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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY," NOVEMBER 19, 1019. HICALS' DEFEAT STABILIZES FRANCE Election Is Overwhelming Vic tory for Clemenceau. REDS' REBUFF CRUSHING "Tiger's Policy and Progrannr Arc Upheld Everywhere, Even la Far-Away Alsace. BY WILLIAM COOK. Copyrictit by the Nw York "World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) PARIS. Nov. 18. (Special.) The male population of France has cast its vote. The future policy, indeed tne destiny of France, which but 48 hours ago still hunp in the balance, is now secure. Bolshevism has been defeated, and this news, rapidly carried around Paris, caused the utmost satisfaction. Such a result was never doubted, but there had been fears that the repub lican majority might not be large enough to Insure peace and tranquil lity. The crushing defeat sustained by the socialists of all shades is the sub ject of universal comment today. Many knew that French common sense would again rise to the top, despite rtolshevik propaganda, which has eat en up a huge sum out of that party's finances. Many workmen today real ize the mistake they have made In ever voting for revolutionaries, and row they seem to have had a weight lifted from their shoulders. Large Representative Vote Cant. One of the outstanding features of the elections was the relatively email percentage of the voters who remained away from the polls. All showed the keenest desire to make known their policy. Snow, slush and mud could not deter them from a duty which every Frenchman considers sacred. There were but few persons who grumbled at the new ways of voting, which they considered complicated. Others objected that there was not quite enough secrecy, but when they had done their voting they left pleased, to all appearances. The women of France seem particu larly pleased at the result of the elec tion, and there can be no doubt that j had the women been able to vote the majority obtained by the republican block would have been even more overwhelming. One ingenious news paper, despite the strike, found a novel way of making the women vote. Although their votes cannot be taken into account, the result Is eagerly awaited. Vote Is Clemenceau Victory. Motors paraded the streets of Paris and its suburbs asking women to scribble the name of their candidate on any sort of paper and cache it in a special box affixed to the car. The women enthusiastically seized the op portunity afforded and so successful was the result of the campaign that counting the votes will take at least three or four days. As regards the results of the real voting, it spells the crowning success of Premier Clemenceau's political ca reer. - On the eve of retiring from political life, he sees his opponents and enemies defeated and his policy and programme upheld all over France, even in far-away Alsace. In the Seine et Oise department the tiger scored another great victory, the people having returned Andre Tardleu's list of 14 candidates. Tardieu was first called to power as a minister by Clemenceau. His bit terest opponent was Franklin Borlon, president of the chamber committee on foreign relations, who is not re turned to parliament. Premier Clem enceau came into the peace confer ence today in a gay humor, as the vote is taken as an overwhelming vote of confidence in the peace treaty, j Soldier Candidates Lacking. j There was a noticeable absence of soldier candidates. Some departmen tal results are not known yet, as well as some from the suburbs of Paris, but it seems sad to predict that the new chamber will not number many soldiers among the deputies. So far, General de Castelnau, "the victor of Nancy," is the only one re turned. General Malleterre was defeated by some 10,000 votes in the Calvados de partment. The defeat of the social ists is even more pronounced than earlier Indications showed. Even Lon gust is defeated, which will remove from the chamber Its most violent radical. By espousing the bolshevik cause, French socialists lost a million votes in Paris and its suburbs. Their defeat was more striking when it is consid ered that France is going through a difficult economic period with much unrest. The socialists were also able to carry on openly an electrical cam paign against any military policy, but France was not with them. Socialist opposition to the peace treaty also counted against them. TREATY FIGHT NEAR END Continued From Firat Page.l tration senators to override the vote ! or the irreconcilables and nine dem ocrats. The proposal relative to voting equality, presented by Senator Xen root. republican. Wisconsin, won, 55 to 38, on a motion to substitute It for a less sweeping proposal by Sen ator McCumber. It then was formally adopted without a rollcalL-Previously a reservation on the same subject by Senator Johnson, California, bad been rejected, 46 to 43, 'with eight demo crats voting for it and the mild res ervatlonista lining up solidly in op position. Mild Reaervatloalat. Art. The wheels of compromise were started revolving by the mild reserva tion republicans early in the day, when they held a conference and de cided on these propositions: That if the democrats voted