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Sims Demands
l?ull Inquiry
* To Fix Blame
Committee Action Urged to
Determine Responsibility
for Navy Conditions mWar
That Prompted Charges
Hc Offers No Remedies
Cross-Examination Is Post
? poned Until Monday on
Request of Pittman
WASHINGTON, March 18. ?Rear
Admiral Sims, concluding his direct
testimony to-day before the Senate
committee hearing feia indictment of
the Navy Departmcnt'3 conduet of ths
war, said that responsibility for con?
ditions which prompted his charges
against the administration of the de?
partment could be determined only
by a full investigation by the com?
mittee.
For that reason, Admiral Sims said,
he' had no "well founded" recommen?
dations to make as to remedies.
Until further investigation disclosed
whether the errors and mistakes he
has charged were cme to faulty or?
ganization or inefficient personnel, he
added, he would not attempt to for
mulate remedial proposals.
Cross-examination of Admiral Sims
was postponed until Monday on re?
quest of Senators Pittman, Nevada,
and Trammell, Florida, Democratic
members of the committee. Senator
Pittman, who has not been able to
attend many of the sessions of the
investigating committee during Ad?
miral Sims's direct statement, said he
had requested the postponement that he
might have time to read the testimony
preparatory to a cross-examination of
the officer.
"To point out violations of well
known and generally accepted prin?
ciples of warfare such as have been
shown by my testimony is in itself
to suggest the remedy which is obvi
oualy to avoid such violations in the
future," said Admiral Sims in closing
his atatement. Previously heAad em
phasized his assertion that he did not
desire that any of his testimony be
understood as charging responsibility
for the conditions he criticized to any
Individual The investigation had not
proceeded far enough, he said, and hia
own knowledge of conditions in the
department during the war was too
limited to warrant any such accusa
tion, he dec'ared.
Admiral Sims laid before the com?
mittee thirteen specific counts in his
.iidictment charging mistakes and
costly delays. They were:
"In spite of ihe fact that war had!
been going on for nearly three years,!
and our entry into it had been im- I
minent at least from February 2, 1917,!
the vessels of the navy were not ready >
for war service when the United States1
entered. *
"The first few months after America
entered the war were extremely critical
ones for the whole Allied cause, due to
the success of enemy submarine*.
"This critica' situation was made
clear to the Navy Department a few
days after America entered Ihe war,
and repeatedly thereafter by cables nnd I
letters, supported by independent ad
vices to the government from the
American Ambassador in London and'
by Mr. Hoover.
"The Navy Department supplied mo |
?with no plans or policy covering our
participation in the war for three j
months after our entry therein.
War Prolonged by Delays
"Having information as to the criti?
cal situation of the Allies, the Navy
Department did not promptly assist
them, nnd thereby prolonged the war
by delaying the sending of anti-sub
marine vessels, none reaching Europe
for nearly a month after war was de
clared and two and a half months
elapsing before thirty vessels arrived.
"The Navy Department failed to ap
preciaie the military value of time.
"The Navy Department violated
fundamental military principles in at?
tempt ing to formulate war' plans of
oper-.tion without havir.tr sufficient
knowledge of the whole situation.
"The dopartment's representative
w-.th the Allied admiralties was not
supported, during the most critical
months of the war, either by adequate
Jtersormel or by adequate forcew that
eouJd have been supplied.
"The Navy Department violated
fundamental military principles in dis
persing forces away from the critical
area in order to meet diversions of the
?nemy.
"The Navy Department, in the tlrst
months of the wnr. attempted the direc?
tion of details, although three thousand
miles distant from the scene of active
operations. where the situation was
ehangimr from day to day.
Military Principles Violated
"Tlie Navy Department, in not clear
ly defining the responsibility and dele
gating authority to its representative
in Europe, failed to follow sound prin?
ciples, common alike to thc business
?nd military professions.
I "The Navy Department, by control
llng the operations and movements of
certain forces within the war area,
violated the fundamental military prin?
ciple of unity of command
"The Navy Department failed to keep
its representative abroad compk-tely in.
formed as to its plans affecting dis?
patch and dispoaition of forces in the
war zone, and frequently reached deci
s ons in such matters through informa?
tion gained from sourees other than its
renregentative in the war zone."
Many Deported "Reds"
In Distress in Russia
Berkman and Goldman Form
Organization to Aid Those
Unable to Find Work
MOSCOW, March 18.?Mapy radicals
who were deported from Ihe United
States on the steamship Buford heve
been suffering privations since they
arrived in Russia. They have failed to
locate their relatives and have not ob?
tained employment. Efforts are now
being made by Alexander Berkman and
Emma Goldman, leaders of the depor
tees, to form an oriranization which
will jrive employment to members of
the party who are in distress and care
for them pending permanent arrunge
ments.
