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PIPIIIIIPII SkS Ji nmzw iXfp IltaPiKili ts i PliiiBfi pfsli ivssiBP ST 1 rass JrJajaja JUrraMJWl iJEU jI H1 JJfV 2BL VjF 3BK THE WiSHINQTQN POST TUESD OCTOBER 1914 11 iiasji ftlRPVEriflSllli tScptMajprity Acts in Spite of Bitter Denunciation OPPOSITION FIRM TO TH lAST Conference Report on Clayton Measure ai Adopted by Vote of 35 to 24 Eepub Means Solidly Againstlt as Are Sena tors Reed Martin and Lane Democrats Extraction Of Teeth Opposed OM ens and Chick Drank Jew York OcUSMfL T7 OAapmon in makingan inspection of hefcanntd fruit discovered a can of brandted apples that had spoiled and she gave the fruit to the chickens Visiting the coop later she was shocked to find three old hens lying dead drunk and several a the younger brood trying to navigate in a very uncertain and decidedly unsteady gait With charges of platform violation and advocacy jof legislation In the Interest of special privilege ringing In their ears the Democrats the Senate last Evening approved1 the conference report on the Clayton antitrust bill Bitter denuncia tionsof the measure were made by Den ocratle Senators Reed of IMissouri and Martine jof New Jersey whol for days past have attempted to hold up before 4helr colleagues the danger of writing platform promises only to disregard them Senator Martine yesterday cited the platform declaration against the trusts made at Baltimore In July 1012 by the Democratic party and which reads A private monopoly Is Indefensible and Intolerably We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the criminal as well as the civil law against trusts arid trust officials and demand the enactment of such additional legislation as may be necessary to jnake it impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United States We condemn the action of the Republk can administration In compromising with the Standard Oil Company and the To bacco Trust and Its failure to Invoke the criminal provisions of the antitrust law against iit officers ot those corporations after the court had declared from the undisputed facts in the record they had violated the criminal provisions of the law Martine Becomes Dramatic Striding dramatically to the center of the floor Senator ilartlne declared that this report Is a violation of that platform promise The vital portions of this bin have been emasculated but not in the interest of labor Evil lurks beneath the scanty provisions relating to labor Sinister influences have changed the character of trjls Dili and the manner In which the conference report has altered the original measure tends to further advance the interest of the money power This is all in violation of our platform pledge The provision relating to labor is the cheapest sbrt of sop ever offered to laboring rrien In ninety nine cases out of a hun rdred ejaculated Mr Martine raising his sjvoice and gesticulating angrily at his Democratic colleagues you have treated the laboring man as a Jest and an absurdity I have received telegrams from certain representatives of organized labor in my State asking me to support this bill But Ithese men do not know what ithey are asking I could not face my own people after voting for such fvreport and I shall therefore vote against it if it is not seni back to conference Republicans Solidly Against It Excepting Senators Reed Martine and Lane Democrats voted for the confer ence reporjt thus completing the administrations antitrust program so far aa the Seriate Is concerned Republicans voted solidly against the report The result was 35 to 4 Senator Poindexter the only bull moose voted for the conference report placing his approval on trust legislation of which Jt has been charged by Democrats in debate there is contained no wheret a threat against trusts and only requires that after their conviction of Illegal acts they shall be told not to commit them jigaln Compared With Canal Lav Action Democratic Insurgents assert that an analysis of the bill in the light of the platform of 1912 and the subsequent speeches of campaign orators Indicates that the approval of the conference report is almost as plain a repudiation of a party pledge as the action of the Democrats in repealing the toll exemption In the Panama Canal act Before the final vote was taken Senator Reed moved to recommit the bill with Instructions to reinsert the Jteeth that liad been pulled Serious opposition to this was made by Mr Reeds Democratic colleaguesj and an effort by Senators Overman Culberson and pthew was made to convince the Vice President that such a niotlon was not in order The Vice President however ruled otherwise but Mr Reeda motion was rejected by a Vote of 35 jto 23 All Republicans but Mr Root supported the motion to recommit butthe New York senator voted against the bill Itself Senators Reed Martine ane and Vardaman voted to recommit but the Democratic majority was too strong fori them Reed to Introduce New Bill Immediately after the final vote was taken on the bill Senator Reed announced that he intended to introduce a bill to restore the penalty clauses contained in he original measure In this vay he contends his party will be given another opportunity to show whether Democrats wish to keep faith with the people who placed them in power 1 The sharp attacks that have been made on the conference report according to infprmatlori given callersat the White House yesterday only confirmed the President in his approval of the work of the conferees Rewrite Its Definitions As the bill passed the Senate It fairly bristled with penalties The coriference report with rare exceptions changed provisions for fines and jail sentences to declarations that the acts described shall be i unlawful Besides taking the teeth frorn the measure In this direct manner the conferees rewrote most of the definitions of illegal acts broadening ttiem and adding exceptions to such extent that the former precise and definitive sections have become diffuse and susceptible of interpretation only by court As finally agreed to the bill forbids price discrimination limits Interlocking directorates arid prohibits holding com pariles where the effect is to destroy or aubstantlally lessen competition The Vblll 4so declares that