down the committee resolution of ratifica tion they would support a motion to reconsider, thus bringing the resolu tions back before the senate for changes. That they would not support & mo tion to sustain the chair in any rul ing bearing out the administration's plan for a separate resolution of rat ification after the committee proposal had been defeated. That they were willing to see some modification of the preamble reserva tion requiring the affirmative assent of other nations to the senate's qual ifications. That any further compromise nego tiations by the democrats must be conducted, not with them, but with the republican leaders. Hitchcock Advised to Move. Of these decisions they informed Senators Hitchcock and Lodge, with the added advice to the former to move today for any compromise he hoped to secure. The conference be tween the democratic and republican leaders, at which an earnest effort at compromise was understood to have been made, followed almost Imme diately. The exact nature of the democratic counter-proposals was not - revealed, but they were understood to have been aimed particularly at the pre amble requirement, to which Presi dent Wilson objected vigorously at his White House conference Monday with Senator Hitchcock. How the president would regard the committee's reservations with the preamble stricken out also was uncer tain, but it was learned that he had written a letter to Senator Hitchcock, who will lay it before a conference of democratic senators tomorrow morning. The modification plan of the demo crats is understood to make it possi ble for the other powers to accept the reservations by "mere acquiescence." rather" than by a specific exchange of notes. The practical result would be, it was said, to provide for tacit acceptance, which could be taken for granted unless the other nations pro tested. Two reservations by Senator France. republican. Maryland, were rejected today in short order, one without a rollcall, and the other, 71 to 3, with support only from Senators Ball, Del aware; France and Sherman, Illinois. all republicans. The first proposed that the United States might with draw from the league upon rejection of any amendment it should offer to the covenant, and the second proposed an American mandatory for Ger many's African colonies. Despite demands of Senator La Fol- lette, republican, Wisconsin, for a rec ord vote, a reservation by Senator Owen, democrat, Oklahoma, providing that the president's 14 points should be binding" in execution of the treaty, was defeated without a rollcall. ii HELD STILL NEEDED Wilson Vetoes Bill Surrender ing U. S. Authority. ACT DECLARED JUSTIFIED Government, While Operating Roads, Must Be Able to Meet Emergencies, Says President. FRANCE PROPOSES TO GO OX' Treaty to Be Put Into Force Re gardless of America. PARIS. Nov 18. Regardless of . the American government's attitude, the peace treaty of Versailles will be put Into force, according to the prevalent view here today following receipt of the report that President Wilson might withdraw the treaty from the United States senate. Whatever happens, the feeling In French circles is that France cannot meet the German plenipotentiaries agaln.Vand French opinion is that Italy and Great Britain have a like feel'ng. BRITOX DEPLORES V. S. ACTION Reservations Held Practical Re pudiation of Treaty. LONDON', Monday, Nov. 17. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking in the house f commons today, in referring to he action of the United States sen- te or. the German peace treaty, de- lared the reservations that had been provisionally accepted amounted al most to repudiation of the covenant. "We desire American co-operation nd American leading." he said, "but if tne United States decides not to hare In this great international ef fort we must go on, and the burden will be the greater upon us and the other nations." qualifications which they would help to write into the treaty, but the sen ate extended its sessions far into the evening, voting down numerous other proposals in an effort to clear the way before adjournment for work to morrow on the ratification resolution Itself. The two other reservations adopted related to the labor provi sions In part 13 of the treaty and to voting equality in the League o Na tions. McCumber Measure Carries. The labor qualification was offered hy Senator McCumber, republican North Dakota, and was accepted, 54 to 3o, with nine democrats supporting it. A proposed substitute by Senator King, democrat, Utah, which would have excluded the United States un conditionally from the labor provi eions, was rejected, 4S to 43, the mild resprvntlonlsts lotnine the adminis r. S. AID COUNTED CXLIKELY London Chronicle Regrets Senate Action on Treaty. LONDON. Nov. 18. Commenting upon reservations to the Versailles treaty by the United States senate and President Wilson's threat to withdraw the pact, the Chronicle, which i3 supposed to reflect the view of Premier Lloyd-George, says: 'Unless the league is to tall alto gether, other nations must go ahead for some years without America s participation, and we hope they will cromotly decide to do so. Great Britain ana r ranee nwi been very anxious not to hurt Ameri crn susceptibilities. In Justice to our own peoples and Europe, now- ever, we cannot delay In getting to work with the league." Eyesight Dim? 