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THE I IMAHA K( >RNING PEE _ YT_ VOL. 52—NO. 207. SSF OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923.* foJjM: Vt”**»■ /.>* . TWQ CENTS Portfolio Changes Are } Approved Consolidation of Bureaus and Departments of Govern ment Ready for Sub mission to Congress. Unite Army and Navy ■Washington, Feb. 13.—A plan for reorganization of the governmental departments and bureaus under which the War atjd Navy departments would be consolidated in a single portfolio designated as the “department of de fense," has been given the approval of President Harding, according to high administration officials. The completed plan was sent to the printer today, preparatory to submit tal to the joint congressional commit tee which was authorized to consider the changes. The plan, which contemplates a number of other changes in the exectt , tive branch of the government, is tunderstood to have been approved by w 1 he president at a conferencfe with Walter F. Brown, ex officio chairman ■» of the joint congressional committee on reorganization, which was appoint ed a number of months ago, but has not been able to agree on a program. The proposals favored by Mr. Har ding are said to have been worked out \ by Mr. Brown in conference with the president, members of the cabinet, some of the committee men and cer tain unofficial experts. The Brown plan is described as calling for establishment of a new de partment of education and public wel fare, with supervision over all educa tional activities of the government, and over all hospitalization facilities, k including those of the public health service, Army, Navy and Interior de partment institutions, and possibly ' the veterans bureau. The new de partment, according to official infor mation. would be headed by a cabinet member reporting directly to the president with an under secretary in direct charge of each of the two main divisions of education and welfare. The forestry service, which has been the figure of much discussion and reported plans for changes, is reported to be left under the Depart ment of agriculture. Proposals to di vide this service between the Agri cultural and Interior departments have been discussed from time to time, due to activities described as overlapping the functions of both de partments, but these differences ap parently have been smothered out in the decision not to change the Jurls . - diction over the service. Transfer of * the cutter service of the coast guard to the navy from the army along with the coast guard academy at An napolis are also considered. Senate Takes Up British Debt Pact Washington, Feb. 13.—The British debt funding bill was taken up in the senate today under an agreement reached after conferences between t’re-ident Harding and republienh leaders for laying aside the adminis tration’s shipping bill temporarily but without displacing it from privileged i status. * Such an amendment was proposed by the new progressive bloc immedi ately after it was organized, and Vrob ably Is the first proposed change In the constitution to be approved by the senat e^ft er coming out of any com mittee other thHn the judiciary coin mittee. It was reported from the agrl culture committee, of which Senator Norris is chairman, as a substitute for a senate resolution Introduced soon h after the beginning of the present ses '« sion by Senator Caraway, democrat Arkansas. Administration Opposed to Embargo on Anthracite Washington. Keb. 13.—The admin istration does not believe it necessary to place an embargo on shipment of anthracite coal to Canada on account of the shortage in New York. The administration is of the opinion that the shortage grows out of transporta icated in the following telegram sent to Governor Smith by President Harding after receipt of a message from the New York execu tive: ‘Telegram received. I am in formed the situation in northern New 'iork Is a result of failure In trans portation rather than of supply, and I believe conference ,in progress this morning between the federal fuel di*,. trlbutor and Mie New York fuel dis tributor will result in relief." first Italian Skyscraper Will Be Erected at Milan Milan, Keb. 13.