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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1921.
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119 SMITE FACE F
IF 1 OFFICER?
jjjidnt Like Way Major
I (ocheu Was Looking at
Him at Hearing.
KOw IX "committee.
"Watson and Brandegee in
Tilt Before the Threat on
Cocheu.
-n. Pec. 9. The meeting of
, committee investigating
Senator Watson. Democrat,
;.it roldiers had been illegal
,n France', almost broke tip
:,..day after Senator Watson
, n d to slap The face of an
v silting in the audience,
n Fmndegeo, of the commit-
Isold of an awkward situa
:vd that no person in the
:! t.e msulted. This state-
i e .iust after Senator
,;:i.,d v close to Major
.l-r.
a.nr.u
W.
O'oheu and shaking his
face. exclaimed: "For
s I would slap your face."
;.t mo again that way
hi .laws." the Georgian de
iiur th.tr he would not re
! he committee to be "bull
.!:: "hull-jawed brute."
av scat. Senator "Watson."
'.taece demanded.
:v tirs.." he replied.
i;r scat or retire," the chair-
v.'.:' P.rundepree called for the
. ,v..:t.-n:-is and Senator "Watson
. ; v r ! n turning to the Geor-
' the chairman asked if he
, :i " army officers present, in
, : c. '.. Waiter B. Bethel. General
r-:ra :'s jr.dcv- advocate general in
: retire,
y s.iid S. nator Watson.
OlTIiTKS SENT 01 T.
'We'.!. c't out," said the chairman,
tsA The oilicers retired.
M.tjer Cncheu, who had not been
c.ii-a? a witness, sat silent while
s n.i v- Wntson was launching? a ver
ba! in tack upon him. The Senator told
:!., rn;r.r.v:t- that he had been insult
' y the manner in which the officer
'i ; ;.i .;,-e at him. ;
aator Shields. Democrat, Tennes
. I-Lipctvc. to the attack, stating that
eoaanittee had every desire to
v. .- rater Watson a full hearing,
: ' lu-A not pi-f-jtaiged the case and
: S'.r.uor's statement to that
".t absolutely without founda
; Senator Watson began a discus
:i : the case with respect to cer
.:: " -iflnce he expected to produce
h- officers had retired, but the
r.itai'.ree soon after adjourned until
in. tomorrow.
H :n"' r Shields presided at the open
. I ' ;hr session but retired later as
'jnr"I-cee arrived and took the
:er. Soon after there was an cx-r:"-
between Mr. Brandegee and
Watson regarding certain conver
sion relating to procedure and the
- .-r e nf many officers, while the
: : i Si . r.ator was presenting his
"." 9. The exchange became very
;e- i ;ind Senator Watson shouted: "I
'fr;) i'l of you."
I of you." Chairman Brande-
haniring the table,
h ;i: ra,Tn went on to say that
:d h en no disposition in the
th" committee to be unfair to
tsnn and that, it was not right
to impugn the committee's mo-
Xoi-
ncht to submit your evidence
: -i cide," said the chairman.
S. nate can determine wheth-
';ndin2rs are proper."
- it th;s j.ioint that Senator Waf
' '!.-!ie.; suddenly upon Major
i -. nii-iding him that he was not
'( and announcing his threat
r two pennies he would slap his
. i
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U. WITM-SSES.
1 i t'i" excitement had subsided,
V a'son announced that he de
i " eotnmitteo to call 63 witnesses
r i:.Ks he presented, along with
i .. 'nine of letters. There was
'! :'''-::ial discussion, much milder
ihr-n that which preceded the
H-'iring'i then were adjourned
)''": -w afternoon and the com
' id an executive sesion.
"'''!' Watson at the resumption of
' ;:; Y teday protested against the
" : the committee to confine
' i'v solely to the question of
'' protest against the action
' v. eiittee in narrowing the in
"' i. '"i hangings of soldiers with-
' court martial," he declared.
lf:'ir- were broader. I protest
!'" 'r' charges being narrowed.
,,: it understood that I am going
: slutting of men by their ofn-
! ID MORE TOWER.
:-':tjf(it.-o suggested that it might
fv to go before the Senate
' :'t the resolution directing
v ! enlarged.
