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THE TIMES FOUNDED 1U?.
THE DISPATCH FOUNDED 18M.
WHOLE NUMBER, 19,660.
RICHMOND, VA., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914.
WKATHCH TO-DAY?SNOW,
PRICE TWO CENTS.
STUBBORN FIGHT j
THREATENED ON. '
TOLLS QUESTION
- - ?.
Unyielding' Opposition |
to Repeal Measure Be- ;
comes More Active. !
DISCUSSION SURE
TO BE VIGOROUS
Debate Will Begin in House on
Saturday, and Action by Senate
Committee Expected To-Day
or To-Morrow?President
and Supporters Confi
dent of Winning.
Washington, March 10.?Moro stub- I
born than anything that has arisen to
stir the tranquillity of the Democratic
majority slnco the party came into
control of the national novernincnt In
tho opposition to President Wilson's
plea for repeal of the toll exemption
provision for American ships in the
Panama Canal act.
With the tlm& almost at hand when
the question Is to be decided, the un
yielding opposition of the Democrats
?who belleve/<J'f' will be an economic
mistake to reverse the policy of the
government on the tolls question be
comes tnore active, and in Senate and
House the discussion Is certain to be
the most vigorous that has been pre
cipitated by any issue the Democratic
Congress has had before it.
While the President and Democratic
members In both houses who will sup
port his position are confident that the
repeal will pass by a comfortable ma
jority, few huve any idea that the
majority will be large. Oebate on the
repeal will begin in the House on Sat
urday, when a rui<- will be offered lim
iting debate- to fifteen hour*. Tn the
Senate, action by the Committ^e on
Interoceanio Canals on a repeal bill
submitted by Senator Owen, may |>e
taken to-morrow or .Saturday- Senator
< >'? iorinan, chairman of the committee,
will consider the matter of taking u;>
tin* resolution to-morrow.
.\o Ilnilk for < oiirlii.ilonn.
President Wilson to-day conferred
with Senator Jones, of Washington,
informing the .Senator that there was
absolutely no basis for conclusions he
had referred to in a Senate speech on
Wednesday, to the effect that the tolls
repeal was the price to be paid as a
result of m*Koliations with Urcat Brit
ain tor noninterference by foreign
powers In .Mexico and for England's
defense of the .Monroe Doctrine. The
President told the Senator that he was
"skating on thin Ice" in circulating
such conclusions, after reading them
in some publication.
Discussing the matter with other
callers, the President said ills address
to Congress on repeal or* the tolls
i huso was written before the visit to
Washington of the liritish minister to
Mexico, Sir Lionel Carden, to whom
Senator Jones hail referred in his
speeeh and that the canal controversy
was not mentioned during the min
ister's conference at the White House.
Hater in the day, Senator Jones
made a statement to tire Senate, as
serting that lie had not wished to mis
represent anybody; that ho had in
ferred to the conclusions as he had
read them in a newspaper, ami that it
was duo the President that he express
to the Senate his Hat denial of the
matter.
Senator Jones's resolution calling
upon tho President for information as
to the position-of foreign governments
on the tolls question will come up
again to-rnorrow, when Senator 13rls
low will make an effort to have it re
ferred to the Canals instead of the
Foreign Relations Committee. Sena
tor Polndexter plans to talk on his
lesolutlon, which would ask the Prcri
derit for an explanation of some of
the features of his message to Con
gress on the tolls Issue.
No SiiKKOHt ion l'roni ('anion.
The President, speaking of Sir Dion
el Cardens visit, told callers that be
could not get a suggestion on the Mex
ican position out of Sir I.ionel "with
a corkscrew," and that tho conference
was purely for Information on the gen
eral Mexican situation.
Representatives Slici ley and Coving
ton. who, with Representatives Adam
JrOn and Palmer, will lead tho adminis
tration lights in tire House to repeal
tolls exemption, told President Wilson
to-day that the repeal bill would be
taken up probably on Monday or Tues
day with a special rule limiting de
bkte. They declared that a large ma
jority would vote for it.
Tim Congressmen conferred with
tho President on certain phases of the
llay-Pauncefote treaty, and reiterated
that American battleships would bo
exempt from tolls, and that the i'nited
Stages had complete rights to fortify
the banal.
I'rges Fl\cil 1'rlee for SfitplpN.
(Special to The Times-Dispatch.1
Washington, March Hi. ? Paul 1>\ N'eis
trom, assistant professor of economics
in the University of Wisconsin, urged
the House Judiciary Committee to-day
In its draft of new trus;t laws to pro
vide for a lixed price for staple com- J
modity articles.
