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Senate Tie-Up
Is Threatened
By Insurgents
Fight Against Penrose and
Warren May Result in
a Compromise tc Assure
Republican Control
Situation Same in House
Gillett Adherents to Try
to Increase Membership
of Steering Committee
Jieto York Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May IL?A delay of
several days in effecting the Repub?
lican organization of the Senate is now
anticipated on account of the reported
intention of progressive Senators to
carry to the floor of the Senate the
fight against the selection of Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, as chairman
of the Finance Committee, and Senator
Warren, of 'Wyoming, as head of Ap?
propriations.
It is believed here that Senator
Borah, of Idaho, the leader of the in?
surgent group, and at least Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, will vote against
Penrose and Warren for the committee
chairmanships, regardless of what ac?
tion the preceding Republican caucus
may take. This would have the effect
of developing a tie vote in the event
that the respective party leaders ar?
range the customary pairs for ab?
sentees.
May Force Compromise
By persisting in these tactics, it is
pointed out, the progressive group
might develop a situation in which a
compromise would be necessary to as
pure a Republican control of the Sen?
ate. This is their objective, it is said.
Old, guard leaders here, however, do
not take too seriously the progressive
threat to the party organization. Some
of the progressives, notably Senator
Cummins, of Iowa, and Senator Jones,
of Washington, are in lino for chair?
manships of important Senate com?
mittees. They will not compromise
their chances in this direction, it is
??aid, to make a doubtful fight against
'enrose which might endanger Repub
ican control.
The progressive fight, it is believed,
will be largely confined to the party
caucus. Should the caucus be open it
is believed the progressive group will
not continue their opposition on the
floor of the Senate, but will merely
absent themselves when the vote is
taken and leave it to the partv leaders
to arrange pairs with the minority.
Situation Same in House
On the House side a similar situa?
tion 13 threatened, although it will
have no bearing on the organization
? * ''ouse by the Republicans on ac
1 the larger margin of contro.
K< ms associated with Speaker?
elt illett, of Massachusetts, will
rnas? a determined attempt in the
Pm 7 "??us to increase the member
snip of the Republican steering com?
mittee from six to nine members.
.. . i,C0,m,mUtee as it; now stands is
controlled by James P. .Mann, who was
oeieated by Representative Gillett for
we speakership. To permit Mr. Mann
to retain this control, it is believed,
would make the Gillett victory in the
spea^ership contest an empty one and
encourage a schism in the party on the
?oor of the House which would always
oe potentially dangerous.
Longworth to Lead Fight
Representative Longworth. of Ohio,
*?l probably lead the fight in the
esueu? for the proposed increase of the
?Bering committee. With him will be
?sociated a number of Western mem
wrs who are seeking to secure larger
"presentation on the committee for
we sections they represent.
?should the Longv.orth-Gillett at?
tempt fail, however, it is not believed
?ftat an open rupture between t,he two
jrroupg wili rc3Ujt> party leaders,
while favorably disposed toward any
BgHinatc houHc-cleaning before Con
jptsg nttlea down to business, will
tnrow all their influence against any
toctinuing friction which would pre?
heat a united Republican front on the
?portant legislation to be considered
*? '??'?<: extra session.
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??tr?kinfr Paria Bank People
Make Counter Proposals
PARiH, May 11,- The bankers of
rttif ufar a meeting last night to
strike of employes of bank'
g* institutions, notified M. Colliard,
?***>*ter of Labor, that they had never
Miuv'd to recognize the employes'
'?ton, a/;,; that they Invited the strikers
? resume work, after which a joint
?wratlon o? employers and employes
??bM examine the claims of the latter.
?ne employers' unions ha? made a
"Vater-proposal through ho Labor
"ttistei ;, that a delegation of
TfrewB shall submit their claim? to
w* empkiyerfi before work i? resumed.
^fr?. Wilson at Reception
With Mme. Poincare
*'ARiS, May 1 J,~ Mr?. Woodrow Wll
**'? ??M Mme. Poineare yesterday at
?N*4? reception at Troeadero Pahwe
r*r' "y. fo* Matin?? of Frenen Home?
Jgoelaiieij M,n,. garah Bernhardt
?*"? a m ?sage fr,jm French mother?
dWf.f Am?r'ca? sisters and read ?
,*'? Poem on '?Victory' by Fer
fi^tl"JiUy a"'J Yvt">M Printern??
f^Wted a ofle.*ct play in vers? wnV
?fcfelir **'"" *ut"0f ftt Chateau
Peek Charges
Politics Killed
Price Fixing
Continued from piiirt? 1
: suits achieved by the board? Or, after
j all, am I giving too much credit for
an acumen that does not exist,
I and is what the board has encountered,
merely the machinations of the old
railroad guard as represented by
Messrs. Lovett and Walters and im?
posed on a too complacent director
general, or on a director general too
: jealous of his own prerogatives to see
: beyond the confines of his little czar
? dorn?"
