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BUREAUS CROWD
PEACE LEADERS
Paris Overrun With Small Fry
Officialdom and Tons of
Archives.
BRITAIN IN THE LEAD
Mobilization of Four Years In
vades French Capital
as by Storm.
BRITAIN IN THE LEAD
By II. wICkHAM STEED.
Foreign Editor Of the london Times.

Special cable Despatch 10 TIE suS from the
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1915; all rights rsse-rea.
PARIS, Dec. 1S.-Many days. possibly
some weeks. will pass before the bus,-
ness Of the preliminary interallied
peace conference can begin in earnest.
Precious time is being wasted ap-
parently without regard to the under
lying realities of the situation. One OF
those realities is the natural anxiety
of all the allied and associated troops
to return home as soon as possible.
Another is the necessity for coordinat-
ing a concrete interallied policy with
regard to menacing developments,
such as the Bolshevik invasion OF
Poland
The arrival of President Wilson and
the great cordiality of his reception
by the people Of Paris. a cordislity
that can hardly be exaggerated, must
be recl<oned as a distinct Improvement
in the somewhat chaotic outlook.
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U. S. WILL HOLD
RAILROADS TILL
CONGRESS- ACTS
Wilson and McAdOO Have
No Intention of Releasing
Them Next Month.
n. Y. RUMORS ARE DENIED
Washington Officials Inclined
to Suspect Reports Indicate
Market Plot.
N. Y. RUMORS ARE DENIED
Special Despatch TO The suS.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1s.-The Admins
tration will retain control of the rail-
roads at least during the present scs-
sion of Congress. Director General
McAdoo has no intention Of turning
the roads back before Congress has an
opportunity to consider the question OF
extension of Government control 1t
was learned authoritstively to-day.
This sets at rest rumors that unless
quicker sympathy with the Ave year
extension plan was received from Con-
gress IL was intended to release all the
railroads early next month.
Reports in New York financial cir
cles that members OF House and Sem
ate committees had been advised that
the roads would be turned back are
without foundation 1t was said. Di-
rector General McAdoo has made no
statement on the subject, but II is
known that ne has absolutely no in
tention of following the course re-
ported.
The President and the Director Cen
eral are prepared to give the present
Congress every possible opportunity to
act on the suggestions made by the
President In his annual message and
on the recommendations made by the
Director General less than a week ago.
Hearings TO BE Held.
1t was pointed out to-day that Com
merce committees in both houses OF
Congress are preparing to hold hear
ings on the railroad situation immedi-
ately after the holidays and that any
action looking toward REIMBURSEMENT
of the roads would be a deliberate SLAP
at Congress. The President would be
in the position Of asking the Legislators
to do something and then OF takin9
the matter out OF their hands before
they had had any opportunity TO act.
The President and the Director Gen
eral are convinced that the railroads
should be turned over to their owner:
promptly unless further railroad cen
troll than that now authorized is pro
vided. They are prepared. however
to wait upon the present Congress tc
act upon the recommendations made
and it can be positively stated that the
status OF the roads will not be changed
during the life of this Congress. They
will be relinquished from Government
control. II was stated officially only
! II Congress fails to take any action.
Officials here we're keenly interested
in the reports, from New York's finan-
cial district and there was some dis
position TO scent a market plot. Eff
forts have been made to trace their
origin, but without result.
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LLOYD GEORGE
CANCELS TRIP
VIII Confer With President in
British Capital Instead
of Paris.
EMPIRE Is REPRESENTED
War Cabinet and Heads of
Colonial Governments
in Conference.
EMPIRE Is REPRESENTED

Special Gable Despdtch to THH suS and the
Public Ledger.
Copyright. 1878: all riohts reserred.
LONDON, Dec. 1S.--The evening news
papers announce that President Will
son Is coming to London Immediately
after Christmas for a series OF confer
ences here instead Of in Paris. Premier
Lloyd George and Arthur ]. Balfour.
the British Foreign Secretary, there
fore have deferred their trips to Paris,
where 1t originally was planned to
hold the conferences.
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4 Bureaucratic Invasion.

