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VOL. XXII. NO. 185.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SENATE ASKS
JAPAN'S PART
IN PEACE PACT
CITY OFFERED
NEAR PAR FOR
BOND ISSUE
THE DAILY GRIND
PROHIBITION
FORCES TAKE
HOUSE REINS
COUNTYBUDGET
AGREED ON BY
COBSSIONERS
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Bitter Determination 'Dis
played on Both Sides as
Fight For Treaty Ratifica
tion Opens.
PRESIDENT MUST
EXPLAIN STAND
Tells Visitors That Japan's
Treaty With Allies Before
Entering the War Must Be
Respected.
"Washington, July 14. Paving the
V
way for detailed consideration of the
peace treaty, the senate foreign rela
tions committee today approved resolu
tions asking the president for informa
tion concerning the Shantung settle,
merit, an alleged secret understanding
between Japan and Germany and fail
ure to recognize Costa Rica as a bel
ligerent. The resolution relating to the re
ported Japanese-German agreement
.will be called up for "passage tomorrow
In the senate, where during today's
session, debate on the actual ratifica
tion of the treaty began with a display
of bitter determination on both sides.
The committee took no action on the
president's suggestion that he explain
directly the disputed points of the
peace settlement, though the president
reiterated to his supporters at the cap
itol his readiness to consult with the
committee members. lie also discuss
ed certain features of the treaty with
several senators not on the committee,
at the "White House.
All of the resolutions reported by the
committee were amended In minor
particulars. That regarding the allegT
ed Japanese-German treaty, introduced
by Chairman Lodge and that relating
to Costa Rica, Introduced by Senator
LaFollette, republican, of Wisconsin,
were reported without record votes.
The Shantung resolution .introduced
by Senator Borah, republican of Idaho,
was reported by a vote of 9 to i, all
the democratic members present op
posing it. and the republicans .includ
ing Senator McCumber, North Dakota,
voting for it.
Senator Johnson, republican of Cal- ,
ifornla, offered a resolution in the com
mittee requiring that copies of all dec
uments -connected with negotiation of
the treaty be submitted to the com
mittee. It went over until tomorrow.
While the committee was In session.
President Wilson discussed various
phases of the treaty, particularly the
Shantung settlement . with senators
who called at the White House. On
this point it was said the president
pointed out that necessarily the Amer
ican peace commissioners could not
impose their complete will on the peace
conference and was compelled to ac
cept some things in the treaty which
they personally disapproved.
The president also was said to have
explained that consideration had to be
given the treaty between the allies and
Japan, made before the United States
entered the war by which the material
German interests in the Shantung were
pledged to Japan.
The president was said to have told
his visitors that the treaty did not give
Japan any political rights In Shantung,
and in Klao Chau. but only economic
rights which would terminate in sixty
or seventy years.
Japan's delegates at Versailles, the
president was caid to have told his
callers, were instructed not to stan the
treaty unless the Japan-allies treaty
provisions regarding Shantung were
adhered to. ' ' '
The president also was represented
as having expressed the view that it
was exredient to yield on Shantung m
trder to have Japan as a member of
the League of Nations.
SHIPPING BOARD
VESSELS TIED-UP
BY NEW STRIKE
New Tork. July 14. The threaten
ed btrike of men employed on vessels
controlled by the United States Ship
ping Board was called lato today. Ac
cording to union officials, fifty thou
sand seamen, thousands of stewards,
cooks and other employes Joined the
ranks of those already out in the
coastwise trade.
WHITES CLASH
WITH NEGROES
IN PORT ARTHUR
Port Arthur. Texas, July 14. One I
vsrVtitA YVinr. . I
" ., im une negro were se
riously injured and several other per- !
sons were hurt as the result of a clash '
here today between a score of whites
and double that number of negroes.
MARINES ARE
ORDERED HOME
FROM FRANCE
Washington. July 14. The second
division of regulars, which includes th-
Fifth and Sixth regiments ot, marines,
has been assigned to an early return
home, it was announced today. Its
release from overseas duty leaves only
the First and Third divisions assigned
Though There Were Several
Fair Bids None of Them
Are Yet Accepted by City
Solons.
BOARD MEETS TODAY
IN SPECIAL SESSION
Commissioners File Rotary
Club Communication and
Numerous Other Matters
Are Taken Up.
N. S. Hill- & Co.. of Cincinnati, has
offered the highest legitimate bid for
the $30,000 worth of municipal im
provement bonds, bearing five per cent
interest, which will be floated by the
city of Pensacola, offering $89,429.40,
a certified check for $1800 on the
American National Rank of Pensacola
accompanying the bid.
