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FEBRUARY 21, 1920
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??~.-.^. 5 1? Or??ater New York and I THRKF ?CKNTfJ
TWO ?DENTS ) within rnmmnllnr rfLtan? I F1?.whi.ru
Roads Face
Giant Tasks
Upon Return
Normal Service Condi?
tions Depend on Time
in Which Rehabilita
tion May Be Attained
Need Years to Fill
Equipment Wants
Public to See Little Evi?
dence of Change, but
Shippers Will Note It
The railroads of the United
States, the foundation of the na?
tion's industrial system, are boing
returned to their owners after
twenty-six months of government
operation, a period which has pro?
duced an enonnous deficit, great
disorganization and iridespread.
violent criticism. The law under
which they are returned gives the
hiterstate Commerce Commission
powers so much greater and more
flexible than it possessed i)i 1917
that the whole system is actually
entering upon a new and vastly
changed era. It is faced at the
outset with acute problems involv?
ing financing, rates, service, opera?
tion, labor and competitive pol?
icies, the handling of which will
profoundly affect the whole coun?
try and every person in it. The
Tribune, therefore, has undertaken
a study of these problems and con?
ditions as they stand to-day, of
the extent to which they have been
affected by government control and
operation and of the factors which
must be considered in their solu?
tion.
By Stanley Frost
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20?The rail?
roads will b? returner) to their owners
by the railroad administration on
March 1, with so 'cw changes in their
visible workings that the public will
virtually have no evidence of the
transfer.
The hope.- that have grown during
the period of government operation
that with the return to private control
t?*.(- roads would resume almost nt
once the kind of service to which
America:*..-* "were accustomed to three
years ago, arc fated to be disap?
pointed.
It will be many months/1 perhaps,
several years, before the railroads can
hope to solve the problems before
them and restore normal operating
conditions.
Many Questions To Be Settled
!r, the meantime there will be
debated and adjusted in various
ways many vital questions which
Will affect th-*? whole future of
ihr roads, and through them of
the country. Not the least of
these will be the efficiency of gov?
ernment, control, which is likely to re?
main in the political foreground till
the confused facts which surround
the last twenty-six months can be
sifted.
These are the salient points which
stand out in investigating the condi?
tions under which the railroads will
begin operations by authority of the
transportation act, now pending in
Congress, but likely to pass substan?
tially in its present form.
For more than two years the Ameri?
can public has been raising a growing
protest against railroad conditions, and
putting the blame for them upon the
railroad administration, which, since it
was in control, was the natural object
of criticism. The people have looked
forward to the time when the old own?
ers should again have control, in the
expectation that the change would
bring back the old conditions. But as
the time for the transfer draws near
it is clear that no such restoration can
be hoped for. Retting aside the ques?
tion of how much blame should rest
upon the railroad administration, the
fact is plain that th? roads are going
back to their owners in a condition
%hich can only be described by the
ftrm "moss."
(hange Will Be Gradual
There will be no immediate change
that the public can see. All the pres?
ent agencies will continue, the consoli?
dated ticket offices will work as usual,
the same train schedules will be kept,
fares, freights, all will be unchanged
lor a time, and will be altered, if at
all, only gradually and after the most
careful consideration by the joint
councils of railroad managers. The
actual transfer, the change that will
take placo on March 1, will be simply
that ihr unified control which has cen?
tered in Washington will cease, and
'"at the regional directors will step
JUt, leaving the roads themselves to
'unction as at present, and under the
?ame executives, at least for the time.
^or can there be any change in train
?ervice for a long period. The Pull?
mans will continue to be crowded;
'here will be persons standing in the
aisles of the day coaches; there will bo
niuch the same troubles with locomo
,lv?-'s and much the same annoyances
&8 these which have caused such great
exasperation in the last two years.
The reason is simple?the railroads
W'H not have on March 1 any more
cars or locomotives, or better road
beds, or more efficient workers than
thcy have on February 29. And the
roads will not have money to buy more
equipment, or credit to borrow or
"uild upon foj many months. Further,
'i they had. it would take three years
?pr all the car and engine shops in the
''"ited States to supply the present
aclicic-ncie?.
1'ublic to (?et More Attention
?norc is only one slow change in the
Public's favor which mav begin to show
"self shortly. That will be, if it conies,
1,1 the attitude and efficiency of the
failroad personnel ?in the kind of
'featirtent and service the traveler
l?et8 and in better condition of cars
er'f?!neB and roadbed?. But it is un
?ru'n to now mucn *h'8 will amount.
There seems little doubt that there
"as been a decline in morale sityre Fed
;^f?j>?>eration began.. The public has
Continued on page nin*
House Gets New
| 'Disability9 Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.?An?
other Presidential disability pro?
posal went into the Congressional
hopper torday when Representa
, tive MacArthuv, Republican, of
I Oregon, introduced a bill propos?
ing that thirty consecutive days'
absence from continental United
States or disabling illness for a
\ like period on the part of a Pres?
ident would cause the Vice-Presi
dent to assume the duties of the
office. The measure would be?
come effective March 4, 1921.
