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MARCH 19, 1920
NO. 4 3
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SEVERAL VIEWS ON
BONUS ACTS GIVEN
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS-AM?]
MEANS TAKES EXCEPTION
TO CERTAIN STATEMENTS*
WAS HQ INTENTiOIUL INSUL1
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A Withes* Say* It I* Only Hu?a* ?* j
Accept a Bonus if Qevemment Can
B* Persuaded to Qrant tt.
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Washington.? The frank statement
by a witness that members ot Con
gress would support soldier reUef leg
islation is order to set votes started
a rumpus in the house ways aad
committee, considering a multitude et
bills dealing with the subject ^
Frank P. Keech, a New Yatfebfokar,
formerly i lieutenant colonel -til the
inspector general's department, op?
posing additional compensation, for
former service men, declared ?Mge.
legislation might be expeotod :
of political pressure.
The inference that membesa woold-j
be swayed through fear of 1
was characterised by
ney as an insult to the committee.
Keech replied that his statement j
was not intended to be frimiMnf, but
tbtot it was nevertheless true.
' George M. Ruehmore, a member at 1
the American Legion, said members |
_of hi* poet did not think the legton
"ought to club Congress into giving a j
bonus," but he added "it la eoly bo
man to take it if the government la
willing to give it" ,
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FREIGHT RATES 1NCREA8E0
CUTTING THHR WAY THROUGH
THEY MARCHED 2,000 MILES.
^ London? Thirty thooeend non-boJ
. sherlk Sum UHa, after cutting <U?lr
way tbreogh the bolshevik farces is
- Siberia and marching 2.000 miles, bare
arrived ?t Yerkhae-TTdJaek. -i[
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VETERAN newspaper, man has
DIE? AT HOME IN RICHMOND
MANY STILLS ARE CAR
> IN THE STATE OP
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SUFFRAGE ACTION OF WEST
VIRGINIA TO BE CONTESTED.
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Washington.? The Wert Virginia
senate la ratify hie the suffrage amend
ment after unseating Senator Mont
gomery "simply made the alleged rat
Hjpstlon a natter for the courts to
deride," the National Association Op
posed to Woman Suffrage declared in
a statement.
Refusal to seat Senator Montgom
ery was said to )>e a violation of "the
constitutional provision for a two
tkMa rote to upel a member."
BY A VOTI *F 55 TO M JHI
SENATE OF WIST VIRQ1NW
RATIFIES AMENDMENT.
Enthusiastic Over Result of Long
and Hard-Feu?ht Struggle.
Charleston, W. Va. ? The West Vir
ginia legislature ratified the federal
suffrage amendment Final acttar on
the amendment was taken by the sen
ate in adopting the ratification reso
l lutlon of the house of delegates by a
vote of IS to 14.
The vote of Senator Jesse A. Block
of Wheeling, who made a hurried trip
from California to Charleston to vote
on the am&dipent wis effectual jln
FORTY ARE DEAD OF SLEEPING
SICKNESS IN NEW YORK CITY
New York. ? A total ol 175 cum of
sleeping sickness has been reported
in .New York slace January 1, Health
Commissioner ' Cooeland announced.
Forty of the eases were fatal.
BRYAN WIRE? WTHDILMKAL
name from primary ballots
Lansing, Mich.. ? Williaai-; Jennings
Bryan telegraphed Secretary of State
Yaoghn requesting that his name be
withdrawn fireqi the Michigan presi
dential primary April 5.
* VICTIM Of
SELECTED
The $12,000(000 Approximate 3
I D*m trim tto
Paid but to Empleyea
Washington. ? Tncreafc
;harges, ranging froia 10
oant and estimated to ylel
additional revenue annual!
ed by the American Bxprea
in a petition filed with th<
commerce commission.
increased cost ot con<!
business sub well as the a
for mow complete facilities
ment was given by the ct
grounds for asking a'ddittoi
Expenditures at, umaa^^
dollars" was necessary, - t
said, and additional fundi
to obtained under the pres
. ' While explaining that pr
increases added approxte
000,009 to the annua1 ren
company said this money
Immediately to employes 1j
of inoreased wages. Gran
tur'wages for overtime on
off an eight-hdjr day -Ma^d
resulted in a monthly' outla
000 as compared to '
before the eight-hour djtj*';
time may be jgiven.
? CAUSES A!
Fort Worth, Tex
?d at more than |2
caused" and more til
have been made h
which la sweeping C
BEItMAN NAVY REPORTED TO
HAVE BEEN SURRENDEREI
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A dispatch to The Exchange Tel
fraph Company states It lf ;/tport?
from Kiel that the navil cOnimand
there has handed orer the .ChkaM
fleet to the new Berlin government
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fcTTtMfT ' MADE BY " GERMAN 8
| TO STAVE OFF ClVH, WA
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Berlin.? The imperial bureau of p
?ten guards has issued a procltmaUc
MAV USE AMERICAN SHIPS
TO OPERATE GERMAN
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A plan under which Aermtoan
worked out by the
}?ct, It Is understi
ERY DENOMINATION
TED AT RECENT
! GATHERING
Women at the Various
tan Up Approxfmately
the Several 8 Melon
lwrdred-rpimuA two
minsters, represents
vangelical denomina
, were registereddel
forth Carolina State
ince of the inters
Kvement, which con-*
day's session In the
tfa, n church In Chfer?
