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The Net Gradation of the Washington Herald Yesterday Was 41,64? THE WEATHER Today?Fair. Tomorrow?Probably fair. Highest temperature yesterday, 84; low eat. 68. THE WASHINGTON HERALD Ask Virginia Lee NO. 4617 WASHINGTON. D. C? THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1919. ONE CENT SJXZreSLTlL DISTRICT BUDGET OF $14,782,981 PASSES SENATE Half and Half Finance Plan Retained as Measure Goes Through Upper House. WATER PROBE KILLED Police Force Increased and $25,000 Each Voted G.W. U. and G. U. Hospitals. he Senate last night passed the Dia trie appropriation bill carrying $14, TS2.$S1 and the retention of the half' and-half plan of District taxation. In view of the fact that the House already has struck out the 50-60 plan, it will now be p to the conferee* to settle the question. he rider inroduced by Senator Pom erene providing for the extension of the Saulsbury act niney days follow-j ing the proclamation of peace was embodied in the bill and passed. Senator Pomerene's bill provides that a notice of ninety days must be given, notwithstanding any waivers or statutory notice previously made by any tenant. Water Proh?? Defeated. The purpose of this measure la to prevent the ejection of persons now occupying houses and apartments in the District under virtue of the Saulsbury act until at least ninety days after the proclamation of peace, when the Saulsbury act automatically expires. An amendment to the bill intro duced by Senator Norris, providing for a full investigation of the sources of the water supply of the District of Columbia, was defeated. Although the amendment did not pass the Senate as presented by Sen- | ator Norris. the matter of looking' into the threatened water famine in *he District came in for some heated debate. In discussing the number of inves tigations that have been made rela tive to water power in and around the District that could be utilized for generating electricity. Senator Sher man advocated abolishing long and Vnsatisfactory studies of the situa-i tkm and get <irwr to the matfep of, clair" awv wMt* ? possfyfc; firniiI* of water. Wast Water, .Nat Powfe. "At the present time." said Sena tor Sherman. "we do not want power, but water. The power that we have is sufficient to operate all street cars, what little manufactur ing we have here and th? lighting of homes. "Water is our problem ? ^ that is what we should take ur> r con sideration. Many times in ihe past this city has been up ^vinst a proposition of not having . uflVient water to put down a conflagration. 6 A .N "What should be done is to put the water question in the hands of some one who can determine what he ,wants to do without waiting six months or a year, as some of tire cabinet officers have done in the past and continue to do. The Sec retary of the Treasury requires six months to get action on himself. Pallee free Increased. ?*At this time we must not become involved in a double-headed in veal? gation?if we do. we get no waer." That section of the bill covering the police department was changed so that Instead of providing for 187 privates of class one as passed by the House the number was in-1 creased to 237. The bill, as passed by the House, provided for seven principals of grade manual-training schools and 334 teachers at salaries of >1.000 each. The Senate added $200 to the group, making a total of $1,200 per year. Senator Overman offered an amendment providing for $25,000 each appropriations for the George Washington and the Georgetown hospitals, provided the institutions; expend a similar amount for medi cal work. The amendment was ac cepted. An amendment to the bill requiring that public hackers be prohibited from plying their trade before the hotels, and fined for unnecessary loitering, was presented by Senator Smith, of Arizona, and passed. The Senate conferees are as follows: j Senators Curtiss, Jones and Smith, of Maryland. SENATElOOMS BOOZE REPEAL Repeal of the war-time prohibition law was riven a knockout blow by the Senate yesterday, when by a vote of 86 to 11 It refused to enter tain a motion by Senator Phelan to set aside the restrictions as to wine and beer. Senator Phelan sought to have the rules of the Senate amended to make his repeal amendment In order as part of the agricultural appropri ation bill. Senator Gronna made a motion to lay Senator Phelan's mo tion on the table and upon this mo tion tbe majority of five to one was recorded. Those who voted with Senator Phe lan against tabling the motion were: Senators Caldor. Edge. France. Knox. La Follette and Wadsworth. Repub licans: and King. Reed, Thomas and Williams. Democrats. Starts Fight to Kill \ 10c Gas Bill Penalty Representative Fitzgerald Declares Bonus For Promptness Should Be Offered Rather than Infliction of Fine for Dilatori ness?Also States Belief Provision Is Unlawful. Representative FltSftrtM yester day introduced a resolution to re peal that section of the statutes re lating to the District which permits the Washington Gas Light Company to impose a penalty of 10 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of gas consumed for nonpayment of bills within ten days after presentation. *1 Intend," said Representative Fitsgerald. -to see that this unjust levy on the residents of the District of Columbia is wiped out. "In every other community public service corporations offer an induce ment to patrons in the ?