St. John's Daily Star, 1920-06-08

              The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, March 8,898 Newfoundland THE WEA 7HER £ro_>s---Siatterecl Showers; Partly Fair. VOL. Vt (PRICE: One Cent); TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920. ($3.00 per Annum). juvgmhjghbvj Britain Negotiates on Trade Affairs With Russia sTack attendance on opposition side Woodford and Jones OutMOppositiori Bring Up Famous Affidavit Again—Minister of Justice * Leads Government In Absence of Premier, Who Is In Bay De Verde District, • MOTOR ASSOCIATION RESOLUTIONS ARE TAKEN UP AND AMENDED THE HOUSE met at 3 p.m. There ■ were several vacant seats on the government side while the opposition could muster only eight when the whip called the roll. The abjentees from the left of the speaker could be accounted for satisfactorily. The premier was at the front directing the opening of a new drive against the enemy. With him was Sergeant LeGrow who is gone in command of the advance expedition. They will be in their places in a day or two and Mr. Cave will resume his former seat as soon as the present drive has been carried thru and victory crowns his efforts. But what of the opposition? It is growing smaller as die session advances and there is but small chance of reinforcements. To begin with Mr. Woodford in an attempt to "swear" the premier out of his job "affidavited'' himself not only out of the assembly but into perpetual disqualification as • a member of the people's house. Then lhc supreme court judges hands him a "finisher" by serving notice on all interested that Mr. Woodford bought his election and was not entitled to sit in parliament at any time this session. When the house adjourned on Tuesday last the seat on the right of the amiable and scrupulously groomed junior member for St. John's east was occupied by Dr. .Jones,, comrade in poUtlcaTmisfortune of the ex-minister of public works. Yesterday it was vacant and a wag *  in the visitors gallery suggested thai the sergeant at arms should have draped the front of the desk in black as the seat will remain unoccupied during the remainder of the fm of thc present parliament. Opposition Dejected. The leader of the opposition cast one mournful look upon it and then turned to the northeast and shut off the sad sight by placing the Evening Telegram as a screen between him and the vacant chair. The lots of their doctor seemed to depress the whole group and speculation was general as to the real cause of the unmistakable sadness which the vacant chair caused. But as an amendment to the prohibition law is not unlikely the loss of their doctor may not be really as great as at first appears. At present all the gentlemen on the right of the speaker appears in robust health. Dr. Jones' fate is a horrible example of evil political associations. The judges say he bought no votes himself but his colleague made some investments in that line for him which he did not repudiate and in so far a* he benefited thereby he had to bear his share of the penalty which infringement of our righteous laws entail. So they told him to pack his briefwallet and betake himself outside the bar of the people's House. But thc doctor may find consolation in Burkes remark: "We are taafc The usual preliminaries being disposed of the house got down to busi (Continued on page 2) Four of a kind---women G. O. P. delegates Womea will sit as delegates In selected—less than onc to a state—o i the Republican National Convention Mi >ur of the 984. Above are four of a ]ML Chicago for the first time today. I—a quartette of women delegates Twenty-six of them have* been c who'll help nam. G.O.P nominee. , _0 . S Mrs. John G. South, of Kentucky Mrs. {Catherine P. Edson, _ of San Francisco Mrs. Frank Dodson y v of lowa ; Mrs. Manley Fosseen of Minneapolis MEETS RED DELEGATE sentative of Russian Soy- Jom|3N/Jane Lloyd George* Earl .Curzbrr, Foreign Minister, and Bonar Law, conferred to-day, with Gr'd^or^" Kraissin, Russian Stoviet Mmk\:r° of and Cdmmwce/ at 'trje Premier's official residence, Downing Street The conference was also attended by Winstoi Churchill, Sir Eric Geddes, Arthur J. BaJfour, Walter Hume Long, and Austen Chamberlain. No official report was issued after the meeting which lasted two hours. Another conference has been arranged.