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/ WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and slowly rising temperature to-day and to-morrow; gentle variable winds. Highest temperature yesterday, 49; lowest, 33. Detailed wctthur report* will m found on pact IS. VOL. LXXXVI.?NO. 236?DAILY. / ) THE NEW YORK HERALD [COPYRIGHT, 192 2. BY THE BUN -HERALD CORPORATION.] THE BEST IN ITS HISTORY. The New York Herald, with all that was best of The Sun intertwined with it, and the whole revitalized, is a bigger and better and sounder newspaper than ever before. ?4 ?*> NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1922. BNTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. I-OST OFFICE. NEW YORK, N. Y. 136 PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS J Finance Committee Repub licans Virtually Decide to Rewrite House Bill. A $2,900,000,000 PLAN Projects Based on Sugges tions of Hoovejr, Calder, j Frelinghuysen, Srnoot. M'CUMBER WANTS CASH Also Would Hear Nobody but! ( Legion Officials on Treas ury Raid. By LOUIS SEIBOLD. ZXtpatch to Tit* New To?k Mould. New York Herald Bureau. I Washington, D. C.. April 8S. J Hare to the prevailing view of the fconus raid on the public treasury, ex pressed by Senators who are in favor Pt the scheme: "It would be a waste of time for to pas* legislation which would be (Objectionable to the American Legion." Porter J. McCumber (candic' .te for ^selection), chairman of the Senate | Finance Committee, made the remark. (The North Dakota Senator explained that he did not see any reason for in viting the representatives of any other Interests Involved to appear before his fcommittee next week to discuss the certificate loan bill passed by the House of Representatives by "gag" rule processes. Therefore, It is not the purpose of tho Republican members of the com mittee, who will excludo the Demo cratic Senators, to request Secretary i Mellon and other officials of the Treas- j tiry Department, representatives of I farm organizations, business enter- ! prises and citizens generally to offer j suggestions or present protests against j the bonus. Alone Kntltled to' Pass on Bill. As far the Jionus Senators wjio are candidates for reelection are con cerned the American Legion alone is entitled to pass upon bonus legislation. President Harding is not even to be consulted if the bonun Sen&tors huve their way until a hill has been pro duced und sent along Its merry way through the Senate. The plan to ignore the views of tho President and Treasury officials is likely to ko awry because a great many Senators who are inclined to vote for the bonus have instanced their determination to In vite the fullest official liglit and ex pert Judgment on any legislation that may be proposed. Senator McCutnber and his asso ciates. whose chief interest in the bonus raid is to win for Congressional candidates the votes of the clamorous clement among the 344,000 member of the American Legion?according to Senators Borah and Moses (Rep.) and Williams (Dem.)?apparently do not appreciate the wisdom of Inviting crit icism of the schemo that may be con cocted. People (o Take Tkelr Medicine. At any rate, it Is not the present purpose of bonus Senators who are candidates for reelection and thefr supporter* to request any assistance \ or elucidation from the offlcials of the Treasury Department, either as to the desirability or practicability of a bonus measure. Only tho American Legion, therefore, will be consulted. The ad herents of this organization are to be the beneficiaries, while the j>eople of th$ country will be called on to take their medicine and pay the bill. Just what sort of a bill will emerge from the fog that now envelopes the bonus project Is a matter of conjecture. The only thing settled Is that If the bonus Senators seeking reelection through the support of the noisy mi nority among ex-service men have iheir way a bill will be framed within the next week, the tariff bill thrust aside and the enterprise put through In short order. The first discussion of the bonu* project by Republican members of the committee was Held to-day. Six Re publlcans?McGumber, Smoot, Calder, Frellnghuysen, Watson ?nd Sutherland ?settled doWn to an annlysis of the misfit certificate loan plan passed by the House of Representatives more than a month ago. The discussion "as Informal and the only thing tangible that came out of It was the decision practically to rewrite the House bill In such a way as to in sure acceptance by the Hou*e of the measure framed by the Senate commit tee. When this decision was commu nicated to a member of the House who favors the bonus he made no attempt to restrain his merriment. Anything to Get Votes. "That's rich." was his comment. "We'll pass any bill they send over to us as long as'lt Is approved by the soldier boys and nwt araqres their votes for us In November. The Senate crowd need not worry about us not aoccptinR any bill they turn out over tnere. W?