The city commissioners opened the
bids at their regular meeting yester
day afternoon but have deferred their
decision until this mornins, wlv-n
Mayor Sanders will call the board in
special session.
W. L. Slayton of Toledo, was high
man with $90,684 offered, but a pro
vision of the bonding ordinance was
violated when the required $1800 cer
tified check was made payable to To
ledo. A. B. Leach & Co. of New York
was second high, bidding in $90,133. but
also making the $1800 certified check
payable on an out-of-town bank.
The American National Bank was
the only local bidder, with an offer of
$88,425. F. C. Hoehler & Co.. of Toledo,
bid $86,787; Steiner Bros., of Birming
ham, $90,000, with the proviso that
$890 be allowed them for expenses.
Sidney Spltzer & Co., of Toledo, bid
$90,057 for the bonds, provided $1825 in
New York exchange be allowed them
In time to take up the sale of the bonds.
The Atlantic National Bank of Jack
sonville, bid $89,426 with the accom
panying certified check made payable
to the bank. J. C. Mayer & Co.. of
Cincinnati, offered $87,750.
No Action on Venereal Clinic.
Commissioners received and filed the
Rotary Club communication which
asked that they take action on the pro
posed "venereal clinic for the city.
The United States Mortgage and
Trust Co.. of New York will be direct
ed to return $40,000 worth of Improve
ment bonds, dated Oct. 1. 1918. follow
ing a resolution passed by the com
mission. The bonds are numbered from
81 to 120. both inclusive and of the de
nomination of $1,00 Oeach, bearing in
terest at the rate of 5 per cent per
annum.
The board received and filed a com
munication from the Pensacola Elec
tric Company, slating their reasons for
asking for the proposed increase in
rates.
The report of the city clerk. L. E.
Heinberg, showed 512 license receipts,
amounting to $1,463.32. issued with
$1323.57 remitted to the treasurer Forty-eight
back taxes were redemmed,
amounting to $1433.32.
LIVING COSTS
INVESTIGATED
BY HOUSE ACT
"Washington. July 14. Investigation
of the cost of living by a special com
mittee of six representatives appointed
by Speaker Gillett was proposed in a
resolution introduced by Representa
tive Johnson, democrta. of Mississippi.
The committee would be required to
recommend to congress a course to
pursue in order that the high cost of
food may be reduced and those guil'y
of profiteering may be punished.
GOVERNMENT
NOT CHEATED
ON ARMY CAMPS
"Washington. July 14. The cost of
constructing army cantonments during
the war was not excessive, the house
Investigating committee was told to
day by Brigadier General Marshall,
chief of the war department's construc
tion division. Marshall said that under
the cost-plus system, the government
got as near a dollar's worth for every
dollar spent as if it were to begin con
struction today.
LICENSES FOR
GERMAN TRADE
BEING ISSUED
Washington. Tuly 14. Licenses .'ov-Cit-g
import ar.a export trading with
Germany were issued late today hv
the war trade division of the state- de
partment with the approval of Actrg
Secretary Polk. Kxcept in certain lim
ited cases, trad'.r r between the United
Stitcs ;itd CirTany may be stirtei
immediately.
SAILING DATE
PACIFIC FLEET
AGAIN CHANGED
Washington. July 14. The organ
ized Pacific fleet will sail from Hamp
ton Roads. July 19. Instead of the 22nJ
as previously arranged, it "was decided
today. The fleet is scheduled to ar
rive at San Diego. August 7 or S.
Tentative plans call for a review of
the fleet by President Wilson at San
RATE HEARING
TO AID SOUTH
WILL BE HELD
Railroad Administration Is
Asked to Adjust Railroad
Tariffs So That Southern
Ports Can Have Chance.
Washington. July 14. What is con
sidered by many to be the most im
portant rate hearing in the history of
the new south, if not of the entire
country, is scheduled to take place
here today.
A concerted effort will be made ty
influential southern and middle west
ern commercial forces to persuade the
railroad administration to so revise
freight rates from the middle west
that the South Atlantic and gulf ports
can secure their share of business
in competition with favored New
York.
If the railroad administration grants
that request and it is said that ; the
administratio nis by no means preju
diced against it the South Atlantic
and gulf ports will experience, it is
predicted, an lnprecedented boom.
Shipping will "crowd their wharves,
and the hinterland immediately be
hind them, like the hinterland about
New York and other big shipping
centers, will share in that prosperity.
