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VOL. XL—NO. 139.
COPE PREPARES
FOB LONG STI!
J GALVESTON
Martial Law May Yet Be
Enforced to Relieve
Congestion.
CRISIS BELIEVED OVER
Freight Is Loaded and
Workers Are Not
Molested.
Tex. Jone s.—Possibility
y. martial law will hang t- a "aworJ
of Damocles” over Galveston as long
as the dockworkers' stri: e continues
it was very apparet tonight aa Adjutant
General W. D. Cope prepared for a
lengthy stay in this eity.
Fallowing the truce today between
Genera! Cope and Mayor H. 0. Sapping*
ton the Mallory Line succeeded in load-
ing five cars for shipment upstate of
gods that have been lying on the docks
my weeks.
^Between 30 and 40 non-union work-
era loaded the cars and afterward pro-
ceeded unmolested to tbelr homes. No
special police were provided and there
was no demonstration by the strikers
who purposely avoided coming near
the water front.
General Cope announced that if at
any time the strike-breakers are mo-
lested either on duty or'off duty he will
immediately call troops to Galveston.
Union Attitude Changes.
Moving of the freight was made pos-
sible by a change of front by the
Switchmen’s Union whose members are
employed by the Galveston Wharf Com-
pany operators of the terminal rail-
way. The union agreed to move the
rars In and out regardless of what kind
of labor was employed in loading them.
It was evident that the crisis had
been passed although 29 troops of dis-
mounted cavalry Texas National Guard
three machine gun companies and sev-
eral infantry companies aggregating
between 1500 and 2000 men are being
held In their armories In various parts
of the state for instant action u neces-
sary.
Officials of the striking longshore-
men’s organisations have stressed the
fsct that no longshoremen have been
arrested since the strike was cslled and
efty officials have emphasised the same
point.
Police Force Not Increased.
Opponents of the union however as-
sert that the fact that no arrests have
been made is due to leniency of the
police and that a large part of the force
ia composed of former union men.
No additions have been made to the
police force Mayor Sappington said
this afternoon. He admitted that he
is in a peculiar position having prom-
ised complete protection to workers but
at the same time maintaining that this
protection has always existed and has
proved equal to the test.
“We will increase the force should it
become necessary” he said.
Remaining here with General Cope
Lieut. Col. J. H. Zachary the gen-
^n's chief of staff and Capt. L. Lock-
^Bd his aide.
PRETENDER TO THRONE
OF FRANCE REQUESTS
V WILSON’S SUPPORT
Cites Aid Given Benjamin
Franklin for America by
Louis XVI.
By WILLIAM e. NASH.
Special Cable to Th. Han Antonio Llgh
and th. Chicago Dally Newa *
Copyright. IMO. hy Chicago Dally New.
- Foreign Service.
B Paris June s.—The so-called preten-
to throne of France” has sub-
Bmt ted his claims to President Wilson
head or the greatest democracy in the
world and he demands an answer with-
out delay. His pretensions fest on the
fact that Louis XVI whom he claims
>s an ancestor extended recognition to
Btmjamiu Franklin the envoy of the
struggling American colonies and en-
abled them to obtain the European aid
which insured the defeat of Great Brit-
ain. Without this aid he says the
United States would mw be simply a
British dominion similar to Canada or
Australia.
The royal pretender is known pub-
licly as Henri Naundorff. He is a
Dutch wine merchant with headquarters
in Paris. Privately he calls himself
Louis prince of Bourbon and claims
that he is a descendant of Louis XVII.
Marie Antoinette's son who is supjiosed
to have died at the time of the French
revolution. His message to President
W’ilson reads as follows:
"I first submitted my claim to you
in January 1919 Mr. President and
I know that the letter came to your
n>»ontion. But then yon were occupied
^ith a formidable whirlwind of events
and international polities which doubt-
less left you no time to judge of my
case. Now that is over abn ir re-
sponse should be delayed no longer. I
am waiting. If you w"l ask the govern-
ments of Germany Holland France or
the Holy gee for information t! v will
furnish you with absolute proof that
my claims arc just. Yon cannot pos-
sibly respond that the affairs of France
arc no affairs of yours. Louis XVI.. my
groat grandfather did not -eturn a
similar answer to Benjamin Franklin.
i “No with nil your education and
■earning you must probably remember
F little anecdote my groat grandmother
Marie Antoinette told the dauphin
about Franklin. ‘My son.’ she said
‘you have road Plutrach'a Lives. Hore
is one of his characters come to life
again.' ” I
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
CAMPAIGN FUND PROBE
TO BE RESUMED BY
COMMITTEE IN JULY
Johnson’s Hoover’s and
Lowden’s Affairs Will Be
Examined First.