*'ll vote for anything.' Strong sentiment Is understood to have developed among the six Repub lican Senators who attended the con ference In the Finance Committee In favor of a paid up Insurance policy to * Continued on Pane Two. ORKRMIIlF.lt. White N?w Spring eelnr. 'lolf, totin'*. hnr?>-hn<'k. F"? innii* Wsth?. ? BORAH SCORES LEGION POST FOR ITS THREA T ON BONUS i Replies to Letter That Man Who Buys Political Office With People's Money Is Worse Than He Who Bribes Voters With His Own. Washington, April 22. ? Ser.ator i Borah (Rep., Idaho) states in a letter to the Pocatello, Idaho, Post, Ameri can Legion, that if he voted for the soldiers' bonus bill "It would be a simple matter of barter, in which I use the people's money to buy some body's vote." JThe letter was In re sponse to a telegram received by the Senator from the Pocatello Post and was made public by the post. It fol lows: "1 observe In your teiegram," It says, "the threat which you impliedly make as to future political punish ment. It was wholly unnecessary for you to make this threat. It reflected no credit upon you, and it has had no effect whatever upon mc. When you come to that fight in which you pro pose to inflict punishment, you will doubtless be able to say many things In the way of censure upon my public record. "But one thing neither you nor any one else will toe able to say, and that is that I ever sought to purchase po litical power by drafts upon the public treasury, or that I chose to buy a continuation In office by putting four billions of dollars upon the bended backs of American taxpayers. "I haven't much respect for the man who buys office, even tnough he pays' for it with his own money. But the most slimy creature which disgraces American politics is the man who buys office by paying for It with appropria tions out of the public treasury and charges his venal political obligations to the taxpayers. "If I thought this measure a proper . one, I could and would vote for it. ? But, believing with thousands of for- | mer service men who have written mc i that it is not a proper one, If I should ! vote for it, it would be a simple matter , or barter, in which I use the people's money to buy somebody.'s vote; In which the account of my political ex penses would be charged to th^ tax payers. "Of course you understand that I have at all times supported and stand ready to support any measure which will help the disabled veteran." At the outset of his letter Senator Borah said he had taken his position on the bonus "after great considera tion and with much reluctancc." He added that l:e understood perfectly the criticism it would bring and "the con demnation it would invite," but be lieving that his position was a right eous one he could not change. DR. GRANT CUTS OWN PAY $5,000 A YEAR Rector of Church of Ascension Aids in Reducing Its Run ning- Expenses. MUSIC COSTS SLASHED H. A. Content Quits Vestry Af ter Clash?818.000 in Back Debts Paid. Dr. Percy Stlckney Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, Fifth avenue and ^nth street, de nied yesterday that t?cre eristed any differences between him and his ves trymen as a result of church finance*, or thwt Burton 1'. White, church treasurer for the laat four years, had submitted his resignation. The ercctor receivedtfin his morn ing mall the resignation of Harold A. Content, former Assistant United Htates Attorney, the vestryman with whom Dr. Grant is reported to have had words at the vestry meet ing Thursday afternoon- It tfas es tablished definitely that the reslg- | nation of Mr. Content wrts in no way j connected with the dlxerences that i caused Mr. White to request he be ( relieved an treasurer. Frederick Johnson of 840 Park avenue, chairman of a finance committee that was appointed to aid Mr. White In car ing for the church's material welfare. Is authority for the statement that the Church of the Ascension Is solvent In every respect, aving Just liquidated ac cumulated deficits of several years that aggregated 118.000. Mr. Johnson ad mitted. however, that a policy of re- i trenchment wan decided upon by the ( vestry last autumn In order to bring the church's overhead well within the 148.000 limit of former years. Several radical cuts were made, prin cipally In regard to the musie, and Dr. ) Grant aided voluntarily In the work by slacking his salary from $10,000 to 15.000. The cost of the music was re duced from $8,000 