~The jfremier in his speech in the house q$ commons gave no information ns to the results of to-day's conferer cc. Th> premier based his* arguments on the absolute need of Russia rp the world's reconstruction and the impossibility of fighting and crushinfi. Bolshevism unless prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of millions to the national debt. He admittecf there were conflicting com modities in Russia, but said that was not thc reason for refusing trade. He concluded by appealing to the house not to seek quarrels', iri ~a i world fu'l of explosive matter. 'rovokes Laughter Lloyd jpeorgj. • provoked a hearty round off laughter by. remarking "this country has opened up most of the cannibal trade of the world" JHe went'ipn: "It is a new "doctrine that you! must -approve tne habits and custafjns of any government before 'tracing, and to continue to refuse to tfade with the .Russians, so long as 1 Bolshevik government is in power| would be an act of gross folly. M.;fClemenceau< certainly opposed recognizing the Soviets'ppHr tically, Mt to utge the impossibility of trading«with a government guilty of atrocii es is to exclude more gov ernments than I. dare think." ' The pj smier who had been subjected tcj sever,., structures in the . part he ||ad taken in the Russian (negotiations justified his policy. He I related tIL history of the negotia-1 tions shojraig that the Allies had been unanimous in favor of ?n at-J tempt to reopen trading with Russia I without, however, consenting to a j tesumption of diplomatic relations ' unless A 4. Soviet government adoptled civilized methods. In contending that it was irrelevant to argue against trading with a I misgoverned country, he instanced ■the fact that England traded with I Mexico and Turkey without a pr6-rtest being raised, although, he de-1 clared the Turkish atrocities under Abdul Hamid were worse than the j Soviets. i in Deadlock For Nomination Senator Johnson, who was running mate with Roosevelt on the Progressive ticket in 1912, is fighting I hard to secure the nomination on the Republican ticket. He addressed a mass meeting in Chicago last night boosting his own candidacy. Major General Leonard Wood "who in the running for the pennant hons in the G.O.P. presidential race. £_£N. Hti_ak'Jqh_<-Sq_>j IRAN* O LoWDEKi WAJ.-6EK. WOOD.. MUST BE NO COERCION pulsory Labor and Vir-I tual Slavery. EXHORTS LABOR TO STAND UNITED ! .  MONTREAL, June 7—ln an address he made to, the- * convention of American federation of labor this afternoon Samuel Gompers said-that my attempt to enforce compulsory labor by making st/_ Yes unlawful -aust be resisted at any cost. He; said le had no fears of what the result .vould be. '•'.'•■' He urged organised labor to hold tself in leash and use its- power of rorce' and influence in * moderation, hough all workers must be kept on 'the firing line." - | Gompers, discussing Canada, said hat politically it was as independent >f the United States as the Unite- States was of Canada. Autonomy >f workers dhd citizens of Canada vas safe from the hands of the United states. Industrially and economicaly they were bound together. .It :ould not _>c different. Their inter-1 ssts, their production, their life and i welfare were bound in on. movement, i He denied that the federation was' t m organisation designed to "fleece! he workers of Canada out of- their  ttoney and spend it outside the Do- j ninion." He read a report showing! I hat the federation had spent during! i ast year two hundred thousand 1 nore in Canada than it had received j i rom Canadian organisations, . *m ■ — |) Bowring Brothers' salt boat is extected to leave Liverpool for here •n or about the JOtK inst. n UPHOLDS  'DRY' LAW Jnited States Supreme Court Declares Prohibitio1 Amendment is Quite Constitutional. ITATE CHANGES ARE NOT LAWFUL JEW YORK, N.Y.; June B—Federagents will redouble their efforts 3 make New York bone dry...James 'helvirj, supervising prohibition enorcement agent, announced to-daj fheh he learned -that the Uunted tates Supreme .Court had-decla'r_d oth thg prohibition amendment' and 'olstead Act constitutional. To-day's decisions were misinsrpreted in