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Smith JXames
Newton for
Inquiry Into
?wann Office
Governor Acts on Charges
Filed by Grand Jury
Against Three Assistants
of the District Attorney
Prosecutor Calls
Action a "Pretext"
Plan to Bring Becker Into
Case, He Says, Oust Hy?
lan, 'Get Something On'
Hearst, Raise Carfares
Governor Smith announced in Al?
bany yesterday that he would desig?
nate Charles D. Newton, Attorney
General of the state, as special coun?
sel to the extraordinary grand jury
to aid that body in its investigation
of criminal charges against members
of District Attorney Swann's staff.
Soon after the Governor's an?
nouncement Mr, Swann charged that
the inquiry into the District Attor?
ney's office by the panel headed by
Raymond F. Almirall was only a
'pretext," and that the actual pur?
pose was to have Alfred L. Becker,
a former deputy Attorney General,
assigned as special deputy to con?
duct the jury's inquiry.
TJirough Mr. Becker, the District At
torney alleged, the jury hopes to "find
?cmething" on Mayor Hylan, bring
about his removal and supplant him
with some one who will grant the trac
:?oii interests an 8-cent fare.
"Aims to 'Get' Hearst"
fhe second object of the jury's
maneuver, -Mr. Swann charged, was to
!:;d something" on William Randolph
h'oarft, publisher of "The New York
American" and "The Evening Journal,"
'rive him out of politics "for all time"
and thus remove what the District At?
torney described as a "thorn" in the
side of the traction combine.
The Governor's announcement means
bat Mr. Newton, or such deputy as ho
may name, will supersede Mr. Swann,
whose status as legal adviser to the
uiy, the panel has charged, stood in
[he way of an impartial investigation
of the District Attorney's office.
Governor .-.mith's action came after
months of controversy and when the
.'anel, apparently hopelessly blocked,
"?as about to disband. The Governor
noved after Foreman Almirall for?
warded him a letter making specific
barges of misconduct in office against
bree members of Mr. Swann's staff.
They .are:
James E. Smith, official vice and
bling crusader of the District At?
torney's office for the past ten years.
John T. Dooling, in charge of in
uiries into bond thefts and Wall
":reet frauds.
Edwin P. Kilroe. head of the Bureau
?:' Commercial Frauds.
All are full first assistant district
ittorneya and important members of
Mr. Swann's staff.
Charges Are Outlined
Although the jury in its letter to
'iovernor Smith ntated its disinclina?
tion to link the names of the assist?
ant district attorneys with "uninves
tigated crimes," and specified the
names in a separate inclosed memo?
randum for the Governor, Mr. Smith
save out this inclosure at Albany. It
"eads:
'for His Excellency, Governor Alfred
u E. Smith.
"IMemorandum ).
"1?John T. Dooling. charged in
connection with Alexander F. Reich
man, with a conspiracy to falsely and
maliciously indict one Gaston B. Means
? or the crime of murder and to procure
said Means to be complained of and
arrested tor such a crime in violation
of Section 580, subdivision 2, of the
penal law.
"In connection with the investigation
-bus fay made of said alleged crime,
some evidence has been presented indi?
cating that crime in violation of Sec?
tion 580, subdivision 6, section 1846
and also section 376 of the Penal Law
bave also been committed by said
fooling.
"2. James E. Smith, charged with vari?
ous violations of Section 372 of the
renal Law, and with neglect of duty
?n violation of Sections 1841 and 1867
of the Penal Law, in respect of the in?
vestigation and presentation of gam?
bling and disorderly houses.
"3. Edwin P. Kilroe, charged with
'eg'ect and omission of duty in viola?
ron of Sections 1841 and 1857 of the
Penal Law in failing to present and
Prosecute charges of larceny made by
Thomas B. Donaldson, Insurance Com?
missioner of the State of Pennsylvania,
against George F. Montgomery.
The Jury's Letter
The jury's letter which accompanied
this memorandum follows:
"Let me acknowledge receipt of your
excellency's letter of the 14th inst.
"For the purpose of securing the
cervices of the Attorney General as
;egal adviser to the extraordinary
?rand jury and without acquiescing in
'our excellency's apparent conception
? ?f the necessity of specifying charges,
the extraordinary grand jury defers to
your excellency's requirement.
"The extraordinary grand jury highly
appreciates your excellency's expres?
i?n of willingness to do all in your
excellency's power to legally comply
v'uh its request and your excellency's
Komtse to designate the Attorney Gen
*rai on receipt of the specifications
your excellency is pleased to require.
