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Defeat of President in Open
Dfpfomacy Tight May Mean
'Reopening, Says Senator.
'Tvashlngton. Jan. 17. (I. "N. S "De
feat" or President Wilson In His lirat r
fort tomake effective the first principle
of "hU peace -"bregram that calling
'roenely for -publicity" will reopen the
wM -war. "Senator Lewis of Illinois,
'administration whip, declared In the senate-this
afternoon. .
Foil owing, a declaration of support
from -Senator Borah of Idaho and Sen
ator Williams of Mississippi for the
president In his effort to compel reeon
sideratlon of the decision of the peace
confsrenee "to enforce the "gag" rule,
- Senator Lewis called attention to "an
aspect more -serious than that mentioned
by either senator."
.Move By Senate Is TTrtred
'If there 1b any force In Europe at
' the conference table that shall overrate
President "Wilson in his first effort to
enforce his first principle, I, standing in
my place, give warning now that that
force will reopen the conflict," Lewis
declared. ,
"This force will precipitate a new
world war, and It will be because every
little -nation that aspires to have 'its
rights ascertained and declared will be
lieve that this first move Is made wfth
the object of defeating its aspirations."
Senator Johnson of California rec
ommended "some affirmative action by
the senate" If the Issue of publicity at
the peace conference Is not settled sat
isfactorily to the United States wltnm
the next two or three days.
Small Nation TJndtr Arms
Speaking of the email nations. Sen
ator Lewis said :
"Remember, their soldiers are still
under arms and their tents are still their
shelters.
. "Let the peace commissioners ander
etand that publicity of these proceed
ings has been assured. The president
has assured you that there shall be rto
censorship. We cannot permit these
commissioners to put Woodrow Wilson,
the president of the United States, in
the position of intentionally betraying
these leaser nations or his people.
"We shall allow no delicacy of feel
ing growing out of past associations,
enemy or airy, to influence us."
Senator Lewis appealed for the full-!
cut support of the president by the sen
ate in his present undertaking.
Johnson Pledges Support
"It he should fail to keep the first j
promise of hi3 peace program, he will !
be held under suspicion In his own land
emS trofn that moment will stand wesk-
ened." ho said. "He knows that, and
we knew it. We must give him the Sup
port he needs that he may have the fan
confidence of his own people. The presi
dent s word to his country must be kept.
Senator Johnson, pledging his sap
port, coupled his suggestion that the
senate -go on record In favor Of full pub
licity at the peace conference with a
new demand for the speedy withdrawal
of American troops from alt foreign
lands, ,
"In January. 1918, the president stated
14 peace principles that since that time
have become famous," Johnson said.
"Every nation on the face of the earth
has accepted them. In accepting the 14
principles the spokesman of the "United
States ' gave the- world, all nations ac
cepted ,the first, which declared for open
covenants openly arrived at.
First PriBrple Violated
"And yet the Instant the peace con
ference assembles the first of these
principles, accepted by every nation, is
deliberately violated. Instead of open
diplomacy we are give a communique,
which we know from the experience of
the past "four years is "made merely to
cover up what has been done and
doesn't state at all what is transpiring.
So the question becomes important not
only to the president but to the whoje
nation.
"It is humiliating to me to have the
American president bottled up in any
conference. It 1s humiliating to me to
have him enmeshed fn the entangle
ments of secret European aipiomacy,
sitting there with his lips looked so
that he is unable to speak even to bis
own people. I enter my protest now
and I hope that the senate, as a part
of the treaty making power, will em
phatically declare, if not for open ses
sions of the conference, at least for a
full daily account of what Is transpir
ing." Senate Is Divided
Over Revision of
Primary in Idaho
Boise. Idaho, Jan. 17. (U. P.) Widely
divergent ideas over the proposed pri
mary revision In Idaho marked a sen
ate caucus held Wednesday night by
the majority. No decision was reached,
the members beinfc unable to agree on
the main features. Manjl of the senators
advocated complete repeal, while others
cautioned against such drastic action.
It Is believed a bill will be Introduced
during the weak without the caucus' ap
proval.
