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VOL. LXXXVI.?NO. 196?DAILY.
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RHINE CMS OF U.S.
CAUSE ALLIES TO ASK
FOR DEFINITE IMS
Say Washington's Demand
for Pay Without Legal
Argument.
SCHEME TO COLLECT
Assert America Can Best
Get Money From Funds
Sequestered Here.
BERLIN CAN'T PAY DIRECT
Should Germany Make At
tempt to Comply the Al
lies Would Protest.
Sprcial Cable to The New York Hbraid.
Copirrioht, IStS, by Tub New York Herald.
New York Herald Bureau. |
Pari*. March 1.*!. I
It Is becoming; more and more ap
parent that the allied gove-nments
have been thrown Into considerable
confusion by the exact form of the
memorandum presented by Roland
W. Boyden, American observer, in the
meeting of the allied Finance Minis
tors, asserting the claim of the United
States for the cost of the American
army's occupation on the Rhine, filed
.'igalnst the account of German repa
rations. The Finance Ministers are
hoping to get from the American De
partment of State a much more defi
nite and explanatory presentation of
Its position, tho absence whereof they
are at a loss to understand. This ex
plains why the French Government
yesterday not cn!y cabled Ambassador
Juseerand In Washington, but asked
Mr. Herrlck, the American Ambassa
dor here, for further information from
the State Department.
As the matter now stands,'the For
eign Ministers can upset the distribu
tion made to Great Britain, France
and Belgium by the Finance Ministers,
who ignored the American claim,
which would have absorbed, had it
been paid, virtually all tho money
(one billion marks gold) thus far
turned over by Germany. The United
States presented a bill for $241,
000,000. N
Bad FrfllnR Created.
While an unfortunate feeling undoubt
edly has been created on both si^es by
this Incident, coming on top of the Wash
ington note declining- the Invitation of
Italy to attend the Genoa confercnce. the
AI lit:*, though not disposed to recognize
the legality of the American position,
ore ready to give a satisfactory reply to
America upon receipt of a formal note
l'rom the State Department.
The points made here arc: First, the
matter was presented Irregularly, as Mr.
Hoyden Is an unofficial observer only,
whereas It should have been presented
in an American note to the allied Gov
ernment*. Second, that the Boyden de
mand was backed up by no legal argu
ment to controvert the allied view that
legally the United States could not lay
claim to money paid to the Reparations
Commisalun, part of which they are dis
tributing, as the United States had not
ratified the treaty of Versailles but had
made its own pcacc treaty with Ger
many.
A possible solution now advanced
would require that the United States
consent to stand on its own treaty alone,
and collect the money due her from
sequestered German funds In thj United
State* One of the ingnest diplomatic
and legal authorities in the French Gov
< rnincnt said to-day that under the Ver
sailles treaty Germany cannot pay out
a single mark without the consent of ttie
Reparations Commission; and that
shculd the United States now make such
s direct demand upon Germany, and
should Germany seek to comply with
that demand, the Allies would protest,
invoking their treaty. At the same time,
he made clear America's moral claim for
reimbursement was not to be questioned
and romo way should be found to satisfy
it.
A Unrntlm. or Method.
Pahis. March 1# (Associated Tress).
?The decisions reached by the allied
Finance Ministers Saturday as to the
distribution of the first billion marks of
German reparation* payments among
the Allien will probably be brought to
the attention of the Allied Reparations
Commission to-morrow.
The claim of the United States is
r? garded in allied circles as on a par
with the allied claims upon Germany,
according to high authorities. The ques
tion, it was indicated, was one of
method rather than of principle, all
idea of claiming that the Treaty of
Versailles constituted a first mortgage
upon Germany's facilities for payment
having been rejected and the right of
tlie United States to collect at the same
time as the allies being conceded.
What remains to be determined, It
is stated. Is whether the Reparations
Commission Is the proper collecting
agent for the United States. One of
the allied representatives at the Finance
Ministers' conference said It was.
Another allied representative said that
Germany has undertaken contradictory
obligations with the Allies and with the
United States.
Tho French attitude Is that the un
derstanding conveyed by Mr. Hoyden's
communication appeared to be that the
United States did not intend to ask
for Immediate payment of her claim
but desired to raise the question so as
to reserve her rights. A high French
authority to-day said this was unnec
essary so far as it concerned the Allies
but that It was perhaps useful so fat
as it concerned Germany.
1/ONDON, March 13 (Associated Press).
?The first editorial comment on Amer
ica's claim to priority of payment for
Continued on Page Four.
