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Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Court to Enjoin u. S.
From Interference
With 2.75 P. 6. Brews

New York. May o3.-Federal Judge
Mayer announced, today, that he would
issue an injunction restraining the gov
-ernment from interfering with the pro-
duction of beer Of .,75 per cent alcoholic
content. pending judicial determination
of the brewers claim that such beyer-
age is not intoxicating.
Judge Mayors statement was made
during argument for temporary injunc-
tion in the case Of the Jacob Rupert
Brewing company against the United
, States district attorney and the collect
or Of internal revenue of New York.
The case is one of series to test the
constitutionality Of the wartime 'prohib
ltion act
Judge Mayer said he believed the gov
ernment should be content with n broad
treatment Of the litigation. which is
based Oh the motion Of the brewers for a
permanent injunction guaranteeing unin-
terrupted production Of 10 per cent
beer.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
BY FARMER MURPHY



Vienna. May II. via Paris. May IS
The Italians have just announced st
Trieste their intention of making that
place a great cotton port from which
to distribute the commodity to the in
terror. Behind this lies an amusing and
instructive story of the effect of Italian
political methods which resulted in the
Italians stepping on their own toes.
1t will be remembered that when the
Americans first began To distribute food
10 the interior countries thru Trieste
they got little assistance from Italians
and indeed were bampered in many ways
always With the greatest show of polite
ness. Then came the Iaibach incident,
which caused the Italians to shut off all
shipments for the time. After the mat
ter had been adjusted shipments of
relief supplies were resumed but never
had Wholehearted Italian support.
The Americans became wearied by
obstructive tactics and suddenly an
nouneed that all shipments of cereals
theneeforth for the Czecho- Slovaks
would be sent another way which turned
out to be up the Elbe thru Germany.
The first shipments by this route began
about a month ago when three per cent
was sent that way during the first ten
days and during the third ten DAYS,
forty-nine per cent. Still the ltaiians qua
not wake up hut continued their poncs
of claiming territory without anything
to develop It.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
TERMS SEVERE, BUT
NOT WORST, ALLIES
ANSWER GERMANS
Foe Complains Of Taking Of Merchant Shipping
and Mineral Areas; Reply Is It's All Repara-
ton for Destruction of War

100000 tons. Before the war \ IA
tai Of 15,00G,000 of persons provided for
their existence lii Germany bv foreign
trade and by navigation either In a di-
rect O. indirect manner hE the use If
forelgn raw material.
Crippled at Sex. Too.
According to the conditions Of the
treaty Of peace, Germany will slrren-
der her merchant tonnage and ships ia
course of construction suitable for over
seas trade. German shipbuildng yards
Will bulld for five years. in the first in
stance, tonnage destined for the allied
and associated governments. Germany.
VIII, moreover, renounce her colonies.
all her overseas possessions. all her in
terests and securities in the allied and
associated countries and their colonies
donlnlons and protcctorates will as an
lnstallment of the payment for part of
the reparation be subject 10 liutidation
and may be exposed 10 any other econ
omlc war measure which the allied and
associated powers think fit to maintain
Or to take during the years of peace.
Loses Potato Area.
BF the putting into force Of the
territorial clauses Of the treaty Of peace.
termany would lose to the east the most
important regions for the production ar
corn and potatoes, which would be enniv-
alent - the loss Of | per cent of tho
total crop Of those articles III food
Moreover the intensity of our agrieul-
tnrai production would diminish con
slderably. On the one hand. the imnor-
tation of raw materials Indispensable for
the production of manure. such a. phos-
pilates, would be hindered; ON the other
TINS industry would suffer like all other
industries from lack Of coal. The trea-
ty Of peace provides for the loss of AL
most third ni the production Of nur
coal mines. Apart from this decrease
we are forced for ten years to deliver
enormous conslgnments Of coal TO var
ious allied countries.
Industry Lost with Minerals
Moreover. in conformity with the
treaty, Germany will concede to her
aelghDors nearly three quarters of her
mineral production and more than three
tlfths Of her zinc product.
After this diminution of her pro-
iucts, after the economic depression
;aused by the loss of her colonies, of
Ter merchant fleet and Of her posses
'ions abroad, Germany would not be in
!, state to import from abroad suffi-
lent quantity Of raw material. An enor-
nous part OF German industry would
heretore inevitably be condemned to de-
'tructlon. AT the same time the necessity
If importing foodstuffs would increase
whist the possibility of
Continued ON Page Three.)
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REDS DESERVING
MOSCOW; FALL Of
PETR0GRAD NEAR
Resistance Broken With
Loss Of Thousands of
Prisoners.
SITUATION MADE WORSE
BY EPIDEMIC Of TYPHU5

