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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, LI ARCH 5, 1917. HEATTHRONGS JOIN i?l PAYING TRIBUTE AT INAUGURAL CEREMONY ". ll I i l II ii i- 1 V;.v. i v'4- 'housands Silent as Oath Is : Giveni Gheefas' President Starts His Address. .:XTRA PRECAUTION-TAKEN i-eaidenfs Ant Koran Alone ol low fJo.ur of Cavalry 'With Secret j : Serrto Men uA polio About. Washington, March 6. (U. P.) At th thouaanda of apectators i -owded on tha plaza on tba eaat front titb capltol to hear tha president's Mdreaa, got beyond control of polica id Boy Bcouta. Cavalrymen from ort Myer were called upon to push xck the surging crowd. , At the last minute plana wre tanged ao that additional protection i ould b given the president as he jce down Pennsylvania avenue. ' A hollow square waa formed by a tquadrpn of the Second United States . avalry troop. Within thla movlnr rquar waa the president a automobile, a automobile Immediately behind car- lying 'secret aervice men and a acore 'Z aecret aervice men and guards, to t;ether with a chosen few newspaper men. on foot, Outside thla square were mounted and foot police. There were double line of' police from Washington and New York police forces, and special police and plain clothes men between the crowded pavements and the outer square of police. Slight Hitch Occurs. 7 President and Mrs. Wilson had been waiting in the great east room of the White -House when, at 10:52. Vice President and Mra. Marshall, the es corting delegation of senators and rep- hairman' of the inaugural committee, rrived at the White House to form an Official escort. The official escort accompanied Mr. Wilson to his carriage and the pro- As the president, with Mrs. Wilson ;eaied beside him, swung through the mansion gates,' Second cavalry bugles ' hrllled t forth- the presidential salute. Just; before that, however, a slight jltch, unnoticed by the executive, oc curred the horses on a carriage be hind the president rearing and falling. I -: Mrs. WiUon in Semi-Mourning. Back of the president swung into vin '- the carriage bearing vibe-Fresi chair as president of tha senate, and in turn administered the oath of fidel ity to 1 the incoming senators. -There were 32 senators-elect or reelected seo atora to take the oath. j , Middlaa and. Cadets March By. . Following the ceremonies in the sen ate chamber, the president, followed by the entire company, proceeded O the east portico of the capltol. where tha final swearing-in of the president was to be held. ! " A vast expanse of flag-draped atan-I completely covered the) sida of in great building. Wave after wave of applause swept the stands as 1290 midshipmen from tha United States Naval academy swung up the avenue In close forma tion. Uncle Sam e embryo admirals 40 more of them thlsli year than at President Wilson's first Inaugural were in full uniform, their reavy blue aea coats, brass buttons and white gloves presenting a striking picture. Coming abreast or the: presidential stand, tba middies saluted and received from President Wilson a cprdlal ac knowledgment, Mrs. Wilson and wives of cabinet members' waving their handkerchiefs enthusiastically. The middies were followed by the West Point cadet corps, 700 strong. In full regimental regalia. ; Their his toric gray peajacket uniforms, crossed over the chest with white straps, and the tall grenadier caps, brought forth enthusiasm. Six companies of the young officers swept by, and President Wilson also greeted themi cordially. V President Takes Oath. Arriving on the presidential stand, tha president, flanked by the justices or the - supreme court, governors of states. ' aenatora and representatives, ambassadors and ministers plenipoten tiary of foreign governments, ranking officers of the land and naval forces of the United States, and members of his cabinet, received the oath from Chief Justice White of the supreme courf . .t From the president's appearance .un til the assembled company waa sealed and the chief Justice roa to adminis ter the final ceremony, continuous ap plause swept around the stand. Many thousands of people massed the great plaza, overflowing into j the capltol grounds In a great, surging sea of hu manity. . j Aa the president, however, facing tha chief justice, repeated the words permitted only to the nation's highest, tha applause seemed to die away, and as the first citizen raised his hand in solemn assent there was silence among the thousands. ! Soon, however, the crod burst the leashes of reserve, and as the presi dent stepped forward to deliver his in augural address rhis second he was forced to pause to acknowledge the tribute. I Following his address. President and Mrs. Wilson and Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall returned up Pennsylva nia avenue at a brisk gallop to the White House, where they