—Preparations nro under way for the erection here of the first skyscraper in Italy. Premier Mussolini, upon being informed of the project, sent a telegram, saying: ‘‘Reserve an apartment on the, top floor for me. Ever higher must be our program In everything.” “(jas Suicides ’ Increase. Goudon, Keb. 13. — England is sroused over Its •'suicidal gas." Every winter England has a flood of suicides by gas, but this year there are an unusual number. It in charged x that the gas companies are furnishing " gas which contains such a high de gree of carbon monoxide that suicide is made easy, and there in a demand that something be done about it. Not. only is the high degree of car bon monoxide an aid to would be sui rc.des hut It is a danger to those who wont to live. There have been a nuni ber of deaths of late from gas poison ing. Recently 30 children were strlrkcri with gas poisoning while at tending a dance. Valentino Says Man Who Claims to Understand Fair Sex Is a “Liar" Chicago, Feb. 13.—Like the Arab sheik he portrays, Rodolph Valentino quietly folded his tent and stole away from Chicago, where he and Winifred Hudnut had come incognito. Rodolph and AVinlfred are married, but their marriage will not bo legal until March 4. They arrived early from Detroit, took a taxicab ride and consumed some ham and eggs at a depot res taurant, where the waitress slapped i the "ham and” down in front of them, 1 blissfully ignorapt of the fact that I she was serving celluloid royalty. A reporter asked the "sheik” about women and love. "Why does everybody consider me an authoirty on women?” he demand j ed. "I do not know anything about | women. A man who says he under ! stands them is either a liar or an im becile. "Why consider the man the ag ! gressor in love, anyway? I hold with i Bernard Shaw—that it's the wbman : who is the pursuer and the man who is pursued.” House Sustains Committee on Muny Light Bill Proposal to Postpone Passage of Howell Measure Indefi nitely Carries—Jacoby Bill Goes on File. By P. C. POWELL, Staff Correspondent The Omaha lire. Lincoln, Feb. ' 13.—(Special.)—The lower house by vote of 55 to 37 voted today to sustain the cities and towns committee in its action in indefinitely postponing the Howell Omahalmunici pal light bill. The same body, by a vote of 63 to 26, voted to place the Jacoby excess profits tax bill on general file, over a recommendation made by the taxation committee to indefinitely postpone the pleasure. Debate on the Howell bill was short and spirited, The only new argu ment advanced was by Wlngett of Thurston, a farmer, to the effect that the increasing number of munieipatly owned, tax-freo utilities was gradual ly shifting a larger burden of tax ation on the farmers, leaving city dwellers only as beneficiaries. Representative Ed Smith of Omaha declared in support of the Howell bill that ultimately the Nebraska Power company, holding a lighting franchise in Omaha, would unload its plant on the city at an exorbitant price. Smith C'it^s Has Case. "The city council handled the ac quisition of the gas and water plants and the people of Omaha were obliged to pay millions in excess.of their true value," Smith sftld. "The same will 1 bo true with the light company un less you place (he handling of the situation In the hands of the Metro politan Utilities district and take it away from the political city council. “A school board handles sehool problems, so why shouldn't a board created to handle our gas, water and ice problems also take charge of our lighting problems? The Nebraska Power company, demanding a return on $7,000,000, In watered stock, is lit erally robbing the city of thousands annually.” ; Others participating' in the debate were Dysart and Dybali, Omaha, against the bill, and Mears of Wayne, Elsasser and Strehlow, Omaha, for the bill. There were no party lines drawn, as many republicans and dem ocrats voting proportionately for the measure as against it. Members of the Omaha delegation voting for the Howell plan were: Collins, O, B. El sasser. Smith. Strehlow and Tlnime. Jacoby Speaks for His Bill! Representative Jacoby, author of the excess profits tax bill, was the only one heard on that measure. Jacoby, who voted for the Howell bill, asserted that those who opposed it chiefly on the grounds that niuniclpai ly-owned utilities shifted the tax bur den on the farmers, Would, to he con sistent, become compelled to vote to place his excess profits tax bill on 1 general file and ultimately put it through the lower house. “No one can deny that an excess profits tax on corporations f. Ill relieve the farmer from much taxation, which was the excuse given by many for refusing to vote for the Howell bill,” Jacoby said. Howell has a similar bill in the sen ate, which he intends to endeavor to put through and again piaco the bill before the lower house for