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he Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 50 NO. 241 IttoU at Smutf-Clui Matttr May It. I!KW. at Omaha P. 0. Uaa.r Act of Mirth S. 117. OMAHA, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1921, Br Mall (I tv. Inild4th Zww. Call aad Sunday. $: Dally Oaly. IS: Suaday. It Outildt 4th Zona (I year). Dally aad Sunday. JI6; Dally Oaly, I J ; Sud On(). i THREE CENTS- Testimony In Stillman Suit Aired Workmen and Guides aT"Sum mcr Ciunp in Quebec Tell Stories of Wife's Al leged Misconduct. Judge to Pass on Letters 4 hii-ago Trthune-Oiiiahu Iter lcard Wire. New York, March 27. Text of testimony of James A. Stillnian and Canadian Indian witnesses in his sen sational divorce case against Mrs. 'Fili" Stillnian is published here to day. ' The witnesses tell of repeated in stances of alleged misconduct of Fred Beauvais, Canadian lndi an guide at the Stillnian summer camp at Three Kivers, Cjuebcc, and Mrs. Stilliuan. In his divorce suit, Mr. Stillnian, president of the National City bank, names Beauvais as co-responder.t and challenges the legitimacy of Mrs. Stillman's 28-months-old son, Guy Stillnian. v Mrs. Stilhnan has countered with charges that Mr. Stillnian, posing as "Mr. Leeds," had an affair' with a former chorus girl, now "Mrs. Florence Leeds," and that he is the father of Mrs. Leeds' 30-months-old baby, Jay Leeds. The text of testimony revealed to day was taken at the hearing here last December before a referee ap pointed by the court. Stillman First Witness. Mr. Stillnian was the first witness, lie admitted paternity of three children. Anne. 20; "Bud," 17, and Alexander. 11. An objection by John K. Mack, guardian of Guy Stillman, appointed by the court, prevented Mr. Stillman disclaiming Guy as his son. Francois Lajoic, a French-Canadian lawyer of Quebec, acted as interpreter for the witnesses from Canada, none of whom spoke Eng lish well. Following Mr. Stillman, the next witness was Harry Brenon, a carpen ter and woodsman, living at Grand Anse, Canada. He is a French Canadian. He was questioned by Outerbridge Horsey of Mr. Still man's counsel. He identified sepa rate photos of Beauvais and Mrs. Stillman. Brenon said that he saw Beauvais and Mrs. Stillman together a num ber of times in the winter of 1918 and in the early winter of 1919. On one occasion he said he - looked through the kevhole into Mrs. Still man's room and found it unoccupied, lie then looked into Beauvais' room. e m i. OCC11 ivjjcuict in nwiuy "What did you see?" he was asked. "I saw twoVersoris, Fted Beauvais and Mrs. Stillman. Q. "Well, what did you notice?" A. "They appeared to be sleep ing" Iiectorinc Renault Lafontanrc was the next witness. During a heavy rainstorm in 1917, he said. Mrs. Still man and Beauvais came to his home .for shelter. Mrs. Stillmaiv wanted to take a bath and both went upstairs, Mrs. Stillnian to her room and then to the bath. Q. "What happened after that?" Av "Well, Beauvais went into Mrs. Stillman's room and began to tarry things to her." , Ferdinand Page, another v French Canadian, corroborated the story of Brenon. claimig that he too saw Mrs. Stillman and Beauvais sleeping. Await Alimony Decision. Further testimony in the divorce rase has been held up pending 'Justice Morschauser's decision on Mrs. Stillman's fight for $10,000 a month alimony and counsel fees, said to total $75,000 for defense of Guy Stillman's birthright and chances-to inherit a share of the Stillman mil lions. The question of whether the "con fession" letter alleged to have been written by Mrs. Stillman to Mr. StillnKin will be permitted to figure in his suit for divorce will be an swered by Justice Morschauser when he files his opinion, some time this week, on the alimony and counsel fees. This was ascertained definitely to i' day in a well-intormed quarter. At torneys for the banker are known to regard this "confession" letter as the crux of their case. The six letters' reported as having been written by Beauvais to Mrs. Stillman, also will be the subject of adjudication by Justice Morschauser. It also was stated that attorneys for Mrs. Stillman might ask Referee dleason to appoint a commission to go to Canada and taks the testimony of Beauvais. Attorneys for the banker, confident that Mrs. Stillman's side would not ask the guide to ap pear voluntarily, were represented as likely to take this course to strength en their fight. According to this same informant, Mr. Stillman's coun sel were astonished when the "Leeds" affair came out. Chicago Man is Arrested For Selling Guns to Negroes Chicago, March 