that they
would
declare
the
address
unp-
satisfactoryin many
respects,
Mr.
As-
quith saying it was
notable
for its omis-
sions.
Mr.
Thomas
(Labour)
in
th=»
House
took
especial
excepticn
to
the
part relative
to
Ireland
It
was expect-
ed that the
coming
conference
of
Allied
and German
delegates
in
tkis
city,
the
revision
of the
Treaty of
Sevres,
Meso-
potamia,
Ireland,
and
domestic
affairs
would
be
discussed
today
or
tomorrow
in the House
Lord Robert
C=cil
on
Fri-
day will introduce
an
amendment
on
che
financial
bills
before
Parliament,
on
which
economy
will
be urged.
On Mon-
day
an
independent
iiberal
amendment
eriticizing
the Irish
administration
will
be laid before
the House.
LLondon,
Feb.
16th.—Mr. Llyod George
speaking
in the
House
of Commons
last
evening,
declared
it
was
too
much
to
ask
of these
small
islanders
that
they
under
ake
the
whole
burden
of
the
de-
fence
of
the
gigantic KEmpire
in
every
sea,
and
that
at the
forthcoming
con-
ference
of the
dominions
in Lendon
the
whole problem of Imverial defence
must
be
considered.
There
must
be.
the
Premier
went on, coordination,
not
only
between
the
various
services,
but
be-
tween
the several
perts
of
the
Empire.
The
conference
of the Empire Premiers,
to be held
in London
in June,
would be
the
most
momentous
event
in
the
his-
tory
of
the
Empire.
General
consent
was
now given
tothe
principle that
the
Mother
Country
and
the
Docminions
must
make
common
cause
to
defend
the
liberties
of
the
world,
and
the
interests
of
the Empire.
This
did
not
mean
that
it
was
the
intention
to
in-
volve
Canada,
Australia
and
India
in
all the quarrels
of
the
Mother
Country,
but
it
did
mean
that
when
there
was
some
great
cause
at stake,
as
in
the
late
war. the knowledge
that
the Empire
was
quite prepared
in
future
to
repeai
the
great
commo
. effurt of
rthe
past,
would
be
npe
of
the
soundest
guarantees
of
peace
London,
Feb.
16ih. —Tne debate
on th:
speech
from the throne
was
resunied
in®
tone House
of Comtnon
today
witt
a
la-
bour amendm
‘nt expressing
regr:t
that
there
was notoing
in
the
King’s
speeen
recogniz
nz the right of the
unemployed
to
work
or
maintenance.
Mr.
Macna-
mara,
Minister
of
Labour,
anncunced
that there
was
a
provision
in
the
new
bill extending
the
unemployment
insur-
ance
act
to meet
the
pres_nt
case.
Mr.
Ronar
Law stated
that
the
Government
would
take
all
the
time
of
the
Hous:
until the
end
of
the financial
year.
A
host
of
supplementary
estimates
ure
coming
up, the first
to
be
issued
being
that of 21,000,000
pounds sterling for the
railways.
Anti-Govern:ment
members
of
Parliament
who
have
been
insistently
proc¢laiming
the
right
of
the
House
of
Commons
to pass
judgmenton
the
Mesc-
potamian
mandate
betore
it was
submit-
ted
to the League
of Nations, received
a
ST
BRULX
ANI
shock
when
Mr. Bonar
Law
declined
to
lay the mandate
on
the
table
and
give
the
House
a chance
to approve
it
befcre
it
‘vas turned
over
to
the
League.
Mr.
Bona:
l.aw
explained
that
the
peace
treaty provided that
mandates
were
first
to be submitted
to the
League,
and
the
Government
intendsd
to
earry
out
the
provisions
of
the
treaty.
\nswering
a question
as
to
whether
the
Govt.
was
going
to eymmit the House
to-great
ex-
penditure
without
an opportunity
of
dis-
cussing
it,
he
said
that
the
House
was
already
committed
to
possible
expendi-
tave
by
Great
Britain,
in
ace_pting
the
mandate
Mr
Bondr
Law
addzd
that
if every
Parliament
was
to
enter
.into
a
discussion
before
a
matter
was
submit-
ted
to
the
[eague,
then
the
League
might
as
well be clo:ed.
Pittsburg,
PA.
Feb.
15th.—Reduc-
tions ¢t from
10
to 50
cents
in
the price
~f crude
oil,
were
announced
here
to-
day by
the
principal
purchasing
agen-
c'es,
Pensylvania
crude
receiving
a cut
of
50
cents
a
barrel,
making
the
new
prices $3. 75.
Washington,
Feb.
