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WEATHER l lMl? IMlfkll IWtt rmm 1*11, ??<? ir. Traiwratwi II I *. mn M drgrrra. TKashftififott Winm IFiHAk ?MBKKaM3. WABHDfQTOW. WEDNESDAY KVKNI.VJ, MAY 26. 1920. Wall Street Prices] TWO ciUfT* I I thiuli run JONES BN.L TO SELL SNIPS STARTS NEW FIGHT Today f Johnson In a Nutshell. Ignorant Little Pig. Workman and Trust. Cross and Crescent. I By ARTHUR BRISBANE. Uoeyrlghl. HID I Why ia Hiram Johnson disliked by distinguished pocketbooks that are financing other candidate*? Your answer ia in thia short ex tract from Johnson's recant . speech: I "Not only would I employ the , power of the State against the . extremist of the aoap box, preach ing overthrow of GoveraKeat by force and violence, but with equal vigor I would endeavor to reach, euppreoa and puniah the radical of great wealth and power, who en danger a the Republic by cunning and diahoneat practicea, and in aidioualy undermines society by iilegitiaaate exploitation." Big pocketbook gentlemen want somebody that will JAIL, DE PORT, CLUB and otherwise AN NIHILATE the 6oap box an archists that defy the law in re tall fashion, while treating with respect the bigger anarchist that despises the law in wholesale fashion. Off the coast of the United States, not far from the Narrows, a small white pig wan found swimming, head pointed toward ^Pa"V The fisherman that pick ed him up deplored. the pig's ignorance, saying to his friend: ' Could you imagine swimming the way that pig was swimming, not knowing where he was going?" The pig, young, weighing only thirty pounds, might have replied: "Where are YOU going; where is the world going on which you travel through a bigger ocean? In which direction is your govern ment headed? Some day I shall have my throat cut, and that will end mo. But what is going to happen to you when you die? I'll admit I m an ignorant young pig, but you are not to criticize me." The fishermen were amazed that the pig, after swimming for a long time, had not cut its throat with its short hoofs. Pigs usu ally do that when swimming, but the fishermen need not have been surprised. This pig, although his swimming motion took his hoofs dangeroualy close to the side of his neck, did not cut his throat, bccausc he was a thin pig. His thinness saved him. If he had been a fat-necked pig, resembling in shape, let us say, the patrioteers that manipulated "Hog Island," hia throat would have been cut undoubtedly. In the rescue of that little pig, throat uncut, there ought to be a warning for other pigs on shore that are getting fat, and to which something ia going to happen. ? " When the coal miners wanted more work and said that they would strike if they didn't get it, they were told by the Department of Justice that they would be put in Jail if they struck. When the Sugar Trust says it must have more money and the public cannot have sugar unless it pavs the price, nobody says: "You will be put in jail if you do that," and nobody issues an injunction. Easy to enjoin a workman from getting more pay, but impossible, apparently, to enjoin a trust against vicious profiteering. Sodjar Assimavnu, of Turkey, says: "We shall never be governed by the cross. The crescent will al ways remain aloft, despite the broken sword." Sodjar may be mistaken. About 600 years ago?on May I 145'?, to be exact, the cross I stood at the top of Saint Sophia in Constantinople. On the next day Sultan Mohammed II captured the city. Making himself com fortable in the palace of the dead Christian Emperor, Palaclogus, ho recited the Persian verse: "The spider has woven his web in the imperial palace; the owl hath sung her watch song on the towers of Afrasiab." Then the mezzin climbed to the highest turret of St. Sophia, took down the cross, put up the crescent and shouted the news that Allah and Mohammed, his prophet, were the new rulers, while two thirds of the Christian inhabitant* were driven away as Turkish slaves, men for hard labor, women for worse labor. Mr. Sodiar, if he reads the history of his country, knows that the crescent, like other things, must have its ups and downs. He might find food for thought in this fact: The Turkish Sultan who ' put the crescent in place of the ^ cross on top of St. Sophia was a man highly educated in