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Show If tfio tiling i.s to bo, bad ill the intenuountam country, a Tribune Ya;:t Ad will get it. VOL. 100, NO. 149. SALT LAKE CITY, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1920. 21 PAGES FIVE CENTS TREATY NEGOTIATIONS IN CONFUSED CONDITION; NAVAL COMMANDER RENEWS ATTACK ON CHIEFS New Invention to Seal Doom Struggle Ends, DELAY VOTE Suffrage Wins, Mrs. Cult Says of Tip Trust DEPORTATIO (Chicago Tribune Special.) March 10, The CHICAGO, i Admiral Blames Departments Vacillation for Loss of Enormous and Shipping.! Life Forced to Evoke Aid of Ambassador to Impress Naval Heads v With the Danger of Delay. NEW trust" Jg about to meet its Waterloo. The generous public Which has been slipping a thin dime to the pretty girl who checked Its hat and cans sad wraps, id the belief that she got the dime, has learned that back of tht girl was a brnch of fat ogres who paid her a measly stipend and forced her to turn over all the tips. The aamo goes for the alert boy who wields the wlilsk broom, removing Imaginary specks of dust, along with a dime or larger coin. Comes now the automatic checker, a thing of steel, which does not smile. One simply drops a coin In a slot and checks his own wraps This service will cost ' a nickel. Many hotels are planning to Install the automatic checker. , The smiling girl and the active boy with ths whisk brotn will continue on the job, and tho public can take Its choice between giving them the customary dims or dropping half that sum into the maw of ths automatic. In any event, the hotels and cafes will get the guest coming and going. He must pay for the care of his wraps while the deft waiter Is prying him loose from his coin In the dining Shipping Board Chairman Details Activities of Or- TOPSYTURVY as to PresAttorneys for Defense 1917. Uncertainty ganization Since idents Plans Upsets PoPut Witness for the State Through Sharp Recommendations Proposed litical Calculations of Cross- - Examination. by Chieftain During Ex- - Nomination Aspirants. a. Effort Made to Show Discrepancy in Statements at Trial Ifwl at Former . TOMBSTONE. Am., Miiroh 10. Deand their portation of striking miner was Justified by former kvmpathlzers Sheriff Harry Wheeler of Cochise county, according to the opening statement of rrank E. Curley of counsel for Harry E. Wootton, charged wi'h kidnaping, during examination today of the first witness. The former rherlff, Curley said, considered deportation of a large number of miners and their sympathisers from the Warren mining district In July, 1317, the only means of protecting the livs and propertjof the people of Blatee and of thwarting part of a conspirarj to o' escrow the government of the United amination in Committee. (By Universal Service ) WASHINGTON, March 10. Chairman Uajne of the shipping board stunned the senate commerce committee this j noon by a breathless recitation of ed figure dealing with every activity of the bpaid since It inception in 1917. I At the beginning of his testimony. Judge Payne asked permission of Senator Jones, chairman of the committee, to proceed uninterrupted. This request wa granted, and for almost two hours Judge Payne spoke rapidly of thousands of millions and billions; of net receipts and cash disbursements, of deadweight ton nage, housing corporations, redeliverle and specifications; of cancellation, cost plus contracts, telephone bills and the sale of the office furniture of the Emer In a short time gency Fleet corporation. the committee was lost In a maz detail data and agenda. Once or twice Senator Chamberlain and Senator Edge attempted ta Interrupt, but Payne either refused to heed them or stopped Just long enough to remind them of the promts he had elicited from Sena tor Jones, I No One Yet Ready to Ventura a Prediction That Wilson Will Not Make Third Race. 10.' York, March Is von. Ths word man Catt, president of ths National American Woman 8uffraga association, In a statement Issue. her on xeceipt of news that West Virginia had ratified tha federal suffrage amendment. With Weat Virginia won and Washington and Delaware legislatures mooting soon In special tho Opinion expressed at session, headquarters tonight was that "the ' struggle is over." "People who have followed the course of woman suffrage from the outside with Indifference or small nndentanding of what has been at staka," said Mrs. Catt, "will hava no comprehension of tha real message which the West Virginia action carries to women. To ns It means that tha nation la won, that the seventy year struggle is over, that the women of America ars enfranchised women. 