Headquarters of this orgapization
will be established at Petrograd, with
a branch in Moscow, and it is planned
to give all deportees from the United
States advantage of the facilitiss lt
offers.
Ratify Despite
Wilson Stand,
Hoover Pleads
Continued from page ono
the United States would have no right
in Germany or Austria, and we would
have no proper equality in'trade with a
large portion of Europe.
The United States need not be "in?
volved in scores of treaty eommissions
dealing with purely European matters,"
he said, "yet the Reparations Commis
sio, the most powcrful economic body in
the world, is conducting, without our
vote, a control that affects our trade
not only in Europe bu many other
interests highly important to us closer
at home." "Naturally," he added, "with
us outside the treaty, we must expect
the commission at least to neglect our
interests."
"In my view the aoui of the league as
an influence to the prevention of war
may have died in world antagonism long
bofore we can come to our Presidential
election," he declared. "Tlie league is,
of course, already in actual being among
the otlier members. It cannot, however,
become a real beneficent force unless it
contains the support of all the great
powers, and this can come about only by
our entrance."
Meeting Causes Rumor
R. Fulton Cutting, former head of
the Citizens Union, and prominent.
in the organization and maintenance
of the Bureau of Municipal Rcsearch
under the Mitchel administration, and
John A. Kingsbury, forrner Commis?
sioner of Charities under Mayor
Mitchel, were in conference- yesterday
with Captain John F. Lucey, in charge
of the Hoover National ' Republican
Club, at the Hotel Vanderbllt.
Captain Lucey aided Mr. Hoover in
the relief administration in Belgium
during the war. He is busy these days
extending the movement all over the
country for the nomination of Mr.
Hoover in the Chicago convention.
Asked yesterday if any overtures had
been made by Republican leaders who
control delegates to the Chicago con?
vention to tho Hoover managers look?
ing to Mr. Hoover's nomination, the
captain said that he was nol yet in
position to discuss the subject. He
made light of the suggestion that Mr.
Hoover was being boomed in some of
the Western cities as running mate for
General Wood.
Three Die in Colorado Gale
Many Injured and Great Prop?
ertv Loss in Storm Reported
DEN'VER, Col., March 18.?A gale
varying from forty-seven to ono hun?
dred miles an hour sweeping ever Colo?
rado and Wyoming to-day caused the
death of three persons, probably fatally
injured another, resulted in heavy prop?
erty los. and crippled wirc communica?
tion and train service. The gale stirred
up the worst sand s,torm known m Colo?
rado in years.
At Wellington, Col., the wind covered
the Colorado & .Southern Railroad
tracks with 8 inches tu a t'oot of sand.
The. wind was officially recorded at 100
miles an. hour at Tabernash, one of
the mountain stations on the Denver
& Salt Lake Railroad. The latter rail?
road was forced to discontinue service
because of the high wind at the moun?
tain paases. Buildings were wrecked
in Denver and other places.
G. W. Vanderblit's Model
Town in Soufh Is Sold
Biltmore. N. C, Brings More
Than $1,000,000; Road
Plans Station on Site*
ASHEVILLE, \. C, .March IS.?Sale
of the village of Biltmore. built almost.
a quarter of a century ago by the late
George \V. Vanderbilt as a model town.
was announced to-day. The purchasers
are Dr. J. A. Sinclair, of Asheville;
George Stephens, of Charlotte, N. C,
and the Southern Railway Company.
The amount paid for the town ad?
joining Mrs. George W. Vnnderbilt's
summer home of the same name was
said to be more than SI.000.000. The
Southern Railway Company is said to
have plans for a $2,000,000 passenger
station for Asheville on the Biltmore
site.
Denikine Peace Reported
General and Soviet Leaders Said
to Have Compromised
From Tho Trbune'i, European Bureau
(t%&8JRv12S<?' Ncw York Tribune Inc.1
LONDON, .March -18. It was reported
unofflcially to-day that General Deni?
kine, leader of the anti-Bolshevik forces
in South Russia, came to terms with
the Soviet leaders yesterday.
Another report states that Denikine
is negottating with the Goorgians in
the hope of getting their assistance in
resisting the Bolshevik advance south
ward.
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Senate Adopts
Irish Freedom
Reservation
OMtlnmd frtm p?q? on*
introduced for the avowed purpose of
. insuring defeat of the treaty.
Vote on the Gerry Resolution
The roll call on tho Gerry resolution
follows:
Kor adoption:
nEPCBMOANS
Immediately after the reservation
was adopted Senator Kellogg rcservecl
the ^right to demand a second vote on
the Reservation when it came before
the Senate proper.
