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VOL. LXXXVI.?NO. 210?DAILY.
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1922.
ENTERED AS SECOND CI.ASS MATTER.
POST OFFICE. NEW YORK. N. V.
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY.
THREE CENTS
?WITHIN JOO MII.E8
FOUR CENTS EI.SEWHB*"
SMOKING BY WOMEN
IN PUBLIC IS BANNED
BY NEW HYLAN 'LAW'
MYSTERY IN EDICT
Hotels,Restaurants, Re
sorts Told by Police
of Fine or Jail
for V iolations.
WHOLE CITY AMAZED
Signed by Mayor March 21.
Enriglit's Order Says, in
Transmitting It.
UKOADWAY IS IN BEVOLT
Aldermen Deny Passing Ordi
nance, Similar One Having
Recently Been Killed.
Police Commissioner Richard E. En
rlglit signed a general order issued
last night to every policeman in the
city to enforce a new ordinance pro
hibiting women from smoking in any
hotel, restaurant, cafe, dance hall,
place of amusement or any other
place of public resort. The wording
of the order Indicates that it includes
also women's clubs.
Straightaway the Commissioner's
stalwarts started in search of such un
speakable criminals as bobbed haired
flappers and mothers of families who
might be puffing a cigarette in public.
Strangely enough the new law
doesn't punish the weman who vio
latos it, but either locks up the mana
ger or proprietor of the places "Where
she smokes or tines him $25.
The order caused amazement
throughout the city.
Rut the order itself was not the
most astounding aspect of the situa
tion. As soon as the news of it spread
abroad officials and members of the
Hoard of Aldermen began an emphatic
and uproarous denial that they ever
had passed any such ordinance.' as
?hat upon which the Commissioner
predicated his order.
^nuponrdlr Sinned hy Hylitn.
Nevertheless, the Commissioner
quoted the ordinance in his order, in
? hiding the statement that it was
passed by the Board of Aldermen on
March 14 and was signed by Mayor
lfylan last Tuesday.
The Mayor was in Chicago last night
and refused to make a statement.
The order was issued after City Hall
I ad been locked up for the night, and,
therefore, the records of the Board of
Aldermen were not accessible to verify
? he authenticity of the supposed ordi
nance.
Such an ordinance has been Introduced
tw i. e by Alderman Peter ,T. McGuinness
of Greenpoint. The first died with t
expiration of the old board last I)e
e? mber 31. The second one was sup
posed to have met a just and timely
death when on January 10, Alderman
William T. Collins. Majority Leader,
moved to file It within five minutes
after It was introduced.
Murray Hulbert. President of the
Board, satd last ight that no such ordi
nance had passed the board to his
Knowledge. Pemoeratle Leader Collins
"a* willing to swear that the bill still
was on file and "as dead as Hector's
pup. Republican Leader Jacob W.
l'YIednian said the measure had been
killed twice and was "still dead."
Air. McGuinness, author of the meas
ure. regretted that po far as he knew
h? wh* the only member of the Hoard
of Aldrmcn who ever voted ln favor
of the bill, and that wa? the tlm* when
ell the rest of the board voted with Mr
t ollins to file It.
"'J. hav? hron slipped over."
aii\ AicOuinnoMs com-oderi, "but If It was
Air. MrGUtntMM admitted that he was
not present at the meeting of the board
on the date the ordinance Is alleged to
have been passed and had not been In
formed If It did pa*s. The only explana
tion be could think of If avorable ac
tion wan taken wj>s that "it went
through under the order of business of
general order.* and rode with the rent.''
However, he did not think that such was
the case.
The board meets In regular session
to-day, when It In expected the whole |
cltuatlon will come up for general airing.
fireenwlch Vlllnite JMnnned.
The potlce order hit Greenwich VU- '
lage first, and Greenwich Village
promptly worked up a marvelous frenzy
of rase and Indignation, but either quit
smoking or quit the resorts. A fesv
minutes later it hit the theater and
hotel district of Broadway, and Broad
way promptly threw up its hands and
all but fell over In a dead faint fr.wi
astonishment and Incredulity.
Tn Brooklyn, It was said, the women
do not smoke In public, but plain clothes
men were ransacking the cafes and
hotels as late as 9 o'clock trying to find
a violation. The ordor percolated out
througti Harlem and The Bronx, too, as
the night wore on.
The Police Oommisxioner's order, quot
ing the ordinance. Is as follows:
"Police Department, City of New
York. Office of the Police Commissioner.