'And now whatever comes out of granting tha suffragt to women. It la safe to predict that it will never be responsible for any offering to the general welfare except those things which' have been well considered and Intelligently endorsed." By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) j WASHINGTON. March 10. The possibility that injection of the league of mas indiaputableevidonce tliat the imvy nationa Issue into the political campaign will cause President Wilson to reconsider department tell down almost completely war. the of montns during the first six his decision not to become a candidate the Numerous messages sent by for a third term has upset all calculato the navy department during the tions In the Democratic camp. early days of America's participation in Attorney General Palmer la earnastly room. the conflict end other documents were seeking delegates with the aid of a large offered as proof that, despite the officer's which and well financed organization, lias opened headquarters here, without urgent and reiterated requests that every available vessel be sent to the critical j any guarantee that he will not be rearea of submarine activities, the depart- - j quired to step aside, possibly at the .cent neltner followed his recommends- j eleventh hour, in favor of the president. tlons nor- Informed him of Its plans and William G. Me.Vdoo has been playing the game safe by urging the Democrats policies. Six month, s after the United t States. to send uninstructed delegates to 8au States entered the war, the admiral said, The statement was made after the Jury the department adopted many of the Francisco, keeping himself well to the had been excused, in the course of an . fore the while aa an Ideal choice If his policies he had urged from the fic-ttestiover the of admissibility argument Tells of Outlook. father-in-lad American oo- does not fuel Impelled to Tne lack of mony regarding thqjstrike In the Warren Whatever cross examination followed take the nomination. operation with the allies from the start, 25, 1917. called June district mining In a letter declining to enter the Georthe admiral said, resulted in prolonga- - ' Denying that there was "one scintilla after the close of Chairman Payne'a tea tlon of the war until November, 1918, gia primary Champ Clark today also Peace-Tim- e Est&blUhment of evidence" to support tho claims made tlmony dealt almost entirely with hi An- - by Mr. Curley, County Attorney French views as to the future of the shipping came out In opposition to Instructed del when It could have been ended In July; outlook un the business, for American said: In favor of an untrammeled needless sacrifice of 600,090 Uvea; expendia derwriters, and the need for maritime egatea and 299,000 17,- -, convention, a nomination by- - which he ture of fifteen billion dollars which might nounces Insurance laws Declared Policy Unnecessary. The figures submitted by Judge Payne main- - ttriesr ho would accept. have been saved, and gain of 2,600,000 -- W there 820 Officers showed that at the end of the year the force in the contentona of shipping. If the navy department tions of theW?fany there would be no funds of the shipping board had a bal Await Senate Action. . defense, tiie tad acted promptly, he asserted, trial today. Investigation by a commis- ance of I1J7.0O6.OOO. He added that this But none of the Democratic aspirants sion headed by Secretary or Labor Wil- figure has since been augmented by the United States would have had 1,000,000 will begin to get his political bearing son showed that the deportations wer sale of the Hug Island bousing corpora WASHINGTON. March of instead of JvO.OOO soldiers In Franca by littls army man to reduce10Plea We have certified coplea tlon for J5.0OO, 000. exuntil the fate of the treaty Is decided 10. An not necessary. March WASHINGTON, So the time the Germans began the great were re1e ted today bymilitary as are concerned. and the far pense of these finding." operation th house, definitely which approved a peace-tim- e president Indicates 1'ayne told the committee the drive on the western front in March, 1918. nouncement by Secretary Houston that establishJudge Samuel L. Pattee sustained the Chairman board ment of 299,00 enlisted men and 17,820 whether his candidacy is open to conis on a shipping no further loans would be made to the state's objection to admitting testimony has. a i id Is In no want of monev from sideration. If the treaty should fail of officers, after rejecting three proposals tho strike. Great Embarrassment.. regarding for a smaller force. 