the labor 6fS hriman beingas not a commodity or aftjclejot commerce and exempts labor arjfarmera unions from the operation ofthe Sherman antitrust law It re vlsesvihfi jlawj regulating contempt of court and the U8e of injuctlons in labor disputes making reforms long demanded Tby organized labor Cotton in iieit of jute Movement jls Afoot to Substitute Ameri cait Twine for Foreign ThV buy abale cotton and the wears it all rnada of cotton movemerit Beerhs to have reachejl the Eostofflce Department with the result that cotton cord may jtake the place of jute twine for tying malls Last year the depart meritBspent 200000 for jute twine and usedfmora than 1700000 pounds of it chiefly in railway mall service Postmaster General Burleson has nameda committee headed by A Ed gertpn purcnasing agent ror the department to discover by experiments if cot tohebrd la not Just as serviceable as jutetwine for tying packages Jute twine Isicheaper than cotton cord but the Postmaster General believes that com petitlye price conditions rray now be reached if cotton cord mahufactufers woSfisubmlt bids 9fiJ 7illiams NamediorCollector Theresiderit yesterday nominated Burt TOlllama ptfAshlarid WULl collector oflviiitrnal revenue Second district of 5T PLAN BIG COITON LOAN i50f00000d Fund Proposed by Southern Bankers AWAITS MADOOS APPROVAL Reserve Board Also Will Be Asked to Sanction Movement National and State Banks Trust Companies and Mercantile Concerns Throughout Conn try Will Be Asked to Subscribe CAMPAIGN SIFT URGED senate roinmittee Will Ask Inquiry in two StatesAt PALMER SUBMITS CHARGES Pennsylvania Representative Says Pittsburgh Manufacturers Were Assessed 1506d in the Interest of Senator Penroses Candidacy Gives List of Witnesses Ht Requests to Be Called St Louis Oct 5 A plan for raising a cotton loan fund of 1150000000 proposed by a conference of St Louis bankers was ratified here today by a delegation of bankers from the cotton growing states and now awaits only the approval of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and the Federal reserve board before it is carried into effect The plan as approved in general essence by nine Southern bankers who had been asked by Secretary McAdoo to attend the conference with St toulg bankers provides for the raising of the fund by subscriptions from national and State banks trust companies and mercantile and manufacturing companies throughout the country Not to Buy Cotton It must be distinctly understood declared Festus Wade chairman of the St Louis Clearing House Association and originator of the plan that this Is not a movement for the purchase of cotton It is simply a movement to make available afund of S1500000CO to loan on cotton at not to exceed 6 cents per pound middling basis The establishment of this fund will make the cotton crop a liquid asset stabilize Its price and bring about normal business conditions in all lines of trade The amount to be raised by each finan cial center will be apportioned by the committee at a meeting to be held within the next few days providing the general plan meets the approval of the Secretary or the Treasury and the Federal reserve board Bankers at Conference The Southern bankers who attended the conference here today and ratified the plan wereP Harding president Delta Trust and Banking Cornpany Vlcksburg Miss Stewart president City National Bank Dallas Tex Vinton president Bank of Commerce and Trust Cornpany Memphis Tenn Fink president Commercial National Bank Muskogee Okla Harris vice president South Texas Commercial National Bank Houston Robertson president National Xoan and Exchange Bank Columbia Fulton president Commercial National Bank New Orleans Price vice president Southern Trust Company Little Rock Ark and Miller vice president First National Bank Richmond Va Favor Acreage Restriction Atlanta Ga Oct Delegates from eight Southern States attending the Southeastern cotton and food products conference here today agreed that the cotton problem should be solved by the States themselves and it would be unwise for the national government to interfere Resolutions were adopted calling upon the governors of the cotton producing States immediately to call special sessions Of their legislatures to enact legislation restricting the cotton acreage for next year to at least 50 per cent of the present crop and urging farmers to increase food crops FOR ARMY NAVY GAME Investigation into the financing of senatorial primary campaigns in Illinois and Pennsylvania urflad by Senator Nor ris resolution introduced a month ago probably will be recommended by the Senate committee on privileges and elections Senator Kern chairman of the committee announced yesterday that the voU Of the committee would be taken next Friday and that absent Republican members Senators Sutherland Dilllng ham Fall and Kenyon had been urged to be present Several Democratic members of the committee said last night that favorable action on the resolution was likely the attitude of ten days ago having changed Witnesses who had appeared before the committee then in connection with the campaigns of Roger Sullivan Democratic nominee In Illinois and Senator Boles Penrose Republican nominee in Pennsylvania were directed to produce further information Palmer Submits Letters Representative A Mitchell Palmer Democratic nominee for senator in Pennsylvania and Representative Rupley Progressive of Pennsylvania appeared yesterday before the committee Mr Palmer submitted letters and documents tending to show Jarge expenditures on behalf of Senator Penrose through the Pennsylvania Protective Union an or Sanitation of manufacturers Manufacturers in Pittsburgh alone Mr Palmer asserted had been assessed 1150 000 by this protective union toaid Senator Penroses candidacy He also gave the committee letters purporting to have come from the Pennsylvania Retail Liquor Dealers Association sent to saloonkeepers urging support of Mr Penrose Wants Witnesses Summoned The representative urged the committee to summon as witnesses Chester Hill secretary of the Pennsylvania Protective Union Richard Campion treasurer Joseph Grundy John Gardner president of the Pennsylvania Brewers Association Nell Bonner president Pennsylvania Federation of Liquor Dealers