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c: 0 PAGES 2 A TODAY AND EVENINGCHRONICLE "GREATER CHARLOTTE'S r 1 BLOTTE MEWS NIGHT HOME NEWSP APRR " I , -r- : i ; . 1 ' rilB vkViG CHRONICLE Established, foNGRESS MEETS ilONDAYlNUUIN Al CALL OF HARDING :xtraordinary Session Ex-; pected to tonimuc unui Fall- n-jduntfon. APrU 11- The . fonsress assembled promptly , Ion today at the call of Presi- Harding: fr its first session, JJJtfM now to continue probably until fall. Except for the re-organization of ihlMusl and the usual flood of bills tliere, today's meetings were lewhat perfunctory, the Con rrfss marMng tune until the re Lint tomorrow of President Hard y's first message outlining his vieftg as to the many important Jublems before the national law makers. This cons-. the rep-'' ss is tne nrst controlled licans to meet under a . -onati? previously naa Deen organ- jpjJ at i:? special session, which be- ... last March 4, but the house pro- ,Iassacu?etis, over Claude Kitchin, of ,e The vote was uii sLntujf yaity nes an.l Mr. Gillett was elected by 'overwhelming majority, 'panic W. Mondell, Wyoming, was e-eiecied republican leader while Rep- enta;ive Kucnin uectune me uuu- atc leader by virtue or nis nomma n'ior the speakership. He succeeds ,e late Champ ciarK. , Nearly a.I or tne -ido memoers were .-sent" for the opening- The crowded reVi? galleries iiroke into applause h7n Ms Alice M. Robertson, repub- a!i. of the second Oklahoma dis icL the only woman member of con--esk came on the floor. She carried bunch of red roses. Hiss Robertson was one of the more :an 1 00 new members, most of them ?pub!ieans. who answered tne nrst call. Most or tnem stood in groups ehind Speaker Gillett when he took is place to be sworn in. Fully a thousand bins and resoiu- ons, many or wnicn ia.neu. w get rough the last session, were thrown to the hopper long before the house it under way. There was no peace solution in the lot, this being held ick to await the views of President larding. Right at the top of the list of bills as the Fordney emergency tariff, "toed by Mr. Wilson, but brought in ruler a new name, precisely in its okl arm except with a stipulation making effective six months instead of ten. : will be called up Wednesday under republican program providing for s passage, probably by --Wednesday eht. i'ali&e the opening of the last con- ress. there were few investigation sulutions. The Kahn resolution for .lvestigating the escape of Grover leveiand Berg loll, the Philadelphia raft evader, now in Germany, was in te hopper at noon. Because of the large number of re- u'ulicans in both the house . and sen ;e. it was necessary to establish so- illed ''Cherokee strips' in each house twen tne republican and democratic the overflow of republican mem bra oenig seated in these strips. Tne umner of house measures dronned to lh! hopper at the speaker's desk sceeded 1,200. Approximately 1,000 ' the bills we 'e private, while most - tne remainder were old bills re-of- ered. Senate galleries also were crowded, overflow extending far outside of e doors. Seventy-eight senators an gered the roll call after the presi- as proclamation calling the extra sslon had been read. Two new sena- i-s-Peter Norbeck. of South Dako- a- and Hoi O. Bursum. of New lexieo were sworn in by Vice-Presi-?nt Coolidge. a conference of reoublican sena- rs tomorrow was cadled today by ''Jl uuge, or Aiassacnusetts, re Jtwean leader, to adopt the slate of '"miHtee assisrnmpntci nrranced Hv a ljnference committor pdksugo nt i-o. Alican preponderance, it ia proposed ' nave si-rpf.r insf r r .rs on the ten major committees. !i'0 urn,, I j . .iuuiu require an amendment to ruie adoDted a. -fnocratic senators are inclined to wt when the committee comes be rL . senate later this week. J 'sua, the acting democratic lead- ere named by the senate a Z T t0 af;t with a similar com from ilia hn,,,. p Harding that congress was nnio, aim rea3y to receive com- "WcatlOnS from vw, ri ,.lasted Just 17 mrmit ativ i , 7' ftllini" ttepre- opaiict , icw iuik, ine oiuy o o urn in Dy tepresenta- nrK n J? i -w-r fiioke v m ' iwrmer speaKer. ie Ii-,o ;.0rief y. declarinar that he feared v session would long in view ine important legislation. AMES CAREY GIVEN ONE YEAR. :5nc.a?0, April H.