1 he decision though allies was believed tonight to indicate The greater part of the day wa taken congress, save, perhaps, for a few Inciratification there will be a good deal of not final waa reached by a three to one Explaining that his recommendations examination of Fred W. dentals of overhead expense. the adoption by the treasury depart up with tiie sheriff Wilto Mr. bear many times were made after conferences vote, brought pressure upon of the leading supporters of the army reof Cochise county, By figures Brown, Judge Payne wltn the allied naval commanders. Ad- ment of the policy favored by the debtor who gavedeputy bill to believe that It virwa It to shown the that end organization of Febru up of of the a Wootton's advocates son details Democratic alleged league by miral Slina said the failure of the departsettled the peace-tim- e in the deportations. ary of thi year the shipping board ha of nations to lead the party because In tually program. ment to keep him properly informed as nations of .deferring interest payments participation In addition 187 to authorising a regular sold vessels for me $11,822,418.46. Wootton forced at the point of a their opinion no other candidate could army 100.000 stronger to Its plans and policies was a source of for the next three years or more. This he than varied Included, craft of a said, Into armed of provided gim ring guards, wearing by hope to win on the issue of opposition the national defense act of 1916, the to him. steel cargo ships, wood cargo ships, to great embarrassment Under authority granted by congress white scarfs around their right arms." sorts; reservations. house also accepted a lesson of the Instead, most of his information regardBrown said. "There were six or eight five steel passenger and cargo ships, steel some of of the Friends aspirpresent was he naval to extend $10,000,000,(100 credits to the others In this ring. They took us from tugs, wooden tugs, wooden barges, and said, world war by- adopting the principle of plans, ing American ants are of tiie opinion that Mr. Wilson permitting obtained accidentally at the admiralty the tactical of the postoffle at Blsbee to tile Warren one refrigerator vessel. Redeliveries to Would be seriously handicapped by the the army to be prescribed organization or trrough visiting armed guard officers. allied nations, the treasury has made baseball thirty-thre- e owner included former steel e were by the preal loaded and there In park, even on term tradition third running Secthe he of by law. Likewise, it advised that loans dent instead sysWhen to $9,809,834,649. convoy and t urgo ships, two passenger amounting Into and ships to boxcars ap. own Columbus, shipped but an issue of his the pres- proved of making separate corps of the making, tem proposed by the British admiralty be number of tankers, Fifty-on- e boats were ident la a tradition smasher and has alAdmiral retary Houston said that the remainder N. M. air service, the chemical warfare service lost. put into immediate operation. ways held the people should be at lib- and the finance department, Bims said he received a cablegram from of the credits authorized would not be Guards on Cart but refused to keep a president in office a long to divorce the ops. erty Vessels. of Secictary Daniel stating that "in regard granted, as it was thought sufficient transportation and the as they desire. construction service from the quarterto convoy I consider tnat American naval Brown told of the various stops made Disposition The price which the Panama railroad master department. on the way to Columbus, declaring that vessels having armed guards are safer advances had been made. wnen sailing Discussing tthe question, treasury were stationed at the top of each paid for the three paReenger ships, Kenyon for Johnson. Representative Dent of Alabama, rankIndependently." Later, gjards was end stated Goethals, Gorges member of the military Ernst, said that, in view of the car. , , adaption of the convoy system, he said, Senator Kenyon of Iowa put the treaty ing Democratic The SIboney and issue committee, indicated the wisdom of his recommenda- change situation and the unsettled opened the attack Freeman Crouch of Blsbee. the next to have been $759,050. in for a to the furs announcing today the Orizaba went to the Atlantic Gulf and his Hi mailer army. amendment to fix the saw tion. force Wootton said i lie Menator of for Johnson the witness, eeonomie support the condition of European West line for Indies each. $1,250,000 maximum at 226,000 men Brown Into the ring In front of the Blsstrength Taking up the situation created by the Republican nomination, despite the fact 14.200 officers which the government that The price waa defeated. 