Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-31
TFUTONS GATHERING
FOR PEACE PLOTS
High Officials In Switzerland To
Scheme Against Allies.
PRICE OF WHEAT NOW AT $3.50
Presidents Message misconstrued In
Some Quarters Soon To Vote
On War Tax Bill.

peace PROJECT, the oDJeOt u NAASA -
I TO create difficulties and friction be-
tween the Entente Powers, thereby
involving minimum concessions by the
Central Powers.
| Among those engaged in this lntrl-
que are reported TO be the former
Imperial Chancellor. DR.. Won Beth
mann Hollweg. who recently arrived
at Ragatz; Prince Won Buelow, for
mer German Ambassador to Italy,
whose headquarters are at Berne;
Baron Won Giskra, former Austrian
Minister at The Hague. who IS at
| Zug. and makes frequent trips to
Berne: Count Goluchowski, former
Austro- Hungarian Minister of For
/ eign Affairs. at Interlaken; Prince
Alfred Hohenlohe, Prince Johann Won
Schoenburg Hartenstein. former Aus
trian Ambassador at the Vatican, now
at Lucerne: County -Metternich,
former German Ambassador to Tur-
key, and Counts Won Puckler and
| Wenkheim.
The efforts of these chief actors in
the intrigues are supplemented by
those of representatives of various
nationalities. Some of these dele
gates. notably Baron Giskra make
show of friendly sentiment toward
J Great Britain, while others dwell up
on the discord, real or pretended, be-
tween Berlin and Vienna.
The Debats correspondent asserts
that this discord is incontestable, and
that it runs through all grades of of
fetal and military circles though the
object of its being put forward by
representatives of Vienna working
with representatives of Berlin in
Switzerland. he adds, does not ap-
pear
Presidents Message MiscOnstrued.
Some uncertainty as to President
wilson's meaning in criticising eco
| nomic combination of nations in his
response to Pope Benedicts peace of
fer has been cleared. One interpre-
tation of the Presidents expressions
was that he had condemned the En-
tente Allies for making plans at the
Paris Conference to engage in COM
mercial war on Germany after the
present war. 1t was learned, how
ever, in an authoritative quarter, that
the Presidents meaning had been mis-
construed.
In his communication to the Pope
| the President said that ~the establish
ment of selfish and exclusive econom-
ic league we deem inexpedient and in
| the end worse than futile. no proper
basis for peace of any kind" The
authority mentioned said, when his
attention was called to the eonstruc-
| ton that was being placed on the
Presidents words, that the seeming
criticism should be considered in
connection with what preceded it in
the Presidents message.
Price of Wheat Now mt S2.20.
The basis of the 1917 wheat crop
was fixed at 1920 bushel last night
by President Wilson. upon the recon-
mendation of the commission headed
by ID. H. A. Garfield The price is
based on Chicago delivery. This is
the figure at which the Food Admins
tration will buy supplies of what is
! known as No. l Northern Spring
wheat for the United States and its
allies
1t is expected that the wheat pro-
| ducers will fall into line without fur
ther dispute and make the price uni
versal. The Food Administration,
however, has power to inforce the
basic price if there are any recalic-
trants. This probably will be done
through a system of licenses which
may extend all the way to the retail
ers, should occasion arise for such a
drastic procedure Millers and whole
salers will be brought under this Ii
censing system at once, it is stated,
and the powers also will be exercised
to prevent boarding or cornering the
market.
A schedule of prices of all grades
and kinds of wheat, reduced to the
1920 basis for No / Northern
Spring wheat. was submitted to the
President by the Food Administration
and was made public. It provides that
for an additional 10 cents bushel
for wheat to the wholesaler in New
York City as opposed to the 1920
price in Chicago This would bring
the price of basic wheat in New York
City to $3.50.
War Tax Bill Up September 10.
The tangle over the War Revenue
bill has been partially smoothed out,
when the Senate by unanimous con-
sent agreed to take up the measure
on Monday, September 10, for the final
vote. This agreement was reached
after Senator Simmons, Chairman of
the Finance Committee, yielding to
the insistence of leaders on both sides.
had consented to withdraw the motion
for closure.
Under the agreement reached the
Senate at ) o'clock next Wednesday,
September 5, will proceed to vote on
the amendments bearing on excess
war profits In the meantime debate
on these amendments will go on. A
vote on the income tax amendments
will be taken on Friday, September 7. /
After that the Senate will devote it
self 10 consideration of the remaining
features of the bill.
The mood of the Senate as to clio
sure was shown when Senator La
Toilette, speaking for the radicals. as
serted that any attempt TO throttle
debate would threaten the ultimate
passage of the measure The advo-
Gates Of drastic CONSUMPTION of wealth.
Senator La Toilette said, were in no