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TWO CENTS
TEACHERS TO
ASK UREASE
III SALARIES
Resolution Adopted by Forum
Calls for Minimum of $1,800
A Year for Instructors in
Elementary Branches.
REQUEST THAT RAISE BE
RETROACTIVE TO JAN. 1
Proposal Makes Possible Max
imum for Grades $2,700 a
Year $600 More Than Al
lowed by Board Action. 1
Public school teachers will re
quest the Board of Education,
through J. H. Beveridge, superin
tendent, tj grant a radical increase
. of pay, the principal feature of
vihich is that the minimum for an
elementary teacher shall be not less
than $1,800 per year.
The present minimum is $900 a
year, with an advance to $1,200 be
ginning next year.
The Omaha Teachers" Forum, at
its regular meeting yesterday after
noon voted, 247 to 44. to present the
matter to the school beard. The
resolution was offered by Miss
Gladys Line, grade teacher.
To Be Retroactive.
The resolution proposes that the
Increase of pay shall be retroactive
, to January 1.
This action was taken at the
close of a long meeting and after
at least half of the teachers had
loft. There was no discussion on
the subject.
Miss Line explained that she did
not intend her resolution to fix any
maximum, but J. W. Savage, secre
tary of the forum, stated that he
understood the proposed increase
carried with it the present $100 a
year increase which teachers arc
now allowed for six years after the
minimum. The present rules also
provide for a further increase of
$300 a year, at the rate of $100 a
year for five university credits.
There was , not a clear under
standing among the teachers just
what the resolution intended.
"It is absurd," was a comment by
Martha L. Powell, principal of Long
school.
The Board of Education a week
ago granted the teachers a general
increase of $400 a year, effective at
the beginning of the next school
year. This increase fixed the mini
mum for elementary teachers at
$1,200 and the maximum at $1,800,
plus $300 additional for university
credits.
The increase asked is $600 more
than the school board expected to
allow and $1,000 more than the
scale in force at the beginning of
this year.
Includes Principals.
The resolution adopted yesterday
i afternoon by the teachers' forum,
which comprises more than 800 of
the 1,000 Omaha teachers, also pro
vides that the same increase should
be applied to principals, supervisors
and high school teachers.
The recent increase granted by
the board fixed the minimum for
principals at $1,920 and the maxi
mum at $2,750. The increase asked
(Continued o Tug Two, Column One.)
Anxious Democrats Move
to "Smoke Out" President
On Third Term Question
Mississippi Representative, Amid Applause, Deplores
Silence of Wilson and Invokes Renewed Devotion
To Anti-Third Term Tradition Champ Clark
Leads in Showing Appreciation.
Maine Republicans
Elect Delegates to
National Convention
Bangor, Me., March 25. Four
delegates-at-large and eight district
delegates were elected to the repub
lican national convention without
opposition at the state convention
ot the party here Thursday. All are
uninstructed.
Resolutions were adopted approv
ing the refusal of the United States
senate to ratify the peace treaty
without reservations, opposing gov
ernment, ownership and operation of
railways, but favoring legislation
that will provide the United States
with an adequate merchant marine
and urging the establishment of a
federal budget
Senator James E. Watson of In
diana in an address arraigned the
democratic national administration,
charging President Wilson with
with having played politics with the
question of war and with having
done nothing to prepare for the
conflict.
Bryan at Lincoln to
Launch Campaign for
Convention Delegate
Lincoln, March 25. W. J. Bryan
arrived in Lincoln late Thursday
and Friday will begin his preprimarjr
election campaign in his effort to be
selected as a delegate-at-large to the
democratic national convention.
Monday he will start for Los
Angeles, where he will speak at the
conference of governors early in
April. He will then return to Ne
braska and it is his present intention
to campaign actively in this state
up to the time of the primary elec
tion, April 20.
Police Barracks Blown Up;
Three Officers Injured
Cork, Ireland, March 25. The
police barracks at Gertatlea, seven
miles southeast of Tralee, in Coun
ty Kerry, province of Munster,
were blown up and destroyed by
fire Thursday. Three policemen
were seriously injured, but there
were no civilian casualties. No ar
rests have been made in connection
' with the explosion
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Clileaco Tribune-Omaha Bee leased Mire,
Washington, March 25. What is
interpreted as a deliberate move on
the part of anxious democrats to
"smoke out" President Wilson on
the question of becoming a candi
date himself was made in the house
of representatives today.
