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LEGISLATORS TO KNOW ALL FACTS • OF ANTTREATIES President in Address to Congress Says Trip to Europe Is Duty to Heroes. ASKS AIDJF NATION Deolares Many Important Prob lems Must Be Solved by Lawmakers. PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION Peizure of Cables, He Says, Aids In Keeping Members of Congress Posted on Parleys Favors Federal Control of Rail roads—Will Insist on World Justice at Peace Confer ence. Washington-—ln his address before congress in joint session President Wilson formally announced his inten tion to go to Paris for the peace con ference, saying the allied governments have accepted principles enunciated by him for peace and it is his para mount duty to be present. The president said he will be in close touch by cable and wireless and that congress will know all that he does on the other side. Referring to his announcement that the French and British governments had removed all cable restrictions up on the transmission of news of the conference to America, the president (suid, he had taken over the American cable system, on expert advice, so as to make a unified system available. Ttic president said he hoped to see a formal declaration of peace by treaty “by the time spring has come.” lie expressed the hope that he would have the co-operation of the public and of congress, saying through the cables and wireless constant counsel and ad vice would be possible. Te.ke', Up Railroad Problems. Much of the address was devoted to the railroad problem, for which the president said he now had no solution to offer. lie recommended careful study by congress, saying it would be a dis service to the country and to the rail roads to permit a return to old condi tions under private management with out modifications’. The president declared he stood ready to release the railroads from government control whenever a satis factory plan of readjustment could be worked out. No Reconstruction Plans Yet. No definite program of reconstruc tion can be outlined now, Mr. Wilson said, but as soon as the armistice was signed government control of business ami industry was released as far as possible. He expressed the hope that congress would not object to confer ring upon the war trade board or some other agency the right of fixing ex port priorities to assure shipment of food to starving people abroad. As to taxation, the president in dorsed the plan for levying $6,000,000,- 000 In 1010 and for notifying the pub lic in advance that the 1920 levy will he $4,000,000,000. The new (hree-year naval building program was indorsed because, the president said, it would be unwise to attempt to adjust the American pro gram ro a future world policy as yet undetermined. Again Urges Votes for Women. Paying tribute to the people’s con duct in war. he spoke particularly of the work of women and again appealed for woman suffrage by federal amend ment. Declaring he had no “private thought or purpose in going to France, hut that he regarded it as his highest duty,” the president added: “It is now my duty to play my full part In making good what they (American soldiers) offered their life’s blood to obtain." Text of President's Address The president said: Gentlemen of the congress: The year that tins elapsed since I last stood before you to fulfill my consti tutional duty to give to the congress front time to time information on the state of the Onion has been so crowd ed with great events, great processes mid great results that I cannot hope to give you an adequate picture of its transactions or of the far-reaching changes which have been wrought in the life of our nation and the world. Ton have yourselves witnessed these things, as I have. It is too soon to as sess them; and we who stand in the midst of them and are part of them lire less qualified than men of another generation will be to say what they mean or even what they have been. But some great outstanding facts are unmistakable and constitute in a sense part of the public business with which it is our duty to deal. To state them is to set the stage for the legislative and executive action which must grow out of them and BRINGS BACK GOOD OLD DAYS Remark of New England Editor Turn* Thoughts to the Simple Life of the Past. With a lapse into personal Journal ism which in these days Is refresh ing, and In his surroundings forgivable, the editor of Concord Monitor an nounces that "with a barrel of apples, a bag of butternuts and a bushel of popcorn tn the cellar we face the long winter evenings with equanimity and ONE LESSON TAUGHT BY WAR Seems Certain That Soldiers Will Spread Knowledge of the Value o' Outdoor Living. Most of us are already planning what we shall do "when the hoy* come home!" They have been away so long, on sueli a dangerous heroic mission, that when they come back we will love them more and treat them better than which we have yet to shape and de termine. Telia of Troop Shipments. A year ago we had sent 145,918 men overseas. Since then we have sent 1,950,513, an average of 162,542 each month, the number in fact rising in May last to 245,951, in June to 278,760, in July to 307,182, and continuing