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Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
LEAGUE OF NATIONS COUNCIL WILL FORM PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE;
 UNITED STATES NOT MEMBER
Great Jurists of the World to Take Part in the Formation Of Tribunal Designed Substitute Legal Procedure For War; Elihu Root May Be Asked to Take
 Part in Organization of New Body

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The sec ond meeting of the council of the league of nations, which in reality will be the first actual business meet ing, will be held in London, prob ably February l, according to advices received here today. At this meet ing the council plans to enter upon consideration of the constitution Of the permanent court of international justice. The first meeting of the council held in Paris January l6 con- fined itself to matters of organiza- tion necessary to meet contingencies that had arisen under the treaty.
 The launching of the permanent court of international justice has been decided upon after great hesitation because this was one of the features of the peace program in which the United States had taken the geratest interest, in fact having originated the project as one of the best means of wars. It was to have been considered at the first meeting of the council but wes postponed in
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
SENATE FAILS TO GET QUORUM
 FOR ARMY BILL
Senator Urges Need for Increased Pay for All
 Officers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-After five calls had failed to produce quorum the senate adjourned today in the midst of discussion of the bill report ed by the military affairs committee providing for an appropriation of ap- proximately $59 9.600,0 GOO for increased pay for officers and men of the army, navy, marine corps. coast guard and public services. Consideration of the measure will be resumed tomorrow.
 In presenting the bill Senator Wadsworth, Republican, New York, chairman of the military committee, said that "the wives of army officers are actually selling their household linen and other articles to obtain money enough to make both ends meet and neither commissioned or non-commissioned officers can main tain their families decently on pres ent rates of pay"
 The bill provides for increases of approximately 31 per cent in the pay of officers and of 20 per cent in the pay of enlisted men except privates in the army and apprentice seamen in the navy.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
Saws Wounded Soldiers Are Driven to Steets Because Officials Will Not
 Use Funds Appropriated by Congress

"In these same hospitals" the South Dakota representative added, linen who have been gassed are quar- tered in dark railways where no ray of sunlight has been, or ever will be, permitted to enter, and this, in spite of the fact that since March 3, 1919, $9, 100000 has been available and could, and should have been used.
 eff this condition is permitted to ex- ist for a few months more, in my opinion, thousands of men will die and the persons responsible for those deaths will be the men 1 have men, toned, because congress has per formed it's duty in appropriating the necessary funds while they have not performed theirs in expending them"
 Johnson said that on last December 2, he saw SO men at the Fort Sheri- dan army hospital, "who were not fed and many others who could not se- cure sufficient food" He added that his complaint of this to Secretary Baker resulted in an investigation which admitted the truth of the com plaint"
 Johnson exhibited photograph of 6 bathroom, 10 feet square, in the Chicago Marine hospital, which he said was used for vocational train ing work room.
 'In that bathroom" he said, hold ing up the picture before the house. ten men are supposed to work and 1t would be crowded if three men were there ct one time"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
Fletcher Resigns Post As Ambassador To Mexico Because of the Hostility
 Of Carranza to the United States

MT. FIetcher's resignation was not hastily determined upon and. in fact, last summer he sought to terminate his relations with the state depart ment.
 MT Fletcher was appointed ambas- sador to Mexico in February, 1916, but did not go to Mexico City until the February of the following year, having come to the United States from Chile, where he was the Ameri- can ambassador for a long series of conferences. The relations between the United States and Mexico were quite critical at the time MT. Fletcher reached Mexico City, owing to the border raids and to German intrigue in the southern republic. As result. the ambassador was from the first confronted by a number of serious problems. Little more than two months after his arrival he was hissed fin the Mexican chamber Of deputies when he attended the opening session.
 Ambassador Fletcher returned from Mexico a year ago and the affairs of the embassy there since that time have been conducted by George T. SummerIin, as charge d'effaires.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
SAYS MEXICAN
 TRAITORS HELP
 SENATOR FALL

