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Evening star., 1919-03-18
REPUBLICANS OF HOUSE
READY FOR new SESSION
Patronage at Capitol Distributed
Among Delegations at Session
of Steering Committee.

The House republicans are all ready
for the opening of the extra session
Of Congress whenever the President
calls it. This statement was made
yesterday by Representative Frank
w. Mondell of Wyoming. party nomi-
nee for House leader, after the steer
ing committee, of which he is ex-
officio chairman, had adjourned until
just before Congress comes in.
IF the new Congress was called
for Monday next by President WI. II.
son the republican majority ~ouio De {,
ready to begin the legislative grlnd'
said Mr.. Mondell.
At the session yesterday the mat
ter OF patronage was settled: !heIe
was a total of 1913 jobs as Janltors;
among the state delegations. The en-
so-called SOLDIERS roll" which Is eS-
empt from politics. The patronage
jobs will be at the disposal OF the
republican members in proportion to
their state delegations. For example,
Pennsylvania, having the largest re-
publican delegation, will have many
times more jobs to give out tnan
Wyoming, of which Representative
Mondell is the sole representative;
The chairmen of committees. having
extra clerk anu IneSSeu6ei III! u, w 80
not share in the patronage d1strlbu-
ton.
The steering committee emphasized
again the fact that it has been insist
ing upon the need for calling an early
session and said it hoped that the
President will call it soon, so that the
many important and pressing legis-
lative matters may be promptly at
tended to for the benefit Of industry
and the returning soldiers
Evening star., 1919-03-18

ernmencs> ds1es 4asd Il Is hoped I,
bring. About normal conditions within .
few days.
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ervation and also with an entirely
new entrance midway of the south
ern line of the cemetery
Stone pillars and iron gates har-
monizing with the existing high stone
wall inclosing the grounds will be
erected at the new entrance.
May Be "Dewey" Gateway.
A name has not yet been given to the
new gateway. but the Dewey gate
seems to the authorities to be the
most appropriate designation. There
are now but four entrances to the
cemetery, the Fort Myer entrance on
the west and the Sheridan, Ord and
WeitZel gates on the east. The new
entrance will make the cemetery ac-
cessible from the south through con-
nection with the new Mount Vernon
boulevard extending from the High
way bridge, and with Columbia road.
the old Virginia pike.
Like the Lee mansion with its tenn
Pied portico and the marble memorial
amphitheater, the smaller tomb of Ad-
miral Dewey overlooks the Potomac
river and the city of Washington and
stands out in relief on the wooded
heights of Arlington. The body of
Admiral Dewey will be the first to
repoSe in the newly opened southern
section, which is to be subdivided for
cemeterial purposes as soon as it is
made accessible by the construction of
the projected roads.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Upholds Richmond Ordinances.

Constitutionality of ordinances pass
ed by the city council of Richmond.
Va. taxing telegraph companies doing
business inside the city ana also i'm
posing a So tax on each telegraph
pole were upheld by the Supreme
Court of the United States yesterday in
deciding appeals from decisions de-
nying the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company injunctions enjoining city
officials from enforcing the measures.
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continues to win friends, as
most remarkable values at that
price. Women who look around
tell us the styles are equal to
much higher priced suits. See
them and you'll be convinced. i
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Reinforced Concrete Car Test.

CHICAGO, March 1S.--The first re-
inforced concrete freight car ever
built has been delivered to the Illi-
nois Central railroad for operation in
its coal service. The car was designed
when war demands made steel for
commercial uses almost unobtainable.
The car is light. it's walls being !:
Evening star., 1919-03-18
EXTENDS IT'S SERVICE.
Vocational Board to Train Disabled
Americans of Allied Armies.

The federal board for vocational
training is prepared to care for Amer
leans disabled in armies OF allied
countries by giving them vocational
training. Upon proof Of their service
and injuries and necessity Of voca-
tional training the board will reclaim
them as it is doing with men in the
United States Army.
The board is endeavoring to locate
all disabled men. and states that it
will appreciate being placed in touch
with them or their families. and If
relief Is needed it will be immediate
and generous. preliminary to starting
upon the course Of education and re-
training.
Evening star., 1919-03-18
NATIONS CEMETERY
will Be IMPROVED
Part of Arlington Grounds as
: Yet Undisturbed to Yield
Il. Needed Space.

