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Full Report on Fage Eight
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New Vork
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921
* * *
TWO CKNT8
1h Greater New Tork
TIIBEF. CKVTS
Within ?00 Mil?e
FWR CESTS
I.Iwwher*
senate Votes
Full Inquiry
Into City Rule
Two Livingston Men and
10 Tammanyites Cast
Only Negative Ballots,
After Bitter Debate I
Unlimited Power
Is Granted Board
Committee Increased to
15 by Lusk Resolution; j
Assembly Acts To-day!
By Dennis Tilden Lynch
ALBANY. April 13.?The Senate to- j
day adopted the Meyer resolution pro- -
riding for a graft investigation of the '
Hearst-Hylan-Tammany administration. i
Ten Tammany Senators and two fol- ,
lowers oi Jacob A. Livingston, the i
llrooklyn boss?Senators Alvah Bur
lingame jr. and Maxweil S. Harris
cast the only negative votes. The As?
sembly will adopt the resolution to- j
raorrow.
The Tammany leader, Senator James i
J. Walker, made a frantic effort to
prevent the adoption of the resolution,
qttoting Mr, Livingston as his author?
ity that the investigation should not
be ordered.
The resolution is the most sweeping
deeument of its kind ever presented to
the Legislature. It calls upon all city,
borough and county officers of the City
oi New York to assist the committee.
Immunity power, granted for the first
liaac to a municipal investigating com?
mittee since the Lexow committee, also
is cor.ferred on the committee.
Investigation Is Unlimited
The most sweeping power of all is'
ciclegatfd to the committee by the !
Legislature in the following paragraph: !
'The investigation of the committee j
may include every other matter and ?
thing not specifically mentioned in this j
sesolution, as though the same had |
been speeified therein."
Thc committee will consist of fifteen ;
Itgtslators, although the resolution !
?Vils for only eleven. The additional
?Air were created by the adoption of a
...?:' resolution offered by Senator
Clayton R. Lusk, majority leader, pro?
viding that the minority and majority
Inders of both houses shall be mem
r,= of all legislative committees, with
Wlpower to vote on all matters.
fjjtfs is considered by the Iegislators
to mean that regardless of who is
ekctc'l chairman of the committee, ?
SSBetov i ask and Assemblyman Simon I
'.. Adler, the majority Jeader of thc: I
;"..er hcuse, will at least keep a guul- ]
ing hhiiii on the investigation.
It is understood that Senator!
Schjiyler M. Meyer, of New York, will .
? e chosen chairman. Senator Theodore
\j iiiglas Robinson. who with As.sem
blymsti Joseph Steinberg led the fight
i" th ? Legislature for a probe, is sup
I'nrr Senator Meyer for the chair
r;r.i)ship.
Brown Choice for Counsel
Elon K. Brown, of Watertown.
ormer majoritj leader of thc Senate,
ho drafted the resolution, and who
??? ;i3 one of the men who were largely
responsible in convincing Governor
Miller that a graft investigation was
jieed'id, is the ununimous choice of the
::ilue'.!tial members of both houses for
-ounsel to the committee.
The committee, which by virtue of
the Lusk resolution will consist of j
i'tren members, will be composed of i
eight Assemblyman and seven Senators. ;
The eleven who will be appointed by j
'.he Speaker of the Assembly and the j
President pro tem of the Senate will
be selected Friday,
Shortly after the adoption of the j
resolution, which carries with it an
appropriation of $100,000, the Senate !
r,'inance Committee reported out the '
Meyer bill providing for a charter re?
vision comrnission of fifteen to be ap- I
pointed by thc Governor.
The advancement of this measure j
naa objected to by Senator Walker, i
' ho said that the amount appropriated
or the work. $25,000, was too small.
"Here you have a graft investigating
'jommittee appointed for the purpose
of slinging mud and you give it $100,
''00, but this charter revision commis
-lOh, which could do some good work,
you give but $25,000," said the Tam?
many leader.
Charter Bill Is Delayed
Under the rules, the objection of
Mr. Walker delayed action on the char?
ter revision bill for twenty-four hours.
The graft investigating committee is
required to furnish all information it
develops which will be of assistance
_(Continued on paga three)
Tornado in Texas Town
Kills Eight, Injures 55
Many Building* Wrccked, Roof j
Torn Off" Schoolhouse, Train*
Blown From Tracks j
MELISSA, Tex., April 13.?Eight per- I
10ns are dead, five are probably fa- j
tallly injured and approximately fifty j
others more or less seriously injured as j
a result of a tornado which struck here I
at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon. Five of I
those killed were negroes.
