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16 THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1919. THE HANDICAPPED BY SENATE FAILURE World Restoration to Peace Basis Delayed. OTHER ROWERS WILL ACT r. S. Commercial Relations With Central, Powers Not Likely Soon to Be Improved. WASHINGTON". Nov. 20. Although not changing- technically the existing relations between the United States ami Germany, the senate's failure to ratify the peace treaty at its special cession is expected ty administration officials and diplomats to have an in direct result of some importance on the steos now being- taken to restore the world to a peace basis. One ot the first consequences, ac cording to the view taken here, is likely to be the hastening of ne gotiations in Paris to restore full commercial and diplomatic relations between Germany and the powers -which have ratified the treaty. Paris dispatches have said this step whs waiting, for one thing, on the action of the senate, but it is thought there will be no further delay for that reason. The new congress will meet Decern ber l, but not even the most ardent supporters of the treaty believe it would be nossible to take it up again at the outset of the session. The Christmas recess in expected to in tervene before much could be accom plished, with the result that a clear field for treaty consideration would not be opened before January. Xw ArransCfmrat Necwwiry. Once the other great powers have gone ahead with the establishment of full trade and diplomatic relations with Germany, officials say new ar rangements will have to be made by the United States to fit into the com mercial scheme thus created whatever trade the United States has with the centra! powers. At present the war arrangement by which Spain is taking care of Amer ican interests in Germany continues in force and is not expected to be dis turbed. The rationing of supplies of various sorts to Germany must begin under the treaty terms, however, and the power of the reparations commis sion will be set up to determine all the getails of Germany's commercial inter course with other nations. On this commission the United States will have no representation, though it is hoped to work out a plan by which this country can keep in close touch with the body's work in order to protect American interests. Trade Relation Problem. The state department is emphatic in its stand that no American consuls can be sent into Germany until peace has been definitely established be tween the United .States and that country, and they declare that only imperfect trade relations can be built up without the consular officers. A contrary view is held, however, by some of the senators who opposeJ ratification of the treaty. Notable in that connection is the stand taken by Senator Knox, a former secretary of state, who holds that by the language of the treaty full commercial and diplomatic intercourse can be resumed with Germany by all of her late ene mies as soon as three countries ratify it. Various other senators have taken a similar view and Senator Fall, re publican. New Mexico, has declared repeatedly in the senate that the United States already is trading with Germany in the full sense of the term and that American consular agents could be installed without overstepping international law. There seems little prospect, how ever, that the state department will accept such a construction. Knotty Questions Rained. Figures on America's trade with Germany in October have not been fully compiled, but in September the United States imported nearly $2,000. 000 worth of goods from that country and sent it goods valued at about $9,000,000. For the nine months end ing with September the import trade totaled nearly $3,000,000 and exports about $34,000,000. This compared with pre-war exports of about $275,000,000 for a nine-month period. A further increase was to be looked for in the figures for October. The senate's failure to act left on the hands of the administration a big collection of knotty problems, chief among which is the question of prop erty rights in the German ships and other property of enemy aliens seized by the government in this country. The state department ex perts say there is no legal sanction for retention of this property unless the treaty, which contains a pro vision legalizing it, is ratified. As a corollary to this problem stands the question of what is to become of the vast American interests in Ger many, especially At the technical state of war is to continue and no American consuls or diplomatic representatives are to be sent to take up the subject directly. Pence Declaration Urged. In these property questions is un derstood to lie one of the chief ob jections of the administration to the plan of republican leaders to declare the state of war ended by a resolu tion of congress. Without the treaty provisions, officials say, a state of peace would leave this country in s awkward position when it came to e tabliyh its title to the German ships and the other German interests taken over and in many cases liquidated by the alien enemy property cus todian. There i every evidence, however, that the republican leaders in con gress. anxious to get the country an actual peace basis so that the man war-time legislative provisions rit erased and a more normal legal foundation placed under the country trade, are going ahead with thei plan of declaring peace by resolutio as soon as the new congress meets. A resolution making such a declara tion was introduced