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■ s? J. J V N' LEGiSLAIlIRE MEETS tsscEs m pRomBmoN, in surance AND TAXATION SALARIES TO BE RAISED Mitk Carolina Solona to Meet Tues- 4aj in Annual Session, Which is ■xpected to be Quiet—Politics, as Usual, Will be in Prominence *' • * • •• ‘ . - » * *• While Lawmakers are Meeting. •'w Tuesday will witness the opening sC the 1917 session of the South •arolina legislature. There was a time, when Cole L. Blease was in the gubernatorial, chair, that the mere announcement would focus the'eyeO •t the nation upon Columbia; but at ; ■« What -the—Incoming' ■ legtslatuTe may do along rarious lines is a ques tion. The politicians have failed to .•* get a line on if, and that nfeans that great uncertainty exis.ts in the public mind. But one thing is certain—a large part of the session will be occu pied in the discussion of the liquor taffic4n ite varieus^Trtrasea gs they affect this State. * -* The radical prohibitionists ’nave ■erred notice that an effort will be m&de to u tighten up the present dry law. The statute permits a gallon a month to be shipped in to any citi- sen, but this probably will lie chang ed to allow only one-half gallon of liquor, oge'gallon of light wind or sixty pints of beer per month. Another bill, passed by thrf last legislature, Is in the hands of the present, although there is the most intense interest throughput the State, the country at large is quiescent^ -J-Berat by which the King ctill is in ONLY AWAITINO ORDERS? v- • % ■ -» * Greek Royal Army Ready to Attack Allies^ Says II. Dloineda. .“The Greek royal army is only awaiting orders from Germany to at tack the Allied" said 11.' Diomede, former Greek minister of finance, to The Paris Temps Monday. . M. Dio mede now is ih Paris on a special mission - for Eliptherios Venizelos, the ex-premier and head of the provi- 'slonal government. “The* Greek general staff,” added M. Diofbede, “was from the outset of the war constantly directed by Major yon Falkenhausen, the military at tic hp of the German legation, and it is his orders the royal army has been carryihg-out since he himself was ex pelled from the county. It was he who established the plan for the dis tribution of artillery munitions, so as to conceal .them more easily from the JUlies. . : , ~V- \ -■ * "It ’liras he who assured communi cation between Athens and Berlin and furnished the German general staff with information concerning the movements of ; Gen. Carrall's army, supplied to him by the Greek staff. It was he who'organized the telephone .line between Athens and WANTS BILL PASSED SBndiwB • brotherhoods. It is now quite torob- •»bls llnrr~gmTTbn win be mane to WILSON PERSONALLY PUSBINO 'sideredv most urgsntr—that providing for strike Investigatioils-^-to two -daily communicatioD with- the man government. Rl; was he who organized the plan for the mobiliza tion of the reservists. "No more than four thousand troops; thus far have been sent to Peloponnessus, while the King now has in hand forty-five thousand men L Icongrasa With the reservists as organized by M. Falkehhausen; he can raise an army of seventy-five thousand men:" i i FATHER SLAYS SON ♦ ~ Laarews Scene of Fatal Mistake Took Each Other for Burglar. Oscar L. Lanfor^ -was sliot. pnd killed, supposedly by hia* father, torpor, providing for one W. ^^n amf ws^ tstec v N. .Mumth o«Ly7-'htrt^trt9“f>robably will fail of seouring the governwr’s sane-- lion, as its provisions would put all wholesale dru-g houses in tho Btate ent of business. ; . - •' - Ahother matter troubling* th^ pro-' kibitionists is^the legal opinion that the present law is unconstitutional;: because voted in on- a referendum election. The 2 legiclaturo last ces sion passed a bill ratifying the pro hibition law, but it has not been signed by the governor, and it Is not known what action he will take re garding it. • ' . V The insurance situation will be up for necessary change. ,. An Insurance eommission, appointed recently by Gov.' Manning, will report * a bill which is intended to make satisfac tory, conditions for i the insurance companies, which have been absent from South Carolina for & year on account of a bill passed last session excluding the Southeastern Tariff As sociation and giving the insurance •ommissioner the right to supervise rates. Whether the commission now in vestigating the question will find its ■olution or not is not certain, hut