"Because of the preference of the
?rand jury not to link together the
'?ame of a person and the charge of an
'?^investigated crime, the grand jury
takes the great liberty of inclosing
herewith a memorandum of the names
Qi three members of the District At?
torney's staff particularly referred to
m the grand jury's letter, dated Jan
Continued on page three
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Sir Auckland Geddes May Be Named
British Ambassador to Washington
From The Tribtme'a European Bureau
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, Feb. 18.?Announcement may be expected soon of the
appointment of a successor to Viscount Grey of Fallodon as British
Ambassador to the United States.
! Sir Auckland C. Geddes, Minister of National Service and Recon
I struction, is the most prominent of the candidates under discussion.
Since his wife is the daughter of W. A. Ross, of New York, and his
brother, Sir Eric, spent several years in the United States, it is believed
he might favorably consider the post.
H. A. L. Fisher, Minister of Education, and Sir Willfcm Terrell,
who acted as Viscount Grey's secretary, are other names frequently
mentioned in discussions of possible candidates.
Lord Reading's objection to accepting the post arose from his
? unwillingness to relinquish the office of Lord Chief Justice.
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|U. S. to Round Up and Try
I All Army Draft Evaders
Baker Announces Names Will Be Posted and Onl]
Those Granted Deferred Classification
Will Escape Court Martial
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Trial by court martial faces all "willful
draft evaders, it was announced by the War Department to-day.
The first step in such a plan will be the early publication of the nam
of every draft dodger. A survey is now in progress, and the informatio
: obtained will be given out as soon as the investigation is completed. I
j making public such a list the War Department will have two purpose
First, to inform the Department of<3
Justice and police officials of the coun?
try, and second, to inform the deserter
himself and his friends and acquain?
tances that a charge of desertion
I stands against him.
i In a comprehensive statement of
i policy toward men who failed to re
! spond to the summons of draft boards
| to perform military duty, the War De?
partment points out that men who
? failed to respond, but who subsequently
i saw active military or naval service,
must procure discharge certificates
from the War Department to remove
their names from the list of deserters.
Opportunity to put themselves right
is also given men who, after their call
to the colors, which they ignored, were
?given deferred classification and thus
? placed low on the list of men subject
to military duty.
j All others, however, are to be, de
? clared deserters and upon their cap
? ture they will be brought before courts
i martial and tried for the military of
i fense of deserting their duty.
The War Department already has
ascertained that there were 173,911
draftees who originally were classified
! as "willful deserters." Out of this num
j her, evidence has been found that re
j lieved 151,354 of the odium of deser
? tion by reason of their having eyentu
? ally served with American forces, died ?
! without opportunity of answering the I
? call, or otherwise through no fault of I
their own were unable to advise draft
boards of their exemption from serv- I
ice. ?
7*500 Deserters
On New York List
?Federal Authorities Here\
\ Planning for Round-Up \
of ''Willful Evaders"]
A list of 7,500 names of men classi
fied as "willful delinquents under the !
selective service law" is in the hands
of the Federal attorney here, and
while no new instructions have been
! received from the War Department re
| garding their apprehension, it is be
? lieved that Secretary Bakers order
I to the adjutant general providing for
i a round up of "willful deserters" applies
I to these cases.
George F. Lamb, superintendent of
the Department of Justice for this dis
? trict, said last night that he had re
! ceived no orders from Washington re
? garding any new measures to bo taken
in an effort to round up draft evaders.
j The Department of Justice is in pos
I session of all the available information
pertaining to the 7,500 cases listed by
the Federal attorney and an effort, to
j apprehend these men has been under
i way for several weeks. About twenty ;
have been caught and after trial be?
fore Federal judges have received sen?
tences ranging from six months to a
year.
The cases of the alleged delinquents
i will be tried in the Federal courts and
I not before a military tribunal, it was
! said at the Federal attorney's office
j yesterday. The maximum penalty is
j imprisonment for one year. No provi
i sion has been made for fines.
About three months ago the Federal
i attorney's office was furnished by the
1 government with a list of some 23,000
j alleged evaders of the selective service
j law. An investigation recently com
i pleted by the office developed the fact
that many of those on the list had en?
listed in the Army, Navy or Marine
! Corps or could show sufficient cause
( for" exemption or deferred classifica?
tion. Some were found to be dead*
When the list had been thoroughly
I "boiled down" there remained 7,500
? cases which could be classified as
j "willful delinquents." All of these are
? draftees called in the Southern District
I of New York and all aro fugitives at
' the present time.
