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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
SUFFRAGE WINS OUT
SENATE PASSES HOUSE RESOLU.
TON BY VOTE OF 56 TO 25.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Now Goes to States for Rati-
fication.

Washington, June 6.-The house
woman suffrage resolution was adopt
ed on Wednesday by the senate and
the proposed constitutional amend
ment now goes to the states for ratifi-
cation. The vote was 56 for adoption
and % against, or two IOore than two
thirds majority required.
The amendment was supported bJ
Sc Republicans and 20 Democrats and
opposed by II Democrats and 8 Re
publicans. 1t received two more votes
than were needed to make the requis-
ite two-thirds.
The suffrage amendment text fol
lows:
Article L, Section 1. The right of
citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on ac-
count of sex
"Sec. 2. Congress shall have pow
er, by appropriate legislation, to en-
force the provisions of this article
1t was exactly 5 % p. m. when Pres.
ident Protein Cummins, from the
chair, made the announcement to the
expectant crowds in the galleries who
had sat through q tense all-day debate
waiting for the final vote to be taken
He said:
This resolution has received the af
f1rmative votes of more than two
thirds of the senate, a quorum being
present,and is declared to have passed
the senate in accordance with the Con
stitution of the United States
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

The reply of the Austrians to the
terms of the peace treaty handed to
them was a dignified, rather pathetic
and almost hopeless plea by Chancellor
Karl Renner. for conditions that would
permit the German-Austrian republic
to live and to organize for the exist
ence of an independent commonwealth.
He outlined the history of its estab
lishment and argued that it hastno re-
lation with the former empire of the
HapSburgs. His country, he urged,
should be treated as considerably as
the other nations that have sprung
from the Danube monarchy. Like the
Germans, he made frequent reference
to the fourteen points, and so did the
Vienna papers when the terms were
given to the public The press de-
clared the terms were cruelty harsh,
and much anger was shown against
the Italians, Czechs and Jugo-Slavs.
The people generally were bitterly dis
appointed to find that they were not
being treated much better than the
Germans, and big meeting of protest
was held. The public view was ex-
pressed by Doctor Treichl, a banker,
who said: ''The only thing for the Aus
trian people is to say: we might as
well join with Germany, as we are
companions in misfortune. We have
nothing to lose by doing So
The grand council of German Aus
tria adopted the report of Dr. Otto
Bauer, which was to the effect that
the peace terms meant the death SEN
tence of the Austrian republic.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
WIRE SYSTEMS
GIVEN TO OWNERS
Postmaster General Issues Or
der Which Is Effective I'M
mediateIy.
PRESENT RATES WILL STAND
President of Commercial TeIegraphers'
Union Orders WaIkout of All
Western Union Operators in
Southeast.

Washington. June t. Postmaster
General Burleson issued an order on
Thursday returning the telephone and
telegraph systems of the country to
the owners for operating purposes.
Control of the companies is not relin-
quished by the government.
In a statement accompanying the
formal order the postmaster general
stated that the existing rates would
remain in effect, and that orders for
bidding discharge of employees be-
cause of union affiliations also would
stand.
Immediately upon receipt of this in
formation a strike of all Western
Union telegraph employees in the
Southeast was called by S. ]. Konen-
kamp, international president of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
America. The strike is effective i'm"
mediately and is an extension of the
present Atlanta Western Union strike.
Employees of the Western Union
Telegraph company in Florida, Ala
bama, Georgia, South and North Car
olina, West Virginia, Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and New
Orleans, La, go out under the new
order.
Mr.. Burleson's order turning back
the wire properties read;
''The president having recommend
ed the return OF the wire systems and
the control of the owning companies
with certain legislation designed to
stabilize their operation, and the SEN
ate committee having taken action
looking to their immediate return,
and the house committee in its hear
ings on the proposed legislation hav-
| ing indicated concurrence in the sug-
| gested immediate return with or with
out legislation so recommended, l feel
it my duty to now return the actual
control of operations to the COM
panies.
"Some days ago 1 directed the nee
essary orders to be prepared to ac
complish this and have today issued
same. These orders do not affect
questions of rates and finance Wit,
which the congress may determine tC
deal.
1.-The rates now in force and the
financial relations between the govern
ment and the companies, and the or
der Of October 2, 1918, prohibiting dis
elimination because of union affilia
4 tion will continue unless. congress:
may decide to change them or the
emergency is terminated by the proc
laInation Of peace.
'By the action now taken, however
the wire companies resume actua
control of operations of their respec
tive properties, and are free to formu
late and put into effect their own pol
icies unrestricted by government con
troll, which is to continue in any cas-
but a few weeks, and thus will b,
able to prepare themselves for n com
plete resumption of the management
of their property.
'It will be necessary for each com
pany to so keep its accounts durin!
the continuance of government con
troll that its books may be closed ol
the day government control ends il
order that full and accurate state
ment may be promptly made when
is called on for same"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