and others Senator Penrose who has been absent engaged in his campaign for some time returned to Washington yesterday AIMS TO HELP CREDITS FACTS ABOUTELECTRIC EAIIWAYSlKAmiGA Komber of companies lagf Can bt ircrriee 97731 Mies it track 45ktt Capital stocks 2S08JaK25 Funded debtrt81440W Miles iaFeanSTlvanJa 0015 Mile in New York 8001 Miles Ohio 4154 Sines in Illinois 307 Ufc LEVER BILL GOES OVER i House Rcfiiscsto Act on Plan for Warehousing Cotton CoIumbia Bitdi of Prey Those formal and sedate theatergoers who h4veAn Inherited dlstika for melodrama inherited fiom the days when theatrical entertainments s6 labeled meant atrocious playwritlng and insufferable acting and who allow this dislike of a type of play to keep them from the Columbia Theater this week will miss the opportunity of seeing one of the most engaging thrillers capitally acted since melodrama was reborn into a higher and Lmdre artistic State Birds of Priy had its premiere last night aad even those lovers Of drama pronounced with the long aj Tyno naa coma to the theater unsuspecting enjoyed the evening in spite of the shameless admission on the program that Wlllard Mackaiplay is a melo drama MTJCH BITTERNESS IN DEBATE Measure Designed to FadHtate Granting of Bank Credits on Warehouse Receipts May Be TaklnUp atIText Session Henry and Fitzgerald Among Its Most Active Opponents CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE Lieut Comdr Fairfield Is to Submit New Plan Today Comes as Surprise on Account of Staid Taken by Col Townsley of West Point The controversy over the site of the annual Army Navy football game which led Secretary JGarrlson to recommend that the game be abandoned may be reopened in an effort to decide upon a hew plan agreeable to both factions Lieut Comdr Falrnodof the Naval Academy will confer with Secretary Daniels on the subject today and later Mr Daniels will discuss it with Secretary Garrison Secretary Garrison said last night he had taken no stand since recommending the abandonment of the game It was said in official circles howeyer that Lieut Comdr Fairfield was prepared to lay before Secretary Daniels a proposal that the game be played In Philadelphia this year In New Tork in 1915 and in Thiladelphla in 1916 The plan was reported to ba acceptable to West Point officials Secretary Garrison expressed surprise at this report and made public a tele gram received fromT Col Townsley1 superintendent of the Military Academy Any propositions relative to the Army and Navy game differing from thatimade by you and the Secretary of theNavy it says and that may come before you from any source whatever are without my approval The Military Aoadeinysand athletic council regard that proposition as the most justand fair yet made and stand by itvuncpndltionally This telegram is sent became of newspaper And other reports have also so informed the superintendent of the Naval Acad emy The suggestion referred to in Col Towhsleys ihessage vras contained In a letter addressed to the two academies and sighed by bothTseeretarIea Ittpro posed a ten year iagreerhnti under Whlch the Institutions would alternate in selecting the place of theJgameV theTNaval Academy to begin by saying whereuthls Vears contest would be played Thellml tatlons would be any city not farther north than New York or farther south than Washington the site selected to have a seating capacity of not less than 30000 Fchacademy would receive not less than 10000 seats addition to not less than J7500 of general receipts All axmge mentswouldibe shared American Dead id Berliru erlin JOct jRFranTtilnV Clarkl in Amerieah singing feaeherredhereY tteidafrbrneebralimenlnglUs cotton behind one of these notes that is made the basis for this currency The banks are the proper agencies They are highly organised they are in every part of the country and so long as they are put In possession of the means of financing these things it Is their business to finance them And know they will be glad to nnance theffl if they can get the resources and all that these banks have got to do is to make application lor currency under the act and comply with its provisions I believe that if they will do that acting always with prudence and common ordinary business Judgment all the money that this country needs or ought to have for the flnaicing and carrying of ihls cotton crop until it can be marketed and Sold Is largely in hand As a result of the efforts of Secretary McAdoo not only In distributing the emergency funds where they are most needed but in conferring with the business men of the country and instructing theni as to methods of relief there has been a growing tendency toward normal conditions A decidedly encouraging development in the cotton situation is the resumption of export shipments from Galveston Texas Mr McAdoos refusal to deposit the second installment of crop moving money in four reserve cities In the South has brought a aulck response in the form of greater liberality among the bankers of those cities toward their customers He has worksd in close touch with State banking departments with good results Tennessee Loan Misunderstood With reference to the Tennesse loan about which there has been considerable misunderstanding the following letter written by Secretary McAdoo to MaJ Stahlman editor of the Nashville Banner shows that there was nothing in the transaction resembling1 a g6vernment loan to the State and that Mr McAdoo merely adopted a common sense method of preserving the credit of one of the States of the Union It is not customary for the Treasury Department to publish details of transactions with individual banks but in order to set at rest various misstater ments that have been made about the State of Tennessee loan I gladly reply to your letter The National Park Bank agreed to take 1400000 one year 6 per cent notes of the State of Tennessee at par without any commission and I agreed to give the bank which is a regular United States depositary a spe Icial deposit of 1400000 which is subject to call at any time I was glad to do this In order to save the State from a possible default upon its obligations which I was told would have happened if the State had been unable to effect the loan Previous deposits made with the