Mr. Peek said the public would "de
| mand an explanation of the wrecking,
; apparently on the obstinacy of a single
: individual, of a plan to make an imme?
diate reduction in the cost of living of
! such an apparent national value."
"I can only conjecture an explana
I tion," said Mr. Peek. "Throughout the
, baffling controversy the board has
found itself checked by forces in op?
position which it could neither under?
stand, reason with, nor overcome, but
which grew in strength until they ren?
dered further progress impossible and
forced abandonment of the plan.
"In theory the plan has been ap?
proved almost unanimously by busi?
ness men and associations and by edi?
torial and press comment the country
over. In practice the plan has been
proved by the order books of steel
prodj-r^rs and the buying revival which
iramt lately followed the announce?
ment >f steel prices and ceased imme?
diately upon the railroad administra?
tion's rejection of those prices.
"It is inconceivable that the railroad
administration's unsubstantial objec?
tion alone was sufficient to justify the
abandonment of a policy of such im?
portance.
"Nor toward the end has the Direc?
tor General been alone in thwarting
the purpose of the board. The Secre?
tary of the Treasury has taken a stand
in direct contradiction with his mes?
sage to the President urging the crea?
tion of the board. The Attorney Gen?
eral has rendered an opinion that the
plan of the board contravenes the
Sherman act, but the facts assumed as
the basis of that opinion are so incon?
sistent with the actual course of con?
duct of the board as to render the
opinion inapplicable, yet it has been
used as a basis for the abandonment of
the board's plan.
"In all this opposition the board has
sought in vain for a substantial rea?
son. It has urged the railroad admin?
istration first to aid it by one single
fact, or argument, to arrive at a lower
price for steel, and, second, to name a
price which the railroad administra?
tion would consider fair.
"The railroad administration's only
answer has been that the steel price
announced by the board is 'too high.'
If 'too high' means that the railroad
administration can force lower prices,
by smashing industry, smashing labor,
smashing the public interest and throw?
ing production into the hands of the
most powerful and lowest cost pro?
ducers, the board agrees that the price
is 'too high.'
"But it was precisely these results
the board was set up to prevent, and
the case stands proved that lower prices
without these results are impossible.
Still the railroad administration per?
sists and announces specifically that
its only view of a low price is one
that shall, by inherent attractiveness,
induce buying, not by t' e railroad ad?
ministration alone, but also by the old
railroad managements, by the Director
General himself and by Messrs. Lovett
and Walters, who have headed the op?
position to the board.."
"That the Administration would com
j mit itself against the public interest
merely to support the ancient and dis?
credited railroad slogan,'The public be
damned,' is unthinkable. Yet after all
it is the Administration, not the di?
rector general alone, who had power
to thwart the board.
"Thus, there is no question that the
board was set to do exactly what it has
done, and was set up with the full
?knowledge and assent of the Adminis?
tration and was given godspeed upon
its way by Mr. Glass. The record on
i this point is so clear that only a quib?
bling lawyer with an imagination in
! flamed with interest could find an ex?
cuse to pervert it. Yet, exactly this
i course has been pursued, and not by
I the director general alone. It serves
no purpose save to confuse the issue
"Members of the industrial board are
i experienced business men untrained
in the devious ways of partisan politics.
! They came to their present task with?
out hope of reward or advancement, be
j lieving the war-time adjournment of
1 politics in national affairs of economic
i importance had been extended to cover
! th^ period of reconstruction.
"They have been unable to penetrate
:.'- y cloud in which the political
jquid . .. concealed its escapo from
support of the board in a position
? which for some unstated reason was
' politically undesirable.
"The board cannot answer. It can
j only depart more in sorrow than in
j anger, and in great disappointment,
i from a lost opportunity to serve the
1 country by a simple and sensible plan
I to reduce the cost of living and to re?
turn to prosperity. In doing so it
; leaves a single message.
"The plan of the board was good. It
i is capable of accomplishing what it
promised. The Administration owes it
I to the nation to put that plan into im
i mediate execution at the hands of some
agency in which it can feel political
, confidence and sympathy."
In his answer to Chairma' Peek, Scc
: retary Glass said:
"The industrial board, after confer
. enees with the steel interests, but
against the express protest of the rep?
resentative of the Railroad Adminis
j tration, approved a scale of prices
I below which, the industrial board an?
nounced, the public should not expect
to buy during the year.