' 'i'i eo'loie Rooseyedt. Jr.. roc
: i v statement that a soldier
' !Y an oflicer," Senator Wat
:!'' i !''d. "it was testifie-d at the
1 ' -"tiinn"d on Paye 10.)
OPE PASS
ES
KCE ACT
But Four Votes Were Cast
Against Measure; Grant
Had No Following.
SCHOOL dIeFICIT BILL.
Also is Approved, Looked
for Fight Failing to Put
in Appearance.
BY JULE B. WARREN.
Staff Correspondent of The "m h.
Raleigh, Dec. 9. After an hour's de
bate, rt times acrimonious, the House
today put adjournment still further off
by voting to carrj' over the school de
ficit bill until Saturday. The fight on
the bill was led by Tarn Bowie, who
objected to tre appropriation of $75,
uuo tor the Indian schools, claiming it
should come from the appropriation
made at the reeular session.
With ?A Senators voting, the Senate
paeci tne Dili decreasing the exemp
tion of property tax from $300 tn $inn
thereby makinsr neonle next war mv
taxes cn $200 worth of property they
urn not nave to. pay. on this year. Sol
Gallert charged that the eastern peo
pic were wining to Durden the poor
wmte people in an effort to catch a
icw uouars irom negro tenants.
Alter considerable debate, the Sen
ate passed the bill exempting from tax
Ution Ihat nOTtion of siirntiin funds in.
Vested in Tihertv Rnnrls! Stato l-w-nrlo
stock in Federal Land Banks and joint
stock J and Bank, after voting for an
amendment which provides these ex
emptions shall be made on bnsis of
purcha. o price rather than par value
oi suou stock
Raleigh. Dec. 9. The House Thurs
day passed both the Municipal Finance
Act and the $710 000 schejol fund de
ficit bill without serious opposition, al
though it was expected that both of
the bills vn'ght rovoke a scrap, but
more especially was one expected on
the second reading of the school deficit
till, for the comrritlee hearings have
. een replete with evidences of opposi
tion. But when the bill came up for
t asage on the stcond reading, there
were no speeches t gainst, no attacks or
the school rdmin;tt ration and only ten
votes against it. Tarn Bowie ran true
to the form he has shown in the com
mitte? hearing in voting against the
bill, but did not make a speech.
Voting with representative Bowie
were the following: Bennett, a Demo
crat. who usually votes with the minor
ity; Cowles, Hicks, Person.. Propstr Wll-
.iams and Owen. Lawrence, of LJlon
College, himself a school man who be
lieves too much is being spent for pub
lie education, asked to be excused from
voting.
The municipal finance act brought
Grant, of Davie, to his feet in an effort
to organize opposition. He claimed the
bill gave every city town and hamlet
in the State the right to double its
present tax rate Winston-Salem ex
cepted. He did not think this right
and he believed no one understood the
bill. He charged that it was written
by a New York bond attorney. But
the opposition would not develop and,
when the vote was taken, the bill pass
ed second reading with only four votes
opposing.
introductions continue to pour into
the hands of the reading clerks. The
House yesterday had 89 new bills and
the Senate 22. Two of these, one by
Glover, of Xash, and the other by Sen
?)tor Sams are of State significance
Glover would give the Governor the
right to fire members of boards he ap
points if he finds cause to do so. Sen
ator Sams wants the State Auditor to
keep a check on bond issues of every
taxing district in the State and see
that provision for payment of bonds
are carried out
The Senate passed on second reading
the bill which will take away $200 of
the exemption now allowed on personal
property such as stock, mechanics
tools and household furniture. A man
has to have $300 worth of personal
ON
INC,
'jM read
property now before he is taxed. Sum
ner Burgwyn, daddy of the bill, says
folks ought to start paying taxes when
they get together as much as $100
worth of personal property.
SENATE SESSION.
With 30 members voting, Sumner
Burgwyn, on a 24 to 16 division, got
his bill putting an additional tax on the
man who owns nothing but personal
property passed through the second
reading in the Senate, but objection to
third reading by Hartsell, followed by
Burgwvn's motion to suspend the
rules, failed to muster the two-thirds
vote necessary and the final reading of
the bill went over.
