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TIIE SIOItXIXG OHEG0XIAX. TUESDAY, FEUEUARY 1?, 1913. " SENATE DEBATES RAILROAD BILL Enactment of Administration Measure Urged by Senator Smith in Speech. FEW SENATORS PRESENT 3lany IIa Annoanrrd Intention of iH.icaMlBff Protlkn of BUI and .Leadm Admit Vote- Cannot Be JXcarhcd Before March 1. "ASntNOTOX. Feb. 11. Enactment ef th Administration railroad bill with as little delay as poiol b'ii of 111 irrportanca a a war measure and lt relation to the financial problems, waa vrd by Chairman mita. of the In terstate eornmerv. roramlttn. today, -wbaa consideration of tba measure be 4a la toe tnat. rebate of the bitl opened with but few Senator in their seat.. Many, owear. bar announced their Inten tions f disusnsr the measure and Adfninltralnn leaders admit that th Trot, will not ba reached before tba and of tba monk. RavdXal rHM Isaperotr.. Senator rmlth renewed th various atep taken to meet lit transportation situation whan tba country want to war. culminating In the Uovernment tahlna oer control of tha carrier, lie urged that tha present tima was In. opportune for an attempt to work out and correct deleft In tba transporta. lion a) Mem. Radical rhanaes. ba aOded. bar been node Imperative In order to meet tha crista and btai)M of that f't -every eereaaarjr tri.nl ef power should ba given to acrorupllen thla purpose and the power t.ma ranted should ba used itb all tha wie4ora and rare that tha eierutora and administrator of these peecra caa c i m m a n k Because of President Wilson's unex pected visit to tha Capitol and the rues or other business, the House was un able to take up the railroad bill today, Chairman firn announced ha would at tempt to ottata an aareemeat tomor row for consideration of (be measure ta beam later in tba week, probably on Thursday. Senator rnaaaala. Attache Hilt. The prorleion authortztnc the presi dent to Initial, ratea sublect to an appeal to the Interstate Commerce Com mission Senator Cummins dWared waa "bound to overthrow our rate system and plunge our business world Into chaos.' -It la utterly Impossible." he added. 1 o conceive an instance wherein a power of that hind could be properly employed. . It Is simply another evi dence of constantly Increasing Incli nation to eras? for authority and to some of as It aeems like the end of demo-racy rather than tie beginning of a;t eater freedom." The atandard of compensation pro vided la the bill was declared eacselv. av the low a Senator, who contended that under It provisions the aaarecate guaranteed operating Income amount to mora than .'. tx. Thla. he as serted. Is II :i. . more than' Is -f.ir and Just compensation. "A simple computation showa that the aggregate proposed eruarantr will aav l i per ren; per year iiwn the par value of all tha capital stork of all the railroads la tha country." aald Venator Cummins. graph dispatch from Copenhagen para. "Article seven stipulates." tha dis patch continues, "that there ahall ba mutual tickant of surplus agricul tural and Industrial products of import ance before July Jl. partly throuah tha governments concerned and partly by arena of free sale, tha details to ba arranger) by a epeclal commission. ' "Until a final agreement baa been reached and In any case for at least six months after Ih conclusion of world peaoe, economic relation between Ger many and the I'kraine ahall ba baaed on tha Kuaao-German agreements of 11 aad 104. Trade must not be hampered by export prohibltlona Transmission of goods ahall ba per mitted. Hallway traffic ahall be resumed aa soon aa possible." The version of tha Russiarannounce' ment at brest-Litorsk on the subject of peace aent by tba Central News cor respondent at Amsterdam represents Leon Trotxky, the Bolshevlkl Foreign Minister, a declaring that Russia now felt obliged to sign a separate peace and that tha state of war between Hus sion and the central powers would be deciared terminated. .Information which la apparently authorltatlva has been received In Stockholm, according to the Times cor restondent there, that the peace terms agreed to by the central powera with I'kraine provide for granting to t'krainla a considerable part of Eastern Gallcla. whether In reversion or Im mediate possession la not clear. The Jtada also 1 to receive Imme diately a Urge loan to be secured ny mineral lands for the development of which full farllittee are to be granted to the central powers. ALLIED RECOGNITION ALLEGED Kemarkable Claim Made In Official Raselan Statement. RUSSIA LONGER FACTOR IH CONTEST Nation's History During Past Three Years Succession of Dramatic War Episodes. BOLSHEVIK RULE FATAL LONTON-. Feb. 11. The remarkable statement that I-ranee and Great Britain have recognised the Ukrainian Republic and sent diplomatic representatives there la contained in an of ( icial state ment sent out by the Russian Wireless News agency and issued bare through! war for nearly a year past, Russia's While Negotiations With Germans for Peace Go Forward, Russia Spills l' Into Districts and Army Rapidly Disintegrates. Rr the Associated Prees Russia stepa formally out of the war by act' of tha Bolshevlkl government. which aeised the relna of power 1'etrograd last November and almost immediately opened peace negotiations with the central empires. The authority of this government seems vl tually unquestioned at pres ent In Northen. Russia, and the Teu tonic powera have already assured the cessation of even nominal hostilities along virtually all the remainder