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ALL MERCHANDISE ADVERTISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARAKTEED Vol. LXXX No. 27,143 First to Last?the Truth: News?Editorials?Advertisements SEribtme THE WEATHER Fair and colder to-day; fair to-morro**; fresh west winds I'ulJ lt#port on T.nut J'aje (Copyrlffht, 1021, New York Trtbnno Inc.) THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1021 * * TWO CENT9 I TIIRfTF. (F.VTH I WOV-H CENT* Traetion Bill Is Reported; Permits Fare Raise at Once Drastic Aniendments Are Added by Committees Despite a Stiff Protest From Local Legislators Board ("an Force Citv to Run Lines Support of tbe Measure Dwindles; Report Only 23 Votes in Senate; Backers Are Fearful from a Staff Correspondent ALBANY, March 9.? The Knight Adlcr bill, reorganizing the Public Service t ommi3aiona and creatir.g a transit commiasion in New York City, tv.;- reported out of the Senate Com mittee cn Public Service and the As scr.ibly Committee on Judiciary to-day jn a revised and more drastic form. All the New York City men on both committees, with the exception of As semblyman Theodore Stitt, of Brooklyn, ' poted againat the bills in committee. In the Senate Public Service Commitee ?he lone New York City Republican, Senator William Duggan, made a des perate fight against the bill in its pres ent form and sought to have the latest amendments stricken from it, but with out success. In the Aasembly committee Assem blyman Sol Ullman, of New York, a . can who represents the home district of Samuel S. Koenig, the Re? publican county president, made an eqnally unsuccessful attempt to have the bill d so that the city would an equal chance- with the transit companies. M..? > power than was ever ir.timated by Governor Miller, who presiried over the drafting of the measure, is given ;he transit commission by the bill as reported out. The commission is given power under a new amendment to in cream fares in New York City the moraent it is appointed by the Gov? ernor. Opponents of the bill declare this tviil r.iean an 8-ccnt fare. Duggan Charges "Jokcrs" Senator Duggan charged that the bill was drawn apparently in the in terests of the traetion companies, and eharacterizes the principal amendments to the bi ] as jokers in the interests of the streetcar lines and other public orations, and that in its I form it takes away the last vestige of home rule from the cities. ndments to the bill al3o P-'-'i; ' i] tate cities of the state !P virti same condition as New "iork City with respect to transit ? ? The most criticized feature of the permits the transit com : ? the citv to take over ?P' lines it sees tit, even though the c:ty should unanimously vote against ?uch a proposition, ia retained. The power to increase rates of gas ??mpai ctric light, telephono ?nd oth-r public utilities also is re taim ,.-With '? Cas an<l electric panies, the bill is made even r- ?" far as the consumer is ton ? for it permits the tixing of * "?: ? of rates determinable li?Jn ? .. 0f g.ag or electricity ime at which it is used. Report Only 23 Votes in Senate There is a tantly repeated re? port here that the bill has but twenty three votes in the Senate?three lesa tnan the required number to pas? it. ? inree weeks ago the bill was credited !F*h ? - thi support of at least tmrty Senators. Legialatora who have been,f and who are now od redict the measure will be ,de'-a?; ? ' msel for some of the is who are in Albanv ? 'gresa of the bill are ieporu.,1 to be fearful of its passage. fl ,:' ?'""'? '?"? "ot admittedly shared by w?e legislative teaders, who express con JJence that the bill will go through ootn housea by comfortable majorities. . ? enator John Knight, sponsor for the ?-? the upper house, said to-night )if t:'?'. dd be advanced to the order of final passage next week. Sen '?tor ki ight and Aasemblyman Simon o,',f ? I' af-ter the bil1 was reported out to-day, issued tho following state went explaming the amendments: A great many minor changes have Been made in the bill to correct errora >n printmg, to clarify certain clausea ?na to make uniform throughout the (Continued on oago four) Weeks Orders Names of Slackers Be Published Action Will Be Taken as Soon as the Drisft Boards Complete (.lieeking Listt* From The Tribune't Wa?hinoto?i Bureau WASHIXGTON. March 9.?The im-: meriiate publieation of the names of ratt desertera and evaders was au- >? "onzed to-day by Secretary of War >eeks. In instructiona sent to the; ?QJutant general Secretary Weeks di- i ??ed that the publieation be made as soon as the draft boards of the coun- : liata c<jmPleted their check of the j ? 'j0no of the reasons the names have < \vl un eivt'n out before," Secretary : mA,? *! "Was the fact that a Src>at j ?,"*,of ^he men on the lists have i i?h ?,un,d t0 have served in the Brit- j <,*? Irench armies and with our! I K. navy> ??ording to information ! M?p?le ?"ei,vea from Chicf of Staffi J"cn. I heheve it has been entirely j h?A 1? Wlthn<?ld these names until it; "*d been definitely determined that ' ???? ?lan there?n had not actually I P'?n hia service to the nation." auh\iUtant, GenB?l P?ter C. Harris '. ?UBsequently announced that none of cauv A3 Was avui'al,le at present be- i - pietcd chocking had not been com-j Secretary Weeks's decision was based anrl. V?w thut 't >s due to the thous- i servi^?