? It was said at the Federal attorney's
. office last night that several methods
? for rounding up the fugitives were
being considered, but no definite plan
had been arrived at.
j Mrs. Catt vs. Wadsworth
?Suffrage Leader or Miss Hay
Suggested for Senate Race
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Sugges
i tion that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
! president of the new Ltague of Wom
I an Voters, or Miss Mary Garrett Hay
enter the Senatorial field in New York
! State in opposition to the candidacy
of Senator James W. Wadsworth jr.,
was contained in a letter addressed to
Mrs. Catt to-day by Miss Mary G. Kil
breth, president of the National As?
sociation Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
Miss Kilbreth asserted that such a
race would make a fair test of the
anti-suffrage argument that women
! ,?referred to be represented in poli
I tics by men rather than by women.
Hedley Will
Fight to Keep
I. R. T. Lines
Believes Municipal Opera?
tion Would Impose on
People; Sees Ruin Neai
if Fare Increase Fail.?
Municipal control and operation o
the Interborough subways and the ele
vated lines will never be realized if Fran!
Hedley, president of the Interboroug!
Rapid Transit Company can prevent il
Mr. Hedley testified to that effect at th
hearing in the traction investigatio:
before the Board of Estimate yester
day. In answer to Mayor Hylan's ques
tions he declared he did not want t
I see "the people of New York impose
! upon" by letting the city run the sub
ways. He assured the Mayor that h
would advise the directors of the Into,]
borough "to hold on to'the very la;
ditch."
Mr. Hedley was recalled as a witnes
at the afternoon session and was ui
der a running fire of questions for tw
hours by Corporation Counsel Bur
Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig ar
other members of the Board of Est
mate. Comptroller Craig led up to tl
point at which the Mayor took up tl
matter of municipal ownership ai
operation.
"Are you pretty sure you are going
fail if you don't get an increased fare
; asked the Comptroller.
Interborough Plea for Money
"If we don't get an increased fare,
if \%e do not get some one to loan
or give us some money, we cannot ke
running," replied Mr. Hedley.
"Are you willing to turn the subwa
back to the people, back to the ci
and let the city run the subways
Mayor Hylan asked,
"I don't want to see the people
Xew York imposed upon," was J
Hedley's reply.
"Don't you worry about the peopl
said the Mayor. "The people have be
imposed upon by the stock and bo
and other manipulations. We will f<
get that for a minute. Don't y
Continued on page six
Republican
*Big 4' to Go
Uninstructed
Conference Decides to
Send Delegates to Sup?
port Strongest Man;
Butler Is Turned Down
Move by Barnes
And Hilles Fails
I Root, Col. Thompson,
! Wadsworth and Calder
Are Chosen by Leaders
New York's delegates to the Republi?
can convention at Chicago will go un?
instructed.
This was decided yesterday at a con?
ference of party leaders at the head?
quarters of the Republican State Com
| mittec. During this meeting Fred
I crick Greiner, of Buffalo; John F.
O'Brien, of Plattsburg, and Representa
\ tive Bertrand H. Snell, of Potsdam,
| blocked an attempt of William Barnes
I and Charles D. Hilles to commit the
delegates to the support of Nicholas
Murray Butler for the nomination for
President..
The conference yesterday agreed
upon the following for delegates and
alternates-at-large :
Elihu Root, Colonel William Boyce
Thompson and united States Senators
James W. Wadsworth jr. and William
M. Calder.
Alternates?John F. O'Brien, oi
| Plattsburg; Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore
of Westchester; Representative Thomas
B. Dunn, of Rochester, and a Manhat?
tan man, to be chosen by the NewYorl
County Committee. '
It is doubtful if this list will remair
intact, for word came from Washingtor
last night that Mr. Root has said flatly
! when told he had been chosen, that h<
i would not serve and that he expects t(
be in Europe when the Republican con
vention meets. Leaders of the part:
are trying to persuade him to recon
sider, but believe their chances of sue
cess are slight.
"I will not vote to instruct our dele
gates for President Butler for Presi
dent or for any other office," said Mr
Greiner, opposing the plan to instruc
for Butler. There were manifestation!
of general approval of that stand b;
Mr. Greiner by many of the conferees
The turning down of the plan to in
struct for Dr. Butler did not cans
noticeable bitterness.
