Show HUGHES commission Y PLAN WILL RENEW STRIFE f AMONG republicans UTTER LATTER SEEM NOT DISTURBED by EDWARD 0 CLARK washington wt something of spice mostly pepper just no Is being aprin sprin kled into the inix tiro ot of things which biake in ake up the political provender lend lead er erlof er of th democratic party who hap pento be in washington are showIng i evidences of jubilation over ce certain ertain happenings in the ole ranks of na national atonal the re lead ers som undisturbed cd but truth con coal POW thoin to admit ai tl iuro tire some evidences of bf a rift which they add will ivill disappear not long ago tile alio democrat m to be somewhat downcast over the lie ap all arent of the enemy forces tile i signs of amity and pacific koj conditions genera generally I 1 ly now damoc lacy iracy bees sees or says aliat liat it sees it a renewal of strife internal to ite p alt it of this till has come out of such things i is the recent pronouncement of senator e nalto mccormick McConn of illinois on the finance finenco commission plan of the ion the of ills friends that gillrain IV Solin stin IS 19 about jo to enter into tho the against calvin coolidge and tile anies told by one or two former officials linger bertho tho lie harding administration con kerning the probabilities in the johnson cuso case when the administration received from abroad word aorl of file alie probable agreement to accept tale alie hughes plan forthe for alie appointment oi of a financial commission to pass judgment on how much reparations money germany ninny can pay vid the republican politicians who were opposed to tho the harding plan tor for membership in the lie world court thought that the financial commission plan ight might offset the court matter and that the latter would not be pushed in the senate therefore they concluded that so called irreconcilability in the pary parly would be e satisfied and that there would be no opposition to the finance commission colu mission plan pinn the party de democrats cheerful again the thoughts of the lie lenders leaders seemingly did not run inn entirely right some of the of place who have objected front from the first to having anything to do with european affairs have aroe come out la in criticism of the finance plan tills lias has been interpreted by the democrats here as proving that the republicans cannot remain hav har Inon lous fous on world matters mattera for any great length of time and they say that they see aeo a rL reopening openIng of the strife which by general admission was in progress some time ago within the party ranks front from the republican point of view the democrats are showing an unjustifiable jubilation leading republicans hold that the so called callea ln the party are not in great numbers t opposed to tile the finance commission aplan as outlined by sir air hughes and bla a accepted accept eil with reservations by tile rallied I 1 allied governments they point to senator Boruh Borab ifor for instance who once upon a time was considered more set i against agali inter intermingling mingling in foreign affairs wIllin nan any sf of lits his bretl bret nen senas aitor tor borah has said eald that lie he approves ot of the finance commission plan but adds that lie he does s not think it goes quite far enough 6 ough lie he thinks it should have semore diore authority and more power k I 1 most of the leaders approve Ao provo t ao 30 a it seems that there Is one so called irreconcilable senator saying that the path Is not boang traveled far enough or fast enough while a few others are saying the pa path thought ought not f to have been entered upon at all it aid one may judge by appearances it would woold seem even in the face of such pronounced opposition to the plan as y voiced by some of the republicans Y that tile the majority of tile the present domi f party leaders Is favorable to the flit y f adoption of the hughes plan and to fa using list ag every evary effort to make it sue sile t cess ess ful the administration ond and tile the state department seem to be bd standing steady in the face ot of such criticism ns as has i been made of chatir plan for a finance 11 on there will be nothing ii i i onic laHy american about the he elon this means that the government cannot attempt to force reluctant na eions to accept the findings it la Is an advisory matter only and as such it Is 10 entirely out of the field of strict om 4 dalmoro dal doro 1 nevertheless the state do 1 part nent ment keeps hearing front from here there here and elsewhere in tile the country that tile the official iclal off action of the united states Is to be c commended orn mended or con according to the viewpoint of aad hd american who writes his opinion it if Is evident that the state depart nent chieftains are somewhat restive under the seeming misapprehension of f a good many american citizens about the tea teal nature of the proposed corn cori mission tyrue anil and again explanations f hae been milde made of the real scope of the plan explanations which have in eluded definite statements that the f commission Is to be advisory only and that in no way tl tj the united states about to enter into tbell the held eld of possible europen entanglements entangle ments the cepla 4 