The storra swept through the town j
from the southwest to the northwest, j
'?'emolishing more than a score of build
ingB. All the churches and stores, the j
school building, three cotton gins, the
postoffice, interurban station and part j
of the railroad station, were wrecked.
building, in which about 240 children |
were at classes and caved in the walls, I
cut, due to the foresight of the prin?
cipal and teachers, who had marshalled j
their charges in the basement when
they saw the tornado approaching, no
child was hurt.
The tornado originated near Frank?
lin, six miles west of Melissa, swept
eastward, destroying farm buildings
*}ong the way at Boland and Chambers- t
ville, then missed the west side of
Melissa only to sweep down from the
*?8t. Two freight trains on the Hous
*on & Texas Central Railroad were
scattered along the track for a half
mile and one of the crew was prob?
ably mortally injured.
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Bay State Bill Imposes
$5 Fine for Not Voting
BOSTON, April 13.?Oompul
Bory voting at national, stato and
municipal elections under penalty
of a fine of $."> ig provided for
in a bill the Committee on Elec?
tions Laws to-day voted to report
to the Legislature.
The law would not apply to pi-i
niary elections.
Broker Said to
Have 2 Wives
In Same Home
H. T. Andrews, 30, Holds
His First Marriape to
Woman, Now 45, Was II
legal and Takes Bride. 25
Elder Refuses to Depart
Has No Money, She Relates,
to Obtain Shelter Else
where With Children
Herbert Thornton Andrews, of 20
Broad Street, n stock broker, lives in
the Rensselaer apartments at 2348
Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, with
two wives, one of whom is staying on,
she says, because she hopes her hus?
band will tire of her rival.
The women are Mrs. Augusta Hayne.?
Andrews, forty-five yeara old. whom
Andrews, who is thirty, married in
Portland. Me., June 17. 1912. with her
two boys, John, eight, and Ilarley, six.
and Mrs. Esther Marie Tatnall An
drews, twenty-five, who wns married
to Andrews at GreenwicH, Conn., Jan
uary 2G, 1921. Also a resident in the
house is Mrs. Sarah McGuir Andrews.
mother of Mr. Andrews.
Mrs. Andrews was introdnced t0 thr
new wife when Andrews took her home
immediately after the Connecticut
marriage. She is reported to have
been asked to take an alcove bedroom.
which has also been her sitting room
since the advent of the second Mrs.
Andrews.
First Wife Waitlng
The first wife is said to have told
intimate friends that she remains in
the house because of her two children
and because she knows that her hus?
band will tire ultimately of the young?r
woman.
"I don't know much about the woman l
who supplanted me in inv husband'-; ;
affections," said Mr.s. Andrews last''
night. "He told me he had married her !
m Connecticut and I am told there is. :
no law there under which he can be '?
prosecuted for bigamy. He told fne i
when he brought the young woman
homo and introduced her to me that I ''
could either stay or leave, just as I
cnose.
"Since then we have lived here un- i
dcr the same roof. I have two litt'e !
children to support. One of them al
waya has been a crippie and an invalid
\ou may be certain that 1 would not
put up with the condition except for
my children s sake. If I left here mv
husband would spend all his monev on
that girl Part of it at least ought to
be spent for the care of his children.
Xo Money to Go Elsewhere
"I don't know what to do other thnn
what I am doirig. I have, no other
home than this and no monev nt all.
So I am just staying here and waiting
for something to happen. My husband
is not here to-night. He went out this
morning and has not returned.
"Tlie other woman went out some
time later, and she has no: returned
either. I suppose they are together in
New York somewhere, but I have no
idea where."
Andrews is said to have told friends
who have inquired about his strange
domestic rejrime 'hat his first mar?
riage was illegal. He is said to have
a large income and to have been gen?
erous in his treatment of his family
before he met the woman who he now
declares, is his legal wife,
Mrs. Andrews was divorced from her
first husband, Albert La Plant. of St.
Albans, Vt., and her decree was made
final one month before she met An?
drews. She was boarding at that time,
she says, in the home of Andrews's
parents in Quincy, Mass. Andrews was
a bookkeeper in a Boston bank at that
time.
New Wife a Blonde
The young woman who, Andrews
says, is his legal wife is slight, blond
and attractive. She was formerly a
telephone operator and later a stenog
rapher in a Pittsburgh brokerage of?
fice with which Andrews did business.
Andrews replies to questions on the
subject of his Btrange domestic regime
that he is only legally married to one
woman* but that he 'is very fond of
both and of the two children of whom
he is the father. He says that he in
tends to maintain both women and the
children in proper style.
Eugene A. Donohue, of 149 Broad?
way, has been retained by the first
Mrs. Andrews to care for her interests.
She explains that she does not know
what the proeedure will bc.
?-?-..
