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A Washington special from Clin
y ton. W. Gilbert shows dearly the im-
pression made on the whole country
by the damaging .admissions which
Robert Lansing, secretary of state,
made in the course of his examina
tion by the foreign relations commit
tee of the Senatei ;'!;.: .';
Mr. Lansing did not wish to damage
the administration of which he is a
part. But he told the truth. And
the truth was very damaging to the
President.
Following is Mr.. Gilbert's dis
patch: .
President Wilson will be forced
either to go personally before the
Senate foreign relations committee
and throw light upoji the German
treaty or to arrange a speedy com
promise upon reservations. After
the exposure of personal government
which toot place when Secretary
Lansing went on the stand today, no
other course is possible. It is re
ported that the President's adherents
in the Senate were already seeking
compromise today. The danger to the
league covenant lies in the possibility
that the Republicans, made confident
by the success today, will demand
more thorough amendments than they
have hitherto been disposed to insist
upon. The chances of the' league are
undoubtedly greatly damaged. It was
a complete rout.
f No worse witness than Mr. Lansing
could be imagined. He knew nothing
about the circumstances about which
th$$ disputed sections of the treaty
were drawn, nor the reasons that led
the President to agree to them. He
showed that his advice had been re
jected in regard to the league of na
tions and in regard to Shantung. And
he made it perfectly plain that he had
not been consulted by the President
even about the purely diplomatic
questions that had been settled at
Paris.
The President showed extraordi
nary lack of judgment in bringing
Mr. Lansing home, where he could be
subjected to the quiz of the Sena
iors. The secretary might have re
mained at Paris on the plea that he
was indispensable to the working out
of the Austrian and Turkish treaties.
Why, under the circumstances, he
was called back is hard to guess. It
must have been plain to Mr. Wilson
that his secretary knew little about
what happened at Paris and that he
had on certain fundamental ques
tions disagreed with his chief. Mr.
Lansing had been set to work on the
side 'issue of the guilt of the Kaiser,
while Colonel House and the Presi
dent arranged the league of nations,
settled the boundary questions of
Europe, agreed to the Shantung set
tlement and tfce French alliance.
Lansing Saves House
To put Mr. Lansing on the stand
was to show just how personal gov
ernment worked,' how really in the
dark this open covenant openly ar
rived at was made, for even the man
who next to Mr. Wilson was nominally
the leading member of the American
delegation knew little or nothing of
the vital questions or motives under
lying the making of the peace treaty.
Letting Mr. Lansing go on the stand
to speak for the administration was a
means of saving Colonel House, who
had left Paris, from going on the j
stand. And the President apparently;
is almost as unwilling to subject
Colonel House to the embarrassments i
of a Congressional inquiry as he is to
face them himself. Colonel House is
the other self of the President. To
have he colonel go on the tand
would be almost like going personally
on the stand. Therefore Colonel
House was allowed to take a vacation
in England and the mistake was made It is apparent that the secretary of
of letting Secretary Lansing, who state realizes there are numerous im
had been ignored at Paris, step for-' perfections in the pact. In regard to
ward as spokesman of the adminis-' the Shantung settlement ,f or instance,
tration.
The investigators got close to Colo
nel House today. After Secretary
Lansing had acknowledged his inabil
ity to answer certain questions with
regard to the league of nations a Sen
ator asked him: "From whom can we
get this information?'', "From Colo-
nel Housed perhaps," came -from the
witness in a 'hesitating whisper,
.-. t .The committee then found
mat
. 1
Colonel House could be reached
f through' the, American embassy in
,'f v London.; This vwas a sort of. threat
, ' ,to call; colonel and press the Inquiry
' one step closer to the President: than,
"it .was taken todajfc. If the colonel
wen to ttfi Ait tliA Btiutf tia
' of .persona government' would . be
vt , yuiuyiwiu. ; j ino . committee would
have " attained oneof tta ends; to
tyshoW'tWvlce of ,the"Wopdrow; T7il-k-oV
system df one-man rule, a? sg
tiw
"i ' ather ' tjan' , govern
li 1 ,-uBe the Xi -
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Those efforts may not succeed. , The
Senators in the foreign relations com
mittee have the blood lust They may
insist upon getting their teeth in
Colonel House. "
Only Wilson at Park
What the Senate proved was that
the United States had no one at Paris
but the President, except always' the
still unexamined Colonel House. It
had-not the advice of its secretary of
state. Its secretary of state had been
reduced to a mere figurehead, Who
confessed that the Shantung" settle
ment violated the principles for which
he contended at Paris and thatv sur
render was unnecessary, and whs? had
to admit that he did not know why it
had been agreed to, whose, advice had
not been taken(on the league of na
tions, who did . not know ' why . the
French alliance had been negotiated.
