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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
Only Sixteen Members Vote to Sustain President, While 271 Vote to Pass Measure Directing the Stopping of EnIistments Till Army Re- duced to 175,000
By Associated Press

Washington. February 5.-The joint resolution directing the stop ping of enlistnents until the resal-
 lar army Is reduced to 175.0oe men
 was passed tonight by the House
 over President Wilson's vetoA
 The veto was overriddcn by
 vote of z71 to 1s, one member vot-
 ing present.
 The Presidents veto message was not read to the House until six hours after its formal delivery, but once read, ac- ton was swift.
 Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the republican leader, said the message presented no arguments that had not already been before the body, and that further discussion was unnecessary. He asked for an immediate vote.
 motion to adjourn. offered by Rep resentatfve Wingo, democrat. Arkansas, was voted down overwhelmingly.
 All of the sixteen members voting to sustain the President were democrats. They were: Bee, Texas; Bland. vir- ginia; Campbell. Pennsylvania; Cleary, New York; Coady, Maryland Eagan, New Jersey; Fisher, Tennessee; Igo, Missouri McAndrews. Illinois: Nina han, New Jersey; Pell New York. Raker. California;; Sims, Tennessee; Tague, Massachusetts,; Weaver, North Carolina; Yelling, Utah.
 Lee, democrat, Georgia, voted present.
 92 DEMOCRATS INCLUDED
 Those voting to override the veto in- ciude 92 democrats. Action is expected to be taken on the veto early next week in the Senate, where it was said pros- poets were favorable for overriding the President
 President Wilson in his veto message Informed the House Of Representatives that he was unable to see in the condi- tion of the world or in the needs of the United States any such change as would Justify reduction of the force from the 2So,0oo men agreed upon by Congress last year as peace time force.
 The House. sitting as committee of the whole to consider the annual army appropriation bill, already has agreed to reduce the force to- I500G0 during the fiscal year 1922. Whom the com n1unication was received the House was sitting In committee of the whole and consequently could not act on the veto immediately.
 When the joint resolution was before the Senate a strong effort was made thtre to amend it so as to decrease the size of the army to 150,000 men, and Senate proponents of smaller army believed they could muster the two- thirds majority necessary to override the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
COUNTY SHY FIFTY BALES
This Years Ginning Total 5,9ss, Last
 Year 6,058

Carroll:on. February 5.--tSpeciaI. J. Pickens county is approximately short 5g hAles of cotton during this year com pared with last year. According to the figures issued by the ginners' enumera- tor 5.9S6 bales have been ginned up to January l6, compared with s,05S bales last year. There remains a few more bales of cotton to be ginned in the county and it is estimated that the crop will be short about 5o' bales over last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
BATTLE ROYAL IS
 AWAITING ITEM AS
 II REACHES HOUSE
Shoot and Lenroot Exceed lngly Bitter In Denunciation of Project, But Alabama Senator Leads Defense
 and Wins
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Boreau The Age Herald
 500 DayidsoR Building

w ashington, February 5.- Special - The Senate late this afternoon, following a short but intensely bitter fight, accepted the Un-d wood amendment to the civil sundry appropriation bill providing $10,000,000 for the completion of the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals. The vote was 36 to 27.
 There is awaiting the item battle of that Lody declared tonight that the iiten, should not prevail
 The conferees on the part of the House, as result, will not accept the amend ment- and a vote the floor of the House will be necessary The result of this vote is problematical. On the ou.- come the destiny of the Muscle Shoals projects depends. The House conferecs will be Representatives Good of Iowa, McGhee of New York, republicans, anI Byrns of Tennessee, democrat The fore- going republicans, irrespective of their individual'desres, are subject to the ma jority# machine, and there is little ques- ton hut that they will refuse to agree to the amendment
 Senators Smoot and Lerroot were ex- ceedngly bitter in the Senate. They re- viewed the entire history of Muscle Shoals and revamped all the time-worn arguments and contentious. Senator. Un- derwood led in defense of the amend- Inent and he was ably seconded by Sena- tors Hcflin. Dial, McKellar and liar risen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
Over 10000 Rabbits Killed
 Bv AsaoeiateA pv>ea

