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VOL. V. NO. 2G5
Entered a Second-rime Matter at the rostofllee. at Philadelphia. Ta.
Under the Act of Jlarch 8. 1870.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919
rutltshfd Dally Exempt Sunday, Pubnerlptlon Trlcft 10 a Tear by Mall.
CopjrlRht, HUP. by rubllo Ledger Company.
PRICE TWO CENTS
NORTH PENN BANK
WILSON'S PLEA TO
CASHIER HELD IN
ENFORCE PART OF
$25,000 BAIL;
PACT REJECTED
I-
FURTHER URESIS HIED
AS MOYER IS ARRAIGNED
-Official Surrenders to Dis-
trlct Attorney Faces
Six Charges
BROTHER DECLARES
CASHIER INNOCENT
Counsel Says Client Will Help
Examiners Straighten De
positors' Accounts Out
"Depositors. Will Get 100
Cents on Dollar" Moycr
Ralph T. Mo.vcr. cashier of the
defunct North Penn Hnnk, lighted n
cignrettc upon his release from a
cell in Citj Hull this nftemoon and
then mnde the follow ing statement:
"I feel confident every depoiitor
will get one hundred '(cuts' on the
dollar. 1 nm going to do every
thing I can to straighten out the
overdrafts. I am going to do nil in
my power to help the banking com
missioner. "Don't think I profited personalty
by this affair. I dicT not, I have not
been accused of stealing the funds
of the bank, I am charged with mis
applying them. 1 ag going home,
and take n good rest for several
days."
Ralph T. Moycr, cashier of the North
Fcnn Rank, Twenty-ninth and Dauphin
streets, was held in ?2."i,000 bait today
following his nrrest and arraignment
on six criminal chnrges growing, tylt of
the failure of the bank on Friday.
The cashier was confined in what is
known as City Hall's "best cell" for
two hours nnd forty-five minutes be
fore bail was procured. It w'ns pro
vided by the United States Fidelity
and Guarantee Company of Baltimore,
and the bond was signed by .1. Walter
Zcbly, of the firjn of Zebley nnd
Strouse, Philadelphia, agents of the
firm.
Moycr lefrnlncd from making any
statement that would implicate any
other person or persons in the collapse
of the bank, although his brother nnd
his counsel hinted that futuro develop,
ments would result in the arrest of men
directly responsible for the failure.
Arraigned Ilefore Magistrate
j The cashier was arraigned before
Magistrate I'cnnock in Central Sta
tion, following His nrrest twenty min
utes before in the office of the district
attorney, where hcjiad gone voluntarily
with his counsel. "
' Hi's nervousness that was very evi
dent during the three-minute hearing
vanished after lie was lodged in a cell.
He sent out for two ham sandwiches
while waiting for bail to be entered,
nnd appeared to enjoy them.
When he was released, he smiled, at
the turnkey and walked to the private.
office ol Magistrate - rennock adjoining
the hearing room. On the way he
lighted a cigarette.
Here he posed for photographers.
t. The depressed nnd worried expression
had passed from his face and he suc
ceeded in making himself agreeable, He
appeared confident an ho made n short
statement In which he declared that nil
depositors in the defunct bank would
, receive one. hundred cents on the dol
lar. ' False Reports Alleged
In the affidavit upon which the wnr
lant for Moycr's arrest was sworn out
it is charged that the cashier made false
reports of the condition of the bank's
finances; permitted the bank to re
ceive money from depositors with, the
knowledge that the institution was in-
solvent, and replaced securities received
by the bank for monev lent or borrowed
without the consent of the holders of the
,. securities. ,
' Shortages totaling $000,000 found in
the bank's accounts by the receiver led
to Mojer's nrrest today. He was taken
Into custody on n warrant swornfout
' beforo-Asslstant District Attorney Tail
j lnne by the receiver appointed for the
yt bank.
Mr. Mover, with his brother and
'William M.Montgomcry, their friend
' and lawyer, voluntarily went to the
1 'district attorney's office In City Hall to
urrender himself. He watted for more
' than an hoi)r in Mr. Tuulane's private
''"office before the warrant was servqd.