the general opinion is that the result will be legislation such as the in- aarance companies can accept in order to protect tli'e policyholders of to* Stata. Taxation will be a large question also. The State no* faces a deficit, and it is believed the next tax levy will reach an unprecedented rate. In addition higher salaries tor the gov- amor and all State officials are be- Nag agitated. The governor now receives' three . Ikousand dollars a year, and ma jority of State officers, including Su preme Court and other judges, are paid nineteen hundred dollars per annum. Because of this serious fin ancial situation,-and because also of Ihs fact that the assessment of prop- arty in South Carolina at present is very unequal, it is considerei prob able that the tax laws wjll be strengthened. Something will have . to be done along this line, as the an nual deficit is growing greater con stantly. The coming of the b^li weevil will tall for remedial legislation along this line. District po^rhouses instead af those counties will be agitated, and a cfemand foi^lhe establishment af a home for imbeciles and feeble- ... minded at Stat^i’ark, six miles above Columbia. The cottoh warehouse system will likely be a atprm center, as Commis- sioner^John L. McLaurin, who is the ginat or end agitator of the mo ve il, was one of Cole L. Blease’s glit-hand men in the last primary alectloni. The complexion of the House and genate Is anti-Blease, but it litlib- lieved that the Bleasites, who have formed what they calf the "Reform party,” will attempt to put forward a legislative program, furnishing them political material for the elec tion in 1918. All in all,, the session opening Tuesday is expected to be a lively one in eveYy particular, but it Is quite possible that little real legisla- tierfi will be tarried through, especial ly if the liquor question gets the boards at the opening: ^ - Carolina railroad twelve miles north of Laurens, at four o’clock Tuesday morning and Capt.' Lanfofd was in turn bounded by his son,* though not seriously. „ , . . . The tragedy followed confusion among Capt. Lanford r Oscar Lanford and .J. L. Fleming, a son-in-la of C&pL Lanford, who as members of a party had set out to bead off robbers reported from Ora, a station I elow Lanford-station, to be headed in that direction, after robbing thj home of W. T. Blakely.- A suspect was cap tured and brought to Laurens. . The three men having received word from Ora that the robbers were headed towards Lanford, secreted themselves in the railwa> station to await the appearance of the -moves. After beink.at the station some little while, Oscar Lanford appeared be fore his father, coming in the direc tion whence the robbers were ex pec ted. Capt. Ijanford fired and Oscar Lanford. -fell, hui, evidently thinking it was the thief that had shot him, returned the fire and wounded his father. Oscar Lanford fired one shot, which -struck his father in the back of the leg near the thigh and ranged upward, the bullet making ilo exit just below the waist line, in flicting a slight wound. It is said that Oscar Lanford, who lived but an hour, exclaimed as he fell that hig father had chot him. ' ■ ■ CHARLESTON Tillman Expects Favorable Report From Admiral 4 * Commission. Senator Tillman, chairman of the .Senate committee on naval affairs, said Tuesday that’he hsuLinforma tion which led him to expect fill ing of a preliminary report on the Charleston Yard by Admiral Helms’ commission In time for it to reach Washington about the middle of this month. The Senator has been very much interested in this matter and said to The News and Courier’s eor- respondent: “I feel hopeful that the Charles ton Navy Yard will get consideration in this session's appropriation. bill. Chairman 'Padgett, of Ike ' House .naval committee, has premised that If the Helm report is favorable—and l don’t see how it can be otherwise —he will not only be favorable him self, but will work for it. Secretary Daniels has already recommended the lengthening of the dock at Char leston.” This is the best news that has yet been obtained as to the expediting of the Helm rreport . on iCharleston There has been a fear that if % the Charleston report should . not be favorable until ail the reports of the Helm commission should be complet ed and filed it would be too lats to have_anj_ influence on the shaping o the appropriation bill ao<m to be •— AGREE TO PLEASE