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TTTE MOTIXTXG OREGON! AN. WKHXESDAY, DECE3IBER 23, 1914: PERMANENT PEACE FOR LABOR DESIRED Commissioner Walsh Says Balance of Power Is Matter i . of Concern to State. CONFLICTING VIEWS GIVEN l'rderal Investigator Ixjoka to Elec torate to "Take Into Its Own Hands What Really Is Its Own Affair." KANSAS CITT, Dec. 23. "Wo -want peace in American Industry, but we do not want peace at any price," said KranK Walsh, chairman of the Fed eral Commission on Industrial Relations, in an .address before the City Club to day, in which he commented on the labor situation In Colorado. "We want peace to rest on those primal rights that are the basic reason lor government. A settlement of the Colorado" difficulty on any other basis than the happiness and the rights of man, I will always protest." Mr. Walsh painted a vivid picture of the Intimate view the commission is gaining of the industrial situation, its Intricacies and Its Imminent dangers. IiUtt ItMlf Implies Unrest. "Our recommendations will amount to little, the facts we assemble will amount to much." be said. He pointed out - that the law which created the commission implied the existence of industrial unrest. Mr. Walsh told the story of two-1 witnesses, one following the other, who appeared before the commission at Faterson. N. J. One. he said, was a young man, an American, the product of American schools a leader in a militant labor organization. "He blandly declared that In defense against what he termed the 'violence of capitalism, " explained Mr. Walsh, "he would have no hesitancy in blow ing up the great marble courthouse in that city to gain one strike. There he stood, unafraid, unashamed and glad to say what he did. He had no thought of the possible loss of human life, of violence to American institutions, of the Constitution and the guarantees given to honsty and thrift. ' Emplorcn Also Accused. "Scarcely had the horror of his state ment passed from his hearers when a man, bearing the marks of honesty, who for 40 years-had dealt with the lien of organized labor and dealt fairly with them, came on the stand. He said he knew labor organizations violated contracts at times, but that for every contract violated by the men, ten con tracts had been violated by organiza tions of employers, his associates. " 'What I am opposed to,' he testified. Is the coming In of outside agitators.' "He was asked to pass on what was violence to law and order and who were undesirable agitators. He held to his views as deliberately and as coolly as the young man who would blow up the Courthouse to gain a single strike. "What safeguards have we more im portant : than those when safeguard human rights and human happiness? My property is no good to me unless I have the basic right of human free dom." facts Concern Commission. "We are concerned," Mr. Walsh as serted, "in the fact that thousands of people today are occupying cold and dismal camps because of an effort, wise or unwise, to better their condi tion. We are concerned, too, in the destruction of millions of dollars' worth of the primal products of the earth. But we are more concerned with the breakdown of the balance of power, that control, which the state was sup posed to exercise. We may get rid of the sores, but what . of the courts, beirg a by word and a hissing of the Constitution?" "I look hopefully to the future," he concluded; "to an Intelligent electorate more and more taking into its own bands that which Is- really Its own affair." TRADE BALANCE INCREASES Amount In Favor of United States Iast Week Is $27,028,263. WASHINGTON. Dec 22. Reports made public tonight on imports and exports at the 13 customs districts handling 86 per cent of the Nation's foreign trade showed a balance in favor of the United States the week ending September 19 of $27,028,263, an increase of approximately $7,000,000 over the balance for the previous week. The aggregate favorable balance for the three weeks of December was- $69, 870,091. Exports for the week of December amounted to $49,440,242 and Imports totaled $22,411,979. During the week ending December 7 exports were $46, 417,932; imports, $24,428,446. From No vember 30 to December 19 exports to taled $141,678,800. as against $71,808, 309 in imports. Cotton exports for the week of De cember 19 amounted to 286,315 bales. SLAYER OF 2 SURRENDERS West Virginia Fugitive Near Col ' lapse From Exposure. CHARLESTON, W. Va, Dec 22. In a state of collapse from fatigue and exposure. Mat Jarrell, alleged slayer of a. Deputy Sheriff and a 9-year-old boy at Oakley last night, surrendered late today to the authorities of Boone County and was placed In Jail at Madison. Deputy Sheriff Nance was killed in stantly in a revolver duel with Jarrell, whom