Butler Issue Is Debated
Barnes and Hilles suggested it migh
be a good thing, in order to keep th
New York delegation intact and wiel
it as a unit, for the delegates to stam
for the nomination of Dr. Butler, i:
view of his eminent fitness for th
nomination. Coming from two sue'
convention strategists the question pre
voked rather extended debate behin
closed doors, but there was no roll cal
| The opposition to the suggestion wa
apparently so widespread that neithe
j Mr. Barnes nor Mr. Hilles nor th
i other friends of Dr. Butler evinced
I disposition to prolong the controvers;
I George A. Glynn, State Chairmai
! presided at the conference. Preser
| among others were Senators Wad;
! worth and Calder. Frederick Greine
of Erie; Representatives Bertrand I
j Snell, Norman J. Gould and Luther I
Mott, Colonel Herbert Parsons, e?
Senator Ogden L. Mills, John F. O'Brlei
! Samuel S. Koenig, Jacob L. Livingsto;
! State Comptroller Eugene M. Travi
i ex-Representative John Dwight, <
Dryden; William Barnes, Charles ]
| Hilles. ex-Governor Charles S. Whi
I man, Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, chai
j man of the women's stale executh
j committee; Mrs. Ruth Litt,. Mrs. Charit
! H. Sabin, Senator J. Henry Waltei
and Speaker Sweet.
Chairman Glynn said a free exchanf
of views on the subject of choosir
the delegates and alternates-at-lar??
and matters of party policy was d
sired. He stated Dr. Nicholas Mum
Butler will present the conventic
platform at the session to-morrow a
ternoon. Jt is understood it will de
only with national issues, and it is b
lieved many of its planks will be adop
Continued on next page
Republicans Put $1,000 j
Limit on Campaign Gifts
Will H. Hays, chairman of the Re?
publican National Committee, and
Colonel William Eoyce Thompson,
chairman of the Ways and Meaas
Committee of the National Committee,
told more than 300 Republican leaders,
mostly from New Yorx state at the
Waldorf-Astoria last night, that the
financing of the campaign this year
would be an open book.
Subscriptions exceeding $1,000 will
not be received from any one source,
they said.
The dinner wa3 private, with Colonel
Thompson as the host, the object be?
ing to acquaint organization men in
this state with the aims and methods
of the national committee's campaign
work.
Mr. Hays Explains Finance Plan
Chairman Hays in the course of his
address said:
"Every one recognizes the necessity
of meeting legitimate campaign ex?
penses.
"There is just one best way for this
money to be provided, and that is by
means of small contributions from the
great membership of the party.
"This plan will be followed com?
pletely.
"A general committee of Ways and
Means, acting with the treasurer of
the national committee, will carry this
work into each state and into the
cities and towns, with a definite or?
ganization for the raising of money.
"The purpose will be to afford the
opportunity for the party membership,
from the smallest units of territory, to
make sustaining contributions in
amounts from $1 up. No contribution
for more than $1,000 will be received
from any one.
Books Will Be Open to AU
"The financing of the Republican
campaign will be an open book, it
will, of course, accord with the best
spirit and the letter of the campaign
publicity laws of the nation and the
?
.states. Just as the fundamentally es- !
sential right within a political party is j
the opportunity of the membership to !
express itself in the discharge of its j
duty to say what the party's purpose
shall be, so should it be the privilege
of the entire party membership, rather
than a few individuals, to provide the
party's funds. This will be done."
Colonel Thompson said:
"To a man who has been watching
with a good deal of uneasiness the zig?
zag course of our government under
the control of the Democratic party;
to a man who has seen essential parts
of the machinery of that government
break down in the incompetent hands
of men who should never have been
allowed to have their hands near it;
to a man who has been angered and
appalled by the bankruptcy of the pres?
ent admnistrative leadership in Wash?
ington?to such a man a gathering like
this looks good.
Calls for End of Disorder
"It looks good for this reason: You
men and women who have come to?
gether to-night are not shouters; you
are doers. You are men and women oi
affairs. You are here because yoi
mean business. You are here because
you have said to yourselves, 'This dis
order in Washington has gone on loni
enough.'
"Wilson has forced his Cabinet t(
be a group of shadows shaping them
selves to the individuality of thei:
master. Wilson is still President, bu
unable to perform the duties of th
office, and, as a consequence, thei
shadows in Washington can do nothin?
but hover and flit about.
"The Cabinet has not functioned fo
months. We have been and are livin
in topsy-turvydom, but we are notgoin
to live there much longer. It is u
to the Republican party to see tha
after March 4, 1921, the Democrat
shall not for a generation get anothe
chance to squander the money of th
American people."