Theatrical ?nrt Hotel ;ind ltr?tnurnnt v
Al.tMlil,'! Will lit lou.rj ua 1'Sg'j
r
Prince Promises Light
On Antigonish Ghost
ALIFAX, N. S? March 13.?
The series of investigations
that Dr. Walter Franklin
Prince, director of the American
Institute for Scientific Research,
has been making in the haunted
house of Caledonia Mills, Antigon
ish county, "has been fully justi
fied," he said in a statement issued
upon his return here to-night. He
said a report of 5,000 words or more
would be ready to-morrow night,
and that it "would be free to all."
A brief account of the mysterious
slaps, sounds and other phenom
ena which drove Alex MacDonald
from his former home would not
satisfy the public, Dr. Prince said.
BOMAKER KILLED
BY BLAST IN HOME
Flat Wrecked, but Wife and
Two Children Escape In
jury in Explosion.
VICTI3I KNOWN TO POLICE
J
Eleven Families Turned Out
When Peter Picuro Is Mor
tally Wounded.
Peter Plcuro sat in the kitchen of
; his three room flat at 355 East
Seventy-sixth street at 6 o'clock last
night working at something. Sud
denly a bomb exploded close to him.
It blew away both his hands, put out
his eyos and tore the whole front of
his body, so that he died soon after an
ambulance got him to Bellevue Hos
pital.
The bomb also wrecked the flat,
tearing holes in the ceiling and floor
and spilling an avalanche of plaster
on the tables of a restaurant on the
floor below. Picuro's wife and two
of his three children who were in the
flat with him were not hurt.
I The family had two caged canaries.
J One could not be found after the ex
i plosion. Policemen found the other
balanced on the leg of a broken chair
and making a pretense of trilling.
Fragments Fonnd Hear By.
Members of the bomb squad believe
PlCUro was making the bomb that killed
him. They think he sat with a piece of
galvanised Iron pipe between his knees,
bending over as he filled the pipe with
chlorate of potash, sulphur and char
coal. They found fragments of the pipe
and a twelve inch length of waxed cord,
often used as a fuse, and noted that the
tenement was filled with the odor of
sulphur. Their mental picture of Picuro
with the pipe between his knees was
drawn when they noted his injuries.
The Picuros lived on the second floor
of a house near First avenue, in a
neighborhood of mixed Italian, Bohe
mian and Slavic population. In the
three rooms back of them lives Marie
Curly, a widow, and her two children.
Her son Silvio, II, was practicing on
his violin when the house shook and
I plaster began to fall. The mother was
j too frightened to make a sound but the
I boy, coughing as the sulphur struck
j his throat, ran to the street to get a
I policeman. Eleven other families of the
| house were pillnr into the street at
j the same time, dragging their children
and household possessions.
The patrolman who plunged up the
stairs first, Emll Sheld. was followed by
others of the East Sixty-seventh street
station and then by In-sector James
Callahan of the bomb squad from Mead
quarters and two of his JetectSvs, Mur
j phy and Termlnello. Sheld and two
i boys, Edward Holsteln and Joseph Rlszo.
? found Mrs. Plcuro scream.ig In the bank
room of the wrecked flat und carried her
and her year and a half old baby io the
pavement. Another chl'J, a boy of 3,
had been playing in the street and thus
! had missed the excitement.
Often (lamttoncil by Police.
The police recalled that Picuro, who
was 25 years old, had once been a
plumber. They also said that they had
him at the station housj several times,
thinking he might know something about
automobile stealing or drug peddling,
but never had any facts to warrant his
; arrost. How he had made a living they
did not know. He had never been ac
cused of blackhandlng.
Mrs. Plcuro was questioned, but the
police got little from her. The kitchen
was the middle room of the three, with
, bedrooms in front and behind. She said
1 she was In the back room with the baby
I when the crash came. Twrid that her hus
i band was In the kitchen, but she had
j no idea what he was doing. Regard
i Ing a box ot' sulphur found In one of
1 the rooms, she said she had bought It
I to treat her little hoy's sore hand.
Detectives Murphy and Termlnello of
the bomb squad searched the apartment
] and took a bundle of papers to Head
; quarters. They said they found many
radical newspapers, books, magaslnes
and pamphlets but nothing to Indicate
( that Plcuro was engaged lu any plot,
i They said also that the man was not
I known to the police as a?i active radical.
I The detectives learned that many young
! men were accustomed to visit him.
News of the explosion caused photog
| rsphers to hurry to Seventy-stxth
j street. The pop and flare of their
1 flashlights as they took pictures of the
1 debris aroused the tenements again.
| Families that had carried their belong
' Ings back into their homes began lug
ging them into the street ngaln, but
were calmed sfter a time.
