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PKESIDENT ASKS PARTY
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Onlv Satisfactory Settlement of Treaty Controversy Soltwn rrsfwwKm
by the People Has No Objection to Senate Interpretations Which
Merely Tell What the Treaty Means. But World Mist Knw Wlwtkw
the Pact Is Accepted or Rejected It Can't Rewritten fc-yi In
Statement at Jackson Day Dinner Ta4ts Issw VPi Ueir s4
Stands for Compromise ami InnwHUte HatifkMrw l-8itrir Lube
Welcome's President's Stiflrwtin aa( EtedN-w Buck Km ml (
Treaty Debate In Seaate. .
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. President "Wilson's decision
that the League of Nations issue should he placed before,
the voters as a "solemn referendum," and William J. Bry
an's contention that The democratic iart,y cannot go before
the country on the question but should accept such com
promises "as may be possible," are the twin surprises of
the conclave of party chieftains which fould its climax in
the annual Jackson day dinner.
The president's message to the party, written from the
sick room in the "White House made no mention of a third
term for himself and no announcement of an impending re
tirement to private life, as many had predicted it would.
Mr. Bryan's speech, taking definite issue with the
president's decision on the great question, was accompa
nied by a statement that he was not speaking as a candidate
for the presidential nomination-. Many -of the democratic
diners freely said that portion was a distinct surprise to
them.
Today the rank and file of the
democratic partv ns well as the lead
ers throuKhotit the, eoiintrv are study
ing the opposite announcements o
the two national leaders and are at
temiitintr to assess their effect on the
party's fortunes at the nominating
convention which will he held in San
Francisco June 28, and at tlie polls
next November.
Mnnv political observers feci it is
yet too earlv accurately to estimate
the position in which the clcavau'C be
tween the president nnd the foremost
democrat in private life lrtives the
party. Thev feel that the situation
must settle down a little and that the
opinions of the rank and file must be
sounded.
FiKht in Convention
Whether the position of the two
men, now definitely announced,
means a finht in the national conven
tion reminiscent of the spei'tacnlar
battle in Multimore in 1!U2. when Mr.
Bryan forced the president's nomin
ation, none of the party leaders is
willinc to predict for publication.
Sentiment anions' the democratic
leaders at the Jackson dinner ns ex
pressed in their speeches seemed to
be divided between support of the
president's decision and Mr. lirvan's
position, while some of the men who
are in the list of nominating possi
bilities did not touch upon the sub
ject nt all.
It seems nsTeei that Jtr. Bryan's
argument that the treaty should he
ratified with such compromises ns
mnv he possible will srive n tremen
dous impetus to the movement which
steadily has been coins.' on in the un
dercurrents of the senate for a com
promise of all factions in puttiiiL'
throutrh the covenant.
President Wilson's reiteration that
there can be no reasonable objection ,
to interpretations to "suv what the
undoubted mcanine of the league is,''
it is thought bv some of those on both
sides of the contest, may speed the
movement.
Senator Lodge. the republican
leader, and foremost in the fieht
against ratification of the treaty
without reservations, takes a wholly
opposite view and has ir-sued a state
ment declaring t he president's mes.
sage makes impossible the hope that
the senate might compose its differ
ences and irntifv the treaty "pro
tected by the principles set forth In
the fourteen reservations."
An appeal to the tieople nt the
Polls, the republican senate leader
declared in his stateaient. would he to
him ''most cordially welcome."
The President's letter
WASHINGTON". Jan. P. President
uson. in hi message to'the .Jack-nn
lav diners here last night, said: "The
clear and single wav." to determine
the will of the American people on
the league of Nation tvns to make it
an issue at the next election.
The. president's nieneo said noth
ing whatever about the third term for
f
hismclf and neither did it snv even
hv implication or intimation that he
would not be a candidate, as had been
widely forecast. Most of the mes
sage was devoted to an expression of
his argument of why he considered it
the duty of the United Slates to ioin
in the League of Nations covenant
and why he considered the war not
really won until it did.
Another attempt to crush the new
nations of Kurope would be made, the
president said, it the I'nited State
held aloof.
Can't Ken-rite. Treaty
The president expressed bis atti
tude toward reservations much ns he
did at his conference with the senate
foreign relations eommittec in this
language: , ,
"If the senate wishes to sav what
the undoubted meaning of the treaty
is I shall have no objection. There
can be nit reasonable objection to in
terpretations accompanying the act
of ratification itself. But when the
treaty is acted upou I must know
whether it means that we have rati
fied or rejected it. We cannot re
write this treatv. We must take it
witjiout changes whieh alter its mean
ing or leave it and then, after the
rest of the world has signed it. if w-
leave it. we must face the unthink
able task of making another and sep
arate kind of treatv with Germany.''