*epe of a cash discount if their bills are paid within ten days. Believes Law Illegal "How such a law ever crept on the statute books Is more than I can un derstand. It is unfair, and I believe that it is illegal also. ?'When you consider the gas com pany is protected by a deposit from every consumer which guards then! against loss by non-payment of bills, and when you further consider that they have the right to turn off the gas and thus deny the people who fail to pay their bills any further supply, this penalty is unneceasary and a hardship on the consumers. "I also believe that the discrimina tion whereby the Federal and District governments reeelve gas at a lower rate than that paid by consumers should be abolished." The authorization for the gas com pany to impose a penalty on persons tardy in payment of bills is as fol lows: "June 6, 1396. 29th Statute. Pace 251. That the Washington Gas Light Company is hereby authorized to charge and collect, after the first day of July. 1896. for illuminating Danish Prince ' Learns' Poller; Still Has Shirt .New York, June 18.?Prince Aage. of Denmark, who arrived here today to make a tour of the country, studying American customs, told the reporters as he stepped off the steamship Amer ica that he had begun his studies on the way over with a preparatory course in the great American indoor game?poker. He still had his shirt on. The Prince was dressed in the uni form of a lieutenant in the Danish army. He is accompanied by Capt. Styrmer and Lieut. Knudtson of the Danish army. Among the places to be visited are West Point, Annapolis and Mount Vernon. gas. furnished to and paid for by private consumers in the District of Columbia, at a rate not exceed ing $U0 per 1,000 cubic feet and that after the first day of July. 1896. the Washington Oaa Light Company of the District of Colum bia shall furnish to the United States and the Diatrict governments gas at the rate of $1 per 1,000 cubic feet, provided, that if consumers, other than the government, shall not pay their monthly gas bills within ten days after the same haa been presented, said company may charge and collect from said consumer, so tailing to pay said bill as aforesaid. 10 cents additional for each 1.000 *cubic feet for the gas furnished to said consumer during said month." This authorisation was repeated in an act dated September 1, 1916,1 and when the recent order of the Public Utilities Commission was is sued. authorising a-penalty for non payment of bills. Doth acts were referred to. Representative Fitzgerald In-, tends to work for an early repeal of this statute. NO 'RED'CAN GET D.C. CITIZENSHIP Deputy Buhrman Resolved To Keep Radicals from Securing Papers. Bolshevism and American citizenship cannot go hand in hand. So declares Deputy Clerk Alfred Buhrman, in charge of citizenship papers at the District Supreme Court. The first question he puts to an aliea who applies for blanks is: "Are you inclined to Bolshevism or other radical, impractical and dan gerous doctriq^sT* ? Nbthlttg in an applicant's past will be overlooked by Buhrman. An alien will be required to state in detail all facta regarding his birthplace, family and former citizenship. Besides, he must state whether or not he believes in killing presidents, judges or other government officials because they happen to hold their of fices. Since the recent bomb outrages and other outbreaks of radicalism in the United States the Bureau of Naturali zation has found it necessary to en force a rigid examination in eacr? case. The department has ruled that no person will be allowed his flrst papers who is opposed to organized govern ment. or believes in any radical doc trine Two Reds Engineered Plot to Kill Palmer Flynn Finds Witnesses Who Say Accomplice, Carrying Second Suit Case, was At Scene of Crime. Important developments In the hunt \ for perpetrators of the anarchist j bomb outrage of June 2 were r*- i vealed yesterday by William J. Flynn, J chief of the Bureau of Investigation l of the Department of Justice. Flynn i said witnesses had been found who made it certain that the anarchist who was blown up by the bomb which he carried to the house of At torney General Palmer was accom panied by an accomplice. This accomplice also carried a suit case and was a spectator of the ex- j plosion which blew the body of his j anarchist companion in hundreds of j fragments. Chief Flynn said depart- J ment agents had succeeded in ascer- j taining that the dead anarchist and j his companion had been in New York two weeks before the night the bombs were exploded in Washington and other cities of the East. Warna of More Oatrages. Chief Flynn warned that the peo ple could prepare themselves to