some quarters for no articular reason and improptu ceferations were started at-which it was sported liquor stronger than point •venty-five : flowed freely. The ■uth, however; filtered into these uarters, gloom followed and celebraons were transformed- into "wakes." _■ — ■ . - ■• - SABLE I. SAILS S. S; SaWe I.; Capt. Murtey, will ul for North Sydney direct this fternoon takino. the- following passngers: R. Tilley, Mrs. R. Tilley, Irs. Wm. and Miss A. Henderson, fm. Henderson, Francis Henderson, >hn Davis, J. McConnell, Miss Q. idqut, S. Brocklehurst, Fred Gartann, Allan Butler, A. T. Rowley, .. Walsh, E. Ellis, Mrs. E. Hensbury and child, Mrs. ' Francis oley, W. G. Thorn, Albert Green, r. H. Ludington, Mrs. Dr. Tait. ■ ———__- ■ The bank fishery to date. has been ny good. OPPOSES R.N.M.W.P. —— t oik of Maritime Provinces Don't Want Jurisdiction of Famous Police Ixtended There. , \£ j SPLENDID RECORD OF E. PROVINCES ATTAWA, June 7—Extension of l.he royal' Canadian Police force jurisdiction to eastern - Canada . 'vas strongly criticised in ther. house.  night, when the royal Canadian mounted-pohce estimates were  discussion. , J.U"' tHon. tyir. Rowell, . minister f. in targe of the department, was told by many eastern members to .• md the force back .to.<Wes.t where they belonged.' - R H. Butts (Cape BrSton North) declared that out of his Seventeen years experince on the bench in Nova Scotia he knew the mou, ted police were not needed there *and would be regarded as intruders and trouble would-follow. "We don't tfoant haybinders from* the western. p|_ns tp watch the Atlantic Dreakers for booze smuggled from St. Pierre §fend Ivliquelon," he said. * In Sydney mines, with a population of nine thoi| and.not one person pad been sent < to'jail in one .period £pm January Ist to December eightE* \ Answering Mr" Butts Hon Mr. Fow eil said there were no mdre federal po lice in Nova Scotia than in the flhst; Dominion police who were still -Hfere were used mainly in Halifax to guard the fortifications. J , X- --*--. 1 f ir. Moravia, has arrived _| at near with a cargo, of _f knJber from Sherburne, N. S.,. to Saunawrs, Howell & Co. # Openg.O.P. conference for pres. nomination .Republicans Assemble at Chicago to, Name Candidate for American Presidency.—Likely to Be Fight Even to Deadlock Between Wood, Lowden and Johnson.—Lack of Leadership of Party is Much Manifest. ' I JOHNSON URGES CLAIMS ON NOMINATION AT GREAT MASS MEETING OF DELEGATES' —I ■■- i own nomination for President by the Republican National Convention, before «_«* mass meeting attended by many delegates he pleaded tor what he called "Head up ,eyes open" party t0 s,tand from attempts to "hide in the shadow of privilege, The definite two big issues, Senator Johnson declared, first, was the high cost of living to be coped with not wholly by new law but by an unswenng administration of the present law; the second issue, international, he covered flatly with the declaration "1 am opposed to the present covenant of the league of nations," emphasising his opposition to the league plan of the Versailles Treaty. Against il tne Republican Party must take tts stand, he declared. "There can be no hiding or sulking upon an issue of this magnitude, "In this campaign men must march under the polyglot banner of European imperialism and internatione*- V**OX. under the * Stripes.' rHICAGO, Ills., June 7—With its  oldttiemc leaders unhorsed, the  deadlocked Republican Party will be-  . . . ,  gin its national convention here to-  morrow under conditions of uncer-  tainty unparelled in recent politicaj  history.  Unbossed and largely unorganized  delegates are asking one another in  what direction they are straying and  when those will arise who can lead  ihem out of the wilderness to their  own indecision. In the noisy turmoii  of convention eve the only definable  trend seems to be driving Wood,  Lowden and Johnson into a deadlock  fight which it is generally recognized  may destroy them all.  Old-timers knowing that it is but a  step from a deadlocked convention  to stamped convention are wondering  what will happen next unless some  tried and trusted leader settles him-  self securely in the saddle.  