Professor Xeistrom said tho greatest)
disrupting factor in the general busi
ness of tiie country, from an economic
standpoint, was tho cut rata price!
made possible through heavy sales to
large concerns.
"There should be enacted some law
requiring the manufacturer of a staple
article to sell his wares to all pur- ]
chasers at an even price at the point
of manufacture, the purchaser to stand
the difference in transportation costs.
This condition of location cannot be
avoided. Witli staple manufacturers,
cost prices competition will continue,
and it will be based by retailors on
transportation, scrviee and upkeep
charges."
James F. Jackson, of Hoston, opposed
sweeping prohibition of Interlocking
directorates. Ho contended that, in
many instances, such directoTates led
to stability of financial and industrial
institutions. The savings banks of
Massachusetts, ho asserted, were locked
with national banks in that city, in
vesting their funds and deriving their
interests on deposits through national
bank lnveatmenta.
BRYAN IS 54 YEARS OLD
OlrlirntM nirtliiliiy on Senle Quite Un
it Mia I In (.'npltal.
Washington, March H>.?Secretary
William J. Hrvnn's flfty-fourth birthday
anniversary wan celebrated to-day on
a scale <1 itito unusual In the capital.
One of the features wan a fimoker given
by the secretary to bis many friends
among tho newspaper men, whose ?1 u
ties bring tbern Into close daily asso
ciation with him. .Mr. Bryan kuvc bis
guests this thought from James Kussell
Ijowoll to carry hack to their work:
"Ciet but the truth once uttered, and
It is like a star new horn that drops
Into iti place, and which, once circling
in Its placid round, not all the tumult
of the earth can shake."
Tho secretary and .Mrs. Bryan late
to-day gave a reception to officials and
employes of the Department of State
and the women of their families.
Secretary Urysin had expected to ceie
hatu the tiny by signing peace treaties
with Hrassll, Argentina and Chile, but
the conventions were not prepared in
time.
President Wilson wrote Secretary
I'.ryan a birthday letter, which was not
made public, but was described by of
ficials as being one of warm congratu
lation.
POPE CELEBRATES NAME DAY
Ifundredn of TeleKrnniN nni| Adilresnen
of CiinurntulnlIon llecelved.
Home, March If "This in a salute
for my nam*; day." exclaimed Pope Pius,
when he w;is: awakened early to-day by
a terrillc storm accompanied by liehl
nlim Hashes and loud peals of thunder.
11 ik Holiness shortly afterward cele
brated mass in the presence of several
specially Invited guests, and aft?r
breakfast with his two sisters and his
niece, audiences were begun and a fa
tiguing day's work ensued. Tho Pon
tiff had received congratulations of the
sacred college yesterday, but a few of
the cardinals returned to renew them
to-day. He greeted also the. members
of his household.
All the corps of guards celebrated tiie
occasion in some way?either by illum
inating their quarters or giving a dis
play of lireworks. During the chang
ing of the guard the bands played and
tii'- colors of tiie various companies
were unfurled.
Hundreds of telegrams and addresses
of eongratulation were received at the
Vatican from all part.** of tiie world.
His Holiness appeared to be In excel
lent spirits.
DUE TO LACK*0F INTEREST
1 nitr rpriolnet inn I* Vol Itennon for
High ' <>-1 of l.lvlnis.
[Spe< ::iI t o Tiie T11nes -1 >ispatch. ]
New V. : k, March 1 >. -"The high cost
<>f livirig is n?'t du?* to ?ind?*r product Ion.
but :t i- din- t!~ due to the la?'k "f if
t'r<-st nti tii>- pari ? f tiie consumer m
pii'-'hasing food-tuffs."
Tins statement was made to-day by
Alfj'-d 1> Woodruff, of the Bureau of
Foodst iff. at a conf* renco at tii? ? Acud
em\ of Medicine.
"Tweni; -live per rci.t could be de.
ilu< ted ftom the ktii"- pi-otits < :i all
Jooiistuffs." said Woodruff, "if the con
sumer, and mainly the housewife,
\v<uld devote* as much attention to
n.uketir.g and gaining knowledge on
this sub i? ? <-1 as she does to dress. biid1*!
parties and tango teas. The consumer
forces tho t tailor to add from to
40 per cent to gross profits by causing
unnecessary expenses iti delivery, credit
systems, insisting upon out-of-season
goods, premiums, trading stamps, and
ia nmny otlier ways."
GOETHALS LEAVES FOR COLON
On April I Will Itecuine t.overnor of
I'timiniM < (i mi I /.one.
