TlfM 011TII PLATTE SEMIVEEKLY TRIBUNE
FRISCO PICKED
IY DEMOCRATS
Liberal Offer of the Metropolis of
Pacific Coast Wins Con
vention. LEADERS RAP TREATY DELAY
National Committee Praises Stand of
Wilson and Declares Republican
Leadership In Senate Has "Con
tempt of the World."
Washington; Jan. 10. The Demo
cratic national committee awarded the
party's 1020 national convention, at
which a candidate for president will ho
;hosun, to San Francisco.
After 27 votes had been cast. Kan
sas City and Chicago withdrew and the
rote, for San Francisco was unanimous.
Monday, Juno 28, was fixed as the con
rent Ion date.
Isndoro B. Dockwcller of California,
nomlnntlnc Snn Francisco, mado a
proffer of a guaranteed sum of $125,
300 for expenses, the free use of the
municipal auditorium, seating from
10,000 to 18,000, and of additional
funds for entertainment purposes.
Resolutions Indorsing the treaty of
Versailles and denouncing as unpntrl
.itie (he attitude of senators who would
iofcut it directly or by nullifying res
?rvntlons were unanimously adopted
by the national committee.
The "arrogant" Republican leader
ship of the senate was denounced as
having earned the "contempt of the
world" by throttling the treaty for sev
en months, and the senate was called
upon to "quit playing politics" with
tlie question of ratification.
Reviewing the legislative record of
the two Wilson administrations and
the manner in which the war was won,
the resolutions also expressed gratifi
cation that the president was regain
ing health after a breakdown "due
largely to his efforts for world peace."
Concerning the peace treaty the res
olutions said:
"Wo affirm our approval of the
treaty of Versailles, and we condemn
as unwise and unpatriotic the attitude
of those senators who would defeat
Its ratification, either directly or by
overwhelming It with reservations that
are intended to and will have the ef
fect of nullifying It.
"The fulluro of the senato Repub
lican leaders to offer or to permit con
Eldcratlon of interpretative resolutions
that would . preserve the general pur
pose of the treaty and so to permit
its ratification condemns them to the
criticism of the Nation and to tl e
contempt of the world."
The resolutions said that when the
Democrat's came into power in 1913
they found "the nntlon In a condition
of "comparative Industrial and com
mercial depression" and with "the
linnking system In the hands of a few
men at whose will panics periodical
ly occurred." It was added that
"these and other ills had existed for 10
years tinder Republican rule without
any relief."
"To remedy this condition," the res
olutions continued, "the Democratic
administration entered immediately
upon a vigorous constructive pro
gram." adding that establishment of
the federal banking system "entitles
the party to the everlasting gratitude
of the country, while the farm loan
banking system gave to our agricul
tural Interests the relief loug demand
od lv thom."
Referring to the avowed objects of
the country's participation In the war.
the resolutions continued:
"A treaty to this end was iiegotlatcd,
and for seven months it lias been
throttled by the misused Republican
lpailershln of the sennte, that Is so ar
rogant that It even refuses to let the
senators of its own party wno uesire
to have the treaty ratilled with cer
tain reservations that seem reasonable
to them to vote accordingly, and thus
to make at least a start towaril world
wide ponce."
WILSON AND BRYAN BREAK
Commoner Urges Compromise on
Treaty, Whlla President Advocates
Form of Referendum.
WnwMiirtnn. .Inn. 10. William J. Brv
,, cniif nnonlv with President Wilson
nt the Jnckson dinner nere on ine
question of whether the Democratic
pnrty should make the League of Na
tions an Issue nt the next election.
The former secretary of state said
the Democrats could not go before the
country on the Issue and that they
must accept such compromises as may
be possible.
President Wilson, In his message to
the diners, hnd said that "the clear
and single way out" was to give the
election the form of a referendum on
the treaty.
German Roads In Bad Way.
Berlin, Jan. 12. German railroads
are kept operating under pressure
from the authorities. At Kssen and
Dortmund only emergency trains are
running. At Elberfeld no trains nre
operating.
