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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL' 17, 1914. PACIFIC FLEET IS AWAITING ORDERS Both Mare Island and Bremer ton Prepared to Obey In i structlons Instantly. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY WHO HAS BEEN AS SIGNED TO DIRECT MOVEMENTS OF PACIFIC FLEET PROVISIONS TAKEN ON, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt Is Or dered AVest to Take Personal Charge of Movements -Collier to load Coal. - SAX FRANCISCO, April 16. Orders were received at Mare Lsland today to assemble stored provisions for the armored cruiser South Dakota and the tliird-class cruiser Chattanooga. Both ships are at the Bremerton Navy Tard, where the South Dakota has been held in reserve. The Chatta nooga, in reserve for several months, was commissioned recently at Brem erton. Lieutenant-Commander Mark. St. Cluir today received orders to report aboard the "West Virginia at Bremer ton and Past Assistant Paymaster R. Helm was ordered to the Albany. The orders show the warships to be com missioned for Mexican service. Collier Takes Full Supply. The contract for lumber to be taken by the collier Jupiter to the Norfolk yard was canceled today, as the Ju piter is to take on a full supply sot coal for the Mexican cruise. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt re ceived orders from Secretary Daniels to take personal charge of the Pacific fleet's movements in connection with the Mexican situation, and departed at once for Mare Island to confer with Rear-Admiral Doyle. Officials of both Mare Island and Br nerton Navy Tarda are ready to proce. I at once with any telegraphic instru- l ions which may emanate from Washington. At Mare Island, there are' now the first-class cruiser Maryland, Captain Philip Andrews, commanding, and the cruiser, Cleveland, Commander George B. Williams, with the California, flag ship" of Rear-Admiral Thomas B. How ard, the only one of the large cruisers of the Pacific fleet now in Mexican waters, officers of both yards are awaiting orders to fit out the vessels now in the yards. M arj Irtjifi Nearly Ready. The Maryland is to be completed by April 1!5, if her present schedule is not hurried, and was slated to sail early In May for Alaska to continue the test ot Government coal. The Cleveland is now in dry-dock and will be re leased next Monday. The Saturn, Cap tain temith, which Is now coaling at California City, will be sent south as soon as her bunkers are filled and it is probable that the collier Jupiter. which was to have sailed for the Nor folk Navy-Yard the latter part of this month, will also be sent to the Mexi can coast. The larger part of the Pacific re serve fleet could not get under way at once, owing to the fact that they are manned only by skeleton crews. These ships are the West Virginia, ar mored cruiser. Commander Waldo Kvuns; . Albany, third-class cruiser, Lieutenant-Commander Emil P. Svarz; Charleston, first-class cruiser, Lieuten ant-Commander Kred A. Traut; Colo rado, armored cruiser, Lieutenant-Com mander Eward Woods; Milwaukee, fist class cruiser, Lieutenant-Commander Henry N .Jansen, and the South Da kota, armored cruiser. Lieutenant Commander Frank P. Baldwin. DELEGATES ARE CHOSEN Presbytery at Eugene Transacting Mass of Business at Session. EUGENE. Or., April 1G. (Special.) The election of commissioners to the Presbyterian General Assembly In Chi cago, the formulation of a petition to change the synod meeting from Albany to Eugene next Summer, and the adop tion of a new method of selecting min isters for churches marked the close close ol the Willamette Valley Pres t.ytery in Eugene today. The session adjourned today to meet in Albany May 31, where Rev. G. W. Burchett will be ordained as elder. Commissioners appointed this morn ing as delegates to the General As sembly to be held next month in Chi cago were: Dr. F. II. Geselbrecht. of Albany, and Rev. C. F. Koehler, of Brownsville. Alternates were Rev. C. F. il&urd, o3v;Kport, and Rev. . W. . S. MeCullough, of Lebanon. The lay-commissioners who were chosen are C. E. Armstrong, of McMihnville. and C. H. Sedkwick, of Creswell. Alternates are George Connett. of Lebanon, and E. J. Lewellyn, of the Oak Ridge Church, near Corvallis. IT ' W , - - St f , ' . ' ' SaaWttSBV. ' ' lllillllllllik XUSrWBSB Mmmr -. ; v ? . , . - -- ' a : . i-ii'iifiiT- fir 'Tii f I iiv" mi FRANKL1.V D. ROOSEVELT. ADMIRAL'S TERSE SENTENCE PRAISED "We Do Not Know What We Will Be Called Upon to Do, but Are Ready," Quoted. DANIELS LAUDS BADGER Secretary Pleads for Change in Pub lie Viewpoint Toward Xavy and Kxplains Further His Order Against Wine Mess. ESTATE GOES TO FAMILY Widow of General Edward S. Bragg Loaves Sum of $26,000. FON DU LAC. Wis., April 16. The will of Cornelia Bragg, widown of Sen ator Edwin S. Bragg, filed today, dis poses of an estate of $26,000. A me morial room in a home for friendless and several small charitable bequests were made. Except for J2500 to C. W. Henry, her son-m-iaw, the rest of the estate Is divided between two daughters. Mar garet Sherman, of Oak Park ,111., and Bertha Schiven. of Washington. The later having died after the will was drawn, her share will revert to ner children. LONDON PAPERS COMMENT (Continued From First Page.) policy, not of non-intervention, but rather intervention without the trou ble and expense of using force. But for the Monroe doctrine it is probable that several European governments ! would co-operate to secure there estab lishment of order and the protection of their interests in Mexico. Knd of Civil War IV ot Seen. "President Wilson," adds the Post, " is the clear-headed and courageous man, and will doubtless find a way out of the difficulty. In the meantime It seems as though Mexico must settle down to Its civil war." The Daily Mail says: "President Wilson's display of the mailed fist seems likely to attain its object. President Wilson has scored a distinct success by his vigorous diplo macy. The world