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Tili: SUMTEU WATCHMAN*, Est; CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 YE?3BANIS SHOTTO DEATH I AURENTON I J. C. Moore Caught in the Act and Killed?; L. K. Rawls Captur ed After Chase Trenton. Mareh 2<>.?j. C. Moore, i alleged safecrackor and escaped convict from the Georgia peniten-| tiary. where he was serving a sen tence of 20 years, was shot and j killed early this morning by Ernest i A Crouch while the former was in j the act of opening a safe in the j store of Mathis & Whitlock here.' and L. K. Rawls of Columbia, al- ; leged to have'been an accomplice ! in the robbery", was later appre- j hended on the highway to Aiken j and has been lodged in the Edge- j Heid jail. Mr- Crouch has rooms above the store and was awakened by a noise : in the store underneath. Taking his j gun, he went out and Moore emerg- j ed from the store with a pistol and j a flashlight. Mr. Couch fired! twice, the first- load of buckshot i taking effect in the left leg. The; second shot proved fatal. Moore i falling dead with a flashlight grip-! ped 'in one hand a pistol in the other. The safe in the store was ready : for blowing, the iliat having been j pried out, soap spread over the j load and the fuse attached. Prior to entrance into the Mathis j & Whitlock store, the store of G. j -W. Wise had been entered and j the safe blown open. V knife and! ?y0 were taken from the Wise; st?re. The knife was found on j Rawls. Residents, awakened by thej shots, gathered hurriedly and G. W. Wise L. C. Edison. Le~ ' .tar- j rison., Hilton Duncan a.,.d -f. D. ' Mathis. Jr.. followed the track* of i the. automobile in which, a second; man- disappeared when Moore was! shot. A heavy rain had fallen] about midnight and the track was ! easily followed. .\'< ar. Aiken and j about daylight the posse came up-j on Rawls, his car having stuck and; negroes were assisting him in his j efforts to extricate the car. When] arrested Rawls was armed with a! large pistol and had on his per-j son a knife later identified as hav- i ing been taken- from the Wise i store. $20 and ,a* .letter^from ka .wo man-asking - that he desist from' doing certain things Rawls claim-! ed that he was from .Augusta and \ denied any knowledge of the rob-! bery at Trenton. A conductor on| One of the Southern trains through here says he saw Rawls and Moore in Columbia Sunday aiter aoon and in Batesburg Sunday night. While in Wise's store time was taken to eat some apples. Moore had in his "pockets a jar of fuses and also a map of the surrounding country. Mrs. Moore' came to Trenton from Columbia and- .identified Moore. She said M<>ore and Rawls le-ft Columbia together. She did not ask for the body, which will be buried by the county authori ties. Until a few months ago Rawls is said to hate operated a store in Batesburg, and since that time to have been making his home in Co lumbia. Moore's Wife Tells Of Other Rob beries. Columbia. March 2.1.?The Little Mountain and White Oak robberies on which officers of several coun ties have been working diligent iy were cleared up last night when Mrs. J. C. Mop re, wife of the m;tn killed at Trenton yesterday, told Rich'-and officers that her late hus band had confessed to her that he did these jobs. *'I knew nohinlg of them beforcr hand." she said, "but he later ad mitted to me that he had done th?m." She said her husband brought home Liberty bonds tak en from White Oak and burned them in the fire at their residenc? on Wilson avenue. North Colum bia, and that war savings stamps from Little .Mountain met the same fate. She also said he was im plicau-d in a robbery at Blythe wood. Moore ' scaped from the Georgia state prison at Mi!ledge\ ille about two weeks before Christmas. He was serving a 20 year term, of which he had done two years, to: robbery. He was originally i*roni Seattle, Wash., and since reaching Columbia had been goini; under the name of C. J. Parker. It is said that he purchased n talking machine a short time ago an t gave that name to the dealer. Yesterday morning Sheriff fbis... Rural Chief Dun na way. Dctcetive \v. T. Keny and Deteeive Cath curt went to the home occupied by the Moores, or I'arkers. and searched it. finding postage sunups. Which were taken m charge. Ac cording to Mrs. Moore, her husband said they came from Alabama. It was at the request of postal au