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THE STJMTER WATCHMAN, Kstab Consolidated Aug. 2,1 FATE OF TREATY IN THE BALAN Final Roll Call on Ratification is Now About to Be Had ELEVENTH HOUR EF FORTS TO COMPROMISE Hitchcock Seeking Agreement With Mild Reservationists ^ Among 'Republicans Washington, Nov. 17.?With the (final roll call on the ratification of the peace treaty imminent the out come hinged today upon the eleventh hour efforts that are being made to ?"ring about a compromise between the administration forces and the mild reservationists on the Republican side of the senate. Unless such a compromise is reached it is predicted in all quarters that the treaty would he rejected. Democratic Leader Hitchcock arranged to call at the White House today before the senate met to lay before the president the senate situation and to inquire what reservations the president would be willing to accept as a part of the rat? ifications. MILLIONS OF PROFITS LOST Reversals in Stodk Market Larg est for Any Like Period . Since Close of War. New York, Nov. 16.?The stock market last week suffered one of the heaviest reversals and liquidating movements since the . close of the war. Technically, however, the situa tion is improved, because it is realiz- , ed that tightening of credit facilities' -and resultant reduction of bank loans j will tend to check speculative excesses, j *The effect will be felt in all important trading centers throughout the coun try, it is held. . Much of the money now employed tual purchases of securities for the ! strong" boxes of investors. The J Strength of transportation shares is | regarded by conservative interests as J one of the most favorable aspects of \ the situation. Accumulation of these | Issues was taken to be a direct re- j flection of congressional legislation in ; ?process of completion. During the week speculative stocks broke ten to 50 points. Losses in several conspic uous instances were far greater. Call money rose to 30 per cent., a record ; top figures since the panic of 1907. and the money market was swept clean of time funds. Figuring at the lowest quotations of the week's trad ing, most of the substantial advance . accumulated in the bull movements of September and October was wiped out. Paper profits of millions of dollars . evaporated. , An aggressive spot interest assist ed the drop, seeking the most vulner able points. Pools and professionals were hit hard. The buying of rails, especially seasoned shares, did much ' to bring partial readjustment of the situation. , FRAME-UP CHARGED William O. Jenkins Held on Charge of Planning Ab duction Mexico City. Mexico; Nov. 16.?Wil liam O. Jenkins. United States con sular agent at Puebla, was placed under arrest Saturday and held under surveillance in his home following charges by officials of Puebla that Jenkins was not abducted by Frede rico Cordova, the bandit leader, but was in connivance with him, accord ing to reformation received here last night. The arrest of Jenkins came after twelve peons had sworn to statements before a judge in Puebla, declaring that Jenkins had been seen in com pany with Cordova, who accomplished his recent abduction from Puebla, und< r no restraint and in apparent un derstanding with his alleged captors. Says Cnurges Absurd Washington. Nov. 16.? No word had reached the State Department through official sources tonight con cerning the reported artest of Consu lar Agent Jenkins at Puebla, on charges of having connived with tie bandit who abducted him. Officials said a report probably will reach here early tomorrow. The charges against Jenkins wer characterized as "absurd"' in view, of the recent investigation by a judge who declared that the agent was not mixed up in any plot. The offhand opinion was that it was "a measure Of retailiation," following late dis closures connecting some Mexican au thorities with radical propaganda, and in which the name of the Mexican -consul general in New jfork was men tioned. The case of W. X. Brown against F. K. ELolman was completed on ?Thursday. The plaintiff represented by R. D. Epps. was given a. verdict of 25. J- H. Clifton represented the defendant in the case . *&ed April, 1850. "Ba insl m .881. SUB PEACE TREATY iPresidtn Wilson Will Not Sub mit to Lodge Reser vations I SAYS THAT WOULD I NULLIFY THE TREATY 'President Takes Firm Stand j Against Republican Partisan-! I ship ? ' I Washington, Nov. 17.?President i Wilson will pocket the peace treaty ' if it contains the Lodge reservations, j he told Senator Hitchcock at a con 1 fererice today at the White House, j The president has read and consid ered the Lodge reservations and he (considers them/"a nullification of the, treaty and utterly impossible," said j I Senator Hitchcock. i ____ _ _ I -i MINISTERS CHARGE BIG STICK METHODS Members of Virginia Methodist Conference Want Change in Church Conditions Richmond, Va., Nov. 15.?Protest | ing against the "big stick" methods of j j of the general board of the Methodist \ J Episcopal church in exercising its au- j thority over the ministers of the j church, expressing a desire for a legal ! voice in the appointments of pastors. | and asking for greater freedom on the ! management of the affairs of the indi- i