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I ffu lPi -r- II Home Edition WEATHER FORECAST Fair Friday night and probably Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Temporal ores Thursday, 7 a. 65; Friday, 7 a. 68.

PR 20 PAGES Vol. 14, No. 15. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919. price two gents EVANSVILLrE eeatoirs McCormick audi Hitchcock Belbate in Tlae Pre Medill McGormick Gilbert M.

SHALL LEAGUE OF "YES!" Says Hitchcock, and "NO" Says McCormick, and They Write for the Press to Prove to You that We Should or Shouldn't The Evansville Press presents today the opening of a remarkable and important joint debate between senatorial leaders on both sides of the league of nations question that is now agitating the country. On the eve of President Wilson's proposed swing about the country, Senator McCormick, for the opposition, and Senator Hitchcock, for the administration both newspapermen, by the way have prepared these striking arguments on the league. Other joint debates by Senators McCormick and Hitchcock will be printed in later issues of The Press. i pee United States senator from Illinois, one of the owners and at one time publisher of The Chicago Tribune, is one of the most prominent senatorial opponents of the League of Nations as proposed by the peace conference in Paris. He saw more of the various fronts and the allied powers during the war than did any-other member of United States senator from Nebraska, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, is ranking Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was its chairman during the Democrats' control of the senate.

He is leading the fight in the senate for ratification of the peace treaty and the league covenant. N(TD -Mioded. 1 I Meet Wilson SENATORS KENYON, KELLOGG, CAPPLER AND M'NARY ALL REPUBLICANS, ARE CALLED 0 WHITE HOUSE TO BE TOLD THE WHY OF CERTAIN PARIS DECISIONS. li Uy The United Press. WASHINGTON, July 18.

President Wilson Friday continued his attack on the opposition to the league of nations by calling to the White House four Republican senators known to be open minded. By THE HON. MEDILL M'CORMICK Senator from Nebraska, and Leader of the Fight for i the League of Nations. THE TREATY OF PEACE IS A PROMISE OF AVAR. The territorial terms in Europe and in Asia have made it that.

The covenant of the league is not a guarantee of future security, justice and peace, but a pledge that America shall take part in the next war, even against her conscience and her judgment, to insure the victors in the possession of their new-won borders. If we go into the trap now without providing for an exit, it will be NATIONS? Manager Haas Announces That Company Will Ask for Six-Cent Fare as Soon as Engineers' Report Is Filed. The Public Utilities company will go before council soon to ask for a six-cent fare for all cit5r lines, Vice-President Haas said Friday. "We shall go before council for a six-cent fare as soon as Hage-nah and Erickson, who made a physical appraisal of our property, send their figures from Chicago," Haas said. Haas said ne did not know whether or not the company would ask for additional one-man cars.

"I can't say until the data arrives," he said. BELA KUN IS REPORTED TO BE DEPOSED "Lenine" of Hungary Soviet Republic Reported in Paris Dispatches To Have Been Overthrown. Br The United Press. PARIS, July 18. Dispatches received from Vienna by the peace conference report that Bela Kun, war minister and virtual dictator of the Hungarian soviet government, has been overthrown.

General Boehm, former commander of the Red army and Herr Lander were said to have assumed control of the government. Bela Kun became head of the Hungarian government in March. (The following was sent from Vienna before the reported fall of Bela Kun. Bing is the only newspaperman who remained in Budapest all thru the Soviet regime. Editor.) BY EDWARD BING United Press Staff Correspondent.

(Copyright, 1919. by United Press.) VIENNA, July 15. (Delayed) Bolshevik Hungary, like a wounded lion at bay, stands ready to battle the whole world in defense of the soviet government. Yet a small allied army, especially if it includes American and British troops, would crush the Redarmy with ease. After personally witnessing the (Turn to Page izj Wife Was Just 22; Affinity Was 66! That the affinity was three times her own age was no deterrent to the affections of Mrs.

Elnora Bredenkamp, according to evidence by which she was divorced from Artes H. Bredenkamp, Burrel-av, a foreman for the Standard Brick company, by a decree of Judge Gould Friday. William R. Exline, 66, a well-to-do flagman, was the affinity. Mrs.

Bredenkamp is 22. Exline told the whole story in court. "Want to come and have a good time," Bredenkamp cooed into the ears of Exline, as she stopped her car at the crossing he watches, First-av and Beit R. on a pleasant night last fall, Exline testified. Exline said he took up tbe ca CAR COMPANY IN MOVE FOB FARE BOOST Hitchcock gzleertjy mrazcoczc LUNCH EMPLOYES MUST PROVE HEALTH For the first time in the history of Evansville, two restaurant employes have been ordered -d charged because of venereal di -eases.