This, together with the introduction
of State-wide measures by Sams and
Varser, the tabling of the resolution
ti fix today as the final day for
ir troduction of roll call bills, the con
fiimrtion of several scattering appoint
ments of the Governor to fill vacan
cies on different boards, 'and an un
usual amount of fun over the passage
of the House resolution thanking Mor
ris R- Caaman for his work in the
freight rate fight, makes up the
te-tai of the day's session of the upper
chamber of the General Assembly.
Senator Burgwyn elected to exercise
his right to make the motion for
reconsideration of the vote by which
the tax exemption bill passed when
a large number ejf thf Senators wore
not in the chamber. Senator Varser
suggested that the bill be made a
special order for Friday noon, but the
motion failed to pass, and the Senate
voied on the original motion of tha
Northampton man to ' reconsider the
vote by which the bill failed to pass
second reading. The vote was 24-16
and the bill then went on second
reading, only to meet parliamentary
objections to third reading.
Senator Varser contended that it
was a roll call bill since it taxed $200,
which had not hitherto been taxed and
could not be properly passed on the
same day second reading -passed, but
the president pro tern ruled that it
was not a roll call bill.
The bill will pass third reading
without a doubt, and will then go
to the House. Briefly it provides that
the man who has been getting a tax
exemption of $300 worth of his prop
erty, will in the future get tax ex-
(Contlnued on Fug - Fourteen.)
GHER POSTA
SSARY
REPORT SI
Postmaster General Points
to Continuing Deficits in
the Service.
MORE MONEY NEEDED
Suggests Some Methods of
Increasing Returns from
the Department.
WTashington. Dec. 9. Pointing to
continuing deficits in his department,
Postmaster Geeral Hays, in his first an
nual report to the President, mal? pub
lic today, declares that "if th? pros-nt
gauge of expenditures shall continue
there should be such a re-ad ii'.stmcnt
of postage rates as will, toeaihev with
tne ettects of increasing volume of bus
iness, produce sufficient revenue ap
proxiately to meet it."
Mr. Hays makes no specific recom
mendations as to the suggested adjust
ments, and declares emphatically that
"if it were a question, between the best
practical service on the one hand, and
a poorer service with revenue meeting
cost, on the other hand, decision should
be resolved in favor of rendering the
service." He adds that the department
should not be conelucted for a profit
but that it need not ultimately be lun
at a loss.
Revenues of the Postal Service for
the fiscal year ended last June. Mr.
Hays says, totalled $463,491,274. an in
crease (of $26,341,062 over the receipts
of the preceding fiscal year. Balanced
against this were audited expenditures
of $620,993,673 with the total audited de
ficiency at $157,517,688.
The material increase in the defici
ency over that for 1920, Mr. Hays states
is due to large increases of expendi
tures in two principal items without
any corresponding increase in the rev
enues. The two principal items are
$76,130,301 for increased compensation
to railroads on the basis of an order of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
retroactive to November 1, 1916, and
$41,855,000 for added compensation al
lowed postal employes by Congress.
SALARIES TOO LOW
Approving- this added compensation,
the Postmaster General tells the Pres
ident that "the salaries provided by law
tor those in the department are too low
to compensate those who continue in
the service, or to attract and hold others
of the ability required in the conduct
of such an institution." Pointing to
the inconsistencies in the salaries of em
ployes in the department proper and
those who serve in the field, Mr. Hays
says they "emphasize the importance
and necessij;yoJ immediate legislatipn
to readjust the departmental salaries
throughout."
The Postmaster General also recom
mends legislation providing for the
changing of the name of the depart
ment to the Department of Communi
cations, and to authorize him to:
Collect a fee where direct service 's
given in postoffices to mail insufficient
ly or improper addressed.
Fix a charge for a return receipt for
registered articles.
To restrict, within his discretion, the
application of the special delivery ser
vice to first class mail matter.
To dispense with the surety bonds
now required of officers and employes
accountable for funds or property and
to substitute therefor a guaranty fund
established and maintained by assess
ments against such officers and em
ployes. To provide for the payment by the
advertisers of postage on replies to ad
vertising matter.
Mr. Hays also recommends service
pensions for those who have been in th'!
service more than 30 years and that
Sundays and holidays be excluded from
sick leave granted employes of the de
nartment and service.