Representative Mac Arthur said
in a statement that his bill was
not in criticism of President Wil-'
son, "but to prevent a recurrence
of conditions that have existed
during the last fifteen months."
1 Dead. 2 Injured
In Dublin Riots
Military Uses Tanks and
Armored Cars in Raid;
Several Arrests Made
DUBLIN, Feb. 20.?With a tank and
two armored cars the military to-day
carried out a raid near Grafton Street,
: where they are reported to have made
| several arres;ts. The raid followed
[ early morning lights between civilians
: and police, in which a constable was
killed and another constable and a
civilian were wounded and several per
: sons were arrested.
It is believed the early morning dis
: turbances were part of an organized
: plan for a simultaneous attack upon
? the police in different parts of the city.
i The plan was frustrated,, for the most
I part, by arrests of suspicious persons
; many of whom were found to be heav
; ily armed.
A decree stipulating that after Feb
J ruary 23 all persons in the Dublin met
! ropolitan district must remain indoors
; between midnight and 5 a. m. has been
| issued by the Dublin military authori
I tics.
Permits will be granted clergymen,
doctors, nurses and others who have
: good reasons to be abroad during the
hours mentioned. All persons, how
: ever, who appear on the streets will
be challenged by the police and mili
! tary. Refusal to obey orders, it is an
: nounced, will be at the peril of the
: person challenged.
TRALEE, County Kerry, Ireland,
? Feb. 20. After a three-hour siege, in
| which hand grenades, rifles and re
i volyers were freely used, an attack on
police barracks by armed raiders was
'? repulsed here enriy yesterday. One
police officer was wounded and it is
; believed three raiders were struck bv
! bullets.
Ex-Convict Weds Teacher
I Who Obtained His Parole
Miss Fairchild, of Queens, First1
Met Henry C. Hoppe When
He Was Sing Sing Inmate
Miss Mary A. Fairchild, principal of
| Public School 3, at Forest Hills, '
i Queens, announced yesterday that she
i had been married to Henry C. Hoppe,
. whose release from Sing Sing she ob
i tained in 1917. The ceremony was per
! formed on February 6. Hoppe is work
'< ing as a confectioner.
The bridegroom was sent to Sing
? Sing in 1914 on a charge of violating
; the Sullivan law. The police say he
I was captured while attempting to steal
j $500 worth of jewelry from a West :
I Side apartment. He was sentenced to
j from thr.ee years and six months to six
! years and six months. He met Miss
! Fairchild while he was in prison.
She visited him several times, and at
length, interceded with Governor Whit?
man. Her cousin, United States Rep?
resentative Benjamin Fairchild, also
urged a pardon, and the man was freed
j on May 14, 1917. He was at once re
I arrested, charged with burglary. Miss
j Fairchild again interceded for him. At
her behest Judge Rosalsky paroled
| Hoppe.
| Mrs. O'Grady Appoints
Daughter to $1,600 Job
| Women on Civil Service List
Charge Favoritism in Nam?
ing Policewomen
The civil service lady and Commis?
sioner O'Grady may be sisters under
the skin, but externally it is not no?
ticeable.
In fact, if one is to believe the as?
sertions of women who have passed the
I civil service examination and are
j waiting appointment as policewomen,
; there is no sisterly affection, subeuta
? neous or otherwise, wasted in their
\ relations with Fifth Deputy Police
i Commissioner O'Grady.
The lack of fondness was particularly
j apparent yesterday, when it was an
I nounced that Mrs. O'Grady had ap
' pointed her daughter Florence, twenty
! y<>ars old, as a stenographer in her of
? five at a salary of $1,600 a year.
! Women who have been waiting on the
civil service list charged that Com
? missioner O'Grady is appointing per
i sonal friends or friends of the admin
' istration rather than resorting to the
i list when a new employee is needed.
Among recent appointees as police?
women who were cited as examples of
this alleged favoritism are:
Miss Ruth Goldstein, sister of As?
sistant District Attorney Goldstein, of
? Brooklyn; Mrs. Lillian J. Lessler, a
relative of Tenement House Commis?
sioner Mann; Miss Genevi?ve M. Mc
Loughlin, cousin of John F. Sinnott,
the Mayor's secretary and son-in-law;
Miss Helen M. Burns, a friend of the
Mayor; Mrs. William McCarthy, whose
late husband succeeded Enright as
president of the Lieutenants' Benevo
j lent Association, and Mrs. Mary Coony,
whose husband. Lieutenant Coony, is
j attached to the welfare branch of
Mrs. O'Grady's office.