Idaho Falls, Idaho, February 5.--- More than 10000 jack rabbits, scavin- gers of the dry farms of this section
 have been killed within the last few weeks in drives in Bingham county and over 1000 were killed in a drive near here. An. attempt is being made to clean them up, while the snow is on the ground. as they destroy the Spriny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-06
FOLLOWS 2-HOUR DEBATE

Washington, February 1.-The Senate late today adopted an Amendment to the sandry civil appropriations bill appro- priatiiig sie,o0t.oeo for continuing com struction of the dam and power site at Muscle Shoals. The vote was 36 to 27.
 Action by the Senate or the amend rnent, which previously had been ac- cepted by the committee, followed two hours of debate.
 Senators Shoot of Utah and Lenroot of Wisconsin, both republicans, strenu- ously opposed the proposal, charging it meant an additional strain on the treas Ery ''in large hunSsr when the treasury was in no condition to stand it. MT. STn.,ot ccntended the whole programme should be dropped, the property sold for what it was worth and the incident made a s'ciosed book" 45
 MT. Lenroot contended that changed conditions. expected in few. years, might warrant resumption of work on the power site. He said that construction materials should be reduced further in price before work was renewed, and ar gued that a lapse of two years might bring prices to a point where it would be profitable to reconsider the .spro- sramne.
 Minority Lender Underwood and Sena- tor Heflin, both Of Alabama, urged con- tinuaticn of the project for economic reasons. The former declared II was 3 waste of time to ''rehash all of the dis c1ssion' sbcut the plant and power site, but contended that opponents of the amendment were willing to junk the mil- lions of dollars already invested, seu the haif- completed plant for song' and discard an invaluable national asset in time of war.
 The plant, Mr Heflin declared, would save nearly 7,oQc,000 tons of coal to the ,Y. ,r,iv, current with water power, instead of
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The MONDAY Comet

The watcher of the sky who saw
new planet "swim into his ken"
had nothing, so to say, on the noon
day crowd of lower Manhattan who
yesterday in the full glare of the
sun spotted Winnecke's comet in
celestial space. Folks who couldn't
possibly locate such stellar aristo-
Gratis as Vega, Affair or Antares
these starry June nights were per-
suaded that some skyey polka dot
that they saw was the touring comet
pausing to say hello to Broadway at
lunch hour.
Of course none of us did see the
comet yesterday noon. Or so the
astronomic sharps tell US. AS a
spectacle the Winnecke streak of
light is trifling. The comet is in
visible, indeed, to most naked eyes.
To have seen it at high noon would
be miraculous. But the thousands of
faces turned upward were asgoodly
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
Defying Investigation

Commissioner Enright, who has
fatty refused to permit Dan Costi-
gan to help the Meyer Investigating
committee, five months ago refused
with equal flatness to let Detective
Sergeant Alfred Thomas help ex-
Governor Whitman. at would be
entirely improper said Mr.. En-
right on January 13, "for the police
officers from the Police Department
to be assigned to investigate them
selves"
-Four days later he was summoned
before Mr.. Whitman, and after a
long conference it was announced
that the Whitman grand jury in
vestigation would have all the men
from the department that it needed
when it needed them. Mr.. Enright
is stubborn, sometimes impudently
so, but can be made to bend.
But the moral of his previous ex-
peflence seemingly did not sink deep
ly into the Commissioners mind.
Once more he refuses categorically
to assist in the investigation. Once
more he. makes it necessary to en-
ploy force to bring him to reason.
Once more he makes it plain that he
has much to hide
Dan Costigan," said Governor
Whitman III January, "is the best
vice investigator this town has pro-
duced. He is transparently
honest and, in my opinion, one of
the best police officers New York has
ever had"
Yet Commissioner Enright is de-
termined not to allow him to be used
in the present investigation.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
Not for Open Shop Burlesque

