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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919
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THE WEATHER
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Washington. Aug. 30.—Elast- em Pennsylvania: Showers and thunderstorms Sunday.
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LABOR'S HOPE IN TREATY SAYS GOMPERS; WILL DESOLATE IRELAND SAYS COCHRAN
ERIN'S AIM IS FREEDOM OR OBLIVION
Foreign Relations Committee in Sensational    Hearing    is .   Given a Drastic Choice
NO MIDDLE WAY
Washington. Aug:. 30—FVleniJfl of Irish freedom in the Tnited States re¬ gard the Lcagrue of Nations covenant as a "pact to prohibit pe.ice, not to create it," and believe its .idoption by tfce Senate seals the doom of free in¬ stitutions. Bourkp f^orhrun. New York, told the Foreign Ueiations Com- niitteft today in summing; jp argu- aients agalnftt the league and i" favor ' of Irish independence which occupied the comratttee for five hours.
"All  the  leagues of  N.tiion."i  on   top of  the   earth   never  will   keep  Ireland i •Uhmlssive,   nor   America   either."   de- '¦¦ clared  Cochran   to  an  accompaniment | of wild cheering by a crowd of advo- I cates of Irish irdtpendence.    A   num¬ ber    of    senators    Including    Pholan, California, were present.
"The world is iit the parting of the Ways.    If the Benate chooses the path marked out hy this les^-'ue, to prohibit .¦ind not create p^-Hi-e. there is no future ¦ left fo.- the huni;in  family. j
"The League of Nations is an ahomi-1 niition which w* feel ronfiUent the| American people will never submit to. | Are we now to pay a triiiute of infamy j to establish •. league that cannot oper¬ ate for peace?
"Though we have looked In vain for JiifijcmeiM and good fiense In some Quar¬ ter* Wh#rp we e.xpected them the four¬ teen points arc not dead. They arc here. aUve and Ireland is appealing to them".
Oochrane, like the speakers who pre¬ ceded him. demanded Senate rejection or the entire treaty as the only meaos of earlnir to h-eland and other subject ivttluns an opportupily to get their 11b- c-i.v.
On thr Irish question proper he eaid:
CKtsrmiAatS Ireland "Gmancipaiiou or cxterminatioa is the on!y an.'jwcr to it. (utiifr i..inii:.sij ni'Krule must h^ removed or tho Irl.'h \ttr^p\t must he oMermlnated. Yet It Is n»t.an irish ctueslion. U iB a world i.i.jestlon which has alTected tbe world's I'Cure for 4ft0 jejcF .nnd will continue to «.^> !>\> until It Is settled "
The wwrld war. ho 8;ild, grew out of   iir-   kaisers   belief  that   civil   dloturb- a:tr.^•; m.'ifle In T914 the yeai* of oppor- luiiity lor him to sel^e world dominion. \ f'Jchranf'.y nhiitty as nn oratOr. as he I tra'.i.'d   ihe histoT-- of Irlhli  oppression ; tl'MiM.sh    the    crnnirles,    stirred    his froiioly  sufllenrt  to  a  frensy  of ap* li.,;j.se pn.-<ny timep.
VVh'ie he wa;, fpe-tkiti;!: a protest was f.-:1 with Ih'- committee by Albert F, Kc 1.V, signed by himself and n\e oth- k..:. %«iii«.l> tlei.'lHred again*' "th» efforts Ol .'I ..tioii in Ireland, known as Sinn i'o 11. IO Inlect tlip Irish ouedtlon Into ifi» uiicussion of the tre-it;- in the Sen- i «te.-' j
r»h committer read  Kelly's protest \ i-.nd niadi' it pan oi the record.
D. C. OTiahtrty, Richra.'nd, \a., an- oihfrr wimesf:, dr^ejartil that "the trea¬ tj'. or making the world safe for drmorracy would make It safe for h.vpocrisy."