to about$2.000. Three church workers were disposed of affect ing h .Having of $5,400 annually In sal aries. Mr. Content declined to discus* the cause of his break with Dr. Grant. re ferring all Inquiries to the rector, but It wao learned from an authoritative source that the lawyer sought to call 'o the attention of Dr. Grant at the last vestry meeting an Incident- in which a member of the vestry is alleged to ? have offended a man who has been n member of the church for forty-six years. Mr. Content started to speak of | the matter Just as the meeting wmi about to close, and. it is reported, wis j prevented from doing so by Dr. Grant. "If you Will not let me speak there is I no use In my staying her"." Mr. Con- , tent is said to have declared. "Then go." the rector was quoted is ] having said. | Whereupon Mr. Content picked up nls hat and left the room. The lawyer and j rector have not. seen each other since. , so far as could be learned and the only message that passed between them was I Mr. oCntent's resignation. ] Ten p?raon* attended the meetln* be- j side* Dr. Grant. I/>uls Gperineau Myers j of 2!> Washington Square. Junior warden. | presided. Those present aside from Messrs. Content and White were Elmer Newton of 18 East Eighth street, J \ an , It. Cogswell of 12 KBst Eleventh street. Dr James M. Hltzrot of 12fi Erst Thirty-seventh street, Eugene A. Graff of 0 East Fortieth street, Fit* John i Porter of 51 Wert Eleventh street. Hob trt P Kehl??v of 4.1 Fifth avenue and Mr*. Philip M. Lydlg. fiancee of Dr. ; Grant. who represented an auxil!nr> of vestry women that recently has been | organized In the church. Mr. Myers refused to discus* the pu>>- i llshed reports of the break between Mr. j Content Mr. Whit* and Dr. Grnnt. *a> - In* It was regrettable that sueh matters j had got Into the pilbllc prlti* Mr. Porter said he reached the vestry meet- , lng late and left early, so that h- was j not present when the words passed be- J tween Dr. Grant and Mr. Content, and j he was not aware, he said. thstt Mr. | V'hWe hud submitted bis resignation, j pf. Hltsrot, reached over the telephone | at his summer home In New Canaan, Conn.. e%ld that the misunderstanding j between thf rector and lawyer *ro?e after the meeting had lt*e" " NO CLUE TO MISSING Seminary Authorities Silent About Misses Safford and Hollingsliead. MAY BE ON HIKE TO OHIO1 ? - : f, Miss Hollingshead's Brother Believes They Are Walking to Miss Safford's Home. J Bpctial IHspatch to Tur Nkw Yosk Hbrai.d. I j XoRTHFiKun. Mass., April 22.,?Tho1 I mystery surrounding the rllsappear ance a week ago or Mlsa Km ma Saf ford. 22. of Pawtucket, and Mian Bernicc Hollinshead, 18, of Port Clin ton, Ohio, students at Northfleld Semi nary. remained unsolved to-night. Though not a trace of the girls has been found, relatives who arrived to day refused to believe they had come to any harm. R. J. Holllnshead. younger brother of one of the girls, expressed the opin ion that the two have gone either on -.i hike to Port Clinton or in search of work. While the relatives of the girls resent any publicity and the officials if the seminary refuse to talk, it is common knowledge that Miss Safford had shown discontent with the school life. The disappearance of the students, both of whom are unusually attrac tive and very popular here and In their home towns, whc discovered last Sun day night when they failed to appear. On the .Sunday before they were seen near the school talking with persons In an automobile. This led to an oarly | report that they might have been kid- : I naped. Mr. Hollinshead said they muet j | hHVo tx?en trying to hire a machine to ! i take them out of town. The station j ; agent says no one answering their de- | serlptlon left by train. It is believed the #lrls had been plan- ! nlng to run away from the school since thfir return from the spring vacation. I They had suggested opening a tea room' I In North Adams. Franklin or Keone, I N. H., but searchers have gone to those ! places without results. Th? Investlga tlon Is being directed by Deputy Hherlff 1 Fred Doane of this town and Detec- | tlve Joseph V. Daly, who were called ( In last Sunday night. Miss Safford made her home with j Mrs. Ernest Sellew of Glenwood avcmii, Pawtucket, who became Interested In the j girl upon the death of her parents She , cent her to Northfleld Seminary last I September. Recently Mrs. Sellew cone ? ! plained of the girl's failure to progress i more rapidly In her studies. The girl | is said to have expressed a desire to ; go to relatives In the middle West. FIGHT 70 FOOT BREAK IN MISSISSIPPI LEVEE 600 Men Battle Flood Thirty Milea From New Orleans. New Orleans, April 22.?Six hundred men were battling to-night to clone a seventy foot break In the Mississippi River hrree at Myrtle Grove, thirty miles south of this city. Reports Indi cated the workers would succeed. After the break early to-day the river rapidly cut away a section of the levo<*, which was almost submerged, about seventy feet wide. The arrival of en gineers and workmen with necessary materials to fight I he flood prevented ?.