To the accompaniment of much
applause on the democratic as well
as the republican side, Representa
tive Humphreys of Mississippi, dem
ocrat, deplored the silence of Mr.
YViJson on the matter and the activi
ties of the friends of the president
in behalf of a renomination and in
voked renewed devotion to the anti
third term tradition.
"I am a democrat and as such I
have supported the Wilson adminis
tration during the past seven years
as loyally as any man in this house,"
said Representative Humphreys. "I
believe that the accomplishments of
President Wilson's i administration
under his great leadership will se
cure for him a place high -n the roll
of our great presidents.
Regrets His Silence.
'T regret, therefore, all the more
that he has remained silent as to his
intentions in the matter of the third
term and that he has permitted so
many of his friends, including mem
bers of his own cabinet, to advocate
publicly his re-election to a third
term, and by remaining silent al
lowed the country to believe that he
was willing to Break the ancient
precedent."
"A message from the president,"
announced the doorkeeper of the
house at this juncture.
"Announcement for a third term,"
chortled a republican amid general
laughter.
"I know we are told," resumed,
Mr. Humphreys, "that the old order
changeth and that this old turbulent
earth has had a new birth of free
dom and that nut of the travail and
misery of it all, a new angel has
come to bless mankind; but I also
know that there was never liberty
in this world until it was adjusted to
the orderly process of our constitu
tion; that never until our fathers ex
plained and established the more
perfect union was the breath of life
breathed into the proposition that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Air Full of Voices.
"The air is indeed full of voices
but as' I hear them they do not
sound the chorus of the union Lin
coln told us of.
"To my ear, unattuned to these
new measures, they are as sweet
bells out of tune and harsh. We
have tampered unwisely, I think,
with the fundamental law of the
land, but I pray we may not in our
somnambulism forget also the tra
dirions of the fathers.
"Above all, let us not abandon
this, our oldest, if not most sacred
tradition, sanctioned as it is by the
accumulated wisdom of all our his
tory, unless unhappily we are also
ready to say with the elders of
Israel, 'Behold thou art old and thy
sons walk not in thy ways: now
make us a king to judge us like all
the nations."'
Champ Clark led the democrats
who shook hands with Congressman
Humphrey at the conclusion of his
speech to show their appreciation.
Incident Creates Talk.
The incident, which caused much
discussion at the capitol, was the
culmination of the anxious talk
among democrats resulting from the
failure of the peace treaty, the presi
dent's intention to carry the league
of nations issue into the election and
the silence of Mr. Wilson on the
question of a third term.
The democrats are all at sea on
their party prospects. They all real
ize that Mr. Wilson is a tradition
smasher and they recall his letter to
A. Mitchell Palmer in 1913, in which
he said the people should not be de
barred from retaining a president in
office as long as they choose. Some
democrats feel that with the league
an issue the candidacy of Mr. Wil
son is absolutely essential to suc
cess. Others are convinced that not
even the president could win on a
platform of the covenant without
protective reservations.
Then are there those who recall
with alarm that Cleveland kept his
party in suspense in 1896 right up
to the eve of the convention, dissi
pating the strength of the conserva
tives and strengthening the radicals
sufficiently to put Bryan over.
HOUSE LEADERS
PLANNING FAST
TREATY ACTION
Resolution Being Whipped Into
Final Shape for Presenta
tion Today.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaeed Wire.
Washington, March 25. Quick
action on a resolution declaring a
state of peace was planned at a con
ference of house leaders today.
A resolution was being whipped
into final shape to be introduced to
morrow or Saturday by Representa
tive Porter of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the house committee on for
eign affairs. Some of the legal
points remain to be ironed out, but
these are expected to be disposed
of satisfactorily by tomorrow.