j refreshed by a light luncheon before (entering the reviewing stand. At the president's departure from the capltol the great procession start ed to form and move slowly westward WARNING THAT WAR MAY COME IS MADE PLAIN' IN ADDRESS Armed Neutrality May Not Suffice, Executive Explains to the Public. EQUAL RIGHTS ARE URGED Destruction of "Armed Balance 7ower" Zs Set Porth as On Goal Sought U Eliminating Conflict. (Continued W.m rge On.) -i 1 - - I In that consciousness, despite- many t divisions, we have drawn close - to- upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or Injure in return; hav retained throughout tha consciousness of standing In some- sort apart, intent upon an Interest that transcended the immediate Issues of the war itself. As aome of the Injuries done us hare become Intolerable we still have been clear that we wished nothing for our selves that wa were not ready to de mand for all mankind fair dealin. justice, tha freedom to live and be at ease against organized wrong. "Poroed to" Arm Ourselvea.' "It is in this spirit and with this thought that wa have grown mora and more aware, more and mora cer tain, that the part we wished to piay was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves ' - to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of ; action. We stand firm in armed neu oxitrality since it seems that in.no other way can we demonstrate what it is we Insist upon and cannot fore go. We may even be drawn on. ,by circumstances, not by our own pur pose or desire, 'to a more active as sertion of our rights as we see them that despite" the war fires raging and and a more Immediate ' association rf,Tit th Wihility that this nation with the great struggle itself. But "" r . - - ni iv rvhlKBi -Mill aw. ... must take a broader hand, still that peace is coming soon. See a Brighter Says Coming. rW. hdowi that now lie dark unon our oath will soon be dispelled," the president declared. "Armed neutrality is our stana, up said, "yet this may not. suffice. "We have been conga to arm our selves to make gbod our claim to a certain minimum of right, and ot freedom of action," he declared. "We stand firm in armed neutrality, since it seems that in no other way can we demonstrate what it la we in sist upon and cannot forego." A hush followed this. Possibility of War Hinted. Then, gravely, he continued: "We may even be drawn on by circumstances, not by our own pur pose or desire to a more active as sertion of our rlghta as we see them, and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself." Any such step, he assured, however, will be with unselfish purpose not with any view of conquest or national aggrandizement. Th united States cannot.. If it nothing will alter our thought or our purpose. They are too clear to be obscured. They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered. We desire neither con quest nor advantage. We wish noth lng that can be had only at the cost of another people. We have always professed unselfish purpose and we covet tha opportunity to prove that our professions are sincere. "Provincials Ho longer." "There are many thing still to do at home, to clarify our own politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life, and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve; but we realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for a stage and In cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our apirlts ready for these things. They will follow in the immediate wake of the war ltseir, ana will set civilization up again. We are provincials no longer. "The tragical events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no Jent-Marshall. The black? horse troop toward the executive marision. if Culver academy, Indiana, spirited . tnd precise, escorted Marshall,- while ryCU A l I on irtfPO .railing VtiiinA came Chairman Har- . HIHnonrVLL DCL.IY-0 r's carriage and the "president's own Cavalry" aa escort. . r. Mrs. Wilson, walking ty the ..presi dent's side, wore a black, simply made tress, a great sealskin coat and black Sat. Jler aeml-moarnlng .veil was thrown back. She, too, was smiling. - As tha small party clattered down tha flag decked way, storms of cheers followed. - The president frequently WORLD IS MOVING TO DAY OF BROTHERHOOD (Continued From Pace One.) I tha sacrifices of the fathers. If ours is not the golden rule of government, wvio, nu m nuul!twuuwuiui '""idled in vain. I acclamation. iv Arriving ' t the ' capltolj -President and Mr. Wilson and Vice President 4nd Mrs., Marshall were met by a spe cial 'committee of aenatora and repre sentatives and escorted to the presi dent's room and the vice president's room, both just off the senate chain Wer, J . Vioe President Zs Bworn. Immediately afterward they proceed ed under a distinguished escort of con gressmen to the senate chamber. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Marshall were escort ed to a' specially prepared section ot ie aenate gallery, to wltnesi the cere fnony of swearing-in the vice presi dent and the new senators. Custom forbids : the floor of the senate to Women of all ranks. Arriving at the senate chamber, an Attendant announced: ,:"Th president of the United States.' President Wilson entered and, pro ceeding to the front of the chamber, was seated before the great marble rostrum of the vice president Here, Senator Saulsbury of Deli- ' Ware, , president pro tempore of the Senate, administered the oath of oC tic to th vice president. T As the brief ceremony, which in ducted her husband into the second highest , office the nation can accord, was .completed, Mrs. Marshall, from the gallery waved a tiny handkerchief down to tha vice president. The vie president then aasumad hia wishes, longer stand par, in. isolation turning back. Our own fortunes as a it must regard itself as a -woria entity, think and act in terms oi mis world spirt. Following is the address in iuu: Important Reforms Becalled. -Aiy .e"yw V"""""". been bred. Thev nr. nnt th nrindnlM counsel and action of the most vita fVr,V " , nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not. "And yet we are not the less Ameri cans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles In wnich we have 00DR0W WILSON IS at of th United. States ha ever known. X Toilette would Orat. FORMALLY SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT OF U,S. Oath Administered by Chief Justice White in Presence of Cabinet and Mrs." Wilson an opportunity to make a . dramatic speech closing th debate. bat th supporter of the bill maneuvered him off the floor and barred him from de fending his course. . Thoroughly an gered, tha senator from Wisconsin tootr his place in the center aisle and fought for an opportunity to be heard. Senator Robtson of Arkansas mad a point of order asserting that 1a Fol- letta had no right to th floor at all. For a few moments th two senators. IS CAREFULLY GUARDED Warm Congratulations Tollow th Sim ple Ceremony Prom Senators Mam bers of Cabinet and Relatives. interest and consequence, equal period in our history has been so fruitful of Important reforms In our economic and industrial life or so full of significant conditions in the spirit and purpose of our political ac tion. We have sought very thought fully to set our house In order; cor- , rect the grosser errors ana aouses ot our Industrial life, liberate and quick en the processes of our national genius and energy and lift eur politics to a broader view of the people's essential interests. It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction. But I shall not attempt to review It. It speaks for Itself and will be of in creasing Influence as the years go by. This is not the time for retrospect. It erated mankind. These, therefore, are the things we stand for, whether in war or in peace: Things We Stand Por. "That all nations are equally in terested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peo ples and equally responsible for their maintenance. "That the essential principle of peace is the dctual equality of nations in all matters of right or privilege. "That peace cannot securely or Just ly rest upon an armed balance of power. "That governments derive all theJr just powers rrom the consent of the governed, and that no other powers is time, rather, to speak our thoughts should be supported by the common Porward Movement Is Seen. "I beheve that the world is moving forward to a far off divine event, wherein the tongues of Babel will again be blended in the language of a common brotherhood. j "I believe that I can resxh the high est ideal of my tradition tana my Una age as an American as! a man, as a citizen and as a public official when I Judge my fellow men without malica and with charity, when I worry more about my own motives jthau conduct of others. The time I am liable to- bt wnowy wrong is wnen Know I am absolutely right. In an Individualistic repuDiic I am the unit of patriotism and If I keep myself keyed up in unison witn the music or the union, my fellor men will .catch the note and fall into time and step. j Plrst Duty to Government. "I believe there, is no finer form of government than the onei under which we live, and that I oughtjCo bo willing to live or to die. as God! decrees, that it may not perish from off the earth, through treachery within or through assault from - without; end I believe that, though my first right Is to be a partisan, mv first duty, when the only principles on which free government can rest are being strained, is to be a patriot, ana to follow in a wilderness of words that clear call which bids ma guard and defend th ark of our na Uonal government." i and purposes -concerning tho present and the immediate future. Porelgn Question Presented. "Although we have centered counsel and action with such unusual concen tration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have mora be and morerorcea tnemseives upon our attention matters lying outside our own life as rnation and over which we had no Atrol, but which, Respite our wish tffeep free from them, have drawn us more and more irresistibly into their own current and influence. "It has been impossible to avoid them. They liave affected the life vt the whole world. They, have ahaken men every wherewith a passion and an apprehension they never knew befo.