If a bill introduced by Senator Mc-
Murray Thursday is made a law, every
person In Idaho who does not speak,
write and read English will be required
to attend either night Or day school and
learn English, study the constitution of
the United States and be well grounded
in American history.
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PRIMARIES
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Candidates for Regular Officers
and Delegates to Central
Council Nominated
Candidates for the regular offices -for
Central Labor .council representatives
end executive board members are bein
chosen today by the Portland Streetcar
Men's union. The election Is a pri
mary election, the regular election to
be held next week. A previous election
held this month was declared void be
cause of Irregularities.
The principal contestants in today's
election are:
For president, H. FJ. Kidney, opposi
tlon candidate, whose recent election is
declared void, and H. More. For vice
president. J. L. Shepard. opposition can
didate, whose recent election Is declared
void ; Oust Anderson, J. A. Berberick
and J. S. Pennington. For financial sec
retary and treasurer. C. L. Park, oppo
sition candidate, whose recent election
is declared void ; W. C. Mf ord. Incum
bent, and H. R. Ford.
Candidates for nomination as Central
Labor council members are :
Gust, Anderson, M. L. , Brown, Wil
liam Doyle, W. C. Elford. Robert Greene.
J. A. Jewett, H. E. Kidney, H. Mohr. C
I.. Park, F. B. Reed, A. H. Stein. J. K.
Starr, Joe Thornton and C. U. Taylor.
Candidates for membership on the ex
ecutive board are:
Savler division, William H. Doyle,
John D. Hunt? Piedmont division, J. A.
Berberick, J. A. Jewett, H. K. Kidney,
J S. Pennington, A. II. Stein ; mainten-anee-of-way
department, Frank Baxter,
Charles Vilas ; freight agent's depart
ment, R. L. Shepard ; Ankeny division.
F. Rowly, J. E. Starr, Joe Thornton ;
Sell wood division, E. W. Bruner, B. A.
Thorpe, W. A. Storney ; mechanical de- '
partment, F. B. Cronnien.
The ballots are being cast at the vari
ous car barns throughout the city. Re
sults of the election will be known tomorrow.
$100,000 FOR WORK IS
PROVIDED BY LEGISLATURE
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senting vote, cast by Senator Wood of
Washington county. The bill was then
returned ' to the house, which accepted
the amendment.
When the bill was referred to tha
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senate ways and means Ncomnrttee. the
eontmrttee was requested to make a re
port within IS -minutes, but It was
mors than an hour . before ths commit
tee returned. The committee meeting
was a stormy session, with Mayer Baker
and other members of the Portland
delegation 'present urging the Import
anc of immediate action, .while, the
members of -the committee were frankly
hostile to the manner In which the bill
was being rushed through the legisla
tors and were Incredulous aS to the exist
ence of as great an emergency as Mayor
Baker pictured.
Senator intimates Collssloa
Senator Strayer also charged 'that the
agreement made the night before, when
a - -conference had been held in the
governor's office, to the effect that the
ways and means committee would get
together and draft a bill, had been vio
lated and that a bill had made its
Its appearance in the house, where it
was rushed through without the senate
members of the ways - and means com
mittee knowing anything about what
was In It.
The members of the senate committee
were unanimous In their oppositld'tt to
an appropriation of $250,000, and insisted
that if any appropriation were made it
should not exceed f 100,000. They wanted
the bill to go over until Monday, to
give time for consideration.
"I am wondering," said Senator Stray
er, "that if, when the news goes out
that Oregon has appropriated $250,000
for the laturning soldiers tttere wiH not
be a flocking to Portland."
Senator Patterson 'did ttet' take much
stock in the oft-repeated plea that some
thing must be done to save the "soldiers
and the state from Bolshevism. He said
that in Polk county and In his district
the boys who are returning from war are
being given better jobs than when they
left.
Emergency Is Qsestlosed
"I dont think we should be carried off
our feet with this thing," he said. "There
is no occasion to ret hysterical. We
should take a nttle more time for investigation.
"I don't believe our soldiers are theJ
ciass oi men wno win De casriea away
by Bolshevism and I. W. W'ism ; but, iir-
stead, they are the kind we can depend
on to put it down. I think when a Bol
shevist mounts a soapbox in Portland
and begins to preach his doctrine, one of
our boys will knock his block off. That
is the kind of boys we sent from Polk
county."