This hearing has been arranged by
the South Atlantic Maritime Corpo
ration the quasi-public organization
formed by the five ports of Wilming
ton. Charleston. Savannah. Bruns
wick and Jacksonville, and backed by
the states of North Carolina, Georgia
South Carolina and Klorida in coop
eration with representatives of the
gulf ports headed by William Allen,
of New Orleans, who represents in
Washington the city of New Orleans
in its new policy of aggressive com
mercial expansion.
The hearing will be attended by
representatives of practically all the
Influential southern and western
chambers of commerce. The latter arc
especially interested in securing addi
tional gateways for imports and ex
ports so that they need no longer suf
fer from the periodic traffic conges
tion which obtains in the famous
"neck of the bottle," the approach to
New York.
The specific request filed with the
railroad administration is that freight
rates should be adjusted that points
west of Pfttsburgh, like Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, can ship for export as
cheaply through the gulf and South
Atlantic ports as they can through
New York. The plea will be heard
on behalf of the administration by Ed
ward Chambers, director of the di
vision of traffic, and Max Tbelan, di
rector of the Division of public ser
vice. It is expected that the principal ar
guments will be made by Judge Harry
Covington, of Washington. D. C gen
eral counsel for the South Atlantic
Maritime Corporation, and Luther .M.
Walter, of the firm of Borders. "Wal
ter and Burchmore. of Chicago. In
addition. Senators Ransdall. of Louis
iana, Fletcher, of Florida, Simmons, of
North Carolina, Hoke Smith, of Geor
gia, nml nbA- will nar'io'mt"
FOURTH SHIP
BE LAUNCHED
HERE TODAY
'Red Mountain" Will Leave
Ways of Pensacola Ship
building Co. at 3 O'clock
This Afternoon.
The steamer ' Red Mountain," fourth
all-steel ship to be built by the Pen
sacola Shipbuilding Company, will be
launched at three o'clock this after
noon, it was announced yesterday. The
ship will be sponsored by Miss Mar
garet Builder, of Birmingham, that city
having been given the honor of naming
the craft for its patriotic service in
the Victory loan.
It is expected that a big dele
tion of Birmingham citizens, as well
as representatives of the coal and iron
industries will be present at the
launcing.
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Washington. July 14. American
overseas forces aggregated 337.339
men July
according to official an
nouncement today;- On the same date
a hundred thousand troops were at
sea enroute to the United States and
889,000 in this country.
Marfa, Texas. July 14. The popula
tion of the little town of San antonlo,
Mexico, has been held prisoner by a
bwnd of armed Mexicans since 6
o'clock last night, aacording to reliable
advices received here today. Advices
to military headquartess here were
that the armed men were Caranza sol
diers. New Orleans. July 14. According to
C. P. Sullivan, business agent here for
the Marine Firemen, Oollers and Wa
tertenders' union, fifteen hundred
workers on forty vessels in the local
port were on strike today.
Brest. Julv 14. The steamship Rot
terdam, with Secretary Lansing on
bnrd. left here for New Tork this
afternoon. She was delayed a day in
coaling. Secretary Lansing went on
board Sunday after his arrival from
Paris.
London. July 14. Sir Percy Sander
son. British consul at New York from
1894 to 1907 die dat his home in Read
ing today.
TO SUBSCRIBERS
TyiSHING to hav our subscribers
reciv thir papers promptly
and regularly.. lf -addressed post
cards were mailed to subscribers to
advise us if their paper was not
delivered. In case you have net re
turned the card please do so at once.
If a card was not received please
advise with letter stating com
plaints, giving name and address.
ADDRESS P. O. BOX 1526
R0TARL4NS GO
ON AUTO JAUNT
TO ANDALUSIA
"To Become Better Ac
quainted With Our Neigh
bors" Principal Object of
the Trip.
With a view of more closely ce
menting the industrial and agricultu
ral interests of West Florida and
Southern Alabama, 55 members of the
Rotary Club are off today for Anda
lusia, where they will be guests of
Swift & Co.. and the Andalusia cham
ber of commerce.
Ten automobiles will make the trip,
the Rotarians meeting this morning at
5:20 at the San Carlos near bar, to
be guests of Charles Hervey for cof
fee, doughnuts and fruit. The "hop
off will be made at 5:30 with arrival
in Andalusia at 11:30, in time for a
big noon-day dinner at which Swift
& Co. and the chamber of commerce
will act as hosts. The return trip will
be started at 3 o'clock.
