?ht Ittaahutafott ?tmes INAL EDITION NUMBER 11.544. WASHINGTON. THUHSDAY EVENING. MAY 27. 1920. lata* Wil Stotf hic?] ?w.?WiJ Prominent U. S. Officials Hold Secret Meeting Here To Boom McAdoo for President PRESIDENT VETOES KNOX PEACE RESOLITION Today "IUdloaJH Oread Word. Trv a Mexican Mandate. A Gambler Diet. Definite Figures. ? By ARTHUR BRISBANE. J (C?rart?hi. Willi*? W. Morrow, on* of the oldest judges on tbo United State a b*Bch, eikloraing Hiram Johnson, ?oy? hia en emu a call hin a radical, Juat aa othara of tbo aam? kind ?Hod Lincoln a radical, aixty years ago. Tboy called Lincoln more than ? radical." They aaid he waa living with a black woman and Wanted to know whether he had ??rriod her. You wilj hear other thiBt* about Johnson before the campaign enda, but aa in the caae i of Lincoln, they won't fool the ?*?Pla. Why, by tbo way, ahould the Word "radical," applied to a Proei (Aantial candidate, be considered ao dMdly? - The definition of a radical la "one *??* ?ooe to the root or founda tion; thoroughgoing; unsparing; ?rtrema." , IJooant this country need a Presi dent to go to the root in many of profiteering, for in ?tanco? Do we not need a Preei thorough-going, unsparing tit the last degree? There are J?h?y roots that need digging up, todfing out. Hiram Jonnson is the1 kind of radical to do it, bene , fltnng the health of the country /thereby. If this country must take some kind of "mandate" to be in the fashion, why not a mandate for 8Mexico? We have interests there, id responsibility, because of the onroe Doctrine. We have people near us, on this continent, nearly always shooting ??ch other, occasionally shooting us, and at intervals murdering aome old man like Carranza, to make room for somebody else. A man wouldn't go a mile down vie street to put out a fire if the noose next door were burning, why not concentrate on Mexico, fluid let Armenia rely on her neighbors? It would cost us more than ?oven hundred millions in five years to take over the Armenian mandate. If we have m> much money to spare, why not spend it on Mexico, buying agricultural machinery for the peons, convinc ing certain Mexican gentlemen that the United States really is a nation, and pushing industrial efficiency, the civilization of Texas and California, formerly Mexican soil, a little farther south. . Mr. Tom Jolly, eminent pro ' Sessional gambler, is dead. He -was living in fWimnoui- For, ?aid he, "gambler* from the West Side robbing their customer* and gamblers from the East Side with quoer foreign games ruined the gambling business." He said something more valu able, although young gambling fools will pay no attention, He said that gamblers, except pro fessionals, always lose. Nobody made money but the professionals, who owned the gambling houses. Gambler Jolly was famous for good food, given free, to custom ers. He provided Virginia hams eoaked in whiskey barrels, then cooked in cider. But as one of Gambler Canfield's customers, . 'with empty pockets, remarked, ?'You can't eat a thousand dollars' ^rorth of ham." 1 __________ Definite figures are interesting. You get them from Mr. Hull, of Tennessee, financial expert in Congress. The corporations of '.this country, after paying ALL in come tax, excess profit, and other taxes that cause so much weep ing, earned as their NET PROFIT in the last four years thirty-four thousand millions of dollar*. Thirty-four billions of net profit in four years is not bad, consider ing that it means an increase of thirty billions as compared with the four years preceding. Other exact figures are not so Impressive, but more important. A woman with many children went to buy shoes for a child of eighteen months old. The Bhoes 3.000,000.000 In cash and In property with such Inadequate restrictions. But I also object to It because It was neither a Government owned and controlled system nor a system which will compel or result In private ownership and control within a reasonable time. The bill was nefther "fish nor fowl." Commissioner Morrison's 27, 1 000 Clerks Will Be Replaced By Enlisted Men. More than 27.000 civilian employes of the War Department will be dis placed by enlisted men under the terms of the army reorganization bill, according to a letter which Commis sioner Morrison, of the civil service, sent to the Senate today. The Civil Service Commission says that the proposed change is really '"militarizing the War Department," and it protests against the breakdown of civil service standards and the se lection of men without reference to their fitness Involved In the change. The letter states that in the office of the adjutant general 400 civilian employes will be displaced by en listed men; in the office of the in spector general. 100 will be displaced; in the transportation department. 