Tn« W«et for trslaitd . Lieutenant    Governor McDowell    of! Montana, declared that more than    ;,"> j per cent of the people of his state and ] adjolalng ones  favor   Irish  independ- *nc« and are opposed to "any clause in any treaty that will deny Ireland that right,"     He   based   the   statement,   he said, on th* ovations given Eamon De Valera. president of the Irish Republic. on recent visits to Helena and  Butte, McDowell declined, however, to an¬ swer questions by  Senator Knox    re¬ garding   the    people's    views  on  the League of Nations.
John A. Xurphy, Buffalo, N. T, who was connected with the American cojniDlsslon for Irish Independence, told of his efforts in France to get the French press interested in Ireland's case. He also related to the commit¬ tee the alleged coldness of the recep¬ tion given American commissioners by the peace delegates, when they tried to 1 get action on th* Irish question.
At a morning session, the three mem¬ bers of the American commission on Irish Independence, Frank P, Walsh, former Governor Dunne of Illinois, and Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia, told In detail of their efforts in Paris to get safe conduct to Versailles for de Va¬ lera, Count Plunkett and Arthur Grif¬ fith, the elected Irish peace delegates. Nation in Rcvelt. They also related the efforts of the committee and submitted reports showing conditions as they found them I^ Ireland. They stated that Ireland is now in a state of revolt nnth a British army keeping down disorders.
All declared that arUcles 10 and 11 of the Lieague of .Vstions covenant will prevent Irish independence b^ pre¬ venting any other nation coming to hat aid. For that reason and because the co%'«naRt also Invades American fovereJgnty in their views, they urged tne comaittee to reject it.
An hour was given to Greek repre¬ sentatives to argue Greece's claims to Thrace. Professor George M. Boiling of Ohio State University and M. Cas- ee^etec argued that the part of Thrace Greece Undemanding Greek rat){er than Bulgarian In population. The Ameri¬ cas yeaee delegates alone stand In the ^ky «( awarding Thrace to - <IlL<sur #>kr.f Vtte.
County Candidate Charges Trick
of Bi-Partisan Treasury Auction
A political sensation was furnished last night by WiUiam S. Tompkins, who is a candidate for the Republican nomina¬ tion for county treasurer. v4ien he charged that a conspiracy had been entered into by political leaders to steer the campaign for the treasurer's office with the idea of juggling political par¬ ties in the fight for judge to be waged two years hence.
The discovery of the plan wais announced by Tompkins as the opening shot in his campaign for county treasurer. Up to last night he had been a passive candidate. He had filed on the Republican ticket, but remained in the backgroimd. His determination to make a hard fight for the nomination was reached when he came into possession of'important plans of certain political leaders, he declares.
Tompkins claims that the campaign for the treasurership has been singled out by some politicians claiming strength, as the one that can be used advantageously to further other ambi¬ tions that they have. The successful working out of this plan depends upon giving the Republican and Democratic nomina¬ tions for the office to the one candidate, whose name he with¬ holds, he charges.
In a signed statement appearing elsewhere in this paper today, Tompkins' charge is as follows: "As is generally known there is a plan to nominate a certain gentleman on both the Re¬ publican and Democratic tickets, thus eliminating the office with its proper connection in the fall campaign. This being con¬ summated, a certain Republican support is to go to a Demo¬ cratic candidate for judge two years hence."
The statement from Tompkins is expected to make the campaign for county treasurer one of the liveliest of the present year, despite the fact that up to this time it has remained partly in the background. He has mapped out a campaign that will keep things busy until the primary election.
MODERATION IS ADOPTED FOR LABOR
Unions Represented by Feder¬ ation Wiii Assist in Getting Nation Baci< to Normal
NO RAILROAD POLICY
CAUSEDBYANl
Veteran Business Man is $ Victim of Mishap Suffered at His Store
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Blood poisoning resulting from an in¬ jury inflicted by a rusty nail caused the death last night of William J. Toad, aired S3, prominent merchant of North Wilkes-Barre, at his home at <02 North Washington street. He died at 7 o'clock after being unconscious for several hours. He stepped on a nail at his store on*, week ago Friday. Blood poisoning immediately set In. Physi¬ cians were unable to check the spread of the Infection despite almost constant attention.