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"I want to make it clear," said Mr. Newell, "that none of the beet sugar sold at the new advanced price has yet been shipped from California and that until some of it arri ves here there is to be no change in price. It will probably be ten days to two weeks before any of the higher priced sugar arrives here. When it does ar rive I will announce the fact. Until such time consumers should not pay more than lli cents for sugar. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Holding that the authority of the railroad ad ministration over rates, schedules and classifications was necessary to en able it promptly to meet operating emergencies arising during the exist ing period of heavy traffic, President Wilson today vetoed the senate bill restoring the pre-war rate-making powers of the interstate commerce commission. Because of the short time interven ing before the roads are returned to private operation on January 1, lead ers in the senate and house were agreed that no effort would be made to pass the measure over the veto. Republican Leader Mondell of the house said he never had approved the bill and was in accord with the presi dent's action. The president's message disapprov ing the bill, of which Senator Cum mins was the author, was transmitted to the senate, but because of the cloture on the peace treaty. It was not formally presented. President Explains Veto. "This bill," said the president's message, "deprives the government of the United States, while still charged with exclusive responsibility for operating the railroads during federal control, of any power to make any change in any intrastate rates, fare, chart, classification, regulation or practice without having first se cured the approval of the proper state regulating tribunals, whereas under the federal control act as originally enacted the government of the United States has the same power to de termine intrastate matters as it had to determine similar matters of an interstate character. "The immediate effect of such a change in the law would be to deprive the federal government of the ability to cope promptly and decisively with operating emergencies which are now arising and must continue to arise during the existing period of heavy trartic. "Since the authorities of each state would, under this bill, have full power to exercise an independent Judgment, the probable result would have been to prevent any uniform practice at all, notwithstanding the fact that the fed eral government was in sole opera tion or the railroads and as such con ducting the intrastate as well as the interstate operations. Delays Would Be Costly. "At present the railroad administra tion is proceeding with an important measure to secure the heavier load ing of cars with grain and grain prod ucts so as to meet more fully the urgent need for greater transporta tion of those commodities. If it should bo necessary to obtain the independ ent judgment of each state tribunal, the delay would probably be so great as 10 aeieat tne purpose. i ne matters l have mentioned are Illustrations of present practical emergencies which must be dealt with promptly if they are to be dealt with effectively, &nd while the fed eial government alone is responsible for railroad operation it ought to have within itself the power to deal with .these problems. The practice ot the railroad administration to se cure the advice of the interstate commerce commission upon matters of importance reasonably insures an adequate representation of the pub lie interest and avoids the divided action and inevitable delay which would result if each state authority should have exclusive and final pow er as to regulation of intrastate traf f ic within its borders. Beyond these pressing practica exigencies I feel that it is a fa sounder general principle to vest the federal government power to raise the revenue to operate the rail roads when the federal government alone is responsible for paying the bills for their operation. Problems Aria Ins Daily. "The broad question of general prin ciple which I have Just discussed, might perhaps be waived in view of the short duration of federal control. but the practical emergencies to which I have first referred are matters with which the federal government must deal day by day in the discharge of its responsibility, and I do not think Its ability to deal with them prompt ly and conclusively should be impaired even during a brief period of federal control. "The leading principle of this bill, which Is to give the interstate com merce commission power to suspend rates, practices, etc., initiated by the president, is entirely acceptable to me. although if in- the future the bill should be repassed I should hope to see some modifications in detail which would avoid attaching a presumption of un reasonableness (as this bill appears to do) to changes so initiated in rates, practices, etc. I should also hope to see another modification which would avoid any possibility of bring ing in question