'"Love at First Sight" at 73
_ .?..._.._
! For fifty years Mrs. Elizabeth Kolbcr
! and Charles Peterson, both seventy
> three years old, have lived in Perth Am
! boy, N. J. Two months ago they met
I for the first time. A courtship was be-,
? gun which resulted yesterday in their
! marriage at the Perth Amboy Home for
the Aged. Both the bride and bride?
groom insist it was a case of love at
first sight.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterson nre inmates of
the home, and their wedding attracted
a large crowd. The bride was attired ?
in white and carried a corsage bouquet
of pink Bweetpeas. A reception followed
the c?remony.
No Ship Deal
With Britain,
Wilson Says
President Reveals Agree?
ment to Credit Germany
With Excess Over U. S.
Merchant Losses in War
Asks $5,000,0(^0
Bond of Hearst
Payne Board Wants Pub?
lisher Held Responsible
for Cost of TyingUp Sale
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-President
Wilson flatly denied to-day in a formal
communication to the Senate that he
had any agreement or understanding
with British officials regarding disposi?
tion of the fleet of former German lin?
ers around which, tunco they were of?
fered for sale by the Shipping Board,
has raged a controversy into which
Congress, courts and government agen?
cies have been drawn.
The President's letter was in re?
sponse to a resolution offered by Sen?
ator B'ranciegee, of Connecticut. Repub?
lican, and adopted by the Senate, in?
quiring of the President, whether such
an agreement existed.
"There is not, nor has there been, any
agreement or'understanding between
the President of the United States and !
officials of G?reat Britain concerning !
the sale of the ex-German vessels in |
possession of the United States," Mr.
Wilson said, "nor is there any agree?
ment or understanding with respect
to what disposition shall be made of
those ships by the United States.
"I believe, the above information
fully answers the Senate inquiry."
Reveals Paris Agreement
At the. same time, however, and "in j
order that the Senate may be in pos- i
session of ail the information there is ]
in any way relating to the vessels in i
question," the* President transmitted a !
copy of a hitherto unpublished tenta
tive agreement reached in Paris that
Germany eventually would be credited j
before the Reparations Commission, !
should Congress approve, with any sur?
plus valuation of the ships in excess of j
merchant tonnage losses of the United
States during the. war. In no case
would title to the ships themselves
pass from the United States, the agice- :
ment provided.
The following developments preceded !
the receipt of President W i ?son's com- !
munication in the Senate:
Associate Justice Bailey, in the Su-'
preme Court of the District of Colum?
bia took under advisement, the applica
tion of counsel for the Shipping Board
lhat William Randolph Hearst, on;
whose petition a temporary injunction
against the sale of the ships had been i
issued, be placed under- a $5,000,000
bond to cover p-.li b!c losses to the
government due to the tying up of the
craft by legal proceedings. Counsel
for the board estimated the daily pros- j
pective loss at $20,000 and pointed out ]
that a contract to sell one of the ships
for ?2,000,000, held up by the injunc?
tion, expired to-day. Justice. Bailey
paid he would be prepared to fix the j
amount of the bond to-morrow.
The Senate Interstate Commerce !
Committee decided to recommend pas- :
sage of a bill drawn by its chairman,
Senator Jones, of Washington, Repub- :
lican, deferring sale of the ships un- \
til they shall have been refitted for j
commercial service by the Shipping
Board and Congress shall have laid j
down a national shipping policy.
The House Merchant Marine Com- j
mittee embarked on a separate inquiry,
in which Chairman John Barton Payne
and Vice-Chairman Stevens of the j
Shipping Board reiterated their diver- j
gent views as to the advisability of
selling the ships at present.
Thje proposed agreement transmitted !
by the President was signed in May, j
Continued on page four
May Finger Print
Bond Runners \
Plans to Cfheck Thefts
in Wall Street Are Dis?
cussed at Conference \
John G. Milburn jr., counsel to the ;
Stock Exchange, and 'W. W. Miller, of;
counsel to the Association of Stock j
Exchange Firms, conferred yesterday |
with District Attorney Swann and his ?
assistant, John T. Dooling, in an effort |
to devise a system which would act as j
a deterrent to thieves who have been
making off with large quantities of ?
bonds and securities in Wall Street
recently.
Finger printing and photographing ',
of all new messenger boys employed 1
by financial firms for purpose? of iden
tification were suggested. Another pro- ?
posai was employment in,greater num?
ber of retired policemen and firemen |
as overseers of the younger messen- |
gers.
Mr. Swann declared the "packing" of
Wall Street with -former policemen
would act as a d?terrant to young men
who might come un?er the blandish?
ments of older thieves and fences.