vidual charges. Methodist ministers; in a special meeting at the Virginia J conference today appointed a commit- j tee of five to investigate conditions j I and made a report to the pastor of j the next annual conference. I These resolutions were adopted af j ter arguments which lasted nearly i three hours some of them being char- ! ! acterized with warmth but the meet-j ing ended . withoeac^foUc-i^nditions I prevailing. LOANS ON COTTON Harding Says Grades Must Be Shown, However Washington. Nov. in.?Denying per sistent rumors to the effect that the j federal reserve banks have contem- j ;' plated the recall of loans made on ! ! cotton or the future issuance of loans. ' W. I?. G. Harding, governor of the ! federal reserve board, in a letter to i day to Senator Smith of South Caro i Una stated the only change made in j the position of the banks regarding; : cotton leans was a tendency to stricter: I examination into the grade of cotton j i shown by the receipts pledged as col- j i lateral. "The bank will not assume : the value of even 25 cents a pound." i I Mr. Harding i'aid. "unless the receipts do indicate the grade or other sa*is : factory evidence i? furnished as to ; what the grade is. There are so many , different grades of cotton and the j j spread between the value of the low- ; j est and the highest grade is so great j that it seems to me that some knowl- I j edge of the grade is nececsary in lend- j \ ing intelligently on cotton as collat ! eraL* I Mr. Harding declared there was! nothing to warrant the inference that j : 25 cents a pound was to be regarded ; ; as maximum salable value for loan j j purpores. adding: "We know that i jsome long staple cotton recently sold; ! in New Orleans at 75 cents a pound, j : and we know also that it is not tin- i [usual for the fluctuations in cotton to j amount to as much as I'OO points in a [single day. in these oircumstances it: | seems to mc that it is necessary to re | quU'e a larger margin in making loans ; on cotton than was the case when 1 cotton was selling at a much lower i price and was free from the extraor j dinary fluctuations to which it is now ' subject." While believing that the federal re serve system should do everything ' possible. with due regard to safety i and to the * wants and requirements of other commercial interests in the icountry" to aid the cotton producers to market their products in a gradual and orderly mariner, so that no one ' might be forced to sell at a sacrifice, Mr. Harding said the banks should not be used as a medium to enable the [owners of cotton t<> withhold i< entire ly from the market with the view of forcing prices to an unreasonable lev j el. MINE CONFER I ENCE POSTPONED Operators Not Ready With Pro posal Washington. Nov. 17.?The confer ence of the wage scale committees ol the central competitive bituminous coal .field was postponed today :<t the request of th<> operators, who were I not ready to submit their counter pro i posal to the demands received fr om 1 the miners Saturday. od Fear not??et oll the ends Thou Ah ITE.R, S. CM WEDNESD He Referred Matter to President! Wilson Who Advised Acceptance I HIS SUCCESSOR HAS NOT YET BEEN SELECTED Secretary Glass Will Not Takei His Seat in Senate for Several | Bays ! / j Washington, Nov. 17.?At the S'e j quest of President Wilson Secretary [ Glass will recent the appointment1 as! senator from Virginia to succeed the! late Senator Martin, it was announc- } ed today at the White House. After receiving the appointment from Gbv. Davis of Virginia. Secretary Glass asked, the president what his wishes [ were'and President Wilson replied i that he would like Mr. Glass to ?c- i cent. Mr. Glass has consulted mem bers of the senate who told him there was no particular need for him to take the oath as senator for a week or more. Therefore in the meantime he will continue to servo as secretary of the treasury. At White House it ; was said no successor to Secretary Glass had been decided upon. ! COAL STRIKE CONFERENCE I _ ... Miners and Operators Continue! Negotiations at Wash ington Washington. Nov. 16.?Negotiation I of a new wage scale in the soft coal j industry stood in much the same si|- ! uation tonight as when miners and j operators met at Buffalo in Septem ber to frame a contract to replace thej Washington wage agreement. This time, however, th^re was not threat of a. strike, and both.sides were j ready to resume their conference to-; morrpwvj^ tbe h^j^ ??< fertfijjNi i quick settlement. Some of the operators protested.! that union miners had failed to re-'" turn to work as ordered by Federal j Judge Andersen at Indianapolis and in j the face of withdrawal of the strike; order by officers of the United Mine I Workers of America. It was inti- j mated that this would be brought UP! at the joint conference. John L. Lewis, acting president of the miners' organization, ?tili holding; the miners* demands just, took issue j today with the statement of Secre tary Wilson that a wage increase of] GO per cent, would make them a fav- . ored class of workers. The demands submitted to the op- ! orators yesterday reaffirmed the six! hour day. but omitted reference to "from bank to bank," Lewis explain- j ed. The miners now are asking a maximum of