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your story headed "Open
Shop Is To Be Adopted in Burlesque,"
in yesterdays issue, you state:
"The burlesque field is controlled by
two corporations, the Columbia Amuse-
ment Company, with thirty-e light
travelling companies of twenty-five or
more persons each, and the American
Burlesque Association, with the same
number of companies, and people.
Both these concerns are said to be
firm for the open shop change in the
fall"
That statement is quite correct ex-
cepting that the American Burlesoue
Association is not in favor Of the open
shop. We of that association propose
to go along, as in all seasons past,
making the best and most equitable
terms we can. both with the stage
hands and the theatrical mechanics
unions. I. H. HERK,
President American Burlesque AS
sociation.
New York, June 13, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The Squisating Stage

Henry G. Alsberg's article in The
Nation, "Russia: Smoked Glass VS..
Rose Tint" might more properly
have been called "Smoked Glass and
Rose Tint" 1t is trying to wear
smoked glass in one eye and rose
tinted glass in the other that has
brought about the present strabismic
and ludicrous appearance of Russia's
stubborn apologists. They squint.
Arthur Ransome was probably the
first to see Russia through rose tint
ed glasses alone, and Mr.. Alsberg
says that perhaps Wells is one of the
last Of the rose-tinted spectacles
school of Bolshevik defenders. But
Wells on his visit to Russia wore
his rose-tinted glasses only when
viewing the country straight north
and south, so to say. At all inter
mediate points of the compass. being
kindly disposed toward the Bolshe-
vik experiment, he politely put on
binders.
Mr.. Alsberg himself, having for
some three years beamed through his
rose-colored spectacles at Russia,
now, with some apologies, reluctant
ly adjusts smoked glass in one eye.
1t. is looking through this smoked
glass, in the Nation article, that he
quotes a leaf from his diary de-
scribing scene that has frequently
been described before-great excite
ment at railway station, due, the
sailors explained, to the fact that
some of their fellows who had been
sent into a certain country district
to collect grain from the peasants
had had their heads Dashed in. The
sailors said they were now going to
bash the heads of the peasants in
and burn their entire village down;
and more told in EN- dashes. Imagine
similar scenes going on all over Rus
sia, says Mr.. Alsberg, somewhat
superfuously adding, there is no
communism in Russia, and the peas
ants have won
But this is seeing Russia through,
smoked glass. Through his rose.
tinted glass, still worn in the other
eye, Mr.. Alsberg continues to see in
Lenine zone of the greatest intelli-
genees of our time," who always
has his finger on the pulse of, the
masses, and hasn't an ounce of
Bourbonism in his makeup" Quick
~ shifting to the smoked glass
again, however, he says "the intel
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15

lectual dictatorship Of Moscow is
ridiculous" and he regrets the con
tinued strangle-hold Oh the press in
Russia and the jails filed with polit-
ical prisoners. The effect on the
reader is to feel himself alternately
cross and wall eyed.
Normal vision has long revealed
that Lenine, far from having his fin
ger on the pulse of the Russian
masses, has his hands in their pock-
cts. Perhaps the double glasses now
being worn by his apologists in this
country are penultimate, and q next
and final stage will be to see Russia
plain, as she unhappily is, and Le-
nine and Trotzky as they unholily
are.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The Carranza DEGREES
Continuing Menace to American
Owned Properties In Mexico