mathe matics and other sciences, speak ing five languages, believing in no superstition and, least of all, in Mohammed. Today's Sultan, an allied joke in Constantinople, does believe in Mohammed and doesn't know much about anything else. That's what's the matter with the crescent. There's agitation in London among prosperous travelers from this country because the lord Chamberlain has not yet announced the list of American women that Queen Mary will be pleased to receive at Court. As gently as possible it in intimated that some names of young and old women that want to be presented ' require careful scrutiny." No wonder, with twenty thousand new millionaire* rested by profiteering in this country since the war. The United States Needs No Tips or Presents from J. Pierpont Morgan President Wilson submits to Congress an offer from J. Pierpont Morgan of a house to be used as the United States embassy in London. No doubt, Mr. Morgan would be very glad, as it is out of his gigantic war profits, to give to the United States the residence of the American ambassador. But the'United States is not accepting tips from Mr. Morgan, and the peo ple of the United States do not intend that the man they send to England to represent this country shall have a roof over his head by the grace of J. Pierpont Morgan, banker. This country can pay for what it needs, in London or elsewhere, in spite of the largo profits recently taken out of the public purse by "patriots" during the war. Mr. Morgan, as a money lender and discounter of notes, extremely active financial war patriot, fills his role accept ably. Few do it better. People will thank him to remain inside of his own limits and not to offer himself as the condescending patron of the United States. It will be interesting to see just >vhat members of Con gress will vote to make the ambassador of the United States the charity tenant of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The United States prefers, if possible, to be represented by an ambassador on whom no Anglo-American banking concern lias any mortgage, direct or indirect. THE WASHINGTON TIMES. POLES BATTLE REDS ON 300-MILE FRONT Report Successful Counter Thrusts Along Right Flank. Retake Positions. LONDON, Mar 26.?Fighting be tw?on the Russian Bolsheviki and the Poles Is raging over a front of ap proximately .TOO miles, with the Poles making successful counter thrusts along their right flank, according to advices received here today. The following communique from the Polish war office was telegraphed from Warsaw: "We repulsed a violent attack against our right flank on the IJnelster river. We recaptured posi tions that had previously been lost. Two villages were taken by the Poles near the Kojow bridgehead, on the Dnieper. We repulsed an attack at the Pceczyca bridgcheid. We dis armed an attacking Russian steamer near Rzyszce.w." CIVIL WAR IS RAGING IN ALBANIA LONDON HEARS LONDON, May 26.?Civil war haa broken out in Albania, according to an Kxchange Telegraph dispatch from Durazzo today. The Albanian pro visional government is reported to be powerless. Under agreements reached at Pari*, northern and southern Albania were to be partitioned, Greece was to get a slice of southern Albania, while Italy and Jugo-Slavta were to benefit in the north. GERMANY TO TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE AT SPA Allien Invitation Is Formally Ac cepted?Date of Parley Is ( hanged to June 21. BERLIN, May 20.?Germany has formally accepted the Invitation of the allies to participate In the confer ence at Spa on June 21, the chancellor announced today. Lord Kilmarnock the Rritlsh charge d'affaires, has been Informed that the new date of the conference Is acceptable to Germany. The noclalist newspaper Vorwaerts expresses fears that disorders may arise In Germany before the Spa con ference convenes, as a reault of "mili tary plotting." Vorwaerts warns, alao. of possible communist disorders. REDS FORCING CRISIS EOR POLISH CABINET Socialists Demanding Peace as Bolsheviki Advance on Northern Battle Front. BERLIN. May 26.?Tho Tollsh cabi net la faring a crisis as a result of the Russian Kolshevlk advance on the northern end of the Ruaso-Pollah battle front, according to an uncon firmed report from l>odz today. Negotiations are