Washington D. C. Juno B.— Future
plans for the Senste investigation of
campaign expenditures will be laid when
the committee reconvenes here July 9
Senator Kenyon chairman announced
today. When the committee reconvenes
it will first look over the books and
records of the Johnson California cam-
paign the Hoover campaign and again
will take up the Lowden campaign in
Missouri. William Loeb Jr. contrib-
utor to Major General's Wood's cam-
paign will also be called.
This Senator Kenyon said will end
the investigation into primary expendi-
tures.
After drafting plans for taking vp
the extended investigation of party ex-
penditures for candidates for President
vice president and senator which was
authorized in the Pomerene resolution
passed by the Senate today the commit-
tee will recess to late summer or early
fall Senator Kenyon said.
Rumblings were heard tonight in
Wood and Lowden quarters over the de-
cision of the committee not to meet and
examine the Johnson record until July.
Wood and Lowden men pointed out
there was uncertainty about the expend-
itures as revealed by the testimony of
Johnson’s managers and they main-
tained this should be cleared up before
the convention. The only witness heard
by the committee today was Col. B. H.
R. Green son of Hetty Green. He de-
nied he had worked for Wood in Tex-
as. He said the contesting delegation
of which he is a member favored any-
body who could get the nomination.
•‘There are several prospective post-
masters in the bunch” said Green.
NATIONAL RAILWAYS
BREAK OLD RECORDS
SAYS ROAD PRESIDENT
Declares They Have Moved
More Freights Than
Before the Strike.
Chicago June s.—Railways of the
nation have surpassed normal opera-
tions S. M. Felton president of the
Chicago & Great Western Railroad in-
dicated tonight in a statement deal-
ing with the situation.
‘‘The railways of the country as a
whole and especially those in Western
territory have moved more freight since
the strikes than they did in the cor-
responding weeks of the year 1019 Fel-
ton’s statement said.
Felton declared the number of car-
loads moved between March 27 and May
•2 aa shown by statistics of the Ameri-
can Railroad Association was an in-
crease over the same weeks a year ago
of 370.000 carloads.
‘ W hile transportation conditions are
still unsatisfactory” Felton declared
"they are steadily improving and the
amount of business being moved is
steadily increasing.”
REV. COOK IS BISHOP
Former Rector of St. Mark’s Church
Here Accepts Appointment.
Baltimore Md. June s.—Rev. Philip
Cook D. D. the rector of St. Michael
and All Angels’ Protestant Episcopal
Church in this city was recently elect-
ed to the bishopric of the State of Mary-
land and has accepted the appointment
according to an announcement today.
Before he came to Baltimore he di-
rected services at St. Mark’s Church in
San Antonio Texas which place he left
in March 1910. During the recent war
he served as chaplain with the 77th
Division of the A. E. F. in France.
He was born at Kansas City Mo.
in 1875.
TWO ARE SENTENCED
Man and Woman Must Die For Murder
By Poison.
Wichita Kan. June s.—William I).
Jordan and Mrs. Anna Crowl who con-
fessed they killed Carl Crowl by poison-
ing were sentenced to life imprisonment
here today. Crowl. Anna Crowl's hus-
band was murdered on May 20.
Jordan and Mrs. Crowl intended to be
married after Jordan killed his wife
it was stated when Mrs. Jordan told
police her husband had made several at-
tempts to poison her.
THE WEATHER
TEMPERATURES.
JUNE 4. I a. m. .if... 11
3 p. . M 6 a. m 69
4 p. m 87 7 a. m 73
5 p. m 87 8 a. m. ...... 7b
6 p. m. ...... 86 9 a. m. ...... 78
7 p. m 84 10 a. in 80
8 p. m 81 11 a. m 82
'• p. m 80 12 m 84
10 p. in 78 1 p. m S 4
11 p. ni 75 2 p. m. ...... 73
13 midnight.... 74 3 p.. m 69
JUNE 5. 4 p. 71
1 a. m 73 5 p. m 76
3 a. m 'ft 6 p. 77
3 a. m *7l 7 p. m 77
4 a. m 71
FORECAST
East Texas; Sunday generally fair
warmer In north and west portions Mon-
day fair warmer in Interior.
Wait Texas; Fair. Sunday warmer. Mon-
day probably fair.
HOME WEATHER FOK TOURISTS.