Mr. Poad was bom in Englai^d, but cam^ to the Fnited States when a young man. Thirty-two years ag« he opened a grocery store and general market In North Wilkes-Barre. Since that lime his store has been one of the largest there. Aside from hts business Interests, he was active In civic life la the city. He served ene term as a mem¬ ber of the old common council from tbe Sixteenth ward. He was a member of the Sons of St. George.
Mr. Poad Is survived by his mother, his wife, and the following ten chil¬ dren: William H. Poad. Mrs, William Bond, Mrs. Grace Love, Mrs. £thel Owens. Eleanor M. Poad, Theodore Poad, Joseph E. Poad In the navy. Mil¬ dred J. Poad, Emily Poad and C. Wes¬ ley Poad; also three brothers and three
SlStQTS.
The funeral will be held Tueeday.
HELD FOR MURDERS
Rome, Aug. 30.—A British warship arrived at Venice today carrying the the Oerman Field Marshal Lymon Vun Sanders,, as a prisoner. Von Sanders who was the Oerman commander in Turkey will be tried for murders and atrocities committed In  Turkey.
NEW THEATRE FOR POLI MAY BE ERECTED HERE
A plan to giv* this city another Poll theatre is being considered by Syl¬ vester Poll, according to a statement made in this city last night in connec¬ tion with the visit here of one of the theatre man's business agenta It is claimed that this city is believed to be big enough for another Poll show house, but that in the event it is built, it will differ in nature of entertain¬ ment from the one already here.
The story of a second theatre grew out of the visit to this city on Thurs¬ day of Mr. Seagar. Poll's chief business representative. He is said to have talked with a real estate ttroker con¬ cerning a site- At present the possible location is undecided. Mr. Saeger be¬ fore lea\-ing the rtty said that the new house may be built within the year.
It Is said that the Poll theatrical enterprise Is spending H.TOO.OO* on new theatres throughout the Cast. Some of the houses are already In course of construction. Others are still in the prospective form similar to the one proposed here.
In tbe cities where Poli has two houses, he usually devotes one to vaudeville all year and the other to stock plays. Another method fer him to use la to offer different grades of vaudeville aho<ws at dill«re|kt' prices.
INLAMMEDY
Victim Was Son of Man Par¬ doned For Killing of Friend and Rival
SEEK A STRANGER
Nashville. Tenn., Aug. 30.—Police and cotinty officers tonight were hunt¬ ing for a "mysterious stranger" who was seen with Robin J. Cooper Just before he started on hie fateful auto¬ mobile ride last Thursday night
Police believe this man can shed some light on how Cooper, whose body was found In Richland Creek today after his blood-stained automobile was found near a bridge, came to his death.
Cooper became prominent In 1908, when he, with his father, Duncan Oooper, was oonvloted of the murder of United States Senator Edward W. Carmaek, on the etreets of Nashville.
Cooper was last seen alive Thurs¬ day night when, according to police, be left his home in an automobile ac¬ companied by the mysterious stranger. Investigation revealed the fact that Cooper had drawn $10,000 frofn the bank. This money is missing and police are working on the theory that Cooper may have been the victim of a black- mall plot.
A man unknown to servants at the Cooper home called there Thursday morning, police learned, and was with Cooper when he went to the garage near his home. A gardener, according to the police, heard Cooper say to the man. "If you want more I can get It for you".
Scene ef Murder.
Then Cooper and the stranger left. Early this moming Cooper's automobile waa found standing in the road near Richland Creek, with all lights burn¬ ing. Tho sekts were covered with blood. A search for Cooper was Immediately started and at noon his body was found. His skufl had been crushed and he had been shot through the left eye.
Meanwhile, police questioning farm¬ ers near the  lonely spot where  they' u^jonV believe Cooper died. learned that shots had been heard, but they told police they thought nothing of it at the time.
When news of Cooper's murder spread through the State today. Gov¬ ernor Roberts offered $500 for the capture of his slayer or slayers.
The killing of Senator Carmack grew out of a political feud and foi
Washington, Aug. 30.—The course of
organized labor in meeting the critical
economic   and   industrial   situation   In
this country is to be one of modera-
1 tion.