six hours working time | in the mines. The time required to go down into the mines und to return to the surface would add an average of about a half hour to the day. Lew-' is said. ! There was no indication today that operators outside the central eompe-j titive fields intended to accept any; agreement which might be reached i in this territory in advance of the agreement itself. Mr. Lewis declared ! that miners' representatives from out lying districts would remain here un til a settlement in the coal industry; i was reached. "1 think the operators will negoti-j I ate with them if they expect to op- j crate their properties/' he said. ! _ FARMERS DECLINE GOMPERS PLAN Turn Down Union Chief's Invi tation to Conference Grand Rapids, Nov. 15.?Through t.heir representatives. GOO,000 Ameri can farmers and their wives today declined an .alliance with union labor. By an overwhelming vote, the Na tional Grange, in annual convention here, adopted, in reply to an invita tion extended by Samuel Gompers for a conference in Washington, the fol lowing resolution: "The National Grange declines your invitation for a conference in Wash ington. December 13." WILL HANDLE DRY FIGHT South Carolina Under Direction of Supt. Brame Richmond. Va.. Nov. 1.",.?S. R. Frame, chief inspector of the internal ?.?. venne department here, has been appointed directing superintendent of the newly organize'! prohibition dc partmcnt of The federal government for Virginia. West Virginia. North and South Carolina. Kentucky and Tenn-i >sseo. it was announced tonight. W. B. Slusser, J. N. Weed. Claud j Beverly and John A. Murphy were ap-j pointed heads of the four prohibition ' Kigt *t be thy Country's, 1&7 God's ft AY, NOVEMBER 19, IS MINERS DEFY COURT; Federal Agents Have Evidence1 of Repeated Violations of Judge Anderson's Order I _ Indianapolis. Nov. 15.?Evidence of reported violations of the temporary, injunction issued by Judge A. B. An-j derson of the United Slates district! court against any conspiracy to reduce j the production of coal is bring gath ered by agents of the United States ! government which brought the injunc- i tion suit, it was learned this afternoon. ; Leaders of the United Mine Work- : ers of America, made defendants in j the complaint filed- by the govern- j ment. are reported to have attended ! meetings where resolutions were j adopted by the men not to return to' work. It is said that arrests are not j improbable in a day or two on charges | of contempt of court. Petitions also are being circulated ' among the miners for signatures to aj statement agreeing not to return to ; work, according to the information re ceived by the court. It :s in violation of the injunction for two or more miners to agree not to return to the shafts because that would constitute a conspiracy to vio- 1 late the Lever act, a war time measure designed to prevent reduction in the cut put of fuel or food. The granting' of the injunction was based on alleged violation of the Lever act. Charleston. W. Va.. Nov. 15?Infor mation that radical < Iements in Tuck er county are planning action against government agents who today conduc ted-raids in the northern part of the state, was telephoned to night to the governor's office, by the prosecuting attorney of Tucker county. The gov ernor was informed that a mass meet ing of radicals was being planned for Thomas, a mining town in that county, tomorrow. The governor, it was un derstood, had no information that ac tual violence was being planned, but it was learned he had instructed the authorities of Tucker county to get in touch with department cf justice agents who are now in the Pan Handle counties, suggesting their attendance at the meeting. BOLL WEEVIL FOUND IN CHESTER COUNTY ? * j Cotton Pest Located in Cornwell and Blackstock Sections During Last Week Chester. Nov. 15.?The distressing news reached here th:s afternoon that the boll weevil had been found on the JT. J. McDaniel farm, about 12 miles f"om this city, in the Cornwell vicini ty. One of the pests was being shown on the streets this afternoon. Earlier in tlie week the boll weevil was found in the Blackstock community below (COrnweii. SENATOR GLASS Secretary of Treasury Appointed to Vacancy in United States Senate Richmond. Nov. 15.?Appointment of Secretary Glass to the United States senate to succeed the late Thomas s. Martin and the aceptance of Mr. Giass were announced tonight by Le Roy- Hodges, aide t<> Governor Davis. Senator Martin had just been re elected and his term does not expire until 1025. The election of senators by popular vote, however, leaves the governor full power to lill the vacancy until the electorate can do so. Mr. Glass lives in Lynchburg, in the western part of the State, not far from Mr. Martin's home in Charipttes ville. He was a member of congress before taking the treasury portfolio and as chairman of the house banking committee took a leading part in fram ing and ' assing the federal reserve law. Iiis business is that of a news paper publisher. Sixth Change in Cabinet. Washington, Nov. 15.?Mr. Carter Class, who was today appointed sena-j tor from Virginia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Mar- j tin. has been at the head of the treas ury since the