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New York Tribune Inr.l
TUESDAY, JANUARY L>7, 1920
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WEATHER
Partly ,'loudy and warmer to-day; rain
at night or (??-morro*?'; south?
east to south winds
Kiill ??eport on I'iir? S3
Tt*??rr*THi-" Orwrter New York and I TIIRKK CENT?*
"*?" ?-*-"* * ? } within rominniiiiK iii?Un?e I I .?-.?where
Sweet Again
Blocks FigSit
For Socialists
Amos Ruled Out of Order
by Speaker in Effort
to Offer Memorial to
Seat the Ousted Five
Resolutions Put
f Until To-ilav
Steinberg Fails to Have
Hughes Denunciation
Expunged From Record
Staff Corrr*r>rrrni*-i<cr
ALBANY. .Tan. 20.?Another at?
tempt to reseat the five suspended
Socialist'* failed to-night in the As?
sembly and their trial, adjourned
last Thursday, will be resumed to?
morrow morning.
After Assemblyman William C.
Amos, of New York, had offered a
memorial in behalf of the Socialist?,
prepared by the special committee
of the New York City Bar Asso?
ciation, he was ruled out of order
by Speaker Sweet upon objections
from majority ~ leader Adler and
others.
Amos thereupon offered three res?
olutions, one calling for the dis?
charge of the Judiciary Committee
from further consideration of the
I evolution ousting the five Socialists.
Six Questions Asked
Another culled on the Attorney Gen?
eral to furnish the Assembly with a
"ull bill of particulars of all matters
within hi? knowledge in relation to
the suspension of the Socialist?, such
bill of particulars to specifically set
forth:
1. The date on which the suspen?
den of the five Socialists members
was first suggested to him and by
???: om ?
2..If the evidence In whole or in
? 'hat has been produced in the
? gation '.vas in his possession
ne the suggestion of ,lleir
suspension was made to him, or if
been acquired since such time?
' ?' no suggestion was made to
regarding the action of the As
b y Lr the suspension of the five
- alist members and their investi
r?, did he suggest to the Assem
';? that such action be taken and to
nom did he make such sugesti?n?
4. Whal arrangement, if any, has
n.ade as to the compensation of
?ho legal counsel fco the committee,
including Messrs. Stanchfield and
-? ? ? m ?
.".. If he has evidence of the pu It
? ich or any of the five suspended
. is1 members based on any
i! act or acts?
6. Did he advise the chairman of
Judiciary Committee to refuse
the committee representing the As?
sociation of the Barjof the City of
New York the right of appearance on
behalf of the interests of the people
during the "investigation" of the
five suspended Socialist members,
<ind when was such advice given?
These two resolutions, with a third,
which called on the Attorney General
to advise the Assembly if Martin W.
Littleton was stating a fact when he
declared the Socialists guilty of trea?
son, a!! were put over until to-morrow
morning,
Sweet Sustains Adler
Amo? then called up his resolution of
Itit wp"k calling for a reseating of the
fire Soria!ii s.
Majority i,eader Adler roso and de?
clared that, since this in effect was an
amendment of the original resolution,
It wa.- not in order, since the original
?esolutiou was not before the House.
Speaker Sweet held with Mr. Adler.
Assemblyman Joseph Steinberg, of
New York, then called up his resolution
of last week asking that the disloyalty
references to Charles E. Hughes by As
Mmblymnn Martin McCue, of Tammany
Hall, be expunged from the record.
While Steinberg was reading the
transcript of the record Assemblyman
Louis Cuvillier, of Tammany Hall,
laughed loudly, so that Steinberg could
not be heard.
"I rise to a question of personal
privilege," said Assemblvman William
W. Pellett, of N'ew York. "I insist that
Mr. Steinberg be shown the courtesies
o? the House."
Speaker Sweet banged his gavel and
order was restored.
Steinberg defied McCue to make good
ris charge- and declared that in?
stead of Hughes having the support of
;ne pro-Germans in lOlt?, as charged by
McCue. President Wilson had the sup
Port of the hyphenates.
WU1 the gentleman yield for a ques
t-ioj,?" asked Assemblyman Cuvillier.
JYes, if the gentleman will tell me
!' he ever tried to get a Socialist nom?
ination in New York City," said Stein?
berg,
McCue Makes Response
"I never did!" exclaimed Cuvillier.
McCue then arose and replied that
what he said about Mr. Hughes did
Wt reflect on his loyalty, and that if
?temberg understood English he would
no,*?ave understood him tv> say so.
"?hat I sao!, and I now repeat it,"
? McCue, "is that I have had my
""pidona of Charles E. Hughes for
"?"re than three years, and that when
- >vas thought he was elected Presi
:; every pro-Gorman in my district
lva* shouting with joy."
McCue closed by telling tho Aasem
ymen that they had been "abused
"p-a blackguarded by Charles E.
"ughes."
Majority Leader Adler then rose an?