WASHINGTON. Jan. It. Plans for
the democratic national convention
at San Francisco June 'J8. were dis
cussed bv Chairman Ciunmings and
other members of the national com
mittee today and were to In; taken up
formally at a meeting of the executive
committee later.
A committee on arrangements for
the convention probably will be an
nounced tndav or tomorrow. 'This
committee will go to San Francisco
within davs to lav out the seating
of the delegates on the convention
floor and to arrange for hotel accom
modations, committee rooms and the
like.
Still lloe ill Senate
WASHINGTON. Jan. ). Senators
disagreed widely today as to the
probable effect on the senate treaiv
situation of President Wilson's Jack
son dav letter urging that the oues
t:on of ratification be carried into
the presidential campaign..
Among the democrats generally il
was declared the letter had not
changed matters at all and that the
effort to agree on compromise rc---rrvntions
would continue. The mild
u-servation republicans thought a
compromise bad been rendered more
cit'ticult bv the president's action, but
said Jhcv did not consider that the
door had been elo-ed entirely.
A still different view was ludil In
the treaty's irreconcilable foes who
declared Mr. Wil-on's declaration
.'iii,I related incidents during the dci-
( Continued on I'age Twgj
President Wilson and Former Sec'y of State
Who Split Over Treaty Reservations
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10 FOLLOW DRY LAW
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SVHACrSK. N. V.. Jan. !).
lievolution is liki-lv to 'follow in
the wake of prohibition, accord
ing to the l!ev. Dr. G. Campbell
Morgan, pastor of Westminster
chapel, I.ondoh, now visiting in
Syracuse.'
"Whenever n great country
banishes strong drink it must
prepare for a revolution,'' he de
clared from the pulpit here.
"When a men stops drinking he
begins to think. All that hap
pened in Hussia in the revolu
tionary line has occurred since
vodka was abolished. Whenever
London goes dry her Knst end
will arise."
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NEW YORK, Jan. 0. Dumagc to
the American lino Htcamer St. Louis
which burned at a llolioken nliipvnnl
last night, wrh estimated at $1,000,
000 early tcclay. The interior of the
ship was wrecked and her plates bad
ly warped. The origin of the fire is
not known.
The St. Louis was heinc re-fitted
as a passenger steamer after service
as the transport Louisville during the
war. Launched at the Cramps ship
yard in Philadelphia in 1 VI and
christened by Mrs. (J rover Cleveland,
she was the first passenger vessel to
be built in this country in more than
20 y?ar.
The craft at that time was the
third largpf-;t in .iMenre and was the
fastest. She and her sister craft, the
St. Paul, launched the folhwing year
were used as auxiliary cruisers dur
ing the Spanish-American war. The
St. Paul capsized at her pier here
during the war.
The St. Ltitiis brought home to
many Krpnch wives of American sol
diers in her Jater days as n transport
that navy men caliei) her the "liridr.l
Miip.'
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U.S. WOBBLES ID.
THENCE 10 DANZIG
COPKNIIAGKN. Jan. !). I'lidrsir-
, allies deported from - the I'nited
I Slates wil lie landed here anil trans
i .shipped to Danzig under supervision
: of the Danish police, according to re
! ports. The radicals will not be per
mitted to come in contact with the
i population here.
I Kach ship bringing deportees will
bear litttl persons, it is said, and the
. I'nited States government has ar
' ranged with the I nited Shipping com
! panv of this city to take them from
here to Danzig.
STOCKHOLM. Jan. R The 'J -I!)
undesirables deported 'from tiie I'ni-
; ted States on the transport linl'oni,
I "the soviet ark.' probably will be
landed at llnn-o, Finland, ami wilt
I proceed lo Uu-sin bv rail under ,i
Isd'onir LMiard. il was said hen? toda v.
I The Kinnih legation la-'ks oi'lieia!
I information but belief was expressed
I I here that no eoinniunieahon would
be allowed with those landing front
the liut'ord. who will be furnished
with sufficient food for the imirnev
bv rail. The harbor of KevM i
frozen and the port of Lilian is be
lieved improbable as a landint: plaee
for Ihe- undesirables. The Swedish
authorities deelare that those de
ported from the I'nited States wiH not
be allowed transit through Sweden,
WASHINGTON. Jan. !). Alien ra-1
icals deported on the army transport
Hut'ord. which now is Hearing the Kiel
canal, will not he landed at Copen
hagen nor is it planned to send other
deportees from this country to Ihe
Danish port. Anthony Caminetti. com
missioner general of immigralion,
said lodav. He st'll refused, how
ever, to say where the Uuford would
land.
Mr. Caminetti conferred today with
army officials urcstiiitahlv for d--ort-ing
addilionn! radicals to so ii-t Itus.