Chicago: Clear; slx-mlle wind; highest
temperature Saturday 60.
Kt. Ixmls: Cloudy; eight-mile wind;
highest temperature Saturday 76.
Kanean City: Clear; elght-mlla wind;
highest temperature Saturday 74.
New York: Raining; 20-mllo wind high
est temperature Saturday 68.
Washington: Cloudy; six-mile wind;
highest temperature Saturday 62.
NEW YORK CITY
POPULATION IS
8821151
American Metropolis Shows
an Increase of 854268
Since 1910.
SMALLER THAN LONDON
Figures for Boston Buffalo
and Newport News Are
Also Announced.
Washington D. C„ June B. — The
Census Bureau tonight announced the
1920 population figures for New York
Buffalo Boston and Newport News.
The results of the count of these cities
with their increases or decreases and
percentages of increase or decrease since
the 1910 census are as follows:
New York City (Greater New York
including its five boroughs) 5621151;
increase 854268 or 17.9 per cent.
Borough of Manhattan 2284103; de-
crease 474.49 or 2.0 per cent.
Borough of Brooklyn 2022262; in-
crease 387911 or 23.7 per cent.
Borough of the Bronx 732016; in-
crease 301036 or 69.8 per cent.
Borough of Queens (Long Island)
466811; increase 182770 or 63.3 per
cent.
Borough of Richmond (Staten
Island) 115959; increase 29990 or
34.9 ner cent.
Boston 747823; increase 77338 or
11.5 yer cent.
Buffalo 505876; increase 82160 or
19.4 per cent.
Newport News Va. 35596; increase
15391 or 76.2 per cent.
London Is Still Ahead.
New York has fallen more than a
million short of being the world's great-
est city according to the figures given
above. The American metropolis has
a population of 5621151 persons ac-
cording to the 1920 census. Official
figures obtained here showed London
with 6726753 is still the world's met-
ropolis.
The 1910 population of New York
was 4766.883.
London it is estimated had a larger
population before the war than now.
New York however is easily the second
city of the world. Paris in 1911 had
2888.000 inhabitants; Tokio in 1916
had 2244796 and Berlin in 1910 2-
071000. It is not believed that these
cities have had sufficient growth to
bring them to the level of New York.
Exceeds Most States.
Coming to this side of the water cen-
sus officials expect New York to have
a larger population than most states.
While complete figures arc not avail-
able it is expected that only Ohio
Texas Pennsylvania. Illinois and New
York State itself will exceed the popu-
lation of New York City.
The figures show that one borough
Manhattan with 2284103 inhabitants
is greater than the 1920 population of
any citv given out at the Census Bu-
reau so far. It may exceed Philadel-
phia.
Figures given out for Boston show
that city smaller than St. Louis but
larger than Baltimore. Cleveland and
Detroit may outstrip both of these
cities which were fourth and fifth ten
years ago.
TEXAN GETS THE D. S. M.
Lieutenant Gun st of Corpus Christi Led
Platoon Under Fire.
Washington. D. C. June s.—First
Lieut. Gerald H. Gunst 360th Infantry
whose home address is Corpus Christi
is the only Texan awarded the Distin-
guished Service Cross in the list of ci-
tations issued by the War Department
today.
The cross is awarded for heroism
disp’/yed by Lieutenant Gunst near An-
drenne France November 2 1918
when following the wounding of other
officers he assumed command of an as-
sault platoon and continued to lead it
despite his own wound gaining the ob-
jective sought. Later he volunteered
to carry an important message to regi-
mental headquarters and to do this was
compelled to cross an area swept by
enemy machine-gun fire.
GET GERMAN TROPHIES
War Material To Be Distributed to the
Several States.
Washington. D. C. June 5.—A vast
amount of German war material includ-
ing guns of various caliber is to be dis-
tributed to the several states under a
bill pending for months and finally
passed by the Senate shortly before ad-
journment. This is to be allotted to
each state in proportion to the troops
recruited the ratio having been worked
out by the War Department to the
minutest detail.
There are a great number of these
items which are to be distributed under
the general supervision of the senators
and representatives from each state.
The allotment for Texas of the main
items are guns and howitzers 62
trench mortars 30 rifles 2910 machine
guns 417 bayohets and scabbards 2049.
LIVED 113 YEARS
Mrs. Bums’ Daughter Who Survives
Her Is 93.
Houston Tex Jnne 5. —Mrs. Nar-
cissa Yarbrough Burns known as
"Grandma” Burns died at her home
here this afternoon. She was 113 years
old and was said to be the oldest white
woman in the Uhited States.
