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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
ue Bill
Keeps 1920 Tax
By Party Vote
Motion to Strike Out Sec
ton Defeated by 81 DEM
ocrats to 81 Republicans
Expect Passage Mondya
Senators, After Settling
This Controversy, Decide
to Adjourn Over Sunday

WASHINGTON. DC. Elm an mi
tial vote late to-day in the Senate on
the 1920 tax provision Of the war
revenue bill 81 Democrats voted to
retain it and thirty-one Republicans
supported a motion to strike it out
On the motion of Senator McCum-
Der. of Dakota, Republican. to strike
out the clause fixing normal tax on
individual incomes at per cent in
1920, the Senate adopted the committee
amendment by a straight partisan divi-
sion.
mmediately afterward and without
rollcall the Senate adopted the 1920
provision reducing corporation income
taxes from IL to 8 per cent. A motion
of Senator Penrose to strike out the
clause was defeated viva voce, with all
the years coming from the Republican
side.
In similar fashion, a motion by SEN
cess profits provision for 1920 also
was voted down.
Without a record vote the Senate
finally adopted the committee amend
ment for excess profits taxes in 1920.
A substitute by Senator Jones, of New
Mexico, proposing to rontinue war
profits taxes in 1920 was rejected, Al
to 49,
After settling the 1920 tax contro-
vcrsy the Senate adjourned until Mon
day, when passage of the bill is ex-
DeCted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

admit no compromise, but having no
desire TO enter into competition with
America in e mad race for ornaments
we are glad Mr. Roosevelt so c.eariv
placed the facts Of the case before he
countrymen, thereby doing a service -
the cause of humanity and civilization
"The United States commons. with
trihing exceptions, are within r'nr
fence Ours are scattered essentiailv
oceanic, and without great navy We
could not hope to maintain them.
believe Mr. Wilson himself Will admit
that the security OF civilization and
the welfare Of many hundreds OF mill
ions of human beings are closely bound
up in the maintenance Of the British
Empire Dir. Roosevelt reminded biul
that had We in 1914 been compelled Il
trust 10 some form Of naval agreement
instead Of walls OF steel nothing could
have saved the world from the enslaye-
ment Of Germany, and even your own
great country might have met the fate
which had assuredly been ours.
"Mr Roosevelt has done further ser.
vice to the cause of peace, which the
British and Americans alike cherish
by demonstrating that our navy men
aces none, but safeguards. like our
selves, all TO whom freedom IS DEAR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Spanish Premier Sees
Allied Leaders to
Aid Spanish Cause

PARIS, Dec. 21.-Count Romanones,
the Spanish Premier, had conference
this morning with Premier Orlando and
Foreign Minister Sonnino of Italy. The
Spanish statesman had breakfast at the
Foreign Office with Foreign Minister
Pichon. In the afternoon Count
Romanones was received by President
Poincare.
The Spanish Premier will dine this
evening at the British Embassy, where
President Wilson also will be guest.
Count Romanoncs, in discussing his
visit to Paris said:
Spain cannot remain isolated at the
present moment. She has always main
tanned the best of relations with the
Allies.
"ln coming here to take advantage Of
the invitation given me by President
Wilson, | have profted by talking with
him and also with members of the
French Ministry. | have conversed with
Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Min
lister Pichon, and left them with good
Impressions.
81 believe my sojourn in Paris will
advance the interest of my country.
Spain does not enjoy absolute tran
quillitv at this moment because of the
Catalonian movement, for which | hope
to find a satisfactory solution"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Brooklyn to Have
Gala Welcome for
Returning Troops
Parade and Decorations VIII
Celebrate Victory; Fund
Of One Million Dollars Is
Needed by the Borough