Washi:. i: ton. March 1- Colonel
i|i oii-i' W 'Joeth.ils left Washington
to-aiflit. and will sail from New York
tor Colon, where on April 1 he will
assume Ins t.ew title and ottiee ot <Jov
ei nor of the Panama Canal. Itefore
having Colonel < ioethals conferred with
He. jet. i> C.arrison, and received the
etary's approval of the persons :;e
beted i., h'-ad the various branches of
tin: permanent govei anient on the isth
mus. Salaries of tho officers also were
tixed. Ilcuards for Colonel riocthnls
and other oflicers \v~It>> worked on lite
Panama Canal will !>?? outlined I.>? I'tes
:d? til Wilson and a House committee.
Kill- to mak*- Colonel iS'ictlinh a major
general. and for otl < r rewanls, are
pending Chairman Hay. of the Mili
tary Committee, and llepresentattvos
Dent and Kalm were to-day desie ated
by the House to sec the President
HUFF IS SENTENCED
l.oses l-'ive Numbers In Crude anil to
lie Publicly Iteprlmn ndeil.
Washington. March I I lieutenant -
Commander Charles P. llui'f, I". S. N.
recently tried l>y court-ma rtin 1 at Nor
folk lor assault upon J. P. Kicscok.-r.
of Newport News, \n? was found
guilty ni "conduct unbecoming an ofli
cer and a gentleman." and sentenced
to lose live numbers in grade and re
ceive a public reprimand by the Sec
retary of the Navy. Tins was an
nounced to-day by the Navy Depart
ment, which made public at the ramc
time tliis of the court:
"In consideration of the excellent
record of the aceuscd. the apparent
provocation, and the pr<-\iotis punish
ment by the civil court, we recommend
I.iculcnant-? 'omiiiandcr I lull' to the
clemency of the reviewing power."
Secretary Daniels said he had not
yet acted upon the court's findings.
JUDGMENT AGAINST LEISHMAN
l 'ormcr A mluiMMnilor Foils to Defend
Suit for ST.I.ir.ViM).
[Special to The Times -1 > is pat ch. 1
New York, March lit?John <i. A.
Leishman, former American ambassador
to (iermaiiy, failed to defend the suit
brought against him for I.>S.;o> by
Itayiiiond, Pynehon & Co., slock brok
ers, and a default judgment for the
full amount of the claim was liled
against I.eishtnnn in the cntintv clerk's
otlice here to-day. Tile suit was orig
inally brought in Allegheny County,
Pa., but the judgment by default was
declared in tho Supreme Court here.
Tho suit was liled at Pittsburgh on
February IS last. The papers tiled in
the action showed that l.eishmaii dealt
in stocks to the extent of $l,S-ii*i..*i!i'.i in
one. period of thirty days. The suit
was for the balance due on this month's
t ransaction.
MUCH WORK STILL TO BE DONE
Ships Miiy lie I'asMliig 'I'llrough I'nnnmn
Cnnal Within Three Months.
Washington, Maia-h P?.?Though
merchant ships expected to he
passing through the Panama Canal
within the next three months, yet
builders of the big ditch still have
much work ahead of them. Nearly all
of what is known as the permanent
dam and lock construction has been
finished, but. owing to the earth slides
in the Culebra Cut many hundreds of
thousands of cubic yards of earth must
lie removed therein to broaden tho
channel to its full width. During the
month of February total excavation
was 1,430,050 cubic yards, as compared
with 1,5H,H72 yards in January.
PLACED UNDER*$25^000 BOND!
Cashier of (inliblioro Hunk Alleged to
lie Miort In Accounts.
Charlotte. N. C., March 1!?.?11. O.
Smith, alleged to have been short over
$7.".alio in his accounts as cashier of tho
fioblsboro Savings and Trust Company,
and as an employe of the National
l.!ank, of that city, was this afternoon
arrested and placed under a ?25,000
bond, which lie has so far failed to get
signed, according to it, special l'rorn
(Joldsboro to-night
PREACHER SAYS !
FRANK DESERVES
ANOTHER TRIAL
Dr. Ridley Tells How
Public Clamored for
His Conviction.
! GEORGIA CALLING
I FOR FAIR VERDICT
; Atlanta Evangelist Discusses!
; Case Which Has Attracted j
J World-Wide Attention, and
Expresses Belief That Pris
oner Is Innocent?All
Rely on Burns.
: 1
The Rev. Caleb A. Ridley. dAd. pus
,tor of <>rural Daptlst Church, Atlanta,
who Is conducting revival services at
l Draco Street Dnptist Church. expressed
Mho hope yestorday that the Supreme j
|?'ourt or Ceorgla would grant a new:
j trial to l.f,o AT. Krank, wIiopc case in
j attracting world-wide attention. In an
: Interview with a reporter for The
I Timer.Dispatch, Dr. Jii.i'.ey said that
intense public feeling over a series of
j seventeen murders in Atlanta, for
v. 11 i?? li no arrest.- were made. coupled
j with the public horror over the llnd- !