ERIE TRAINW RECKED
AS LOCOMOTIVE UPSETS
Engineer and Fireman Pinned
Inaide and Scalded.
Three persons w<>re seriously hurt and
a dosen received minor cuts and bruises
In a wreck of an Erie train near the
Weert Nutley, N. .1., station, last night.
Spreading rails caused the locomotive
to overturn, with Engineer Dominie
DestasBtn of Jersey City and Fireman
Frank Mathews of North Bergen pinned
inMrlr. Tlicy w re burned and scalded
ijifoit th.ir rescue cotllU bo effected. ,
FOR CLERK'S MM
Missing Since August,
Flanigan Is Picked Up
for Columbia Crime.
JUMPED $15,000 BAIL
Pardoned From Fourteen
Year Term, He Was Held
in Hoiton Robbery.
MAY FORM VIGILANTES
Merchants to Hear Enriffht on
Crime Wave Since He Closed
Police Station.
Thomas Flanigan, 28. an ex-convict
who jumped his bail last autumn and
ned to Canada, where he remained up
to a few days ago, was arrested yes
terday afternoon on a charge of homi
cide in connection with, the slaying
Sunday night of Samuel Hadaa during
the holdup in the drug store of
Charles Friedgen, at Amsterdam ave
nue and 120th street.
Flanigan was arrested by Detective
Daniel Culhane in an East Side saloon
after Willi.-,m A. Carroll, a clerk in
the drug store and witness to the mur
er, had picked his photograph out of
the Rogues Oakery at Police Head
quarters. Carroll went to Headquar
ters last night and passed a lineup
that Flanlgan was in without recog
nizing any one.
Leon Cook of 420 We,t i2l?t etreet. a
soda water dispenser in the drug .,tore.
was standi! * "T* 'n Wh,ch FIanl?ran
was standing and told Inspector John
,1ea,, of the Detective
Bureau, he thought Flanlgan resembled
during ?,T ?i thC me" ln the druff store
during the hold up. But Cook could
not make a positive identification.
Inspector Coughlln said Flanigan
E,mi- ***?*???
Sin^ i! . and WRS 8pntenced to
Sing Sing Prison for sixteen years by
Judge Gibbs in Th? Bronx in 1?J6 but
was pardoned two years later by Gov.
omitn.
char*e ?f tiomiclde Was enter
tained against Klanigan on the strength
Calkrrr?'! S ldent,flcBt,?n ?t the Rogues
?!Uo? b/c?T"''h
IlaniKnn Oat on *1S,000 Ball.
WaS arre"ted again last Au
fSJZ C?fnncct'on w,th the holdup and
robbery of a Horton Ice Cream Corn
and wa? Pleased in
for tri I fl-l' .U'len h'8 CM* Was CailRd
*r,nl *'?nlgan did not appear In
spector Coughlln said, and a warrant
w hs issued for his arrest. Flanlgan Void
Detective Culhane that he went to Can
ada after "Jumping his ball" and re
} ma ned there up to a Tew days ago. He
I had been living since at the home of a
sister at 8?. fcast Forty-eighth street.
Four men and at least one woman are
| known to have been involved In the
| drug store hold up and .laying of Ha
| das. the cashier, who was working his
j way through a college ot dentistry It
is considered possible that more than
one woman was involved, but detectives
nvestlgating the crime are not jumping
hatC?the b!0,1u W,tne8"eS have "atecl
>n,?rH ! lOUrlne car U!4e<* by the
i * W UP ,0 th0 curb at the
1.0th street side of the drug store sev
iwred Tfcretbefore the highwaymen en
? ,, men were seen to allalit
and walk toward the corner. The fourth
man was at the wheel and the woman
was seated beside him.
This woman had a dear view lnf?
the drug .tore through a window back
Of the soua counter, whare two wom*n
customers w-re sipping sc lT wa*er at
ih? i?" ?re ?f the witnesses had told
tbe police that the woman in th? car
sto? T?h bB watchln* the wome:, in t:,?
store. The woman bandit had one arm
said in*! ?Ut ?Vh! C*r* th'" witnc?? ''as
said, and seemingly at a signal from
some one inside the drug ?0? drop?d
hnnn" C! "he had c,utched In her!
hand as a signal for the robbers standing
h *1 C0ILnCr- They wh*el<*' a*>out as the
handkerchief fell and walked into the
?tor*.