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS you say in your editorial
I"0bregon's Reply" too little emphasis
has been laid upon the principles at Is
sue in the Mexican matter; and, as you
state, the case is simple to any one who
desires to understand it. Large invest
ments were made and valid titles &C.
quired by Americans in Mexico prior
to 1917 in accordance with the express
provisions of the Mexican laws then in
force. Since 1917 the Mexican govern
ment has been trying to take these prop
critics away from the rightful American
owners by mere constitutional fiat.
President Carranza issued a series
Of DEGREES which, if carried out, as they
would have been but for the protests
of the United States government, would
have worked an actual confscation OF
the American-owned oil properties by
means of the systems aud denounce-
ments and Federal zone concessions de-
vised by Carranza.
President de la Huerta, who sue
ceeded Carranza, continued the efforts
to enforce these DEGREES and issued
large number of Federal zone conces-
, sions in violation of the rights of
American owners.
President Obregon has done nothing
to remove the menace to American
owned properties of the Carranza de-
crees. On the contrary, he has issued
several DEGREES and orders reciting the
provisions of Article XXVII of the
constitution and requiring compliance
with the Carranza DEGREES. The Car
ranza DEGREES were issued under So
called extraordinary powers granted
to President CarranZa by the Mexican
Congress. President Obregon has de-
clared that ha had no authority to alb
rogate or modify the Carranza DEGREES,
but he has recently issued two DEGREES
relating to export taxes, and expressly
recites that these DEGREES are issued
under the extraordinary powers granted
to Carranza on May 8, 1917.
In the face OF the acts of Carranza,
de ia Huerta and Obregon it would be
folly indeed to accept at this time any
assurances regarding the intentions or
purposes of President Obregon or the
Mexican government, except in the
shape Of an agreement of the nation
in proper FORM" which Secretary
Hughes considers necessary.
The authority to make such an agree
ment and submit it to the Mexican
Congress for ratification is expressly
conferred upon President Obregon by
Article LXXXV Of the Mexican constitu-
ton. When, therefore, President 0bre-
gon states, as reported in a telegram
printed in The San Francisco Chroni-
Gle, that "the Federal Executive has no
legal authority to sign an agreement
of any character whatsoever with other
countries" his statement does not
check up with the express provisions
OF the constitution,
GUY STEVENS.
New York, June 13, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
UnmixabIe Elements

Whether or not the Shipping
Board signs a wage agreement with
the striking marine engineers, and
whether or not the organization of
the engineers approve the acts of
its officers, it is difficult to see in
the settlement proposed one that
will give the American merchant
marine chance to steam ahead. If
the agreement is signed as it now
stands we shall have an engagement
on the part of the Shipping Board
to pay specified wage scale on its
ships up to April next. On the
other hand, there will be no like
agreement on the part of the pri-
vate shipping companies. There will
be two rules, and the divergence
will tend to drive one or the other
fleet to tie up.
OF it's gross tonnage of 5000. 900
the Shipping Board has about
half IN service. OF the 100000
tons OF privately owned ships some
thing like 100000 is idle. The two
fleets are about the same size and
VIII be in competition under differ
ent conditions. This is no cheering
outlook. 1t rearouses fear of an
other period of uncertainty.
Mr.. Lasker, the new chairman
OF the Shipping Board, has been
quoted as saying he will make the
government ships pay-pay so hand
somely that no one will wish to sell
them. 1t is to be hoped that the
chairman has been lnisquoted. 1t is
necessary to choose between two op-
posed policies. Government opera
tion and private operation cannot
be made to mix. Attempt to mix
them means in all probability that
the government ships, with deficits
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The League and Mandates

~"~N~"
The Council Of the League of Ma
tions is to meet on Friday in Geneva
to discuss Glass A and Class B man
dates. The United States has been
invited to send a representative to
this gathering. The Mesopotamian
mandate falls in Glass A, and Sec
retary Colby filed a protest some
months ago against this instrument,
which the Allied Supreme Council
failed to submit to the United States
and which, apparently, would ex-
clude America from equal participa-
tion in the development of the Meso-
potamian Oil fields.
The Council of the League has
no original jurisdiction over man
dates. The territories which the
enemy powers ceded We're trans
ferred not to the league but to the
principal Allied and associated pow
ers. Our claim is that we have aban-
doned no rights accfuing to ua as
one of the principal belligerents.
The proper body to guarantee us
these rights is the Allied Council,
which, however, drew up mandates
in the absence of an American rep
resentative and, in the case of the
island of Yap, ignored reservations
made by the American delegates to
the peace conference.
The league cannot coerce the
Allied Council into reversing deci-
sions taken to the prejudice of the
United States. But the Allied Coun-
Gil itself can reconsider it's action,
now that the United States has
taken it's place again in that body
and is prepared to show that in the
case of Yap, at least, the mandate
prepared was issued in error. 1t
runs in the name Of the five prin-
cipal Allied and associated nations.
But American assent to it was never
obtained. The title is invalid on it's
face.
Our interest in the working of
the mandate system is limited to
securing a fair recognition of our
partnership in the disposal of the
territories surrendered by the de-
feated powers. Nothing has hap
pened to invaidate that partner
ship. France and Italy have con-
ceded the soundness of the Ameri-
can position. In fact, if it's sound
ness is not admitted no ground is
left on which the other Allies can
base plea for American assistance
in maintaining the peace settle
ments. The Allied Council is the
real enforcing agency behind the
peace. 1t will remain so. It's men,
bers are principals. The delegates
they send to the League Council are
only secondary agents.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The Beggar's $ Opera