Jilted Russian Prince8s
Kills Self in Vienna Cafe
Comely Refugee Learns Rich
Young Viennese Wooed Her
When Already Married
Special Cable. to The Tribune
Copyriffht. 1921. New York Tribune Inc
VIENNA, April 13.?Princess Twer
dowska, a young, cultured and beauti
I ful member of the Russian nobility.
' has committed suicide here. Princess
: Twerdowska, who was unmarried, h_d
; been residing at a hotel here for some
I time, together with other Russian
refugees. For several months she ap
I pears to have been receiving the at?
tentions of a rich young Viennese mer
chant, who, it is said, had promised to
marry her.
Recently, however, the Princess dis
I covered that her suitor had just been
j married. She shot herself through the
' heart in the hotel dining room. The
' fact that the princess was very gay
{ and in the best of spirits up to tlie last
moment has given the affair an air oi'
mystery, particularly since her brother,
a former Officer in the Russian army,
; also was found shot dead in Vieniia
\ several months ago. It was said his
; death was causod by financial diflicul
| ties, but the police are seeking to lis
1 cover all the facts in the case.
Miller Asks
Transit Bill
Be Amended
Measures, Offered After
Special Message, Pro?
vide Valuation Be Based
on 5c, or Contract Fare
Ban 011 Inclusion
Of Watered Stock
Wants Earnings To Be on
Lines' Replacement Cost
at Pre - War Expense
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, April 13.?Governor Miller
to-day sent a special mesasge to the
Legislature urging the enactment of
! amendments to the new public utllities
law to prevent watered stock of the
transit lines from being considered by
I the transit comrnission in appraising
' the physical value of the property.
The Governor also recommended that
where a traction line has a fivc-cent
; fare agreement with the city and the
earnings of the road are limited by this
i acceptance thc Transit Comrnission
1 shall also take this fact into considera
| tion. i
The recommendations of the Gorer
nor, which mean that the physical val
uation of the roads shall be deter-'
I mined on a basis which 6hall in no in
j stancc exceed what lt would cost to re
I place the property at normal or pre
! war prices, less depreciation. were i
later embodied in a bill introduced in
, both houses by Senator John Knight
, and Assemblyman Simon L. Adler.
After a conference to-dav between
i Major General John F. O'Ryan. who
, commanded tiie 27th Division, the re?
port gained currency here that General
. O'Ryan had been offered a place on the
i Transit Comrnission. Otto T. Bannard,
; one-time candidate for Mayor of New
i York City on the Fusion tieket against
i the late Mayor Gaynor, also was men
, tioned as a possible appointee.
Silent. as to Appointees
Governor Miller declined to discuss
: the reports or any of the others that j
i preceded them, saying:
"I have not made any announcements
anywhere. But you cannot keep people
} from guessing. I shali send in tho
names to the Senate, possibiy to-mor
' row."
The Governor's message follows:
"The ordinary standards of physical
valuation, either original or reproduc
tion cost less depreciation, do not
meet the emergency with which we
have to deal, and physical valuationa
according to any standard that could
be. prescribed will in most cases under
existing conditions be grossly unfair j
to the public. \
"It is claimed that many surface |
lines In New York City cannot be !
operated at a profit at any reasonable j
or practicable fare and it will doubt- I
less be necessary to discard some lines l
and to operate others even at a loss to I
provide thp public the necessary serv- i
ice. Any plan or any rate based on j
j the physical valuation of such lines '
would manifestly be unjust to the !
! public.
Opposes Gratuities to Lines
"Moreover, thc rate of fare fixed by i
| franchise or contract is a proper if |
not an essential element to be taken i
; into account in the' valuation of the
property afFecled. Companies which ,
havo agreed to operate at a five cent I
; fare or have accepted franchiaes with !
; conditions annexed, imposing a five j
cent fare and the investors in the se- j
j curities of such comnanies have no j
just claim to a valuation of their
j properties without regard to the
I average earnings which they may
! reasonably be expected to make in thc
1 future at such fare under the con- j
! ditions which are likely to obtain.
"Indeed, the true rule of valuation of
any property for business purposes is
i the capitalized value of its prospective '
\ earnings under normal conditions.
j Where such earnings in the cnse of a
public utility are limited by contract
: or franchise they should be computed
j and the property affected by them j
j valued according to such limitatioh.
) Any other basis of valuation of the
! traction lines in the City of New York
might result in enormous gratuities to
! the companies at the public expense.