This was indicated  in every step of
the     extraordinary     meeting     of    the
Executive   Council   of   the   American
Federation of Liabor, which adjourned
¦fdicre  today after a  three-day  session.
Decision as to flnal aciion determin¬ ing the position of the Federation with regard to the Plumb plan for national¬ ization of the railroads, was deferred pending an investigation.
Without action by the council, the committee representing the railroad shopmen recommended that their strike movement be held in abeyance for 80 days \n order that the fight on the high cost of living may be carried on in accordance with the President's re¬ quest.
Despite refusal hy Judge Gary of the United States Steel Corporation to meet a committee representng unioniz¬ ed employes, the request of the men for a conference was put before the President. The latter now has the matter under consideration. The mon empowered their committee to call a strike If nothing w-as gained within ten days by negotiations. This ten days expired today, but President Gompers expressed hope that an amicable set¬ tlement would be reached.
The only strike action taken was In support of the Actors and 125,000 cigar makers ¦«yho are now out demanding higher wages and improved conditions. The executive council endorsed the cigar makers strike, pledging Its moral and financial support. In addition Pre¬ sident Gompers annoulpced. the council will appeal to all labdi- to aid the cigar makers flnancially and morally.
As to the actors. President Gompers explained that a "new charter was Is¬ sued to the Actors' Equity Society and the old time White Rat's Association under the title of "Actors and Artists Association of America" and the pledge was given for the full support of the federation witlh its membership. No   Rsilnoad   Poliey.
Endorsement of nationalization and democratization of the railroads, it was deceided at the conferance, would open up simlhT action with respect to all great indu.nrks.
At the Plumb '^ue offices tonight
complete satisi':if-ion was exi)ressed with the action of ihp executive council. Gompers Is honorary president of the Plumb Plan Lieague. but it was pointed out that none of the members of the executive council are railroad men; that they havo not studied the Sims bill, embod>-lng tne plan, and that the decision to have the plan thoroughly examined before committing t« Feder¬ ation to a definite policy is entirely satlsfactrfry.
Expialntng the disposition of this question in a statement this afternoon, Gompers said: "The plan and the Sims) bill, so the council declared, are of such j transcendent Importance to labor, to | the people and to the country, that the councll decided to defer final action de¬ termining the position of the American Federation of Labor thereon, and that in the meantime, a sub-committee was created for the purpose of examining into all the facts and secure the ad¬ vice of all who can contribtue to a full understanding of the subject. The com¬ mittee after its examination and inves¬ tigation is to report to the executive council upon the entire subject."
The greatest concern to labor lead¬ ers at the present time is the unrest In the rank and flle of workers. They believe that if Sept. 2 is passed without serious cessation of work among rail- Toad shopmen, the immediate danger will be passed.
The report of the American delega¬ tion which attended the Amsterdam conference of international trade will be made public shortly. President Gompers announced today. This report, he said, shows clearly that the wave of Bolshevism has re¬ ceded.
Eludes Mad Beast But Loses His Way
ChasTed tty a mother bear through the mountains when he attempted to carry off one of her cubs, is an experience that Edward Smith of Beaumont will hardly forget. Dur- 'ng the week Mr. Smith who was In the mountains near his home pick¬ ing huckleberries came across two cub bears grazing in the brush. He managed to comer on.e and picked it up in his arms. Carrying the beast about a hundred yards he was chased by the mother, attack¬ ed and severely Injured.
It was a bitter chase as the boxy- picker ran through the woods In every direction with the frsnzlsd bruin following. Mr. Smith at¬ tempted to climb several trees only to be prevented by the animal. He was clawed, his face lacerated by the madden beast and his clothes torn badly.
Exhausted, hO managed to elude the bear after a long chase, but not before he had lost his direction in the dense North Mountain. He wandered about. FOr twenty-four hours he was without food. He was found near Rlcketts, exhausted, bady wounded and suffering fright¬ fully from his experience. IasI night he waa resting comfortably.
