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Vol. v. no. 286
U. S. TO ARREST CITY PROFITEERS;
ELLER'S HOMER BEATS GIANTS, 4-3
FEDERAL PROBE
JIIll JT PHILS
FOOD GOUGERS
Hoarders Face Jail and
Retailers to Be
Watched
Fine.
GOVERNMENT AGENTS
IN CITY ARE INCREASED
Attorney General Promises That
, Cost of Victual's Will
Decline
Don't Pay More Than lie
for Sugar, Says Palmer
"The charging of -fifteen cents a
pound, or any price more than
eleven cents a pound, for sugar W a
slimy gouge."
That was the declaration of At
torney General Palmer, who was
here today to confer on the federal
fight against the high cost of liWng.
"And by heaven! It's got to stop!"
he continued, "and the persons nnd
firms responsible for it will be pun
ished if the customers leport it to
the authorities."
Food hoarders and retail food profit
eers here arc to be prosecuted by the
federal government.
They will he arrested nnd "barged
with criminal violation oL the Lever
tct. The penalty to be luflictcd will
be left wholly to the judge in whose
court the prosecutions will bo brought.
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States
attorney general, made this announce
ment this afternoon after n conference
here with Francis Fisher Kane, United
States district attorney.
Congress will back up the gpvernment
campaign, Sir. Palmer Insisted.
Congress to Pay Bill
i "CongrcSs has voted me no money to
go ahead with this fight," he said, "but
the issue is so vital the investigating
committees in both branches of Con-
gress have told me to go ahead and
use whatever funds I find necessary,
and that Congress will pay tnc bill."
First steps in the enmpaign to lower
living costs through prosecutions here
will be an incrccase in the number of
Department of Justice agents, who will
procure the evidence of profiteering and
the immediate seizure of any foodstuffs
' in storage which arc being hoarded for
high prices.
"The high cost of living will begin to
decline almost nt once," Mr. Palmer
answered in reply to n question as to
the probable effect of the proposed
federal action, from the standpoint of
the consumer.
Mr. Palmer declared that, contrary
to general belief, the profiteering re
tailer can be reached by the Lever food
act.
"The act provides that the retailer
yWho charges an unjust o unreason
able rate of profit' Is guilty of a crime,
but prescribes no penalty," Mr. Palmer
Bald.
"We will prosecute such profiteers in
the federal courts as soon as the 'fair
"price boards aro organized and pres
cribe the Hat of fair prices, and allow
the judge to name the penalty," he
said.
$500 Fine Given
"Such action was taken in Bingham
ton, N Y., this week, and the judge
named a $500 fine as penalty."
Those who attended the conference,
which was held at tho Bellevue-Strat-ford,
were Mr. Kane, Assistant United
States Attorney Ernest Harvey, and
Todd Daniel, head of the investigating
branch of the Department of Justice
here.
Mr. Kane and the two other local
officials declined to discuss the confer
ence, other than to say they had placed
the result of their recent investigations
before Attorney General Palmer, and
that he had told them of notions taken
in similar cases in other sections of
the country.
"The high cost of living is the chief
issue throughout the country at the
present time," Mr. Palmer said, after
the conference, "anu we intend to tmu
the remedy for it. Some of the in
flated valuation of foodstuffs Is the
natural reflex of the end of the war,
but much of it is, plain profiteering, and
we intend to break it up and punish
Continued on I'axe Fifteen. Column File
100 0. K.'S TWO CANDIDATES
Schneider and McCaughan Indorsed
for County Commissioners
The executive committee of the com'-
mittee of one hundred, meeting In ex
ecutive session in tho City Club todaj,
announced the 'following independents
for county comnilssloncr :
Frank V. Schneider, Forty-third
ward, representing the labor clement.
B'skeley D. McCaughan, Twenty, i
fourth ward.
vimnRK KXCDH8IONS KVKRY DAT
via Philadelphia Itetillne II. K. to Atlantic)
rttjr. c"- aJ50tai17r' Br tlsh Government part ot
2,1ffifi(.lJy k ? Germany,
Entered a Second-Class Mutter trt the rostomce, nt rhllsdclphta, Ta.
I mler the Art of March N, 187!.