JAPS Reaped by U-Bo*t* During November. "During November," says a Ger man admiralty statement issued la^t week, “one hundred and thirty-eight hostile merchant ships of a total of three hundred and fourteen thousand ive hundred gro?s tons were lost through v the war measures of the Central powers. Of this tonnage two kindred and forty-four thousand five hundred tons were British. In addi- tion, fifty-three neutral ships of ninety-four thousand tons gross were sunk for. carrying contraband to enemies. The monthVtotal is thus four hundred and eighty thousand five kindred tons. "Since the beginning of. the war through, the war measures of the Gentral powers three million-six hutv- Immigration Bill WU1 Not Sapereede Gentlemen’s Agreement, dreri and thirty-six thousand five kindred hostile tonnage has been lost, of which two million, seven hun dred aid ninety-four thousand five kindred was British." Senate and House USonferees on the immigration bill virtually agreoc after a conference with Secretary Lansing Saturday to accept the mcas ure in the form that* it passed the Senate without mention of Japanese among persons to be excluded. That would leave the present gentlemen’s, agreement regarding the entrance oi Japanese laborers into the. United States unchanged. The secretary was asked to’make clear to the conferees particularly the views of the Japanese and Ital ian governments.; He* is understood to have explained, that the Italian government believer'some provisions regarding inspection on immigrant shops are in contravention of treaty and that the Japanese embassy feats that some of the phraseology relat ing to Oriental exclusion is hot en tirely the same as that of the bill a? agreed upon at the last session-bf congress. They are said, however to be no more than differences of wording, and members of .the CQm mittee expressed confidence that the bill as perfected would entirely aat tafy both government!. SENATE ENDORSES WILSON Approved by Senators, 48 to 17* ICABINET RAY THE ANTI-STRIKE LAW days in all, in order to get it report ed and -before the Senate at an ear lier moment. * - • DOUBT FATE OF MEASURE Approval of President Wilson’s re quest for a statement of peace terms irom the European belligerents was - I voted Friday night by the Senate at , . *, • conclusion of three days of While there is apparently no gen-* gtirring debate. * / . eral feeling in Congrent* /hat the . .. . country is facing another country- , dramatic eud wide strike as the result of 'the' tjhtn Uei^emic le*de« d*: brotherhoods' action, it is beheved President Confer, at Capital aa Re- that their resort to a referendum, °U CO !?“ i with the possibility of strikes In en f°” e “ „ °. f ".. . o ' In* Activity limited areas, will serve strongly to .President .s note. an4 ten Re pub 11- etnphasize th« ever-present possible cans of the Progressive group Joined ity that, a crisis such as arose last fall may come up again. This evi dence that the nation will not be se cure from such a danger until it has some sort ’ of preventive legislation undoubtedly will be made the most of by the administration’ leaders. In discussing the situation, Senar __ tor Newlands expressed..the belief _ - _ railroad brotherhoods had decided'that there would he no strike even if publican criticism of the presidents to refer to their org&nisatioqs the the Adamson law did not go into course, question of the policy to'be purjued January 1. "Nevertheless," he said, "the pub lic, which is most deeply concerned In the yrhote question, - must find a RlMORinmHHJR MEMBERS WILL SHORTLY RESIGN / LANSING WANTS TO QUIT newed Brotherhood Looms. Up—Opposition I* Jfeavy ha Both Houses, and Strongest Possible* Pressure is Being »P*t Out by White House. Coincident with the publication of the news that the heads of the fovfr the majority in making the vote forty^eight to seventeen. Senator Marline of . New. Jersey was the onlyjJemocrat who voted in the negative/ Discussion of the sub ject’ had reached a climax during the .daj^ with *a sensational declaration by Senator Lewis, chief spokesman for the Democrats, replying to Re- SecreUry of State Reported Aed (.With WllmA^wMiecUoa «C Policy—McAdoo, . Gregory mmS Expected Kedfleld to as a result of their failure to secure the eight-hour day on January 1, caused by the tttigaitOn ponding he fore the United States , tb test the Adamson law, with the possible threat-contained in