said to be In prog ress at Warsaw for the formation of a coalition cabinet with Moderate Socialists, participating The social ists are reported to he demanding peace with Russia, dissolution of the Polish parliament and a new general election. DANIELS DENIES SHIPS LACKED MEN Head of Wavy Says 90 Per Cent of Vessels Had Crews in 1915. Ninety per cent of the effective ships of the navy were fully manned in 1015. Secretary of the Navy Daniels today told the Senate committee in vestigating charges made by Ad lels on statements made before the | committee that a large number of ships were not manned. "The report of the Bureau of Navi gation shows 00 per cent of the ef fective ships of the Navy werr fully manned In 1910," Daniels declared. Senator Trammel. Democrat, Flor ida. said Capt. J. K. Taussig. who made the charge of undermanned ships counted discarded and useless vessels. Daniels contended his statement made at the boginnlnp of the war that the Navy whs ready from stem to stent," was founded on facts and "true in every particular." "You have asked all witnesses about my "stem to stern" statement and I am prepared for It." Daniels ! said, beginning to read a prepared 'statement outlining the condition of the Navy wheu war began. FIND THREE HUSBANDS SUCCUMBED TO POISON Examination Shows Three Spouses of Mrs. Tomaskiewicz Died From Arsenic Done. NORTHAMPTON. Mass. May 2?? Further testimony that three of the five husbands of Mrs. Anna Tomaskle wicz died from poison was given yes terday by experts called by the prose cution In the woman's trial for the murder of Andrew Tomaskicwiez. her last husband. Dr. Oeorge B. Mngrath. a pa.holo Iflst. said that the ezamination of the bodies of the three men?Tomaikle wic*. Theodore Darmetka and Peter Bllos- showed that they were poison ed by arsenic. WOOD BEATEN IN W. VA., LATEST RETURNS SHOW Sutherland Seems Sure of 8,000 Ma jority in Raee for G. O. P. Presidential Nomination. CHARI.KSTON, W. Va? May 2?.? I latest rtturna from ye?t*rday ? pri nuiries far from complete. Indicate that Senator Sutherland will carry the State over Wood for the Repub lican Presidential nomination by from S.000 th 10.000 majority. Reports from 140 precincts out of 1.330 pre cincts in the Ktate ?lv# Sutherland Wood. 2,012. Returns are very alow In coming In and ngur?a from only a few coun try districts have been received. SEIZE MILLIONAIRE'S RUM. CH1CAOO, May !? ?C. B Smith. President of the Stewart Warner Co.. received a visit from Major Dalrym pie's prohibition agenta. HI# home on the Sheridan road wan Invaded and 100 caaes of liquor sailed Mr Smith la a millionaire aad aays he knowa of no law ha violated. PHONE RATES JUMP JUNE 1 Permission to Increase Cost of Conversations Here Granted Today. ALL SERVICES ADVANCED New Schedule Will Be Ef fective Until January 31, 1921. Telephone rates will be increased June 1. Permission to raise the cost of telephone service, as requested in its recent petition, was granted by the Public Utilites Commission today to the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele phone Company. Make Minor Changea. The commission, however, made two minor change* in the tariffs asked by the company, modifying several proposed message rate charges. The new rates will be effective until January 31, 1821. The Increases are as follows: Unlimited telephone service, now $5 a month to $5.50. Two party line residence phones, now 92.25 a month to 12.50. Two-party-line business phones, now $2.50 a month, to |3. Extension station for flat rate tele phones are Increased from 50 cents to 75 cents a month. Limited service, flfty calls or less a month, now $3.50. Is Increased to 14. For the next hundred calls the charge will be 5 cents each; next fifty. 4 V* cents each; second flfty. 