-c. It has been hard to preserve calm coun sel while the thought of our own peo ple swayed this way and that under their Influence. Composite and Cosmopolitan People. "We are a composite and cosmo polltan people. We are of the blooi oi an tne nation a that are at war. The currents of our thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run uiCK at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war Inevitably sv. lts mark from the first alike upon our minds, our Industries, our commerce, our politics, and our social action. To be indifferent to it or independent of it was out of the question. "And yet all the while wa have been conscious that we were nt part of it. thought, purpose or power of the fam ily or nations; "That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use ot all peo ples, unaer rules set up by common agreement and consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be ao- cessiDia to all upon equal terms; j.nai national armaments should limited to the necessities of na Uonal order and domestic safety; mat the community of interest and of power upon which neaca must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of seelne 1o tt lha; all Influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states should bo sternly and effectually supptessed and preventea. at was placed on record as t aa executive proposal which could, not be voted en. Seventy-six senators, Deaeo- Senator 1a Follatte triad to aecur crata and Republicans signed th his toric document. Contrasted to th irrav and solemn perturbation which marked th clos ing of th senate session waa a pa triotic dernonatratlon as th houa drew to the end of th congress, v " Xlag Brl&g AppUua. A great American flag lowered over on of the house galleries vokd a scene such aa th .house chamber naa seldom witnessed. int eoo mem I had spells like that, too - MS n ft mm Tough, lazy, blue no 'pep' until wife gave me ir o n ram instead of coffee A Now I sleep better, smile of tener, and nerves behave Never, knew how harmful coffee was 'till I quit it. Why, don't you try rostumr' s a Principles Prom Platform. 'I need not argue these principles to jou, my ieuowmen. They are your own, part and parcel of your own thinking and your own motive in af fairs. They spring up native amongst us. Upon this as a platform of pur pose and of action we can stand to gether. "And it is ImDer&tiv that w .)n,iM rfetand together. We are beintr forced into a new unity amidst the fires that now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God's providence, let us hope, be purged vf faction and division, purified of tnc errant humors of party and of private interest, and shall stand forth In the days to come with a new dignity of national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the dedication ij in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. "I stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which you hav been audience because th peo ple of th United States have chosen me ror this august delegation of power i ind have by their gracious judgment named me their leader in affairs. I know now what the task means. I realize to the full the re sponsibility which it, involves. I pray God I may be given the wisdom n4 the prudence to do my duty In the true spirit or mis great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sway and guide me by their con fidence and their counsel. Counts on unity of Halloa, "The thing .1 shall count on, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail. Is the unity of America and America united in feel ing, in purpose and In its vision" of duty, of opportunity and of service. We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessi ties of the nation to their own private profit or use them for building up of private power; beware that no faction or disloyal intrigue break th har mony or embarrass the spirit of our people; beware that our government be kept pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in the concep tion of our duty and In the high re solve to perform It in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to th great task to which we must now set our hand. For myself, I beg your tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. The