Sunday Baseball in Park
Is Upheld by
Protesting Clergymen Must Resort to Penal
Law to Stop It, Judge Decides Appeal to
Be Taken to Supreme Court
Sunday ball games in Fairmoiint Park
have been sustained by the Court of
Common Picas No. fi.
In an exhaustive opinion. Judge
'Stnnke today refused the injunction
J sought by Sabbatarian associations,
clcrgjmen and others ngainst the Fair
I mount Park Commission (o stop basc-
lmll nml tennis in the Dark on Sundays.
Judge Monagliau concurred in the
opinion.
The opinion rules that If the par
ticipants in the gnmes commit a nui
sance in violation of the old "blue laws"
of 171U, the remedy is to apply the
pennl act.
The court contends that the Sab
bntnrians failed to prove the Sunday
games were a nuisance.
Not a Crime, is Killing
The playing of baseball itself is not
n crime, it is pointed out. It becomes
unlawful only when it interrupts the
repose and religious liberty of the com
munity. Public opinion has changed since
1704. the oniniou says. In thnse days.
according to n strict interpretation of
the lnw of 1704. the operation of i ail -
roads, telegrnph and telegraph lines, the
sale of bread, mill: nnd newspapers on
Sunday would hnvc been unlawful.
"We are going to appeal to the Su
preme Court; we believe that the act
1791 is just as much alive today as it
ever was, and if it is going to be set
aside by judicial decree, we want it
set aside by the highest judicial decree
possible," said Blton J. Buckley. He is
counsel for the Lord's Day Alliance.
T
Candidate Points Out That Evil3
Have Thrived Under Vare-
Smith Rule
HECKLES JUDGE PATTERSON
- -y
Concressman Moore today attacked
the Vnrc-Smith administration for its
roii.... tn nrevent rent and food
profiteering in Philadelphia.
He said he will not attend n meet
ing of the protesting tenants in West
Philadelphia tonight, although it had
been announced thnt both he and Judge
Patterson would make addresses. He
will send a letter to the meeting, he
said. ;
"Profiteering has been going on in
Philadelphia since the city sent' the
boys away to war," said Mr. Moore.
"The boys were cheered and given
promises of reward. And then they
enmc back to find the food prices as bad,
If not worse, than they were in Europe,
and rents raised to the gouging point.
"The Vnrc-Smith administration that
cheered the boys on their way to Eu
rope when they went to fight and to die
has been in control of affairs here far
four years. And rents and prices have
not come down. I hope Judge Patterson
will bo able to explain this to the ten
ants in his address tonight.
- Wants Explanation
"I hope tho judge also explains one
of the points he made in his platform
when he said he would encourage legis
lation to have new dwellings exempt
from taxes for nt least one year after
they arc constructed. I would like some
more information on this myself. I
want to know who would benefit, the
builder, tlnrowner or tho tenant who Is
Conllnotd on Pats Three. Column One
M000' OPEN ROOMS MONDAY
Committee Will Have Quarters at
Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets
Headquarters for the committee ofj
one thousand to pusli Judge Patterson's
campaign for mayor will be in the Straw -bridge
Building, Thirteenth and Chest
nut streets, adjoining the Adelphla Ho
tel. They will occupy the entire second
floor of the building.
This announcement was made today
by Thomas Itoblns, chairman of the
committee, who said the rooms will be
opened on Monday.
It was also announced that the com
mittee would use the assembly room
of the Adelphla Hotel during tlm cam
paign and that another room in the
Adclphln will he occupied by a suffrage
committee, which will co-operate with
the main committee.
Iu the announcement Mr Itoblns
said he hoped to be able to name the
members of the committee of one thou
sand before the end of the week. He
said the body would be composed of
prominent men nnd women of the city.
ITALY MAY CEDE INDEMNITY
Agreement Permits 'Turning Over
German Payment to British
Home, Aug, Hi. (By A. P.) Tho
newspapers announce thnt, through 3
recent financial agreement between Italy
and Great Britain, Italy may cede to the
Hrltlsn liovcrnment part or, tne luciem
WIOORE LAYS RENT
GOUGING
0 MAYOR
Court Ruling
Ti
Action on Sunday Ball
as Seen by Judge Staake
"Cleigymcn, lnwjcrs, merchants
and even judges hnvc six days in the
week in which they mny enjoy out
door sports, but the laboring man
has but nun day in which he can
rest and take healthful exercise.