The program of the house republi
can leaders is to have the committee
on foreign affairs take prompt action
and to rush the resolution through
trje house under a special rule. It
is probable that the house will take
action by the early part of next
week. i
The theory under which it fs
planned to have the house initiatt
action is that less delay would be
occasioned. ,
Senate republican leaders art
agreeable to the program.
The resolution, as it has been
drafted with the Knox, Tinkham and
other resolutions as a basis, pro
vides three things. It repeals the
declaration of war and declares a
state of peace. It seeks to preserve
the rights of the United States
which would have accrued under the
terms of the peace treaty, and pro
vides for repeal of war legislation,
but continues certain measures in
effect such as the law conferring
power upon the alien property cus
todian. Physician Stabbed
To Death After He
Strangles "Patient"
New York, March 25. The bodies
of V. J. Campisi, wealthy physician
and an. unidentified "patient" to
whose bedside he was hastily sum
moned were found Thursday night
in a Brooklyn rooming house, the
physician stabbed to death and the
"patient" strangled.
The. police advanced the theory
that the physician was lured into
the tenement for the purpose of
robbery and that he strangled the
"patient" while fighting off his as
sailants and then was stabbed by
the man who lured him into the
trap.
The murderer apparently lost his
nerve, for a large sum of money and
a gold watch were found on the
physician's body.
To Try Land Promoters.
Chicago, March 25. Six members
of the firm of the Daniel Hayes
company, land promoters, and two
members of a publicity organization
were held to the federal grand jury
here charged with conspiracy to use
the mails to defraud. The charges
are the result of an investigation in
Judge Landis court of the sale of
land by the Hayes company.
FORMER FRENCH
PREMIER SCORES
LLOYD GEORGE
Stern Notes to Germany Al
ways Signed by French
men, Not Englishmen.
Paris, March 25. A bitter attack
upon Premier Lloyd George of
Great Britain was delivered in the
Chamber of Deputies this afternoon
by Jean Louis Barthou, the former
premier, in connection with the dis
cussion of France's foreign policy,
of which he had given notice.
M. Barthcu declared that the
British premier was in agreement
with the allies in the sending of
stern notes to Germany and that he
had been politically benefited in
England from a vigorous policy to
ward Germany. However, M. Bar
thou added, "when these ttern notes
were sent to Germany they bore the
signatures of Clemenccati or Mil
lerand, while when concessions were
allowed Germany the notes were
signed by Mr. Lloyd George. Thus,
France is loft alone facing Germany,
as the country toward which Ger
many must prepare her revenge.
France Not Militaristic.
"France is not a militaristic na
tion. There is no military dictator
ship in France She desires no con
quests, but she asks restitution."
"I have confidence," M. Barthou
continued, "tjiat the United States
will finally ratify the peace treaty
which is rejected today. The United
States one day will take their place
in the league of nations, but mean
while the treaty, which guarantees
England, the United States and
France, is a dead letter. England
has obtained its security by the de
struction of the German fleet, but
France stands alone."
The concensus of opinion was that
M. Barthou's attack against an allied
government was ill-timed, many
deputies declaring after the sitting
of the chamber that his speech would
only tend to complicate a situation
already grave. Charles Bernard,
deputy for Paris, said:
"He has scuttled his own ministry
before forming it."
Birchmont Hospital
On Farnam Street Is -Sold
for $250,000
Birchmont hospital, Thirty-fourth
and Farnam streets, was sold yes
terday by Robert McClelland to Dr.
D. D. T. Quigley for a considera
tion said to be $250,000.
The property is known as the old
Charles Turner house and has a
frontage of 290 feet on Farnam
street and 259 feet on Thirty-third
and Thirty-fourth streets.
Canada to Save Daylight.
Ottawa. March 25. Most' Can
adian cities are expected to adopt
daylight saving in May, although
there has been no dominion 'legis
lation on the matter, dominion au
thorities announce. The Canadian
railways have announced that their
schedules will be eovernod bv stand-
Vard time
BELGIUM TO
TAKE HAM IN
REVOLUTION
German Strikers Warned That
Government Will Open Fire if
Any More Shots Fall Into
Occupied Territory.