Extensive improvements are pro-
iected in the extreme southern sec
tion of the Arlington national ceme-
terry design to add to the attractive
ness and utility of that sanctuary OF
the country's heroic dead.
up to this time that part of the
original Custis-Lee estate south and
east of the newly completed memoir
ial amphitheater and Fort McPher-
son, built during the civil war, has
been undisturbed. Its primeval for
estS and luXuriant vegetation now
are to be invaded in the march OF
progress to meet the increased needs
fer additional space for the burial OF
the nations heroes.
:, Col. Lawton Makes Plans.
Plans for the development of the
section were prepared in the office OF
Col. Frank II. Lawton. zone supply
officer in charge of the cemetery
under an allotment of $4,000 made
by the War Department out of avail
able appropriations by Congress
These plans were submitted to and
approved by the National Commission
Of Fine Arts. which body is watching
all new construction work in the
Arlington reservation. The work is
to be done during the present year
and sealed proposals will be opened
April ) next;
The area to be developed on mod
ern lines comprises about fifty acres
of alternate forest and field land and
includes the high ridge skirting the
southern boundary wall. AT the east
ern apex of that ridge, near the Alex
andria road, dividing the cemetery
from the agricultural experimental
gardens, stands the marble mauso-
leum built for the permanent preser-
walton of the body of Admiral George
Dewey. hero of the battle of Manila
bay, now in the Miles mausoleum
standing on parallel ridge to the
north The Dewey mausoleum is the
main motif of the plans of improve
reent. 1t will be in he center of :,
circular road and concrete terraces
built on the slopes to the east, north
ard south. That road will connect
with the existing Treasur road.
In addition, a modern concrete road
twenty feet wide will wind through
the section SO as to make 1t acceSs'
BILE to the public. 1t will connect with
the existing roadways in the more
northern and western area of the res
Evening star., 1919-03-18

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Evening star., 1919-03-18
Mr.. and Mrs, BRYAN Recovering

William Jennings Bryan who has
been i'll for several weeks at the home
Of friends here, had recovered suffi-
ciently today to join Mrs. Bryan at a
Baltimore hotel, where tomorrow they
will celebrate Mr. Bryan's fifty ninth
birthday anniversary. Mrs. Bryan
also has been i'll, and only today was
able to leave hospital in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1919-03-18

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the modern appliances that make mans work
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Evening star., 1919-03-18

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Evening star., 1919-03-18
ENGLAND MAY COPY US. PLAl

ENGLAND MAY COPY US. PLAN
System Proposed Similar to Federal
Trade Commission Here.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1919.
LONDON. England, March 14.-Eng-
land probably will set up machinery
similar to that of the Federal Trade
Commission in the United States to
regulate the trusts and monopofies Of
the United Kingdom. committee
which has been sitting the past three
months is about to submit a report
embodying such a recommendation.
The committee discovered that dur
ing the war Britain had developed
many combines and it's opinion was
that some way must be found to safe
guard the community against posi-
Bile injustice.
Evening star., 1919-03-18

In from the roads tomorrow for leading
and unloading. The workmen have
agreed to resume work under the gov
Evening star., 1919-03-18
Buenos Aires Port Work Resumed.
BUENOS ARE

bCE4NOS AI1SlIS, VIUrIudy, IddlCn Z.
Transatlantic shipping agents have
accepted the governments decree in ma
tionalizing the port and announced that
transatlantic steamers will be brought
Evening star., 1919-03-18
THREATENS TO TEST
WILLIAMS POSITION
Following Secretary Glass Censure
of Him, McFadden Questions
Formers Authority.

"Quo warranto" proceedings to test
the authority by which Secretary
, Glass is retaining John Skeltqn Will
are threatened by Representative Nc
Fadden of Pennsylvania in a state
ment made public last night.
Mr.. McFadden. after reading the
! statement made by Secretary Glass
yesterday, in which there was consid-
erable censure of the position taken
by Mr. McFadden, made public fur
ther letter addressed to the Secretary,
repeating his inquiry as to by What
authority" Mr.. Williams was contlnu-
ing to act as controller. and asserting
that he did not intend to inject per-
sonalities into this question"
In a brief statement issued in con-
nection with his letter Mr.. McFadden
said that 'in view of the inslstence
of the Secretary of the Treasury that
he has authority to fill this vacancy In
the absence of the President
/ think there is sufficient GROUND 10
test the case by quo warranto.
Secretary Glass last week said that
! he had consulted the legal experts OF
the Treasury Department, and had
been advised that the controller
ute in absence of recess appoint
, ment from the President He said,
however, If the controllers status
should be questioned a recess ap-
pointment would be obtained.
Calls Letter "1mpertinent."
Representative McFadden's letter to
Secretary Glass inqulring by what au-
thority John Shelton Williams was re-
tanned as controller Of the currency was
described yesterday by Secretary Glass
as IAN extensively impertinent and de-
liberately mendacious communication"
Mr.. Glass made public his reply to
Mr.. McFadden. The letter follows:
II am returning your letter of March
II, as do not care to retain 1t for my
files. Furthermore, ! take leave to put
you on notice that If you desire In
formation concerning any official ac-
ton Of the Secretary Of the Treasury
while am the incumbent of the office
you may get it promptly and frankly
by addressing to me halfway de-
cent inquiry. But you are given dis
tinctly to understand that / recognize
no obligation to respond to an often
sively impertinent and deliberately
mendacious communication such as l
am now sending back to you"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
Changes in Marriage
Laws Held Inexpedient

