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YWpsp? THE WASHINGTON TBCES; THURSDAY, JUNE 5, t919. A El Women Who Engineered "Suffrage Congress .Victory HAS I. OrP. BEGIN WAR Democrats today are dubbin?: the proposed investigation of the ex penditure of $16,000,000,000 by the War Department a "victory probe" ' and challenging the Republican ma jority to "go as far as you like and seeihovr a real and the greatest warj an all history was successrouy con 4ucted'by a Democratic Administra tion." In a partisan skirmish yesterday - afternoon, the House unanimously passed the resolution of Congress 'man. Graham of Illinois, providing for a committee of fifteen to investi--gate the expenditures in the War ,, Department during the recent world iwar. Purpose Ambiguous. Congressman Campbell of Kansas 5 declared that "In all probability the JLnvtestfgatlon Will disclose that there has been a mingling' of political and j governmental activities." ' $ Congressman Cantrlll of Kentucky ' declared that na one. in the House !' misunderstood the real purpose of the investigation. "Of course," he 'said. "ourItepub lican friends -will not publicly make tht . admission that they are going Into this investigation for the pur , pose of digging up campaign ma- fcerfal for the. Presidential election i next. Tear. But, of course, "we have 'lall know that is teir purpose." ; Fire Sabcommlttees. ' There will be ten Republicans and t Ave Democrats on the special com-timUtri- Thir tjHII ho five subcom mittees, each to have two Republicans '.ani one Democrat. . Asked for aa approximate scope of the work of the so-callei "Victory, In , vestigating Committee," Mr. Campbell Vaid it would be "colossal." J In the opinion of Democratic Lead ' er Claude Kitchin. Ufre investigation . will extend over a period of four or 'live years and will necessitate the establishment In Washington of what will virtually mean a new govern ment bureau or department. , 100,00 Contracts Involved. If X am correctly informed, there will be more than 100,000 war con tracts to be looked into," Sir. Kltghhi said. "Thousands of theseWerejaSde in foreign countries. Hnndreds of .them are in such shape ,that thelrtreal status is not known. fx "To make such an investigation as is contemplated would mean the em- JJJloymeilt of fully 100 experts and many clerks. , "As it- appears now, there will hardly be an end to the great mass of -work that such an 'investigation win entaiL Wide Investigation Authorized. -. The resolution would give mem ,bers of the speciaf committee au- thority to carry their investigation to 'Europe or any other part of the world. i It is certain that both the minority 'xnd the majority will be represented Ion this committee by some of their 'strongest representatives. This would mean that fifteen House leaders virtu ally would be out of action in so far "a House routine is concerned for the duration of the investigation. The resolution providing for the "select committee" gives the com ' mlttee authority to conduct its inves tigation during sessions of the House and during recesses of that body. To Call Allied "Wltnie. t Witnesses to appear before the va rious subcommittees would represent 'nearly every one of the twenty-odd -antS. rney would numoer in me hundreds of thousands. The investigation will me Ing the war over again on p Under the , proposed plan subcommittees would make inquiries into aviation, camps Q&ntonments, ordnance, quartern! ter corps and operations in foreign -countries. i iiui uic xidusc ma.y not oc de prived of th facts gained until the very last subcommittee has reported. the resolution ordering the investiga tion provides that the select commit tee shall "report to the House, in one or more reports, as it may deem ad visable, the result of its investiga tions, with, such recommendations as L may care to make." Speaker Gillett will probably not name the select committee until tomorrow-Democrats sought to have the rep- ;&- "' - "" .A -, w yv vV v - . MfWX,iw.NVv'vi -jj&Lw rrilkkyj Group of lobbyists of the National Woman's v Party and Senator Jones of Washington. These women conducted a six-year fight for the Federal suffrage amendment. From left to right: Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Senator Jones, Miss Maud Younger, and Mrs. Abby Scott Baker. ""WM'W'W , mi' T tiiiu u llUlii ii li m ' t mi muijwi I M ll Hiinyijiiiliil H Hi i i imi n m ",' ' '! A"'1;!-''.! feXvSv...-..- .. iw. .,. .wvw. v T . -v. w v , v.r ,, . -, ,sSrfc rt .... iL .