National Park Bank several weeks before were for crop moving purposes and had no relation whatever to the State or Tennessee loan which at that time I had not even heard of Mr McAdoo has been studying the reserves of the various banks of the country with relation to local conditions and is making every effort to prevent hoarding and unnecessary re strictions of credit He pays the highest tribute to the many banks which have shown that they realize their obll rgations and are facilitating the credit system Recently the Secretary Was Informed by a Southern bank that two New York banks had charged I per cent on loans aggregating a quarter of a million dollars He sent word of the charge to New York Denial was made and the Secretary then made detailed inquiries and learned that the bank official who made the charge was in error He promptly sent word to that effect to New York In other Instances however the Intimations which the Secretary has sent out have been effective In bringing about a quick change in attitude on the part of the bank accused of hoarding Its funds or charging excessive Interest Vast dis cretlonary power has been vested in the Secretary of the Treasury and while there have been expressions of resent ment in some places his assumption of authority has been generally regarded as aiding a delicately adjusted situation Praise From Reserve Board Members of the Federal reserve board who have been described as slightly resumed by Mr McAdoo said yesterday sentful over the complete authority as that they had nothing but praise for the way he has handled the delicate financial situation One of the members said Mr McAdoo in trying days of chaos has virtually constituted the Federal reserve board as an advisory body and has shown himsflf anxious for constructive advice and assistance The members said that it had become quite clear to them that Mr McAdoo was working solely with a view to the interest of ail the people having no ax to grinds and no grudges to serve The House yesterday by a vote of 163 to 109 refused to suspend the rules In order to pass the Lever cotton and grain warehousing bill which is designed to facilitate the granting of bank credits on warehouse receipts for cotton grain and like agricultural products The bill which is a substitute measure for one already passed by the Senate remains on the House calendar and may be taken Up for action at the next session As has been the case in many of the discussions in the House of late the debate on the warehousing bill produced much bitterness and Representative Henry of Texas added to the tension by demanding six roll calls during the day Pays His Respects to Henry Representative Lever of South Carolina paid his respects to Mr Henry wnen ne rose to explain the mil The gentleman from Texas said Mr Lever has posed for the last two months around this building as the only Simon pure genuine friend of the farmer Mr Lever said that Mr Henry opposed this measure which would afford a measure of relief to the distressed people of the South though at the same time he was endeavoring to have the Congress act upon other legislation for this purposepurpose Fitzgerald Assails Measure Representative Fitzgerald of New York spoke against the Lever bill saying It proposes to extend the activities of the Federal government into fields over which the States have ample powers and if they properly perform the functions developing upon them there will be no necessity for this legislation This is one of the evils of the present age this constant tendency to transfer from the States to the Federal government the burdens which properly belong to the States Levex Makes Sharp Reply to Mr Fitzgerald A TffiWCALmA TERS rima i fat flt utterly adorable and fjnally quite The plot is developed with admirable repellant HkeT the movement of th three acts which Mr Bernstein has employed to tell his absorbing story is developed In his reply to Mr Fitzgerald Mr Lever said Except for the millions of dollars which my distressed people are pouring into the coffers of your merchants and bankers your city would be growing up in grass and bullrushes We are appropriating more now for the harbor of New York than we have appropriated in five years for the agricultural interests of the United States The bill would authorize the inauguration of a nation wide system of warehousing under Federal Supervision for staple an nonperishable agricultural products Uniform warehouse receipts would be Issued On these products when stored in goverment licensed warehouses and graded weighed and certified by licensed inspectors The provisions would be permissive not compulsory DOWN THE ALLEYS consistency up to the final scene which perhaps presents a police chief with too bright a halo The title is a misnomer for there are ho birds of prey in cast of characters unless we apply the term to a brutaU detective Birds of a Feather if a winged title is essentia would be more appropriate for Chick Hewes and his wife Molly might have been perfectly happy domestic fowls had they not associated with crooks and for mer convicts Of course Chick was a for mer convict himself and his excuse for his associations was that they were the only one he could form under our cruel social system which continues to punish those who have paid their debt to the state But excuses for the company one keeps do not notsave a man and his wife from being haled before a police chief when that official Is being lampooned by the press because1 a thUf has escaped with a 120000 necklace The thief was known to have been a visitor at Chicks and Chick must know where the Jewels are hidden The fact that the thief is known to have been wounded while flealng complicates matters However the author has told his story with such ingenious ness and with so many clever circumlocutions that It would be gross injustice to future audiences if the reviewer should attempt to dull the edge of Mr Macks well constructed sword of suspense by a half column recital of plot Its all about a diamond necklace which is stolen and which Is restored and between the theft and the reclamation there is a very human story of pathetic struggling on the part of two suspected individuals whose chief weapon of defense is a