Labor Fights
Wage Board
In Rail Bill
Plans Protest Against Pro?
vision in Final Measure
for Voluntary Adjust?
ment of Disputes
Will Press Demand
For Increased Pay
House Expected to Take
Up and Pass Legislation
at Saturday's Session
From The Tribune's Waahtngton Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. -The final
draft of the legislation to provide for
the return of the railroads to private
ownership and operation on March 1
was reported to the Senate to-day, with
provisions written into it to prevent
labor troubles on the railroads for six
months.
The conference committee wrote into
the bill a provision continuing until
September 1 a scale of wages not less
than that in effect at midnight Feb?
ruary 29. Instead of the drastic anti
strike provisions of the original Senate
bill or the elaborate system of wage
boards created in the House measure to
adjust labor disputes the new bill pro?
vides for a system of mediation that is
entirely voluntary.
Heads of the railway brotherhoods
to-night expressed satisfaction with the
labor clauses of the measure, although
they are preparing to tile a formal pro?
test against the section of the bill pro?
viding for the adjustment of wage dis?
putes.
The assurance given in the bill that
the scale of wages cannot be decreased
for six months after the return of the
roads would not prevent the railroad
employees from seeking an increase,
the labor leaders declared. They plan
to press their demand for an increase
made several weeks ago, and which is
now being adjusted by President Wil?
son.
House lo Take Up Bill Saturday
The bill reported to-day is a com?
bination of the Esch bill passed by the
House of Representatives last Novem?
ber and the Cummins measure passed
by the Senate in December. Features
of both bills are retained in the fina!
measure, which is the fruit of sis
weeks' work by the conference com?
mittee.
The conference hill will be consid?
ered by the House on Saturday. TJpoi
motion of Chairman Esch of the House
Committee on Interstate Commerce th(
House limited debate on it to five
hours, in the hope of its passage Satur
day night, so the bill can be sent. t<
the Senate for final action by the mid
die of next week.
The conference bill specifies that th<
roads shall be returned on March 1. I
continues existing rates and the pr?s
ent scale of wages for railway employ?
ees until September 1, 1920. After tha
date the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, which is increased in size tc
eleven members and whose powers art
greatly enlarged, shall have jurisdic
tion over rates.
Labor Dispute Board Created
A voluntary system of adjndicatin)
wage disputes without any penalty at
tached for refusing to accept the ad
justments made, was written into th
bill at the last minute at the reques
of the Administration. Instead of th
drastic anti-strike provisions of th
Cummins bill, or the elaborate systen
of wage adjustment boards created ii
the Esch bill, the conference commit
tee measure creates a central labor dis
pute board, to which wage and othe
labor disputes may be referred. It
decisions are not binding, howevei
Local boards may be formed in the dis
cretion of the employees and the car
riers, the bill provides.
The present compensation of road
under Federal operation is continue
for six months after March 1. Afte
the expiration of the six-months' perio
the roads are guaranteed an earnin
of 5V? per ecnt on the actual value o
their property.
A revolving fund of $300,000,000 i
established for the purpose of helpin
the carriers to purchase new equir.
ment during the transitory period. A
additional appropriation of $200,000.00
is made to the Treasury Departmen
to meet deficits in Federal operatioi
Provision is made for the refunding c
the carriers' indebtedness to the Unite
States during a period of ten years.
Permits Consolidation of Roads
The bill further provides that th
railroads may be reorganized into
limited number of competitive sy?
terns, in accordance with a plan to t
worked out by the Interstate Con
merce Commission. Voluntary conso
idation of roads under the approval <
the commission also is provided for.
All powers vested in the Presidei
under the Federal control act ai
terminated, except those required f(
winding up the affairs of the goveri
meht's period of operation of the road
All canal and other inland waterway
boats acquired by the government ai
transferred to the War Department.
During the six months period follov
lowing the return of the roads the con
pensation of- the carriers shall be tl
same as provided for in their coi
tracts with the government. The roa<
Continued on page four
Dutch Ready to Intern
Former Kaiser at Doon
Allies' Note Taken to Mean Wi
, helm Must Not Meddle
With World Peace
THE HAGUE, Feb. 18?The Dutc
press, although inclined to ?esent wh:
one newspaper calls "a display of bi
temper" in the rather sharp wording
some parts of the second Allied no
with regard to the former German Er
peror, in its comment generally tak
the view that these parts are intendi
only for home consumption, and th
the real meaning of the note is th
Holland is simply asked to preve
Wilhelm from interfering with tl
peace of the world.