he attempted to arrest for drunkenness. Bullets from Jarrell'a re volver struck Henry Ratcllffe, 9 years old; Mrs. Josephine Wines and Belle Adams. Ratcliffe died -today. The women are wounded seriously. .Tarrell, sentenced to serve six months for "pistol toting," was paroled recently by Governor Hatfield. GIRLS FIGHT WITH SLAYER (Continued From First Ta - 111. He was released from the police t-tockadc, where he served a brief term for larceny, only three weeks ago. Ox tiam said his father was a minister in Han Francisco just before the fire of 1906. Later he was pastor of a Method ist church at San Diego, after which lie went to Birmingham, where he is bald to have died a year ago. Youth Carries I. W. W. Card. The boy has been here only a short time and said he had known Witt, who admitted planning the robbery of the Alexander home, only since last l-'rlday. Witt carries a card of the In dustrial ! Workers of the World and Oxnam ssid that wnlle both were at tndinr a street meeting on the eat side of the city last night the elder man proposed the robbery. "We - entered the Alexander home through a side window," said Oxnam, in his statement to the police tonight. "One of us made a noise which aroused Mrs. Alexander. She thought it was her son and called his name.- Then Mr. Alexander . got up and turned on the lights. 1 drew a revolver. He shot. Then I shot. His bullet struck me in the leg. My first bullet struck his father, who fell. I fired a second bul let, which seemed to hit young Alex ander. Then I ran." Witt entered the rooms as Oxnam disappeared. Young Alexander grap pled with him and they fought their way out into the hall, where the two Alexander girls came on them. The girls entered the fray and were beating Witt with their hairbrushes and trying to prevent his escape when Oxnam ap peared. One of the girls hit Oxnam several times on the head. On entering the Alexander home the two burglars removed their shoes. These were found by detectives later. Oxnam returned to his room at an apartment-house in Temple street. Witt followed, arflvlngat the room about 2 o'clock. A woman, observing his un shod and battered" condition, reported to the police' and within half an hour they were under arrest as confessed burglars and. murderers. Witt Is held under a charge of murder because he confessed to planning the crime and was with Oxnam when Mr. Alexander was killed. LEASING PLAN OPPOSED COLORADOA5S SAT WEST NEEDS TAXES FOR DEVELOPMENT. Private Ownership of Water Power De clared Best System Cor Develop ment of Resources. WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Governor Ammons and Governor-elect Carlson, of Colorado, appeared today before ' the Senate public lands commission to op pose the passage of the pending water power site leasing bill, public hearings on which will be concluded by the com mittee tomorrow. Governor Ammons attacked the prin cipal of lease holding, on which water power, as well as coal and other non precious mineral lands, would be opened to development under the legis lative programme recommended by Sec retary Lane and indorsed by President Wilson in his last message to Congress. He declared this policy would deprive the public lands states of the West of the taxes with which to build them selves up. Vast portions of ' those states, he said, were held by the Gov ernment and under a leasing system only the Federal Government would profit by their development: The Governor Insisted there was danger either of the exhaustion of coal or the monopoly of the water power if the states were left to care for the regulation of their industries. Colo rado alone, he added,, had sufficient coal to supply the world for 300 years at Its present rate of consumption. The policy under which Govern mental departments have dealt with the resources of the Western states for years was attacked by the Governor as unfair and unjust. Any new measures which might be enacted, he declared, should provide that at least 50 per cent of the revenues from these resources should go to the state Involved. Mr. Carlson agreed with all Governor Ammons said and added that many years of experience had shown con clusively that private ownership was the only system under which the re sources of the West could be developed. What the West needed, he said, was liberal laws and regulations that would encourage settlement. Vote on Hobson Resolution in House in Detail. For the Resolution. Democrats Abercromble, A dam son, Aiken, Alexander. Baker. Earkley. Bell (Ga.), Borchers. Borland, Brodbeck, Burnett Byrnes (S. C). Byrns (Tenn.). Candler (Mlss-I. Caraway. Carr, Carter, Clark (Fla.), Collier. Connelly (Kan.), Crisp, Decker, Dietrick. I)ershem. Dickinson, Difenderter, Doollttle. Evans, Falson. Ferguson. Ferris, Fields. Finley, Flood. Floyd, Foster, Fowler, Francis. Garrett (Tex.). Glass, Godwin, GudKer. Hamlin. Harrison, Hay, Hayden, Helm. Helvering, Hensley, Hobson, Holland, Houston. Howard. Hoxworth, Hughes (Ga.), Hull. Humphreys (Miss.), Jacoway, Johnson (Ky.). Johnson (S. C). Jones, Keating. Kindel, Klrkpatrick. Kltchln, Lever, Lewis (Md.). Lloyd.