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Keep This In Mind?Daily Ilerjald One Cent-~Sunday Two Cents
War Q avings 0 tamps
ill U-A V E Uammy
ERALD
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
steady acre
tnd U.cle Sam
tbem. Boy tbem today.
NO. 4160.
WEATHER?FAIR; WARMER.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1918.
TWO CENTS.
8-HOUR BILL
WAY FOUNDER,
CLERKS AYER
Confidence Felt by Their
Friends in Defeating the
Borland Measure.
NEW MOVE IS EXPECTED
porkers Will Continue
Fight for Shorter Hours
in District.
?7 CLCLAMD C. M'DEVITT.
Now that the smoke has cleared
from the Congressional battle over
ths Borland eiffht-hour amendment
up on ths Hill Friday, in which
both houses voted their approval
of the Increased hour measure,
friends of clerks here last night j
declared trey felt confident they
could still defeat this amendment.
While practically nothing was
accomplished in the Senate yester
day on the amendment, as a rider
' to the agricultural appropriation,
, bil, to cause jubilance on either 1
side there seemed to be a feeling (
among many Senators that another
vote on the bill would turn the |
tables. ^
Senators la Opposition.
Senator Williams, who voted for
the amendment, when in the com- ?
mlttee of the whole, the amendment
passed by a vote of 29 to 28, an- 1
nounced on the floor, that in view
of the fact that his further amend
ment to allow the clerks wage and
a half for overtime had been
stricken out on a point of order. |
he would oppose the amendment 1
when the final vote was taken to
morrow or Tuesday. Senator Smith,
of Arizona, also announced that he ]
would opose the amendment on the
final vote. -
Senators Sheppard, Williams an?l
Jon"s will lead the opposition to the
amendment when it is brought up in
the Senate as a body. Senator Shep
pard. as soon as the committee 01
the whole dissolves as such, will
make a motion to strike out the en
1 tire Borland amendment as attached
to the agricultural appropriation bill.
He stated last night that he believe* |
there is a strong likelihood that it
Hill at this crucial time be defeated. ,
Representative a. California. .
has ferr-tej ont an interesting peirA
In the eight-hour amendment as it |
now stands. If the letter of the law ,
were heeded. Representative Lea de- (
clared. It would compel the clerks ,
to work Sundays. To remedy ihl.< |
the Senate would have to insert the j
word "working" in the amendment.
Representative I>ea also said h?*
thought it only fair that the amend- (
ment should permit the clerks to :
work an average of eight hours. That |
is. if they worked ten hours one day.
they would be given credit for two
hours to be deducted at a convenient
time. Mr. Lea said he intended call- ,
ng the attention of some Senator
to these points.
In the opinion of leaders in the Fed
era! Employes* 1'nion the eight-hour
I amendment would not afreet the Sat
\ urday half holidays which are grant -
I pd the clerks in the summer, as they
are granted through an Executive
order.
Miss Florence Ktherldge. acting
president of the union, however, said
they were not worrying over these
[ little details at present, as they were
J giving all their strength to mass their
forces for the final drive against the
\ first eight-hour amendment, which will
I be permanently decided in the Senate
either tomorrow or Tuesday.
Meanwhile, new activity, in the in
terest of the clerks will be begun in
the House. A bill is to be introduced
in the lower body to provide over
time pay for government employes
called upon to work more than eight
hours a day.
This step is taken to be inevitable by
labor leaders as a result of the ac
ceptance of the Borland eight-hour
amendment.
Pretest* Flood Congress.
1 Protests against the Borland amenl
? ment are beginning to flood the offices
' of the members of both houses, and
1 many of those who voted for the
amendment will doubtless take a more
, liberal stand when they are convinced
1 that their constituents are discontented
over this, legislation.
As the "fnatter now stands, there is
a fair possibility that the Borlano
amendment will be defeated in '.he
Senate, if not as a rider to the agri
cultural appropriation bill, then as an
amendment to the committee amend
ment providing the 1120 flat increase
In the legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bllL It Is a cer
tainty. however, that if the amend
ment is accepted in either, or both
cases, that some other amendment in
the shape of allowance of overtime
or limitation to an "average day"
will be enacted with the amendment
as a balm.