Germany Arrests Editor. .
Heiiln, Jan. 12. The editor of the
communist paper Ruhr Echo nnd the
secretary of the Independent Socialist
party of the Ruhr region hnve been
placed under nrre3t, according to reports.
SIR ROBERT HADFIELD
Sir Robert Iladlield of Grout Brit-
aln, Europe's foremost engineer nnd
nnval expert, may come to the United
States to study Amertcnn industries.
Sir Robert is president of the British
Steel and Iron Institute.
QUAKE DEAD NOW 1,400
TOWN IN MEXICO RAZED; WATER
RISES 82 FEET.
Whole Garrison Destroyed and Hun
dreds Killed in Other Cities, Ac
cording to Reports.
Mexico City, Jan. 7.: Couztlnn was
destroyed by Saturday's earthquake,
with 2,000 casualties, including more
than 1,000 dead, according Jo ofllclal
reports given out here by the federal
military headquarters, based on mes-
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Vera Cruz, the center of the disturb
ance. The entire garrison nt Tcocleo was
killed or injured. The dead numbered
30 nnd the injured CO.
Virtually all the roads in the sur
rounding district were flooded or de
stroyed, according to the reports.
Three hundred dead are reported at
Barrancn Grande, near Couztlun.
The water level at Port Barranca
del Aguu rose 25 meters.
Eleven Ijodles have b'ecn recovered
from the river at San Francisco de la
Pena, Vera Cruz, in addition to 24 at
Raconda. Twelve soldiers were among
those burled under the ruins of the
church at Coscomatepec.
Mnny houses and churches In Ja
lapa, a city about fifty miles north
west of Vera Cruz were damaged,
wlrtle reports from Orizaba, a city ten
miles south of the volcano, state that
several business bloe'As and churches
nonr the center of the town were
cracked.
In the .suburbs of Orizaba the shock
was very severe, many persons being
reported killed beneath thoicwrocked
houses.
The shock came during n perform
ance at the theater at Orizaba, and
panic-stricken people leaped from the
balconies into the pit in their efforts
to escape. No one was killed, but
many were Injured.
ARMY CAMPS TO BE OPENED
Ellis Island Found Too Small to Ac
commodate Great Numbers of
Red Captives.
Washington, Jan. 7. The round-up
of members of the Communist party
by department of Justice agents net
ted so many captives that the war de
partment was appealed to to permit
army camps to be used to shelter
them.
It was found that Ellis Island, New
York, which is one of the mnln mobili
zation points for the Communist pris
oners, was too small to accommodate
them, and Secrctnry Baker announced
that he had authorized General Bui
lard to permit the use or Camp Upton.
Long Island.
COURT SAVES 12 NEGROES
Arkansas Supreme Tribunal Stays the
Execution of Death Sen
tence Indefinitely.
Lf?lle P.ock, Ark.. Jim. 12. Stays of
execution of 12 negroes under death
sentence for murder alleged to have
boon committed during the recent ne
gro insurrection In Phillips county,
were Issued by the Arknnsns supreme
court, following the filing of appeals.
The stays defer the executions Indefi
nitely. New Mexican Ambassador -o U. S.
Ran Antonio, Tex., Jan. 12. Salvador
Diego Fernnndoz, a chief clerk In the
department of foreign relations at
Mexico City, baa been appointed am
bassador to the United States, sue
ceding Ignnclo Bonlllnn.
Guilty of Slaying; Fined Cent.
Kallspell, Mont., Jnn. 12. A Jury
In the case of Stephen Harris, tried
recently for killing George Hebron nt
Whlteflsh Inst summer, reported n ver
dict of guilty and fixed tho punishment
nt a tine of 1 cent.
REDS READY FOR
I
DRIVE
Bolshevik Forces Have Entered
City of Bokhara in Cen
tral Asia.
CAPTURE 60,000 irSIBERIA
Swarms of Propagniida Agents Sent
Into Persia and the Caucasus
With Counterfeit Money
to Start Revolt.