Circular No. B. New York, March 27,
1922.
?"The following Is published for ;he
Information and guidance of all con
cerned :
FEMALES SMOKING IN PUBLIC
ftBSORTH.
"An ordinance for the preservation
of good order In the City of New York,
contemplating the provisions of subdlvl
fonllnnod on Pngn six.
i Theatrical and ItoteF MM Kestiinriint*.
Hylan Not Feeling Well
When Asked About Ban
Special Dispatch foTur. New Yoiik Hbuild.
CHICAGO, March 27.?Mayor
Hylan returned to his apart
ment at the L,aSalle Hotel
late to-night after having been the
guest of Archbishop Mundelein.
When informed by The New York
Herald correspondent that Com
missioner Enright had Issued an
order stopping women from smok
ing in public, based upon an ordi
nance said to have been signed by
him, but which Aldcrmanie officials
denied passing, he said:
"I'm not feeling well. See me
to-morrow."
ENDS DUEL IN STREET
BY KILLING HIMSELF
^outli Takes Own Life as De
tective Closes in On Him
During Chase.
HAD ACTED SUSPICIOUSLY
Opens Fire on Officers When
They Start to Frisk Him
and Companion.
A man believed to have been Joseph
Bolinsky, 24, shot and killed himself
In Sixth street near First avenue yes
terday after he had tried to kill two
detectives of the Fifth street station
in a pistol battle that started in East
Fourth streeet and ended with hi?
suicide. The police believe Bolinsky
destroyed himself thinking he had
killed Detective James Kee at whom
he had fired.
Detective Kee and Detective John
J. Quinn were walking through ^ast
Fourth street when they said they
saw Bolinsky and another man acting
suspiciously and glancing Into door
ways. Qulnn suggested that he and
Keo "give them a frisk." Quinn
grabbed one of the men, announcing
he was a detective, and pulled a black
jack from the stranger's hip pocket
"Grab the other fellow, Jim!" he
shouted to Kee and Kee started after
Bolinsky. who was walking briskly
toward First avenue.
Bolinsky saw Kee approaching, drew
h. pistol and fired at the detective, who
at that time was not more than five
feet away. "He got me, Jack," Kee
fhcuted, throwing his hands up to his
Oiewt and stumbling hack toward a
ratling guarding an areaway. Quinn re
leased his prisoner and started .;fter
Bolinsky. The gunman ran into First
avenue, firing at Quinn. The rivenue
was crowded with men and vornen.
Quinn returned the fire. Th^ bullets
?vent wild.
Between Fifth and Sixth streets Bo
linsky turned a second time, saw Qulnn
was gaining on him and fired i seco-id
time. Quinn returned the fire, and this
bullet grazed Bolinsky's shoulder. A'
Sixth street the detective had gotten
within a few feet of the fugitive Bolin
sky turned west and had run not more
than 100 feet when he halted, placed the
pistol to his right temple, ftred and
slumped to the ground dead.
In the meanwhile the other nun whom
Qulnn had grabbed had escaped and the
blackjack also was gone. Kee, it de
veloped. had not been wounded. It Is
believed the shot was fired at such close
range that Kee felt the concussion and
thought, he had been wounded. Another
theory is that the first cartridge fired
was a blank and that Kee was hit in the
chost by the cotton wadding. Finger
prints of the dead man were taken to
headquarters but they did not compare
with any In the rogues' gallery. Bolin
sky, a Russian, applied for naturaliza
tion in 1920, giving his address aa 144
East Fourteenth street. That is a room
ing house, but nobody could be found
there who knew the dead man or any
body by that name.
GREAT JOBLESS ARMY
HARDLY THREE SQUADS
Jobs Offered to All at Cityi
Hall, but Are Declined.
The Police Department wns alert ye#- J
terdny to receive (lie gigantic demonstra
tion of the unemployed which was to
have been made at City Hall after the
army of worklesw ones had marched In
two divisions from South Kerry and
Cooper Union. Poltcemcn by the score \
were scattered over the line of ma-oh. 1
detectives waited for something to hap
pen, fifty policemen were In City Hall,
plaza and in the basement of the Hall a
hundred more waited for action.
When the army of the unemployed
started It numbered seven In the South
Ferry division led by Israel Ampter. and
six In the Cooper Union division led by
John Marshall. It grew a bit as It
marched, so that when It reached City
Hall It numbered twenty-seven stalwart
friends of the unemployed, but not tool
stalwart to decline when the acting
Mayor, Murray Hulbert, offered every J
one a Job. No man accepted, but sev-j
eral volunteered to make speeches, by,
which they said they would prove that
Jobs for them would not solve the unem
ployment situation. As far as anybody
could make out, what they wanted was to
continue jobless but to receive compen
sation from somebody.