I Ttiere will be a great deal said on
' both sides, and from indications every
point will be fought to a finish.
GERMANS MASSING
TROOPS IN BELGIUM
Hindenburg and Ludendorff Estab
lish Western Headquarters.
London. March 16.?The German
high command, according to latest
idvices. Is pouring great masses of
troops into Belgium and the two
Qerman war chiefs. Hindenburg and
LodendorfT. with their staffs are
mid to have moved to the Spa. the
famous Belgian resort some eigh
teen miles southeast of the fort
?ess of Uege.
Except in the Tpres sector the
German big guns displayed no un
isual activity today. Welsh troops
listlnguished themselves in a raid
ie*r Armentieres, taking fifteen
prisoners and two .machine guns.
On the Verdun front the gtinflre
aaa been violent during the last 24
tours.
In Macedonia the Bulgarians
lave again shelled Monastir.
The Italian front was compara
tively quiet* ^
Hits at War Finance Bill;
Calls It Revolutionary
And Dangerous Precedent
Representative Longworth Lets the Brooding
Storm of Protest Break in House Over
Measure "Hacked, Pruned and
Remodeled for Safety."
Protesting that Congress must not become "a mere registering ma
chine for the will of the executive," Representative Nick Longworth, of
Ohio, yesterday opened the fight over the war finance corporation bill.
This measure, originally prepared by Paul M. Warburg, of the Federal
Reserve Board, for Secretary McAdoo, was made over by the House
1 Ways and Means Committee, and called up for passage yesterday by
Chairman Claude Kitchin.
A storm of protest that has been gathering for weeks broke with
Longworth's attack. After telling the House that the Ways and Means
Committee had "hacked, pruned, remodeled it" until the finance plan j
looked safe, Longworth took the administration to task for seeking too !
I much power. He said:
ConfrfN N? -Mere Amiiuemli.
"I believe that the time has come ?
to definitely impress upon the Execu
tive and upon the country that we
propose to do some thinking for our
selves, that we propose to scrutinize
rigidly the legislative proposal sent :
us from the other end of the Avenue
and to enact them with such addi
tions, subtractions or alterations as
seem best to us, acting In the capacity
imposed by the Constitution, in short,
that we propose to conduct ourselves
as the legislative representatives of
the American people, and not simply
as the amanuenses of those holding
executive office."
Longworth, describing the revi
sion, said. "We have buillt the leg
islative framework of the machin
ery ourselves. We have hung a re
spectably sised monkey-wrench on |
the safety valve and w^ have
changed engineers."
^Appallingly Significant.'*
As originaly presented. Long
worth said, the bill gave to Mr.
McAdoo powers that were abso
lutely revolutionary. He asked:
"Do your minds grasp the ap- i
palling significance of the sum of
$4,500,000,000 to be granted or with
held from American business, by
one individual? It is four and one i
half times as much as it has ever
rost this government to live in any ?
one year. It is about equivalent tov
the combined debt* at the begining
of the war of the United States
and of every State city, village,
country and townsl|ip in the United
States. It wouM ftnance three
time* over the Boer war hi South
Africa.
"It would have come within 30
per cent of financing the Napo
leonic wars, spreading over a period
of more than 22 years. It would i
have come within 40 per cent of fi- I
nancing the entire coat of the civil }
war. And it was proposed to grant.
to one man?and at his own re
quest?the power to dispense this 1
huge sum as lie pleased.
"These two powers, of controlling
credit and controlling the issue of se
curities, would have made of Mr. Mc- '
Adoo the arbiter of the business and
finance of America. No war lord in j
history, no Kaiser or Czar, ever hart
such power. He would have been in a ;
position to make or break men or cor
porations at will. He could build up !
or destroy communities. His smile t
could bring prosperity to a State, his ;
frown make of it an industrial wilder- |
ness.
Ever '.rowing Danger.
"The mere transmittal to Congress ot j
such a bill is illustrative of a danger j
every day growing in menace to the j
institutions bequeathed to us by our
fathers. I mean the continuous reach- |
-ing out of the executive branches ot j
tne government for more and more
power. It is a danger lightly passed
over.