DOUGLAS, Jan. 27.-It has been officially announced in Mexico City that number of political exiles from Mexico, now in the United States, have formed, under the auspices of Senator Fall," an assocration known as the Unificationist party. This group has been aiding the senatorial subcommittee now Investigating Mex icanican affairs, the announcement says.
 Tt Is well understood, moreover, that this group of traitors has direct ed the aforesaid subcommittee 1n- vestigations, insinuating the idea that in Mexico there should be govern ment imposed by the North American administration" says @ Mexico City dispatch to Orientacion, Hermosillo newspaper.
 "The government that is presided over by MT. Wilson has declared em- phatically that 1t is not disposed to give attention to the insinuations nor manifestos of the government that is presided over by Don Venustiano Carrauza"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
SAYS MINERS IF | ] AL HAVE B|G PAY WITH RAISE IF IA PER GENT
Witnesses B eff ore Strike Board in Conflict
 Of Testimony
LEWIS CLUSTERS AT
 OPPOSING COUNSEL
Operators Lawyer Says Men Can Make More
 Than Other Workers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. - Coal miners and coal mine operators pre- sented conflicting conclusions on the subject of wages in the industry at the resumption of hearings today by the coal strike settlement commission.
 Don Rose of Pittsburgh, spokesman for operators in the Freeport field, asserted that the 14 per cent increase already granted gave the miners Q po- tential earning power greater than that of any other class of American labor.
 Presenting statistics, Van H. Bitner. statistician for the United Mine Workers of America, told the com mission that in present purchasing power, the pay of miners was s to 40 per cent lower than pre-war stand ards and insufficient to maintain the standard of living.
 During the discussion MT Rose sug- gested that the 30-hour week was "un- American" thereby arousing the ire of John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers.
 q do not intend to remain quiet while this challenge of our Ameri- canism is repeated by the operators counsel" Mir. Lewis declared. address ing the commission. "The mine work CTS yield to no one in their allegiance to American institutions, government and flag These attacks are not ger mane to the matter under considera- tion and we do not propose to be tried on the charge before this tribunal at the whim of any individual"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Sick and wounded soldiers are not receiving the treatment guaranteed them by law" Representative Johnson, Repub- lican, South Dakota, who served in the A. E. F., declared today in telling the house of his recent visit to gov ernment hospitals.
 Because of ignorance or neglect, or because of wilful disregard of the laws by Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, or Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the United States" said Representative Johnson, "sick and wounded American soldiers are re- ceiving treatment that cannot be Justified by anyone who has any re- gard for the well being of the men who fought to maintain the country"
 Representative Johnson asserted that funds to provide hospital facili- ties had not been used because of the opposition of officials to taking over the Chicago Speedway hospital. and because of this attitude, funds for other hospitals were not being spent.
 'In Chicago January 15," Repre- sentative Johnson said, American soldiers who had been seriously wounded and who had been and ought to be receiving treatment for their wounds, were requested to leave the hospital and discontinue treatment in order that other men. in more seri- ous conditions. might take their beds in the hospital"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Henry P Fletcher has. resigned as United States ambassador to Mexico to take effect in the course of the next few weeks.
 Those who know the reason for MT. F1etcher's decision said he was con vinced that continuation of the eff forts he has made during the four years he has held this important post to bring the Carranza government in accord with the United States on the many irritating issues wnIcn have arisen, involving the protection of American lives and property rights, would be futile. He terminates IS years of service in the diplomatic branch of the government with great regret and without any particular plans for his own future, but feels certain he cannot longer be helpful in cultivating proper relations with Mexico as long as President Carranza remains in control there, the ambassa- dor's activity in the presentation of the American demands having made it certain that he could not return to his post with benefit to either gov ernment
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
AT ROUND TABLE ACCUSE THE REPUBLICANS OF
 BACKING OUT OF AGREEMENT:
 LODGE SAYS NO ONE AGREED
Doctrine Reservations and Flatly Deny Statement of Hitchcock That They Considered Changes;
 Treaty May Go to Floor of Senate

