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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1020 FOREIGNERS LEE CM TRAIN Arrangement Made by Con sul at Vera Cruz. MEXICANS CALL CONGRESS Provisional President, Selected by Special Session, Will Provide for General .Election. WASHINGTON-, May 14. The Amer ican consul at Vera Cruz reported to day that he arranged for departure of foreigners aboard Carranza's train invested by revolutionary forces, un der a. flag of truce. The British con sul at Vera Cruz and two Americans are on the train. The slate department also was in formed that a special session kt the Mexican congress had been called to name a provisional president. The call was issued by a joint committee! yj i to Mjiidiora auu aepunes ana ine resolution adopted provided that the provisional president thus named should call a general election. Antonio Villareal Favored. Dispatches from the embassy said the Mexico City papers said that Gen erals Gonzales and Obregon had issued formal statements favoring Antonio Villareal for provisional president. Other candidates mentioned were Ig lcsias Calderon, a Mexico City law yer; Juan tjanchez Azcona, acting sec retary of foreign afairs, and General Jacinto Trevino, chief of staff for General Gonzales. Azcona was quoted as having stated tiiat direct relations with the present diplomatic corps would not be estab lishedi until a provisional president had bien appointed. He denied that a note had been received from the United States government requesting that a legal situation be established immediately in Mexico. Carranza's trains were said to be about 120 miles from Mexico City - toward Vera Crux. General Dieguez, Carranza com mander in the Guadalajara district, and his staff were reported as taken prisoner. Two Americana on Train. Two Americans reported to have traveled out of Mexico City on one of the Carranza trains are J. P. Burebux. tsaid to be a representative of the National City Bank of New York, and J. C. Pickwick, representative of Le ven. Son &. Co. of New York. With them on the train was W. Alfred Body,' British consul at Vera Cruz. Americans in Mexico number 10,500, not taking into account those in six consular districts from which the state department has received no re ports recently. There are 4000 Amer icans in the Tampico district alone. interests, the great international bankers, have been flirting with your national chairman. These sin ister financial forces are trying to get the republican party to adopt some middle course on the league iseue. They generally control the soul of your party. But we've had the primaries this year, and every place you've bad a free balot and an hon est count Johnson has swept the field." Discussing the reservation, dealing with disarmament. Senator- Seed said it gave the right to America to in crease her armament only in case of war or actual invasion. As the dis armament provision of the league covenant is written. Senator Reed said it would require the United States, even when invaded, to get permission for an Increase from "nine foreigners." "We are asked to accept that doc trine at San Francisco," Senator Reed said, in conclusion. "Madness, could go no further." BANKRUPTCY IS REJECTED DEBT CAN" BE PAID IF ALL WORK, SAVS GERMAN. Increased Production Will Meet Enormous Liabilities, Urges Minister of Finance. SLAYER FAINTS AT TRIAE WOMAN RECOUNTS STORY UP TO COUSIN'S DEATH. Collapse Comes After Nearly Eive Hours on Stand Struggle to Aid Family Related, t SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 14. (Special.) Miss Jennie Zimmerman, 26, on trial for the murder of her cousin. Dr. Henry Zimmerman, col lapsed on the witness stand after testifying for nearly five hours Thurs day, concerning the early circum stances of her life up to the time of her arrest for the shooting. In low tones she told a story of misery and a constant struggle to shield six younger brothers and sis ters from the cruelty of her mother, who afterward went insane and of her drunken father, both of whom beat the children on the slightest provocation. Miss Zimmerman narrated how In 1914 she had received the custody of her family and not only had cared for her younger brothers and sisters, but placed the family where the chil dren no longer depended upon charity for aid. The constant care of her brothers and sisters was the cause of illness, and it was during this time that Dr. Zimmerman was called to attend her. His conduct all throughout this period, the witness declared, was strictly professional, but after her recovery, she declared the doctor displayed per sonal regard for her. Just as the witness was leading up to a recital of the doctor's atten tions, which immediately followed his having seen her home several times from the little confectionary store which she ran, Miss Zimmerman col lapsed, and Judge Brown declared the recess. Evidence relative to Insanity as admitted in the proceedings today are expected to furnish the ground work for the contention as set forth by Attorney McKechnie in his open ing address, that the defendant was not responsible for her actions. The records of the Northampton, state hospital have been examined as relating to Ida Zimmerman, the de fendant's mother, from the time she was committed In 1913. Throughout the recital of her life. Miss