"On about the same day that this bill
made its appearance in the House a
bill, known as the Overman bill, w&s
introduced in the Senate, also pre
pared at the other end of the avenue,
designed to turn over to the President
the power to romodel our system or
government in any way he saw fit. 1 '
do not think it is an; exaggeration to I
say that if these two bills had passed {
in their original form, in the form in j
which it was hoped and intended they I
should pass. Congress might just as
' well have abdicated.
"We might have been asked, as!
| a matter of form, to meet for a few
; days once a year to vote forty or'
i fifty billion dollars to the executive. I
; but thereafter our functions would
have ceased. If it was contemplated
' to found a dynasty in this country no
l inore effective steps could be taken
j in that direction than by the pas
sage of those two bills originally
written."
MILLION TONS
OF FREIGHT IS
STALLED HERE
Freight for Allies Held at
Ports, Says Director
McAdoo.
Nearly 1.000,000 tons of freight for
the allies are lying at the piers at the
Atlantic porta from Boston to Nor
folk, acording to reports made yes
terday to the Director General of
Railroads.
Cumulations are growing so fast
that some steps may be necessary to
retard them until enough shipping is
gathered to move the supplies. Great
measure of relief is looked for in the
taking of the Holland steamships, but
R is said by transportation officials
that there are approximately more
than one hundred ship loads now
piled up, with other material moving
to the coast
According to A. H. Smith, regional
director, there are now 30.78o carloads
of freight awaiting shipment. There
are 6,778 unloaded carg on the piers
and warehouses; 15,638 unloaded on the
ground and S.369 awaiting unloading.
They average more than thirty tons
to the carload, or close to 1,000,000
tons. Among this vast quantity arc
6,234 carloads of foodstufTs destined
for the allies, namely: at Boston, 534;
New York, 3,011; Philadelphia, 506;
Baltimore, 1,675; Newport News. 1S2
and Norfolk, 326. These contain
canned goods, meats, flour and grain.
Efforts are being made to get out
all the wheat possible. The Depart
ment of Agriculture yesterday gave
out figures showing that the wheat
holdings at the country mills and ele
vators on March 1 was 68.972,000 bush
els, or about 20.000,000 bushels short of
what was in store a year before. The
Food Administration has been urgitig
increased shipments to the allies and
the program calls for something like
50,(4)0,000 bushels befbre June 1. Furth
er efforts at conservation must be
made, it was said, if the country is to
keep up the program.
BOARD WILL BUILD
NONSINKABLE SHIP
Equipment Designed by Hudson
Maxim to Be Tested.
Another non-sinkable ship is to
be built according to designs by
Hudson Maxim, the United States
Shipping Board announced last
night.
This second type of non-sinkable
ship depends on a super-buoyant
apparatus installed in any vessel.
The details are not revealed, but
it is different from the sustaining
device of the first invention by E.
F. Donnelly, of New York, now be
ing tested in the Lucia.
Mr. Maxim's contrivance, it
said, can be placed in a ship and.
if it is found later to be ineffective,
readily removed. "The' Maxim de
vice," says the Shipping Board an
nouncement, "possesses many points
that seem practicable."
Introducing Annapolis,
New Bone-Dry Sahara
"Old John" Adds Another Crepe to Collection,
While Residents Join Washington in
"On to Baltimore" Slogan.
Auiupuiis, Aid., March 16.?Old
John Barleycorn, same to the end,
went down for the count in An
napolis, at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
John, although realizing he waa de
feated, died hard.
All that now foams in Annapolis
is soda water and concoctions which
any connoisseur would have spurned
in the goo$ old days when John
was in his prime.
Hotels, saloons and lodges are
now making frantic efforts to get
rid of the choice stocks which they
had laid in when John Barleycorn's
| long career seemed still far from
j the end. But there is many a cellar
I in Annapolis?tonight that would de
light any ifnmber of Londoners or
I Parisians seeking * shelter from
! menacing seppelins.
