dorsed alcohol as a base for making medical preparations, the statement say ings "this would cut out wine and whis key which increases the potability of medicines." Alcohol to be used in medi cine, however, it added, should be made unfit for beverage use when it left the factory. The program outlined included exten sion of jurisdiction to enforce tho pro hibition amendment In tha Philippines. IMEf ITERS TO IRK TOiND WAR Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Makes Stirring Appeal. Many Matters Handled at Meeting Regarding Legislation. CLEVELAND, O., April 13. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, scheduled to speak at the mass meeting of the national league of women voters con vention tonight threw her 'set' speech away and begged the women voters to end all wars. For 15 minutes Mrs. Catts held her audience spellbound by the Intensity of her appeal to end all wars. "The people in this room tonight could put an end to war," she said. "There isn't an audience . in the world that won't applaud him who talks of world peace. Everybody wants it and everybody does nothing. "I am for a league of nations; a republican league or any kd," she continued. "The republicans are in. I believe it the duty of every one who wants the world to disarm to compel action at Washington. A thousand women closely followed propriation bills which failed in the every word of the white haired wom- Papli r.aaa nf Pcmnn J ft seeking to disbar any future trade wuww ajajjiuuagc Ull with tl Own Merits. he central powers and smaller I states in Europe through u stiniie 'anil dangerous joker" in directing the T-i-.. tt , I secretary of Ihe treasury to tlx the UeiegatlOnS Urging Release! value foreign money a a basis for of Debs Are Advised to Await Results. WASHINGTON, April 13. Any ac tion toward general amnesty for pris oners convicted under war-time es pionage laws is not contemplated until after a state of peace has been declared and the government will continue its policy of considering each caso on its individual merits Presi dent Harding and Attorney-General Daughtery today told delegations urg ing the release of Eugene V. Debs i and other held under such convic tions. Delegations also called on Vice-President Ooolldge and Speaker Gillette at tho capitol where they were told their pleas would bo given consideraUon and thatch administra tion would deal justly with the mat ter. ' ' The delegation, numbering about 200, represented organized labor and political and civic organizations and their presence here was part of the general amnesty program carried out today in the leading industrial cen ters throughout the east and middle west. Those calling on Mr. Harding included Morris Hlllquit. of the so cialist party, Norman Thomas, editor of "Tomorrow," New Tork city; Jack son Ralston, attorney for tho Ameri can Federation of Labor and Albert DeSUver. of the American Civil Lib erties union. Those in the committee calling on Mr. Daugherty included Francis F. Kane, Swinburne Hale. Otto Chrlston sen, counsel for tho convicted I. W. W. leaders;,- Samuel B. Castlcton, counsel for Eugene V. Debs and other lawyers representing teh political am nesty committee. After the conference with the Presi dent. Mr. Hlllquit declared the com mittee had been given a very cor Three North Carolinians After Judgeship. Two Blairs in Race for In ternal Revenue Com-missionership. levying duties on imports. The present bill Is characterized by tho report as even worse than its predecessor the Fordney measure and it asserts that it any advantage will Inure anywhere from the new pro posal it will be to the "trusts, specu lators and profiteers." It also calls attention to provisions of tho republl- An notinnnl ntuffm-m and innitlrrn . ,.,, v,nni.i rnniihllp-in r-m the position at best, and none whatever whether any honest republican. i wtI,' ,v,,,,id f()r0P.,.' u ,ook, now fls sincerely vote for this bill In the be- Virginia might get the honor. A very net mat u win reuueo iuu tun ui av- (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON. April IX Three North Carolinians. Judge William 1'. Itynum, of lireensboro and .1. .1. Hritt. of Ashe vIIIh, republicans, and Judge II. J. Con nor, of Wilson, democrat, are being urged for Federal Circuit court Judge to succeed the late Jeter C. Prltehard. The slate has hut a slim chance of holding lug. More KaMly Dewlvo. determined light will be nut up for It by Virginia, and Maryland republicans. Tho only sliow that North Carolina has Is In ; a united front before the department cf "Wo note that the bill has been; justice and tho white house chanced since the last session of con greBs," the report adds, "for the Ford nev emergency tariff bill to the Young emergency tariff bill. Whether the ways and means committee thought tne name oi us cnaunmu, mi. ney, attached to the hill would