OFD^WORKERSI
Old Trouble Has Fresh Start and Sympathy Spread May Be Result
PLYMOUTH AFFECTED
After comparatlT*, quiet for the paat month, trouble broke out again yester¬ day In the ranks of the miners employ¬ ed by the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company. Men at flre collieries left their work because of alleged grl«%'- ances. The present trouble Is centered in Lackawanna County. Leaders of the men at Hudson Company collieries here are attempting to curb the sentimsnt that a sympathy strike will be called until the demands of the miners are grantefi.
Overdockage and too frequent layoffs for many of the men provoked a strike of fifteen hundred employes in the Coalbrook and Wilson creek co'lierles near Scranton. .4dded to this double strike was thn walkout of twelve hun> dred men working at the No. 1 mine and the Powderly oolltery because the company insisted on using a mechanic¬ al loader and forced the men to work by hand ifi the less profitable places, it was clainred. The number of strikes was increased to five wh*r the miners at the Jermyn colliery declared a sym¬ pathy shutdown. Six hundred miners are idle at the latter place.
The trouble between the officials of the Delaware A Hudson Company and the men has frequently broken out dur* ing the past year. It reached its most dangerous point two months ago when an order for a general strike was pend¬ ing. That trouble was settled when both sides agresd to arbitrate. The present trouble jn Lackawanna County h~s once more caused the local miners employed by tb* company to becoms impatient over the policy of the of¬ ficials.
A strike was declared in Plymouth yesterday at the Nottingham colliery ot the Lehigh & Wilkee-Barre Company by one thousand miners. Their griev¬ ance waa the refusal of sn acting inside mine foreman to listen to their griev¬ ance. The complaint is that the of¬ ficial who is taking the plac* of another official during the latter's vacation, transferred company men froni their regular work to objectionable Jobs.
NOBODY CARES MUCH
WHERE THEY'RE GOING
GUNNERS GUARD JAIL.
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 30.—Governor Roberts tonight announced he had or¬ dered out a machine gun company to lowed the breaking of a long friend-| protect tl|f Knoxville Jail where trou- shlp between Carmack and Cooper, I ble was threatened following the arrest father of Rofeln. Carmack was stand-1 of a negro on a charge of killing Mrs. Ing on the street, talking to a woman I Bertie Lindsay. acquaintance, when he was killed.        j "      " '
Both Were  Pardoned. !
Robin  Cooper  and   his  father   .ere tried,   found   guilty,   and   were   sen- j
tenced  to twenty years imprisonment. I 	
The State supreme court upheld the Chicago. Aug. 80.—"Where is the elder Cooper's conviction, but Robin'packing Industry going?" was the ques- Cooper was granted a new trial. Gov- 1 tlon answered by Thomas E. Wilson, emor Malcolm Patterson pardoned ', President of Wilson & Co., and head of Duncan Cooper ten mlnufSs after the .'the Institute of American Meat pack- court's decision was announced. Later \ ere tonight. Wilson made the following he pardoned Robin- j suggestions:
JBdward   J.   Carmaclc,   Jr.,   who   wasj     Audit the books of the big packers, eight at the time of the murder. Is liv- i    Name a non-political body to Inves ing with   his   mother  In   Chattanooga.; tipate the industry.
Neither he noj" Mrs. Carmack couid be!     Establish a board composed of repre-j i-eached tonight. jsentatlves of the packers,  the govern-!
Mr^s,; Cooper was said tn be visiting I ment and the consumers, to attempt to h» fatRsr. Milton H. Smith. President, stabiliie   the   relation   between  suppiy of tbe Louisville and Xashnlle railroad, jand demand. in Louisville. ,       j     In a signed statement Wilson said he
An additonal reward of JSOrt was of-1 had   heen   asked   by   ihe   institute   of
AVIATOR IS KILLED. Leon, la., Aug. 30.—Jamea Long-, mere, demonstration mechanlo-avl- ator, Des Moines, was killed here to¬ day when his airplane developed en¬ gine trouble and fell SOO feet.