last night by Republican Leader Lodge after three attempts to ratify the treaty had failed. Not only is it expected start another bitter fight in the new session, reviving many issues of th peace treaty controversy, but if it parsed the constitutional authority of congress to take such a etep is sure to be questioned. In the opinion of some officials a situation will resul which only the supreme court can un tangle. Serious Tangle Possible. The republicans claim that the sol right of congress to declare war car ries with it the right to declare peace. In that situation, many officials foresee a possibility that the presi dent and congress may soon find themselves in a disagreement which will have to be thrown into the courts to be decided. On such a question the courts would be without precedent, and it is taken lor ran led Uia-t only. a. xulX&g from the highest tribunal in the land would be accepted as final. Foremost of all the domestic prob lems waiting on some sort of peace declaration is prohibition. Hopes have about disappeared for an end of the war-time act by senate ratification of the treaty in time to permit a wet season before the constitutional amendment becomes effective January 16. With a constitutional controversy developing about a declaration of peace by resolution that avenue De- gins to look almost equally inaccessible. The hone of the wets therefore has been transferred to the supreme court. before which proceedings to test the validity of the war-time law were argued today. Other Issnea Troublesome. But liquor is by no means the only consideration involved in the con tinuation of a technical state of war. Until peace is declared formally the war-time food and fuel control powers of the executive are in full force and the espionage act operates unim paired. Members of congress are mindful also that the war legislation author izing government operation of rail roads gave the president power, if he chose, to hold the railway systems until 21 months after peace shall have been accomplished. He has an nounced, however, that he will return the roads on January 1. It was pointed out that the effect of the senate's failure to act would be of a negative character only with regard to the American troops in oc cupied portions of Germany. War de partment officials said it would mean no change in the present disposition, which had been based entirely on the terms of the armistice and which did not depend in any respect on the terms of the treaty. Coblens Occupation Legal. The occupation of Coblenz is re garded both by administration offi cials and by all elements in the sen ate to be clearly within ttie limits of the president's power as commander in chief of the army. His authority to use tfoops to carry out any pro visions of the treaty is an entirely different question, and the war de partment already has conceded the stand of opposition senators that no such action could be taken until the senate has acted. Although a force of American sol diers has been sent to Coblenz with view to their possible use ultimately to help police the plebiscite in upper Silesia, Secretary Baker has an nounced that they will remain a part of the Coblenz garrison unless the senate, by ratifying the treaty, makes American participation in the plebis cite strictly legal. HOULU WANTS HQS KTTRAIi SECTIOJf OP CliACKJV- MAS URGES BONDS. CITY COUNCIL IS ROUSED PUBLIC ITILITIES' EFFORT TO CUT TAX RATIO FOUGHT. Serious IiOss of Revenue Faced by Portland if Valuation on Property Is Reduced. Presentation of data by officials of public service corporations in Port- and to the state tax commission lor the purpose of having the tax valua tions reduced on property held by uch companies has aroused members the city council into action. Any lowering of the tax levy or the ratio of valuation on such property -would result in loss of revenue to the city t a time when such revenue is sorely eeded. Deputy City Attorney Latourette was dispatched to Salem Wednesday where he conferred with state offi- ials. but found the proceedings had not progressed to such stage as to warrant the announcement of any entative figures. Last year the state tax commis sion based the tax value 01 tne property of public service corpora tions on 62 per cent of the actual value, taking Into consideration the dividends paid by the corporations. the property owned by them and the gross earnings ot the corporations. Today is the last day under the law in which the council has to make its levy for 1920. The failure of the tax commission to decide upon the valuation to be placed on public service corporations places the city officials in a desperate situation, a: under the law the council is not per mitted to appropriate more money than is in prospect. With the valuation to be made on the holdings of the public service corporations in doubt, the city coun cil of Portland, as well as of every other incorporated city in the state, has no way of knowing just what money is in prospect for the coming year. Citizens of County Will Vote Issue of $1,700,000 Next Monday. MOLALLA. Or., Nov. 19. (To the Editor.) On November 24 Clackamas county will vote on the question of issuing road bonds to the amount of $1,700,000. This issue is as import ant to Portland as if it were in Mult nomah county. This is the first time that the Molalla valley has ever had an opportunity to adopt a compre hensive road scheme which gives promise of permanent roads on prac tical grades. While the Molalla valley Is but one section