If would he a serious mistake TO
imagine the American President Is dis
posed to let the grass grow under his
feet or wait Indefinitely until all the
allied Governments have stacked hun
dreds of tons of archives In the reQui-
sitioned Paris hotels. British authori-
ties would do we'll not to ignore the
strong feeling growing here on this
point. Even the moderate journal des
DcbdtS now protests vigorously.
Paris. it says editorially, which es-
capped the Gothas and Berthas, is likely
to succumn undcr the weight of the
paper and bureaucratic invasion. This
is sheer madness. The emptiness of
official brains never has been more
apparent. A multitude OF specialists
and pyramids of files will throw us
into ineXpressible confusion. II the
allied plenipotentiaries have not al
ready got clear ideas upon the pre-
liminary conditions of peace they never
will have any.
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PARIS, Dec. 1s.-An American war
snip was ordered to-day to the Baltic
10 participate with the British fleet
IN reopening those waters, preserving
oruer and maintaining the interna-
uonal character Of the demonstration.
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RIVERDALE PEOPLE
PLAN FOR BIG FLAG
DAY CELEBRATION

Plans have been completed for an
elaborate celebration OF nag day at
Riverdale next Friday. DR.. Clarence
J. Owens, managing director OF the
Southern Commercial Congress-. will
be chairman and he will deliver the
address, Of welcome.
Gov. Emerson Harrington Of Mary
land, Senator Hiram Johnson Of Cali
fornia; Philander Claxton. United
States commissioner OF education, and
President Wood. OF the Maryland
State College, will make addresses.
In conjunction with the celebration
the new Riverdale school will be
dedicated at 3 O'Clock, and the laying
OF the corner stone will be attended
with exercises conducted by Mt. Her
mon Lodge No. 17e, r. A. A. NJ, OF
HyattsvilIe, w. NJ Shepherd presid-
ing. The RiverdaIe Cadets, Ssrgt-
Reginald Yauch, U. S. NJ c., COM
handing, will give an exhibition drill,
and the Boy Scouts Of Riverdale and
Hyattsville will give demonstrations
OF first aid work. The Maryland
State College Band will be in attend
ance, and the program will be con-
cluded with a dance.
The committee OF women IN charge
consists OF Mia Hebb, Mrs. D. Ben
nett, Mrs. Harry L. Smith, Mrs. c. 7.
Dunlap, Mrs. Brice Bowie. the Misses
Kathleen, and Margaret Smith. Miss
Louise Owens, and Miss Susie Camp
hell
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08
ANGELUSMAY SOON
CALL WASHINGTON
CITIZENS TOPRAY

Church bells Of washington may
soon toll the Angelus to call the peo-
pie TO prayer.
A movement supported BY high Gov
eminent officials Is under way today
to have a city-wide observance Of the
custom for centuries a part Of Euro
pean life. The purpose OF the public
prayer Is to ask divine aid for the
allied arms.
The plan, which has been adopted
IN many cities, Is 10 have the bells
ring out the Angelus az 8 o'clock In
the evening. Many communities have
the Angelus tolled at 9 o'clock IN the
morning and night and at noon. The
public kneels or bows In prayer as the
bells ring out the message. The rep
resentatives Of all religious organi-
nations win be asked to cooperate IN
the movement A prayer for the use
OF al citizens may be printed and dis
tfibuted. In Europe the devout stand
oareheaded and reeite the angelic sal
utation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08
ADVERTISEMENT
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Get II at any drug store, and IL IL ioes
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08
HIGHER PAY FOR
G.P.O. FRESHMEN
PROVIDED IN BILL

