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THE MOIIXIXG OKEGOMAX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919. WTHDRAWA RDM LF RUSSIA PREDICTED American Policy Subject of Heated Debate in Senate. CALIFORNIAN WAGES FIGHT Immediate Action on Resolution Fa voring Recalling Troops Is De manded by Senator Johnson. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Prediction that the proposed conference at Princes Island between representatives of the victorious associated nations anl the various contending" Russian factions would result in an agreement for with drawal from Russia of American and allied, troops, was made in the senate today by Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the foreign relations committee, dur ing another spirited debate on the American policy towards Russia. Senator Hitchcock said he believed ell the foreign expedtions in Russia would "come out together" under an agreement with the Russian represent atives which would prevent "butchery" of troops left in Russia. Discussion of the Russian situation was opened by Senator Johnson of Cali fornia, republican, who asked for im mediate action on his resolution, which would put the senate on record as fa voring withdrawal of the American Russian expedition as soon as practi cable. Jobnson to Continue Fight. After vehement argument and clashes ' between Senators Hitchcock and John eon, objection by the former to an im mediate vote sent the resolution to the calendar with a majority vote neces sary for its further corslderation. Senator Johnson declared tonight after the senate had adjourned that he woirld continue his fight daily until Congress adjourns March 4 by intro ducing new resolutions. During the day's debate, the sharpest of many months in the senate, Repub lical Leader Lodge and Senator Lewis of Illinois, democratic whip, differed regarding ttie statement of Premier Lloyd Gedrg to parliament yesterday that the American government had re fused to send more troops to Russia. Senator Lodge said the premier's an nouncement apparently was authentic and was the first definite statement as to the American policy, while Sen ator Lewis insisted that Mr. Lloyd Georpe was divulging the decision of the supreme' war council and not mere ly the American policy. American Policy Attacked. In asking immediate consideration of his resolution. Senator Johnson made another impassioned attack on the pol icy of American intervention in Rus sia, denouncing it is "unusual, vicious and criminal." Disclaiming sympathy with the bolshevik government and denouncing their atrocities, Senator Johnson resented a suggestion from Senator Hitchcock that he acted as a "champion" of the bolshevik element in Russia. Senator Hitchcock made his refer ence in presenting the friendly mes sage sent by President Wilson to the soviet government and the reply, whicrf Senator Hitchcock denounced as ""prac tically and insult." Defending American intervention in Russia. Senator Hitchcock said it was an anti-German military move agreed urn with the allied governments. He asserted that the Johnson resolution would not expedite withdrawal of the American forces and favored its ref erence to the foreign relations com mittee. Johnston Makes Charge. Senator Johnson charged that his original resolution, introduced last De cember, asking for an official state ment of the American policy regard ing Russia had been "bottled up" in the foreign relations committee. Sen ator Hitchcock denied this and Sen . ator Lodge supported him in the state ment that this resolution has been carefully considered, but that a ma Jority of ihe committee opposed report ing it to the senate. Some time after the Johnson resolu tion was sent to the calendar Senator Lewis revived the subject, deploring an impression which he said might be gained by Senator Lodge's comment on Premier" rnoyd George's statement. AMERICAN FORCES ARRIVE Bolshevists Abandon Offensive Be fore Increased Opposition. ARCHANGEL, Feb. 12. (By the As sociated Press.) American reinforce ments, marching over 30 miles of a for est trail, reached the hard-pressed Brit ish and Russians in the region of Sedmakrenga yesterday. The result was that the bolsheviki. who had been launching strong attacks in this re gion, retired to the southward, appar ently abandoning their offensive move ment. The bolsheviki evidently feared that they would be cut off in the year and withdrew before the Americans reached Sredmakrenga. Conditions on other sectors of the norttiern Russian front were un changed today, following the infantry operation and an attack by the bolshe viki against Kadisli on Tuesday after noon, which was brilliantly repulsed. An official statement regarding the Kadish fighting says: ."On Tuesday afternoon we gallantly repulsed a strong bolshevik attack against Kadish. The situation is con sidered more satisfactory." LONDON. Feb. 13. The bolsheviki fighting the allies in the northern sec-" tions comprise 37,000 men with 151 ma chine guns, 66 field guns and nine six inch guns, according to a statement from authoritative quarters here. An attempt is being made to stand ardize the organization and equipment of the soviet armies and schools for of ficers and aviators have been opened. General Veteritis, a Lett, has been appointed commander of the soviet ar mies. The bread ration of the troops'' has been reduced from jUwo pounds to one pound daily, the information shows, and there are other indications that the bolsheviki are suffering from a food shortage. END BOLSHEVISM KADISH SITUATION IMPROVES Bolshevik Forces Driven Back Six Miles, Says Statement. LONDON, Feb. 1. (British wireless service.) The situation at Kadish, on the Archam?el front is more satisfac tory for the moment, according to an official statement Issued today by the British war office. On February 10. it is added, the allied forces drove S00 bolsheviki back six miles. The statement reads: "After a bolshevik attack on Sred makrenga. 