Mr. Lansing, under Senator John
son's examination dribbled on until
he said the unbelieveable thing,
namely, that he had gone to Paris
without ever having read the secret
treaties, although the Russian gov
ernment had made them public long
in advance of the armistice, and al
though all the world was talking of
them. It is impossible to believe that
Mr. Lansing, who is a good lawyer
and a respected public man, is as bad
as he made himself out to be. He
is only an example of how personal
government saps the morale and de
stroys the confidence of the men who
are content to serve under it.
What the Senate proved, was that
there was no one who knew what was
doing at Paris except Mr.- Wilson.
The United States might as well have
had no other representative. Its in
terests were not protected by the
services of several able men. They
were protected only by the knowl
edge and diplomatic skill ''of one man.
And now the country is asked to ac
cept the treaty on the mere say so
of that one man, who by virtue of his
office will not explain publicly the
reasons which lead him to adopt the
course he did. The dangers of the
President's personally making a
treaty of peace stand out strikingly
as a result of the demonstration of
Mr. Lansing's ignorance. By and
with the advice and consent of the
Senate, becomes an empty phrase
when all knowledge of the circum
stances of treaty-making are locked
in the President's breast and no one
may ask him to disclose them. Along
with the presidential policy of doing
everything himself must go the policy
of speaking for himself, of going per
sonally on the witness stand or else
humiliating incidents like that of to
day will become the rule.
The hearing today did the President
and his system of government incal
culable harm. All the public criticism
of the President's personally going to
Paris and taking with him only weak
men is now justified. Its results are
exposed. Distrust and suspicion re
garding the treaty and the covenant
will grow. The people are deprived
of their constitutional right to check
up on the executive's use of his treaty
making powers. The country has only
the President's wprd that the league
and the agreement with Germany are
wise and Senator Johnson demonstrat
ed that the President had publicly in
terpreted the much disputed article X
m thrf fferent ways The revela-
tion of what a fiction the peace com
mission was leaves autocracy stripped
naked. The situation of the league is
critical. The President will have to
act and .act quickly. ,
MR. LANSING'S TESTIMONY
(Greensboro News.)
The net , result of Secretary Lan
sing's replies to questions propounded
by the Senate foreign relations com
mittee Wednesday will be an adverse
effect upon Pdesident Wilson's stand
for unreserved ratification of the
peace treaty and league of nations
he clearly leaves the, impression that
China was wronged by the other na
tions at the instigation of Japan,
while he also voices the conviction
that Japan would have signed the in
strument without the Shantung pro
vision. He admits that the Preai
dent's 14 points, so far as his knowl-
edge went, had never been discussed
i in, the preparatory stages of the peace
' A A Tl J AT A 1
. negotiations,
, It i fame that he ex
pressed the belief that the treaty as
a whole'" carried out''' ''substantially"
the 14 points, but then, as another
times during the inquiry, Mr. Lan
sing aeems to , have been speaking
very generally. '.'He admitted that
the .principle 6f self-determination
laid down by President Wilson was
violated by the Shantung settlement.
In regard to the league of nations
one gains the Impression, that lit.
Lensing it' hot at, ; all enthusiastic
f bout 1t- C said , he believed that
i" a jl Jtual czrc"--i of 'territor' 1
" "y, f ome -'I eres,'
merely an experiment, all... one
worth trying. t
If Mr. Lansing .who ranked next to
the President in the Amerlc: i peace
delegation, cannot make out
stronger case, for th treaty . ; and
league as at present written than he
presented Wednesday,' it is apparent
that the only person who can, do so
is the President himself.. On . the
other hand, evidence, is multiplying in
support of the stand of reservationists
and it becomes increasingly probable
that Mr. Wilson will.be unable to ob
tain unequivocal ratification. Sooner
or later , he wiM probably be forced
to announce willingness to - accept
reservations or interpretations, . con
fining his campaign chiefly to efforts
to prevent the changes being suf
ficiently material to cause renegoti
ation of the entire treaty with the
associated powers. Continued delays
with respect to the treaty; doubtless
are exercising a demoralizing influ
ence on industrial and trade condi
tions, and it seems reasonable to as
sume that the President will son
speak on this subject with a; view to
early compromise in the Senate.