thorities that Sheriff Heise had Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Rawls held as witnesses. They came to Columbia last ni.irht. Mrs. Rawls was releas ed soon after arrival and allow ed to go to her home. They both readily consented to come ;<> <"<? himbia last night. Earlier in the afternoon Chief Striekhtnd had en deavored to locate then: and have them detained ?s \vit.n>.'ss-s. Mrs. e tblishcd April, 1S50. .881. WORKING i TO AVERT GOALSTRIKE ;Government Has Not; Entirely Abandoned Hope of Effecting, Settlement of Bitu I minous Coal Strike i _ I Washington. .March 21.?While jthe government lias "not entirely"! [abandoned its efforts to get a set-j tlement in advance of the coal j ; strike called for April i. particu- j larly in the bituminous fields, and; wliile the Department of Justice is studying possibilities of legal re-j dress in case danger results to pub- i lie peace and welfare, it was learn-j cd today in White House and Cab- j inet circles that no action is con templated unless the strike dovel- j ops. Secretary of Labor Davis, who j has represented the govern mem inj direct negotiations in the industry, j had no comment to make wLojvj word of the United Mine Workers' call for suspension of work on April 1 in both the bituminous and an thracite field's reached Washington, but Attorney General Daugherty indicated that he was inclined to j consider that the legal branch of' the government might take som^ ; steps particularly in case transpor- j tation derangement was occasioned ] after the strike vas under way. At the White House, along with ; the statement that the effort to j bring about ?i national conference j between the employers and the j miners in the bituminous industry j was still continuing, notwithstand ing the almost complete refusal of the operators to cooperate, the ex-; tstence of a great coal surplus was j emphasized as a most important j factor. The government's surveys indicated, it was said. that, with; production continuing in non-union ! fields, the surplus would prevent! any shortage in industry and) should prevent any inflation of coal j prices. The government's concern with the anthracite situation is not so! great, because ? of the disposition there for amicable relationship her ; it ween the mine owners and their. i unionize employes. >ir. Daugherty. reviewing the le gal aspects, and mindful of De !partm^nt of Justice plans to defend railroad operations by injunction a^ninsr threatened striker suspen- : jsion laut'October, declared that the [ coal strike had not reached a point j I where his responsibility began. He! j desired to know, lie said, whether; I the government, capable of pre-; i venting-disruption of railroad traf-; iic by use of legal powers, could not also prevent the same disrup tion if occasioned by shortage of bcoaL ! The Attorney General declared he j was not sure that the operators or j miners could be forced into confer jence to settle their dispute, nor i was he as yet certain that action ?.could be taken by the government, i He declared he knew of n<> law I preventing a man or group of men [from emitting their employment. j LITTLE BOY ! IS KILLED j ? Walterboro. March 22.?Xew* of ;a distressing accident has reached jWalleriH.ro. Harold Hill, the 11 jyear old son Of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. j Hill. ?>T Round; while playing [around a grist mill Saturday after 1 noon, was caught on a shaft ex tension and whirled round and ; round, meeting instant death. This ! shaft was near the door and in ]some manner the little hoy. who j was in the mill house with a little [companion, got near enough to [have his sleeve caught, it is thought, land this pulled his towards the I shaft. The arm was then wrapped [round the swiftly revolving shaft and he was whirled over and over, t It was thought every hone in his [body was broken. He could not be released until the engine was [stopped. His brother. Carl. was ! miller at the time the accident oc i < urred. TIDAL WAVE AT VENICE London. March 2:;. Central ; news dispatch from Venice says a ' tidal wave lust night inundated tin eit> water risiru over three feel in ; public squares. : Moore and Mrs. Rawls had gone t<? [Tren'on only after hearing yester l day morning of tin- trouble there, j and had tried in no way tu evade j ill'- officers. R is understood (hat the Mis. ; Rawls who is mentioned in the J paragraph above has been married ? to Rawls for less than a year. I' : is :rnt known how long Mr. and j Mrs. Moore have been married, j Sheriff Mac Fie of Fair field coua > ty also wired Sheriff Heise yester | day. after hearing; ?