Senator Smith Of Arizona has In
Produced q bill in the Senate to in
grease the pay Of pressmen in the
Government Printing ofhce to 20
cents an hour.
This Is one Of the indications that
Nhere Is sympathy in Congress with
Abe. recent letter Of Public Printer
Ford in which he asked the Appro-
-priations Committee to grant higher
nav TO employees of the Government
Printing Office.
senator Smith is chairman OF The
Printing Committee and familiar with
conditions in the Government print
ing establishment
He is also on the Senate Approprta-
fls7s Committee and as a member OF
that committee will do what is pos
Eible for additional pay for the Gov
ernment Printing Office employees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08
BILL TOREPAIR
TRUCK DAMAGED
ROADS FAVORED

Senator John Walter Smith Of
Maryland, who has introduced a bill
to obtain Federal aid in the mainte-
nence OF improved roads in Maryland
and other States where such roads
are much used for Government traf-
nc, Is receiving many assurances OF
support for the measure.
Maryland has neither the money nor
the labor to keep up the roads as
they should be kept up since army
traffic has been at its height.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

The gentleman from Boston, was
Thomas o. Marvin, attorney for the
Boston Home Market Club. He was
the hrst witness at the open hear
ings. The second was Benjamin c.
March, Secretary of the Farmers
National War Finance Committee.
AS in these two experts, extremes
met" the strange coincidence in
volVed the "logic Of history" from
the Harrison administration to the
present. Mr. Marvin was fully mas
ter Of all the arguments used by the
Home Market Club in the campaigns
Of 1Sss-1s92 in support Of Harrison
against Cleveland, with all the statis-
tics needed to bring them fully up
to date. And Mr.. March, though
equally modern. was fully master of
all the arguments Of 1888, as they
were used then by those whom Bos-
ton derided and feared as "whisker-
ed POpulists."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08
By W. V. RYARS.

Hon. Claude Ritchin, chairman of
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, was in the chair yesterday with
the Democratic experts OF his COM
mittee in their chairs on his right.
and the Republican experts in their
chairs on his left It was at about
1I:25, and the gentleman from Bos-
ton had been explaining to the com
mittee for about an hour, when an
explanation to him became in order
from the committee. Mr.. Kitchin
made it with his usual precision.
THE boys" he said, "are a little
touchous, and will have their little
disputes" but this was not to be IN
derstOod as implying that partisan
ship would figure in the preparation
Of the new war tax bill in the matter
OF the tRriff. or anything else. The
committee might discuss items Of the
bill from different standpoints, but
they would act together for the
country in reaching their final de-
cision-
The boys" who are a "little touch
Gus" are known land formerly they
might have been identihed) as Re-
publicans and Democrats on the COM
mittee- They were formerly divided
chiefly on the issue Of high or low
tsrir taxation and Capitalization"
Mr.. Kitchin suggested what is GER
tainly a fact, that there is now no
tariff issue" Low tariff taxation.
opposition to subsidies, and to Gov
eminent interference with the mar
kets is no longer a test Of standing
in the Democratic party. The issue is
dead. So IL every other issue Of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

The Senate also adjourned until
noon today. leaving Senator Sherman
in possession Of the floor, making
his last unfettered speech against me
Underwood gag or proposed change
in Senate rules. Senator Sherman
told the Senate that Washington pa
pers are too much accustomed TO Con-
gressional eloquence to report II. It
10 really a pity his entire speech can
not be published locaIly-sven II It
runs the price Of the Congressional
Record up TO Is centA He has sell
dom been known to stop speaking be-
fore actually Saying something
which is. indeed, a rare and peculiar
gift OF eloquence. The Underwood
rules may be adopted today. II so, /:
will be because, even when thus
gagged" the Senate can still talk as
much as 1t really pleases.
The best thing the Senate did yes
terday was in the shape OF minority
protest, chiefly by Senators King and
Sherman, against the arbitrary pow
ers OF arrest and search in the bird
bill.T Instead Of having the House
amendment concurred in by unanI-
nous consent, the bill was sent TO
conference. II was obnoxious to all
Senator Kings idea OF AngIo-Saxnn
freedom to have a bureaucrat coming
from a thousand miles or more away
and invading the premises OF Ameri-
can citizens TO look for birds eggs or
something" Senator Sherman would
let migratory birds take care OF them
selves forever before he would have
Americans subjected to this sort OF
'constabulary" of rowing bureau
Gratis" searching for last years birds
nests OF anything else. 1t really
sounded for awhile as II the Senate
had come back to American traditions
and American principles. but OF
course, It will make no difference
whatever in the result.
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Watch for McCutche0n's CaEtOOn Sunday.

