The Hermiston herald., April 07, 1917, Image 2

THE
SENATE ACTS
FOR WAR
Resolution Passed by Vote of
82 to 6—Senator Lane
Votes Against.
SUBSTITUTE IS LOST
Measure Empowers President With
Full Authority to Use All Re­
sources of Country for
Termination of War.
Washington, D. C. — The resolution
declaring that a state of war exists
between the United States and Ger­
many was adpoted in the senate Wed­
nesday night by an overwhelming ma­
jority. It was immediately taken up
for passage in the house.
Senators who cast the negative votes
were Gronna, of North Dakota; La
Follette, of Wisconsin; Norris, of Ne­
braska; Lane, of Oregon; Stone, of
Missouri, and Vardaman, of Mississip­
pi.
The war resolution was adopted by
the senate by a vote of 82 to 6.
Senator McCumber’s substitute to
declare the existence of a state of war
on the sinking of another American
ship by Germany was defeated without
a rollcall.
The resolution drafted after con­
sultation with the State department
and already accepted by the house com­
mittee, says the state of war thrust
upon the United States by Germany is
formally declared, and directs the
President to employ the entire military
and naval forces and resources of the
government to carry on war and bring
it to a successful termination.
Action in the senate came just after
11 o’clock at the close of a debate that
had lasted continuously since 10
o’clock in the morning.
SPIES HONEYCOMB CAPITOL
German Trail Found in State Depart­
ment-Precautions Taken.
Washington, D. C.— The-significance
of President Wilson's reference to
German spies “even in our offices of
government” became apparent Wednes­
day when it was learned that on sev­
eral occasions trails of the German
secret service have been discovered
within some of the most closely guard­
ed precincts of the executive depart­
ments. Although officials do not be­
lieve that access has been gained by
the foreign agent to any information
of great importance, they are con­
vinced that not even the state depart­
ment has been free from invasion. No
evidence on which prosecutions can be
based has been found, it is said, but
enough has been revealed to prompt
precautions. In his address to con­
gress, the President laid particular
stress on the activities of German
spies and a stringent spy law will be
one of the first war measure requested
of congress.
At the last session an espionage bill
was passed by the senate, but failed to
reach a vote in the house.
Since the war began the justice de­
partment’s bureau of investigation,
charged with the prosecution of for­
eign agents and disloyal citizens, has
been enlarged several times. It now
is expected to be given much wider
facilities and powers and to become an
increasingly important part of the
Federal government.
Peace Proposal Looms
From Austrian Quarters
Berlin, April 3, via London, April
4—The proposal of Count von Czernin,
Austrian foreign minister, that a
peace conference be held by belliger­
ents without requiring the cessation of
hostilities, apparently represents the
attitude of all the central governments.
Count Czernin’s proposal was not
only sanctioned by Austria and her al­
lies, but will shortly be formally ap­
proved at a conference of high person­
ages at Berlin representing the four
countries.
Washington, D. C.—Reports from
Berlin that Count Czernin, Austrian
foreign minister, had proposed a cen
ference of belligerents without a cess­
ation of hostilities caused surprise at
the State department, where it was
said that no such definite information
had been received. Count Czernin is
known here only to have said that the
Munition Prices Ordered
central powers still considered open
Slashed by Government their peace offer of December 12, but
Washington, D. C. — Thursday the that he had added to that offer the
government invoked for the first time suggestion of a conference during hos­
its drastic powers to strike a death tilities provided a new angle.
blow at exhorbitant war profits. Un­
der authority of the last naval appro­ Men of Family to Be Exempt
priation bill a manufacturer was di­
From Immediate Military Duty
rected to furnish a large order of war
supplies at a price fixed by the govern­
Washington, D. C.—National guards­
ment far lower than the figure volun­ men with dependent families will be
tarily submitted. If the order is not mustered out the Federal service, it
obeyed the plant would be taken over was announced Wednesday at the War
and operated by the government.
department.
Officials would not disclosed the
Complete plans are being drawn up
name of the manufacturer nor the at the War department for exempting
agency through which this order was certain classes of men form active mil­
given. It is said, however, that Pres­ itary service in case congress approves
ident Wilson and his advisers were President Wilson’s plan for raising an
firmly resolved that only fair and rea­ army on the principle of universal lia­
sonable charges should be paid by the bility to service.
nation to its citizens for the things
In addition to exempting, on the
that are necessary to make ready for first call, married men and men with
war.
others directly dependent upon them,
European governments are paying provision also will be made for ex­
an average of 10 per cent profit on war empting skilled workers in many in­
material purchased in the United dustries. Such workers will be looked
States. It was asserted authoritively upon as performing military service
that the government of the United if they continue labor .necessary for
States intends to buy its own supplies the industrial welfare of the nation.
at less than that rate of profit to the
seller.