BOYS ON A RAMPAGE
DO COSTLY DAMAGE
FUTURE OF WORKER DEPENDS ON TRE ATT IN UNAMENDED FORM
Gompers Answers Attack of Fall and Says Labor of America Cannot Be Safe Unless Whole World i^ Pledged in League to Uphold Human Standards
DENIES EUROPEAN INFLUENCES
Washington, Aug. 30.—Samuel Gompers tonight came strong¬ ly to the d'efense of the labor clause in the peace treaty now under attack in the Senate foreign relations committee. They represent, add Gompers. the work of labor men in behalf of labor and pre¬ dicted that they will stand.
He denied that their effect will be lowering of American labor standards to thosjs of Elurope, as charged by Senator Fall, who is seeking their elimination from the treaty.
In a statement given out through the League to Enforce Peace, Gompers said: "The covenant of the League of Nations and tho treaty of which it is a part, hold the first world agreement among all die nations to keep all that has been secured for labor and to maike the standards, already gained, universal, advancing and improving for all menv women and children.
"This agreement is nt>t yet in force. The Senate has had tha treaty for eight weeks, during all of which time it has been in com¬ mittee. Until it is ratified the treaty is not safe and the United States is not a party to it.
Labor Needs Tceaty.
"This first international charter for the rights of labor should bo adopted without delay. It begins among the nations the great and sublime task of raising the conditions of labor the world over. Every workRian, wherever he may be, is put in peril by every workman, whose hours are long, whose pay is inadequate, whose conditions of labor are dangerous and whose standards of living are low.
"Every child at work too early makes it more  difficult  to maintain  the age
Standard for the labor of childhood. So wltli women.
"The world needs to be madn safe for labor as wall as for democracy. The world cannot be safe for drmoc- TtKy until it is safe for labor. Labor must be safe in all lands. It Is safe in none. Even- American laborer can¬ not be wholly secure until labor everywhere Is raised in condition and In wages to a Just and universal stan¬ dard.
A   Mementeue   Step.
"The covenant and treaty propose to gain this. They declare labor is not a «»mmodlty. They make it the right and duty of everj' land to bring
Gompers declared that though tho accomplishment of the universal rais¬ ing of standards cannot come In a brief time, the treaty "turns the world in this direction," and "gives the com¬ mand 'forward march' to keep tha world mo^•^ng until this great end • Is won. This cannot be done if the treaty is amended or delayed.
"Senator Fall has proposed that the labor clauses be cut out on the pre¬ tense that they level down. They do nol."
He then pointed that a epedflc pro¬ vision is that no action shall be taken by the international labor body set up by the treaty which will result in lowering wage or labor standards any¬ where.
The   labor articles of the  treaty,"
^.^.fi"* * ^7'"!^ *'"^*'""*"'°"'^'"°"'''"'"•'-^ <'i"'Tipprs  concluded,   "were   drawn   by Where which are perilous to its labor." labor men for labor.   They will stand."
PALMER IN ATTACK SAVS ONE SENATOR WAS ENEMY'S HELP
fered tonight by Dr. Lucius K. Burch, Co<^er's brother-tn-law. for the a.ppre- henslon of Cooper's murderer or mur¬ derers.
American meat packers to answer ques¬ tions that might offer a constructive plan for le^g^glaium concernitig the packmg indui
Under $1,500 bail each on the charge of disorderly conduct  and  destroying property, three young men of Miner's Mills were held for court last night fol¬ lowing their arrest for an early morn¬ ing dlstrrbance In which they are al¬ leged  to    have stolen    porch swings, stoned arc lampe and aroused the town i of Miner's Mills to a high pitch cf ex- ' citement.    The arrest of the men was made by Chief of Police Johns and two j State troopers. j
The men arrested were Richard May- j ock, of Thomas street; William Davis, j of Thomas street, and Richard Burke, of the First ward, all of Miner's Mills. When arraigned before the- burgess they all furnished bail. Their case will go before the next grand Jurj'.
Residents of Miner's Mills claimed that the three men ran amuck early yesterday morning. While returning home from a night of celebrating, it is charged, they entered upon a program of destruction. Arc lamps in th* streets were broken by stones. Beveral fam¬ ilies had porch svrings broken. Other damage was said to nave been inflicted en propertj. When the police were notified, no tra<:e of the men oould be found. Their trail was picked up yes¬ terday by tbe SUts poUcs.