thoir r^medrateDarties totoedisnute but acUoo of a..new .trik. agiution. '.rpubTc ^er .n l^more impor ., , ilspn made It unmisUk- (ant j haTe talked wlth r ep re ; e n- ably clear that ho, intended to usa taUTM of the. brotherhood,, the situation thus created to press his strike .prevention Without referring directly to the submarine controversy the senator said the United States could not keep out of the war if it continued and^ solution which will prevent itjs in- that if ^America would not agaifi'sS^ Ybm being endangered. The , copt misconception of orders or seal solution must be fair to both the of an officer as an excuse for an in- D&niels is as Near a P Fixture aa it ia Poaaible to be. Of the ten members of Pre^.^v;»a Wilson’s cabinet, five will be droy^^aA or shiitediio outer positions btotm the second Wilson administration ki more than a month old. One or tv# of the changes may be announoa# even before March 4. A broad intimation has been calved , ia. certain -qwartera that -tk#— jury to a citizen or property. The objection urged against the original resolution of Senator Hitch- They! cock was that it would indorse the realize that these controversies must president’s offer to Join In a move-l Secretary -of- State Robert who succeeded Bryan in June, 1S1 news of the resignations may almost any day. According: to a friend of the administraupn, whoe# advance information of Mr.“ Wllaoa# intentions has been accurate la past, the following program ia in the mind of the president: measure on by gome fair tribunal and mont. to guarantee world peace and Mr. Wilson motored to the capltol ° f th « lnt ? re8t ot „ t)xo for a conference over, the admin.s- “.lew, Ssefhey a/pu^J Ln ' ted bt - ale8 Pr °- tration rallroad^program with Sena-! ed from beh)nd ambltlou , mcn tor N.ew.auds^chaiiman of the mer-‘ wh „ &re eaKer t0 take thefr places state Commerce Committee, which is great mass of the railway em- in charge of the legislation. It is payees desire a strike as little as the unusual for the president to go, to p U biic the capltol for a conference, and itj .. We are go ing to try to expedite 8 a Iliie ^ 0< ^' w ^ lc ^ M r- Wilson has ^is strike prevention measure as employed on^f when he wished to ^ch as we cailt an( j j hope and Ire- display especial eagerness for the lieve lt will be enact ed speedilv. passage of a measure. * | M UC h 0 f th.e opposition to it is based _ Hitherto, while the > pre3ld i enL4lk~ion.riie-m4etakeB idea that it provfdes J>ecember 18 to the nations now en- wp-fiarly TShdldoraTion for the rail- for compulsory arbitration, whi h is Kaged w ar, that those nations road program in his address to Cop-.wholly foreign to its purpose." Btate the terms upon which peace kress, he has seemed content to let Lodge and, others-in this contention The resolution adopted was,pro posed by Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington and was accepted by Senator Hitchcock as a substitute for his own. It resolves: “That the Senate approves and strongly indorses the request by the president in the diplomatic notes of MAKE FURTHER PROGRESS might be discussed. GREECE IS HELPLESS Rejects Allied Demand But Will Pa*- sively Submit to Coercion. _ - # The Greek government, acting in Congress take its own time about acting on it. The move indicated that he had decided the time had come when he must enter upon an Teutons Continue to Force Enemy active fight to secure the enactmentj' . . ^ ’• , of hif -V . Into Moldavia Since the present congress, which - . * . V* reconvened Tuesday,-expires March Again the Russian and Roumanian 4, it has only two months left in f° rce8 along-the Moldavian and Dob- which to carry out the administra- ru( ^i a fronts have been compelled to harmohy with the king, has decided lion’s wishes. From what is known K‘ve ^ground before the advance of, to reject certain clauses of the En- tente note demanding reparation in consequence of the recent fighting at Athens, Reuter’s correspondent at Athens telegraphs. The Green government is ready to discuss the other demands. It ha# been determined not to declare war on the Entente but to submit pas sively to all coercion, relying upon ultimate recognition by the powers that the blockade is an unmerited punishment. £ King Constantine conferred with Between the Buzeau rlvef and the former premiera, who agreed that Danube, however, the Russians and the note was not acceptable, inaar