&. .V.ASail t d? MWtl tMt. TrrlBnMr "aHMrafl rfgy iRPJHh'BMhBMbEmS. )MiHHKSMk SBRoHsMmnVBvv xBBBEflBFctV9S i ' fe, tSoEB.jp wBwF tBBSBs StXsssfliiff&l HflHI i tar jar 2&i&S)fZ3XX&S! v Members of the Congressional Committee of the KationaT Alnerican Women's Suffrage Asocia-tioa-vwho presented the suffrage bill which Avas passed by tHe Senate yesterday. From left to right: Miss Mabel Willard,-of Massachu setts; .Mrs. ,Edmund Post,, of Kentucky; Mrs. Helen Gardener; of this city; Mrs. Maud Wood Park, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Lewis Walker, of New Jersey; Miss Marjorie Shuler, of New York, and Mrs. Caro line Reilly, of Illinois. 4. aflfeht- semRHI t esentation on , the committee nine Republicans, and. six Democrats, -but the majority plan for ten 'Republicans' and five ' Democrats will, ho doubt, prevail. , ' " Congressman Garrett of Tennessee has appealed to the Speaker to disre gard the recommendation of .Uje ma jority and- increase the minority rep resentation to six. Charge 'Gag nule' Mr. Garrett, on the floor yesterday, charged "gag rule" and "steam roller" tactics. "You gentlemen who come here as new members have heard for a good many years of the gag rule and the steam roller." Mr. Garrett said, ad dressing the House on"- the resolution. "Now, I want to y to you that in just a few moments you are going to see these modern instrumentalities of politics in very full and active opera tion." Mr. Garrett said that Mr. Campbell would move the previous question, which would prevent amendment to increase the minority on the commit tee to six. Mr. Campbell did. The previous question was carried. WALTER REED BOYS WILL HEAR CHAS. M. SCHWAB Liberty Bonds Bought For CASH Based on closing prices on N. Y. Stock Excnange and accrued interest. We Also Pay Cash for WAR SAVINGS STAMPS and' Part Paid Cards Information cheerfully given by calling at office or phone Main 7589 Liberty Investment Co. 920 F Street N. W. Opes Dally 8i30 a, ra. to 8 p. aa. X. T. Of Ace, 15 Park Row Charles M. Hchwab, of the Bethle hem Steel Corporation, will address the convalescent wounded soldiers at Walter' Reed Hospital in the Red Cross Auditorium this afternoon. This is one of a series of nation wide intimate tallcs to the wounded in army hospitals, inaugurated by Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secre tary of War. Mr Schwab will tell of men whom "with golden spoons In their mouthri." but who havo reached buccc-Sb by their own hard work. m us UN FRANCE HAMPERaSALES OF U. S. WAR AUTOS France is enforcing hec prohibitive import tariff against private sales of American automobiles and trucks sent there for war use to piotc-ct her own automobile industry Congressman Miller of Washington devfJopcd yes terday before the House Military Af fairs Committee No import duty was collected when the automobiles were rushed into France for war use. The import duty, in some instances, amounts to 00 pr cent. W. C. Hare, chief of the hales division in the War Department, said that under such conditions it was in advisable to sell the automobiles in France. THIEVES PRY OPEN SAFE; GET $74 AND REVOLVER Gaining entrance to the office of Isaac Lewis, 1725 Seventh street northwest, through the rear window, thieves last night broke open the safe and stole $74 and a revolver. The theft of a suitcase containing several articles of wearing apparel was reported to the police 'today byv Walter G. Lane, of 315 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. A suit of clothes valued at $15, was stolen frqm the room of Eugene Hoff man, 3205 M street northwest, last flight. F STATE CAMPAIGN Woman suffragists, fresh from their victories in Congress, .today planned their campaign before State legis latures to win the right of nation wide vote before the. next Presiden tial clecUon. Leaders of the women's parties here said it could and would be done. "The women of this country will vote in the 1920 elections," Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the National Wo man's Partj. telegraphed here last night. A similar sentiment was voiced by scores of other suffrage leaders And even the "antis" took on a note of despair today. "WadnTvonh Concede Victory. One of these. Senator Wadsworth, New York, concedes that ratification of the suffrage amendment, which passed the Senate late yesterday, after a forty-one-year battle before Congress, would prohabiy bo com pleted by a sufficient number of States tomake it law, within a short time. "Pressure brought to bear on the State legislature will not be with stood," Wadsworth said. Other "antis."' houpved. were hopeful that an .alignment,, between Southern and New England States migh delay for a long time the amendment's ratifica tion. It was with something of a sigh of relief that Congressional leaders to day saw the suffrage fight pa&s from their baliwick out into the State leg