resignation of Mr. Mc- i Adoo. Should he decide to take the senate seat Iiis going will make the ; sixth change in President Wilson's cabinet since its formation at the be- j ginning of the first administration in 1 1013. The other members who left.: were, respectvely. Attorney General j McReynolds. Secretary Garrison of the j War Department. Secretary Bryan of the State Department. Attorney Gener al Gregory and Secretary Redfield of the Department of Commerce. There is no indication at present as to whom President Wilson might select for Mr. ; Glass' place. FOG CAUSES FEW FATALITIES Four Shipyard Workers Killed at Philadelphia Philadelphia. Nov. it.?Four Flog island shipyard workers wert- killed and seven injured today when a mo tor truck they were riding in was struck by a train during a heavy fog The fog was the heaviest in years on the Delaware liver. Two ferry boats collided and a third ferry boat crash ed into .-? steamship. No serious dam age was done. a* Twttfc'a." TELE TRUE ?19. I House Eliminates the Sections! i to Prevent Strikes on Railroads - NO PENALTY LEFT IN LAW AGAINST STRIKES Railroad Employes Divided Into Three Classes, and Adjust ment Board Provided "Washington, Nov. 14.?Railway workers scored a complete victory in ihe house today through incorpora tion of their plan for voluntary con ciliation of labor disputed in the Esch railroad bill. The house reject ed a plan for compulsory arbitration, including anti-strike provision, and also the plan written into the bill by the house interstate commerce com mittee, which was described as a '?middle ground" between that adopt ed and compulsory arbitration. No direct vote on the anti-strike proposal was taken. On both votes the proponents of the unions' plan won by a large majority. First, by a vote cf 151 to 75, the house substi tuted the unions' plan for compulsory arbitration and then. 161 to 108, cast aside the committee plan for that in dorsed by the workers. Final action came after practically the entire day had been devoted to debate of the three plans and after adoption of the worker's plan, renewed effort to in clude anti-strike provision met with I defeat through parliamentary tac 1 tics. I The plan approved by the railroad employees which was drafted by Rop j resentative Sweet, Republican, of Io wa, and offered in the house by Rep | resentative Anderson, Republican, of I Minnesota, would legalize the machin ; cry by the railroads and their em ployces before and during federal control for the settlement of disputes, i with commissions of labor disputes be ing added to consider cases appealed form the joint boards that first con sider them. In brief, the plan divides I the railroad workers into three class j c-> and for each it establishes an ad ? justment board and an appeal com i mission. No penalty against the ! strike or lockout js imposed, and j membership on all six of the boards I would be restricted to the work i ers and their employers and divided ! equally between them. Roth the roads and the employees i would be directed by the plan, as j written into the bill, "to exert every j reasonable effort and adopt every : available means to avoid an inter t ruption of traffic, and to this end the ! three boards of adjustment would be I created, these being substantially the j same as those existing under the : railroad administration, j The boards would each deal with j disputes of certain classes of the 14 j railroad unions. One board would in elude representatives of the four big brotherhoods?the engineers, the fire : men. the conductors and the train - I men: another would include the ma f chinists. the boilermakers.. the black smiths, the carmen, the sheet metal workers, and the electrical workers: and the third would include the tele graphers., tru" switchmen, the rail way clerks and the way and shop laborers. Railway executives would name four, six and four representa tives, respectively, fas members of these boards. Corresponding to each board there ?lisb would be set up a commission to consider appea's, which could be sent to them by half the members of a board. These commissions would be of the same size as the boards with the select method of choosing mem bers obtaining, but with duality of membership between boards and com missions prohibited/. Headquarters of all six tribunals would be in Wash ington. After determining the machinery for adjusting labor disputes, the house became involved in a bitter fight, cen tering about extension of the inter state commerce commission author ty in relations to car service, which was carried into the night session. Before the fight became sharp, how ever, the house without objection ap proved a change in the existing com merce law so that the interstate commerce commission may upon its own initiative compel a division of joint rates so as 30t to "unduly pre fer or prejudice any particular car riers. ?'Short lines often refrain, from making complaint against their trunk line connections for tear of giving offense." declared Chairman Esch, ex plaining the necessity of the change. As soon as the section proposing extension of the interstate commerce mjthority over the service had been read, several members, particularly ?.hose from Texas, sought to prevent ?