Washington. Aug. SO.—Attorney Gen¬ eral Palmer tonight issued a formal statement charging Senator Treling- huysen of New Jersey, of bavins used his Influence to block the operatiou of the trading with the enem."- act under which German owned properly in the United States was seized and Amer¬ icanized.
Palmer charges that an American in¬ surance company of which Frellnghuy- sen is President blocked the liquida¬ tion of the Balkan Insurance Company, which was one of the concerns to which licenses w*re refused by the Treasury, Frollnghuysen fought to prevent con¬ firmation by the Senate of Palmer's confirmation as Attorney General. The nomination was confirmed late yester¬ day.
Palmer waa alien property custodian before President Wilson nominated bUn attorney general.
"The truth Is that Frellnghuysen," eays Attorney Oeneral Palmer "has not been against me. He has heen against the trading with the enemy act. He has been against the whole business of taking over the enemy property In this country during the war and he has especially been against the Amerl- Icanizatlon of the concerns in Ameri¬ ca owned by our enemies and here¬ tofore used in a hostile way against this country's interests."
"Mr. Bassett," says Palmer, "was followed by Senator >Yellnghuysen with a statement designed to support his argument, but Senator Frellng¬ huysen did not tell the committee that he was at that time flnancially inter¬ ested In four insurance companies whose relations with German com¬ panies would be adroitly affected by the legislation then proposed."
Frellnghuysen also tried to prevent the'sale of big German owned woolen mills at Passaic, Palmer charges. He also says Frellnghuysen was the only one of 561 members of congress -^-ho voted against an amendment to the enenrly trading act, giving the alien property custodian authority to sell German owned concerns and property In the United Stat**.
"Since these Oerman owned proper¬ ties had been spy centers and nests of sedition Ranted h«rc with hostile in¬ tent," says Palmer. "It would be quite proper to strike a blow at the enemy by destroying the Genhan hold upon American industries."
Had Senator Frellnghuysen been suececsful.in preventing passage of the amendmeot, IMs-proflfs s*rnsd bqi.Oer¬
man concerns in the United States dur¬ ing the war now would be going to their German owners from th* alien property custodian. This is because, under the enemy trading act, thf cus¬ todian only had power to take over and administer the properties. Palmer said.
"I was not surprised, therefore, when my nomination as Attorney Oeneral reached the Senate that only one Sen¬ ator should object and tliat one Senator Frellnghuysen and neither was I surprised when the vote on confirma- |ilon was finally reached to find him still plotting and voting against me.
"No American Interest has asked for any Investigation of the alien property custodian. No American Is complain¬ ing. The Gemans are complaining se¬ verely.
"Senators Frellnghuysen and Calder are pleasing Germany In this business. They havo received special mention by the German foreign office for theii* activities which Germany hopes may result in the getting all their property blick. I have a copy of my alien prop¬ erty report printed In Berlin In Oer¬ man with an Introduction signed "For¬ eign Office. 1 quote from an exact translation of this document.
"That the administration of the alien Tiwoperty custodian is considered not without suspicion in tho United States herself is evident in the action taken by the Senate because of the resolution presented last February by Senators Frellnghuysen and Calder, demanding an investigation of the alien property custodian because of misappropriattoa and favoritism.
"So far as here knowA the Senate al¬ so has refused to appoint Mr. Palmer as attorney general. It Is hoped that this investigation would lead to a Just inquiry into the management of the !t.lcn property and to a fairer Judg¬ ment of German measures."
A   FIGHTING  CIRCUS.
Milwaukee. Wis., Aug. 30,—Tom An¬ drew?, fight promoter, tonight said a string of boers will be taken to Aus- trallla. the flrst since the opening of the worid war. The fighting circus ia scheduled te sail from San Francisco Sept. 9
The party will Include Krank Dslllc, New Torlc. and Barney Snyder. Boston bantams: Eddie Coulon. New Orleans, featherweight; Joe Mooney, Brooklyn. 128 pounder: Harlem Kddle Kelly. .Vew Tork lightweight aod Chuck Wiggins, ladiaoBpoliB,   raiddij^elght, .j
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