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PIGE RTX STEDFOKD MATE TRIBUNB. MEDFORD. OKECiON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER - 21. 1018 ACCUSES REED BEINGATTORNEY FOR W.R.HEARST Missouri Senator and Alfred L. Beck er, Deputy Attorney - General In '. Sharp Clash Senator Tries to . Find Identity of Persons Employed - in German Propaqanda Work: .WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Cross questioning. by Senator Reed of Mis souri, who la not a member of the committee, led to a sharp cln6h at today's session of the senate commit' tee Investigations German propagan 4a between the Missouri senator and Alfred L. Becker, deputy attorney general of Now York, and Major E. Iiowry Humes, In charge of the in . qulry. . .- . . -.' -.- . '. ' v Mr. Becker refused to answer ques tions by 8enator Reed as to the Iden tity of persons employed by the at- . tomey-general of. New York to get Information, concerning the German propaganda system. Senator Reed demanded that the committee t n- trtruct the witness to answer. .. .. " Hearst CotnOK ta f .Becker asked the senator if he de sired, tjo have Information on ''mat- xera roiaiing 10 ,ms ..cueni, ..air. Hearst,;' -whereupon Senator Reed told the committee that Mr. Becker's reply had been framed In an insolent manner and denied that he-was ap pearl ng for Mr. Hearst. , . ; ''You .don't mean to say. that Mr. Hearst is my client?'.', asked Senator Reed.- . " "I Ibeg your pardon," said : Mr. Becker. . j . ".You needn't 'beg my. pardon," Senator Reed retorted. "Your., an swer was what your testimony has been all the way thru this case and It does not reflect on your veracity. I am here trying to develop some truth thru a mats of testimony that has been distorted." . '; j . . ' - Secret Service Work . --.!fr- Becker based his refusal .to answer: the question on the ground that it was secret service work, and secrecy was essential to its success, tie. said that he had known that ."the Hearst forces" had been trying for six months to find out the names, of the men. malting the investigation and" "they haven't found out yet." , : Major Humes objected to Senator Reed's questioning and Senator Reed Jor Humes replied that he represent ed the committee and had been de tailed by the war department to con duct the investigation and was under orders from -the committee. , . '.'If you do. represent, the commit tee," said Senator Reed, "I want .to know what kind of representation It - is that yon give when you refuse to give the names of people who got this , testimony." 5 "J will not dignify the question with an answer," replied Major Humes. --. . vv Becker Apologizes -' ' 'Another flare up occurred when Senator Reed asked Mr. Becker If it were not true that be obtained infor mation which he used for political purposes. Mr. Becker Interrupted the senator In his long question with the comment: ''"'.' '1 hope the Hearst reporter U set ting this." . V , - ; . A moment later, he apologised to the committee for the remark. Senator Reed tried to. make Mr. Becker state the expense Incurred in obtaining the affidavits and deposi tions., Becker said he could not re member the aggregate but that noth ing was paid the witnesses or depo nents except to coyer -their loss' of time taken 'in making the affidavit He added that all the affidavits were taken "In good faith" and "along with many others about Mr. Hearst ' which I have not made public" -,- The committee reserved Its ruling on whether Mr. Becker should ' be compelled to make public the names t':of the state Investigators. - Later when Becker spoke of Sen ator Reed "holding a brief" from Hearst, the senator addressing the committee asked that such refer ences foe stopped. "If the committee doesn't stop him I will take my own way-of doing It," he said. : Chairman Overman said, he "be lieved the reply to ie improper.. and Mr.'.Becker-again apologised. '. . Senator Reed, asked Mr. Becker further about a statement, giyen. out jointly , by Attorney General Lewis . and ,Mr.: Becker dealing with a .dinner gtveu In honor of William Randolph Hearst by Bolo Pasha. Mr. Becker said that Mr. Hearst's' Indignation at that statement was the beginning 6t a suspicion in his mind that there might be a connection f between Hearst and Bolo Pasha.. ; . , : , . ' Hearst Mod l' ' "That statement coupled with the fact that Hearst lied when he said that he had met Bolo only once when the statement of his own employe showed that he met him at least three tiroes: right then was born In my mind the impression that there night be something wrong." . Senator Reed asked the witness It he stood by his statement that Mr. Hearst lied about the