"The attempt thus made to fix
'. minimum prices for the public seemed
to me wholly indefensible and con
i trary to fundamental principle? of
i economics, of public policy and of the
: lav/. Surely the healthy restoration of
industrial life and activity is not to be
found in the perpetuation and exag?
geration, months after the cessation of
j hostilities, of the artificial conditions
which in war time were tolerated a'<
nect ssary evils.
"Tho Treasury has consistently
striven since armistice day for the rc
; moval of all governmental restraints
I controls and interferences. The origi
| nal plan, which, in its general features,
bad my approval, was to endeavor to
bring about a meeting of minds be
tween the producers and those govern
! mental agencie? which had large pur?
chases to make, upon bedrock prices
which would carry conviction that new
enterprise! mi<iht be undertaken with
safety and the hope of profit.
Blame Charged to Board
"'!!.?? Industrial Board, having failed
to bring about such a meeting of the i
m Indi with governmental buying agen- I
<?><??:, attempted to fix minimum prices
for the general public, and thus did
precisely that which it had been
warned not to io. This action wbh
promptly repudiated by rne, and the
; board wan fully itd^aedo fthe reasons
and urged to rnend it? way?. It? ?ub
, sequent effort? to force thene minimum
prie?! upon the railroad admlnintra
' on and (te fallare to recede from the
ion taken in attempting to fix mini?
..'im price? for tho general public for
ear confirmed me in the view that
th? board v/a? hopcloMHly committed to
an unround and dangeoruu policy,
"There is ?scarcely one accurate ?w
???rtlon or sane deduction in all of
I Mr, Peek'* intemperate ?creed; end to
me it is now perfectly clear why there j
has been a sad ending of the move
ment which had its initial meetings in ;
the Treasury and which had for its j
purpose the revival of industrial ac- i
tivlty through agencies and by methods !
that were not contrary to the statutes !
nor obnoxious to the elementary prin- j
ciples of economics.
"Mr. Peek knows perfectly well that
I have never, in any way or at any
time, suggested sucn action as that
taken by the Industrial Board. Hence .
his reference to me on this point per- '
verts the actual truth. Indeed, it is not'
inexact to say that Mr. Peek has per- j
sistently and consistently practised de- ?
ception in nearly every public state-;
ment he has made!"
-?
"Taft for President"
Club Being Organized j
Omaha Lawyer Says Former |
President Heads Party, With
No One to Take His Place
Special Correspondence
OMAHA, Neb., May 11.?"Taft for
President" is the slogan of a club be?
ing organized throughout Nebraska by
A. A. Shotwell, Omaha attorney and
original Taft man in the West in
former years. Shotwell stands close to
Myron Learned, Republican national
committeeman lor Nebraska. Mr. Shot
well issued a statement to-day say?
ing:
"Mr. Taft is the head of his party
and there is no other to take his place
in popular confidence and esteem. He
enjoys the, sympathy and respect of
honest labor and honest capital. The
times are uncertain and dangeious.
We must call our most able and
courageous statesman to office, and
Mr. Taft is the man."
Veterans at
St. Louis for
Wood in 1920
Returning Delegates Report
Sentiment in Favor of
General Is Tremendous;
Called Father of Army
Johnson Second Choice
Wilson Leads Among Demo?
cratic Candidates, With
McAdoo Next in Favor
General Leonard Wood, with Hiram
Johnson second, was the first choice
for President of the soldiers and sail?
ors who attended the St. Louis con?
vention of the American Legion, ac?
cording to the New York delegates who
have.returned.
Charles H. Duell, jr., vice-chairman
of the New York state comimttee of
the legion, declared the sentiment for
General Wood was tremendous.
"Tho delegates, representing the
4,000,000 soldiers and sailors who flock
Doubtful Compliments!
Will your executor
welcome his appointment?
ANY men figure it out about like this :
fffJ. B.' is my best friend. I have known
him for twenty-five years. He is himself a success?
ful manufacturer and a director in at least three
large corporations. ^
"He is my children's 'Uncle J_,' and all my
family affairs are open secrets to him. In my will I
will name him as the executor of my estate."
But wait:
True, you have paid your friend a compliment.
But he is already a very busy man. It takes much
time and a peculiar type of experience to settle
an estate. Can he spare the time from his own
business ?
Will the executorship prove a burden? Will he
really welcome his appointment?
Perhaps these vital questions raise a problem in
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laxes. Also, promptly pay such taxes to secure
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Member of Federal Reserve System
ed to the colors in the world war,"
said Mr. Duell last night, "spoke of
Wood as the founder of the great
Plattsburg movement and as the
father of the National Army. Many
asserted it was his foresight in train?
ing officers and men before we entered
the war which made victory possible
last November. And it was not uncom?
mon to hear a delegate say, 'I'm for
Wood, because they kept him out of
war.'