\ n1?1 who f'eely gave their j whn ? j ,the C0l'ntry to brand thoae of ",fVlded the draft w>th the stigma I Buh,tac,1{er- He also believes that the ! Jho v J,on,?f the names wiU assist! Sa *Kderal authoritiea in apprehe.id- ) mfLii0 *^er8, so that punishment ?_**9 b? o?d?redL I All Large Roads Plan General Cut in Wages CHICAGO, March 9.?Infor mation received at local head quarters of the Railway Labor Department of the American Fed rration of Labor indicates that virtually all the large railroads in the country are prcparing to put wage reductiona into effect for all their employees, B. M. Jewell, chairman of the commit? tee, said, in discussing the pro? posed reduction announced by the Pennsylvania Lines. An ofhcial of the Association of Westcrn Railway Executives, who declined to be quoted, said that Mr. Jewell's statement "probably was true," and that further wage reduction announcemcnts might expected at any time. Senate Passes Bill for Hylan ToProbe Hylan Approves Measure Naming Mayor and Comptroller on Inquiry Committee by a Vote of 28 to 17 Will Cost City $50,000 Aet Is Called "Burlesque''; Veto Expected if It Goes Through the Assembly From a Sttiff Corrrswondenl I ALBANY, March 9.?The Burlingame bill, creating a commission to investi gate the departments of the City of Xew York with a view to making ; cliarter changes, was put through the Senate to-day. The bill, which has been character ; ized as a burlesque attempt to investi gate the Hylan administration with the j aid of Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig?they are both made members I of the "investigating" committee ? I was passed by a vote of 28 to 17. Senator Schuyler M. Meyer, who also has a resolution providing for an in vestigation of the Hylan administra j tion, amazed his collegeaucs when he j rose and said: "I shall vote for this bill because I ; believe that is a good way of calling ' attention to the need of the Legislature ; sending a real committee to New York j City to do the job." Uobinson Opposes Bill Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson, ; nephew of the late Colonel Roosevelt, who, with As.scmbl.vman Joseph Stein : berg, introduced a resolution calling ! for a thorough investigation of the al ? leged draft conditions in the Hylan ad ; ministration, voted against the bill, | saying: "I am going to vote against this bill for the very reasons which Senator Meyer says prompt him to vote for it. My logic does not run in thn same ? channel as his." Senator Fred M. Davenport, who is a professor ol" political economy at Ilam. ilton Coilege and who was the Pro gressive candidate for Governor in 1914, when Senator Robinson war, chalr '? man of the Progressive State Commit? tee, said that he was against the Bur? lingame bill because it was a viola I tion of the home rule principle in that , it forced the City of Xew York to pay : $50,0flp out of its treasury for the pro 1 posed commission, which has not been sought by the municipal authorities. Senator George R. Fearon, anotlner i Republican, representing the Onondaga district, said that he, too, was op posed to the bill for the same reason "If we aro going to have such a i commission let us be consistent and ? fair and pay for it out of the state's ? funds," said Senator Fearon. 'This bill is unfair and inconsistent." During the debate on the bill it was 1 said that the purpose of the Burlin | gamc bill is to make political capita! jior its introducer, Senator Alvah Bur ilingame jr., of Brooklyn, who has am i bitions to be Mayor. May Not Pa&s Mayor It is predicted by legislators that the bill will never get beyond the Mayor, j unless he wants to join the burlesque, t as he has the power of veto over it, ! since it Was made a purcly local bill by its introducer. Should the bill pass the Assembly it I will be acted on by the Mayor within ten days thereafter. After he has passed upon it Senator Robinson and Assemblyman Steinberg will begin a | real drive to get the Legislature to pass their resolution. The passage ol the Burlingame bill is regarded by many as an attempt to b'ock a real investigation of the Hylan administration such as is provided for in the Robinson-Steinberg resolution. Whether this is so or not, the fact is that Jacob A. Livingston, chairman if the Kings County Republican Com? mittee, is opposed to an investigation of the Hylan administration. Senator Burlingame is his chief lieutenant in the Legislature. Chairman Livingston ia working for Governor Miller's trac? tion bill. Missing Brooklyn Girls Just Had Spring Fever Day Was Too Plcasant for Study, So They Invcnted Holiday and Went Visiting Vera McMahon, twelve years old, and Sarah Tierney, thirteen, victims of spring fever, were pronouncod com pleteiy cured yesterday when their mothers got them home