"The population is now approach
ing 2,000.000 Inhabitants. Thousands
arc engaged in occupations hlrh
preclude relaxation nt any other
times than upon Sundays.
"We should not oblige the working
man to confine himself to his own
narrow stifling room and forbid him
to enjoy the fresh air of heaveu."
"I have just finished reading the
judge's opinion," said Mr. Buckley,
"nnd I gather he takes the position that
the act of 1701 hns been made obsolete
by the change in the attitude of people
in nml e modern times.
"But I hnvc never before heard of
the repeal of an act in just t lint man
ner Bellee Law Is Just
"And there is no eidence that there
is unanimity of mind ngainst that act.
1'ffort was made to repeal It the last
legislature, and the lcgislntiic refused.
Which suggests to my mind that the
Legislature, and the Legislature refused.
tonllnueil on ratTlftrfn. Column Six
PATTERSON SEES
SEGER AT SHORE
"Talking; Over Old Political
" Fight," Says Vare May
oralty Candidate
SEGER AGAINST CHARTER
nu n Staff Corrfipowlent
Atl.intlr City, Aug. 15. Judge Pat
terson called upon Select Councilman
Charles Segcr twice in five minutes this
morning at the Seventh ward leader's
summer cottage here.
The first time, the organization's
candidate for tho Republican mayoralty
nomination left when ho came face to
face with a reporter who was trying to
lenm whether Mr. Segcr would sup
port Judge Patterson or Congressman
Moore, for the Republican mayoralty
nomination.
Incidentally, this afternoon wns
named on the enmpaign committee of
the Republican city committee.
up 1 . ' linlnn Ontlffrcnn Rnlil. ns
h? waved to Mr. Seger who was sittlhg
on the porch. "I just called to say
hello."
Then the candidate walked away with
his companion, both they and Mr. Segcr
smll ne.
The reporter left the Seger cottage
after he asked the councilman and the
councilman asked him about the identity
of the judge's coinpnmon.
Judge Patterson then returned to the
Seger house. Ills companion proved to
bo William Abrams, a Philadelphia
manufacturer, who was a delegate to
the last Republican national conven
tion. When the reporter reappeared both
the judge and Mr. SegcV stated that the
Patterson campaign had not come up
for discussion. '
"We were just talking over an old
political fight," Judge Patterson ex
plained. And the councilman agreed
with him.
Although Mr. Seger refused to say
whether he would support Judge Pat
terson, his answers to n number of
questions indicated that he would back
the organization.
Seger Has Decided
"I have virtually decided what I shall
do," Mr. Seger said. "But I won't
make any definite statement until 1 have
Continued on Tate Two. Column Setrn
HIBBARD B. WORRELL DIES
President of Philadelphia Real Estate
Board Succumbs After Operation
Hibbard B. Worrell, president of the
Philadelphia real estate board, died to
day nt the Laukcnau Hospital, follow
ing un operation. Mr. Worrell wns
sixty-seven jears old, and was one of
the most noted of Philadelphia's rcnl
estate men.
Mr. Worrell was attacked with indi
gestion a week ago at his home. 217
Mnnheim sticet, Germantowj, and was
taken to tho hospital. There it was
found that au operation was necessary.
He had been iu apparent .good health
up to the time of the attack ot illness,
but his physical condition rapidly
failed after the operation. He died
thlH morning nt -1:30 o'clock.
New of his death was a complete sur
prise to his business associates. Many
of them did not even know that he was
ill.
At his bed side when lie died were his
wife tyid his only daughter, Mrs, George
W. rkl, Jr. v . ,
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919
DIDN'T BOSS SMITH
ng jy
Ei
Tells City Committee He Won't
Attempt to 'Run' Patterson if
Jurist Is Elected Mayor
APPEALS ARE MADE
FOR BIG REGISTRATION
Co After the 90,000 Returned
Soldiers, Is Plea to
'1000 Body
Mayoralty Fight Events
of the Day in Contest
Republican city committee gave
tacit indorsement of Judge Patter
son as orgnni7iition candidate.
Judge Patterson called twice in
fue minutes on Charles Seger, lender
of Seventh ward. Disilnimed that
present campaign was discussed at
Kegel's home in Atlantic Citv.
