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LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST
VOL. 2.
NO. 52.
TRUST BILL MEANS
- DELAY IN CONGRESS
SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON; APRIL 23, 1914
NAVY’S FORCE FOR
MEXICO IS 22,775
VERA CRUZ
TAKEN WITH
$1.25 THE YEAR
PARENT-TEACHERS
VOLUNTEER ARMY
MET SATURDAY BILL PASSES SENATE
LOSS OF LIFE
The People of Sweet Home and Vicinity The New Measure Alters Spanish War
Jone Adjournment Probably Made Impos­ Officials of the Navy Department An­
Act-'Forces Are to be Raised
Show Great Interest in School
nounce 17,860 on Vessels
sible by President Wilson's
Four
Americans
Killed
and
Twenty-One
Quickly
Matters
in the Gulf
Insistence
Wounded, After Making Land-
. ing in Force
Washington, April 19.—President
Wilson’s determination to force
action by Congress on the pending
anti-trust bills, now combined in a
single measure, will necessarily pro­
long the session way beyond June
15, heretofore fixed by the Execu­
tive as the proper date for adjourn­
ment. -Congress, notwithstanding
the wish of the President, will not
substitute an “express schédule”
for the “freight schedule” under
which it has been operating since
the very beginning of the Wilson
administration. It is the senate'
that will delay adjournment.
It has been demonstrated time
and again that not even President
Wilson can hurry the United States
Senate. He can do most anything
else with the democratic .majority
in that body, but he cannot restrict'
debate and cannot fix a time for
voting on any given measure. No
president ever has been able to
dictate to the senate on the question
of time.
Because of the . fact, recognized
by all men of experience, in coh-
gress, that the senate will debate
the anti-trust bills for six weeks or
more, an effort was made to induee
the president to delay the anti­
trust legislative program until the
next session, coupled with the assur­
ance that this subject would 'be
taken up immediately when the
next session begins in December.
The president declined to give his
consent to such a program. Had it
not been' for the injection of ■ the
Panama Canal tolls, issue into the
legislative session, it riiight hâve
been possible to bring about ad­
journment by or soon after the mid­
dle of June. The canal question
alone will carry the session up to
that date, and the senate will' not
begin consideration of the anti-trust
bill until the canal bill is out of the
way. This probably means that
Congress will remain in session a
large part of the summer.
It is evident the president believes
the Senate and House should accept
the judgment of committees on the
anti-trust question and should not
Attempt to analyze and dissect the
Wills at great length after they have
been whipped into shape by the two
committees. That will work all
right in the House, if the gag rule
is to be again applied as it was with
the canal tolls repeal bill, and if the
House is again to deny to individual
members the . right even to offer
amendments.
Judge McKnight came up Satur­
day and took an active part in the
Parent-Teachers meeting at the
high school building. The Judge
remained over until the following
day as the guest of Enos Russell,
while all the other speakers return­
ed to their homes after the meet­
ing.
Washington, April 19.—Officials
of the Navy Department said to­
night there were noW in Mexican
waters or en route by east and west
coasts. 17,950 sailors, 3970 marines
and 865 officer^. Of this number,
14,170 sailors, 2990 marines and
700 officers are in the Gulf of Mexi­
co, while off Pacific Mexican ports
or en route there aré 353Ó sailors,,
980 marines arid 140 officers. The
force includes:
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At Vera Cruz. Two battleships,
1320 sailors, 120 marines; Prairie,
160 sailors and 200 marines.
At Tampico. Two\ battleships,
1820 sailors, 120 marines; Des
Moines, 240 sailors; Chester, 300
sailors, 200 marines; Dolphin, 180
sailors; San Francisco, 400 sailors;
Solace (hospital ship); Hancock«,
(transport), 950 marines.
With Admiral Badger en route to
Tampico—Eight battleships, 7280
sailors, 500 marines; Tacoma, 240
sailors; Nashville, 180 sailors.
En route from Pensocola to Tam­
pico.
Birmingham, 300 sailors;
Dixie, repair ship; 14 destroyers,
1150 sailors; Dixie will carry two
hydro-aeroplanes with extra motors
and pontoons.
Battleship Mississippi at Pensapoia
awaiting orders will carry 500
marines.
On Mexican Pacific Coast. Raleigh
350 sailors; New Orleans 350 sailors;
Annapolis, 150 sailors) Yorktown,
180 sailors; California, 900 sailors.
60 marines; supply ship Glacier.
En route to Mexican Pacific Coast.
Battleship South Dakota and Collier
Jupiter, 860 marines; Cleveland, 350
sailors; Chattanooga. 350 sailors;
Maryland, 900 sailors, 60 tnarines.
At San Diego. Five destroyers,
250 sailors and 15 officers. «.
April is War Month
April has been á war month
through the history of the United
States. Four of this nation’s great
wars, and four smaller ones, have
begun in April.
The revolt of the Colonies "began
on.AprilT9, 1775. The war with
Mexico started on April 24, 1845,
69 years from next Friday. Hostili­
ties in the Civil wär broke out on
April 12, 1861, with the firing on
Fort Sumpter. The Spanish-Ameri­
can war began on April 21, 1898. .;
Of the lesser wars« the Black
Hawk Indian war, the Apaché,
Navajo, and Utah wars, and the
Seminole Indian war all started in
April. The Philippine insurrection
came to a head in April, 1899.
Albany boosters two or more
years ago dominated the action of
the county court in most all matters
which directly effected that city.
The present court cannot be so
dominated. Hence, divers and sun­
dry threats can be heard from an
occasional one of these boosters.