-TamM Piirov. 9 19- i'ar okl bank cashier of Otta- Ill . V.n05?fi iYtnft tQ ff loc-- fwemi Judg r was followed by criticism 'o r , .. ". r. rittPfi Vv. U1S wnn the latter per anais when the lf15 VOUthfnl rnl nit t "me n,....,..'""llul Ul i'ncpri I 5 sentence, was today sen- UUllb l i.uiii ar ii f Judge Landis to serve one r p' . t"e -National Training School ys at Washington, D. C. FAIR -'"HA l .,.,,1 bly ".u 0,r'' tnight with frost, prob im;..t. r:' 1 uesdav fair jiiwI vearmor. 'nishhVi .and warper. y; 1ST nd -rtli u i 1; 1,1 tu Hurinwesi winus. riun, '; " South Carolina: Fair and " 'a'r and urm.r. .uhii mill 1I U91, A 1903. Introducing Our; wSenators NO. 3. Samuel Morgan ridge Short- (Renublican) Prominent Pacific Coast Lawyer Now U. S. Senator from Califor nia, Succeeding Mr. Phelan. Mr. Reaxlpr: Meet the silver-tonsrued orator from the West Coast. Samuel Mor gan Shortridge, who replaces . Mr. James D. Phelan as United States Senator from California. Senator Shortridgt is thin, angu lar, besuectacled and smooth-shaven, but :ood natured. He is a law yer who has made his "pile." Ha never held public office before, but has taken an active interest in pub lic affairs. He is said to be "con servative" and does not belong to the hit-and-take progressive school which produced Senator Hiram W. Johnson, his California colleague. Senator Shortridge is famous oft the Pacific coast as an orator, and It is expected he may deliver him self of a few "Websterian phillipies" in the senate forum. Senator Shortridge was born in Iowa in 1873. Ex-Empress Augusta Victoria, Germany, Dies At Amerongen Doom, Holland, April 11. (By the Associated Press.) Former Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, died here at 6 o'clock this morning. By a strange coincidence, the end came just one year after she suffered her first serious attack of heart disease. It was while she was preparing to enter the house of Doom, the present home of the former emperor of Ger many, after her long residence at Am erongen, that she was stricken with what at the time was believed to be a fatal attack. That was on April 11, 1920. For a few days, there were re CONFERRED FOR AN HOUR TODAY, Conference on British Coal Miners Strike Then Ad journed to Afternoon. London, .April 11. British . mine ow ners and their striking employes con ferred for an hour at the board of trade this morning on a possible settlement I. W. W. on charges of having con-' , hv ar,,ih, onT , . , x j.,- ! emirerl tn nhstrnot thp war artiviti of featured by an unusually large atteni nf th nntmvfirv .which led to the spea to ODStruci ine war . activities ox . , .--,. r of the controversy which led to the miners' walkout last week. The con ference adjourned at noon until 4 o'clock . this afternoon. Robert S. Home, chancellor of the exchequer, presided. The London Times today warned its readers against expectation that the ne gotiations would proceed smoothly or that work would be , immediately re sumed, as the fundamental differences between the parties still remained. Estimates of the cost of the miners' dispute to the country, including the loss of unmined coal, unpaid wages, de creased railway traffic, and the cost of emergency measures, place the bill which the country is paying because of the strike at nearly 16,000,000 pounds j sterling per week. Leaders of the "triple alliance" of labor viewed the situation today as be ing considerably improved, John Rob ert Clynes, chairman of the parliamen tary party, being quoted as saying he was satisfied a solution of the problem could be found. The Daily Herald, organ of labor, de clared "the first round has been won by labor," adding that reports of rail men opposing the strike were untrue or grossly exaggerated. Information has reached the govern ment, says The London Times that ev erywhere but in Fifeshire the miners are observing instructions from - their officials not to interfere with safety measures and pumping, which have al ready been begun in South Wales and elsewhere. Mr. Lloyd-George, the prime minister, made the suggestion during, the con ference today that the owners give a full presentation of their case, stating the reasons why they considered the wage reductions justified, after