Former Congressman Donohoe
made announcement thnt he is
Democratic candidate for Major.
i:ecutie committee of committee
of one hundred meets nt City Club
to choose candidates for arious
olhces. Indorse Frank P. Schneider,
Fort j third ward, and Blakely D.
MiCaughan for county commis
sioners. Senator Vare and David II. Lane
took a vigorous whack at the mayoralty
opposition this nftcrnoon at a lively
meeting of the Republican city com
mittee, at Eleventh nnd Chestnut
streets.
Tacit Indorsement of Judge Patter
son's candidacy was given iu n pledge
ot co-opcraiion with the committee of
one tnousand being rniscd by Thomas
Itoblns to run the Patterson cam
paign.
Judge Patterson was not present nt
me meeting pecause ot his refusal "to
mix In politics Instend he wnB in
Atlantic City, where he visited Charles
Scgcr who was named this afternoon
to the campaign committee of the cit
committee.
The meeting wus called for the pur
pose of getting the voters to register,
ikccurii ncEisiration urtreil
henalor nre nnd Harry A. Mackcy
urged a record tegistration, "especiallv
in the independent wards, because the
bigger the registration, the bigger the
Republican wctory will be."
Praising Judge Patterson, Senator
Vare denied that lie ever "bossed the
Smith administration" or would "boss
the Patterson administration."
"I am accused of being boss of the
Smith administration," the senator
continued,
"I only once made n suggestion to
Major Smith. That was when Director
Twining proposed the bob-tniled transit
plan nnd a big agitation was raised
against it.
"I met Mayor Smith one day on
Chestnut street.
"I said to him : 'Mayor, it seems to
Continued on re Two Column Four
VETO AGAIN STOPS
President, However, Acts "With
Reluctance" Because of Na
tion's Farmers
PRODUCTION MUST INCREASE
By the Associated Tress
Washington. Aug 15. President
Wilson today vetoed the bill repealing
the daylight-saving law.
The President said he returned the
bill without his approval with "the ut
most reluctance" because he realized
"the very considerable, and in some
respects very serious, inconveniences to
which the dajlight savings law subjects
the, farmers of the country."
The President's message was sent To"
Speaker Gillett. but when an effort wns
made to present it to the House Rep
resentative Blanton, Democrat, Texas,
mnde a point of no quorum, and the
House adjourned without, the message
being read.
Second Veto of Repealer
This was the second time the Presi
dent had vetoed repeal of the law by
which the clocks arc Bet forward an
hour on the last Sunday In March uud
turned back an hour the last Sunday
In October. The first teto was several
weeks ago, the repeal bejng attached as
a rider to the annual agricultural ap
propriation bill.
White House officials and members
of Congress could not recall today a
previous instance of a President having
twice vetoed the same bill. Efforts to
pass the agricultural measure over the
cto failed in the House, and then the
Continued on Vice Fifteen, Column Three.
Whn you .thlnlr of wrlflni.
think, ot WHITING. Sldv.
SAYSSENATORVAR
DAYLIGHT REPEAL
AN
BEATEN N
FIRST, STRUGGLE
;e
Undismayed,by Cincinnati's Vic
tory, Rube Benton Hurls
Splendid Ball
HOLDS REDS HITLESS
FIRST FIVE ROUNDS
Ray Fisher Pat Moran's Choice
to Baffle Foe in Final
Game
HARD N 5
COi
I First Game Statistics
NEW YORK
AB. R. II. PO.A.E.
Burns, If r I 1 1 0 0
Young, rf -t 0 0 1 0 0
Fletcher, ss . l 0 0 1'2 0
Zimmeimnn, ,1b .. 3 0 2 0 . 0
Frisch, 'Jl 4 0 0 3 fi 1
Knuff, if .1 1 2 2 0 0
Chase, lb ' 0 0 13 1 0
(!oii7ales, c, lb... i 1 1 4 1 0
Barnes, p 2 0 0 2 4 0
Doile 10 0 0 0 0
Public, p ........ 0 0 0 0 0 0
McCnrtj, c 10 0 0 0 0
Snjder, c 0 0 0 0 0 0
tSmith 10 0 0 0 0
TotKls 31 3 0 27 10 1
CINCINNATI
AB. R. II. PO.A.E
Ruth. 2b 3 0 0 3 4 0
Daubert, lb t 1 3 7 0 0
Groh, 3b 4 0 2 2 3 1
Rouseh, cf ........ 4 0 1 0 0 0
Neale, rf 4 0 0 3 0 0
Kopf, ss ..j 3 0 12 2 1
Magea, If .. 3 12 3 0 0
Wlngo, c ....,..- 3 110 0 0
Eller, p . ........... 4 11110
Totals 31 4 II 27 10 2
Batted for Barnes in seventh.
fBatted for Dubuc in ninth.