12,500; and in the construction de partment, 6,100. Inasmuch as the army reorganiza tion has been agreed upon in confer ence, It Is not probable that the pro will be effective. It is understood test of the Civil Service Commission that the general policy of selecting veterans of the world war for civilian duties in the War Department has the indorsement of Congress. Defeat of Begg Resolution By Committee Discloses Plan to Postpone Issue. There will be no recognition of the so-called Republic of Ireland by the House of Representatives at this time. This became evident today during discussion of the various resolutions bearing on the Irish question now pending before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. By a 10-to-0 vote the committee de feated a resolution presented by Representative Begg of Ohio, which, after expressions of sympathy with the efforts of tho Irish people to es tablish In Ireland a government of their choice, stated that "the future pMce of the world will be addition ally safeguarded whenever It shall be found feasible, by mutual concessions compatible with the safety and dig nity of the great peoples directly con cerned to establish such a govern ment." The committee then turned to a modified form of resolution which states "that the House of Representa tives views with concern and solici tude." conditions In Ireland, "and ex presses Its sympathy with the aspira tions of the Irish people for a gov ernment of their own choice." A final vote on this resolution will he taken tomorrow by the committee Indications point loday to Its favor able report to the House and favor 'Uli at tlon oa.il ?>> that bodjt FIGHT TO SAVE SHIPSSPREADS "Snap" Vote In Senate Hotly Protested By Six . Members. CONGRESSMEN ARE AROUSED "A National Disgrace," Says SJegel?Hardy Assails Measure. Opposition to the shipping billl, which would turn over to the Shipping Trust the Government's merchant marine of more 1,800 ves sels, including the twenty-nine Ger man liners, continued to develop in both both house* of Congress today. No Roll Call. Half a dozen Senators, whose at tention wu directed to the drastic and un-American provisions of the legislation by the Hearst news papers' exposure, declared snap Judgment was taken In the passage of the measure through the Senate. These Senators said the bill was rushed to a vote without notice, and only a few members were In the chamber at the time. The vote, they added, was taken about 6 o'clock In the afternoon, after many of the Sen atora had left for their homes, and that there was not a roll call. Senators expressing these views were Capper of Kansas, Lenroot, Wis consin: Polndexter. Washington: King, Utah; Chamberlain, Oregon, and Others. Senator Chamberlain, who Is one of the conferees, waa particularly vigor ous tn his denunciation' of the effort to forca sales of tike ships. He aald; "The people do not want the ships sold, and it was their money that built them. They will not stand for the proposed sales. The only person who seems to want these ships aoid Is John Barton Payne, former chairman of the Shipping Board." Hsu* Members Are?ed. Congressman Hardy, Democrat, of Texas, one of House conferees, reiterated his opposition to the bill, and declared he would carry his oppo sition to the conference. "It would be a most grievous and irretrievable error to permit the sale of these ships," declared Congressman Slegel. of New York. He added: "We are looking forward to obtain ing a greater share of the commerce of the Bast. South America, and parts of Europe when peace Is officially de clared. The merchandise should be carried In bottoms flying the Ameri can flag and manned by Americans. Any other policy means national dis grace." In the face of this rising tide of opposition the Republican members of the House Conference Committee, In discussing their plans for the con ference with represantatlves of the Senate, passed over the sales sec tions with but little comment. Crafereea *?( to Object. Congressman Edmonds. Republican, of Pennsylvania, one of the conferees, states that the Houso conferees would offer no serious opposition to the pro visions Inserted in the bill by the Senate. Some minor changea may be urged, he said, but the general prin ciple of the Senate will be accepted. The attitude of Senator Chamber lain and Congressman Hardy, two of the conferees, makes certain, how ever, that there will be a determined flght in conference to amend the sales provisions so as to save the Govern ment's magnificent fleet. OPPOSES REIEF FOR WOODEN SHIP BUILDERS Opposition to the granting of re lief to the wooden ship builders and contractors who lost contracts be cause of change of plans by the Shipping Board from the building of wooden ships to the bnildlng of