D.'ectecl to the motion, saving: "'
s'?ve the highest regard for ?the loy
*'?>' and ability of Charles E. Hughes
. ,sm 8U"c every man has in th
o? ? Lf* but [ object to the motion
n technical grounds and ask that the
gaiter be referred to the Judiciarv
?n?kmUtee 'so that if tl,oy 8eo fit t0
?he- 8n> Ganges in the resolution
?In? *? (-? so> and then report the res
??HUonback tous for action."
y^semblymun Morris Bloch, of New
'ion 'uXt 0,rt'r*"1 " privileged r?solu
'h* i !uin* f<ir tne appearance befo
Sweot a mry ( ?l,1"i"l*'' of Speaker
Senat .ttorn?y General Newton and
'o all fk * to *;c cross-examined as
tkJL , facts in th(>ir possession re
s?lth1, ?-??Pended Socialists.
?Un ? r Sweet rul^'d the resolution
i0til,?*,Pr'vileged. Then Hloch served
.^_tnat he would call for a suspen
Continued on page !' ? e
IL S. Fleet of'Arks'
Awaits Anarchists \
3MOO May Be Sent From
Country; Deportation
Cases To Be Bushed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Approxi
mately 3,000 of the 3,600 aliens arrested
during recent nationwide rounds-ups
i o'f radicals are "perfect" cases for de?
portation as a result of Secretary Wil?
son's decision that the Communist and
Communist Labor parties are rcvolu
? tionary within the meaning of the de?
portation law, J, D. Hoover, special
assistant to Attorney Clouerai Palmer,
in charge of prosecutions, said to-day.
Deportation hearings and the ship?
ment of the "Reds" from this country
will he pushed rapidly, Mr. Hoover de?
clared. Second, third and as many other
"Soviet Arks" as may be necessary
will be made ready as the convictions
proceed, he said, anil actual deporta?
tions will not wait for the conclusion
o:' all the cases.
Tlie warrant prepared for the arrest
' of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, "Ambas,
sador" of the Russian Soviet govern
: ment, Mr. Hoover said, would he served
when Martens was released by the Sen?
ate sub-committee investigating Bol?
shevik propaganda in this country.
Bed Cross Fights Typhus
Peril in Eastern Europe
Poland's Appeal Rallies Inter?
national Soeiety to Cheek
Spread of Epidemie
WASHINGTON' Jan. 26?Respond
; ing to the appeal from Poland for as
| sistanec in the struggle of that, nation
j against, typhus, the Red Cross societies
I of Belgium and Sweden have joined with
! five other countries in an effort to pre
; vent the threatened spread of the epi
j demie.
The Swedish Red Cross, it was an
| nounced in a cablegram to-day from the
International Red Cross headquarters at
! Gi neva to the American Red Cross, has
asked its government for a subsidy of
j 1,000,000 crowns to combat the disease,
! while Belgium is expected to make a
I practical contribution by the dispatch of
; doctors and nurses to Poland.
BASEL. Jan. 26. M. Rozpalko, Min
? ister of Labor in the Ukrainian Cabi
' net, has telegraphed, in the name of
the Ukrainian government, an tirgent
? note to the Supreme Council at Paris
I asking a lifting of the blockade, at
?least so far as it relates to drugs and
?sanitary material. He pays this step
is necessary to enable Ukraine to light
the epidemic of cholera and typhus
now raging in that country.
Epidemics of influenza, smallpox ?tnd
I typhus have broken out in the Russian
'Caucasus, where the population for
months has been in desperate straits
; from famine, according to advices re
; ceived by the Near East Relief.
VIENNA, .Ian. 26. Official reports
from Bucharest, Rumania, say that
: the plague has reached several villages
! on the right bank of the Dniester,
j Powhatan, Again in Tow,
Is Headed for Halifax
?Three Vessels Aid Disabled
Transport; Bolshevism Re?
ported Cause of Trouble
The army transport Powhatan, which
broke from lier two tow lines and was
tost in a blizzard Sunday night, was
picked up again yesterday by the ves?
sels that had been standing by, and
-.he tow to Halifax was resumed. Radio
advices to Halifax did not give the
vi < !'s position.
Captain Travis, of the Lady Laurier,
the first vessel to take the Powhatan
in tow several days ago, reported by
radio to Halifax yesterday that the
wrecking tug Relief had a line out from
tiie Powhatan and was towing her at
a speed of about four and one-half
knots.
The coast guard cutter Acushnet, he
said, had a line out from the Relief
? i nd both vessels were towing the Pow?
hatan in tandem fashion.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2G. Under a
resolution introduced to-day by Repre?
sentative Britten, Republican, Illinois,
Secretary Baker was asked to advise
Congress if the condition of the dis?
abled transport Powhatan was the re?
sult of Bolshevism aboard ship. The'
resolution also would direct that Sec?
retary Baker supply the House Mili?
tary Committee with copies of reports
from masters and chief officers of
other transports especially the Amer?
ica.
Mr. Britten in his resolution says "it
is understood that mutiny, theft, gam?
bling and insubordination exist on
transports."