which the miners' counter-claims should be fully presented. He proposed that the miners then delegate six representa tives to meet six representatives of the mine owners, "with or without govern ment representatives present," to "be gin the examination of possibilities and report to their respective constituen- Mr. Lloyd-George told the miners and the owners: . "We have definitely concluded that we could not recommend to parliament that we continue paying profits to the owners and the owners to the men from the general taxes of the country." REP. BIRD IS SEATED REP. FLOOD OBJECTED Washington, April 11. The seating of Richard E. Bird as a republican rep resentative from the eighth Kansas distriat was protested on the floor of the house today by Representative Flood, democrat, Virginia. At his own suggestion, Mr. Bird stood aside until the other members had been sworn. Mr. Flood charged that Mr. Bird's own sworn statement of campaign ex penditures showed that he had spent more than $10,000, ' twice the amount, Mr. Flood said, a candidate for repre sentative wes permitted to expend un der the federal corrupt practices act. Mr. Bird was elected to succeed Wil liam A. Ayres, whose term expired last March 4. , x , , .. The house later adopted a resolution by Representative Mondell, republican leader, seating Mr. Bird. Follow The Arrow To .RLOTTE, N, Ch MONDAY EVENING, APRIL M P . ... 1 As a youner man he knew hard work in the mines of Nevada City, Cal. He was admitted to the bar in 1894. -When a young man he taught school in Oregon. ports that her death was momentarily expected, but she rallied, and accom panied her husband to Doom on May 15 last. Attacks of her fatal malady recurred at fr3quent intervals, each sapping her vitality and nullifying the measures taken by specialists to restore her health. When her son, former Prince Joachim, committed suicide in P.erlin last July, she Avas in such a serious condition that the news of his death was kept from her for a long time, (Continued on Tag Three.) REVIEWHAYW00D CASE WAS DENIED Supreme Court's Refusal Ends Long. Fight; I. W. W. Must Serve Sentences, Washington, Apru :n.-The supn,9! Court today refused to.reyiew the con- Kriftirurt rvf XV i H m TV Wairirnfifl h nil . more than 79 other members of the ! trio crnvrnmonf 1 Refusal of the Supreme Court to in. 1 terfere closes the long fight to save ! ana noteis reparteu. many reServauon3 Haywood and his associates from pris. i for each day during the Week. Guide-on.-Only a Presidential pardon can I f&ns havue b,ee" Pasted along the (street now prevent their entering upon the i from each of the four railway stations sentences imposed mention ror review was based on the contention that the Federal agents, in conducting raids on the homes and offices of officials of the I. W. W. on September - 5, 1917, -acted, without search warrants and that the evidence thus obtained- was illegal under recent rulings of the Supreme Court. The cases were tried before Federal Judge Landis and sentences ranging from, one to twenty years were im posed. Most of the men were given their liberty on bail bonds aggregatinj $500,000 pending the outcome of the appeals. Specifically, Haywood and his asso ciates were charged with violation of the selective service act and also the espionage act. BYNUM OR BRITT MAY bUL-L-jbJbilJ FKIICJIAKD f By PARKER ANDERSON, Copyright 1921, by News Publishing Co. Washington, April 11. ;Two North Carolinians will be considered by Presi dent Harding to succeed the late Judge Jeter Pritchard, of Asheville. They are Judge W. P. Bynum, of Greenwood, and James J.-Britt, of Asheville. Strong pressure will be brought to bear upon the President by the friends of the two men, it became know here today. Britt was considered for Third Assistant Postmaster General under the present administration but his case was not pushed because it was realized that Judge Pritchard could not last very long and his friends wanted him to be in i eaumess lu autueeu riiitiicuu. Judge Bynum had been slated to suc ceed Judge Boyd as District j Judge for western North Carolina and undoubted ly would have been ' appointed in the event- of Judge Boyd's retirement. His friends now will ask that. he succeed the Asheville