The setting up of an Independent re-
public in the Rhine provinces, with DR..
Hans A. Dorten as president, has still
further increased the bitterness be-
tween France and Germany. The Ber-
lin government, of course, refused to
recognize the new state and ordered
the prosecution of Dorten for high
treason. Then the Germans claimed
to have discovered that the scheme
was fOStered and aided by the French
and that Marshal Foch and Premier
Clemenceau had told the RhinelanderS
that 'the German government would
never again have anything to do with
the left bank of the Rhine, and hence
the propagandists could not be pun
ished." The Berlin press said the
French had propaganda fund of $2,
100000 and were using it to bribe the
people of Rhineland and the Palatinate
to favor the independent republic. 1t is
true that the French look with favor
on the new state and apparently they
will, so far as possible, protect it from
the Ebert government. General Man
gin, commanding the French army of
occupation at Mayence, has forbidden
strikes and other disturbances directed
against the Rhenish republic The
! German government formally protest
ed to the armistice commission against
the course pursued by the French. The
British and Americans in the occupied
l. !
part in the affair and would take none
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

One insistent demand of Germany,
that she be admitted at once to mem
bership in the league of nations, it was
said would not be granted, for the
French were unalterab1y opposed to
this, and Mr.. Wilson, according to re-
ports, had gradually come around to
their view of keeping Germany out of
the league until she has become regen-
Grated and proved her sincerity. There
are not wanting influential persons and
journals that argue for the immediate
admission of Germany, basing the plea
mainly on the allegation that the good
will and early restoration to prosperity
OF that country are necessary to the
safety and economic progress of the
rest of the world. They call attention,
with shivers of apprehension, to the
imminent danger of Germany's form
ing an alliance with Japan and Rus
Sia, and this was backed up last week
by more or less precise statements
that the Japanese and German ennis
Saries already had been holding con-
ferences in various neutral places. A
good deal of this sort of stuff may be
put down to pro-German propaganda,
more active just now than for sonic
time past, as witness the recent doings
of the "Germanamerican Citizens
league with headquarters in Chicago.
Much of it, too, is said and printed in
behalf of the selfish and self-centered
business man who demands uninfer-
| rupted and greater returns from his
investments, regardless of justice to
the vanquished and the victors in the
war, the victors who might suffer, in
this case, being the French.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
APPROVE WIRE RETURN BILL
Senate Committee Makes Favorable
Report on Measure Introduced
by Senator Kellogg.

Washington, June 5.-Favorable re-
port on the bill of Senator Kellogg,
Republican, of Minnesota, for the i'm
mediate return Of the telephone and
telegraph wires to private ownership,
was ordered by the senate interstate
commerce committee on Tuesday after
the measure haf been amended so as
to continue existing telephone rates
for 60 days after final action by con-
gress. The vote of the committee was
unanimous.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
WIRE STRIKE is SPREADING
Union Headquarters at Atlanta Says
5000 Telegraph Operators Are Out
Men Warned by Carlton.