Zimmer man was watched by four alienists. CHAMBERLAIN'S EXIT SEEN (Continued From First Page.) (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) BERLIN', May 14. (Special Cable.) Minister of Finance Wirth told the German people some bitter truths in a campaign speecn today. -'Germany's debts approximate 200 billions of marks." said he. (This would be normally $47,500,000,000.) "The deficit in the regular budget is 5,000.000,000, in the extraordinary bud get 12,000,000,000; the railroad deficit is a quarter of a billion and the pos tal deficit 1.000,000,000. (Altogether, under normal values, a deficit of $4, 335,000,000.) And the railroads and postal services are socialized, as you know. "If workers, employers and govern ment officials do not exert themselves to the utmost to make these deficits disappear, then the idea of socializa tion will be murdered, strangled. The direct tax system is exhausted, the indirect taxes are already strained to the limit. The question arises, how shall we pay? "Without the regulation and control of production we can never pull out of the present misery. The free play of economic forces at the present ex tent is no longer possible. The pro duction of luxuries must be confined to the world market. If we use up imported silk, for example, then we shall lack money for food. "We are consuming ourselves. The German nation is using up more than it is producing. There's no room for anybody who does not work in the new Germany. Despite this 200.000, 000,000 debt, I will show any man the door who comes along and tries to talk about state bankruptcy as the solution. "State bankruptcy would beggar us all and wo reject that. Only the soli darity of all Europe will help us. The fate of the German mark is the fate of the French franc. We go to Spa to talk openly, for we have nothing to conceal. We are defenseless and starving, but if we are supposed only to sit by and listen in Spa, then we had better stay home. . We go to Spa as the vanquished but ready to nego tiate and perform what we can." BOY'S FALL SERIOUS ONE Plunge Down Cliff Results in Many Broken Bones. THE DALLES, Or., May 14. (Spe cial.) Guy Tibbetts, 14 years old, resident of Mosier, lies in the local hospital today seriously injured as the result of a plunge down a cliff near the lower falls of Mosier creek late Wednesday afternoon. To a ledge of rock and a discarded Christmas tree the lad attributes his escape with life. Tibbetts, with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Will iams, and Mr. and Mrs. George Harth of Mosier, were fishing. At the top of the cliff a rock upon which Tibbetts' foot rested, dislodged and he plunged down About half way down he landed on a ledge, then rolled to the edge and fell down again, landing in a discarded Christ mas tree. Tibbetts was brought to this city for medical treatment. In his fall two ribs, his right arm and wrist, and bones in his left elbow were broken. His shoulders were badly wrenched and his forehead deeply cut. LOVE DUEL FATAL TO TWO Men Fight to Death for Affections of Young: Spanish Woman. NEEDLES, Cal., May 14. Juan Sonores and Emllio Reyes killed each other today in what the police said was a duel for the affections of a young Spanish woman who recently came here from Los Angeles. According to the police, the men met early toda-y, Sonores armed, with a dagger and Reyes with a knife. Sonores stabbed Reyes six times. The latter, realizing his wounds were ortal, drew a revolver and shot and killed Sonores. When the police ar rived the two bodies were lying clasped together as they had fallen. The young woman was prostrated and was removed to a hospital for treat ment. tion of the republican peace resolution. Opening the day's debate on the peace measure,, which will come up for a vote tomorrow at 4 o'clock Senator Reed declared that the presi dent's action in sending, a telegram to Oregon democrats asking for un qualified support of the treaty of Versailles as presented to the senate was "most autocratic and despotic' Senator Reed epoke at length on what he characterized as .the "silly doctrine that the president by his word alone can bind the nation." "Now at the end of all our vista of liberty." he asserted, "with all its ghastly fields of battle, with scaf folds and its prisons, its heroes and lt martyrs, we are told that the nation stands bound by the word of a single man. Those in this senate who do not so consider themselves. he has said, have put the brand of dishonor on the brows of Columbia and stand dishonored, disgraced and damned by their own words and votes. That means all but six of the democrats who sit In this senate. "Under these circumstances, how will the democratic party defend itself against the assault of Its an cient enemy? "I do not know what platform they (the republicans) will write, but I do know the most sinister influ ences that have ever controlled the rep.ubican party, the great financial EFFORT TO NULLIFY WILSON VETO. FAILS House Unable to Override Ex ecutive Objection. PARTY LINES WELL HELD Senator Smoot Deplores Action of President Killing Federal Ap propriation Measure. WASHINGTON, Alay 14. President Wilson's veto of the legislative! ap propriation bill, as containing an in fringement op executive authority. was sustained in the house todayj against the effort of the