- McKellar, Moon. Murray, Neeley (W. Va.). O'Halr. Oldfield, Padgett. Page (N. G). Park. Post. Quln. Ragsdale, Ralney, Raker. Rubey, Rucker. Russell, Saunders, Seldomrldge, Shackleford, Sims, Slsson. Smith (Md.). Smith (Tex.), Spark man, stcdman. Stephens (Miss.), Stephens (Tex.). Stout. Taggart. Tavenner, Taylor (Ala.), Taylor (Ark.). Taylor (Colo.), Thomas. Thompson (Okla.). Trlbble, Walker, Watkins. Watson. Weaver. Webb. Whaley, White, wingo. Tounp (Tex.) total, 114. Republicans Anderson, Anthony, Austin, Avis. Burton. Burke (S. D.). Butler, Camp bell. Cram ton. Dillon. Dunn. Farr, Fess, Fordney. French. Good. Green (la.). Griest, Hamilton (Mich.). Hamilton (N. T.), Haugen, Hawley. Helresen, Hinds, Humph rey (Wash.). Johnson (Wash.). Kelster. Keller (Mich.), Kennedy (la.). Kless (Pa.), Klnkald (Neb.). Krelder, La Follette, Lang ham, Langley, Lindbergh, Llndquist, McKen. si. McLaughlin, Mapes, Mondell. Morgan (Okla.). Moss (W.Va.). Nelson. Norton. Pat ton (Pa.). Peters. Plumley. Powers, prouty. Sells. Shreve. Slnnott. slemp, 'Sloan, Kmita (Ida.). J. M. C. Smith. Samuel W. Smith. Steenerson. Sutherland. Swltzer. Towner. Volstead. Wallin. Willis, Woods, 'Young (N. D.) total. 63. Progressives Bryan. Falconer, Hlnebaugh, Hnllngs. Kelly (Pa.). Lewis (Pa.), McDon ald (Mich.), Runley. Thomson (111.), Wallers, Woodruff total. 11. Progressive Republicans Bell (Cal.), CoDley (111.), Lafferty, Stephens. (Cal) total. 4. Grand total for resolution. 19T. Against the Resolution. Democrats Adair. Allen, Aswell, Bailay, Barn hart. Bartlett, Bathrlck, Beakes, Blackmon, Booher, Bowdle, Brockson, Broussard. Brown (N. Y.), Bruckner, fiu ohanan (111.). Buchanan (Tex.), Bulkrey, Burgess, Burke (Wis.), Callaway, Cantor, Cantrill. Cary. Carlln. Casey, Church, Clancy. Cllne. Coady. Conry. Cox, Crosser, Cullop. Dale. Dent. Dies. Dixon, Donohoe, Donovan. Doollng, Doremus. Dupre, Dris coll. Bagan. Kagle. Hstopfnal. Fitzgerald. Fits Henry. Gallagher. - Gallivan, Gard, Gamer, George. Gerry, Gill, Gllmore, Goeke, Goldfogle. Gordon. Goulden, Graham (HI.), Gray. Griffin. HamllL Hammond, Hardy, Hart. Heflin. Henry, Hill, Igoe, Kennedy (Conn.), Kettner. Key (O.). Kinkead (N. J.), Korbly. Lazaro, Lee (Ga.). Lee (Pa.), Lesheri Levy. Lleb. Ltnthlcum. Lobeck, Loft. Lonerran.. McAndrews. McGlllicuddy. Magulre (Neh.). Mahan. Maher, Mitchell. Montague. More an (La.), Morrison, Moss (Ind.). Mulkey. O'Brien. Oglesby, O'Leary. O'Shaughencssv. Palm. Patten (N. Y.), Peterson. Phelan. Pou. Price, Rauch, Ray burn. Reed. ReJIly (Conn.). Rellly (Wis.), Riordan. Rouse. Sabath. Scully, Sherley, Sherwood. Slavden. Smith (N. Y-), Stanley, Stephens (Neb.). Stevens (N. H.), Stone, Stringer, Sumners, Talbott (Md. ), Talcott (N. Y.). Thacher. Tuttle. Underhill, Under wood, Vaughan. Vinson, Vollmer, Walsh, Whltacre. Williams. Wilson (N. Y.), Wlther spoon total, 141. " Republicans Barchfeld. Bartholdt, Brit ten. Browne (Wis.), Browning, Calder, Cary, Cooper, Curry. Danforth, Davis, Drukker, Edmonds. Each. Frear. Gardner, Giliett, Greene (Mass.). Grone (Vt.), Hayes, Howell, Johnson (Utah), Kahn. Kennedy (R. I.). Knowland. Lenroot. Madden. Manahan, Mann. Miller. Moore. Morln. Mott. Parker (N. J.). Parker (N. Y.). Piatt. Porter, Rob erts (Mans.). Roberts (Nev.), Rogers, Scott, Smith (Minn.). Stafford. Stevens (Minn.), Treadwav. Winslow total. 46. Independent Kent 1. Progressive Chandler (JT. Y.) 1. - Grand total against the resolution, 189. Manila Knows of Xo Uprising. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Governor General Harrison, of the Philippines, cabled the War Department today that "no foundation whatever" was known In Manila for published reports of a threatened Filipino uprising. DRY" RESOLUTION DEFEATED ROUS E Hobson Amendment Has Ma jority, but Fails of Two Thirds Necessary. VOTE IS TAKEN AT NIGHT Votes on Several Amendments Pre ' cede Final Decision Qualifica tions of Members Left to Own Consciences. (Continued From First Page.) galleries. Speaker Clark repeatedly ad monished the spectators to maintain order. Lack of Two-Thirds Conceded. Although advocates of the Hobson resolution freely predicted that It would receive a majority vote, many of them. Including Mr. Hobson, had conceded at the start that the resolution would not receive the two-thirds vote necessary for its adoption. . Before the final roll call, Representa tive Hobson presented an amendment, which was adopted, giving- to "the Congress