loyalty to each other which touches the wells of sympathy without mawltshness and which engenders a spirit of tolerance and love for unfortunate members of society The author is to be felicitated upon having as the leading interpreters of Birds of Prey two players of such splendid sincerity and finished method as Miss Jane Grey and John Barrymore Miss Grey plays melodrama as If it were worth playing well and in so doing she makes it so There is no note of overemphasis in her Molly no splashes of color in her character drawing Her Molly Is just a very human little woman deeply in love with her husband and ready to sacrifice her whole life to keep him not merely from the tolls of the law but from the taint of lawlessness Her interpretation last night was dis tinguished by emotional appeal without vociferous rhetoric by pleasing simplicity but not without variety and with touches of facile comedy without the gaucherie of burlesque The public has become so accustomed to seeing John Barrymore have fun at the expense of his audience as well as with the players on the stage that It was a surprise to find him playing Chick former convict with a seriousness and dignity which made the role a very human and consistent character It is an interesting study intelligently con ceived and capably wrought Forest Wlnant as the dope fiend Annie Mack Berleln as the garrulous and reparteelng Mrs Halloran and Katherine Harris as Daisy Mrs Hallorans daughter give performances which are excellent minor i i studies surrounding tne two principals ine remainder i me cast is cuuipeieui but Maldel Turner as Boston Bessie might have been even less ladylike without being a caricature of a retired shop lifter National Frances SUrr in The Secret In the role of aaWlie Jannlot Jn Henri Bernstein engrossing three act play The Secret Frances Starr is permitted for the first time since attaining a position of stellar prominence to demonstrate her mastery of the genuine art of acting The character which she impersonated before a discriminating and appreciative audience in the National Theater last night is one in which are combined all of the Subtleties and complexities that a exnected in a clever lovable young woman living the lux urious surroundings of affluence plus a degree of Jealousy that works a havoc so complete a to threaten the permanent disruption of the happiness Of at least six people The personality of Gbrielle I isbiirirrepeated today Tomorrow will witness the return engagement of Hartley Manners drama Th House Next Dodr as 6riginaUy piaydvVyX Dodson and filmed by the Lubln Company This photoplay which was first presented at Crandall two weeks ago is being cpeaied The Affcansaw Traveler deillng with lift In ther Southwest win be shown Thursday and Friday while Saturday The Bandit of Port Avon will be the feature Each of these features will be supplemented by comedies forming ti well rounded bill with consummate skill on tne part of the author and with no lessartistry by Miss fitarr There is nothing of violent action in any of the three acts The drama is essentially psychological and relies for its appeal entirely upon the suectsful portrayal of the leading feminine role Mr Bernstein has held a mirror uo to a nature rather than to Nature and to that extent has failed to provide a slay of universal significance The Secret bears a strong analogy tor Tante in which Ethel Barrymore appeared last season it analyses feminine Idiosyncrasies with a ruthlessness that must Impair the plays popularity in the eyes of feminine theatergoers but nevertheless furnishes an example of kkniful dramaturgy that will prove gratifying to anyone appreciative of structural perfection miss Starrs performance as uabrleiie is one of the sanest most human most convincing delineations of character that has been offered on our stage for many months The scene in which she con fesses the depth of her hypocrisy and the reason for it to her husband whose faith in her is seriously shaken is touch ingly pathetic in its child like simplicity and repentant honesty the xirl who a moment or two before had been a Verit able rosebud of beauty and freshness becomes a crushed and withered thing through the sheer art of a wonderfully gifted young actress The days when she I was Juanlta The Rose of the Rancho must seem very long ago to Miss Starr Perfect in proportion and remarkably balanced as Miss Stars characterization is it does not altogether overshadow the exceUent work done by other members of the east Elaine Inescort in the picturesque by comparison role of Hen riette Durand la equal tb all of the difficult tasks that fall to her lot and ch tributed much to the dramatic tensity of the scenes in which she participated with Miss Starr Robert Warwick although his appearances were confined to the second act found ample outlet for his recognized abilities as Charlie Ponta Tulli the ardent lover who suffered most by the treacherous deceptions of Gabrielle rHls work was effective and in complete consonance with the spirit of the play as is true also of the Interpretation given the role of Denis La Guern by Frank Releher Mr Belchers gradation from a bashful wooer to an angered and outraged husband was deftly and convincingly effected Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh as Clotilde Da Sava geat and Montagu Love as Constant Jannelot completed a cast of exceptional merit The three acts the first in the JannelotJannelot apartment in Paris the secondhand third in Mine De Savageats villa near DeauviUe are models of artistic com pleteness that emphasize the Belasco in sistence upon minute attention to correct detail Although last nights was the first performance of The Secret this season the smoothness of the three acts and the poise of the players offered no suggestion of that fact CAUCUS TON IGHI Democratic Senators Hope to End War Tax Differences FINANCE COMMITTEE DIVIDED i Gayety TheRoseland Girls One of the best shows that has ever coma to the Gayety is playing therethis week It is The Roeeland Girls presented by Blotch Cooper an old tinier For the first time In the memory of veterans neither Bluteh nor Mrs Blutch Is In the Cast Nevertheless the audience i6veu wiw in euvrvs vi inose principals who remained