Discussing briefly the detailing of
marines to guard valuable mails in
transit against "hold up" men, the
Postmaster General informs the Pres
ident that there is being recruited from
the department itself to take the plac
of the marines an armed guard as a
permanent branch of the Postal Service
MAIL MUST BE PROTECTED
"The United States mail must be pro
tected down to the last postal card re
gardless of cost of personal sacrifice,
Mr. Hays says. "It must be true that
the mails may be late, but they are
never lost."
At the end of the fiscal year, Mr
Havs reports, there was a total of 52.
188 postoffices, an increase of 2,522.
First class offices numbered 799, an m
crease of 99, second class numbered
2.779, an increase of 164; third class
10,480, an increase of 2,259 and fourth
class offices totalled 38,110. -The aver
age salaries of clerks was increased
from $1,536 to $1,717 and of carriers
from $1,531 to $1,697.
The Postmaster General expresses a
firm conviction in the duty of honestly
applying the merit system, declaring
that this should govern tne appomt
ment of postmasters.
"I am sure it is steadily growing in
the mind of the public," he says, "that
if we are to have the most efficient
Postal Service we must keep it as far
as possible out of politics.
The rural mail service was extended
during the year to more than 30. new
routes, of which 103 were established
by the new administration, tne report
savs. The total number of routes was
43J52, covering 1,163,896 miles and re
quiring annual travel of carriers of
352,532,858 miles. Tne cost oi me ser
vice was $85,462,000.
Mails were carried over 10,664 star
routes not traversed by rural carrier,
the report continues, and at a cost of
$211,677 the mails were carried over
10.053 miles of routes in Alaska.
"Special arrangements have been
made for improving tne servist in .ias
(Continued on Pajre Fourteen.)
RAIN
Charlotte and vicinity: hair :im
somewhat colder tonight; Saturday fair,
ftonrfo north arid northwest winds.
North Carolina,: Fair .tonight and
Saturday, somewhat colder tonight in
south portion.
Smith Carolina: Generally faic am
somewhat coder tonight, possibly light
frost: Saturday lair.
GE
NE
HAYS
I0WS
1
ARMSDELEGATES
WATT ON IP LY
Press Reports Indicate Jap
anese Acceptance of the
Proposals.
DEFENSE IN PACIFIC.
United States Willing to
Forego Further Develop
ment of Defenses.
Wrashington, Dec. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press). So encouraging a situa
tion has developed in the arms negotia
tions that some of the delegates believe
an open session of the conference will
be called early next week to announce
agreement on the 5-5-3 naval ratio, and
the quadruple arrangement proposed as
i. substitute for the Anglo-Japanese al
liance.
There are intimations that the nego
tiations are so close to a settlement that
some conference officials had expected
an open session totlay or tomorrow.
Definite decision on the naval ratio
question is now believed to hinge on a
satisfactory solution of the problem of
naval bares and island fortifications.
The conversations over the four-pow
er treaty again were-at a standstill to-
Oay, pending receipt of definite replies
from Tokio and Paris, but there was a
general feeling of confMence that the
delay would not he long. A partial
statement of Tukio's position has be en
received by the Japanese delegates here
and although its full import is not yet
apparent, there is a feeling in Japanese
circles that the answer will be favor
able.
FORECAST ACCEPTANCE.
Unofficial advices from both the Jap
anese and French capitals seem to fore
cast acceptance of the four-power plan.
provided such other questions as the
naval ratio and the fortifications are
solved satisfactoiry. Tokio has not yet
sent a final expression of the ratio ques
tion, but one is expected very soon.
Meantime, the Far Eastern negotia
tions also are taking such form that an
greement involving all the points of
major importance before the confer
ence is not a remote possibility. It is
the apparent intention to consummate
such an understanding informally as
soon as possible and then leave details
te be "worked out by commissions of ex
perts and incorporated in a series of
treaties and agreements.
Some members of the conference are
commenting on what they regard as an
ibatement of public interest in its pro
ceeding, but they believe this develop
ment principally due to the prolonged
negotiations connected with the details
of various . Chinese ' questions.-- One of
the principal delegates remarked today
that the various committees were work-
ng with the greatest assiduity, and
that it was unreasonable for the public
to expect that final results could be ob
tained and announced every day.
One of the spokesmen for the British
delegation hazarded the opinion that a
plenary session might be held next
week, but declined "to say anything" as
to the probability of the final wind-up
of the conference in the immediate fu
ture.