and the states concurrently" the power to enforce the prohibition by needful legislation. An amendment offered by Repre sentative Adamson to give the states absolute control of prohibition under the proposed prohibition amendment was voted down on a rising vote, 179 to 32. Mann's Amendment Defeated. Representative Mann presented an amendment to submit the prohibition amendment to conventions to be called for that purpose. He argued that by this plan the members of the conven tions would be elected on the direct issue and the question would be brought more directly before the peo ple than if it was submitted to the state Legislatures. Representative Hobson opposed this. declaring it would "place obstacles in the way of the adoption of the amendment." This amendment was defeated, 137 to 193, on a rising vote. On a rollcall the resolution was declared defeated by a vote of 176 to 210. The advocates of the Hobson resolution generally lined ifp against the amendment. "Absolute Prohibition'' Rejected. Another amendment presented by Representative Mann proposed abso lute prohibition of the "manufacture, transportation, importation -and sale of Intoxicating liquors for any purpose." "If we are to have prohibition," Mr. Mann said, "let us have prohibition that will prohibit." The . amendment was defeated on a rising vote, 209 to 77, after a sharp exchange between Mann and Hobson. Representative Morrison's substi tute to prohibit interstate commerce in Intoxicating liquors was defeated, 213 to 41. As a vote was ordered on the resolu tion Itself, Representative Hobson made a final dramatic move. liobson'a Final Move Dramatic. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "I wish to ask whether any member of this House who has a financial interest In the question now pending, who owns stock in distilleries or breweries, who owns a saloon or who has property leased to liquor Interests, can under the rules vote on this question?" The Speaker explained that the precedents held that if a member was affected as one of a class, the rule would not prevent his voting, but that such questions were usually left to the member himself. Representative Henry. 6f Texas, opened the debate by saying he would vote for the rule but against the reso lution. Argument against the rule and against the resolution was made by Representative Cantrill, of Kentucky. "I think this is the most intemper ate measure that has come before the House for years," he said. Representative Hobson, author of the resolution, spoke supporting the rule. He said more than 6,000,000 people had petitioned Congress for the submission of the amendment. "If the details of this resolution are not satisfactory," he said, "let us amend it. What we seek Is a scientific remedy for a deep-seated scientific organic dis ease. We see a disease which is de bauching our youth, through the Na tional organized liquor traffic, in its search for profits. And we seek a rem edy." Long Fight Predicted. , Representative Pou, of North Caro lina, speaking against the rule, said: "I believe we are lighting the fires of a controversy which will burn In this country for a generation. In my Judgment, there is not a man now in this hall who will be alive when the last state ratifies this amendment." Mr. Pou said he favored prohibition, "but believed the state Is the largest efficient unit in the enforcement of a prohibition law." Representative Kent, of California, argued that the states were competent to deal with the question without Fed eral Interference. Representative Underwood said the Democratic leadership -In the House was in favor of meeting the issue with a vote. "This Is not a temperance question," he said. "It never has been. Prohibi tion has not produced temperance In the lands where it has been tried. I regard this question as an attaok on the fundamental principles of our Gov ernment. If it is allowed to go on with out being met, it will mislead many of the people. If allowed to proceed with out being combated, the day may come when it may be a serious menace to the principles of government which you and I believe In. When the time comes to face a great question, there Is but one way to face it. That is In the open. Tou cannot push It aside. Qorstlon Faced la Open. "If you are right you should have the courage of your convictions and Btand for the right. Therefore, I say to the members who, like myself, are opposed to this resolution, it is not only your right, but vour duty, to face the question in the open and give the rea sons why we believe It should not be written Into the fundamental law of the land." He declared he favored county option and that the plan had worked in Ala bama. "I cannot commit myself," he said, "to a proposal to rob the individual states