27. More than 1,000 negroes have armed, themselvvs recently vitlt revolvers and ammuni tion it was learned through the arrest of Fred Bitter, owner of a gun shop, and Virgil Meyers, a young negro. Young negroes on the south and west side have been mak ing secret purchases of weapons for some time, and the police have been searching tor the place where they were sold. !Well-Knovn Newspaper Man And Author Dies in Chicago Chicago, March 27. Col. M. A. Aldrich, a veteran newspaper editor and author, died here. He was one of the founders of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal." and later managing editor of the Boston Globe. Detroit Evening News. St. Louis Star and other papers. His best-known book was i "History of the United States Marines." Bathing Girls Not In It With Senate, Says Jerry Postmaster for Solons Hasn't Missed Session in 18 Years; Took Vacations at Lincoln. Lincoln, March 27. (Special.) Florida, with its sun-kissed sea shores and California with its, as yet, uncensored bathing girls lolling on the beach hasn't the charms for Jerry Wilhelm of Dorchester, Neb., that a session of the Nebraska legis lature, possesses. For 18 years, Jerry Wilhelm, his hair now gray and his step falter ing on a wet day when rhcumat:cs get in their work, has looked for ward to a session of the legislature as his vacation. It used to be that Jerry couldn'; afford a vacation of any other de scription. But in recent years for tune has smiled on his family. A daughter is Mrs. George Roberts of Omaha, whose husband is reputed wealthy. "She wants me to take it easy, but this is more fun than seashores and bathing girls," Jerry said. "Maybe, if they cut bathing beach scenes out of moving pictures after they get a censor board I'll have' to take a trip out there once in awhile. But not now." Postmaster of Senate. For nine sessions Jerry has borne a title at legislative sessions. This year he is postmaster' of the state senate. He has been sergcani- at-arms. At one time, before the antiquated windows of the lower house absolutely refused to work any longer and could be raised to let a little fresh air in the room, there were a number of superin tendents of ventilation on the pay roll of a kind-hearted, free-fisted bunch of legislators. "They had a hard time placing me those days," Jerry said. "There were four superintendents of venti lation and sanitation then, and I got up late in the session. Finally they made me superintendent of the su perintendents of ventilation." In the days when old John Bar leycorn had rooms in the basement arid many legislators had a thirst Women Street Car Workers Success Report Sa's Fair Sex Can Be Employed Without Con flict of Laws. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee. leaned Wire. . Washington, March 27. The con troversy ov-er women street car con- dnctrs and-ticker agents and their jobs is studied and discussed by the Women's Bureau of the . United States Department of Labor in a re- ' ; port made public. iThe report answers "yess" to the much agitated question of whether wom en cajj be employed on street rail ways successfully, satisfactorily, and with due regard to their health and well-being. On the basis of investigations in Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit and Boston, where women have been suc cessfully employed under regulated schedules of . hours, the bureau de clares the dismissal of women from New York car lines was not made necessary by the night work law. This is proved by the fact that women are employed as conductors in Kan sas City without ever having had to work at night, and women ticket sellers are employed in Chicago without night work and without any handicap in any degree. Women employed in street rail Ways like the work, the report stales, because it pays them so much better than do many other occupations these same women have followed. Comparison with pay in former oc cupations in the case of 34 women who were interviewed, showed five street railways oaid them frnm S'7 to $39 a week, where most of them i had received $5 to $18 a week in ' their former occupations. ' j Lieutenant W. D. Coney Repc orted Near Death Natchez, Miss., March 27. The condition of Lieut. W. D. Coney, trans-continental flyer, showed "a change for the worse today and phy sicians announced they "had kittle hope for his recovery. A bulletin said his temperature was 103 1-2 and that an indication of pneumonia had been noted. Special prayers for his recovery were offered at all the local churches today, at the request of the Natchez chapter of War Mothers. Mrs. E. F. Coney, the lieutenant's mother, ar rived today.