Following that twenty minutes was
'given the accused man before the hear-
Continued on I'aie Four Column On
V SOME DAY THEY'LL PLAY
i Phlllle Qamea Off Again Two Tilts
Tomorrow, Maybe
No game today two games tomor-
rnw.
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f xin me uiu, urn Biur) . ivuin nan
; caused tne postponement ol the mil-
' Una1 frump. Afnnnppr Khortiltrn an
lie games.
Manager Bhcttslicc an -4
noupced once more that (wo games
-will be, played tomorrow. And he wise.
Depositors Expected to
Have Difficulty in Re
covering Funds
MOVE TO SHIELD
0THERS4S SEEN:
Impossible to Alter Books With
out' Others Knowing It,
It Is Declared
Ill o Staff Cnrrii'oiidiit
Ilnrrlsburg, .Tulv 22. There will un
louhtedly he more arrests in the North
Penn Rank scandal
I'nder certain fnets de eloped the
chances of depositors getting nil) thing
are dwindling
With a capitalisation of $1."0,000.(
Ralph T. Mover, the cashier, has put i
out loans on what appears to be pure)
commercial paper oTSl .S2S.0KI
It Is 'further disclosed from the fig
urcs furnished In Mover himself that)
M37.3."7 nddiliiiiinl is in the nnture of
call loans without nuv securitv.
This latter item is about one-half the
amount Mo)er nsserts has gone glim
mering. .lust how much these lonns are worth
todav is known onh to Mo.vcr and the
people who got the money.
Information Sources Closed
Lvcry official source of information
here at the capital is virtually closed.
This i under the law vhioh,regnrds nil
information. transmitted to the banking
department or coming into its posses
sion as confidential.
The crash of the North Penn Rank
nnd the unsightly appearance it pie
sents of being another political scan
dal are bound ultimately to unlock a
mass of information not jet available.
The various excuses that the cashier
lias advanced ns to the manner in which
lie hoodwinked the state hank exam
iners nre regard as an attempt to
shield others.
Others Relieved Implicated
The substitution of "doctored" pages
in loose leaf ledgers could be done by
Mo.ver, but itis pointed out it would
he impossible unless others in the bank
were aware of the fact. Therefore fol
low.s the inference tlint some one else
in the institution has nt least a guilt)
knowledge of tlie cashier's secret.
In official circles generally here the
affair is rcgnrded as a "hangover"
from the Brumbaugh administration and
the direct result of displacing the late
Ranking .Commissioner W. 1L Smith,
regarded by the banking interests jf
the state as one of the nblest com
missioners ever appointed, to advance
the interests of political friendH.
When nil the facts are known it is
asserted that the present banking de
partment will be absolved of any laxity
in not diligently following up the case
Continued on I'axe Four, Column Six
North Penn Bank Depositor
Worried, Tries to Take Life
Despair Over Collapse of Institution and Loss of $500,
Isaac Vlazner Tunis on Gas Found
c by Little Daughter
Despair over the collapse of the North
Penn Rank and the probable loss of his
$500 savings, witli which ho had hoped
to buy n home, caused Isaac Vlazner,
forty. eight years old, 2S27 West Dau
phin street, to try to kill himself today.
The Vlazner home is within a few feet
of the bank.
Ho was found In the kitchen of his
home, almost asphyxiated, by his
(vvclvc-year-old daughter, Tillie. A
tube from the gas Btove was lu his
mouth and the -rooln was filled with
gas, f
The little girl screamed, and. n play
mato who went into the kitchen with
her, Delia Hcigle, ten years old, ilO1"
North Tvv'cnty-ninth street, ran from
the house nnd notified a patrolman.