Detroit, Oct. 14.-Admission of
new diocese to the convention was
agreed. to today by both houses OF
the Protestant Episcopal church tri-
rnnial general convention in consid-
ering the petition for a partition or
the diocese Of south Virginia. The
diocese will consist of thirty-two
counties in the western portion or
south Virginia, with 5000 communi-
cants and thirty-fve clergy. There
will remain in the south Virginia do
cese 165 congregations and sixty
three clergy. The new diocese Will
select it's own name and elect a
bishop at its first diocesan meeting,
it is announced.
The house of deputies commission
on canon revision reported this morn
ing it considered inexpedient the pro-
posal to amend the marriage laws
of the church so as to forbid the mar
riage by an Episcopal clergyman of
any party to a divorce. A strong mi
nority report, favoring the amend
ment, also was submitted and a
strong fight is anticipates when the
matter comes up for discussion.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
|COMPERS wins
DESIRED POINT
Steel Strike Will Be Inyesti-
gated at Request Of In
dustriaI Conference.
FIRST SHOALS CROSSED
(sY WILLIAM ALLEN wHITE.,

k6I WILLIAM ALLEN WHIIE.)
Washington, Oct. 14.--The friends
of President Wilson, who have been
busy since Friday soothing the diff
ferences in the industrial councils,
feel today that they have passed the
crisis. The committee of fifteen, in
session all of, yesterday, has done
some important work. First, 1t has
gotten rid of the ,Gompers resolution
to settle the steel strike by making
the conference appoint from the
membership a committee of concilia-
tion. Second, the committee has clas-
sified all the plans that have come
in. making comprehensive schedule
which will serve the conference by
making apparent at glance the VII
tai differences in the various pro-
posals. Third, genuine forward
step has been made toward framing
up plan for collective bargaining.
Chairman Chadbourne, of the COM
mittee of fifteen, is sponsor for the
plan. 1t meets the approval of men
like Russell, and coming out of the
committee meeting it was evident
that Samuel Gompers felt real hope
in satisfactory solution of the ques-
ton of greatest issue. For, after ALL
collective bargaining is the reason of
unionization, and if collective bar
gaining is achieved in American in
dustry the industrial conference will
be justified. 1t may be safely pre-
dicted that so far as the committee
of fifteen is concerned, the votes are
there to report the plan advocated
by Mr.. Chadbourne. Probably Mr..
Gompers will be satisfied with any
move made by the conference to take
up the steel strike. He desired to
have two members from each group
in the conference to investigate the
strike, but if the conference recon-
mended investigation, even if the rec
ommendation should include the
other strikes now pending, and should
recommend that some other body do
the investigating. Mr.. Gompers would
be satisfied This will be done.
The steel strike will be investi-
gated and the question of fact be-
tween Mr.. Gompers and Judge Gary
will be settled. That question is
largely as to the number of union
men in the steel mills.
Mr.. Gompers claims that the steel
mills are thoroughly uniopized, that
over half the. skilled men IRE men,
bers or trade unions. Judge Gary
claims that less than 10 per cent. of
the steel workers are unionized. If,
as matter of fact, more than half of
his men are union, Mr.. Gary cannot
refuse to meet their representatives.
But If, as he claims, but a small
number are -unionized. he has some
justification for his attitude. This
question will be investigated by some
public agency at the request of the
industrial conference. The compro-
mise has been affected. Gompers
and his men are satisfied and the first
shoals are crossed The barometer
of the conference Is rising.
Copyright. Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
Growing Agitation for
R. R. Strike Next Month