Public Vitally Affected
"We are dealing with a problem
vitally affecting the public welfare, and
for that reason alone the exercise of
'? its police power by the state is justi
j fied. It is not a question of the rights
j of the companies, which are fixed by
contract or franchise. The problem is
j to determine what ia in the ultimate
public interest, how credit can be pro
1 vided to finance necessary extensions
and to obtain the additional facilities
' rcquired to render adequate public ser
? vice. And in the solution of that prob?
lem private interests must not be per
mitted to capitalize the public need.
I "lt is very difflcult to prescribe by
statute a standard or principle of
i valuation that will be fair and not too
I inflexible. I fear that in the absence of
? any other prescribed standard the
(Continued on pagn t\x)
Wilsey Quits Education Board:
Tells Hylan It Is a Failure
Frank D. Wilsey, for twenty years a<
member of the New York City Board '?
of Education, sent in his resignation
yesterday to Mayor Hylan, to take ef
fect to-day. Mr. Wilsey says in his;
letter to the Mayor that, in his opin- j
ion, "the present Board of Education
has failed utterly" and that "the es- j
tablishment of a larger board with a
different personnel is the imperative
need of tlie hour."
He takes issue with the power of the
Mayor to appoint members of the I
board and say3 he wants to be free I
to do all he can to insure the enact- !
ment of the bill introduced in the ;
Legislature on Tuesday by Senator!
Theodore Douglas Robinson. Senator
Robinson's bill would oust the present 1
board of sevcn and provide for the
appointment of a board of nineteen
members by an education committee
composed of four members of the
State Board of Regents and the Mayor.
From the beginning, Mr. Wilsey;
gocs on to say, the tendency of the!
present board "has been one of drift
and vague opportunism."
"Wavering and failure have attended
its efforts," he declares, "and finallv
eaused a loss pf public confidence the
uke of which I have never seen durin j
my long term of service. Important
issues, instead of being squarely faced,
have been shunted to one side when
ever possible. Thus the board was at
times indifFerent or hostile to the
crying demands of teachers for a
decent hving wage. The resort of the
teachers to the Legislature for salarv
legislation was necessarv because the
Board of Education deliberately ig
nored the teachers' desperate plight
out of deierence to the wishes of the
Board of Estimate."
As now constituted the board of
seyen is really a board of four, Mr.
\\Usey contends in his letter, because
of the prejudices guiding this "parti
san majority," and similar criticism is
made of the committees appointed by
the president of the board, which he
defines as "essentially one-man af
faira.'
Canadian House Rejects
U. S. Reciprocity Pact
OTTAWA, April 13.-? The
House of Commons late to-night,
by a vote of 100 to 79, defeated
the motion of W. S. Pielding rec
ommending the adoption at this
time of the reciprocity agreement
between Canada and the United
States which was signed in Wash?
ington on January 21, 1911.
The subject of reciprocity was
brought up unexpectedly in the
House.
Says Brindell
Ordered Him
To Plead Guilty!
Stadtmuller, Accused of
Extortion, Asserts Cliief
Threatened to Caneel
His Rond of $100,000
Promised Short Senteuce
Declares He Was Told Action
Would Help Lahor Czar
in Reniaining Indictment
Peter Stadtmuller, one of the labor
men under indictment for extortion in !
connection with Robert P. Brindell.
labor czar, now serving time at Sing
Sing, declared yesterday that he had !
been threatened by Brindell with can- :
cellation of the $100,000 security bond :
) procured by the latter unless he agreed '
I to plead guilty to the charges ugainst |
him.
Stadtmuller said in the presence of
his lawyers, Thomas J. O'Neill and
Benjamin Moore, that Brindell had
urged him to plead guilty, saying that
if he did so it would be arranged so
I that he would receive a sentence of
not more than three months' imprison
ment. Stadtmuller insists that he is
j innocent of the charges against him,
and his attorneys are endeavoring to
arrange for bail in case. the Brindell
bond is cancelled.
Says Conference Was Held in Tombs
ln his statement Stadmuller said:
"A couple of weeks ago I had a con?
ference with Brindell in the Tombs,
and he told me that if I pleaded guilty
it could be arranged so that I would
only get sentence of from thirty days
to three months."
In connection with this statement
O'Neill and Moore declared that Brin
dell's proposition was "preposteroujj"
and merely a part of his threat to have
Stadtmuller do what he ordered. "The
sentence rests solely with the court,"
Mr. O'Neill said.
Stadtmuller declared that Brindell,
during the conversation in the Tombs,
had said that he knew Stadtmuller was
innocent, but that by pleading guilty
and receiving a three-months' sentence
he would avoid conviction due to pub?
lic clamor and a imig sentence in state's
prison, and that if he pleaded guilty he
would be helpful to Brindell in obtain
ing immunity for Brindell from further
prosecution upon the other indictment
against him.