again, after an absence of two days. Both girls live on Java Street, Brooklyn, and both go to St. Anthony's school, near by. Both got spring fever Monday, and Vera suggested that they take a trip to Oyster Bay, L. I., for it. She thought of Oyster Bay because her uncle lives there. Instead of going to school that day they went to tho Pennsylvania Station and, eventually, to the home of Vera's uncle, who was glad enough to see them to believe their story about a school holiday. Tuesday, when police and relatives had searched the city in vain for the pair, Vera's r.iother thougkt of the uncle in Oyster Bay and telephoned to him. Yesterday th?V girls were brought home. C. * Pennsylvania Lines Cut Pay Of 215,000 All Officers and Employes Ineluded in Plan Laid to Necessity of Bringing About a Readjustment Up to Rail Board If Men Ref use Notiee Says 70,000 Have Been Laid Off and Hints at Rehiring Thousands -. Specml Ditvatch to The Tribuve PHILADELPHIA, March 9. ? The Pennsylvania Railroad announced to : day a pay cut affecting every officer j and employec. There aro approxi ; mately 215,000 employees of the road. The amount of the cut wa3 not dis closed. All pay will be rcduccd, but in vary ing ratios, based on such considera tions as pay in other lines for similar work, skill and hazard of occupation. and the ratio of wages paid to the cost of living in the locality. When the wage cut plans have been worked out in detail, which is to be as quickly as possible, they will be sub | mitted to the employees for approval. In the event of disapproval the com i pany will appeal to the Railroad Labor I Board for permission to make the cuts i in spite of the men's objection. One effect of the wage reduction I order, as was pointed out in the formal ! statement of the railroad, is the prob : able reemployment of thousands cf i men laid off. The statement issued by the railroad said in part: "In view of changed economic con ditions, it is a manifest obligation to the public generally and especially to shippers, passengers, investors and j stockholders that railroad expenses be ?reduced. ? "The management of the Pennsvl ; vania Railroad has already made a re ^ duction of over 70,000 men in its per ; sonnel, seriously curtailing mainten . ance of roadway and equipment, con j sohdated divisional organizations and ? has stopped all expenditures on new : work. "Even with such economies as have i already been enforced, it takes almost ? the whole of current earnings merely j to pay current operating expenses. It i is evident that the requirements of the . transportation act that railroads shall be admir.istered in an efficient and eco i nomical manr.er cannot be satisfied without still further reductions in ex ! penses. 70 Per Cent to Labor "ln February, 70 per cent of all , Pennsylvania system operating earn ,ings were absorbed by charges for I labor, against a normal charge for i labor of less than r>0 per cent of earn? ings. "A foundation for the restoration of normal business cannot be laid until there has been a frank recognition of ] the real situation and a readjustment ; of wages to ineet the altered condi i tions. The more promptly an adjust ; ment to the inexorable facts is made, ; the more promptly can those who are now idle be reemployed and a basis established for renewed prosperity. j In mnking a readjustment of salaries and wages it is but fair and proper ] that the burden should bc borne by all . officers as well as employees. It is ac i cordingly resolved that the executive officer:- of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company are directed to give, as ! promptly as possible, proper notiee that it is the intention of this com? pany 1o reduce the salaries and wages of officers and employees to accord | with economic conditions. I "Such reductions as are made in snl Laries and wages shall bear an equitable : relationship to the increases in pay ? made since January 1, 1918. The equitable differentials which should j apply between various classes of em? ployees shall be maintained or re stored. "All procedure. in effecting such j readjustment of salaries and wages shall be taken in an orderly manner, : and in strict accord with the trans '. portat'on act." To Put Tt Before Employees T. De Witt Cuyler, one of the di | rectors of the Pennsylvania and head of the Railroad Executives' Association, ' was asked how the order would accord with the rccent decision of the Labor Board that the Erie Railroad must re j store its rates which it had tried to i cut. . "The situation with us is simply this," he replied. "Wc are proceeding ; in an orderly manner in strict accord ! with the transportation act, and this ! cut affects all classes of employees, ! from the highest to the loWest. "We will first call meetings of our 1 employees ar.d put the matter squarely ' up to them, and if they agree the mat i ter is beyond the jurisdiction of the i Railroad Labor Board." ! "Does it mean," Mr. Cuyler was : asked, "that if they agree the road will be ablc to take back the 70,000 ! men laid off?" "It certainly will mean