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Senators Urge
America Equip
ArmenianArmy
Sub-Conimiltee Algo Recom?
mends Sending a Warship
and Marines to Protect
U. S. Lives and Property
Resolution Is Proposed
Congress Asked to Extend
Congratulations to People
on Gaining Their Freedom
Fro*n Tne Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. March 24.?Recom
msndations that the United States fur?
nish equipment ?nd arni3 for an Arme?
nian army and that a warship and ma
rines be. sent to Armenia to protect
America:) lives and property wer?
made to the Foreign Relations Commit
tec of the Senate to-day by a sub
committee appointed last fall.
The committee held public hearing!
on the Armenian situation for severa
weeks and delayed its report awaiting
the transmission of the advice of Majoi
General Harbord, who was sent ti
Armenia by the President to investi
gate the advisability of the Unite?:
Suites becoming mandatary for Arme
nia. He submitted his conclurions t<
the President three months ago, am
the ?Senate twice asked the Presiden
for the document.
Report of Senators
Republican leaders of the Senate
understood that General Harbord re?
ported against the United States as?
suming, a mandate for Armenia, and
against sending American troops to
preserve order in that, country.
The report of the sub-committee,
which was signed by Senators Harding
and New, Republicans, and Williams,
Democrat, follows:
"The hearings clearly establish the
truth of the reported atrocities and
massacres from which these unfortu?
nate people have suffered, and impress
us deeply that deplorable conditions of
insecurity and starvation exist in Ar?
menia to-day.
"Your committee recommends a suit?
able resolution by the Senate congrat?
ulating the peopl?? of Armenia on the
recognition by the pea'i council of the
independence of the Republic of Ar?
minia, without prejudice to territorial
boundaries involved. Said resolution
might well express our hope for early
stability and the full realization of Ar?
menia's aspirations' to nationality.
Warship and Marines
"It is further recommended that the
executive branch of the United States
government dispatch a warship and
force of marines to Batum, with in?
structions to land the marines to pro?
tect American lives and property at
that port and along the railway to
Baku.
"The committee further recommends
the passage of the necessary legislation
by Congress to autnonze and direct the
Secretary of War to furnish to the gov?
ernment of the Armenian Republic
arms arid ammunitions necessary to
equip a suitable Armenian army -to
maintain tranquility and protect the
lives and property of the citizens of
Armenia."
U. Se Reaffirms
Stand on Turkey
Colby's First Note Will
Restate Demand for Ex~
pulsion From Europe
WASHINGTON, March 24.?The
?original position of the American gov?
ernment that the Turks should be ex?
poned from Europe is restated in a
note to the Allied Supreme Council
which has been prepared at the Stato
Department and which will be trans?
mitted soon. The note will bear the
signature of Bainbridg? Colby, the now
Secretary of State, and will be the first
diplomatic paper to bo signed by him.
The communication is in reply to an
inquiry from the French and British
governments as to this country's views
on the Turkish settlement. Officials
wore not certain when the note would
go forward, nor would they say whether
it would be sent through the British
and French embassies here or through
the American embassies at London and
Pa vis.
The position of the American govern?
ment is understood to be that there is
no sound reason for retaining the Turk?
ish capital in Europe. The United
States is said to take the view that
the contention that expulsion Of the
Turks might be resented by the Mo
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hnmetons is not supported by the facts,
sinco the war in the Near East was
won largely by the aid of Mahometans.
The United States, it is understood,
desires that Armenia be set up as an
independent state, and that it embrace
as much territory as the Armenian
government can control. It also takes
the position that any arrangement that
is made with regard to Turkey should
guarantee to all nations equal opportu?
nities for commerce and that no bellig?
erent should be given paramount claims
in any part of the Near East.
Way Opened to Extend
Bank Credits to Europe
Senator Harding Explains Pos
sihiltes n Amendment to
Federal Resserve ?4et
WASHINGTON, March 24..Estab?
lishment of a Federal system of inter?
national banking practically is pro?
vided by the recently enacted Edge
amendment to the Federal Reserve act,
according to announcement to-night by
Governor Harding in making public
rules and regulations governing the
entry of American corporations into
the foreign banking field.