Chink Guilty n; Murder.
WASHINGTON. Jan. p. Ziang
Sung Wan tv;i. toimd guilty of mur
der in tlw lir-t degree tndav lor the
death of Hi n Si-n W'u. a year ago. a
member of II, e Chinese ediica; otial
mission. Dr. T. T. Wong, head ot t!ic
mission mid ('. II. IJsie were kilU-d at
ihe same time.
Cold and silver totnliinr; f s, i n I
KIS wok received at the San Francis
co mint In XHi'J.
1.
! FEAR A SECOND ICE
JAM ON COLUMBIA IF'
TMK IIALLKS. Ore.. Jan, !).
lluve iee cakes were floatiim
down (lie Cidumbia river past
The I )u lies toda v, of a size; to
menace navigation. Some of the
cakes were ns larL'e as a box
ear. If further cold weather
comes, the llontin iee will likelv
form the neueleu for another
iee jam here.
The leuiperul ure vesterdav lie
iran dropriimr rapMlv and everv
indiealion was that The Dalles
would soon he fihtinir tlirom:h
nnntber severe eoM snap.
Tlie wind was continuimr from
the northwest wi'h snow in pros
pect. STEEL STRIKE IS
OFFICIALLY CALLED
OFF BY LEADERS
IMTTSm'Ifti. .Inn. !!. Or-Miiizer
field wurkers and international union
beads interested ill the imtioii-whlc
strike of steel workers whieh wenr
into effect September 'J 2, were in re
ceipt of an of ficjiil order from the
national cotnurttee callitrj off the
strike. Thi-viietii.n was taken bv the
committee here last niuht.
The order declared the committee's
dceis-ion wa forced Ijv "ruthless mis
iwe of power' bv the ft eel corpora
tion, the pre--, the rniirt. federal
i tronp-, -date ooliee alid maiiv puhli
iot'tieiidf in that thev denied steel
( worker- "their riirlils of tree ieech
(and tree as-i'mblave and the r lit In
j' ruauie." Th" older iiddd that the
i union will l.i"ij lr an iihieidiate c-!in-!
pc. L'ii to f:iitlicr op'ani.e the work-
tei "and ui'l mt eeit-e until imlns
trial in-ti'-e in tin steel iniln-lrie-;
lias been tichit x ed."
And It Is Some Line.
PA IMS. Jan. S. flu roh Wircle
Sen I'-e. ) -The whole of the Kamen-cfM-l'ndol-k
-1 r-kiirv-M aiok oiis tan -loilov
railway line i' now in tin- hand.-
ol the I'oles,
lr"iu WarMiw.
iceordircr In udviec
REVOLUTION SPREADS
GUARD 1 BULGARIAN
KING AND HIS FAIL!
C.KNKVA. .Ian. iK -The revo
luliouary movement in Huluarla
is spreading amoUR peasants
and workiimmen accordiim to
lielBrade advices. Kins llc.ris
and ttie royal I'aaiily are said to
lie secluded in the palace under
heavy j-urd.
PARIS, .Un. il. -TVe French
foreign office, which is In con
stant touch ftilh the Italkau sit
uation, has received no confir
inatioR ol" l.irmini; reirts rela
tiro to lh spread of n rcvilu
t ion a ry movement in Bulgaria.
Panic Rcitins In Western Part of
Vera Cruz Because of Oncninti of
New Crater kh Emits Smoke
Extinct Craters Become Active-
Cause of Eartluiuakes Seen.
MKXICO CITY,:.kan. n. Intense
excitement anil panic, relmis among
the inhaliltaiils of tile cllles of Cor
delia nnd Oi-izalia, lit tho western
part of the stato of Vera Cruz, lie
cause of the opening of a new cratei
of tho volcano of Orlxuha, fifteen
miles northward. Tho new crater Is
emitting smoke.'accordlni? to reports
from army officers.
It is officially reported that noth
iiiK untoward has been noticed at the
other volcanoes In Mexico.
Kxports believe tho reported open
ing of a small and supposedly extinct
volcano at Sun .Minuet and tho break
ing out of a new crater on .Mount Ori
zaba provide an explanation of the
eartliiiuake which on Saturday nlKlil
centered with lerriric effect along the
line between the states of Vera Cruz
and I'uebla.
New advices tell of 200 deaths
near Kan .Miguel and In the country
districts near Cordi.-ka. and it seems
improbable the final list or casualties
will fall below original estimates of
20(10 even if reports of Hioo deaths
at Couztlan were exaggerated. It )s
believed twenty villages were com
pletely destroyed with almost double
that number i.-r towns and villages
badly damaged.