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.- Peace treaty compromise negotiations, hoy ering on the verge of dissolution, were given today new 4S-hour lease on life. But there was nothing in the developments which changed the pessimistic view of the senate leaders as to the final outcome.
 The Democrats, replying to the Re publican refusal to compromise on Article x and the Monroe doctrine, charged, at a stormy session of the bipartisan compromise conference, that Republican leaders had suddenly changed front after most conferees had consented to an Article x com promise in definite form. The Re publicans opposed a categorical de- nial, declaring no one had agreed to the proposed draft.
 After two hours of wrangling, dur ing which the Democrats threatened to transfer the whole subject to the open senate, the conference agreed to meet again Thursday.
 Numerous private conferences on both sides followed, with the leaders feeling out sentiment carefully as they approached the final showdown that may come at Thursdays meeting.
 During the day a plea for imme- diate ratification, with or without reservations, was presented to Sen ators Wadsworth and Calder of New York by a delegation from New York City, headed by William Church Os- borne, and representing the League to Enforce Peace, the League of Ma tions association, the New York Fed eration of Churches, farm organiza- tions, the state chamber of commerce of New York and Daughters of the American Revolution.
 The whole treaty negotiations, it was said by senate leaders, were hung up on Artice x and the Monroe Doc Urine, tentative agreement having been reached on all other points of 
 Differences over the Monroe doc urine reservation also were said to be of minor magnitude compared to the big standing block presented by the obligation of Article X to help pre- serve the territorial integrity and po- litical independence of other members
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
l N HOUSE SPLIT ] N
 | 1 \ ] # IN BILL FOR PEACE ARMY
MondelI Attacks Universal Military Training As
 Too Costly
SAYS BOND ISSUE
 WOULD BE NEEDED
Party Leader Declares That Advocacy of Measure Ie
 Political Suicide

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Variance between Republican leaders of the senate and house on enactment of universal military training legislation today came out into the open.
 Closely following incorporation yes terday of universal training provi- sion in the army reorganization bill by the senate military committee with seven out of nine Republicans voting in the affirmative, Representa- tive Mondell, Republican leader in the house, declared in an address to- day that leaders of the party respoRs sible for inauguration of such legisla- tion would be cast into political ob- livion.
 The government, Representative Mondell told the house, would be compelled to spend $1,OOO, ,0OO,OO and to raise the money by bond issue to put the universal training plain into operation. Senator Wadsworth of New York, chairman of the mili- tary committee, yesterday estimated that adoption of four months train ing for all youths between the ages of IS and 21, incluSive, would enable such a reduction in the regula rarmy establishment as to cut the present annual expenditure og S1,100,000,000 to approximately $500.000,000.
 Representative Mondel lestimated that 5O.O00 additional officers would be required under universal training and that $3O0,OO0,G0O would be re- quired to put camps and cantonments into condition and S60,000000 would be needed to maintain them. Cloth ing and equipment for each youth would further increase the cost, he said
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
Former Governors Son Takes His Own
 Life At Capital

PHOENIX, Jan. 27.-The body of James J. Franklin, son of the late B. J. Franklin, former territory gover- nor of Arizona, and brother of Al fred Franklin, former state supreme court judge and now internal revenue collector for Arizona and New Mex leo, was found hanging to a rafter in an outhouse at the rear of the home of H. V. Rosenberger, in the fashion able residential district of Phoenix, late this afternoon. The deceased was an expert accountant. formerly employed in the office of the city as- sessor. He was 50 years old. A widow survives.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
RECORDS
 OF SOCIALISTS
 READ IN COURT
Evidence in New York House Shows Oath Conflicted
 With Principles

