THE
EXTRA SESSION DUEINAPRI
HERMISTON
HERALD,
FILIBUSTER DEFEATS
WORLD HAPPENINGS Authority for Arming Merchant Ships
to Be Asked.
‘ARMED NEUTRALITY’
Of CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS
Events of Noted People, Government«
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Three hundred striking girl garment
workers in a Chicago court were or
dered by the judge to cease chewing
gum before the proceedings could be
continued.
An early morning fire caused a loss
estimated at $325,000 when it par
tially destroyed the Carstens packing
plant at Tacoma. This was the com
pany’s third extensive fire within two
years.
Senator Harry Lane, of Oregon, who
was one of the twelve senators to fili
buster in the senate to the ultimate
defeat of the armed neutrality bill, is
being severely criticised by his con
stituency.
The American schooner or steamer
John G. McCollough has been captured
on the charge of attempting to run the
blockade. She was taken to Falmouth,
where her cargo is being removed for
the prize court.
A Constantinople dispatch quotes
the Turkish finance minister as saying
to the parliament that the advances
from Germany to Turkey by August
will have reached a total of £142,000,-
000 Turkish ($624,800,000).
Lester L. Gellatly, of Wenatchee,
Wash., a University of California stu
dent, gave a quart of his blood to save
the life of Irene M. O’Brien, a girl
student, but refused a reward of $100
for his act. Miss O’Brien died.
Five Chinese were killed outright,
two were fatally injured and three
were wounded in tong wars which
were waged almost simultaneously
Wednesday in San Francisco, Oakland,
Stockton, San Jose and Seattle, Wash.
According to the Copenhagen news
paper Berlinske Tidende, says the
Overseas News agency, the official
German news bureau, some of the resi
dents of East Prussia who were being
held by the Russians now have been
released.
The Russian government seeks to
obtain judgments totaling $1,368,000
from the Tennessee Copper company
and the National Surety company in a
suit filed in the Federal court in New
York for alleged breach of a contract
to supply $4,560,000 worth of trinitro
toluol.
Captain Bathurst, the food control
lers’ spokesman in the house of com
mons, has predicted in reply to ques
tions, that everyone would have to go
without potatoes in the late spring and
early summer. He said there was an
unprecedented shortage not only in the
United Kingdom, but throughout the
world.
According to a telegram the German
government has sent a wireless dis
patch to Count von Bernstorf, ex-
German ambassador to the United
States, who is at sea returning to Ger
many, asking him to explain how the
German note with regard to bringing
Mexico and Japan into war with the
United States was divulged.
Washintgon, D. C. The senate of
the United States having agreed to
curb filibustering, President Wilson
has determined to call congress in ex
tra session about April 1.
When congress reassembles it will
find that the Preisdent has acted in the
matter of arming merchant ships. It
will not be requested to confer such
authority upon he chief executive. It
way be asked to empower him to em
ploy “such other instrumentalities and
methods” as may in his judgment be
necessary and adequate to protect
American vessels and American citi
zens in their lawful and peaceful pur
suits upon the high seas.
It will be asked to make an appro
priation of $100,000,000 for the Presi
dent’s use in this connection, the
money to be raised, as was proposed,
by the issue of 3 per cent bonds.
In the light of what is happening
throughout the nation, there is no
doubt that congress will act promptly
and practically unanimously in accord
ing the President whatever power he
desires and the amount of money he
fixes.
The way in which the country has
rallied to the support of the President
and denounced the “filibustering doz
en,” as the senators who made the
United States “powerless and con-
tempitable” are being called, has con
vinced the chief executive and his ad
visers that the people are determined
to provide protection for American
citizens and American ships.
HERMISTON, OREGON.
WILSON AGAIN INAUGURATED MUNITION PLOT FRUSTRATED
NATIONALISTS URGE
Oath of Office Is Administered and German With New Explosive Bombs
Arrested in Hoboken, N. J.
Address Given.
IRISH HOME-RULE
Washington, D. C. — Flanked by
thousands upon thousands of his coun-
| trymen, President Wilson was inducted
second term Monday.
Minority Disregards Country's | into The his spirit
of the time harked back
to the days of Lincoln. The thrill and
Crisis; Wilson's Hands Tied. solemnity of war was stamped upon
the simple, democratic ceremony,
though a strain of peace ran through
the proceedings, too.
It was just 12:47 o’clock when Wil
son kissed the Bible, completing the
oath which he had taken twice within
! two days.