"We recently ordered two proprietors of restaurants to discontinue the services of an employe for they were affected with, venereal Carl Dreisch, food inspector, said Friday. "We have health certificate coming from the state board health, and every person workir in a food establishment m-have one filled out by pa; clan." By THE HON. GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK Senator from Illinois, and Leader of the Fight Against the League of Nations HERETOFORE THE WORLD HAS BEEN OIl-GAXIZEU FOR WAR AND HAS HAD WAR. Now a united effort is being made to organize the nations for peace.

by establishing the League of Nations. Heretofore each of the peace treaties signed after a war has been only a truce, and has been followed by preparations for the next war. This peace treaty would be just like the others if it did not include the provisions establishing the league of nations. Almost before the ink is dry on the treaty each nation would begin again to develop its military and naval powers for the next conflict. The only way to end this is for the nations to form an organization the purpose of which is to avoid war, war prep- a rat ions, war taxes and war miseries.

This organization we call the league of nations. It is not a super-nation, as some have charged, with power to destroy or to tyrannize. It has none of the functions of governmei' It can not levy taxes, raise armies or build navies. It is a of agreement among nations, each of which retains its sovereigi powers and independent existence. These nations make certain promises to each other.

If these promises are kept, there will not only be no war but armies and taxes will be reduced while each government can devote its energies to improving the conditions of -life and developing the resources of its country. The document which may be called the constitution of the league, when first agreed upon by the representatives of fourteen nations, embracing one thousand million people, was made public about th middle of February and published all over the world for examination and criticism. Then it was again considered. Various amendment that had been suggested were accepted, and finally the revised document was adopted by the peace conference, about the end of April, and: became the first article of the treaty of peace which has been by Germany and thirty other nations, including the United States, that now remains to be done is to have the various governments rat this treaty, and then the league of nations will be in working orde ANY NATION JOINING THE LEAGUE NOW CAN LATER RETIRE ON TWO YEARS' NOTICE In our country the U. S.

senate has the power of ratification, and a two-thirds vote is necessary. Any nation ratifying the treaty and joining the league can in the future retire from the league on two years' notice. This provision was inserted to remove the fears of people in this country and in others that a nation might find by experience that membership waa not desirable or that the league failed in its purpose. One of the difficulties in organizing the league was how to give a membership to all nations, large as well as small, and yet to arrange for the great and advanced nations like the United States to have the leadership. A league could not last long or accomplish much if so organized that a small or backward country were given as much direction in it as a great and advanced nation.

Nevertheless each mem- ber. small and weak as well as large and powerful, must have a voice and a vote. To meet this difficulty a very ingenious and effective plan was agreed to by providing that the league shall have two organs or bodies' thru which it operates. One is the assembly. Every member ot; the league is a member of the assembly and has one vote.

The other o-gan or body is the council, in which only nine nationscan be mem-r bers. Five of these members are permanent and can not be namely the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The other four member nations are chosen by the members of the assem- bly from time to time. In some respects the assembly is like the stockholders in a cor? poration. while the council of nine is like the board of directors.

Iike the stockholders, the assembly only meets on rare occasions, say once -a year, while the council of nine will meet frequently and decide and conduct most of the affairs of the leaime. The stockholders, vote according to the stock they own, but in the assembly each member only has one vote. Again there is this difference the stockholders in a corporation elect all of the directors while the assembly only has power to elect four of the nine members of the council while the frr great nations that fought and won this war are permanent members. They are, of course, also members of the assembly. All nations that maintain law and order and keep their international agreements are eligible to membership and are invited to Germany may join as soon as she has made it plain that she will carry out in good faith the treaty of peace and perform her obligations The purpose of the league is to bring about a co-operation 'Of nations in maintaining peace and establishing international law and justice.

To that end each member agrees that if it has a dispute with any other member which diplomacy has not been able to adjust it will submit the dispute to arbitration by a court or to an inquiry by the council if the question is one which can properly be determined by the league. Certain questions can not properly be passed on by the league! These questions are excepted and should next be considered. FURNITURE ME GET INCREASE OF 121-2 50-Hour Basic Week With Time and a Half for Acf-ditional Four Hours Is Part of Employers' Concessions. Evansville furniture manufacturers announced Friday that they had granted a 50-hour basic week and an average wage increase to employes of not less than 12." The announcement issued by Mayor Bosse in behalf of the furniture manufacturers, preceded by a few hours the meeting of 2300 union furniture workers to ratiify demands for an eight-hour day and a closed shop. The announcement read: "Furniture manufacturers adopt 50 hour basis week and grant an increase in wages of an average of not less than 12 1-2 per cent.