>!" the Trenton j aKair. asking that Sheri.fl Ibis, do 1 wk. t he could in t!o- matter, be lieving that th?*i*e might be some > connection between the White . Oak robbery and the Trenton rob '? bery. The White Oak robbery was cfirst esti?iated ;<? be $5.ooua hut was later thotigh.1 to !>?? onl> :i.bout >:;.<miii 'rie- Little Mountain m!.. bery amounted to about S-iOOlh "Be ?Tust aud Fear ? 17,000. BALES ARE SIGNED UP .. . i _ Result of County Can-1 vass for Cotton Co-j operative Associa- j tion Considered' Fairly Successful j Contracts are in hand for LT.OtMM bales of tin- minim tun allotment ? for Sumter County o? 2G.*f<?<? bales j <if cotton desired for the South 1 Carolina Cotton Growers' Coopcra-{ live Association. All members of j the comittces sent out all over thej county have worked hard und [ everyone is yet believing that the; entire quota of bales will soon be ? "signed up." A full list of farm- ; ... . ? rs and business men of Sumter and county will be published in the! advertisement space of 'lie ^asso-l cfcition. If you have signed a con? j tract and your name does not ap-; pear on the list, investigate im- i mediately. Send inquiry to the I LChambcr of Commerce. Sumter. (.:fe of South Carolina Cotton' j Cooperative Association. If yon have already signed a contract and j have not turned it in. Cue commit-j I tee will l>" more than glad to have j jyou mail this also to the Chamber j of Commerce. Dr. Clarence I'oe. of llalcigh. X. . |C. Kditor of the Progressive Farm er, has been so interested in this work that he has allowed Mr ! Simps* ?. who is in his employ in the subscription department, to re j main tu .Sumter and to w erk here j j with tin- members of the commit--1 ["toes in the getting <.>f the contracts rsigncd. I' is stated that .Mr. Simp son lias done good work during his stay here. FIGHT 5T* GREENWOOD Greenwood. Maren 2-. Follow j.ing :i personal encounter in the dining room of the Oregon hotel last night in which he was struck over the head with a water pitcher I.by Frank Sampson. L. D. Sm??ot. a paving ens'iueer. is in ;i 1"' ::! hos pital for treatment. ! In recorder's court this aftyr iioon. Sampson testified t!;;it Smool threw a spoon m him and win i. asked about it made an insulting remark. Sampson claimed thai he stnick S.mooi with i!:-- water boj tl< after Sn ? oj had risen from Iiis seat and seized ;i knife. The ease 'against him was dismissed "ii tb< Kmunds of self defvIis?*. Su.i for feited bond of .< I ~> for lighting. Sampson declared that he and Sinooi re presented rival paving construction com pa nies. New Vork. March Di.amonds valued wholesale at over one hnn dred thousand dollars were s-ized t.y customs ollb dais. rot?Ix-t all the ends TlUDU Afiits't ; Sumter. S. C, SatuF * V SEEK TO RUSH THE BONUS BILL Planned to Push Meas ure Across Thurs day Under Suspen sion of Rules Which Will Shut Out Amendments Washington. March 21.?Speaker Oilier* consented today to permit the compromise soldiers' bonus bill ro be taken nj> in the House Thurs day under a suspension of the rules. iL is tin- plan to have the final vote before adjo'tnmient that i.oy arter four hours of general dc bute, divided equally between op ponents and proponents. A two-thirds majority will be necessary to pass the i?ill under this procedure, but thos?e in charge of tlie legislation predicted rhal they would have votes to spar ?. 1-y this method the majority v. ill sue* ceed not only in sh'utt'nt; on: all amendments, '?u; als?? in preventing the Democrats from offering a Mil lion to recommit the bill. The parliamentary plan for han dling the measure was :'otcr:ni?ic 1 tipon at a five-minute conference today between Mr. Gillett and Chairman Campbell, of the rubs committee. On leaving the Speak er's ofifce. Mr. Campbell announc ed that his ccunm.ittec would meet tomorrow t<> draf' a rule, making Thursday suspension dn.v and in creasing the time for debate under the suspension from the usual fort} minutes to fc?Ur hours. After their failure to get the bill up yesterday under a .suspension of the ruhs. those in charge of thY legislation appeared to be highly