100 miles south of the city of Archangel, on February 10. a com bined attack was carried out by the allied forces and the enemy, number ing some 800. was driven back to po sitions six miles south of Sredma krenga. "The enemy attacked in strong force on the afternoon of February 11 on the Kadish sector. The attack, which was made in freezing mercury, is con- ldered to have been repulsed most ef icientiy and the situation Js considered for the moment more satisfactory." MENACE, IS" SEEN IN RUSSIA Senator Huston Would 'Withdraw Troops or Send More. EUGENE. Or., Feb. 13. (Special.) American troop3 in Russia should either be withdrawn at once or given the sup port necessary to. protect them from annihilation. Senator S. B. Huston of Portland told the Lane county republic ans who gathered around the table here last evening at a rally and me morial dinner for Abraham ' Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. "I grant you' Senator Huston said, that there may be two sides to the question of the presence of the Ameri can troops in Russia. Perhaps thev should be left. Perhaps they should be taken away. But if we are to leave hem there to .fight the. battles of civilization, for God's sake let'e give em the support and the backing thesr need to save them from annihilation at the hands of a foe that is overwhelm ingly superior in numbers." representing tne women or the re publican party in Oregon, many of whom were present at the dinner. Mrs. George McMath of Portland pressed home the conviction that the need of the United States today, is a republic- n president, a republican cabinet and republican congress. 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Committee AVants City-Connty Con solidation BUI to Pass or Die in Present Form. Requests made by members of the Multnomah " county legislative delega tion, -that amendments be submitted to the proposed constitutional amendment, now before the legislature, enabliner the consolidation of the city of Port land and Multnomah county, were de nied by members of the consolidated committee, which met at the city hall ast night. That the present bill either should meet with success or be killed in Us present form was the expressed sen timent ot the meeting. Members of the Multnomah county delegation, ac cording to City Commissioner Barbur, chairman of the committee, seek to have one amendment, which will enable the taxpayers outside the corporate limits of the city first to vote on the measure, and if it is approved by them. allow the voters in Portland to pass on the measure. Commissioner Barbur stated that with the taxpayers of the city paying 93 per cent of all the tax money paid into the county, it would not be fair to allow the taxpayers who were paying but 7 per cent of the entire taxation to have the full opportunity to kill the bill. Members of the committee were not optimistic over the fate of the present act in the hands of the legislature, but expressed themselves in hearty favor of placing the bill before the people by the referendum in the event that the act is not submitted by the legislature. C0RVALLIS DRUGGIST LOSES Stranger Makes Purchases W Ith Worthless Check. CORVALLIS. Or.. Feb. 13.' (Special.) A smooth stranger arrived in Corval- lis today and bilked the Graham & Wortham drug. store out of J10 via the worthless check route. And this in spite of the fact that drug stores were prepared for the man. having been warned a few days ago by the police to be on the lookout for him. They were told that the check artist posed as a doctor and that he was a drug fiend that he would purchase cocaine and opium. The stranger was running true to form. Mr. Graham was not suspicious 'till the professional-looking man had left the store. He telephoned for the police. The man had been to John AIlen'B drug store, made some purchases, went' out without paying for them, leaving them on the counter, saying he would return. The police are there waiting for him, to return. Relatively Small Entente I'orce, Is Contended, "Would Be Suf ficient lor Task. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT. (Copyright by the Kevr York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) PARIS, Feb. 13. (Special Cable.) "I wish the Americans iiould realize what an immediate danger not only to Eu rope but their own. country lies in bol shevism in Russia. There is not a moment to be lost. If it is not stamped out at once inside Russia, in Moscow itself, its headquarters, it will inev itably ' spread to the other, countries and to your country." The Grand Cuke Alexander of Rus sia spoke with the earnestness of con viction in his room at the hotel Ritz. In the middle 40s, 6 feet 2 inches, spare and wiry of build, he is an im pressive figure. His handsome and dis tinguished face, with its high forehead, straight, slender noe, hazel eyes and brown peaked beard, lacks the high, broad cheekbones frequently character istic of the Russian. He spoke very simply and sincerely jn fluent English. Anarchy Destroying; Roasla. "If only the present anarchy which is destroying Russia can be stamped out, I do not care what kind of govern ment the Russian people wish ' to adopt. Let them have a republic by all means f they choose. But the one im perative thing is to crush this bolshe vism, which is not the political philoso phy, which it pretends to be, but merely organized pillage and assassination by anarchists and thousands of liberated criminals. "You know they have now actually socialized the women in many district, force them to be. the common property of the men of the community and plan to have the state raise the children. ' Small Army Sufficient. "It would not take an allied army of more than 80,000 men to give us all the support we need to liberate Moscow. These men should not be asked to fight. It is better anyway that none but Russians shall do the fighting nec essary to liberate Russia. All the al-' lied army would be used for would be to prove the allied support, and thus encourage the Russians to join our ranks and to advance in the rear of the Russian army of liberation, pro tect the lines of communication and po lice the regained territory. "Why should the Russian population be more disposed now to rise in aid-of an anti-bolshevik army than it was when General Alexieff and others vain ly counted on their help?" "Because when General Alexieff and the others made their attempts to free Russia the bolsheviki had just com pleted . the distribution of. the land among the peasants, and these were satisfied with a regime which gave them the land. But since then things have changed. The peasants still hold the land which the bolsheviki distrib uted among them, but the bolshevists have now socialized the product of this land. Peasant Ripe for Revolt. "For instance, if a peasant raises a pig on his land and takes it to market to sell it the bolshevik local authorities step in, take from him the price he gets for his pig and divide it between him and the neighboring peasants who have no pigs to sell. So the more industrious peasants have become dissatisfied. "Yes, they are ripe to join any Rus sian movement which guarantees them the retention of the land and promises them the ownership of its fruits. "Of course it is true that Russia With the land thus distributed 'will for some years lack the productiveness of the Russia of the old landlord system, for in the past it has been demonstrated that an acre of land belonging to the holdings of a big landlord produced a lot more than an adjoining acre of simi lar land cultivated by a small peasant proprietor. This is because the peas ant does not use the improved machin ery and methods of the big landowner. Time May Brins; Chancre. "Nevertheless, in time this may change. In Siberia, for instance, where the more progressive and energetic peasants emigrated to get land and where the land is equally divided, the production is good and the population has killed or driven out the bolsheviki and is running an orderly government of its own. "And not only the agriculturists are disaffected. Do you know that they have socialized all the houses tot a value of more than 1008 rubles That means that any man having such a house has all the rooms in it-taken away frq,m him except what he and his family can be crowded into, and the rest of the house is handed over to the tramps and criminals who have no houses of their own "Then another reason that will make our success sure is the number of offi cers and bourgeois soldiers in the bol shevik army who will come over to us if they have any chance. "The bolsheviki, by their four-class feeding system, have actually forced these loyal men into joining their ranks to save their families from complete starvation, since the soldiers and work men who are in the first of these four classes are the only ones who are al lowed a decent ration of food for their families." 500 Silk. "Waists $2.95 A Sale - Smart new models of crepe de chine, made in tailored styles. 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OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. 13. C, Feb. 13. Representative Sinnott has been advised of the grant ing of a pension of $25 a month to Mrs. Emma S. Elgin, 315 Crosby street, Pen dleton. Or. Mrs. Elgin is the widow of Grandlson T. Elgin, second lieutenant of company A. 1st Texas cavalry. GUARD PLACED AT SCHOOL One of 2 5 Denver Institutions Closed by Strike Opened. DENVER. Feb.- IS. With deputy sheriffs guarding the boiler room, the West Side high school opened its doors today, the only one of the 25 public schools of the city closed by the strike of stationary engineers last Monday to resume sessions. Members of the school board ex plained that the deputies had been sta tioned, to prevent interference with sub stitute engineers hired to replace the strikers, BOEAKUPACOLDTABLETS A PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR Spanish influenza Get a box, take on a tablet every four hours and two on going to bed. Drink plenty of water. 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