I,c of little Mary Phagan's body in
the l as. ir. nt of the National I'eiicil
fu'-tory. led to tlio conviction of Krank
witho-f. sutlielently reliable . vblo,!????.
Krank. tiie factory superintendent. was
arr? -*???! for the murder, convicted and
.sentenc-d to die In April, i.ft.-t the
(.Supreme <'ourt had refused to pram
; a new trial.
Not .luMificd by ICvldencc.
; Had there not he*-n such intense
popular feeling. which was evidenced
b\ cheers in the court room w h e n 'Y *' r
the prosecution made a point. Dr. Rid
! >' .'-aid he did not believe a Southern
jury would have convicted a yeflow
dog on the evidence of a drunken no- 1
L-ro. who made three conilictlng atllda
vits. and who was himself strongly
.suspected ?? f the miini'-i.
Dr. Ridley said he did not believe
the Jury had been inllm a ed by th<
fact that Krank is a .lew. though that
had b'-i-n us' d t.? incite the prejudices
<>f the rabble. The universal uprising
which followed tit** '-rime, he said,
made it impossible for any man to
have received a fait hearing or to have
?'! the ? vldence for or against him
f a 1 r 1 > weighed. Dr. Ridley recently
visited 1 'rank in his ?? 11. spending
more than an hour with him.
Instead of finding him the pervert
he had been pictured, he had found him
i of unusually bright and quick mind.
jUskini; and answering questions with,
a cb-ar grasp oi the subjects under dis
cussion. Attorneys for the defense are
now preparing, with the aid of Wil
liam .1. Hums, t<> nialce an extraordi
nary motion before the t.eorgia Su
premo Court for a new trial on the
ground of after-discovered evidence.
Iloiv Sentiment llns l hanged.
\\ bile t h? - whole of Atlanta was
shocked by the c-rirne and cried out for
i the iinnu-tiialr conviction and execu
tion of the man < barged with the mur
der, Dr. Kidl-> said that on sober sec
ond thought many of the people, and
the more con: ? rvative newspapers, had
eomu to admit that the evicb tu-o on
which l-'rank was convicted was of
more than doubtful reliability.
"la-fore tJii- awful crime was com
mitted," said Dr. Ridley, "| only knew
Krank as the head of the National Pen
cil inctory. which Is located near my
church, and only knew him then
through women of my congregation w ho '
worked in the factory; but sincu then
: I have come to know him faee to face,
and have discussed with him person-'
'ally the many phases of the mysterious
murder.
"I do not consider Krank to be the
moral pervert he has been represented
to be. if,, is a young man. less than
thirty years old, having spent sixteen
years In school and seven years in busi
ness life, succeeding marvelously in
business from the very first, and leaving
no signs of moral degeneracy behind i
him. I lived in Atlanta at the time the
crime was committed, and was about
tee streets during the thirty-one days
of the trial.
Presiding .fudge In Uonlil.
"It would l>e ditliciilt to answer the
question whether I believe Krank t<> be
guilty or not, without being misuiider
.stood.
"1 would remind you that the judge
who presided at tlo> trial, and who not
only bean! Lhe testimony, but saw the '
j witnesses as they testified, after the
jury hail found Frank guilty, and be
fore passing sentence on him, publicly
; deflated that ho was not convinced of
, the prisoner'a guilt. This was ono of
| the grounds on which Frank's attor
; nevs asked a new trial.
"Personally, I do not believe him
I guilty of the ciiine, nor do I think he
knew anything at all about it at the
time it was committed. I have my
i reasons for such belief, ami they are
! satisfactory to me. Then- are physical
tacts which 1 feel sure Mr. Ruins, who
i. now working on the mystery, will
; write into a in w and reasonaHe theory
of the case. That the negro, Jim t'on
ley, killed Alary Phagau, I haven't the '
slightest doubt, and that she was killed
I at tiie foot of the elevator shaft, and
j not on the .second lloor, I do not doubt,
j Her tlesh had both saml and cinders |
ground into it, and on the second floor,
j where the State's theory hail her slain,
there is neither sand nor cinders,
tinmorrd for Conviction.
"1 should say that Krank had as fair
a trial as any other man could have
i had tinder similar circumstances and
I surroundings. We had had a number
| of murders in Atlanta, ami those com
mitting the crimes had escaped. Ten
sion was already high; then came the
announcement of the girl's death, of
Frank's arrest, all sorts of stories,
theories, affidavits, until the very at- 1
mosphere was such that to breathe It
was to catch the contagion, which de
manded that somebody be. convicted,
and that at once.