Three Other Reservations Beaten
The Senate quickly disposed of three
other reservations before Senator
Gerry called up the reservation on Ire?
land. The Reed reservation declaring
that. the United States reserved to it?
self complete freedom of action on
matters which it regards as affecting
its "national honor or vital interests"
was defeated by a vote of 27 to' 48.
Another reservation called up by
Senator Reed. declaring that the
United States assumed no obligation to
use its military or naval forces under
any article of the treaty, was rejected,
17 to 52.
Senator Reed then called up n third
reservation, declaring that the United
States assumed no obligation to employ
its military or naval forces or its re?
sources or any form of economic dis
c-imination under any article of the
treaty. That reservation was defeated
by a vote of 10 to 57.
When Senator Gerry called up the
reservation on Ireland Senator Thomas, j
Democrat, of Colorado, offered an !
amendment making it apply also to
"the ancient monarchy of Corea." A
motion by Senator Gerry to tabljo the
amendment was lost by a tie vote,
31 to 34.
The "middle ground" Republicans |
immediately scented a plot to capture
votes on ratification and a long and
heated debate ensued. Senator Ster?
ling, of South Dakota, declared that
"Great Britain should be able to look
after her own problems." "Senators
must know what might have happened
to civilization if she had not looked
after her own interests in the case of
Sir Roger Casement," he said.
Senator Townsend, of Michigan
Bolsheviki Report
Soviet in Alaska
PARIS, March 18.?The
"Tempa" to-day quotes a Russian
Bolshevik radio dispatch, issued
since the Berlin coup, as saying,
in connection with propaganda of
the Bolsheviki in Alaska: "It is
announced that the population of
Alaska is seeking to separate
from the United States and or
ganize a soviet government."
charged that the reBorvation had been
introduced solely for tho purpose of
"talking for the benefit of the Irish
voters."
A declaration by tho Senate in the
resolution of ratification that the
United States adheres to the principle
of self-determination waa bitterly at
tacked by many Senators.
"They called it secession and not
sclf-det6rmination in the Civil War,"
remarked Senator Williama, Democrat,
of Missisaippi.
Senator Kellogg moved to table the
reservation, but the motion failed by
a vote of 28 to 51. The Thomas amend?
ment then was defeated, 34 to 46.
Senator Lodpe offered an amendment
to strike from the reservation the
reference to self-dotermination. It was
defeated by a vote of 37 to 42.
"I cannot vote for the reservation if
the declaration favoring self-determi?
nation is retained," said Senator Lodge.
"I raadi an effort to cictach tho Irish
question from the rest and secure a
vote on the Irish question alone."
Senator' Lenroot, of Wisconsin, also
declared he 'would vote against the
reservation if the self-determination
elause was retained.
"We would be declaring against our
own interests in Hawaii, the Philippines
and Porto Rico," he said. "We would
be declaring that they could get com?
plete freedom at any time some of their
people expressed a desire to do so. We
would be declaring for a principle that
we would never carry out."
Lodge Amendment Rejected
Senator Lodge tried to soften the
reservation by amending it so that the
principle of self-determination would
he declared for only so far as Ireland
was concerned.
Senator Borah charged that the
amendment. was designed to "satisfy
the twenty million Irish voters in this
country." The Lodge amendment was
rejected, 26 to 53.
An amendment offered by Senator
Wadsworth modifying tho declaration
so it would read that the United States
adhered to the principle of self-de?
termination "as heretofore applied hy
it" also wus defeated, 86 to 42. A vote
then carao on the original Gerry reser?
vation. ?
"This reservation is designed only
to kill the treaty," said Senator Wol
cott, of Delaware, "and I for one will
not vote for it."
"This is a bad day's work," de?
clared Senator Walsh," of Massachu
setts. "This reservation was not of?
fered by a friend of the Irish cause.
lt waa brought forward for the pur?
pose of influencing votes on ratifica?
tion. But if it is defeated and the
world is informed that the Senate re?
jected i;. the trish cause will be in
jui ??! before the world."
The reservation on Ireland was re
adopted by a vote of 45 to '!8 when
the treaty with tho reservations that
had been attached to the ratifying reso?
lution was reported to tlie whole.
Senate.
An effort was made by Senator Hitch?
cock to have linal adoption of the Ar?
ticle X reservation postponed until tp
morrow. Senator Kellogg- also asked to
havo tlie second vote on the Irish res?
ervation postponed. The Senate re?
fused to postpone the votes.
Tho reservation on domestic aues
When ths resorratlon on Ireland waa
called up for a second vote Senator
Calder, of New York, offered the Lodge
amendment, defeated earlier In the day,
to striko out nll referenco to Belf-do
tcnnination. Upon motion of Senator
Gerry the amendment was tablod, CI
to 80.,
Senator Sterling thon moved to
amend the reservation by strikii.g out
the phrase "a consummation lt is hopod
is at hand." This amendment was re
jectod, 70 to 11.