ex pect other bomb outrages to be per petrated. "It is possible, though not necessarily so, that they may come on the Fourth of July," he said. "The plotters are not going to stop with the few bombs they already have set off. All these bombs turned out to be miscar riages. This, of course, is a matter for the police of the various cltlcs to take precautions against. "The dragnet has brought new evidence to light in connection with the bomb exposion which wrecked the home of Attorney General Pal mer. We are making progress, steadily and surely. At the pres ent time, a full announcement of developmepts would only tend to prevent the successful culmination of our labors to round up, not only the participants in these outrages, but the ringleaders as well. "We now have eye witnesses who ! are prepared to testify that they saw the two men who tried to blow Hp Attorney General Palmer. The anarchist who was blown up was accompanied by a man who also had a suit case. It is our opinion that there was also a bomb in the second suitcase. The man who es caped was seen only thirty feet or so away from the scene after the explosion. "We now believe that the bomb exploded at Attorney General Palmer's house went off prema turely, and that the would-be as sassins had lost time due to in terruption in their plans caused by the presence of the witnesses in the vicinity. This delay caused the death of one of them. Plots Had Common Sourer. "We now have these two mei lo cated as havin* been in New York j two weeks befora the night that the bornLs were set off in Washington jtind other, cr.les Jr. the East. The tource of the plot is a common one? t*%t is, the bomb outrages all em ulated from a * mrJe source. "The I source is a domestic one, although I we think there may be a foreign connection." I Department of Justice agents and I police are vigorously prosecuting the search to round up radicals here and in other cities. Both men and | women who are known to have made inflammatory itmarks are being ar rested and closely questioned ns to ' their connections with other radiral groups. Arrest Two in Philadelphia. I Arrested on the technical charge of i violating a city ordinance, Lydia Vin inocios and Samuel Miller are being held in Philadelphia under ll.OUO hail. According to police, the couple was arrested after distributing radical literature. Detectives assert wrappers, either genuine or spurkros, bearing the name of a New York department store, were found in the man's room after hi* arreat. Eight Democratic Senators Declared Arrayed Against League Fight Program. WILL URGE CHANGE RepublicansState Proposed Trip Would Help De feat Project. President Wilson has lost the sup port of ? number of the most promt* ne?t Democratic Senators by an nouncing his purpose to tour the United States in advocacy of the league of nations. There are at least ei(ht Senators on the Democratic side who are ar rayed against the President on this matter. They are Senators who have been consistent supporters of the league and will be continue to be. notwithstanding their absolute dis approval of his plan to tour the coun try. A movement has been quietly or ganized among these Senators to lay their yiews before the President and to seek to point out to him why. In their opinion, such a tour would be unwl/v Thin may be done before the Present returns to the United States or afN, be has taken up his residence again V the White Hous^. CaaaMer Trip tlnwla*. Strong representations will be made to the President. It was an nounced yesterday by one of the fj" "' '?' the ?r?up. that the th' t Tt U" purIK>"' *nd that It will merely give to the opponents of the league the oppor mni! .1 y lonK have desired to make the league an issue before the people and concentrate their heaviest ammunition against It The Senator making this an nouncement also declared that In his opinion the President has been adv e? w V bad advlc'-" th' same h?m ?' . "P'ned. which caused blm to issue the appeal last fall "rc}loa of ? Democratic i nltThJ which brought about Ho,,, ' majority in each ^ "" ?f?m?t> nude by the rebellious Senators against tht ONTI.VfED PACB TWO DAYLIGHTSAVING ACT IS REPEALED Both Houses Vote to Set | Clocks Back Last Sun day in October. The daylight saving law was re pealed by an overwhelming vote In both house* or Congress yesterday. In the Senate the vote on repeal was 56 to 6. and in the House it was 133 to III. five member* vot ing present. The repeal, if approved by the President, will become effective on the last Sunday In October. At 2 o'clock in the morning of that day the hands of the clocks In the United States, which were moved forward one hour in April, will be net back. Senator La Follette fathered the repeal measure In the Senate. By the vote of te to 20 he obtained per mission to suspend the rules so as to make the measure in order as a rider to the Agricultural Appropria tion bill. On final passage. Senators Calder. Frellnghuysen. Newberry, Page, Phipps and Robinson voted against repeal. In sponsoring the repeal amend ment. Senator La Follette said that the law had been passed as a part or the war-time legislation and that it never had been voted upon ?l>y the people. He said that inasmuch as the people or the country had been given no opportunity to say whether they were willing to ac cept the burdens which the measure J imposed it was desirable to have it repealed. Frankfurters Turn Guns On Alhed Mission Hotel London. June lg.