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DEMOCRATS MEET ' IN CONFERENCE Caucus Called for Talk of Treaty.? Hope of Republicans. Washington, Feb. 2-'?.?Possibilities o*>f i.jl Kva.iL- i ? * f ?"? A _ * ci rtui'.Maiitiai UIVUA in i/cuivcratic peace treaty-ranks in the senate impelled influential Democratic senators to move today for a caucus to discuss a possible change in party policy and revived the hopes of the T?Arviik1inone tUof t rzi ofi* VDf pit CI 11. a no V.11CH, WA 1 Vtti/JI iUl^liV J v. v be ratified with the Republican reservations adopted at the last session of congress. The movement for a Democratic caucus may bring into the open, its sponsors believe the dissatisfaction that has smouldered in some Democratic quarters since the president sent his memorable letter to the caucus of November 19 asking that the i>entXLUiJ> \ji tua pai cj* ?uit agauiso ratification on the basis of the Republican reservations. The seven senators who diregarded his advice have been active constantly in their effort to dissuade others from the stand then taken, and it has been an open secret that their move coupled with current political developments has met with some success. But among both Democrats and Republicans it is realized that the endeavor to break down Democratic resistance still has a long way to go if it is to succeed- Sixty-four votes are required to ratfy the treaty, and although 34 Republicans voted for ratification in Nevember, the party leaders ar esure now of the support of only 30. That leaves 34 to be delivered by the Democrats, an even dozen more than the figure which represented the peak of Republican claims today. In belief that time is fighting on their side, the plan of the Republican leaders is to first clear away collateral issues of the treaty disagreement when the subject comes again before the senate, probably tomorrow. The next reservation to be consider cd in the revision being undertaken i on the senate floor is the troublesome qualification of Article v 10, against vhich the president has directed his principal criticism; but the Republicans expect to ask that it be laid aside until all the others have been acted on. / Meantime, it is pointed out, a Democratic caucus may have devel oped the real strength of the move- ' inent among Democratic senators to break away from past policy of r$- < sistance and put the treaty through, < "Should a majority of the 47 Demo- i crats vote in the caucus to make such a move, it is expected by the Repub- i ~?Ir??>nc tViof tVto oflFor?+ u'nnl^ Ko fn 1 t W11M V VliV Vii VV V ?/V WV 4 bring: over the votes needed for rati- 1 fEcatlon. < widow' of officer s bares booth hoax 1 \ t Mrs. William C. Allen Tells How Her Husband Misled Brother of . _ i , Lincoln's Slayer. : f f t," cv? - xvaiiaa.^s ctcti. a Some time after the ass:ssination t of President Lincoln and the sup- posed death of his slayer, John 1 Wilkes "Booth, in the flames of Gar- f rett's barn, Edwin Booth was startled une nijsrht in London by a fleeting 41 glimpse of a face which he declared was that of his brother. This ap- f parition grave rise to much specula lion, and never since has there been " any certainty that the president's assassin actually perished in the fire. ! .Now comes a woman, however, who A says John Wilkes Booth did actually die in Garrett's barn, and that the face which Edwin Bocth saw in London was that of her late husband, s "Lieut. William C. Allen, an officer r of uje Uiiioii army in the Confeder- t . ate war. I "You know the old story of Wilkes p Booth's escape, don't you?" Mrs. f .AEea says in an interview in the ' v New York World. "After shooting s Lincoln, as Booth leaped from the c presiaeruiai uu.\ umu me e>L<a^c v/*. i Ford's theater, with his 'Sic semper s tyrannise they say he grot out of the I tbfVKter in the furor, jumped upon the h horse held for him by old 'Peanut \ John," and went into the night. i "Some say that it was Boston Cor- J t bett who fired the shot that killed Booth. They say" that he afterward z -went insane. But the truth is, I be-, 1 lieve, that no one knows who fired \ the shot. | i JtMy husband was one of that posse. 11 He bad taken part in the pursuit. He was there when the barn was in 1 limes. He too, fired! No one knows 3 ? ^ XX7 lllrOQ \ Vfco 1Z was mat c.