- Music iai? Flees From Over - Enthusiastic. Crowd of Admirers ' New York. March . 27. William Mengelberg, Dutch orchestra con ductor, became so flabbergasted when 400 admirers tried to kiss him, slap his back and shake his hand before he sailed for home, that he stumblel into his stateroom and locked the doors. i The crowd, mostly women, clus tered on the steamer Nieu Amster dam, for an audible admiration party to the conductor. After he dashed to his stateroom his admirers refused to leave the boat without seeing him again. As sailing time approached, ship officers persuaded the musician to unlock his door and greet the crowd. He began to speak, but the en thusiasm of his listeners bubbled over and they tried to embrace him en masse. Four women kissed Mr. MengXlberg, and two women fainted. which carried them to the state house basement to emerge in leg islative halls an hour later, un steady of foot. load of voice and unfriendly in disposition, Jerry had a job on his hands. Ftfr the lobby ists, too, were ready to fight with something besides their tongues. Jerry was talking about the strenu ous times of the sergeant-at-arms in those days and pointed to a one armed ex-service man now enjoying the job in the lower house. "He'd never been able to do it in those days," Jerry said, v Knows Statesmen. Jerry knows Nebraska statesmen of the last 20 years like a music teacher knows the scales. "I've1 seen hundreds of them strut into the state house at the opening vol a session like a prize horse at a, county fair and xI've smiled as I watched the mgo out like a dishrag after a pink tea," Jerry said. "Going to the legislature makes a man out of some fellows and it rrrakes con ceited asses out of others." Jerry is a veteran of the civil war. He says he used to listen to all the debate, but "somehow I get sleepy these days and can't stay awake." So after the mail is distributed in the morning and Jerry has served his patrons, one finds him snoozing in a big pivot chair in the senate post office. Big Fire Destroys 1,000 Tokio Homes Loss Estimated at $12,500,000 Many Injured in Panic Caused by Blaze. By The Associated Trcsa. . Tokio. March 27. Fire which for a time imperiled the entire city of Tokio Jasl, .flight detwyft.cL J.QQ0 houses in the northwestvpart of the city, injured 133 persons, made thousands homeless and caused a loss estimated at about $12,300,000. Included in the property-destroyed were three hospitals, a bank and several large business houses. For four hours a violent wind drove the flames toward the heart of the city, causing a panic. Four thousand troops aided the firemen, but it was only when the wind let down that their efforts succeeded. Scenes of terror were witnessed in manv sections. The despairing ref ugees from the districts stricken, companies by carts loaaea witu iur niture blocked the streets, the con fusion being increased by sightseers. Many of the half-frozen fugitives bore infants. The mounted police bad great difficulty restraining incipient rioas. The imperial gardens were openedjto the sufferers. The fire burned so fiercely and with such brightness that the skies were illuminated by a fiery halo vis ible for hundreds of miles. The diet adjourned when the fire's threatening nature was re ported. Judge Takes Evidence For Bergdoll Release Under Advisement Kansas City, March 27. Hand cuffed to a military guard and dress ed In the olive drab he declined to wear during the war, Erwin B. Bergdoll. Philadelphia millionaire, convicted of draft evasion, appeared before Judge T. C. Pollock in federal . rnnrt. ,ihP?, liahw. mmm nm.P,H. I court, where habeas corpus proceed ings have been instituted seeking his release from the military prison at F'ort Leavenworth, Kan. After the hearing Judge Pollock announced he would take the matter at issue in the hearing, the ad missibility of evidence to show Berg doll had received notice to report for military service, under advise men:. Bergdoll listened to Maj. C. C. Crcsson, who had prosecuted the court-martial case against him, tes tify that Bergdoll had told him that he received the draft notice and 'T knew all the time you were after me.'; When ' the hearing was over he started back to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. He is a broth er of Grdver Cleveland Bergdoll. Dupont Country Estate Will Be Sold at Auction Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire. New York. March 27. "White Eagle," the 250-acre country estate of the late Mrs. Alfred I. Dupont, located at Roslyn, L. I., valued at more than $1,500,000, is to be sold by public auction on April 28. "White Eagle" is one of the most celebrated country seats in America and no money has been spared to make it such. It adjoins the home of Clarence H. Mackay, and is near the homes of Harry Payne Whitney, J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H.