79 to and sunmartne menace, the admiral said that nations during the reconstruction pe- bee postoffice. He 25 testified that the deIowa Republicans probably will favand soon after Representative Jones' tn June. 1917, he told the department the riod, it would seem advisable to permit fendant gave as the reason for hi action should get for the passenger and cargo or lyiwden In the convention. on Its hands should of be for Democrat them interest to fl remaining Texas, ships to to made curb the payments effort then being postpone sought the that Brown had said his "place was Just a little lower than It would cost to "The president, In his letter of Monwas not succeeding, and the necesat least three years. Then, it is be- unfair. the Issue," said Senator force at 205,000 men but failed, 55 to 23 Wootton owns a hardware stole construct similar vessels In American day. has made Harreld, Representative Republican of X unis and article force "It sity again was presented "of sending all lieved, they would be in a position to in Blsbee. Kenyon. renewed the attack, proposJudge Payne told the senators. der tugs, yachts and other craft meet their obligations. Thomas Grady Green, a railroad fore- shipyards. destroyers, article X. Let that question go to Oklahoma, to he to "At cut time." this the said, army men. 150,000 ing delivery "ship which can reach the critical area, by He testiman his the enlivened come. Let of Let Tombstone, fight the country. With the interest on tho loan comwas beaten without a record vote is of th utmost importance to the ship the themselves or be towed part way Democrats homlnate Woodrow Wilmony by bits of priHunuy he ascribed to owner, After making a speedy and that is exactly what the son under puted at a per rent, the total amount an armed in who accosted him as he of while th internationalflag plan duo the United States yearly is about was on hi way, according to his testi- government is able to give him. If he ism and the Republicans nominate Hiram outlining the futurs military policy, the j Department Reply. house in his orders with It the deliate engaged will over delong an enormous sum for the mony, to the navy recruiting station at places yards under the Stars and Stripe of tails, Indicating that The department. In reply, he said, $470,000,000, countries to the bill would not almost a year before he can claim Johnson That will be a contest be pay at pres- Bisbee to enlist. The examination of be before the end of the week staled that the "department recognise In that time there la no tel'ing Americanism. and them. passed adwas lie not finished will court there when Green worth while, hardly the necessity of sending all antisubmarine ent. If interest is funded into long condition lie how may shipping changed.' the Wilson party to hold raft which can be spared from home term obligations, the interest on the journed for the day. "Too much has beermsaid about the -enough left of coroner Inquest. ipectable waters into active European water, and payments thus deferred will amount to Brown Is First Witness. sale of these ships anyway." Judge Pavne well to remember also be might when such craft become available will only $23,000,000 yearlv, which can be said. "Prospective ship builders are hold- that the the United control of is and announced aend them, wlllingneee paid and the credit of the debtor naBrown, who la a resident of the Warren ing up In the hope that congress will in the balance," said SenatorStates Norris. to cooperate in every wav, and that it tions mining district, which includes Bisbee, order the ships sold at prices lower than 'The great middle west elects quite a officials maintained. Treasury would "consider the question of supplyfirst witness to be heard. He those which we have fixed on them." sub- was the stand number of .senaters, enough to change took the in behalf of the state aling additional naval forces other than are working on recommendations to the control of that body. If the people' antisubmarine craft whenever the advisa- mit to congress as to the course to be most Immediately after the name of the Should Be Continued. wish and voice are not heeded In the a followed if deferred payments are per- twelve men who were to serve as Jurors bility of ao doing la Justified." Judge Paine was questioned by Senator nomination of a Republican candidate foj This reply, the admiral said, convinced mitted. It has been suggested that the tn the case were announced. aa