B. H. Rawlings
r made through
fields and the
on . the inter
ment by Dr.
re the only two
I session o t the
The attendance
;nces of the wo
udmately 400.
d the devotional
the conference
tiofl of the 16th
$ of John and
rof the seventh
fax me and my
Ishall ask what
Ufcne unto you."
teheries, Washington,
Ufeeville *006 for Pte
>re?t with 95,00^'trout
Davidson river, Mills
tag Glass creek. .
bury, ? French memorial diplw
ill be distributed to the nearest
38 of Amorlcan soldiers who
f Prance. Some SO or more of
ilplomas for people in Rowan
rroiiadlng counties will be gir
am.-fAn anonymons gift of
) toward the fund to erect a
'r building at Trinity college as
rarial to the lata. James H.
ate,-, conditioned upon the raia*
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% certain amount as yet not
was announced by the fund
gn . committee, /^|-J j; ' % \ {
If. C., to make th? principal
1 In behalf of the plan of boost
Institution
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AN OLD TREATY 4S CITEO
IN GRANTING INJUNCTION.
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Enid, Ckla. ? A decision of the Unit
ed States supreme court and treaties
between the United States and Spain,
Mexico, and the Republic of Texas,
making the south bask of the Red
river form the boundary line between
the states of Oklahoma aad Texas
were cited in ah opinion siren by Fed
eral Judge Youmana when he graated
a temporary injunction to the Jud
?onia Development Association against
Sam Sptiica and- others.
URGEOWCEPI
ARMENIA MANDATE
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AMERICAN MISSION MAKES AM
. INSPECTION FOR . PURP08E
OF SECURING FACTS.
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EXPLAINS WILSON'S SILENCE
No Definite Policy Has Ever Been An- 1
nounecd B> the Administration On
This Particular Matter.
Washington. ?
.hat the- United States accept a man
date ovdr Armenia, are underatod to
be contained in the report of the
American mission under Major Gen
eral Hartbord, which recently made
a tour of inspection in that country
to obtain first hand tacts as to Turk*
Ish rule.
The repdrt never has been publish*
ed, although the senate twlpe haa re*
jt was said that some senators had
their suffering peoples but no deflnltej
policy has ever been announced fey the |
administration, xl
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FURTHER PROTEST ENTERED
A6AMST SALES OF VESSEL*
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Washington. ? Further protests
?gainst sale 'el merchant vessels was,
made by the Midwest* Gulf South At
lantic Foreign Trade and Transporta
tion committee, in * tytor to the sen*
ate commerce committee. , i
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THE ENQLI8H TRAOES UNION
CONGRESS VOTES NO STRIKE.
London.? The special trade
congress, In session here, voted over
whelmingly against the atrlke policy
and in favor of continued efforts byj
constitutional means to effect tile na
tionalization of mines.
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PL*A OF "LITTLE ARMY" MEN I
flDSehhision. ? Pleas of "little
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WW? rcjwted.iy the house, which <
proved ft peace time establishment
299.000 enlisted ?e#>n<i 17,110
owfifeip^vi
M8ULT FOR THE PRE8ENT AT
LEAST BRINGS ACTION, ON
TREATY TO A STAND
fOTE ON MOTION 56 T0 I6
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Fourtam Democrats Voted with Solic
Republican Membership in Effort
to End Tedious Controversy.
i y- ?f- -'V* -,-T- mmm, ? fii
Waahlngtott?Boafflrmlpg Its -'Ms- ?
agreement with President Wilson on
the dominating issue of the peace
treaty controvers y, the senate ndei
ed by ? rote of more thai two to one"
the new article It reservation framed
by republican leaders. I
Rs action brought to an end,' at
least for the present, the protracted
effort for a compromise that would
insure ratification, and the senate's
decision was accepted generally as
hastening the treaty toward another
deadlock trow which it could be *e
leased only by a verdict at the pfcjus
next November. g ' . ^ j
fourteen democrats voted with the
united republican membership , Cor
the reservation.
- The vote ior adoption^ 58 to^ 16,
Showed on its face a two-thirds ma
jority for the reservation but it. fey
no means indicated thst two^hjrds
would vote for ratiflcifion ou tjh&t
basis, included in the majority were
the Irreconcilable*, holding about' a
Bcore of votes which on the ratifica
tion roil call win be east against the
treaty. _J_
AMERICAN LEGION NOW KAS^
1,000,000 OR MORj| MEMfSljgt.
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT |
RE-ESTABLISHED-. IN BAVARIA
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Parla.? Re-establishment of
rariaa monarchy hat bean proclaimed
to Munich, according to> a teleplstfce
nessage received In Barlln from .the
Bavarian capital and telegraphed* to
the Tamp*.
ROYALISTS IN HUNGARY ARK'
REJOICING OVER KUN REVOLT
Bucharest. ? Hungarian rOra^ata
ire rejoicing over the revolt la Ger
many and claim It la jnatiflcatliAoi
fltair argument that soclallat rapubfcoa
IPAKESE SOLDIERS I
IfA DON THE RIO <T
(AruJ? FiaMS* : ;7ap
plates sendiof thrw more artay
to Wfeafcaden, Neustadt and
Bum doubling her forces alobg
Rarfitf TBch will cal$a*i?eti
titt supreme war council as soon
returns from Jiayence.where h