Standing with bared head, he ac-
Senate Urged to Revise Rules to Supply
! cepted the solemn, serious gift of a
Means of Meeting Situation—
nation still at peace, but touched on
! all sides by the flames of war.
“Wilful Men” are Rapped.
At 12:30 o’clock the president ap-
| peared at the front door leading from
j the capitol to the platform.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson
Washington, D. C. — Twelve sena
tors, led by Senator La Follette and and his aides.
At the conclusion of the formal cere
encouraged by Senator Stone, Demo mony there was a cheer from the
cratic chairman of the foreign rela thousands and the President began the
tions’ committee, in a filibuster, de i delivery of his address.
In his inaugural address President
nounced by President Wilson’s spokes
men as the most reprehensible in the Wilson emphasized the things that
history of any civilized nation, defied the United States shall stand for,
the will of an overwhelming majority whether in war or in peace:
“That all nations are equally inter
in congress up to the last minute Sun
day and denied to the President a law ested in the peace of the world and in
authorizing him to arm American the political stability of free peoples,
merchant ships to meet the German and equally responsible for their main
submarine menace.
tenance;
“That peace cannot securely or justly
Unyielding throughout 26 hours of
continuous session to appeals that | rest upon an armed balance of power;
their defiance of the President would
“That governments derive all their
PRESIDENT ISSUES ADDRESS
Hoboken, N. J. — With the arrest
here Tuesday of Fritz Kolb, a German,
the authorities expressed the belief
they had frustrated a well-developed
plot to aid Germany by blowing up
munition plants in this country, en
gaged in turning out contracts for the
entente allies.
The police said they
found in Kolb’s room two bombs,
which, according to rumors that had
reached them, were to be sent to Pres
ident Wilson.
After a preliminary investigation,
however, they announced themselves
as convinced that the plans of the al
leged plotters had to do entirely with
destroying war supplies and that no
attack on the President’s life was con
templated.
The police also said they had come
into possession of information which
might help them in solving the Black
Tom, N. J., explosion and the destruc
tion of the Kingland, N. J., plant of
the Canadian Car & Foundry company
in which large munition supplies for
the entente were blown up.
Ten Men Lose Lives in Sea
Attempting to Rescue Others
Ocean City, Md.—Ten men from the
coast cutter Yamacraw went to their
death Monday night in a raging storm
off this place in a futile effort to save
the crew of the oil steamer Louisiana,
aground on a sand-bar two miles out.
Three lifesaving crews from Ocean
City, North Beach and Isle of Wight
stations had been sent to the Louisana
TENTH PRESIDENT TO BE ELECTED FOR SECOND TERM. to
take off the crew, but the captain
said the vessel was in no immediate
danger.
Captain Ridgley, of the
Yamacraw, in answer to rockets, or
dered his large boat launched, and
Washington, D. C. Modification of
eight men under a quartermaster were
the senate rules, urged by President
sent out in a sea running 20 feet high.
Wilson to prevent future filibusters
The lifeboat was swamped and the
like the one that killed the armed neu
nine men pitched into the sea. Sailors
trality bill, is virturally agreed upon
on the Louisana threw out life belts,
by a conference committee of ten sen
but the men were lost in the darkness,
ators, five Democrats and five Repub
and only their cries could be heard.
licans, named by the party caucuses.
94 Sunk-in Month.
Colombia Denies Intrigue.
Washington, 1). C.—Julio Betan
court, the Colombian minister, again
declared that persistent cable reports
of an alliance between Columbia and
Germany “or any other nation, in or
der to embroil herself” in the war are
“absolutely false.” It was said the
report of a German-Colombian alliance
had tended to arouse a widespread dis
trust of Colombia in Latin-America.
“On the contrary,” the statement
read, “the ardent and vehement desire
of my country is to see the end of this
unspeakable tragedy.”
Ex-Millionaire in Poorhouse.
Chicago James W. Paige, inventor
of “one of the most remarkable pieces
of mechanism ever put together,” is
in the poorhouse at Oak Forest, Ill.
Twenty-five years ago he was owner of
the Paige compositor plant here, for
the making of typesetting machines.
Upward of $2,000,000 was invested in
the plant. Paige was reputed to be
worth $1,500,000 at the time. Mark
Twain was one of the investors. In
the panic of 1893 Mr. Paige lost his
money.
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Training Bill Sweeping.