considera tion at this session. The Howell bill placed the power rf calling an election to vote bonds for a municipal light plant in Omaha l:i < Taro to l*i|« Two. Column Four.) 4 War Victim’ Is Plea of Creamery Witnesses Testj^*£0c .JBuying Waterloo ' igure Pr^x,x .deges Is A .v'4'' ove Value. - No ^dles Permit Issued V Italf a dozen witnesses for tile prose cution testified yesterday in federal court, beginning the trial of 11 men and one woman, charged with con spiracy to use the mails to defraud in promotion of the Waterloo Cream ery company, now defunct. Walter Raecke, Central City, coun ty attorney of Merrick county, testi fied that lie bought one share of the stock for $137.50 in February, 1350, after William Wilbur, one of the in dicted them, had talked to him many times. Hubert Kyner, a director, was also present on one occasion, Raecke said. Anna Gelander of Manilla, la., testi fied that she paid for three shares with Liberty bonds. She also paid $137.50 a share, she said. No Record of Permit. J. E. Hart, secretary of the state department of trade and commerce, testified that no officers of the com pany applied to his department for permission to sell Waterloo Creamery company stock since he took office in August, 1919. Herbert Daniel, receiver for the company, stated that he visited va rious subsidiaries of the company and found them heavily encumbered. He sold the plant at Faribault, >linn.( re ceiving only $10,500 above the in debtedness aglnst it. This, he said, was carried on the Waterloo com pany’s books at $225/100. Dr. O. H. Hahn of Hastings tes tified to buying 10 shares at $140 a share from Bert Corlisj. who, he said, told him the stock would pay 7 to U per cent and that he could get his money back when he want ed it. ‘‘War Victim” Is Defease. An astonishing story of willful mis representations of the affairs of the company in an effort to sell its stock to the public at five or six times what it was worth was told in the opening statement of the prosecution made by Special Assistant William Dorsey. Thomas Allen of Lincoln, chief counsel for the defense, in his opening statement, looked at the financial wreck of a $2,000,000 concern in quite another light. ”It was bit doing everything in their power during the war to help this gov ernment which is now trying to send them to the penitentiary that these persons plunged into tills trouble," he said. Output Increase/. ’’In the early days of the war the officers of this company were called to Washington, where they conferred with Herbert Hoover, who told them to go back home and increase their output of condensed milk to the very limit to help win the war. "They obeyed. They acquired vari ous subsidiaries. They increased their output until they were shipping it by the trainload to the seaboard and across the ocean. ’’Then rame the depression. Buy ing orders worp canceled. Tho "A •■ral reserve l>aiik withdrew its cred it. Stockholders became uneasy and asked for a receiver." Diametrically opposite statements <Ttim to Pais Two, Column Dee.) Oinalian Elected President of Advertising Managers Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 13.—L. 11. Wilson of Omaha was elected presi dent of the Midwest Advertising Man agers’ association at a conference here. Cities In Arkansas, Iowa. Okla honia, Nebraska, Kansas and Mia sotirl were represented at the meet ing. Man's Fiery Cross? Akron, O., Feb. 13. — A wooden cross six foot high -and placed on a hill south of Akron whs saturated with oil and then fired by unknown persons, believed to be members of the Ku Klux Klan from some nearby city. Ambassador (jives Dinner. Borne. Feb. 13. — <A*)— Ambassador Child gave a dinner last night with 20 covers In honor of Premier Mussolini. In their speeches the premier and members of hla cublnet expressed the most friendly feelings for America. “You are riKht,”— Miss Spencer replied slowly: “1 wouldn’t. 1 wouldn't let you go for all the dollars in America.’’ Nella felt cold down her spine, and sat down again in her chair. A draught of air from the broken window blew in her cheek. , Steps sounded in the passage, the door opened, but Nella did not turn. She could not move her eyes from Miss Spencer's. There was a noise of rushing waters in her ears. She lost consciousness, and slipped limply to the ground. R E A D “The Grand Babylon Hotel” By Arnold Bennett A wonderfully interesting novel by a great writer. Don't miss It EVERY WEEK DAY IN ' THEvMORNING BEE BEGINNING FRIDAY, FEB. !