dis credit it or believed that by attach ing the name of Young from the agri cultural state of North Dakota, It would more easily fool the farmers, we cannot undertake to say; But there must be some political signifi cance in It." Figures are presented purporting to show that the actual increase In living costs resulting from enactment of such a law would be about $2,000,000,000 a year. The statement says that the bill would hand a "gratuity'' of 125.0n0.dO0 annually to the "sugar trust. $550,000,000 annually to the "meat and beer trust, tho packers," and more than $100,000,000 a year to the Income of the "woolen nianiiMlnff- the nrovislona of the bill j for fixing the value of foreign money, the report says: ''The German mark Is quoted as being worth $1-62. If thia provision of the bill becomes a law the secretary of the treas ury would be compelled to calculate the German mark as worth eight cents, for tho bill states that the depreciation in no case can be estimated at more than 2-3 per cent. Duties on gooas irom dial reception and felt encouraged. , Germany thereby would be Increased 480 per cent; irom iiaiy, suu per "V"' last congress are to have preferred Rtatus. Fiscal and agricultural legis lation -also are to be given prominent places on the schedule with tho .tem porary immigration restriction bill one of ' the early measures to bs pressed. COMPLETE READJUSTMENT O F FREIGHT RATES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST IS ORDERED ta i APriI 13. Freight ik?,ln hish?r classes of jnerchan- nL hrougnout southeast were ompiney readJuSted and KeneraUy Int - . . ,y an order issued by the ay to . rstate Commerce mm mission in. So into effect June 30. The u scnedules proposed by the 'roads which would have increased thi , c,oneiierably more than - does elaborate scheme prescribed to- Thc proposed schedules set aqide , in two parts, one part having um s',spcnde(l by the commission liv ,-,ajr 14 'r"l the other until J,' V5' nerd'nK investigation. The its? n fOUnd thSLt ln 8,1 ,n' wnceg tho prc.p0fMsd Bcheduiea to lm. i ""ant points were higher than pres Th. ""I18 and our other objections. n which It set up Instead gen ,,, , v Educed, the proposed schedules " went into detail in revising pres- rates, generally upward, erii i n commodities, including nriJ lumbe'". cotton, iron and other th7 were not affected . except tin V commission ordered that in wi .? are eomniodlty rates to ex-un-.i 8 prescribed under the claa iitf n ot h'Kher grade merchan- bumc eDert bore are as yet un 5,'e to determine what percentage ncrease will result from the new K. on- account of the wide range im plan' In onie cases there a reduction from present rates. reviewing the schedules pro ..ii ni v the carrlsrs tho commission ir. .. itB orders to roads to cease 'cii.es that resulted In prejudice) to certain localities had been com plied with wide increases from the lower rates to the maximum The commission had denied consideration of water competition in previous rases and found that as a result the roads had made their schedules with the ides, that the commission's policy was to exclude all consideration of such competition. In its analysis of the schedules pro posed by the roads the commission said: "The schedules for the most part ars said to be filed in compliance with our order in the Murfreesboro board of trade against the L. and N. railroad com pany. We therefore found upon com plaint made upon behalf of Murfrees boro. Columbia, Dickson. Gallatin, Le banon and Watertown, Tenn., that the rates thereto through Nashville from various points of origin were unduly prejudicial to the six complaints and unduly preferential to Nashville to the extent that the through rates to those points exceeded the rates contempora neously maintained to Nashville plus T.i per cent of the contemporaneoua local rates beyond.. , "In almost all instances the suspended rates to .important points are higher than ths present rates. To many In termediate and non-competitive points they are lower than the present rates. The railroads say that the proposed In creases would bring rates that are now sub-normal and depressed up to a basis which is normal and not higher than is reasonable. "In order to remove the undue preju dice and preference found to exist in the Murfreesboro ase, the railroads in all Instances propose to increase, the rates to Nashville. Where one of the six complaints Is Intermediate to Nash ville, tile proposed schedules carry In most Instances ths aaaae rates to both points." an who had led the winning fight for their national rights and now was leading them in an international quest. When Mrs. Catt sat down there was a dead silence for a few seconds fol lowed by a wave of applause. Some women were crying, some partly hys terical. Tho audience had been given a background for Mrs. Catts' appeal bv Will Erwin. war