London, .tan. 10. The town of Kras
noyarsk, eastern Siberia, has been
raptured by the bolshevlkl. uteordlni;
to a Moscow wireless dispatch.
"The remnant of the Flri, Second
and Third enemy urinlus have surren
dered, and 00,000 prisoners already
have been counted," says the dispatch.
Another Moscow dispatch says the
booty captured by the reds on the
Southern front In Russia in the pres
ent offensive Includes -100 guns. 1,000
machine guns, 11,000 rifles, 10 armored
trains, 200 locomotives, 10,000 wagons,
and large stores of food and muni
tions, together with .'15,000 prisoners.
Krasnoyarsk Bitter Cold.
Krasnoyarsk Is situated on the
Trans-Siberian railway about .00
miles east of Tomsk. Lying on the
plain, and open to the play of the bit
ter wind, trafllc wllh the town by
caravan is almost impossible In the
winter. The town Is situated on the
left bank of the Yenisei liver.
An nnti-.lapntip.se rising 1ms broken
out In Korea, according to a bolshevik
wireless communication received here,
last night from Moscow.
Japan Reports Irkutsk Taken.
Honolulu. T. II., Jan. 10. The Nlppu
Jijl, a Japanese-language newspaper
here, published n Tokyo cable yester
day reporting that the bolshevlkl had
captured Irkutsk and that tin. allied
diplomats had gone to Chita.
London. Jan. 12. The town of
Krasnoynrskl. eastern Siberia, has been,
captured by the bolshevik), according
to a Moscow wireless dispafche. "The
remnants of the First. Second and
Third enemy armies have surrendered,
nnd 00,000 prisoners already have been
counted," says the dispatch.
Bokhara, capital of the Important
khniiate of Bokhara In central Asia
and less than 200 miles from the Af
ghanistan frontier, has been entered
by bolshevist forces, according to war
ofllce reports. Farther west soviet
troops hnve occupied Krasnovodsk on
the cistern shore of the Caspian sea,
It Is claimed In reports front Moscow.
Direct -railway communication be
tween Trans-Caspla and European
Russia has been secured by the reds,
who will be able to concentrate Im
portant bodies of troops In Turkestan
with u view to carrying out possibly
far-reaching plnns westward toward
the Caucasus region and southward I
toward Persia (now virtually a Brit
ish protectorate) and Afghanistan. It i
s said.
Bolshevist authorities have an
nounced their Intention to ponclrnte
Persia by way of Khornssan as soon
as they secure control-of the Caspian
sea. and recent reports have Indicated
that soviet garrisons along the Khoras
snn frontier had been heavily re-enforced.
The bolshevlkl have as their ulterior
purpose an offensive against the Brit
ish and plan Important movements In
the direction of fudln In conjunction
with the Afghans and other peoples
who might lie Influenced by pan-Islamic
aspirations, It Is asserted.
For this purpose swarms of propa
ganda agents are said to be undergoing
Intensive training, and tuny have been
sent into Persia and the Caucasus, be
ing provided with large supplies of
counterfeit English money. It Is re
ported 1,500 soviet ngents hnve gone
Into Persia from Georgln and Azer
baijan and nntl-bolshevist authorities
have taken steps to put a stop to this
movement.
News has reached London from Brit
ish sources In Irkutsk that 0.000 antl
Knlehak Insurgents are holding Irk
utsk, eastern Siberia. They are armed
with machine guns and have airplanes
nnd are constantly being re-en forced.
TO PAY ROADS FOR 6 MONTHS
Confereec Agree to an Extension of
Income From the United
States.
Washington, Jan. 12. Continuation
of the standard Income return to rail
roads for a period of six months after
the termination of federal control was
agreed upon by senate and house con
ferees on railroad legislation. In fix
ing tills dnte the conferees accepted
tho Kseh bill provision. The Cummins
hill would hnve limited the time to
four months.
Weyler to Quell Riots.
Madrid,. Jan. 12. Gen. Weyler, cap
tain general of Cuba prior to the Spanish-American
war. may he sent to Bar
celona by the government to tnke
chnrge of the sltwitlon there, accord
ing to dispatches.