Pershing Sentiment Slight
"This ringing of the charge on the
Democratic Presidential slogan in
1916, 'He kept us out of war!' took
well with the delegates. And, singu?
larly enough, the following of General
Pershing was almost negligible."
Mr. Duell said that of the 1,025 dele?
gates to the convention, which is pat
terened after the G. A. R., a fair com?
piling showed that 650 would vote the
Republican ticket and 375 the Demo
cratic, provided President Wilson ra?
again.
"Outside of Wood and Johnson, th<
only man with a personal followinj
at the convention," said Mr. Duel!
"was President Wilson. The secom
Democratic choice was William G. Mc
Adoo, but many of the Wilson men de
clared that if any other Democrat tha
Wilson should be the candidate in 192
they would vote for Wood, for the
all generally took it that Wood woul
be the Republican candidate.
Lowden and Harding Mentioned
"The scattering votes on the R<
publican side were for Governor Lov
den, of Illinois, Senator Harding, <
Ohio, and of course General Pershin
The third favorite among the Demi
crats was Secretary Baker, and rni
ning neck and neck for fourth pla<
were Champ Clark and A. Mitchell
Palmer.
"Considering McAdoo and Wood as
the nominees in 1920, the vote of the
delegates at St. Louis divided about as
follows: _ Wood, 675; McAdoo, 350. And
when it is remembered that these del?
egates represented the sentiment of
the soldiers and sailors 'back home
it can be readily figured out how the
soldier and sailor votes will be cast
in 1920."
Daniels on Way Home
BREST, May 10.?The United States
transport Mount Vernon, with Josephus
Daniels. Secretary of the Navy on
board, and the British steamer Val
acia, were simultaneously escorted
seaward to-day by French destroyers,
whose bands played as they steamed
out.
Secretary Daniels was bidden god?
speed on his voyage by the marine
prefect here.
Poincare Receives Abyssinians
PARIS, May 11.?An Abyssinian mis?
sion was received to-day by President
Poincar?. The mission came to Paris
to request that France should estab?
lish a protectorate over Abyssinia.
Two other missions will leave Abys?
sinia shortly, it is announced, one going
to Rome and the other to London and
Washington.
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CAnnounce ?Befeinninp^ cUhis Qj\iornin&
A Sale of 1275 Pairs
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tipped, in the following colors:
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More Practically Planned
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end closes 5:30 P. M.
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? of most things meant \
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heterogeneous in de- I
sign, but homogeneous |
in charm. Grasses |
from American prair- 1
ies have been woven I
into rugs patterned with I
motifs of Egypt, As- |
syria and France. Tex- ?
tiles of the old world 1
and the new appear in |
rugs of American Co- I
lonial design. There |
are as many nationali- S
ties represented in the p
Rug Department as in |
?si the League of Nations. |
II Out of the West, |
j|| from the rolling plains H
ill and prairies of Wisconsin P
?E| and Minnesota, come the P
? tough, sturdy grasses we W
? used in our Grass Rugs. ?
I How clean and whole- f
some they arc! Grown E
under the Western sun- t
shine, carefully shorn of |
all rough, hard splinters I
in the process of weaving, [
finished with smooth sur- l
face. You can walk on [
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^ designed expressly for a 1
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I Two-Faced 1
|| One patterned, one plain, fj
? are these grass rugs, and they i
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? All Summer decorative jp
&4 schemes may be matched or f?
111 blended in the designs and fe
'M colors of these rugs. Their p
jp| prices range from $1.14 to s
jjl $23.14, according to size. |
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1 Become Rugs
'ga Cretonnes, chambrays, j
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iw! or in a Wallace Nutting
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m yet they have this advantage,
|| though, over the rugs of
|| long ago?they are more
jH sanitary, more sturdy, more
i'H durable. Prices range from
i| $2.98 to $37.25, according
Ira to size.
i Rushes and Runners
j But It's Not a
S Fast Subject
[I The "rushes"' refer to our
|p oval rush rugs, imported
g< from Japan. They are un?
g? usually durable for out
g?? door use, for porches or
g sun parlors. Priced 89c to
R $35.25. The "runners" are
|. plain or figured, made in va?
is rious widths, of tough wire
?5 grass. 18 to 72 inches
1 wide. 59c to $2.09 yd.
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I A Kitchen
? Needs Linoleum
m We have an excellent as
m sortment of inlaid linoleums
?H in attractive tile effects.
M The prices are special.
tea .
ra Linoleums usually $2.24 sq
[| yd. NOW $1.69 sq. yd
l|| Linoleums usually $1.8Q sq
I yd. NOW $1.39 sq. >d
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