~Aa exchange tele graph dispatch from Copenhagen to day reported that hostile demonstra tions against allied representatives oc curred In Frankfort-on-Main Monday night and Tuesday. Shots were fired at the Hotel Carlton, headquarters of the allied mission, the dispatch said. Government troops dispersed the mob with machine gun lira. French j army officials threatened to bombard the city If French citizens were mo lested. King Alfonso SitgUy III. London. June 18.-A neuS agency dispatch from Madrid repotted today that Kin* Alfonso Is slfgbtly HI and confined to his room. LABOR ASKS v FOR REMOVAL OF BURLESON Convention Adopts Resolu tion to Request Presi dent to Oust Him. Committee to Study "De preciating Purchasing Power of a Dollar." Atlantic City. N. J., June IS.? The American Federation of Labor convention today adopted a resolu tion asking President Wilson to remove Postmaster General Burle son from office. This was the resolution: "That the American Federation of Labor, appealing directly (or the 4.000.000 organised wage earners and Arm in the belief It reflects the senti ments of the American people, re quests President Wilson immediate ly to remove Pohtmaster General Burleson." ! Uvery resolution hvlng the slightest I tinge of radicalism was throttled to day. The hottest flght of the morning ses sion centered on a resolution by Marlon Otes to establish May 1 the day for the general termination 01 i contracts. Tii?j conservatives, sensing an attempt by the radicals to create a "May Day" defeated the resolution. The convention \oted to appoint a committee to study the "depreciating CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. WAR BUILDINGS DOOMED TO GO Bureau Heads to Confer on Weeding Out Process Today. ?"""" Many of the temporary building? that effriBr up tn t*e Capital like mushrooms during the war emergency period shortly may be doomed to de struction. Which of these buildings will be needed for the housing of Uncle Sam's government will be determined par tially today, when representatives of all department? and bureaus will con fer with the Congressional Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. They will present housing needs of their respective organizations as a prelude to an investigation by the committee, headed by Senator Reed Smoot. Representative John W. Langley is chairman of a nub-committe<? which will ask permission today ?f the House Rules Committee to in troduce a bill giving the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee power to have torn down any of the buildings it considers unneces sary to be maintained. Buildings erected for the housing of war workers are included in the investigation. Washington's division of the United States Housing Corporation, to which thousands of war workers are indebted for their rooms, will be dissolved June 30. PLAN FOOD SALE ABROAD U. S. PRICES BALLOON War Department's High-Salaried Sales Divi sion Plahs Expensive Junket to Europe to Dispose of Meats for Which Public Here Is Clamoring?Representative La Guardia Makes Caustic Comment on Selling Program. The W?r Department has a high-salaried sales division which, by its own admission, has cost the government $75,000 in five months? $15,000 a month. The House has just passed an appropriation of $1,000,000 to keep up this expensive organization for another year, at Secretary Baker's request. Yet this million-dollar sales division is unable to find a way to sell to the public $60,000,000 worth of surplus army food supplies, to help reduce the price of food. Hare (??lac to Ear*?r. ^ Instead of that. C. W. Hare. head' of the division, who draws a salary of 135,000 a year from the govern- j ment, ta coins to take a trip (? Karope, with several aaalotaat*. all travrUac expeaae ? ri s?I? to ?re If lie e?? lad a larelffa market for theae food aoppllea! Mr. Hare's title Is director of ?ales of the War Department. Un-1 der him is a corps of "expert*" with lon^. high-sounding titles and fat salaries. Director Hare officially estimates: that his organization w!!l set the government back $2&0,00? a year for salaries alone. There are many other expenses, such as trips to' Europe, which will eat up that fl.-i 000.000 appropriation. Makiag Big Sacrifice*. Director Hare told the Hout* Committee on Military Affairs that1 he was anxious to dispose of the i army's surplus supplies as economi cally as possible. Yet he intimated that he intended to raise the salary of his $10,000 assistant, his 98.900 | second and third assistants, and his $*\0#0 chiefs of section*. All cfj them, he said, are civilians who are < working for the War Department at great personal sacrifice. Representative F. H. La Guardia of N'ew York, one of the member.