WESEL IS BOMBARDED
BY ARTILLERY FORCES
Krupp Works at Essen Re
ported to Be Making Ammu
nition for Reds Situation in
Ruhr Favorable to Workmen.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
London, March 25. The su
preme council has decided to allow
the Germans to send troops into
the neutral zone in the Ruhr val
ley if they are needed, but hope it
will not be necessary. The guar
antees are to be fixed by the council.
By the Associated 1'itkb.
Buderich, Rhenish Prussia, March
25. Colonel Preoux, commanding
the Belgian forces, today told the
correspondent that he had sent of
ficers to the workmen's headquarters
at Wesel to notify the workers form
ally that the Belgians would open
fire immediately if any more shots
fell in Belgian occupied territory.
Further reports received today
show that in addition to three shells
early in the day, six more fell on
the islaud in the Rhine, where the
Belgian outpost is stationed and a
number of others in the river, some
of the latter quite close to the town
of Buderich, where the Belgians are
concentrating. Up to the present
there have been no casualties among
the Belgians.
Fighting in Wesel.
Coblenz, March 25. Wesel was
being bombarded today by artillery.
The reichswehr troops were report
ed to be confident of holding out
there, although the red pressure
against the town was declared to be
increasing.
Dinslaken is in the hands of the
reds. The red line extends from
Friedrichsfeld, nine kilometers north
of Dinslaken, through Dorsten, in
the direction of Munster. '
The Kruno works at Essen are re
ported to be manufacturing ammuni
tion for the reds.
The military situation' in the Ruhr
region is-said to be-favorable-to-the
reds. Additional government troops
are arriving north of Cossfield.
In Thuringia the revplt is extend
ing to the Hartz mountains.
Gotha Strikers Disarm.
Gotha. March 24. Order is slow
ly emerging out of the confusion
and chaos of the last 10 days in the
industrial centers of Saxony. The
workmen are capitulating and call
ing off the strike and the military
are taking over control of the cities.
The strikers, who for several days
held the upper hand in Gotha, laid
down their arms today. The gar
rison of 50 men who were driven
out of the city last week will re
turn tomorrow.
Fighting has been going on here
continuously since March 17. It is
estimated that 90 persons were killed
and several hundred wounded.
Eighty workers were buried today.
l he storv of the happenings here,
typical of the clashes in many places
in Germany, makes an interesting
(Continued on Page Two, Column Fire.)
Political Committee
Sends Questionnaires to
G. 0. P. Congressmen
t inmen Trihune-Omalia Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, March t 25. Ques
tionnaires covering a wide range of
subjects have been sent to republi
can members of congress and others
by the advisory committee on pol
icies and platform of the republican
national committee.
The recipients are requested to
answer a long list of questions and
have them back in the hands of the
committee by April 1.
The committee summarizes the
"prime causes", of the present high
cost of living as "inflation of cur
rency and credits, curtailed produc
tion and abnormal wages and war
taxes," and suggests the following
remedies: i
"Courageous but intelligent defla-!
tion of credit and contractiqn of
currency. j
Avoidance or turtner credit in
flation by discontinuing treasury
certificate borrowing.
"Increased production of goods
and services.
"Reduction in government ex
penditure and increase in public
thrift.
"Revision of taxation as to basis
and incidence.
"More economical distribution of
goods and services from the original
producer to the ultimate consumer."
Uncle Sam as an Employer
.(Copyright. 1120, by John T. MoCutcheon.)
He squanders like a drunken sailor in undeserving quarters
and
is parsimonious in deserving quaters.
EYES OF NATION
ON ATTITUDE ON
PERSHING HERE
Vote In Nebraska Being
Watched With Interest In
Other States of
Union.
By F. H. BARROW.
Washington, March 25. (Special)
The eyes of the nation are on Ne
braska.'' ' ,.-.:.. '., .....
In what manner at the April pri
maries will its electorate record its
sentiments of a favorite son who,
returning victorious from the world
war as a climax to a long career
of achievement, has been acclaimed
by the spontaneous plaudits of high
and low without respect to party or
creed?
How will Nebraska record its ap
preciation of one of Its citizens, now
a commanding figure of world-wide
eminence John J. Pershing?