Bolo Incident. -Mr. '.Becker replied that he, would change the reference to a statement that Mr. Hearst told Something that was untrue 'because, he said, a lie Implies an Intent to tell what was not true. The commlttoo njourrni.rfyfttiI; BECOMES A RICH SAN FKAXCISCO. Dec. 21. Re cently, there sailed in . throuuh the Golden Gnte a grant trans-Pacific liner can-vim ns n passenirer u Chi nese who wna part owner o Ihe ves sel. The purpose of his visit to this country was to attend o nicotine of the stockholders of the China Mail Stcamshio company. - Tweutv venrs atro this same Chinese camo throuirh Uie Qoldcn Gate, an emuiiitront from China, as a steerage passenser hop inR for a chance to secure employment as a laborer. v .'-. N Jim Kai is his nanio. TwontT Years-ftiro he found work us a card- ner in the Sacramento vnllcv. After four years he had saved cnoueh mon ey to lease m tract of land. Ho sdc- cinlixed on potatoes, icar bv vcar his acrMeo increased. Finally market short on potatoes found him Ions on the coxnmoditv. Xs Jim K&i became rich in a season. JIo is M years old nnd both in Hong Kong and Canton, China, count n score of great corporations in which he is one of the controlling; f mures, L U. S. STEEL INN. Y. LI (Continued from page one.). FORMED NEW YORK. Dec. 21 Oreaniia tion of the North American Steel Products corporation, a combination of the larger independent steel' com pniiies. to advance their foreisn trade. was formally announced here today. The new exporting: oraanir.ation will represent the following comoa hies .with a combined annual incot capacity of 12.000,000 tons: Bethlehem Steel, Brier Hill Steel, Lackawanna Steel. Lukens Steel. MiHvnle Steel and Ordnance, Repub lic Iron and Steel, Sharon Steel Hoop. Trumbull Steel. Whittnker- Glessner company and Younsstown Sheet and Tube company. K. A. S. Clarke, president of the Lackawanna Steel company, will 'be president of the corporation, hav ing: resigned his present position to take effect January 1. In a statement teJlinz of the purpose of the organi zation, Mr. Clark said today: "It is exnected that other oroduc asked him who he represemea"Ma-nK5fiiffcrests will join - the North American company later and in that eventuality it will represent in export trade substantialy all important steel producing companies of the country outside of the United States Steel corporation. . r , "The company expects to incorpor ate immediately and to beeir active business on January 2. next. In ad dition to its principal office in New l ork City, the location of which has not yet been decided, it will have branches throughout , the world wherever the introduction and sale of American iron and steel products make it desirable. J : .... SENATOR JONES ASKS FOR MONEY TO FIGHT "FLU WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. A ioint resolution appropriating $200,00,0 to combat influenza in Alaska was in troduced today bv Senator Jones of Washington: The senator said hun dreds, of indigent natives are surrer inor from the disease, and the Red Cross funds for relief there have been exhausted. - after the holidays but not until after Senator Reed and Mr. Becker had another clash. Senator Reed said he had known Mr. Hearst as a news paper man; that he had had no social or ' personal relations with him and no political relations wit!- tim "ex cept generally he supports the party to which I belong.". .- Unfair to Hearst "I-have followed these hearings closely," ho addd, "and I have be come convinced that there has been some attempt to fasten the crime of treason on Mr. Hearst by placing to gether scraps of information. For that reason I asked to cross-examine this witness and I would have done the same thing for the editor of the New York Times or any other news paper, or for any street laborer." That is, why . I am here," senator Reed continued, "and any- man who Intimates anything to the contrary is 4 common scoundrel.":, : r Chairman' Overman 'directed , the Official stenographer to strike the last reference to Mr. Becker from the record, but Senator Wolcott interpos ed an objection: -'' - "If the committee does not keep this witness within the traces be will have to take bis medicine it he gets out," Senator Reed continued.. - "I have no objection to the remark going into the record," Bald Mr. Becker. "I am used to being attack ed, and I am glad to be pursued by anyone representing the Hearst crowd." ,' ..) " The statement went into the rec ord.' - Highest quality jewelry repairing Diamond setting, watch repairing Satisfaction assured In quality and price. MARTIN J. REPDY " Mall us your wants. Montenrero. the restoration of Ru mania, the consolidation of all the