ABOUT 200 MEXICANS KILLED
Binejackets and Marines, at First Un-
' opposed, Meets Resistance
in the Streets
Vera Cruz, Mex., April 21.—Vera
Cruz tonight is in thè hands of for­
ces from the United States warships
but the occupation of the port was
not accomplished without loss of
American lives. '
Four Americàhs, bluejackets and
marines, wete killed by the fire of
the Mexican soldiers and 20 fell
wounded. The Mexican loss is riot
known, but it is believed to ' have
been close to 200" dead and many
wounded.
The waterfront, thé customs­
house arid all important piers, in­
cluding thosé under thè terminal
works from which extended ' the
railroads'to thé capital, hàvè been
occupied. All 'thé territory around
the Airierican Consulate is strongly
patrolled and. detachments hold' oth­
er sèctions of thé city."
, The Mexican commander, Général
Gustave. Maas, offered à stubborn
resistance and for riiany hours there
was fighting iri the streets. Toward
nightfall it was reported that -the
main body of the federal garrison
was iri retreat westward.
Rear-Admiral Fletcher, iri com­
mand of thé United States warships,
prefacéd his Occupation óf thè port
by a demand, through the American
consul, W. W. Canada, for its sur­
render. • Genera,! Maas promptly
declined to accède to this demand
and shortly afterward ten" whale­
boats were séni pff from the side of
the transport Prairie loaded with
marines. These boats effected a
landing in the neighborhood of the
Customs-House before noori. and a
few minutes later Captain William
R. Rush, of the battleship Florida,
who was in command of the opera­
tions ashore, brought his flag in.
Captain Rush’s men had already
taken, up their positions. They
numbered 150 bluejackets from the
Florida, 390 marines from the
Prairie apd 65 marines from the
Florida. Later these were aug­
mented by a detachment from the
Utah.
The coming of the AmeHcan
forces was not heralded by any
great excitement, bqt small crowds
gathered to watch the landing.
Soon the bluejackets and marines
marched through the streets leading
frorri the waterfront and along the
railroad yards. Others proceeded
to the American consulate, while
still others were deployed along the
approaches to Central Plaza, in
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Washington, April 20.—Prompt
organization of a volunteer army
for service in the Mexico or in any
other crisis would be provided for
in a House bill passed today by the
senate with amendments.
Sending, of the measure to con­
ference, was delayed by a motion by
Senator Reed to re-consider the
vote, but senate leaders said the
motion probably would be disposed
of tomorrow.
The bill would revise the law
under which a volunteer force was
organize^ for the Spanish-American
war in 1898. Its authors contend
that a volunteer force could be
raised more quickly than under the
existing law; that it would prevent
the payment of bounties, would do
away with a short term of enlist­
ment by making the term of volun­
teers the same as those-in the regu-
lar army; would procure the neces­
sary number of men at the beginning
of the war for a long period, thus
making drafting unnecessary and
would decrease the pension list after
the war.
Unlike the present law. the bill
would provide for the recruiting of"
all organizations of land forces.
This.would include training service
to which duty partially disabled
officers would be assigned when
superseded by able-bodied men at
the front.
Another change in the existing
law would give the president, in­
stead of the governor of the states,
the authority to appoint all officers
for the volunteer forces, requiring
him to give preference in their
selection to those who have had
military training and instructions in
the regular army, national guard,
volunteer forces or military schools.
Instead of the Volunteer forces
waiting to be called into service un­
til all the organized militia of all
arms has been called, it would per­
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mit the organization of volunteers
of a particular arm as soon as the
militia of that particular arm had
Dastardly Work
been put into service. Another pro­
vision is that the number and grade
When Marshal Bowsef examined of officers should be the same in the
the chemical fire engine last week, volunteer forces as in the regular
army.
•he found that some one either
thoughtlessly or with dastard intent,
turned the cranks causing the mix­
ture of the chemicals as if ready for
a fire. It was possible to do the
machine " considerable harm and,
placing it in a condition whereby it
Would be worthless at a fire. Just
why this work was done, is riot
known. If done as a mischievious
trick by'someorie not knowing the
damage he was doing, the act was ,a
serious matter. But if done with
intent to make the machine useless
at a fire, the act merited the sever­
est treatment possible. The engine
is here to protect the property of
every citizen and "he who would
cripple its use, is a citizen who the
town will'do well to get rid of.
That" the people of Sweet Home
and vicinity have not forgotten the
intellectual side of life was well
"manifested last Saturday by the
great interest taken in the. rally
held in the high school building.
"S. V. Barr, R. W. Morehead and
L. K. Geil,, who acted as social com-
mitte, met the speakers at the hotel
promptly at 12. o’clock and all en­
joyed a most excellent dinner.
Superintendent Jackson expressed
himself as being in fine trim for a
feast after having made safe passage
over the Lebanon-Sweet Home road.
But somehow Mr. Jackson succeed­
ed in satisfying his enormous • appe­
tite somewhat before Mr. Benner,
so Mr. Benner pleaded earnestly for
him to have patience. A1J waited
patiently and when sufficient time
had" been allowed him, the speakers
hastened to the high school build­
ing.
After several selections by- the
band ori' ■ the lawn, the assembly
room was filled to overflowing.
Supervisor Benner gave the open­
ing address. 'He emphasised the
fact that teachers and parents should
seek to learn what special vocation
a child is fitted for and then to
teach them accordingly.
Superintendent Thordarson then
made an excellent address on the
subject “A Man.” .
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Mr. Jackson, in his characteristic
lightening speech, laid most stress
on the gregt need of, educating the
youth and the urgent need of a
greater intelligence among the com­
ing generation, and for this, “The
school is the watchtower of inde­
pendence.” ;
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Judge McKnight made an inter­
esting and instructive talk on roads
and other topics «of interest.
Professor Griffin, of the Oregon
Agricultural college, gave an .in­
spiring talk on the Industrial Fair