to reach similar figures in August and September—in August 289,570 and in September 257,438. No such movement of troops ever took place before, across 3,000 miles of sea, followed by adequate equip ment and supplies, and carried safely through extraordinary dangers of at tack —dangers which were alike strange and infinitely more difficult to guard against. la all this movement only 738 men were lost by enemy at tacks —630 of whom were upon a single English transpoi: which was sunk near the Orkney islands. I need not tell you what lay back of this great movement of meu and material. It is not invidious to say that back of it lay a supporting or ganization of the industries of the country and all its productive act*vi ties more complete, more thorough in method and effective in results, more spirited and unanimous in purpose and effort than any other great bel ligerent had ever been able to effect. We profited greatly by the experience of the nations which had already been engaged for nearly three years in the exigent and exacting business, their proficiency taxed to the utmost. We were the pupils. U. S. Learns Quickly. But we learned quickly and acted with a promptness and a readiness of co-operation that justify our great pride that we were able to serve the world with unparalleled energy and quick accomplishment. But it is not the physical scale and executive efficiency of preparation, supply, equipment and dispatch that I would dwell upon, but the mettle and quality of the officers and men we sent over and of the sailors who kept the seas, and the spirit of the nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved themselves more quickly ready for the test of battle or acquitted themselves with more splendid courage and achievement when put to the test. Those of us who played some part in directing the great processes by which the war was pushed irresistibly for ward to the final triumph may now forget all that and delight our thoughts with the story of what our men did. Why to Be Thankful. What we all thank God for with deepest gratitude is that our men went in force into the line of battle just at the critical moment when the whole fate of the world seemed to hang in the balance and threw r their fresh strength into the ranks of freedom in time to turn the whole tide and sweep of the fateful struggle—turn it once for all, so that thenceforth it was back, back, back for their enemies, always back, never again forward! After that it was only a scant four months before the commanders of the central empires knew themselves beaten; and now their very empires are in liquidation! And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was. What unity of purpose, what untiring zeal! What elevation of purpose ran through all its splendid display of strength, its untir ing accomplishment. I have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of organization and supply will always wish that we had been with the men w T hom we sustained by our labor; but we can never be ashamed. It has been an inspiring thing to be here in the midst of fine men who had turned aside from every private inter est of their own and devoted the whole of their trained capacity to the tasks that supplied the sinews of the whole great tindertaking! The patriotism, the unselfishness, the thoroughgoing devotion and distinguished capacity that marked their toilsome labors, day after day, month after month, have made them fit mates and comrades of the men in the trenches and on the sea. And not the men here in Wash ington only. They have but directed the vast achievement. Plan to Steady Business. For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business readjust ments nothing is more important than the immediate determination of the taxes that are to he levied for 1918, 1919 and 1920. As much as the burden of taxation must be lifted from busi ness as sound methods of financing the government will permit, and those who conduct the great essential industries of the country must be told as exactly as possible what obligations to the gov ernment they will he expected to meet in the years immediately ahead of them. It will be of serious consequence to the country to delny removing all un certainties in this matter a single day longer than the right processes of de bate justf.v. It is idle to talk of suc cessful and confident business recon struction before those uncertainties are resolved. Troops Must Stay in Europe. If the war had continued it would have bee nnecessary to raise at least $8,000,000,000 by taxation, payable In the year 1919. but the war has ended and I agree with the secretary of the tresasury that it will be safe to reduce the amount to $<>,000,000,000. An im mediate rapid decline in the expenses of the government is not to be looked for. Contravts made for war supplies will, indeed, be rnpidly canceled and liquidated, but their .immediate liqui dation will make heavy drains on the treasury fo rthe months just ahead of us. The maintenance of our forces on the other side o fthe sea is still neces sary. A considerable proportion of anticipation.” Asa stimulating, in spiring backward glimpse of the sim ple days that made