islatures. During the last fortj one ears suffrage has precipitated many a battle royal in the two houses of Congress, and the vote yesterdaj, Te sulting in its passage by the Sen ate. 5G to 25. was the fifth vote taken in the upper branch. The House has voted even more often on the pro posal. Measure Itlfe For Four Year. During the last four years the suf frage question has been almost con btantly before thc solons. while 'militants' made life miserable for "antis" and used e ery means pos sible to urge on the "prot." President Wilson has several times recommended passage of the amend ment in messages to Congress, mak ing a strong special effort before the Senate in the las: session, without avail. Suffrage leaders today sent word to their State workers and special representatives in many States the word. "Get busy" Legislatures are in session in Penn slvania. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. The Ohio legislature meets June l(j, and will ratify the amendment before adjournment. Repre sentative Beetham, a member, who was in W'abhington when the vote was cast, announced today. Try Out Special Sessions. Jn -States where regular sessions v.'Ul not be held within a short time, efforts will be made to have special scssons called for the t-pecal purpose of ratfyinp suffrage, workers said Special cessions already are in pros pect, they announced, in Michigan, Texas, Georgia, and Alabama, Senator Borah an "anti." predicted today, however, that a "long time" might elapse before the women vote. Yesterday's Senate vote, the third in two sessions, came after two days of fiery debate, in which discussion' of prohibition figured almost as much as suffrage. Opponents of suffrage did most of the talking. They warned that adoption of such amendments as prohibition and suffrage forecast an era of Federal paternalism and the breaking down of the dual system of State and Federal go eminent. In a three-hour speech just before the vote. Senator Reed of Missouri de clared the women who persuaded Con gress to pass the resolution knew "that you are doing this to get the woman vote, and despise you for it." 'EXTRA SESSIONS" IS NOW SLOGAN OF SUFFRAGISTS "Extra sessions and immediate rati fication." This is the new battle ery of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In a statement issued last night, the association stated that time and again governors all over the country had been asking their State legislatures tn prepare to pass on the suffrage amendment as soon as it had passed Congress A ppll by suffrage leaders shows that had the measure been passed by the United States Senate the required thirty-six legislatures would have ratified before March of this year Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the suffrage association, said: "In the result we can turn our backs to day upon the end of a long and ardu ous struggle needlessly darkened and embittered by the stubbornness of a few at the expense of many." Mrs. Maud Wood Park said: "Con gress has justified the faith of Ameri can women." HIS MYSI HANDS CURE SICK OF ILLS (Continued from First Page) T. Manning, rector of Trinity. With reluctance, and only after the re porter had repeated questions many times, the healer told of two cases that have come under his attention here. "Two children, left crippled by In fantile paralysis, wore brought to me," he Bald. "I have prayed over them several times. And today I was told that they are showing more life in their crippled limbs. I am suro they will bo cured. JVot for Illn of Body Alone. "But 1 do not like "to speak of cures. I like to watch a patient a long time before I am willing to say that he is cured. This ministry is not simply for bodily disorders. There are many things to be overcome be sides disease. Particularly there are mental and moral troubles and obses sions." Mr. Hlckson looking very much like an cvery-day business man sit ting thero is the every-day looking hotel.. bedroom, with opened luggage, spilling paper contents on the -floor, spoke as casually of laying on his hands and praying and healing as if he wore discussing a perfectly well established method of selling biscuits. And he carrfe conviction too. He told of a physician in England who spoke to him of the power of VATICAN D D NOT SEEK PEACE SEA! (Continued from First Page.) of the terms of victors to tho van quished, the Holy See never intended to participate, even if officially in vited, as would undoubtcrly have been the ease had Germany been vic torious. "It has been repeatedly stated that tho Holy See was making efforts to obtain a scat at tho conference, but the truth is nothing was further from out thoughts. Monslgnor Correal, who