In connection with the story of this
witness . dote.-t'ves recalled the stories
told by both Carroll and Cook, which
I were to the effect that the women cus
tomers did not encounter much dltTI
I rulty In Retting past the robber at the
door. They were brushed one side when
they first went to the door, the clerks
mid, but ultimately got out without be
; Ing molested. It was learned from an
authoritative source that the police have
been looking for those women since but
have not been able to locate them.
Raft of Hnldnps In Vlrlnlty.
The drug store holdup and slaying
were the culmination of a series of rob- j
berles, holdups and attempted holdups
that have occurred In the immediate
ne'ghborhoop of Amsterdam aventir and
120th street since Police Commissioner!
Knrlght closed the Ia Salle street po- I
lie* station a few months ago. This was
learned yesterday In a store to store can
vas of the neighborhood. In the two blocks
ninnlng from 118th to 120th street In
Amsterdam avenue It was discovered
, that there have been one holdup, three
j robberies, two attempted holdups and
| two attempted robbarles In the last few
months.
J. Davidson, proprietor of a drug store 1
at 1219 Amsterdam avenue, which I*
diagonally opposite the drug store In
which the murder occurred Sunday
night, has suffered the worst at the
hands of robbers. Mr. T)avldaon Is III
at present, but from clerks In his store
It was 1?amed that the druggist ha#
been robbed so often In the last y?sr
thst he has come to look upon the vis- i
Itatlons as one looks at the change of
the moon. The most recent visit, anu
fnntlnned on Pne-o SH
The Best Writing l'ap?r?
ai? Wtihlim I'aytiAav. ?
/ \
BULLING THE BONUS THROUGH
Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, sent to Chair
man Fordney of the Ways and Means Committee on
Saturday a long and carefully worked out statement
showing the financial burdens of the country and pointing
out what it will mean to the country in additional burdens
if the Fordney bonus bill is passed.
It was a masterful document, clear and convincing,
in which Secretary Mellon left no room for doubt that the
passage of this bonus bill would be a national calamity.
Chairman Fordney notwithstanding treats this state
ment of the Secretary of the Treasury with cold con
tempt, and with sheer bravado says he will jam his bonus
bill through in spite of what Mellon says, commenting
that the Treasury Department doesn't know what it is
talking about.
The arrogance of these Republican bonus Congress
men in view of the fact that the Republican party is not
committed to the bonus is beyond all exhibits of the kind
in the history of national legislation and national politics.
?Editorial.
Thought of City Accepting
MacMonnies Work Most
Distasteful.
BUT WHAT CAN HE do?
Big Chunk of Marble Paid For
and Tagged for City
Hall Park.
It Is too late, most people are agreed.
to do anything about It-but when
Frederick MacMonnies, sculptor, ana
his confederates, the Piccirilli broth-j
ers, marble chiselers. of The Br0"x-!
bring down to City Hall Park within
a few days the MacMonnies statue for ,
the park fountain, the gigantic ?&r
bie figure entitled "Civic Virtue," alias
Cave Man, alias Rough Guy. there
'will be a ring of women anywhere;
from two to ten deep standing around
th? fountain ba^e to make faces at
the towering figure.
And in the forefront of the Indig
nant ladles, face registering severe.
Bushwickian disapproval, will be none
other than the Burgomaster of New
Amsterdam himself. In this matter
his Honor is with the ladies. He has
no use at all for the Big Roughneck
that Sculptor MacMonnies has car\e<l
for the ornamentation of the new
fountain and newsboys' swimming
P?Away back in the day of Mayor
Oeorge B. McClellan a sum of mone>
waa left to the city for th<- purpose of
commissioning a dlstingui.hed Amerlcan
sculptor to create a real vsork of art
for the City Hall Park fountain. After
prolonged meditation the Art C?
?ton selected MacMonnies and oWhlm
to go ahead. It will be recalled hat in
the period referred to. the Age of SuUl
vans. the pre-Qaynor
didn't amount to much-one
add In politics at the polls. Nor WPr",
thev yet of great importance as .-oonom c ,
factors in Industry ?n('
ladies were making a terrible to <io to
L somewhere. Over In England Mrs.
Parkhurst whs burning mail *
beaning bobbles, and on this side th ,
stir was Juiit beginning.
Modeled Real Care Man.
The point Is men still had a ^irl'|
irs :rj
leaping over all vice and eUl. fol.
sr&g^-'srssi
sculptor, and still |lxln? 'n Mmc.
when men dared follow old wa>?. ??c
no better than she ought to ^ thoug
good looking, or else ls delivering a
J-_ituv uirk to her ribf?. An *or ???
r/ir, m
trodden female and the lord.y refnan
mThe other day. according to t?port of
which his Honor the Mayor declined to
take cognliance, his eye fell upon a pho
Contlnned on Pa*''
Texas Wants Man Who Prom
ises $300,000 011 8150
Investment.