Atlanta, Ga, June 9.--Unlon head
quarters announced on Friday that in
formation received Indicated that g.
900 employees of the Western Union
IN the South either had gone on strike
Or would do so during the day.
New York. June 9.-Employees of
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, who Joined the Telegraphers'
union on the assurance of the post
master general that there would be no
discrimination in regard to employees
joining unions. will not be taken back
II they strike, Newcomb Carlton, presi-
dent Of the company, announced Fri
dent Of the company, announced Fri
day. Mr.. Carlton said that out of
10000 employees only no belonged to
the union and that the call for strike
f. the southern division was meeting
with practically no response.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13


The Springing of another big bomb
plCt by terro:ists early in the week
has aroused the national government
to the necessity of rounding up and
disposing of the anarchists who are
running amuck in this country. Will
liam ]. Flynn, new chief of the bureau
of investigation of the department OF
justice, has been given free hand,
with orders to end anarchy in the Uni
ted States, and his record warrants the
prediction that he will go far toward
doing that very thing. This time the
REDS" sought to kill Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and other law-enforcement
officials in eight cities of the East.
Cordite bombs were exploded at their
residences, but they all escaped death.
One of the conspirators was blown to
pieces by his own bomb in Washing
ton and a watehman was killed in New
York The attorney general says extra
legislation is not needed to take care
of these bomb throwers and he wishes
the authorities to treat them like other
criminals and not to give the radicals
the chance to say the government is
prosecuting them.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

From Vienna comes the news that
the bolshevist regime in Hungary is
nearing its end. The communist cabi.
net has been replaced by one headed
by Herr German, one of Count Karol-
yi's followers, and it was said he had
been invited to Versailles to confer
with the entente representatives. In.
the Ukraine the troops of General
Petlura captured several railway CEN
ters from the bolsheviki. premature
report from Vardoe said the Esthoni-
ans and Firms had captured Petrograd.
Later the bolshevists claimed to have
driven the Esthonians back west of
Gatchina. The American troops in the
Archangel region began embarking for
home. An interesting but unlikely
story coming by bolshevist wire from
Moscow said General Semenoff had
called congress in eastern Siberia,
which had declared the autonomy of
Mongolia and named Semenoff as
grand duke of that country.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
PLAN TO CUT WAR BILL
War Department Estimates to Be Re
duced by House Body-BiIIs Pro-
hbit immigration for 5 Years.

Washington, June 9.-War depart
ment estimates for the coming year
will be reduced at least $4G0,000,00
by the house military committee. Pro-
vision will be included in the bill for
an army of 100000, instead of 100000,
requested by the department. This
reduction, members declared, would re-
duce the total estimate of $1263, ,00O.-
600 by 20 per cent. Bills prohibiting
immigration for five years and placing
more rigid restrictions upon aliens en-
tering this country were introduced in
the senate. One measure by Senator
King Oem.) of Utah would exclude
alien anarchists and others who be
lieve in the overthrow of governments
through force.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
URGES GERMANY
TO SIGN TREATY
Erzberger, Head Of Foe Armistice
Commission, Win Make Sug-
gestion to Berlin.
IA POINTS sTAND..WlsON
President Declares, ~ Am Convinced
Cur Peace Project Violates None
Of My Prinelples"-copy Of
Treaty to v. S. Lawmakers.

Copenhagen, June 9.-Mathias Err
berger, head of the German armistlce
commission, according to the Deutches
Tages eitung of Berlin. is preparing
memorandum which. after discussing
the peace terms in all their aspects,
advocates signing the treaty.
Paris. June 9.-It is understood
here that the Berlin government is
sending photographically reproduced
copies of the peace terms to every
Vnited States senator and representa-
tive.
Il am convinced that our treaty prof.
ect violates none of my principles" !"
President Wilson Is quoted by the
Matin ms having said when he was
made acquainted with the German
counter-proposals to the peace treaty.
''If l held contrary opinion would
not hesitate to confess it and would
endeavOr to correct the error. The
treaty as drawn up, however, entirely
conforms with my IA points"
When the council Of four met Pre-
mier Orlando Of Italy was absent. This
led To the belief that the Adriatic ques-
tom was again under consideration.
IL is understood that no further prog
ress has been made by the various ele-
ments working on the solution of this
problem. A.sfgt
1t is probable that the allied anda as
sociated powers win comply with the
German demand to state approximate.
ly the maximum sum which Germany
must pay In reparation under the
peace treaty, according to the Matin
This sum, 1t states, will be from 200.-
00O,000.O00 to 25O,000,0OOO0 francs.
(The larger sum named. on a gold
valuation would be not far from $50,
OO0,0O0,00O.)
An answer from Admiral Kolchak
head of the all-Russian government
at Omsk. to the allied proposals has
been received by the French foreign
office. It is understood, in the main
to be satisfactory acceptance of the
proposals. Kolchak's reply, howver
makes reservations concerning a con
stituent assembly and also in respec
to dealings with new states formed
from old Russia.
The South Slav delegation here
handed to President Wilson memo
randum regarding the Fiume affair
according to the Petit Parisien.
When the Germans are handed th'
allied reply they will be informed, nc
cordlng to French circles, that the dis
cusslon has been finally closed ant
VIII be gi~en no less than three ol
more than five days in which to accep
o. reject the conditions.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