Vlazncr's wife became hysterical when
apprised of her husband's nttempted
suicide. She fled the house, going to the
home of a neighbor at 2832 West
Dauphin street, whero she fainted,
Vlazner was carried from the kltciren
by Joseph Nulty and Richard Kescr,
patrolmen of the Twenty-sixth and
York streets station. They tried to re
vive him before the arrival of the patrol
wagon which "took him to the Woman's
Ilomeoniithlc Hospital, but their efforts
at resuscitation proved unavailing. His
condition is serious.
Lying op, a small jilot of lawn in the
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Ralph T. .Mn.ver, cashier of the defunct institution at Tvvent) -ninth
and Dauphin Streets, was arraigned toda) on criminal charges In Cen
tral Station and held In $25,000 ball
DARBY
MERCHANT
FATALLY BEATEN;
William C. Taylor Is Dead of
Injuries Inflicted by Negro
Employe
SLAYER UNDER ARREST
William C Tnvlor, liftv seven )enrs
old. for many veins a dialer in ha) and
grain at COS Main stiect, Daiby. was!
beaten over the bend b) n negro in the
loft of his store this morning, and died
some time later at the Univeisity Hos
pital. The negio, who is now under arrest
nt tlicDnrb) jail, had been hired b)
Taylor .vesterdny to woik around the
store. This morning lie came to work,
and Til) lor said he did not nciil the
man's services any longer. Outside and
in front of the store, a load of feed
was waiting to be hoisted into the loft
on the second floor of the store.
The driver on the wagon, n negro,
who lives in Darby, and who had been
in his employ for some time, sn.vK-that
Mr. Taylor entered the store and went
up to the loft tp let down a rope
which was to have been attached to
the material to be stored away. This
driver waited for some time, tlicn be
came uneasy nt the dcla).
He went up to the loft and, found
Mr. Taylor l)ing senseless, blood
Continued on J'att Two. Column Four
I which is almost directly behind his
home, Vlazner was viewed by a crowd
of spectators, attracted to the scene
by the screams of the children, and the
arrival of the police.
Rank clerks and officials within the
closed banking Institution peered out
at the silent form stretched upon the
grass plot.
N The Vlazners bnvn llio eblMron
Three ofthem arc married. Two, Tillie
and Kelward, live with their parents.
Only recently Vlazner returned from n
two months' stay In a hospital, where
he went to recover from a nervous
brenkdovvn. It had been his intention
to buy the house in which his family
lived, The $.r)00 in the bank he had
saved through many months of diligent
economy, it was to have been the first
f payment on the home.
After cnrrying.out Vlazncr's body the
patrolmen were fuld by twelve-year-old
Tillie that a lltlc grand daughter, Helen,
was asleep in an. upper room. The
patrolmen, realizing the gns might be
dangerous to the child, jvent upstairs
and carried the tbree-year-old baby to
the-home of a neighbor.
IMore turning on the gas and placing
the flexible tube In his mnulli cafe
nau oecn iuK.cn, oy vtazner to fasten
the s kitchen windows and the doors
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--,01"ti'i ?!?"$&,?$?
tl l.nlH' IMkiIii Servl,,
RIVERS FLOODING
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Great Damage Done tO Crops,
Amounting to $1,000,000 in
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I WO UOUnties MIOne
CITY SEWERS OVERFLOWING
More inin tomoriovv!
This is not the hist wet da), ns the
fm waster had hoped
Showers nie piediited (o continue nt
inteivals over tonight and tomorrow
morning.
Then possibl) dealing ski""!
This is the truth dnv of 'he inlny
spell nnd the eighth since St. Switliin's
dn), witli its traditional prophecy of
fortj wet da) 8.
The official forecast is:
"Showers piobnbly tonight and Wed
nesday morning. Moderate temperature
nnu general soutneriy winds.
The Schii)lklll is nt Hood, overflow
ing its banks. Homes unci factories have
been Hooded by the henv) rains, hive
stock of fanners huve been swept nvvny.
Sewers have overflowed, and all has
contributed to the loss nnd discomfort.
Roadvva)s have been undermined nnd
much property damage caused by the
rains.
The dnmage to crops is enormous ;
it is placed at $1,000,000 in Rucks and
Montgomery counties alone.