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Albany, N. Y. — Bills intended to
provide for military training for all
boys in New York state between the
ages of 16 and 19 years were passed
by the assembly and senate with only
five votes cast against them. The
bills would amend the military train
ing law passed last year, which pro
vided military training for schoolboys
only. Under the amendment 230,000
boys will be eligible for military train
ing, while under the the old law only
22,000 were eligible.
The measures
provide that boys shall receive three
hours of military training a week from
September 1 to June 15 of each year.
. ? |
ate
a
Sentence National Guard Spy.
Minneapolis, Minn. Officers of the
First Minnesota Infantry returning to
Fort Snelling Wednesday from the
Mexican border announced that Paul
L. Scharfenberg, of St. Paul, a pri
vate in company L, First Minnesota
Infantry, was sentenced to five years'
imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., February 5. by a court-martial
of regular Army officers sitting at San
Antonio, for furnishing military in
formation to Germany.
New York—Official figures from the
British admiralty made public here at
the office of the consul general of
Great Britain show that during Febru
ary 94 British merchant ships were
destroyed by mines or submarines. Of
this number 61 ships were of 1600 tons
or over and 33 were under 1600 tons.
In addition to the merchant ships, 29
fishing vessels of British register were
sunk. It was also reported that dur
ing the month 67 British merchant
vessels were unsuccessfully attacked
by submarines, as shown by reports
filed with the admiralty up to and in
cluding March‛4.
WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT.
Des Moines Quits Potatoes.
Des Moines—The Des Moines cham
ber of commerce, half a dozen women’s
clubs and every other club in the city
have joined the boycott on potatoes de
clared by Mayor MacVicarin in an
effort to reduce the price of the vege
table. In addition, it was learned on
high authority, the mayor has been
summoned to appear before a Polk
county grand jury to present alleged
evidence of a combination of "specula
tors” who, it was charged, held vast
stores of tubers in local warehouses,
waiting for a $5 market.
Ulsterites Are Stumbling Block
to Speedy Settlement.
PREMIER FACES FIRST CRISIS
Lloyd-George Meets With Whirwind of
Censure —Is Called "Turncoat”
for Offering Compromise.
London — The presentation by the
Irish Nationalists in the house of com
mons Friday of a resolution calling for
the immediate appliction of the Home
Rule statute to Ireland precipitated
one of the most bitter sessions in
months and threw the Home Rule
question back into its old position of
uncertainty.
The resolution forced the govern
ment into a declaration of policy
towards self-goverment, namely, that
any part of Ireland that wished Home
Rule could have it but no coercion
would be employed to compel Ulster to
accept.
At the same time the proposal drew
from the Ulsterites the ultimatum that
they would not accept, which, coupled
with the government’s pronouncement,
effectually crushed all hopes for a
speedy settlement.
The Nationalists, headed by their
leader, John Redmond, went into con
ference, having withdrawn in a body
from the house of commons and Mr.
Lloyd-George was facing his first em
barrassing situation since he assumed
the premiership.
For more than an hour before the
Nationalists left the house the premier
had faced a whirlwind of angry cen
sure from the Nationalist quarter,
which at times forced him to take his
seat because he could not make himself
heard. He was called a “turncoat”
on the home rule question and one Na
tionalist exclaimed:
“Hangman Carson! He is only fit
to be hangman—not First Lord of the
admiralty. ”
The Nationalist resolution was in
troduced by T. P. O’Connor, who as
serted that the manner in which the
government had handled the Irish re
bellion had transformed a friendly
people into one filled with bitter hatred
against England.
He pleaded that home rule should be
put into operation immediately for
the sake of Ireland and in the interests
of England, the empire and the allies.
Land Grant Brief Filed.
Washington, D. C.—The government
has filed its brief in the Supreme court
against the Oregon & California Rail
road company in the government’s suit
to recover 2,300,000 acres of land in
Oregon, valued at more than $30,000,-
000, granted in 1866 and 1870 to cer
tain railroads upon condition that they
would sell the land to settlers at not
more than $2.50 an acre. The govern
ment contends that the conditions were
broken by the railroads and seeks to
have the Supreme court affirm the de
cision of the lower court.
be humiliating to the country; uncom-: just powers from the consent of the
Grayson Expected to Win.
promising in a crisis described to them | governed, and that no other powers
Washington, D. C.—Republican op
as the most serious to the Nation since I should be supported by the common
position to the confirmation of Dr.
the Civil war, La Follette and his thought, purpose or power of the fam
Cary T. Grayson, President Wilson’s
small group of supporters refused a ily of nations;
naval aide, just renominated as medi
“That the seas should be equally
majority of their colleagues an oppor-
cal director and rear admiral, is not
free
and
safe
for
the
use
of
all
peo
tunity
to
vote
on
the
armed
neutrality
Four men, one non-commissioned
Billion in Cash is Ready.
expected to develop much strength at
bill, and it died with the Sixty-fourth ples, under rules set up by common
officer and three privates of the First
the present special senate session.
agreement and consent, and that, so
San Francisco Herbert Fleishhack- conrgess at noon.