4 cents each; third flfty, 3 centH each, and all calls over this number, 3 cents each. This In arf Increase of 1 cent a call, except for the Aral loo, whore the increase is only H a cent. Trunk lines, now $3.50 a month, are increaaed to )4. Tax Hatel (iaeata. The company is permitted to charge 25 cents a month to list in the tele phone directory permanent guests using hotel or apartment house pri vate branch exchange systems. ' This Is a new tax. Other changes in cost of switch board service and equipment are al lowed by the commission. "It is of the opinion of the commis sion that the distribution of I he In creased charges as proposed by the company In its suggested schedule of rates Is fair, just and equitable, "the rate order states. "The larger Increase is made upon the class of service which is employed for business purposes, and which is presumably directly profitable to the user. "The proposed rate schedule, there fore, In general will he approved, with the exception that in the case of measured service, including both the Individual lines and the private branch exchange systems, where the company proposes that the first fifty local messages per month In excess of the initial rate charge shall be at the rate of 5cents each, the com mission will establish the rate at 5 cents per message for the first 1"0 local messages in excess of the initial monthly charge." OPEN CAESAR'S SHIPYARD. ROMK, May 26.?Shipyards hsve been opened at Kiumlslno, twenty one miles from Rome and the nearest seaport to this city. This Is the first time that ships have been constructed at Ktumisino since the da>? of the Roman empire. Thirteen Counts In Indictment Quashed by Judge Anderson. LEVER ACT IS ATTACKED Only Five Charges Made Against Men and Opera tors Stand. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 26.? Declaring that certain sections of the Lever act are class legislation, in that they permit farmers and food dealers to hoard food and charge excessive prices while deny ing the Mune privilege as regards coal to miners and operators, Judge A. B. Anderson in United States District Court here today sustained the motion to qua.sh the indictments recently returned against 125 coal operators and miners on thirteen of the eighteen counts, and overruled the motion on the other Ave. Two Sections Held Void. Judge And'ruon. In delivering his opinion, declared that amended sec tion foi/r of the t^ever sot is void and that the original section four ia in sufficient also declared that aec tion 26 of the l.cver act is void. Tiie court's action today is the cul mination of the lonK-slanding coal controversy, having Its Inception in the nation-wide strike of bituminous coal miners last November. Out of injunction proceedings which fol lowed grew the Investigation into the activities of miners and opera tors by a special Federal grand Jury. The indictment returned by the grand Jury under which the coal men were hailed Into court charged the 125 leaders of the coal industry with con spiracy to violate the l.ever act by connivance to restrict the production and distribution of coal and conspir acy to fix "excessive" prices. Charles Kvans Hughes, chief coun sel, and legal batteries for both the miners and operators attacked the constitutionality of the l^ever act when the case first came up In the court here three weeks ago. They also attacked the Indictment as faulty. PRESIDENT PROTESTS CUTTING DOWN OF TREES President Wilson Is "slowly hut steadily improving." l?r. nrayson said today. The President has laid out an immense amount of work for himself this week and is attacking It with his old time enthusiasm and vig or. In a recent drive through Rock Creek Park. President Wilson noticed a group of workmen engaged in cut ting down some of the trees which border the driveway. The President stopped the automobile and asked of the workmen by whose authority they were cutting down the trees. t'pon his return to the White House he sent a vigorous note of protest to Col. C. S. Kidly, superin tendent of public buildings and grounds, in charge of Hock Creek Park. In the letter the President Is understood to have criticised the lack of knowledge of the principles of for estry displayed In the work and also to have voiced his objection to the re moval tof any of the trees in the na tional park system of the Capital City. Levi P. Morton Leaves Bulk of $10,000,000 Estate to Relatives Disposing of an estate valued ut $10 000,00J, tho will of Levi Parsons Morton, fprmer \ ice President of the I nited States, dated Juno 29, 1910, and codicils dated March 30, 1911; June 14, 1911, arid June 24, 1911, were tiled for pro bate today. ? The Cathedral of St. John the Di vine, New York, la bequeathed fflOO.OOO "for the erection and completion and ftirnlahlng of what Ik . commonly known a? the choir of the Cathedral, which K 1ft Include* the orRan. which la Kiven an a memorial to my daugh ter I^ena, from her fathe^ and mother, and aleo Include* the altar and rere do*. which I xhould like dedicated ?? a memorial to my wife after her death." Slater Oeta 1J.000 Annuity. Mra. Martha Morton Hartpence. widow of the Rev. Allanaon Hart pence, of Philadelphia, a Muter of te? tator, la Riven f'J.nno per year during life, and to hi* alater-ln-law, Caroline l.ay, wife of Richard O. I.ay, I* to re ceive $1.