correspondent, who painted a grim picture of what the next war would mean to women. Mrs. Catts had been listed to speak on "psychplogies of political prog ress." ' ; The national American woman s Suffrage association had its annual convention today in conjunction with the convention of the national league of women voters. It had been agreed to dissolve but the association decid ed to continue . its existence to aid Porto Rico and Hawaii defend pend ing lawsuits against suffrage and re tain its legal right to receive bequests for the suffrage cause. Discuss Policies. Today's sessions of the second an nual convention of the national league of women voters accomplished little, the afternoon session being de voted largely to discussion of the pre amble of the recommendations of tha national board of directors and ex ecutive council as to plans and policy, as presented by Mrs. F. Louise Blade, of New York. The report as adopted in part by the convention favored increased membership on a broad educational basis before undertaking an extensive program of legislation. Tn0 national organization will con tinue Us fight in Washington for wel fare legislation, it also was decided. Another principle embodied in the adopted -preamble of recommenda tions on police was that state voters leagues will not be compelled to fight for legislation." the national body Is working for, but that the) state league officers must inform the state mem bers of this legislation and have no right to prevent discussion among their membership of the issus in auestlon; Three standing committee recommen dations were discussed briefly today. The were American citizenship, child welfare and social hygiene, ORGANIZATION In presenting his plea, Mr. Hlllquit told the President he was not seek ing, clemency "in favor of criminals" but was appealing for "Justice in be half of victims of a morbid, and ab normal political situation." He argued that tho men on whose behalf the plea was made had been tried and convicted solely on the basis of writings and speeches they had mado in support of their politi cal convictions and that "they have not taken up arms against thefr coun try or sold themselves into the serv ice of the enemy." Attornel-General Daugherty, I n a statement after the delegation had called on lilm said he "would be inclined to be (Continued on Page Two) OF FARMERS DESIRED Should Be Able to Present Facts to Congress. Many Speakers Before Farm Bureau Deplore Present Conditions. WASHINGTON April 13 Farmers should build up an organization cap able of presenting' facts to congress on matters affecting' agriculture, Secretary Wallace declared today be fore the conference hero of the American farm federation bureau. Mr. .Wallace, "deplored" the com plaint sometimes heard that appro priations far agriculture are ln the nature of subsidizing a clam since they are for the benefit of the farmers. Such appropriations ' are actually more for the benefit of the "consumers in ths long look ahead than for the farmers" he said. The conference was also addressed by W. 8. Culberson, a member of the tariff commission, and by Dr. Kenyon L. - Butterfield, president of the Massachusetts Agricultural college. During the day, Chairman McFad den of the house, banking and cur rency committee announced that ex amination of the financial support of farm organizations, begun in ths last session, would be continued. Executive officers of the National Milk Producers association and of the National Grange met here today in preparation for the Joint meeting tomorrow of a number of farm organizations which will endeavor to agree upon a common legislative pro ajram lor submission to congress. Aii.trla. 2 300 ner cent: from Czecho-Slo vakla. 44 per cent; from Finland. 27 rer cent; from Hungary, 1,700 per cent: from Jugo-Slavia. 5 per cent; from Poland, 8.100 per cent; from Rumania, 420 per cent; from Serbia, 270 per cent, and from Russia, 4.300 per cent." In conclusllon the report charges re publican leaders with having betrayed the consumers of the east and at the same time breaking faith with the farmers of the west. HARDING APPROVES MANY PROMOTIONS Judge Hvmini has a strong backing. It Is argued fur him that aa a lawyer he has few equals. If any superiors. In the state. Judge Connor, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Taft. arter a long-drawn-out row, has made a fine record. Democrats and republicans aro backing him. Representative Sted msn said today that ha is greatly in terested In the movement for Judge Connor. He said he had known him from the days of his early manhood and never knew a man In or out of tha state more eminently fitted by natural qualities a.id by study and training for uch a high Judicial position. Mr. Stedman an nounced that If In any way lie could help bring about the nomination of Judge Connor be would do so. Ho