London, May 23-The boisheviki
have begun the evacuation of Mos
COW, according to reports brot from
Petrograd to Copenhagen by travel
ers and forwarded by the Exchange
Telegraf company. Typhus is rag
Ing In Moscow, and the situation
there is considered desperate.
The railway lines between num-
ber of places in Central Russia have
been dsmantIed the reports say, in
order to improve main line service
out Of Moscow.
The operations of the non. boIshe-
Xxi forces against Petrograd are
having great and rapid success. ac-
eordiH1 to various reports received
here from HeIsingf0rs. The CORES
pondent of the Daily Mail at the
Finnish capital says the boshevik
resistances seems to be broken and
that they have lost several thousand
prisoners and thirty guns.
THOUSAND TURN ON OWN ARMY.
A great number Of machine guns and
tive arnared trains also were captured
A North Russian corps cooperating
with the Esthonians successfully at
tackled the bolsberik position at the
railway station, t35 miles
south of Petrogradi
Thousands Of boIsheyik soldiers in the
datschina area and In the coast region
west Of Petrograd. who surrendered, the
correspondent adds. joined in the attacks
on their former comrades
100000 TO Defend Petroqrad.
1t is reported in Heisingfors from
PetrOsrad that the bolsheviki are pre-
pared to defend the city and that all the
workmtu have been armed.
The defenders are said 10 number 300
600
On the Murmansk front in Russia. al
lied forces have captured Medvyjvagora
at the northwestern end Of Lake Omega.
after actions in which the boshevik rear
guard suffered severely. a statement
issued By the British war office, tonight,
says.
Esthonians Draw Nearer.
General Maynard. commanding the
Russia. has removed his headquarters
400 miles southwark ON the Murmausk
coast to KEN, Oh the White sea at the
mouth If the ke u river. according 10
Reuters correspondent with the British
Murmansk expedition
Esthonian forces are rapidly APP
Petrograd from the west. ac-
sordng t. an official statement issued
at Esthonan army headquarters and re-
eeived here. The text Of the statement
reads:
The Esthonians arc advancing swift
y on Petrograd. Besides the town Of
hamburg the railway stations mt WeY-l
narn and Moloskowizy on the Nara
Petrograd line have been captured. and
he town Of Koporje and several villages
near Kohganpi on the Finnish gulf have
seen occupied This brings the Esthon-
ans within 30 miles of Petrograd'
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
LEAGUE FIREBRAND
FOR WORLD BLAZE.
SHERMAN AUGURS
Senator Makes Bitter Attack on Government and
Wilson; He and Cabinet Socialists, He Says;
House Worse Than Anarchist, Adds

Washington, May ass.-The attack on
the league of nations began in the
senate. today, with an address by
Senator Sherman. republican, OF Illinois,
bitterly criticisins President Wilson for
his conduct of The peace negotiations
and denouncing the league proposed as
revolutionary attempt to set up
a parliament Of nations controlled by
an oligarchy.'
National sovereignty would disappear
under the league, the Illinois senator
declared, and liberties won in centuries
Of struggle would be lost forever. Doom
ed with the curse Of broken faith and
shameless perfidy from its inception
and birth the league, he predicted.
would become "a gigantic firebrand for
4 world conflagration..
Senator Sherman made his address in
presenting a resolution declaring it the
sense Of the senate that the league
covenant and treaty had been closely
interviewer in the final draft for the
deliberate purpose of securing votes for
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24