man. Both men are well equipped for, the circuit judgeship and, no doubt, a very spirited contest is in prospect. STATE LAWS ENFORCABLE. Washington. April 11. State laws dealing with illegal traffic in drugs are enforceable even if in conflict with the national anti-narcotic act, the Supreme Court today held. Refusal of the Supreme Court of Minnesota to ..re lease a violator of the state statutes because the offense with which lie was convicted was not covered by the Federal law, was affirmed. BATTLE RAGED FOR 20 MINUTES. Dublin, April 11. :A battle raged for 20 minutes this morning around the Northwestern hotel, in the, north Wall section, here, when civilians, armed with bombs and firearms, fiercely at tacked the hotel where government aux iliaries are quartered. One of the as saulting party was killed and several wounded,, two of them seriously. , FIGHTING IS RENEWED. Constantinople, April 11. Fighting has been renewed by the Turks , and Greeks on the Brusa front in Asia Mi nor. : Turkish cavalry is attempting to break through the Greeks line run ning from Kestellek to Aksu to the east of Brusa. . OFFICIALS BUSY SHAPING DETAILS FOR AUTO SHOW T Timi l f j , 1 UOOrS Will DC UpeneCl at 8 OVlork Morula V "Miorif noon at 3 ociock this city, together r. OCK lyonaay lMgntwith several other smaller places in With Band Concert- THE AUTO SHOW HOW TO GET THERE V West on West Trade street t j Cedar; South on Cedar street to First; one block to the west on First street. MONDAY PROGRAM. Concert to begin at 8:30 o'clock. Pryor and his band, Arthur Pry or, conductor. Soloists: Margaret Travers, so prano; Leon Handzlik, cornet; Mor ris Hamilton, cornet; Harold Stain baugh, cornet; Yryor and his sex tette; Joseph Sassano, xylophone. PART I. 1. Overture "Tancredi" . . Rossini 2. Scenes from "Irene" . . Tierney 3. Trio for cornets "The Three Sol itaires" . . .... . . . . Herbert Messrs. Hendzlik, Hamilton and Stambaugh - . 4. Humoresque "In a Clock Store" Orth 5. Sextette "Lucia" . . . . Donizetti Pryor and his sextette 6. "Second Hungarian Rhapso dic" Lisst PART II. 7. "A - Tour Through Scotland" - j. , Lambe 8. Xylophone solo "Hungarian , Fantasie" .. ........ Sassano . Joseph Sassano. 9. (a) "Pickaninny Blues" Klickman (b) "The Whistler and His Dog" i ... .. .. Pryor 10. Soprano solo "II Bacio" .. Arditi Margaret Travers 11. "Songs of the South" . . Lamoa Miss Marion Harris, Syncopation's Scintillating Star. 1." Southern Girl; 2. Silver Linini'.; 3. I'm .Nobody's Baby; 4. I Ain't Got Nobody; 5. St. Louis Blues; 3. Everybody But Me. Officials of the Carolinas Automobile Show and a corps of workmen have been engaged throughout the day in completing preparations for the oi? event which will opet. Monday night at 8 o'clock in the building of tha Standard Oil Company at First and Clarkson streets. The doors will be opened . one-half hour before the musical concert, which ! Arthur Pryor s famous band arra so- gj Mi-?a Margaret havers and ..!Jf ! "ttl J0""111"", - ee TJTU,. , aiivjc. uui-ut-iuiyii oiiui o iu aujvv had begun to arrive Monday morning ' for the convenience of visitors "The Red Arrow" is the official guid ing sign placed for the " public's bene fit. These run from the stations to In dependence Square, thence down West Trade street to Cedar; south on Cedar to .First street. The show building is one block to the west on First street. The roadway is paved to the building and parking space has been provided in a lot on the opposite side of the street. . Captain Pryor and his band, Miss Marion Harris, Miss Carmella Ponse'le and Miss Margaret Travers arrive 1 Monday morning and have rooms at the Selwyn hotel. Miss Barbara Mau rell, the fourth of the singers, will not reach the city , until Friday, singing at the Friday and Saturday concerts. John Wyllis, president of the -Wyllis-Knight Automobile Company, and heal of several other large manufacturing establishments, and R. A. Stranahan, president of the Chapman Spark Plug i PAmnanv will he e-vtests of the show Thursday: Numerous other automobile and accessory men of national and sec tional prominence will come here dur ing the week for the show. Mr. Stranahan is at present at Pinehurst. The total cost of the show, which is being held under the auspices