U. S. MAKES CHARGES
Lurid Circulars Sent Through
Mails Have Netted Firm
$1,500,000.
Seymour E. J. Cox, Texas oil man
and potash promoter, whose methods
of doing business were denounced last
October In a statement by the As
sociated Advertising Clubs of the
World, was arrested last night in Ho
tel Monterey, Broadway and Ninety
second street, where he has been stop
ping with his wife and son.
He was taken by Lieut. Organ and
Detectives Rellley and Brown from
Central Office and Post Office In
spector C. -I. Weldon at the request
of Federal authorities In Houston,
Tex., who wired that they held a war
rant for Cox's arrest charging him
wltb using the mails to defraud
Cox was locked up in Police Head
quarter*. and in a. few dnys probably
will be sent to Houston, where the war
rant was Issued by United States Com
missioner Douglss on February 28.
Word from Houston says Cox Is
wanted on a complaint charging he de
frauded stockholders in three companies
Whoso capitalization aggregates 141,
000,000. Federal District Attorney Sim
mons has asked that he be held under
*25.000 bond. Stockholders are scat
tered over the entire world.
It is this company that was the ob
ject of the attack last year by the
Associated Advertising Clubs, and it Is
believed the ba?ls of the warrant is
Cox's activities in dispoelnc of stock of
this concern, which also dabbled some
what in Oox's oil properties. Lieut.
Uejran said la*t night Cox had admitted
that since organization the company
has taken In II.500,000 In the sale of
stock and other Items. The warrant Is
K*ld to read that Cox has defrauded
"lieople In the United States" and has
used thi> malls to do It.
The police said that Cox. who refused
to discuss his arrest, has been living In
New York for some time, stopping in
the Monterey and receiving his mail at
145 West Forty-fifth street. Ho has
made New York a sort of headquarters
for several years, and has succeeded In
obtaining a srreat deal of personal pub
licity, and publicity for his oil and
potash schemes, by his activities with
airplanea
Available records show Cox was in
trouble with the Government In 1919.
v/hen the Federal Trade Commission
prosecuted him, his wife and seversl
other officials of his companies on
charges of fraudulent advertising anu
other unfair practices.
The report and statement of the As
sociated Advertising Clubs which were
printed In Trs Nkw York Hkrald. dealt
with Cox's methods of advertising and
also quoted reports of Government en
gineers to prove there was no merit In
his claim he had uncovered potash beds
Jn Texas containing deposits of potash
200 feet thick. The report held that the
advertising promised profits that madf
Ponsl look foolish. Cox promised 2.0ft!
per cent, to his Investors, declaring a
piece of his property could be bought
for $160 and wotfld return IMt.OOO.
IT, S. TROOP* HAIL FOR HOMR.
Antwkrp, March IS.?Two battalions
of the Fifth United States Infantrv
sail'd for the United Stat<? to-day
aboard the transport Cantlgny. The
Americans terminated their stay of
many months on the Rhine Friday.
Married Man, Infatuated by Girl,
Kills Her and Self When Repulsed
William Magee, a carpenter of Ros
lyn, I/. I., maddened by an Infatuation
that had drawn only repulse* from Mies
Virginia Forget. 19. went yesterday
afternoon to the office of Arthur B.
Westervelt, electrical contractor and
Justice of the Peace at Roslyn. where
the young woman was employed as a
stenographer and secretary, and shot
her through the heart, killing her In
stantly.
Magee then pressed the revolver
against his own breast and fired, a bul
let passing close to his heart. He died
two hours later In the Nassau Horpltal
at Mlneola.
Magee, a married man and the father
of two little children, nnd Miss Forget
aloiu In tltu officio at the limo of
the shooting. Tenants and attaches of 1
other offices ron to the Westervelt of
fice when they heard the first ahot. Hy
the time they arrived Magee already
had Inflicted the wound that caused 1* ?
own death.
Leonard Thorn, a constable, went to
the ho?pital before Mngee became un- i
conscious and asked him why he had :
killed Miss Forget.
"I don't know why," said he. "I must
have been cra*y."
Miss Forget was the daughter of Na
poleon Forget, who cam'1 from F|ance
Heveral years ago and settled In Koslyn,
where lie established a blacksmlthlng
btislnese Mrtgee. who ws? 35. and of
quiet and unasaumlng manner, had b#en
trying for two years, It 'va* said. Id
force lite attention* upon Mi?s Forget. I
FORDNEY IS STALLED
AGAIN BY MELLON'S
House Committee Meeting
Held Up While Inside
Revolt Spreads.