^00 a vear for ten year*. Teetator'* grandaon. Morton Cor coran Kuatla. la to receive the atlver writing ?et and candleatlcka preaented to th? former by (he U. K. Senate on ! th* expiration of Itl* farm aa Vice ' 1'realdent of the United Stataa. An nuitle* and legacies arc Riven to serv ant* Ions: In testator's employ, and personal effects, furniture, etc., are distributed anion* the children. Itealdue to Daughters. The residue of the estate Is be queathed one share In trust for each of the surviving daughters. Mrs. Wil liam C. Kustls. Miss Helen Morton, and Miss Mary Morton, and one share to the children of Mrs. Wlnthrop Kutherford. a deceased daughter. On the death of a daughter her share la to g<> to her Issue, or If she dies with out Issue then the surviving children or Issue of deceased children. The executors named by testator are Charles II. Allen. Morton Mlnot, and Hronson Wlnthrop. Tfcey and the American Security and Trust Com pany of this city are appointed trus tees of the trusts under the will. The will la witnessed by William (). Choeta and Nelson Shlpman, of New York city, and Walter R. H. Harding ham. of rialafleld. N. J. Senators Simmons and Reed Say ' U. S. Must Keep Ships I By SENATOR F. M. SIMMONS, of North Carolina. I yield to no man in my desire to establish a merchant marine in thiii country, and I have stood upon the Senate floor advocating this policy for the past eight years. Therefore 1 have been in perfect accord with Mr. Hearst's activities in stopping the ship sale. I don't want the Government to go out of the shipping business. We need a merchant marine for the national defense and for our commercial growth, and we declare it to be our policy to do what ever it may be necessary to meet this need. I am thoroughly convinced that if we are to have within our generation an adequate merchant marine we will ha * to establish it through the instrumentality of the Government right now. I insist that the present conditions with respect to the move ment of our stupendous trade through the New York ports which are | now congested, suggest the imperative necessity of the immediate utilization of the ideal harbors of the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific 1 coast*. The ports of Wilmington, Jacksonville, Charleston, Savannah , and Brunswick already have been utilized by the Shipping Board to [ eliminate the long haul by rail from the Middle and Southern States, thus Having from 1,000 to 2,000 miles transportation, and it has done this by allocating merchant ship* which are now operating in the West Indian and South American ports. By SENATOR JAMES A. REED, of Miaaouri. This Merchant Marine bill passed by the Senate is a dangerous measure. It will not, in my opinion, have the desired effect upon the American Merchant Marine. The Shipping Board, which would have sold the German liners for practically nothing by this time, had it not been for the injunc tion proceedings instituted by a private citizen, William Randolph Hearst, should not have that power for the sale of ships. In my opinion, the rouiue that would prove beneficial for the \merican Merchant Marine would be continued control of all this shipping in the hands of Congress itself. If it is necessary for the development of the merchant marine to charter the ships to private operators, do so, but do not let this great fleet be dissipated in the hands of a Shipping Board presumably responsible to no one. Investigation by Washington Times Ends Tale Fortune Is Now flowing. * - NO OIL. Investigation by The Time* to day disclosed that the rumor of finding oil in Maryland waa en tirely unfounded. That part of Washington has invented money in oil well promo tion in Maryland was agog today^wlth the rumor that oil had b?