B. R. T. Engineer Freed
In Malbone Wreek Case
William Menden Was Fourth
To Be Tried on Charge
of Manslaughter
William S. Menden, who has been on
trial in the Supreme Court, at Mine?la,
L. I., on a chnrge of manslaughter in
connection with the Malbone Street
tunnel wreck of November 1, 191S, was
acquitted yesterday by direction of
.histice Callaghan. At the end of the
state's case -Meier Stcinbrink, Menden's
counsel, moved for the dismissal of
the indictment, and after hearing argu?
ments the court directed the acquittal.
"1 think that no man reasonably
could have been expected prior to this
accident," said Justice Callaghan, "to
exercise the foresight which would
have resulted in the installation of the
time element signal control device in
connection with the track tripper."
Menden was chief engineer of the
B. R. T. at the time of the accident,
fie is the fourth employee or official
of the company to be tried on charges
of manslaughter as a result of the
wreck. Two of the others were ac?
quitted and in the remaining case the
jury disagreed.
Robert H. Johnson, a civil engineer,
I testified yesterday thai a test train
carrying Mr. Steinbrink, Menden's at?
torney, and several transit experts,
traversed the fatal curve at twenty
: three miles an hour January IT without
I any ill result. He said he would lie
i willing to chanco it at a thirty-mile
j gait.
| Confesses Poisoning Child
Says He Gave Baby Arid That
He Intended for Himself
WINSTED, Conn., Jan. 2d. John M.
: Stone, an employee of the New England
?Pine Company, confessed to-night that
lie attempted to potson his eight
months-old stepchild by placing car?
bolic acid in its food.
He told the police that he intended
killing himself, but got "cold feet" and
poured the poison in n cereal prepared
for the baby. He is locked up at Po
' ice 11 ? adquarters hero, and will be ?r
raigned in court to-morrow.
Mysterious Wireless Calls
May Be From Another World
Marconi Discusses Signals That Seem to Come From
Outside the Earth; Undecipherable Message
Heard in Both London and New York
LONDON. Jan. 27. Interruptions of
j the Marconi wireless instruments by
mysterious undecipherable sVgnals,
?which were noted before the war and
i have been publicly referred to* since,
?re specially featured in "The Daily
| Mail" this morning and discussed by
' Marconi in an interview published by
the paper.
"We occasionally get very queer
; sounds and indications which might
?come from somewhere outside the
i earth," said Signor Marconi. "We have
had them both in England and America.
| The Morse signal letters occur with
.much greater frequency than others,
j but we have never yet picked up any?
thing that could be translated into a
d?fini te message.
"The fact that the signals have oc
Soviet Able to
Fight World,
Martens Says
Lenine's Agent Tells Sen?
ate Committee Bolshevists
Have Abandoned Their
Idea of World Revolution
WASHINGTON". Jan. 26. Soviet Rus
] sia, transformed by assured success of
its leadership at home, is no longer
i fired by the missionary 7.eal which led
its agents and emissaries during the
first months of its existence to preach
world-wide revolution, Ludwig C. A. K.
Martens, who calls himself the am?
bassador from that country to the
? United States, testified to-day before
a Senate investigating committee.
The Soviet Republic at present, Mar?
tens said, "does not care what kind of
government other people have." and it
has indulged in general revolutionary
propaganda only "when it was on the
defensive and hard pressed by nations
which had armies in the tield against
' it." To-day, because it is "strong
? enough to light the world," it has
i abandoned, he added, the principles
lirst promulgated to the effect that it
can be maintained only by the destruc?
tion of other governments everywhere
which recognize property rights and
' capitalistic organization.
These statements Martens, under
oath, made in response to a fire of
questions from Senator Moses, Repub
: Lean, New Hampshire, chairman of
j the investigating committee, and Sen
1 ator Borah, Idaho.
Borah Is Incredulous
Plainly incredulous, Senator Borah
shot him query after query, repeating
various reported manifestos of the
Federated Soviet Russian Republic,
; which called on revolutionary elements
' everywhere to organize workingmen to
revolt against all organized govern?
ment, and demanding to know whether
or not every Soviet supporter was not
bound to work for the destruction of
all governments recognizing capital.
Martens met. him with quick denials.
"Isn't it one of the tenets of your
creed that soviet governments should
be established everywhere?" Senator
Borah asked.
"N'o; we don't care what kind of gov?
ernment other peoples have," Martens
! replied.
"Isn't it a fact that the Russian Soviet
federation has a cardinal purpose of in?
stituting a world-wide revolution among
other peoples?" Senator Borah de
I manded.
"There was a time when Russians be
; lieved that was necessary to sustain
I their own soviets," Martens said. "Now
\ conditions have made it unnecessary.
j Russian soviets are firmly established
| and have grown strong enough to sus
I tain themselves strong enough to
i fight the world.
"Just recently the change was shown
by a letter from Premier L?nine to the
\ Italian Socialists, advising against a
j revolution then'."