MICHIGAN ?;kt* oo hkinhkkh.
I-ansino, Mich., March 27.?Sixty rein- ,
deer, purchased by the State Conserva
tion Department from Norway, arrived j
to-day at the State farm at Mason. '
They will lie *M|r,>ed to the upper penln
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TEN POUCE FLIVVERS
RACE ABOUT CITY IN
NIGHT BANDIT HUNT
Big Drive Is On Against
Criminals Who Ply
Trade in Motors.
TWO OFFICERS TO CAR
Day Patrol Starts This
Morning in Large Tour
ing Machines.
PATBOLMEX ON CAKPJ7T
j Progressive System of Espion
age Promises to Be Suc
[ cessful.
Th? Police Department made an
other move Inst night in its effort to
catch some of the bandits and bur
glars who have been reaping such a
' rich harvest in New York in the last
i few months, by putting ten Ford rur
! abouts in service at four precincts for
! patrol purposes.
In addition to these severs.1 five
j feated touring cars will be p'aced on
| duty this morning, eac h manned by a
sergeant and a detail of pr^ "men.
j The cars will tour various districts,
j l aying particular attention to Jewelry,
. loft and other business sections when:
! bandits have been operating.
The runabouts were put in service at
I 6 o'clock at the West Thirtieth, the
West 152d street, the Arsenat stations
i In New York Hnd the Prospect station
| in Brooklyn. Each car is manned by a
, sergeant and a patrolman, the latter as
chauffeur. The machines began at once
to tour the precincts. The sergeant
will watch for suspicious persons and
suspicious automobiles, and efforts will
be made to detain the former and catch
the latter, although there was not much
optimism in the department last night
regarding the ability of the runabouts
to catch the high powered machines
usually uaed by the bandits.
The police hope, however, the bandits
may be deterred by the fact the flivver
runabouts are clattering about the
street* with a sergeant and a patrotman
In them, and they hope for even better
results when the larger cars go on duty
to-day. Within the next few days other
precincts will be furnished with the
patrolling runabouts, and the depart
ment hopes eventually to have enough
of them completely to cover every pre
cinct in the city.
The Brooklyn police let It be known !
last night there have been good results
so far from the system of surveillance
which was put Into effect about a month
ago, such good results that in the last
four weeks more than 300 patrolmen i
and officers have been up on chargcn
in Brooklyn Headquarters. Sixty-five
of these cases were tried yesterdav by
Deputy Commissioner John A. Daly,
but. as in the other cases, decision was
reserved.
Under this system sergeants go forth
each night and during the day to watch
the partolmen. the lieutenants go forth
to watch the sergeants and the captains
ko out to watch the lieutenants. The
Inspector has plain clothes men out
watching the whole lot, and from head
quarters go other details to watch the
plain clothes men. and then there are
other details to watch the watchers,
and so on. But as a result of the sys
tem many patrolmen have been caught
sitting down or smoking or eating when
on duty, or talking too long with each |
other, and they have be*n brought up j
on charges.
DAN CUPID DEFEATED
ON 'COURTING' ISSUE
All the Women Beaten in the
Charlotte Election.
Chari.otte, In.. March 27 (Associated I
Press).?Dsn Cupid lost his election
fight In Charlotte to-day, all women |
candidates for city offices being de
feated.
J. R. Kane was reelected Mayor over
Mrs. James McDermott. 131 to 104. Airs. |
N'ick Stelner wa.i defeated for City j
Council by Thoma* Ketelfcn by 193 to J
The other women candidates for 1
Oty Council withdrew their names be- j
fore the voting began.
During the campaign ;i number of ,
mothers with marriageable daughters, 1
supported by the daughters themselves,
announced that the girls' young men
f* lends must support the women's ticket
cr stop courting the young women.
Election official* are of the opinion |
that a majority of the men voted for
the women candidate* and that It was
the heavy women vote that defeated!
Mrs. McDermott and Mrs. Stelner.
MAYOR HYLAN DECIDES
NOT TO BE PRESIDENT
Also Sees the Stockyards and
Findn an Ideal Job.
Sprrial Piipatch to Tub Nkw Vosk Husai.d.