that with a . return to normal conditions we will take back as many men as the business , will allow," "What do you think the cut will be in percentage of wages?" | "It is absolutely impossible to say, i because it has not been worked out \ yet, and the amounts will vary." j The acting general chairman of the j Order of Railway Conductors, affiliated j with the four big railway brotherhoods, I said he did not expect any cut in wages ' of men in the train service. At the office of H. S. Jeffery, head i of the shop workers of the Pennsyl J vania Railroad, it was stated that it I would be impossible for the railroad | to reduce the wages of workers in the six shop crafts, as their wages have ! been fixed by national agreement and 1 are under the sole jurisdiction of the . Railway Labor Board. The shopmen I are not members . of the Railway ! Brotherhood, but are affiliated with \ the Americai Federation of Labor. i C. E, Musser. general chairman of tho Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, said j his organization had not 5'et been noti | fied of the cut. "All I can say about it for the pres? ent," said Mr. Musser, "is that the Pennsylvania apparcntly is fo'lowing the procedure which was suggested by the Railroad Labor Board recently in tha Erie case." Russian-Polish Peace Parley Is Broken Off LONDON, March 9.?All tho peace ncgotiations between the Russians and the Poles at Rifra have ceased, according to a dis? patch to the London Times from Riga. The Bolsheviki say tliat the cessatlon is due to the illness of their chief representative, M. Joflfc. Real Beer on Tap Here Soon To Tone Up III New York Among 9 States Benefiting by Palmer's Ruling, but Laws of 39 Otbers Forbid Its Sale Wheeler Cites Statutes ????? U. S. Finding Prohibits Re striction on Number of Maimfacturer's Permits j WASHINGTON, March 9.?New York ! is one of nine states which will be ! affected by the ruling of A. Mitchel! | Palmer, former Attorncy General, made public to-day, under which beer may be prescribed in unlimited quantities I as a medicine, it was brought out here I to-day by Wayne R. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. i The ruling applies also to wjne. Mr. Wheeler said that in thirty-nine | states laws prohibitcd the prescribing j of beer and would therefore render I the ruling ineffectif'* in those states. I He attacked the ruling as not in ac ! cordauce with the purpose of the Vol 1 stead act. Mr. Palmer's ruling make-s lt possible for all alcoholic liquora to be used for ' medical and other non-beverage pur ! poses and for all to be manufactured ? and sold for these purpo^es, aubject i only to the limitations of the Volstead i act on non-beycrage intoxicants. Reply to Officers' Querics | The opinion was written by former | Attorney General Palmer the day be? fore he retired from ofRce, and was in | reply to a series of questions from i internal revenue and prohibition offi | cials bearing on construction of half a dozen moot points in the law. Whether it will upset any regula tions of the. revenue and enforccment bureaus had not been determined to night, Commissioner Williams, oi' the. revenue bureau, saying he had not had ! an oprlortunity to study the opinion. He made it public without comment, and said that officials concerned with enforccment would prepare at once to draft regulationa carrying out the At? torney General's construction of the dry law. There were many rumors afloat that the opinion had wrecked plans of dry advocates tf> ohtain further restriction of liquor sales. Officials refused to comment on the reports. Ambiguities in Opinion Mr. Palmer'^ opinion appeared am biguous in some respects, officials said, and as a result they were unable to determine whether the government had power, in the light of the ruling, to limit the number of prescriptions wnich a physician may write. Mr. Palmer de? clared he believed it the purpose of Congress to leave the physician "un fettered by governmental control," yet he thought that regulations might properly restrict the amount to be sold on any one prescription. Mr. Palmer called attention to pro yisions of law which apparently had lel't the physician to act on his judg ment. He suggested then that when a physician abused the piivilege he could be dealt With criminally, but added that in no case should the judg ment of the physician be stipplantcd by that of enforccment officials, a situ? ation he believed would result from regulations attempting to control the use of prescriptions. Law Forbids Discrimination Replying to the question whether the government could restrict the num? ber of permits to manufacture, sell, or prescribe" in any state or community, Mr. Palmer explained that the Vol? stead act had limited only the classes to which permits could be issued, and had permitted tio discrimination be twee.n persons within those classes. He said the withholding of permits could not be done legaliy even though of? ficials were convinced that fewer per? mits would suffice in any given state or city. Mr. Palmer advised officials that they