Missouri has vied with other com
monwealths in establishing its claims
to him, proudly boasting of the fact
that Pershing was raised on a farm
and grew to manhood in the
"show-me" state. Wyoming, one
time home of the general s beloved
wife, has striven for a share of the
honor on the ground" that the mor
tal remains of Pershing's wife and
children rest in Lakeview cemetery
at Cheyenne. Every state in the
union with the slightest excuse for
so doing, has sought a share of the
honor attaching to Pershing.
Nebraska Is His Home.
But Nebraska has been and is
his home. What will be the manner
of Nebraska's public approbation of
and confidence in one of its citizens
whom the whole world has honored?
The opportunity is presented at
the state-wide primaries in the
Antelope state on April 20, when
Pershing's name will appear on the
ballot with those of Hiram Johnson
and Leonard Wood. For this rea
son the primaries will be watched
with the greatest interest here.
JSlo special honor or distinction
could come to Nebraska from giv
ing either Johnson or Wood a large
primary vote, but in evidencing at
the polls her appreciation and loy
alty to a favorite son the state
would acclaim to the nation its con-
(Contlnned on Pare Two, Column Two.)
Find No Trace of Kidnaped
Son of Rich Southerner
Lexington, Ky., March 25. Al
though their terms had been car
ried out, and $25,000 . in currency
wrapped in a bundle placed in a
public garbage can in Lexington's
business district, kidnapers of Paul
Little, 12-year-old son of E. R.
Little, capitalist, failed to put in an
appearance. Thirty-five minutes
after he had deposited the money,
the father of the missing boy re
moved the bundle, which had not
been touched.
The note demanding the ransom,
delivered Wednesday night, a few
hours after the kidnaping, ordered
that the money be placed an the
garbage, can at 7:35 o. m. Thursday
night, -''
Plans Bill to Prevent
Presidential Candidates
Spending Too Much Coin
Washington, March 25. Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho, announced
he would introduce a bill to pro
hibit candidates for the presidential
nomination from expending more
than $10,000 for campaign purposes
prior to their nomination. The bill
would exempt expenditures by a
candidate for personal traveling ex
penses, telegrams or circulars, but
would include expenditures in his
behalf by associations or individuals
unless he publicly rejected their ef
forts. Penalties of $20,000 fine and
two years imprisonment would be
provided. i
The Weather
Forecast.
Nebraska Fair Friday; Saturday
unsettled; not much change in tem
perature. Iowa Generally fair Friday;
colder in extreme cast portion; Sat
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OMAHA AMONG
HIGHER PRICED
LIQUOR CENTERS
Washingtonians Can Buy Good
Whisky Cheaper Than Ne
braskans, Officer Says.
By E. C. SNYDER.
Special Correspondent of The Bee.
Washington, March 25. Enforce
ment of prohibition depends large
ly upon the price of liquor sold in
the various communities, according
to an entorcement officer who has
just returned to Washington from a
"swing around the circle." This
officer" tells some strange facts with
reference to the illicit traffic in
liquor, one of them being that New
Orleans, one of the most open cities
in the nation, is paying twice as
much for "safe" whisky as New
York.
Iowa heads the list in the high
cost of liquor at $30 per quart. Om
aha is quoted as paying $25 for good
whisky; Baltimore, $14 to $16; St.
Louis, $19 to $20; Chicago, $10 to
$5, lower grades $5 to $10 a quart.
In the capitol and the senate and
house office buildings, according to
information furnished the internal
revenue bureau, good rye whisky
may be obtained for $12 to $18, the
lower figure being a concession to
members of congress who voted the
18th amendment ana" the Volstead
act.
Southern states, which have
mountainous districts, get good corn
whisky for $6.25, but one must buy
75 quarts at a time, as the best
liquor is not to be had in smaller
lots.
According to the records of the
internal revenue bureau the prohi
bition laws are more successfully
enforced in New York than in Chi
cago. The confidential report, from
which the foregoing information is
taken, says nothing about the en
forcement of the law in Omaha.