The government, the newspapers sa
is undoubtedly pleased that the Alii
did not attempt to dictate the specil
place of internment. The general fee
ing is that the incident will be speedi
settled with Holla mi's expected offer
intern Wilhelm at Doom.
Allies Expect Compromise
?n Adriatic Plan; Wilson
Stand Remains Unchanged
Hint of U. S. Withdrawal
From Negotiations on the
Status of Turkey a New
Feature of the Situation
Allied Action Resented
Protracted Diplomatic Cor?
respondence Is Predicted
Before Issue Is Settled
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Presi?
dent Wilson had before him to-day
the reply of the Allied Premiers to
his sharp note of warning and
threatened withdrawa' of the
United States from European
affairs unless the Adriatic situation
was settled on the basis of the joint
1 agreement among the powers signed
I on December 9, 1919.
Both the White Hoyse and ?ie
' State Department declined to make
i public the answer of the European
; Premiers until the consent of the
| Allied governments is obtained. It
j was intimated that this has been
I sought in a cablegram acknowledg
j ing receipt of the communication.
The strong impression here is
? that there will be a long series of
I notes exchanged between the Presi?
dent and Britain, France and Italy
? before any solution is reached.
Wilson Firm in Protest
Everywhere to-day there was evi
I dence that the position of the Ameri?
can government against depriving the
\ Jugo-Slavs of what is described as
their right in the Adriatic would be
maintained by the President. Although
it was officially hinted that the London
report that the answer of the Supreme
Council was "conciliatory" is correct,
there likewise was the feeling that
nothing short of a clear statement
that the American position will be
agreeable to the powers will be accept?
able to this government.
In some quarters it was believed that
the answer of the Supreme Council may
suggest a compromise, this government
j being urged to accept slight modifica?
tions of the December ? agreement in
j order that the troublesome situation
i surrounding the future of Fiume may
! be smoothed out. There was evidence
| also that the note must satisfactorily
I explain the failure of the Allied Pre
i miers to take the United States into
consultation before the modified agree?
ment had been dispatched to Belgrade
in the form of an ultimatum to the
Jugo-Slavs that they must accept it oi
fall back on the Pact of London. This,
agieement gives the City of Fiume to
Croatia.
Premiers' Actions Resented
Resentment is held here against the
deliberate attempt of the Allied pre?
miers to satisfy Italy's claims in the
Adriatic payment'?of a so-called war
obligation, and at the same time de?
priving the Jugo-Slavs of territory
which all governments, including the
United States, had agreed was to be
theirs.
The extent to which this resentment
prevails may be indicated by the fact
that this government has not definitely
decided whether an American plenipo?
tentiary shall be present at the forth?
coming conference to discuss the Turk?
ish peace treaty. Heretofore there was
a general understanding that the
United States government would be
represented at this conference by a
personal representative of the Presi?
dent, to whom would be extended au?
thority to commit this government on
all questions.
To-day, however, it was officially ad?
mitted that no decision has been
reached by the President on the ques?
tion of having the United States take
part in this conference. The question,
it was said, was still under "considera?
tion."
United States Participation Sought
It is known that the American gov?
ernment has been urged to send a com?
missioner with plenary powers to this
conference, which is soon to sit in
Paris. The point has been made to this
government that the interests of the
United States in the Turkish settlement
are not dissimilar to the interests held
by this government in the conference
at Algeciras when the Morrocan dispute
was pending. The United States has
extraterritorial interests in Constanti?
nople, it was suggested, and the pres
! ence of an American peace commis
i sioner is sought to avoid any misunder
| standing such as developed in the
! Fiume situation. ?
On the settlement of the Fiume ques?
tion, however, it is frankly admitted,
depends the future course this govern?
ment will take in European politics.
| The President's note of February 10,
i as has been officially admitted, con
| tained the direct parning that unless
| the view of the United States is heeded
i in the Adriatic question this govern
I ment will consider cutting away com
i pletely from European nations and re?
fusing to be involved in the settlement
of territorial disputes arising from the
! war or that may develop in the future.
Should it develop, however, that the
I answer of the Supr??? Council dis
. plays an attitude of misunderstanding
j of the definiteness of the American
viewpoint the President may be com
! peiled to inform more completely the
Allied powers on the views held by
j this government in the Adriatic dis
I pute.
The President already has agreed to
modifications in his original plan for
the settlement of the Fiume dispute,
? and these changes have been in Italy's
favor, but he is said steadfastly to be
opposed to any change in the boundar?
ies outlined in the joint agreement of
the powers made on December 9.