to the there Chamberlain hi that danger great views Mm that the department entirety misupon president trial held "In in the examining Douglas whether the interest be charged off, In shipping board should be Democrat will control the next senate." understood the situation and caused him interest on the July, 1919, did you not testify that you continued but the proposal has met with strong tried after the government has to run Wootton out of Blsbee?" in lot Rumor Denied. congress. adopted Payne's own policy and "gone opposition Mr. Burges asked Brown on (Continued on Page 20, Column 4.) entirely. after the latter repeatedly - had outMr.of the shipping business A denial that the Wood forces plan to Payne started to say that he hoped oust testified that Wootton had "forced- him Will Hays from the chairmanship ' vijxrLAAnrrvrrvvvvvvTnruLinrr3nrir8rYf-'Into a circle of armed men at the point the board would be continued as a body of the national If the general with Jurisdictions similar to those of the waa - nominated committee of a cocked gun, was the burden of the commission oxer "Not that I remember," the witness Interstate commerce telegram received by Senator matters of railroad administration. For following answered. Moses from Colonel William Cooper Did you not say then that you would some reason, however, he asked that this Proctor: . portion of his testimony be kept out of have don ao If you could? "Reports received indicate that the the record. fcenatoiJones, however, over"I dont remember." of the country have seen through the request and announced that people ruled of what of said you Regardless your misunderstandthe haz of plots of the opposition against the remove to it readers wants for The Tribune waa It true that it was your pureverything Judge Pavne might have to LeonariF purpose, Wood. It Is of particular gratithe Bolshevists in Russia. It say would go down In the record. pose to drive him out of Blsbee?" ing that envelops the government set up bywhich fication to all of ua that Mr. Hitchcock tnen service intellectual said an is The he that not was witness in true." Bureau "It Information an opposed has Washington committee. Ills tong exDid you not answer Oh. ye, when any enlargement of the board; that he has Joined in the station for its readers. This bufeau nas a little book' which makes this political affairs and nationperience believed the office of chairman should be wide this question was asked you In Douglas? who it. wanta reader will be of lmmeasur-bl- e one to will free and every acquaintance give question clear, an appointive one. and that It should b I want to value to our campaign. ' vested with almost dictatorial powers. The book was writtea br Congressman French of Idaho and edited and Read. to deny vigorously A Preliminary Testimony thla occasion take Mr. Payne suggested two amendment been "published by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as a part of in have rumor that circulation Mr. put from a to the Greene bill passed by the house Burges persisted reading chief the of method the work. choosing It compares to the effect that anyone connected with its Americanization paper, said by Mr. Burges to be a trans-.criand now under consideration by the comthe Wood campaign will attempt to unexecutive in Russia with that of the United States, measures the Soviet of Brown's previous testimony. mittee. They were aa follow. in of 1 seat Will Haya aa Chairman of th narelative shows I was the wa did degrees "If the. Browns American, mistaken," congress by ' tional committee after the presidential reply. Amendments. the two countries. Suggested is chosen bv the party. Every candidate How do qu know you wer mistaken?" matter straightened 1. That it be mad It is your duty as a good citizen to get this pu.zling Remember a Serfoif offense staunch Republican knows the party has the defense counsel asked. is that it book blind. Send for this little T hare Alice Investigated. out in vour for any American ship owner or ship- made great progress under the very able today. of Mr. Hays, and General the coupon below and You mean you have Jnvcstlgated your builder to sell vessels to aliens without leadership free, with the compliments of this paper- - - Fill outreturn will trust hi Wood first obtained the consent of th ln'erest to his do own math will to come book The purpose, having you?" you by mail a indicated. capable hands when he is nominated." shipping board. "Yes, sir." 2. Tiie 'ormer Hamburg-America- n When Mr. Burges asked the witness and whether there was a strike in the Wsrren North Germtn Lloyd company's