AMBLER EVASIVE
WHEN QUESTIONED
ON HIS BANK LOANS
Former Insurance Commis
sioner, However, Says He
May Issue Statement
Charles A. Ambler, former state in
surance commissioner, when questioned
in his office in the Harrison Riiilding
today concerning the allegations that
he had received personal loans.on the
North Penn Rank after depositing the
$100,000 state funds, said:
"I want to be on the safe side and I
will have nothing to sit) about the
case." '
"Is it true, as reported, that )pu
said you had personal loans amounting
to .""OQ.OOO on the North Penn Rank?"
Mr. Ambler was asked.
"I was not correctly quoted, " said
Mr. Ambler.
"Have you checked up the dates, as
you are reported to have promised, on
which you deposited state funds
amounting to $100,000?"
"I nm not going to hnve nnything'to
say about the matter. Rut that doesn't
mean I'm not doing anything. I ntay
have a statement to make later on. The
case is now iu the hands of the state
banking commissioner," Mr. Amhler
replied.
"Have you any outstanding personal
loans on the bank now?" ,
"Any Information must come from
the banking commissioner," Sir, Am
bler anavvfred,
"Has the whole affair any political
significance?1' Sir, Ambler was asked.
"Well," and ho seemed to hesitate,
"I, won't have anything to nay about
RAIN TOMORROW!
iRACEllS BRING
CALL ON CONGRESS
FOR MARTIAL LAW
Camp Meade Troops Ordered to
Reinforce Washington
Police
the i oof of the Illinois Trust and Rav -BLOODSHED
CONTINUES '.s Rank, killing eleven pel sons and
IN STREETS OF CAPITALj Nin ipmes oftlie bank weietinp-
, Ped and Inn mil to death in n lire mused
. ' bv the expulsion of the balloon's gns-o-
rive Known Dead, Half a Score line tanks as the hit the floor of the
Dying, Many Others
Wounded
R.V Hie Associated Press
lt'...l.t . .., r r
....X....K.O.., ..i.iy ... vongiess .,s
asked to take notice of the race riots
and crime wave in (he national capital
todav and President Wilson was asked ,
to declare martial law and police (he
ii it) with tioops in resolutions inlio-
dmed in the House by Representatives
Clark. Demncuit. of rimidn. and Vnile.
Republican, of Colorado, respectivel)
Henvy re ( nforceinents have been m
deied from Camp Meade to assist the
local police iind the military prnvust
guard in Washington to prevent a rep '
itition of the race riots of the lust1
tin cv nuhts. While refusing lo give
the number of troops ordered here, Sei"
lielnrv ll'iker said the number was
"substantial."
' Soon after noon the nearest official
estimate of Inst night's rioting stood i
nt five (lend, ten expected to die. si ores
I of lesser wounded or injured and the I
enses of 17."i rioters docketed in the I
pnliie courts.
Representative Clark's resolution was I
a scathing arraignment of the local'
poljce nnd the city government. It (pro
posed that the speaker of the House ap
point n select committee to investigate
the crime wave nnd the attacks on
I women nnd report vvhut changes mil)
1'' necessary in the police force or the
cit) government and determine what
officials are responsible.
I At the same time Senator Harrison,
f Mississippi. Democrat, introduced a
I resolution to sepniate the whites and
I blacks on the street cars.
Declares Police Inefficient
'Tor the last month or so,' mind
Rt presentnlive Clark's resolution, the
capital of the nation seems to have been
infested witli the vilest criminals in nil
the land. I.nneii), burglar), assaults
of vaiious kinds nnd attacks on many
women hove nccuned almost within the
shadow of the capitol building itself.
The oflii lals of the District of Columbia
have utterl) failed to bring to justice
the cownrdl) and inhuman beusts who
nie'guilty of cruelly lavishing innocent
nnd defenseless women. The police of
the District of Columbia or theii su
periors are either too timid or too in
efficient to bring these criminal scoun
,lrels to the bar of Justice. The existing
conditions are a shame nnd a disgrace
lo (he police and the highei olfic hits.