had "ample authority" to write such regulations as they believed necessary to make certain the enforcement of the law. Dry advocates stressed this state ment, declaring that by it mcans would be found which would circumvent and handicap the salc of beer and wines and would not throw open the door to the manufacture of quantities of high alcoholic beer again, as anti-prohibi tionists insisted. "The construction of the Volstead act by Mr. Palmer. is not in accord with the purpose of the law," said Mr. Wheeler. "The law authorizes the pre (Continund on pagt ninetern) Rebels Hold Petrograd, Is Riga Report Entire City, with Excep tion of 2 Rail Stations, Is Reported Captured; Red Leaders in Flight Soviet Suffers Big Losses: In Retreat Imporlant Fortresses Said to Have Surrendered; White Russia in Rcvolt LONDON, March 9.?-A dispatch to The London Times from Riga, dated Wednesday, says that all the Bolshe vik leaders in Petrograd cscaped by j motor car after the capture by the rev j olutionarics this morning of the entire i city with the exception of the Nicolai j and Finland railroad stations. The | Soviet troops suffered heavy losses at j Krasnoye Selo, elghteen miles south | east of Petrograd, and at Gatchina, | thirty mile.s to the southeast. The Krasnoya Gorko and Oranien I baum fortresses have surrendered. The j Red army retreatcd twenty versts. The Cronstadt government has is sued a proclamation to tho World Workers to begMn a fight against the Communists, according to a Helsing fors dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company. Early reports from Petrograd say that the Soviet officials are ready to Icave at any momer.t and that Soviet War Minister Trotzky had or dered the avrest of the. staff of the Esthonian legation. Trotzky Flees to Fortress Another version of the situation in Petrograd is given in a Central News dispatch from Helsingfors, dated to-day. This says that fighting is continuing in the streets of Petrograd and that War Minister Trotzky and M. Zinovieff, the Soviet Governor of Petrograd, were re? ported to have taken refuge in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. sur rounded by a large number of protcctive troops. All attempts by the revolutionists to capture this fortress, the message says, were repulsed. "General Brusiloff fformer com maride'r in chief of the Russian armies in the late stages of Russia's partici pation in the Europe.an war) effected an organization of the Soviet troops in the city," continues the dispatch, "and ordered a mixed regiment ' of I Finnish and Chinese to clear the streets. Tho revolutionaries, however, refused to rire on the Finns, who I joined the revolutionaries, the latter j repulsing the Chinese. j "Moscow is reported quiet, with Lenine remaining inside the Kremlin issuing orders for arrests, which are I occurring by hundreds." j Reports received here to-day from | Kovno say that Jewish refugees from Russia are trying to reach the fron tiers of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. I The reports say they are fleeing in large numbers, fearing that the upris j ings in Russia will result in pbgroms. Thousands of fugitives from Petro giad are clamorin'g for entry into Fin i !and, Finnish advices state. Terrific Fighting in Streets From The Tribitne'a Europcan Bureau Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Ino. LONDON, March 0.?in territic street fighting in Petrograd to-day, according ! to fragmentary reports \ from border I states reaching London, the rebels j made sweeping gains, consolidating , Ihem and forcing the Soviet troops to I retire. Many of Trotzky's soldiers re ! fused to fight, the dispatches say, and the only forces which the Bolsheviki I could use to oppose the onward march of the rebels were 10,000 Finns. A dispatch from the official Soviet wireless station in Moscow admits thut communications with Siberia have been cut otf for a fortnight. By some this fuct is attributed to royalists, who, supposedly under the leadership of Grand Duke Michael, brother of the last Czar, have seized the present op portunity for a demonstration. There has been a constant flow of messages between the Moscow- and Cronstadt radio stations the former trying to induce the rebels to sur render, and the latter defying the Soviets and announcing that Cron? stadt is now a republic, having initi ated a new revolution. Fires Reported in Cronstadt COPENHAGEN, March 9?(By The Associated Press).?News of the Rus? sian situation to-day was conflicting with the latest Helsingfors dispatches reporting that the Soviet government forces had rec.aptured the fortresses of Krasnoya Gorko and Systerbak this morning, and were training the big guns of these fortresses upon Cron* stadt, where fires were obacrved. WARSAW, March 0 (By The Associ? ated Press).