ONE VOTE MAY DECIDE
Democrats Seek Vnion
With G. 0. P. Dissenters
to 'Break' Chairman.
RAIDERS ARE INDIGNANT
Sentiment, for Postponement
of Action Steadily Gains
in Lower Chamber.
By I.OIIS SEIItOI.D.
V
Special Dispatch to Tim New Vosk Hbbauv
\>k York Hrralil Hurrau. )
WnklilntUin, I>. Mnrrh 13. I
The revolt In the House of Repre
sentatives against the bonus ,raid on
the public treasury and business of
the country has provided many snags
to complicate and confuse the plan to
"jam" It through.
The meeting of the Ways and
Means Committee scheduled for to
day after a previous postponement
was not held. It may be held to
morrow. It may not be held to-mor
row.
I The Republican members of the
Ways and Means Committee were too
greatly incensed over Secretary Mel
Ion's clear cut and convincing state
ment that the insurance certificate
loan project is the worst yet in their
; "gag" rule plan for railroading the
measure through the lower house.
tirnalor rmur (or Apitrehenalnn.
Further than this, they had genu
ine cause for apprehension, because
many members of both parties who
hitherto have been for the bonus dis
played a tendency to accept the ob
jections presented by Mr. Mellon as
conclusive evidence that the certifl
I cate loan plan is both unsound and
unwise.
| One of the most startling of the
! many developments that probably
: added to the aggravation of Mr. Ford
j ney and the other rule or ruin bonus
1 members of Congress was the dis
' covery that at least four and possibly
five of th* seventeen Republicans on
the committee concede the force and
j logic of the facts and figures pre
pared by the financial experts of the
Government.
This discovery inspired Representa
1 tlve Garner (Tex.), ranking Demo
j cratic member of the Ways and Means
I Committee, to propose to his dissent
1 lug Republican associates a union of
forces to head off Mr. Fordney's arbi
trary plan for preventing amendments
to the hill and adherence to his pro
gram for passing it in the House next
week.
The combination may be brought
about to-morrow if the four Republl
1 cans who are known to be opposed
to the bill?Representatives Treadway
! (Mass.). Tllson (Conn.), and Mott and
Mills <N. Y )?can induce one other
Republican to Join with the eight
! Democratic members. Such a com
bination would take the committer
i away from Mr. Fordney. as the vote
would stand twelve in favor of the
' insurance certificate plan and thirteen
against It.
Illncra on Olr Vote.
The deal, therefore, hinges on thn
vote of one Republican, probably Rep
resentative Bachnrach CN. J.), who is
described as "Bitting on the bonun
fence."
Another contingency that may or
may not compel Mr. Fordney or the
bonus members to change their plans
and open the way for amendment of
the certificate loan bill applies to Rep
resentative Mills of New York, who
does not know whether he is a mem
ber of the Ways and Means Commit
tee or not. The New Vork man was
selected by the Committee of Com
mittees of the House to succeed Rep
resentative Houghton, who was ap
pointed Ambassador to Germany.
T'nder the rule of procedure it 1*
the duty of the floor leader of the
majority to gl**e official ndilce of the
selection of a member to All a commit
tee vacancy. Whereupon the appoints
is eligible for active service The se
lection of Mr. Mills was decided on last
week, but up to this afternoon floof
leader Mr Mondel) had not notified
the House of It and there is h question
whether Mr. Mills will be admitted to
the councils of the committee when It
m?e!s to-morrow?If It does.
As Mr. Mills has declared his unal
terable opposition to any bonus project
?that does not specifically provide *
source of revenue to meet the obliga
tions the Republican members from
York are inclined to attribute
jrt-. Mondell's failure to make the an
nouncement. to the determination of
the Fordney group'to head off any re
volt In the Ways end Means Commit
tee.
Incidentally Mr Fordney, In an
nouncing the decision of the Republi
can members of the committee to In
troduce and press for passage the cer
tificate loan bill, said It had been
reached by unanimous agreement.
Representatives Mills, Tllson, Tread
way, and, It is understood. Mott. havu
(onllnued oh PBffv Tw?i.
"\
These Men Hold Fate
of Lockwood Bills
Special Diuvatt ft to Tub Nrw Yo?x Hmum>.
New lurk Herald Burriiu, )
Albany, Marrh l.'i. I
THE light over the Lockwood
housing bills for the last few
days has centered in the
Cities Committee of the Senate.