and su pervision of the Charlotte Automobile Trades' Association, amounts to ap proximately $20,000. The musical fea tures alone will cost $7,500, while the cost of the decorations has approxima ted $4,000. The local association expects to re imburse itself ih large part from the admission charges. The price of ad mission will be 55 cents both after noon and night except on "Society Night," Friday, when it will be $1.10. Preparations for the show have been directly in charge of a central commit tee of three, composed of E. M. Wal lace. Fred Anderson and Joe G. Fitz Simons. Sub-committees have looked after various details of the work. The officials of the Charlotte Auto motive Trades' Association are as fol lows: H. D. Horton, president; O. L. Barringer, vice-president; W. M. Jonea, secretary. Directors: Lee A. Folger, Fred Anderson, E. M. Wallace and T. M. Glasgow. The show opening Monday night is the second which the association has held, the one last year proving im mensely successful and proving a great aid in bringing before the people the prominence of Charlotte as an automo bile center. This year's event is ex pected to exceed in success the show of last year. Although the show will not be ' open Monday afternoon the opening hour for the remainder of the week will be at 1 o'clock. SUFFERED FROM COLD. Nashville, Tenn., April li. This vi cinity suffered a visitation of frost and ice' during the night, the former being heavy and the damage widespread. The ice formed on shallow water. FIVE INCHES OF SNOW. Cumberland, Md., April 11. -Five in ches of snow is reported at Rowles burg, W. Va., a few miles west of Oak land, with temperature of 28. Snow has been flying in this section all Sun day, ' The Auto 11, 1921. THE Judge Jeter C. Sunday After Asheville, April 11. With a procla mation from xMayor Gallatin Roberts requesting ait ousmess in Asnevuie to suspend for ten minutes Tuesday after- western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, plans to pay its last re spects to Judge Jeter Conley Pritch ard, presiding officer of the fourth circuit United States court of appeals, who died here , Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, after a long . illness, death being due to pneumonia. Judge Pritch ard was in his 64th year. ' Prominent men from Charlotte, Greensboro, . Raleigh, Richmond, Charleston, W. Va., Washington and New York are en route here to attend Harding In Complete Accord With Colleagues Of Senate Frost is Forecast For South Tonight Washington, April .11. Snows or light rains have fallen during the last 24 hours in the Middle-Atlantic states, Southern New England and the upper Ohio valley, today's Weather Bureau chart shows. Tem peratures have been decidedly low er in the Atlantic and East Gulf states and freezing temperatures were reported as far South as west ern North Carolina and light f rsts to the Alabama coast. Continued low temperatures are forecast for tonight in the stales east of the Mississippi river and light frost is probable tonight as far south as the interior of north ern Florida. J INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONTINUED ' , . , Lynching OI JNegrO F reach - pr is Prnhpd 7 Whites cr I Jriuueu, tt mica sMay be Indicted. Monticello, Ga., April 11. Investi gation by the Jasper county grand SSU'SnSd'TSS? .ESoMi speeial session called" by ' Judge". JV B: Park, of the Ocmulgee circuit. Clyde Manning, the - negro planta tion boss, whose testimony "forms the principal link in the chain of evidence against Williams, arrived at 8:45 o'clock from Atlanta with several other negro witnesses, in the custody of Sheriff W. F. Persons and depu ties. The other negroes were Rena Manning, wife of Clyde; Claude and Clyde Freeman, Julius Manning, Em ma Freeman and John Freeman. All are negroes who worked on the farm of Williams or his sons.. Monticello was filled with people from all parts of Jasper county and from adjoining counties when the grand jury convened, but- there was no outward sign of disorder. Doyle Campbell, solicitor general of the Ocmulgee circuit, whiah embraces Jasper county, expressed a determina tion to investigate the "murder farm" killing to the bottom. He said 1 he expected to bring to light at least three