"I am absolutely innocent," said
Stadtmuller, "and I had nothing to do
with Brindell's schemes and merely
acted as messenger, delivering messages
as I was told. 1 delivered no threaten?
ing messages from Brindell to any con
tractor. If I have to go to jail for a
long period of time I'll at least have
the satisfaction of knowing that I am
not there as a rcsult of pleading t.o a
crime of which I am entirely innocent."
Referring again to the conversation
with Brindell in the Tombs, Stadt?
muller said that Brindell told him if
he did not plead guilty and aid him
he (Brindell) would caneel his hond
and "slough me into the Tombs and
give me a taste of it and then maybe I
would do what I was told."
Counsel for Stadtmuller said they
were afraid the security bonds would
be canceled to-day. They declared
that if such actioir were taken they
would make application to the court to
fix a reasonable amount of bail in
order to enable friends of Stadtmuller
to furnish it. Stadtmuller has a wife
and two children.
British Deht Envoy Coming
-
Lord Chalmers Sails Saturday!
to Arrange for Funding
LONDON, April 14.?Lord Chalmers,
permanent secretary of the treasury,
will leave here Saturday for "Washing?
ton to negotiate with the Treasury De
partment the funding of the British
debt to the United States, according to
Thc Daily Mail.
Lord Chalmers was appointed to ihe
Washington mission several months
ago to discuss war debts, but his visit
was postponed on account of the ab
sence from the United States of Sir
(Auckland Ge.ddes, the British Ambas?
sador.
Paris Expects
U. S. to Sit in
Council Again
Harding's Message Taken
as Proof of America's
Willingness to Help De-'
cide Germany's Fate
ls Jubilant Over
Treaty Prospects
France Eager To Be Inter
mediary" in Settlement
of Dispute With Japan
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to Thc Tribune
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, April 13.?America is about
to assume again her chair at meetings
of the Supreme Council of the Allies. it
is understood in well informed quar
ters here.
President Harding's message to Con?
gress, which was greeted with a chorus
of praise by all the French press, is
taken by those in close touch with af
fairs as confirmation of this intention. '
It is thought that America may even be '
sitting with the Allies when Germany's I
fate is decided, after May 1. French
political circles believe that with the :
mandate over the island of Yap and the
McEopotamia oil matter impending
America cannot afford to pursue a pol?
icy of complete isolation. lt is felt
she must have dealir.gs with Europe
and that she is compelled to choose be?
tween the League of Nations and the
Supreme Council.
Harding's Action Untrammeled
It is now considered that, having re
pudiated the League and cut America's
feet free from dangerous entangle
ments, President Harding will be able I
to reenter world discussion with free
dom of action. Nevertheless, President
Harding's willingness to ratify the Ver
sailles Treaty is regarded here as a
great victory for France and the rest
ofthe Entente powers.
America's ratification oi! the treaty
and her resumption of her place in thp i
Supreme Council would legalize all the j
demands of the Entente powers against :
Germany, and every act taken sinc> the !
armisticc, either toward making Ger
many pay, in the annexation of hor col
onies or the acquisition of other items
of her former property.
The Journal des Debats to-night says j
it seems that Congress was greatly I
surprised at President Harding's mes- i
sage, and that this might also be ;
stated of French political circles.
The French waited all day on tcnter- i
hooks for offlcial confirmation of the
intention of the United Statea to ratify
tho Versailles Treaty without the
league, and when this had not arrived
by lato afternoon the semi-oflicial I
Temps showed much indignation at the i
slowness of French offlcial dlspatches. \
See President as Independent
Some Americans here express pleas- '
ure that President Harding has taken!
an attitude toward the treaty which I
astonished both the pro-leaguers and ;
those thoroughly opposed to the Ver?
sailles document. This thev regard as j
a sign of independence on the part of
the new President, while others are!
inclined to share the French view that i
former Premier Viviani rnay be credit
ed with a highly successful visit.
As for the gratitude of France
toward America for ratification of the
treaty, jt is revealed that she offered
to use her good offices both v.-ith Japan :
and the Supreme Council with thc
object of obtaining reconsideration of
the Yap and Mesopotamian questions. :
The note which France is said to '
have sent to Washington in reply to I
the communication on Yap is declared j
in official circles not to have been
France's reply, but only her acknowl
edgment. Nevertheless, France took oc- .
eation to express sympathy with
An-erica's claims, pointing to the
French note of February 18 to the
United States, in which France bears
witness that nrior to the decision of
.May 7, 1919, President Wilson and See- '
retary Lansing, in the presence of
Baron Makino, formulated objections j
which ran counter to this decision.
