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Show 000. General Yui, the Japanese military mili-tary commander there, says Japan will remain until China fulfills every pledge made in Washington. T EADKRS of the Free State and ' republican fnctlons of the Irish, together with several neutral but influential in-fluential personages, began a conference confer-ence in Dublin Thursday which It was hoped would result in the cessation of the hostilities and an agreement on the date of the elections. Arthur Griffith had planned the election for June, but De Vnlera .objects to its being be-ing held on the existing register because be-cause it is out of date. In the British parliament the opposition bitterly attacked at-tacked the government because of the Irish situation and the danger of a coup d'etat by De Valera during the Raster recess. Winston Churchill in a brilliant speech defended the government. gov-ernment. THE senate finance committee's version of the revised tariff was reported on Tuesday, bearing the signatures of all of the ten Republican members except Senator La Follette of Wisconsin. In this measure, as compared with the house bill, rates of duty have been shifted and the basis of ad valorem duties has been changed from that of the American value, as proposed by the house, back to the present foreign valuation basis. This makes the ad valorem rates higher, but the specific duties in many cases have been lowered. Agricultural Agri-cultural products and some classes of manufactured goods are given increased in-creased rates. Senator McCumber, chairman of the committee, says the bill has been written on the basis of both protection and revenue, no rate being so high as to cut off reasonable foreign competition or so low that American manufacturers cannot hold their full share of the American mar-, ket. He gives assurance that there will be final enactment of tariff legislation leg-islation before congress adjourns. THERE Is not much to be said concerning the coal miners' strike. I 'resident Lewis of the mine workers estimates that during the week 25,000 nonunion men joined the strikers, making a total of 7o,000 recruits of that class. In some Ohio fields strikers strik-ers in large bodies made demonstrations demonstra-tions at mines still operating, and the owners appealed for protection. Congressman Huddleston of Alabama Ala-bama introduced a bill giving authority author-ity to judges of federal courts on the application of the attorney general to appoint receivers to operate closed mines. GROWING fiercer daily, the fight between the "little navy" men in the house and those who support the administration's ideas on this matter developed some fireworks last week. 1'arty lines are broken, and Mr. Padgett of Tennessee, former chairman chair-man of the naval committee, led many of his fellow Democrats to the support of the administration. The most effective arguments of the latter were in a letter from Secretary Hughes, read by Representative Rogers. Rog-ers. He urged that the standard of the naval treaty of Washington be maintained unless the prestige of th United States was to be impaired and its security put in jeopardy. "Jimmy" Gallivan of Massachusetts suggested that the navy be turned over to the prohibition commissioners. TVO Republican ex-service men, Woodruff of Michigan and Johnson John-son of South Dakota, united in threatening threat-ening Attorney General Daugherty with impeachment and in demanding wholesale courts-martial in the War department. They asked that a select se-lect committee of the house investigate investi-gate the liquidation of war-time contracts, con-tracts, charging fraud and corruption in the sale of property at ridiculously ridiculous-ly low prices to favored individuals. Secretary of War Weeks issued a general denial and invited investigation. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Russian Delegates Start Rows in the Economic Conference in Genoa. INSISTING ON DISARMAMENT Lloyd George's Plan for Ten-Year Peace Pact Germans Expect Discussion Dis-cussion of Reparations Senate's Tariff Bill Reported Progress of Fight to S-ive Navy. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Lacking the spirit that animated the Washington conference, that of reaching an agreement, the European economic conference which opened last week In Genoa may, nevertheless, manage man-age to evolve some comprehensive project that will meet the needs of the old world. Premier Lloyd George, who Is dominating the meeting, believes be-lieves It will. Many other eminent men and a great ninny European newspapers news-papers are skeptical. Already It Is evident that if any definite agreement of wide scoiie Is reached, It must be through the yielding of France and the smaller nations that are members of the French "bloc." Soviet Kussla, through Its spokesman, spokes-man, Tchltcheiin, though accepting the "civilized nation test" of the Cannes ngreement in order to obtain a seal In the conference. Is still Insistent In-sistent and almost obstreperous, being bolstered by the support of the Germans Ger-mans and cerfain of the neutral nations na-tions and by the universally admitted fact that Europe cannot be restored economically until Russia is again one of the family of nations. At the very outset Tchltcherin. after accepting the Cannes conditions, precipitated an angry an-gry debate with the French by Insisting Insist-ing that it was necessary to discuss disarmament. Lloyd George soon quieted the uproar by saying: "Gentlemen, we have agreed not to discuss disarmament, and therefore our French colleague is right, but we must not waste our time In argument. We must get on. Nevertheless, in niy opinion, the conference will naturally nat-urally result In disarmament." Next day the Russians protested flic presence of the Japanese and the Rumanians, because Japan anil Rumania Ru-mania are "unlawfully occupying Russian Rus-sian territories in Siberia and Bessarabia. Bes-sarabia. Viscount Ishli replied that Japan would take part in the conference confer-ence In spite of the Russian objections, objec-tions, and Bratiano, premier of Rumania, Ru-mania, asserted that Bessarabia, which is mainly populated by his countrymen, had been awarded to Rumania by the allies. Premier