Two-base hits Gonzales. Sacrifice
hits Magee, Chase, Roufeh. Sacrifice
, cu- T(,,,li Ktmnl.- n ir
, i ' i,T Dnline. 1 liv Filer. 4. ltn nn
balls Off Barnes, 2; off Dubuc, 1; off
niler. 1. Stolen lmsrs firnh. Atmrpe.
Ptiseh. IHr hv nlrrhcil hnli ZImmer.
' man. Umpires KIcm and Emslic.
i
Details of first New York-Clnrlnnatl rar0
ou p'" 10
By ROBERT W. MAXWELL
Sports Editor TCyenlnr Public Lrdrer
Polo Grounds, New York, Aug. 15.
Following Hod Filer's victorious home
run bwat in the fourth inning of the
first game of today's double bill, which
gave the Cincinnati Reds the contest,
4 3, John McGraw sent his strougest
line-up in to snntch the last end of the
mntince.
The Giants were given a thorough
verbnl drill between gnmes as only John
McGraw can give them, nnd went into
the second frncas in a fighting humor.
But they had nothing on the Reds,
riushed with their well-earned victory,
Continued on Tate F.lerrn. Column Four
PHILS LOSE FIRST;
After Dropping Initial Fray to
St. Louis Cravath Sends
Meadows to Mound
LEE'S ERROR HELPS CARDS
Gene Packard Resigns;
Goes to Steel Company
It's quitting time in Philly. The
whistle sounds for Gene Packard
tonight. The vcternn portsider re
signed today as ,a member of the
Phils' hurling staff and tomorrow he
leaves to take a position with a steel
company at Mnslin.
Cravath has been trying to conx
Packard to stay with the club for
the rest of the season and then
take the offered position.
"1 would like to stav with
Gavvy," said Packard, "nut the
offer will not hold over until after
the season is over. It's nqf only a
baseball job, It's something for the
future and I can't let the oppor
tunity go by unheeded."
Details and boi score of first rhlllies-St.
Louts rame on pace 16.
rhlllles' Ball Park, Aug. 15. After
being beaten iu the first game ot to
duy's double header, 7 to 2, Cravath
sent his hurling nee, Lee Meadows Into
the final contest this afternoon.
Meadons helped St. Louis to get an
enrly lead over tho Phils iu the second
game. The Cards were out In front 1
to 0 when they went to bat in the
'fourth.
umpire iiarrijon touna himself a
Conao'Ied en rtre 'JSeren, Column Tw
TRAIL IN SEW
Fubllshed Daily Kirept Sunday. Hubucrlptton I'rlce (1 a Year by Mall.
Copyrlrht 1010. by Public Ledger Compsny.
ST. LOUIS 2
PHILLIES (1 si).... 1
3
0
Goodwin and demons; Murray
ST. LOUIS 10 0 0 10
PHILLIES (Zd) 0 0 0 3 0 0. -
Woodward and Clemons; Meadows nnd Tragrcsscr.
CINCINNATI 1003000004
NEW YUUivUst).. 1000002003
tiiier ana wingo; names ana uonzaies. liicm and EmsIIo.
CINCINNATI 00 0 0030
NEW YORK (2d)... 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Fisher and Raridan; Benton and Snyder. Klein and Eraslle.
ATHLETICS 0 0 0 0
ST. LOUIS 2 0 4 1 5 -
Johnson and Perkins; Lcifleld and Seveicid. Dinecn and K&Uin.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHICAGO 0 1000000
BROOKLYN 00100011
Mai tin and Killefer; Giimcs and Miller.
PITTSBURGH 300000000-
BOSTON(lst) 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 :t -
Adams nnd Blackwell; Causoy and Gowdy.