"You mean to say, then, that the
cardinal tenet we have been told about,
| requiring every soviet supporter to
preach and agitate for the establish?
ment of soviets everywhere, has been
abandoned?" Senator Borah pressed.
"It is not necessary now." Martens
i said.
Says People Support Soviet
When he concluded answering ques?
tions Martens .said "a few thousand
dollars' worth of boots and automo?
biles" were his only purchases in the
United States, but he produced a list
containing, he asserted, 1,000 names of
American business houses with whom
dealings could be opened.
The witness said he regarded the
Soviet organization as the. legitimate
successor of the former Russian gov?
ernment, adding that about "NO per cent
of the Russian people support tho so?
viets."
"To what extent do the people par?
ticipate in the government now?" asked
Senator Borah.
"Anybody doing work participates."
Martens said, "except those who live
on efforts of others or were connected
I with the old regime."
Particularly, Martens denied all eon
noction with revolutionary movements
in the United States, though admitting
some knowledge of them. He stud they
were "purely American, arising out of
American conditions,' and as soviet
agent here he had not helped or
financed them or their followers. He
had instructions from his government.
he said, to stay clear of interference
with American internal affairs. AU of
Continued on paye three
curred simultaneously at New Vork and
London with identical intensity scema
to indicate that they must hav< origi?
nated at a very great distance. We
have not yet the slightest, proof of
their origin. They might conceivably
be due to some natural disturbance at
a great distance, for instance, an erup?
tion of the sun causing electrical dis
I turbances."
: Asked whether possibly attempts
1 were heing made by another planet to
communicate. Signor Marconi .-.aid: "I
?would not-rule out the possibility of
this, hut there is no proof. Wo must
investigate the matter much more
thoroughly before we venture upon a
! definite explanation."
He added thai the mysterious sounds
' are not confined to any particular
i diurnal period; they are equally fre
' quent by day and night.
400 Kansas t
Miners Strike,
Defying Law
J_ o
Walk-Out Is Protest Against
New Industrial Court
Act, Wf;ielj Was Opposed
! Bitterly by the Union
Special Correspondence
TOTKKA, Kan., Jan. 26.?Four hun
! died miners went on strike in the Pitts
, burg district this morning in defiance
of the newly enacted Industrial Court
law. The strike is a protest against
the action of the Legislature, and, as
such, is regarded by officials as a plain
and premeditated violation of the new
law and a challenge to the state.
"The miners have forced the issue
' and Kansas is ready to moot it," Gov
| e'rnor Allen said. "It is now up to us
to establish the sovereignty of the
state of Kansas and determine which
is the bigger, the state or the miners'
union." '
Immediately upon receipt of news of
the strike. Governor Allen and W. L.
Hoggins, Clyde Reed and George Wark,
the members of the court, went into
conference. Although the court has
not yet been organized to operate^it
? became legally established with the
? publication of the new law in the of?
ficial state paper Saturday.
Ready to Issue Warrants
The Governor sent Richard J. Hop?
kins, Attorney General, to Pittsburg
this afternoon, to proceed to the- en?
forcement of the criminal sections of
! the Industrial Court Jaw. The court
?itself has nothing to do with the en?
forcement of the criminal laws. Un
! der the new statute, every miner who
went out can be prosecuted for a mis
: demeanor for conspiracy to "delay,
hinder and prevent the continuous op?
eration" of an essential industry. The
, leaders who urged the men to go on
?th.e protest strikes, if any. are also
liable to prosecution for committing
'. felonies.
The Attorney General got in touch
with the county attorney of Crawford
County this afternoon and directed him
10 have the list of the names of the
men in the mines who went on strike
ready by to-night, so that the warrants
can be issued as fast as the names can
be inserted.
?pft'al Correnpovdrnce
PITTSBURG, Kan., Jan. 26.?Alex
! ander Ilowat, virtually declared to?
day that a state of war existed between
' the labor unions of Kansas, particu?
larly the coal miners, and the new
Industrial Court law of Kansas. The
miners will be asked to leave Kansas.
Asked concerning the strike of -100
: miners in protest against the indus?
trial court law, Howat refused to make
a statement. He said that he would
have to obtain more definite informa?
tion concerning the walk-out of the
miners before he would discuss it.
Union Is Resentful
"Not only the Kansas miners, hut
organized labor generally resents this
piece of legislation," Howat said, re
lerring to the industrial court law.
"Our international organization stands
with us m this light."
ilowat said that national publicity
would be given to a request that
wherever convenient the coal miners
would leave Kansas and stay away as
long as the industrial court law is in
effect, and miners outside of Kansas
will he warned to remain awav from
the state.
Howat's words to-day were the first
that lie has uttered for publication
since his return to Kansas from In?
dianapolis after having spent a night
in jail by order o*-JudKC Anderson.
Reports to-night did not show any
increase in the number of idle miners
over the 100 who walked out this morn?
ing.