dock at TUE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INFORMATION BUREAU, district June 26, 1917, counsel for the Hoboken become the property of the CLARK state objected that the question waa not hipping board. Frederic J. Ilaskin, Director, Washington, D. C. GIVING a proper one In .These docks are now under control of Juijge I enclose herewith two cents in stamps for return postage for a copy the war department, Samuel L. Patee, presiding, took the matCHOICE of the tjoviot Book. Senator McNary raised ths question as ter under advisement, and announced he would render his decision after he had to whether the proposed amendments .T. heard the attorneys on each side following would stand ths test of ths courts. He WASHINGTON, March 10. My N ime Champ ' asked Judge Payne the noon recess. opinion. Clark of Missouri, candidate for the I became "When chairman of the g presidential nomination eight years ago, My Street Address board." replied the judge tartly, I cams out unequivocally todav for elecTrial Nears Conclusion. quo practicing law." tion of uninstructed delegates to the Mr gats My City MIUNTDRANO. Wash, Mar.h 10. Re"Tbe building program of th shipping Demo ratic national corn eniain. buttal testimony in the iris! here of ten board wl'l have been en'treiv eomt teted use of his me as a fandt- re opposing 'ovciwrxwiq (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) on (Continued on Page 20, Column 3.) (Contlnued Fag 4, Column 1.) Ad- , WASHINGTON, March 10. Roar 'rr.iral Sims gave the senate naval lu'estl- d gating commltteq today what lie atae-le- al - j FOB THEfllLIES ' J whole-hearte- Secretary Houston Probable of v Men and Accepted. of Treasury Department. get-aw- A. f : H are simple, but they thrill as fsv words do or can." This was ths encouraging conclusion of Mrs. Cards Chap- d SE1TIJE1T Negotiations Continue, but Matters Appear at Sixes and Sevens, With Result Still in Doubt Irreconcilable RepubliMore Trou- cans Start ble for Compromisers; Debate Is Continued. WASHINGTON, March 19. The peacs treaty compromise negotiations entered a period of fevered uncertainty today as tha time approached for Anal senata action on article X. Working desperately for an agreement, senators on both sides of the chamber confounded tha plans of their party lead-er- a and threw the senate into such a tangla that it tacitly, was agreed to delay a vote for several day, in ths hope that al element might b mors certain of their ground. ' , The hopes of tha compromise advocates collapsed and wer revived hourly aa tn negotiations dragged on without apparent Interest or effect. Tonight tie conferences continued, with some senators hopsful and some hopeless of th outcome, but with no ona confident of what might happen. Jays Started by Radicals. It was ths treatys Irreconcilable Republican opponents who started th trouble. by remonstrating In a militant way their against tnedeclelon of sqm party leaders to assent to a modified draft Of tha Republican reservation to article X. Bo effective were their representations- that th leaders decided not to offer ths new resolution at alL This determination sent some of th mild reservation Republicans on the warpath and produced confusion also on the Democratic elds, where eenetort had labored for several da?- - to line up votes for the Republican substitute. Caught in a crossfire from reservation Republican and reservation Democrats, tha leader withheld their final decision, but that they probably would present the substitute If assured of enough Demodefections to adopt 1L cratic f. lndl-rat- Democratic Disagreement. Meantime Democrats disagreement among the became more pronounced, partly aa a result of a meeting in the office of Senator Owen, Democrat, Oklahoma, at which a number of Democratic senators are understood to have expreseed disapproval of the course of their party leaders and to have promised active support to th movement (p break away from President Wilson and accept the beat compromise they could get. Among some Republican advocates of compromise it wa declared tonight that Democratic votes could ha thirty-tw- o mustered for the article X substitute, and there were Indications that, unless tiie Republican leaders did present It. one of the Republican mild reservation!! might do so. It also was suggested that if the Republicans abandon It entirely It might be presented by a reservation Democrat. While virtually the entire membership was occupied with the negotiations toe (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) 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