LENOIR, N. C. LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920 Page Seven RESOLUTION DECLARING WAR AT END PASSED BY HOUSE - The Republican joint resolution declaring the state of war with Ger many at an end and repealing most of the war-time legislation was adopt ed last Friday by the House, and is ' now with the Senate for action. The vote on the' passage of the peace resolution was 242 to 150, Twenty-two Democrats joined with the Republican majority in support ing the resolution and two Republi cans voted against its adoption. The vote ended a two-day battle of words in the House. It was marked through out by sharp partisanship except for those on each side who broke away from party lines to join the opposi tion. Former Speaker Clark, Represent ative Kitchin of North Carolina and Representative Flood of Virginia . took part in the fight on the Demo cratic side, while Representative MondelL the Republican leader, who closed the debate, received a warm greeting from his party colleagues. Representative Kitchin's speech aroused the Democrats to an out burst of cheering as he assailed the Republican membership, charging them with "pretense and hypocrisy," and challenging them to submit a straightout proposal Vor repeal of war-time legislation if they were sin cere. At the close of his speech Mr. Kitchin suffered a collapse resulting from what was said by his physicians to be a slight stroke of paralysis. Representative Mondell later ex pressed the sympathy of the House for Mr. Kitchin, the members stand ing while he spoke. Opposing the resolution, Repre sentative Flood of Virginia declared the treaty would have been ratified if the Republican majority in the Sen ate had not been "obtained by the purchase of a senatorial seat in Mich igan." He characterized the New berry case as the "most shameful and disgraceful debauching of an electorate that has ever occurred in this country." Chairman Porter of the House committee on foreign relations intro duced in the House Tuesday of last week the majority report of the com mittee recommending adoption of the resolution declaring the state of war with Germany at an end. The report recited a number of authorities on international law to support the com mittee's contention that there were three methods of terminating a bel ligerent status by treaty, by con quest and subjugation of one com batant, or "by the mere cessation of .hostilities so long continued that it is evident that there is no intention of resuming them." It has become the "plain duty of Congress" to declare "the admitted fact" that the war with Germany was ended, the report said. "There has been," it continued, "a complete suspension of hostilities on both sides without any intention of resuming them. Congress is clearly exercising powers which are within the constitutional rights in recogniz ing and declaring that the war is at an end. As by the resolution of April 6, 1917, Congress officially rec ognized the fact that war had been thrust upon us, so now it becomes the duty of Congress to give official recognition to the fact that the war is ended. Moreover, the general wel fare of the United States impera tively demands that all uncertainty upon this subject shall cease and that the extraordinary war powers of the government shall be vacated and set aside. "The laws conferring extraordi nary powers upon the President for the duration of the war are still in full force and effect and constitu tional rights are still suspended. Many of these, laws are extremely drastic, and could De justified only as war necessities; but since war has ceased the justification for these laws no longer exists. "The effect of this resolution on all of the war legislation will be. pre cisely the effect that the ratification and proclamation of the treaty would have had. Laws that were to be in ' force for the period of the war would hav ceased with the President s proc lamation; under this resolution they will cease with the date of its pass- arra fin fha nrhav hann laura thof . - - i. t : A weic tu uuiiiiiiuc in client iui a time after the ratification of the treaty of peace will continue in effect for the specified time after the passage of -this resolution. The resolution, therefore, has no effect upon exist ing laws other than the effect that the ratification of the treaty would have had. "Section three provides for the resumption of reciprocal trade rela tions between Germany and the United States for a period of 45 days, and further provides, that such reciprocal trade relations shall be permanently established when the President has ascertained and an nounced that Germany has declared a termination of the. war and has made the waivers and renouncements on behalf of itself and its nationals which are specified in said section. The placing of these conditions on the permanent resumption of trade with .Gerqfciny is a reasonable exer cise of the power vested in Congress bv the constitution 'to regulate com merce with foreign nations. In making certain legislation contingent on a fact to be ascertained and an nounced by the President, this para- 1 11 1 . . 