"In such an atmosphere as this, T,eo
I'rank was tried. The jurors say they
were impartial, but they were also
human. I was impartial, but at that '
I time I .wanted l-'rank eonvletcd. The
j populace was presumably Impartial,
j but It clamored for Frank's conviction.
And on the evidence of .lint Conlcy, a
' (Continued On Second~i'age.)
LEVY REQUESTED
IN RESOLUTION TO
SELL MONTICELLO j
If He Declines, Condem- j
nation Proceeding's
May Be Brought.
COMMITTEE VOTES
FAVORABLE REPORT
Passage in Senate r-oected
Within Few Days?No Action
Yet Taken by House-^New
Yorker Likely to Make
Proposition if Con
gress Requests It.
(Special to The Times-Dirpatch.l
Washington, March 19.?Nfi'.s. Martin
W. Littleton gained a point to-day in
her campaign to have the government
acquire Monticello. thn home of
Thomas Jefferson, and take it out of
the hands of its present owner. Con- j
gressinan Jefferson M. Levy, of New I
York, when, at the conclusion of a i
three-hour hearing granted her to-day.
the Senate 1'onmiittee on Public j
ISuildlngs and (irounds decided, prac
tically unanimously, to favorably re- ;
port to the Senate n resolution favor
ing tlio objects put forward by Mrs.
Littleton.
The resolution introduced by Penator
Heed, of Missouri, last week embodies
the Joint resolutions passed by the
Virginia Senate and House of I>eie- j
gates. As agreed to by the commit
tee to-day. It was changed in only one
particular, which was to insert therein >
request by Congress that the pres- i
ent owners of the property sell it to
the I'nited States. No amount is j
specilied or suggested. It is provided
in the resolution, however, that if the
owners shall not within thirty days |
offer the property at what is consld- j
? red a reasonable price, the I'nited j
Stales Attorney-'Icneral shall briris |
condemn:*tion proceed!nps.
Ihiriy letion K.vpeefcd.
Senator Ueed, who hit rod in cd Hie
resolution, will report it back favor
ably to the Senate to-morrow. When i
it will come tip in the Senate for pas- j
sage is uncertain, but such action Is I
expected wit it in a few cays. The '
11<-? ti?-* has v > far taken no action in
the matter.
The whole of to-day's hearing was ,
oecjpied by Mrs. Littleton, who, in a
most eloquent and forceful address to
the committee, set forth the light she
had been making for about threo
y eai > to have Monticello owned hy the
people. She portrayed the movement j
which has been in progress for Ihe '
past lift>* years to have preserved
?Mount Vernon, the former home of1
Cooige Washington: ihe Lincoln log I
cabin, Cram's tomb, a! 1 which has |
t.ov. in view the acquisition of .Monti- i
I lirst thought of this proposition i
w iir-n I came to Washington when my I
husband came to Congi.ss, and 1 found!
there was no liioiiu.nont or niche to
honor Hi.- memory of Ibis great pa
triot.' said .Mrs. Littleton. "J believed ;
it was time to honor his memory, and'
thought that in preference to erecting'
a monument to him. It would be better1
to preserve his littlu ho in Virginia.
whet*" 1 ? i'nple gr.iv** lies.
c.i lied <>;: Mi. Levy to if r'
could ;?aii: iiis consent to .-el] jimili
cello, but lie refused, and I tben started '
a campaign tr, secure resolutions, me
morials and 1. iters of indorsement for'
the pun base ol the Jefferson home.'*
Will t cinte.slrd nml Defeated.
She then explained Hie way in which
' onu i essnia n l.evv had acquired title
lo i he pf"4?eiiy. ihrougii his heirs con-,
testing and defeating Ihe will of Com-'
mouore Levy, whieh dotiated the prop
erly to the "people of the United I
Slates."
It is lite liuh! of \ irginia now and
not mine,'' she continued. "The \'ir- i
ginia Assembly has passed resolutions !
favoring this project. Kvery meinht r I
of the \ i; delegation has agreed ?
to vote for tiiis resolution."
She then exhibited tiie photographic
record of a mortgage placed on Ihe
property for by Levy. Judge'
I Mike. 1.1 Charlottesville, counsel for j
Levy, and Levy himself, strenuously ob- 1
jected at this point t<? the introduction |
ol such evidence. Mil they were over
rub d by the coniiiiiu? c.
"The lust authority i can gel of Ihe;
value of the property from real estate
experts .it Charlottesville places it all
Hilt we should not quibble
over price in so noble a cause as this,"
she said. "1 hope Mr. Lev will change
his inir.t! ami chaoice i! to-day, so that
"ii .lefl'ei ;f.!i-: i.i.\t birthday, April I
the people of Ihe nation can go to
.Monticello ami pay 1 ouinve to the n-.eni
or;. of Thorna ? ,leiT> .-son without having i
lo secure permission from any private J
oa ner."