"We want the odd 'deadline' ren- ?
dered absolutely impregnable," said
Mr. Miller, "and with the splendid
cooperation between the Police Depart?
ment, the. District Attorney's office and
the Stock Exchange and its members
this can be done. We will report to,
the law committee of the exchange on
these various proposals for reinforcing
the old 'deadline.' "
Long distance private telephone and
telegraph wires from Wall Street to |
financial centers throughout the coun-,
try will be utilized in efforts to pre-;
vent crime and apprehend criminals,
Prince to Visit Panama
British Heir Will Begin Trip to
m Antipodes ?March 9
LONDON, Feb. 20. The Prince of
antipodes March 9, on which date his
Antipodes March 9, on which date 1 is
ship, the dreadnought Renown, will de- .
pari from Portsmouth, according to the'^
official itinerary given out to-day. He
will arrive at Barbados March 19 and
at Colon March 23. The next day will
be occupied in'the progress through
the Panama Canal, and then the Re
iwwn will turn northward, touching at ?
San Diego, Cal., March 31.
From this point the trip across the
Pacific will be begun, and the schedule
provides for reaching Honolulu April ?
6, the Fiji Islands April 13 and Auck?
land April 17.
Adriatic Notes
To Be Published
From Til* Tributto's European Bureau
(Copyright, 1 320, New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, Feb. 20.?The Pres?
ident's second note to the Allied
Premiers relative to the Adriatic
settlement probably will not come
before the peace conference for
consideration before Monday,
even though it is received before
then. Yielding to the pressure of
public opinion, it is understood
that the conference has decided
to publish almost immediately the
President's first note and the re?
ply of the Allies. Premier Lloyd
George is reported to favor
greater publicity in all matters
relating to the conference.
Army Training
Bill Approved |
By 11-9 Vote
Measure, Effective July 1,
1922, Adopted by House
Military Committee as Fart
of Reorganization Flan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.- Universal
military training as a part of the;
future military policy of the United
States was approved in principle to?
day by the House Military Committee,
which decided by a margin of two
votes that the army reorganization bill
should make provision for such a plan,
effective July 1, 1022.
The close committee v-ote of 11 to 9,
coming as a climax of a three-hour do
bate in executive session,, was re?
garded as indicative of the bitter fight j
to be made in fhe House later, when
the reorganization measure gets the j
right of way. Opponents of universal!
training, despite to-day's defeat, con-j
lidenvly predicted they would win out |
when the proposal reaches the House, j
Tlie Senate also must vote on the uni-j
versal training question, as its reorgan- j
ization bill, now pending, includes such I
a provision. j
Opponents of universal training dur?
ing the debate in the committee de?
clared reporting of the proposal was
useless because of the Democratic eau-:
cus having gone on record against it,'
and because many Republicans, includ?
ing Floor Leader Mondell, are openly
against thr- scheme. Opinion as to the
country's reci'? ion of the plan varied
with thp sentiment of its supporters
and opponents.
Commission Is Rejected
\'o details of the plan were decided
on by the committee, this being re?
ferred to a sub-committee, the majority
of whom oppose the plan in principle.
The committee refused to leave the ,
question of d?tails to a commission of
nine, including three Senators, three
members of the House and three per
sons appointed by the President, but '
committee members Indicated that the :
sub-committee might'recommend thnt;
such action bevfollowed by the full
committee.
With the committee decision as to
universal training out of the way, the
f.ubstance of the army reorganization
bill practically was completed. The
main question awaiting .settlement is {
the future of the National Guard, ?
which committeemen said soon would!
be disposed of, leaving only details, in- ?
eluding the text of the bill, to be
worked out. None of the committee-!
men, however, would predict how soon;
the fight would be brought to the floor, j
How Committee Voted
Voting for general training were
Kahn, of California; Greene, of Ver-:
mont; Crago, of Pennsylvania; San
ford, of Mew Vori;; Miller, of Wash?
ington; Morin, of Pennsylvania; James,
of Michigan, and F?lle;, of Massachu?
setts, Republicans, and Caldwtjll, of
New York; Olney, of Massachusetts,;
and Fisher, of Tennessee, Democrats.
Those opposing were Anthony, of
Kansas; McKenzie, of Illinois; Hull, of
Iowa, and Kearns, of Ohio, Republi?
cans, and Dent, of Alabama; Fields, of
Kentucky Qu n c- Mississippi Wie?
of Georgia.iand Harrison, of Virginia,
Democrats. i
The sub-committee which will work
out details of the plan is composed of
Representative? Kahn. Anthony, Mc?
Kenzie, Greene, Dent, Fields and Cald- j
well, four of whom voted against the !
principle of training.
First Census Results heady
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. Census fig?
ures for Cincinnati and Washington
will be announced by the Census Bu?
reau at 9 o'clock to-morrow night, Di?
rector Rogers said to-day. These will
be the first results from the fourteenth
decennial census to be made public.