*>? break bHng extended. Reports from Myrtle Grove '.ndicatol thut approximately lO.OOO acres of plantation land. already seeded for rlee. sugar und tr*ck garden products, had been Inundated, but the water Is run ning harmlessly into th* gulf rtnd ; swamps. About HO'i persons reside In the flooded area, but most of them have moved. In the city of N>w Orleans the work i of raisin* the low sections of the leve >s i with sand hags proceeded In an orderly , mannir With the gaugn registering 22.4 feet to-day. four feet higher than the previous record established In 1912 ! and with a rise of another six-tenths of a foot forecast, by the Weather Burea.i j by May 10, which will bring the water | a few Inches above the tops of tho j levee here, engineer.* say they will have j ?to difficulty In holding tho water with I GOMPERS CONFESSES UNION EVILS, DREADS PURIFYING IN COURTS Tells Samuel Untermyer Patience Is Best to Remedy Abuses. SAM PARKS IS BLAMED He Is Accused of Building Up. System on Which Brindell Profited. CONTRACTS INTERPRETED A. F. of L. Head Thinks They Are Not Mutual Nor Bind ing on Employees. When a Ions list of labor abuses uncovered by the Lockwood legislative committee In the last eighteen months was read to Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, yesterday at the committee's hearing in City Hall he admitted many wore "decidedly wrong," "quite unwar ranted," or "far fetched." But for nearly four hours the labor leader clung tenaciously to his insist ence that the State should not step in and remedy conditions. "Bad as they are," he told the committee, "it is better to endure them than to give Jurisdiction to the courts." The one remedy he had to suggest was pa tience. Mr. Gompers, who on Friday had told the committee he had "very little faith in the courts of the country"] where labor interests were concerned, did not change his opinion over night. At the outset of the latest session Samuel Untermyer almost urged Mr. Gompers to withdraw his criticism of courts and lawyers. Mr. Gompers re fused. I T San Parks Blamed. A new theory offered by Mr. Oompers was that the origin of ail of New York s labor troubles lay with the Chicago contractor*, who had corrupted Sam Parks. When he was an honest lro.'i ivorker, making I-. S3 or $4 a day. su?? Mr. Oompers, they made him a buttlnuM agent and laid hundred dollar bills be fore him?"a poor devil who never saw a ten dollar bill In all hla life." "Is that a Justification for thc-'e abuses?" Mr. Unterinyer asked. "No. but It is their origin," the wit ness replied with emphasis. Mr. Oompers drew a short parallel between the case of Parks and Brindell and suggested that the latter waa the victim of a system and not the Inventor of one. Mr. Unterinyer annojneed that the labor situation in the building trades was becoming so serious in New York city, with the opening of the building season, that he would devote his entiro time to effecting a permanent settle ment of the wage controversy between the Building Trades Employers and the Building Trades Council. Accordingly, furth'-r public hearings by the commit tee weer postponed until May 3. Mean time Mr. Oompers and Mr. Untermyer will confer. Gomperi'i Stand Consistent. Mr. Oompers throughout his examina tion was 100 per cent, consistent. As one abuse after another, proved by tho committee and frequently admitted 'oy the unions, were detailed and he was asked If they should not be remedied, his reply would be: "Yes. but not by the courts." , "By what then?" Mr. Untermyer would demand. "By the labor unions themselves," Mr. Gotnpers would reply. At times members of the committee \<rr? tillable to follow Mr. Gompern's logic. Kor Instance. It Is Mr. Oompers's doctrine that while a contract Is a contract It Is not mutual. Where a wage agreement ixlsts and a labor shortage develops labor should not bo blamed or the unions penalize their rnpmbern for accepting a wage In excess of the agreement. But on the other hand, with a f.urplus of labor, union members must not work for less than the specified watce. In one case Mr. Oompers explained It I* the achievement of a human aspi ration for a man to get all he can. The other, he said, meant a tearing down of that aspiration even If he should go to work for the best wane available In order