Mississippi Rejects Suffrage
* JACKSON, ' Miss., Feb. 18.?The
Mississippi Senate to-day rejected the
woman suffrage amendment to the
Federal Constitution by a vote of 16
to 81. It previously was rejected by
the House.
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Results. The Areo Press. 225 W 3Sth.
Phoacs Bryant J3Sa-3J6tj.?Advx.
Wilson Assails
Pact of London
BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 18.?
The Rome correspondent of "La
Naci?n" says the Allied reply to
President Wilson's Adriatic mem?
orandum sets out to refute the
arguments of the President,* para?
graph by paragraph.
Referring to the alternative to
the compromise?the application
of the Pact of London?the cor?
respondent declares that Presi?
dent Wilson opposes this violent?
ly, asserting that he is unable to
take into consideration a secret
treaty which, in his judgment,
is "one of the worst examples of
iniquitous violation of the rights
of small peoples."
Peace Treaty
Sidetracked
Bv Senators
Routine Business Is Taken
Up Instead ; Little Inter?
est Is Shown in the De?d
1 o e k Over Ratification
By Carter Field
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Without a
single protest" the Senate to-day, after
two fruitless days' discussion, laid the
pt ?ce treaty aside and went ahead with
rou-ine business. It took up the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill, and in a
day or two will take up the railroad
conference report. No one is manifest
! ing any distress at the fact that there
: is no definite idea of when the Senate
j will get back to the treaty. As one
Senator put it to-night, the Senators
are now divided into two groups on the
treaty?"irreconcilables" and "indiff?r?
ents."
Administration Senators who called up
the State Department were informed
! that there was no prospect of the Pres
j ident withdrawing the treaty, despite
the statement in the President's note
to the British and French that he would
have to consider doing so if the Allies
persisted in the new Adriatic settle
! ment. It was not assumed at all from
this that the reply of the Allies re
I ceived to-day was satisfactory, but
j merely that there will be a considera?
ble period of note writing, during vfrMch
there will be no move to withdraw the
treaty.
Treaty Threat Called "Bluff"
Senators generally regarded tire
?whole gesture about withdrawing the
! treaty as a "bluff," but this did not
? inspire the friends of the treaty to
? manifest any interest. The Admir.is
? tration leaders are very much discour?
aged over the apparent impasse reached
! over the reservations, and admit that
j unless something is clone when the vote
j on the treaty finally is reached it will
i be rejected again by a combination of
! "irreconcilables" and Administration
Democrats.
The majority Republicans and the
minority of the Democrats willing to
accept the treaty with strong reserva?
tions do not approximate anything
like a two-thirds majority at present.
The only hope in sight, apparently, for
the treaty is that more Democrats will
break from the Wilson-Hitchcock lead?
ership and accept the spirit of the Lodge
reservations.
But despite the plain evidence of
this impasse, and despite the fact that
such Administration leaders as Sena?
tor Hitchcock admit it is there, no
motions are being made which might
result in a compromise. Conferences
could not have taken place to-day, be?
cause Senator Lodge has been ordered
to bed by his physicians. But there
is no disposition to start any further
negotiations.
Democrats Lose McCumber
For the first time in the whole fight
the Administration leaders are at odds
with the best friend the treaty has on
the Republican side?Senator McCum?
ber, of North Dakota. His charge that
the Democrats as well a?> the Repub?
licans are playing politics with their
insistence on the precise wording of
the reservations stung pretty deeply,
and Mr. Hitchcock has no hope of win?
ning him or any of the group of so
called "mild reservationists" to any
compromise.
The loss of interest on the part of
most of the Democrats is accounted
for by the President's two most recent
actions?one in dismissing Secretary
Lansing and the other his warning to
the Allies that he might have to con?
sider withdrawing the German treaty
and the French alliance treaty from the
senate.
It is not that the Senators think
there is much chance that he really
will withdraw the treaty, but there is
a feeling of despondency over the whole
situation, particularly as they think of
how to defend their stand in the Piesi
dential campaign just ahead. The "ir?
reconcilables" in the cloak rooms to?
day, with officially inspired admissions
that the note to the Allies did con?
tain a threat to consider withdrawing
the treaty printed in the morning
! papers, taunted the Democrats as to
| how they could defend Article X on
I the stump.
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Americanization Teachers
Will Serve Without Pav
ROCHESTER, Feb. 18.?About one
hundred city teachers in the night
school of Americanization. whose
classes were ordered dropped by the
i school board this week on account of
lack of funds, resolved at a meeting
I to-day to continue their work without
j pay.