Wilson Note
Ends Fiume
Arguments
Further Exchanges Likely
To Be Over Means of
Carrying Out Decem?
ber Agreement in Paris
Reply To Be Cabled j
To London To-day
Possibility of U. S. With?
drawal From Versailles
Pact Said To Be Remote
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (By The As?
sociated Press).? President Wilson's
reply to the Entente Premiers on the
Adriatic question probably will go for?
ward to-morrow. Acting Secretary Polk
continued to study it to-day, and after
it has been put in the usual diplomatic '
form and has been approved finally by
the President it will bo coded and put
on the cablesT
State Department officials still stead- !
fastly refused to discuss the contents
of the document, but a feeling of satis- j
faction was noticeable in Administra- i
tion circles, and it was generally under- ;
stood that Mr. Wilson made an un- ?
cquivocable statement of the American
government's position.
Knda All Arguments
While further exchanges on the sub- '
ject are expected it is believed that !
with the delivery of the President's !
note by Ambassador Davis at, London |
the question will have been removed
from tne argumentative stage,
Although the Premiers have for- |
warded to Jugo-Slavia in the form of j
an ultimatum the settlement arrived
at. without the participation of the ;
.United States, it is said they have not ;
closed the way to a return to the Paris
agreement of December 9, to which the
United States was a party.
It is the general belief here that
they have not overlooked suggesting
i that the American government point
the way to the carrying out of an !
'agreement, which Italy holds to be un- i
acceptable.
Officials here plainly do not regard
the situation as at all acute nor do ?
they believe that a condition will arise
from the exchanger, in which the
United States will have to consider
whether it, can become a party to the ?
Treaty of Versailles. The Allied answer
to the President, seems to have clari?
fied the atmosphere, certainly to this i
extent.
Publicity Depends on Allies
It was definitely settled to-day that i
the exchanges will not be made public. ;
at least by the American government,
vint il after the President's note haf
been delivered to,the Allies. Whether
they will be given out then will de- j
pend upon the wishes of the British. '
French and Italian governments.
As far as the United States is con?
cerne:! there is no desire to withhold
th?? notos. In fact, some officials are
rather eager for their publication, as |
they believe full publicity will strength- ,
en the American position in the Allied
countries, ami clear away any misun?
derstandings which may have resulted
from the publication there of only i
partial summaries of the President's
original communication.
A new turn to the dispute was given !
to-day when Dr. Slavko Y. Grounch, Am- !
bassador of the Serbs, Croats, and1
Slovenes, called at the State Depart?
ment. While no announcement was j
made of the purpose of Ambassador :
Grouitsch's visit, it was believed he
came to inform Acting Secretary ? C
State Polk of the position his govern?
ment is taking on the disposition of
the Adriatic territory.
No Decision as to Turkey
it, is understood that Dr. Grouitsch
shares with American officials the de?
sire to have the complete Adriatic
correspondence published. President
Wilson's championship of the Jugo-Slav
claims in the Adriatic has been wel?
comed by the nationals represented
here by Dr. Grouit?ch and he is under?
stood to have expressed to the State
Department his government's hope that
no change in this favorable attitude
would be apparent in the answer of
President Wilson to the recent note of '
the Allied premiers.
Increased interest in the contents of
tiie President's reply to the Allied
Premiers was noticeable here to-day
following the impression made by the
Buenos Ayres dispatch purporting to
show a summary of the Supreme Ooun
eil s reply to the note of warning sent
February 10 by the President. At the
'State Department the report was char
Co ntinued on next page
Stalled Train Blocks Subway
Two Hours in Rush Period
The airbrakes on a Brooklyn-bound
express in the Lexington Avenue sub?
way went wrong near Fourteenth Street
about 4:4:) p. ni. yesterday and for
more than two hours the service was
crippled. The delay occurred just at
the beginning of the evening rush
hour*.
Trains began to pile up behind the
limping express immediately. It pro?
ceeded slowly to Canal Street, where
it came to a halt airain. Once more
under way the limping train faltered
as far as Bowling Green, where it
came to a dead stop. It was almost 7
q'clock before repairs could be made
which enabled the tram to move again.
Service Stopped at Bridge
In the meantime expresses had
backed up behind it and were halted at
brief intervals all the way from the
Brooklyn Bridge to Bowling Green,
Above Brooklyn Bridge the Interbor
ough maintained a semblance of serv?
ice by shunting expresses to the local
tracks and sending them around the
City Hall loop to start their trip up?
town from the bridge instead of from
Brooklyn.
While the blockade was ?pon all the
office buildings in lower Manhattan
and the lofts of the midtown section
had emitted their day-time denizens
who had swarmed as usual into the
subway. Every station was congested.
Humanity packed the platforms to the
?
I very edges and the crowd extended
| back to the stairs leading to the street.
After long intervals of waiting an
; impulse would seize some group near?
est the tracks to reach the ticket booth
; and get their nickels back. Time and
i again swirling eddies in the human
i flood testified to the heroic persistence
i with which such groups strove to ac
' complish the impossible.