Chicago, March 27.?Mayor Mylan of
New York announced to-day that he
would not be a candidate for the Resi
dency In 1924. Also, he saw the stock
yards. escorted by a committee of the
knights of Columbus.
Alden B. Swift piloted the party, j
Mayor H> lan told Mr. Swift that *ie 1
had found the Job he wants when he
quits being Mayor of New York, and It
Is not in Washington.
"Ah, there's my future Job," exclaimed
the Mayor. He stood and watched a
man who caught the odd sited cakes of
coeoanut butter as they were clipped
The odd sir.es only cam" at great Inter
vals and the man had little to do.
Following his visit to tlie yards j
Mayor Hylan was the gue.st of Mayor
Thompson at luncheon at the South
Shore Country Club. This evening Mayor
and Mrs. Hylan were "ntertained by |
Archbishop Mundeloin of Chicago. They
will return to New York Tuesday.
The B??t Writing t'apur*
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A Square Deal for All.
With the Fordneys, the Mondells and the Long
worths passing out bonuses to the A. E. F. men as
the advance agent of the circus passes out advertising
handbills to the surging crowd, the Spanish War
veterans are boiling with rage that they are not in
on the swag. And why shouldn't they be in on the
swag? And why shouldn't the descendants of the
Civil War veterans and the descendants of the War
of the Revolution veterans be in on the swag? And
then how about the descendants of the veterans of
the Indian wars, the Mexican War and the War of
1812 ??Editorial.
THREATEN SEA TIEIIP
OVER FOREIGN COAL
Official Says Longshoremen
Will Refuse to Unload Car
goes During Strike.
MAY INVOLVE SEAMEN
Question of Supporting Miners
Is in Hands of Interna
tional Union Officers.
If any attempt is made by the Gov
ernment or by private interests to im
port coal from Europe in the event of
a prolonged coal strike union long
shoremen will refuse to unload it.
At the close of a meeting of the "x
ecutive board of the New Vork loca!
of the International Seamen's Union
last night A. L?. Parks, secretary of
the local, announced that the question
whether members of the union will as
sist In the transportation of British !
coal to the United States during the i
strike has been referred to the officials j
of the international union in Wash- j
ington.
The seamen's union includes engine- J
men, stewards, cooks and other steam- j
ship workers. Last night's meeting. It
had been reported, would diacuw a sym- j
pathetic strike, but, according to Mr. j
Parks, the question is not one for loca! ?
action. All the crews on the Shipping
Board's" fleet are members of this union.
The statv 4 that the longshoremen
would not hai. 'eign coal was made i
by Joseph P. Ryt?. ^-president of the
International Longt.. men's Associa
tion. which has a Iocai membership of
60,000. following reports from Washing
ton that Government officials have
asked the Shipping Board to consider n
scheme to carry coal as ballast on ships
plying between the United States and
coal producing countries.
A special meeting of longshoremen will
be held to plan cooperation with the
coal strikers. Ryan said. The next
scheduled meeting of the district coun
cil is set for April S>, but If the strike
starts April 1. the dock workers and
other marine unions will then get to
gether on the handling of coal cargoes.
Negotiations between the anthracite
miners and mine operators were re
sumed at the Union League Club. Th-i
v/age scale subcommittee began the in
dividual consideration of the nineteen
demands submitted by John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America. Only two demands were
discussed, and the all important matter
of wages was not taken up at all.
When the conference meets this af
ternoon the 20 per cent, wage Increase
probably will be discussed, and the ac
tion then taken will have a vital bearing
on the hard coal strike.
The charge of Samuel Oompers. presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, that the United States Stee. Cor
poration, the Erie Railroad and other'
railroad and financial Interests were in
conspiracy with the coal operators to;
bring about a coal miners' strike on j
April 1 was denied 3-esterday by F. D. I
Underwood, president of the Krie Rail- j
road. Mr. Underwood d? lar? d the!
allegation was entirely without founda
tion In fact.
U. S. ON TRAIL OF BOOZE
SMUGGLING FROM CUBA
Dry Officer in Havana Will
Visit West Indies.
Havana, March 27.?The establish-1
r ent of a bureau In Havana by Amer- !
Iran prohibition enforcement authorities
1 robably will be recommended by Col.
]. C. Nutt, who arrived in Havana Sat
urday. In connection. It is said, with a
t roposed drive by the American authori
ties against alleged shipment? from
Cuba of liquor and narcotic*. On the '
completion of the Inquiry here. It is
*a'd. Col. Nutt and his aids will visit
< ther Islands of the West Indira, par
ticularly the Bahamas.