---The White Ruthenians (Contlnued on next paje) Thief .Under Umbrella in Crowd. Breaks Pane? Gets $2,300 Gems A tall young man, rain-soaked from j ' head to foot, although he was carrying 1 an umbrella, stopped last night in f ront j of the big plate-glass window of the ijewelry store of Samuel Winokur, at ; 395 Fulton Street, Jamaica. He glued i his face to the window and stood mo tionless as pedestrians hurried past Ihim. The ram was falling hard. Di ! rectly across the street a crowd was ' ; swarming into a brilliantly-lighted! ?motion picture theater. Two minutes after the young man | had stopped outside the window the proprietor of the shop and an employee i heard a crash of glass. They saw a ' hand inserted through the broken front window and noticed that the fingers clutched a small jewelry box, which contained twelve diamonds, the entire ; lot valued at about $'.2,500". Winokur and his clerk dashed to the i front of the shop. As they did so, the window smasher, with his umbrella j raised as a protection against the ter- j j rific downpour, da^bd across Fulton 'Street. On reaching the other side he j wheeled sharply. thrust his umbrella into his left hand, and in his right grinped a revolver. Winokur, his clerk, and several others started across the street after him. He ffred two shots in the gen? eral direction of his pursuers and ran toward New York Avenue, swingtng his umbrella in one. hand and holding his revolver in the other. He whirled into New York Avenue and disappeared in an alleyway. Another man followed him into the alleyway and did not come out. The police bclieve the sec ond man was an accomplice. Winokur gave a description of the thief to police headquarters at Jamaica. ile said the diamonds were the most valuable he owned and believes the thief was a good judge of jewelry and had probably planneu the robbery some time in advance. The window was broken with a brick. Captain Wohlfarth said he was con vinced the man who smashed the win? dow had a confederate. Detectives from the Jamaica precinct were sent out immediately in an effort to round up the thieves. Allies Deadlocked Over 50% German Tax Levy; Italy Refuses to Agree Lloyd George Asks and Gets French Pledge Not to Annex Occupied Area LONDON, March 9 (B^v The Associated Press).?The British Prime Minister in the Supreme Council to-day, in alluding to French news paper comment on the occupation of additional Gerrnan territory, asked the French Premier for' assurances that annexation was not con templated. The French comment indicated the belief that the institu tion of a customs barrier was likc-ly to lead to complete separation between the occupied territories and the rest of Germany. Mr. Lloyd George said Jhat though he had absolute confidence in M. Briand and the good sense of the majority of Frcnchmen, and although he had received assurances from former Premiers Clemenceau and Millerand, who had fought hard against the annexationist policy, he would welcome a new and definite assurance from M. Briand that France contemplated neither annexation nor even autonomy of the Rhineland. M. Briand emphatically denied that any such feeling existed "even in the back of the minds" of responsible French statesmen. Not five out of every hundred Frenchmen, he asserted, dreamed of such a thing. Mr. Lloyd George expressed satisfaction at this announcement. Harding Makes Special Plea for ColombianPact Seuds Message to the Senate Urging Ratifieation of the Treaty; Strong Opposi? tion in Botb Parties Open Hearings Asked Opponents of Agreement Favor Postponing Aetion Until tbe Extra Session From The T.ribunc'e Wasklnaon Bureau WASHINGTON, March 9.?President Harding, in a special message to the Senate to-day, asked that the Colom 1 bian treaty bc considered and ratificd at oncc. The message went to the .Senate in executive session and was ' not made public. In spite of the fact that the Presi j dent has asked that the treaty be acted | on, strong opposition to ratifieation is ; daily becoming more apparent. Differonce of opinion developed in 1 the executive session. Opponents of : the treaty insUted it should be con? sidered in open session and not be liind closed doors, and at the same time ; efforts were made to have the whole | question postponcd until the extra ses ? sion. Senator Underwood, Democratic i leader, urged that the treaty be de layed until the extra session, and there is much support for this without re gard to party. A canvass of the Republican side of the Senate has been made by oppo? nents of the treaty. This dlscloses that twenty or twenty-one Republican Sen-1 ators are opposed to ratiiication. Just how many Democrats will align them selves against it has not been vevealed. Senators Shields, of Tennessee, and V/atson, of Georgia, are against it, and the Republican opposition hopes to muster enough Democrats to de.feat it. Protracted Controversy Seen The situation as it stands to-night indicates that a bitter and protracted controversy will develop in the Sen? ate, with the outcorne uncertain. In the end the Administration may be able to marshal enough votes to drive the treaty through, but this is not a cer tainty. President Harding's special message was brief. It is understood to have been less tlTan 500 words in length. | It did not make any detailed argument ] for ratifieation of the