the validity of orders which already have been made by the railroad administration in the dis charge of its responsibility." TAW MAN HAS GAINED 25 POUNDS McDermott Feels Like a New Person Since Tanlac Built Him Up. "I have gained about 25 pounds In weight and feel like a different per son since I began taking Tanlac" said Thomas McDermott, an employe of the Todd shipyards, residing at the corner of Market and Eleventh streets, Tacoma, recently. Continu ing:, he said: "For years I suffered with stomach and kidney troubles. I had a very poor appetite and everything I ate would sour and ferment and I would become nauseated after every meal. Gas would form and I would bloat something awful and could hardly get my breath. I was also troubled with constipation and had to be taking some kind of laxative all the time. I would have the worst sort of dizzy spells and often would have to grab hold of something to keep from falling, and I had the headache all the time. My kid neys were -in such bad condition and I had such pains in the small of my back It was an effort for me to get up and down. I lost a great deal of weight and was very weak and felt dull and tired all the time. It was all I could do to drag myself around and was really not able to work and thought constantly I would have to give up. I was very nervous and could sleep but very little and would get up in the morning as tired as when I went to bed. "I read so much about Tanlac help ng others I decided to try it, and I began to improve almost at once. My appetite has returned and I eat any thing I want without being bothered in the least with Indigestion. I am no longer troubled with gas or bloating or shortness of breath. The headaches and dizziness have left me entirely, my kidneys are in fine condition and never have a pain of any kind. My nerves are as steady as can be and I sleep like a log all night long and get up In the morning feeling re freshed and ready for my work. In fact. I am enjoying the best health have for years and X owe it ail to Tanlac." Tanlac Is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug Co. Adv. miiiimiiiiiiiiMiumiiiiiiiiuiiiiimimiimiiimiimtimiiimiimiiiiiiiimiiiiim Quantity Buying Enables Us to Offer This SALE of Table and Davenport Stand Lamps I Ornamental beautifying the season's most acceptable Christmas gift. I A few pictured and described many other handsome designs await your selecting. All Metal Lamp $16.25 Instead of $22.00 This picturesque lamp stands 22 inches high has gracefully curved 16 inch panel shade. Antique gold finish with silk cord to match. talning to the gallery, which appre ciated his remarks that he hoped he was speaking in the time of Mr. Borah. Under the cloture rule time a most precious article with sen ators. The Lenroot reservation which was adopted simply provides that the United States will not be bound by any decisions of the league assembly or council In which any empire (hav- ng particular reference to Great Britain) casts more than one vote. The passage of the McCumber amendment to the labor section of the treaty was unexpected, but It is important because even on the demo cratic side it has been difficult for several senators to support the league covenant carrying these provisions. The McCumber amendment simply withholds the United States from participation In any international labor conference under the league until congress authorizes our entrance. Briefly, the United States, by act of congress, can avail Itself of any privileges of the labor provisions whenever congress decides that it is wise to participate. An amendment by Senator King, democrat, of Utah, which was de feated, would have killed the labor provisions entirely. An interesting development of the day was that Senator Hitchcock re pudiated his own reservation to arti cle 10, saying that if the senate adopt ed It he would vote against the treaty. He explained in interviews that he simply introduced it to give a work ing basis for any qualifying action relative to article 10. Nate the saving! fT n ft ' Ideal Christmas Gifts Gold-Panelled Lamp $12 Instead of $17.50 Wonderfully attractive, 22 inches high. 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WILSON THREAT CHARGED Under SENATE IN TREATY DEAL (Continued From First Pare.) "I hope the senator is not speaking in my time." "1 hope I am," said McCumber in intense anger as he took his seat. McCumber's come-back was enter- Kx-Saloon Keeper Is Held Bonds of $5000. CHICAGO, Nov. 18. John Kiedrow sky, an ex-saloonkeeper, is being held in bonds of $5000 by United States Commissioner Mark A. Foote on charge of threatening the life of President Wilson when the country went dry. lviedrowsky admits he made some such statement, but "didn't mean it. "It did make me mad to see the country go dry, though," he said. Italian Premier Re-elected. ROME, Nov. 17. Francisco Nitti the premier, and the other candidates on his list in his province were elected Constipation To relieve it. and to stimulate the torpid liver and- other digestive or gans, take the prompt and pleasant Hood's Pills Eay to take, easy to operate. Mad by C. I. Hood Co., Loweil, Miu. 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