-Kahn, Nicholas F. Brady, Thomas H. Hitchcock, Harry Payne Bingham, Egbert H. Garv and Onuond G. Smith. " ' 3 Killed By Tornado In Miota $ & Rusliniore Practical- VTy Leveled by Wind Storm Blizzard Raging South Dakota. in Barns Razed at Hastings lly The Assoclnlcd Prcsa. Worthington, Minn., March 27. A tornado following an all-day .'ain, swept west of here between 6:30 and 7 p. m. tonight, killing Dave Ander son, his son and another person at Reading, eight "miles northwest on the Rock Island road, and prac tically leveling Rusfimore,' eight miles west on the Omaha road, ac cording to meager details received here. All wires arc down. Blizzards and heavy wind and rain storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning with) dropping temperatures late today and tonight, gave the northwest a variety of weather for Easter Sunday. In South and North Dakota and western Mincsota, blizzards tvere reported from some sections. Grand Forks, N. D., was in the grip of a blizzard which began at noon. A 30-mile wind prevailed and the tem perature dropped from 30 to 14 de grees. Ortonville, in western Minnesota, reported the worst blizzard of the year. Communication with . many South Dakota points wasjntcrruptcd. Tornado Near Hastings. Hastings, Neb., March 27. (Spe cial Telegram.) Tornadic winds caused extensive damage at Hansen and between Hansen and Trumbull, a few miles northeast of Hastings, about 3 Saturday morning. In Han sen the lumber yard and home tf F. E. Fuller were unroofed, be sides minor damage to smaller build ings. Some live stock was killed. Southeast of Hansen windmills were blown down and chimneys wrecked. Barns on the Eli Harmon and Truman Barrows farms were wrecked. Near Trumbull barns be longing to John Bicrman, John Wis ner and Paris Ditlemore were de stroyed. Forty telephone' poles were blown down between Hastings and Hansen, cutting off communication. ' Rain followed the twisters. At 3 this afternoon Local Weather Forecaster Kent warned the locality of possible danger due to a condi tion of temperature and barometric pressure similar to that which pre ceded the Omaha . Foster storm The witid gained velocity all day;but at, 4 conditions became more sta ticrary and it was believed alt 'dan ger was past. Reports that F-dgar had been wiped out were groundless, but inquiry re vealed that sand which had been used on the streets there was so thick in the air that people could not see 25 feet. Hail caused some dam age at Kenesaw. A light rain was general in this section. Wind in Custer County. Ansley. Neb., March 27. A wind storm of much violence in parts of Custer county caused the wrecking ot ouiDiinaings ana me Killing 01 ac-jlive stock. Seven Injured inIowa. Fonda, la., March 27. Seven per sons are known to have been in jured, two of them seriously, when a tornado struck the town at 8 o'clock last night. Considerable property damage, which included the destruc tion of all the buildings on the Pocahontas county fair grounds, with the exception of the grand stand also resulted. George Weinbreiner, who siifiered several broken ribs, was the most seriously injured. He was in his home when the storm struck and partially wrecked it. His wife, mother and daughter were uninjured. Mrs. Ed Carter suffered a wrenched back when her home was demolished. Mr. Carter and their daughter were blown from the house into the street, but were practically uninjured. Hiram Weise was struck in the face by a flying timber while driv ing his car. His condition is not serious. , A. L. Brand was driving a team along the road when the tornado struck. He was thrown about 60 f nc T.. ,n but escaped injury. The team wagon and driver were picKca on. the ground and hurled over the fence into the fair grounds. The home of L. V. Moore was badly damaged when a barn, which had been torn from its foundation. None of the members of the Moore family were injured, A number of barns and small houses also were destroyed in the vicinity. Blzzard at Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, March 27. South Dakota is experiencing one of the most severe blizzards in its history last night, according to reports. At Huron and Watertown 12 inches of snow fell in less than three hours and there were no signs of abate ment. A strong wind accompanied by