Indiana Infantry, and not secret serv
Senator Weeks, who led the fight in
To fix responsibility before the far as practicable, they should be ap
ice operatives of the government, ar- er, president of the Anglo-London &
the last session, is said to have con
rested the messenger of Ambassador Paris Naitonal bank, who has just re- country, 76 senators, 30 Republicans plicable to all upon equal terms;
cluded that it would be useless to at
von Bernstorff, en route to Mexico to turned after attending a meeting of and 46 Democrats, signed a manifesto | "That national armaments should be
tempt another filibuster and the Dem
deliver the plotting note of Alfred the advisory council of the Federal proclaiming to the world that they fa- limiteli to the necessities of national
ocrats will vote solidly for confirma
order and domestic safety;
Zimmerman to the German ambassador Reserve board in Washington, D. C., vored passage of the measure.
“That the community of interest
tion.
at Mexico City, according to a report said the banks of the United States |
Villa Reported Wounded.
could take up a $1,000,000,000 govern- j Washington, D. C.— President Wil- | and of power upon which peace must
from Houston, Tex.
Terms May Be Published.
ment bond issue with just a few days' j son Sunday night informed the country | henceforth depend upon each nation
El Paso—Carranza consular officials
Aroused by the disclosure of Ger- | notice in the event of war.
Havre, France — The German gov
He said in a statement that he may be without the duty of seeing to it that all influ here received a report Tuesday that
many's plot to unite Japan and Mexico the country was well prepared from a power to arm merchant ships and take ences proceeding from its own citizens Francisco Villa was struck on the chest ernment, according to information re
with her in a war upon the United financial standpoint.
other steps to meet the German sub- meant to encourage or assist revolu by a small piece of shrapnel shell dur ceived here through confidential
States and then convinced by official 1
marine menace, in the absence of au tion in other states should be sternly ing the battle of Jiminez and that the agents, is considering the publication
evidence of its authenticity, congress
and effectually suppressed and pre wound had resulted in double pneu of Germany’s terms of peace. Under
thority from congress.
New War Plot Found.
Friday abandoned the delays and ob
these terms Belgium would be declared
An extra session of congress, the vented.”
monia.
New York Dr. C. Hanador Chakia-
structions which have checked Presi- | berty, a Hindu physician, and Dr. President says, is required to clothe
An unconfirmed report received here independent, subject only to permanent
dent Wilson’s efforts to be clothed Ernest Sckenner, 34, described as a him with authority, but it is useless to Senators Who Killed Neutrality Bill. Monday that a German physician was German garrisons at Antwrep, Leige
Washington, D. C.—The 12 senators treating Villa in a mountain cabin was and Namur, and to the control of ports
with express authority to deal with the German, were arrested on charges of ¡ call one while the senate works under
submarine menace.
Belgium, under the
conspiring to set up a militairy expe the present rules which permit a small —seven Republicans and five Demo denied by United States secret service and railways.
terms, would have no national army,
minority to keep an overwhelming ma- crats, who by their filibuster killed the agents.
dition
against
a
foreign
country
on
The sale of all spirits and other al-
armed neutrality bill are :
but would be policed by a gendarmerie.
from acting.
coholic liquors has been prohibited in friendly relations with the United joirty
Republicans — Moses E. Clapp, of
The President proposes therefore,
Three Die in Farm Fire.
States.
The
police
say
the
n.en
con
Denmark, according to a dispatch from
that the special session of the senate, Minnesota; Albert B. Cummins, of
General Scott Retained.