There were numerous heated clashes I
between Mrs. Littleton, Mr. Levy ami !
Judge Duke. when the latter tried to
(Coulinued 'n l'ilth Page.)
Vote
There's a line contest on to
decide who is ihe most popular
school teacher in Hiehmond nml
incidentally to win the $500.00
piano-phi,ver olTeretl by The
Times-Dispatch.
The race has Just been start
ed, and some teacher whoso
name is not yet on the voting
list may win; for there nro
plenty of votes to he had by
simply dipping them from Tlio
Tliiies-Dispatch.
Kvery day The Tlmes-Dis
patch prints nearly 26,000.
Kvery Sunday Tho Times
Dispatch prints over 36,000.
So it's just a matter of ask
ing to secure many thousand
votes every day.
Why not. help your teacher?
Monroe I
Committee Favors Purchase of Monticello
? ? ? ? ? i^gggs : &
Montirello and Jefferson's grave. Insert.s: Mrs. Mnrtin \V. Littleton,
of New York, leader of the movement to have the government purchase!
the home, and Congressman Jefferson Levy, of New York, its present
owner.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
LOSES IN SENATE
Resolution for Constitutional
Amendment Defeated by
Vote of 35 to 34.
FOLLOWS WEEKS OF DEBATE
Southern Senators Line Up
Almost Solidly Against
Measure.
Washington, March 10?Woman suf
frage advocates to-day lost their fight
in tiifi I'nited States Senate for a reso
lution proposing an amendment to the
Federal Constitution giving women the
ballot. The voto was 3.1 for the meas
ure to 34 against it. a two-thirds af
firmative vote being required for pass
age, and when it was over suffragist
leaders Jubilantly pointed to the ma
jority ? ?!' one as conclusive proof that
their {-auso had scorqd a triumphant
cb-feat and was immeasurably stronger
r b ?? i" ? ppouents ??ver had been will
ill - to i ..ik-cde.
To-ilav s act ion, following works of
debatu on the lloor of the Senate,
marked the cliina:; of a spirited cam
paign launched here the day lii-lore
tlo- inauguration of President Wilson.
Immediately after the vote. Senator
Sha froth, of Colorado, sought to In
troduce a new resolution for constitu
tional amendment reiiuiriim each State
to vol ? on granting suffrage to women
on petition from ;? per cent of its vo
ters. The Senate went into executive
session before tho Senator could
the lloor,-. and the resolution will be
offered later.
The resolution defeated to-day was
the first introduced in the present Con
gress. It \\ i ?< presented by Sena'.or
Chamberlain, ?>f urt-gon, and the Wo
man Suffrage Committee later author
ized Senator Ashursv to report it fav
orably.
Opposed i,y Southerners.
r*?hougn otherwise the vote virtually
was nonpartisan, the Southern Sena
te, s, all Democrat., lined up almost
solidly agiim-t the amendment. They
contended it would complicate llic ne
gro question in their States. of the
Sou t lierners, only Senators Ituusdcll,
Louisiana; Shcppard, Texas, and !-? a.
Tennessee, voted for the resolution.
Senator Vnrdnman led a movement
among the friends of woman suffrage
in the South to repeal the fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution, by
which the States are prohibited from
denying ncgroc:* the right to vote.
With tne negro question removed, he
said, ho favored the granting of suf
frage lo women. ills proposal was de
icated, .|;t tn io, and a proposition by
Senator Williams to give tlie ballot to
?.vhite women only was defeated, ?! I
to 21.
The vote was preceded by a threo
hour, kaleidoscopic debate on the va
rious phase* of suffrage. Senator Mar
tine, ol Xew Jersey, was tho only mem
ber who said he was opposed to woman
suffrage on principle.
Senator tiallinger declared It would
bo a crime to repeal tho fifteenth
amendment, even if it wore a blunder
to have passed it. Senator Townsend
insisted it was no blunder to have
passed it, and added it was not neces
sary to do injustice to the negro to do
justice to women. Senator Ncwlands
declared he favored making tills a white
man's country, so as to shut the Jap
anese out as well as tho negro, but
questioned the propriety of doing that
on a woman suffrage proposition.
Claim Voir Is Victory.
Mrs. Medill McCormick, chairman of
the congressional committee of the Na
tional American Woman Suffrage. As
sociation, issued n statement to-night,
claiming the majority vote as a victory.