gratified that their original pla?" finally had been approved. Thej anticipated little er no difficulty in executing their program on flic floor and believed that by Thurs day night the problem with which they have been wrestling for sev eral months would be off their ha nds. OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR INDICTED Okmulgce. Okla.. March 23-? (low .1. (:. A. Robertson ot the okla hoina. and several officials ot OU iiiulge" banks were placed under bond today for trial on indictment charging illegal transactions in \??i\ini; r\v?i I banking institu tions. County Attorney Hepburn announeed thai the date of the trail will noi I..- fixed for a Week .ir t< ti days. Tin- m.in who says lie never louehed ;i drop before prohibition came ;ti will probably li<- about Othei things. 1 oo. it be (by Country's. Thy God's and day, March i.5, 1922 FLORIDA BANKER ARRESTE Financier Caught in the Drag Net Spread For Miami Boot i leggers i Minini. Fla.. March 21.?Charged jwith being a party to the smug : !ii?l; of liquors into 'Iiis country, jC. M. Clayton, vice president of the j Miami National Lank, will he given a hearing a; 1" o'clock tomorrow jmorniag before ^United States Com ? missioner Graham here. Clayton was arrested tliis morn ing, with \\". C. Phelps ami T. N. Lew?is. as the second step in the j government's drive to wipe out the [liquor traffic along the coast of ! Florida. Phelps and Lewis will he arraigned with Clayton. Tin? warrants charge that Cl?y I ton .-'.ml the two other defendants j-and a woman made a written agree ment i"<>r the delivery of "commodi i tics" ti? "A. I'.. Phillips," :i prohi bition agent, for the sota of $4.050. ? Clayton to handle the money for tin- "client" and to turn it over to ; Phelps ami Lewis when the "goods" j w er" delivered. A photograph of the contract was , taken for evidence, and "Phillips" j stated today thai he would submit other evidence t?? prove, that 11!?-1*? was a verbal understanding among the parties that the "commodities" w ere t?. he Jiquors. Clayton tonight issued a state ment denying that he knew any nf the parties concerned before tin transaction: thai he presumed the m>>ney was to be he'd in escrow b; him fer ;i legitimate business deal, siadt as a real estate sale, declaring that t!?.is procedure is a daily <?>? eupanee at the hank. Twenty more warrants for al leged liquor se!!,-rs were served t - day by members of the fly hie :s?<uadr?_vn. which is putting on the campaign under the personal di rection of Col. l. o. Niitf. head of tie- narcotic division of the in ternal revenue bureau. 51 WARRANTS FOR BANK FAILURE Oknmigee. <?kia.. March - Fifty-one warrants hav? heeii de livered to the sheriff by ;!,.? district court for arreM of persons named in twenty-three indictments re turned by th.- grand jury last night. after an investigation of the fail ure of the Ha nk of Commerce here, A state crth'oial. m former state olli ecr and :i score ot prominent local ni'-n v\ ere named. Cherbourg. France, Mandl The shipping board freighter West C.iruth reached here today, after sacritiefny :i la rise pa ri of tic- ca r 4 Truth's." ! BONUS BILL ! FIGHT !S ON i IN THE HOUSE I Republican Leaders Are Not in Accord On Measure and Plan to Pass Bill Immediately Fails Washington. March 20.?Balked in their desire to get the measure tip today under a suspension of the rules. Republican house lead ers in charge of the compromise soldiers' bonus bill still were de termined tonight to pur the meas ure through this week. Their ex pressed intention was to call it up Thursday, under a suspension of ' the rules if possible: otherwise un der a special rule which probably would shut out amendments. Before the house met today the whole situation was laid before ['resident Harding at the White House by a committee of house leaders but the executive declined to make any recommendation. I Speaker CJillett made known to chose in charge of the bonus legis lation his deeision hot to entertain a motion to suspend the rules and pass the hill. This necessitated further conferences among the leaders, who refused to sibsmdon their plan to call up the hill with the rules suspended so as to shut off a motion to recommit tin- bill as as well as all amendments. The whole question of procedure was* discussed at a conference after the' house had adjourned after a 50 minutes' session. Present