to support his wife and family. '?Bl-I<aternl Contracts Impossible." Similarly, while It is quite proper that an Individual or corporation should be sued and made to perform contractural obligations, such an Individual or cor poration should have no redress for damagps from the failure of organised labor to perform Its obligations, he con tended. Pressed for a reason. Mr. Oom pers said It couldn't be done. It Ja an ?xtremely easy thing for a voluntary organization to dissolve, he explained. He would vigorously oppose any legis lation that would confer on contractor-it or employers a right of action agaln&t Individual members of a union. Mr. Untermyer referred Mr. G6mpem to p situation in Queens as shown by j Assemblyman Peter Ueinlnger, a mem- ! ber of the Lock wood committee. It was | a .lob on which bricklayers and plas- ; tT?rs. getting ,110 a day by agreement. | ?"truck a' noon last Thursday and re- j fused to return to work until 112 a day i wfu promised. They were building six < fnmlly homes for working men. "Don't you ihlnk that the unions should put a stop to practices like 1 that?" demanded Mr. Untermyer. ' The unions can't stop It. nor the' Slate, nor any othef agency," said Mr. Oompers. "Where did you get that idea?" "It Is not an idea," snapped the wit-! neas. "It Is a historic fact." Th<- committee also found it dlff|-l cult to follow Mr. Oompera's reasoning ! when he said that he could not see I " ?>? Koneteetl I TO DEMAND $500,000 FOR DIED CREDITORS' FROM 12 BIG FIRMS i i Brokers, It's Saiil, Got Com missions, Knowing Trades Were Bucketed. COURT ACTION THREAT Accused Concerns Are Mem bers of Big1 Exchange and Consolidated. i :? I $3,000,000 WASTE SEEN Clarke Company Also Bought Stoneham Accounts and Failed, Says Lawyer. Twelve firms who are members of j the New York Stock Exchange and the Consolidated Stock Exchange will j be a-sked next week to pay $500,000 or more to creditors of E. D. Dier & ' Co., bankrupt brokers, on the ground that these firms took commissions tor transaction with the Dier firm when they knew it was a bucket shop. That announcement was made yes terday by Saul S. Meyers, counsel for Manfred W. Ehrich, receiver for E. D. Dier & Co. Mr. Meyers said that one well known brokerage house from the bankrupt bucket shop and alone obtained $300,000 in commissions and many other reptutable firms ar>_ among those that profited. The ex change houses will 1m? called upon to oxplain their tiansactions with the Dier Company an 1 will be permitted tto settle the matter amicably with the consent of the receiver and ref eree. Tf they do not agree to settle, suits i equity will be brought. New Theory to Be Invoked. Mr. Myers said the legal theory on which he would proceed is one that sel dom If ever has been invoked by losers hi other brolcerage^fallurcs. An inten- ( sive study of the Dier accounts, Mr. I Myers said, revealed that more than $3,"00.000 in assets was dissipated at a time when the approaching failure of i the company was apparent. T.'n'iJ this new movn was decided upon : neither Mr. Ehrleh nor his counsel could ! hold out hope of recovering more than i 'JO or 2u cents on the dollar for ered- | i Itorf. Tn fact, they have assured the j | creditors' committee that they would be | "exceedingly fortunate" if they got 25 j | cents on the dollar. However, if the ? I commissions are recovered. Mr. Myers ! j said the creditors might receive be j tween 30 and SS cents. "Much of the $3,000,000," said Mr. ' Myers, "was lost by a kind of blackmail, j Dier knew that many people were aware of the dishonest nature of his business 1 ( and he threw large profits their way to ; | keep them quiet and satisfied." To I.ook t p Stoneham Rook*. I A much more searching Investigation I into the transfer of the brokerage ac- ! | counts of Charles A. Stoneham & Co. I to the firm of E. 1). Dier & Co.. which went into bankruptcy in January owing 1 almost $4,000,000, was demanded yes- | terday by members of the Dier creditors ? protective committee through their at- , torney. Daniel W. Biumenthal of 233 j Broadway. The creditors also ask an j investigation Into the alleged transfer | of accounts by Stoneham & Co. to E. H. ! Clarke & Co., which also went Into bank- 1 ruptc.v. This Is the first time the Clarke ! concern has been named in connection , with Stoneham or the Dier case. Mr. Biumenthal returned last week from an extended trip through the mid dle West, where he interviewed a lnrgu number of customers of K. D. Dier & Co.. many of whom lost their llf? savings in tho crash. Some were for mer customers of Stoneham <fe Co . I whose accounts were transferred when j Mr. Stoneham sold out his business ] to Dlrr. | Several