A statement Issued by Miss Alice
Paul, chairman of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage, regretted
"that the Democratic lenders In charge
of the suffrage amendment fn the Sen
ate allowed the measure to bo wrecked
for the timo being by forcing It to a
premature vote." Miss Paul added
that the union hoped that In tho two
or three months remaining before the
session closes, Congress would recon
sider its action.
Senators voting for the Ashurst
(Continued On Fifth i'ugo.)
President Reported to Have De- j
j cided on Six of the "Big ;
Seven" Appointments.
;both factions considered
Nominations Probably Will V>c j
Sent to Senate To-Day or
To-Morrow.
I Special to Tho Tlmes-Dlspatch. 1
Washington, March 19.?President
| Wilson, after several conferences with
members of both political factions In
I Virginia, Is reliably reported to have
made up a "Hlate," consisting of six
1 of the "big seven" appointments In the ;
State. This action resulted alter con- j
siderahlo deliberation, study and ef- :
fwrts to brhiK the delegation together, ;
I and. failing in Ibis. to pick out candl- |
dates of the highest type who would
I lie the least objectionable to both fae
i lions. This "slate" is now understood
j to be sill ready to send, with other
' nominations, to the Senate at an early
date, possibly on Friday or Saturday
I of this week.
Tho lisi is said to consist ol' tho j
loliowiug:
Fulled States marshal for the East
ern District ?John ?i. Saunders, ot
I Richmond. "
1 Marshal for the West?Thomas
Hurcli, of Martinsville.
| Foiled States district attorney for i
the Western District?Richard Kvelyn !
ltyrd of Winchester.
Internal revenue collector for the :
Western District.?John M. Mart, of
lida nolle.
Collector for the Wast II. C. 1- Mon- .
| cure, of Stafford I'ounty.
Collector of customs at Norfolk?
I Norman K. Hamilton, of Portsmouth.
There seems to be practically no <
<louhi of the appointment of each of
these six. with the exception of tho
marshal for tho Wast, for which the
friends of Robert Ailworth, of the I
Kirst Distriet still insist ho is the
I 'resident S choice,
SiiiiuilerN Hum Strong llHckiiip
"Serpenni" Saunders, of Richmond,
has the indorsement of both Senators
and i '??ngrcssinau Montague, represent
ing that district, whereas Ailworth
has only that of Congicssmcn Jon**s
and Class. Thotuas Rurch, of Mar
lilifville, has Hot been mentioned ill
the newspaper! before for marshal in
the West, altliotmh it has been Known
thai his name was substituted for that
oi l.ee ?'lark, of l'atri;:k i 'ounty, sev
eral weeks ago, after charges were
bled against Clark, and A11 oruey -den -
cral Me Key nobis and President Wilson
informed the Senators he could not be
appointed.
Richard Kvelyn ltyrd is acceptable
to ho' li factions as district attorney in
the We: t, and is held j:, highest
estef'.i by President Wilson, for liis
^;ie,ti eftorts in behalf of iiis nomina
tion. Ili.s appointment has been a
foregone conclusion for almost a year.
1 lamilton, who is a reporter on a
I Norfolk newspaper, has held the lead
throughout for collector of customs,
and is very strongly indorsed.
Moncure has also maintained Ms
position throughout at the head of the
list ol candidates, and his appoint- ;
men! has been almost a certainty for '
several months.
Over the nomination of John Mart, it
is expected that a heated contest will
be Waged, as it it; generally under
stood that the Senators, especially
! Swansoii, will go to extremes to op
pose his continuation. The develop
ments regarding this appointment, it
Is'believed, will be well worth watch*
; iug.
Robert Ailworth spent to-day in
Washington In behalf of his candidacy.
II. M. Smith, Jr.. or Richmond, lather
of Hiram M. Smith, at present assistant
I district attorney, was also here trying ,
! to arrange for the promotion of his j
I son to the oltlce of district attorney. \
Cr H. M.
Snowstorm nt llrNtol.
j Bristol, Va.. March I Si.- -Bristol and |
this section had a severe snowstorm i
to-night. The snowfall is said to be
the heaviest for this season that has 1
been known in this section in many |
years. At midnight It was four inches I
In depth and still falling.
WILSON WILLING
FOR RESUMPTION
OF PEACE PARLEYS
Will Be Glad to Consider
Any Proposal From
Mexican Factions.
NO MAN UNDER BAN
FOR PRESIDENCY
Recognition Extended to Any
One, Without Some Popular
Expression, Could Not Lead
to Permanent Settlement.
Commission to Investi
gate May Be Named.
Washington, March It*?The United
States government will welcome a 1
opening <?l' negotiations with tho
5lucrta government or the Constitu
tionalists, and will l>e glad to consldci
any proposal that will tend to draw
tho various factions together into u
plan for tho restoration of peace in
Mexico. .