Senator vEberhard and Senator Jones
objected to being rushed with a measure
of this kind.
Mayor Baker told the committee no
one was trying to railroad anything
through the legislature, but that a seri
ous -condition existed and the state
should meet it.
"It is a big question, and it should be
met In a big way," he said.f
When senator wood opposed tne sus
pension of the rules, which had to be
done before the bill could be put through
the senatehe insisted that no emergency
existed, and recalled the time when a
delegation came from the emergency
board and obtained $250,000 tor a state
police force to meet an emergency which
they said existed, but which Senator
Wood said he had since been convinced
did not exist.
ths faf German wearing a woolen night
gown retching only to his knees ap
peared at the head of ths stairs and an
nounoed he was the ex-kaiser's secret
tary. Hs asked what ths visitors
wanted.
He was told ths American officers had
corns "to arrest William HohensoUern.
Ths secretary promised bs weald con
vey the information to his master. The
daredevils waited in tha gloomy audi
ence filled with preposterous examples
of Dutch sculpture. Five minutes elapsed.
Then the secretary, now wearing trous
ers, "but without a shirt, descended,
bearing a message from ths ex-kaiser
to the. effect that William was willing
to surrender to the Americans and to
be taken to American headquarters if
he was shown a guarantee of safe con
duct and if they would promise he would
not fee shot en route. .
The hottest heads among the party of
adventurers advised a rush of the stairs
and grabbing the ex-kaiser without fur
ther formality, but the cooler ones urged
that shots might be exchanged and they
did not wan to hur anybody.
Americas Finally Withdraw
So word was sent back that the vis
itors were unable to furnish anything
but oral guarantees for William's safety,
upon the word of American officers.
Again Herr Hohenzollern sent back 4
message' that he must have written
gefkrantees. '
While the parleying was In progress
the, servant and the secretary had es
caped through a rear exit- and run to
the village. Twenty-five Dutch soldiers
on bicycles hastened to the castle and
invaded the audience' roomi demanding
why the American officers were violating
.Holland's neutrality. Here then arose
an unexpected complication imminent
Internment until peace' was sighed.
The D'Artagnans withdrew into a side
room and conferred. They decided It
was better not 'to get the ex-kaiser than
to be interned. So they sent a final
message upstairs: '
"Tell Bill we'll be back and get him
some time, bringing the whole American
army if necessary."
Then the two mystery cars sped to
ward Belgium and the greatest coup
of the war had just failed of accom
plishment. OUTBREAKS TO BE
MET BY TROOPS
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Limitation Bepeal Proposed
Salem. Jan. 17. The repeal of the 6
per cent tax limitation amendment
adopted by the people at the general
election of 1916, is provided for in a
joln resolution introduced in the house
"just before adjournment by Brownell of
Umatilla county.
The resolution provides for the ap
pointment of a committee of five mem
bers of the house to prepare a measure
lor adoption by the legislature, and sub
mission by it to the .people at the next
general election, of constitutional, pro
vision! repealing the present 6 per cent
limitation amendment.
The resolution, under the house rules,
went to the committee on resolutions
for consideration and report.
EX-KAISER
NEAR
BEING
KIDNAPED
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in a dinner of young officers, all below
the grade of captain.
During the dinner, which took place
January , a six-footer, a lieutenant
from a southern state, declared :
"There's only one thing wrong with
this man's army. It hasnt got the
A little man with a fighting record
from the Argonne forest took up the
challenge. He wanted to know, "Why
not get the kaiser and bring him to the
American army?"
One thing led to another, and be
fore :n hour had passed 10 daring men
pledged their willingness to risk court
martial for the sake of "puilirig the big
gest stunt since Noah buiit the ark."
The following afternoon these 10 ar
ranged leave, secured the use of two
American anby cars (unchauffeured)
provided themselves with complete
maps of a certain section of Belgium
and Holland and set out on their jour
ney of less than 100 miles. Members
of the party drove the machines.