steel and fabricated ships was raised In the House yesterday by Congreasman Campbell of Kanaaa. It la estimated that under the re lief proposed In n hill favorably re ported by the House Merchant Ma rine Committee thr government would pay about JIB.OOO.OOO to the disap pointed ship builders. Campbell said he waa opposed to the enactment of such legislation while the House hesitated In the pay ment of bonus to the former service men. "There are fifty Republican members now opposing the bonus legislation," he declared. "on the ground the Treasury can not stsnd the expense." "There are more than fifty." Inter rupted Repreaentatlve Mann. Republi can of Illinois. "I protest against this reading of fifty Republican members of the House out of their party," said Rlan ton, Democrat, of Texas. If run caa template a trip to Hew Tarfc. the Waahlactaa Tinea Hatel ?area* will. wltkMt ehara*. re I $25 For a Slogan The Times Offers Reward to Boost the City "Try Your Hand" and Help Your Community to Grow and Prosper. The Wuklift** T1n? kmkr ??ers to par OB (*r a Iltfu for Wukltftoa. ??Men of The Ttan ar* la vlted to Mkalt Ikttr M*u It tho llHU Editor. Amm Ik* mmmf lkll(> which ?a IUfM must roolala aet asor* than six words. 3. Illg? at a at be pcealtar a ad trpltal of Waahlaslaa. la the ea tlatatlea af the Jatarea. 4. Mat aarc thaa twa n((M tlaaa fraa aaj MItMuI will be t?ail4tref. ft. Thla eatnvrla* la eye a 4a all peraoaa wltbaat ngart to their real 4e a re la Wa*klaft*a ar whether ar >Ot they an readers of The Tlaaeo. 1 The US rawnl win ha (Iraa la that rersoa who, la the doeto loa af the jmtmrm, shall hire sab ?Ittal the BNl flttlag a ad ktM fie Lai alagaa. | T. The Jadcea of tha eoa|eat skaK ba tbe artillUf offledM ft the several organisations af Waahlastoa aaade up af baalaeaa nnf prafeaaloaal aaea aad woaaea. De Facto Governor Offers 100, 000 Pesos for Bandit, Dead or Alive, MEXICO CITY. May 27.?Reporta that Francisco Villa, the moat power ful rebel chief in northern Mexico. Is in open revolt against the new Mexican government* were confirmed by official advices received here to day. A price has been aet upon Villa's head. Manuel Gameroa. provisional governor of the Stats of Chihuahua, haa offered a reward of 100.000 peaos for Villa's body, dead or alive. To Avenfe Carruu*. Government officials declare that stern Justice will be meted out to Rodolfo Herrera. the rebel leader, who treacheroualy killed former President Venustlano Carranza, and who was reported to be en route to thla city under a heavy guard of troops. , Gen. I^aacarao Cardenas reported to General Obregon that Herrera had voluntarily surrendered himself to the garriaon at Coyuia. in the state of Vera Crua. Orders were sent to Coy uia to bring Herrera to Mexico City immediately. VILLA HALI^ RECOGNITION OF NEW DE FACTO RULERS ? y HARRY L. ROGERS, tnteraatloaal News Servlee. The Mexican revolution has with stood the first severe ahocks of the forces of disintegration. In the opin ion of officials here, and formal recognition of the tie facto govern ment is now merely a matter of daya. Informal negotiations with that end In view have already been under taken. It was learned today, and It la hinted that recognition might now be an accomplished fact but for the un (Contlnued on Page 14, Column 2.) ALLIES DEMAND TEUTONS CARRY OUT PEACE TERMS PARIS. May 27.?The council of am bassadors has drawn up a note for tranamisalon to Germany, pointing out Germany's failure to carry out the treaty terms for the delivery of wsr materials and naval documents and demanding Immediate compil jgjMMw.U was learned lotlaj. ERIN AFLAME WITH RIOTING Inoendlaritm and Fighting Are Reported From Many Points. WRECK PROTES.TANTCHURCH Courthouse, Workhouse, and Castle at Ballyoonnel ? Are Burned. LONDON, May 27.?Disorder* accompanied by incendiarism and fighting, were reported from many points in Ireland today. The Central News correspondent at Dublin reported that armed Sinn Feiners had fired upon a detachment of constabulary at Ballinach, wound ing Sergeant Johnson. Courthouse Burned. The courthouse, the workhouse, and an old castle at Ballyconnel were burned, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Dublin. The barracks at Coolaney were destroyed also. A protestant church In County Wicklow was attacked and damaged. It ts rumored In Dublin that the government is considering the aaris abillty of operating trains with sol diers because of the atrike of Irish trainmen. , ENGLAND'S TROOPS MAKE ARMED CAMP OF IRELAND ? By DANIEL O'CONNELL, IMmsiMasI *?w? ? suite. DUBUN, May 27.?England pre poses the "reconquest" of Irelaad with 100,000 troops, according to as sertion* made In republican clrciea today. The British soldiers and con stabulary stationed in Ireland now total almost that number, and n enforcements of troops ?