Trains and station nlatforms were
] s-j crowded that at times the guards
j found it almost impossible to on.'ii
i doors. Jn such cases after waiting
! for a minute or tivo, until the block
! ahead was clear, the train would start
again, carrying on to the north or
'? south passengers who wished to g<H
i out and leaving on the platform pas?
sengers who wanted to get aboard.
Seven northbound trains in succession
1 were compelled to pass the Seventy
' second Street station without a door '
| being opened.
Brooklyn Lines Taxed
Brooklyn Bridge was the general
i dumping place for pouthbound passen?
gers. The subway station was packed
"from start to finish of the jam. Suv
? face cars and elevated trains of the
i Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company were
' called upon to transport an abnormal
: proportion of the rush hour crowd and ;
i City Hall Park was black with pedes- j
? trains bound for the Hudson tubes.
-Although the obstructing train was ;
removed a little before 7 o'clock it was !
not until some time later that condi- ?
tions in the subway approached normal
again.
N. Y.Republicans Put Treaty
In Campaign, Say Senators;
Platform Is Adopted Here
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Immediate Ratification
With Lodge Reservations
Indorsed in Carnegie
Hall State Convention
Monroe Doctrine
Is Firmly Upheld
Wadswbrth, Calder, Mil?
ler, Thompson Chosen
as 'Big Four' Delegation
The Republican unofficial" state con?
vention at Carnegie Hall yesterday
elected by acclamation the delegates
and alternates at lar^e as published in
The Tribune yesterday, and adopte 1
a olatforjn which, in the judgment of
the state leaders, carries a ringing
declaration of principles on which the
national campaign will be waged this
year.
Prominent among the platform
planks are declarations for the im?
mediate ratification of the peace treaty
with the Senate reservations; a
declaration against Article X in us
present form, and support of the Mon?
roe Doctrine in letter and spirit.
The delegates and alternates at
large chosen yesterday follow:
Senator James W. Wadsworth jr., of
Livingston County; Senator William
M. Calder, of Kings; Former Judge
of the Court, of Appeals Nathan D.
Miller, of Onondaga; Colonel William
Boyce Thompson, ?f Westchester.
Alternates?Representatives Thomas
B. Dunn, of Monroe; John F. O'Brien,
of Clinton; Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore,
of Westchester; Charles W. Ander?
son, of New York.
Opponent for Wadsworth
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, the state
leader of the suffragists and chairman
of the executive committee of the
women's division of the Republican
National Convention, as well as a
member of the state executive com?
mittee of the .Republican state com?
mittee, said after the convention ad?
journed yesterday that there would be
a candidate in the. Republican prima?
ries against Senator Wadsworth.
William H. Anderson, State Super?
intendent of the Anti-Saloon? League,
said that Senator Wadsworth will be
sorry next fall-that he did not follow
Senator Root's lead and stay off the
primary ticket.
Elihu Root, the temporary chair?
man, called the convention to order
yesterday at 11:30 o'clock and intro?
duced John Lord O'Brian, of Buffalo,
as permanent chairman. Senator Root
stayed for Mr. O'Brian's speech.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, chairman of
the committee oh resolutions, read the
platform. Again and again he was
stopped by the enthusiasm of the dele?
gates, who seemed to like the document
from beginning to end.
Some Striking Clauses
Some of the more striking clauses of
the platform are:
individuals and minorities, irre?
spective of race and creed, are en?
titled to the rights assured them by
the Constitution.
No foreign power or council of for?
eign powers shall have any control
whatsoever over the domestic policies
of the United States.
The people of the United States
shall not be drawn, by the operation
of Part 13 of the treaty, the so
called labor clauses, into the net
spread by international socialism.
Support of the most vigorous meas?
ures to prevent by education the
spread in this country of the doc?
trines of Bolshevism.
All emergency war legislation, so
far as it relates to business and en?
terprise, should be repealed.
Absolute opposition to government
ownership of the . railroads and to
the so-called Pliwiib plan for their
management.
For .improving the schools of the
land, with special reference to pro?
viding thoroughly trained and prop?
erly paid teachers.
Adequate Merchant Hacine
For a merchant marine of the best
type, flying the American flag,
manned by American seamen, ov/ned
by private capital and operated by
private energy.
For a small standing army, with
a trained citizen reserve. The train?
ing of citizen soldiers should be
under national supervision, and its
control shared by citizens who are
not officers in the regular army.
A universal obligation to serve in
time of war and a universal obliga?
tion to be fit to serve.
All aliens hereafter to be required
to register once a year at designated
places.
After the presentation of the name
of Mr. O'Brian for permanent chair?
man by Mr. Root, Mr. O'Brian was es?
corted, amid cheers, to the front of
the stage by Jacob A. Livingston, of
Kings; Jesse Phillips, of Steuben, and
.Mrs. Ruth Litt, of Suffolk.