fr seemingly have chtive done no good v for or evey evea roen men high po 4 in and out seem lo jo be ystad suspicious that tha the commission hilj Is tile the entering entera ig wedge to be used to M miko an open opening tur for or americas ell cn arf i try into the maelstrom of european troubles gamo game refuse refuge bill coming up again tile federal lame jame bill will be introduced again into congress la in december tile tho measure Is one intended to establish public shooting grounds it passed the senate at the tha last session but was wag defeated in the house by less than a handful of voles W bailin roosevelt lias has given eleven acres of wild land tor for a bird refuge around the grave of his cousin theodore the land thus given will tie lie a sanctuary fur tho the songbirds song birds it Is of course immodest and all that sort of thing to reproduce any tiling thing printed in which ones namo la IS mentioned but perhaps there Is 18 excuse in fit alie present case an editorial appeared a few days ago in tile hie new ew york tribune entitled tile roosevelt bird refuge in it was a reference to the writer of tills this article a reference ente wi wilch ah will show that I 1 am at a least in my belief that the birds need resting and breeding breedin to from and will show also that there Is sincerity in the th writers advocacy of the passage of oie he federal ganie ame refuge bill the tribune editorial Is its as follows follow 4 in the exciting days that prece preceded deI tile roosevelt bolt from tile the 1912 1012 republican convention the colonel was receiving it a t lilg his head headquarters qua aers ln in cap bafo tin an tin unbroken broken line of governors senators and political personages asking what lie he was going to do wrens rested nested roosevelt Floo sevelt in id tho line was it a washington Mm correspondent edward B clark who lini had written the magazine article in which colonel roosevelt eu attacked the Ina nature fakers bakers 1 him tho the colonel summoned oneil into an anteroom clark said lie he let us its deviate into ornithology why luve haie tho the house wrens left oyster bay the answer was groat great heavens colonel why talk about house wrens rans now I 1 11 because Ue cause they rest ine give me 1 ten minutes of house wrens ni and id I 1 can talk to seventy governors the love loe of birds wits was tin an inherent part of the many sided character of t theodore roosevelt sir mr W roosevelt Roua evelt does docs a fitting thing in giving eleven acres of wild land for a elrd refuse refuge around the tomb of its his cousin at oyster bay the colonel would enjoy tt it us as keenly its ua his feathered friends i As already ady lias has been old fald this bird refuge a ai the grave bravo of it a great lover of tile lie feathered kind I 1 Is 4 to be a songbird sanctuary an occasional gamo game bird will find its way into it but tile intention of the federal game refuge bill la Is to provide tracts of land for game birds bird in p order that in the close seasons they may have proper resting feeding and breeding bleeding places and that in tile alie open season tile tho reserved te served lands may provide shooting opportunities within limitations for persons who today find that too great expense attaches to traveling to distant places where shooting can be obtained bill Is an economic measure vils tills matter lias has been touched upon i before in letters from ton but tile the kima Is coining when america must choose between two things the entire loss of its game supplies 10 or their preservation without loss of game for proper shooting afield the fe federal Jeral game refuge bill 1111 Is an L of considerable moment mol mel to the lie country it alms to give privileges to the men who now can call afford them and yet jet at the same time to establish restrictions which will mill insure tin nn increase in the game supply in n few words the measure provides tor for the taking over by bythe the government of marsh lands which aro are unfit tor for agricultural purposes even it if drained and aad tor for tile the maintenance of thern them as resting find and feeding places for the ducks the geese and other migratory water birds as they pass from south to north and from north to south in spring and in fall it la Is proposed to impose an individual federal license licen se fee of 1 for shooting purposes tile the money to bo be used to support the service there was little pr or no opposition to the bill manifest in the senate at the last session the house defeated it because of what ahai bird lovers seemed to think waa wa it a misunderstanding of its merits since tile the migratory game birds oi tile the country have been placed under federal jurisdiction through tho the law which puts into effect a treaty with th the canadian gov government ern menti the wild fowl have increased materially tho the danger that lies in tile the future in fact tho the danger that Is present today la 13 that uie the birds lacking proper feeding breeding and resting places will disappear through tile the workings of a nat ural law the proposal Is to save for the birds the feeding places which it Is known cannot bo be used to advantage for tho the growing of crops chopa or for tiny other economic purpose |