Col. Nutt would tay nothing In con
rectlon with reports that Cuba had been
the base of operations for New York.
Viorlda and New Orleans smuggling
rings.
MELLON PRODS FORD
ON $29,000,000 GIFT
Asks Him to Disclose How !?*?
Gave War Profits to
Treasury.
I'ECOBDS DO NOT SHOW FT
Donation, Mentioned in Unof
ficial Book. Loads to Fruit
less Investigation.
Special Dispatch to Tub New York Hmti.B.
Detroit, March -.7.?A dispatch from
Washington says Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon has called upon Henry
Ford officially to make an explanation
of the assertion that J29.000.000 of
Mr. Ford's war profits have been re
turned to the Treasury of the United
States to be used as the Government
sees fit. the statement having been
made in a book called "The Truth
About Henry Ford."
In a letter written to a member of
the Senate who was interested in dis
covering the truth about the matter
Secretary Mellon said:
"I understand that you recently In
quired over the telephone with respect
to a statement which appeared in a
book called 'The Truth About Henry
Ford' to the effect that his war profits
of about IJ3.000.000 had been turned back
to the Treasury and that you Inquired
particularly whether the Treasury ever
received any such sum from Mr. Ford.
I have had this matter Investigated in
the Treasury and find that the records
do not show the receipt of any dona
tion from Mr. Ford. I have accord
ingly written direct to Mr. Ford for
Information as to how the matter stands
from his point of view.
'The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue advises me that his records show
the designation of representatives of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue to ex
amine the books of the Ford plant cov
ering the period of the war with a
view to ascertainment of the war
profits, but that the work connected
with this investigation proved to be
of a very difficult character, and that
so far as the Internal Revenue Bureau
has been advised no results or conclu
sions have ever been obtained. For a
year or more no progress has been made
along these lines.
"The Treasury nas also made infor
mal Inquiries of the War Department
with respect to the Ford contracts for
the manufacture of parts of Liberty
motors and the contracts in connection
with the Motor Transport Corps of the
War Department, and has been advised
that no deductions were made from the
regular contract prices for articles to
the War Department.
"The Navy Department has also In
formally advised the Treasury that In
connection with the Ford Contracts for
the manufacture of Fagle boats no de>
ductlons were made from the regular
contract prices therefor.
"As to contracts with other depart
ments and establishments of I he Govern
ment the Treasury has no information
of Its own and cannot determine whether
or not any deductions wera made from
contract prices as a donation to the
United States."
GIRL PREFERS JAIL;
FRIENDS RESCUE HER
Defies Courf on Conviction for
Speeding.
Miss Virginia (I. Bell, who gave her
midress as "W Xewcomb avenue. New
York city," was rescued from the West
chester County Jail at White Plains late
yesterday when several of her friends
and relatives appeared and paid the IIS
which she had been fined for speeding,
The fine was imposed by Judge B. ".
Foley when she was convicted of speed
ing last Saturday in North Broadway,
mar the Rockefeller estate in Tarry
town The ?lrl had said in court earlier
hi the day that she would never pay it.
"You'll pay It or go to Jail for fifteen
days." said the Judge.
"I'll go to jail and stay there befora
T'll pay it." the girl said.
She went to Jail, but It was only a
frw hours later that her relatives ap
peared and paid the fine. When xlie
|.ft she declared that they were mis
guided and that they should have let
her alone.
Told That Exertion Meant Death,
He Plays Squash Game and Dies
Following a n*mc of squash tannin I member of the squash tennis team at
With an Instructor In the Crescent Ath- that Institution. Hp was more than
letlc Club, Clinton and Plerrepont1 six fret tall and weighed more than 33a
street*. Brooklyn. Charles Rohr. 32, x pounds
civil enslneer connected tvlth the Man- Following the frame ia?t night Mr.
liattan office of the General Electric Rohr tool? a shower and then went Info
Company, died In one of the rest rooms "ne of the r-st rooms to lie down. He
of the club last night. '<>"'?? :,bout 7 ?? o'clock by an at
Rohr. a member of t*e Crescent Club ?^<lnnt. who < al ed Patrolman Leather
? . . . ? man of the Poplar street station. Dr.
for several years, had been warned by> c Agpv of ,, 3 Montagu# ltMet
phynician* again*! playing the game, Rohr had di*d from dilation of
according to hi# mother. Mrs. Harris fhp fcoart His mother waa notified, and
Franklin, who lives at the Hotel Pavoy. ; said that only last Saturday her son had
Mr. Rohr waa single and lived In the been cautioned by a physician against
Manhattan Bquara Motel. 50 TVe?t Fev- 'siting tir> tbo gsnv' egaln and bad heen
?nty-ae\enth street. J He wail gradiMi<<l i .id it would result In h,* death if he
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WILL DENY RIGHT OF
WAY TO MS BILL
Chairman McCumber De
clares Attempts at Co
ercion AN ill Fail.