at this conference were members of the ways and means committee and the party steering committee as well as other leaders. Xo fmal de cision on procedure was reached hut there was at least a tacit agree ment that the hill would come up Thursday. Representative Mondell issued this statement when the con ference broke up: "Tomorrow we shall reach a de cision possibly by noon as to when and how the measure will be brought up for consideration. There will he no party conference." Speaker C.lllctt said: "Things are as unsettled as they were." adding that he had not stated that he' would recognize any one to pre sent a special rule to take the bill up under a- suspension of the rwles. "The only thing certain Is' that the bill will come up Thursday,*' said he. Representative Linebergcr of California, a former service man. wanted a party conference called to thresh out the bonus question ami the speaker was represented las favoring this procedure. Others opposed such a plan, however, arguing that this would open up the whole bill it) change. Mr. Linc bcrgcr dually agreed not to press for a conference and after further discussion it was decided to leave until tomorrow the final decision by the speaker as to procedure. The house committee laid the whole situation before the presi dent, emphasizing the change that ha l been made m the bill since the president's last letter to Mr. Ford my suggesting u sales tax or postponement of the legislation. The president was represented as giving no indication <..?? way or another as to his views on the bill and as desiring to be left free to pass judgment on it when it reach ed rhe White House. He was quoted as saying that he had not had opportunity to study all of its I provisions as Cully as he might ?wish: also that b? thought the re sponsibility was with congress at t his time. I Another attack on the bonus bill was ma.de today in a minority rc | port from ways and means commit tee members. Representatives i ; Kitchin. Democratic leader, and I Oldtteld of Arkansas. Crisp of Geor I gia. Carcw of New York and Tague of Massachusetts, all Democrats. The;.- characterized the certificate bank ioan plan as a. "due bill, rain I check, borrow--money bonus mode j of payment," and declared that it ! Aas "an insult to every world war ; veteran and a shameful discredit j to congress and the nation." Insisting that the bonus be paid ? out of taxes levied upon the "big I incomes of millionaires and multi j millionaires" and "the con.sciencc ; ;..ss excess profit* of the big mo I nopolistic e??rporat ions." the mi ! am ity charged President Harding ! and Secretary Mellon "boldly of { f. r a bribe to the world war vet erans t.> espouse the cause of the me,;: y pow< ?' in. their elToits to es | tablish as a part of our revenue system tic- vicious policy of a gen ! mal sales tax." i "They otter a bonus in consuiera I ri?.?n <>f the veteran and his friends I favoring a sales tax." said the re j port. "They vigorously fight a bo : mis without a sales t:ix. in the j hope that the brave boys will be ?. mpied to yield and be willing to I helj? tin- president and Mr. Mellon I a rid the money power to drive the lirst effective wedge under the es tablished policy of tin- income tax. t fiMinded upon the principle of i a bility :<i pay." The report said the proposition , in ;!:?? hill for bank loam- was ab t s?dutely "a gold brick" in view of j the attitude of the comptroller ot the ei:rreney, and added: j Si. we are presented with the shameful spectacle of the party that absorbed tie- war divided our I ? oii?itry's war associates, disgraced ton. Tili; TRUE sor DEMAND i FOR GERMAN ! REPARATION l _ Statement of Claim by the United States! For Cost of Army of Occupation Washington, March 22- ? Tho American army of occupation was 'sent into Germany and was con-! I tinued there upon the basis of the j right of the United States to "be j paid its actua? cost upon an equal footing with tin- a Hie:-." and this government "is unable to conclude : that the justice of its claim is not j fully recognized;" according to : identical communications delivered today by American diplomatic rep resentatives to the governments of U?dgium. Great Britain, France. Italy and Japan. The notes were delivered und r instructions from Secretary Hughes and were occasioned by recent in formation from American obaerv . crs in