The Brooklyn victory celebration
committee is preparing a preliminary
welcome to the borough's returning
troops, the main feature of which will
be triumphal parade, in which it is
estimated 100000 soldiers and sailors
parade will pass beneath arches of well
come and victory, between figures of
American leaders in the war and under
meath thousands of flags of the United
States and the Allies, which will form
fluttering, vari-colored roof for the
whole line of march.
The parade will begin at the fountain
on Bedford Avenue and continue
through Bedford Avenue for its entire
length to Fatbush Avenue. At the
fountain will be victory column, with
the figure of President Wilson sur
mounting it. This column will be 40
feet high, fianked by two hagpoles 80
feet high bearing American flags. At
Taylor Street will be q welcome arch
SO feet high Thenceforward the pa
raiders will be under American and AL
lied flags for the entire length of the
parade. Flagpoles will be planted along
the entire avenue about 70 feet apart
Wire will be strung from one pole to
another, from which the flags Of the AL
lied nations will hang.
Thousands of Flags
The first blocks of the parade route
will be decorated with American flags
only, while the remainder will bear the
American and Allied colors At Grant
Square will be erected a grandstand for
the reviewing officers and citizens COM
mttce which viii accommodate 900
persons. At the point of the terminal
ton of the parade on Fatbush Avenue
will be another reviewing stand where
military men will give the final review.
columns 40 feet high, will begin at Ber-
gen Street The first two columns
forming the entrance will be the figures
Of General Pershing and Admiral Sims.
These columns will lead up to the tri-
umphal arch. which will be placed at
Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue.
From the ground to the top of the fig
ure of Victory the arch measures 1913
feet and is l 8 feet wide. The width
of the arch itself is 40 by 70 feet On
top of the columns will be symbolic
figures.
The committee has designated Frank
j. Eelmle and, Joseph A. Guider as
structural advisers.
The committee is preparing an appeal
to the people of Brooklyn for voluntary
contributions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

the successful termination of the great
war must, of course, be shared by the
great nations Of the world as com
rades of the less powerful
"That Mr.. Wilson is approaching
these great responsibilities in the right
spirit is shown clearly by his reply TO
questions as to his plans for the imme-
date future.
VIII Visit Army
"It will be my privilege he said, ]
hope in the near future, not only to
confer with Allied statesmen in France,
but also to visit Allied countries and
there learn rs much as | can by per-
sonal contact Of the general sentiments
relative to the chief problems involved.
My first wish, of course, is to visit the
American army. The soldiers were the
special object of my thoughts during
the progress of hostilties, for it was
they that we were obliged to sustain
and support in every possible way. VI
course, my heart has become greatly
involved in their fortunes. want to
see as many of them as | can consist
emily with my present duties. If do
not have the opportunity to visit the
Allied armies, | hope at least to see
something of our comrades in arms in
their own countries.
~ i am ANXIOUS 10 WISH ltaly, Il COuH-
try from which so many of my fellow
citizens have come, and | am interested
and gratified TO learn that there are
in the Italian army so many men who
have spent at least part of their lives
in the United States.
Going to Brussels
al shall look forward also with pc
culiar interest and satisfaction to Wis.,
4 Il
from the hands of her enemies and re-
stored to her own people and King. In
the United States we have felt. and
tried to express, very poignant SYM
pathy with the people Of Belgium for
the steadfast faith they have main
tanned throughout their terrible trial
as well as for the peoples of Northern
France and Northern Italy, upon whom
the burden of war has fallen so trag-
ically.'"
KING Victor Emmanuel of Italy left
Paris at midnight on his way to visit
Italian troops in Be GUM. With his
departure Paris put aside her holiday
attire and matter of fact cons Iteration
of conference arrangements began in
earnest this morning
Premier Orlando and Foreign Min
lister Sonnino remained in Paris, but
will start for Rome tonight, expecting
to return early in January. The Italian
King will start on Sunday for Rome,
going directly from Belgium.
Dinner for Emmanuel
The Italian Embassy gave dinner
in honor of King Victor Emmanuel and
his son, the Prince of Piedmont, last
night. 1t was followed by brilliant
reception. Colonel and Mrs. f. M.
House were present President Poin-
care and members of the Ministry ac-
companied the Italian King TO the sta
ton on his departure from the city.
Count Romanones, the Spanish Pre-
mier, was in conference for half an
hour with President Wilson last even
ing. 1t is reported the Premier in
vited the President to visit Spain, but
no official announcement as to Mr.. Will
sons reply has been made.
Premier Clemenccau also conferred
with the President during the even
ing, being at the Murat residence from
9 to $3.50 o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Roosevelt Called
Friend of Allies
BY London Globe
Il. RS Points on Peace Are
Held To Be More Practical
Than Wilson's Idealistic
Suggestions to Gain Ends
Neau Yorh Tribune
EzlrODp1n Enren4I