It is the solemn duty of this Congress
to make the streets of Washington safe
Continued an re Nine. Column Tlirrr
H. J. STAGER DEAD
Prominent P. O. S. of A. Man Passes
Away at Shore i
Henry .T. Stagger, a past national nnd
stnte president of the P. O. S of A.,1
died jesterday nt the home of his son-
in-law, Dr. George 1'otts, of Asburyl
Park. f
He was a state incoiporator of the
state camp of PcniiK)lvnnia, and former
state seecrctary and founder of the
"Camp News," which was the official
Lorgan of the order. Mr. Stager for a
long time, had been active in the work
ings of the P. O. S. of A. nnd re
cently, nccording to stn rsceretary of
the order Helms, hnd compiled n history
of 400 pages dealing witli its' origin
and growth.
A large number of the members, offi
cers nnd committees are expected to at
tend the funeral, the details of which
have not been announced.
SISTER HELENE SCORES
McAtee Rides Favorite to Victory lm
Empire City Opener
Empire City Race Track. N. Y.,
July 22. Sister Ilelene had the neces
sary speed to outstep a large field of
two-yenr-olds over the muddy course
here this afternoon. McAtee had the
mount on the 1) to ." favorite.
Cormoran, an imported steed, rid
den by Kclsey, paid 7 to 10 for place.
Jeau Rullant, backed at 40 to 1 to win,
paid 7 to 1 for show.
Summary :
FIRST RACE. to-yenr-old, aelllnr. purse
SROl M.S. RU furlonci:
Sitter Helene, 100, Mc- .-...
Aleo V IU i I LOIV i io a
Cormoran (Imp.), 110.... , -. , .. .
Kelery 11 to 1 7 to 10 1 to 3
Jean IlulUnt (Imp )). . .... .. .
102, Tvxon 20 to 1 15 to 1 7 to 1
Time. 1:12 4- liaek and Call. Aell
Tt. iattle Alexander, Bl. Kervln and
rtrate MrQee aleo ran
Today' City Appointment
Municipal appointments announced
tmlnv iire: William Sutchisse. 2fl.1fl
R street; Jane Wnlluek, 330 Ritnerl
Rtreet; jioaince j.uiiucii, - nen
slngton avenue, assistant teachers to
the Unreau of Recreation,, nt $000
a year. Thomas Holland, 718 South
Clarion street, driver for the Bureau
of tVater," at $3 a day. 4
Flaming Airship Crashes
Into Bank; 11 Dead, 28 Hurt
Nine Employes of Trust Company Trapped
and Burned to Death Three Airmen
Escape in Parachute Leap
It) the Assodnled Press
Chicago. Julv --.- A dirigible bnl
loon on its (light )esterdn) nftei-
i noon (aught fuc and (lashed thiough
bank's lotuinlii wheic moie tliim tvvint)
Imokkc epeis and clerks, nenil) nil gills,
"''"' vw,ll(l"S "wo occupants of the
balloon lot their lives.
The balloon, owned by (he flood) car
The and Hiibbei Compan.v, of Akion.
M,u,1Hl ,mlrs ,..,
accident oc-
mrrcd.
Theie w.is nothing to warn the hun-
,,ro,N "f 'IIJ- "f the institution of
tne mining trngeil) A sluidow imssed
over the iniiible rotiliidii, wheie em
ploys weie bus), and a (i.ish followed.
No Time to Kscape
l'ive of the nine killed in the hnnk
TODAY'S BASEBALL SCORES-AMERICAN LEAGUE
ATHLETICS. 1 0
CLEVE'AND. 0 1
NEW YORK i o .
CHICAGO o 0
BOSTON. ,
PtTSOIT.
WASHINGTON.