DECLARES PRESIDENT V
MISLED AS TO, MEXICO
William Gates of Baltimore, an
archaeologist, in testifying before the
House rules committee in hearing bn
the Gould resolution for an inquiry
into Mexican matters declared the
Carranza regime in Mexico is "not
a government but a band of outlaws,
both technically and practically." He
asserted the rule of Carranza was ut
terly impossible and "an enemy of
its own people first and America
second."
Mr.' Gates said his opinions were
based on what he had personally seen
in traveling through the country for
about a year beginning in July, 1917.'
In that time he visited Yucatan, Vera
Cruz, Pueblo and various Mexican
states "to find ,out what was going
on behind the veil of our censorship
and the Carranza censorship." He
depicted Carranza's control as one en
forced by troops and covering the
main ports and railroads with scanty
territory on each side.- Mr. Gates
told the committee that the Presi
dent was misled in deciding to rec
ognize Carranza and was not fully
informed of conditions. He thought
private interests were being served
in the background.
Mr. Gates' statement that he did
not think the President was fully in
formed was looked upon by mem
bers of the committee as the more
Interesting in view of the fact the
administration had special investi
gators in Mexico with full opportu
nity to find out the facts.
The witness asserted there were
few actual bandits other than Car
ranza soldiers "who are let loose for
the purpose of loot and are usually
headed by their officers." He never
knew of a bandit being prosecuted.
"Conditions in Mexico," Mr. Gates
said, "are steadily getting worse."
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR
FLAYS BAKER SYSTEM
Another scathing indictment of the
court martial system of the army as
it has been operating in Europe and
the United States through the war
period, upheld by Secretary of War
Baker and other high officials,; has
been drawn by Senator Chamberlain
of Oregon, former Chairman, of the
Senate military committee and' one Of
the most prominent Democrats . jjn
Congress. Senator Chamberlain has
repeatedly criticised the court martial
system and various phases of War
Department administration with the
result that he has succeeded in get
ting himself disliked by the adminis
tration. ' ; r;s ;V,
In presenting a bill to grant am
nesty to soldiers, sailors and marines
in a large percentage of the court
martial cases and to mitigate sen
tences as far as practicable Sfnator
Chamberlain made startling state
ments as to some of the punishments
and cruelties visited Upon the men
who served their country in the war.
TO REDUCE LIVING COST-- .
Washington, August 13.--I''The'
people of this nation must be relieved
of the high cost of living. Rich and
poor alike are being robed by'; exor
bitant prices. Millions of the com
mon people have been living on' half
rations because' of their inability to
purchase food.' - ,
.' So said Representative Edwin D.
Rlcketts,' of Ohio, is introducing a bill
in the House which places all corpora
tions and agencies for the production,
sale and distribution of live stock un
der governmental license and ec
tioH'.'; It provides that the license r J
be revoked at any time by the I .
Hint' . The operation in int; '
c of rt.'crator cars g,:
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prohibit J. Tor vioMioh of V ret
impri an.. nt for from cne tj t .ty
vears and a fine of frofti 110,00 to
$500,000 are imposed.:, .The suu of,
$1,000,000 is appropriated for .carry
ing, out the purposes of the MIL
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND t
BY COMMISSIONER
5 By virtue of a decree f the Su
perior court of Henderson county jn
the case of J. C. Brown, Lalab. C.
Rhodes and husband, I Ri Rhodes,
Hattie Lahning and her husband J.
CLannihg,. Willie Brown, Lulu Nix
and her husband, GV 0. Nix, Blanche
Justice .and her husband,'' Turner
Justice, Norine Youngblood.and her
husband, Russell Youngblood, and M.
M. Brown against Lucile . Brown;
minor, Roy Barnwell, minor and . W'.
C. Rector, trustee, rendered at the
May term of said court, I will sell
for the purpose of partition at 12
o'clock noon on September first, 1919,
at public auction to the highest bidder
either for cash or on the terms of
one-third cash and balance in one and
two years time at the option of the
purchaser, the following described
pieces or parcels of land lying and
being in Edneyville and Henderson-
ville townships, Henderson county.
North Carolina, and known and
designated as follows: -, '?' '
Tract No. 1, This tract contains
503 acres more or less; and lies In
Edneyville township, State andjeounty
aforesaid, and is bounded ".on the
North by lands "of Lewis Waters, C.
L. Freeman and others,-on the East
by lands of A. S. Edney, W. M Dal-,
ton, W. M. Collins, W. E. Maxwell
and W. P. Maxwell, 'on the South by
lands of M. E. Barnwell and on the
West by lands of R. M. Barnwell, A.