*n i.truck bv the Potomac Oil and C?as nany drillers on the Marlboro road^ Sidney M. Paige. United State.. Geo logical Survey expert, with a P sentativc of The Time*. visited tha well at 11 o'clock this morning. They arrived just it the moment when the bit was being drawn from The credulous rushed to the sal s offices of the oil company in an en deavor to buy stock. Heal estate dealers began looking over Plots of Prince Georges county. The safety-nrst Investors Jumped Into automobiles and burned up the r?There they were told that the hole had been sunk to 1.1*4 feet, and that -oil might come in any time now. But there was no oil. Consul Advised Employes of Sugar Refining Company Are Now Prisoners. The American consul at Chihuahua. STsSlSAS and llomer Carr. wno prl.oners at .limine*. C hihuahua. .JKStor..<*" ' ? hii under df tent Ion in tna c"" i-^nTZ "'0n embassy at Mexico City reported. Ui response to an inquiry from the State Department. uirvifO PITY. May 2??The com MI.X It ;i oeti. Alvaro mission appo. r?li(iate the death of 2br'"?r.no r" nT" ported today Venu*tiano . . ? ].?? iiorn n ft - that the former pre* r of sasslnated and tha <"c h d r;r[?eHd'r;t.c0,d:^o^ be dure. taThert'committee reeommende.l ^ha^ ?*i pe;r;.:c^?tp""? 'ea?hrr u" prosecuud ?rd the P^sen"' roapo. .IhmtV of each one defln.UlT^ Tnenm KorM.nato Zua.ua Rodrlgue. Malpica, 1 ouHe. Klorduy and Itoquo ^^Cabrer^ fomar .eere..ryfcOf if:, now In tha penitentiary. VETO OF SHIP BILL IS ASKED BY LABDR Federal Union Leaders Bitter Against Measure Authorizing Sale of Liners. NEW YORK. May 26.?A w*?e of protest against tho Jones shipping1 bill, now before Congress, similar to that which prevented the Shipping Board's previous attempt to nullify the American shipping industry, arose late yesterday when prominent labor leaders voiced objections to the bill. The flrst step to be taken by the labor leaders of this city was the an nouncement by Edward I. Hannah, president of the Central Federated Union, that an official communica tion would be sent to President Sam uel Gompers. of the A. F. of L?., re questing him to urge President Wil son to veto the measure in the event it comes to him for approval. President Hannah said: "The Central Federated Union is unanimously opposed to any move to sell the nucleus of an American mer chant marine. When William Ran dolph Hearst made his successful at tempt to stay the selling of the I<eviathan and twenty-nine other seized liners, the laboring masses were all behind his move. "We will renew our efforts to kill this contemplated grab of vessels, and our organ Ir.atIon in this city will ask Mr. (Jompers to do his utmost to pre vent legislation authorizing the sale. "These ships must be kept under the American flag, and the only way this can be assured is to keep them where they are at the present mo ment. We have no doubt that if they are sold they will soon be flying foreign flags and competing with us." Ernest Unhm, tho secretary of the C. F. U? said: "I know the action the Central Federated Union took some time ago on this question, and now that a new effort is being made to sell our ships. It becomes our solemn duty to send an official communication to President Wilson, asking him to veto the bill. No time will be lost In do ing this. The ships must stav under the Stars and Stripes, and the only I way to do this is to keep them in our custody." Thomas Nelson, assistant manager of the Marine Engineer's Beneficial Association said: : "The marine englneern protest as a unit against this latest attempt to dispose of our merchant marine." INDECENT MOVIE FILMS ARE BARRED FROM MAILS President Signs Bill to K?p Them Out of Interatate Commerce. President Wilson today algned the bill introduced by Congressman Jos eph Walsh of Washington amending the Federal penal code so as to In clude motion picture films In the same class as printed matter In the list of objectionable articles that are prohibited from carriage by common carrier from one State to another, or through the malls. The action was the result of a pe tition by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry In Its campaign for better motion picture films. The law lias always prohibit ed the sending of Indecent or obscene literature through the