Japan Reassnres France
France expresses ln consequence her
opinion that there is sufficient reason ,
for reopening the conversation bo
twee'n America and Japan. France ia j
understood to have received definite
assuranees from Japan that she de
Bir.es to do nothing uni'air in the ques- I
tion of the Island of Yap and is anx- I
ious to reach a satisfactory com
promise.
The French say that, however great j
their sympathy with the American
viewpoint, they cannot repudiate the
decision of the Supreme Council with- !
out the consent of the Japanese. They !
theret'ore regard direct conversation3 j
between the United States and Japan
as the method most likely to reach
a solution.
New Haven to Drop
Some Passenger Trains
< urtailmeiit on April 21, Due to !
Economy, Will Not Affect Im?
portant Part of Service
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad announced yesterday its
intention of taking off some "less im?
portant" passenger trains, starting
April 24. The reduction of service is
made in tho interest of economy. The
trains to be eliminated are on the Cen?
tral New England and the New Haven
lines.
"During the last several weeks," it
was said, "the. shops making heavy re?
pairs on locomotives and on passenger
and freight cars have been closed. This
cannot be continued indefinitely and is j
an extremity in reduction caused by a
lack of funds which has never been
necessary heretofore.
"The situation has been presented
from time to time to the authorities
representing the public and, recently,
to the Governors of the New England
States. Without additional revenues
it is necessary to proceed still further,
in & drastic reduction of expenses." |
The earnings of the service which !
is to be discontinued averaged 76 I
cents a train mile, it was said. while !
the direct average cost of all pas
senger service was about $1.75 a'
train mile. Not all the trains which ;
have showed deficits will be taken off.
The more important service is not to i
be reduced and changes in the schedule j
will be made to compensate as far as ?
possible for the reductions.
British Unions Order
Great Strike To-morrow
In Support of Miners
Lloyd George Demands Alliance
Explain Cause of Strike Order
LONDON, April 13^-After the receipt of the announcement of the
Tnple Alliance that its members would be called from their work on
Friday night Premier Lloyd George sent the following reply to the
alliance:
"Dear Mr. Thomas (general secretary of the Railway Union)
and Mr. Williams (secretary of the Transport Workers' Fed
eration):
"I am in receipt of your letter. The decision you report is a
grave one. You threaten Friday night to dislocate the whole of the
transport services of this country, so essential to the life of the
nation.
"I should like to know the grounds on which you aro deter?
mined to inflict such a serious blow on your fellow countrymen.
"Yours faithfully, LLOYD GEORGE."
The Triple Alliance sat until a late hour to-night, and it was
decided to send a reply to the Premier's letter Thursday morning,
when the deliberations of the alliance are resumed.
Knox Measure
Declaring Peace
Is Introduced
Resolution to End State of
War With Germany and
Austria Is Offered, With
Treaty Clause Eliminated
Early Action Is Forecast
Debate Will Follow Vote on
Colombiau Pact; Goes to
Foreign Relations Body
From The Tribune'a Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 13.?ln line
with the view of President Harding, as
presentod in his message to Congress,
the Knox peace resolution, to end the
state of war between this country and
Germany and between this country and
Austria, was introduced in the Senate
to-day. The resolution containe no dec
iaration of future policy and is in
tended simply to end the state of war
and in so doing safeguard the rights
of this government and its nationals.
Early action by the Senate and House
in passing the resolution is forecast.
The measure was referred to the For?
eign Relations Committee. Senator
Lodge, chairman, will call a meeting
of the committee to consider it in a
short time. However, under the agree?
ment with respect to the consideration
of the Colombian treaty, which will be
before the Senate most of the time
until next; Tuesday, it will be impossible
to consider the Knox resolution at once.
It will not be dealt with by the Senate
until the Colombian treaty is out of
the war.
It is the purpose of both Senator
Knox and Senator Lodge to have the
Senate take up the Knox resolution
when the Colombian treaty has been
voted on.
L.ong Debate Is Expected
Other Senators, too, are an:dous to
press it. What is anticipated is that
within a few days after the Colombian
treaty hus been voted on, and perhaps
immediately after that vote, the debate
will begin on the Knox resolution.
Indications are there will be long
debate over it and that this discus
slon will range over the entire pro- j
spectivo peace program of the Harding
Administration.
The Knox resolution, as introduced)
to-day, with certain necessary change3,
followed closely the old resolution.
The section for repeal of the war laws
was striken out because the last ses?
sion of Congress acted on this subject
in a separate bill. The request to the
President to negotiate treaties of
peace with Austria and Germany was
not included because the President |
opposed such a request. With these
two changes and some alterations in
phraseology, the resolution stands as
before.