will call on the President within the next day or two and ask that Judge Connor be named. The contest over the position of com missioner of Internal revenue has become Involved in the Judgeship campaign. North Carolina or Virginia cannot havo both positions. Representative Slemp has been caught in a Jam. Tha death of Judgo Prltehard brought out one of Mr.' Slemp's old party friends for the judgeship, and for a week he has been tearing his shirt for the nomination of Robert W. Blair for internal revenue commissioner. North Carolina leaders are in a similar position. They are work ing for Da larger Job Ing for David II. Illalr and may lose he The North Carolina Blair was to have seen the President today but was be trayed by circumstances and will so him tomorrow. Some turn in affairs may give the treasury post to the .winaton Kalem man, for he Is well endorsed, mid has a good clean record and a first class reputation. Democratic postmasters in the state are excited and worried over the hidden plans of the republicans to control the presi dential postofflces. They are writing to their congressmen to see what they may expect. Representative Brlnson today wrote Postmastor-Ueneral Hays asking him what his purpose was, and expects to be set right on the proposition in tne near future. MISSIONARY COUNCIL OF METHODIST WOMEN ME;T Many New Major Generals on List Prepared. Twenty-Six Brigadiers Are Also Recommended by Secretary Weeks. WASHINGTON, April 13. Presi dent Hnrdlnsr aDDroved today the list of 12 new major generals and ! n.w hria-adiers ss prepared oy scretarv Weeks and It will be pre sented tn congress soon. Clarence 9th rvnw Kneland) national guard division in France, heads the list of major generals. His name am noi appear in the list which was sent to congress ny j-resiaeni wjibuh nnu confirmation of which was held up. Besides Generals Edwards, the brigadiers promoted to be major generals are: James W. McAndrew, John L. Hines, Henry T. Allen, David C. Shanks. Adelbert Cr&nkhite, George W. Read, William M. Wright, Chas. H. Mulr, Charles T. Mcnoher, Wil liam G Haan and George Bell, Jr. Colonels., recommended to promo tion were: ... Grots Hutcheson, Jesse Met. Car ter, W. H. Gordon, George B. Dun can. William Weigel, Ernest Hinds, Ulysses O. tcAlexander. Mrk I Hersey, E. A. Helmlck. Robert L. Howse. William Lassiter, William R. Smith. Fred W. Sladen. Harry H. Bandholtz. Hanson E. Ely, Dwlght E. Aultman. Johnson Ha good, Dennis E. Nolan, William D. Connor, Fox Connor, Preatn Brown, itroiin Crais-. Henrv D. Todd. Jr., A. J. Bowley, WHIIam n. jonnson, anu Robert Alexander. The name of Brlgadlr General Omar Bundy was dropped by Secre tary Weeks from the list of major generals as prepared by Selretary Baker and submitted to tbs last rongrasav RICHMOND, Va., April 13. The ipen Ing session of the Uth annual convention of the women'a missionary council of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was held here tonight with several hundred delegates from 38 states present. Mrs. J. H. McCoy, secretary of the eastern division of the council, and Mrs. j. W. Downs, secretary of the wealurn division were tha principal speakers. The convention will continue until April 20. MINERS' FEDERATION ISSUES MANIFESTO Premier Requests Miners to Explain Refusal of Gov ernment Offer. I.i i. HON April 1.1 (lly The As sociated i'r.-j.) Premier Llnyd) Gonrga lias j -1 . . I r . , J the leaders of tho trlpl. alii. in. -r ltli nnnlher opening for re newal nf negotiation!! In the miners sink.- mid the general strike of rall wa nu n mid transport workers In sup port "f It by H.sklnc for tho grounds of th.-ir r.fii.-.il of the government's offer. And any influence the labor , leaders who ure outside tlle orbit of the actual conflict may be able to ex .11 on the disputants seems for ths ; moment to be that remaining Blender - Hit read upon which industrial peace ! hangs. TlLat mii h attempts nt mediation Iwlll tonilnue nnd that tlicro uro still 'two days before the general strike be , comes operative uru the only hopeful I signs. ; After the receipt of the announce . ment of thu "triple alliance" that its ' nu mbers would bu called from thetr work Friday nlglu. Premier Lloyd ! George seni tho following, reply to . the alliance. j "Dear Mr. Thomas, (genera) secre tary of thho railway union) and Mr. vtiiiiums (secretary of the transport workers' federation); i "1 a in in receipt of your letter. Ttis decision you rcort is a gravo one. You threaten Friday night to dislocate) the whole of tho transput services of this country, so essential to tho- Ufa of tho nation. "I should like to know the ground .on which you aro deter mined to Inflict such a serious blow on your fellow countrymen. "Yours faithfully. (Signed) "LI A) YD GEORGE." Tho triple alliance sat until a lata hour tonight and It wss decided to send a reply to