"Washington. Dec. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press). The rapidly moving
arms conference had reached a point
of comparative pause today with the
Far Eastern committee in adjournment
until tomorrow and the next important
step in the negotiations on naval ratio
and the proposed four-power treaty ap
parently waiting on a definite statement
of the attitude of the Japanese Govern
ment. Meanwhile, the Japanese and
Chinese delegations were scheduled to
hold; ano.ther session today of their sep
arate conference on the Shantung ques
tion, discussion of the restoration to
China of the public utilities in the Jap
anese leasehold there having been con
tinued yesterday without final disposi
tion.
As a major feature in the prospective
agreements the question of limitation
of fortifications and naval bases in the
Pacific islands had been brought into
prominence for the first time today. Al
though the subject has not advanced to
the stage of formal exchanges, the
American delegates have given assur
ance to the Japanese that it w"ould be
considered as a natural corrolary of
the naval reduction plan and indications
point to an ultimate agreement on the
principle of abandoining further de
velopment of island defenses.
JAPAN TO ACCEPT
Press reports that the Japanese Gov
ernment has decided to accept the four-
power treaty plan for preserving peace
m the Pacific conditional on an agree-
(Continued on Page 19.)
Th' garment workers are goin on
another strike, but th' garment wear
ers 'ill continue th policy o' watchful
wait in'. Who remembers when th fel
ler that took what he could git wuz
regarded as a poor business man?
Senate Will Be Asked To
Pass On New Conventions
Whether Agreements Take the Form of a Treaty or Not,
and Far Eastern Treaty is Likely, They Will Be
Submitted to the Senate.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Staff Correspondent of The K em.
C op? right, 1921, by News Publishing Co.
Washington, Dec. 9. The Harding
Administration has passed the word to
the Senate that it will be given an op
portunity to express itself on the agree
ments which are signed by the Ameri
can delegation at the arament confer
ence. This decision to consult the Senate
on all the agreements irrespective of
whether they technically are called
"understandings", "conventions" or
treaties is due to a desire to leave no
doubt either in the minds of foreign
governments or anybody else of the
rsolut purpose of the American people
in the new undertakings.
Originally the President himself indi
cated that the agreements reached
would be in the nature of executive
"understandings"' and would not in
volve specific obligations. The situa
tion. however, has developed a change,
wtthin the past 48 "hours, due to the
turn of events in the informal discus
sions which have been going em among
the heads of the delegations. The op
portunity to bring about an immediate
abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese Alli
ance by providing a substitute treaty
that would do away with the obnoxious
pact was too good a chance to loso and
when Great Britain secured the appro
val of Japan it seemed to the United
States delegation to offer a graceful
solution of the whole business.
ALL WILL HAVE TO RATIFY
As an eidence of the seriousness with
which the American Goernment .would
view such a new treaty, indications
were given that the approval of the Sen
ate would be asked. This means too that
foreign parliaments will have to ratify
the agreements. Jus how far the naval
ratio proposals anel the agreement not
to build fortifications and the rincipal
act which is to bind the Powers not to
make war on each other in the Pacific
has not yet been officially disclosed,
though it is recognized that all are inter-twined
in one and all will probably
emerge in a single agreement.
As for Senate approval the attitude of
the rank and file of both Republican
and Democrat parties is one of sympa
thy with the United States delegation,
except of course for a few members
here and there who, however, are not
strong enough at this writing to en
elanger ratification of anything that
might be submitted.
SENATE WIL ACCEPT.
With Senator Underwood, the Demo
cratic leader able to command the sup
port of at least the majority of the
Democrats and with Senator Lodge and
the Administration spokesman, able to
muster a majority of the Republicans,
the bi-partisan .coalition is powerful
enough to put through such agree
ments as have already been outlined in
the press. The word has been given
to -members of CangwSis that the new
PRISONER TAKES
CHARGE OF PEN
Bandit Secures Pistol and
Locks Up Warden; Es
capes With Others.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 9. Tom
Slaughter, notorious bandit under
death sentence for the killing of a
trusty guard at the State prison farm
at Tucker, escaped from the peniten
tiary here at 2:30 o'clock this morn
ing, taking six other convicts with
him. For five hours prior to his
escap.e Slaughter was in complete
control of the penitentiary yards and
offered liberty to all convicts who
wanted it.