It is impossible to designate specific
ally the point of their departure with
out revealing a possible clue that might
disclose the identity of these wild In
dians, but It is sufficient to say that
nothing lay between them and the ex
kaiser except one international bound
ary and several hundred Dutch sol
diers. - . . '
Dutch Sentries Bluffed,
It was stark dark when they reached
the Dutch border. Sentries demanded
papers, but an officer in the leading car,
speaking German, indignantly demanded
why hindrance was offered to a per
fectly legitimate Belgian relief commis
sion. He bluffed the sentries and both
cars successfully whizzed across the
boundary.
A run of les than an hour beyond
the boundary brought the party to
Amerongen village, now asleep, because
the hour was 10 :30. and then to the cas
tle which is the ex-kaiser's exile.
A sleepy guard at the gate attempted a
half question, but the cars trundled
past hifJr- up the road, halting before
the doors. The plans had been perfectly
arranged beforehand. While two ran
around the house looking for a spot
where they could cut the telephone
wires, which they accomplished, the rest
boldly knocked on the castle-door.
A butler cautiously opened the door
He nearly fainted at the sight of the
eight American officers wearing side
arms, who demanded an instant audi
ence with William Hoherisollern. The
servant protested that his master was
m bed and unable to see anybody. One
of the officers, knowing German, then
threatened that unless the ex-kaiser saw
them they would take their own
measures to see the kaiser.iv
Grman Tries to Call Help'
Meanwhile the Americans heard ' an
excited voice upstairs trying to get tele
phone connections with the village and
demanding troops to- protect the ex
kaiser from "mad men."
The result of the brief parley was that
rrofusely. The machine finally got
under way, the driver taking a round
about course for protection. Near
Neueste Tlergarten the automobile
broke down and an officer asked Lieb
knecht if he felt able to walk to Char
lcttenbergestrasse for a cab. When the
escort had gone 50 yards Liebkhecht
broke away, meanwhile stabbing his
guard with a knife clasped In his right
hand. Ho refused to halt and several
soldiers fired.
The officers who were escorting
Liebknecht and the Luxemburg woman
when they were killed were arrested.
The persons responsible for the death
of the two Spartacans will be severely
punished, it was announced.
Rosa Luxemburg was slain in an auto
mobile. The motorcar was en route for
the prison and crowds were surging
about it attempting to drag the woman
from the machine when a man suddenly
jumped to the running board and shot
her.
Liebknecht was killed on Wednesday
night, January 8.
Troops Hold Bridges
By H. J. Oreesway
Special Cable to the L N. S. aad the London
Daily Etpreaa
Berlin, Jan. 17. ( I. N. S.) The death
of- Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem
burg Is probably the tragic end of the
Spar tacus group. Other leaders may
try a revival of activities, but Berlin la
occupied by 40,000 troops and there are
field guns at all intersections of the
main streets, tevery bridge Is held by
troops with machine guns. The post
office where this dispatch was filed U
filled with machine guns mounted on a
table behind which the clerks Were
working.
Copenhagen Without Word '
London, Jan. 17. (I. N. S.) The re
port, that Rosa Luxemburg was killed
by an unknown man after being put un
der arrest had not been confirmed at
Copenhagen when the Exchange Tele
graph correspondent filed his dispatch.
Liebknecht had been arrested and was
under sentence of death by a martial
court when he met his end.
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Woman Drowned, Says Paper
Basle, Jan. IT. (U. P.) The Frank
furter Zeitung officially confirms the
death of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux
emburg. The former was shot by his
escort while trying to escape. The
woman was beaten Into Insensibility by
a mob and then drowneh in the Land-
wehr canal. j
Police Are Making
Attempt to Free
City of All Idlers
Acting on orders from Police Captain
Inskeep, Sergeant Sherwood and Offi
cers Ferry and Mossle arrested eight
persons at Second and- Couch streets.
Thursday night, in an attempt to clean
up idlers who are congregating in the
north end.
"Hundreds of Idle men and loafers are
flocking into the city," said Captain In
skeep, "and are intending to winter here
without working. They are filling the
cheap lodging houses of the north end
and are trying to make a living by roll
ing drunks, by petty larceny and beg
ging. We are going to either make
these loafers work or-get out of town."
Quinine That Don Net Affect Head
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oj anyone witnout causins nerYooxneee or rineios
in the head. There f only one "Brotne Quinine."
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