16 37 REPUBLICANS OF NEW SENATE OPPOSE LEAGUE Names Secured by Lodge Suf ficient to Block Treaty Ratification Washington, March 4. —Names of thirty-seven Republican members of the new Senate, a number sufficient to block ratitication of a treaty, were read in the Senate last night by Sen ator Lodge, of Massachusetts, who said they had approved a resolution setting forth that "the constitution of the League of Nations in the form now proposed to the Peace Conference should not be accepted by the United States." The list was inserted in the rec ord by the Republican leader after Democratic Leader Martin and Sen ator Swanson, of Virginia, had rais ed simultaneous objection to con sideration of the resolution, which he had introduced after long con ferences with minority members and communication by telegraph and telephone with Republican senators and senators-elect who were not in Washington. Oppose Present Form While opposing the constitution as now drafted, the resolution set forth that is was the desire of the Senate that the nations of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament. It also said it was the sense of the Senate that "the negotiations on the part of the United States should immediately be directed to the utmost expedition of the urgent business of negotiat ing peace terms with Germany" and that then the league proposal should be taken tip for careful and serious . unsiilei atii'Ti. ' Detroit Vapor Stove "Vt orks Like Gas" A marvelous invention which makes oil as prac tical as gas for fuel. No Wicks or Rings No Smoke or Odor r 4 Hot Fire Just Like Gas The Most Economical Stove Ever Invented So Safe a Child Can Operate It Guaranteed 5 Years Demonstrations daily at the store, or in your own home without obligation. REFRIGERATORS Belding Hall & McKee All designs. A solid carload and a half for your selection. 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Unusual scenes of confusion in the final rush to complete its work ac companied the closing hours of Con gress, in which President Wilson, just back from France in his room off the Senate chamber, hastily sign ed many last-moment measures. Stupendous Record Stupendous was the record of the Congress, which 'carried the nation into and through the war and which had been in almost continuous ses-| sion since it was called by President Wilson into extraordinary session April 2, 1917, to declare war against Germany. It appropriated about $60,000,000,000, authorized $25,- 000,000,000 in bonds, and enacted countless measures for prosecuting the war and of domestic import. The new Congress will take up the limit less task of reconstruction problems, ratification of the peace treaty and other vital questions probably im mediately after tthe return of Presi dent Wilson from his second visit to France. Special features of the sixty-fifth Congress were many "addresses by President Wilson, including those recommending war with Germany and Austria, that of January 8, 1917, enunciating his famous four teen principles of peace, and those endorsing woman suffrage, announc ing the armistice terms imposed upon Germany last November and, his recent address detailing accom plishments of his work at Paris. Three Sessions There were three sessions of the Congress. The first, extra session met April 2, 1917, following shortly after the turbulent and successful Senate filibuster on the administra tion armed ship bill which marked the close of the Sixty-fourth Con gress. The dramatic night address of President Wilson to urge war with German'- which was promptly declared, marked the opening of the extra session, called but a few weeks after the President's inauguration for a second term. The session closed October 6. 1917, lasting 188 days. The second session— lasting 35 4 days and the longest in the history of American government—began De cember 3, 1917, and adjourned No DRUGGISTS! VIGK'S VAPOROB SHORTUGE OVERCOME hi LAST The Deal Scheduled For Last November Which Was Postponed on Account of Influenza Epidemic, Is Now Reinstated Good During the Month of March OVER ONE MILLION JARS OF VAPORUB PRO DUCED EACH WEEK It is with pride that we announce ' to the drug trade that the shortage of Vick's Vapoßub. which has lasted since last October, is now | overcome. Since January Ist, we I have been running our laboratory twenty-three and a half hours out of every twenty-four. Last week we shipped the last of our back orders, and retail druggists, therefore, are no longer requested to order in small quantities only. NOVEMBER DEAD RE-IXSTATED This deal, which we had expected to put on last November and which had to be postponed on account of the shortage of Vapoßub, is rein stated for the month of March. This allows a discount of 10 per cent, on shipments from jobbers' stock of quantities of from 1 to 4 gross. 