On tho roll for the rs-adoptlon of
the Irish reservation, Senators Cham
berlain and Johnson, of South Dakota;
Owen and Stanley, Democrats, and
Fernald, McCormack, Page and Smoot,
Republicans, voted for the reservation,
wnue Senators Glass, Overman and
Simmons, Democrats, and Warren, Re?
publican, voted against it. Senator Mc
Loan, who voted for the reservation
when it was first adopted was abscnt.
The other Senators voted as they had
on the first adoption of tho reserva?
tion.
Modiflcatlon of Article X
Senator Simmons, of North Caro
lina, then called up a modlflcation of
tho Article X reservation, which he In?
troduced yesterday. The Simmons
modiflcatlon was designcd to nulllfy
tho amendment to the reservation made
at the instance of the "irreconcilables."
Senator Simmons proposed to insert
tho words "by the use of its military
or naval forces, its resources, or any
form of economic discrimination,"
after thc word "interfere." As modi?
fied by the Simmons amendment tho
Ariclo X reservation would read:
"Tho United States assumes no obli?
gation to preserve tho territorial in
tegrity or political independence of any
other country by the employment of its
military or naal forces, its resources,
or any form of economic discrimina?
tion, or to interfere 'by the use of Ita
military or naval forces, its resources,
or any form of economic discrimina?
tion' in any way in controversies be?
tween nations, including aU contro
vcriaes relating to territorial integ
rity or political independence, whether
members of the league or not, under
the provisions of Article X, orto em
ploy the military or naval forces of tho
United States under any article of tho
treaty for any purpose, unless in any
particular caao the Congress -which,
under the Constitution, has the sole
power to declare war or authorizc the
employment of military or naval force3
of thc United States, shall in the exer
cise of full libe,rty -%f action, by act of
joint resolution, so provide."
The Simmons amendment waH tableu
by a vote of 45 to 84. Tlie Republicans
voted solidly to defeat the amendment. <
and Senators Gore, Reed, Shields and
Walsh, of Massachusetts, voted with
them.
Senator Simmons then offered the
amc-ulment worded differently. ? Sena?
tor Lodge declared that it was equally
de?tructive of the reservation "as orig
inally adopted, nnd it was defeated,
4-1 to 35.
Australia htsists on Vote
in League. Premier Says
SYDNEY, New South Wales, March j
18.?Premier Hughes in u speech here
to-day said the United States was hesi- j
tating to nccept the covenant of the
; league of natioifs owing to a misunder- ]
: standing and because each British
j dominion had a vote.
"We stand fast by the treaty on the
| same status of nationhood as America," i
| said the Premier. "Australia paid a ]
j thousandfold greater price than i
| America. We nre a small nation, but
i we are jealous of our libertv and de
i termined to maintain our rights."
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Voted by House
In Final Action
Reorganzzation Bill Passed,
246 to 92, Provides for
299,000 Enlisted Men
?and 17,800 Officers
WASHINGTON, March 18.?A peace
time nrray of 299,000 enliatcd men and
17,800 officers was aprovod to-day by
the House, in passlng the army reor
ganlxation bill br a vote of 240 to 92.
The measure now goes to the Senate.
Efforts to roducc the authorized
strength to aproximately 225,000 men
and 14,000 officers, substantlally tbe
pre-war authorizatlon, by Representa?
tive Dent, of Alabama, ranking Demo?
crat of the Military Committee, were
defeated, 222 to 115. The House also
votod, 168 to 158, to reverse its previous
tontative decision to eatabllsh a sepa
rate army construction corps. Construc?
tion activitiea were continued in the
quartermaster corpa, as were transpor?
tation and procurement of supplies.
While an army of more than 300,000
is authorized, the debate disclosed that
lt was not expected to reach that
ntrength for eoine time, and that ap
propriations would be on a smaller
basis.
Representative Mondell, Republican
leader, told the House the army appro
priations for the next year should not
exceed $425,000,000?or less than half
asked by the War Department under
its proposal for more than half a mil?
lion men. Thc appropriation measure
is expectod to be computed for 180,000
men'and 17,000 officers.
Pointing out that the army and navy
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total of $850,000,000, Representative
Mondell asserted that no country had
ever attempted in peace time to main?
tain a military establishment cogting
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.Chairman Kahn, of the Military Com?
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the cavalry, artillery and aviation, the
last as a separate corps, as is the chem?
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provisions are ehanged to authorize
Federal recognition of companies hav?
ing fifty recruits. The chief of mllitia
bureau of the War Department, now a
regular officer, would bo appointed
from the national guard under the
bill.
Thc measure ulso provides for the
pronvption of regular officers from a
single list.
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