us strong it is worthy of attention. It took so little, comparatively, to sriisfy the simple life to Its fullness. The suggestion of the fireside —prob- ably the writer took as too much granted to require mention of the open fire of roaring hickory or oak —with its cheer. its companionship, of course, its comforts for the inner crea ture. is a picture of the sort of home that is rather of the past than of this ever before. We will appreciate them —and take more time from our fool ish hurryings for love and comrade ship. We will spend more time enjoy ing the human companionship of the boys and each other. But if we spend more time with them we'll have to spend It out of doors—for they won’t stay in the house to play! The men in the ermy and navy, drawn from the cooped-up places of modern social and industrial life have suddenly been taught the uses uud de these forces must remain In Europe during the period of occupation, and those wnich are brought home will be transported and demobilized at heavy expense for months to come. Tlie interest on our war debt must, of course, be paid and provision made for the retirement of the obligations of the government which represent it. But these demands, will, of course, fall much below what a continuation of military operations would have en tailed, and $6,000,000,000 should suf fice to supply a sound foundation for the financial operations of the year. I entirely concur with the secretary of the treasuryin recommending that the .$2,000,000,000 neded in addition to the $4,000,000.000 provided by ex isting law be obtained from the profits which have accrued and shall accrne from war contracts and distinctively war business, but that these taxes be confined to the war profits accruing in 1918, ot in 1919. from business origi nating in war contracts. Asks Aid for Belgium. May I not say a special word about the needs of Belgium and northern France? No sums of money paid by the way of indemnity will serve of themselves to save them from hopeless disadvantage for years to come. Some thing more must be done than merely find the money. If they had money and raw materials in abundance to morrow they could not resume their place in the industry of the world to morrow—the very important place they held before the flame of war swept across them. Many of their factories are razed to the ground. Much of their machinery is destroyed or has been taken away. Their people are scattered and many of their markets will be taken by others, if they are not in some special way assisted to rebuild their factories and replace their lost instruments of man ufacture. They should not be left to the vicissitudes of the sharp compe tition for materials and for industrial facilities which is now to set in. 1 hope, therefore, that the congress will not bo unwilling, if it should become necessary, to grant to some such agency as the war trade board the right to establish priority of export and supply for the benefit of these people whom we have, been so happy to assist in saving from the German terror and whom we must not now thoughtlessly leave to shift for them selves in a pitiless competitive market. I take it for granted that the con gress will carry out the naval pro gram wl\ich was undertaken before we entered the war. The secretary of the navy lias submitted to your com mittees for authorization that part of the program which covers the build ing plans of the next three years. These plans have been prepared along the lines and in accordance with the policy which the congress established, not under the exceptional conditions of thp war, but with the intention of adhering to a definite method of de velopment for the navy. I earnestly recommend the uninter rupted pursuit of that policy. It would clearly be unwise for us to at tempt to adjust our programs to a future world policy as yet undeter mined. Worried About Railroads. The question which causes me the greatest concern is the question of the policy to be adopted toward the railroads. I frankly turn to you for counsel upon it. I have no confi dent judgment of my. own. Ido not see bow any thoughtful man can have who knows anything of the com plexity of the problem. It is a prob lem which must be studied, studied im mediately and studied without bias or prejudice. It was necessary that the adminis tration of the railways should be taken over by the government so long ns the war lasted. It would have been impossible otherwise to estab lish and carry through under a single direction the necessary priorities of shipments. It would have been impos siblt otherwise to combine maximum production at the factories and mines and farms with the maximum possible car supply to take the products to the ports and markets; impossible to route troops shipments and freight shipments without regard to the ad vantage of the roads employed; im possible to subordinate, when neces sary, all questions of convenience to the public necessity; impossible to give the necessary financial support to the roads from the public treasury. Rut all these necessities have now been served, and the question is, what is best for the railroads and for the pure lie in the future. Roads Could