While the law was designed pri?
marily to permit American investors,
by means of corporations, to assist in
the reconstruction of Europe, Mr.
Harding believed that this was the
narrower view. The organization of
financial institutions to assist Europe
should form the basis for a new era of
international competition, he said.
The immediate effect of the organi?
zation and operation of such agencies
will be to make available long-term
credits to the war-devastated nations,
but Mr. Harding xplnind this was only
one incident to the permanent develop?
ment of a greater export market for
American industries.
As a result, of the broad possibilities
opened by the new law, Mr. Harding
said the Federal Reserve Board antici?
pated that many changes in it?s first
regulations would have to be made
The general rules, however, arc expect
ed to remain the same.
Sues to Recover Tax
Ilorce Havemeyer. son of the late
Henry 0? Havemeyer, filed a suit in the
1 Supreme Court yesterday against
' William H. Edwards, Collector of In
? ternal Revenue, to recover $10,256
which he says he was overcharged on
i his income tax for 1917.
Mr. Havemeyer said his net income
j for 1917 was $507,227, and that he
! paid a'n income tax of $33,722. Subse
' quently, he was assessed an additional
! $10,256 on the basis of a net income
1 of $597,237. He paid the additional tax
' iinrlor nrntoRt
Captain Blames
Daniels and
Upholds Sims
Continued from page en?
had been reporting on the preparations
that were being made in the German
Admiralty and at the Germap naval
yards to that end. In spite of this
foreknowledge, backed up by statistics
tending to show that the undersea
campaign would bo conducted on n
scale never before conceived, the Navy
Department, he said, went iuto the war
with practically no plans for fighting
the submarines.
He read into the records memoranda
filed with the ?Secretary by officers of
the department urging that such a
plan be devised, and then showed how
it was three months after war was de?
clared and live months after relations
with Germany were severed before
such n plan was npproved.
The officer defends Rear Admiral
Benson, chief of naval operations, who
has been the tarsret of many of Sims's
attacks, . explaining that Benson ex?
perienced the same difficulty in getting
the Secretary to act.
"You can imagine," he said, "the diffi?
culties Admiral Benson was in. In?
stead of having his original plan ap?
proved, so that he might put the ma?
chinery of our navy to work, he was
compelled to sink himself in details
and beg approval of first one and then
another part of his plan. I was amazed
that the navy wns able to accomplish
tlie remarkable work it did. but it is
certain that what it did accomplish
could have been done much more
quickly and much more efficiently if
wc could have had a plan from the very
start?a plan that, was based on con?
ditions as they were."
Delay Over TransportH
The witness submitted documents to
show how for more than two months,
or until July, 1917, the department was
daily trying to get. the Secretary to ap?
prove a proposal for the navy to take
over the seized German liners and op?
erate them as transports for the army.
General Pershing had approved the idea
and the War Department was willing
to approve.
Ho related, with the same kind of
documentary evidence to support him,
how during the time when Sims and
the Allied admiralties were appealing
for American destroyers, officers in
the department, finding that, the ordi?
nary appeals for action by the Sec?
retary failed of results, organized' n
campaign whereby ench day some one
of the important staff men would send
an urgent written memorandum to Mr.
Daniels, warning him that these de?
lays were seriously jeopardizing suc?
cess in the war and inviting a na
He showed that a week after i ho
I United States entered the war the
lack of preparations in the way of
munitions was such that the few bat?
tleships able to go into actual combat
had a reserve ammunition supply for
their big guns of only thirty-one shells
a gun; how there wore no torpedoes
on hand for the new destroyers, and
how for a period of approximately a
month after contracts for these mu?
nitions were drawn upon the Secre?
tary delayed signing them.
Huge sums of money were needlessly
expended and wasted, the witness dis?
closed, because the Secretary refused
to approve a general plan drawn np
at the outset of the war for the hand?
ling of moneys out of the emergency
funds on a budget basis. He submit?
ted to the committee drafts of letters
he had prepared for the Secretary to
send to Congress increasing the emer?
gency fund, but which the Secretary
returned to him unsigned.