<> \ „ » ■ ■— Nebraskan, 75, Gets License in Omaha to if ed Sweetheart, 60 1 I.ove laughed not only at lock siuilhs, hut at Father Time himself, yesterday morning when Warren K. Krotvn, 75, Osceola, Neb., obtained a license in the office of the clerk of the county court to wed Mrs. Itoset la B. Brewer, his 60-year-old sweet hear?. Mrs. Brewer formerly operated the Atlantic hotel at Platlsinoulh, Neb. Nile has a son, It. K. Itrewer, In St. I-ouis. * Spillman Defied Law Is Charge of Fremont Banker « _ Dan V. Stephens Asserts At torney General “Usurped Court Authority” in Hold rege Bank Failure. , / Dan A. Stephens, Fremont banker ' and a member of th< state bankers' ‘ legislative committee, charged in a slatement issued Monday night that j Attorney General Spillman has j "usurped the authority of the court" ! in his stand on the Citizens* State Bank of Holdrege affair. "He (the attorney general) defied I , the court in his advice to the bank- j j ing department not to pay the draft on the guaranty fund which would have saved the Citizens bank,” the i statement says. "He acted as judge, Jury and prosecuting attorney In deti ! ance of law and order and is now in i contempt of the court Issuing the I order.” ' .State Machine Competent. Mr. Stephens declares the contro versy over the failure and on the merits of the Citizens bank's claim on the guaranty fund, has been waged by Attorney (ieneral Spillman and Clarence A. Davis, former attor ney general and a vice president of , the failed l«ink, ‘‘proves conclusively : the incompetency of the state politi cal machine to administer a highly ! technical and sensitive business such f as the banking business." "This is proven by the fact that i 54 banks have failed right tinder the j department's nose, and that last week ! th» Citizens State Bank of Holdrege ‘ 1 was broken, notwithstanding numer j ouf warnings that fussing about ques i tions of the law on which all kinds of ! legal opinions were available would do that very thing," continues Mr, 1 Stephens. Banks Kxploiled. Interviewed by The Omaha Bee yes I terday, Mr. Stephens said he was not | I "taking sides" in the matter. He continued: "Mr. Spillman avers he is not con 1 cerned In a practical solution of tin Holdrege case, but only in its legality. He merely proves the bankers’ con tention that ,the lainks arc being ex ploited while politicians and lawyers fuss over the law. The fact that the guaranty fund is now compclIOJ to pay $400,000 or more to the depositors of the Citizens bank, when, if the court 's order had been obeyed, $ IS 7, ooo would have settled the bill, may r.ot Interest Mr. Spillman as a prac tical proposition, but it would if ho had to pay this unnecessary loss him self." In an argument for an amendment of the hanking laws "so that banks v 111 b« In a position to help the state department to enforce the law and handle the Institutions in need of htlp," Mr. Stephens declares that at present the state has a "life anJ death power over bankers.” Ho dc dares “no political machine can su* ceasfully exercise such a power." and |as a solution urges the plan which would create a "commission composed of practical heads of banks chosen by banks themselves as an advisory body to the state banking depart ment." He declares such a commission would prevent exploitation of banks and the wasting of bonks’ property i through expensive receiverships. 120 Miners Perished in Disaster at Dawson, N. M. Dawson, N. M, Feb. 13.—-But two of the 122 miners in Dawson mine No. I. when a terrific explosion oc curred there Thursday afternoon. I survived. This was definitely estab hsheij late last night when the Phelps-Dodge Gorporatlpn, owners of tho mine, announced that It hail been completely explored and all pos slhllity of any of tho entombed men still being alive had vanished. Tho known dentil toll early today stood nt 1U8. Tho two men who walked out of tho workings last Fri day morning brought the number of those accounted for to 108, Fourteen still lie In the tunnels In which they were working when the Impact of the explosion Is believed to have snuffed out their lives. Witness of Double Murder Has Mysterious Sickness New Brunswick, N. ,1.. Feb. 13 — ! Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig farmer, who claimed to have witnessed the murder of Rev. Kdtvnrd Wheeler Hall mid Mrs. Kleanor Mills, choir singer, was reported seriously 111 today. \8 llllatu Kaston, her son, said she suffei ed a stroke of apoplexy. » 1 »r. .1. Cooper, who attended Iter today, said Mrs. Gibson told him that u strange woman visited her yester day anil that fumes from* the woman's handkerchief had caused her "fainting spell.” Mrs. Gibson recently offered her i farm for sale, declaring she w.is tired jof being bothered bv suspicious per sons who prowl around her place. Will Open Pbiirtiab Tomb. Luxora, Kirvpt, FVb. Ill Lord; Carnarvon, head of the excavation ex* j pedition in tho valley of the kina'4. 1 It ax derided to open th«> Inner i hunr* ‘her of the tomb of 1’hnmtth Tntunk i In&mcn, the coming Humluv. U wua | announced heir “Lay, Dern Ye, Lay!” Bandits Kill Bank Messenger in Los Angeles Holdup*, in Auto. Attack ^ ic tiin and Two Guard* in Center of Commer cial District. Iam Angeles, Feb. 13.—Samuel Mc (•e**, bank messenger of the First Na tional hank, was shot and killed here today in a daylight robbery hy two automobile bandits, who escaped with a bag containing funds. McGee, with two guards, was driv ing a machine from a poatoffice sta tion to the hank, carrying a regis tered parcel containing currency. Two holdup men in an automobile appa rently had followed the bank car from the pos toff ice. They left their ma chine and running to the tank car, fired at McGee, killing him, and snatch ing the bag containing the parcel, ran back to their machine and escaped. The shooting occurred on Fourth street, three blocks east of Main. This is the center of the Jobbing and commercial districts. O? I-. Callan and W. Bllszard. guards for the Kink messenger, were forced to hold up their hands while the robbers took the parcel and escaped. Bank offi cials said that a number of pieces of registered mail were contained in the parcel stolen. No estimate could be made of the loss until a check coul* be made back to those who were transmitting checks and funds to the l-ank. Sol Cohen and two employe* were held tip In his store at 521 Spring street, the heart of the downtown business district, by a robber today who dashed out of the shop with $75,000 In diamonds and $1,000 in gold. A pedestrian gave chase and the robber threw the diamonds in his face amt escaped in the crowd with the gold. Blast Furnaces in Mahoning District Ordered to Reopen Youngstown, O.. Feb. 13 —Orders to j' ut In operation the Youngstown Manna blast furnace of the Republic Iron him! Steel company, idle since November, 1920, have been Issued and (lie furnace probably will lie blown within a week, it was announced yes terday. The furnace of ti e Viirr Mill Steel company is being rellned and will be lighted as soon n* the stack in ready, according to another announcement. “So Many Responses That I Was Swamped” - said Mr. W. (’. Clayton, who was in Oinahu recently, seeking salesmen to represent a large Philadelphia concern. " I hr Omaha Pea has th* othrr pspur# heat twenty ways. My 'Want* A«l in your paper brought so many response* that I was awampr«i." Voluntary testimonials like the above come to us every day- proving beyond any question of a doubt that Omaha Bee "Want” Ads Bring Better Results at Lesser Cost. If you have something to offer to more than .'100,000 readers of The Omaha Bee, phono AT lantie 1000 and ask for a “Want” Ad taker. Head and u.sc Omaha /ice "Want ' Ads the hoc-line , In results. Belgians Seize Two Rhine Ports French Fine Gelsenkirchen as Result of Police a nd Mil itary Collision. Dusseldorf. Feb. 13— (M—The towns of Emmerich %nd Wesel, on the right hank of tlie Rhine, north west of this city, were occupied by Belgian forces early today. It is announced that this move was made to allow France-Belgian super vision and control of exports and im ports along the lines leading from the Ruhr into Holland. 0 According to German sources, yes terday's collision between French sol diers and German police at Gelsenkir chen has aggravated the feeling be tween the French and the civilian l>opulatlon. Reports that French ofH cers used -their riding whips upon German functionaries as a means of enforcing orders mid fuel to the smol dering fires of discontent. Paris, Feb. 13.—C**)—A German po liceman was killed and two French gendarmes were wounded In yester day's affair at Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr, says the French official version of the Incident today. The foreign office say* the gendarmes were on the way to the mayor's office in Gel senkirchen with a letter when their car was stopped by a policeman, who threatened them with a revolver. The gendarmes fired on the policeman, who fell. The Freni h authorities, it was.add ^d, were investigating. Dusseldorf, Feb. 13—C4*'— i uc i of Gelsenkirchen has been lined 100, 000,000 marks to tie paid tomorrow in consequence of ttye incident there yes terday between German police and French gendarmes , The burgomas ter, the chief of police and the police men believed to be guilty In conngc tion with the affair have been arrested. Man Seeking to Collect Georgia Bond Reveal* Self Atlanta, tin. Peh. 13 —Abner I.