Not Co-operate. Exceptional circumstances and ex ceptional methods of administration were not needed to convince us that the railroads were not equal to the immense tasks of transportation im posed upon them by the rapid and continuous development of the indus tries of the country. We knew that already, and we knew that they were unequal to it partly because their full co-operation was rendered impossible by law and their competition made ob ligatory, so that it has been impossi ble to assign to them severally the traffic which could best be carried by their respective lines in the interest of expedition and national economy. The full equipment of the railways which the federal administration had planned could not he completed with in any such period. The present law does not permit the use of the reve nues of the several roads for the exe cution of such plans except by formal contract with their directors, some of whom will consent, while some will not, and therefore does not afford suf ficient authority to undertake improve ments upon the scale upon which it would be necessary to undertake them. Every approach to this difficult sub ject matter of decision brings us face day. It is a picture of comfort and content. “Long winter evenings."’ somehow do not go with city life as much as one could wish. Think of it! We al most robbed them of an hour this win ter by national legislative enactment! IN hat is that to us who rush hither and thither in our winter evenings— anywhere and anyhow rather than to sit down by the fireside with the old fashioned nuts and popcorn? For ns the glaring light rather than the soft ened glow. For us, if perchance we lights of plain, everyday fresh air. They like it so well that they won't be content with any other kind. They have learned what it is to sleep under the stars —a joy once reserved to tramps and poets. They have watched the exuberant glory and triumph of rosy sunrise and learned the solemn beauty of creeping twilights. “In fields wTier" poppies grow" they uave learned anew and mighty lungu: ge of the common grrss end (lowers, ar.d thrill to the song of the lark that braves the battlefields to face, therefore, with this unan swered question. What is right that we should do with the railroads in the interest of the public and in fairness to tlieir owners ? Several Plans Possible- I believe that It will be serviceable for me to set forth as as pos sible the alternative courses that lie open to our choice. We can simply re lease the roads and go back to the old conditions of private management, un restricted competition and multiform regulation by both state and federal authorities; or we can go to the oppo site extreme and establish complete government control, accompanied, if necessary, by actual government own ership; or we can adopt an interme diate course of modified private con trol, under a more unified and affirma tive public regulation and uuder such alterations of the law as will permit wasteful competition to be avoided and a considerable degree of unifica tion of administration to be effected, as, for example, by regional corpora tions under which the railways of de finable area would be in effect com bined in single systems. 'flie one conclusion that I am ready to state with confidence is that it would be a disservice alike to the coun try and to the owners of the railroads to return to the old conditions unmod ified. Those are conditions of res traint without development. There is nothing affirmative or helpful about them. What the country chiefly needs is that all its means of transportation should be developed, its railways, its waterways, its highways and its coun tryside roads. New Policy Necessary. Seine new element of policy, there fore. is absolutely necessary—neces sary for the service of the public, nec essary for the release of credit to those who are administering the rail ways, necessary for the protection of their security holders. The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely be left as it was. 1 welcome tliis occasion to announce to the congress my purpose to join in Paris the representatives of the gov ernments with which we have been associated in the war against the cen tral empires for the purpose of dis cussing with them the main features of the treaty of peace. I realize the great inconveniences that will attend my leaving the country, particularly at this time, but the conclusion that it was my paramount duty to go has been forced upon tne by considera tions which I hope will seem as con clusive to you as they have seemed to me. Accept U. S. Bases of Peace. The allied governments have ac cepted the bases of peace which I out lined to the congress on the Bth of January last, as he central empires also have, and very reasonably desire my personal counsel in tlieir interpre tation and application, and it is highly desirable that 1 should give it in order that the sincere desire of our govern ment to contribute without selfish pur pose of any kind to settlements that will be of common benefit to all the nations concerned may be made fully manifest. The peace settlements which are now to be agreed upon are of tran scendent