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THE MORNING ORECOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920 1 can reservations wxs takfn nn and ! 0 NDEXTER VISIONS it was said a tentative agreement was reached. The proposed compromise ! on the preamble was said to provide that if the principal signatories do not file, formally, objections to the reservations before their deposit for exchange of ratification, the Ameri can ratifications shall be deemed to have been accepted. Change on Lodge resolution to pro vide for different situations arising when the United States is and is not a party to disputes before the league was urged by the democrats, who, it was stated, agreed to accept the reservation in cases where the United States is a party to the dispute. In such cases the' United States would assume no obligation where a nation with colonies or dominions cast more than one vote. In cases where the United States is not a party to the dispute the democrats proposed that the United States should be content to file objections. None of the democratic proposals were acceptable to the republican leaders and the democrats, it was Baid, were equally adamant against republican suggestions for change. IiEXTOX ALIEN" BILL HELD UP I R II I1 I 71 1 III III II II I 1 1 1 It I WtDI ulitbLAIM UN REVOLUTION lil U. S. BILL IS SENATE Epidemic Germs of Civil War Seen in Demands of Labor. McNary Submits Measure Asking $250,000,000. STRIKE CURB ADVOCATED GOVERNORS' EFFORTS WIN Much FougM Feature of Cummins Kail road Bill Championed by Aspirant, for Presidency. Delegation Sets Precedent by Fro- curing Hearings Before Steer ing Committees. n New line PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Jan. 20. The "anti-strike" clause in the Cummins railroad bill, now in conference be tween the houses of congress, is the first substantial move made "to solve a problem which has in it the irerms of civil war and revolution." United States Senator Miles Poindex ter of Washington, an aspirant for the republican nomination for presi dent, declared tonight in an address on "Anti-Strike Legislation," before an audience of business men here. "It it is not solved by law," he said, i ... J 11 V. -. . . , . ma w uyivea in oiooa ana per- Amount of Appropriation Delays Action on Americanization Act. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Consider ation of the Kenyon Americanization bill continued in the senate today, but final action was deferred until an agreement could be reached on the appropriation which the bill would carry. As now drafted the bill would appropriate $42,500,000 for the edu cation of aliens and illiterates until the end of the fiscal year in 1923, but this amount is oonsidered excessive haps in the destruction of our insti- I Dv Senator Kenyon and others. tutlons. It involves the question whether industrial disputes, the ad justment of wages, the terms and conditions of employment of labor in commerce and industry, where em ployer and employe cannot agree, are to be adjusted by the orderly proc esses of government, through reason and public opinion as officially ex pressed, or by force, terror and in timidation. "While it is confined to those en gaged in interstate commerce, it in directly affects every industry, be Resuming his speech begun yester day in opposition to the bill. Senator King, democrat. Utan, took up vir tually the entire day. He questioned congress" authority to enact such bill, declaring it was an interference with the powers of states. Many states, Mr. King said, already have made large appropriations for Americanization purposes and are providing for the education of aliens as the senate bill does. Within ten years, the senator asserted, there would be few illiterates in any of cause every industry is dependent I the Btates. Instead of creating fed eral machinery for Americanization work. Senator King proposed an ap propriation for the citizenship bureau which would enable it to co-operate with the states. upon public transportation. And if the principle is established by the enactment and enforcement of this eection, the path will have been cleared which can be followed both by the federal e-overnment and bv the states as necessity therefor may appear in the industrial struggles of me luture. Right to Quit Conditioned. "It will be noticed that the word 'strike' is not used in this section. Under it men would have a right to quit work, either singly or collective ly, unless it were proved beyond a reasonable doubt that such quitting was in pursuance of a combination Imports From Nippon Are MaJnly 6ccinrv unit w i l n me intent ana AMERICAN MARKETS, EVER, LITTLE AFFECTED HOW- Cheap Grade Manufactures, Toys and Novelties. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Despite the steady growth of imports from Japan since the signing of the armi stice, officials of the department of commerce today declared that Ameri can markets have been but little af fected by the influx of oriental goods. Imports from Japan have increased mainly in value than in quantity it is said. During the 11 months ending with November, 1919, the latest available figures, America imported goods val ued at $367,130,187 from Japan, com pared with $264,269,502 in 1918 and $238,550,617 in 1917. One reason for the increase in im ports is the shipping facilities, now available, officals declare, though Ja pan's expansion in foreign trade is re garded as general. Japanese goods which are sent to this country, how ever, are of the cheaper grades, it is said, and do not compete with high class American manufactures. Low grade paper and cotton goods, tea. vegetable oils, silk and bamboo man ufactures are said to form the bulk of the Japanese imports. The only classes of manufactures in which Ja pan and the United States are on a comeptitive footing are toys and a few novelties in which the two coun tries now lead the world, officials say. The constant increase in Japan's export trade not only with the United States, but with the world, indicates that a heavy demand will be made in the far east for American ma chinery and mechanical devices, ex perts declare. Japan, it is said, can manufacture cheaply low grade goods, but must import machinery with which to do it. Trade experts seem to concede that Japan will control the trade of the far east in the TRFATY IMPflF K NFAR cheaper lines but they believe the de lntHI 1 IIVirMOOC IO IMCrtn anrt for American manufacturing machinery and office appliances will purpose to intentionally hinder, delay or prevent the operation of trains or other facilities of transportation. "When the people of the United States gave congress exclusive power to regulate commerce, they, by neces sary implication, imposed upon it the duty to protect it. The one absolute ly indispensable agency of our mod ern society is transportation, and the power to preserve it is synonymous with the power to preserve the gov ernment nd the nation itself from de struction. . . . When transporta tion is tied up for the purpose of en forcing an economic demand, it is a physical attack upon the nation. "The pending bill establishes a wage-adjustment board and a trans portation board for the hearing and adjustment of disputes, and the Ques tion involved here is whether we are to determine economic disputes by this legal machinery or leave it to t!ie adjudication of force, in a species or civil war. ... Institution Held Menaced. Exoress threats hftvn rpcer tlir been made by those in positions of power that it would be used to com pel the people to purchase the rail roads and turn them over to the offi cials and employes under what is known as the Plumb plan. "It has been openly proclaimed by men who were largely active in the coal strike and steel strike and the threatened railroad strike that their purpose was not merely to increase wages and shorten the working day, but that it was to abolish the wage system, to communize industry and to overthrow the government. "The government has within itself the power to protect its own func tions, to preserve itself from destruc tion and its people from the tyranny of irresponsible and cruel terror. This bill should be enacted into law. Continued From First Pa ff e. ) caucus plan and also to the pending motion or senator Underwood, demo crat, Alabama, for appointment of formal conciliation committees. Fol lowers of F-epublican Leader Lodge as well as the republican "mild reser- vationists," are said to agree that if the present bi-partisan meetings of the leaders shall fail it will be useless to appoint other conciliation committees. Participants in today's conferences of the informal committees, of which there were two, said an impasse and suspension of the compromise move ment were virtually reached at the first session, as a result of inability to get together on an equal voting reservation to the league of nations covenant. After more than two hours" spirited debate, the whole subject was put over. Better progress, however, was re ported at the second session. The pre amble to the Lodge reservations, re quiring formal acceptance by three of the five principal powers of Ameri- Dyspepsia and Business They Don't Hitch To Be Fit and Yet Eat What You Like Fol low Your Meals With Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet No Gas, Sourness, Nor Heaviness of Indigestion. keep etep with the growth of Japa nese trade. No invasion of the American mar kets by Japanese manufacturers is expected by trade experts of the de partment of commerce. At present Janan has an advantage over Euro pean exporters, they say, because or the unsettled conditions prougnt on by the war. But when the indus tries of Europe have readjusted them selves a return of the normal flow of imports into the United States is looked for. For the next few years Jaoan's progress as a manufacturing nation will be almost wholly along the lines of her peculiar domestic products and low grade manufactures. it is asserted COURT FREES ASSAILANT Automobile Driver Tries to Run Over Man, Is Testimony. John Papatokie tried to run over Sam Politis, proprietor of a fruit stand at Tenth and Hoyt streets, with his automobile, and as a result Politis nicked up a piece of wood and struck the automobile driver on the side or the face, raising a welt under the eye This was the substance of testi mony whlcn was delivered in mu nicipal court yesterday when Politis anneared to answer to a charge of attack and battery. It was brought out that there had been enmity be tween the two for some time and that they had had a previous case in the circuit court . relative to some property. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington. Jan. 20. (Special.) Ef forts of the western governors' dele gation to obtain $250,000,000 for recla mation development in the west took definite form this afternoon when Senator McNary, chairman of the senate irrigation committee, intro duced a bill providing for a bond issue of that amount. The measure was one finally agreed upon by the governors' party at a conference last night. The bill pro vides for the issuance of bonds as needed for the construction of proj ects under the present reclamation act. The bonds would run for a ds- riod of not more than 50 years and draw interest not exceeding 4 per cent a year. Construction charges collected from settlers under the project would liquidate the bonds. and no appropriation from the treas ury therefore would be required. No delegation coming to Washing ton from any part of the country has had the attention from congress that this one, headed by Governor D. W. Davis of Idaho, president of the Western States Reclamation associ ation, has received. No delegation ever made its fight before so many committees, and this delegation broke all precedents by getting a hearing before the steering committees of the senate and house, the first hearing of the kind in the history of congress. Governor Davis Congratulated. j This latter achievement was so notable that during a hearing before the house ways and means committee this morning. Representative Garner of Texas, a member of the committee. Btopped Governor Davis in the mid dle of a speech to congratulate him on such a rare accomplishment. lie said: "Governor, right here I want to congratulate you on getting a hear ing before the steering committee of this body. It is the first time I have ever heaj-d of such a thing. You have seen the committee which has the power to give you anything you ask. If that committee has approved you hardly need seek further." The plan of getting a hearing be fore the steering committees was de vised by Representative Siranott of Oregon, chairman of the house public lands committee. There was almost a full attendance of the ways and means committee this morning and committee members evinced) dep interest in the scheme of the westerners. Chairman Fordney gave support to the western gover nors by telling what he knew of the results on the Yakima project in Washington. When he said that he knew personally of the sale of re claimed desert land under the Yaki ma project selling for $1000 an acre. Representative Bowers of West Vir ginia went him three better by say ing he knew of irrigated land at Wenatchee selling for $4000 an acre. PoantiblUtlea Are Wide. Besides Governor Davis or Idaho, Governor Campbell of Arizona and former Governor Spry of Utah ad dressed the committee. Governor Campbell told the committee that the reclamation of the west will never be finished because he said the possi bilities are endless. He told the com mittee that the federal government must aid because the federal govern ment holds the water which is neces sary for Irrigation. "But it is not like appropriating money for rivers and harbors and countless other projects." he said, "be cause this money is invested in a productive enterprise and all comes back to the government." He gave figures on the returns of many of the projects in the west and casually men tioned the Columbia basin project in Washington as one that must even tually be undertaken at a cost of $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. Just as the hearing was about to adjourn. Representative Kincaid of Nebraska addressed the chairman and asked for a hearing for the entire house irrigation committee before the ways andi means .committee to urge favorable action on the bill submitted by the governors. He said: "My entire committee desires to appear before you as early as possible to press this measure. I regard this as one of the most important meas ures over brought before congress. 1 am with these gentlemen from the west and I want congress to grant what they are asking." An agreement was reached for such a hearing, the date not determined. This will create another precedent in the appearance of one committee be fore another. The ways and means committee must pass on the bills be cause of its bonding feature. Other wise it would merely be a question for the irrigation and appropriations committees. .,5 - I i . - " V iV 1 f V (- f r'r" r? v Trr- " t'T " 'it if - h f I - - i .s. . vJi' : - v; tin jp : !, W r: f , i" - - ii Hit ' It - : Mil 'Vj ' ' J , ' . 1 i : . . i n i it 3 . t ft vJ- . -o; , "HE'S OUT" Losses by burglary, robbery and theft are on the increase. Sneak thieves are more daring, dishon est servants will steal, professional crooks pre tending to be servants are numerous, watchmen are outwitted, dogs are chloroformed, burglar alarms may fail. "THEY'RE IN" Bank Burglary and Robbery, Office and Store Robbery, Mercantile Open Stock Bur glary, Residence Burglary. Messenger and Paymaster Robbery, Personal Hold-up, Residence Burglary, Theft and Larceny "YOU'RE OUT" Money, Liberty Bonds and Jewelry are not the only property stolen, 40 of the losses consist of silver ware, clothing, rugs and other house hold articles. For information see or phone THE TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY Hartford, Connecticut PHIL GROSSMAYER CO., General Agents Sixth Floor Wilcox BIdg. Phone Main 702 CONGRESS AIDE UTTTO C03IMITTKE SECRETARY