Songs especially composed for the
occasion, "Andalu-see" and "Our Ro
tary Club." will be given at the din
ner. A piloting squad with Dick Car
roll as captain. Spud Sherrill, fuel and
lubrication offfcer, Johnnie Jones, re
creation nftifor- Pill n...f .i
niciiuciicr, lime i
keeper, and Lee Bell, observer and !
nbmnar9'nh l . . '
I President Hunter Brown.
CUNARD LINE IS
NOT LIABLE FOR
LUSITANIA LOSS
New York. July 14. A final decree
dismissing all damage suits against the
Cunard Steamship Company as the re
sult of ihe torpedoing of the i.usitania
1 and barring any similar suit which
might be brought in the future was
signed today in the United States dis
trict court by Judge Julius 7. Mayer.
A total of 64 claims, totalling between
$5,000,000 and J6000.000 had been
brought against the company.
In his decree Judge Mayer intimated
that the claimants might bo reim
bursed for their pecuniary losses
through indemnities collected by tne
United States from the German gov
ernment. The damage suits are di.miS5ed
without costs and the owners of the
liner are absolved of any fault or neg
ect in the loss of the ship.
SPECIAL POLICE
TO SAFEGUARD
SENATOR REED
. Birmingham, Ala., July 14 To safe
guard Senator James Reed, of Mis
souri, who is said to speak In opposi
tion to the League of Nations and the
peace treaty here tonight. Commis
sioner of Justice John Taylor has or
dered the chief of police to detail a
sufficient number of reserves io keep
'Liberal" Amendment Per
mitting Sale of Light Beer
Is Overwhelmingly Defeated.
DAYLIGHT LAW
REPEAL DROPPED
Opponents of Measure Ad
mit They Cannot Pass
Rider Over the President's
Veto This Congress.
"Washington, July 14. Prohibition
forces took full control in the house
today and refused to permit a vote on
a straight out motion to repeal the
war time act. defeated overwhelmingly
an amendment providing for the sale
of two and three quarters per cent
beer and stood solidly against all at
tacks on the general enforcement
measure.
As fast as "liberal" amendments
were offered by the opponents of pro
hibition they were voted down with
out ceremony, always by a triple vote,
for the minority, fighting every inch
of ground, demanded a division after
the ayes and nays had been called,
then asked for tellers. Before the
house finished the first section of the
first part of the three part bill there
was more disorder on the floor than
anytime this session.
Repeal of the daylight saving law
became a dead issue for the present
at least, by the failure of the house to
day to pass the agricultural appro
priation bill over President Wilson's
veto. The vote was 247 to 135, propo
nents of repeal mustering 23 votes less
than the required two-thirds majority.
The agricultural bill will be passed
with the repeal rider eliminated and
It was said that no effort would be
made to pass the repeal measure as a
separate bill, as it undoubtedly would
be vetoed by the president. Under the
now defeated rider, the law would have
been repealed on October 26.
ADMIRAL BLUE,
TO BE RETIRED
"Washington, July 14. Rear Admiral
Victor Blue, chief of the bureau of
navigation, who has been ill several
months, has been recommence 1 for
retirement by a board of naval medi
cal officers. Secretary Daniels an
nounced today that Admiral Blue's
successor would be named n.s son us
President Wilson had approved tho
board" recommendation.
Adm'ral Blue, who is 51 years old.
is now undergoing treatmJ'it at the
l.ct'iiial at the Grrii l.akos X.wsl
'Iraimng Station. At native of North
Carolina. I;e was app-ii:ted M Na
val Academy from South Carolina in
1S83 and was advanced five numbers
in rank for extraordinary heroism .n
the Spanish-American war.
FOURTEEN ARE
ARRESTED AFTER
RACE CLASHES
Longview, Texas, July 14. Fourteen
white men were arrested and charged
with Intent to assault and with Intent
to murder as the result of a pitched
gun fight between whites and negroes
here Friday. All the fourteen, with
three others, who were later arrested,
were released on $1,000 bail each.
THREE KILLED IN
PHILADELPHIA
SEAPLANE CRASH
Philadelphia. July ;4. Ensign O.jr
rick. Ch'ef Machinists Mate Krkle, and
Coxswain If ('. Sonde r were killeJ liiU
afternoon whn a s-taplane plungel into
tho back channel t'l the navy yarl.
Two others vere iii.-jrtd.
IRISH MAY ASK
BOND ISSUE FOR
THE 'REPUBLIC"
Chicago. July 14. Eamonn ds Va
lera, "president of the Irish republic, "
today concluded a strenuous three-day
speech-making campaign in Chicago
to enlist support for Irish freedom.