On cross-examination Captain Lan
ing was confronted by Senator Tram
mell, of Florida, with extracts from v.
letter written by the witness to Admi?
ral Sims in Almost?, .1918, ?disputinja
complaints of Sims that the departineni
had not been functioning properly
Among other things Laning wrote
Sims:
"Over there you give us the devil be
cause we don't do all you want us t(
do. You feel we are failing you. Doe.c
it help the morale over there or ovor
\ here to do that? Criticism mad? with?
out full knowledge and thought is apt
to be unjust."
The witness refused to be shaken In
his main testimony and called attention
to the fact that the letter was written
to Sims a year after the events about
which he was testifying.
With reference to the failure of the
department head to appreciate the need
for adequate measures to prepare the
navy for the war emergency the wit?
ness said:
"For many months prior to February
1, 1917, our agents in Germany were
reporting on the situation there. They
gavo us fairly accurate information of
Germany's intention to carry on unre?
stricted attacks on merchant shipping.
But the department even then failed to
take steps to get the fleet ready for
war. As a matter of fact, the dread?
noughts did not go to tho yards for
this work until summer?many weeks
after the declaration of war.
"On February .1. 1017, Germany an?
nounced her campaign of unrestricted
submarino warfare. At that time tho
country practically .gave up hope of
averting war and certainly then as
never before there was. the necessity
of at least preparing plans for a war
against Germany. But, although I was
in the office of the chief of naval opera?
tions and would have known of them,
I did not hear of any such plans."
No Campaign Outlined
Referring to tho general campaign
of operations which had been approved
by Admiral Benson, but which Secre?
tary Daniels delayed approving, Cap?
tain Laning said:
"Had "the department approved that
plan, or oven authorized Admiral Hen
son to go ahead with it the various
parts of the department would have
been informed as to what their mis?
sions were and could have proceeded
to carry them; out. Without such a
plan no one knew what to do, Tho
Bureau of Ordnance was forced to
order material for all kinds of projects
whether or not such projects might be
feasible in the war.
"Tho Bureau of Supplies and Ac?
counts had no information on which to
base purchase of supplies and was
forced to buy not what would actually
be needed, but what they guessed they
might possibly be called ?n for. The
Bureau of Navigation had no idea of
what they ,?hould do as to providing
personnel. Every bureau and every of?
fice was in a similar nredicament.
"As nearly as I can recall, it was
about July 1, 1917, before any well de?
fined anti-submarine plan was ap?
proved. About that time the Secretary
did approve the suggestions submitted
by the 'board on devices and plans con?
nected with submarine warfare' and in?
structed the bureaus to take steps to
carry them out. That, I believe, was
the first really definite plan the bu?
reaus wore given, but it was not until
then, about three months after the
yar started that the bureaus had even
that much of a war program to
work on."
The Fletcher court, of inquiry is ex?
pected to be in sessiop two weeks. It
is composed of Rear Admirals W. L,
Ropers, J. H. Oliver and .1. A. Hooger
werff, with Captain K. M. Bennett serv?
ing as judge advocate. Fletcher will
be represented by counsel, includinp;
two former service men, Major H. W.
Carpenter, a retired Marine Corps offi?
cer, and Commander .1. M. Poyer, a re?
tired naval officer, and Attorney Guy
Mason. Admiral Sims will have as
counsel Captain N. C, Twinning, who
served a,s his chief of staff, and Cap?
tain Ridley McLean.
The inquiry is to be made with ref?
erence to the following: "Whether
the forces under the command of Rear
Admiral Fletcher were organized and
operated so inefficiently, particularly
with the reference to safety in escort?
ing army transports, as to warrant the
commander of the United States naval j
farces in European waters arriv'ng at !
the conclusion that Rear Admiral j
Fletcher was so unsatisfactory in j
initiative and judgment that he should ;
no longer be intrusted with the com- I
mand."
Ivroonland Resumes Servir?
The Kroonland. of the Red Star Line, I
resumed service to Southampton and i
Antwerp yesterday and sailed with 79)
passengers, among whom Baron Van
Ilaersolte of Belgium, and H. Percival
Dodge, United States Minister to
Jugo-Slavia, and his fifteen-year-old
daughter, Alice.