*e coming In constantly. CoL Winston Churchill. British sec retary of war, admits that there are about 60,000 British regulars sta tioned In Ireland, not including the constabulary. There were 14,000 con stables In Ireland in 1?1?, and it 1s estimated that this number has been nearly trebled in the meantime. The constabulary Is composed mainly of ex-English eoldiers. Sinn Fein leaders declare that "not even 500,000 soldiers could bring Ire land into subserviency." Great numbers of troopships, bring ing soldiers and munitions, are arriv ing at the Dublin quays, but the Sinn Feiners say there ts not a single regiment here that was recruited In Ireland, except the Royal Irish Rifles, which is made up of Unionist fol lowers of Sir Edward Carson, the anti home rule leader in Ulster province. Sinn Feiners declare the system of blockhouses and barbed wire entan glements which the war office is said to be planning throughout Ireland In an efTort to Isolate certain Sinn Fein communities would not prove effect ive. They say that the proposal to make all Ireland an armed camp would only Inteslfy Sinn Fein activi ties out of the blockhouse area, mak ing it necessary to station a regiment in every Irish parish. The curfew order, which was In augurated in this city by the British military authorities to protect the lives of policemen, haa proved a failure. It Is claimed by republican leaders. They say there have been more policemen murdered In broad daylight during the past four months than there were under cover of dark ness in the preceding four months. At Cork policemen work in batches of twenty or more. In addition to being armed with carbines, the police men are protected by companies of soldiers. Fven with these precau tions. the Cork police are described by the Sinn Feiners as "mere dum mies," and parts of the city are not patroled by them. In Observance of MEMORIAL DAY Monday, May 31st, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Will Not Be Published on That Day Tuesday Shopping New* of Washington's leading stores will be found in The Sunday Evening Times of May 30. TtXT OF WILSON'S MESSAGE VETOING KNOX PEACE PLAN To the Houss of Representative*: I return, herewith, without my ? l(Dttur?, House Joint resolution 327. Intended to repeal the joint resolution of April 6, 1917. declar ing a state of war to exist be tween the United States and Oer many, and the joint resolution of December 7. 1017, declaring a state of war to exist netween the United States and the Austro Hungarlan (orcninent, and to de clare a state of peace. I have not felt at liberty to sign this Joint resolution because I cannot brine myself to become party to an ac tion which would place Inefface able stain upon the gallantry and honor of the United States. The resolution seeks to establish peace with the Oerman empire without exacting from the Oerman gov ernment any action by way of setting right the Infinite wrongs which It did to the peoples whom it attacked and whom we pro fessed It our purpose to assist when we entered the war. Asks Pei lliat ^atstlsa. Have we sacrificed the Uvea of more than 100.000 Americana and ruined the lives of thousands of othera and brought upon thou aanda of American families an unhapplneaa that can never end for purposes which we do not now care to state or take further steps to attain? The attainment of these purposea is provided for in the Treaty of Versailles by terms deemed adequate by the leading statesmen and experts of all the great peoples who ware as sociated la the war against Ger many. Do we now not care to Join In the effort to seeurs them? We entered the war most re luctantly. Our people were pro foundly disinclined te take part In a European war, and at last did so. only becaaba Ikey became convinced that it could not la truth be regarded as only a Euro pean war, but must be regarded as a war in which civilisation It self was Involved and human rights of every kind as against a belligerent government. More over, when we entered the war we aet forth very definitely the purpoaea for which we entered, partly because we did not wish to be considered as merely tak ing part in a European contest. This Joint resolution which I re turn does not seek to accomplish any of these objects, but In ef fect makes a complete surrender of the rights of the United States so far as the German govern ment ia concerned. Sileat ea War Clalsss. A treaty of peace was signed at Versailles on June 28, last, which did seek to accomplish the objects which we had declared to be in our minds, becauae all the great governments and peoples which united against Germany had adopted our declarationa of purpose as their own and had in solemn form embodied them in communications to the