importance both to us and to the rest of the world, and I know of no business or interest which should take precedence of them. The gallant men of our armed forces on laud and sea have consciously fought for the ideals which they knew to be the ideals of their country; I have sought to express those ideals; they have ac cepted my statements of them as the substance of their own thought and purpose, as the associated govern ments have accepted them; 1 owe it to them to see it, so far as in me lies, that no false or mistaken interpreta tion is put upon them and no possible effort omitted to realize them. It is now my duty to play my full part in making good what they offered in their life’s blood to obtain. I can think of no call to service which could transcend this. Praises War Agencies. Never before have there been agen cies in existence in this country which knew so much of the field of supply, of labor and of industry as the war industries board, the war trade board, the labor department, the food admin istration and the fuel administration have known since their labors became thoroughly systematized; and they have not been isolated agencies; they have been directed by men who rep resented the permanent departments of the government and so have been the centers of unified and co-operative action. It has been the policy of the executive, therefore, since the armis tice was assured (which is in effect a complete submission of the enemy) to put tlie knowledge of these bodies at the disposal of tlie business men of the country and to offer their intelli gent mediation at every point and in every matter where it was desired. It is surprising how fast the process of return to a peace footing hits moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped. It promises to outrun any in quiry that may be instituted and any aid that may be offered. It will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. The American busi ness man is of quick initiative. The. ordinary and normal processes of private initiative will not, however, provide immediate employment for all of the men of our returning armies. Those who are of trained capacity, those who are skilled workmen, those who have acquired familiarity with es tablished businesses, those who art ready and willing to go to the farms, all those whose aptitudes are known er will be sought out by employees will find no difficulty, it is safe to say, in finding place and employment. But do stay at home, the selfish immersion in a book or magazine, rather than the social game or the family reading aloud of some book or story whose value would thus be multiplied. Yet at least we might pause and view, as of some rare old picture of the past, this fleet'.ij vision of what was con tent ir the Clays that were.—Hartford Times. Joke on the Turks. (fanoris of the pro-cathedral of St. George of Jerusalem were the unwit- as they never thrilled to soicuin or gan tones. A day in June or October is more to them than a square on the calen dar. It is a God-given time of sun and air. and work and play, and friendship and service—a glorious period of full use of mind and soul ami body—for splendor of living uii- in the old cooped-up life of indoors. The soldiers have learned (hat out doors is not just an interlude between work and home ami amusement, out WAUSAU PILOT tlitre will be others who will be at a loss where to gain a livelihood un less pains are taken to guide them and put them in the way of work. There will be u large floating re siduuru of labor which should be left wholly to shift for itself. It seems to me important, therefore, that the de velopment of public works of every sort should be created, for unskilled labor in particular, and that plans should be made for such developments of our unused lands and our natural re sources as we have hitherto lacked stimulation to undertake. Cites Practical Plans. I particularly direct your attention to the practical plans which the sec retary of the interior has developed in his annual report and before your com mittees for the reclamation of arid, swamp and cut-over lands which might, if the states were willing and able to co-operate, redeem some 300,000.000 acres of land for cultivation. There are said to be 15,000,000 or 20.000,000 acres of land in the West at present arid, for whose reclamation wa ter is available, if properly conserved. There are about 230,000.000 acres from which the forests have been cut but which have never yet been cleared for the plow, and which lie waste and des olate. These lie scattered all over the Union. And there are nearly 80.000,- 000 acres of land that lie under swamps or subject to periodical overflow or too wet for anything but grazing which it is perfectly feasible to drain and protect and redeem. Problem Economic One. So far as our domestic affairs are concerned the problem of our return to peace is a problem of economic and industrial readjustment. That problem is less serious for us than it may turn out t?