Four negroes wb.o fled were under
death sentence. The six Phillips
county negroes under deatn sentence
for participation in the race riots in
1!'19 refused to leave the orison.
Some one summgled a revolver to
Slaughter in the death cell and, thus
armed, he outwitted the trusty guards
assigned to watch him and took com
plete charge of the penitentiary. War
den E. H. Dempsey and Mrs. l'ampsey
and their son and two daughters were
locked in the death cell by the bandit.
Slaughter escaped in an automobile
belonging to Mrs. Dempsey. which was
standing in the penitentiary yards.
At 3 o'clock this morning Slaughter
passed through Benton, about 25 miles
south of Little Rock, and engaged in a
gun battle with the city marshal who
had been notified of the escape and
was on the lookout.
After his escape it developed that,
feigning illness, Slaughter succeeded in
getting a guard to open his cell door,
about 9:30 o'clock last night. He held
up this guard ad another standing near
ly w'ith his smuggled pistol, took their3
and then forced them to go ahead of
him to the stockade, where their pre
sence admitted them and permitted him
to overpower the one guard on duty
there.
Slaughter then opened the cells and
offered all the prisoners liberty.
Only six took advantage of the offer
and the others, with two of the guards
were locked up. He next took one of
the guards to the office of the peniten
tiary with him and took possession of
it, turning the guards on duty over t'
the men who elected to escape with him
Next he went to the hospital and forced
a trained nurse to precede him to. the
apartments just outside the walls oc-
cuied by Warden uempsey ana m
family. The nurse awakened them and
Slaughter -then torcea tnem to accom
pany him to the death cell, where hey
were locked up. He told them he would
not harm them and later, showfng a
peculiar trait of character, brought
them a pot of coffee.
Slaughter then threw the gates oi che
penitentiary wide open and leisurely
set about fitting himself and compan
ions with civilian clothes from the com
missary, escaping in an automobile
about 2:30.
FOCH STOPS AT ATHENS.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9. Drawn by
the prospect of seeing Marshal Foch,
whose special train is to make a brief
stop here this afternoon, hundreds of
people from the section around Athens
began gathering early today. The
marshal will be welcomed in French
by Dr. Joseph Lusti-at, professor of
romance languages at the University
of Georgia.
treaty would not include commitments
or entanglements or guarantees. It
would, of course, merely forbid the Uni
ted States to go to war in the Pacific
untill nine months or a year had
elapsed for investigation. This is a
limitation of the right of Congress to
declare war and some Administration
officials believe it Avould even be wise
to submit the treaty to both houses of
Congress so that there may never be
any doubt about the Validity r)f the
pact. The Senate has endorsed the
principle of investigation in 30 treaties
now in effect between the United States
and all the important countries of the
world except Japan, Mexico, Austria,
Germany and Turkey, so it wrill not be
a new or unprecedented suggestion.
FEAR OF THE SENATE.
The timidity, of the Administration
about consulting the Senate is one of
the most interesting under-the-surface
developments of the conference It is
due largely to fears of division in the
Senate which were partly expresseel in
Mr. Harding's address to Congress
about the "agricultural blec" and part
ly by Secretary of War Weeks in his
New York speech about the dangers of
the present Congressional system of
factions and groups instead cf definite
party lines. There is also a vivid recol
lection of how the Senate pickeei flaws
in the Versailles treaty and little by
little forced its defeat after an Ameri-
4n .vaiiitia ' Via.l 11 &in1 i u t a1 "fan' !