1 7,000 Armenians
Recently Massacred
Within Own Borders
London, March 25. Tartars re
cently massacred 17,000 Armenians
within the boundaries of the new
Armenian state at the instigation of
the young Turks in the Azerbaijan
government, according to Arch
bishop Kholn, an Armenian from
Erivan, who has arrived in London
to confer on behalf of the Armenian
republic with allied authorities re
garding the situation in Armenia.
Three thousand persons are being
herded in Tartar villages and por
tions of the Armenian frontier are
being held by the Tartars, according
to the archbishoo. He savs that in
December the Tartars murdered
14,000 Armenians at Akoulis, in Az
erbaijan, on the pretext that Tartars
had been massacred in Armenian ter
ritory. The archbishop said also
that many massacres since the arm
istice were declared to have been
due to the fact that the frontier be
tween Armenia and Azerbaijan was
not clearly defined.
Posses Scour Woods for
Slayer of Young Girl
Stebbenville, O.. March 25.
Posses of armed miners searched
the woods near Adena, Jefferson
county, Ohio,, for the slayer of 11-year-old
Frances South, daughter
of a miner, whose body was found
by her father, about "a mile and a
half outside of Adena.
The girl left her home about noon
to go to a drug store for medicine
for her sick mother. When she
failed to return a search was instituted.
The child had been strangled and
most of her clothes were torn from
her body. Surrounding towns were
notified and other oossrs were
formed
MOREHEAD WILL
BE IN CAMPAIGN
F 0 R GOVERNOR
Secretary of State Reverses
Ruling and Will Enter For
mer Governor's Name on
Primary Ballot.
Lincoln, Neb., March "25. (Spe
cial Telegram.) If some one does
not change his mind before morning
former Governor John H. Morehead
will start in the day as a candidate
for the democratic nomination for
governor.
As far as the Falls City man is
concerned it has been an "on agin,
off agin, on agin" proposition with
him. Saturday a petition was fled
asking that his name be placed upon
the ballot as a candidate for the
democratic nomination for gov
ernor. Monday Secretary of State Ams
berry received a telegram that he
had paid the filing fee and accepted
the petitions. The secretary of
state, however, consulted Assistant
Attorney General Wheeler and that
official gave an opinion that as the
receipt for the filing fee had not
reached the office of the secretary
of state until after the time for fif
ing had expired that the name could
not go on the ballot.
Who Is Right?
Thursday morning Dexter Barrett,
former deputy attorney general, vis
ited the secretary of state and argued
that Mr. Morehead had five days to
accept the petition.
The secretary of state consulted
Deputy Attorney General Barnes
and that official decreed that the
name could go on. Then Mr.
Barnes decreed that he had not fully
understood the representations of
the secretary of state and changed
his opinion to correspond with that
of Mr. Davis that the name should
not go on.
Will "Stand Pat."
Then the secretary of state de
clared that as he told somebody
that the name could go on he would
put it on. Then the matter was
taken up with Asssistant Attorney
General Levity and he said that
there was no question but that the
former governor had no legal right
on the ballot and the name could
not go on.
The secretary of state has de
cided to "stand pat," notwithstand
ing the full legal department of the
state says he is wrong, and author
ised the statement that if anyone
did not want the name of Governor
Morehead on the ballot he could
mandamus him to keep it off.
Root Accepts Place in
League Meeting in London
London, March 25. Elihu Root
has accepted the invitation, to be
come a member of the committee
agreed upon at the London meeting
or the council of the league of na
tions to work out the details for
the constitution of a permanent
court of international justice, it was
announced Thursday.
Prosperity and Prohibition
Close Tramps' Lodging House
Boston, March 25. Prosperity and
prohibition will close the municipal
lodging house for tramps and other
unfortunates next week. The over
seer of the poor reported that he
had no guests for several weeks.
Insure Fire Protection.
Washington, March 25. Appro-
priations of $260,000 for forest, fire
protection in the west were included
in the annual agricultural appro
priation bill, by the senate. Of the
total $60,000 would be used for co
operation of the department of
agriculture with the war department;
m thft maintenance ot an air patrol,.