5 per cent of this discount is allowed by the jobber and 5 per cent by us. "We advise the retail druggists to place their orders immediately, so that the jobbers will be able to get prompt shipments to them. THANKS OI 1 THE PUBLIC DUE THE DRUG TRADE DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC The thanks of the American pub lic are certainly due the entire drug trade retail, wholesale and manu facturing for what they accom plished during the recent influenza epidemic. The war caused a short age ot physicians • nurses were almost impossible to obtain—the demand on the drug trade was un expected and overwhelming, and to this demand they responded nobly. Retail druggists kept open day and night and slept where they dropped behind the prescription counter. Wholesale druggists called their salesmen off the road to, help fill orders —■ hundreds wired us to ship AbolßtelHloTii My latt lafmd appll aacca, Imlillm mm mmm/mtm- & A JHBm ln< air apparataa, aakM CmP JF BtrwOag •< all laul . v xMw S u—b at M •< EX^"V&v^SS /%^y^^4r 7 • j# A auTiMBW X Mimm / */ Sl9 IMntSL <°iw*e ■*) HARRISBUKQ, PA. m uih kt • Mt vember 21, last. The third and final session which ended to-day began December 2 last, and was the statu tory short session of ninety-three days. Substantial Democratic majorities In both Senate and House since President Wilson's inauguration six years ago now have passed. In the new Congress, the Senate will have forty-nino Republicans and forty seven Democrats and the House 2118 Republicans and 183 Democrats, one Socialist, two Independents and one Prohibitionist. Mnny Vets Retire Many veterans in both houses re tired with to-day's adjournment. In the Senate these Included Senators Saulsbury, of Delaware, president pro tempore; Lewis, of Illinois. Democratic whip; Shafroth, of Colo rado; Thomas, of Kansas; Hard wick, of Georgia; Hollis, of New Hamp shire, and Vardaman, ot Missis sippi; Goff, of West Virginia; Smith, of Michigan, and Weeks, of Massa chusstts. Among prominent repre sentatives whose services ended were Miss Jeanette Rankin, of Mon tana, the first woman elected to the House; Meyer London, of New ork, Socialist: Swager Sherley, of Ken tucky, chairman of the approprja tions committee: Hayes, California; Keating. Colorado; Powers, of Ken tucky; Foster, Illinois; Cox, Barn liart and Dixon, of Indiana: Miller, Minnesota; Borland, Missouri; Par ker, New Jersey; Gordon, Ohio; Farr, Pennsylvania; O'Shaunessy, Rhode Island: Slayden, Gregg and Dies, Texas, and Cooper and Staf ford, of Wisconsin. First Session During the first session of the Congress, devoted largely to prose cution of the war, among the im portant measures passed were; The war declaration against Ger many, signed April 6, 1917; the se lective draft act; the law for seizure of interned German ships; the war risk insurance bureau act; the first war revenue bill; the food and fuel control laws the daylight sa\ing measure; the initial and record breaking aviation appropriation pf $6 40,000,000: the trading with the enemy act; and measures providing for soldiers and sailors insurance and protection of their civil rights at home. „ . Outstanding Features Outstanding measures of the sec ond, long session, were: The Austrian war declaration; the national prohibition resolution; the Webb export L-ade act; the alien property custodian bill: the law*# for Vick's Vapoßub by the quickest! route, regardless of expense. A TRKMEXDOtS JOB TO IV CREASE OI H PRODUCTION In this emergency we have tried to do our part. We scoured the country for raw materials our Traffic Manager spent his days rid ing freight cars in we shipped raw materials in carload lots by ex press and pleaded with manufac turers to increase their deliveries to us. But it was a slow process. Some of our raw materials are produced only in Japan supplies in this country were low and shipments re quired three months to come from the Far East. Then we had to re cruit and train skilled labor. We brought our salesmen into the fac tory and trained them as foremen. We invented new machinery, and managed to install it on Christmas Day, so as not to interfere with our daily production. 1.13 JARS OF VAPORCB EVERY MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT By January Ist we had everything ready to put on our shift, and since then our laboratory has been running day and night to feed our automatic machines, which drop out one hundred and forty-three jars of Vapoßub a minute or one million and eighty thousand weekly, has required a force of 500 people. Our Cafe Department, created for the benefit of these workers, served 7000 meals during the month of January alone. 