German government preliminary to the armiatlce of November 11, 1918. But the treaty as signed at Ver sailles has been rejeced by the Senate of the United Statea, though it has been ratified by Ger many. By that rejection and by its methods we have In effect de clared that we wish to draw apart and pursue objecta and in terests of our own. unhampered by any connections of Interest or of purpose with other governments and peoplea. Notwithstanding the fact that upon out entrance Into the war we professed to be seeking to assist In the maintenance of com mon Intereats, nothing la aald In this re?olutlon about the free dom of uavigatlon upon the aeas. or the reduction of armaments, or the vindication of the rights of Belgium, or the rectification of wrongs done to France, or the re lease of the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire from the Intolerable subjugation which they have had for so many gen eratlona to endure, or the estab lishment of an independent Pol ish state, or the continued main tenance of any kind of under standing among the* great powers of the world which would be cal culated to prevent In the future such outrages as Germany at tempted, and In part consummat ed. gees Blow to Dlgalty. We have now In effect declared that we do not care to take any further risks or to aasume any further responsibilities with re gard to the freedom of nations or the sacredness of International obligation or the safety of Inde pendent peoples. Such a peace with Germany?a peace In which none of the essential Interest* which we had at heart when we entered the war la safeguarded- - is. or ou*ht to be. Inconceivable, is Inconsistent with the dignity of the United States, with the rights and liberties of her citisens. and with the very fundamental condl tlona of civilisation I hope that In these statements I have sufficiently set forth the reasona why I have felt It Incum bent upon me to withhold my sig nature. WOODROW WtUION. The White House. 27 MLajr, l*-0. DEMANDS FULL REPARATIONS Germany and Austria Must Pay for War Crimes, Says Executive. , STICKS BY ORIGINAL TREATY Versailles Pact Puts Obligations Where They Belong, He Declares. President Wilson today vetoed tbs Knox resolution declaring the war with Germany and Austria at an end. The President declared he could not approve at this time snch a reso lution, which would place "inefface able stains on the honor and gal* lantry of the United States." The President stated that the resolution sought to establish peace with the German Empire without exacting from the German govern ment " reparation for infinite wrong which it did to the peoples whom it attacked., and whom we professed to assist when we entered the war." "The attainment of these pur poses was provided for in the treaty of Versailles," the President added. The Presidmt declared that the Joint resolution would be "a com plete surrender of the rights of the United States so far as the German government is concerned" ARMENIA MANDATE IS TURNED DOWN Senate Foreign Relations Com* mittee Rejects Plan By Vote of Eleven to Four. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon, by a vote of 11 to 4, reported a resolution to the Senate "respectfully declining" to grant the authority requested by President Wilson, to accept a man date for Armenia. Whet Resolution Provides. The resolution. Introduced by S?na? tor Brandegee, provides "that ths Con gress hereby respectfully declines t* the Executive the power to accept a mandate over Armenia, as requested in the message of the President dated May 24." The report of the Foreign Relations Committee will not go Into the ques tion as to the reasons for declining te accept the mandate, the question ba ing left open for argument of the va rious phases by members of the com mittee on the floor of the Senate. Senator Hitchcock, Democrat. sru# gested that the committee make a de tailed report and not decline in "uuch a Summary manner." He was over ruled. The full Republican membership of the committee voted In favor of th? report. Senator Shields. Democrat, of Tennessee, voted with the Republlo* ans. Senators Hitchcock. Williams. 3mlth of Arizona and Plttman, Demo crats, voted against the resolution. Senator Ix>dge. chairman "of tha Foreign ReJatlons Committee, pre sented the resolution in the Senate, < explaining that It will be taken up as soon as the appropriations confer ence reports are dlKposed of which probably will be early next week. The report of the Haboard commis sion sent to Armenia will be made part of the record. MINERS TURN DOWN OFFER OF U.S. FOR SETTLEMENT WILKES BARRE, Pa^ May 27.?By unanimous vote the convention of anthracite miners here this afternoon rejected Secretary of Labor Wil son's plan of wage settle ment with the operators.