Grandma began failing several
months ago. Up to that time her health
was good. She was born in Tennessee
but came to Texas when a child o t e
years. For many years she lived at
Waxahachie.
She is survived by a daughter Mrs.
Mary Thomas who ia 93 years old.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SUNDAY JUNE 6 1920.—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES.
FOUR MILLION CHILDREN OF
EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR ARE
STARVING; BABIES EAT GRASS
Infants Wander Over Countries Separated From Par-
ents; Live Like Wild Beasts; Diseases Threaten
Lives of All; Mortality Is at High Rate.
By PAUL SCOTT MOIVREU.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally Newa.
Copyright 1920. by Chicago Dally News
Foreign Service.
Geneva June 3.—Four million chil-
dren are threatened with death from
famine and disease in Europe and Asia
Minor. Such is the information of the
central bureau of the International
Children’s Aid Union formed recently
tinder the auspices of the International
Red Cross. The movement to save the
children who are to form the next gen-
eration of citizens on this sorely tried
continent has aroused a response of al-
most unparalleled generosity in nearly
every country of the world. Even France
and Italy which have numerous war
orphans of their own have responded
nobly to alleviate the desperate misery
of the children of Central Europa but
an immense amount of work remains to
be done.
By countries the situation according
to information in the hands of the Chil-
dren's Aid Union is as follows:
Ukrainia: No exact figures are avail-
able but approximately 80 per cent of
the population are afflicted with typhus
malaria or smallpox including of
course the children.
South Russia: Infant mortality has
risen in some regions to 80 per cent. In
Kuban 600000 refugees chiefly women
and children lack everything. Many died
along the road in the wake of the
Denekin retreat and many (.led in refu-
gee trains on the way to Novorossi.
Armenia : Thousands of children are
reported to be wandering about like
houseless savages separated from their
parents and eating grass ond nuts.
The Caucasus There are 250000 or-
phans in the district of Erivau alone.
Typhus is raging.
Food and Clothing Scarce.
Poland: Of the total of 3000.000 or
4000000 children about 47 per-cent are
ill or enfeebled. Nearly 500.000 are or-
phans or separated from thier parents.
About 1500000 children are running
wild and girls from 12 to 14 years of age
have been compelled to lead lives of
shame in order to live. There is a dire
lack of food and clothing.
Bulgaria: There is no milk to be had
and infant mortality is high.
Serbia: Two hundred thousand or-
phans are wandering uncared for and
living from hand to mouth. There is
much tuberculosis.
Hungary: The infant mortality is 40
per cent. In 1918. 15000 more children
died in Budapest than were born. One-
tenth of the children in Budapest are
tubercular. New-born babes weigh on
an average between four and five
THREE PERSONS KILLED
Several Hurt When Nitro-Glycerine Ex-
plodes On Street.
Coffeyville Kan. June s.—Three
persons were killed several injured
and property damage resulted when 150
quarts of nitroglycerine exploded on
the street at Liberty Kan. eight miles
north of here today.
Joe Dugan 25 of Bartlesville Okla.
driver for the American Glycerine Com-
pany was transporting the explosive
frpm Bartlesville to Paola Kan. The
nitro-glycerine exploded when the truck
struck a culvert.
Dugan and two small boys Dan and
Beryl Marchant sons of Lloyd and
Claud Marchant respectively were
killed.
G. C. Satterlee of Bartlesville was
driving another truckload of glycerine
some distance in front of Dugan’s
truck. Satterlee’s load did not ex-
plode.
Three homes in the street where the
explosives let go were wrecked. Sur-
rounding property was damaged hut no
estimate of the material loss was ob-
tainable.
FINDS 573 “KICKS”
I^arge Majority of Beverages Found to
Contain Alcohol.
Austin Tex. June s.—Since the Dean
Prohibition Law has been in operation
the pure food department has analyzed
765 samples of beverages supposed to
contain alcohol according to Pure Food
Commissioner R. IL Hoffman who
added that of these sample 573 showed
sufficient alcoholic content to be in
violation of the Dean Law. These sam-
ples were submitted by district and
county attorneys and sheriffs from dif-
ferent counties of the state also by in-
vestigators from the attorney general’s
department.
POLES RESUME ADVANCE
Break Through Bolshevist Fortifications
Near Dvina River.
Warsaw. June 5. —An official state-
ment today said the Poles resuming
their offensive bad broken down the
Bolshevist concrete fortified lines be-
tween the Dvina River and Borisov and
advanced 30 kilometers toward Buden-
ni. The Ukranians arc advancing along
the Olanza River.