L. Maxwell, J; H. Ballinger and Mark
Rhodes, and being part of the same
lands heretofore conveyed toVR. J.
Brown by J. C. Brown and wife by
deed dated the 8th day of August,
1915, and recorded in the office of
the register of deeds for 'Henderson
county in Book 89 page 234'.' '
Tract No. 2. This tract contains 94
acres, more or less, and lies in Edney
ville township, State and county
aforesaid, and is bounded on the
North by lands of A. S. Edney and
R. A McKillop, on the East by lands
of T. C. Rhodes, Isaac Justice and E.
E. Lyda, on the South by lands of
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Tract No. 8. This tract contains
84 acres more or less, lies in. Edney
ville township hi' the aforesaid State
and county,; and ' bounded on the
North by lands of A. L. Maxwell on
the East by lands of A. L Maxwell,
on the South by lands otR. Mi Barn
well, arid oiv the West by lands pf jR
M, Barnwell and Mont BarnwetL
,Tract No.; 4,;7 This tract eontains
94 llpcres; more or less,; lies' Jn'
Edneyville township'iri Jhe aforesaid
State and county, and is bounded, on
the North by lands of Butler Owens,
Wash Freeman, and W. W. Freeman,
on the East by Jan.ds of T. H.1 Rhodes
and T.;h. Whitakef, on the South by
lands of ! Lv R Rhodes' and -A.
Rhodes. 'f . '
These t four;fbracts K being'lif nlly
described in a mortgage deed execu
ted .by R: J. . Brown and .wife, .M. Jf.
Brown, to the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia dated 19 November,'' i9J7,
and recorded in Book 60 page 23 of
the records of mortgage deeds for
Henderson county. ; ;i';
Tract No. 6. Being a lot in the
town of Hendersonville, in Hender
sonville township , county and" State
aforesaid and more fully described, as
follows: , . - . ,::.:;-; ';. ''.- t'";
Lot 41 of the plat made for the
Hendersonville Land and Improve
ment Company recorded' In Book 26
page 451 of the records of deeds for
Henderson county, and bounded as
follows: v .
Beginning at a stake' on the East
margin of First avenue just 20 feet
from the center of, said avenue, and
230 feet North of tfie center of
Anderson avenue, and runs N. 63 deg.
E. 155 feet to a stake, in the line
of lot 45; thence N. 2? deg. W. 75
feet to a stake in line of lot 46;
thence S. 63 deg.,W. 150 feet to a
stake on First avenue; thence with
same S. 24 deg. E. 75 feet to the
beginning. '
Upon the tracts of land above
described lying in Edneyville town
ship there is a mortgage made by R.
J. Brown and wieiM. M. Brown to
the Federal Land Bank of Columbia
for the sum of six thousand dollars
drawing, 5 per pent interest and fall
ing due about thirty-two years from
this date with the privilege of pay
ment on January,-1922, or at any
interest paying date thereafter for
the full period from January, 1922,
ThisAugust 1st, 1919a
McD. RAY, Commissioner.
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J, CarlUU v. Mamia Carlisle : -
' SERVICE; By ,V PUBLICATION;; ;
The defendant above named will ,
take notice that an action entitled it ' i
aoove naa neen commencea in .tne ,;
sunerior court oi . Henderson county .
fn tha niiynnu-nn thn nnrt Af tilt : v
pimtiir ot obtaining a divorce absov :
lute irom the defendant; and the said;,"
mhi unnnnr win rnrrno td it a innripH ..
wmuwm v t .vvm ' J. vs VMvt .cav ,'rv"w ;'(V ,
mat sne is required to appear at tne
next term 'Of the Superior court ot
said county to be held on.the 29th day . ';
of; September 1919,' at the court '
house of said' county in Henderson- '
vlUe No Citolinaand answer or '
d'emur td the complaint In said ac
tion, or the plaintiff will apply to the,
court tor tncreaei demanded in said
cibmplairit.vV M I iMyi0fv:'
'f .This 28th day of July, 1919.' i
''r-VvV '1 C M. PACE,
v: . . Cterk :JSbipertor. .pourt
v NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of A. M. Meace, de
ceased, all persons; indebted to the
estate are "hereby notified to present
their claims to me at Arden, N. C,
by the 24th day of July, 1920, or'this
notice' will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. - And all persons indebted
to the estate will make payment to
me. a .. -
This the 24th day of July, 1919.
JOHN W. MEACE,
Administrator.
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