"On account of the present shortage of medium price furniture the factories will continue to operate their plants on the same hour basis per day totaling 54 hours per week time and a half will be paid to the men for the four hours In Effect August 3 "The new basic week and new wage scale will be put in force the first week in August, the men to receive the first increased pay under the new working schedule on August 9th. "The manufacturers fully realize the need to the men of he increased pay envelope, also realize the place the manufacturers have to fill, namely to supply the needs of the people for household furniture. Evansville manufactures a line of furniture that goes into the home of the masses. "Increase 100 Per Cent" "This last increase added to the wrages of the local furniture employes will increase the wages one hundred per cent over pre war wages and necessarily has brought about an increase in the finished product to such an ex tent that the manufacturers feel that they have advanced the price to a point that has about reached the maximum and we hope that our employes will realize that we are trying in every way possible to assist them in meeting the de mands made on them. Want Assistance "The high cost of living can only be reduced by increased production.

"If every patriotic citizen, both employer and employes will make every possible effort to produce all the food and merchandise he can supply will be on hand and the prices will come down." Third Wage Raise Mayor Bosse, after issuing the statement, said: "It was the unanimous opinion of the manufacturers to try to do the. fair thing. This is the third wage increase we have given since the armistice was signed. "There is -a 200 per cent demand for furniture. "I think that the patriotic thing for every man is to go to work.

We are behind in production of foods, too. Fields around Evansville are idle because of the lack of men, yet men are idling on street corners." STEADY RISE FORECAST The Friday forecast was for the Ohio in Evansville district to rise during the next several days and for middle and lower Green river to rise Friday night and probably Saturday. Official stages: Evansville, 'i feet, a rise of .4 foot; Pittsburg, 8, a rise of Parkersburg, 13, a fall of 1.2; Point Pleasant, 22.1, a rise of 4.4; Portsmouth, 22.8, a rise of 4.1; Cincinnati. 18.2, a rise of 2.5; Lpuisville, upper gage, 9.3, a rise of lower gage, 12.5, a rise of 1.8; Henderson, 6.1, a rise of Mt. Vernon, 6, stationary; lit.

Camel, 2.2, la.a of .1. our own fault. The fourteen points have been. blown to the four winds. Men and women in Europe and America who first supported the covenant of the league and denounced the remonstrant senators, now are as bitterly opposed to the treaty as any senators.

The British Empire has been the principal winner of the and America is made the maniloquent dupe" of the world. The terms are a triumph for Mr. Lloyd George. The Phrase Maker of the King has completely bested the Kinsr of the Thrase Makers. TalleyTand, the great French diplomat, who in the Congress of Vienna tricked the conqvierors of Napoleon, wrote that ''words have been given to man for the purpose of concealing his thoughts." The old world diplomats who assembled in Paris and in Versailles have so phrased and so constructed the treaty and the government of the league that both, and especially the government, have a meaning different from that which at first sight they seem to carry.

The amendments written nominally to meet American criticism, are shams. They do not do what they pretend to do. The protection of our interest which appears in one line is taken away in the next. Questions like the Monroe Doctrine, the control of immigration and other domestic affairs, sovereignty over the Panama Canal, liability to war, and the right to withdraw from the League, are all placed in the hands of the executive council, controlled absolutely by European powers. The senate cannot rewrite the treaty, but it can save America from the trap; it can protect America from the blunders and defeats of her own delegates to Paris and leave her free to decide, when the time comes, whether she wants to conscript her sons to die in the defense of Japan against China, in resolving the bickerings and quarrels of Europe, or in guarding the far-spread tropic empires of France and Britain.

WILSON'S PROPOSED COURSE CONTRARY TO HIS OWN WORDS WRITTEN IN PAST The unreasoning critics of the senate hold that it has no other duty than to ratify the treaty submitted. They say that altho the peace treaty is the most important treaty in the history of the world, the President is justified in refusing to seek "the advice and consent" of the senate, as prescribed by the constitution of the United States. I do not argue that Mr. Wilson has not the technical constitutional power to negotiate a treaty, but I assert that his negotiation of a treaty without conference with senators is contrary to constitutional practice in the United States and in conflict with what he himself wrote before he was under the influence of the vast powers which the people surrendered to him for the prosecution of the war. "The initiative in foreign affairs, which the President possesses without any restriction whatever, is virtually the power to control tcni absolutely.

The President cannot conclude a treaty with a loreign power without the consent of the senate, but he may guide every step of and to guide diplomacy is to determine what treaties must be made, if the faith and prestige of the government are to be maintained. HE NEED DISCLOSE NO STEP OF NEGOTIATION UNTIL IT IS COMPLETE, AND WHEN IN ANY CRITICAL MATTER IT IS COMPLETED, THE GOVERNMENT IS VIRTUALLY COMMITTED. WHATEVER ITS DISINCLINATION. THE SENATE MAY FEEL ITSELF COMMITTED ALSO. "But there is another course which the President may follow, and which one or two Presidents of unusual political sagacity have followed, with the satisfactory results that were to have been expected He may himself be less stiff and offish.