> be for the na tions which have suffered the disar rangements and the losses of war longer than we. Our people, more over, do not wait to be coached and led. They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every readjustment, definite in purpose, and self-reliant in action. While the war lasted we set up many agencies by which to direct the industries of tlie country in the serv ices it was necessary for them to ren der, by which to make sure of an abundant supply of the materials needed, by which to check undertak ings that could for the time he dis pensed with and stimulate those that w r ere most serviceable in war, by which to gain for the purchasing de partments of the government a certain control over the prices of essential articles and materials, by which to restrain trade with alien enemies, make the most of the available ship ping, and systematize financial trans actions, both public and private, so that there would be no unnecessary conflict or confusion —by which, in short, to put every material energy of the country in harness to draw T the common load and make of us one team in the accomplishment of a great task. But the moment we knew the armistice to have been signed we took the harness off. Raw materials upon wlyeh the government had kept its hand for fear there should not be enough for the industries that sup plied the armies have been released and put into the general market again. Great industrial plants whose whole output and machinery had been taken over for the uses of the government have been set free to return to the uses to which they were put before the war. It has not been possible to remove so readily or so quickly the control of foodstuffs and of shipping, because the world has still to be fed from our granaries and the ships are still needed to send supplies to our men oversea and to bring the men back as fast as the disturbed condi tions on the other side of the water permit: lint even there restraints are being relaxed as much as possible and more and more as the weeks go by. I entirely concur with the secretary of the treasury in recommending that the two billions needed in addition to tiie four billions provided by existing law be obtained from the profits which have accrued and shall accrue from war contracts and distinctively war business, but that these texes be con fined to the war profits accruing in 1918, or in 1919 from business origi nating in war contracts. I urge your acceptance of his recom mendation that provision be made now, not subsequently, that the taxes to be paid in 1920 should be reduced from six to four billions. Asks Support of Congress. May I not hope, gentlemen of the congress, that in the delicate tasks 1 shall have to perform on the other side of the sea. in my efforts truly ami faithfully to interpret the principles and purposes of the country we love. I may have the encouragement and the added strength of your united support? I reulize the magnitude and difficulty of the duty I am undertak ing. I am poignantly aware of its grave responsibilities. 1 am the ser vant of the nation. I can have no pri vate thought or purpose of my own in performing such an errand. I go to give the best that is in me to the common settlements which I must now assist in arriving at in conference with the other working heads of the associated governments. I shall count, upon your friendly countenance and encouragement. I shall not be inaccessible. The cables and the wireless will render me avail able for any counsel or service you may desire of me, and I shall be hap py in the thought that I am constant ly in touch with the weighty matters of domestic poli with which we shall have to deal. I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assur ance that it has been possible to translate into action the great ideals for which America has striven. ting cause of a good deal of waste of energy on the part of the Turks, at the beginning of the war. On being told of the existence of these canons they took the great guns” of the Anglican church for artillery. They tore up the cathedral pavement and excavated the entire edifice in a futile search for hid den ordance. This sounds like a had remarks the Daily Chronicle of Lon don. telling the story, but it is vouched vouched for by the bishop. Doctor Mo- Innes, and is corroborated by jmoto graphs.—Christian Science Monitor. doors is freedom and health and hap piness—and if we want to work and play with them hereafter we too shall have to follow them out-of-doors.— Chicago Evening Post. No Harm Done. “Too bad about Lucia.” “What’s wrong?” “Her mother is opposing her marriage to Edgardo.” “It is n moth c-rs privilege to oppose a marriage. Rut her mother is going right on with the preparations.”—Louisville Courier Journal. GO WITH PRESIDENT Wilson Names Delegates to Rep resent the United States at Paris. GEN. BLISS ONE OF THEM * Distinguished Soldier Chosen r. Mili tary Expert—Former Ambassador White Is Republican Member of the American Commission. Washington.