murders in addition to those murder previously exposed in the ffll-m" invpRtip-ntirma HamHon ! a& negro put to& death by a mob in Jasper county; several months ago, Mr. Campbell said he would seek indictments against six or seven Jas- Per county citizens whose names were furnished him by Governor Dorsey. There was a mass of evidence to re presented in the lynching case, he said. !.: An effort will be made, it was un7 derstood, to finish with the testimony of the negroes brought from the . Ful ton county jail and get them back to Atlanta , before ' nightfall. They were Sheriff Persons with the responsibility of delivering "them safely back to the Fulton county jail. The Federal court will use them as material witnesses in pending peonage investigations. Judge Parks' charge to the jury was preceded by a prayer by Ordinary J. J. Winbury, who petitioned fer vently that "justice shall be wrought" and that the grand jury might have "supreme guidance in its delibera tions." "I am sure," declared Judge Parks in his charge, "that the people of Jasper, county are anxious to bring the guilty parties in these horrible crimes to justice. Lawlessness in this section has now reached the point where it will cause U3 to be shunned unless we check it. We will soon, reach the stage where no capital will come here and help us to develop our great natural resources. Unless the law takes hold and checks these cold blooded murders and outrages, I firm ly believe God Almighty will soon take the situation in hand." The only members of the Williams family who came to Monticello today was Dr. Gus Williams, eldest sdn of the "death farm" proprietor. In the absence from Monticello of Green Johnson, leading counsel for his fath er, Dr. Williams conferred at length with W. H. Key, assistant counsel." Organization of the grand jury was completed by the election of E. H. Jordan as foreman. HERE TO PRESENT STATUE. New York, April 11. Dr. Eataban Gilborges, foreign minister of Venez uela, arrived here today at the head of a special mission representing the Venezuelan government, which will pre sent a statue of Simon Bolivar to the r-Mtv of Wew York on Anril 19. The mission expects to pass several weeks f the phrase "a separate peace with Ger in this country. many" will have been removed. Show -April CHARLOTTE NEWS f Consolidated I Pritchard Died A Long Illness the funeral, to be held Tuesday after noon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist church, this city, of which the de ceased was long a prmoinent mem ber. Interment will be in Riverside ceme tery, this city, where also rest the remains of another distinguished North Carolinian, Zebulon B. Vance, war governor and for 25 years senator from this state. Judge Pritchard succeeded Mr. Vance as United States senator fromk North Carolina. All business, including the stopping of traffic, will suspend for ten minutes tomorrow and already extra chairs and (Continued on Fare Fourteen.), By DAVID LAWRENCE, Copyright 1921, by 3fews Publishing Co. Washington, April 11. President Harding and congress have entered up on an era of complete partnership. Talks with returning members whose factional differences were pronounced in the last congress indicate that Mr. Harding has behind him in congress a powerful influence for co-operation. "Ir reconcilables" as well as "reservation ists," as the groups became known in the treaty fight, are asserting with un mistakable positiveness that "the pres ident and the senate are going to get along exceptionally well together." Mr. Harding has decided to read his address to congress. On the surface this seems as if he had merely swal lowed another Wilson policy but there will be a distinct difference between the ways of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Har ding. The former was wont to enter the executive chamber in solemn dig nity and depart abruptly as came. Mr. Harding views his visits to the capitol as an opportunity to mingle with col leagues in the cloak rooms and drink in the atmosphere of fellowship which is characteristic of the membership of both the senate and house irrespec tive . of parties. The new president can call members of congress by their first names and hardly feel that he is doing something