of the rlglnal long line in the east by signing a peace with tha Ukraine and Isolating Roumsnia. Although cutting little fig -re In the RUSSIA IS OUT OF WAR trig to a dispatch receive! here today dated Preet-Lttovsk on Sunday. The di.pati-h follows: "The President of the Russian dele gation at today's 'Sunday's! sitting stated that while Russia waa deleting from slaning a formal peace treaty. It declared the slate of war to be press bureau. The Statement occurs In tha course of a report of the proceedings at tha Brest-Latovsk conference of February I. at which K. ferruik. who apparently I tha new chairman of the Ukrainian delegation Is reported aa saying that by an act of the Ckralntan Rada on November 7. the Ukrainian Republic declared that these diplomatic re pre sentatlves had been appointed. it. Sevruik is reported to have quoted from the act passed by the Rada aa follows: "By this act Its (the Ukrainian In ttrnatlonal policy la recognised by the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers delegates, aa well aa by tha represen tatives of the fo.ir allied states, and also by the French Republic and the British Governjnent. which have ap pointed and sent diplomatic represen tatives to tha government of tba Ukrainian Peoples' Republic.' WASHINGTON". Feb.. 11. The Gov ernment here baa no knowledge of the report that France and Great Britain have recognised the Ukraine Republic and nt diplomatic represen tatives. The United Stales, aa a co- belligerent, bas not been consulted, and officials were Inclined to doubt lb report. GERMANS ANNOCNCE PEACE roll lira I. Legal. Economic Relation With I'kraine Established. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 11. A dispatch from Brest-Lltovsk via Berlin giving details of the rooferenca at which trie peace treaty between the central pow- r and the new Ukrsnlan republic waa signed has been received here. Tha dispatch follows: "It Is possible to . announce, at the beginning of the last pause Jo tha ne gotiations that the baaia for the con clusion of peace between the quadrupla alliance and the Ukrantan People'a Re public has been found. "The treaty Is entitled "A treaty of peace between Germany, Auetro-Hun-gary. Bulgaria and Turkey on on part and the Ukrainian peoplea on the other." "The preamble state that the Ukrainian people, having In course of the present world war declared Itself to be Independent and expressed a wish to restore peace between Itself and the powers at war. Russia desires to take the first step toward a lasting world's peace, honorable to all t art lea, which shall not only put an end to the horrors of war. but also lead to tha restoration of 'friendly relatione of the people In great, indeed vital, part in the conflict cornea forcibly to mind as the causes leading up to her exit are reviewed. Becoming a belligerent on August 1, 114, through Germany's declaration of war upon her, her troops were soon sweeping through East Prussia, creat ing a diversion which hampered the Germans In their first dash through Belgium and upon Paris. Raaala Rallies Quickly. Though disastrously defeated by Hlndenburg at Tannenburg, she rallied quickly and by Winter was hammer ing again at the German borders, and ber great armies, overrunning Austrian territory in Gallcla, were at the crests of the Carpathians and threatening an Invasion of Hungary. It look tha bulk of the Austrian armtee and a larg . proportion of Ger many's virtually an ntlre jars cam paigning In lrlS to break Russia's hold on Gallcla, drive her out of Poland and the lower Baltic territory and force her armies, under Grand Duke Nich olas, back to the lines of ahich He est - Litovsk. the scene of the recent peace negotlatlona, formed the keystone. Beaten back but not yet disorganized. she fought through 191b, creating havoc among the Austrian armUs in Volhynla and Oullcia and In Asia Minor, driving the Turks out of vir tually all Turkish Armenia. The opening of last year, however. found Russia under tha old bureau cratic regime, virtually at the end of her tether. Her oppressed, war-worn people were ripe for the revolution, the latent flames of which German propagandists had skillfully fanned, and In March, 117, came the crash, the deposition of Emperor Nicholas and the formation of the first provisional gov Troops Became Disaffected. The conservative element anioiee: the revolutionists first held sway, and the determination of Russia to remain in the war was frequently affirmed. In deed, under Kerensk as Minister of War, her armies In July. 1317, began an offensive in Volhynla and Gallcla, which waa in the full tide of success under General Korniloff .when the fa tal disease of disaffection among her troops, which for some time had been manifest, broke out epidemically and stopped the effort. Since August last, Russia baa figured in the great world conflict as a mill tary factor only by reason that she still held numbers of German and Austrian troops on her frontiers, awaiting the forces of disorganisation within to bring about her "final disintegration. This process, struggled against in vain by Kerensky as Premier through the Summer and early Fall of last year, was constantly accelerated by virtue of the divided authority set up at Petrograd The council of soldiers and workmen, representing the proletariat and claim' Ing virtually supreme power, systemat ically antagonized the constituted gov- ernment, clamoring for the opening of peace negotiations, and finally in iNo vember last, formally took over the