Ring Lardner Will See the Funny Side
of the Republican and Democratic Conventions
He Will Tell About Them
every day in the San Antonio Light
“I cannot say in advance what I will say* about these conventions.”
says Lardner iu a letter to the editor "but I can tell you that it will
be imparshul because both sides have ignored the offer of a generous
sacrifice of myself on the altar of bi-partisan patriotism and so I have
nothing to expect from either side but they have from me.”
Read Lardner every day during the conventions in
The San Antonio Light
pounds. Seventy-five thousand children
lack shoes and there is almost no cloth-
ing available.
Austria: Twenty thousand children
in Vienna have tuberculosis of the bones
and 100.600 have pulmonary tubercu-
losis. The situation here is somewhat
ameliorated thanks to the generous aid
from many sources.
Germany: A million and a half of
war orphans and 13000.000 other chil-
dren need aid. Two and a half million
have tuberculosis and are underfed.
Practically all school children are far
underweight and infant mortality has
increased in some places by 15S per
cent. There is an acute shortage of milk
and fats. Mothers are often unable to
nurse their babies owing to malnutri-
tion.
Infant Mortality Increases.
Czechoslovakia : Here there are 300.-
000 needy infants of whom nearly half
are uncared for. There are 700.000 needy
children between the ages of 2 and 14
years of whom 20000 are uncared for.
Of 15000 tubercular childreu. 13.500 re-
main unattended. The infant mortality
has greatly increased. Lady Muriel
Paget estimates that in Bohemia and
Moravia 100.000 children need clothes.
In Slovakia 17.000 need clothes and
3800 ten-pound rations arc required.
Juvenile crime and immorality have in-
creased frightfully.
There are many girl mothers.
Baltic Sttaes: There are refugees
everywhere. Ten thousand children need
aid in the town of Dvinsk alone.
Roumania : No informatoiu is avail-
able. Nobody seems to know what the
real conditions are in this country.
Greece: This country has more than
50000 war orphans.
Italy: There are ISOOOO war or-
phans. In Trent alone there are 3600
children in asylums. There are 300.000
children who are needy 7000 who lost
their fathers in the war and 900 who
lost both father and mother. Neverthe-
less Italy is caring for 4500 Austrian
childreu.
France: There are many children in
the north who were mutilated by pro-
jectiles in the war or by accidental ex-
plosions since the armistice. A special
school for mutilated children has been
established at Tourcoing. More than
300.000 war orphans are dependent on
the state. In the city of Lille 40 per
cent of the children show signs of tuber-
culosis and more than half of the little
school children have been sent to hos-
pitals since the armistice. France alsc
has begun to help take care of Aus-
trian children.
GERMAN ELECTIONS
TO THE REICHSTAG
TAKE PLACE MONDAY
Representatives to Be
Chosen by the People
Including Women.
Berlin June s.—Germany is prepared
for the first constintional elections the
country has ever known which will be
held tomorrow for the election of rep-
resentatives of the people in the reich-
stag. What developments may come
cannot be forecast.
Reports were current today that rev-
olutionary sympathizers planned to
seize the polling places and destroy bal-
lots at the same time arresting candi-
dates but none of these rumors was
confirmed.
The government announced today
that “to avoid a misunderstanding” the
Doebritz Republican brigade and por-
tions of the Potsdam garrison are “un-
dertaking march and battle practice.”
The outcome of the election probably
will be announced Monday or Tuesday
due to a complicated system of counting
and announcing results.
Scores of rumors are in the air about
possible revolutionoary coups and pog-
roms. The govenment however has
consistently asserted its confidence that
there will bo no trouble. The independ-
ent party hns planned picturesque pa-
rades of children hence it is not be-
lieved sinister plots are in the air.
The elections will determine whether
the government will adopt stronger con-
servative or stronger radical politicos
or whether it will remain the old coali-
tion regime through the election of one
member of the reichstag for every six
thousand votes east.
AH men and women over 20 years
of age are eligible to vote.
More than 400 members will sit in
the new reichstag it was stated today
in estimates of the balloting and it is
the general opinion that the coalition
govenment will lose ground in the vot-
ing.
Count von Bernstorff is one of the
prominent candidates running on the
Democratic ticket in Duisburg. He
has campaigned in the approved Amer-
ican fashion delivering 25 speeches in
as many towns in three weeks. His
campaign has been based principally
upon pleas for international concilia-
tion and co-operation through a league
of nations.