shadows that now He dark upon our ath will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with tha light all about us if wa but bp true to ourselves to ourselves aa wfc have wished to be known In the counsels of the woria ana in the thought of all those who love liberty and justice and , the rlaht exalted." . Washington. March 8. (I. N. S.) The second term of Woodrow Wilson began Sunday. To be exact, it began at 12:04 p. m.. when, in tha presence of only Mrs. Wilson, th members of his cabinet, and before Edward Doug las White, chief justice of th Unti ed States, he repeated the .'solemn inaugural oath. Bending over the lit-4 tie black bible held out to him by the aged jurist, he pressed his lips to its open pages. "The Lord is my refuge, a very present help in time of trouble. were the words upon which the kiss waa imprinted. The passage had been selected by the president himself. Kany Bills Are Signed. Early Sunday morning President Wil son, accompanied by his wife and an augmented guard of aecret aervice operatives, motored through the blind ing rain to the capltol. He repaired at 'once to the president's room and there, throughout the morning, en grossed bills on after another were brought to him for his signature. The cabinet gathered around him. From time to time senators of both parties visited him. A word, a nod. an offer of congratulations, some expression of a hope against hope that. fair weather might follow th downpour which has almost flooded the national capital for nearly week, and then a fresh batch Of bills and some more signing. , Mrs. Wilson in Mourning. . Mrs. Wilson, with a sad smile on her face and wearing deep mourning. sat in the window recess, from time to time engaging for a moment in the conversation. Her sister, Mrs. M. H. Maury of Roanoke, Va.. had died less than a week ago and her be reavement has deeply depressed tha first lady of the land, casting a shad ow over the Inaugural ceremonies and embittering what to an American woman is the triumph of triumphs. The president expressed the wish that the party to witness the taking of the oath should be the amallest nosslblA. For this reason even ao close a friend and counsellor as Sec retary Tumulty effaced himself. Mr. Tumulty heard the murmur or tne oath from the corriaor oi ine senaia. Among the first to congratulate the president after the cabinet mem bers had had their say was Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota. "Congratulations. Mr. President." said the sturdy old war horse of Re publicanism, as he grasped the hand of the chief executive. "I want to tell you that I am with you and that I stand with you in this emergency in anything and everything you do." Th president beamed on th vener able Norseman and told him there never was any questlon-on that acor and that he knew whom to count on in the important business of the na tion. 8 tone Conspicuous by Absence. Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the foreign relations -committee. was not among the coterie of states man who extended their congratula tlona to the president after his induc tion into office. The acrimony of the Dat two days of legislative strife had marked the Missourian for elimination from the list of the presiaent s irieni who can be welcomed to intimate s.r cial intercourse. Only one of the new crop of sens tors was on hand, for the little session of handshaking. Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota,! Republican and "trust buster extraordinary" in the adminis trations of Roosevelt and Taft, was presented by Secretary of the Interior Lane. Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, tall and graceful, attractively gowned in navy blue Chiffon, with a glistening straw hat of the same deep hue, Joined her husband in the executive quarters a moment after, the ceremony. She had been witnessing the concluding legls iatlv squabble In the' executive gal lery and stopped long enough to offr assurances of congratulation to her distinguished father. Then she, too, joined the little homeward-bound pro cession. While the little inaugural party waa bre?wng up Senator Robert Marion La Follette, to whom even in greater measure than to Senator Stone is due the defeat of the armed .neutrality bill, came from the senate. He passed the door of the president s room witn his eyes riveted on the elevator gat 4 ahead. He swerved neither to the right nor the left, but ploughed straight ajong, not even turning h:s eyes towara the president s room Secretary Tumulty wished "the Gov ernor" another . four years of success and then the little group dispersed. Ceremony Cornea. to Xnd. There was a slamming of doors, the secret service men and the capltol po licemen quickly cleared a passageway for th president, wno, offering his arm to Mrs. vvnson. witn a cheery "good morning" to the crowd, walked to the elevator and disappeared. There was handclapping and a snas- modlo burst of cheering as the presi dent left th capltol. Before 12:30 he waa back at the Whit House and the second administration of President Wilson bad begun. within arm's length," engaged In a bit ter interchange which kept the sen ate in wild disorder and forced tha vie president to us vigorous means to restore quiet. Aside Ar Aertmonious. X demand my right to be heard on this bill." shouted La Follette. Tou don't want to talk about this bill." said Senator Smith of Georgia. In an aside. "Th aenator from Georgia states falsehood." - retorted the Wisconsin senator, "I very much want to be heard.