The drastic closing order issued
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels,
terminating the reign of King Al
cohol in this city, went Into effect
at the stroke of four this after
noon. The order affects all hotel*
saloons, clubs and lodge*. Large
stocks of rare wines and other fine I
products of the still held by many I
hotel and saloonkeepers who were I
unable to dispose of them, owing
to the short period between the is- J
suance and enforcement of the clos
ing "order, might a* well be rain
water as far as their material value
goes.
Issued for the protection of Uncle
Sam's "Jackies" at the Naval
Academy here, the order makes
Baltimore, the oasis toward which
Washingtonians cast longing eyes,
the mecca for Annapolis citizens as
well. Hotels long famed for their
fetes and social affairs, made dry
by the order effective today, include
the Carvel Hall Hotel, one of the
leading hostelrlea of the State.
Clubs and lodges that always
have had well-patronized buffets
were forced to abandon this form of
hospitality today. Anapolis tonicrht
is as dry as a town in the middle
of the Sahara.
Recommendation for Mc
Workers Show Disposition
to Accept Grant by
Government.
Practically all the employe* of
the go vernmen t-ope rated railroads
will receive increases oT wages ac
cording to a recommendation to be
made to Director General McAdoo.
on April 1. by the Railroad Wage
Adjustment Commission, of which
Secretary Franklin K. Lane, la the
head.
Definite forecast of the percentage
of increase cannot be made now,
but it is unofficially stated that
there will be a sliding scale of ad
vance of from 12 per cent to 25
per cent. There ??1U be compara
tively few to receive the higher
rate or the lower rate, the general
average being something around 18
per cent.
Coat mt I.It luk Addared.
Those branches of labor which
have received grants of increases
within the last three years will be
held to a "reasonable advance"
while the great groups of unor
ganized and organized labor who
have not been favored, will come
into a fairly gratifying measure of
raise. Definite figures have been
presented to the commission to
show that the railroad laborers
have been hard hit by the great
jump in the high cost of living.
Naturally the more poorly paid
workers have fared worse than ?
others. The new figure* will be
based on this proposition. State
ments submitted to argue the side
of the locomotive engineers, con
ductors, signal men, telegraphers
and train despatchera have not
brought out the effect of high liv
ing costs in such startling manner
as those submitted of the lower
wage men. And. what Is regarded
as a fine example set. these branch
es of the service have not been as
insistent as they might otherwise
have been, had not the necessity
of the lowest-paid men been ao
manifest.
disaffection %riT1 fce ?re
pressed by the labor men over what
ever advance ia granted. It was
said last night on the authority of
n labor official. They take the posi
tion that while the government is
at war and still in the experimental
stage of governtnent operation of
the railroads, labor will take no
stand that might prove antagonistic
to the prosecution of the war.
McAdoo llna Last Word.
The labor men contend that liv
ing costs have gone up 33 per cent
in the last year, and a demand for
that increase has been made, but
that was from the privately-owned
railroads. No such figure is being
held out for in the present in
stance. and some of the labor men
al ready have said that a 20 per cent
increase, as an average, would be
accepted by the men without any
feeling of bitterness at not receiv
ing the higher figure. Something
like 2.000.000 employes will be af
fected by the new increase.
There can be no appeal from
whatever figure is set. Director
General McAdoo is the court of last
resort, lie can accept the recom
mendations of the commission in
full, or make such changes as he
may deem right. However, little
change is expected in the Director
General's office, because it is known
that he has full confidence in the
ability of Secretary Lane's commis
sion and himself has hardly given
the problem a thought since it was
turned over to the commission.
PEKIN MERCHANTS
FEAR CHANG TS0-L1N
Merchants Close Shops and Hide
Valuables lo Avoid Loss.
Pekin. March J?.?The approach of I
Gen. Chans Tso-Lin's forces is caus
ing alarm similar to that which oc
curred when Hen. Chang Hsun ap
proached. The merchants are shut
ting their shops and hiding their val
uables. The populace believes Chang
Tso-Lin intends to restore the mon
archy. This is considered unlikely by
those best able to judge.
He has a brigade midway between
Pekin alid Tientsin and a brigade In
Tientsin. His move is Intended to
force the' President's hand and make
him take stronger action against the
south by removing several southern
governors.