That committee will meet again,
when an effort will be mude to get
action on the three big housing bills
now believed buried. Members of
the committee are:
Republican#: Leonard W. H.
Gibba of Buffalo. Charles C. Lock
wood of Brooklyn, Seymour L. Low
man of Elmlra, Alvah H. Burlin
game of Brooklyn, Parton C. Swift
of Buffalo, George R. Fearon of
Syracuse, William W. Campbell of
I.ockport, C. Ernest Smith of
Stapleton, Homer E. A. Dick of
Rochester and Clayton R. Lusk of
Cortland.
Democratb: Daniel F. Farrell of
Brooklyn, Peter J. McGarry of Long
Island, Henry G. Schackno of New
York and James J. Walker of New
York.
V
BORAH FIGHT OVER;
TREATY TIEUP ENDS
Agreement Is Reached to Vote
on Robinson Amendment
This Afternoon.
STEP NEARER PASSAGE
Idaho Senator Issues Warning
?Lodge t'psets Filibuster?
Ratification Assured.
Special Dispatch to The N?W Yo*k Hkrai.d.
New York Hrrald Bnrran. )
Washington, D. C., Mnrrh 13. I
Senator Lodge, chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, broke
the incipient filibuster which has been
In progress for several days against a
vote of any character on the four
Power Parlflc treaty.
By an agreement reached to-day,
suggested by Senator Swaneon (Va.)
and accepted by Senator Lodge, the
Senate will vote at 4 o'clock to-morrow
j afternoon on the Robinson amend
ment, which provides that aggression
on the part of a Power in the com
pact shall not be made the subject of
' conference, and that In the case of
attack from outside the four Power
group all the nation.? interested in
, that kind of a controversy shall be
represented In the confercnce.
Senator Robinson offered an amend
ment to his original proposal to make
It apply to questions relating "to the
! :nsu!ar possessions or rights of the
Powers In the treaty or any Far East
ern question."
The decision to vote on the Robin
son amendment came after Senators
Johnson and Borah had attacked the
treaty p.ni1 the entire philosophy of the
arm." conference
The vote on the .amendment will not
necessarily be a test of the relative
strength ' the friends an-! opponents of
th" treaty. As in the ease of the Yap
treaty^ when Senator Hitchcock (Neb.)
voted for nniendments and reservations
and Anally voted for the treaty, many
Democrats are expected to cast their
' votes on the Robinson amendment with
the same mental reservation.
\ n Analysis of thr \ otr.
TIitc are sixty Republican and thlr
t>-six Democratic votes. Four Repub
lican* will vole against the treaty and
two other Republicans. Stanfleld (Ore.)
and Crow (Pa.), will be absent, leaving
Ifty-fhur Republican votes for ratifica
tion. Two Democrats favorable to rati
fication, t>wen (OUTa.) and Trammel
(Kla.), will be absent, leaving thirty
four Democratic votes to be considered
Nine Democratic votes arc certain for
ratification, leaving twenty-five possible
Democratic votes In opposition. T<> these
should be added the four Republican
Notes opposed to ratification, making a
total of twenty-nine opposed to the treat
ies, as comparer! with sixty-three favor
able to ratification, or a margin of above
the necessary two-thirds of those voting
to rstify. While thiii is not a large mar
gin it Is sufficient and pared down to
the limit. Votes not Included In this llat
may be included among those favoring
the treaty.
Senator Borah (Idaho) closed to-day's
debate against the treaty In an %rgu
ment opposing ratification. The sub
stance of his argument was that the
four power treaty provides a political
or diplomatic group of four Powers, and
that it ha* been the history of the. world
that when a group of thla character I*
formed another group arises to meet It
Tn this opposing group Senator Borah
foresees China, Russia and Germany.
While the four Power compact pro
vides machinery for conferences smong
the four Powers, he sees In It no Instru
mentality for a ronference which will
Include the Powers outside the group.
The Idaho Senator Insisted this situation
repreaented exactly that which prevailed
In Europe In 1*14. where there was op
portunity to confer among the members
of the Triple Kntente. and the members
of the Triple Alliance, hut no machinery
to bring the two groups together.
tlomh Qno(es \ Isronnt firey.
Apparently fearing that his nrgument
would be Interpreted as n speech In
favor of the l,engii? of Nations, which
he bitterly opposed. Senator Borah ex
plained that ha was opposed to any alli
ance which would foreclose the right of
the United Statea to act upon any quea
tlon as It arises.