republican majority to override it. Though aided by a handful of dem ocrats, the republicans failed by 28 votes to obtain the necessary, two thirds majority to repass the bill over the president's disapproval. The measure then went back to the ap propriation committee for elimination of the sections objected to and will be returned to the house on Monday for passage in its modified . form. The republicans rolled up 170 votes to overcome the veto, but the demo crats cast 127 votes to sustain the president. The vote carries with it a denial of opportunity for the senate to attempt offsetting the veto, for the redrafted measure will leave the house without the provision relating to powers of the joint committee on printing, at which the veto was aimed. President Held Misled. Senator Smoot of Utah, author of the bill, told the senate that the president must have been misin formed as to the effect of the pro visions, which would have iven the committee control of all government publications. Roger Babson, formerly connected with the committee on public information, and others at tending the joint committee were ac cused by Mr. Smoot of having misled the president. Chairman Good of the appropria tions committee declared that 155 publications would be compelled to cease next June 30, and the blame. he asserted, would rest entirely with the president. Representative Byrnes, democrat. Tennessee, replied that the blame would be with congress for failing to authorize the continuance of the publications. Representative Sisson, Mississippi, was the only democrat to urge that the veto be voted down. Smoot Amweri Wilson. Replying to the president's state ment that the legislation was con gressional encroachment on executive authority. Senator Smoot said: "The president entirely overlooks the fact that the joint printing com mittee is not a committee of congress, but a separate statutory body like the civil service commission and other bodies created by law." Regarding the president's objec tions to jurisdiction of the printing committee over duplicating machine output of government offices, Senator Smoot said 100 such plants were in operation and charged that some gov ernment departments resorted to this plan of printing publications to evade the committee s order that the print- ng of such publications be discon tinued. Abase of Frank Charged. Senator Harrison, democrat, Mis sissippi, then criticised the free mail ing under a frank of a house member of a statement by the league for the preservation of American independ ence in favor of the republican peace resolution. Such use of the franking privilege. Senator Harrison asserted, was "wrong, outrageous and corrupt." Senator Smoot said he thought con gress might wcl, consider repealing the franking privilege as it applies to documents. STEAMER-HEARSE COMING Vessel Due Monday or Tuesday With 153 Bodies. NEW YORK, May 14. The Nereus is expected to arrive at New York next Monday or Tuesday from Brest bearing the bodies of 15.3 officers and enlisted men of the navy and marine corps. Arrangements have been made for appropriate services Wednesday afternoon on the pier with Secretary Daniels as the principal speaker. Nobleman Tours World. HONOLULU. T. H. The yacht Emerald, of more than 1000 tons, recently arrived here, carrying Sir Arthur du Cros, his family and a party of friends on a trip from South ampton, England, around the world. After a stay of a week In Hawaii the Emerald steamed for Vancouver, B. C, Since leaving Southampton, November 22, 1919, the Emerald has touched at Gibraltar, North African ports, Suez, Ceylon. Singapore, Java points, the Fijis, Samoa and Tahiti. Cemetery to Be Beautiful. CENTRALIA, Wash.. May 14 (Spe cial.) Plans for beautifylne the Washington Lawn cemetery were com pleted Wednesday night at a meetin held by the cemetery association. A committee, of which Frank A. Martin is chairman, was appointed to solicit funds- for the work. A caretaker was employed yesterday. S- 4b H. arreea nanoi far eaan. Holms n Fuel Co. Mala 151. SI0-JL Aav. McADOO FORGES AHEAD (Continued From First Page.) of arguments which would be made against McAdoo, Palmer or Cox are considering seriously the question of nominating Marshall. Marshall is liked by the senate and by Washing ton generally. He Is not merely liked in the sense that he has' a friendly and interesting personality; he is liked in the sense that he is recog nized as a man of sound sense and very considerable ability. .Marshall's reputation with the public, at large is not as high as his local reputation in the senate and in Washington. In his speeches throughout the country and in many of his off-hand public utterances Marshall belittles himself. He has a gift for striking phrases and bucolic stories. It Is the phrases and the stories that are pushed for ward and have made the picture which the public has of him. Many senators know that he is a man of solid qualities and it is quite within the probabilities that an organized and determined effort may be made to give him the nomination. "- There is hardly a' democrat in Washington, or a republican, either, who will not readily admit in private conversation that - they . have in the party a man who 'stands out as bet ter than any of those already named. This man is the present ambassador to, Great Britain, John D. Davis