Mr. O'Brian in his opening referred
to the address given the night before
by Elihu Root, and ?aid that Mr, Root
was the master in chief in statesman?
ship of Republicans and Americans, a
statement whf.h evoked loud aoplause.
Wilson Regime Assailed
Mr. O'Brian said that every school
child in America should read Mr. Root's
speech. Referring to the Wilson Ad?
ministration he said:
"War agencies have been set up, reg?
ulative laws imposed on the people,
through departments outside of con?
stitutional control, that have reached
proportions that are a m-.nace to Amer?
ican liberty."
He also referred to the tyranny of
the postoffice administration under* Mr.
Burleson, and added:
"Administrative laws foreign to the
spirit of the American Constitution
have been set up and we want to bring
the3e to an end and restore represent
Continued on page three
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Georgia Holds Up
Hoover Petition
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 20.?The
name of Herbert Hoover cannot
go on Georgia Democratic Presi?
dential preferential primary bal
| lots in April unless he if* an
avowed Democrat, under a ruling
made by a- sub-committee of the
state executive committee. Peti?
tions in Mr. Hoover's behalf have
been received, and the committee
secretary was instructed to write
Mr. Hoover and ask if he could
qualify under the ruling that
only the names of avowed Demo?
crats can appear on the primary
ballots.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.?
Herbert Hoover's secretary said
to-night that Mr. Hoover would
not discuss the Georgia primary
j situation.
! Farmers Seek
Candidate Who
Will ^iid Them
Support of the 7,000,000
Grangers Depends on An
s w e r s of Presidential
Contestants to Queries
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-Active par?
ticipation of 7,000.000 American farm
1 ers in the coming political campaign
by seeking to unite behind the Presi?
dential candidate who will support
i movements which tne agriculturalists
; consider of paramount importance, was
foreshadowed io-day when the National ;
j Board of Farm Organizations in ses?
sion here moved to interrogate prospec-I
tive candidates on current national
i questions. (
The board appointed a committee of
; seven leaders of farm organizations to
? draw up a platform of questions de
? ! signed to bring out unmistakably the
attitude of each candidate.
C. S. Barrett, ox Georgia, president of
the National Farmers' Union, was ,
named chairman of the committee. The
others are T, C. Atkeson, of West Vir?
ginia, representing the National i
Grange; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsyl?
vania, of tiie Pennsylvania Rural Prog?
ress Association; J. B. Houston, Wis
i consin, secretary Wisconsin Society of
| Equity; W. I. Drummond, Oklahoma,
: International Farm Congres?; R. D.
Cooper, New York, Dairymen's League,
and J. R. Howard, Washington, Ameri?
can Farm Bureau Federation.
Candidates Must Give Pledges
"The committee, if I understand the
j temper of organized agriculture," Chair?
man Barrett said, "will demand a most
\ comprehensive and unmistakable state
j ment of the position of each candidate
' on questions especially relating to agri
i culture. The farmers will not submit
to camouflage. Moreover, the com
i mittee will try to determine before
: submitting its findings to the farmers
1 just what ability a candidate may have
to carry out his preelection promises.
I We must get behind a strong, faithful,
long-visioned man. None other will ?
\ suit."
C. O. Drayton, president of the Farm?
ers' EquiMr Union, of Greenville, 111.,
warned tffe conference to be "cateful
i of the kind of cooperation we adopt."
j The greatest menace to-day to the free
j institutions of America, he said, was
i the "organized labor union trust," but ;
' an even greater menace would be "an |
! organized farmer trust." The associa
i tion of which he is head, Mr. Drayton
* said, would have nothing to do with
! any movement to establish a monopoly
in farm products through organization
I of farmers.
Delegate Needed Abroad
The conference adopted resolutions
asking the early appointment of an
; American delegate to the International
! Institute of Agriculture at Rome to
? succeed the late David Lubin, approved
' the Capper-Hersman bill restoring to
? farmers the right of collective buying
? and selling, expressed confidence in the
I Federal Trade Commission in connec?
tion with the imminent investigation
of that body, and petitioned Congress
? to amend the farm loan act to increase
I the maximum loan from $10,000 to
$25,000.
Maurice McCauliffe, president or" the
; Farmers' Union of Kansas, said the
j cooperative ventures of farmers in the
I United States already handled l|:siness
| of $1,000,000,000 annually and should
easily increase to six times that ligure
j within a decade.
Curacao Would
i
Welcome Kaiser
Not for Any Love of Hinu
but as Tourist "Ad"
Says Island Merchant
The island of Curacao, a Dutch pos?
session, off the northwest coast of
Venezuela, wants the Kaiser. It is
1 the only niece in the world, thus far,
' where the inhabitants have expressed
themselves as desirous of harboring
; the former Emperor o? Germany.
William Townsend, a merchant, of
i Cura?ao, who a-rived here yester?
day en the Red D liner Caracas,
brought the news that the ex-Kaiser
?would be welcome there. Not for any
' '.ove the people hold for him. he ex?
plained, but as a sort of attraction
, that would bring tourist trade to the
island and bo<*m business generally.