President Feng -Kwo Chang is vlr- '
tually a prisoner In the hands of the
northern military party just as U
Yuan-Hung was under Yuan Shih
Kal. His trip to the south a short
time ago was really an attempt to .s
cape. It was the northern miKcary 1
who refused to allow him to resign a
few days ago. The President's weak
and vacllating policy and his intrigues
have undoubtedly brought about the
present crisis.
One Killed and Eight
Injured in Collision
Detroit, Mich., March 18?Frank J.
Koenlg, of Newark, N. J., was killed
and eight other men injured tonight
in a collision between a street car and
a truck.
Koenlg and all those Injured are
members of an array aero squadron.
Removal Pennsylvania Kallroad City
o Involves This Fig
ure a? Average.
WILL SATISFY MEN
wiavic uusincss wilt be re-i
until 1
COAL DEALERS
MUST PROCURE
U. S. LICENSES
President Issues Proclama
tion to Back Up Dr. Gar
field's Order.
PENALTIES PROVIDEDi
Chief Executive Warns Mer
chants Against Infringe
ment of Rule.
President Wilson yesterday la
rued a proclamation putting under
Ifcenae all jobbers and other dis
tributing agents of coal and coke.
Licenses must be obtained on or be
toro April 1.
Regulations and rules Issued by i
Dr. Harry A. Garfield, the Federal
Fuel Administrator, with the ap- ]
proval of the President, allow pur- i
chasing commissions, briefly, as fol
lows:
Fifteen cents a ton on bituminous
coal and twenty cents a ton an
anthracite coal east of Buffalo;
thirty cents a ton w^st of Buffalo
and 6 per cent of the delivered price (
on smithing coal.
President's Proclamation
President Wilson, after reciting
the Congressional authority for his
action, states:
"Now therefore. I Woodrow Wil
son, president of the United States, j
by virtue of the powers conferred
upon me by said act of Congress,
hereby find and determine and by
this proclamation do announce that
tt la essential In order to carry
Into effect the purpose of said act.
to license certain classes of distrib
utors of coal and coke to the ex
tent hereinafter provided:
"All persons, tirms, corporations j
and associations, except those specif- j
ically exempted by said act of Con- ,
greas, producers and miners of coal |
and manufacturera of coke, distrib- ,
uting exclusively (their own pro- j
duct, and retail dealers as defined In
the United States Fuel Administra
tor's order of October 1, 191 ?. en
gaged In the business of aiatrlb
-ntin* or "* crfKe ~ht jotswr.
broker. Jelling asent. purchasing
agent, wholesaler, or In any capacity ?
?whatsoever, are hereby required to j
secure & license on or before April i
1, 1918, which license will be Is
sued under such rules and regula
tiona governing tho conduct of the |
business as may from time to time j
be prescribed by the President of
the United States or by the Fuel
Administration, acting by virtue of
the authority heretofore as afore
said, or hereby, delegated to him
by the President.
"The United States Fuel Adminis
trator shall supervise, direct and j
carry into effect the provisions of j
said act, and the powers and j
authority thereby given to the |
President, as the same applies to)
coal, coke and other fuel, and to j
any and all practices, procedure and ;
i equations authorized, or required i
under the provisions of said act. in- ]
eluding issuance, regulation and re- j
vocation, in the name of. the Fuel j
Administration, of licenses under |
said act and in this behalf he shall
also do and perform such other acts j
and things as may be authorized or (
required of hiin from time to time
by direction of the President and
under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the President
from time to time.
"Any person, firm, corporation or
association, other than those here- i
inbefore excepted, who. without a
license, shall have been revoked i
knowingly engages in or carries on, I
alter the date aforesaid, any busi
ness for which a license is regarded
under this proclamation, will be
liable to the penalties prescribed by
said act of Congress."
ITALIANS DISPERSE
STRONG FOE PATROL
War Office at Rome Issues En
1 cotiraging Statement.
Rome. March 14.?The war office
statement issued today reads:
West of Bezzecca strong enemy ?
parties who attempted to capture:
one of our patrols were dispersed
by our fire. The enemy exploded .
a powerful mine on Monte Pasu
bio, but our positions were not j
damaged.