of West Virginia. Mr. Davis Is a man whose ability can be described in su perlative terms. One way of express ing it, frequently heard, , is that he "has all Wilson's good qualities and none of his undesirable ones." Personality Is Distinguished. Ambassador Davis has a fine mind. When he was solicitor-general of the United States it was frequently among his duties to represent the na tion in arguments before the supreme court, and justices of the court are frequently quoted in Washington gossip as saying there was no lawyer in the United States whom it was so great a pleasure to them to hear. Mr. Davis has a distinguished mind and a distinguished personality. The fact that he is not further in the foreground for the democratic nom ination is due chiefly to two facts. In the first place it is not widely known to the public, and in the sec ond place, there is no important group that has an acute interest in pro moting his fortunes no such group as McAdoo, for example, has. . If an energetic group of democratic leaders should get behind Mr. Davis the movement to nominate him would go a long distance. Bryan, of course, is going to have much power In the democratic con vention. That he will have enough power to nominate-a candidate of his own, in a convention in which it takes two-thirds to nominate, is Im probable; that he will have enough power to veto the nomination of any one else, in a convention where one third 6f the delegates can success fully prevent a nomination. Is likely. At one time this spring Bryan dis cussed with some other leaders the question of nominating ex-Governor Folk. At another time in his con versation with leaders he put forward the idea of nominating Edward T. Meredith of Iowa, the present secre tary of agriculture; but seasoned democratic leaders have come to know that It Is Bryan's way to dis cuss one man and then another man, and then when the time comes spring a surprise. Meredith, by the way quite apart from anything Mr. Bryan may do to make him president is fairly certain to be considered seriously as a vice-presidential pos sibility. Also, if Governor Cox Is not given the presidential nomina tion he, too, will be given serious consideration for- the vice-presidency. Primaries Without Effect. All of this talk about democratic possibilities is in terms of what the leaders say and think, and this Is all there is to the democratic situation. The recent primaries, which have had so much weight in the republican situation, have not affected the demo cratic candidates at all. Few of these primaries have included the demo cratic candidates; most of them have been confined to the republican can didates. What the conventlo'n at San Francisco is to do will be determined by the delegates; and when It is said it will be determined by the delegates that means in effect that It will be determined by the leaders, for the delegates follow the leaders. In so far as the thought of these leaders has now crystallized at all. the fact is that the thought of the most' powerful group among them tends towards McAdoo. This, how ever, might really change In the event that the action of the republican con vention might make a change desir able. . Wl w .Ruin Again? i had charge of the small postmasters throughout the country. During the years he spent in the treasury and in the postoffice department, Mr. Roper necessarily came into intimate con tact with the little local democratic leaders throughout the country. Among them he established a repu tation and a friendliness which gives him much power. This power he will be able to wield in Mr. McAdoo's be half, if it is decided to make an or ganized effort in the direction of Mr. McAdoo's nomination. Meantime a good many democratic leaders who recognize the arguments that would be made against Mr. Mc Adoo, especially the argument of dynasty, are giving consideration to other figures. One of the principal of these is Governor Cox of Ohio. A rather important group of leaders are working In Governor Cox behalf. Their argument is that he is a good executive and that in three times as governor of Ohio he has proved him-. self an able state administrator. Further than this, his vote-getting capacity in a state which will be most Important as between democrats and republicans next November is a strong argument in his behalf. Marithall la Mentioned. Vice-President Marshall is fre quently mentioned, and this mention has a stronger .basis than the mere casual compliment which is frequent ly paid to a man in his position. A number of democratic senators who earnestly want to name the most available man and who are conscious CHEAPER SUITS OFFERED England Can Sell in America and Make Money, It Is Said. NEW YORK, May 14. England is ready to sell to American merchants men's clothing, all wool, that can be retailed at a 20 per cent profit at $38.40 each, according to J. C. Shan non, member of a London manufac turing concern. "We can produce suits, transport them to America, pay the duty and sell them to the retailer for $32 each," Shannon asserted. "The same quality suits' are now selling here from $60 to $80." SLAYER TO STAND TRIAL Second Degree Murder Admitted by Douglas County Man. ROSEBURG, Or., May 14. (Special.) After pleading guilty to second de gree murder. Arthur James Thomp son, held for the killing of a section