power it had long in fact exercised. The rest is comparatively recent history. , Peace Negotlatlona Are Betas. Under Lenine and Trotxky an arm! tice was brought about on all Russian fronts on Pecember 4 and peace nego tiations with the central powers were opened at Brest-Litovslc on Decem ber 22. The central powers agreed to adhere to the general principles of no annexa tions, no indemnities and self-determination of peoples, ana mere was held open to the entente powers the oppor tunity of Joining in the negotiations and have them lead up to a general peace. . ,. No favor was foundor this proposi tion among the allied nations, however, the good faith of the Germans in par ticular In making this offer being doubted.4 This doubt was later found by the Russians themselves to be well founded and Germany waa charged by Trotsky with masking territorial ambitions under her specious interpret tation of the doctrine Of sell-determiua tion. Notwithstanding this, however, the negotiations were continued. Mean- while Russia was fast splitting up. DIs trlct after district declared its lndepen dence. Finland and Poland being the notable examples. The Ukraine opened separate negotta tions with the central powers and these culminated last Saturday In the signing of a peace agreement. I kranlaa Peace la Wedge. The Bolshevlkl have not recognized the authority of the Ukraine to treat for itself through the representatives of the Rada. but apparently Germany and her allies saw an opening for forc ing a peace through the Insertion of the Ukrainian wedge. Whether the culmination of the Ukrainian negotiations in a peace treaty was the determining factor In inducing the Bolshevlkl to declare the state of war at an end" Is not at all clear as yet. The advices from both Russia and Germany regarding the lat er stsges of the negotiations with Trotzky and his fellow delegates to the. conference have been extremely mea-C ger. . dome Important decision regarding the situation in the East was reached by the German rulers at a recent crown council and it may be the effect of this unrevealed determination thst has shown Itself in the events of the last few days at the scene of the parleying. It has been made fairly clear,-however, that Germany had no Idea of yielding to the Bolshevlkl on the ques tion of evacuating Russian occupied territory, which had been the sticking point in the negotiations, and that she was preparing virtually to ignore the Bolshevik! as long as she could make peace with the Ukraine and secure the opening of the frontiers to the rich graingrowtng provinces controlled, even nominally, by the Ukrainians. Boundary of Republic Gives. The delineation of the western boun dary of tha Ukrainian Republic as set forth In the treaty shows that a strip of territory approximately 125 miles In length and varying in width from 'THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS BECAUSE IT SELLS FOR CASH An Out-of-the-Ordinary Sale of Exceptionally Pretty Spring Dresses A MANUFACTURER'S SAMPLE LINE COMPRISED OF MOST CHARMING NEW STYLES WILL BE PL A CED ON SALE AT ONE-THIRD LESS THAN REGULAR SELLING FIGURES. ALL PRICES ARE FROM $12.95 TO $40.00. 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ZuuuumunaunmmmmmmnmuuumuummmuummmmmmuummamuuuuuamummmMuaMJiam some (0 tniles In the south to about 45 miles in the-north portion, with a nar rowing down at one point to approxi mately 30 miles, bas been taken from the southeastern section' of Russian Poland. Comparison of the names of places at varioua points on the line as cabled from Amsterdam with the maps of the territory shows this part of the boun dary following the Galician frontier as far as Tanegrod, about 60 miles in side tha territory of Russian Poland aBd running- thence -north through Bil goray, Szczebzesyzn, Krasnostaw, Pu chaczow (19 miles east of I-ublin), Radzyn, Miendzyrcez, Sarnaki and Miel nlk fnbout 40 miles northwest of Brest- Litovsk), crossing the Bug River at the Polish boundary line about 26 miles northwest of Brest-Li to vsk and one through Wysoko-Litovsk, Kamienleo- Lltvsk and Prushany (aboat 40 miles east of Brest-Litovsk) to Wydozowsky esee (by which may be meant the re gion of Wygonowskoje, in the marshes north of Pinck). enneo wim "jermany. Austro-riungarv. . -- - . - , - - . , Turkey and Bulgaria. .,mult.n.ousIy'",', onomle and lalel- givmg neders for complete demobtllaa- I 'actual realm. tion ef Russian forcea on ail fronts.' I s-2rrr-------r tOJCPON. Feb. It A rttsp rtrhanft Telegraph from aavs "There Is great enthusiasm In Ger many over the reported end of the atate of war betweeo tiie central powera and Russia. ftarreader Called I sjeaadltiaaaL Cities everywhere are beftaaged and triers Is muci relotcing over Trouky's aincond;tional surrender. "It bas been arranged that the cen tral economic commission now In petrograd shall settle the details of the resumption of relation between Rus sia and the central pus era." l)XDON. Feb. 11. Tha peace treaty betareea the Ukraine and the central power provtdea that the ratified doc u -men is shall be exchanged In Vienna aa eon a possible, an Kvchange Tele- BOLD DECLARED INSANE BROTH K.st T.tkM TA.D IX IE. HiLK OK PRISOSKI. DELICATE GIRLS IN Business or School who have thin or in sufficient blood or are physically frail will find scorn a rich blood-food and strengthen. ing tonic It is ao helpful for delicate girls it should b a part of their regular diet. sistl a bosseo. Hoosaaeh. H. 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