SUFFRAGISTS
FIGHT HARD
IN DELAWARE
Sessions Thursday Occupied in ;
Public Hearings of Advocates
And Opponents of Pending
Franchise Proposal. s '
WOMEN WORKERS ADMIT
REQUIRED VOTES LACKING
Leaders Will Turn to Connec
ticut if Blue Hen State Re
fuses to Ratify Amendment
Indications Shovv.
Dover, Del.. March 25. The Del
aware legislature has cleared the
way for voting, possibly tomorrow
in the senate, on ratification of the
proposed woman suffrage constitui
tional amendment.
Sessions today were occupied in
public hearings of advocates and op
ponents of the pending ratification.
Suffrage workers admitted they still
lacked sufficient votes in both
houses, but declared changes later;
would rally the needed majorities.
Opposition leaders were equally con
fident of victory. - t
Ratification is impossible befora
next week, leaders stated Jonight,
even should the senate adopt the
resolution tomorrow. Adjournment
of the legislature tomorrow night
until Monday is planned. ''-
Senator Walker, author of the rati
fication resolution, said tonight he
was 'confident of favorable senate
action, but would not make definite
plans until tomorrow. ,
Not Stumped Yet.
That suffrage leaders will turn to
Connecticut if Delaware refuses to
be the 36th state to ratify was indi
cated at today's hearings by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt, national suf
frage leader. Referring to refusal
of Connecticut's governor to call the
legislature in special session Mrs.
Catt said the members might con
vene without a gubernatorial call.
"Ratification ultimately is as
sured." said Mrs. Catt. "The only
question here is whether women of
18 states shall vote in the coming
presidential elections. , In 30 they
may, whether the constitutional
amendment is ratified or not. The
question is shall they vote in all
states this year or wait another:
year."
Mrs., Charlotte Rowe, principal
speaker today for the national and
Delaware anti-suffrage organic
tions, declared that so-called . rati
fication in many other 6tates would
be contested before the United
States supreme court.
"This may throw the presidential
election into the courts, said Misi
Rowe. "Votes of women in the con
tested states will not be counted un
til the contests are settled in th
highest court."
Prohibitionists May
Put Own Presidential
Candidate in the Field
Chicago Tribune-Omabn Bee Iafd Win
Chicago, March 25. Prohibition
ists may put their own presidential
candidate in the field. It all de
pends upon the attitude of the two"
old parties toward strict enforce
ment of the prohibition law, aw
cording to Virgil G. Hinshaw, chair
man of the prohibition parity.' -
Chairman Hinshaw says the bat
tie is not yet over; that the fight
for enforcement of prohibition re
mains to be won. "Our organiza
tion will continue," he said, "as long
as the alcoholic serpent continues
to wiggle its tail. If the major par
ties fail to come out unequivocally
for strict enforcement of the dry
laws, we will certainly run a pro
hibition candidate for president
Ernst H. Cherrington of Wester
ville, O., declared the Anti-Saloon
league of which he is secretary,
will work to defeat candidates who
are avowedly opposed to prohibi
tion enforcement.
Dublin's Lord Mayor f
Asks Police Protection;
Belfast Officer Shot
London, March 25. The ' lord
mayor of Dublin has applied to the
authorities to f t nish police to pro
tect the Mansio'n house, according
to a dispatched to the Central News
from Dublin.
Mayor's O'Neill's request, it is
reported, was due to the fact that
the. mayors of Limerick and some
other towns had received threaten
ing letters such as the one said to
have been sent to the lord mayor
of Cork, Thomas MacCurtain, be
fore he was shot.
Belfast, March 25. The police re
port that a man named McCabe, re
cently enrolled for the Dublin po
lice force, was shot tonight by four
disguised men near Ballinamorc (80
miles northwest of Dublin). McCabe
was taken to the hospital in a criti
cal condition.
Order Investigation Into
Colorado Sugar Profits
Washington, March 25. An in
vestigation of the profits made by'
the beet sugar manufacturers in the
V-oiorado district was ordered by
the Department of Justice.
$1,000,000 Fire.
Montreal, March 25. Fire early'
Thursday destroyed immense quan
tities of grain, shellac and tobacco
in the Nelson brewery warehouse,
which was burned to the ground.
The damage was estimated at $1.
000.000. .