Paris. May 23-The note from Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau. head IF the
German peace delegation al Versailles,
regarding the economic effect Of the
peace treaty, dated at Versailles May IS,
was made public today The note read:
"Mr. President; In conformity with
my communication Of the 9th instant,
| have the honor to present to your
excellency the report Of the economic
commission charged with the study Of
the effect of the conditions of peace
on the situation Of the German popu-
lation:
"ln the course Of the last genera
ton, Germany has become transformed
from an agricultural state to an indus
trial state. As long as she was an agri-
cultural state. Germany could feed 40
100000 inhabitants. In her quality Of
an industrial state. she could ensure
the nourishment of population of 67.-
100000. In 1913. the importation of
foodstuffs amounted in round figures to
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24

of these three s4o,oo0,oo vessels did not
seem warranted
Today's meeting was the first session
of the full membership of the general
board as it is now constituted.
The board will hold further meeting
next week at which Admiral Mayo, com
manding tic Atlantic fleet. Rear Admiral
Sims, now head of the naval war col
iege, and other officers who have strong
ly favored a transition to composite bat
tleship and battle cruiser construction,
will present their views.
1t is believed that the board will ad-.
here to its former position and recon-
mend an additional battIeship and battle
cruiser program.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24

the former. and argued that separate
consideration would give an opportunity
for the senate and the country to pass
a more sober verdict.
Broke Faith With Three.
He charged President Wilson had
broken faith with China, Poland, and
Italy; had yielded to Great Britain
had endeavored to "subvert the funda-
mental laws of the republic; and had
promised to embark the United States
on policies that would require her TO
send million soldiers abroad.
In revising the original covenant
said Mr. Sherman, ''the delegates at
Paris had improved only its grammatical
texture.
'.Altruism never before rose so far
above human nature and common sense
nor idealism 80 deluded its visionary
worshippers declared the senator.
The misguided imagination Of intel
lectual peryerts has wrought more evil
than the distorted images of the insane
Continued on Page Two,
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Irish Soldiers Unite
to Claim Home Rule
Rights for Ireland

Dublin. May o3.--tBy the Associated
Pressl-Former soldiers at q largely
attended meeting in the Mansion House.
Thursday, voted 10 form the "Nation-
ailst Veterans association in order to
protect the interests of Irish soldiers AMI
70 claim fulfillment Of the British GOV
ernments home rule pledges and the
submission of lreland's case to the peace
conference. Major General Hamilton pre
sided at the meeting
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Democrats Cable to
Wilson to Come Back
and Cut Cost of Living

Boston, May 23.-President Will
son was urged to return from Paris
and devote his attention to reducing
the cost of living in this country, In
a cablegram sent to him. today, by
Francis ]. FEnneran. president of
the Democratic Club of Massachu-
setts, and rs democratic members of
the lanisiafIIra
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Asks for $15O,O0O
to Enlarge Great
Falls Postoffice
SpeciaI to The Daily Tribune.

Special to The Daily Tribune.
Washington, May 23-Senator
Myers today introduced a bill pro-
viding for an appropriation of $780,
600 to be utilized in the enIarging of
the federal building at Great aIIs.
This is the second bill of that nature
to be introduced by Senator Myers.
the first having been put in at the
opening of the 66th congress but.
like many other appropriation mea-
sures of this character. were lost
sight OF during the war period.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Explosion Dead 80
by Coroner's Count

Cedar Rapids, Ia, May 23.-The
total number of dead in the Douglas
Starch works now numbers eleven,
Of which eight have been identified.
The company admits twenty one men
are missing and probably In the
ruins. The coroner estimates the
death list will total 32
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
PEACE. DECISION
EXPECTED FROM
FOE CONF FERENCE
Retreat From Attitude
Against Signing May
Be Forced at Home.

Paris. May 223--i Havas The Ger
man peaae plenipotentiaries, this morn
ing. handed in two notes to the secre-
tariat of the peace conference They had
TO do with the subjects Of international
legislation regarding labor and German
in allied countries.
Count Won Rrockdorff-R -Rantzau aud his
colleagues on the German peace delega-
ton, who left Paris yesterday for Spa.
are expected 10 return Sunday The re-
naming German delegates are proceed
ing with their work as usual.
GERMAN OPINIONS TO DECIDE
Newspapers here regard the de-
parture of the Germans as a means
of utilizing the delay in the peace
negotiations granted by the peace
conference Wednesday, 1t Is be-
leved the delegation who left yes
terday will confer at Spa. prepara-
tory to making serious decision.
The Echo dc Paris believes that
the German leaders have taken a
stand against signing the treaty,
but that public opinion in Germany
Is against them and they will retreat
AMI reach a position which will make
an agreement with the allies more
pussinfe- All me newspapers con-
slider the departure of the chief of
the German peace mission does not
Indicate break
China Will Sign Protesting
The Chinese delegation to the peace
is understood to have reach
ed decision to sign the treaty of peace
with reservation relative to kiao Chau
aud shantung 1t is said that this will
Continued on Page Twol
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GE RMANS MAKE
SLIGHT DENT IN
TREATY TERMS
Saar Valley Award and
Reparations Clauses
Modified.
CHINA DECIDES To SIGN
WITH DISSENT ON POINTS,
BY the Associated Press).