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National Army of 2,000,000
Men Plan of Government
Washington, D. C. — Detailed plans
of the War department for raising an
army numbering millions if that is
necessary “to bring the government of
the German empire to terms’, were
placed in President Wilson’s hands
Thursday in the form of a bill pre-
pared by the General Staff and re­
viewed and revised in part by Secre­
tary Baker and the general officers
who are his military advisers.
The President, as Commander in
Chief, already has approved the basis
adopted for the war army.
Secretary
Baker said the measure would go to
the house and senate committees as
soon as the war resolution was adopt­
ed.
U-Boats Sink 31 Britons.
London British merchant vessels of
1600 tons or more sunk by mines or
submarines in the week ending April 1
and including two not reported for the
previous week, numbered 18 according
to the official statement. The report
says: “The number unsuccessfully at­
tacked by submarines waa 17. Fishing |
vessels sunk numbered six, including |
four sunk the week ending March 25. |
Arrivals during the week for vessels
of all nationalities of more than 100
tons numbered 2281; sailing, 2399.”
Austria Sere to Break.
Vienna
It appears certain that
Austria-Hungary will sever diplomatic
relations with the United States if
Congress declares that a state of war
exists between America and Germany.
The government has placed a special
car at the disposal of U. S. Ambassa­
dor Penfield, who will probably leave
Vienna on April 5.
Before leaving.
Mr. Penfield will be received by Em­
peror Charles. The Ambassador will
travel by way of Switzerland.
Armed American Ship
Sunk Without Warning
Washintgon, D. C.—French admiral­
ty dispatches to the French embassy
here Tuesday announcing the sinking
without warning of the first armed
American merchant ship, the freighter
Aztec by a German submarine, said
apparently Lieutenant William Fuller
Gresham and 12 American bluejackets,
constituting the armed guard the ves­
sel, had been saved, but that 11 of the
crew were reported missing.
The guard, with the captain and
three other members of the crew in
the second boat to put off apparently
were picked up by the French patrol
boats Sirrius after three hours.
Eleven men are thought to have been
drowned when the first boat to put off
was smashed.
HERMISTON
HERALD,
WILSON ASKS
FOR WAR!
Congress Urged to Call 500,
000 Men to Defense of
Old Glory.
STATE Of WAR EXISTS
To Enter Conflict “Without Selfish
Ends, for Conquest, or Domin­
ion;” Resolution Before
Houses of Congress.
Washington, D. C.—President Wil­
son Monday night urged congress, as­
sembled in joint session, to declare a
state of war existing between the
United States and Germany.
In a dispassionate but unmeasured
denunciation of the course of the im­
perial German government, which he
characterized as a challenge to all
mankind and a warfare against all na­
tions, the President declared that neu­
trality no longer was feasible or de­
sirable where the peace of the world
was involved; that armed neutrality
had become ineffectual enough at best
and was likely to produce what it was
meant to prevent, and urged that con­
gress accept the gage of battle with
all the resources of the nation.
“I advise that the congress declare
the recent course of the imperial Ger­
man government to be in fact nothing
less than war against the government
and people of the United States,” said
the President, “that it formally accept
the status of belligerent which has
thus been thrust upon it, and it take
steps not only to put the country in a
more thorough state of defense, but
also to exert all its power and employ
all its resources to bring the govern-
HERMISTON,
OREGON.
ment of the German empire to terms
and end the war.”
When the President had finished
speaking resolutions to declare a state
of war existing were introduced in
both houses of congress, referred to
appropriate committees and will be de­
bated immediately. There is no doubt
of their passage.
The objects of the United States in
entering the war, the President said,
are to vindicate the principles of peace
and justice against “selfish and auto­
cratic power.” Without selfish ends,
for conquest, or dominion, seeking no
indemnities or material compensations
for the sacrifices it shall make, the
United States must enter the war, he
said, to make the world safe for demo­
cracy, as only one of the champions of
the rights of mankind, and would be
satisfied when those rights were as se­
cure as the faith and freedom of na­
tions could make them.
The President’s address was sent in
full to Germany by a German official
news agency for publication in that
country. The text also went to Eng
land, and a summary of its contents
was sent around the world to other
nations.