Ssnator Borah quoted from the
speeches made by Senator Underwood
(Ala,) Saturday, in which the latter hsd
quoted Viscount Gray as having said If
there had been machinery for getting
the opposing Governments together In
1??11 wnr could have been averted. He
said this proved his argument conclu
sively. for while there was plenty of
opportunity for the Powers within each
group to confer there waa no medium
by which the opposing groups could be
brought together.
tn developing his argument! Senator
Borah denied that the muse of the war
I onlinun^ on Page Tto,
Sr
LOCKWOOD'S 3 BILLS
TO JAIL TRUST HN
MARKED FOR DffEAT
Senate Committee Buries
Those Aimed at Build
ing Trades Criminals.
EIGHT MEASURES OUT
All. Including Financial
Measures, Reported With
out Approval.
GOV. MILLER IS DOUBTFUL
Untermyer Loaves Albany
With Program Headed for
Assembly Rocks.
Special Dlxpatrti tn Tur Nw Vokk Hmaib.
??? York Herald Bureau, )
Albany, March 13. \
The Lockwood committee's whole
constructive program Is close to the
rocks. It Is not yet wrecked, but
there is little better than a hope for
it. Something may happen to save
some of the important bills, but what
that something is cannot be foreseen.
The ('ties Committee of the Sen
ate, after a two hour session to-day.
reported eight of the secondary meas
ures for consideration of the Senate,
but without recommendation. The
three big, important bills for which
, Samuel Untermyer has made a great
fight were not reported. They are
buried in committee and the belief if
they will stay there.
Mr. Untermyer left for New York
this evening after continuing hi
struggle all day. He found little to
cheer him except the encouragement
which came from the Cities Commit
tee's reluctant report.
The Assembly has made no move to
tako up any of the bills All the mfi?
ures, including those now before the
j Senate, are in the Rules Committee,
the graveyard for all controversial
measures, and there remain only lour
days to get them out and passed.
Showdown on the Bill*.
I
In the Senate to-night Mr. Walker
i called for a statement explaining Just
what bills had been reported, and Mi
Lockwood explained that eight hud
! < ome out of the committee. He addci
j that two lacked only two votes of
i being reported, while the one calling
for prison sentences had been beaten
by four votes.
The Cities Committee will meet to
j morrow and another effort will be
made to report out the Trade Com
mission and permitting appeals on dis
missed .indictments. Senators Walker
and Swift, who were absent to-day
and who are understood to favor both
measures, will be present, and may
supply the two votes needed to report
1 out those two measures. That will
assure an open record in the Senats
on those two bills.
Opposition to all the Lockwood
measures Is stronger in the Assembly
than In the Senate. It has been pre
dicted that even If all the bills go*
through the Senate they would die In
the Assembly. That prediction seem*
to be Justified by the situation exist
ing to-night. Leaders of the Assent
bly are known to be uncompromis
ingly against the more radical Unter
myer measures. Their opposition mav
extend to all excepting six of the bills
dealing with the emergency rent tews.
The proposals which, as now Indi
cated. may he forced through bot^i
houses include those extending the
rent laws to February, 1925: permit
ting the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company to Invest 1100.000,000 In
building project*, extending for on?
year the time in which a new bulldine
can be started to take advantage o*
the tax exemption provisions, and
three other bills which correct defects
found in the rent laws.
Bills In the
Three of the most Important proposal*
made by the T*ockwoo<3 committee and
incorporated In bills which wens not
reported out by the Cities Committee
are:
Creating a State trade commission
to net againat trade combination*
(Thill Is the one Mr. Untermyer
fought hard for here yesterday and
to-day In his conferences with <iov
Miller snd the legislative lenders).
Hequiritig compulsory sentences for
convictions of all violators of t.h#
anti-trust laws (Mr. Untermyer
has repeatedly stated that the mo
nopolies cannot be broken up if oalv
small fines ore to be Imposed for
convictions).
Permitting app?sls from dismissed
Indictments In anti-trust Isw os^e*
Members of the Lockwood committee
will trv to save the trade commission
measure and the bill permitting m
D?.?ls from dismissed indictments. Sens
tor lx>ckwoo<l will move to reconald.
he vote by which the Cities Comtni'.
tre defeated those hills. If such a nw
tion is carried the bills will be brougly
out for .1 rote on the ' '
heaten the bills are dend. but thr
will be a record vote of all Senator
That is what the opposition is trylns
to escape.
Bills Beporled Ont.
The bills reported to-night b> the
I Cities Committee provide that:
Insure we companies must Invest
1 forty por ."nt. of their funds in
first mortgage bonds
i saving* bunks nWH J rir