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 27.-Tactics adopted today by the prosecution at the trial of the five suspended So- cialist assemblymen charged with disloyalty served to sustantiate the report that counsel for the assembly judiciary committee will seek to prove the Socialists unfit to serve be- cause they took their oaths of office with mental reservations"
 Without comment and simply by introduction of evidence in logical sequence, John L. Stanchfield. com mittee counsel, drove into the com mittee that, although the five assem- blymen, by a clause in their party constitution faced expulsion if they voted appropriations for military or naval purposes, they nevertheless had sworn to uphold the constitution of this state, which places upon the legis- lature the duty of providing funds for maintenance of militia.
 This evidence was sandwiched be- tween reading of radical document which asserted that Socialists seek to enter into the government to be near the doors of the chambers where dictatorship sites and to hinder the dictatorial work in any way possible" !" and the manifesto adopted by the So- cialists at their national convention at Chicago last year, which was termed by the prosecution a pledge of support to Lenine and Trotzky to aid in organization of third Inter- nationale.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
Says Bryan Plans
 To Use Railways
 To Capture Votes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Repre- sentative Sanders, Republican, h. diana, declared in the house today that William J. Bryan planned to use the railroad problem as 'the paramount issue" in the approaching presidential campaign. In an attack on Bryan's railroad plan he declared it was "so formed as to make a bid for votes in every direction"
 "Bryan's recent expressed wish to have the league of nations issue out of the way" said Sanders, "and his still more recent repudiatiOn of the titular head of the Democratic na- tional committee for attempting to resurrect John Barleycorn from his new grave was to be expected from the Nebraskan's propensity IUr para mount issue"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
TOLL IN
 CHICAGO GROWS
Fewer Cases of Influenza, But More Fatalities
 Are Recorded

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Deaths from in. fluenza and pneumonia today estab- lished new high mark for the dis ease this winter, but new cases re- ported to the health department showed a decrease from yesterday s total.
 Deaths from influenza for the last "A hours numbered 96, an increase of 10, while pneumonia caused 91 deaths, an increase of Il. There were 1878 cases of influenza reported today, a decrease of 23S from Monday, and pneumonia cases totalled 360, de- crease of 107.
 "The fatalities of the present epi- demic are mostly due to relapses after an apparent recovery" Assistant Health Commissioner Koehler said to- day.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
GRAFT
 IN PLANT FOR
 WAR MATERIAL

CHARLESTON. w. Va. Jan. 27.- Congress will be asked to take crim- inal action against those responsible for waste of materials and money in connection with the construction of the government powder plSnt at NJ tro, W. Va, near here. declared w. J. Graham. chairman of the congress sionAl subcommittee, which closed it's investigation of the question late to- day.
 A conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment existed and somebody ought to be indicted" said the chairman. While our boys were fighting and the people were giving their money to support them in it." he added, twice as much money as was needed was being wasted at Nitro.
 We have found similar conditions at other places the committee has visited, but nowhere have they shown up so bad as they have here.
 "There is no doubt about it." he concluded, there was C purpose on foot to waste the governments money at Nitro, and it was wasted"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28

order to affard opportunity for the American senate to act upon the peace treaty and for this nation to be in position to participate in the organization of the court.
 The council has finally decided to go ahead with the plans already made by the secretariat of the'league for launching the court While these plans are not understood to be at all detailed, it is known that they contemplate the approval by the council of an organizing committee of seven or eight of the most eminent jurists in the world to amplify the whole structure of the court
 Elihu Root, former secretary Of state of the United States, is known to have been selected as the Ameri. can member of the committee but it is not certain that the council will feel free to offer him the actual ap- pointment in advance of Americas ratification of the treaty. MT. Root has been recognized in Europe as in the very forefront of American in- ternational jurists.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
Germans Beg to Try Men Wanted
 For War Crimes