chief among whom is Solly Ward Ward pliyed German comedy In one act and Hebrew comedy in the other While two big audiences yesterday applauded his every word and act and found it difficult to say in which role this funny man or Burlesque excels Sharing thehonors with him was Lillian Fitzgerald whose characterisation ot a French soubrette had the more impressionable spectators on their tiptoes several times fiddle Swartz Brad Sutton Caprice Billy Fay and Jeane Eames other principles were also vociferously received Not one of them but could dance and sing an unusual feature In any theatrical performance And the chorus No more willing handsome nor active lot of girls has ever trod the boards A travesty on Vlrgtnlus at the end of the first burletta brought down the house Mr Ward as Vlrglnius decorated with tablespoons for armor put the old Roman hero to shame Party Conference rfedded tJpos When Members Whose Amendments Had Been Rejected Threatened to Carry Fight to Floor A Get Together Talk Said Senator Simmons in Calling Meeting 1 Strand Lina Cavalier in Films Llna Cavalleri the worlds most fanTous beauty in a superb film production of Abbe Prevosts story of love and romance Manon Lescaut was the attraction that crowded Moores Strand Theater to the doors all day yesterday Known to most readers of fiction the story concerns the love affairs of the famed beauty of France the fragile Manon Her romantic adventures finally bring her to prison but through the efforts of a devoted ad mirer escapes to the new world where herbeauty and grace again assert themselves and an equally exciting series of adventures encompass her They culminate in her flight to the forests of Louisiana where she meets a tragic death The film production is an interesting one in every particular Mme Cavallerts support includes Luclen Muratore the noted French tenor and lyrie actor and other gifted actors The Strand orchestra of sixteen soloists plays the original operatic score of the production This attraction will remain until Thursday when the chief attraction will be The Pawn of Fortune featuring the local favorite Thurlow Bergen On Saturday there will be a double bill In the Dukes Parlor a dramatic feature dealing with contem porary English life and The Arrows Tongue a stirring Western subject with supplementary attractions CAHTAIi CITYlEAGUE Bureiu Helmerlch 114 1H 101 Haler 88 92 88 Rois 97 87 3i CNclle 107 8S Loveday 1J3 85 104 ToUle E39 485 485 HivBnr Bikerr Pumphrer 1 it 84 D6yl 90 77 92 Snook 4 SI 100 Works 9 102 87 Mace 99 87 SI Total 489 455 46 RECLAMATION DTJCKPIN LEAGUE Main fiumbaugli 75 Numbers 84 McCuIIocb 89 74 109 99 99 113 104 Accounts Knappii 91 102 Tarwstei 84 77 Dutasne 88 it Totals 248 28S 312 Totals 261 285 254 RECLAMATION DUCKP1N LEAGUE rr and 3 I Stenographic Bergh 84 85 85 1 Brown 59 68 77 Collins 82 92 79 HaoTteld 72 88 73 Carr 92 82 8 Clark 81 102 91 Totals 258 259 250 1 Totals 212 2E 246 COMMERCIAL DUCKriNLEAOUE EUr Whitfort 109 117 94 Essex 103 94 100 DarnaUV 109 82 97 Rodrlek 93 111 100 Crampton 97 90 91 Totals Eli 494 49J a Morrison 109 86 SI Felllnger 98 85 83 Nezoata 115 84 81 McCart 100 84 94 Herle 103 108 90 Total BI5 Tsi DEPARTMENTAL TENPIN LEAGUE Arrlculture Gorman 190 24 187 McLennan 153 169 168 Blumann 122 158 128 Drake 190 166 158 Field 181 159 224 Totals 826 898 855 Navy Watson 110 135 153 Arnold 158 146 143 BerkelTi lao 125 170 Keefek 145 185 168 Holland 142 111 168 Essex 131 181 149 1 Miller 183 175 171 Totals 761 807 792 Totals 726 702 803 WASH COUNCIL TENPISTLEAGUE Interior Welden 192 159 178 McChesnejr 174 150 1 WIekert 151 139 171 Roepke 170 142 155 Garrett 162 146 155 Totals 849 736 808 War Williams 143 144 120 Boats 110 ISO 81 Harmel 131 167 174 Marquette Moran 12 106 Marvin 107 77 Fltsglbbon 88 77 Fralle 85 S3 Scmiltles 102 112 Totals 464 459 445 Chamslaht Crowe 80 93 93 Luettner 80 80 80 Buckler 78 81 95 Whltey 77 87 Miller 85 MGrlffln 83 82 89 Totals 411 413 443 WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF LEAGUE La Salle 1 Magellan Mess 103 86 109 I WGrlmn 98 83 103 Hurney loa 87 FMccartny 75 85 85 Fischer 83 83 68 1 KrelE 80 78 82 Ellis 73 69 72 Fonlman 80 85 HMcCarfy 106 87 97 1 OConnor 85 88 115 ToUlS 467 434 460 1 Totals 420 419 488 NAVY YASD LEAGUE Slop Framer 115 101 MItchla 74 Blgby 96 Hough 110 107 Halght 86 88 Chlcci Sptlden Ill 79 113 Miscellaneous Trydell 110 98 92 Miller 39 99 113 Davis 109 117 106 Morgan 102 ill 64 Helndel 131 88 84 PoliWThe House Next Door play that subordinates the leading man and woman while the character actor holds the center of the stage ia seldom chosen for stock production possibly because the patrons demandaa generous amount of romance with the love ly heroine and brave lover well to the fore But The HoUSe Next Door which the Poll Players have so capably revived this week gives premier place to Stanley James in one of the finest character roles of recent years Hartley Manners wrote the play and the fact that he also sponsored Peg My Heart shows him to be an expert at molding a comedy about an oddly amusing central figure And for the romantic thread he offers In The House Next Door a double love story each half with charm and interest Sir John Cotswold however is the pivot about whom the plot revolves even as did the browbeaten members of his households Testy Irascible tyrannous he sat in his old house and let the estate slip through his fingers into the hands of the clever Jewish capitalist who once lived in a hovel on the Cotswold lands and when the financier was knighted Sir John felt that the last straw had fallen He hated the whole Jewish race and with his particular enemies the Jacobsons in the next house he let them feel the whole force of his accumulated venom But love knows no racial prejudices and when the young people of these two families became friends the first step was taken toward bridging the separating gulf and bringing happiness to both hearths One grows accustomed to rinding Stan ley James equal to any role assigned him and even the heavy demands of a part like Sir John Cotswold do not find him waning He does splendid work that is truthful sincere and never oversteps the line toward exaggeration Jane Morgan Carl Brickert Marie Carroll and Russell Fillmore play