Europe that tho allied gov S ernments apparently contemplated j arrangements which would ig nore American army costs alto gether. The amount of the claims of the United States for its army cost, the note declared, was understood to be fret: from any sat star.rinl dispute. but it was deemed to ho appro priate, "in view of recent develop ments,** to acquaint the allied gov ernments with the repeatedy re ; iterated statement that the gov j ernnicnt of the United States was ; expecting for payment of the cost? j of its army in the Rhineland. Basis for the American claim, the notes pointed out, was found in the armisrice agreement to which } [.the United States was signatory, jand which provided for military '? occupation of Germany by the al lied and American forces jointly. ! . That agreement, the notes recited, j j expressly provided that the up-I j keep of the troops of occupation ! in the Rhine districts should be charged to the German govern ment and it was expressed as the I view of the American government t that the armistice agreement" "had ? the clear import" that the pow ; crs associated in that joint enter prise ??should stand upon an equal . footing as to the payment of all the actual costs of their armies of ; occupation/*" Priority payment for the total ; cost of all armies of occupation ; was imposed by the treaty of Yer I"sallies, the notes set forth, and ! since the right of the United States to share in that priority was ?"not , expressly conditioned." upon ruti ; fioation of the treaty by the United I States' failure to ratify should not i be construed as affecting in any i way American rights. In that con nection, the notes pointed out thai j : "Germany has explicitly consented ! to the priority of payment of the? j cost of the American army of occu ; pation. notwithstanding the fact j that the treaty of Versailles has not been ratified by the United States" I and that hence "any technical ob jection" to the discharge of the [just claims of the United States would necessarily rest solely upon the refusal of the allied powers! themselves to permit the discharge of an "admittedly equitable claim** ' and it. was insisted that (he rights of America were free from any technical o bj cction. The notes set forth that the total i [cost of all armies of occupation) from November 11. 191$, to May I l. 1921. amounted to :>.g:1v.2S2.-; 000 gold marks, that the amounts j due to Belgium, France and Italy] for their army costs for that pe-j riod had been paid in full and that j the unpaid balance due May 1.1 1921. amounted to 1.660,090,000 j gold marks, of which 906.374.000 gold marks were due the United j States and the remainder due the j British empire. It was pointed j our. also, that the British govern ment had received 150.C96.?0? gold] marks between May I and Decem ber 31. 1921. and thai the "p:iy- ] ment was expressly. made and re-| ceived subject to the rights of the j United States." 1 the peace, deluded the people, de ceived the veterans, deserted the wounded, relieved the profiteer, re-j duced the millionaire's income tax. I repealed the excess profits tax on the profiteers, and which still main tains a blasphemous, bibulous boot licker at the court of St. James toi besmirch with his drunken banquet babMo the high war purposes of the American people and the iri- ? spiration of tie- American soldiers, now offering to redeem its reckless! campaign pledges with an [? O. U..j designated 'certificate,' which the administratoin has in advance of its issue flatly impeached and dis-j credited." With the veteran and his needs the Republicans have revealed their incompetence, the report con tinued, i "?They start and stop." it said, j "They aiy for this today, and fori that tomorrow . They potter around j in darkness. they fumble, they I muff. Incapable of dealing fairly; w ith the economic situation, they j have directly brought upon thej American people tne worst depres- . siun that ever came upon them. Kqually incapable of dealing with | the war veteran situation, thej stutter and stagger. Blind they j wander around. They pick it up j and pi.u it down. Their last COU- | du ion is worse than the first.