CONGRESSMEN
FREE TO 00 TO
CONVENTIONS
Sixty-sixth Congress Ends
Second Session Sat-
urday.
BUDGET BILL FAILS
All Other Measures Fav-
ored by Republicans
Are Enacted.
Washington. D. C. June s.—The Six-
ty-sixth Congress closed its second ses-
sion today. Both House and Senate
adjourned at 4 o'clock Saturday after-
noon.
Only one measure which Republican
leaders had counted upon passing failed
to get through. It was the bill creating
the governmental budget.
Au hour after adjournment however.
President Wilson it was announced at
the White House had decided not to
sign three important measures—the
water power bill the resolution repeal-
ing all war-time laws except the L.ver
and tradiug-with-the-enemy acs and a
bill creating a commission to take up
the ‘newsprint and wood pulp situation
with Canada. He said he had not had
sufficient time to eonsier any of these
measucs.
He signed the merchant marine bill
despite indications that he would veto
it. and also approved the final defi-
ciency appropriation bill.
The approval of all appropriation
bills makes practically certain that there
will be no extra session of Congress
until theree is som emergency that culls
for such action. The next regular ses-
sion meets early in December.
Budget BUI Falls in Senate.
The budget bill vetoed by President
Wilson last night was repassed by the
House today minus the clause to which
Wilson objected. It failed in the Sen-
ate however when Senator Pomerene
Ohio insisted upon passage of his reso-
lution continuing the expenditures in-
vestigation. Pomerene's resolution got
through two minutes before adjourn-
ment.
The Senate during the day also passed
a resolution by Senator Harris Geor-
gia providing for making public in-
come tax returns of corporations with
profits over 25 per cent. A number
of nominations of postmasters were
acted upon.
The House today agreed finally to a
bill to deport and exclude foreigners who
are anarchists or who believe iu over-
throw of organized government by force.
This was the only House action in
addition to passing the budget bin. Part
of the time leaders were unable to keep
a quorum present.
Presages Political Battle.
The congressional session ended with
rumblings of a political battle that is
expected to run throughout the cam-
paign. Early in the day President Wil-
son denounced Congress for failure to
act on high cost of living measures.
Just before the House adjourned. Re-
publican Leader Mondell praised Con-
gress declaring it had saved the gov-
ernment $2374460817.06.
Mondell pointed to the record of the
session in the passage of constructive
bills.
"The program constitutes such im-
portant legislation as the transporta-
tion act: the woman suffrage amend-
ment tho Greene saipping act the
oil land leasing bill the water power
bill the Sweet war risk act the civil
service retirement act and the act for
enforcement of prohibition” Mondell
said.
Blames Democratic Members.
The Republican floor leader blamed
Democratic opposition in the Senate for
failure to pass the budget bill.
“An attempt to meet the President's
wishes bas met with defeat in the clos-
ing hours of the session being blocked
hy the action of the Democratic mem-
bers” he said referring to failure of fhr
budget bill.
Garrett Democrat Tennessee spoke
for fifteen minutes in condemnation of
the Republican Congress.
"They have measured their savfhgs
by estimates of the departments” he
said. "But they have failed to solve
the problem of the high cost of living
or to pass the great construction bills."
Packer Legislation Deferred.
The closing session of the Senate was
dramatic for that usually sedate body.
Senator Smoot in charge of the bud-
get bill allowed the Harris resolution
to come up with the understanding that
Senator Reed and other ’'emocrats
would withdraw the objections to the
measure. As the Senate adopted the
senator’s resolution the time automati-
cally came under special rules previously
adopted for consideration of the packer
regulation legislation and this gave
Reed an opening to renew his objectioo
to the budget bill.
The packer regulation bill will be
the first business of the next session
in the Senate.
The House was in reeess much of the
afternoon while members laugh. I and
joked walking about the floor When
the final rap of the speaker's gave)
came the members cheered.
SUNDAY MAY BE FAIR
Saturday’s Rain of B 9 of an Inch Gives
Excess For Month In Five Dsys.
Rainfall beginning about noon Satur-
day and continuing as a drizzle fur
more than half the afternoon resulted
in a precipitation at San Antonio of
•69 of an inch giving at the end of the
first five days nearly one-half an inch
of rain in excess of the normal for the
month of June.
The rain followed the development of
a storm area in the west after a fore-
cast for the week-end of fair and
warmer had been issued but clearing
weather here last night gave promise
of a fairly pleasant Sunday notwith-
standing.