for thirty days Mt the headquarters of
the commanding officer and repeating
to those present the phrase: 81 am
glad you are still here, gentlemen, and
it is my wish that you continue to
stay here for long while"
This is all news, more or less anus
ing, to the American officers. If any
woman appears at headquarters every
morning, the sentries on duty there
have failed to notice it. 1t is part OF
their job to prevent trespassing By
Germans at the main entrance of the
Third army headquarters.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
SILLY STORIES ABOUT YANKS
herman Newspapers Publish Absurd
Reports Concerning the Army
of Occupation.

Coblenz-Some fantastic fiction is
published in German newspapers by
writers from Frankfort and ,Leipsic,
who have visited COblenz and returned
home to write whatever they may
please about the American army. Many
of the stories are new to the officers
of the Third army, who regard theLn
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
Inquiry Made at Chicago.
DRIVE OUT CHICAGO CROOKS
More Than 500 Arrests Made by the
Police in Effort to Stamp
Out Crime.

Chicago, June 9-The unprecedent-
ed raids Saturday night and Sunday
morning which netted the police 500
OF more arrests were not a flash in the
pan. 'The big crooks undoubtedly
heard about the raids and either laid
low or left town." said Chief of Police
Garrity. The $50 policemen and detec-
tive sergeantS met again at the bureau
and ventured forth in the same man
ner in the automobiles used Saturday
night The bureau was filled all day
with suspects who We're being ques-
toned. The raids did not result in an
entire cessation of crime.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
FIRST YANKS QUIT RUSSIA
Six Companies of 339th Infantry. Ag.
gregating 1900 Men, Constitute
Force to Leave ArchanqeI.

Archangel, Russia. June GA con-
tingent of American infantry which
has been serving in northern Russia
boarded transport for the journey to
the United States. These are the first
American troops detailed to sail for
home. The detachment will go to
Brest.
Six companies of the Three Hun
dred and Thirty-ninth infantry, ag-
gregating 1000 men, OF approximate
ly one-third of the American force on
the Archangel front, constitute the
first detachment to leave
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
ARE DICTATORS I'M LETTLAND
der GoItz, Act as Though They
Own the Country.

London.-General Won der Goltz,
commander of the German troops in
Lettand, one of the formerly Russian
Baltic provinces, of which Libau and
Riga are the chief ports, has estab
lished a virtual dictatorship in that
country under the pretense that he is
fighting the spread of boishevism among
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

I was backed by the presence of a Brit
ish warship in Libau.
The correspondent asserts that this
coup d'etat undoubtedly was carried
out with the connivance of Won der
Goltz" It will be recalled that one
Berlin newspaper admitted the move
ment was a result of an intrigue con-
Quoted by the German barons in the
Baltic provinces.
The Germans act as though they
owned the country and they show not
: the slightest consciousness of having
been defeated in the war.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

the Let's. according to the Reuter- cor
respondent at Libau.
About the middle of April, Baltic
German troops which had been operat-
ing in Lettland against the Russian
bOlsheviki were withdrawn from the
front back to Libau, and, under the
direction of the Baltic Baron Manteuf-
fel, executed a coup d'etat, overthrow
ing the Lettish provisional government
and arresting the cabinet.
Premier Ullmanis, however, evaded
arrest and found asylum under the
protection of a British mission which
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13