Roumanians “Continue to hold their much as compliance would be equiva lent to admission that Greece con- attacking the Entente of Matchin, opposite Braila. In_ the forces from the rear and also that fighting on all these fronts, accord- there was foundation for charges of ing to Berlin, more prisoners and unjust treatment of Venizelos sup- much war material have fallen into porters, the hands of the Teutonic allies. it is erldest that if the president ^ ie leutonic allied. At several continues‘his active participation in poiot® on the Moldavian front, how- the struggle for the passage of his ever * Fetrograd reports ^ the dis^ measures he will have a very lively P eraa f °f tyands of invadsrs under fight on his hands, surpassing In im- cou pter attacks, portance anything which the present I he drive of the Austrians and congress now has before it. It will Germans eastward from the Tran- be the first test of strength in Con- ®ylvanian Alps into Moldavia ' has ressi the administration has had &iven them additional points ef van tage while Field Marshal von Mack- eftsen’s .army, eperating northward the grei since the presidential election. It has long been . apparent that . . . only the “most direct and forcible ! nt / M° ldavia ’ i8 approaching pressure from the White House *>ildgehead 8 of. Fokshany and Fun- imuRLbe sufficient to obtain the paa- aem sage of the measure, on which all the opposition to the administration providing*§pr tbe^iusDemdon^of The P ositlon8 - In Gobrudja the Russians l»nt to ac ?ight to-strike and iwkout while a ^ v . e .^ e f lhr0 ". h ,. baC / tlle , t0 * D government invedttgation of the in dustrial dispute involved is in pro gress. Its advocacy by the president last autumn, when the agitation over the threatened railroad strike was at its height, aroused bitter antagonism among the leaders of the brother hoods. With the other features of the president’s program—the en largement In the size and power of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion and the provision enabling the president to take over railroad, tel egraph, and telephone lines for mili tary purposes—it - wag abandoned temporarily when the Adamson eight-hour law was passed. DRIVE SLAVS BACK Teutome Advance in Balkans Along lOO-Mile Front. In retard to the imprisoned Vent- zelists it is stated the king is ready to pardon Homo or all convicted but under the constitution is unable to interfere with the judicial procedure before trial. The Athens dispatch eays that judging Trom the altitude of the En tente diplomats the situation is not reassuring. Tho efffect of the block ade is becoming more severe daily. NO SECOND NOTE President Wilson’s Peace Move End* ed for the Present. Along a hundrecf-mile 'front In Southeastern Moldavia the troops of the Central Powers are slowly press- taj ... a , . . ing the retreating Russians and Rou- 1 Higid conuol is L ‘ xer ^ ed < 5J er manians back upon the line of the [ le dl ®t r ^ u tion of foodstuffs. The - Sereth river. The Sereth has been ! jare of life.now are m- T^tatlve discussion of the possi- reached by the troops of Field Mur- 80 d at I> lice8 wl , lich ar8 P rohl - bility of its passage at this session B hal von Mackensen at Hwo points, bil i v ® l ? th ? Pporer classes has shown that the opposition of the i.ptween Fokuhani and Daiaty thXI' Th © demands of the Entente, pre labor leaders has not abated in any , a "t Roumanian port on the Danube lale , last , month ’ r ^ uir ? aQ degree. Dislike for the measure an4 whic h is reported under the fire and otlier^ measures of re- among members of Congress is not 0 { Reiman cr Un8 ; .•paration for the attack on Entente connaed to those who are usually re- Southern MoldaTia Field Mar- forces in Athen* re-establishment of earded as particular friends of iaborr shal von Mackensen followed up his tontro1 . ^ the A ims of Greek rail- n both political parties and in both, capture of Uraila wlth the occupa- Wi > s ' telbgraph lines and posts and Houses of Congress there are many tion of n»e (owns south of the Sereth a.lard.