PITTSBURGH 0 0020000
BOSTON (2d) 00 10 00 0 1
Carlson and Leo; Filllngim nnd Wilson.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BOSTON 1 0 0 10 0
CHICAGO 0 3 10 0 0
Hoyt nil'' 8011.1112:; Willian-j auj C'.iiil.
NEW YORK 0 0 0 0
DETROIT 0 0 2 0
WASHINGTON 0 0 0 0
CLEVELAND 0 0 0 2
Shaw and Picinich; Myers
IDAHO MINERS STRIKE FOR EIGHT-HOUR DAY
WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. ID. A walkout of practically 100
per cent of the copper miners o Bmke, Mullanjnud -Iline 21ile
districts of tho Coeur D' Aleno occurred today after a vote by
the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers to
enferco the demand for an eight-hour day.
"100" PICKS COCNCILMANIC SLATE
The Councilmanic Committee of the Committee of 100 pre
sented today to the Executive Committee of 100 an incomplete
list of candidates. The incomplete list was refencd back to the
Cou.icilmr.nic Committee with power to iin'-c 'elections for the
completion or die lkt. The Councilmanic Committee went inttc
session Into this afternoon. It is expected that the entire list
will bo ready either tonight or tomoviow.
JUDGE POSTPONES HEARING IN ACTORS' STRIKE
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Because of inability to serve all the
cti iking r.jtoio named in the application by Tlorenz Ziegfeld for
a ponnncnt wat of piohibition rcstiaining them fiom inter
StUn with the pcilormances of the '-rolLcs,'' Supieme Couit
Justice Luce tfday gianted an adjournment of the hearing oa
wie motio.i uui )'f-.it Thuiday.
FULL SATISFACTION FOR RUMANIA. F YS REPORT
PAIUS, Aug1. 15. Full satisfaction is t;iver. Eumania in re
gard to the exercise of authority nt Budapest, in the reply made
by the Supreme Council to the Rumanian note, according to the
i'emps. An agreement concerning the disposition of all the
material taken In Hungary by the Rumanians, according to the
newspaper, will be reached by Rumanian government and Allies.
4500 STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK AT NEWBURG. 0-
CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 15. More than 4500 employes of
the Amciican Steel and Wiie Company at Newbuig leturned to
oris today with the ending-of the stiike on the Newburg and
nnth SHoic, the industiial falhoad which serves the plant. Th
men waived their wage demands pending the outconle of the
oiotherhood's lequests for nation-wide increases.
NATION WIDE BUILDING STRIKE THREATENED
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. A nation-wide building strike,
taking 11,500,000 men out of work, is threatened in a statement
Issued by twenty-seven international heads of "labor unions.
The trouble Is the outgrowth of charges that building contractors
employ non-union labor.
FIREMEN'S STRIKE HITS MARSEILLES SHIPPING
MARSEILLES, Aug. 15. Steamship traveling between this
port and China and Japan are ticd-up in the harbor by a strike
of firemen. A. mail packet which was to sall'at noou is held up.
There has been disorder.
lEBftfcfc-seORES-
10 10 0 0-
7 14
0100nono-2 4 3
and Adnnis. McCorraick & Harrison.
11 2
r. i
3
5
7
7
o
1
0 B
0
and O'Neill.
3
PRICE TWO CENTS
!1L9 WILLING
TO COMPROMISE
ON PEACE PACT
President Would Accept Kellogg
Reservations, Democrat Tells
G. 0. P. Moderates
LODGE STILL HOLDS BACK
MIDDLE-GROUND SENATORS
Truce Waits Upon Assijrance
of Sufficient Republican Votes
Supporting It
Pact Report in 2 If celts,
Hitchcock Tells IVihon
Washington, Aug. 15. (By. A.
P ) Senator Hitchcock told PresU
dint Wilson today he believed the
peace treaty would he reported out
by the foielgn relations committee
within ten dnys or two weeks. He
said he did not discuss reservations
witli the President.
He indicated that the position of
the administration forces wns that
no bridges would be crossed until
they were retched after the treaty
had been brought into the Senate.
He gae the President a wry optim
istic report.