MAY GIVE HEARINGS
Secretary Mellon and Other
Treasury Officials to
Be Examined.
OH 10 POST AGAINST RAID
Urges Postponement of Legis
lation After Unanimously
Denouncing Measure.
n<r LOUIS SEIBOI.D.
Special Dispatch fo Tub Nnv Yokk JIkra'P
New York Hrrald llurrnu. )
Wnshinjrton. I). Marrh t'. (
The command of (he American
Legion that the bill for a bonus raid
on the public Treasury be considered
and passed by the Senate without de
lay will not be obeyed.
Members of the Finance Committee
of the upper house who have the mis
fit certificate bonus plan in charge
have agreed to set it aside until tho
tariff measure bas been reported and
the discussion of it well under way in
the Senate.
The tariff bill is approaching com
pletion. It may be turned over to the
Senate Ht the end of the present or the
beginning of next week. After that
the Finance Committee will look over \
the J.",000.000.000 bonus raid bill and
decide what shall be done with it In
addition to drastic editing and pret'v j
thorough reshaping.
Chairman M Cumber of the com
mittee said this afternoon that no at
tention will he paid to demands that
the bonus measure set the r1;;ht cf
way over pending legislation which is
on the schedule b*?fore it. He ex
pressed the opinion that after th<*
meanure had been taken up the com
mittee would ?et aside several day* a
week for an Indefinite period in which
to hear arguments both for and
asrainat it.
Will Ret Of!lrli? I Vle*r?.
Secretary Mellon and other officials
of the Treasury Department whose
views and advice were disregarded by
the Ways and Means Committee of
the House will br called upon to an-!
alyze the pending bill and probably
discuss the financial phases of one or
two alternate proposals which are cer
tain to figure in the discussions of the
subject.
The attitude of the Finance Com
mittee toward Mi*. Mellon is in strik
ing contrast with that which existed
in the Ways and Means Committee.
The members of that body openly de
rided and scoffed at the statements
made by Mr. Mellon. Comptroller Crls
singor and Federal Reserve Governor
Harding regarding the effect of the
certificate loan "monstroaity" on the
public Treasury and business.
The views of these officials are cer
tain to receive much greater respect
than wa* the case in the House, where
th* sole concern of the members was
to vote for the bonus bill and win tho
support of ex-servlcr men.
Since the passage of the bonus meas
ure in the lower house protests against
It have been received by the Senate
Finance Committee, some of which
have been accompanied by requests
for hearings.
Prnlfnt From l.rclon root.
i One of the most interesting protests
received during the last day or two
came from the Frank J. Qolncamp
| Post of the American Legion of Ohio,
i The members of that organization by
i unanimous vote denounced the cer
tificate loan bill and urged the Senate
j ommittee to recommend postpone
i ment of bonus legislation in accord
| ance with the recommendations of
President Harding.
A member of the Finance Commit
tee who is opposed to the bill ex
pressed the hope this afternoon that
other American Legion posts would
record themselves in opposition to the
bonus bill.
"T believe," he snid. "that a very
large percentage of the members of
the American Legion rosent the at
tempt to put them In the attitude of
mendicants. I have received many
' letters from ex-service men protest
ing against the latest bonus scheme.
T hope every man In the organization
who served the country either at home
or abroad will communicate his oppo
sition to the bonus cither In person or
by letter to the committee.
"The committee should have the
fullest, light on the attitude of the ex
servico men themselves regarding the
bonus. I know a great many of them
resent the attempt of a few sordid
Claimant* to put all Of the ex-ser\'lce
men In the humiliating position of
seeking pay for nomrthing that can
never be appraised on a money basis.
Let siM'h men write to the Finance
Committee and to their own Senators
as well."
Hearsrrtetl m l.f*lll?tlff Claptrap.