® .reduction Jn the. number of men who are unwilling tb give it and betwce n Fokshani and G alntz.. Greek troo P 8 uniler arm »- their su-pport -hven among the North o( i !ra ni, i>etrOgrad admits Democrats jwho hare usually been that tbe u uss i an s and Roumanians found most .ready to support admin- haTe retired across , tlie Sereth istration measures, there are many^ who are ready to admit that they do not feol justified in voting for the bill providing that men shall not 1 h&Ve' the' right to strike during gov-» r ernmental investigaUon. — The 8late department has author- So general has the impression be-. Target Pl’scUee Scores. ized the statement that President cofne that the measure cannot pass W iison is not contemplating sending the House of Representatives and The. navy department abandoned another peace note. that-4t has 1 only the hardest possi- its traditional policy ot secrecy con- Gounseiiar Polk gsrt 64it bility offsetting through Xhs Senato earning target -practice de-tani and lowing* statement: “The report thah that it is uaderstood that the broth' comparing this winter’s exact scords the president is preparing to send a erhood leaders themselves have not in short range battle practice witu u^w note to the belligerent powers been greatly concerned about the previous years^showed a much higher is false and without any foundation, danger of its passage; This feeling merit mark than formerly. In de- The president has no second note in of confidence on the part of the op termining the merit mark the speed contoinplatifln/ ponents of the bill has keen aided by of tiring is considered. I After the cabinet ffieetlng last the president’s attitude in refraining . The average pierit mark of ships week Secretary Lansing announced from active participation in the fight on 1916-17 Vyas- 52,09!jr kgai. st_a that President -Wilson had authoriz- |ar lha passage of his program- He mark, of 29,158 In I9T4-U5. the ’ed him to say thgt the American gov- xas so far contented himself with new ships Nevada and Oklahoma ei ament had np QUher-npte-to con- PjqbRa Atatemente - Ya voring it ragd averrreTf "4~6,1 fTGT The Texas in ad e ieniplation and «thatr such informa- the Senate’s action has followed a high score with a m&rk of 68 864 tinn uma tn at! am^t?an . -dec!dedly lei&urely-eourse. The Vermont- was low with 2r>,f>44. diplomatic representiitives abroad. Developments, however, with the^Tlie fourteen inch and forty-five cal- 1 Secretary Eansing would not dis new levei which the action of the ibre guns of the ships of the Texas cuss the question further, but it was brotherhood’s leactors has.dgiven to class fired 287 shots and mado 204 understood ihe reason for the an- president to use in ^urging the enact- hits this winter as against eighty- nouncement was appreciation on the ment of a measure which is design- eigjit hits out ot 115 shots !n 191 4. {.part of the administration that re- NAVY SHOOTS BETTER dg^i! VALUE OF THE 1916 CROPS ( . ■ ♦ . Almost Nine Billion Dollars, Says Government Report. _ r Almost nine "billion dollars was ports that another note would be sent would aflect the Entente reply to the president's first note expected in Washington in the near future. » ♦ MAY REMOVE MINISTER ed to end once for all the possibility of the threat of. a country wide strike, has placed an entirely new face on the situation. There were several indications that, following the president’s visit to the capltol, the movement among administration leaders to obtain consideration for the railway program in the Senate had taken on new energy. the aggregate value of all crops of German Charge of Unnentral Con* It was learned .that thd new dee the country last year. In an esti- velopmenta in the relations between mate,announced* by the department the railroads and the brotherhoods of agricu.lture the exact value was had in no way Cfcaaged the-legisla- at $8,934,587,000. That was an .... * „ w * live program of the administration increase of • $2,165,9J9,000 over the i®t®r Vopicka at Bucharest, acCredit- ss mapped out In general terms In value of the. 1915 crops and *2,- e<Mo Roumania; Serbia^, and Bul- the president’s address to congress' 867,206.000 over the average of the gari*. asking for a statement on Ger- Iq his talk with Senator Ne"lands years 191.0 to 1914. —^ : lna ,?, y 8 char 6-®a that he—fead been, it is understood that tbe president — Texas held its lead as first state of nnmmtrai conduct in favor indicated his belief that the"*enact ^In value’of its crop, but Illinois as of Itoqgaania. * During the investiga-* ment of the program was urgent. second state in 1915, was displaced Don the minister WHI; D6 ccntmued Accordifag to the plans of the Sen- by Iowa last year. Georgia, was at po ? t * 1 : th© charges are sub- ate committee^ hearings will berin fourth. stantiated, he ^111 be dropped-from Tuesday on the Newlqnds bills em» Except North Dakota everj-JItAt# th® service, if\not_.lie bracing the administration program showed increase in the value of its probably will be transferred out of The original plans contemplated giv- crops last year over 1116, courtesy to Germany. duct to be Probed. ^ „ .