(By the Associated Press).
Concessions on some points in
the peace treaty have been made to
the Germans by the Paris peace con-
frence. Slight notifications have
been made In the terms of the Saar
valley award and the terms regard
ing reparations also have been mod
flied. 1t has not been publicly init.
mated just what were the atera-
tions decided upon.
China's delegation has decided to
sign ths peace treaty in spite of its
declaration that it would not do so
because of the decision of the coun-
Gil Of three relative to the turning
over to Japan of Germany's inter-
ests in Shantung and Kiao Chau. 1t
is said, however, that reservations
will be made in attaching the sigma
lures of the Chinese.
TURKEY PRESSED ON U. S.
The question OF the future administra-
tion of Turkey is occupying much of the
time of the peace conference, and il ap-
pears to be a desire on the part of the
powers that the United States shall as
sumo the position of mandatory for
Turkey President Wilson has been ad-
vised by Henry Morgenthau. former
American ambassador to Turkey that
the administration Of Constantinople.
Anatolia and Armenia should be com
bined in the hands of one of the powers,
1t is not expected that the negotia-
tions with the Germans at Versailles
will be injured with the absence Of Count
van Brockdorff- -Rantzau and other mem
bers of the delegation, who have gone to
Spa for consultations. The return Of the
head Of the mission and his colleagues
is expected not later than Sunday.
Allies Gain in Russia.
Allied forces in northern Russia have
carried out turning movement against
the bo]sheviki and have forced the en-
envy to retreat southwark. Several towns
have been occupied by the allies. The
process of penning in Petrograd by Es-
thonian, Finnish and other forces ap-
pears to be making favorable progress.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
MEMBER OF VlGILANTES
DIES At LIVINGSTON

Livingston May 23.--John Harvat,
wealthy pioneer sheepman of Livingston,
died tonight after brief illness and OPP
Grafton.
He came to Livingston in 1880 from
BoZeman. Mr.. Harvat was member Of
a vigilant committee which preserved or
der in Park county in the early days, and
was widely known thruout the state
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
-YEAR-0LD BOY
OF LIVINGSTON browns IN
THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER

Livingston, May 23-While playing on
the bank of the Yellowstone river here
this afternoon 12-year-oid Dorwin Gut
Ter fell into the water and was drowned.
playmates were unable to rescue him.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Stromboli Erupts;
Heavy Toll of Lives

Rome, May 23.-The volcano of
Stromholi, on the island OF that
name off the north coast of Sicily.
was In violent eruption, last night.
Numerous victims are reported
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
Hitchcock Blames Conference.


Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts. the
republican leader. declared there could
be no impropriety in asking for the text
of the treaty. which, he said, was now
being read by every German store
keeper.
Senator johnson declared it should be
Obvious and automatic that the Ameri-
can senate and people were entitled to
full information about so important a
matter.
Senator Hitchcock. Of Nebraska, inter
rupted to ask If there were not an agree
ment against publication among all the
peace delegates. Senator johnson re-
piled:
Il do not know and | do not care"
adding that such an agreement would
have been unfair to the American public
THE only reason on earth for not giving
ont the text is that you've something to
conceal continued Senator johnson.
Emphasizing Secrecy.
Discussing the presidents eonstitu-
tional power to negotiaate treaties, Sen
ator Hitchcock said the senate never in
100 wears had asked for a treaty before
1t was completed.
."rhe president has the power to tear
it to pieces said Mr. Hitchcock re
ferrins to the present treaty. and never
send it to the senate.
Senator Lodge. the republican leader.
said TINT there was no impropriety in
the senate resolution but added that,
even if the senate passed it, the presi-
dent would not give out the text.
".Then were wasting time. Senator
Thomas interJected.
.sNo," the republican leader replied.
smiling. were calling attention to the
rev method Of open covenants of peace
openly arrived at.
IF | have anything to do with the
treaty Mr.. Lodge added, Il shall not
adopt the policy of the covenants of
peace openly arrived at, because it has
presented the most secret one, almost.
that history can recall shall ask the
senate to treat it with plain-eyen pitt
less-publicity.
Germans Have 1t; Why Not Senator
What impropriety in our having the
whole of it?' Mr.. Lodge continued, de-
claring the league of nations draft had
been made public. then amended and
made worse than il was, and then again
made public
Now they say" he concluded that
we shouldn't have the text Of the treaty
that every German storekeper is read
ing today.
eeDntinued ON Psgo Twol
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-24
B| TIER DEMAND
IN SENATE FOR
TEXT Of TREATY
Lodge Calls Sarcastically
for Open Covenant
Openly Made.
SOME THING TO CONCEAL,
IS JOHNSON ACCUSATION