MAY HIMSELF ACT IX THE TRI SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ESTABLISH IXTTMATE RELATIONS OF CONFIDENCE WITH THE SENATE ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, not carrying his plans to completion and then laying them in final form before the senate to be accepted or rejected but KEEPING HIMSELF IN CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION with the leaders of the senate while his plans are in course, WHEN THEIR ADVICE WILL BE OF SERVICE TO HIM AND HIS INFORMATION OF THE GREATEST SERVICE TO THEM, in order that there may be veritable counsel and a real accommodation of views. Instead of a final challenge and contest. The policy which has made rivals of the President and senate has shown itself in the President as often as in the senate, and if the constitution did intend that the senate should in Btich matters be an executive council, IT IS NOT ONLY THE PRIVILEGE OF THE PRESIDENT TO TREAT IT AS SUCH, IT IS ALSO HIS BEST POLICY AND HIS PLAIN DUTY." Sq wrote Woodrow Wilson. Senators, like the president, are elected by the people of th United States; they are upon oath; they have a duty to discharge, and if their conscience and their judgment tell them that the treaty promises another war, and the covenant, unqualified and unamended, would drag America into that war even against her will, they would be recreant to their sworn duty if they did not qualify or amend the covenant before they ratify it. 'fix I 'J' I The president was expected to follow the same kind of argu ment that he did Thursday with the first three Republican senators to call.

He merely gives them "inside information" as to why certain decisions were made at Paris and certain clauses inserted in the treaty. He "will not attempt to make "them change their minds. New's Life GREAT TRACT WASTED BY FOREST FIRES By The Vati ted Press. SPOKANE, July 8. With 30,000 acres of forest reduced to smouldering ashes, sev-eral ranches burned out, and thousands of men fighting them, forest fires within a 50 mile radius of this city -were reported to be barely holding their own against crews of nearly exhausted fighters.

A change in the wind Thursday saved thousands of acres, according to forest -rangers. The cold night helped. Only one fire is reported out of control Friday. About 50 men are going to fight this blaze. i 'J They were Kellogg of Minne- sota, Kenyon of Iowa, Capper of Kansas and McNary of Oregon.

Kellogg has favored a league of nations in principle for- soma time. Kenyon's attitude is considered doubtful. Capper is known to favor a league but would like certain amendments in the present'covenant. McNary is desirous of some kind of a league. To Fight for "He's storms!" Mrs.

Lulu Burger (top) declares that her son, Harry S. New, was insane when he killed his. sweetheart, Frieda Lesser, on the outskirts of Los Anereles. The vonner mnrderer's halt. sister, Mary Clancy (bottom) win support tne mother's contention when the case is tried.

100,000 MEN LOCKED OUT IN CHICAGO By Tbe.CBlted Pretu. CHICAGO, July 18. One hundred thousand building and street construction workers were locked out here Friday on orders of the Carpenter Contractors association and the Building Construction Employers' association, following refusal of 80,000, of the men to return to work. The men. asked a flat increase of 20 cents an hour.

The employers-agreed to grant 12 1-2 cents. An ultimatum was issued Thursday night giving the men until 8 a. m. Friday. -When no men showed up the lockout order was issued.

The lockout ties up more than $50,000,000 of street and building improvements in Chicago Wage loss to the men thrown out of work was estimated at $600,000. often had brain- XV vitation, being a widower. The one night trip brought on others. Exline said his clandestine love affairs with Mrs. Bredenkamp continued until, last Brother "Died" The husband, knew nothing Df it at the time.

He has learned of it since his wife's disappearance on March 1, he said. On that date, Bredenkamp said, his wife got a telegram announcing the death of a brother: at an army camp. He gave her $500 to go to the camp and get the body. Bredenkamp has never returned, or been heard of since, the husband declared. He later found the telegram was fictitious.

Custody of their child, William, was granted tne TO BUILD HOUSES IN NORTH PARK President Sonntag of the American Trust bank announced Friday that North Park, next to the new Graham tractor and truck, would be built solidly with "homes for men of the new plant, construction to begin immediately. "We have been assured that very house will be taken," said. "The city will be swaiaped. peopla houses when the plant begins operations. "Many Evansville people will be homeless Sept.

1, as numerous houses have been sold to be turned over to the new owners that BOND QUOTATIONS By Tke Halted Press. NEW YORK, July 18. Liberty Bond quotations: 3 l-2s, 1st 4s, 2nd 4s, 1st 4 l-4s. 2nd 4. l-4c, 3rd 4 1-4S, 4th 4 l-4s, $93.80.

Victory 3 3-4s, 4 3-4S, 83.88.".