Troops Fire Into Mob
In Florence; Wound 20
Recently Elected Deputy (lauses
Hiot by I rging Revolution
ul [Meeting
FLOREN? il, Italy, Jan. liG. During
a meeting here to-day at which the
anarchist Enrico Malatesta, recently
elected to she Chamber of Deputies,
urged a revolution, a inch tried to over?
come a party of carabineers,
The latter, defending themselves,
tired at the demonstrators, wounding
a score of them.
Liberty Bonds?$00, S100, ?500, $1,000?
ran be bous In ? ? .!:???? i nil ?
John Muir * Co., til Broadway. Adv.
The Tribune's Platform Contest
Four hundred planks have been sub?
mitted already in 1 he Tribune's Republi?
can Platform Contest. Some of them will be
found on Page 9 of to-day's paper.
Flu Fighters
Expect 3,000
Cases To-day
Only 1,712 Listed Over
Sunday, a Decrease of
1,143, but Deaths Due
to Epidemic Leap to 131
Less Virulent Than
Outbreak of 191?S
linpcland Against Whisky
?SenateVotes$500,000
for Fight on the ?V?a?adv
\ e w
? rk City yesterday
persons died ot pneumonia or influenza. !
This 'oil was twenty-six in excess of
the figures of the day preceding. At.
the Department of Health it wan de-1
Glared that the invasion ?s gaining, a!-,
though only 1.712 new caser, of ?nflu-l
cnxa were reported, 1,143 fewer than in
the twenty-four-hour period of the day
before.
Health Commissioner Copeland said
last night that for the period ending
at 10 o'clock this morning he ex?
pected that "above 3,000" new cases ?
would be reported. This, he said, |
would not indicate a sudden jump, I
but would represent an accumulation
of reports held up by poor mail serv- j
ice on Sunday and the absence from ;
work of physicians' office assistants. |
At the request of the Public Health
Service the United States Senate yes- ?
tcrday appropriated $500,000 for a na- ;
?ion-wide tight on influenza
At, 1 o'clock this morning the "stag-;
gered" opening and closing hours for
industries and places of amusement
became effective. This change con-j
cerns the daily routine of practically
every man and woman in this city, and
the purpose is to prevent congestion on
transportation lines.
Longer Day for Citj Employees
In line with the orders governing
the opening and closing time of busi-!
ness houses Commissioner Copeland
telephoned to Mayor flylan and asked :
that all city employees at the Munici?
pal Building be instructed to report
for work half an hour earlier than
usual. This will make their working
day begin at 8:30 a. m. and end at
4:30 p. m. The order was issued from;
the Mayor's office immediately.
Dr. Copeland refused to speculate j
about the approximate date of the j
"peak" of the visitation. However, if ,
the malady keeps pace with the ept- ,
demie of October, 1918, it should reach <
a climax on February 15. which corre- :
sponds to October 27, 1918. On that
date 820 persons died in N'ew York of
influenza and pneumonia. All told
there were 34,000 deaths in New York
from influenza and pneumonia in a
little more than six weeks, 2.000 less
than the number of American soldiers '
hilled in all the battles of the World
War.
Last night Dr. Copeland issued an?
other appeal for trained nurses and
for women without training but with
a practical knowledge of nursing. There
wore forty urgent cases on file at the
Health Department then for which
there were no nurses available. In
response to 500 telegrams and wide
newspaper publicity for his previous
appeal there were only 100 replies yes?
terday, and only half of that number
were trained. Some had como from
Boston, there were two from Maryland
and one was expected from Bingham
ton, N. Y.
Nurses Badly Needed
The need for nurses is so great that
Dr. Copeland said that if more report?
ed for duty than -Aere needed they
would be paid any way while they
waited for assignment. Quarters have
been prepared at several hospitals for
nurses from out of town who came to
New York to help fight the disease.
New cases of influenza and pneu?
monia and the deaths from each dis?
ease reported in the twenty-four-hour
period ending at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning were as follows:
I n ft uen /.a. Pneumonia.
lioroueh.
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn .
, Queens . .
Richmond
Deaths. Cases. Deaths
23 108
180
68
Totals . . .. 1,712 43 238 88
Grand totals
since Jan. 1.10,51 1 202 . 3,425 1,187
Corresponding
date 1918
epidemic
(October 7). 1,588 70 L57 100
In this period there were 1,143 fewer
influenza cases reported than in the
preceding twenty-four-hour limit.
There were thirteen more deaths from
influenza. There was a decrease of
148 in the number of cases of pneu?
monia reported, bul an increase of
thirteen in the number of pneumonia
deaths.
New Epidemic Less Virulent
Dr. Copeland said the most encourag?
ing thing about the analysis of the
figures was that it showed that the
germs are less virulent. He said that
New York gradually will develop an
j immunity, or at least a partial im
; inanity, to the disease. The death rate
; thus far has been lower than the 19?H
\ figures.
! Discussing the number of cases re?
ported yesterday, Dr. Copeland said:
"This is the Monday report, and for
two reasons the Monday reports will
be lighter th; n on other days <.<( the
week. The mail on Sunday is not dis?
tributed a well a. on week days, ano
then also the secretaries, bookkeepers.
and assistants of physicians, v,ho
would normally be charged with send?
ing out such reports, do not work on
Sunday.