fCOpyrigft, 1918, New York Tribune mel
LONDON, Dec 21.-"The Globe"
edited by Leo Maxse, referring to the
league of nations, takes the oppor-
tunity to express this opinion Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt:
at is not for US to eulogize the
ex-President, but we may without OIL
fence express the gratitude of all this
country to Mr.. Roosevelt for the un-
wavering support he has given to the
cause of the Allies since the beginning
of the war He has shown himself
right throughout, and we therefore
reasonably expect his countrymen to
have great confidence in the views he
expressed on some of the most difficult
problems connected with peace.
ave are assured of the cordially OF
Mr.. Wilson's feelings, but may be per-
mitted to think that in the nobility Of
idealism he has forgotten certain
practical considerations which Mr..
Roosevelt wisely urges. 1t is suggested
that in the event of our being unable
to replace the security of supreme
navy by guarantees, an international
tribunal will be quite unable to WELD
effective force if the United States
should embark on a great competition
of shipbuilding to create navy more
powerful than ours. That is a matter
for the Americans to decide. The
prospect would not cause US to deviate
a hairs breadth from the traditional
policy whereon our islands safety is
founded.
ain question so vital to US we can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
The Span ofLite@
and Foot Comfort

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the tiny tot to the faltering
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22

her. England and America know too
well our position amid the great
powers of Europe, with whom we must
be able to exchange our products, not
to realize the requirements of our in
dustries, which have no raw materials
at their command.
"If President Wilson comes here we
would be able to express our gratitude
for all the sympathy he has shown us.
We would ask him to defend the rights
of ncutrals at the peace conference.
He knows that our democracy, inspired
by the same ideals as is the American
nation, is DESTROYS of being able to
work freely without being subjected
to any control prejudicial to it's SOW
crejgnty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Wilson Thanks .Swedish
Parliament for Support

STOCKHOLM. Dec 2O.-A message
from President Wilson was read in
both chambers of the Swedish Parlia-
ment to-day. 1t follows:
81 have received with the greatest
satisfaction the message which the
two chambers of the Swedish Riksdag
were generous enough to send me, and
accept it as a most welcome express
sion Of the confidence of the chambers.
Il hope and believe that by common
council a peace worthy of the aspira-
ton of the people Of Europe can and
will be secured, and shall with pleas
ure and pride do all / can to promote
it. WOODROW WILSON,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
S1Uiss Look to Wilson
To Defend Nezstrols;
Ask access to Sea

GENEVA, Dec. 2o.-Gustave Ador,
Pres dent-elect of Switzerland, said to-
day while discussing the possibility Of
President Wilson visiting this coun-
try:
of Mr. Wilson does us the great
honor to visit Switzerland as we great
ly desire, we would be glad to lay be-
fore him the economic condition of our
country.
Switzerland desires that a just
and equitable peace be secured on
the basic principles proclaimed by
President Wilson. Wishing to be
politically and economically indie
free access to the sea be guaranteed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
change of the map FOR historical rea-
sons.
Delegates Hampered
BY Lack Of Supplies


To cope with all this the American
peace commission has taken over the
spacious buildings which formerly
Cercle Royal" overlooking the Place
de la Concorde. Their offices have
been established with staff of many
officials Of the State Department and
the army, headed by the peace commits
sioners, Colonel House, Secretary Lam
sing, General Bliss and Mr.. White.
Owing to difficulties in procuring
furniture because of the lack Of labor
in Paris and because of the fact that
so many nations are establishing SINH
lar bureaus here at the present time,
only the heads of the mission have
desks and armchairs.
Majors, colonies and prominent State
Department secretaries work at rough
unvarnshed tables with plain kitchen
chairs. using typewriters they brought
with them, because such machines are
not now procurable in Paris.
Here are accumulated masses of
documentary information, suggestions
and opinions gathered in America by
the House commission, which, as is
known in America, was established
after our entry into the war for study
ing foreign problems in preparation for
the conference now about to begin.
Scores of college professors, former
diplomats and other Americans were
engaged, and quantities of information
were gathered and carefully tabulated.
Most of this. in documentary form, is
now stored in the stately buildings on
the Place de la Concorde.
Here, with wide, open gardens and
the Seine before it, is busy hive of
Americans. A dozen motor cars are
constantly standing before the entrance.
Inside, olived clad military order
lies stand before each of many doors.
To Let America Know
What Is Happening
Although the President has been
severely criticised by prominent
American for his personal and private
method of conducting affairs of the
United States, it has been publicly an
nounced that, in keeping with his policy
of letting the American people know
what is happening, one or more of the
commissioners will meet properly &C
credited American correspondents daily
at the Place de la Concorde.
But if Colonel House, Secretary
Lansing, General Bliss and Mr.. White
talk freely with correspondents at all
times their frankncss will be unusual
for these men in particular and for
diplomacy in general. In the inter
view which Mr.. Balfour gave to the
press fortnight ago in London this
particular question was put to him. and
he replied that he did not see how such
procedure was possible without
gravely endangering the commission S
abors at times.
Nevertheless, since the conference
has so large a membership, and since
the American delegates openly refuse
to pledge themselves to secrecy, it will
probably be to the interest of one or
more of the parties to use public opin-
ion in probably every controversial
case. Most if not all, of the important
developments ought to get to the world
if the French and other governments
refrain from censorship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Aims and Desires
OF States Overlap