Facta of Italy, who had been elected permanent president of the eonfer-ence, eonfer-ence, ruled that In any case the invitations in-vitations were Irrevocable, and the Bolshevik delegates hugged themselves them-selves with glee because the ruling means that they cannot be ousted even if they later repudiate the Cannes conditions. tkrgftuixatinn of the committees brought more trouble. The first and chief one, to deal with Russian nf fairs, is made up of Great Britain. Frame Italy. Germany. Russia. Bel-glum Bel-glum ami Japan, and of Poland. Rumania. Ru-mania. Sweden and Switzerland, elected elect-ed by the little powers. Tchltcherin demanded that Russia be given two members on this committee because of her special position, but there was stub strenuous objection that he subsided. sub-sided. Harthou for France and Theiinys for Belgium wanted Russia Bnd Herman? excluded from this committee, com-mittee, to which Lloyd George replied that In that case the conference might as well be abandoned immediately. Russia. It was stateil in Genoa, was ready to give all the financial guarantees guaran-tees demanded in the program which the experts of the allies prepared last month In London, but would not no ,epi the clause providing for mixed tribunals to fix responsibility, consid Wilis i he latter an infringement o: ttuvsttin riivi rHirtitv. The soviet dele gut lot. hud an alternate plan pre ,;--- I , T LOYD GEORGE has ready for 1 ' presentation to the conference n mutual guaranty pact, a variation of Article X of the League of Nations covenant, by which wars in Europe would be prohibited for ten years. He thinks that if this were adopted, villi a penalty clause that all other nations should unite against any power pow-er Invading or wantonly attacking iinotlier, the soviet Red army could lie disbanded, and the little entente ind eventually France could reduce he size of their land forces. France and Poland claim they must main-lain main-lain large armies to meet the. threat if Russia against the Poles, though t is generally understood the French really have in mind action against Germany in case the reparations are not paid. The delegates from the little lit-tle entente, though not entirely satisfied satis-fied with the form of this plan, it is said will support it on two conditions: That their right under existing treaties to invade Hungary in case of an attempted at-tempted Hapshurg restoration be integrally in-tegrally maintained, and that the signatory nations agree to help one another by force of arms against any one who breaks the pact. It was ex peeted that both France and Great Britain would support them In the first condition but that " the latter would oppose the second, because she wished to model the pact on the Washington Wash-ington treaty In order to please America and because the British are not willing to engage to send troops to the continent. Up to this time the Germans haven't had much to say in the conference, but In the first meeting of the committee com-mittee on finance Herr Hennas, German Ger-man minister of finance, started something some-thing of a row by alluding to the reparations. I'icard of France angrily objected to even the mention of the word. Of course, however, the Germans Ger-mans expect the subject will have to be handled by the conference ultimately, ulti-mately, and in this they are supported by Premier Branting of Sweden, who really is spokesman for the neutral nations. He declares flatly that the treaties of the entente with Its former enemies must be revised ; and he also approves of Tchitcherin's disarmament disarma-ment proposals, asserting that this is the biggest thing before the conference. confer-ence. Russia says her budget is covered cov-ered by tl'.e revenues and that her army will soon be reduced from 0,000.000 to 1,000.000. Her representative representa-tive on the finance committee insisted on talking disarmament. SENATOR FRANCE of Maryland has informed the statesmen in Genoa that he is pressing in the senate sen-ate a resolution for representation of the United States in the conference, and, asks them to renew their invitation invita-tion to Washington. It is stated in t lie capital that the attitude of the administration on his matter has not changed. Among the unofficial American Amer-ican observers in Genoa is Frank Van-derlip. Van-derlip. and it is likely his advice will be sought by the committee on finance. He said in an interview: "The question of the revision of the Gannnn reparations is extremely vital to European reconstruction and therefore there-fore it is regrettable that the conference confer-ence refuses to discuss it. In fact, it is doubtful whether the conference will result in much unless the reparations repara-tions are discussed. It is necessary to reconstruct Germany as well as rhe other nations on an economic basis, and surely Germany will remain in a bnd state unless her reparations matters mat-ters are definitely settled here." JAPAN, while negotiating an agreement agree-ment with the Chita government of the Far East an agreement which is reported to have been already signed is ruthlessly supporting the Vladivostok government, to the extent ex-tent of fighting the Chita forces continually. con-tinually. The latter have been driven tnt of the neutral zone between them and the Vladivostok territory and the Japanese and Vladivostok troops have moved far to the north. The Japanese press is insistent on evacuation of Siberia, but the military party refuses. As for Shantung, the chances that China will ever recover that province from Japan are fading. The Chines' are distracted with their civil war and those who J;tipw conditions ca; see no way In which China can rais the price whl h Japan exacts for tti eturn of the Shantung development and the Kiau-Chnti leased territor This will amount to about SoOO.000.- GFNERAE SEMENOFF. who calls ! himself ataman of all the Cos-sacks, Cos-sacks, is having his troubles in the j United States. Coming to r-ilse funds 1 to renew warfare on Soviets, he was rrested In a civil suit res'tlVng from i i theft of goods by his fori es ; an-1 ben the government r. as asked to de- j ort him, and American nfrers told n i senate cwnmlttre of th autrnzea I committed by his men In Siberia. |