Senator Hiram Johnson put for-  ward tonight argument in favor of his  Who's Who in the U.S. Presidential Campaign A Rtariew of the Political Situation in America and t*lSi Meet ' i_&€i_cago to Select the Standard Bearers for the November Elections.—Democrats to Meet in San Francisco on June 28th.—Hiram Johnson Outstanding Man in Republican Ranks.— __nOx, Butler or Allen May-Prove to Be the "Dark Horse." PROHIBITION AND LEAGUE OF NATIONS PLAYING BIG PART IN CAMPAIGN _ olhers are too well known. s The Primary System. • The primary election system, un; cicr which the voters declare their - preference for nominees, was cxi pected by many people to be a great t irnprovemnt en the old local conveni lion system, but it has proved a delusion and a snare. In some states, f like California, the Democrats can 1 vote in the Republican primaries, and ; vice versa, so that the whole thing is mixed and the primary results are • t no real indication of the people's - will. i Under such conditions the voters i take only a lukewarm interest and in s many states the delegates will be ; sent to the national conventions with: cut being instructed for any given P man. Thus the decisive fight this i year will be in the conventions. The : action being taken in different states i to some extent shows which way tin J political wind is blowing however.-1; i There is a large element among ; the Democrats who want to have j their party go before the country on f a "wet" platform. They believe that r they might win a victory in that , way, when they see almost sure de: feat if the league is made the issue, as the president urges. ~: i The last "wet" plank in a national 1 Democrat platform was in £892, 1 when the party declared itself "ogi posed to all sumptuary laws." That ' was a carefully worded pfotk-which I , was construed as upholding "personal • \ liberty" of all sorts, and" Cleveland r' yon the presidency on that platform. When Bryan gained . the ascend*. i ancy in the party he had that plank . culled out—and the party suffered three defeats under his i leadership. i Bryan threatens to; make trouble this • year unless the party does as he says ■ but most of the leaders think that he i Will not be, able to, stop the flow of : "wet" sentiment this time with his ; thumb. Even in his home state of . Nebraska the primary vote was ' against him. Palmer's Candidacy. Palmer, however* looms up as a likely candidate, and he is a "dry." In the Georgia primaries he came out best, and taht gives him a start. The sudden, death of Roger Sullivan, the Democratic "boss" of Illinois, is a heavy blow to the Democratic gca-1 (Continued on page . 7) WHEN the i 7th quadrennial Republican National Convention meets in Chicago to-day it will have 64 years of history and prece cent behind it. Nine of these preceeding conventions have been held ill the same city. Eleven of the norn ipees named at these preceeding con ventions have been elected. California has provided one of these 16 preceeding Presidential nominees: Illinois 4, Ohio 6, Maine 1, New York 2, and Indiana 2. Never beforc has so much interest centred around a Presidential campaign. Up to the time of writing, in fact up to the time the convention opens, there can be no certainty as tc who will win the race as far as either party is concerned. Whilst Wood is leading in some sections of the country Johnson has made such gains in other parts, and in some cases most unexpected gains in states that he did ttot canvass, that it would appear as if Wood will drop when the 'looking 'em over' begins on the floors of the coliseum. Some of the "favorite sons," such as Lowden, of Illinois have succeeded in capturing their home slates, but this, of course, does not count for much when the show down comes. Borah and LaFbllette has each won out in their, respective states, and will attend the convention with the solid backing of their delegations. Both are declared for Johnson, and with thc latterY victory in Nebraska, Cali fornia, Michigan, Illinois, and his almost equal vote of Wood's in New Jersey makes it look as if the ex- Governor of California is going to make a tidy race for the 1920 pennant- In the Michigan primaries the Republican vote went strongly for Johnson. 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