of these creditors, according j j to Mr. Bluementhal. never gave their i consent to the transfers, while othe"> | assert, he says, that they received as surances that everything was all right. I because Dier representatives told them Mr. Stoneham was a silent partner in Dier & Co. after the sale, and thit his money was behind that concern. I "After a careful study of the bank ruptcy proceedings." Mr. Blumenthai 1 j said yesterday, "I do not agree with | I the statement of Receiver Khrlch that , I a 'very brilliant achievement' has been j accomplished by getting Mr Stoneham ! to offer a settlement of $200,000 from a 'purely moral standpoint,* nor does the j evidence which I have in my possession I show Stoneham received the consent of all his customers In transferring their accounts to Dier. I have also client* who state they they consented to the transfer of their accounts only because of the assurance fnpm Stoneham & Co. that the Dier firm was absolutely reliable end financially safe." Mr. Biumenthal displayed communica tions In support of his stand, and said Continued on Page Eighteen. FRANCE DISPUTES REPLIES ? OF RUSSIA AND GERMANY; STAND IRRITA TES BRITISH CRISES TIRE LLOYD GEORGE; HE WARNS TROUBLE MAKERS Special Cable to Tun New Yo?k IIctah . Copyright, by The New Yo?k Hemi c. GENOA, April 22.?Premier Lloyd George to-day read a warning to trouble maker? that he would expose them to the world If they continued to delay the rsal work of the Genoa con ference. GhNOA, Ap.il 22 (Associated Press).?Premier Lloyd Georg^ ap peared much annoyed ever the French "quibble" ou the Russian memorandum, lie declared he had only read three linos of the document, which had !ir\er been officially presented to the conference and was patently pnrt of the normal Bolshevik propaganda. He also announced tr. ^t he was getting tired of crises, which were being foisted upon the conference to the great detriment of work, and wished to say on behalf of the delegations of the British Empire that if tlies? crises and constant delays continued he would be forced to explain who was rerponslble for them. Government Says Peace Terms! Which Affect Its Control Arc Intolerable. COLLINS ASSAILS VALERA Overtures of Secessionist Army Regarded as Signs of Weak ening of Revolt. Special Cable to Tub Nf.w York HritAi.o- j Copyright, 10!:. by The New Yo?k Hmai.d | ,Vw York Herald Bureau. I Dublin. April 22. I With the whole country supporting j labor's one "lay strike on Monday hb a protest against civil war. official Ire land to-night is not inclined to favor an offer of peace from the m-cesHlonlst army. These terms arc considered the most significant yet made, but persons in touch with the Governmtnt have declared that any compromise of gov ernmental control would be intoler able. Michael Collins, head of the Pro visional Government, speaking at Kil larney to-day, ymitted the plea con tained In his recent speeches that his opponents cooperate for the Kreo State treaty or stand aside. Instead he an swered Eamon de Yalera's Kaster ( message. "*~>e Valcra insued an Kaster message to say: 'Ireland Is your* for the taking; takj it!* Ireland Is ours, undoubtedly. Thi treaty has secured that position." sal.. Mr. Collins. "Could Dc Valera have sen* out such an Kastei message twelve months ago, or, if he did, would he have been taken seriously? Ireland is ours. We mean to have it for the Irish, to work for It and develop it and restore our nation again to Us position among nations." Mr. Collins met opposition in advance by asserting emphatically, "The Provi sional Government exists because the Dall Elrcann approved the treaty, and because of that only." He concluded his speech by reiterating. "My ideal remains a free and Independent Ireland. And un der the present arrangement with Ureat Britain we ran secure It." The six principal stipulations of the secessionists' offer of unification are: Maintenance of the "existing republic.'' Maintenance of the Da 11 Elrcann as the only Government. Retention of the army under an Inde pendent elected executive. I>isbsndmetn of the civic guards. Discharge by the Dall "Elreann of the army's past and future obligations. N'o elections to be beld In the country wlille "the threat of war :>y England exist*." The Government already has met the demand for maintenance of "the exist ing republic," though In a manner un satisfactory to the Republicans; and also has agreed that the Dall Eireann should be the supreme national as sembly. The policy, however, has been consistently opposed to allowing the army to be controlled lnd ?pendcntly. j and the Government also Is determined to hold elcctlbns no as finally to estab lish the new Government. Some