TO BE RADICAL! ADVOCATE. Concurrent Resolution Requests Removal of Edward Keating, Colorado Ex-ilepresentative. WASHINGTON". Jan. 20. A concur rent resolution proposing mai con gress remove Lawara jveaung, ex- representative from Colorado, as sec retary of the congressional commit tee for reclassification of salaries of overnment employes, was introduced todav bv Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, and referred for cpn- siueration to the house committee lor reform in the civil service. In the house. Mr. Blanton accused Keating of unwarranted promises of salary increases to the government workers and of denouncing memDers of congress because of their opposi tion to the Plumb plan for tripartite control of the railroads. While employed by the commission. Mr. Keating, according to the reso lution, also had been employed by the Plumb plan league "to dissemi nate vicious propaganda and to edit and distribute a newspaper of social istic and bolshevistic sentiment," which is engaged in "exploiting" railroad employes and organized, labor gener ally of $10,000,000 "that is being wast ed and misapplied by the PiumD pian league." FOREIGN BRIDES LURE AID apt MnMTFSAWn Decu lar theories ad- iiwi vanced by food faddists. But it isn't Business men and women are to fall for the peculiar theories ad- WIRES IN wHxt vnu eat but what vou dicrest and assimilate that should command ihnno-ht and attention. Tou may eat fried eggs, sausage, ham or bacon for hreaKiast ana itei iip-ip l iuiitn lime if vou follow the meal with Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet. Of if your stomach is full of gas. sour, or has a win? sensation of heaviness in- b i pari nf the keen sense of appetite. Stuart's dyspepsia Tablets relieve thse distresses and introduce you to the next meal or a day's work with, a quiet, restful stomach. Msrnv nhvsicians prescribe these tablets for indigestion, dyspepsia and1 other dis-estive disorders, as they con- tuln harmless nroperties that work with an alkaline effect Just as the stomach does when in perfect health, i Thev are particularly adapted for business men and women, who are nfifn called udoii to discuss impor tant business matters at a luncheon or dinner. net a 50-cent box of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets at any drug store, eat all you want of what you like, with no gassv stomach, no sour, belching, hiilnus distress, no coated toneue nor heavy, drowsy feeling alter eating. Adv. Telegraph Instruments Installed for I. W. V. Murder Trial. ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) Four telegraph instruments have been Installed in the commis sioners room on the second floor of the Grays Harbor county courthouse at Montesano for use In the trial of the 11 alleged I. W. W. accused of the murder of four ex-service men at Cen tral ia. The Instruments were installed by the Western Union company. The As sociated Press also will have one or more special wires for use at the trial. Piles Cured in a to 14 Days Drupgists refund money if PAZO OINT MENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleed ing or Protruding Piles. Stops Irritation; Soothes and Heala. You can get reatfol sleep after the first application. Prica two. Adv. BARRELS AND KEGS. 344 Haw thorn o. Western Cooperage Co. Adv. SOCIETY GETS P.LEAS FROM LOXELY MEN. Ijovelorn Texan Not Particular as to Nationality; German or Eng lish. Acceptable, He Writes. NEW YORK. Jan. 20. (Special) Its activities In caring for European brides of American soldiers upon their arrival here and in aiding needy American war widows has caused cer tain "lonely" bachelors In the west and other sections to apply to the Travelers' Aid society for wives. Hun dreds of letters have been received along this line,- of ficers of the BOciety reported today from its headquarters. The society, however, is sending the writers a refusal in each case and telling them of the dangers that lurk in "loosely found correspondents. Here axe some samples of the pleas that are coming in daily: "Please let me know how I could get the address of an English girl or German girl that would like to co to Texas to live. I am a Texas boy, age 3d; would like to hear, from girl with black hair, age 25 or 35, that has seen the war. I do believe them girls will make good wife for a good boy. Most girls are crazy about stile out this part of Texas. Would you be so kind to give my address to a good girl one that has good health? 'E. J. GILiDER.' sugar plantation workers are em ployed on the Island of Oahu, Mead &aid. It Is reported that strike orders have been sent to all workers on the islands, affecting 11.800 Filipinos. 'The federation of Japanese laborers is reported to be considering a strike, also, and if a general walkout oc curs 24,300 workers would De ai fected. Head said he did not fear any dam age from the strike would result for at least ten duys, as all sugar planta tion work has been Btopped for that period, owing- to recent rains. ERRATIC BUYING BLAMED Northwestern Miller Explains Drop in Flour Prices. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Jan. 20. (Special.) The Northwestern Miller in its weekly trade review, trays: "Erratic and lower wheat prices have been followed by a drop of 15 cents to 30 cents per barrel in flour. Little buying activity is reported, as purchasers seem to have fair stocks. but mills are busy filling old orders and the week's output was probably more than 3,000,000, while the car sit uation grows worse. "The grain corporation has ad vanced government straight soft win ter wheat flour 40 cents and declares It has sold a quarter ol a million barrels since late in December. East ern mills soon expect to ship flour ground from Argentine wheat into the west." STRIKERS ASK FOR JOBS San Francisco Metal Trades Work er Open Negotiations. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. The "tense" situation caused by the grant ing of an Injunction preventing pick eting by strikers at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Shipbuilding corporation plant, and the public announcement of alleged shipyard contract frauds mounting into millions of dollars, has prompted the Bay Cities Metal Trades council to seek a conference with the shipyard operators with a view to ending the strike that began October 1, it was officially announced here to day. The council at its meeting last night framed a letter to the em ployers, asking an Immediate confer ence with a view to ending the strike and circumventing possible radical disturbance, it was announced. Sedition Appeal to Go to London. WINNIPEG, Jan. 20. The case of R. B. Russell, leader of the Winnipeg general strike, whose appeal from a two years" sentence for seditious con spiracy was denied by the Manitoba court of appeals, will be taken to the privy council In London, it was an nounced today by J. Law, secretary or the Defense league. SPUD DOYCOTT SPREADS SAN FRANCISCO MARKET MAN JOINS HOUSEWIVES. More Expected to Follow Shi ma, Japanese Potato King, Held Responsible for Prices. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) "Boycott on Potatoes." This sign was hung out Monday in front of a produce market at California and Divisadero streets. The firm has de cided to join the housewives' league in boycotting tubers at present prices by refusing to handle them until the commission men lower the price, and others are expected to follow. George Shima. the Japanese potato king, is charged by members of the housewives' league as being responsi ble for the present hair-raising price of potatoes. "Spuds" now are retail ing at four pounds for 25 cents. This price, the housewives say, is unjustifiable. They have been look ing into the cost of potato production and find that while the cost increased 67 per cent in 1919 over than In 1918. a normal year, the farm returns to Shima were Increased more than 150 per cent. Shima, who has been in California 30 years, is credited with being many times a millionaire. He Is said to have made much more in land deal ings In Oregon and California than in potato production. There is no ques tion, however, that he controls the market and fixes the price, now ab normally high. Shima is said to have had two bad years 1917 and 1918 due to partial crop failures; now, with a good yield, he will make more money out of potatoes than ever before. Read The Oregonian classified ads. RIVER "DRINKS'" WHISKY 40 Women Empty 5000 Quarts, Valued at $60,000. GREELEY. Colo., Jan. 20. Five thousand quarts of whisky, confis cated by sheriffs officers here in the last two weeks, were escorted today to the Poudre river by 40 women W. C. T. U. workers and emptied into the stream. The liquor is valued at $60,000 cur rent bootleg prices. SUGAR LABORERS STRIKE 1500 Filipino Plantation Hands Walk Oat in Hawaii. HONOLULU, T. H Jan. 20. (By the Associated Press.) Fifteen hun dred Filipino sugar plantation work ers here have struck for higher wages and it is declared by R. D. Mead, sec retary of the planters' association, that 85 per cent of the Filipino work ers on five out of seven plantations on the island of Oahu have walked out. Twenty-six hundred Filipino A Bundle of Habits From birth our lives are largely given to 4Jie acquiring of habits. Many habits must displace others previously formed. Commercially, we form most of our buying habits from 20 to 40. During these years each generation decides for itself on material things. The habit of the last generation of the "Saturday-night bath" is displaced evidently, for the modern hotel advertises every room with bath. Perhaps the bathroom fixture people did not bring this change about but they profit by it enormously. SunkUt wants us all to form the habit of using more lemon products the year round. If they can form a new habit or strengthen an old one they will sell more train loads of lemons. What does habit do for or against your business? Advertising can change habits. Advertising space in the Butlerick publications is for sale by accredited advertising agencies. Butterick Publisher The Delineator Everybody's Magazine 7 ipo dollars the year each Automobile Robes Radiator Covers for Dodge, Chev rolet, Ford, etc Seat Covers for Chevrolet and Ford Tire Covers License Holders Parts for Ford 5A "Marmion" Fine Wool Head Lamps Motor Robe gide Lamps A fine woolen robe. Extra-, tt:, heavy and large. Woven very Kearview Mirrors close to give warmth and com-Tube patches fort; fringed ends; classy de- , rrreat varietv signs in rich colorings. A hand-aiJa a great arieiy some and popular robe. ManyOt accessories pur pronounce it "just the thing for chased before the the coldest weather." advance. 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