snow is raging here and the tempera ture, still, dropping rapidly, had de scended to l(r degrees above zero at 11 p. m. The rapid change in weather is expected to cause damage to cattle in the prairie districts. Tele phone. and telegraph service out of Sioux Falls is badly disrupted. New Airplane Speed Record Made by Eddie Rickenbaeher Los Angeles, March 27. Eddie Rickenbaeher, American ace in the world war, made a new record when he flew from Oakland to Los Angeles, 385 miles, in two hours and 32 minutes. The previous srecord was three hours and one minute. His average flying time was 151.8 miles per hour. Solve Harding to Probe Care Being Given Former Soldiers Will Name Committee to In vestigate Conditions for Dis abled War Heroes in " Near Future. Washington, March 27 President Flarding decided to have an exhaus tive investigation made of the man ner in which the government is car ing for disabled war veterans. With in a few days, it was announced, he will select a special committee of in quiry. The president, it was said, is de termined to lay the situation before congress and the country, to correct any abuses that may have developed. The investigators will be instruct ed to recommend any remedial leg islation. Decision to inaugurate an inquiry--; was readied oy me nresiuem aiicr hp hnfl rnntVrrprl with Omrlps (, Dawes of Chicago, who served in France as a brigadier general h.W . tnc old level, while in others they Galbraith, national commander of would be reduced as much as $10 the' American-Legion; Thomas W. weekly. Miller, alien property custodian, and j The men demand the maintenance a former overseas veteran; Assistant ' the national wage scale and sug Secretary Roosevelt of the Navy de- j Kest that there be a pool of profits nartment. and his personal physician, i whereby tlie strong mines would eng. Uen. U t.. sawyer, incy dis cussed in detail with the president the soldier relief problem. Later they went over the situation with General Pershing. The president and Mrs. Harding, accompanied by Mr. Dawes, attended the morning service at Calvary Bap tist church. Naval Officers Hope to Find Missing Men in Free Balloon Pcnacola, March 27. Although four days have passedsiuce Chief Quartermaster G. K. Wilkenson and four companions left the naval air station here in a free balloon, offi cials at the station still arc hopeful of the safely of the five. Search of the area to which the wind might have blown the craft has been made by dirigibles, sea planes and-Eagle boats without suc cess. Failure to find any .trace of the balloon was taken by station officials as indicating that the craft cither drifted to some unfrequented spot, or that the men were picked up by fishing boats. Asthe duration of the average fishing cruise is three weeks, officials said they would not abandon hope until the end of that period. Four Delaware Convicts Punished at Whipping Post Wilmington. Del., March 27. At New Castle county workhouse here four negroes felt the sting of the Delaware whipping post law. Those whipped were: Warner Lew is, convicted of larceny and sentenced to one year in prison and 20 lashes; Leonard Barrett, highway robbery, 10 years and 40 lashes, and John Richardson and Horace Archie, high way robbers, 10 years and 40 lashes each. New Gold Discovery ' Fairbanks, Alaska, March 27. This city is enjoying its first real mining sensation in years with tnc discovery of gold on Coeomo cree!:, within three miles of town. S. It With a Handsaw (Cor.yniht: MI'M ; By Tb ChidfO Tribune England Facing Big Coal Strike I m iners Threaten to Walk Out April 1 If Present Wage Scalers Reduced. By JOHN STEELE. Chicago Tribune, Cable, . Copyright, 19?1. London, March 27. England is threatened with a coal miners' strike on April 1, unless some agreement ii arrived at between now and then by i mine owners and workers. J he trouble arises from the fact that the government gives up control of the mines on that date. Under government control wages were fixed on a national basis and these were the same in all fields. This arrangement was sati.n'actory to the men. When the government's preparation to relinguish control, tns owners served notice in all fields that contracts would be terminated id that wages -would be fixed in each field independently, in accord ance with the current prices of coal and profits. I nder this scjieme in some lields the wages would lie maintained at euaoie uie weauer ones to maintain the present rate of pay. Burglars Steal $300 Worth of Sugar From Grocery Store Here 1 - . t . i Burglars were unusually active in ; Omaha Saturday night' and Sunday, i ' Will iam Ronan, grocer, reported i to police, that burgiars entered his J store through a rear window and I stole 30 sacks of .sugar, valued at ! $300. burglars broke into The Omaha Raincoat company store.