the quartet of lovers Adah Sherman and Louise Kent are their respective mothers and Herbert Dobbins gives a fine and dignified portrayal of Sir Isaac jacobson all adding a share to the success of one of Polls best productions Belasco The Ham Tree Decked out with new foliage The Ham Tree returned to Washington last night to please a large audience at the Belasco Probably never in the course of their many visits to Washington haveMeln tyre and Heath the Georgia minstrels enjoyed such a welcome as that which greeted them last night The legend of the ham tree hallowed by years of recital in the vaudeville sketch The Georgia Minstrels has little to do with the present production which goes back to the old fashioned musical comedy in that it has no plot to speak of and it doesnt speak of the plot it has It just flows along jovially punctuated by four screamingly funny scenes between the chief comedians and en livened by the work of the best dancing chorus Washington has seen since the Follies The Ham Tree seems to bebullt on the principle when in doubt dance Jack and Winnie Crisp dance all the modern steps John Lorenz cast as a bur lesque detective contributes some clever eccentric work Mabel Elaine does a number of break downs and the Wayburh tralned chorus does the rest of the work in a manner that evoked encores for the ensemble numbers There is no use to describe the work of Mclntyre and Heath Those who havent seen them would not appreciate any description of their effortsand those who have seen them do not need any urg ing to see them again Garden Gentleman From Mississippi Film At Moores Garden Theater the chief attraction that pleased amusement goers yesterday was Tom Wise the well known character funmakerJn his biggest stage success The Gentleman From Mississippi It is the latest production of the Smiberts in the realm of films and the cast includes many members of the origi nal company The piece is bubbling over with wholesome fun and good humor It retains its effervescent fun on the film This production wllk remain until Wednesday inclusive On Thursday and Friday the main feature will be a film realization of James Montgomery Flaggs drawings The Adventures of Klttv Cobb It tells a clever story of a girl I fresh from the country who goes to New York in search of employment and for tune Jier trials ner aaventures ner tribulations her temptations make fascinating camera material and the scenario has been prepared by George Hbbarti humorist and dramatist The Price of Crime founded upon a recent mysterK ous crime that completely battled the police authorltes of Chicago will be the featured attraction on Saturday The daily program will include little Mary Plckf ord in special single reel productions of her earlier successes the Garden topical dally and up to date Keystone comedies Hoping to settle party differences on the war revenue hill and expedite disposition of remaining legislative business with a view to early adjournment Democrats of the Senate have agreed on a caucus to be held tonight The call was issued late yesterday after a conference between Senator Kern chairman of the caucus and Senator Simmons chairman of the finance committee The need for the caucus became apparent at the meeting of the Democrats of the finance committee yesterday when member whoss amendments to the war revenue bill were rejected declared they would carry the fight to the floor of the Senate Whether an effort will be made to pltdge senators to vote for the bill as approved by the caucus was not distuned Desire to Expedite the Bill We want to get together as much as possible on this bill before it goes to the Senate1 said Senator Simmons last night It will flrreatly expedite matters to thrash the whole question out in a party conference Early in the day administration leaders beard from the White House that the President was ready for adjournment as soon as the Clayton bill the war tax and the Alaska coal leasing conference report were consummated October 15 was the date suggested They believed the disagreement among finance committee members foreshadowed prolonged debate and decided upon a caucus to avoid that pitfall Democrats of the committee left the war tax bill yesterday practically as It was agreed upon Saturday Elimination of proposed taxes on life and casualty Insurance reduction ot the gasoline tax from 2 cents to 1 cent a gallon imposition of a 50 Cent per horsepower tax on automobile sales and slight increases in the special tax on tobacco manufacturers and dealers constitute the principal changes made in the House bill At Sea Over Amendments There are many other1 amendments however upon which the committee dis agreed Among those xa be consiaerea In caucus Is one to eliminate the tax on gasoline altogether substituting a tax on automobile owners as well as automobile sales Another would eliminate the proposed tax of it per 11000 on bank capital and surplus substituting a stamp tax on checks drafts and other negotiable paper Senators Vardaman Williams and Shep pard are eager for the caucus to pass upon an amendment which would tax government employes a percentage on their salaries Other amendments include proposed taxes on distilled liquors an increase in the proposed tax on beer from 150 to SL75 a barr jl revision of the proposed taxes oh domestic wines and special taxes on retail liquor dealers Totals 541 513 479 Totals 471 441 TERMINAL 31 Auditors I Weeks Rider Heck Wood Fulki 10S 77 in 94 88 89 112 105 A LEAGUE Trans Dept 93 I Lampselle 89 95 88 Grimes 160 106 93 I KoM 93 83 89 Williams 106 88 115 89 105 I Miller Total 4T4 498 46S Totals SOUTHEAST LEAGUE Model Sdatheast Goddard 107 104 Conell120 94 110 Rlderu August Shipley Totals 88 105 104 113 96 108 Oliver Kaotteck 92 1 Carrljan 1 Anderson 61 Hoffman 99 99 86 437 473 459 Lunch 87 103 105 85 99 103 97 118 104 86 94 83 90 97 99 So per Horseman Woodson Drr Totals Black Weldrnad Puller Moras 615 524 472 1 Totals 445 511 498 CO DUCKPIN LEAGUE Clreulatlon 95 85 87 104 91 7S 90 94 108 268 280 Engineering 75 80 13 74 262 280 261 69 84 86 76 81 76 86 Totals 248 231 334 23332 ImK54 I i i Quits Italian War Office Rome Via Paris Oct Lieut Gen Tassoniundersecretary of state for war has resigned owing to a