1.11 V . 1 tgrapn ioiiows precedents estaoasnea in previous avis in vimgress auu es pecially section three of the acts of Oct 1, 1890 (the McKinley tariff act), which was sustained by the Supreme Court in the case of Field vs. Clark, 143 U. S. P.; 649. "Section four provides -a penalty for violation of section' 3, whenever the prohibition provided by that sec tion shall be in force. "Section five maintains the rights to which the United States has be come entitled under the terms of the armistice or by reason of its partici pation in the war -or otherwise, and ratifies, confirms and maintains all fines, forfeitures, penalties and seiz ures imposed or made by the United States on account of the war."' With mrosnecti of hioher coal prices next winter, it may be neces sary for the average consumer to de part this life to, get warm. Balti more American. -'-. HERE'S WHAT LABOR DEMANDS OF CANDIDATES Organized labor's views on indus trial problems hkely to enter into the coming political campaign are pre sented in detail in reply to a ques tionnaire submitted by the advisory committee on policies and platform of the Republican national commit tee. The reply, made public Sunday at American Federation of Labor headquarters, is signed by Samuel Gompers, Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison as members of the platf orm committee of the national non-partisan campaign of the federation. Acceptance of the principles enun ciated in the reply was regarded by political observers in Washington as determining organized labors sup port of candidates in the November elections. These principles include: Acceptance of the. eight-hour day and the six-day week, with Saturday half holiday. Recognition of American wage earners' right to organize in accord ance with their judgment. Continued exemption of labor or ganizations from anti-trust laws. Acceptance of the right of employ ees to choose their own representa tives from within or without the plant. Recognition of the right of em ployes to strike. Abandonment of the use of the in junction in labor disputes. Establishment of free Federal em ployment agencies in the administra tion of which labor would have a voice. der old age and retirement pensions unnecessary. Equal pay for equal work. Minimum age of 16 years for em ployment of children. Extension of the Federal work men's compensation act to all wage earners not protected by State com pensation acts. Elimination of company welfare and uplift organizations and substi tution of welfare work as conducted by labor organizations. Other phases of the industrial sit uation covered by the questionnaire and labor's replies include the prin ciple of the Kansas court of indus trial relations, the function of the secondary strike or boycott, right of government employes to organize and to strike., establishment of Federal i arbitration boards and encourage ment of thrif tamong wage earners. '"The general principles in what is known as the Kansas court of indus trial relations law," the labor com mittee asserted, "are principles that are so anti-democratic as to be repre hensible in the extreme and remap- nant to every American concept of justice, freedom and democracy." The "secondary strike," or boy cott, the reply stated, has been re sorted to and will be resorted to only when tactics of employers left to la bor no other course. Defending the right of government workers to organize, the labor com mittee said the right of such workers to strike "should be maintained, but there should never be occasion to use it." REVALUATION ACT QUESTIONS DRAW ANSWERS State Tax Commissioner A J. Maxwell has just issued a statement in the form of answers to ten ques tions about the revaluation act, in response to inquiries made by farm ers and turned over to Mr. Maxwell by Editor Clarence Poe of the Pro gressive. Farmer. In summarizing his replies to the farmers' ten ques tions Mr. Maxwell says: "The gist of the whole matter is this: " "Revaluation was not adopted for the purpose ,of increasing taxes. Without revaluation the ordinary in creases would have yielded a far greater gain in taxes than the 10 per cent increase to which the revalua tion act limits the State. "There were serious inequalities under the old system. One hundred dollars worth of property in one j itflimfv micrhf hpnr half as much 1 I--; oa mnoh nr thrpe times much, of the tSate burden of taxa- j nomination, which has been the sub tion as $100 worth of property in an-1 )fct extended secret hearings by other county. Thsi was not fair. j 'h.e foreign relations committee. "I tis not likely that revaluation ! 