-Nineteenth and Farnam streets, and stole 12 raincoats., 'five umbrellas and one bolt of cloth. Lon Kidd, 2714 Yates street, re ported the theft of a revolver and a suit of clothes. A burglar took Slf from the trousers' of T. .A. Ferris. 1913 Doug las street. C. J. Diniusou, 2621 Blondo street, was held up by two men near his home and robbed of $30. The Hope Mission, 2110 Lake street, was broken into and $65 stolen. ' Thirteen Prisoners Injured In Two New York Collisions New York, March 27. Thirteen persons were injured in two rear end collisions here tonight. Nine were injured when a south-bound Third avenue elevated train crashedH irto' another discharging passengers at a station. One woman was taken to a hospital. A collision earlier in the evening between two Manhattan-bound cars on the Queensboro bridge resulted in injuries to four persom Greeks Advance Eight Miles. Athens, March 27. Tonight's com munique from Greek army headquar ters on the campaign in Asia Minor says the Greeks have advance eight miles toward Eski-Shehor and Afiiin Karahissar. taking 3(H) prisoners, four cannon and a large cju'ntitv of material. I I ML? v Plumb Plan League To Renew Fight on The Cummins Law Organization for Nationaliza tion of Railroads Declares Act Failure After Year6 Trial. Chicago Tribune-Oinnha Hee I.eaftoil Wire, Washington, March 27. Willi the-railroad issue looming large as a problem of the special session of congress and Senator Cummins pre paring to demand an investigation of railroad operation, revenues and its excessive cost, the Plumb Plan league, agitator of railroad nation alization, sounded a renewed dec laration of war on the Cummins Esch railroad law. "After a year's trial the Cumniins Esch law is a proven failure.'' ?ays a statement issued by the league. "That much is admitted by the railroad interests, now preparing for another drive on congress. Their lobbies at Washington are framing measures through which they hope to secure new and colossal privileges, and their propagandists are turuinr; out a Hood of material asking to establish public opinion supporting their unreasonable demands. "The transportation bill has ceased to serve the purpose of the financial group that has played ducks and drakes with transportation. Un der it they secured approximately $1,000,000,000 from the public treasury and an increase of freight and passenger rates which, in nor mal times, will net them more, than $1,500,000,000 a year. In addition to these subsidies, they have gathered in other benefits of great value, i'h.: net result to the public whic'n has been so generous with the railroad Srroup, is a broken down transporta tion system, demoralized commerv. ruined farmers and an army of S.OOii, 000 idlt workers." " Companion of Chester Is Held Without Bond In Kansas Citv 'Murder Kansas City, March 27. -Fred Roberts, charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of Florence' Barton, society girl, was ordered held without bond for trial by Justice M. H. Joyce. Roberts is accused of driving the car on the night of the murder in which bandits held up Miss Barton and Howard Winter, Iifr fiance, .kill ing the girl and wounding her com panion. J."H. Walker, a state prisoner, testified that Roberts, who ako is serving time at the state penitentiary, told him he drove the bandit car the nigh of the murder. penhcel Chester, now in the county jail, also is charged with murder in connection with the affair. The Weather Forecast. -eorasKa fair ann wa nnr in av. north and west portions Hourly Tempera! ur-. Mo 6 . m. . n. m. . 7 n. m. . S a. mr-- 1 i. 2 V. X p. P. r. p C n. T iv 8 V. . . .2 . . . :"i 1 I ft. Hi. 1- noon ' '. .' : i in. . . Democratic Tariff Plan Weakening Protectionist Doctrine for American Industries Crow ing in Favor Sentiment Chauiii in South. U. S. Banker for World By ARTHUR SEARS HENN1NQ. Chicago TrlliuiiF-Omnhn llro I4-iini'iI Wire, Washington, March 27. We now have with us again tariff revision upward, this lime, for the protec tion of American production and for the production of revenue. - With the I'niled States a creditor nation for the tirst time in its his tory, however, the century-old po litical question takes on a new as pect. Instead of the I'nited Stales owing Europe billions of dollars, Europe now owes us ? 