of police powers guaranteed them under the Constitution." Mr. Underwood declared prohibition would cost $325,000,000 in lost revenue, and paid that in Georgia, with state wide prohibition, there was as much liqnor consumed as in Alabama. "Bootlegging, they say, is the great est evil of the liquor traffic," he de clared. "In prohibition Georgia there were 800 cases of bootlegging last year; In non-prohibition Alabama' only 300. Prohibition does not -prohibit." Effectiveness of Law Denied. "Representative Kahn, of California, opposed the amendment. "You cannot accomplish by law what Christ came on earth to do," he said. "You cannot put good Into the hearts of men by writing words on the statute books to be- enforced by the club of Government authority." Representative Vollmer. of Iowa, de clared the prohibition movement was a "wave of hysteria" and that the amendment would destroy ?4,000,000,- 000 worth of property. "These people denounce all who make liquor," . he said, "forgetting George Washington, the brewer; Thomas Jef ferson, the distiller; Abraham Lincoln, the barkeeper, and even Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who. according to my Bi ble, turned water into wine at a wed ding. And that wine was not grape Juice, for it was made to add to the festivity of that occasion and grape Juice would havo given little satisfac tion to those wedding guests, who were used to something with a stick In it Grape Juice never added anything to a wedding or wake." . Right of States Asserted. ' Representative Henry declared that during the debate preceding the pass age of the Webb bill to prevent the use of Interstate commerce for eva Elon of ' the state psohibitlon laws, pro hibition leaders urged the retention of the police powers of the various states. "This question is one which must be left to the individual state," Mr. Henry said "and I venture to predict that after this amendment Is voted on here today the question of prohibition will not appear on the floor as a National Issue for 20" years. I love my country, but I will never support a constitu tional amendment that will send a horde of Federal spies, satraps and In termeddlers Into Texas." Representative Heflin, of Alabama, referred to the success of state con trol of liquor traffic in Alabama and argued vigorously against rendering to the Federal Government the re served powers of the states. Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri,- defended the saloon as an insti tution, declaring that he knew of sa loons "where a gentleman would not hesitate to take his wife and daugh ters." "Liquor is charged with all the ills to which humanity is heir," he said. "The charge is not true." Other Causes of Kvtl Mentioned. He presented figures and authorities designed to show that other causes were to blame for a large -share of poverty and crime. "You cannot cure the demand for drink by cutting off the supply," he' said. "If all the liquors in the country Were destroyed the demand would force men to make their own spirituous liquors." Representative Gordon, of Ohio, said: "The people of Ohio are better able to settle the liquor question for them selves than the people of all the other states are able to settle it for Ohio." "Talk about protecting state rights," said Representative Qulnn. of Mis sissippi; "what we want to do is to pro tect the rights of society. The question is whether you will stand with all tne forces cf evil or whether you will Join those who are trying to aid the prog ress of civilization." Representative Seldomrldge. of Colo rado, advocating the amendment, warned members that they would be confronted by .their votes on prohibition in the campaign of 1916. "The liquor question," he said, "Is no longer a religious question. It is now a political and economical problem." State's Rights Waived by Texan. Representative Garrett, of Texas, as serted that even as an ardent supporter of states' rights., he was willing for Texas to giv? up the right to manu facture and sell liquor. "We are willing to Join you people of the North to destroy the liquor traffic, and yet you raise the question of state rights. Every man who goes into the liquor business goes in it with full knowledge the state reserves the right to stop his business." said he. Mr. Mann indorsed the argument that any further surrender of police power by the states to the Federal Govern ment would be dangeroua. He argueii that the enforcement of National pro hibition would necessitate "an army of Government spies, with every town ship Tn the country under surveil lance." Representative Morrison, of Indiana, kept the House in an uproar of ap- plause and daughter with a speech sup porting a substitute which he offered to the Hobson resolution to prohibit the