He will leave for San Francisco at
7 p. m.
It is said the question may be re
ferred to a committee of New York
and Chicago business men Interested
In the Irish cause, as to how funds
may be raised to further the move
ment. One method suggested was to offer
the $5,000,000 bond issue to popular
subscription in this country.
WOMAN SHOOTS
LANDLADY IN
ROOMING HOUSE
New Orleans. July 14. Miss Martha
J. Cryer, age 33, said by the police to
have been suffering from a nervous
disorder as the resultr of over-nnnlion.
tion to literary work today shot and J
killed Mrs. Hen:' B. Jones, in whose I
home she was a roomer. Miss Crper
Is believed to be a native of Little !
Long Discussion Failed to
Lower the Tax Millage
For the Year .Below the
Figure 33.
Expenditures will
TOTAL $184,845.00
Ten. Mills Will Be Raise in
Taxation Over Last Year;
Cutting and Padding Or
der of Board.
Discussing ways and means of cut
ting the county's budget for the fiscal
year, beginning July 1st, and conse
quently reducing the taxpayers' as
sessments, has failed to reduce the
millage and Kscambia citizens aro
destined to pay 33 mills this year as
against the assessed taxation of Hi
mills last year. It had been hoped
to reduce the millage from the ex
pected 33 to 31, but pruning In some
departments was overbalanced by
padding jn others.
Following an all day session of the
board of county commissioners yes
terday when the budget was at last
declared ready for advertising, the re
vised list of expenditures showed a
total of $184,843, with $74,370 for the
general, $77,700 for the road, $13,575
for the fine and forfeiture and $17.00'J
for the agricultural funds, appor
tioned. The extra taxation to l
levied includes 1 1-2 mills for time
warrants authorized by the 1919 ses
sion of the state legislature for the
building of Bayou Texar, Fine Barren,
Ferry Pass and other bridges.
Millage for the county has been
enormously Increased by the added
school and state taxation which has
further soared with the three mill In
crease authorized by the county board.
Last year the state tax was 8 mills as
against 12 this year, the school tax
7 against 10, and the county levy S
against 11.
For the mothers' pension law J -4
of a mill which will bring in an Ap
proximate $4,500 will be levied to take
care of the needs of school children
who may be deprived of other means
of support. A second $4,500 will be
ad !ed for the county engineer's de
partment. The board cut a big slice off of the
budget by abandoning the court house
plan for a grand Jury and county
commissioners room and sleeping
quarters for Jurors. The tentative sum
of $20,000 agreed upon will be re
duced and only the new vault, con
ceded to be absolutely necessary In
order that the records be kept IntHct,
painting and repairing of the armory
hall, will be undertaken.
Commissioner Hardy's
largest district out. He
was the
announced
that he had been able to reduce ex
penses by $1,900.
Free labor appropriations In each of
the districts was lowered $500.
THIRD MONTH
ON FORD SUIT
IS IN PROGRESS
Mount Clemens, Mich., July 14.
The third month of Henry Ford's mil
lion dollar libel suit against the Chi
cago Daily Tribune started today with
Ford on the stand. So much of the
evidence consisted of editorials from
the Tribune or articles from the De
troit Free Press that there was little
testimony from himself. That will
come on cross examination and re
direct examination, it is said.
The court room again was Jammed,
as it has been since last Thursday
when Ford first appeared, ready to be
sworn. Testimony of his son, Kdsel
B. Ford, however, took all of Friday
and half of today's session. The lal
ter's evidence today dealt entirely
with the cost and profit figures of-thc
Ford Motor Company on war con
tracts. MURDERERS IN
MEXICAN DIVE
BEEN EXECUTED
Washington, July 14. Murderers of a
number of American citizens in Mexi
co have been apprehended and ex
ecuted by the Mexican government,
which through the expenditure of two
thirds of the republic's revenues in
work of pacification. Is slowly restor
ing order. It was stated today by Mex
ican Ambassador Bonillas, who ha
Just returned to Washington after a
month's visit to Mexico City.
WHITE HOUSE OF
CONFEDERACY
WILL BE SAVED
Montgomery, July 14. The first
White House of the Confederacy, lo
cated here, will not be destroyed, as
had been planned. This announcement
was made by Mrs. Belle Allen Ross,
secretary of the White House associa
tion, tonight, after she returned from
La Grange, where she closed a deal for
th niirhi of the ho;e.