*'o Squlgglns of Massachusetts. who gained nation wide attention through his letter to Jefferson Davis, as presi dent of the confederacy, asking the president to redeem a Georgia war Ixuid issued during the civtl war, has revealed hlmaclf. He Is prank Mc Carthy, Northampton, Mass , news paper and curio collector, who de cided to conclude his hoax, when it threatened to develop complication*. Attorney General Napier of Georgia ha* received a copy of .1 letter writ ten l> McCarthy to Harry Calhoun of South Carolina In which lie re quested the 8011s and Daughter* of the confederacy not to make up a fund tq^pedoem the worthless bond. Attention, Thirsty Ones. l'nrt Huron, Mich , peh. 13 —All that Is necessary to got a drink in I’ort Huron, or Parma. Out., just across the border. Is to display a wltltn handkerchief protruding from the coat pocket when on the street, a ImhiI logger told Judge Clare It. Black. A moonshine vendor will appear promptly and u*k whether It is a pint or a quart the thirsty one wants tho court was told. Auto Suspects Held. Police Tuesday received wont of the arrest In Denver of Oscar Kuller. Joe Andlcr and George Goble, charged with the theft of a car t>elonglug to It. H Wilkinson, lOj'.i Park avenue, on Pehruiry 7. The car was I11 their possession, according to (word front tho Iv-nver police. Detectives Prank Murphy and Id ward Vancu* will go SXtc 1 the men. Peak of Cold ^ave Is to Reach Omaha Early Wednesday •f Temperature of 10 to 15 De low Zero Forecast—Much Damage Done by Storm on Pacific Coast.’ , « Omaha is due for,the coldest weath er of the winter Wednesday morn : inp. according to Meteorologist >f. V. Robins, w ho predicts a temperature of 10 to 15 degrees below zero. The forecast for Wednesday is fair and continued cold. The mercury liegan falling- rapidly yesterday morning and at 8 last eve ning was 12 degrees above zero. Wind velocity -was 32 miles an hour at 7 yesterday morning. Many western points report severe cold. Sheridan had a low mark of 6 degrees below zero at 7 List evening. Landef reported 2 degrees below. Rapid City 8 below and Valentine 2 below. ■ Fourteen Below for Iowa. Pes Moines, la., Feb. 13.—High winds which are expected to be fol lowed by the coldest weather of the >ear. swept over Iowa from the northwest early today lowering the temperatures more than 20 degrees in several cities. Charles H. Reed, weather forecas ter. said that the temperature will drop to 14 degrees below zero in Dos Moines by tomorrow morning and that it piwslhiy will go as low as 20 degrees below zero at other Iowa points. Kalends to Ukr Keg ion Chicago, Feb. IS.—A cold wave carrying temperatures as low if tv : lower than record drops of the win ter Is rushing into the upper Mis sissippl valley today front tlie Rocky mountain anti Canadian northwest and by Wednesday tnorning will be spread over the western lake rtgion and western portion of the Ohio val ley. aocordlng to the weather bureau A heavy snow storm, the advance guard of the sub zero weather fore cast for Wednesday and Thursday, began falling over the upper Missis sippi valley today, increasing still further depths ranging from five to IS inches. Damage at Seattle. San Francisco. Feb. IS /More snow in Idaho and Oregon today was ex pected to add to the severity of a storm that atreft the Pacific coast Sunday and yesterday, causing cvin siderable damage along the Seattle water front, delaying trains from Montana Into Washington, causing annulment of Western Pacific rail road traffic out of Reno, and blocking the air mail service in Nevada and Utah, No storm of such severity or such cold weather ever has visited the Puget sound country so late in Feb ruary, according to weather bureau officials. l amps. Quit Work. I.egg it),; camps on the eastern shore of Puget sound and in western Ore gon generally suspended operations on account of the snow, while at Whatcom. Wash . the high school had to be closed on account of cold weather, as were all the schools at Missoula. Mont. A l^rge part of Tacoma s industrial district was without power the groat er part of yesterday, as the rv'sult of two transmission lines breaking in Sunday s gale, and another power shortage was threatened last night when water in the river where the municipal hydroelectric pov, r plant Is sitimtial, began to fall own a. to the cold At Seattle, a small freight steamer sank at its dock. Inaugural Resolution Is Adopted Senate Approves Norris Con* stitutional Amendment to Eliminate Old Congress After New Elected. House Must Sanction By GEORGE F. AITHIER. Wash log ion f orrespomlent The Omaha IW. Washington? Heb. 13.