will now hope that he will show equal firmness in forcing upon the Constitutionalists that respect for the American flag -which he -re- . quired, from Huerta." where competition has resulted In cutting off of profits attempts have been made to convince the public that the Navy has suffered or would suffer in the future from these more busi nesslike methods of spending the peo ple's money." in HUERTA'S OFFER ACCEPTED fContlnurJ From Ftrst Pare. NEW YORK April 16. "We do not know-what we will be called upon to do, but we are ready." This, the only statement Rear-Admiral Charles J. Badger, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, had to make as. his ships steamer out of Hampton Roads for Mexico was made public here tonight by Secretary Dan iels, to be added to "the splendid words by American Naval heroes." Air. Daniels told members 'of the Navy League of the United States at their annual banquet that the brevity and comprehensiveness of that state ment deserved to rank with those of Dewey at Manila and John Paul Jones In the battle of the Bonhomme Rich ards and the Serapis. ".Nothing Wrong With Navy J An appeal for popular support for the Navy was voiced by the Secretary. "There is nothing wrong with our Navy," he said, "there is nothing the matter with our discipline; there i nothing the matter with our splendid personnel; there is a great deal the matter with the public viewpoint; there is a great deal the matter with the lack of information on the part of a great portion of our citizens as to the Navy. "It is my firm belief that no defi nite programme of Naval construction by that I mean a programme that will hot be In Jeopardy every time Congress assembles can be laid down until an overwhelming majority of our people become . friends of the xsavy and giv esomewhat more than a pas sive support to the Navy s proper de velopment." I,lnd Praises Fletcher. Mr. Daniels said his pride and ad-i miration of American Naval officers and men was stirred and strengthened by John Lind. President Wilson's per sonal representative in Mexico, on his return from Mexico recently. The Sec retary remarked that Mr. Ltnd called to tell him that the officers and men of the Navy were the finest body of men he had ever known and that Rear Admlral Fletcher was a "wise man. of sound judgment and better than that. he is a patriot, loyal to the core to his country." The Navy now has its full quota and for the first time has a waiting list, the Secretary said. Speaking of his recent order abolish ing the wine mess, the Secretary said: "VV ith tsinglar lack of logic, critics who see fit to represent me as a foe to discipline on the one hand, twist this into a case of discipline run mad on the other. Far greater questions than that of discipline lie back of this." Emperor Quoted Against Alcohol. He said there was no body of more temperate, clear-headed men in the world than American Naval officers. He asked his hearers whether they would not demand the abolishing of a wine mess in railroad engineers club houses if the railroads should permit such a thing. 'The wreck of a great battleship, said the Secretary, "the loss of a criti cal battle and the honor of the coun try may easily hinge upon one of the many men in the varied and complex duties which these great masses of Intricate machinery called battleships have created. He called attention to Emperor William's advice to the naval cadets at Murwick: "That nation which consumes the least quantity of alcohol wins. And that you should be, my gentlemen, and through you - an example should be given the crews." . Economic Pointed Out. "Substantial and practical economies have been brought about in the ex penditure for the Navy," Mr. Daniels said. "The appropriation bill now be fore Congress is less than that of last year, yet last year's appropriation eluded only one battleship. This year with less money we pr.opose to build two. This has been done by the out ting of countless expenses, as well as by the saving of practically a million dollars in the purchase of material for Dattie snip mo. 13. la certain Interested - quarters foreign affairs passed a resolution up holding the President's position. General Policy Not Affected. - While the President declared the fir ing of the salute would close the Tara pico incident, It will have no particul ar bearing on the general Mexican policy of the Administration. Other offenses, such as the arrest of a mail orderly at Vera Cruz, have been apolo gized for and the United States will continue its' position of neutrality as between the two factions contending for the military supremacy of the .southern republic. Incidentally, the President, as well as Mr. Bryan, in their conversations on the situation generally drew at tention to official reports they had received praising General Villa and the Constitutionalist, for their treatment of prisoners and foreigners In the bloody battle at Torreon. Not a for eigner was wounded, according to of ficial reports of eye witnesses. Huerta's offer was received In Con gress generally with approval and members familiar with international precedents agreed that a return salute from American guns could not be re garded as recognition of the Huerta regime or in any wise as beneath the dignity of the United States. Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member of foreign relations committee, who the said earlier in the day that to return the salute would nullify the effect of the apology, withdrew his criticism after a telephone conversation with Secretary Bryan. Senator Lodge Admits Error. The Massachusetts Senator was in formed that Naval officers and those familiar .with precedents knew of no case where a salute was not returned and that, moreover, the statement that Diamond's in Profusion Offered in rre 1 FRIEDLANDER SALE Prices at near-wholesale cost. Every stone satis factorily guaranteed. Blue White Solitaires Ladies' Rings Ho. 51. 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