\ctuku .?Booth! "They say, too, that it was some -one other than Booth who was shot that night?Ruddy, or one of the other accomplices who resembled tiim. They are wrong. It was Booth himself. I'm sure. William j knew him, and knew what he looked ' like better than most others, and for peculiar reason." She leaned forward. "My husband was almost a living image of Wilkes Booth! *'They were both very handsome men; chestnut hair, almost auburn; straight, clean cut features, dark mustache and wonderful eyes?deep brown. I suppose," with a little apologetic laugh, "you'd call them soulful. "Yes, the two were so much alike that when Booth had shot Lincoln, the newspapers, needing a picture ouicklv had seized one of my hus band, taken only a week before by j a Washington photographer, and printed it through the country captioned as the president's assissin. Later every attempt was made to suppress the photograph. My husband was naturally annoyed. It caused much confusion also, though it was little known. "That's why he was so sure that it was Wilkes Booth and no other who lay dead in front of the burning barn; with a wound in the back of his head, who was sewed in an army blanket! and, later, buried on Capitol Hill un-1 der the flagging of the old prison! yard. "Later my husband, detailed from j the secret service, was present when J Booth's body was exhumed?some time in 1869, I think it was. "The next thing I'm going to tell you has always seemed a little odd to me. It was one of those strange things that one does on the impulse of a mad moment or the dare of a thoughtless friend. Perhaps my hus-. band was led on by the mere deviltry j of it to play the trick that fed the mmnr that Wilkes Booth was still 1 living and in Europe, and mystified! two continents." She paused and loked out at the ma<i flurries of snow across Longi Island. I "My husband had been in Europe," Mrs. Allen went on, "for several months. This was some years later. Edwin Booth was acting in London at the time. Mr. Allen and a party of friends had gone to see the great AmpnVan artor in one of Shakspere's plays. "During the course of the evening! the memory of Wilkes Booth was constantly with them. They talked of my husband's strange resemblance to him. They watched the great brother, and remembered how dashing and talented Wilkes had been with that fiery, artistic temperament, that gift of brilliant acting, a lover of Viak^/io o /?Vio mrvinri nf Inst CAURPS. who had played the assassin when he believed he was playing the martyr. Then, carried into the world of makebelieve by that power of the magnificent actor, the surviving Booth, they j came out from the theater with a mad plan in their heads. "Well, the idea crystallized either ! in my husband's head or the minds of | rs friends. It was a foggy night. | rhey went quietly around to the stage ' ioor. The crowd had cleared away, j eaving the back of the theater in j shadows and the white drifting fog. j _ cab had drawn up and was waiting o take awav the star. | ^ "As Edwin Booth came out in the 1 Xj udden little oblong of yellow light re- j ' iected on the fog from 'the opened | !oor and seated himself in the cab, a | olemn face showed for a moment at 1 he window. A face from the grave i ^ ?hatless it was, with wavy hair, the j uminous brown eyes, the aristocratic eaiures. "'Wilkes!" gasped the actor.! Wilkes!' ; "But the vision had faded into the ! a og of London." ' j /< WET" BILL WINS j IN JERSEY FIGHT j q j c; % * IT Lmid Scene of Tumult Measure ? *Passes in Edwards State. Trenton, N. J., Feb. 24.?Amid & cenes of tumult and cries for recog-! E iition by members on the floor after P wo hours' debate, the New Jersey! B louse Assembly late this afternoon ( lassed a compromise "wet" bill,} _ ixing 3 1-2 per cent alcohol by; n, olume, which is declared to be lightly stronger than the 2.75 beer >f war-time prohibition days, as the es egal limit for beverages in New Jer- j q, iron ?->+ rv hv wpf ! AT X lie k/1 J. 1 v> UO W v* w wj ? *?? | )emocrats and wet Republicans and ; at sad the sanction of Governor Ed- ' ;>-> i vards. It was presented to the house j dj n the form of a committee substi- j ute for the Barrett 4 per cent, bill, I vhich was the Democratic measure, j md it was passed by a vote of 37 to | >1. IP The house after passing: the bill j idopted a resolution to hurry it to j b ;he senal* x\>r quick action there, but! b as the senate had then adjourned for l bhe week nothing could be done with h it until next Monday, when the sen- ft ate hearing has been arranged for. n The passage of the bill today was S prompted by the desire of Attorney tl General McCran to have the measure & on the New Jersey statute books in I order to fortify himself in his pro- 1 posed action before the United States h Supreme Court next Monday to upset c the prohibition amendment and the r, Volstead Act, which proceedings he has been directed to institute by p Governor Edwards, who was elected r on a distinctly wet issue. 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