WAR RESOLUTION
BEFORE CONGRESS
The following war resolution is
introduced before, the house and sen­
ate:
“Joint resolution declaring that a
state of war exists between the im­
perial German government and the
government and people of the Unit­
ed States, and making provision to
prosecute the same :
“Whereas, the recent acts of the
mperial German government are
acts of war against the government
and people of the United States;
“Resolved, by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con­
gress assembled, that the state of
war between the United States and
the impe ial German government,
which has thus been thrust upon the
United States, is hereby formally
declared; and
“That the President be and is
hereby authorized and directed to
take immediate steps, not only > to
jut the country in a thorough state
of defense, but also to exert all of
ts power and employ all of its re­
sources to carry on war against the
mperial German government and
to bring the conflict to a successful
termination.”
PRESIDENT’S
WAR
PROGRAM
Universal Service, 500,000 Men at Once, Credits
and Co-operation With Allies, Mobilization.
To carry on an effective warfare against the German government,
which he characterized as a natural foe to liberty, the President rec­
ommended:
Utmost practical co-operation with the governments already at
war with Germany.
Extension of liberal financial credits to those governments so
that our resources may be added so far as possible with theirs.
Organization and mobilization of all material resources.
Full equipment of the navy, particularly for means of dealing
with submarine warfare.
An army of at least 500,000, based on the principle of universal
liability to service, and the authorization of additional increments of
500,000 each as they are needed or can be handled in training.
Raising necessary money for the United States government so
far as possible without borrowing and on the basis of equitable taxes.
All preparations, the President urged, should be made in such a
way as not to check the flow of war supplies to the nations already
in the field against Germany.
Measures to accomplish all these ends, the President told con­
gress, would be presented with the best thought of the executive de­
partments, which will be charged with the conduct of the war.
Champ Clark is Again
Elected Speaker of House
Washington, D. C.—The Democrats,
with the aid of four of the five Inde- I
pendents, organized the house when
the new congress assembled Monday,
re-electing Speaker Champ Clark, of
Missouri, and sweeping into office with
him all the other Democratic caucus
nominees.
Mr. Clark received 217 votes against
205 for Representative Mann, the Re­
publican choice for speaker, who not
only failed to receive an Independent
vote, but lost his support of five of his
party colleagues.
All the Democrats present voted for
Mr.. Clark and were joined by Schall,
Progressive, of Minnesota; Martin,
Progressi ve-Protectionist, of Louisi-
anas; London, Socialist, of New York,
and Randall, Prohibitionist, of Califor­
nia.
Women Pacifists Grilled.
Russians Throw Off Yoke.
London — The Republican Union of | New York—In a statement issued
Juarez, Mex.—Sixty-five Villa fol­
lower were executed in the Chihuahua the Peasant Members of the Russian I here Monday night the preparedness
City cemetery Wednessday by order of Duma has issued a manifesto to the | committee of the New York and New
General Francisco Murguia, refugees peasantry, according to a Reuter dis- | Jersey chapters of the women’s depart­
arriving from the state capital said. patch from Petrograd, saying that | ment of the National Civic Federation
These refugees said the number of their lifelong need of land is to be sat­ declared that “the hysterical cry of
Villa sympathizers and followers who isfied under a form of government suit­ the female pacifists to arouse timidity
were hanged following the battle of able for toilers. The manifesto says: in American women is an insult to our
last Friday numbered more than 200. I ‘Hitherto we have been taught in sex and is deserving of the sternest re­
including two Villa generals. Fifty | the churches and schools that our buke by the patriotic womanhood of
were hanged on one bridge, 17 were rulers were the anointed of God. ' our country and must be repudiated.
seen hanging on one tree and seven For hundreds of years we have been ! The road from pacifism to disloyalty
were hanged in the Cathedral plaza op­ pining under their heavy autocratic and pro-Germanism is short; at one end
posite the state palace, a refugee said. yoke.”
is cowardice and at the other treason. ”
Villistas Are Executed.
City Drops Disloyal Man.
Lewiston, Idaho — Edward Strong,
an employe of the City of Lewiston,
was promptly dismissed from the serv-
ice Wednesday when it was learned
that he denounced the flag of the Unit­
ed States. The city was being decor­
ated with flags when Strong made a
slurring remark concerning them. He |
was rushed to the police station, given
a prompt hearing and immediately dis­
charged from serivee. He has been an
employe of the city for many years.
British Gain Two Miles.