market and assist Its patriotic bene-
hciaries in paying their income taxes.
He preferred this to ''price-hxing" as
now practiced by Democrats to "stim-
ulate production" He assisted the
committee in discussing taxes on all
imports, including raw materials, and
on coffee and tea When requested to
give an opinion on taxing raw cotton
he thought there would be no incon-
sistency in laying an internal rev.
enue war tax on Il. "And 50 fur
Their" in the most Interesting way. a.
members Of the committee prompted
or opposed him from what were once
the standpoints Of parties opposed on
the issues Of high taxes and low
taxes"-"eentralizat and home
rule" As theIogic Of the present de-
veIoped, It was simply a question Of
raising money in billions for democ-
racy in Europe by any means through
which It can be obtained in the larg-
est possible quantities in the United
States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

Mr.. Marvin, however, a. the repre-
sentative OF the best statistical mind
OF Boston, believed that since revenue
Is now the FIRST essential, # might
be raised IN large amounts-perhaps
to the extent Of over a binIon-by
putting a tax on imports which,
while serving to win the war, would
encourage production in the home
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

Although he came SECOND on the
stand yesterday, Mr.. March, as an agri-
cultural war hnancier, comes first in
representing the logic OF events
There is nothing financially complex
in 'the good old rule. the simple plan
that he can take who has the power,
and he may keep who can" Mr.
March believes income taxes adjusted
with such strict impartiality that all
incomes. from whatever source, in
excess OF $4,000 a year; shall be tax
ed 100 per cent OF everything above
the nifty thousand Even IL the
Democratic party should hx the mini
mum price OF Oklahoma wheat at IS
bushel, ''to stimulate production"
few Of Senator Cores constituents
would be unpatriotic enough to object
to giving a hundred per cent OF their
net incomes (about $4,000 q year, to
their struggling government
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Congress Did T yesterday IT

The First Hearing en- the New War Tax Bill How Extremes
Met" Before Mr. Etchn's Ways and Means Committee
Logic Of Thirty Years Of Political History Brought to Focus in
Two Hours Coming Taxes on Everything and Everybody.
Taxing Tea, Coffee, and COaa Proposed Pension Increases
Assured "Rehabitatng" Manned Veterans
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

In the House yesterday Mr.. Rainey
OF Illinois gave a history OF platinum
as used in war and war industries,
with facts which led him to fear shat
the platinum king OF Germany has
secret agents in this cou7trT seeking
to influence our War Industries
Board. Adopting the conference re-
port on the pension increase bill 1885,
900, 900 increase) the HOUSE then be-
gan debate on the rehabilitation bill"
as already debated In the Senate. 1t
will probably be passed rJdly before
adjournment for the great Congress
sional baseball game. 1t Is a pity
that economic CONTROL the last I'M
American relic OF its original BJIr-
bonism, cannot be cut out of the IRE
Mobilization bilP"; but prOoIbly It will
not be.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

Democratic party platform Of 1912,
and Of the Presidential campaigns
which preceded It, back to the hrst
platform adopted.
This being fact-and It Is absurd
to question it-no other single fact
is OF so much importance in deciding
what the new. war taxes will be or
must be.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