Chandlers, Okla.—J. O. Phillips, a
Copenhagen. The order is temporary | fessed that they had plotted under di which he called to meet Monday, re Iowa; Asie J. Gronna, of North Dako
Washington,
D. C.—Major General
rection
of
Wolf
von
Igel
to
invaile
In
wealthy
farmer
living
near
here,
was
and calls for returns to be made on all !
vise the rules, “to supply the means ta; William S. Kenyon, of Iowa; Rob burned to death, with his two sons, 11 Scott was re-detailed as chief of staff
dia by way of China.
stocks of spirits in the country.
of action and save the country from ert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin; and 13 years of age. Wednesday, when of the army by President Wilson. Be
George W. Norris, of Nebraska; John fire destroyed their home. Phillips, his cause of his intimate association with
disaster.”
When Governor Thomas C. Camp-
Bids for Airships Opened.
D. Works, of California.
“
A
little
group
of
wilful
men,
”
says
bell, of Arizona, was informed regard-
wife and her sister had escaped, when the Secretary of War the chief of staff
Washintgon, D. C. Bids for eight
Democrats — William F. Kirby, of he realized that the children still were has to be re-appointed when a new ad
ing the action of Germany, he said or more non-rigid dirigible airships for the President in his statement, "repre
that in the event of hostilities he coast and harbor patrol work, opened senting no opinion but their own. have Arkansas; Harry Lane, of Oregon; in the house asleep. He rushed into ministration begins during his term.
would raise a troop of rough riders by the navy department recently, dis- rendered the great government of the James A. O’Gorman, of New York; the building, but never emerged.
General Scott will serve until next
from among cattlemen now holding a closed offers from five companies with United States helpless and contempti- William J. Stone., of Missorui; J. K. |
September under the ordinary proce
Vardaman, of Mississippi.
convention at Globe.
dure, when he will reach the retirement
Flag Desacrator Held.
prices for one airship ranging from ble.”
Boston—Herman von Hagen, charged age. In the event of war, however, he
Great Britain's ban on importations ! $71,500 to $47,000, and deliveries in
500 Women Fail in Visit.
Two Fire Companies Lost.
120 days. Five million dollars has
with desecrating the American flag, would continue in active service.
is expected to affect seriously the been appropriatisi and the number of
Washington. D. C.—The "mild mili- | was held in $500 bail for a hearing.
Detroit At least 12 firemen were
Swiss lace industry. A large number airships will be determined later.
Big Loan Ready for China.
caught under a falling wall, while tant” woman suffrage campaign of Von Hagen, who was born in this
of manufacturers at St. Gall announce |
picketing the White House with “si country, had been employed recently in | Chicago--The'Continental & Com
fighting
a
fire
in
two
five-story
build
suspension of operations or a great |
Storm Sweeps Nebraska.
ings in the heart of the downtown lent sentinels" came to its climax | a local machine shop and it was al mercial Trust & Savings Bank, which
diminution of output.
Omaha
A blizzard ia prevailing business section early Sunday. It was Sunday when a single file of 500 i leged he used a small flag to wipe lent the republic of China $5,000,000
several months ago, is considering
Nine Mexicans were executed at over Northwestern. Wetsern and Cen said that two entire fire companies are women marched round and round the grease spots from the work bench.
making an additional loan of $25,000,-
White
House
grounds
in
a
driving
rain
|
missing.
The
fire
originateti
in
a
cloak
tral
Nebraska,
according
to
reports
re-
sunrise Friday in Agua Prieta. Six
Swedish Ministry Quits.
000 to that government. Saturday
Snow has and suit store. At 2:30 a. m. the storm while six of their leaders stood |
were cowboys who three weeks ago ceived here Thursday.
engaged in a battle with part of the reached a depth of three feet on the firemen had succeeded in extricating at a locked and guarded gate trying | London—The Swedish ministry has John J. Abbott a vice president and
forces of Major Patricio Gomel in Alliance division of the Chicago, Bur only four of the imprisoned men. They vainly for two hours to get an inter- | resigned, according to Reuter's Stock- | Henry Russell Platt an attorney for
Western Chihuahua, when apprehended lington & Quincy railroad. West of still were working to get at the others. view with President Wilson or one of holm correspondent. At the request ' the bank, will depart for Pekin to in
of King Gustave, however, the minis- , vestigate conditions. They will sail
in the act of smuggling cattle across Haigler, Neb., to Akron, Col., a blind Roth buildings will be a total loes. his secretaries.
They saw no one. as the mansion ters consent to remain in office in the . from Vancouver, B. C., for China
the border. The other three were al ing storm has caused abandonment of The damage will probably be upward
within ten days.
hope of composing the crisis.
was closed for the day.
of $500,000.
leged Villa spies.
train service, it is reported.