ST. LOUIS
OTHER MAJOR LEAGUE
WILSON OPPOSES NEW-RESERVATION PROPOSAL
"WASHINGTON, July 22. A new suggestion for Senate
reset vation.3 in latifying; the league of nations covenant de
veloped today at the White House confeicnce. Senator Caldci,
Republican, New York, asked President Wilson what Ills attitude
would be on a proposal that the covenant be ratified with a
reservation that Article 10 remain ir. effect only uf.ti) lOftl
President Wilson opposed the plan.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE
An unidentified boy, about twelve yeais old, was killed by
an automobile this afternoon in front of 6050 Maiket street.
'Hit boy wore a signet ling inscribed with the initiuls J. W.
Zic hnd light blown hair, and wore blown laiickcibockers, a
bio7u shirt, black oilskin coat and hat and was without shoes or
stockings. He was riding a bicyclo when struck by a motored
chiven by Geoige Taylor, Upptr Darby.
DRASTIC
DRY LAW
PASSED BY HOUSE
,. ix- o I
uuiinca iiiiuAiuuiii as dcvci age
Containing Alcohol Exceed
ing y2 of 1 Per Cent
iVOTE STANDS 287 TO 100
Washington, July 22. The prnhibi
tion enforcement bill, described b) mem
bers opposing it ns drastic enough to
invite n presidential veto, finnll.v was
passed toda) by the House.
The vote was taken after a motion b)
Representative Igoe, Democrnt, Mis
souri, to lecommit the bill hnd been de
feated, 2.-5 to 130.
Nearly every member of the House
was In attendance nnd there was so
much noise during the rollcnll that Re
publican Leader Mondell was recorded
as supporting the Igoe motion. He wns
permitted to change his vote.
The vote pn the passage of the bill
was 287 to 100, with three members
voting present.
Now Goes to Senate
The measure now goes to the Senate,
but House managers of the measure do
not expect It will be nccepted there as
The House bill will be substituted for
the measure now being framed by the
flenate judiciary committee, but Senate
leaders were doubtful whether the bill
Continues! on Face Two, Column Two
were women emplovis thrie vviie men
and one a bo) There wire but two
exits in the iron ( age, in the center of
the bank, and as the wreckage of the
balloon crashed thnnigi. the skv light t..
(lie door, there was no time for the cm- i
plo.ves to escape The tanks exploded
anil the inteiioi of the bank was
spiinkleil with gasoline, which ipncklv
ignited, burning the eniplo)es to death
More than 'JOO pit ss were in the bank
nt the time of the accident, inostl) girls.
A panic ensiled m the cage when the
tanks expinueii .Men anil girls witn
llnmlug clothing made a vain clash for
the exits ("iris on the secnud floor
ran siienming to the windows, iinil
several jumped into the streets
In an instant the marble rotunda was
cleared except for the dead and living.
whose bodies were buried under the mass
of debris ' ri m o
Five persons weie in the nindiip at)IVIC,X,ary suggests Interpreta-
tne tune ol tne ncciilent and tlnec es
Cliped I
The balloon ns making hei maid
en tup. An oi ding to witnesses a
spurt of flame appeared nt the stem
(ontlmiPft on Pnp Nliw. Column One
GAMES POSIPOWED.
FORD TESTIFIES -
d I- Li ii j r- u rv
uoucvoa no nau rvigni iu uiuci
With President Without
Being So Classified
NO PROFIT FROM MUNITIONS
'
,
r"s
R) the Associated
Mount Clemens. Mich.
July 22 1
I'nininallon of Henr) Cord bv Klliott
C Stevenson, ottoi-nec for ibA Pbieneo
Dnil) Titbiine defendant In Mr. Ford's,
ANA
$1,000,000 libel suit, wns concluded to-,uv
day and interrogation passed into tliel
friendly hands of Alfred Lurking, Mi.
Ford's personal attorney.
Mr. Ford, under Mr. Lucking's
questions, emphatically denied he wns
an anarchist, or had ever associated
with anarchists, and said lie believed he
had a right to differ wjtli the Presi
dent without being subject to the
classification of "anarchist,"
"Did you tell Johu Reed, the mag
azine writer, that )ou built a ?30,00(l
house for )our gatekeeper?" asked Mr.