regard the secessionist offer as the first sign of weakening. Others be lieve It Is merely a response to the general civilian demand for peace and unity. The Government's attitude Is ; accepted as meaning Increased ronfl-' dence, which several political weeklies, out to-day, strongly reflect, ss a re- j Continued on Pure Fifteen. Dixey, Lacking $1,900 Handy Cash, Loses His Home and $6,500 Minboi.a. I* F.. April IS.?HeUtjr E. j poult was required by law. Refcroe Dixey, actor, lost an opportunity to Dcferig announced the sale* to Mr retain his homf at PlMMtatne L. I.,: Dixey, and the latter. IcarninK of tit# and wax for< - d to sell It at $6,500 less cash requirement, nuked for a delay than ho might have received other- of half in hour to P'-rmit the .irrlvHl wise because lie lacked $1,900 In rash of William A. Hrndj. the thpatr1r.it this morning. producer, with thp necessary $1,000, The Dixey horn? wax being sold tin- according to Mr Dehrlg. der a court order to permit thp sep-, Mr. Dehrlg announced that hp could .??ration of the Interests In the prop-1 not permit this delay under the lav erty of Mr. Dixey and his former wife, and that the properly would have to Mrs. Mark- I*. Nordstrom Dixey, also be offered Immediately for sale. The widely known on the stage. When a | earlier bid of $2?,r.00, however, waa bid of 128,500, Including an $8,000 not repeated, and the property waa mortgage. waB made on the property sold to Mrs. Krnest Strong for Mrs. rwxoy raised the bid to $27,000, not Jam- W. .Tcltlffn of Plandomr for > ??!<!' ? ?* >?'iit rash de- *20,000. "? SOVIET CHIEFS DINE WITH KING OF ITALY i Tchiteliprin Chats With Arch bishop of Genoa and Tells of Freedom of Churches. BARTHOU CREATES SCENE Movies Catch Him Shaking Hands With Bolshevist? Fears Effect in Paris. BBy FRANCIS M'CULLACII. Xprrial Cohlr to Tub New York Hhrauv Copyright, U!t, by Tur New Yosk Hebau>. Genoa, April 22 (Associated Press). ?Georges Tchitcherin and I-eonid Krassin wore guests of King Victor at <1 formal luncheon to-day aboard the royal yacht Anclrias Doria. There J was much interest in this meeting. Christian Rakovaky, Premier of the Ukraine, told The New York Herald correspondent that common politeness compelled tlie Russians to pay their respects to the head of the State ! where they were guests and that the Soviet officials -were always obliging. Tho Archbishop of Genoa sat next to M. Tohttcherin and they discussed ecclesiastical questions. The Archbishop asked him about Christian churches in Russia, and the > Soviet Minister replied that all Chris tlon denominations were perfectly free, adding that before his departure from Moscow the Catholic Bishop of I'etro grad had asked him to visit Romp to ; i-onclude a concordat with the Vatican. | But >r. Tchitcherin thought a con I cordat unnecessary, as, he said, the Catholic church was allowed the same | freedom In Russia as in America, and he had no doubt it would develop in Russia as it had in Amcrica. Genoa. April 22 (Associated Press) ?George Tchitcherin, head of the Rus sian Soviet delegation to the economic conference, not only went to luncheon to-day with the King of Italy, to the I great discomfiture of Italian Commuti I tuts, but also wore for the occasion ar immaculate morning coat and ?. high hat of latest style, and was filmed by motion picture photographers as he was shaking hands with the Italian mon arch. Furthermore, the Bolshevist statesman 1 wa? photographed In the act of shaking hands with Louis Barthou, head of the French delegation, who has been par ticularly active In taking exception t > Russian proposals at the conference. When M. Barthou discovered this ther^ ' was something of a scene. He demand [ ed In explosive French that the film be destroyed. Tlie thought of such a film being . ' shown In the motion picture house* , along the Champs Etysees was tool [ much for the French delegate, but the I ; hard hearted movie men Ignored hi* j ! expletives and continued filming the | I rent of the 300 notables who were the | King's guests at the luncheon. 1 M. Tchitcherin was accompanied by j Leonid Krassln, Russian Soviet trade 1 expert, who also was clad In approved | Downing street style. In fact, the rep- i resentatlves of the Kuasian proletariat I Government were the most bourgeois ; j looking guests ? Italian Communists, and even Italian I Socialists, persistently refuse to meet | King Victor Emmanuel and always ab- j sent themselves from all fun< tlont where members of the Imperial family ! appear. Members of the Bolshevist del- ! -gallon. however, explained that the Russians have ask<?d the other nations representee! at th?