May Become League Chief.
Purls, Jan. 12. Albert Thomns, the
French labor leader, probably will re
sign from the chamber of deputies to
become a chief of a department of the
League of Nations, according to the
Echo de Paris.
M INDIA
REAR ADMIRAL DECKER
Rear Admiral Botuon ('. loeke.. U.
S. N. who ha created a sensation In
naval and olllcial circles by refusing
the Navy Cross awarded bint for his
services as naval attache In Madrid.
Admiral Decker claims that It was
through the efforts of himself nnd his
aids that Spain was prevented from
Joining the central powers against the
nlllcs In 101S. He says that If his
claims are true he should have been
awarded the Distinguished Scrvico
Medal Instead of the lower distinction.
COLVER DEFENDS AIDS
CONNECTS REDS WITH DEAL
INGS OF BIG PACKERS.
Trade Commlcslon Before Senate
Committee Quotes Martens on
Purchases Despite Blockade.
Washington. Jan. 10. Charges that
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, Russian
soviet "ambassador" to the United
Stntes, and his secretary, S. Nuorteva,
had asserted that they had had suc
cessful dealings with American meat
packing concerns In buying meats for
soviet Russia, despite the blockudo of
that country, were made before tho
senate agriculture committee by Wil
liam B. Colver of the federal trade
commission.
The trade commissioner made his
charges while explaining other allega
tions that employees of the commis
sion were under fire as "radicals" and
"holshevists." He charged that for
mer secret service officials nt Chicago
had "framed up" arrests of comnils
shm employees In an effort to create
the Impression that the commission
was a "hotbed of bolshevisni."
Reverting to the testimony at the
agriculture committee hearings on
proposed packer regulative legislation,
Mr. Colvor charged that J. Ogden Ar
mour of Armour & Co. had promised
the committee to explain u corporation
device which the ooniinisjioner snUU
the packers adopted to conceal their
ownership of the. Chicago stock yards
and had fulled to do It.
"Their plnn of successfully conceal
ing the ownership of corporations re
duces business In this country to a
game of blind man's
buff," Mr. Colvor 1
asserted. "Furthermore, It Is abso
lutely successful as a method of pre
venting the commissioner of Internal
revenue from collecting income taxes
and surtaxes. It Is the absolute do
feat of our revenue laws us It now
stands, and there Is need of a law to
abolish It before the practice crystal
izos in our business. life."
Some of the persons who appeared
before the committee opposing packer
regulation, the commission charged,
were direct agents of the packers.
LENINE ASKS PEACE OF ALLIES
Russian Bolshevik Premier Promises
to Abolish Terorrlom and Rev
olutionary Tribunals.
Stockholm. Jan.
Russian bolshevik
a new peace offer
Is being taken to
7. Nikolai Lenlne,
premier, has mado
to the i.llles, which
London by Colonel
I 'fallouts. British representative In the
Baltic states. Among other ondilloin
included In the offer Is a promise to
abolish terrorism and the activity of
i revolutionary tribunals, according ft
an Esfhonlan iievvspaKr.
(FORMALLY ARREST PREV0ST
Warrant Charges Cousin of Victim's
Widow With Having Killed
J. Stanley Brown.
Mount Clemens. Mich.. Jan. S.
Lloyd Provost was formally placed
under arrest on a warrant charging
him with having killed .1. Stanley
Brown, whose body was found In his
automobllo on a country road near
here two weeks ago. The warrant
charges Provost with committing the
crime "deliberately and with careful
premeditation."
Bootleggers Are Expenolve.
Washington, Jan. 10. An additional
appropriation of $2,000,000 to enforce
national prohibition wns nsked of con
gress by the Internal revenue bureau.
A like amount already hns been ap
propriated. Maud Powell Is Dead.