13 MI 1,1,10N JARS OF VAPORUB DISTRIBUTED SINCE OCTOBER An idea of the work we have ac complished this Fall may be given by our production figures 13,- 028,976 jars of Vapoßub manufac tured and distributed since last Oc tober one jar for every two fam ilies in the entire United States. During the influenza epidemic, Vick's Vapoßub was used as an ex ternal application in connection with the physician's treatment, and thou sands of people, unable to obtain a doctor, relied on Vick's almost ex clusively. laterally millions of families all over the country, from California to Maine, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, have found Vick's Vapo- Rub tho ideal home remedy for croup and cold troubles. s > HAIUUSBtTRG &6S& TEEEGKXPHI government control of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, cables and radio utilities; the second draft law; the war finance corporation act and the Overman recorganization bill. During the last session, comple tion of the $6,000,000,000 revenue bill WUB the chief accomplishment in addition to completion of water power, oil, gas and coal land de velopment legislation, "authorization of additional bonds and the huge an nual appropriation bills. Woman suffrage also was a much debated topic, but was defeated in the Senate last month, 55 to 29, lacking the necessary two-thirds by margin of one vote, after the reso lution proposing submission of an equal suffrage amendment to the constitution had been adopted by the House on January JO, 1917, by a vote of 274 to 136. The campaign for its adoption will be renewed in the new Congress. Investigations by both Senate and House committees were numerous throughout the three sessions. Among these were the inquiry into disloyalty, charges against Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, which re cently ended in a vote dismissing the charges. Other important in quiries. in addition to the Senate military committee's general army investigation, were those into radi cal, pro-German and brewers' prop aganda. activities of the National Security League, regulation of the meat industry; the railroad ques tion, into coal and sugar condition; the Ford-Newberry senatorial elec tion contest from Michigan, and the Hog Island shipbuilding enterprise. Tlie Senate confirmed thousands of nominations. It ratified treaties for acquisition of the Virgin Islands, for reciprocal drafting of aliens and several commercial and arbitration treaties. Despite the support of Pres ident Wilson, the $25,000,000 Colom bia treaty again failed. Lively Scrap in House as Congress Nears End Washington, March 4.—A bitter political row livened the debate in the HouSe yesterday afternoon. - For a few moments a personal encounter seemed imminent between Chair man Flood, of the Committee on For eign Affairs, and Representative Martin Madden, one of the Repub lican leaders. It came about when renewed charges were made by Rep resentative Rogers (IJepublican) that Major E. J. N. Hale, Minister to Costa Rica, has not been there in two years, but has been at his home in Fayetteville, N. C., drawing full salary. Mr. Flood had read to the House a letter from Acting Secretary of State Polk explaining that Mr. Hale had been kept in this country be cause the President did not want to recognize the existing government in Costa Rica. Mr. Rogers deemed that the ex planation was satisfactory. "I chal lenge the gentleman from Virginia and any member of fhe North Caro lina delegation to show what func tion Hale has performed in the last two years. He is still on the payroll and likely to continue for two years longer, and if a Democratic Presi dent is elected he will probably continue six years longer. Is there no end to this practice of paying ministers for doing absolutely noth ing .' The Assistant Secretary of State told me he had performed no work. If something is not done by Congress in this thing it is likely to persist forever." Mr. Rogers added: "My single, sole and narrow point is, as admit ted by the State Department, that a minister of the United States can be paid two years' salary without doing a stroke of work. That mav be Democratic economy, but it savors vei> much of looting the treasury." Williams Is Assailed by Penna. Congressman Wnstilniftoii, March 4. Rising to a question of personal privilege Rep resentative McFadden, of Pennsvlva yeiStrrda>; the House declared that John Skelton Williams has for >' ears . and through ttje power vested in his office of comptroller of currency, has sonught to destroy the credit of the Pennsyl vania Congressman, who is president of the First National Bank of Canto. Moreover, it was charged that it is * , . ow "Ought by the comptrollers and the Democratic members who are sup porting him in the House to bring about the ftill publication of Williams' letter to McFadden, which the Penn sylvanian stated "contains vitupera tion and charges which, if made pub lic. might destroy and ruin a financial institution in the United States" The controversy In the House fol lowed the issuance by Mr. Williams of a press statement attacking the Pennsylvania representative, and Mr McFadden's efforts to reply by pro ducing proof that he was "not "lone handod" in his demand for an investi gation of the comptroller's office wore combatted by the Demoritits at every turn. There was a long and heated discussion, and Representative Miller, of Minnesota, at length declar ed that the Democrats were endeavor ing to keep the truth of the situation from being revealed. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE KAISER [Continued from Pago B.] to the Kaiser's adjutant-generals, as well as to the chamberlains, equer ries. dames of the palace, chas seurs, coachmen, cooks, and scul lions. More than once have I seen His Majesty abruptly start away from a person with whom he hap pened to be conversing at a recep tion or ball, leaving the unhappy lady or gentleman speechless and crushed, because of an innocent ad mission that a son or a daughter, or perhaps an uncle, had the measles or a cold. At the very mention of the fact the warlord fled like a lion hearing a cock crow. Once X found Madame von Kotze in tears behind some shrub in the White Xlali, while all around , her dancing was going on. "What is the matter with Your ladyship?" I inquired; "can I be of service to you ?" "No, thank you," she sobbed; "but to think that he said that to me!" "Who is he, and what did he say?" • "The liaiser, of course. When he heard that my boy was ill, he re marked, turning on his heel; 'How dare you come to my liouse under such circumstances?' " That happened at a time when Madame von Kotze prided herself upon her particularly friendly rela tions with His Majesty. But the most absurd Instances of the Kaiser's mania for precaution is afforded by the case of little Henry of Reuss, already mentioned. As soon as his death became known, William requested Her Majesty to have disinfected all the dresses that she had taken to Gera when at tending the baptism of the prince, several months before, although he knew at the time that His little Highness did not die of an infec tious disease, as at llrst thought, but of a sort of scurvy. (Copyright, 19X9, Thompson Fea ture Service.) (To Continued Tomorrow) PLATTEN FREED WAVE OF SOVIET WORLD EFFORT Swiss Agitator Got Lenine to Petrograd in 'Sealed Train' to Get Things Started London, March 4.—Truo to the traditions as the foundation head of revolution, Zurich is to-day the switchboard of Bolshevism in Eu rope. The man at the switchboard connecting the various Bolshevist wires is Fritz Platten, the foremost labor leader in Switzerland, and with i the exception of Lenine, the most fanatic advocate in Europe of the | salvation of the world through the dictatorship of the proletariat. In these days of mass rule idols come and go, but if I were an enter prising photographer, I would take a good picture of Fritz Platten. In fact, I would take several. History will want to have a look at such a photograph, for Fritz Platten, willy nilly,.lias become a historical char acter. He is the man who unchained Bol shevism in Europe. It was Platten who arranged with Germany for the passing of the "sealed train' l which took Lenine from Switzerland to Knssia. Platten went to Petro grad in that sealed train, or ratner coach, with Lenine and his thirty odd followers. A few days after the train passed through Germany Platten's associate, lfu/is Vogel, the present editor of the Berner Tagwacht. the leading Socialistic paper in Switzerland, pi loted a second train with the re mainder of the Bolshevist followers of Lenine through Germany into Russia. _ On the train, in charge of Herr Vogel, were Lunarliarsky, toff and Martinoff, besides 250 other Leninites who have since had much to do with the making or unmak ing of Russia. Other Tasks For Bolshevism Nor was his taking Lenine to Rus sia the only service of the Swiss la bor leader to the cause of Bol shevism. Platten rendered another and perhaps greater service to Len ine and the Leninites after they reached Russia. Platten and Lenine were in a carriage together one day when as assassin attemted to shoot Lenine, and it was a quick maneu ver by Platten that deflected the fatal bullet, saving Lenine's life. Platten came out of the experience with a slightly damaged arm. In Switzerland about a month ago Platten was found on the first page every morning. He was and is the most hated man in Switzerland, be cause he was principal leader of the general strike in November, and the general strike is considered still as an unsuccessful coup d'etat by the Swiss Bolshevists. That strike lasted three days, tying up nineteen of the principal cities and districts of Switzerland and involving more than 200,000 workmen. If it was called to gain certain concessions, it was lost, for the workmen gained none. 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