II CLINTON W. GILIMJhT
Man" C orreionclrnt of the r.i'nlnc ruhlle
I.eclcer
Washington. Aug 1," A' member of
the southern group of Democratic sen
ators who fat or reservations to the
treat has told members of the seven
moderate revisionists on the Repub
lican side of the House that the Presi
dent would accept the Kellogg reserva
tions and that if the Republican mod
erates could find twenty sure votes for
those reservations the Democrats
would deliver forty-four votes for them.
This senator is a leading Democrat
who has always been close to the ad
ministration. The difficulty is that
neither side is entirely sure that the;
other side could deliver or would deliver
the votes.
Shackled By Tarty-Ties
The moderate Republican revisionists
talk hopefully of twenty votes. But it
Is one thing to havo the ss'mpathy of
twenty men and it is another thing to
Induce them to break away from the or
ganization and enter into an irregular
combination with the opposition. The
hold of regularity is powerful.
Moreover, the moderate Republican
movement is not so independent as it
looks upon the surface. The moderate
seven are in constant consultation with
Mr. Lodge.
The chairman of the foreign relations
committee has encouraged their activities
to feci out the administration and see.
whnt compromise it will accept and also
to hae Republican sentiment united
upon some program difficult thing to
do, since the foreign relations committee
represents only the extremists among
the Republicans.
Two Republican Factions
On the tieaty as on many other things
there arc irtually two Republican par
ties, and Mr. Lodge is trjiug to be
leader of both of them.
Tho Democrats, through the southern
group, are equally feeling out the Re
publicans to see on what compromise
they can get twenty Republicans to
agree to firmly as to take the situation
into their own hands nnd put through
the treaty. Promises of support such
as the southern senator brought the
moderate seven the other day are un
official. They may be disavowed at any
uiomeut they become embarrassing.
Nothing in the President's attitude
lends support to the -wow that he is
ready to make a compromise. As usual,
when he is ready to jield he presents
the appearance of stiff resistance. In
spired stories go foith from persons
close to the administration to the ef
fect that the President will not accept
a single reservation.
Hitchcock Appears Unyielding
Senator Hitchcock, the President'
official representative with regard to the
treaty, makes no sign of yielding. He
makes vague threats of taking the treaty
out of the hands of the committee if
the delay docs not cease and in general
presents his most uncompromising front.
But it can be said with the utmost
positiveness that there are on tho floor
of the Senate men with full authority
to make a compromise as soon as one
agreeable to the President is offered,
with the assurance of sufficient Repub
lican votes.
The compromise wnlts upon the re
port of the tieaty by the Senate foreign
rclntious committee
No combination nith the will to take
the treaty nut of the committee is Iu
sight. Both sides are reluctant to take
Conllnne.1 on Tnce Fifteen, Column Seven
SARATOGA RACE RESULTS
FIRST ItAC'l: the Corinth, for two-yesr.
olds, handicap. S7J7 SU adVd AVs ?Urlons.
Plwot On. )' McAtee IU to 1 4 10 1 8 to 5
KAlllpolls 119. lialr-
lirilher - t t a to S 1 to 4
PIlKTlm, 107 Kummer J to 1 3 to 3 1 to 4
Vlme 1 OS 1-3 Super Toujours and Ma
nana el-n tho
.Si:OON'I HACK steeplechase, selllne. (or
four-ear-olUn and up. $700 added, about
S miles
Crest Ilill. 143 Kennedy 11 to 10 t to 3 out
Ithumb 144 lloran II) to 1 3 tp 1 4 to i
King Fortune. 139.
ahoney .10 to 1 S to 1 II to 2
Time 4 20 Northwood and Toppy Nl
also ran ('refused ".out rider) Kin
Fortune lost rider ran a mile riderless, was
then remounted and finished third
THIRD HACE. for mares, three-year-olds
and upward, claiming-, purso (727 SO 7
furlonfs
Queen uf tho Sea. 103,
Wessler" . a to 5 .1 ton 1 to, 4
Tailor IT" W. 113. Wtda 13 to I K to 1 6 t 3
Llorcas, 110 Knsor 3 to 1 2 to I even
Time 1 27 a-5 llandymo. Unwise Child,
jap. Klected 11 also ran.
FOUHTH nvCE. the Hudson tor !.,
year-olds and up, handicap, 11227 $0 addej,
1 a-lfl mile;
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Knur. 101. Kummer a a to 1 ,H to i ivit
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