treaty, but took the broad ground that ratifieation would help relations with Latin Amer ica. It was presented and read so quickly that many Senators who were a few minutes late in arriving or were in the cloak rooms did not hear it. Senator Lodge urged that the treaty be taken up and ratified, but Senator Johnson expressed the view it ought to be considered in the open session, I just as was the Treaty of Versailles. j Senator Lodge opposed this, but said that if it was considered in the open I he desired personally to make certain statements relating to the situation that mado it desirable to ratify the treaty and he wished to make them in executive session. Senator Lenroot spoke vigorously against ratifieation. He favored consideration in the open, and so did Senators Borah and Kellogg. Lodge Will Urge Action Thercupon the whole matter went over until to-morrow. Senator Lodge then will raove that the treaty be taken up. Senator Underwood will ask that it be put over until the extra session. If the treaty is to be taken up, Senator Johnson will offer a mo tion for consideration in the open. If Senator Lodge is able to have his motion for consideration passed to morrow there will be several days of debate over the merits of the treaty before a vote can be had. The debate will be more prolonged if there are j open sessions. Efforts will be made j by advocates of the treaty to get a j vote within a week if they can get tho ; treaty considered now. When the treaty is taken up an effort will be made to get the amount o*f pav for Colombia scaled down from $25,000,000 to $15,000,000. Senator Swanson, of Virginia, Democrat, has long advocated this. Those who are leadir.g the tight for the treaty will contend that Colombia would not ac? cept the $15,000,000 and that it would be useless to ratify the arrangement with such an amount in it. Eckhardt Returning to Mexico BERL1N, March 9. ? Heinrich von Eckhardt, former Minister to Mexico, will return to the post he formerly held in'that country. Since his re? turn here, in 1919, he has been in charge^f the Spaniah-AmericaB Divi aioa oo. &he Foreign Off ice. Gerrnan Reds Pi-each Revolt To Oust Allies Communists of Berlin Call Mass Meeting to Back Arraed Force; Socialists and Nationalists Bitter Simons Under Fire Today Will Face His Critics in the Reichstag; Reaction to Allies' Seizure Spreads By William C. Dreher B'j M'irclesa to The Tribune Copyrisht. 1921, New YoTk Tribune Ine. BERLIN, March 9.? The reaction of the Gerrnan people tc the Aliied in vasion of the industrial district has been vigorous, with some sections of the press assailing the Entente for what is called a gross violation of thte Treaty of Versailles, while others at tack the Gerrnan delegation at Lcndon for yielding an inch to the "excessive" demands of the Allies. , The speech which Chancellov Fehren bach made in the Reichstag yesterday, exhorting the Gerrnan people to re main calm in the face of this act of violence, is being criticized by some of the newspapers as being too sentimen tal and likely to create a bad impres sion abroad. Harmony does not exist on the so called home front, for the Commanists and Socialists are bitter over the re sults of the London conference. Vor waerts even says that the political position of Dr. Walter Simons, For eign Minister, is eni.angered. The newspaper explains that the two parties of the Right are convinced that Dr. Simons made offers to Lloyd George in excess of Germany's ability to pay, and expect to make him answcr for these offers. Reichstag Debate To-day It seems probable that to-morrow's debate in the Reichstag, postponed at the govemment's request until the Foreigc Minister could reach Berlin and appear in his own defence, will bring out many expressions of dis sutisfaction with Dr. Simons's handling of Germany's case. Some of the mem? bers will criticize him for the bun^ling manner in which he presented Ger? many's offer and thereby failed to win for it the proper reception. Meanwhile other voices are being raised in different parts of Germany which tend to compromise Germany's case in the eyes of the world. Min? ister President von Kahr, of Bavaria, after having done hla utmost to bring about the present situation through his refusal to disband thi Bavarian Einwohnerwehr (citizen guards), sol emnly protested in a speech in Munich yesterday against the application of punitive measures by the Allies and predicted that the day would eome when the Gerrnan people would lift their heads from the existing op pression, The Nationalist press is joining the chorus of unsubmissive discontent. The Lokal-Anzeiger argues that as the Allies have now broken the treaty themselves this brcach gives Germany complete, freedom of action. Prcfes (Continued 011 next page) Five Leap 2,000 Feet; Set Parachute Record All Land Safely Near Sacramentu After Dropping From Same Airplane SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 0.?A record in parachute jumDing was set to-day at Mather Field when tive avi ators, Lieutenant Eugene C. Batten Sergeant Richard Thorne. Corporai