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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.
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(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.' -
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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. There is
nothing that seems to indicate that
the' Russia peuple have tho power
to cxlrieato themselves. We have
troops in Russia. Unfortunately thev
are sOMCaiiutiuiL.it is greatly to.be
fenrcd thnt (hey nre wholv inrtde
niinte for tho work; thuv piny hnvo to
do.?- f ;
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to strive to make food save what the
war has won., ; , -,'
, In Europe 300,000,000 people, freed
from Autocracy, are beset by famine.
To overcome Fanunc, the world's
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