Rumanian people under one govern ment ns well ns tho neutralisation of the Straits, the putting of Constanti nople under international protection with Greece perhaps ns the tnnnun tory of the powers to administer the affairs of the eitv, tho independence of Armemn, the return of thoso por tions of Asia Minor where Greeks arc predominant to Greece, tho protection of Syria and Palestine from the Turks, a large, powerful nnd inde pendent Polish state, in the mdepeud ence of Russiu's Baltic provinces, the return of Danish Slesvig to the Danes and tho neutralisation .of the Kiel canal. ' "These physical guarantees which I have thus far suggested alt hnvo one object , and that is to so hem Uer many in that she ciinont attempt con quest in Russia or the east and that the Slavic populations, wliieh she has mercilessly used in her wars, can nev er be so used bv her again. .. Heavy Indemnities 'In addition to these guarantees, there must be heavv indemnities paid by Germany for the ruin she has wrought in Belgium., and - northern France and in Italy end for her do struction of vessels, both neutral and belligerent, through tho use of sub marines. In those indemnities the United ' States must have its proper and proportional share, nut only di rect indemnity for its ships destroy ed bv submarines and its people mur dered on the Lnsitonin and other ves sels, but a suitable restitution, in part at least, of the vast expenses forced upon us bv Germany. '" "It will be for the pence conference to determine what disposition should be made of the German colonies, but one thing is essential, and that is that they should not be returned to the tvrnnnicnl misgovcniment of Ger many and that she should be deprived of thoso means for extending her commercennd building up military outposts in nil parts of the world." . : League of Xations : Of the League of Notions. Senator Lodge said no definite plan has yet been put forth that would not cause indefinite .controversy. "The attempt now to form a League of Nations with power to enforce its decrees.", ho said, "can tend only to embarrass the peace (hat we ought to make at once with Germany. If it were successful nnd were to come be fore the senate it might endanger the peace treaty and force amendments. "Are we prepared to allow any as sociation of nations bv a majority vote to order the troops and ships of the United States to ico to wart Un less we arc prepared to do so. we are not prepared to join a league of na tions which is going to enforce pence." " Freedom of Seas In urging the postponement of the Question of freedom of the sens. Senator Lodge said it was nnothar un defined Question and added : "If it means abandonment of the II LONDON, Doc. 21. The London correspondent . of the Manchester Guardian suggests ' that President Wilson's sudden determination to come to Kngland Is due to his desire to consult the British government regarding the Russian situation bo fore tho preliminaries to the peace conference. He callB attention to the statement by Viscount Mllnor, secre tary for war, on the Russian situa tion, which ho Buys was "evidently Intended to prepare tho public for ovenla to come." . "Rumors of an advanced policy against Russia are growing dully," the correspondent continues, "and tooling has 'become very tonso about our next adventure In Russia. The share which Amortca must take in any big attempt to overthrow tho Bolshevlkl olid reconstruct Russia, it she takes a further share, must be a largo one." . .. belligerent right of blockade, I think tho United Stutcs, will hesitate before it abandons a w eapon absolutely nec essary for its own snfotv." Discussing secret diplomacy, tho senator said this point of President Wilson's need not bo incorporated in the peace treaty liecauso secret treat ies never have nnd eanuot exist in this country. Urging postponement of action on tho matter of economic barriers, ho said it "opens a wide field of dismis sion" and "its settlement is not in the least essential to ending the war bv a oence with Germany. Wo can make that peace without determining at this moment what wo shall do with our tariffs, in the making everv nation ought to have entire freedom." Russia. Senator Lodge declared, presents !nn important problem in connection with the world peneo nnd re-construction which eanuot be shirked. All civilized nations, ho urg ed, must nid in restoration of Rus sia.' ? The uolshevikl "We have no present government in Russia," he snid. "with which nnv one can deal intelligently. The thing that calls itself a government is no more fit to be dealt with m negotiation than a band of anthropoid apes. 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