• : .\ . ' • • # » J W Secretary Lansing has cabled Mln- has been restive for several montlML As a matter ot fact, Mr. Lansing Im not really the secretary of state. Wilson is. And it is well knowg tm Washington that the president doog not want a secretary of state wbM has ideas of his own, especially flt those ideas conflict with the WtUMS ideas. Close friends of Mr. I anslng say that his ideas do conflict wills the W ilson ideas, and that the moMI recent conflict was in connecttom with the timing of the* AmerUta peace note. Mr. Lansing would hav# held it for an opportune moment. Following that disagreement ca— 5(r. Lansing’s- amazing explanattoM of the peace note and then, within n tew hours, after answering a mens to. the White House, the planation of the explanation, fore that time gossip in the t circles of official Washington ir%» dieted the resignation of Secretary Lansing within ^ few months. Si non that rime the date of the resignatinn has been moved many months er. If it came within a month, or soon as the present peace flutter died down, no well informed Washington would be surprised. Secretary of the Treasuir WUHaao • 3;~McAdoo wants to resign as soon an it can be done without embairaM^ ment to* bis father-in-law, Pmiiri—t Wilson. The reason la, according Wp Mr. McAdoo’a friends, that he can* not afford to stay in hia yrenafr rather poorly paid position., , Secretary of War Newton Ok Baker, the most ambitious man fin the cabinet, is not fond of hit pr position. His whole tendeixy ia much toward the pacifists, and realizes, as well as others r that he is out of place. He soldiers and things military, and does not see how as secretary of he can make the kind of a national reputation he wants to make. Thn plan Is to shift him to department of justice, which ia far more to taste, and is likely to offer big ey- portunltiea.-. Attorney General Thomas Gregory, despite Sherman, Texis and prefers it as a Jo Washington. His desire ia tQ_fcn appointed to the United States Court of Appeals. The appointment come as soon as there is a at which time Mr. Baker will ceed him. Secretary of the Navy Joeephnn Daniels is a fixture. That he wflt serve through the second administra* tion is as certain as things hi can be. Secretary of the Interior Knigl^ Lane is regarded an strongest man in the cabinet, administration wants him to stay. Secretary of Agriculture Franklin Houston is valued as highly as Secretary Lane. HI* services are desired, but his oww 4m* sires are to return to Washington university, St. Louis, where hia as chancellor never has baen- ERedL He will remain in the cabinet lor a year or more probably. Secretary of Commerce /WiUfaan Cox Red field cannot resign too ly, so runt the gossip, to suit Wilson. Secretary of - Labor Willli Wilson wants to remain In the ne^ and probably will. CALLS OUT NAMES Representative Telia of About Manipulation. The names of Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, and Barney Baduch, a New York atoik market operator, vrei^ linked Friday by Representatives Wood, of Indiana* author of 1fte“resolution for investi gation of whether there was a, leak on information of President Wilsoa’g peace note. ~ ^ “1 am informed," Wood testified* “that Barney Baruch had informa tion about the Lansing note to tha European belligerents two or threw days before it was sent and that on two or three occasions at about that time lie was in consultation with Mr. . * Tumulty at the Biltmore Hotel ha New York. ‘ ■ — V Allies Reply to Wilson. The final draft of the reply of Entente to President Wilson’s note,,which already has been approv ed by France and Great Britain, has been forwarded to Italy and Russia. As no changes have, been suggested from those quarters it is not improb able the note will be delivered to ths American ambassador ia Paris, Wib liam G. Sharpe, within a short ♦ / Greek Steamer Bunk. . The Greek steamer Sappho, thousand and sixty-eeveo tons, been torpedoed. Nine of the were saved and the fate ot the ia unknown.