is now in Paris, was merely en trusted by the Holy Father with the task of trying to save flourishing German missions in Africa and Aus- tralia. "Several religious orders have been founded by Germany in Australia, with the sole object Of evangelizing nmi r.lvilizlne heathen populations. The results have been excellent, and It would be a pity were such gooa seed sown in vain. Wo hope and believe that President Wilson and his collegeaues understand tho ad visability of not wrecking this work of Christian love and sacrlflc6. "Cerrottl was selected, because he represented the Holy See In . the United States,.where ho was not only acquainted with President Wilson, but was. & distinguished diplomat." Opposed To Zionism. Cardinal Gasparl would not com ment upon the general results of tho i-ar. nnnfnrpnrf hilt dlscUSsim? the ind over matter, and of his reply qUCStfon of the Holy Land, he said: G. O.P. 10 RUSH 5 Separate Legislatures For England, Scotland, M-M - BUDGETS THROUGH LONDON. June 5.-Tho House of Contmons, after a brief two days debate ending last night, adopted a resolution in favor, of appointing a parliamentary com mittee to examine atjd report upaa. a Federal resolution applicable to England, Scotland, arid ' Ireland. The vote was 187 to 3-f. The resolution declared that "with a view to enabling the Im perial parliament to devote moro attention to tho interests of tho Kingaom and the empire, the time Peace time records for passing ap propriation bills in the House will ba broken within the next ten days, if Republican plans carry. Rushing through of four larg money measures and one small bill by June 16 was announced by Repub lican Leader Mondell today as the '.Republican program. This is neces sary to get me dius inrougn me Knnatn hpfnrrt Julv 1. the befflnnlncr nas arrivea xor tne creation of J-of the next flifcaJ year. Mondell said. subordinate legislatures." m that It was time that the physician took into account, too, the power of tho spirit over both mind and matter. Faith Has Much to Do With It. He asked particularly that his ac complishments in curing organic dis easesuch as cancer and the like be not emphasized. As he explained it the capacity of a sufferer for faith has a deal to do with the success of his treatment That is, some persons are more receptive than others. "I find that the quickest results arc obtained with children with babies." he explained. "They have nothing to unlearn." It was suggested that Mr. Hiok son's healing precepts are vastly dif ferent from those of Christian Sci ence. He replied: "They arc. The first heresy we aim to counteract is the heresy within tho church of considering sickness a good thing sent to us from God to develop our spiritual life. The second is the one at the root of Christian. Science the heresy of denying eviL. The phy sical being must not be ignored or neglected." Asked to tell when he first found that he was 'an instrument through which healing might bo accomplished, he said, reluctantly: Discovery ot HU; Power. "When I was a lad of fourteen in Australia there was a small child suf fering from neuralgia. I laid my hands on his face and he was well. Then ono of my mother's sisters had a nervous twitching of the face I laid my hands upon her and she was well. And then my mothec said to me that this must be a gift of God and that I should pray about it. "I know now that I was being guided by a higher power. But I can not recollect that at the beginning I had any other than the natural desire to help some one who was in dis tress." As Mr. Hlckson, in his gray business suit with the gold cross on his gold watch chain resting comfortably on his well plumped out waistcoat, the only outward and visible sign that he is engaged In spiritual work told in a matter-of-fact way of how he takes Christ literally, and thact religion is not a theory but a practice with him, it did not seem at all ministerial. And when Mr. Hickson. after of fering cigarettes from a box and warmly inviting his guest to have some ice water or some lemonade, or some "beer perhaps," bade his in terviewer farewell, he did it with a little earnest -wsh that whatever might be written as the result of the talk might "bring hope to somebody." PAID IF SHE DOESN'T RE-WED. Mrs. Ella Chappclear, widow of James W. Chappelear, who died Sep tember 6, I91C, is to Inherit the en tire estate of her husband and to have the use of it as long as she re mains a widow. "Should she see fit to take to herself a second husband." said the husband in the will, which has been filed for probate, "then she is to have only one-third of my es tate" Should this happen, the will provides, the other two-thirds of the estate is