No Italian-Grecian Break
Rumors of Clash Over Bounda?
ries Groundless, Says Avezzano
WASHINGTON, March 24,?Report?
that Italy and Greece had clashed over
the rearrangement of boundaries of
tho new states of Southern Europe and
tho division of territories were denied
to-day by Romano Avczzana, "-he
Italian Ambassador.
"No,such stato of affairs exlBts In
tho relations between Italy and
Greece," said the ambassador.
"These have been of the best nine?
the negotiations conducted in Paris
last July on the general Bubject of
after-war conditions and a thorough
understanding was reached regard?
ing the solution of the problems in
which both countries were interested.
The settlements reached were accept?
able to both and were in line with the
principles established in tho peace
conference and especially with the
agreements arrived nt by the council
of the Allied Entente and associated
powers."
? 0
Two Men End Lives After
Attempting Wife Murder
Eaeh Woman Wounded Twiee;
Hnsbands Shot Themselves
in the Head
Two attempts at wire murder, each
ending in suicide, took place in New
York- yesterday.
Charge? Dy his wiTe, Sophia, with
threatening to kill her, August Vogel,
sixty-seven, of 18(ii> Ridgcwood Street,
Queens, who w.-is to have appeared in
court yesterday morning in response
to a summons, attempted to make good
his threat, nnd after wounding her
twice, shot himself through the head.
He was dead when the police arrived.
Frederick Rasch, sixty, a watchman,
of 416 West Twenty-ninth Street, tor- i
minated a quarrel with his wife, also
named Sophia, fifty years old, by
shooting her twice through the right
hip. He then shot himself in the right
temple, dying two hours later in Belle
vuo Hospital.
Martens Sues for Million
i 'Soviet Ambassador' Names 'Re?
view of Reviews' in Libel Suit
Ludwig C. A. Martens, self-styled
Ambassador of the Russian Soviet gov?
ernment, filed a $1,000,000 libel suit in
the Supreme Court yesterday against
! the Review of Reviews Company, Dr.
?Albert Shaw editor, and Arthur Wal
! lace Dunn, author of the book "The
j Reds in America."
Mr. Martens alleges that in the hook
Mr. Dunn, whose work was published
! by the other defendants, tended falsely
j to create the belief that the "Soviet
| Ambassador" was engaged in propa?
ganda looking toward the destruction
] of the United States government, which
statement, Mr. Martens says, held him
; up to contempt, hatred and distrust.
j Court Martiale Ordered
For Three Fort Bliss Oflieers.j
EL PASO. Tex.", March 24. Three!
officers of the 82(1 Field Artillery, sta?
tioned here, nave been recommended
for court martial in connection with j
the loss of many thousand dollars''
worth of ammunition and government
supplies from Fort Bliss. The officers, j
it was said, were not personally con?
nected with the losses other than that
the material was lost while under their!
care.
The stolen ammunition and equip-j
ment were sold both to Mexican gov
eminent officials and Villa, according ?
to reports made to American authori?
ties.
Legion Certain
Congress Will
Grant Bonus
Proposals in Revised Pro?
gram Presented to House
Committee Call/or Appro?
priation of Two Billions
(Action Is Believed Near
Sentiment Growing in Favor
of Raising Sum by Taxa?
tion Instead of Bond Sale
By Theodore M. Knappen
From Ths Tribune'? Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 24.?Members
of the executive committee of the
American Legion felt confident after
their appearance before tho House
Ways and Means Committee to-day in
advocacy of their revised program for
soldier aid legislation that Congress
will grant tho ex-sdldiers the adjusted
compensation, commonly known "as a
bonus. This confidence is well founded,
according to persons who have can?
vassed the Ri-prescntatives.
The plan now favored by the Legion
calls for appropriations of $55 ; .000,000
for land settlement, home aid . . d vo?
cational training, to he followed by
appropriations of $2,000,000,000 more
in order to give $1.50 a day for each
day of service to each ex-soldier who
should elect to take his assistance in
the form of cash.