Lucking. "No," smiled the manufac
turer; "there is nothing but a sort of
children's playhouse, about ten feet by
ten. I
"it wos just a bit of the writer's 1
imagination?" "Yes
"Mr. Reed stfoke of guards about
your grounds and 'counsel has worked
this into armed guard. AVhat have
ContlmiMt on fate Tv,
Colu
Three J
0.S.EHTIGT ;
UWDERTREATY, '
SENATORS HOLD
Foreign Relations Committee
Says Ratification Must Precede
Commissioner's Appointment
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prcni MTIfliM DV liinv
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President's Health
Improved
and He Resumes Conferences
With Republicans
EDGE AT WHITE HOUSE
tions Moses Declares Pact
'Infinitely Worse Than League'
Today's Developments
in Fight Over League
Washington. July I?. Develop
ment in the league of nations fight
toda) were:
Pirst President Wilson resumed
his etToits to convert Republican
senators to the league of nations
idea.
Second The Senate foreign rela
tions committee refused the Presi
dent's request thnt It approve his ap
pointment of nn American member
of the reparation committee before
the treat) is ratified.
Third. Debate on the pence treaty
and the league of nations was re
sumed on the Senate floor.
Ry the Associated Press
Washington, July 22. In response
to President Wilson's request that it
approve provisional appointment of an
American representative on the repara
tions commission to be created under
the peace treaty the Senate foreign re
lations committee todny adopted a dec
laration that until the treaty is rati
fied "mi power exUts" to carry out its
provisions.
The declaration, in the form of a tes
olution b) Senator Knox, Republican,
Peniis)liuiia, was adopted without a
lecoid vote, though the committee pre
vious!) hall divided eight to seven in
favor of substituting the Knox proposal
for ono which would have left open the
question of the President's authority.
In this vote Senattor McCumber, Re
publican, Noith Dakota, joined the
Deniocints in the negative.
A motion by Senator Hitchcock,
Democrat, of Nebraska, to add later a
declaiation of the President's power to
act, was lost nine to six, Sennter Mc
Cumber voting with the Republicans.
Text of Resolution
' Senator Knox's resolution follow si
I That it is the judgment of the
' committee that until the proposed
1 treat) is ratified, in accordance with
1 its terms, no power exists to cxecut
an) of its provisions either "provl
I sionnll) or otherwise.
I I'nder the treat) the reparations com-
mitten would hnve wide powers in Ai
ling the lepnrntion to be demanded of
(crmnny nnd the President had writ
ten the committee that he considered
it important to American business Id
triests that the Cnitcd States be rep
resented
After it had adopted Senator Knox's
esolutiou the committee resumed Its
ireliminarv reading of the treaty text.
Mr. WiNon was sufficiently recovered
today from his indisposition to resume
confluences with Republican senators at
ti. White Douse without objection
fiom Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
his personal pli)sicinn.
President Still Weak
Admiral (irn)son said the President
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"The Piesident is sitting up and
now deceiving n caller," said Admiral
(ira.vson, "nnd he probablv will be up
at least until lunch time. He was very
nnxious to get to woik this morning
"' I thought it would do him no harm
to see one or two peisons.
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this afternoon
The Piesident went into conference
nt 10 o'clock with Senntor Kdge, of
New Jersey, and he hoped to fill other
engagements which he was forced to
defer yesterday because of an acute at
tnck of intestinal trouble which devel
oped upon his return from a week-end '
trip down the Potoinuc.
Norrls Declines Invitation
Seuntor Norjis, of Nebraska, one of
the senators Invited to the White House
.veaterday, declined the Invitation, but
others whom the President expected to
sec today were Senators Colder, of Jsew
-0rV. nnd Cummins, of Iowa.
Debate on the treaty In the Senate
was resumed with un address by Bena-
tor MeNary, Republican, Oregon, sup
porting the pact. Senator McNaiy -km
followed by Senator Johnson, Desw.,
crat, North Dakota. Vvbo declared tbt"
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