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J _ ; I | We hat 11 | in walnv fe l 1 We hav* | 1 We can Pi 1 We are I I I Among p| I ' PorchSI III J poles, cv jpfl j polish, d p S i I w J1 I ? ? 9 - -- - - - - * PRESIDENT DENIES ADMIRAL AGREEMENT WITH ENGLAND ON SHIPS . Washingi Washington, Feb. - 20.-?President m^ral Robe Wilson, in reply to Senator Brande- Arctic expl gree's resolution, informed the senate north pole, today that he had not entered into ^ay from j ' any agreement or understanding with which he hi officials of Great Britain concerning years' the sale of former German liners Arranger seized in American ports nor had he|no^ been c< * * *- j? Iburied with entered into any agreement ur unucistanding with respect to what dis- Admiral position should be made by the Uni- blood trans ted S<"'tes. ten days aj At the same time he transmitted | home to the senate a copy of a "proposed was reP?rt( agreement" between the allied and He 2radual assocntpd governments at Paris un- and the en< der which case is to retain as its own Dr* H"the complete title to and use of all Physici'an, ( ships captured, seized or detained sion this ^ during the war as a war measure" ^ which At - - - "Ofl witViin 1 claim of any of the allied or asso- . . ? Admiral ciated governments." ,, ^ -j years old a This agreement farther provides that in case the ships so retained by any allied or associated government . are in excess of the claims of such , , . , . ment order governments for war losses in merchant ships such government shall ? ,n.* , . . . , ... terested in not make a claim for a share of sl.ips under the treaty of peace. Ships so * ir^. 0Ur cede will be distributed among the ,c?nnaissant other governments on the basis of *ce^caPe ea' ton for ton and class for class of the . wo .yea ships lost and not replaced by the ?1"eer in c nal survev5 enemy vessels seized or captured by them during the war. gates or ti . c the Arctic Agrees on bums. It also provides that since the ships to be retained by the United States, .ec* 1S ir^ Brazil, China, Cuba and Siam would beac* ? exceed their claims for merchant cie"ce? tonnage lost the commision shall de- ^ termine a reasonable value of the ex- e*Peditions cess and that those countries shall ^na^^ was pay such sums to the commission for P?le' the credit of Germany in making pre- 6 paration for war losses of merchant praised as ships. was Promo1 I ?1 4-1 II11JL A I III tl The president said that while he thanks 0f { felt confident congress would make Turning his the disposal of the funds to which mjra| pear he had agreed he had no authority to cate air] bind it to thefact, "but must depend governmenj upon its taking the same view in the ed acjequat matter that is taken by the joint country> es signatories of this agreement." period FULL LINE )e just received a full lir it, mahogany and oak. s also received a supply y the famous Sellers Kit % ready to fill your needs i other things that we carr lades, mirrors, trunks, ha irtain poles, library tables avenports and davennett < A. Cal wmmammawmmmmmm PEARY IS SENATE RE^DOPTS ON HIS LAST CRUISE LODGE RESERVAT] ton, Feb. 20.?Rear Ad- BY 45 TO rt Edwin Peary, retired , orer and discoverer of the Washington, Feb. 21. n died at his home here to- treat* vote since conSlderatl jernicious anemia, from Pact was revived the senate ?d suffered for several day defeated an readme. withdrawal reservation pro nents for the funeral have Senator HitchcMk>mpleted, but he will be Under hjs proposal, uotie, i full naval honors. country s desire to Wlthdr; Peary submitted to a the lea?ue would be Passed . . . , , gress in the form of a joi ifusion at a hospital here . J ? , , , tion instead of a concurren ?o. He was removed later . ; and his condition then , , , j The vote was 38 against ;d as somewhat improved. b , , for the Hitchcock amendmer ly grew weaker, however, , , Senators Gore, of C i came early this mornF. Strine, the admiral's lisclosed that the transfu- I MtUIUimilllilllltllllltltllltllinHtttllirilllUHUIIMirilllllllllMlllltlllllUIIIUIIIli I 5 ^IIIUIItllltllllUlillllltlllUIIIIIUtlllUIIUIIUiUIIIlllllllUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIHMI onth was the thirty-fifth j| imiral Peary had submit- If hwrk voQrc II FiVP Peary was sixty-four || ;nd entered the navy as a f| W. E :er on October 26, 1881. ii i s ssistant engineer of the l\ ship canal under govern- jj s in 1884-85. Returning I| M D ed States, he became in \\ NeW BrU?81 arctic explorations and !| New Brunswicl years ago he made a re- || :e of the Greenland inland |f Georgia Hoi st of Bisco Bay. f| , ^ rs thereafter he was en- j| DUS, uft. iiarge of the Nicaragua ca- || DL J T 1 ; and invented rolling lock || KnOQC l8lan< he canal. But the lure of |f deilCe, R. I. was on him and he again ]f ihward. In June, 1891 he |f For tHose wt t big polar expedition, be- |f > i : the Academy of National || reasonable rat liiadeiphia. || companies can Peary made seven other f| into the Arctic before he }f Call On me < successful in reaching the [{ ,1 j . ling in 1909 to find that ft *"e advantagei rick A. Cook was being || offer. the discoverer. In 1913 he f| ted to the rank of rear ad- || le navy and given the || :cngress by a special act. jf W.D. V ; attention to aviation, Ad- | y became a strong advo- | craft development by the [ t and time and again urg- 1 e coast patrols in this | ipecially during the war f ' - "*.i> OF FUItf le of bedroom, diningrc of porch rockers in gree chen Cabinet In mattings, rugs and U y in stock may be menti by carriages, window si 11 , centre tables, swings, i t es. / vert an \ Shields, of Tennessee, and Smith, of ION Georgia, all Democrats, voted against f| 20 VOTE the Hitchcock proposal, which was j| K st, 38 to 26. 1 the first Senator Lodge then moved to ad- || on of the J?urn> but was voted down without if late to- a r0^ caH> an^ the senate began vot- || it to thi on the withdrawal reservation || posed by itself. The senate adopted the original f[ 2 of this Lodge- reservation on withdrawal jj aw from which provides that notice of with- || by con- drawal from the league may be giv- If nt resolu- en by a concurrent resolution. 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