Our artillery dispersed two ene
my troops and working parties in
the A.siago basin and convoys along
voads In the Brenta and Seren val
leys. There was slight hostile artil
lery activity in the Upper Val
Tellina and along th1^ M'ddle Piave.
At Bassano a field hospital, visibly
marked with a red crosfc, was hit.
MAN LOSES LIFE AS
AUTO TURNS TURTLE
John Fitzgerald Victim of Accident
at Laurel. Md.
John Fitzgerald. 32 years old, of
318 Third street northwest, died last I
night at the Casualty Hospital,
from injuries received when an au
tomobile in which he was riding
overturned near Laurel, Md., late
yesterday afternoon.
According to information that
reached the police late last night!
Fitzgerald was riding with three
companions, along the Baltimore
pike, near Laurel, when the l^iachine
overturned, and pinned him be
neath it.
He was placed In an automobile
truck and started for the hospital
here. An ambulance from the Cas
ualty Hospital met the truck and
rushed the injured man to the hos
pital. where ho died a short time l
later.
ROSS SOVIETS DIVIDED ON PEACE -
PROPOSALS FROM HIM WAR LORD;
STATEMENT FROM WILSON AWAITED
Czech and German
Deputies Fight in
Austrian Parliament
Copenhagen, March 16.?Czech and ,
German members of the lower house j
of the Austrian parliament engaged ,
In a wild scuffle in which several
were injured Thursday during a i
speech by the Czech deputy, Soukop,
according to a Vienna dispatch to the j
Hamburger Fremdenblatt. The die
turbance became so serious that the I
chairman had to dissolve the sitting.
Deputy Soukop complained that I
Prague, the capital of Bohemia, had j
been for several days without food, j
including potatoes. Deputy Wolff, a !
German member, jumped to his feet j
and shouted:
"The Czechs have not given out
proper quantities of food. The Czechs
will starve us. They are the allies of
the British."
The German deputy's harangue was
interrupted by Deputy Rydlaziz. a
Czech, who threw him to the floor.
The tumult thus begun soon spread
throughout the House.
WILlCiSilR
D.C. PUBLIC
UTILITY BILLS
House Committee Reports
Favorably on Govern
ment Ownership.
Congress will have a quantity of
District grist to grind in the near fu
ture If Chairman Johnson, of the Dis
trict House committee, is successful
in getting consideration on the sev
eral measures already favorably re
ported by his committee as soon as
he expects.
There are at least five bills which
will soon await the pleasure of the
House which are of vital interests to
residents of Washington- Two of
4h*?ae have already been favorably
reported and the remaining three will
be after the next meeting of the
House District committee Thursday.
1 1?The bill prepared by the District
[ Commissioners in conference with the
! House District committee which jfro
vides for the government to comman
deer or purchase the garbage disposal
plant which would be operated by the
i District government after July 1 of
| this year.
2?A joint bill written as a com
I promise of the Cary and Van Dyke
j bills providing a two-platoon system
t for firemen in. the District.
3?A bill authorizing the government j
to take over the property now under j
lease to the Washington Market Com- I
pany by paying $900,000 or such sum j
as represents the value of the im-i
provements on the land owned by the j
i government, which has an assessed
! value of Jl/JOO.OOO.
I 4?A bill providing for government
ownership of the District's telephone
lines.
&?A bill providing for government
ownership of the District's street rail
j ways.
Representative Hilliard. who wrote
I the favorable report recommending
i the purchase of the telephone lines In
Washington, said that he believed this
bill would be the first to be brought
before the House next District Mon
day. March 25.
NEW REVOLTS BREAK
OUT IN GERMAN FLEET
Newspaper Reports Disaffection
Among Seamen of Kaiser.
Petrourad. Match li?.?Fresh disord
ers have occurred in the German fleet
off the Aland Islands, according to
the Russian military newspaper.
Krasnaya Armla.
The Germans, it is added, have oc
cupied Razdielnaya station, on the
Odessa Railway line, and the evacua
tion of Odessa and Nicholiev is pro
ceeding. The German Admiral Siegerf
has been appointed commander of
Odessa. Before the occupation of
Odessa by the Germans anti-Jewish
! riots occurred there.