Already gathered in Paris are not
only the accredited plenipotentiaries
of organized European states and their
special commissioners sent here for
the conference, but also unofficial rep
resentatives of various new states now
IN the process of formation. Agents of
the enemy states and of Russia would
be here if they were permitted to come.
AS have stated in the foregoing, all
desire immediately to lay their causes
before the man whom they consider
the most sympathetic and the most
powerful; namely, the man who will
sit opposite Premier Clemenceau at the
peace table
Some Of the petitions to President
llson from the smaller states and
embryo nations are documentary and
volumlnous, embracing printed argu-
ments accompanied by histories and
maps, both of which are usually dis
torted IN favor OF the aspirants. 1t
is safe to say that in not a single case
do their ambitions fail to overlap the
ambitions of others.
One people will argue for ethno
graphical boundaries-the Bulgarians.
for instance-and another for bounda-
RES based on language, as do the Jugo-
Slavs. Another, such as Croatia, will
ask for religious boundaries and still
another for frontiers including valu-
able natural resources, such as the
Briery iron deposits
Another will ask for outlets to the
sea- as do Hungary and Poland, and
yet another for natural defences like
the River Rhine. Still another, like
Schleswig Holstein, will ask for g
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Adriatic Programme
Opens Serious Problem

But in achieving her Adriatic pro-
gramme Italy runs foul of this prin-
oiple. Italy, for her own safety, al
ways desired the Adriatic as an ltal-
ian lake, which she could close in
ease Of war. Being unable alone to
fight her former rival, Austria-Hun-
gary, she found it expedient to ally
herself with that empire-a time-hon-
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ored European method of dealing with
such situation--and thereby avoid
ed war until 1915.
Now that the Dual Monarchy has
been eradicated as an Adriatic rival,
Italy proposes to prevent the rise of
another, which means that she opposes
the creation Of a powerful Jugo- Slav
confederation with an extensive sea-
coast on the cast coast Of the Adrintc.
Greece, whose Adratic and Mediter-
ranean interests also lie somewhat
athwart Italy's, is also regarded by
Italy as hostile. Because eastern and
western conditions menLce the Serbs
and Greeks jointly, and because their
interests nowhere conflict, it will be
natural for Greece to extend her for
mor alliance with Serbia to the newly
forming Jugo- Slav state.
Against this so-called menace the
Italian army still remains mobilizcG,
and all threc states appeal to M.
Wilson through their representatives
here to support their respective
causes Here, in the briefest possible
statement, is an outline of possible
difficulties arising between the three
principal Allies and America.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-22
Preliminaries Expected
To Be Long Drawn Out

The preliminary conference between
the Allies and America is expected to
be long III any event, covering months
before Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey are summoned to sign, because
unless the President delegates his la
bors or capitulates from the position
he occupies with his basic principles
and fourteen points the negotiations
among the Allies and America promise
to be long drawn out
His Interpretation of the freedom
of the seas. whatever it viii be, is the
only serious danger OF a conflict with
the British. If an understanding
could be reached quickly between him
and them leaving them adequate naval
superiority fer the defence Of their
empire, it is we'll known that Mr.. Lloyd
George, Mr.. Balfour and other promi-
nent statesmen will agree to any rea-
sonable terms America proposes.
The second possible difficulty is with
France, where there is not only a nat
ural desire for vengeance but little
commence IN the talk OF league OF
nations effectively terminating anna
ments and wars. France. like Britain,
desires 20 secure her own defence
by rectifying her frontier, IN the
old diplomatic phrase, and by for
tifying her side Of the natural Rhine
barrier. Here the principle Of self de-
termination would be transgressed.
The third possible difficulty is Italy's
permanent ann throughout her modern
history as has been the case with
every other country, to protect her
self against existing or potential foes
by natural mountain barriers on the
north. Herein Sc determination will
not he trans gressed seriously, because
speaking peoples, for the most
part, will be Incorporated.