shipment of liquor into any state. Indiana Drinker for Resolution. "They'll tell you that everybody who opposes the Hobson resolution Is a bad man, and everyone who supports It Is a good man," he-sal. . "Do you be lieve It? There are 13 men in the In diana delegation who will vote against this resolution, and I can point out to you one man who will . support the Hobson resolution who drinks more liquor in 12 days than those men do in 12 years. "I've been In fights before against the combined opposition of the distil lers and the rum sellers and the Na tional Prohibitionists. If they are both against you, you may be sure you are right, but if they are both for you, you can be sure you're wrong." "I won't say there was co-operation between these two elements in getting this resolution before the House, but 1 will say that there was a most sus picious contemporaneousness of parallel activities of these two organizations, seeking, not a common, but the same result." Representative Hobson took the floor shortly before 9 o'clock' to make 'the concluding speech in support of the amendment. He argued particularly against the Morrison amendment, as serting that Congress already had all of the authority which that .measure sought to confer. States to Have Final Decision. Mr. Hobson declared the supporters of the resolution were more consistent than its opponents in their attitude toward the rights of the Individual states. , "We believe that the voters of the states of this Nation," he said, "have the right as well as the wisdom to settle this question of National prohi bition. We propose to let the states themselves settle it." He declared the loss of revenue fol lowing prohibition would be Immaterial In comparison to the economic gain that would result. - Replying to a speech of Representative Heflin, who had declared that Hobson had been de feated by Underwood on a prohibition issue, in the recent Senate primary campaign in Alabama, Mr. Hobson as serted that Underwood "did not fight alone"; that the liquor Interests, "Wall Street" and the Administration forces "all endeavored to beat Hobson." In conclusion Representative Hobson declared that, although the resolution might not secure the necessary two thirds vote in this Congress or the next, prohibition would be made a National issue in 1916 campaign. "We will have an Administration that will not oppose this amendment either In the open or under cover,"' he said. Smith of Idaho and Bryan of Wash ington spoke in favor of the resolution In the course of the debate. LIQUOR SHIPMENT STAYED Webb-Kenyon. Law to Be Tested In " West Virginia Case. . MORGfcANTOWN, W. Va.. Dec. 22. Judge Sturglss in the Circuit Court to day Issued injunctions restraining the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Wells-Fargo Express Company from delivering in West Virginia shipments of intoxicating liquor originating out side the state." The decision Is based on thcWebb Kenyon Federal act and the Tost state wide prohibition law. Announcement was made that the case will be carried to the Supreme Court. 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J2 cait $ 6.00 $ 2.79 3 Sets Conquest of Peru, 2 vol umes. Yz calf $ 4.00 $ 2.19 2 Sets Rise of the Dutch Re public, 3 volumes $ 6.00 $ 5 Sets Ferdinand and Isa bella, 3 volumes .$ 2.95 6.00 $ 2.95 Ncuaniae Floor. man Merckanci.o Tc7 Merit Onfe CHURCHES NOT SPARED BRITONS HEPLT TO GERMAN JUSTI. FICATIOX OF BOMBARDMENT. Embassy Also Says Reasonable Time Was Not Given, as Provide (or by Convention of The Hague. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. The British Embassy today Issued the following statement: "The military attache of the German Kmbassy has justified the killing: of women and children by the Imperial German navy, at Scarborough and Whitby, on the ground that these places were defended within the meaning; of The Hague convention (IX, 1907). "Even were they defended, the con vention prescribes 'a reasonable time for waiting and due regard for sacred edifices and historic monuments. 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Is for warding to the Catholic bishops in the belligerent countries the Pope's In structions regarding prisoners of war. Included in these instructions is an ad monition that assistance must be given, to prisoners Irrespective of their re ligion, nationality or language. Buenos Aires province. Argentina, hu . 03S.2GO acres sown to wheat. Christmas Dinner will be admirably served here on Christmas day All of the old-time viands will be eaten--all of the old-time traditions observed $1.50 five-thirty to eight Jane Burns Albert ft John Claire Monteith will sing Music by the Portland Hotel Orchestra, directed by Herr Waldemar Lind, The Portland Hotel C. J. Kaufmann. Manager I