swim & Company'6 Gaies Of fresh beef IN
waahington, d. G, for the week ending Satur-
day. June I. lsl8. averaged sLS cent? PR
nd.-Advt.
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next term will give him thirty years
in the Senate, where regard for him
increases with his Increasing length
Of service
Under Mr.. DIIlon's House BIN. a. intro
duced yesterday. the Supreme Court must
have a three-fourth's majority before
deciding that acts Of Congress are not
constitutional On the other hand. the
court might be required to have a unani-
nous vote before deciding that any act
Of Congress Is good law. when ''ths nag
Is outside the constitution" But II seems
that Congress has no way Of inducing
the Supreme Court to put itself in jail
for sedition-
Senator France introduced his favorite
'Kultur blu yesterday. as a proposed
amendment to the army bill It would
conscript boys at eighteen and keep them
until twenty-one before sending them to
the trenches. 1t would also raise the age
limit to forty-live. Senator CumminS
proposed a similar amendment
Senator Hollis reported favorably from
the District OF Columbia Committee the
bill to fix a minimum wage for women
and children in the District Of Columbia.
He quoted figures showing that Of coo
women in stores and factories "a per
cent received J. than 80 week The
report argued Tat at war prices this Is
not a living wage.
Mr.. Thomas o. Marvin. Of the Boston
Home Market Club said yesterday that
war Is the best protection" for Ameri-
can industries. But in spite Of the large
percentage 1t pays those who are attest
to survive" he FASTENED to argue that
Il Is an evil thing-the only thing worse
than free trade"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

The Capitol learned With pleasure
yesterday that Senator Thomas s.
Of Virginia VIII be returned
Wttha1t . sopt& H. 81 - hiB
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

It seems only q little while ago,
though It may seem very ancient and
effete history to the younger-and,
of course, much wiser and better,
politicians Of 1918. But between
1888 and 1892. It was a question OF
saving the solid South" from the
Harrison Force bIll"-threatened be-
cause It was alleged that voting
enough was not being done at the
South to justify its measure Of rep
resentation in Congress, and the
electoral college. How Democrats
then hated Force biIls!" How the
call to resist "compulsion" stirred.
them to the soul! And it was made
for all It was worth. The idea Of
control in the electoral college by the
combined votes OF South and West
(which did not take full effect until
1870 was born then. The fight was
made in the East against the Boston
Home Market Club by the Mug
wumps," who, It was charged, were
literally supplied with British free
trade gold" In the West, It was a
drive" against "plutocracy," to bring
over, the extreme left wing of the
Republican party-the "Populists"-
who were Ieven more opposed than
the "Plutocrats" to Democratic
principle" But it vas necessary to
"win the war"-the civil war in
which this was really the last great
struggle-more decisive than the last
battles around Richmond. And It
was won The Populists came over
and they are still over. The way H.
linois and the West swung in 1892
has decided history every since
with one promise of that campaign
stu to be realized-tRe promise that
when the solid North" divided. the
'SoIid South" would divide also.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

next term will give him thirty years
in the Senate, where regard for him
increases with his Increasing length
Of service
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-08

| Enid Bennett in Biggest Show On Earn ?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-02
Returning Raids.
(San Francisco Chronicle.

(San Francisco ChrOnlcIe.J
Allied aviators are now daily pomo-
ing German towns The kaiser nev-
er reckkoned that when the time came
for the allies to make aerial attacks
they could drop more bombs on
Germany in a week than Germany
could drop on England in year In
two months the British alone have
carried out more raids than Ger
many made against them from the be-
ginning of the war.
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1915 more than 1000 prisoners G

1915 more than 1000 prisoners Of
all nations had died.
Sir George said nine men purpose
ly drove picks into their feet in or
der to get away from mining camp.
In salt mine prisoner was beaten
unconscious and when he regained his
senses, he was beaten unconscious
again. The names of the officers and
superintendents who carried out the
outrages against the prisoners were
known. Reports of what had hap
pened in factories, the speaker con;
tinued, could. not be. read without
something more. than anger.
Regarding the treatment of Brit
ish prisoners behind the firing line
Sir George said it was as bad as any
thing that could be found. Although
General Ludendorff had promised
redress, his promise had not been
fulfilled. Men were being marched
up and put TO work within the Brit
ish shell fire.. They had to carry mu7
nitions of war and other work which
prisoners should not be put to. IL
was necessary for these facts to pe
made known, the speaker declared;
Germany had debt to pay and Ger
many ought to be made to pay 1t.