Secretary Baker Visits
"American" Port in France
Spends Strenuous Day Viewing Docks, Ware
houses, Encampments and Hospital, Ac
companied by Gen. Pershing.
With Secretary of War Baker at a?
French Port, March 13, via Paris, I
March 16.?Newton D. Baker, Sec-!
retary of War of the United States,
today began in earnest gathering: i
first-hand ^information about the i
war. He spent all day inspecting
this important port, accompanied
by Gens. Pershing, Black and At
terbury. Upon the conclusion of a
ten-hour tour, Mr. Baker declared:
"I frankly admit, now that I have
my first chance to go over one of
cur bases, that this is a bigger un
dertaking than 1 realized. I must
*ay that 1 am more than satisfied
with the wonderful progress made.
Bigrger Than He Realised.
Secretary Baker arrived at this
port In a special nine-car train fur
nished by the French government.
He got up at ?:30 in the morning
when the plans for the day were
submitted to him. As he stepped
oft the train he received a rousing
ovation. He wai graeted by tb? p-1
cal authorities. A battalion of the
American Expeditionary Force
I stood in line, its band playing to
1 the colors as the secretary. Gen.
: Pershing at his side, stood bare
headed receiving the Inspiring sa
I lute.
Docks Three Miles l ong.
The party motored off to inspect
the docks, which are three miles
long and capable of accommodating
sixty Vessels. Everything here has
been built up by Yankee industry.
Mr. Baker walked the entire length
of the docks, bravely keeping up
with Pershing's long military
stride. The war secretary took the
keenest interest in everything be
saw and all was thoroughly ex
plained to him. Gen. Perth lag
pointed out the main bases of dis
tribution. Mr. Baker plunged en
S thusiasttcally through the ssnd.
| stepped over the trestle-work tad
1 OONTUUUED ON FAOB TWOw
Social Revolutionary Members
Quit Cabinet, Opposing Pact
as Yet Unratified.
WILSON TO DEFINE ATTITUDE
President is Expected to Use Chance for
Stating Sympathy and Disclosing
Siberian Policy.
London, March 16.?The Russian Pan-Soviet Congress at Moscow
had not voted on ratification of the German peace pact up to Saturday
night, according to latest dispatches received here.
The casting of 453 votes in favor of the pact was merely a Bolshe
vik caucus, according to dispatches from several sources.
Social revolutionary commissaries have quit the Russian cabinet,
pending settlement of the peace question at the Moscow Pan-Soviet Con
gress. They have decided to leave the government if the German die
tated terms are ratified.
8 Persons Killed
In Zeppelin Raid
Over Hartlepool
LmI?b, Mnrck 16.?Blfbt
uns were killed and treaty- J
two InJarH !? ? Oeraaao Key
pelli raid aver Harilrpool.
Kreaeh, rommaadrr of Home
Defeaar fereea, a nnounrr-d today.
GERMAN AGENT
DETECTED BY
BOGUS CABLE
T
Plans of Fort Hamilton
Are Found in His
Possession.
Now York, March 18.?A German
agent, whose name government agents
refused to reveal, was arrested here
tonight following an investigation of j
a cable message he attempted to s*nd
to Mexico.
Complete plans of the Bethlehem
steel works and of Fort Hamilton,
here, were found in hia poj*?ej?siou.
Every cable sent out of this country
is closely examined for hidden mean
ing before it is allowed to pass over
the wire. The name and address of
the sender is required and many of ?
the .messages filed never are sent be
cause upon investigation they were ,
deemed suspicious by the cable cen- j
sors.
??Congratulations." "Happy birth-1
day." "Have signed all articles.'* and
"Close at once." are a few of the thou- j
sands of apparently very innocent j
cable messages that persons attempt
to send to foreign countries. Thcu- j
sands of them are kept and never
sent; copies of all messages filed a"e
kept together with the nasw and ad
dress of the sender and the person
to whom the message is addressed.
Scores of German agents have been
captured through their attempted use
of the cablef. Mexico has been a fa
vorite place to send rvs?ne^. some of
them containing valuable military se
crets. and have been transmitted from
that country to German a rents await
ing the information.