15th.—The
Senate
late
today
adopted
the
Sinnott amend-
ment
to
the
Fordney
emergency
tariff
bill,
providing
for
an
import
duty
on
suzar
of approximatzly
one cent
a pound
in addition
to the present
tariff,
New
York,
FKeb.
16th.—Raw
sugar
was
quiet
today,
and
prices
were
un-
chang-d
at-4%c.
for
'uba’s,
cost
and
freight,
equal
to
5.77
for
centrifugal.
There
weresales
of 15,000 bags of Cuba’s-
t» operators
Refined
sugar
was firmer
with
fine
granulated
quoted
at 7.50 to
7 75,
the demard
continuing
good.
Fu-
tures
opened
1
to
8
poinis
higher
on
trade buying and covering,
but eased
oft
under
rencwed
liquidation,
and at
mid-
day prices
were
5 to
1 points
lower.
Budapest.
Feb.
16th.—The
financial
Minister has
discovered
vast
quantities
of
precious
stones
in an
old iron
trunk,
deposited
years
ago
in
the
treasury
building.
The
Minister
was searching
the
treasury
yesterday
in
the
hope
of find-
ing relief for
the treasury’s
embarrass-
q
state.
and found the trunk which
he
had believed contained
papers.
When it
was broken
into,
thousands
of opals
and
other precious
stones
appeared,
the value
of
which
is
estimated
at
200,000,000
crowns.
.
St. Thomas,
Feb.
19th. —Owing
to the
reported
presence
of bubonic
plague
in
San Juan,
Porto
Rieo, all vessels
arriving
here
from that port,
until further
notice,
wili
be subject
to the
usual
guarantine
inspection.
v
Saa
Juan,
P. R., Feb.
19th.—The
Com-
mission
of
Sanitation
has
advised
the
Press
that one of three
cases
proved
to
be bubonic plague
and tha! threc of some
rats
cauzht
in the suspected
zone
have
shown symptoms
of plague
The business
houses
in that district which
were
closed
yesterday
are
now- open.
All
persons
working and living there
have
been
vac
cinated,
the
houses
disinfected
and
every
precaution
is
being
taken.
No
other
cases
has
been
reported.
The
two_
suspected
and
the
one
case
are
in the
isolation
hospital.
The
Sanitary
Department
has
a large supply of plague
serum
on
" and.
:
“"AN AUTOCRACY OF
SERVICE”
Fresident-elect
Harding
alre: 1y
has
commenced
to
show
evidences
of
ihe
terrible
isolation
that
goes
with
the
Presidency.
He
said
as
much
recently
when he took
upon
himsaif
the
obliga-
tions of the higher
degrees
of Masonry.
Speaking
to his friends
he said
:
-
"I wonder
if you
know just
the
feel-
ing of a man
who has
been
c»lled
to the
greatest
office in the world ?
J"
“'There is an aloofness
of
his
{riends,
and this is
one of-the
sad
things.
And
in
me there
is a
deepening
sense
of
re-
sponsibility.
"I have
found
already
that
intrigue
and
untruth
must
be
guarded
-against.
One
must
be ever
on
his
guard.
This
everlasting
standing
on
one’s
guard
spoils
a
man.
I wish for an atmosphere
of truth
and sincerity
in our Government
and
I have
no.
higher
ambition
(o
es-
tablish during
my
Administration
than
an autocracy
of service.’’
_
Certainly Mr. Harding
has
gained for
himself
since
election
a
great
deal
of
respect
sand
sympathy
for
the
tremen-
dous tasks
that
confront
him
and
many
ot which
he
must solve
largely
for him-
self.
The
importance
of
the
greatest
office in the world”’ in itself tends
to iso-
lation.
Many
might
desire
to help,
but
dare
not presume
to intrude
It
was
this
conditicn
which
during
the War
cauised
President
Wilson
to
be referred
tv as the
most
isolated
per-
son
in Washington.
Put
the
President-Eleet
may,
if
he
so desires,
escapz
a
good
deal
of- this
loneliness
*hat
100
frequently
goes
with
the
Presidency.
1f
he
fulfils his
own desite
to
make
his
admipi:tration
“‘an autocracy
of service’’ he will be
too
busy
most of the time either
to be isolated
or
lonely
despite
any
‘‘alootmess’’
of
friends.
If e
succeeds,
as h-
1s trying,
to
surround
h mself
with
the
‘'best
minds’’
he will be able
to
establish
hLis
autocracy
and at the
same
time
banish
the
isolation
from
which
many
of
his
predecessors
have <uffered. - Porto
Rico
Progress,
+eb. jth.
$5.00
Reward
will be
given
for
return
of
deer
hide stolen from
my yard
during
the night of February
3rd.
Future
tresspassers
are hereby
warned.
:
W.
1.. RINEY.