—(Special.)— Senator Norris scored a victory as complete as it was surprising today, when the senate adopted hjs resolu tion proposing a constitutional amendment advancing the terms of office of men elected in November, so they would commence serving the January following. This applies to president and vice president and would shorten the term of the presi dent holding office when the change should go into effect. The honor of the victory is shared between Senator Norris and the pro gressive bloc, which adopted this the ory of election results as one of the articles of their faith. However, it was due to the shrewd and persistent management of the proposal that the senate acted upon it so overwhelm ingly. C ame From Farm Committee. Strangely enough, the proposed con stitutional amendment did not come from the judiciary committee. When it was referred to the committee on agriculture, it was supposed this would end the matter and the refer ence was regarded as something of a joke. Senator Norris is a member of both committees but is chairman of the committee on agriculture. He quietly announced the senate would see that the farmers would prove pretty goof. lawyers. The outlook tor favorable action on the resolution in the house is good, although the legislation may be caught In the jam of the closing weeks. When the Norris resolution was first proposed, it was made known at the White House the president did not look with favor upon It. He be lieved. it was made known, that the founding fathers had wisely provided for an extended hiatus between elec tions and induction into office so mis takes made at the polls could be rectified by time. Vote Sixty-Three to Six. Washington, Feb. IS.—Tne Norris amendment to the federal constitution eliminating the present session of an old congress after election of a new congress and changing the date of inauguration of president from March 4 to the thtrd Monday in January was approved by the senate. The resolution embodying the amendment was adopted after a brief debate and by a vote of S3 to S. It now goes to the bouse with approval there before adjournment of congress regarded as problematical. The arrangement was made after further White House conferences be tween President Harding, Senator I»dge of MassachtiseUs, the majority floor leader, and Senator Watson, re« publican. Indiana. Day’s Activities in Washington Announcement was made that President Hardin*'would call another conference of state governors for dis cussion of prohibition enforcement. living aside the administration shipping bill, the senate took up the British debt settlement. Secretary Weeks assigned CV>1. J. A. Hull to arrange for disposal of gov ernment war contracts involving more than 1^0.000 cases. By a 6 to 5 \ ,ue the senate judiciary committee rejected a motion to defej action on a proposed constitution* amendment regulating child labor. Favorable report of the house bill propes.ng combi ation of the diplo matie and consular services «u ordered by the senate foreign relations committee. It was indicated at the White House that President Harding would recom mend appropriation of sufficient funds 10 conduct a searching inquiry into world production of crude rubber. Hearing* were begun bv the hou»* foreign affairs committee on the Porter resolution requesting the president to negotiate with other ns Uons for curtailment of narcotic drug production. Secretary Hughes in a letter expressed lit* accord with the object in xiew. . Opposed bv both republican and democratic floor leader*, the migra tory bird l.U. which proposed es tablishment of public hunting grout' is and game refuges and federal licen sing of hunters, was killed by the house, S3 to SO, President Harding was said to ha'o approved a governmental reorganisa tion plan. Including among other changes the consolidation of the t\ar and Navy departments. The plan i* to be sent to the Joint congressional committee having the natter in charge for a basis of study. The Weather Forecast. 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