Washington, May 23.-The first debate
in connection with the peace treaty at the
extraordinary session of congress be-
gan. today, in the senate with the calling
up by Senator Johnson. republican. Of
California of his resolution, asking the
state department to furnish the senate
with a copy of the text of the treaty.
Senator Johnson said the treaty has
been made public in Germany-and.
turning to the democratic side of the
chamber. declared the only reason for
not giving ii out here is that you've
something to conceal
Senator Hitchcock democrat. Of Ne
braska. retiring chairman of the foreign
relations committee. said the resolution
violated senate procedure and urged that
it be referred to committe
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-06
GOSSIP OF WALL STREET.
The Reaction.

The conferences of officers OF the
larger New York banks devoted consid-
cradle time yesterday to the discussion
OF what was called the railroad mess.
and In more than one banking quarter
1t was asserted that credit in all forms
had received a temporary blow. de-
pendent as TO its exact extent upon sue
cess Of curtailments In railroad expendi-
ture and dividends. II was thought that
all possibility OF extending loans to for
eign Governments and individual banks
before midsummer had been removed
and bankers were advised generally to
20 slow In advancing domestic credit and
begin to prepare for the Victory Loan.
Spectators did not take the matter
seriously In the early trading yesterday.
being guided by optimistic remarks to
the effect that the Treasury Department
and the War Finance Corporation would
remedy the difficulty at once. Never
theless the publication of Director-Gen-
eral Illness statement confirming what
had been said regarding the predicamen,
brought renewed selling and declines as
Humed considerable proportions in late
trading.
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The Washington Conference.

Federal managers of the railroads in
the East received a summons yesterday
to conference in Washington to-day
over the situation confronting railroad
operation. finances and expenditure, and
while the news Of this conference was
not known outside OF inside circles until
after the close the ,rumor was sufficient
to cause liquidation in rails, steels and
equipments. 1t was thought that the
sole purpose of the conference was to
make a decision relative to retrenchment
necessitated by the lack of funds In pos
session Of the Railroad Administration.
and II was felt that plans for additions.
betterments. equipment purchases and
even maintenance would have to undergo
radical scaling downward. one of the
expert maintenance railroad officials OF
an Eastern road after survey esti-
mated that the Administration was
$500. 600, 000t behind in the matter of
maintenance and that that sum will have
to be expended before the roads would
BE- in as good condition as they were
when Federal control was assumed.
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Investigating Cuba Cane.

An echo of the recent disturbance
among the stockholders OF the Cuba
Cane Sugar Corporation when a large
number OF them violently but unsuc-
cessfully opposed the plan to create q
mortgage under which could be issued
$s5, 100000 in bonds was heard yester-
day when It was announced that Gen.
George W. Cocktails and two associate
have been recommended by the execu-
tive committee TO have general charge
OF the investigation of the company's
affairs When the directors decided
upon a bond issue as a means OF fund
ing a big floating debt the stockholders
asked for the appointment OF commit
tee to investigate the companys opera
tons but were informed that the direc-
tors had decided TO have an investiGa-
ton OF the company's business and an
audit OF it's books. The appointment OF
Cen. Goetha.s TO supervise the probe Is
the frst step taken in carrying out that
promise. Experts are to be engaged by
Gen Cioethals in his work II the recon-
mendation of the executive committee
be adopted by the directors tomorrow.