Text of the Resolution i
The text of the resolution follows:
"Resolved, That the joint resolu?
tion of Congress, passed April 6,
1917, declaring a state of war to ex
ist between the imperial German
government and the government and
people of the United States and mak
ing provisions to prosecute the same,
(Centlnued an next paqet
Balks at Being Hanged
Under Daylight Time
Prisoner Insists That He Ought
To Be Granted Extra
Hour of Life
CHICAGO, April 13.?Sentenced to j
be hanged for murder while Chjcago |
was under standard time, Sam Carfff
nella to-day objected to being executed I
under daylight-saving time.
"When am I going to be hanged?" he j
asked Assistant Jailer Lorenz Moiater- i
heim.
"Friday morning at 8 o'clock," said!
Mr. Moisterheim.
"Central standard or Chicago time?"
"Chicago time," replied Moiaterheim.
"It's in Chicago you'rc going to be
hanged."
"Yes," said Cardinella, "but I was j
sentenced before the time was changed. ?
This rearrangement deprives me of an
hour of life. That won't mean any- |
thing after I'm dead, but it will mean j
a lot Friday morning. The Governor j
can change his mind in that time."
Jail officials changed the time to 9
o'clock Chicago time.
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The best writins paper* avo WHITING '
rAPfcKS.?Advt,
Harding Sees
Australian to
Plan Accord
High Commissioner Shelden
Ardent Advocate of Brit?
ish Dominions Joining
U. S. on Japanese Issues
To Meet Hughes To-day
Hope Aroused of Winning
London Support on Man?
date and Treaty Rights
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON. April 13.?The. con
jference between Mark Shelden, High
Commissioner of Australia, and Presi
Jdent Harding to-day, and the an
, nouncement that Mr. Sheldon would see
Secretary of State Hughes to-morrow,
were regarded here cs of intense in?
terest in connection with the Harding
peace program laid down by the Presi
j dent in his address to Congress yes
jterday.
Interest in these conferences is so
I intense because it is realized here that
I the entire question of America's rela
j tions with Europe and the rest of the
j world, the possibility of an association
of nations and the possiqility of Amer?
ica entering partly into eooperation
with the Allies on the Treaty of Ver-'
sailles, with reservations, really hangs
J on the final outcome of the present
dispute over the Island of Yap.
This is not only because of the tre
mendous importance as a cable station
I of this little island formerly owned by
| Germany, and taken over under a man
| date by Japan, but because on the is
| sues involved in the Yap controversy '
j hang the whole question of America's [
j rights in all mandates and her rights \
I in virtually every problem raised by !
| the Treaty of Versailles. To mention ;
I but one illustration, it involves the
j Mesopotamian oil question.
Might Enlist Great Britain
; Therefore, anything bearing on an \
iufluence which might force the gov
ernment of Great Britain to side with j
the United States in a dispute insiue i
the Allied powers as to the respective
rights of Japan and the United States
is naturally regarded here as of very|
neariy supreme importance.
Added to this complicated situation !
is the fact that Mr. Shelden, on his j
own initiative, wrote to Senator Lodge,;
while Mr. Wilson was still in the White
House. expressing eordial agreement i
with a speech made by the Republican !
leader and chairman of the Foreign I
Reiations Committee in Philadelphia!
some months ago.
In this speech Mr. Lodge urged the I
union of America with the British do- !
miniona of Canada, Australia and New
Zealand on the question of Japanese 1
immigration, Japanese ownership of I
land and other problems in which these
dominions found themselves in accord i
with the United States in reaisting
what Japan has regarded as being her
rights.
The New York Tribune at the time,
in exclusive Washington dispatches,
ealled attention to the signilicance of
the move, which created considerable j
commotion here and in London. Dis-!
patches from London immediately fol- j
lowing revealed an apparent disposition i
on thc part of the British government j
to take cognizance of the sentiment in |
the dominions.
Backed by Premier Hughes
Within the last few days, and possi- !
bly not unconnected with Mr. Shelden's I
visit to Washington and his confer- j
ences with President Harding and See-I
retary Hughes, have come very strong I
; pronouncements along this line from
Premier Sam Hughes of Australia. Of j
j course, Mr. Shelden is aware of the j
; statements by Premier Hughes. while, j
; on the other hand, President Harding j
: and Secretary Hughes are known to be I
waiting for a decision on the question
of American rights in Yap before mak?
ing any further move along- interna?
tional lines.
The case takes on added interest be?
cause of the contention of the State
Department that the present issue of j
American rights in Yap is not a clear .
case between the United States and j
Japan, but a case as between vne tTnited i
States and the four Allied powers - j
Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy. I
France and Italy are interested in Yap
only in so far as the decision on the i
claim of American rights in Yap bears i
on American clairns in Mesopotamia and
elsewhere. Hence if pressure can be
brought on the British government be?
cause of the sympathetic interest of the
British dominions in American resist
ance to Japanese claims in Yap it is
thought here that it is difficult to ex
aggerate tha importance of the situa?
tion.