months and secured what lie thought :
was a good compromise of national
viewpoints. Mr. Harding's disinelina
tion to bring the Senate into the situa
tion at the outset, however, has been
brushed aside by the words of his ad-;
visors who believe the public opinion
of the United States is so strongly be
hind what is being done by the Amer
ican delegation at the arms conference
that nothing will be risked by sub
mitting it to the Senate. On the other
hand several of the spokesmen of for
eign delegations point out that all leg
islative bodies are alike and that if
they are permitted to haggle and de
bate a thing indefinitely they will talk
it to death. They declare that the rules
of the American Senate make it possi
ble for a discussion to be prolonged
while public enthusiasm for any pro
ject slowly wanes. On the other hand,
the Harding Administration will have
an advantage in this respect which its
predecessor did not have. The Repub
lican majority will be assisted by the
Dem6cratic minority, for the latter in
stead of pursuing partisan purposes,
are giving indication through Senateir
Underwood of a desire not to be petty
or partisan but to work with their po
litical opponents on international ques
tions, a fact that was revealed when
only by Democratic help was a two
third vote secured for the treaty which
recently established peace between the
United States and Germany. . ,
DRY OFFICERS
PULL BIG RAIDS
Whiskey Bandits Also Make
Big Haul, Robbing Ken
tucky Distillery.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 9. Federal pro
hibition agents in Kentucky have just
concluded one of the largest raids in
the history of prohibition enforcement
in the State.
Whiskey bandits likewise have just
completed one of the most successful
distillery raids ever made in Kentucky.
Instead of a breathing spell today,
following a busy week in three Ken
lucky counties, Federal agents are off
in search of a score of whiskey bandits
who last night, ?n a spectacular raid,
got away with 194 cases of bottled in
bond, and 10 barrels of whiskey from
the T. B. Ripey distillery at Tyrone,
Ky.
Early in the week, 30 prohibition en
forcement agents invaded Nelson,
Washington and Marion counties.
When the agents came out late yester
day the raid yieleleel seven prisoners, 10
stils and 38 founelations were broken
up, and 30,000 gallons of beer and 68
gallons of moonshine destroyed. War
rants for a number of other alleged law
violators have been issued as a result
of the raid. ' Meantime, several raids in
Louisville have netted small quantities
of wret goods.
The bandits, in raiding the Ripy dis
tillery captured four guards and three
passers-oy and after hanelcuffing them
put them in a vault in the elistillery of
fice while they loaded the whiskey into
mottor trucks and automobiles and
drove off.
PAPERS CRITICISE
VALERA STATEMENT
Dublin. Dec. 9. (By the Associated
Press) The Freeman's Journal, com
menting this morning on the split in
the D.-iil Eireann Cabinet, says:
"The men who represented Ireland
in the conference demand, and cordial
ly support their demand, that the Irish
people who desired anel trusted in the
appointment of these gentlemen as the
spokesmen of the nation, shoulel sup
port them to the fullest extent."
The Irish Times says:
"The country will reael with eleep
dismay the statement Mr. ele Valera
has issued. As the skillful and patient
negotiators and plenipotentiaries justi
fied the faith which, nationalist Ireland
placed in thorn, the whole of the na
tionalist press and we believe, the
vast majority of southern Irishmen
have accepted the agreement with joy."
BANDITS GET PAYROLL
BUT ARE CAPTURED
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 9. Two bandits
entered the office of the Sibley Manu
facturing Company here this morning,
held up the paymaster' and the mill
secretary, gathered together in .a sack
the payroll of $8,000 and fled. They
were captured a few minutes later af
ter an exciting chase and an ex
change of shots between the bandits
and their pursuers,.
Tne Danuits gave tneir names as
Sam Rumbly. of Augusta, and Jack
Herrington, of Oregon. Rumbly Is 24
years old and Herrington 22. All of
the money was recovered.
Local police state that they have in
formation which leads them to believe
that the men are penitentiary escapes
VALERA
FIGHTS
Split in the Dail Eireann
Cabinet Over the Situa
tion Created.
NOT AFFECT PLANS.
Much Criticism in Ireland .
of President's Stand :
Ratification Expected.
London, Dec. 9. (By the Associated
Press) The repudiation by Eamonn de
Valera of the agreement reached be
tween the British and Irish plenipo
tentiaries for the establishment of tlv
Irish free state and the resultant spli
in the Dail Eireann Cabinet overshad
owed all other developments in the
Irish situation today.
The receipt of this news immediately
raised twro questions:
Wht will be the outcome of the elivi
sion among the Irish leaders as affect
ing the decision of the Dail Eireann
upe.n the agreement?
What effect will the situation in
South Ireland have upon the British
Government's attitude and the opening
of the Imperial Parliament for consid
eration of the agreement?
The best opinion is that the split
among the Dail leaders will not affect
the plans for the opening of Parliament.