14,000,000,0; V, or government loans and credits by American business interest. We have succeeded Britain as the world's banker. So now, mingled with the 1 old time, pleas for protection for "in fant industries" and protection to equalize the cost of production at home and abroad, we hear argu ments from . orthodox high protec tionist quarters in favor of moderate duties which will encourage foreign' trade and enable the debtornations t pay their debts to the United States in commodities, as did the United States when it owed Europe. Democratic Stand Weakening.- - Likewise democratic devotion . tci free trade or a tariff for revenue only appears to be weakening. The solid south, with its expanding man ufactures and its keen comnctition with the foreign growers of some agriculture products, is shot through with protectionist doctrine. It's a south far different from that which dubbed the protection of 1828 th "tariff of abominations."" The tariff heretofor. was chiefly a domestic question, being framed for the specific purpose of keeping out imports which compete with American manufacturers. Now it is urged that the tariff be used also as a weapon for getting more liberal treatment in foreign countries for the exoort oroducts of the United States, the movement along this line j having crystalized into a demand, j for a bargaining tariff. j A few classes of manufacturers j such as the makers of automobiles : the steel manufacturers and the can- j ninff industrv. all of which are most concerned in developing foreign markets and are able to hold their own in domestic markets with a moderate degree of protcoyi- .htj willing to nave uie new v1""-1!-'' apply to their own products. In the case of a great majority of manufac turers however, there is little evi dence of willingness to accept lower rates of dutv. either on the broad theory of facilitating the payment at , the foreign delA or with the spectrin purpose of encouraging reciprocal relations and favorable treatment toward American products. New Law Compromise. Those desiring a more liberal tariff policy base their argumenti chiefly on the "advantage of encour aging reciprocal relations. There is little disposition on the part of any element in the republican ranks de liberately to sacrifice ylomcstic mar kets in order that the foreign nations mav pay their debts. The tariff law which will be placed on the statue books probably not much earlier than October 1, will be the result of numerous compromise!!. The house ways and 'means com mittee, which conducted hearings fur six weeks in January and Feb ruary and for the last week ha been engaged in the actual drafting of a bill, is likely to show a ten dency toward extreme protectionist views The house committee may. reject the proposed bargaining tariff. 'Ifie senate finance committee probably will tone the bill down, giving llior: attention to the developing of- erc port trade and tnay approve a "bar gaining tariff". The measure as final ly enacted into a law. probably wiil contain rates of duty averaging somewhat le.-s than in the forrjief Paync-Aldrich law. TITe highest rates of dutv will be urnvided for chemical and other industries built f i . . .. i i i . up uunng ine war ana wnicn are-stm in the "infant" class. Dcsirabilify of building up the so-called war indui tries yill be an important phase 'ff the tariff questions. There will T)c numerous commodities on which rates of duty will be- little if any higher than m the present Under wood law. -"-Benefit to Agriculture. Agriculture will receive more con sideration than ever before in the framing of the general tariff law and! in this connection votes of a cotr siderable number of southern demo crats can be counted upon for the protection of products in which their states are interested. . The foreign exchange problem is. one of the new elements entering into the situation. One of the result, of the present aLuiLrnial exchange , conditions has been the decision of the republican leaders, with the apa proval of President Harding, to put through congress at the beginning of the special session, a bill aban doning tlpi present method of bas ing import duties on foreign "values N and substituting a system of Amer ican valuation. Various, complicated schemes for obviating exchange difficulties under the present foreign basis of valua tion have been proposed, but prob ably will he rejected. , '"' Military Papers Stolen kailoviteh. on which Genera! Wran gcl is staying. Gold, silver- and jewels alo have been taken itort the vessel. Constantinople, March 27. Im- HT portant military documents rezard- II ing the Crimean campaign have been fj stolen from the shin, Alexander Mir- 7 f.