1 he was no record vote on confir will increase the farmers' burden. ; mation. Senator Lodge, Republican Other classes of property have in- an(1 chairman of the foreign relations creased as much as farm lands. Farm ' committee, presented Mr. Colby's lands are assessed on the basis of name e favorable recommen May 1, 1919. values, and there have ' datum of the committee, and Sena been marked increases in some of lor Jones, Republican, of Washing them of which revaluation takes no ton,' immediately asked for a vote, account, while personal property is , Several Republican Senators who taxed on Jan. 1, 1920,, values. Mil- nave een, 'e8aed, as crltics or P" lions of dollars worth bf solvent Ponents of Mr. Colby were, not pres credits are being put on the tax ent at the session. books for the first time. The farm-1 r.r., er's livestock and farm equipment COTTON PRICES ORDERED TO will be more highly burdened here-1 BE INVESTIGATED after. I . Attorney General Palmer has or- as "The chang ein time of listing was dered an investigation of an alleged made solely for the reasons of book- illegal combination to depress cotton keeping, etc., and the farmer given prices. In a telegram to United special privileges to offset any disad- States Attorney Alexander at Ad vantage. 1 1 lanta Mr. Palmer issued instructions "The maximum constitutional tax for the examination of charges that rate will be reduced. ; cotton dealers have combined arbi- "If the income tax amendment is trarily to reduce the price of cotton adopted folks who do not earn their in violation of the Sherman anti-trust incomes will he taxed the same as act. The complaint was that cotton those who do, nad the burden on 1 dealers were controlling the prices other people correspondingly re-; through manipulation of differentials duced. j in the various grades of cotton. "This will enable the State to free 1 Mr. Palmer announced that the all real and personal property in government would take "appropriate North Carolina from tax for State . action" as soon as all of the facts in purposes. Taxes for a State system the case are developed. of schools and roads must still be collector, however, and the revalua tion was necessary in order to secure justice between individuals and coun ties in this work in the future." HIDE , IN TRUNK, TOP LOCKS, TWO ARE DEAD Albert and Arselle Dawson, 4 and 5 years old, were dead,; and Betty Hayes, 11 years old, a cousin, was unconscious when found " Saturday afternoon at their home in Durham, locked in a large trunk. They were discovered by their grandmother af ter having remained in captivity sev eral hours. The children were left at horns by their grandmother when she left early in the morning to go to work. Betty Hayes, the older of the children, upon regaining con sciousness, stated that they entered the trunk while at play: The lid to the trunk fastened automatically when they lowered it and their ef forts to obtain freedom wots futile. SLATS' DIARY Friday ma was kidding pa cause he is gitting bald hare on his hed. &. pa sed he h assent no nse for hare for all that he uses his for is 2 come it & muss it up enny how. Ma ast me to take a dose of medisen & I quoted Bill Shakespeer too her I sed throw f i s s i c k 2 the dawgs. pa tuk it wen he come home- went 2 the stoar & I bought sum paper & pen sils 2 draw, pitch ers on & with. S a t u r d a y Jake's sheep found a little ba by lam today, early this Morn ing in the a. m. Cutest thing, wish I had aseen it 1st & his Sheep wood ent never found it I bet. went 2 the pitcher show & saw Charley chaplin. He is very comikal. Sunday had soar throte and did dent have 2 to 2 s. s. throte better after dinner. Drawed pitchers of waggins & churches & dogs & guns Ast pa 2 tell me sumthing 2 draw an dhe sed draw a automobeel & I sed tell me sumthing that wassent ?.hard. h 8e.d.draw.a pan of mush tride it but cuddent do it Monday A can come & ast pa 2 git him a job at the stoar & pa ast him did he drink, the Man sed if he had enuff money 2 drink he wood ent need no job. Tuesday after skool Jake & his cozzen come down 2 play his cozzen is Richard sumthing. we diddent play long our disposishuns diddent match, very well. Wednesday Wm. s. Heart at the show, tride 2 Work ma for 11 cts. Acted nice at the table, pa sed wots the matter with Slats he acks as po lite, as if he was away frum home, went to the Show. Thursday Jake throwed my ball over ole man Bell's fense & I went 2 git it. Bull Dog chased me diddent I ketch me but skunt the hide off the hind end of my heels, pritty near. Close eskape. 1 11 say it twas. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAIN ING SHELVED IN SENATE Compulsory military training was shelved last Friday in the Senate, and, after a plan for voluntary train- ing of youths was substituted in the army reorganization bill, a fight was started to eliminate this and strip the bill of all training provisions. The Senate voted 46 to 9 to substi tute the voluntary for the compul sory method. There was no direct vote on the compulsory plan. Its defeat was conceded, and, to provide for some method of training Ameri can youths, many advocates of com pulsory training supported the amendment of Senator Freylinghau sen, Republican, of New Jersey, in corporating the voluntary method. Chairman Wadsworth of the mill lary committee gave notice that a vigorous fight would be made to re. tain the voluntary plan under which all youths between 18 and 26 years or age could enlist for fourTnonths training in any year selected by tnem. The Senate vote eliminates com pulsory military trainine: from con sideration in future development of the army reorganization bill. The House bill has ho training provis ions, compulsory or voluntary, and the enforced method, therefore, will not come before the conferees. COLBY'S APPOINTMENT IS CON FIRMED BY SENATE The nomination of Bainbridge Colby as secretary of state, was con- nrmed 'ate Monday by the Senate 11 was understood that no objection was raised to confirmation of the NEGOTIATIONS FOR WAGE 3ET . TLEMENT COME TO CLOSE Wage negotiations between the conference committees representing the railror.ds and , the unions were broken off last Thursday night when the railroad representatives declined to continue consideration of demands which have been estimated to total $1,000,000,000 unless the public was five a voice in the proceedings. Un er the provisions of the transporta tion act the wage, controversy now will he referred to the railroad labor board, which, is yet to be appointed by President Wilson. The law pro vides for three representatives of the public on this board, I:' A GOOD PRESCRIPTION V.nt less; breath more. -Talk less; think more. Ride less;, walk more. Clothe less; bathe more, f , Worry less; work more. Waste less; give more. 1 t :v 1 i " $6,270,690 APPORTIONED NORTH ; CAROLINA FOR ROADS I A total of $6,270,690 has been ap I portioned to North Carolina for road work, Chief Thomas H. McDonald of the bureau of public roads, a few days ago informed Representative Godwin. Secretary T. U Riddle of the Dunn chamber of commerce had ask-, ed about the probability of Congress making additional appropriations for construction of State highways, and Mr. McDonald wrote: "All of the appropriations already made by Congress to aid the States i nroad construction work have been apportioned to the States. From those appropriations there has been apportioned to North Carolina a total of $6,270,690.68. There will be no more funds apportioned to North Carolina unless Congress should make additional appropriations for that purpose. There are a number of bills pending providing for ad ditional appropriations, but as yet none of these has passed. The sec retary of agriculture, in his last an nual report, recommended that addi tional appropriations be made to con tinue the policy of Federal aid al ready inaugurated. You will readily see, therefore, that the question of future appropriations to North Caro lina depends entirely on the action of Congress." BONDS MAY BE EXCHANGED FOR PERMANENT ONES The treasury has completed ar rangements for the exchange of tem porary Liberty bonds issued during the loan campaigns for bonds of per manent form with interest coupons to maturity attached SecretaryH ous ton announced Monday. Exchange of temporary third loan bonds began on March 15 all banks being authorized to make the trans fer for the treasury. Within the next month officials expect to be ready to exchange permanent bonds of other Liberty loans except those which still have one interest coupon to come due. They need not be ex changed until after those coupons mature the latest date being Oct. 15. Secretary Houston urged again that holders of first and second 4 per cent bonds make their exchanges early since the conversion privilege on these bonds still is open and it is desired that the conversion to the highest interest rate and the ex change into permanent bonds be ac complished simultaneously. All reg istered bonds are in permanent form and Mr. Houston appealed to holders of temporary bonds wherever pos sible to exchange them for registered bonds thus making a further trans fer unnecessary and providing safety for the owner. ATTORNEY GENERAL IS AFTER COAL PROFITEERS Attorney General Palmer has in structed Federal district attorneys to receive and consider complaints of profiteering in bituminous coal "which may arise in your district un der the Lever act." Mr. Palmer's telegram was pre pared after some bituminous coal op erators had stated publicly that the new wage scale agreed on under the terms of the award by the coal strike settlement commission would result in an increase, of from 60 cents to $1.25 a ton on coal. Pointing out that the total increase in wages had been estimated at approximately $200,000,000, Mr. Palmer said that if this entire amount were "added by the coal operators to the price it would only make an increase of 40 cents a ton. If, however, the oper ators absorb the 14 per cent increase which became effective in December, ther ewill be left only $97,000,000 to be passed on to the consumer. In this event the increase in the price of coal at the mine should amount to 20 cents a ton." 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