to be divided among the children. Mrs. Chappelear is named executrix. Zionism does not meet with the approval of tho Holy Sec From the Catholic viewpoint, after tho crusadfis preached by the jiontlffs to rescue the Sepulchre from the Turks, the church today could not assent to handing it over to Judea. Whether it Is desir able to grant Franco a protectorate over the Catholics in the East de pends solely upon what the confer ence decides with reference to the capitulations by the Ottoman Empire. If this is abolished, then France will have no further rights to the protec torate which would revert by law to the Holy See." - Cardinal Gasparri does not believe that Bolshevism, will last. GERffllSlLSiGN TREATY, SAYS TAFT PITTSBURGH, June 5. "Germany will sign the peace treaty." said former President William lloward Taft. who arrived here yesterday to make two addresses at mass meetings' furthering the league to enforce peace. "There is a lull in the peace pro ceedings just now." the former Presi dent continued. "All are waiting for the action of Germany so the treaty can be brought home and laid before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee, where it wiiy.be considered. There"! will probably be a majority and a mi nority report from this committee. "The minority report may recom mend amendments of a radical char acter. If the amendments are ratified, then the treaty must go back to the fourteen signatories who made it tp be reconsidered. "If the present treaty Is dangerous to the United States and unduly bur dens it with obligation, it ought not to be ratified even though great in convenience and loss would result from the delay. But such loss and In convenience should lead business men to consider the covenant carefully, itsj provisions and beneflcient purposes, and decide whether such defects aa they believe to exist in the treaty are not capable of amendment within the terms of. the treaty itself after the league of nations is formed and be gins to function, and whether the United States in entering the league is not safeguarded against any real danger. the league proves ineffec tual, by Its hlght to withdraw from it." BOOKBINDERS NOT TO BE IN "WET" PARADE Local Union of Bookbinders, No. 4. made up of 500 men, refuses to take part In the June 14 demonstration at tho Capitol against prohibition, rec ommended by the Central Labor Union. This was decided upon at the reg ular meeting of the bookbinders Tues day night. A resolution" wtas also adopted re questing Congress to exclude all un loyal persons front the United States and condemning the bolshvist activ ities in this country. The- bookbinders In this city are very dissatisfied with the present low wage scale and threaten drastic ac tion unless relief is granted. The bills to be pushed will total more than 53.000,000.000. which means, an average appropriation, of $300,000. 000 dally, The measures include the Railroad Administration's request for $1,200, 000.000; the army bill, which will car ry closo to lj000.000.000 the naval bill, with $600,000,000: the sundry civil, with $250,000.000r and the Dis trict of Columbia bill, with $14,000,000. ADMIRAL BENSON" RETDRAXfO. PARIS June 5. The American ex perts who have completed their la bors in connection with the pcac terms and are proceeding homo In clude Admiral William S. Benson,, naval adviser to the American dele gation. All naval questions have been concluded except the final de cision by the political chiefs. Rear : Admiral Harry S. Knapp will become senior American naval officer In Eu rope. PLA.V CABLE TO BRAZIL. NEW YORK. June 5. Arranger ments for direct cable service be tween the United States and Brazil, and thence along the entire caster: coast of ' South America, have been entered into between the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Western Telegraph Company of Great Britain. Laying of 3.200 miles of new cable, which may be accomplish ed within six months, will connect 'Miami, Fla., Vith Belem, Brazil. BREAD WEIGHT UPHELD. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June D. If city and village councils in Ohio adopt a standard weight for a loaf of bread, the action is lepal. The supreme court has held that an ordinance in I the city of Toledo fixing the weight at one pound is legal. The contest against the ordinance was that the council was "exercising unreasonable police power " FIREMAN' PREVENTS SUICIDE. NEW YORK, June 5. Tying a rope around his waist Fireman Timithy Fitzgerald leaped into the air from the tenth floor of a fashionable Brooklyn hotel today, swung through a window on the ninth floor, knock ing down Mrs M. M. 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