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: So many mistakes have been
made in statements regarding the his
tory of "The Beggar's OPERA" recent
ly seen in America, that ones head is
caused to swim with new kind of
malady which might appropriately be
called literary seasickness." To be-
lieve the current reports-the play
was written by Thomas Gay (New York
Times) or, if you prefer, Mr.. Gaye
(Musical Observer); itsmusicwas com
posed by Linley (London Express); it
saw the stage something like two
hundred and ninety-three years ago."
Bridgeport Telegram); and it was
first produced in England by Mr..
Nigel Playfair in 1928 Cincinnati
Post)!
e Now comes Mr.. Durant, of Dohbs
Ferry, in your issue of June 7, politely
offering another mistake to the rnsus-
pecting public, that of November, 1727,
as the date of the original production
in London, instead of January, 1928.
Mr.. Hazlitt is quite a safe fellow to
quote, but the source of the prelimi-
nary information will bear further ex-
animation
WILLIAM EBEN SCHULTZ.
Culver Stockton College, Canton. Mo.
June II. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
The Peace Resolution

The House of Representative was
little impressed by the argument
chat the passage of the Porter reso-
!ation-or the Knox resolution,
which is the Senate's alternative
will prejudice American interests, so
Ear as the conclusion Of peace
treaty with Germany is concerned.
The argument made by Mr.. Flood,
lfr. Kelley and others was based on
the assumption that the only way to
safeguard satisfactory settlement
with Germany is to keep the state of
war alive.
What is the advantage of a tech
nical state of war for treaty pur-
poses over the status which will re-
suit from the adoption of either the
Knox or the Porter resolution? We
have now state of war in theory
and state of no war in reality.
Hostilities are suspended by tie ar
nistice. Trade has been resumed.
American merchant vessels enter
and leave German ports. Our State
Department exchanges correspond
ence directly with the German Min
istry of Foreign Affairs. Goods
made in Germany" are freely i'm
ported and sold here. Our motion
picture theaters are exhibiting films
produced in German studios. What
is the difference to the naked eye be&
tween the peace condition which
exists to-day and the one which will
exist after Congress formally aban-
dons the fiction that we are at war
with Germany?
War can exist without declara-
lion. Peace can return without
declaration. 1t is the fact which
counts, and the fact is that we have
already ceased to be at war with
Germany. The two resolutions re-
serve all our rights under the armis-
tice and under the Treaty of Ver-
sailles, which Germany has signed.
If we are unable to make a separate
peace settlement (and there is no
obstacle in sight to making it) we
can fall back on the Versailles COM
pact, which would become effective
whenever we chose to ratify it, with
reservations which would not have
to be submitted to Germany.
The only practical effect OF either
the Porter or the Knox resolution
would be to repeal the domestic legis-
lation which remains, terminable by
it's own language on the expiration
of the war emergency. The negotia-
tion of separate treaty or the re-
submission of revised Versailles
treaty would be left, as it must be,
in the hands of the President. Our
international position would not be
altered. The futility of Mr.. Floods
reasoning is measured by the fact
that only 40 of the 131 Democrats in
the House could be induced to vote
against the peace resolution.