disagreement With GenGrandl the war minister 3 Keiths Efldie Foy With Eddie Foy and the seven little Foya as the big number the weeks bill at Keiths Theater gathered in two delighted audiences yesterday and last night As a close second to the cleve Foy youngsters in the favor of the house are the Nine White Hussars and others on the bill are the Bijouve skaters Weber and Capltola In an excellent dancing turn Jane Connelly Co In A Strong Cup of Tea Kaiel Cox in a series Of songs Emily Darrell and Charley Conway Maxinl brothers and Bobby and the Hearst Sellg news pictures HI I Casino Lambs Manikins The real players have to take second rank with the marionettes at the Casino this Week Lambs famous mAlktas r4 giving an exhibition on a miniature stage with a manikin orchestra and a mani kin audience that makes as laughable an ensemble as has been seen in a dumb show for aiong time The work of the manikin magician who cuts off his limbs and makes other manikins of them ig a surprise to the grown ups as welt as to the children Fred Thomas and Mrs Thomas give an entertaining sketch called The Dog Thief which has some bright lines and amusing situations Edna Richardson sings character songs in costume and the Hoosler trio all with good voices sing well and furnish some incidental comedy Another act will be added to the bill today A good selection of photoplays Is shown at each performances and the added attractions include the country store Tuesday Thursday and Saturday nights the surprise party Wednesday night and the carnival of tne amateurs Friday night Beginning a week from Thursday the Casino will offer two complete shows a week the change of bill being made Thursday at the matinees Cosmos The Substitute One of the best character comedy sketches of the vaudeville season The Substitute is being presented at the Cosmos this week by Joseph Kettler and his company It has a laugh running all through It and a melodramatic climax that pleases The big headline goffering of the show is presented by George Choos in the musical farce When Women Rule featuring a company of ten including eight pretty girls a good comedian and a singing juvenile Little Beth Challis billed as one of vaudevilles live wires In juvenile and ragtime songs won much applause and waef recalled Several times Bessie Armstrong has argood xylophone numberfeaturlng operatic and popular selectionsand Warren and Renfrew in their1 own songs present a number of amusing selections that won several recalls A new sixth act is to be supplied today The Hearst Selig News Pictorial presents a number of in terestlng war pictures including views of the Canadian contingent on their way to the front and a series of pictures showing the raising of a sunken yacht The bill will be changed Thursday American Black Patti Company A capacityaudience enjoyed the initial performance of the Black Pattt Musical Comedy Company in Lucky Sam from Alabama at Thomas and Dudleys American Theater last evening The book and lyrics of the three acts are from the pen of Harrison Stewart a native of Washington and the opportunity is afforded Mme Sissieretta Jones famous as the original Black Pattl to show her unusual vocal abilities in an excellent selection of song numbers The cornpany hasthev reputation of being the oldest colored musical comedy company In the country and the comedy new song and dance numbers and the singing and dancing of the large chorus are among the features of the performance The production Is attractively costumed lcotfs New Play Produced Specialto TntWashlngttnPosL Baltimore Md Oct 5 Chauncey 01 cott appeared at Fords Theater tonight in the Heart of Paddy Whack under the direction of Henry Miller This new comedy by Rachael Crothers had lta first performance on any stage and was enthusiastically received by a notable audience Its scenes are laid in Ireland in 1830 EEICE ON M0NTICELL0 Representative Levy Ready to Consider an Offer of 500000 Montlcello the home of Thomas Jef fersdn should be maintained tup the Virginia home of the Presidents is the opinion of its owner Representative Levy of New York who notified the Secretary of State yesterday that he would consider an offer of 500000 for the1 purchase of the estate by the government His communication will be referred to Con gress The only stipulation by Mr Levy in connection with his consent Is that the property should after JU acquisition be made the Virginia home of the Presidents of the United States and malntairied for their occasional occupancy DANCING AT PRESS CLUB An Innovation in the Form of Ladies Day Once a Month Members of the National Press Club on Thursday will open their club home to ladles For the first time itt the history of the club dancing is to be permitted in the rooms Heretofore there has been but one ladles day each year but the board of governors has decided that during the coming winter there shall be a ladles day each month In addition to the dancing Thursday afternoon and evening Several musical numbers from the local theaters will be provided Mrs Hardwicks Condition Improved Mrs Thomas William Hardwickwife of Representative Hardwick of the Tenth Georgia district living at the Wyoming apartments who suffered a fracture of the collar bone when her electric automobile turned over on a steep incline in Rock Creek park Sunday was reported last night in an improved condition She is expected to recover from the injury in a short time Crandalls The Wrath of the Gods Patrons at Crandalls Theater yesterday found much to interest them In the six reel featured The Wrath of the Gods dealing With the ancient deities of Japan The scenic effects obtained are especially picturesque a volcano in full action being the central sensation As a supplementary attraction the two part Essa nay The Dancer proved a strong feature It deads with the adventures ef a classic dancer The Wrath of the Gods Savoy Theater 14th St aad ColttmMa ftd Today Continuous 215 to 11 GEO KLEINS PRESENTS The Naked Truth In 5 Acts FEATURING THE INCOMPARABLE LTDA BORELU anouestlonebly the hifheit paid aetrese In tnoUon pictures i FOR- HER WORK INT THE NAKED TRCTH Lyd BOrelll received 00W 60fl lpf Tiei 1 4 pr fpot record price for anj 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