—President Wilson an nounced Friday night the names of the delegates he has appointed to rep resent the Dnited States at tlie peace conference. They are: WOODROW WILSON, president of the United States. ROBERT LANSING, secretary of state. EDWARD M. HOUSE, the presi dent’s chief confidant, now represent ing him at Versailles. HENRY WHITE, formerly ambas sador to Italy and to France. GEN. TASKER H. BUSS, American military adviser of the supreme war council. White House Statement. The names were disclosed in the fol lowing announcement from tlie White House: “It was announced at the executive office that the representatives of the United States at the peace conference would be the president himself, the sec retary of state, Henry White, recently ambassador to France; Edward M. House and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. “It was explained that it had not been possible to announce these ap pointments before because the number of representatives each of the chief belligerents was to send had, until a day or two ago, been under discus sion.” Bliss' Name a Surprise. The only surprise In the announce ment was the selection of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, former chief of staff of the army and now the representative of the American war department in the supreme war council of the allies. For several days it had been gen erally understood that the Republican member of the delegation would be Mr. White. That Secretary Lanstng and Colonel House would be the other members had been unofficially ad mitted. White Long in Service. Henry White, long in diplomatic service, was the American ambassador to France during President Roosevelt’s administration. His diplomatic service began in 1883, when lie served for two years as secretary to the American legation at Vienna. He was trans ferred to London in 1884 as second sec retary of the American legation and in 18S6 he was made secretary to the lega tion there, being recalled by President Cleveland in 1893. He returned to Lon don as secretary to the embassy in 1897 and Remained until 1905. During his career he also served the government in special diplomatic ca pacities, representing the United States at the international conference in Lon don, 18S7-SB, for the abolition of sugar bounties. He was a delegate from the United States to the international conference on agriculture at Rome in 1905, and also was the American delegate to the international conference on Moroccan affairs at Algeciras. From March, 1905, to March, 1907, Mr. White was the American ambassador to Italy, leaving that important post to become the am bassador to France, where he remained until December, 1909. Will Parley in Berlin. London.—Representatives of Great Britain, France and the United States will arrive in Berlin shortly to discuss the armistice, the Berlin correspond ent of the Cologne-Gazette says he un derstands. A meeting of the allied leaders in London will be a preliminary to the peace conference, the Daily Express says. Colonel House and Premier Or lando of Italy will be here with the British and French statesmen. Paris.—A group of members of the chamber of deputies representing agri cultural interests have sent a letter to .Premier Clemeneeau expressing objec tion to giving special representation to the socialists at the peace conference. If that should be agreed to. however the deputies urge that the farming and peasant classes also be represented, since they had shed blood more freely than any other class. Bavaria for Separate Peace. London. —Bavaria probably will ask to have separate plenipotentiaries at the peace negotiations and will claim conditions of a separate peace, says the Paris Matin in commenting on the action of Bavaria in breaking off re lations with the government at Berlin. The Socialist council of Munich has telegraphed to the executive commit tee of the Berlin Socialist council de manding the dismissal of Dr. W. S. Solf, foreign minister; Philipp Scheide mann, minister of colonies, and Kalin as Erzberger, who. it has been an nounced, will conduct negotiations pre liminary to signing a treaty of peace. Tne telegram invites the Berlin coun cil to overthrow a government which continues such persons in important posts. Viscount Kato Jap Envoy. Washington.—Viscount Kato, for mer minister of foreign affairs, will head the Japanese delegation to the peace conference, according to unoffi cial advices reaching Washington from Japan. F resident's Stay in Europe. Washington.—There was a conjec ture as to whether the president plans to stay in Europe through the peace conference. It will be possible for him to re tire from the peace congress at any time and name a substitute. On the other hand, it is possible the allied chiefs and President Wilson will have so well formulated the program of the forthcoming conference they hope it can reach all conclusions withiD a few weeks and by the use of caucuses bring about a quick peace. Italy to Support Wilson. Washington.—There is a deal of dis cussion of the role the president will play at the peace conference and the lineup of the nationo on his p*jce principles. The aims of the United States and Italy are similar. Italy binds herself to the upholding of human, rather than selfish rights, and fully agrees with President Wilson’s views that the moral law is superior. The Italian plenipotentiaries wfll support the United States on hII funda mental questions, it is ttoougfiL DENTISTS *■-•■■■■■ ’ - - G. 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