Influence of Election Felt
Convinced that in the end the na?
tion must expend an enormous sum of
money to meet the needs of the ex
soldiers, the problem that worries many
members of Congress is how to meet
the subiect now In such a wav that
I it will not have any influence on the
I coming election. The way, it is sug
I gested, is to start the soldiers' land
j reclamation project with $50,000,000
? and $50,000,000 for home purchase aid
I and $5,000,000 for vocational education,
j making a total of $105,000,000 to be
! appropriated by the present session of
i Congress. The job of appropriating the
; $2,000,000,000 required for the adjusted
compensation is, according to this ten
: tative program, to be left to the ne:.
! session, of Congress, but the authoriz
i ing'legislation is to be passed by this.
: In that way it is hoped to satisfy the
[ soldiers without immediately "billing"
, the taxpayers for the necessary fund.
Sentiment is accumulating in favor
I of raising the needed amount by taxa
| tion instead of by bond issues. The
trend is in favor of a tax on sales
of some sort.
Tax on Sales Suggested
| Senator Reed Smoot figures that a
: tax of 1 per cent on all sales for con?
sumption in excess of 50 cents would
yield $1.250,000,000 annually. Accepi
ing his estimate, a 2 per cent sales tax
would bring in within a year enougli
to meet the whole of the Legion's pro?
gram. Senator Smoot would limit the
tax to final or consumption sales in or?
der to avoid the profit-taking taxatior
that always follows a tax that is laic
at the source of commercial processes
Another suggestion, which is em?
phasized by Representative Henry T
Rainey, of Illinois, is that the needec
funds should be drawn from all wh(
prospered "more than usual" durinf
the war. This would mean an addei
excess profits tax in substance, what
ever form i*- mipflit take in the letter
Spanish Bail Strike
Ends; Workers Return
Government Will Advance
Funds Monthly by Decree
to Meet Wage Increases
MADRID, March 24.?Virtually all
the employees on the railroads re?
sumed work late to-night. There was a
misunderstanding to-day among a
small portion of the extremists, which
led to a delay in the return of the men
to work. Those holding out believed
the concessions offered were temporary,
as the government bad advanced funds
only sufficient to cover the increase
in pay awarded for the period of one
month.
A statement issued by the govern?
ment soon cleared the situation. The
government declared that it had ad?
vanced the one month's increase sim?
ply because of the fact that before the
month expired the budget would be
passed by the Chamber, which would
then adjourn, and the fund3 thereafter
would be advanced monthly by decree.
There also would be a second decree
permitting the railroad companies to
increase their tariff 100 per cent.
Reds" to Evacuate Finland
LONDON, March 24.?A Moscow
wireless message says that M.
Tchitcherin, the Russian Soviet For?
eign Minister, after negotiations with
the Finnish government, has ordered
the evacuation by Soviet troops of all
Finnish villages.
He does this, ?-ays the message, be?
cause he wishes to maintain friendly
relations with Finland.
State Income Tax Will
Be Increased^Says Graves
Head of Bureau Favors IW.
ling Rate on AH
Under $10,000
Special Dispatch to Tb.r Trihup.
SYRACUSE, March 2-L-The .
personal income tax rate will v*
1 doubled on incomes under S10.000
I thero will be an increase in the rt?
! on larger income? next year, ?ccoI*U
\ to prediction? made here to-day k
Mark Graves, head of the State Incoi;?
: Tax Bureau. ^
j The revenues must bp increased H
j Craves said, and ho believes ?he *'"
. come tax will bo made to vi-M m "?"
more. Th? corporation tai jJ??*
opinion, is high enougn, arid'r? i
state, he added, is carrying all ?htV*1'
; den it will bear. k a" the bur
: "The tax on personal income i8sm,n
and to the average man it is in,;?*'1
i cant," Mr. Graves .said. ?n!5!*?ni^
Moslem League Heads Warned
Against joining in Meeting,
MADRAS, British India, March M
; In connection with a warning ?8gU~?
I by the lieutenant governor n?w
, utilizing pro-Turkish agitation fft
. seditious aims, notices have C?
; served on fifteen well known \fo.i
forbidding them to attend, -peak a?
promote public meetings of an*
for two months. They incSM
presidents and secretaries cf the ?i
Congress committee and the M0|W
League. -'"si?ra
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EveniEHg Dress Stunts Dinner Suits
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