-* of the House, who is fighting to compel the War Department to throw its immense quantities of foodstuffs on the market, charged on the floor of the House that Hare is still receiving his $16,000 salary from a private corporation, in addi> tion to the $25,000 the government now pays him. Hare has not issued a denial. Coald Sell Curling Iron*. As sales manager for the ?as 1 .company, he testified that his prin-| cipal business was selling gas ranges, hot plates, gas irons and other im- | plements using gas for fuel. "Now." says Representative La Guardia. "if the War Department had any gas ranges or curling irons to sell. I have no doubt that Mr. Hare could dispose of them prob ably better than any man in Amer- ! ica. But when it <omes to selling! food supplies, for which the Ameri- j can people are paying outrageous prices, how can we expect a gas salesman to know how to sell them? ? "There is a perfectly feasible and practical way to get the 140.000.wu pounds of canned meats held in stor age by the army on the market, where the public could buy them at cost. "Let every quartermaster in charge of these stores in various cities ad vertise through the newspapers?not through a few circulars, as is now being done?that certain quantities ot i Seek Reform in Choosing D. C. Board of Education Widespread dissatisfaction over, the present method of appointing members of the Board of Education has crystallized into a movement to bring about the election of these officials by popular vote. The various organisations and in terests concerned in effecting the change last night called a confer ence to meet at 8 p. m., Wednesday. June 26. at the rooms of the Board of Tr^de, when the matter of or ganising a joint committee to work for the proposed reform will be dis cussed. Organisations EnllMed. Organisations thus far enlisted in the movement are: Washington Board of Trade. Mary land and District of Columbia Fed eration of Labor, Daughters of Veter ans. Northeast Washington Citisens' Association. Chevy Chase Citisens* Association, Central Labor Union. High School Teachers' Union, Grade School Teachers* Union, Sixteenth Street Highlands Citisens' Association, Public Interest Association of East Washinfton. Washington Branch of International Association of Machin ists, Kenilworth Citisens' Association. Bradbury Heights Citisens' Associa tion. Washington Civic Center, Wash ington Elementary Teachers* Union. Fairmont Heights Citisens* Associa tion. East Washington Citisens' Asso ciation. Manual Training Asoclation. Congress Heights Public Improvement Association. Petworth Citisens'^Asso ciation. Recently Brought to Bead. Recent reappointments by the District supreme court have served to bring the subject to an issue. The fact that the various labor organization* and civic bodies had indorsed Miss Alice Deal, president of the High School Teachers' As sociation. for membership on the board and that the recommenda tion was ignored in the appoint ments has resulted in vigorous criticism and gained support for the present movement. Questions that will occupy the attention of the conference will be the manner of the election and qualifications of voters. The com mittee will have the co-operation of members of Congress in draw ing up a bill providing for the election of school board members. The provisions of such a bill, if enacted, can be made an integral part of any new organic school law which might later be adopted. 5,000 Girls Pledge Them selves Not to Marry for 2 Years Newark, N. J.. June It.? Ftve thousand Northern New Jersey girl*. between the ages of 20 and 10. have pledged themselves to at least two years voluntary spinsterhood. They are to be graduated from the State normal whooU at Newark and Montolair this month. HE SAYS HE CANT SELL MEAT HERE, f plies rather' thaiT sell them at home to reduce the coat of liv inr Hare is holding: up mill ions of pounds of pork, thereby aiding the packers in keeping prices high. Chicago. III.?Hors sold this week at $21.60 a hundred pounds at the Union Stock Yards the pricc being the highest on record for pork at the local market. meats and other supplies are on sale at the army's warehouses at a given price. Way to Aid Public. ??They would noon And out whether ?r not thr public mould Hay the baron and other meat* which Sec retary Baker uaya arc 'not article* of ordinary commercial trade.