mail, but no provision was made for motion pic ture films. If yen enntemplate a trip to New York, tbe Washington Times lintel Hnrenn will, nltknnl rharge. re serve imw far ran. Can Mala BN. Resolution Would Permit Board To Dispose of All But the Navy. FARMERS VOICE PROTEST $3,225,000 Craft, Failing of U. S. Buyers, to Be Sacrificed Abroad. Congressional opposition to tha shipping bill, now in conference, is developing rapidly to save the Gov ernment merchant marine of mora than 1,800 vessels, the sale of which is ordered by the provisions of tha bill as it now stands. It ia now being realized by mem bers of both houses of Congress that the bill, if not reviaed, will not only permit, but will actually direct the ?ale by the Shipping Board of all vesaels owned by the Government except those of the United States navy and a few vessels under con tract by the department. Furthermore, the bill "authorizes and directs" the sale of ships of less than six thousand dead-weight ton nage to foreign governments and citizens of foreign governments if it be found that, "after diligent effort," the board cannot dispose of them to American citizens. Aliens Get Easy Terms. Aliens who wish to purchase these Governmept-owned ships may do and will be granted ten years in which to pay for them. The sale ?C the magnificent fleet of twenty-nine former German lin ers, headed by the Leviathan, also lis specifically authorized by the bill. These drastic and un-American provisions, permitting foreigners to purchase American Government ships on easy terms, have aroused the minority in Congress who have opposed the bill, and who, it is be lieved^ will attempt to have it modi fied in conference. Members of Congress who oppose the bill see in it a deliberate attempt to turn over the 1,800 Government vessels, built with money supplied by the American people, to private interests, who can purchase the ships on easy terms. The Farmers' National Council, representing all the great farm and grange organizations of the coun try, today issued a formal protest against the bill. It will engage actively in efforta to bring about its modification. "Big Business" Pleased. Benjamin C. Marsh, secretary antt director of legislation of tlie Farm ers' National Council, said today ha had no doubt that the big financial interests are thoroughly gratified with the terms of tho bill. Kxprcss ing the opinion of farmers' organiza tions throughout the country against the bill. Mr. Marsh said: patriotic Amrrlran who I a ?rated kl> hard-earned utIki In ? ?mrraarnl bond* wMId tike tn know, bownrr, why It waa that thin bill wan passed without a roll eall. "The bill permits the United Stales Shipping Board to turn about thrco and a quarter billion dollars' worth of ships over to private interests to make huge profits. "We believe that this was abso lutely contrary to the purposes foe which Uherty bonds were subscribed, and the record shows that the farm ers of America at least do not want to have their money used to enrich the already over rich financial inter ests." Tho Farmers' National Orange re cently adopted a resolution "that tho ships should be owned and operated only by tho Government." Opponents of the bill here consider it unfortunate that members of Con gress who voted for its passage can not realise that the complete failuro made by the railroads In the t)ire? months since they were returned Is sufficient argument against turniric over a natural monopoly to privato exploiters. roncrrwari Vslpe Ire. One member of Congress said to day that "If the American people can be made to realise Just what this bill means, they will never permit It to pass." Following are the opinions of Con gressmen who have made a deter mined tight against the passage ot the bill, btit who have been over ruled by the majority: < oagreaaman Itoyal Johnaoa. Ite. publleaa, of South Dakota?"I am opposed to the sale of the ships. Un der the policy proposed In the hill now in conference, the vessels which lifcve been built with billions of dol lars of the people's money would b<? Uirned over to the big shipping in terests. "This is another means of Oving somebody sn opportunity to make tre mendous profits out of the war. Tlia Government ought to keep Its ships, (Continued oa rag* 3, Column 4.) ^