Berlin—(By wireless to Sayville, N.
Y. )— British troops, after tenacious
fighting, in which they suffered heavy
losses. Monday pushed their lines into
the German positions on the Somme
for a depth of nearly two miles, says
the official statement.
The British
advance was between the Peronne-
Gouzeacourt road and the lowlands of
the Omignon stream, in which the
towns of Jeancourt and Verma nd are
situated.
Gompers for Compulsory Training.
New York—Samuel Gompers. presi­
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, announced Sunday his support
of the Chamberlain military training
bill. His statement came as a retort
to a long letter from Amos Pinchot,
urging Mr. Gompers to take a stand
against military training.
Mr. Gompers stated that he had
changed his mind on the subject and
strongly advocated the passage of the
bill.
PEACE MEETING ENDS IN RIOT
WORLD HAPPENINGS
National Guardsmen Lead Crowd Into
Hall—Many Fist Fights Result.
OF CURRENT WEEK
Baltimore, Md.—Counter demonstra­
tions organized against a mass meet­
ing Sunday night under the auspices of
the American League Against Militar­
ism, which was being addressed by Dr.
David Starr Jordan, provoked dis­
order and fist fights, which resulted in
riot calls for the police. In order to
restore quiet, many persons were ejec­
ted from the hall and the meeting
broke up just as Dr. Jordan reached an
impassioned climax in his address.
The mass meeting assembled in the
Academy of Music, while on the pave­
ments outside gathered a crowd of
similar proportions which voiced senti­
ments contrary to the purposes for
which the meeting inside had been
called. Sentiment grew turbulent un­
til Anally it was proposed to invade
the hall.
National guardsmen took
the lead and marched into the theater
waving an American flag, while behind
them trailed a crowd which filled every
aisle and caused cries of alarm.
Several fist fights started. Dr. Jor­
dan found it almost impossible to make
himself heard, but continued his ad­
dress. A riot call was turned in and
soon police reserves from every section
of the city began to arrive. The
lights were dimmed and the officers be­
gan to remove the disturbers, where­
upon the meeting broke up.
Men socially prominent were in the
forefront of the throng which broke
into the theater. College professors,
students, bankers and lawyers were
there.
Carter G. Osburn, jr., a
banker, carried a flag.
A policeman
clubbed him into unconsciousness and
the crowd which saw the flag disappear
from his hand leaped forward and
swept the police aside.
• Twenty men were clubbed and four
of them were taken to a hospital. A
dozen others were arrested.
War Preparations Go Ahead Rapid­
ly in All Branches of Defense
Washington, D. C.—The govern­
ment’s war preparations developed im­
portant steps Monday in all three
branches of National defense.
At the War department orders were
issued calling into the Federal service
7000 additional National guardsmen,
and it was announced that detailed
plans had been worked out by the gen­
eral staff for raising any larger army
which congress might authorize.
The Navy department established on
an official basis the Coast patrol of
submarine chasers, and ordered Cap­
tain Henry Wilson detached from his
post as commander of the superdread-
naught Pennsylvania to take charge of
the coast “mosquito fleet.” Bids for
more chasers were opened at the de­
partment during the day and Secretary
Daniels said he expected soon to have
a large number of the boats in commis­
sion.
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Austrian Leaders Accord.
Budapest, via Amsterdam and Lon­
don—Discussion regarding Hungary’s
attitude toward events in Russia was
made a special order of the day by the
Hungarian chamber of deputies Mon­
day.
The government spokesman
made a speech, to which the leaders of
all parties agreed, declaring for a
policy of non-interference in the in­
ternal affairs of Russia. He added
that the central powers were ready to
take up peace negotiations whenever
the entente countries “abandoned their
lust of conquest.”
Spy Suspect ia Arrested.
•Pecos, Texas—A man giving the
name of A. W. Tinenburg is in jail
here pending instructions from mili­
tary authorities at Fort Sam Houston.
He was arrested in Toyah and officers
say papers were found in his possession
giving the names of towns and the lo­
cation of all railroad bridges on the
Southern Pacific and Texas & Pacific
railroads in West Texas, as well as a
list of the number of American sol­
diers stationed at border points.
San Diego Fair Closes.
San Diego, Cal.—The three month’s
post season of the Panama-California
International exposition ended at mid-
night Saturday night with a music
program and outdoor festivities. The
fair closed officially January 1, but
was extended until March 31, thus
making the life of the exposition 27
months without interruption, the long­
est record ever made by a similar un
dertaking.