While no official will discuss the
matter in any way. it Is known that i
Mexican ports on both the .Atlantics
and Pacific Coasts and scores of j
places along the American border ?
are rendezvous of German agents and
headquarters to which is sent In
formation gathered by conspirators
in the United States.
(.'??flirt Is C>r*irlBg.
The conflict betwen the Bolshevist
and the social revolutionaries of the
left-over ratification of the pact Is
growing.
The prospect* for reassembling the
constituent assembly to form a coali
tion cabinet are becoming stronger.
M. Manespirodowow. leader of the
Left faction, appealed to the peaaant*
to rally to the defenae of the land
against the German*, declaring th*
IWt represent* the mas?e(
The Bolshevik factions 1 peace vote
follomed Premier Leniae't speech to
the Moscow soviet in which he said
"The broad masses are undergo
ing self-discipline. We art com
pel led to stand unheard of humilia
tion. but we will stand it without
surrendering our position.
"Wo have the right to e&pect aid
from our only frienda?namely, the
proletariat of all countriea who will
understand that we ate defending
Socialism, not militarism.
"Tens of millions of Russians
must be made to under*t*nd this
First we must conquer the present
chaos; otherwise we will be una
ble to defeat the international
bourgeois!*. When the interna -
tionsl proletariat hurries to our
aid. we will win."
Justice Commissary Steinberg de
clared his violent opposition to the
pea re terms.
?The pan-Soviet must tear up the
Brest-Litovsk treaty and create IN
necessary government for defense,"
Steinberg declared.
Wsr Minister Trotsky, working on
the creation of a new army, declared:
"Germany knows a robber peso*
cannot last."
The Cossacks and Ukrainian* are no;
strongly represented tn the congress
The movement of Germsti and Tutk
ish forces in the Transcaucasns region
is regarded as a violation of the clause
of the pact in which the Russian*
agreed to evacuation of this territorN.
but did not agree to Turkish occupa
tion.
I'. V \ lew? I ?rkanftrd
President Wilson was yesterday un
derstood to he preparing a fltflttie.nl
for the morld at large which will em
phasise the announced policy of sup
port and sympathy for the Russian
people. It is believed the oportunit>
will he accepted to define the attltud*
of the United Statea towards the sue
gested plan of the entente powers to
have Japan send an expedition Into
Asiatic Rusfla.
The most definite statement obtain
able concerning this policy wna that
there hsd not been the slightest
change in the vtewa of the United
States as made known informally to
Japan some day? ago. Thia was re
garded a* advance assurance that the
President will restate his unwilling
ness to assent to apy plan of Interven
tion which is unaccompanied by a
statement guaranteeing nonterrttorlal
ambitions on the part of Japan.
The President has not permitted
his closest advisers to know wbethei
the message will be delivered through
Congress or issued direct from the
White House. As a matter of expe
diency the latter course may be
adopted, It was thought at the White
House, owing to the Sunday holida3
which will make it Iraposaibl* for
the Chief Executive to appear at
the Capitol before Monday.
Exchanges of views between the
United Statea and Japan, and with
the co-belligerents of the United
States in Europe, were still In prog
ress at a late hour yesterday.
In entente circles It was asserted
the concern of the Japaneae govern
ment was due to the fact that the
position taken by the United States
Is based upon principle rather than
upon Interest.
In Japanese quartera. It waa affaln
asserted that the Tokio government
would not act hastily. Excerpts
from Japanese nemspapera were,
however, made available to show
the tremendous pressure that I*
being brought to bear on the Jap
anese foreign office. Japanese dip
lomats denied that the Toklo gov
ernment would be Influenced In any
way by the action of the Pan-8?
?iet Congreas at Moscow.
Russian officials in Waahington
have permitted It to be known that
Japan has sought In an informal
way to obtain approval for inter
vention from the representative of
the late provisional government la
Russia.
RUMANIAN CABINET QUITS.
| New, of the resignation of tha Ru
, mania n Cabinet headed by M Avar
eacu te contained tn a dtapatch to tfce
State Department from Jaaay.
| A now cabinet, the meaaac* aaM.