Senatorial di^ ussion of the bonus
has revolved almost entirely around
its political aspects. The opinion re
garding the certificate loan bill can
be put down as wholly unfavorable
It Is regarded as a makeshift, unwork
able and a cheap attempt to delude
MAINLAND OF JAPAN
EXCLUDED IN TREATY
RATIFIED BY 73 TO 0
. - ^
Germany Refutes Allies'
60 Billion Mark Tax Plan
BERLIN*. March (Associated
Press).?Chancellor Wirth
to-day 1 old the Premiers of
the Federated States and Reichs
tag leaders representing; the Major
ity Socialists, Democrats. Clericals
and the German Pcoplejs party that
the German Government would in
form the Allied Reparations Com
mission that the 60.000.000,000
marks tax levy was not feasible
and that financial control of Ger
many, as stipulated note of
last w?ek also must be declined.
The Chancellor added that the
Government was now confident of
the Reichstag's approval of its
stand. The Premiers and the
Reichstag leaders are said to hava
expressed themselves as satisfied
with the stand taken by the Chan
^ cellor.
FRANCE WILL MAKE'
Brandegee Resolution Con
sidered in Paris as Greatly
Weakening Treaties.
DEPUTIES WANT SAFETY
Maintain Right to 300.000
Tons of Submarines and
T'nliniited Attack.
Special Cable In Tur New York Hisiuid.
Copyright, I0:t, bj Tub Nik Yoik Hbt.ald
?? VorU Herald Bureau. I
Ptrln. March *7. (
When the general discussion of the
Washington treaties comes up Friday
it is certain on account of the Brande
gee resolution confirming the non
military aspect of the four Power
treaty that the French Parliament will
make reservation of its own, holding
to itself the same right as did the
American Senate, wl.ich will have the
efTect here of greatly weakening the
treaties. Those treaties having boon
negotiated by the Rriand Government,
the Polncare Cabinet v ill place Itself
largely in the hands of Parliament,
reserving the right merely to reject
any reservations that may seem to
discredit the signatures of tLe French
plenipotentiaries.
The Rrandege* resolution Is consid
ered in Parliamentary circle* a.s com
pletely Justifying Parliament In making
reservations, which threaten, however,
to go far beyond it In effect. According
to present indications they will be
adopted despite any Government opposi
tion. in order to satisfy the naval ele
ment which holds that the treaties fail
to give oue consideration to the needs
of France.
It now looks as though the Parlia
ment will so*, on the treaties in the fol
lowing manner
First?A reservation slmil.tr to Rran
de<ee's in reupcct to the Pacific agree
ment in order that l-rance shall not
commit herself further than the United
States.
Second??A second reservation to the
naval treaty maintaining France's right
to construct a number of submarines
sufficient for defensive purposes and
protect French possessions, which will
mean in effect that the French Parlia
ment absolutely will support in theory
the original French demand at Wash
ington of 300.000 tons of submarines.
No objection will be raised In Parlia
ment to the capital shtp tonnane fixed.
Third?A reservation respecting the
vise of submarines as defined by Ellhu
Root, whioh would lea\e to a later
conference the definition of exactly what
constitutes merchant ships and defen
sive operations, thus giving France, in
the absence of anv such definition, the
right to use submarines for attacking
purposes upon ships carrying contra
band. whether or not they figure on
naval lists.
Fourth?An economic proviso to be
attached to the accord rerulating eco
nomic rights of the signatory Powers
In China.
This will be the first rase where im
portant treaties negotiated by French
plenipotentiaries have had reservations
attached by Parliament.
Parts. March 27 (Associated Pre??).
1 ?It was pointed out by French officials
to-day that as the Washington sub
marine agreement now stands mer
chantmen could arm against submarines
or men of war and could even he-camou
flaged to fidht under v.-aler eraft, while
the latter are bound by the Root reso
lutions to refrain from attacks on mer
chantment. The object of the proposed
French reservation. It was said, Is to
provide against aurprlses by commercial
ships which might attack submarines as
they did during the war. although con
ditions would be changed by the Wash
ington accord.
BIG LOCKOUT AGAIN
THREATENS ENGLAND
Crisis in Machine Shops and
Shipyards at Hand.
I,o\pov. Ma"**!! 2" (Associated Pre**).
Negotiations between representatives
of the engineering unions and their
| employers -iRain broke down to-day and
i the situation to-night l? serious. The
employer* refused t <> withdraw their
lockout notices unless certain *viarari
ties were forthcoming from the unions.
Unless the unlona concede the em
ployers' claims to the right ot exercla
ing managerial functions In matter* of
shop regulation 500,000 union workers
sffillated with the er??lneer? will likely
I he given lockout noil# within tna neat
NEW RESERVATION'
Supplemental Agree
ment to Paeit'ie Com
pact Is Passed After
Stormy Debate.