PRESIDENT IS BUSY
VETOING OR SIGNING
MEASURES SUBMITTED
Disapproves One Fails to
Act on Three and
Endorses Nine.
Washington D C. June 3.—With
Congress adjourning. President Wilson
today spent the busiest day since he
became ill last September. Starting
this moning with a letter to railway
labor leaders condemning Congress for
failure to act on high-cost-of-living leg-
islation the President acting on «3
measures *y 4 o'clock Saturday after-
noon. Virtually all were rushed through
Congress in the closing hours.
Following his veto of the budget bill
last night President Wilson vetoed one
measure today—a bill granting $3975
to owners of land damaged by construc-
tion work on the Black Warrior River.
President Wilson gave as his reason
for failing to sign three important bills
before adjournment that he had not
had time to consider them fully.
These were:
Repeal of all war-time legislation ex-
cept the Lever and trading-with-the-
cnemy acts.
Use of public lands for the private
development of water power sites un-
der government regulations.
Appointment of a commission to con-
fer with Canada on restrictions on the
export of pulp wood for newsprint.
Among the important measures which
Mr. Wilson signed were:
1. The mediant marine bill providing
for the sale of the American mecbant
fleet.
2. The army and navy appropriation
bills.
3. The army reorganization bill pro
viding for a standing army of 279000
men. and revision of the army court
martial system.
4. Resolution providing use of govern-
ment owned radio stations for press and
commercial messages.
5. Third deficiency bill providing for
immediate financial needs of various
government departments.
6. The postal salary increase bill.
. 7. Tho rivers and harbors appropria-
tion for construction repnir and pre-
servation of public works ou rivers and
harbors.
8. The 1921 pensions appropriations
bill.
9. Diplomatic and consular sundry
civil and District of Columbia appro-
priation bills.
PRESIDENT WILSON
SIGNS MERCHANT
MARINE MEASURE
Bill Provides for Sale o!
Fleet to Private
Owners.
Washington. D. C. June s.—Presi-
dent Wilson today signed the merchant
marine bill providing for reorganization
of the shipping board and repeal of
the President’s war powers over the
board.
The act creates an American mer-
chant marine under supervision of the
United States Shipping Board.
The board is authorized to dispose
of vessels now the property of the gov-
ernment giving preference to purchas-
ers who are citizens of this country.
Seven members constitute the reor-
ganized board two from the Atlantic
two from the Pacific one from the
Gulf one from the Great Lakes and
one from the Central section of the
country.
A special fund for the construction
of ships by private corporations is ap-
propriated.
The board is entitled to settle all
matters pending decision before the
present board. The war control bill is
revoked by this act.
Another power of the board extends
over the docks equipment and termin-
al facilities acquired by the President
under the war act. The powers of
the board over constructions of vessels
is contained in a provision that a sum
not exceeding $50900000 shall be ap-
propriated for this purpose annually.
The United States reserves the right
to take over the entire merchant marine
in time of war.
GOT LOWDEN MONEY
Candidate for Governor of Missouri
Says He Received $lOOO.
Springfield. Mo. June s.—ln a state*
meut here tonight E. E. E. McJimsey.
Republican candidate for nomination of
governor of Missouri admitted he re-
ceived two contributions of $5OO each
from Jacob Babler principal in the
Lowden “slush” fund in Missouri dis-
closed by testimony before the Senate
committee investigating presidential
campaign expenditures at Washing-
ton.
.McJimsey stated the money waa given
him in two personal checks by Babler
last January. He said he understood
the money was paid him in accordance
with an understanding with Babler
when he entered the state gubernatorial
race and that it was to help on ex-
penses of his campaign for the state
office.
TO TAKE POLK’S PLACE
Assistant Treasurer Accepts Appoint-
ment As Undersecretary of State.
Washington D. C„ Juno s.—Norman
S. Davis who bas been assistant sec-
retary of the treasury in charge of for-
eign loans will accept the post of un-
der-secretary of state upon the insis-
tence of President Wilson the State
Department announced tonight.
BARACKS ARE BURNED
Sinn Feinners Continue Depredations In
Ireland.
Dublin. June s.—Kilmurry Barracks
and Oak Grove House were attacked and
burned by Sinn Feiners today. The
court bouse at Firmeut was wrecked and
Dawson Castle near Belfast was at-
tacked and damaged.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
REPUBLICANS
READY ID FIGHT
FOR NOMINATION
No Strong Trend Noted
Toward Any Given
Candidate.