of the county and what can be said of conditions here are largely true of other sections, it would be difficult to exaggerate the import ance of the coming election ana its effect on the development of this large rural section. The Molalla valley Is the north eastern end of the Willamette valley and is traversed by the Molalla river. It consists of over a hundred square miles of level and slightly rolling farm lands. The little city of Molalla is the center of this fertile region. It is the oldest .farm section in the state. There were 6000 acres ot prairie land here awaiting the i plow of the settler and as early as! 1843 it was looked upon as a haven for the - pioneer farmer. Here was born the first white girl to see . the ight in Oregon, Susan Jackson. Her brother, John Jackson, recently de ceased, is thought to have been the first white boy born in Oregon. In spite of the fact that this valley lay within a few miles of Portland it was not until 1913 it had a rail road. That year the Portland-Eugene Eastern, under the management of Robert Strahorn, constructed a line from the main line of the Southern Pacific at Canby. The next year the Willamette Valley Southern con structed an electric road from Ore gon City to Mt. Angel via Molalla. Since then the development has been rapid. Besides the large acreage of farm land which is suitable for all kinds of agricultural and horticultural devel opment, to the south and east of the town of Molalla there are between 4,000,000,000 and 5,000.000.000 feet of standing merchantable timber. The section's great need has been highway leading into Portland. When the road was built to Oregon City years ago a poor grade was se lected from Mulino north. The road on these hills has been expensive to build and maintain. This left little money for the roads in the valley. The present bonding scheme pro vides for a water grade to Portland via the Pacific highway which is tapped north of New Era at O'Neil's corners. The district is to prepare the base for the roads and the bond money to apply the hard surface, either concrete or bituminous. It is easy to see what it means to this section to have a paved highway into Oregon's leading market. Farm ers from 20 to 40 miles distant can truck tneir produce at little expense of time or money. Small acreage which is now producing grain will be used for intensified crops. Produc tion will be stimulated all along the line. We want the roads. The only od position has developed in the north end of the county. In this section every mile of paved road built by Clackamas county has been con structed. While it will get none of the bonding money it not only has received all "of the county paving money but the programme for sev eral years to come covers this north end district. The present bond issue is purely a rural section developer. Many of these districts have led all others in the county in raisins spe cial taxes for road building, but ow ing to their extensive mileage have not made the progress in road .build ing they have desired. Portland has many business- men who live and vote in Clackamas coun ty. We ask them to become interest ed in this matter and during the next fews days get busy and help us get our paved highways into Portland. Believing that this is the biggest ru ral development scheme that has ever come before the people of Clackamas county and that it is of equal import ance to the interest of Portland, our request seems reasonable. GORDON J. TAYLOR. 1IT0B SCALE REJECTED PAY BASER ON" FLOOR SPACE IX SCHOOLS OPPOSED. Board Refers Schedule Back to Finance Committee to Be Based on Number of Rooms. Because the new schedule for school janitors' salaries was based on the number of feet in the floor space of the buildings instead of the num ber of rooms they contained, the board of directors, upon a motion of George B. Thomas, referred the mat ter back to the finance committee. The schedule was designed as a means of apportioning the new 30 per cent salary increase granted the janitors. It was decided not to purchase property owned by K. H. Bliss adjoin ing the Hosford school site, which had been offered for sale. The board will consider offering for sale its own lots in the same block lying di rectly south and north of the private property. A petition asking that a roof be placed over a portion of the yard at the Rose City Park school to provide more adequate accommodations dur ing rainy weather was referred to the fbuildings and grounds committee. The request of the Oregon Anti Tuberculosis association regarding the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in the schools was granted. 15 I. W. W. HELD IN COOS Circuit Court at Special Session Will Handle Cases. TILLAMOOK, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe cial.) Sheriff Campbell has 15 I. W. W. in the county and city jails. Judge G. R. Bagley has decided to hold a special session of the circuit court Friday to dispose of the oases. The men under arrest are: H. P. Haddock, John Lund, Steve Rososhen, rank Mchols, James O'Nell, Harry Ashmore, Alex Simon, Eugene Ban drez. W. P. Middleton. Alex Larson, William Pulse, A. Lewis, Gus Hershe and J. A. Le Clere. NEGLECTING THAT COLD OR COUGH? Why, When Dr. King's New Discovery 'So Promptly Checks It? S natural careless, and you dont want to be let that old cold or cough drag on or that new attack develop seriously. Not when you can get such a proved successful remedy as Dr. King's New Discovery. 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