Pittsburgh, Pa Jan. 10. Mnudo
Powell, well-known violinist of Now
York, died here while on a concort
tour. Overwork is thought to havo
caused her
denlv
collapse, which came sml
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION NOTES
Lincoln. A proposal submitted to
the convention by Lewis of Wayne, an
educator, may be Intended to be a
portion of a plnn to place the university
nnd normal schools and other educa
tional Institutions under o? board or
head. It Is not necessnrlly n part of
such u plnn, hut It follows In the wake
of It. The proposal Is No. 22!. It pro
vides that the legislature may levy a
permanent tax for the support of edu
cational Institutions and apportion and
appropriate such funds or any other
funds to such Institutions. While It
refers to the tnx as it permanent tax,
it would be a tax by the legislature,
subject to change every tvm years, and
Is considered u reversion to the old
days when the university was com
pelled to lobby before each session of
the legislature foV its proper share of
appropriations. Mr. Lewis Is of the
opinion his proposal will stop log roll
lug for educational fluids. Others as
sert It will make log rolling an abso
lute necessity.
Col. T. J. Majors of Peru, member
of the state normal board, Is credited
with being the iiuthor of a proposal by
Wall of Sherman to give constitutional
recognition to the present system of
state normal schools. Which now
Hands on a statutory basis. The pro
posal Is No. 222. It provides that the
normal schools shall be under control
of a board of seven, six of whom lire
to be appointed by the governor, the
state superintendent to be ex.olllclo
member. Under the present statute
normals ait) under a hoard of seven,
live of whom are appointed by the gov
ernor, the state superintendent and
state treiuiurer being ex-ollkio mem
bers. '
Wilson of Dawes submitted tin amend
nieiit which would change the time of
election of governor and oilier exe
cutive olllclals mid legislative member
(o the odd-numbered years, ami hold
legislative sessions In the oven num
bered, extending the term of thosq
olllclals elected In 1022 one year. This
would ahaudoii the present biennial
election, and call for an election each
year. Other state olllclals, Including
Judges, university regents, railway
commissioners, congressmen, senators
and comity olllclals would ho elected In
even years. Initiative or referendum
propositi ions would then be submitted
at the election any year.
John Lee Webster of Omaha, presi
dent of the constitutional convention
of 1S75, addressed members of the
present constitutional convention last
Thursday and was given a most cordial
greet lug. He made a plea for a consti
tution which would not bo unduly re
strictive, but at the sumo time declared
n need for nbldlnir hv standards of true
representative government, so' distin
guished from socialistic tendencies,
and for an independent and free Ju
diciary. Under a proposal offered by Fred A.
Nye of Buffalo, the governor's pardon
power would be limited. Tho amend
ment proposes that the governor be al-
lowed to Issue pardons, reprieves, corn-
mutations, paroles and furloughs, pro
viding tho Judgo.nf the district court
in the county In which the applicant
was convicted shall recommend clem
ency after holding a public hearing and
taking evidence.
Two proposals affecting the lime
of legislative sessions and the pay of
members have been offered by Dele
gate Svoboda of Howard county. One
advances the date for the convening of
the legislature from the first week in
January to the third Tuesday ill No
vember, following the election. The
other raises the pay from $000 per
session to S10 per day tor not moro
than 100 days, or $1,000 In all.
John Wlll.se oT Richardson submit
ted two proposals last week, one for
the recall of public officials except
Judges, the legislature to provide the
legal machinery, and 'another which
would rcipilro the payment of all lines
and licenses to counties or to cities
and villages Instead of to the school
funds of the district In which the lines
or licenses are imposed.
Jerry Howard of Douglas county lias
presented an amendment which would
Teate a court of Industrial conditions,
The proposed court, when appealed to,
would have Jurisdiction In matters of
(inference and dispute between employ-
ers and employes, it would not have,
however, "such power as will deny
either employers or employes the right
to refuse employment or to cease work,
Singly or collectively."
Conslileralile merriment was mani
fest among convention members when
a proposal submit ted by Norman of
Douglas county, providing for the re
moval of the state eapltol to Omalia,
was read. So far as Is known tho
amendment litis very little hacking.