MKXICO CITV, .Inn. !). Seven
towns near Teocelo, snlllll of .lalapa
have been overwhelmed by tho earth
disturbances nntl a great lake Is cov
ering their former sites, according to
a message received this morning from
Teocela thru Vera Cruz. Thirty-four
bcilles had been recovered when the
message was filed nt Teocelo.
The towns that were Inundated are
Tlalaualau, tjuie.iuitlau, Coastalccac
Toslguo, lxllabiiacan, Clinloyii , mill
Sun .loae-Achllchlcn. Kvcry house in
Teoceol has heen niuile unlnhubltuble.
ARREST 2 GROCERS IN
SUGAR OVER 13 CENTS
POItTI.AN'I). ,lun. !). I'urthcr nr
rests are probable beff.ro the week is
ended among the grocers of tho city
bs the result of information given
1'niteii States Attorney Humphreys
bv householders that sugar is llein
sold by grocers at prices exceeding
l.T cents, the fair price fixed for this
( omnii.-dlty by K. Newell, federal
food administrator, Mr. Humphreys
said today. If these charges are cor
roborated mid arrests are ni:ide, the
grocers will be investigated by the
federal grand Jury along Willi A.
Anderson nnd Joseph l.etlff. two gro
cery men arrested this week en com
plaints issued by Mr. Humphreys
charging them with profiteering.
GRATER ERUPTS
red horde:
Bokhara, Canity of Khanate. Lss
Than 200 IWiles From Afqltanistan.
Is Canttirct! bv Bolshcviki Troous
lixnortant Citv in Don Cossack Re
tiion Caiitttretl From Denikine
Lcnine Plans World Contiuest Ac
cortlinti to Italian Letter.
LONIION, Thursdiiy, Jan. it. llok
haia. capital of the Important Kha
nate of Bokhara in central Asia anil
less ihan 2U0 miles from tho Ai'Khan
istan frontier lias heen entered hy
bolshevik forces, uceorclini! la war of
fice reports. Further west, soviet
troops have occupied Krasiuivoil.sk on
the eastern shore or tho Caspian sea.
It is claimed in reports frc-iu .Moscow.
ItD.MIO, Thursday, Jan. S. Tho
Upoca says that Nicolal Lenlno has
written another hitter to tho direc
tors of tho socialist party imploring
them not to precipitato any revolu
tionary movement which in tho pres
ent ccndltTons would havo no prob
ability of success. , '
l.enlne adds that tho revolution' In
Italy now would have a grave reper
cussion in the Kussian soviet republic
which is about to negotiate with tho
liourgeoise powers for the acknow
ledgement of the recent state of af
ialrn in Russia ami also for essential
oconomlc agreements. All this would
bo rejected, sayR Lenlne, If anothor
revolution c-ccurred in Italy, because
with tho eventual spread of bolshev-
lsm thriiout Europe, In a spirit ot
preservation the states still iminuno
from bolshevism would hermetically
closo themselves itgninst .infection
and the soviet republic dostlnott ,to
become a typo for tho future, would
not have time to strengthen Itselt
sufficiently to become vital.
Capture N'ovocherknssk
STOCKHOLM. Jan. !. Esthonltt
has acceded to tho reiuest of (lenoral
Yudenitch for the transfer ot tho tat
ter's army to the Bouthcrn Kussian
rront where it will reinforce Genoral
Denikine, according to a llclsingfora
dispatch to the Tidningen.
LONDON, Jan. 0. Tho city ot
Novocherkassk has been captured by
the bolshcviki, It Is asserted III
wireless message from Mescow today.
The city was taken Wednesday uftor
a battle of the most severe charactor
with ticnernl Deniklno's troops.
Novochekassk is twenty miles
northeast of Itostov, principal seaport
of tho Don Cossack region.
TOKIO, Jan. .' A dispatch 'rem.
Vladivostok received horo 'today
states that tho American sovornmont
has decided to withdraw all Us troopu
Irom Siberia.
1X0 announcement, of any decision
of tlie United States government to
withdraw tho entire American force
troni Siberia has been mudu In this
country. It may be that tho Vladivo
stok report arises from the announce
ment recently made that tho United
States was to send troop ships to
Vladivostok for the transporting
home of the Czecho-Slovak forces in
Siberia.
ASTORIA BABIES BURN
ASTOUIA. Ore.. Jan. 9. Tho two
Infant children of I,. A. Samuels,
warehouseman ilt the Standard Oil
company here, were hurned to death
today when the Samuels home
caught fire and burned to the ground.
Mr. Samuels had gone to a neigh
iior'a house on an errand. leaTing the
children In hed ot her home. Re
turnini; she found the hfuse la
ftanic-
Kfforts oE firemen to rescue the
children, a boy and girl, were futile.