I It was given as the sense of the
meeting that the work of Americaniza?
tion in a Presidential election year la
too importaut to be abandoned.
Europe's Mood Grows Con?
ciliatory and Council Is
Sharply Assailed for Its
Policy of Secrecy
Critics of U. S. Silenced
'Belief Prevails That Reply
of Leaders to President
Will Save the Situation
i '
By Arthur S. Draper
ilrom The Tribune'* European Burea*
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribun? In?.
LONDON, Feb. 18.?Despite the
| fact that official confirmation has
? been given to the report that Presi
'? dent Wilson threatened to withdraw
' the Treaty of Versailles from Con
' gress if the Adriatic compromise
: were ^accepted by the Entente,
Allied leaders were hopeful to-d*y
that the deadlock had been broken.
Every one was in favor of con
! ciliation, the atmosphere of bitter
1 ness having completely disappeared.
? Even the French, who are slower
to adjust themselves to the new
conditions, now show a better spirit,
while the Italians, under the skill?
ful leadership of Premier Nitti, are
becoming more temperate in their
criticism. President Wilson's scheme
for a settlement of the Adriatic
dispute may not be accepted, but
neither will the objectionable com?
promise of January 20 prevail. A
i new compromise, it is agreed, event?
ually will be arranged.
Trend Toward S??crecy Deplored
The secrecy surrounding the peace
conference produced a bad impression,
and throughout the press comment
there is a tone of criticism.
Incidentally the system?or rather,
lack of system?by which America is
kept informed of negotiations is con?
sidered fundamentally wrong. Instead
of an American representative sitting
at the conference with power to ex?
press the government's opinion, the
American Ambassador apparently is in?
vited from time to time to hear what
the conference cares to tell him. Tha
least the American government ^ould
do would be to ask for a written tran?
script of the conference proceedings.
On both sides of the Atlantic then?
apparently is a great deal of confusion
as to just what did happen. I am in a
position to reiterate what was said in
these dispatches at first?that Mr.
Wilson's note of approximately 6,Out)
words produced the same effect ?4s if a
bomb had been dropped on the con?
ference. The first intention was to
eend a torrid reply, but upon the in?
tervention of certain British officials
i.the decision was reconsidered and the
i whole tone of the final message was
J changed.
Publication Left to Wilson
At this moment there is no indication
! that the British government contem?
plates the publication of the note or
the reply. This will be left to President,
j Wilson.
I It is a question whether the note or
! the secrecy surrounding it leaves the
! worse impression. The situation ha*
1 developed into a political issue of the
; first magnitude, and interest in peace?
1 negotiations, which had fallen to a low
ebb notwithstanding the importance 01"
the discussion, has risen quickly.
There is no denying the fact tha^
! newspaper opinion came to the defence
of Mr. Wilson in his opposition to the
Italian demands. It is true aLso that;
the newspapers were unanimous in.
condemning any step which might leud
to an alienation of America.
NittPs Position Difficult
Premier Nitti, whose c^ief concern
was to reorganize Italy economically
and financially rather than to promote
. the seizure of new territory, finds him?
self in an increasingly embarrassing
position. The Italian Premier is much
more reasonable than Orlando ?r Son
nino, but he cannot accept a settlement
which will prove his political downfall.
; On the other hand, he is prepared to at?
tempt to reach a settlement with th?
Jugo-Slavs along new lines.
Aside from the interest in the note
I and the Allied reply, the chief concern
: is their possible eifect on ratification
; of the treaty by the United States
. Senate.
The conference met again to-day to
i consider the Turkish boundaries. I am
able to deny positively that the pres?
ence of .Marsha! Foch had anything to
do with the di.-cussion of the west hank
of the Rhine, as lias been reported.
The former Allied military leader was
consulted about Turkish defenses, thft
j situation in Poland and'the British
j Russian policy.
I
London Protests
Against Secrecy
i Newspapers Criticize Man?
ner in Which Premiers
Conduct the Parley
LONDON, Feb. 18.?Some of the Lon?
don papers disagree with the manner
in which the negotiations betv?en
Great Britain and the United States
have been carried out, and advocate
greater publicity. "The Pall Mall Ga?
zette" suggests that perfectly open
conduct is necessary in the correspond
once "so that the common sense of all
the nations concerned may assist in the
victory of reason and good temper."
"The Westminster Gazette" say*
President Wilson's note has created 11
situation of considerable delicacy, und
the future relations of Great Britain