- Genoa conference to keep hands off Russian Internal af- j fairs, and that the Bolshevists must be : consistent and not Interfere In any way . In the Internal affairs of Italy, which | Is acting as host to the conference, j They said the Russians did not want u ' King but that the Italians did, and that, the Bussian delegation must ae- I cept conditions as It found them In 1 Italy. M. Tchitcherin continues to be liir ino*t conspicuous figure In Genoa Every where he g<e* on the street he Is fol lowed by crowds. Ho was the (enter! ri attraction at a gigantic reception given by the Mayor of Genoa, and ' since then the crowds have learned to1 recognise him. The extreme liberals from varlout parts of the world, who be.'levvl they I would attract much attention and pos- ; sibly he hounded into fame by th? ! police, have heen greatly disappointed. The Imperialists and anarchists alike ! have been thrown into a shadow by thr ; Bolshevists, whom tho masses hav? heralded as some thin-, new CONFERENCE HALTS Nations Consider Bar thon's Objections and Ask Germany to Clarify Answer. A 31IX IP OX RUSSIA French Quit Meeting:, In sisting; That Memorandum Be "Withdrawn. REPORT SOVIETS < OMPLYT Lloyd George Tells Allied Pow ers That the German Reply Satisfied Him. Special CnhlStn The New V..*k "?a,p Covvr<pl>t. JOil. bu The New 1"?k Hwai tv Gf.noa, April 22.?The allied na tions met this afternoon at the ciUl , of the French to consider objection* by M. Barthou to Germany's reply to the ten Power note, which de manded that Germany shoub'. nut take part in discussions relating to Russian affairs. Mr. Lloyd George considered the answer to be satisfactory in th# main, but the French delegation con tinued to protest. The crisis, however, Nvas allajca this evening through a simple talis between allied leaders. As a result I no severe fiction Is expected as the outcome of the French protest. Hrld at >1. Barthou'* full, i M. Barthou's move is interpreted here as an effort of the French delega tion to give Paris the feeling that the French attitude at Genoa is watch ful and firm. Germany had accepted the alternative of staying out of th* Russian discussions, already touche upon in the Russo-German treaty. The allied resolution had "assumed that Germany would abstain from discussing all Russian affairs. Tim gave M. Barthou an opening to regis ter the complaint that the German reply was made to a united allle*. assumption. M. Barthou demanded a calling together of the signatories of the resolution, remarking that the sooner it was held the more effective it would be. At the meeting M. Barthou ex plained why he took exception to the German reply. Mr. Lloyd George agreed that there were one or tw points in the German answer to which exception might be taken but as a whole be regarded it to be bon estly conciliatory and that the last paragraph constituted a complete ac ceptance of the two alternative, which the Allies had presented. M. Barthou. he went on to say, ar gued that there were differences be tween what the Germans accepter and what the Allies required. 1I? himself could not see any materia difference. If Germany was excluded from discussing matters covered W the treaty he did not know of any other important subjects which migb. come up. He asked M. Barthou what points he had in view. Conelllatorr **p'rd 1 ? M Barthou did not reply, although In a communicant tn the press the French to-day had mentioned the loan I and consortium as being topics which might arise and which the treaty lad not dealt with. It was decided by a.I the Powers present "without dissent that a reply be drafted to Germany in which. to quote the language of the British press conference. "It would l assumed that the acceptance of tb Germans bad fully covered the ground Intended to be conveyed In the letter of April 1*.** The reply ** drafted to-mor row morning This leaves the ques tion in every way where It was Th French watchfulness and flrmaess rave tent to Itself In another direc tion to-day. exception being taken ' > the Russian memorandum nnswennp the report of the allied exerts. The French delegates had instructions nor. to sit With the experts studying ttv Russian question until this report had been discussed. Premier Lloyd George dealt n this protect with' delicate humor When the Russians had heard that the French would not sit in tl:e com n,lttee with them until the report bad hern discussed they admitted that the ,op?rl r-prMpntwl thetr torm.r op? Ions and not those now he d- TU report was never submitted to th? conference. , It was given out by tb? Russians in "*h?ir normal function nn propaganda. "Tf we are to discuss every one s propaganda at Genoa, Mr- '? ^ rl*nrgr eonelttded "we -vftn't do mu h oi-e- Hut lhe French