* "It is ridiculous to say that if tnis stuff were thrown into the open mar ket it would ruin the packers. it would certainly bring down the price, but it wouldn't disturb the industry in the least. On the other hand, the plan i of Director Hare is to turn the sup plies back to the packers to be re cured and put up in smaller pack ages. And the packer* are to be paid a wmmlmlon for baadllna (kern over airnin at (heir own prleea! "The packers thus keep up the pres ent high prices, and in addition pel a commission for doing it. Isn't that lovely for Armoui. Mortis, et al? "It would be simply increasing tne stranglehold of private monopoly on the purses of the American people." SCHOOL BOARD GETS PAY KICKS Teachers' Complaints to Be Aired at Special Conference. j Teachers whose ire has been arous ' ed over delayed paydays wii: be given an opportunity to present their com j plaints to the Board of Education, It i was resolved yesterday afternoon at | the meeting of the board in the {Franklin School. The resolutions provide that after 'the conference any recommendations | or suggestions that the teachers may jmake. together with those of Super intendent Ernest L.. Thurston, be re ' ported to the board for action. ! Numerous letters have been received j by the Board of Education in criti cism of the payroll system of the public schools. The recent change of date for payday from the second to the fourth of the month has been attacked particularly. Hiaes Say? Crops Will Move. Walker D. Hines. director general of railroads, yesterday said he be lieves there are sufficient cars to move wheat crops without conges tion. In addition, he believes the permit system, again to be cra? ployed, will be helpful. COUP FAILS AS TEUTONS FACEFATI Revolt and Riot Flare Up At Weimar, Where the Peace Treaty b Beat Debated by Genua As sembly. ATTEMPT TO ARREST MINISTRY IN CASTLE Prisoners Just Released From lacarceratioa far Communist Afitatioa Disarm Sentinels, Bst Are Pot to Root Weimar. June 16.?Remit and riot ft*red up today just as the national assembly was 11 ttli^ down to debate whether Gemaoy's answer to the mim] peace treaty should be "yes" or "do." The Spartacans, who had waited and carefully prepared for this. Germany's "darkest hour." to mo* the reins of government tod tip with tongue in cheek. a des perate coup and lost. but not until after a bloody street battle. Quiet and order are restored, but fresh attacks are looked for. REBELS FROM PRISONS. A half hundred prisoners re cently released from nutitary pris ons, where they had been confined for Spartacan and Communist agi tation, marched on the castle at dawn, disarmed the sentinels, and 'were about to rush in to "arrest* the whole ministry. ? Warned by premature shots, a strong force of government troops inside sprang to arms and admin istered a smashing reception to the attackers, driving them into the street, where the battle was fought to a finish. Several of the Spartacans were captured and will be shot. The foiling of the plot Is doe to the foresight of Iflnister of Defansi Noske. and many of his party breth ren who s few day? ago attacked him at the Social Democrat conven tion here for hia "ruthlessneae* thanked him warmly today for bav in* prepared "strong arm" measures Discussion of the revised treaty Is thus far confined to the assembly* peace commission, but open debate of the Question of acceptance or r? jection ia about to begin Everything that has been said In official quarters in the past twenty - | four hours strengthen? yesterday's impression that the present govern ment cannot and will not sign. Fiaaaelert WeaM Arceft. German finance, however, appear* to be for acceptance, lu chief organ the Frankfurter Zeitung. says It la | the only thing Germany can do. It is a question, however, how far th* financial interests can influence Uie j government, which atands virtually as i one man against signature. | Chancellor Phillip Scheidemann, In ' addressing the pence commission spoke in a cautious, tempered otne wl : the revised treaty. He declared that ! although all indications seemed (*? justify (tessimism. judgment must b? withheld pending scrutiny of the de , tailed reply. As was predicted, however, he made I a strong play on national sentiment l?y emphasizing what he called the in justice of Premier Clemenoeau s in dictment of the German people as a whole. Indignation continues to aweep the land, and if the present na ticiial mood continues, the German people will resign to invasion and receivership rather than permit ac ceptance Considerable capital con tinues to be made by the govern ment out or the "good riddance** demonstration against the peacr deegates at Versailles Monday, speakers and newsppera laying stress on the ?toning of a woman secretary. The Vorwaerts. which Is now vir? tually the government's semi-offi cial mouthpiece, says flatly that re opening of hostilities at the expira tion of the utllmatum ?ey* inevtw able. Schneidemann and other officials who have thus far expreased them selves pointed out that the only thing that holds the government back from sending a prompt "no" to Paris was the consideration of the chaos that might befall Ger ! many if the peace Is refused Pavar* ???pen Mla4." | The chancellor laid streas on the I necessity of considering the temss "with an open mind." 1 It is regarded as certain that Count | von HrocfcdorfT-Rantaau will not go ? Lack to Versailles In any evont. ' whether Germany does or does net sign ! a tendency to blame America ger? erally and President Wflson person ally for the "cronhlnf ' terms Is 1 roxTiffuro o* raon two Phone Main 3300---Good Morning! Do You Receive The Washington Jfferald Daily??If not, Phone Main 3300