artificial to curry fa- Ivor. Warren Harding s visit to the I capitol will be a simple return to the ; congressional fold of one who spent six yLars aXontAA: the. same individuals ; Whose co-operation he now seeks. The writer has been talking with some of the so-called "bitter-enders" in the senate who feel satisfied that Mr. Harding has interpreted the mandate of the last election correctly when he turns his back on the league of nations and peace: treaty. But the significance which one . draws from the conversa tion with these senators - is that the alternative a separate peace with Ger many doesn't mean the. Barns ;lhingvte them as It does to the. folks who .haVff been regarding such a step as "an aban donment of ; the allies" or a "pro-German peace." :: . Of one thing the public may be as sured, and that is that when America makeg a separate peace it will not- be a pro-German peace but a pro-ally pdace. Anything else would be absurd and unthinkable. None other than Senator Knox, author of the resolution,- declaring a state of peace witn Ger many gave the writer such an assur ance in an informal talk on the peace outlook. " Mr. Knox is in complete accord with the Hughes policies as an nounced in recent nctes. He sees no frictiononly harmony ahead. It was' natural that there should be considerable speculation as to the part the senate foreign relations committee should play as contrasted with the de partment of state in formulating for eign policy. So far as Mr. Knox fore sees, there is no prospect of an infringe ment by either branch of the govern ment nn the prerogatives of the other. i Congress has on many occasions, by J joint resolution, ueuiareu Aiiiciivxxn iui- icv toward foreign nations Aiieie are Plenty" of. Precedents for the expression opinion by , congress ; and indeed the Knox resolution simply requests the president to enter into an agree ment with Germany at the appropriate time to carry further the requirements of peace-making after congress shall have declared a state of peace. Of course the making of peace by congressional resolution will mark a precedent in American history. Here tofore wars have been ended by the ratification of treaties. But the con vincing argument has been made that at this late date there is , no sound ed of certain commercial opportunities because of the existence of a technical state of war. The procedure proposed in this instance would divide the treaty making task' into two parts a declara tion by congress and a treaty after wards. The first requires only a ma jority vote of both houses but the sec ond must be approved by a two thirds vote of the senate alone. The demo crats have a big enough minority to block ratification of a peace treaty if they -wish. It is probable they will be consulted in making the new peace pact. It is too early to say what the separate treaty will be .like, except to state a few general principles. First, it will be satisfactory to the allies, and arrived at after complete exchange of views with our principal associates in the war. - Second, it will adopt many portions of the Versailles treaty as feasible and such as will preserve the solidarity of the allies and eliminate America from obligations of enforcement. Third, it will afford no opportunity to Germany to escape her obligations to the allies with respect to payment of the damage done in the war. Finally, the supporters of the separ ate "treaty bring forth another idea on which they place much emphasis. It is that Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy and Belgium entered into a solemn agreement not . to make peace except in unison. America entered the war without becoming a party to the promise. She is therefore free to make an independent peace without in any way damaging her legal record. And, if the United States makes a peace which the allies regard as . sympathetic with their viewpoint and having in it no encouragement to the Germans, the proponents of the independent treaty plan feel that much of the opprobrium which has attached heretofore to 11th to 16th PRICE FIVE CENTS, LARGER CUTS IN PROPERTY VALUE NOT COMMENDED Revision Board Will Not Allow Drastic Reduc ing With Legislation. By JULE B. WARREN, Staff Correspondent of The 