Filipinos Want to Enlist.
Manila—The Filipino seamen’s union
has called a meeting of all Filipino
sailors to consider means of offering
their services to the United States
navy in case of war. Admiral A. G.
Winterhalter has cabled to Secretary
of Navy Daniels asking for authority
to enlist Filipinos in the United States
as full seamen in all waters.
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Unprecedented demands for Ameri­
can flags of all sizes have swamped
flag makers with orders far beyond
their capacity.
The Finland senate, now in session,
is reported by American Minister Mor­
ris at Stockholm to have offered liberty
to the Finnish people.
March broke all recruiting records
in Chicago since the Spanish-American
war, according to estimates of army,
navy and marine corps officers.
Belated reports of the windstorm
which swept Mississippi Monday night
now show six dead and a score or more
injured. Property damage will run
high.
The telephone switchboard at the
Boston navy yard was operated Tues­
day by girls for the first time. They
took the place of marines who were
assigned to other duty.
A resolution requesting President
Wilson to renew his suggestion to the
European belligerents for a termina­
tion of the war is introduced by Rep­
resentative London, of New York, So­
cialist.
The American Commission for Relief
in Belgium has received a dispatch
stating that the first delegation of
American relief workers in Belgium
and Northern France had arrived at
Berne, Switzerland.
The French senate showed its wrath
Saturday at the devastation in North­
ern France by adopting a resolution
denouncing to the civilized world the
acts of the Germans and demanding
that the authors be punished.
Six Germans were convicted by a
jury in the Federal District court in
New York Monday of conspiracy to de­
stroy steamshpis carrying food and
munitions from this port for the en­
tente allies by means of incendiary
bombs.
German and Austrian newspapers
reaching Switzerland Monday and tele­
graphic reports from Hungary are once
more filled with peace ideas. There
has been an almost feverish renewal of
peace discussions on the eve of the re-
opening of the American congress.
Constitutional amendments for pro­
hibition were introduced in house and
senate by Representative Randall, of
California, and Senator Sheppard, of
Texas. It was announced that, in view
of the international situation, they
would not be pressed at the special
session.
Plans to organize the women of New
York state to increase the food supply
by intensive home gardening and elim­
inating waste is announced there by
the officers of the Women’s Suffrage
party in connection with the offer of
its services to the government in the
event of war.
William Howard Taft, returning to
New York Tuesday after what he said
was the longest and most strenuous
journey he has taken since he left the
White House, asserted that the people
of the South and Southwest are ready
for war and that the United States
must enter the conflict “whole-heart­
edly.”
The government borrows $50,000,-
000 at 2 per cent interest from the
Federal Reserve banks, upon 24 hours’
notice.
Helena, Mont., is witnessing a gold
stampede. Broadway, from its inter­
section with Main street up the hill,
is lined with men and boys hunting
nuggets in the gutter sand. A pioneer
prospector set up a 50-year-old gold
washer and was rewarded with pay
dirt at once.
Youngsters found a
number of nuggets, a day’s yield being
estimated at between $100 and $200.
Mayor Albee of Portland, sends the
Chinese of that city, who are engaging
in a tong war, an ultimatum which
warns that wholesale arrests will be
made unless the war is stopped at once.
Four million dollars in gold, import­
ed from Canada for account of J. P.
Morgan & Co., was deposited at the
assay office in New York Saturday,
and another $6,000,000 from the same
source was forwarded to the Philiadel-
phia mint. This brings the total im­
Training Station Ablaze.
Lake Bluff, Ill. — Fire, possibly of ports to date this year to $240,700,000.
incendiary origin, for a time menaced
That the next six months will find
the Great Lakes naval training station 1,500,000 men under arms in this coun­
here early Sunday.
It was extin­
guished by a battalion of seamen, or­ try, is the opinion of United States
dered out to assist sentries who dis­ Senator Kirby, of Arkansas. He ia
covered the blaze. As a result of the one of the senators who opposed armed
incident double guards were posted neutrality in the last senate session.
atout the reservation.
Mobilization of labor for govern­
ment service in event of war is planned
Turkish Trap is Failure.
at a conference of officials and labor
London—Efforts by Turkish troops leaders in the office of Secretary Wil­
Means were agreed upon for
to envelop a British force near Delta- son.
wah, 35 miles north of Bagdad, have making readily available enough work­
failed, says an official British state­ men to insure operation of government
ment The Turks in that region now shipyards and arsenals and of plants
working on government contracta.
are in full retreat