"1 want New York to be prepared for
a material increase in the number of
cases n ported to-morrow. On a cor
icsponding Tuesday in the October.
1918, epidemic we experienced a jump
of 1,000, and I venture to say that in
the twenty-four-hour period ending at
1 10 o'clock to-morrow morning there
j will be 3,000 new cases reported.
"Each day. however, convinces me
more firmly that this invasion is milder
. m form and should be shorter in dura?
tion. An ordinary case of influenza
; this year should terminate in about a
; week. The average length last time
i was about ten days, unless the case de?
veloped into pneumonia.''
Dr. Copeland was much interested in
! word of the outbreak of the disease
j in the Tombs, in the Criminal Courts
i Building and in the City Hal!. One of
his own employees, David Norris,
: twenty-eight years old. 216 East
Continued "it page /our
Treaty Parley Ends With
All Factions at Sea; Lodge
Won't Modify Reservations
To Be Slate
T*l
a
?Nomination of the-Secre?
tary o? Agriculture for
Glass's Post Expected
To Be Presented To-dav
New > or/c Trihun*
Wa>:h ington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.?The nomi?
nation of David Franklin Houston, of
St. Louis, as Secretary of the Treasury
to succeed Carter Glass, of Virginia,
probably will be sent to the Seriate to?
morrow by President Wilson. Mr.
Houston is one of the original mem?
bers of the Wilson Cabinet, and has
served seven years as Secretary of
Agriculture.
The President's decision to nominate
him for the Treasury post was under?
stood to-night to have been reached
only in the' last few days. White
House officials earlier let it. he known
that a successor to Mr. Glass would be
named, probably to-morrow, but de?
clined to indicate just where the honor
would go. except to suggest that it
would be in the direction of any one
of a half dozen men who have been
mentioned from time to time.
The Presiden*, is believed to have
chosen Mr. Houston for many reasons,
not the least controlling of which was
the fact that by naming him he need
not, at this late day introduce a new
tace into his official family. Mr. Hous?
ton's long service with the Adminis?
tration would make his confirmation by
the Senate largely a matter of form
unless obstacles arise which are now
entirely unforeseen in Administration
councils. _ .
Path Cleared for Glass
This will enable the present in?
cumbent, Mr. Glass, to step from the
Treasury to the S?pate as a successor
to the late Thomas H. Martin without
any gap in the administration of that
department. Mr, Glass will be needed
by the Democrats in the light over the
league of nations and the peace treaty
in the near future, and unless a suc?
cessor for him at the Treasury were
at hand the pressing nature of his
duties there miirht seriously interfere
with his attendance at the sessions of
the Senate.
Mr. Houston would go into the
Treasury position with more than the
usual knowledge of men who take that
post. He was a member of the Federal
Reserve organization committee for the
months that it was laying the ground?
work for the Federal Reserve syste n,
and as such came in close contact with
the Treasury and its workings.
Mr. Houston vas born in Monroe.
Union County, North Carolina, in
1866. lie was educated at South
Carolina College and at various
universities, including Harvard, Yale,
Brown and R?thers. Ho was a
graduate student in political science
at Harvard from 1891 to 1894,
and became a professor at the Univer?
sity of Texas in the same year, He
was made dean of that university in
1899, and after service in other pro
fesorships went to St. Louis as chan?
cellor of Washington University in
1908 and held thai position until 1916,
part of the time in conjunction with
his position here as Secretary of Agri?
culture.
Served on Defense Council
During the war Mr. Houston was a
member of the Federal Council of N'.t
? tional Defense, and he is now a mem?
ber of the National Forest Reservation
Commission and chairman of the Fed?
eral Board for Vocational Education.
Many men ha\'D been considered by
? the President for the Treasury post
since Mr. Glass was named by Gover?
nor Davis of Virginia before the holi?
days to succeed the late Senator Mar?
tin. Among them were Bernard M.
Baruch, of New York, and Swager
Sherley, of Kentucky, former chairmi n
of the House Appropriations Commit?
tee and now director of finance of the
railroad administration. One of the
latest names to be discussed was that
i of R. C. Leffingwell, the assistant
secretary in charge of tiscal affairs,
who for several weeks was believed to
; have tii> i ?side track in the President's
? mind.
In the year that ?; left of the prient
. term of Mr. Wilson the Secretary of
the Treasury will have one of the most
: important Cabinet post.-, to fill. The
problems that have come to the fore
as a consequence of the ending of the
war liave not been solved. The Treasury
is facing a reduction in revenue with?
out being able to bring about any dc
: cided cut in the estimates for appro?
priai ions. In the next year Congress
is expected to get under way a real
? budget system, and if it does the part
of the Secretary of the Treasury in
making it a success must be important.