3 AMENDMENTS LOST
Four Power Coalition Now
Complete So Far as
F. 8. Is Concerned.
NAVAL ARMS ISSUE NEXT
Action by Senate Insures Par
ticipation in Decisions of
World Conference.
Special Drfpatrh tn The Nrw York Hctuid
NVw ^ork Herald Rureau,
Waililiirtun. I). Mnrcli 2*.
The Senate late this afternoon aiur
a stormy debate ratified tlm supple
mental treaty to the four Power com
pact by a vote of "3 to 0. This supple
mental treaty designates the insular
possessions and dominions of the four
Powers which come within the pui
view of the treaty, and specifically ex
cludes the mainland of Japan from i'.s
operation.
The Senate by a viva voce vo e
adopted also the declaratory state
ment of inten' concerning the trea./
which was offered by Senator Lod;.i
as a reservation to the supplementary
treaty in order to quiet the fears of
any one who honestly might believ-j
the statement should have been ra'.
fled by the Senate when the fo^..*
Power treaty itself was approved.
Amendments to this reservation of
fered by Senators Robinson (Arl<.) ar.<l
Pittmm (N'eV.) were voted down, th?
Robinson amendment without a roll
1 eail and the Pittman amendment by *
vote of 49 to 21.
The Pittman amendment speHflca!"/
described the questions that we to
? regarded as domestic issues rot sub
ject to consideration by conference V/
|'he Powers, including immigration. th?*
opium traffic and the white i
1 traffic.
I'onr Power Troat<r ( nmplrl
The Robinson amendme^* prepos'
bar aggressive action on the pa: ? "
any of the Powers, and provided
in case of trouble growing up In v
; an outside Power is interested. !
Power is to be invited into the co
ence.
ICarlier in the day the Senate rej - 1
an amendment offered by Jienatoi
i inson providing that Karafuto.
i southern part of the Island of Hakl
! should not be included tn the oper
! of the treaty, by a record vote of K
The result to-duv completes the
of action on the four Power treaty
test compact before the Senate,
insures participation of the United
i States in the important experiment
registered by the decisions of the con
ference for the limitation of arma*
ments.
Senator T.odge 'Man> Immediate!'*
called up the treaty relating to tlia
limitation of naval armament, and th ?
discussion of this document n ill be; n
lo-mori-ow
Failure on the putt of the opposite i
to render a negative vote against tii?
supplemental treaty by no means regis
tered a quiet acceptance of the decision.
The debate wa? one of the stormiest of
the session and revolved about tit
declaration of intent which was not in
cluded in the treaty as ratified Frldas.
the inclusion of .Sakhalin in the pro
visions of the treaty, the possib *
methods of pressure that might bo
brought to bear upon the Powers in
the event one or more of them failed
to listen to the results of a conference
and other features of the various
treaties.
It was clear that In spite of the voi i
b e debate no one was prepared to vo e
again*'. either the I.odge reservation or
the supplemental treaty itself.
Foea Ci plain Their % nle.
Scnrtor Ashurst (Arlft.) announced
voted for the supplemental treaty be
cause It sterilises the four Power
treaty." and Senator Johnson (Cal >
said he voted for It be<ause It minim itc
the hamfulness of the original rstlflca
tlon. Senator Borah (tUaho) announce!
he world vote for th* Ix>4ge reservation
becft'i e It can do no ham: and nothing
can niekf the treaty worse than It is.
The derision reported by the Repui
llcan majority to offer the declaration <?'
Intent as a reservation to the supple
mental treaty came after careful con
sideration. The treaty supporter*
deprecate reservations, but it was felt
that any possible doubt which migi t
have been awakened by failure to ratlfv
:hia statement as pa*t of the treaty
should be removed.
As offered by Senator tx>dge and In
corporated In the resolution of ratifica
tion. the reservation reads:
Add at end of resolution of rati fl
ea t ion the following
Subject to the following reserva
tion and understanding, whi<h *
hereby made a part of and condition
of this resolution of ratification, ai d
which repeats the declaration of in
tent and understanding made by the
representatives of the Powet? signa
tories of the four Power treat;- re
lating to their insular possessions
and Insular dominions in the Pacific
1. That the four Power treaty re
lating to Pacific poe.??s?rlons shall
apply to the mandated Islands In the
Pacific Ocean; provided. however,
that the making of this treaty shall
ret b* d"em*d to he an .is ent on tfi
part of the United States .>f A mar ft a
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