tho premier's letter Thursday morning when the deliber ations of the. trtplo alliance) . ara r sumed. Inconceivable Attitude. - A manifesto Issued by ths miners' federation tonight seems to render any possibility of renewed negotiations hopeless, apart from such yielding on the side of the government as the) miners themselves say they can hard ly expect. The government yesterday met tho miners half way by agreeing to give such financial assistance ss would be necessary to start the) regu lation of wages on a national basin. ' The miners however, insisted on ac ceptance also of the pooling of prof Its, which tho government through- : out had declared to.be impossible. This irreconcilable attitude Is de priving the miners of any support ln the press, and apparently is tending to alienate the sympathy of a large section of the publls, who had been impressed during the course of tho dispute with the justice of iho min ers' claims for greater consideration than the owners had giveri in recent wage offers. Organized labor however, is stead ily consolidating on the side of the miners. Tho amalgamated society of locomotive men and firemen. vhos attitude previously had been doubt ful, decided today to strike with th triple alliance. The executive of the) railway clerks association also rec ommended joining the strike. Ths electrical workers of London but not of the whole kingdom, threaten to strike. There Is still some question as to whether a strike of all the members of tho triple alliance Is possible Fri day. According to the constitutions of the respective sections, the rn.il waymen may be called on strike with out ballot, but the transport workers are required to take a ballot before a strike Is called. A manifesto issued late tonight by the triple alliance, in which this body em phatlcallv supports the miners' claims contends that such reductions In the miners' earnings "no trade uninn in the Dast eVer accepted" and declares that, If accepted, "it would be a disgrace to trade unionism of tha world." APPROVE APPLICATION FOR TWO BILLION DOLLAR LOAN TO FINANCE COTTON EXPORTS WASHINGTON, April 13.- Ap proval of an application for a loan of $2,000,000 for financing cotton exports was announced today by the war finance corporation. Export of 30,000 bales of cotton to England, France. Italy, Portugal, Japan and Germany is Involved In the transaction, according to Eu gene Meyer, director of the corpora tion. The application, 'Mr. -Myr added was a direct result of a re cent conference in New Orleans with southern bankers. Application for the loan, ho said, was mado by an export financing corporation. Discussing the, recent conference in Washington, Atlanta and New Orleans with exporters, manufacturers and bankers, Mr. Meyer declared the results "were considered satisfactory by oil con- r.rnorf " Th most important re- evon o advise business men how to conduct their business. "It would seem." Mr. Meyer fald. 'op portune at this moment for merchants to consider whether or not .eouditlona in the consuming market, and in the pres ent price levels of materials and goods, do not warrant a return to more normal procedude with respect to the stocks or raw materials and finished goods carried bv merchants and manufacturers. U would appear that confidence was great at the high prien levels of a year ago when tho business risks were certainly larger than they are now. t may be well for businens men now to ask them selves the question whether or not the present lower price levels do not var iant comewhat greater confidence thai exists at the present time. This is a matter for each and every business man. retailers, wholesaler and manufacturer C con.-lder for himself. "If greater confidence wera warranted ss a matter of sound business and a re sumption In carrying more, noimal stocks .. . . , . l . . v. K.t.M ! . .hnr thn ne wtra Droivni hdoui, 1111 g oa"S ,K nn m nei- hiiuui- i - i ... . ... nf exnnrtina cotton m nrnducta from a new point of view and in a more energetic man ner. Discussion developed, he contin ued, that , in tha areneral opinion 'stocks of manufactured, goods in the i hands of retailers aifd wholesalers as well as manufacturers are gonei ally very low in this country and abroad. It is not however, within the province of the war finance cor business, Mr. Meyer asserted, nor producers of our agricultural products and the banks In the country, districts, would be generally distributed and more easily carried by the merchants nnd banks Interested In the proceaaes that are Involved in moving the raw material through the various steps that lead to the ultimata consumer. This distribu tion of the load would result in a freer i-lrculatlon of business and tn turn im prove that part of the consumers mar ket, which the producers of agricultural products constitute to so arrest aa t-X-tent in our country ' r