Under the Treasury also come some of
the most important and largest uf the
government bureaus, notably the War
j Risk Insurance Bureau and the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, which just now
has its hands full enforcing the prohi?
bition law.
Talked of for White House
Four years ago there was consider?
able talk about the possibility or' Mr.
Houston's being a candidate for the
White House if Mr. Wilson did not
take the nomination himself. Whether
there will be a serious renewal of such
talk if he steps from a Cabinet posi?
tion where he has little or no lime*
i light into one where the light will
shine exceedingly bright is something
which will cause much keen interest
here. Not many month,** remain before
the Democratic party must make up
its mind who is to be nominated in San
Francisco, but Mr. Houston, if he is so
determined, might in that time attain
a lot more prominence than he has so
. far. He apparently has made few ene?
mies in hi-> party here, and he might
have many friends among the farmers
whsc votes always are important.
Don't wait for SlrkniHX i>> come. ? lean nnd
disinfect t..-.In,, n-lt'i ?Klo! !*>-'?;; \|*^?'V
. Liiij ?Jriifarbit lut* il.?Ali?i.
U. S. to Recognize
A mien ia Republic
PARIS, dan. 26.?At the after?
noon session of the council of am?
bassadors, which takes the place
of the Supreme Council, Hugh C.
Wallace, the American Ambas
;ador, announced that the United
States ha<l decided to recognize
the Republic of Armenia, the
boundaries of which will he de?
fined by the Turkish treaty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.? I
State Department officials said to?
night that Paris dispatches de?
claring the United States had de?
cided to recognize the Republic of
Armenia were premature. The
Administration is getting all pos?
sible light from Ambassador Wal?
lace at Paris, it was said, but its
policy has not yet been settled.
It was pointed out that the
question of recognition has noth?
ing to do with the proposed man?
date over Armenia.
?Erzberger Shot,
Troop? Guard
Berlin Streets
i Wilhelmstrasse Barricaded
ami All Traffic S'uit
Off; Armored Carts Mass
att Government Building
BERLIN, Jan. 26 (By The Associated
j Press). -Wilhelmstrasse to-night is
barricaded and under the guard of nu?
merous troops. A patrol of eighteen
armored automobiles and a half dozen
' huge motor trucks loaded with troops
arrived early in the evening and im?
mediately took up their positions in
'.front of the Government Building and
| shut off all traffic from the thorough
j fare.
The precautions were taken by Min
: ister of Defense Noske following an
?assault to-day upon Mathias Erzberger.
Minister of Finance, who was wounded
by a shot tired at him. Rumors that
i the monarchists would attempt an in?
surrection on the eve of the former
Emperor's birthday i which occurs to?
morrow I and that the attack was to be
directed primarily against the Inde?
pendent Socialists and Radic?is also
were said to be responsible for the
precautions.
.While the government promptly
branded the rumors as wholly unfound?
ed and even ridiculed them, the attempt i
on Erzberger's life prompted N'oske to
mobilize the troops for the protection
of the government offices.
Shot While Seated in Auto
Herr Erzberger had left the Criminal
Courts Buildii here he had attended
a hearing of his suit against Dr. Helf
ferich, and was seated in his automo?
bile talking to his attorney, Dr. Fiir-d
lander, when his assailant, a well dressed
young man, approached close behind the
lawyer and fired three shots.
The attorney was standing on the run?
ning board of the motor car, holding
the door open, and the assassin crept up
under his arm to shoot. The first shot
hit a vest button and glanced off. The
second struck the Minister's watch and
was deflected. The third entered Herr
Erzberger's shoulder. Erzberger fell
back in his car, which drove rapidly
away.
The bullet hud not been removed at
9 o'clock this evening, although it was
aid that Herr Erzberger was resting
fairly comfortable.
His assailant, who gave his name as
Oltwig von Hirschfeld, was arrested
and taken to a police station, where he
said he was a former cadet officer. He
said that he was a student twenty
years old, living with his parents in a
suburb of Berlin. His father, he said,
was a bank official.
While Ihi Finance .Minister is not
si riously wounded an operation will !
be necessary to extract the bullet from j
his shoulder.
Krzberger's family physician, who
attended the wounded man, reiterated,
after the examination that the wound
was not dangerous.
When arrested Von Hirschfeld de?
clared that he considered Erzberger
. dangerous to the empire.
['he police authorities began an ex?
amination of the prisoner at -1 o'clock
this afternoon and interrogated him
for several hours. Hirschfeld comes
from the suburb of Steglitz, where his.
Pi.rent. live. He attended the "gym?
nasium," a combination of upper hiir1.
school and lower college, until the
? v.ai broke, when IU> acted as a sub?
lieutenant throughout tiie war. He
. then returned tu the '"gymnasium."
"Patriotic Motives" Claimed
Before the shooting Hirschfeld wrote
his parents a letter in which he ex?
plained thait he was acting from "pa?
triotic motives." The weapon he used
was an old-fashioned revolver of small
caliber and capable of only short-range
firing. When taken away from him it
contained four unused bullets.