- Firmly and without apparent bitter ness the great majority of the sen ators blocked all of La Follette'a ef forts to apeak. Twice he appealed from decialona of the chair taking him off tha floor. Twice hia own vote was th only on recorded in his favor. Not until th clock struck 12 and th gavel of the vice president cloaed tha aeasion did ha give up hia effort to secure the floor. Agreement Thrlo Sought. Three times during the long night that kept th weary, bedraggled sen ate in th soggy atmosphere of the chamber. Senator Hitchcock fought to secure agreements that would allow a vote on the bill. Senators La Fol lette. Norrls and Cummins objected to all these efforts. "This experience." said Senator Hitchcock, as he shook his head grave ly, recognising the doom of the meas ure, "has demonstrated that even if an enemy were at our gates It would be possible for a few members f this senate to prevent action on th meas ures needed to meet that enemy." When the senate session ended at noon, the big crowd that had filled the galleries, filed out with mutter lngs and head shakings. The senators and. a large group of members of the house who had watched the dramatic ending of the session from the floor made their way from the chamber in ominous silence. Both Democrats and Republicans plainly showed their per turbation and there was none of the usual end-of-the-sesslon gaiety. Five minutes after the senate ad journed the great chamber was empty, and a majorlt of the senators, both Democrats and Republicans, sought an opportunity to say tnat tney were prepared to support the president. Sev era! stopped at the president's room where the executive was signing the bills passed Just as the session closed, to assure him of their support. Manifesto Unprecedented. Th unprecedented manifesto, placed in the senate record by Senator' Hitch cock during the excitement of the final session, was drawn up and circulated to demonstrate that the senate would have passed the authorisation bill if the filibuster could have been broken. For th first time in history th sen- available tor Industry have both failed, though they hav been under consider ation throughout the aeioa of . th two congresses and hav been twice passed by th aouaa ot repreaanta Uvea. Separtmant 7bft Crippled. "Th appropriations for th army hav failed, along with th approprla tlona for tha civil establishment of th government, th appropriation tor the military academy at Weat Point and tha general deficiency bllL "It has proved impossible to extend V. .kl.l I . . ber. on tha floor and th crowded gal-t tTh- .nJ-t.i 'V' V , ' ' leries joined in an outburst of cheer-' ' v,,K ,, " " . " CzZ IroTtnh.pe?; ' JZXZ ery rS? a" omL.'l'in th. om onai ban km. ayatem etirring Star Spangled Banner. and ? mt th unuaual circumatanc ot thvwhol assemblage joined in tha j ln etotin financial situation, singing. -America," "Columbia, the J xtr Saalo Thought Vealae. Gem of the Ocean." were sung as th ; "It would not cur the difficulty to hands of the clock slowly reached the call th sixty-fifth congress la ax hour of noon. Fifty members crowded traordlnary sesalon. Th paraiyala of into tha well of th house and shouted , the aenate would remain. The purpose the national songa with a will. WILSON SEEKS LEGAL OPINION ON ARMAMENT (Ooetliraed rrom Page One.) Tar-reaching poaalbllttea of national danger than the government hai known within the whole" history of ice international relatione, the congress I has been unable to act either to safe guard the country or to vindicate t.'