hand at Riddle a few weeks ago in an altercation, will stand trial at the next term of court. Claud Palm, caught In the act of robbing a haberdashery, pleaded guilty to the charge and was sen tenced to. serve two years In prison and then paroled by Judge Hamilton. Palm's record in the service and his J r 1 Therei something IfX about then J II 0 yotittlike- f"p V Jj Twenty to lliSOEl That "there will be 'hell-a-popping at San Francisco" is the warmish comment of the chief Democratic paper in Nebraska on Mr. Bryan's victory in the State primaries, for he will now go to the Convention as a delegate "with full opportunity to devote his power and talents to either guerrilla or'open warfare upon the leadership of President Wilson and the policies for which he stands." The President has indicated very plainly, in his letter to Delegate Jouett Shouse, read to the Kansas Democratic State convention, that he will insist that the party support his League programme. The New York World believes it would be a fatal policy for the party to repudiate the President, for "it is only under his leadership that the party can be held together," and the Brooklyn Eagle says that if the party is to make the campaign on the League issue, "the only logical candidate is Wood row Wilson." The Republican press naturally have a few remarks to make about all this. Thus the Milwaukee Sentinel: "Run for a third term nomination? Of course he'll run health permitting. And, as a prominent Democrat remarks, such is Mr. Wilson's sublime .self-confidence that when it comes to that question he will regard himself as the best judge of the permissive state of his health." One of the most interesting articles in this week's LITERARY DIGEST May loth deals with the possibility of Mr. Ws011 again being a candidate for the Presidency, and presents the editorial view-point on this contingency from many angles. ' Other important articles in this number are: Candidates' Strength Revealed in "Digest" Poll of 1 1 ,000,000 Voters More Than 1,100,000 Votes Are Summarized This Week, and the Votes From Southern States Are Beginning to Be Heard From Greatest Non-Official National Poll Ever Undertaken in This Country Has California Eliminated Hoover? Morality of Trading With Lenine Is Poland "Freeing" the "Ukraine"? The Sky-Rocketing of Sugar Painless Extraction of Bonus Taxes The Irish Muddle Soviet Grip on Russian Co-operatives Italy's WTar-Disillusion Storage to Avert a Coal Crisis Why Gasoline Is and Will Be High The Undesirability of Oil Gushers The Passing of Tragedy Queens Berlin Acclaiming the French Tricolor The Motion-Picture as a "Handmaid of Religion" Catholic Union Against the "Reds" "Hand-Me-Down" Sermons The Veto Power of the President Charac ter of the Veto Power Exercising It Presidential Procedure Origin of the Veto Comparative Prices of Foodstuffs Governor Edwards, Champion of the "Wets" Seven Candidates Tell Why They Would Be President Beneficent Influence of the Workman's Silk Shirt Secretary Meredith, Another Successful Man Who Was "Once a Poor Boy" "Sun-Traps" to Catch Nature's Free Heat Best of the Current Poetry Many Fine Illustrations, Including the Most Interesting Cartoons May 15th Number on Sale Today- Newsdealers 10 Cents $4.00 a Year How Presidents Are Made fly ARTHUR WALLACE DCS5I This new book gives the reasons why our Presidents, from Wash ington to Wilson, were chosen. ISmo, 75e. e by mall, SOc. At all Bookatorea. The FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK DaanBBaananBBaaaDBBa youth were mitigating factors In his "lree negroes. Kid William, Joe Brawn and Charles Williams, pleaded not guilty to the charge of burglary at Glendale and will stand trial. Jack Dennis and Frank Harden, charged with burglary, will be tried at the next term. LIQUOR PILOTING CHARGED Naval Fliers Said to Have Carried Contraband by Seaplane. NEW YORK, May 14. Lieutenant W. H. Cushing and Ensign Frank Lamb, naval reserve officers, have been recommended for courtmartlal In a report submitted to the navy by a board of inquiry. They are charged with having transported 12 cases of liquor in a naval seaplane from Bemlnl. one of the Bahama islands, to Key West Fla., on a recent cruise down the Atlantic coast. FOREST FIRE LOSS HEAVY Thousands of Dollars' Damage Done Logging Around Chehalis. , CHEHALIS. Wash., May 14. (Spe cial.) Forest fires, which are now under control in the Salkum. Lacamas and Ethel neighborhoods, 16 miles southeast of Chehalis, have done thousands of dollars' worth of dam age to the logging works of the Emery & Nelson Mill company of Napavlne and the Chehalis Mill com pany of this city. Emery & Nelson lost two donkey engines and other logging equipment worth between 115.000 and m,000, while the Chehalis Mill company lost one donkey. The G. B. Todd barn was burned, and had not two boxes of dynamite, which were etored In the granary, exploded and wrecked the building the Todd residence would have burned. Frank Blair's barn also was burned. she had furnished an apartment for Keller. Her wounds are not serious, hos pital attaches say. JILTED MAIDSH00TS SELF Woman Furnishes Apartment for Lover But All In Vain. CHICAGO. May 14. Miss Mary White last night shot herself after her leap year proposal had been re jected by Joseph Keller. 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