*' ftlKOX, Established June 1. INCH. VOL.LIII. NO. 12 HENRY C.LODGE DOES CRY BABY ACT 1NJENATE Makes Emotional De fense of His Honor and Patriotism in t Debate on the Four Power Treaty i Washington'- March 20.?Senato J debate on the four power Pacific [ treaty touched its high water mark of bitterness today in an exchaiiae resulting from suggestions of a secret American und ere landing for future cooperation. Aroused by recurring references to such an international under jstanding after existence bad been i directly denied, Senator Lodge of j Massachusetts, the Republican leader and a member of the Amer ican arms delegation, took ti& j lloor and in a voice shaken by emo tion declared he could no longer j be patient under attacks which seemed to question his patriotism [and impugn his honor. 1 Replying in a fashion scarcely j less dramatic. Senator Robinson j (Democrat) of Arkansas, an op | ponent of the treaty, told the sen ate he questioned no one's motives i I>ut proposed to, do his patriotic '-lut'y os lie sajf il v.irTxont permit ting himself to: be "intimidated by j outbursts of fedlgnation.*' He re mained convinced, he said, tftal both of the senate's reprcsontaS tives on the delegation v/er? "amazingly ignorant" of some- of the things done at the conference. The exchange between Senators Lodge and Robinson, which wa? part of a long debate sown broad- . east with charges of "slander." "ur.iruths" and "propaganda^ took place shortly after the Repub lican leader and other prominent figures; in his party organization, had canv;tssed the whole treaty sit uation at a 'White House confer ence with President Harding. The presence of so many party chiefs at the conference led to Urn impression that they discussed with the president the possible injection of the arms conference treaties into the coming congressional cam paign but some of the senators who attended said afterward thit th? primary purpose .was to give Mr. Harding the latest information as to the" line up on" the four power treaty ratification vote to be Lakoti Friday. It was sald-that the pres ident reiterated' his acxreptaiece o* the "no alliance" rescrra::or. draft ed by the foreign relation ceumitt fee and was told there were etiough votes pledged i& ratify the treaty on that basis. Late in the day the president also called in two Democratic senators, Sj lith of South Carolina ilsd Ken-, "iririck of Wyoming, for a discus? sion of the treaty situation. At the same time administration offi cials reiterated that tlm treaties were certain to be ratified but would not indicate whether addi tional Democratic votes were smjght or the status of reservations was ur.der consideration. Suggestion, of a British-Americaa understanding for future con certed action was thrown, into the senate debate by Senator Borah (Republican* of Idaho, who read a statement regarding the conference renults be said had bee.n made-by Paul D. Carvark. a New York r>r forney. In this statement Mr. Cravath was uaotcd as saying vUe had been told by every member^ the American delegation" that ino conference resulted in an unwrit ten und'-rstnndintc between tu?$ United grates and Croat Brtfainlof such a character "that both sides assume that in all future emer gencies they can bOtl) . coqut ?t. having the very clo>e:-;t co-ope*a , lion." The accuracy of This a-3? rtioh 'was promptly denied by Senator Lodge and by Senator 1 uoorwoo? of Alabama, the Democrats lead er and also a member of t'o? I American delegation. Senator Un ' dorwood said he did noi recall ever i having met iic. Cravath and Sen , ator Lodge declared be nev#?r talk ed with him on the subject B??i asserted positively and direct Iv that so far a* they knew no such [understanding-existed or ever had j been discussed. New Vork. Match Toni P. ; Cravath tomght issued a statement : denying he ever had said as Sena ; tor Borah quoted him in the s??* i ate that there was at) "unwxttteii ? agreement'* that "the United Slates land ?Ir at Britain should act to I gether. "in an emergency in the j Pacific." j "Ther" is not the remotest fort's i d at ion for the statement reported ? to have been made by Senator j Borah in the senate in which my j name was used." he said. "It Is i pure romance. I can not make my [ denial too strong and unequivocal.7* BIG DEt'RKA SEIN INCOMES TAXES Trcusurv Statement Sh<r.v$ Receipts $200,000,000 Be low Estimates Washington'. March 25.?A short age of two hundred million dollars in tin- estimated revenues from the collection of income and profits i.c\..s on March 13th i? shown in the treasury statement;