2s'evs. ' Raleigh, April 11. Heavy reductions in the value of property are not like ly to stand the purging process vhi.h all of these revisions . will have to un dergo before they can certified by the new tax commission ; as . the proper basis for taxation, in the opinion of . some members of the state administra tion who have given a great deal ' of time and study to taxation matters. The new state tax commission, sittinj as a board of review, is required, not allowed, but required by the law to ad just values in the different counties so that the property values in Cherokee will be made on the same basis as '.ire those of thePiedmont counties in cen tral Carolina or Dare county in the East. ' While it is recognized by friends of revaluation that all of the values fixed by the assessors in the hundred coun ties do not actually represent the mon ey or market value of property today, the enemies of the tax reform do not pretend to believe that -alues of 191!) and 1920 were so far wrong that a 00 per cent cut in some counties and a 10 per cent cut in others will lea re property values equitable in all the counties. It will be the duty offho new tax commission, composed of '.he Commissioner of Revenue, the chair man, of the Corporation Commissioner and the Attorney General, or, stated in the persons of these officials, Com missioner A. D. Watts, Corporation Commission Chairman W. T. Lee and Attorney General James S. Manning, to adjust these differences. Some members of the legislature no posed granting this power to the State Tax Commission, contending thac, since the state got none of its monoy from property tax but left it entirely to the counties, it should have noth ing to do with what basis the countie-3 used in arriving at its tax values. The majority sentiment, however, was that so long as some counties had to get money from the state equalization fund in order to run its schools six months, the state had a right to look into tho basis of valuation. In other words, the, legislature did fnot believe a county" like Dare, for instance, which gets out of the state about $30,000 more for its schools than it pays in has a right to call on Durham, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Forsyth and" others of the larerer and wealthier mintio fni help, unless there is some assurance from the state that Dare and the other weaker counties have done all they can to help themselves. Consequently, L. R. Varser and other legislators who" opposed state supervision of tax valuation, submerged . their personal views ana wrote into the new-bill the clause which gives the tax commission the right to revise valuation cuts in order to equalize values as between different counties. Reports of the action of county com missioners .reaching Raleigh show that tere is a wide difference in the amounts of cuts authorized in the dif ferent counties. They range from noth ing in New Hanover and a few other counties which were satisfied with ths present values to the 60 per cent cut in Wilson county. Corporation -Com-missioner A. J. Maxwell, who was largely instrumental in the revalua tion work and advised with the com mittee which wrote the bill this year, is of the opinion that the larger cuts should be made in the eastern cou it ties where the bottom dropped out cf (Continued on Page Fourteen.) LABOR BOARD WOULD BE DONE AWAY WITH Washington, April 11. A bill to abol ish the Railroad Labor Board, now functioning under the transportation act, and place its duties under the In terstate. Commerce . Commission was introduced today by Representative Tincher, republican, Kansas. Representative Tincher,. in 'a state ment "explaining the bill, said the ' Interstate Commerce Commission was authorized by law to make the rates under which the railroads operated and it should, therefore, fix salaries, as they formed an important part of the expenses which the rates were fixed ' ' to cover. Senator Poindexter, of Washington, announced that -he would re-introduce his bill "penalizing railroad workers for any concerted effort to bring about a strike of railroad workers. . "v; I Mulched ears fer girls 'ill continue t' be th rage. Who remembers when only fellers that looked sood in stiff hats wore 'em? M 1 1.. UTT I fit p . 4 f