Recently, according to Mr. Town
send, two strangers from Holland
\ visited Willamstad, the capital, and
| made inquiries about various sites,
! where it was rumored they Intended
j erecting a menage for William Hohen
sollern and his family.
Majority Sharply Resent
Hitchcock Charge That
They Balked Efforts
to Reach Compromise
Borah Calls Hope of
Agreement Futile
Resolution for Separate
Peace With Germany
Is Offered by Francis
~i
From The Tribune's lYashington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.?The
declaration of the New York Repub?
licans favoring ratification of the
peace treaty with Germany with
reservations caused the Senate to
resume consideration of the pact to?
day. The action of the convention
has resulted in the treaty being in?
jected into the Presidential cam?
paign, whether it is ratified at an
early date or not, Senators declared.
Republican Senators in a speech
in the Senate challenged the sincer?
ity of Senator Hitchcock, leader of
the Administration forces, in the
treaty fight, and he declined to deny
a charge made by Senator Lenroot,
of Wisconsin, that his intention all
during the compromise negotiations
has been, to "pick off" enough Repub-?
lican Senators to give him control
of a majority of the Senate and
then kill the treaty and place re?
sponsibility for the defeat of ratifi?
cation upon the Republicans.
Separate Peaee Sought
Senator France, Republican, of
Maryland, one of the "irreconcila
bles," late to-day offered a resolu?
tion for a separate peace with Ger?
many. The resolution declares the
existence of a state of peace and
provides for the holding of an "in
i ternational conference," to be at
I tended by representatives of all the
countries represented at the Ver?
sailles peace conference, to settle the
problems that confronted the Ver?
sailles conference. The resolution
was referred to the Foreign Rela?
tions Committee.
Senator Hitchcock opened the dis?
cussion to-day by declaring that tho
Democrats in the Senate should ba
given credit for the compromise efforts.
He referred to a newspaper story thai?
certain Republicans believed that he,
and probably the President, desired to
force the treaty into the campaign.
"I am not in a position to speak for
the President, of course," said Senator
Hitchcock, "but I fee! authorized to
say on behalf of Senators of the mi?
nority that there is no disposition
among Democrats to delay ratification,
of the treaty to make it a campaign
issue. It is almost the unanimous
wish of the Democratic Senators to se?
cure early ratification. They are will?
ing to go more than half way for '.his
purpose and in agreeing over honor?
able compromise of difference over
reservations.
Delay Charged to Opponents
"Paring consideration of the treaty
prior to November 19 supporters of
the treaty made every effort to hurrv
its consideration. Of the amount con?
sumed in speeches they consumed only
27 per cent, the opponents of the treaty
consuming nearly three and a half
times as much.
"When the motion was maiie tor re?
consideration they supported it and
when the motion to lay this on tho
table was offered they opposed it, and
it was the Republican Senators who
voted for the motion to table, recon?
sideration. It.was on this ?fide of tho
chamber that the movement was
started for reviving the treaty and it
was from the other side that the an?
swer came the treaty \V)as 'dead' and
could not be revived. It was on this
side the movement originated to form
a bipartisan conference committee o?
a few Senators to consider the subject
of compromise, and it was the Demo?
crats in" that conference that rnadu
every effort to secure compromise.
"On February 14, by authority of
forty Democratic Senators, I offeree
to accept, as a compromise either th<
bipartisan committee reservation or th<
Taft compromise on Article X.
Went the Limit, He Assert*
"If we hail not shown a disposit.iot
to compromise, to go halfway towan
an agreement, we might be charge?
with a design to delay ratification, bu
we have gone to the limit of compro
mise; we have gone to the point whet
to go further would be to surrender
we have gone to the point where th
reservation we suggest is admitted t
be but a slight change from the Lodg
reservation.
"I would not have it understood I at
afraid of this issue in the campaig?
I am not. 1 believe that if it is force
into the campaign it will be the dom
inant issue and that the people wi!
decide it in favor of the league of ns
tions and against the obstructionists.
Senator.-. Kellogg, of Minnesota, an
Lenroot, and Borah, of Idaho, chai
leiiged Senator Hitchcock t* expiai
the difference between the origin*
Lodge reservation to Article X and th
two reservations the Democrats agree
to. vote for. Senator Hitchcock replie
that the ?ciuiiwtZtB already had gor?
"nine-tenths of the way" to meet tb
Republicans in a compromse.
"I am not disposed to analyze til
reservations," Senator Hitchcock co:
tinued.
Senator Borah demanded to kno
how much Republican support Senate
Hitchcock had expected fur the res::
vattona the Democrats proposed.
"That is not a fair question from
Senator who will not compromise r
the tccaty," replied Senator HiW.?cci
"1 simply want to have tho public u