PARLIAMENT WILL MEET
The agreement was made between
the British Government and plenipo
tentiaries representing the Dail Eireann
and it will be placed before the Hxmsf
of Commons and the House of Lorefs in
the King's speech.
Then, after Premier Lloyd-George, in
the lower house and Lord Birkenhead,
in the upper chamber, have explained
and supported the agreement a brief ad
join nment will be taken to await th
vote of the Dail Eireann, which meets
the same day next Wednesday.
The sessions of the Dail are con?;d-
red here as likely to be prolonged ao .l
lively, for it is composed of young men
with strong views which they are i i
the habit of expressing with force.
HAS STRONG SUPPORT
Mr. de Valera will have strong sup
porters for the rejection of the agree
ment and for the demand for an Irish
republic from all the out-and-out re
publicans, it is believed. Government
circles in London, however, remain con.
vinoed that Griffith, Michael Collin?
and their supporters will wdn the day.
as it is felt that the moderates will fol
low this group.
The nationalists throughout the south f
and west of Ireland who were forced
into comparative obscurity" With th " .
ascendancy of the Sinn, Fein are counts
ed upon nere to use an tnetr lnriuence
for the acceptance of the agreement,
The split in the Dail Eireann will not
interfere in the release of the prisoners
in the , Irish internment camps and
other places of confinement to whom
amnesty was extended by the King's
proclamation, according to the Irish
office. Those from the Ballykinler
cam will be given their liberty today
and others of the interned men wilt
likewise be set free immediately.
Lonaon. Deo. 9 (By the Associated
Press) The final result of the delib
erations in Dublin yesterday which
developed a, split in the Dail Eireann
Cabinet over the Irish peace treaty baa
been to throw the treaty into an. early
meeting of the Southern Ireland Par
liament In his statement last night,
declaring himself against the terms.
Eamonn de Valera announced that the
Dail nad been summoned in public
session for r.txt Wednesday morning.
. He also disclosed that his attitude
was supported by two members of his
Cabinet, Austin Stack and Charles
Burgess. The other Cabinet . member
are said to have remained firm in fa
vor or tne trvaty. tne spin, witn nie
odds favoring ratification, is pointed
to here as significant of the possible
line up in the Dail Eireann itsell
when the time for action arrives.
While Mr. de Valera's statement was
issued "oo late last night (11:30 o'clock"
for the newspaper men in Dublin 1r
gauge public opinion on it, it is likely
in view of opinions outlined in pre
vious dispatches, to cause disappoint
ment 'o a maior'ty of the people In
the South of Ireland, although natu
rally It will be endorsed by the staunch
republicans of de Valera's following.
Correspondents who asserted that
the Pail Ehvann would ratify thf
treaty reaffirmed their belief in dis
patches filed during the Cabinet ses
sion. They declared that popular opin
ion in the south of Ireland had ac
claimed the agreement with joy, and
would insist on it? ratification.
Apart from the general satisfaction
in the agreement which these " corre
spondents declare is general in the
south, the release yesterday of a largr
number of republicans interned for pe
litlcal offenses produced a strong feel
ing of good will toward England. Ar
thur Griffith's promises that the south
em unionists should have a full share
of representation in the first chamber
of the all-Ireland Parliament set up tir
der the peace agreement, has also been
approved, the correspondents say.
GRIFFITH TO MOVE
FOR RATIFICATION
DubMn. Dec. 9. (By the Associated
Press) The ratifieation of the .treaty
between Ireland and Great Britain will
be moved at the Dail Eireann meeting
next Wednesday by Arthur Griffith as
chairman of the plenipotentiaries, it
was announced today by President , de
Valera. in a statement issued by the
Daily publicity department.
It would not be moved as a Cabinet
decision, added the statement, because
the views of the delegates differed
from those of certain members of the
Cabinet.
YOUTH SPENDS FOUR
YEARS IN THE ARCTIC
AGREEMENT
IRISH QUESTION
Seattle. Wash., Dec. 9. Harold S.
Noice, who left here at the age of
16 in 1915, to join the Stefansson Arc
tic expedition, remaining in the North
with the Esquimoux, returned to his
home here today aboard the coast
guard cutter Unalaga. Noice, credited,
with being one of the youngest exV
plorers recorded, did not see a whlte
man for four years. He saiel he had.
learned the native languages and plan-J
ned to publish a compilation et them,.
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