.e elementary rlghta of lta citizens. Beast Minority Blamed. Mor than" 600 of tha BH members of the two houses were ready and anxioua to act; the house of repre- sentatrves. had acted, by an overwhelm ing majority, but the senate waa un able to act becauae a llttU group of 12 aenatora had determined that it abould not. Tha aenate ha no rules by which debate can be limited or brought to an end. no rulee by which dilatory tactlca of any kind can b prevented. A aingl member can atand In the way of action if he have but tie physical endurance. Tha result in thla case is a complete paralyaia alike of the executive and of the legislative branches of tha government. Pressing Teglalatlom Impossible. This -inability of th senate to has rendered some of the moat neces sary legislation of the session lmpos slble, at a time when the need for it was most pressing and moat evident. The bill wnich would have permlttel auch combinations of capital and of organization In tha export and Import trade of tba country aa tha clrcum stances of international competition have made Imperative a bill which the buaineaa judgment of the wholi country approved and demanded has tailed. "The opposition of one or two aens tore has made It impossible to ln crease the membership or the lnte--state commerce commission or to give it the altered organisation necessary for its efficiency. "The conservation bill, which should have released for Immediate use the mineral resources which are still locked up in the public lands, now that their release is more Imperatively nec essary than ever, and the. bill whlcn would have mad the unused water power of- the country Immediately and the spirit of action are not lack lng" now. The congreaa la mora defin itely united in thought and purpose nt . thla moment, I venture to say, than it haa been within the memory of any man now ln lta membership. There is not only the most united patriotic pur pose, but tne ODjects members hav i view ate perfectly clear and definite. "Burthe aenate cannot act unleaa It leaders can obtain unanlmoue consent. Its majority Is powerless, balpleaa. la the midst of a crisis of extraordinary, peril, when only definite and decided action can make the nation- safe or shield it from war Itself by. the aggreal ion of othera, action la impossible. ' - Xmproaaoa, Abroad P eared. Although aa a matter ot tact th ' nation and th repreaentatlvaa of th nation stand back of the executive with unprecedented unanimity and ' spirit, the impression made abroad will, of course, be tnat it la not so and that other governments may act aa they pleas without fear that this government can do anything at all. W cannot explain. "The explanation la incredible. Th senate of the United States la th only legislative body ln the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of wilful men. repreaentlng no opinion but their own. have rendered the great govern ment of tha United Statea helpless apj contemptible. Alteration of Mules "Demanded. "The remedy? There ia but one rem edy. The only remedy la that the rulea of tha senate shall be ao altered that it can act. Tha country can be relied upon to draw the moral. 1 believe that tha aenat can be relied -on to supply tha means of action and save tha country from disaster." At the same time the president au thorised the further statement that what rendered the situation even more grave than it had been aappoaed thit it waa, waa the discovery that, while the president under hia general con stitutional powers could do much of that he had asked the congreaa t empower him to do. It had been found that there were certain old atatutra aa yet unrepealed which may rata incomparable practical obstacles and may nullify hia power. Only One "BBOMO QTJTJffTJrB." To rt tee refrain, rail tor full nam. LAXA TIVB RROMO QUININE. Xak for iga'are of B. W. GBOVE. Cures Cold ln One Day. ttc.-ed ailGXtCAlf CHICLE COM7A3Z ' Squadron of Third at jLaredo. ! San Antonio, Texas. March 5. (U. P.) The first squadron of the Third United States cavalry, with regimental headquarters unaer ? command of Colonel Augustus P. Blocksom, march ing overland from Mercedes to Fort tarn nuu von, oas arrived at Laredo, where it will camp until Thursday morning and - then resume tha mxr.w - northward. The" troop -will arrive ber about March 17. 'Th Third t squaaron, irum orx tunggolO, 1 x, I oacted -her next week, s; A V .i V V'A F SENATE ENDS SESSION WITHOUT ACTION UPON PRESIDENT'S REQUEST (Omttaoed from Prge One.) deration and continued their ob structive tactics. As President Wilson Tat in the little red president's room adjoining the senate chamber, the fili buster drove the armed neutrality bill to oereat through debate that bris tled with Witter personalities and acri monious, charges. Senator Jones of Washington signed th ' declaration with certain reserva tions, but took part in th efforts to obstruct the bill. "This MIL designed to place in the I hands of th president ot th United I States, the power and authority to saieguara American lives and Ameri can rights, declared Senator Hitch cock of 'Nebraska, ag he closed the fruitless debate that had kept th sen ate m continued session tor 2s hours. "has been done to death here by, the most reprenensiDie IU1 Duster the sen- Oh, thank you, lYlr. Smith. I do. like to have you come to see sister, 'cause you always have this nice Adams Black Jack gum. She says it makes your breath sweet, and Ma says it's fine for colds but I like it just because it tastes so good. -C- t V -1