To-day's attack was not the first at-?
tempt made to kill Erzberger. Last
June at Weimar he barely escaped
capture by a handful of troops, who,
as was later proved, deliberately had j
planned to lynch him. The attack at!
'hat time was commonly believed toi
, have been inspired by the Conserva?
tive Militarists. Erzberger escaped
in an automobile and remained in hid
' ing for several days.
When the present Helfferich-Erzber
'I ger trial began the. government as?
signed two plainelothes men to protect
' Erzberger. They accompanied him to
? court the first day, but their presence
was objected to by the judge, who or
1 Continued on page three
Democrats Will Give An?
swer To-day Defining
Their Attitude; Hitch?
cock Ready for Debate
Republicans Scent
A Political Trick
Senator Colt Says Noth?
ing Less Than Lodge
Views Can Be Passed
**re*0 't'ork Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.?Bi?
partisan conferences on compromise
reservations to the league of nations
covenant came to a sudden end to?
day with both Republicans and Dem?
ocrats undetermined as to their fu?
ture course, and the time fast ap?
proaching when a move will be made
to bring the treaty back on the floor
of the Senate again, and reopen the
whole debate.
In all the currents that ran through
the Senate there was no positive in?
dication of what might happen in
the next forty-eight hours, or
whether the Senators who wish to
bring the treaty out into the open
again will be successful if they make
a serious effort toward such action.
There is no man on either side of
the chamber who can predict confi?
dently how many votes he can mus?
ter back of him.
Senator Lodge, leader of the Re?
publican majority, and who has
acted as chairman of the bipartisan
conferences, apparently reconciled
his differences to-day with that
group when he said he had informed
the bipartisan conferees this morn?
ing that in his judgment the Senate
would not ratify the treaty with
reservations milder than those bear?
ing Ins name. But on the heel- of
his announcement came reports from
the "mild reservationists" that they
were unwilling to see the negoti?
tions fail, and that if they did thi
treaty would be carried to the floor
in the near future and the issue
fought out there to a finish.
Hilrhc?>ck Leans to "Mild" View
Senator Hitchcock, Administration
leader in the fight, -was inclined to
agree with this suggestion of some o'
the "mild reserva* ion ists," and in it he
?vas said by other Democrats to have
sufficient support from hi? own party
and from Republicans to bring the
treaty out whenever he wishes to un?
dertake sticn a move.
To add a fresh complication to the
situation, however, one of the "mild
reservationists," Senator Colt, of Rhode
Island, said to-night ho did not agree
with the aims of his colleagues and
did not believe they could muster two
thirds of the Senate behind the treaty
with reservations of milder character
than the Lodge reservations.
"Senator Hitchcock," said Senator
Colt to-night, ''doesn't want s com?
promise. He wants to throw the blan*.*.
for beating the treaty on the Repub?
licans."
Supporting this view, other Senators
who up to to-night were in favor of
accepting changes in the wording of
the Lodge reservations so long us their
substance remained intact took the
view that to bring it out on the floor
would he to put the Democrats in the
position where they could force the
Republicans to vote against all sorts
of changes in wording and eventually
vote against the treaty itself.
The Senate was apparently at sea
on the whole situation. The Democrats
are not believed to be lined up solidly
behind the Hitchcock plan for bringing
the treaty out and placing the blame
for u failure of negotiations on tht
Republicans.
Democratic < ausus Scheduled
Before the bipartisan conference
meets again to-morrow the Democrats
are expected to get together and out?
line their attack upon the majority and
plan the steps they may take in the
future. If their ideas of to-night be?
come facts to-morrow, they will go
into the conference prepared to offer
to resume negotiations on Article X
where they left off when the confer?
ences broke up last week. If the Re?
publicans will not continue negotia?
tions, or indicate they cannot accept
any changes in the wording of the
Lodge reservations, the meeting prob?
ably will break up.
If the Democrats follow Mr. Hitch?
cock's ideas they will issue a state?
ment to the country showing just ho*?/
far the conferences progressed and
giving it as their opinion that the Re?
publicans are responsible for failur?
to get together on a reasonable com?
promise. This statement may be made
on the floor of the Senate and, if
made, is bound to start fireworks.
Trick of Democrat-* Charged
Some of the "irreconcilables" were
trying to-night to make the "mild
res.-rvationists" look at the situation a*,
they view it. They feel that it is not
merely a question of changing the
wording of the reservations, but chang?
ing with the words the politisai party
which would get credit for those reser?
vations. So long as the reservations
bore Mr. Lodge's name, the country,
these Senators feel, would remember
?hem as Republican reservations, but
the minute they were changed they
probably would become known as the
Hitchcock reservations, an?j the country
eventually might come to believe that
they were the result of Democratic ef?
fort.
Even Senator Lodge himself was said
to-night not to have realized the politi?
cal significance of ?his Democratic plan
until it was pointed out to him by tht?
"irreconcilables."
,*-.-"ie known to-nirht that the
?~**er<-*.?.??iw ta Article X h??? beca re