Miners' Refusal to Treat
Writh Government Re
sults in Call to Rail Men
and Transport Labor
Liovd George Has
Not Given Up Hope
640,000 Under Arms to
Meet Emergency; Walk
? Out May Affect 5 MiRion
From Tlf Tribuvt's European Bureau
Copyrizht. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON. April 13.?The British
Triple Alliance of labor to-day
fixed Friday night at 10 o'clock as
the time for the railway men and
transport workers to strike in sym
pathy with the third group of work?
ers represented in the alliance, the
coal miners.
This is the second time the date
for a general strike has been fixed.
The first time set was last Tuesday
night. but the strike was postponed
at the request of Premier Lloyd
George, in the hope that further ne?
gotiations could find a way to pre
vent the tying up of British trans?
port and industry.
Lloyd George Still Hopeful
To-night that way had not been
found and Britain again is on the
brink of the greatest industrial dis
aster in her history. However, the
Premier has not given up all hope.
and is still casting about for some
plan to prevent a strike which will
resuit in about 5,000.000 porsons be
coming idle.
The situation is rendered part'cularlr
grave to-night by the fact that many
| other unions not affiliated with the
j Triple Alliance intend to quit work
; simuUaneous'y with the big three.
3. H. Thomas, head of the railway
? workers, announced that the Amalga
; rnated Society of Locomotjve Engine
men and Firemen had decided to enter
the strike and wil! quit Friday. along
with the electricians.
British Public Apathetic
The British public has become accus
tcmed to the strike thrcat and receiveg
thc latest announcement apathetically
There also is a feeling that a defnite
showdown with labor had to come
sccner or later and might as well be
got over with.
After the miners' flat rejection of
the government's terms last night a
rer.ewal of the Alliance's threat of di?
rect action was expected and the offi?
cial announcement of the strike date
thia morning caused little surprise.
Leaders of the electrica! trades. loco
motive firemen, engineers and railway
e'erks were conferring with the head?
of the Triple Alliance to-day on th?
question of putting the strike into
effect. The Pederation of General
Workers, eomprising a half million
members in scattered trades not aiiied
with the Alliance also is holding speeia".
meetings ro determine itss attitude
Buildei'8, tailors and other unionists
seem generally favorable to the min
ers' cause, but the fundamental reaaoi
labor ia rally ing to the strike is tht
fear of decreased wages throughout. in?
dustry.
It is not difficult to envisage a situa
tion in which to some extent the
origir.ul issue of the miners wages will
be [ost sight of i:i the larger problem.
Premier Lloyd George said in thc
House of Commons this evening:
Government Takes Precantiono
"The situation is of great and in
creasing gravity, but I hope still wiser
counsels wijl prevail. Meantime the
government is prosecuting all nr-ces
sary measures to meet the emergency."
A statement issued by the Board o-'
Trade said:
"In the event of the threatened ex
tension of the stoppage of work tne
government will use the fuliest powers
of the state to protect workers who r#
rnain working."
The Parliamentary Labor party.
which theoretically should head Eng
land's 5,000.000 trade unionists, U
seeking to exercise a restraining in
fluence. Its leadtz-s have been in con
stant eommunication with the Triple
Alliance and it is holding frequent
meetings.
In trying to find a way out of the
crisis Lloyd George is reported to be.
seeking to influence the mine owners to
make larger concessions, but apparent
Lv has had little success in that direc
tion. The miners' latest position on the
wage question alone was that they
would be willing to accept an average
daily wage reduction of 2 shillingj.
The reduction proposed by the mine
owners was 4 shillings.
London May Be in Oarkness
Should a general strike materialize
London would be hard hit, as, in addi
tion to a heavy reduetien, if not stop?
page of all forms of transit, a walk
out of electrical workers wouid affect
the lighting. The telephone and tele
graph systems, which the government
operates, would be little interrupted.
Considerable rioting is reported in
Scotland. where the extremists are stiil
defying the orders of the Miners* Fed
eration not to molest the safety men,
and in Wales the pump men are work?
ing under police and military protec
tion.
Recruiting of the defense forces i*
slowing down as the quotas are being
obtained, estimates introduced in Par
liament yesterday being on a basis of
640,000 men under arms. Should it be
necessary the total doubtless would be
increased, as men ob foreign servict?
and in Ireland heavily reduce the num?
ber of troo&s available.
The official attitude of labor is voiced
through The Daily Herald, the labor
organ, which said to-day: "Let no
worker on any pretext or under any