as nothing but German propaganda.
One writer of an article in the Leip-
sic paper dealing with life in Coblenz,
relates alleged instances of ridiculous
sentences imposed upon Germans by
the American army courts.
In one case, he says, the wife of a
German government official, annoyed
on the street by drunken soldier, ex-
claimed in her anger: If only all the
Americans would go to the devil =
The military court, he says, punish
ed her for "this religious wish" by SEN
fencing her to appear every morning
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
SENATE FOR IRISH HEARING
Votes Request by so to to Peace
Conference in Paris to Receive
Delegates.

Washington, June 9.-Senator Bo-
rah's resolution asking the American
peace delegates at Paris to secure a
hearing before the peace conference
for the Irish delegates headed by Ed
ward De Valera, provisional president
Of the Irish republic, was adopted on
Friday by the senate, 60 to 1. Senator
Williams, Democrat, of Mississippi,
cast the negative vote. The resolution
expressed the sympathy of the senate
in the aspirations of the Irish people
for "a government of its own choice"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
Yank Freed by Reds Home.

New York. June 7.-Merle B. Arm
old, Y. NJ. c. A. secretary of Polk,
Neb.. arrived here from Siberia,
where he was held prisoner by the
bolsheviki. He was captured outside
the American lines.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Supreme Allied Council Tries to
Reach Agreement on the
Reply to Germany.
BRITISH FOR CONCESSIONS
Huns Preparing for Refusal to Sign
Independent Republic Proclaimed
in hineland-AUstria Gets
Terms of Peace and Says
They Mean Her Death
Warrant.
Rv EpwARp w. PIcKARD.

Germany's counter-proposals were
successful at least so far as causing
temporary division in the big four, but
at this writing it seemed likely an
agreement on the disputed points
would be reached within a few days
and a unanimous reply made to the
Germans. That some alterations, not
fundamental, would be made in the
treaty was predicted, since it only re-
mained to gain the consent of Gle
menceau to changes favored by the
British and presumably by the Amer
leans. These included the readjust-
ing of the Silesia clauses so that
the population may obtain self-deter-
mination, probably through a plebi-
scite; reduction of the period of occu-
patton along the Rhine from fifteen to
ten years; and the addition of some
plan by which the Germans shall have
The use of a certain amount of mer-
chant shipping with which to resume
trade and help pay the reparations.
The endeavor among the allied dele
gates was to assure the world that
such changes as might be made in the
terms were contemplated not in the
way of leniency to Germany, but to
make the conditions workable" and
bring about a speedy peace and re-
sumption of normal business every
where. Clemehceau and the rest of
the French were said to be strongly
opposed to any changes. Lloyd George
was reported as favoring concessions
President Wilson, after first standing
aloof, taking the position that the
British and French should come to an
agreement among themselves, under
took to reconcile them, and as some OF
the alterations had been favored by
American delegates his task was main
ly to persuade the French. Orlando's
attitude was not made clear He was
more interested, anyhow, in the settle
ment CT the Adriatic question.
In view of his prediction pledges
the position taken by Premier Lloy(
George is surprising until one consid
ers the. fact that he is the head of {
very shaky and unwieldy coalition
ministry, which even now is threaten
ing to go to pieces. The liberal ant
labor elements in England have beel
urging greater lenieney toward th'
Germans in order that the treaty ma.
be signed and calmness be restored t.
the industrial world, and it is fair t.
suppose that the premier has beel
trying to placate those elements. We
hement denials by the British pres
| and attacks by British correspondent
on American correspondents who hav
made public the state of affairs will b
taken for what they are worth
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
Pax. Hiah Honor 10 EIxers

London, June 7.-Royalty paid hon
ors to Americas airmen when the
prince of Wales attended luncheon
given in honor of Lieutenant Com
mander Read, skipper of the seaplane
NC-4, and his fellow flyers.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-13
Explorers Believed Lost

San Diego. Cal, June 9.-Los' An
geles, and northern California scien-
lists, members of an exploring party,
are believed to have lost their lives in
a big storm off the Lower California
coast on May 15.