President Weaver of the convention
Is said to be tr.vlng to devise a plan to
refer all proposals for the election of
public olllclals by districts to one com
mittee. The committee on education has do
elded to recommend to the convention
the rejection of all proposals relating
to compulsory educutlon or the leach
lug of foreign languages in public
schools, deeming sufficient the supreme
court's recent ruling that the present
legislature bad uinpln power. ,
DADDY) EVBtK
IBM TALE
& Mary Graham
THE MARSH RABBITS
"Well," said Mrs. Marsh Rabbit. r.s
she looked about her, "it won't he so
long before spring now. Of, course It
will be unite a time but It will puss
quickly. I will then begin to wel
come the little ones. They will come
In groups, several times during tho
rest of the year after that.
"And how they will love their
home."
"Mine will love their home too,"
said Mrs. Swamp Rabbit, "for we are
so very much alike. We have nests of
grasses and rushes, softly lined with
our own fur. We live In svvnnipy,
marshy lands and we love the veg
etables and roots around our parts."
"Yes, we're very much alike," said
Mrs. Marsh Rabbit. "Wc both love
the water so much that wc live around
It, and wc love swimming as much as
we do running or Jumping or skip
ping. "Wo nlwnys run to water when we
want to escape. Wo always go straight
for It when danger is near, for the
water Is a great protection to us.
"The wood rabbit relatives care for
the great woods and not for the water
at all.
"You, Mrs. Swamp Rabbit, belong
to a larger family than I do with long
legs nnd you can run faster. But I
care more for the water than you do.
You will often live further away from
it than I will'.
"We both live down south It Is truo.
and you look quite a hit like me. I
am a rellitlve too of the eottontnU
tamlly, but I have smaller ears ana
"To Escape."
shorter, thinner legs and feet and a
short tall. You're my only very near
rcliitlve, and you go more to the west
than I do,
"Oil, you must bo off now? Well,
good-bye, glad to have seen you, ll'a
quite a treat."
"Oood-bye," said Mrs. Swamp Rab
bit, "and 1 will be thinking of you
Jn April when the children will come.
I will think of spur children as I he
boid my own little beauties."
She was off, and Mrs. Marsh Rab
bit looked about her.
"I must see that my nest is all
right," she said. (
Her nest was In the heart of a
swamp, surrounded by wafer. It was
a very wann and comfortable and soft
looking nest with all Its grass and
leaves and Its soft fur as a lining.
"It's no nice," said Mrs. Marsh Rab
bit to herself, "not to havo to depund
on shops to get things one needs. Now
I wouldn't know where to go for a '
lining such as I have In my nest, but
1 don't have to look about and get
exhausted shopping.
"Just some of my own fur will do!
And tho children will know It's moth
er's old fur and they will love It and
will He so snugly upon It nnd wilt
dream happy little marsh rabbit
dreams.
"And they won't capture us creu
lures who're out looking for rabbits
no, they won't I
"For we know liovv to hide In 'the
water. We know how to look after
ourselves, and that Is why .we live
where wc do.
"We live where wo can bo safe and
happy and whero everything around
us will be marshy and comfortable.
x"But I will have to tell my little
ones the old story of tho door.
"They will see the one entrance to
the nest and they will say, 'Why moth
er, do we all go out of the same door?'
"And I will tell them, 'That Is the
great entrance to Mother Marsh Rab
bit's home and It Is as line as any
entrance way ,or front door to any
big house or mansion.'
"And the little ones will wiggle
their noses and will say, 'How' nico
it is to be little marsh rabbits and to
have a front door to our home llko
real folks do!'
"Dear little bunnies, what a happy
home awaits you!"
In the Woodshed.
"Did your father take you out to
the woodshed for purposes of dis
cipline?" "He did that," answered the boy.
"I thought he disapproved of cor
poral punishment."
"Ho does. He believes In prolong
ing tho agony. He mado mo saw wood
for tlireo hours."
Was Choking the Birds.
A first grade teacher taught her pu
pils they had birds In their hands nnd
If they did not keep them closed they
would fly away. ie teacher noticed
a little girl crying nnd asked the rea
son, "Oh, Jimmy's got his hands
closed so tight I'm afeared tho birds
will choke," she replied.