Washington, Oct. 14.-That there is a
growing agitation among the railroad
shopmen of the country for strike
next month to enforce their original
wage demands was admitted today by
officials of the American Federation of
Labor The activities of the radical
element are declared chiefly responsible
Yand to suppress them, and agitators
who urge the walkout before Dec. i
when the mems original demands are to
be submitted to the United States rail-
Aroad administration-are being ev-
vpeled. 1t was acknowledged, however,
that there is much dissatisfaction
among the men generally at what they
believe has been the lack of progress
in the campaign to reduce the cost of
living.
When the men were granted an in
crease of 4 cents an hour, they agreed
to give the government reasonable"
time to reduce the cost of living. La
Dor officials are agreed that reason
able" time will have elapsed by Dec. /,
and if by then there are no signs of
a material reduction in the cost of liv-
ing, they state it will be impossible to
hold the men in check should the rail-
road administration refuse to grant
their original demands.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
ADJOURN in
CONFUSION
Chadbourne Offers Substitute
for Labor's Demand for
Arbitration of Strike.
ALL GROUPS VOTE, NO


Wasnihston' oct l4'-Fresioent
WILSON'S inoustriai conference ad-
Journea IN CONFUSION TINS AFTERNOON
aIter Inomas 1. Cnadoourne, pup
nc representatives had proposed a
pian 10 settie all industriai disputes
as SUBSTITUTE Ior the resolution OF
organized iapor uemanding arpitra-
lion o. the NATIONWIDE steer STRIKE
Win iapor threatening 10 ieave the
conference, WIN the men represent
ing tne pupIc pieading IN puDnc-
IKE Iashion ior chance 10 think
things over pe1ore they act, ana with
the employers sitting silently on their
sioe OF the room watching the ges-
lures OF TABOR ana the worry or the
pubic, President wilson's industrial
conference touay moved along toward
Whatever aes,ihy aWaits IL.
r'gnt on Gary'sm.
Inc attituoe OF the labor group is
that now Is the ipe ana TINS con-
ference is the pace IN which TO nave
a khockout nsnt WIN employers OF
tne unlteo otates on the question Oh
wnat tney cail Garylsm' win the
steer strike as an issue, they desire
10 ciasn at nrst hand win employers
VINO refuse TO arnltr1te with repre-
sentatives OF unions:
The committee OF hfteen,, which
consists OF nve members eaGh OF tne
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
Far-Reaching Decision
Reached by Cabinet

Washington Oct. 14-The farreach-
ing decision that the United States
government take immediate action in
the three crises facing the nation in
the threatened strike of coal miners,
longshoremens' strike in New York
and the serious sugar shortage was
reached at the meeting of President
Wilsoe cabinet at the White House.
At the adjournment of the cabinet
meeting this afternoon, Secretary to
the President Poseph P. Tumulty an
nounced that these three important
steps had been taken by the cabinet:
1. Secretary of Labor William B.
Wilson was delegated by the cabinet
to take in band the apparent un-
avoidable strike of hundreds of
thousands of bituminous coal miners
which John l.. Lewis, acting presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America has announced that he will
call for November / from Indiana
polls today; to act as arbiter in the
controversy and exert every means
to avert the strike, which undoubt-
edly would prove a catastrophe.
2. Secretary of War Newton D..
Baker, Will make Il pTOnounCelnent
of the governments policy in the
longshoremen's strike in New York,
which spreading to other points
along the Atlantic seaboard and
which has brought out thousands of
marine workers and many other
transport workers in sympathy, en-
dangering the health of New York's
population and inflicting great hard
ships there and elsewhere. Secre-
tary Baker will make this pronounce
ment at Cleveland, where he will
speak tomorrow before the federation
of . women's clubs. The previous
stahd of Secretary Baker that army
vessels will not be held up by the
strike, makes it certain, 1t was in
dicated, that. he will take a strong
stand for the government against the
strike, which has been outlawed by
the international order of the long
shoremen.
3. Secretary Of Agriculture David
F. Houston was delegated to handle
the sugar shortage now inflicting
great hardships on the country. Sec
retary Houston probably will utilize
the executive machinery of his de-
partment to alleviate temporarily the
shortage and to investigate the cause
of the shortage. He then is expected
to recommend remedial legislation.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-14
Government Blankets Are
Y To Be Placed on Sale Here

The war department has offered for
sale to the public here through the
postoffice full carload of surplus gov
ernment blankets of best quality.
Postmaster T. Charlton Howell stated
Tuesday that an order for this amount
would probably be placed by him Tues
day afternoon.
The blankets are all-wool and of best
government grades. The price has not
been named, but will probably range
around Sc each. A carload contains
about 1000 blankets, according to esti-
mates of Postmaster Howell, and 1t will
he his effort to secure the entire ship
ment before the cold weather. sets in
and purchases of higher priced grades
are made elsewhere.
In the same letter offering the
blankets for sale car load or bacon
was also offered, half of which Is crate
bacon. put up in strips and Grated.
The other half Is the usual kind sold
by the postoffice department and BY
the city at recent sales. The crate
bacon will be offered for sale at about
20 cents a pound If purchased by the
postmaster.