PARIS, Jan. 27.-The German gov ernment has sent a note to Paris try ing once more to induce the allies to renounce execution of Article 22S of the peace treaty dealing with the surrender of persons accused of acts in violations of the laws and customs of war
 The note affirms that the execution of Article 22S would infallibly cause political and economic troubles, which would have a serious effect on the production of the nation, particularly in the case of mines.
 The German government again pro- poses that the trials of such persons be held in Germany, with the partici- patton Of allied representatives.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28

of the league of nations. The Repub- licans insist that no such obligation should be assumed; the Democrats are standing out for an obligation conditional on the action of congress in each specific case.
 After today's meeting, Senator Hitchcock made public the reply he had given to the Republican ulti- matum of yesterday, refusing to com promise on Article x or the Monroe doctrine. The reply declared the ma jority of the conference previously had assented to a compromise draft of a reservation under which the United States would decline to as- sume any obligation ito employ it's military or naval forces or the eco homie boycott" under Article x, un- less congress acted. Under the Re publican reservation the United States simply would assume no ob- ligation" in regard to other countries without congressional action.
 It was after this reply had been submitted that Senator Hitchcock gave notice that if the negotiations were not continued, he would move to take the treaty up immediately in IQe open S6udIe.~ 1ue ttcpuDilCdn SOll- ferees replied that nothing could be gained by such a move, and that only endless debate would result.
 Later two of the Republican con- ferees, Senators Kellogg and Lenroot, issued a joint statement denying that anyone had agreed to tile reservation quoted, and to this declaration Sen- ators Lodge and New, the other two Republicans on the bipartisan con- ference committee, gave their assent. The statement follows:
 "We have seen Senator h1tchcock's statement The majority of the con- ference did not agree to the reserva tion affecting Article x, which he published. In fact, Mr. Hitchcock himself would not agree to it. No one agreed to 1t. It was simply up for general discussion.
 'The conference adjourned until Thursday in the hope something could be worked out. It ought to be under stood that all we can do or assume to do is to recommend to our asso- ciateS."
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-28
TREASUR ' TO B [ UNDER HOUSTON; MEREDITH FILLS VACANCY CAUSED Former Agricultural Chief Takes Place of Glass,
 Now Senator PRACTICAL FARMER e JOINS THE CABINET Secretary Lane to be Next Of Official Family to
 Retire
PRACTICAL FARMER
 JOINS THE CABINET

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-Two more changes in President Wilson's cabi- net were made today and third is expected in the near future.
 David F. Houston, of St. Louis, who has been secretary of agriculture since the beginning of the Wilson ad- ministration, was given the treasury portfolio, and Edwin L. Meredith of Des Meines, Ia.. was named to sue ceed him as head of the department of agriculture.
 The change expected soon is the appointment of a secretary of interior to succeed Franklin K. Lane, who de- sires to retire to private life. MT. Lanes successor has not yet been se- lected.
 In choosing Mr. Meredith to sue ceed Mir. Houston, the president se- lected a practical farmer as well as a business man. MT. Meredith is the editor of Successful Farming. He is president of the Associated Advertis- ing Clubs of the World, director Of the Chicago federal reserve bank and was one of the excess profits advis- CTS of the treasury department, ap- pointed ln 1S1I.
 In a statement today at Miami, Fla, MT. Meredith said one of his first undertakings would be to work out some method of getting crops to market, without too much Host mo- tion."
 Meantime MT. Houston will succeed MT. Glass, who will take his seat in the senate to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Martin of Vir- sinia, after serving as secretary of the treasury for little more than a year.
 When Secretary Lane passes out of the cabinet only four of the presi- dents original official family will re- main. Beside Mir Houston they are Secretary Daniels of the navy de- partment, Secretary Wilson of the labor department and Postmaster General Burleson.
 Mir. Wilson has had two secreta- ries of state. Wm. J. Bryan and Rob- ert Lansing; two sectaries of war, Lindley M. Garrison and Newton D. Baker; three attorneys general James c. McReynolds, now an asso- ciate justice of the supreme court. Thomas Watt Gregory, and A. Mitch ell Palmer; two secretaries of com- merce, Vim. c. Redfield and Joshua w. Alexander, and three secretaries of the treasury, Win. G. McAdoo. Cartr Glass and David F. Houston.