Paul Connors and Privates Earl Wood gard and Alexis Ilartner leaped from the same plane at an altitude of 2,000 feet. Lieutenant E. C. Kiel piloted the plane. Double parachutes, one strapped to the breast and the other to the back, were used. Just before he jumped from a wing of the plane, each man loosencd one parachute and the wind blew it open as the leap was made. The second parachute was opened when the man wanted to lessen the speed of his fall. All landed safely. Sforza Tells Couneil His Country Needs Teutons' Goods; Belgium Objects to High Rate of Impost Tariff Sehedule Is Put Up to Experts Brussels Forces Seize Hamborn; To Pass on Collection Plan To-dav From The Tribuv.c's Europ'an B"rea'i CopyriKht, 1921, New York Tribune Inc. LONDON, March 9?Complica | tions arising out of the decision of j the Allied Supreme Couneil to col lect a 50 per cent tax on all Ger man-made goods sold in Allied coun ; tries developed this afternoon at the I Supreme Allied Couneil, when Count ; Sforza, Italian Foreign Minister, ; notified Premier Lloyd George and Briand that Italy would refuse to levy such a tax. Count Sforza ex plained that his country must have | German goods. and that the Rome ! Parliament would refuse to sanc ' tion the collection of reparations j money by this means. Foreign Minister Jaspar of Bel jgium advised the Couneil that the ! Brussels government objected to j such a high rate as 50 per cent, but | might agree to levying a lower tax. | provided all moneys collected by jsuch a tax in Allied countries were turned into a common fund. In re? ply to this provision Lloyd George said he was opposed to any such plan because it would be impossible for Great Britain to share with Italy, who wanted no tax. He in sisted that, as originally planned. each country should apply what money it collected by this means to the reparations debt due it from Germany. Experts to Draw Up Tariff The question came to a deadlock and finally was put in the hands of a group of experts, whd were charged with drawing up a tariff ;.chedulc for the different countries. Lloyd George will introduce in Par? liament to-morrow a bill authorizin the collection by the British Exchequer of a 50 per cent tax on German good* sold in Great Britain. At to-day's meeting of the Couneil Briand got Lloyd George to agree that the sanctions Ipenaltiesj provided in the Treaty of Versailles were appli cablc not only to force Germany to pay her reparations bill, but also to compel her to fulfill' other provisions of the pact. such as completing her disarma ment and trying those charged with war crimes. When the bill comes up for debate in the House of Coramons criticism of the government for its attitude toward tiie proposal is expected not only from the ranks of Labor members, but also from Conservatives. Business men are attacking the plan. (iermari W'ants United States Aid Walter Rathenau, head of the Im? perial German Bar.k, has come forward i with the suggestion that Germany pay [ her leparations bill by assuming th? debts of the Allies to the United Stateg. ! This proposal is regarded here as an | atteir.pt to evade the payments which the Allies demand. for recent dis patches have indicated the prevalence of the belief in Berlin that if the United States could be dragjred in on the rtottlement of the war bill, Ger many's burden would be lightened. There is no doubt that boih Great Britain and Belgium would be pleased with such a solution of the interna tionai debts problem, hut there is no expertition here that'the Washington Administration would be interested. France, on the other hand, it is be lieve 1 hero, would not find such a solu tion Batisfactory, because th? Paris government requires cash to mcet cur rcnt obligations. BERLIN, March 9 (By The Associ ! ated Press).?The Belgians have oc , cupied Hamborrirfto the north of Duia burg, and the cbaling port of the '1 hyssen works. The occupation was : without incident. ; Hamborn is a rural commune of I Rhenish Prussia, in the Diisseldorf j district. It is a eoal and iron mining center. The population is 40,000.] Workmen in ISew Zone of Occupation Seem Content \ Allies Seize Cash in. Custom House; French in Dusseldorf Open Soup Kitehens for Poor DUSSELDORF, March 9 (Bv The Associated Press).?Conspieuoua evi dence of the occupation of Dusseldorf are two British tanks standing at the Hindenburg wall, near the Rhine. around which crowds gathered to-day. among them two soldicrs, who ex , amined the war machines with profes j sional interest. Yesterday's interest in I the arrival of the Allied troops had j largely diminished to-day, the inhabi- * ! tants showing mostly what General j Gaucher tcrmed "benevolent indiffer ence." Many Germans are eallinsr. at th? French heaquarters and off'ering t > cnlist in the Foreign Legion. An effective installation of the cv.s toms regime on the Rhine and alonjr the Allied frontiers is still waiting on the decision of the Allied government* as to the details of application. [Vhe first real cash payment on reparaUon-. was collected yesterday, when tk&Al