(?option of the section. Because of broadening the definition of " car ser vice" and giving the interstate com m* reo commission complete control of traffic movement in an "emergen '?;.*." the section was attacked by members .as a "robbery of state ? i- h's." which would confer "abso lute control of traffic with the inter rt.ite commerce commission." Early in the evening session oppo nents of the section scored partial :( tory when by a vote of sr. to 39 hey forced adoption of an amend ment offered by Repreesntative ?%veet. Republican of rowa expressly providing that state railroad commis sions would retain the authority, as limited only by the state police pow- ' ! SOUXHKON, BetabUabed Jans, >4M VoLXLIX. No. 28. MEXICO ARMING FOR BIG WAR Large Quantities Guns and Am munition Bought in Spain and Belgium _ UNITED STATES GOV ERNMENT PROTESTS Shipments of Machine Guns and Ammunition Made From Spain During War i Washington, Nov. 13.?Large or j dors for arms . and ammunition, S placed by Mexico in Belgium and I Spain, in preparation for the possi j bility of American intervention, j came to light today when the state department let it become known that j the government had taken steps to :? prevent their shipment, j The charge d'affaires of the United j States embassy in Brussels has pro I tested, under instructions, that ship | ment of the munitions would be a vio j lation of the international arms con tention. -As Spain is not a party to [ the agreement, Which was resigned to aid in the keeping of the peace of the world during and after the war transi tion period, no such direct action is probable at Madrid. The order in Belgium was placed with the Fabrique Natfonale D'Arms at Liege, probably under the direction of Candido Aguillar. Mexico minister of foreign affairs, and President Car ranza's son-in-law. who went to .Eu rope recently after stopping here and placing a wreath on George Washing ton's tomb at Mount Vernon. The orders in Spain which included rifles, millions of rounds of ammuni tion and a large number of machine guns, were negotiated through the Mexican minister there, Elezeo Arre dondo former ambassador to the Unit ed States. j The Spanish munitions, according ? to information in the hands of the j government began passing into Mexico ? more than a year ago while the Euro pean war still was going on and in violation of the interallied embargo. The United States-has been 'denying, shipments of arms into Mexico, for many months for the reason that fhey generally fell into-tiie'<ha:nds'of;4>an I dits and often were u/sed against ! Americans. -" ' Such information as has now come j into the hands of the government j shows that Mexico already was turn f nig to European manufacturers for ? her supply and has since placed enor mous orders! Meanwhile the activities of a Ger man mission in Mexico ?.are closely being observed. Attempts by. the ; Mexican government at confiscation of f mines and oil wells with an announc ! ed view to their nationalization arc ! being closely examined in comparison i with Germany's need for those pro : ducts. ; j QUIET AT SEATTLE ! Condition In Northwest Some i ... r .rl". what More Satisfactory i_ j Seattle. Nov. 1"5 (By the. Associated (?Press).?Comparative quiet prevailed 'today throughout the Northwest in i the Industrial Workers of the World j situation although a number of addi j tional arrests were made. Members I of the American Legion awaited con {formation of a report that Bert Bland J alleged slayer of Warren Grimm "in ? the Centralia "Armistice Day" out ! break, had been apprehended. ? j Robert C. Saunders. United States ! attorney for the western district of i Washington, announced all industrial [Workers of the World arrested in Se ; attle. Tacoma. Centralia and Chehalis Imust stand trial on charges of "con J spiring to overthrow the government." Reports of a threatened invasion !of Spokane by L W. W. failed to ma terialize. Police officers there who met all incoming trains said that more woodsmen and other laborers were j leaving than were arriving, i John Grady. alleged by the police to ? be a former chairman of the Spo j kane I. W. W. defense fund, was ar rested in Spokane today and charged w\th criminal syndicalism. Seventeen other alleged I. W. W.'s were arrest ed in Spokane during the day. Advices from Tacoma said 16 members of the American Legion of Olympia had left that city for Bald Hills. 40 miles distant, in search of three I. W. W.. alleged to have par ticipated in the Centralia shooting. Thirty-five alleged I. W. W. mem bers also were jailed at South Bend. Wash. The case of T3. L. Peck against the Delaware Underwriters was completed in court recently. The jury rendered :i verdict of $400 for the plaintiff and interest of $104.13, making a total of $504.15. The plaintiff was represent ed in counsel b\ Wood. Epps and Duf fie. while the defendant secured the services of J. H. Clifton and 'Geo. D. Levy. its. to require '"just and reasonable freight and passenger service" and distribution of equipment. for inter state traffic. "This amendment takes the vital ity out of the car service act,!' declar ed Chairman Esch, opposing the pro posal of the Iowa member. *Tt ham-x strings the federal authority."