This is tho attitude President "
son revealed to-day, after reports
readied hero saying Setior Portillo >"
Hojas, Minister for Foreign Affairs In
the Huerta Cabinet, h:i?l gone to meet
John Mnd. Mr.' Wilson's personal rep
representative, to seek a resumption of
ihe peace parleys. Senor llojas has
been mentioned as the man who would
succeed Huerta it' he retired, and the
object of the visit to Mr. Mud. it has
been reported, was to acfiUiiint the
President's envoy with his personality.
Incidentally, the President, in talking
with callers to-day, while remarking
that he had no olliclal report of any
new parleys, spoke in complimentary
terms of tho Mexican Minister of for
eign Affairs as a man of high char
acter.
\o Men toiler Hun.
What the President emphasizes in
his informal discussions on tho Mexi
can situation is that he, as President
of the United Stares, has never sought
to approve or disapprove of indivi
duals who may aspire to the presidency
of Mexico, and that he has no list of
men whom he holds under a so-called
ban because of alleged complicity in
the assassination of Madero.
I Us refusal to recognize Huerta, it
may be stated on tho highest authority,
was not bus on any personal an
tagonism to Huerta, but on the ground
that the Constitutionalists would never
be reconciled to the man who had
overthrown Madero and Suarez, and
that governments set up by arbitrary
force, and not reflecting the popular
will, should not be dealt with by the
United States.
likewise, in the consideration of in
dividuals who might seek for recogni
tion by the Utiiieo States, the prin
ciple President Wilson lias been work
ing on is that recognition extended to
any one set up In the presidency
without some popular expression or
without Indorsement of all factions
could not lead to peace.
In considering peace proposals front
the lluerta government, the. United
States, it is known now, will do all that
it can to forward a peaceful settle
ment, but the conviction is as strong
witli the President to-day as it was
when ho sent his instructions to John
l.ind last summer that peace in Mex
ico, in the last analysis, is dependent
upon terms that will bo acceptable
alike to the Constitutionalists and tho
lluerta administration. He recognizes
that the value of all proposals depends
upon how far such plans seek to draw
the Mexican factions together rn com
mon agreement up"m a Provisional
President, who can convoke, elections
or rehabilitate tho government ma
chinery in a way that would bo In
dorsed l>y the Mexican populace gen
erally.
Commission Suggested.
Ono of the suggestions recently tmulo
to President Wilson contemplates tho
sending of a commission ot Americans
of prominence to investigate ttie con
ditions In Mexico. Unotilcial reports
have had it that both Carranza and
Huerta would receive sucn a com
mission.
President Wilson Is carefully consid
ering the suggestion, said to have been
made originallv by Oscar S. Straus,
former ambassador to Turkey and
prominent in the cause of world peace.
Tho President, it is known, will bo
glad to send such a commission, if it
could assist the Mexican factions in
arriving at an agreement, but It is
believed lit: feels that actual peaco
proposals must necessarily originato
with tiic Mexican factions, and that un
less the commission were invited to go
to Mexico, its errand would be fruit
less, mediation of tlie same sort hav
ing previously \been rejected by both
Mexican fact Ions
To Stop Klllltiisterlng,
l.arcdo, Texas, March P.*. --Humors
that an American lilibustering party
wan preparing to invade Mexico from
tho vicinity of Palafox, Texas, caused
I'aptain Howard, commanding Port Mc
intosh, to dispatch Troop I, Fourteenth
Cavalry, to that section to-day. No de
tails of tho rumored expedition aro
known.
[t was opposite Palafox that ?'le
mento Wrgara, American ranchman,
put to death recently at Hidalgo, Mex
ico, was arrested by Mexican Federal
soldiers, after, it is alleged, lie had
been lured across the international
boundary.
Means War of Ksliftilfltiou.
Washington, March 1 !>.?"War with
Mexico means a war of exhaustion; tho
moment our troops pass the frontier
the Mexicans will drop their quarrel
and make common cause against tho
hated gringoes." declared Hepresenta
tivo Hillings, of Pennsylvania, Pro
gressive, to-day in the House. He de
clared it was the duty of Congressmen
to stand shoulder to shoulder In tho
Mexican situation; that he believed or
der would never be restored in Mexico
save by a strong man supported by a
force superior to tho factions now har
rying the country, and that titfTO was
no such force in Mexico.
"I believe the time must conic. If It
lias not already arrived." ho added,
"when >t will bo tho Imperative duty
of this government to announce to tho
world that present conditions In Mex
ico must cease, and that unless, by a
given time, tho Mexicans themselves