BOOSTERS IN EVIDENCE
Conferences on Platforms
Result in Unanimity
Says Hays.
Chicago. Jnne The fight for the
Republican presidential nomination to-
night was still a free-for-all. There
was no strong trend toward any Indi-
vidual.
This confusion was complicated by
the fact that the old guard was with-
out a leader illness preventing the at-
tendance of Senator Penrose.
With delegates streaming into town
the names of the candidates who hire
been more or less in the background be-
gan coming to the fore u the boosters
for favorite sous commenced putting
forward their claims in jammed hotel
lobbies and corridors. Lowden Wood
and Johnson no longer monopolized the
stage. For Harding Coolidge Poindex-
ter Butler Kuox Sproul Hoover and
Hughes were getting more attention.
Six Candidates Present.
Six candidates were personally on tbs
job tonight Johnson Lowden Wood
Poindexter and Butler. Senator Hard-
ing was due. These men were receiv-
ing long lines of well-wishers shaking
hands talking to newspaper men pos-
ing for photographs and holding numer-
ous secret conferences with campaign
managers.
Preliminary conferences on ths plat-
form kept representatives of tho candi- .
dates busy this afternoon. There was
no general meeting of course but much '
interchanging of ideas and reporting to i
"the chief.” Will Hays chairman of
the national committee said that so far
as he knew there was "practically unan-
imity of opinion” on all platform planks
except that dealing with the treaty.
No Definite league Decision.
''The fact is" he said “there has been
no real effort to develop any movement
in connection with an agreement on the
league matter for the reason that many
of the leading advocates of the slightly
different ideas in connection with it
are not here and we thought that the
proper thing was to wait until more of
these different gentlemen arrived.”
He explained that he referred to Sen-
ators Borah Kellogg Kenyon and oth-
ers and that he thought there would bs
an agreement.
The national committee tonight eoni
eluded the hearing of contests over del-
egates’ seats and the pre-ednvention
period slipped into the red fire and
brass band period. Much old-faahioned
political whoo-’er-up excitement was
provided by the arrival of the Califor-
nia and Nevada delegations—the first
organized delegations to come into ths
city en masse. Crowds were so dens*
in the halls of the Congress and Audi-
torium Hotels that passing was slow
and difficult. Rooters for the various
candidates vied in pinning ribbons med-
als and assorted badges on one and
ail. .
Headquarters Are Mobbed.
Headquarters of the aspirants were
mobbed and the gentlemen themselves
were followed by excited crowds when-
ever they appared in publir. When be.
hind closed doors some of them had to
have guards stationed there to turn back
the charge of the wild enthusiasm.
Behind this veil of mass activity ths
rumor crop bloomed with amazing vigor.
There were all sorts of reports of
trades and deals and coalitions and
some candidates getting ready to pull
out but those closest to the candidates
knew nothing about these stories.
HOOVER SHOWS STRENGTH.
Former Food Administrator's Friends
Say He Will Win.
Chicago June s.—Herbert Hoover's
mangers tonight were making rareful
plans for a drive which they hope will
win him the nomination on the final
ballot In the Republican convention.
Hoover stock rose today as a result
of these preparations and several other
developments. Announcement that Sen-
ator Boies Penrose will not attend the
convention means that Hoover’s bit-
terest enemy in the inner councils of
the party will be absent from the scene.
The continued deadlock of active can-
didates also adds to the chances of the
former food administrator his mana-
gers raid.
Hoover headquarters in President
row today were more active than at
any time past. Callers included former
Governor Whitman of New York. Wil-
liam R. Cox former ehairman of the
Republican national committee Oscar
Strauss philanthropist and former am-
bussador to Turkey and Bertram Snell
chairman of the executive committee of
the New York state central committee.
Hoover Will Not Attend.
Hoover is in New York hU head-
quarters say and does not expect to
come to Chicago during the convention.
He is in constant touch with his head-
quarters by long distance telephone.
His managers are counting on a slow
steady development when the balloting
begins hoping to gain sufficient votes
as the other candidates are eliminated.
“We don’t want any delegates to
vote for him until they have fulfilled til
obligations to their first choice pref-
erences" one of Hoover's managers
said.
They were busy tonight trying to de-
cide on who is to make the nominating
speech for Hoover declaring several
nationally known delegates have volun-
teered. Their names were withheld
however.
Judge Nathan Miller. Syracuse N. Y.
reported as having been selected to
make the Hoover sjieech said today the
matter had not been settled.
Sproul Favor* Hooverf
There was some gossip to the effect
that Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania
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