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Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER- Fair Tonight, Wednesday. Mux. 45.5, Mln. 1, Pro. Tr. rtrty-flfth Tear. Polly Tmth Year. MEDFORD, NO. 212 ft rl E9SE muvu trim svr?- rm OK 1U JUaBY 4, 191G FOREIGN Y OF PRESIDENT TO BEAMED Senate Adjourns Out of Respect to Judge Lamar Republicans Plan Partisan Attack Upon President on Account of Mexican and Foreign Policy. WASHINGTON', .Trui. !, An ex pected attack on tlio administra tion's foreign policy and its courso in tho subranrino crisis failed to mater ial izc in tho senate today when that body, after being in session lesa than ten minutes, adjourned until noon to morrow. Tho reason assigned for tho sud den adjournment by leudors of both ides was that several senators who had expected to havo business to present did not have it ready. Tho motion on which tho sennto adjourned, however, was in observ ance of tho death of Assistant Jus tice Lumnr of tho supremo court. To Assail Administration Earlier in tho day Chairman Stono of tho foreign relations committee, in conference with President Wilson over tho submarine, crisis, told tho president lie had heard intimations that bomo senators woro going to as pail tho administration's course, and that somo others were going to at tack tho Mexican policy. Tho international situation wns up permost in tho minds of members of both sennto .nnd houso n they ro- assembled today for tho real work of tho session nftcr tho holiday recess. Senator Fall, republican, of New Mexico, had ready n resolution enll- iug on President Wilson to inform tho sennto to what government ho hoped to accredit Henry Prnthor Fletcher, who has been nominated for ambassador to Mexico. Ho will in troduce tho resolution tomorrow, and it w expected that it will bo made tho vehicle for n general republican at tack, not on Mr. Fletcher, but upon tho administration's Mexican policy. Tight Upon llelchor Oilier senators who shoro Senator Fall's views dcclnro tho senuto has no knowledgo of a government in Mexico and that the president's Inst communication to congress on tho subject doscribed a sjato of anarchy. Senator Knll'ti resolution also con templates that the president tell tho senate if the government to which it is proposed to accredit an ambassa dor is h constitutional cue, by what means its recognition wuh brought about, what assurances there nro that it will bo able to fulfill promises of protection for foreigners, whnt ns Mirunees havo been given for protec tion of tho border, what guarantees have been ghen for religious free dom and whnt replies havo been re ceived to claims for damages to American life and property. Its terms nro broad enough to involve tho entire Mexican situation and tho details of tho negotiations which led to tho recognition of tho Carrunza government. AT tl HELENA, Mont., Jan. 4. Gov ernment thermometers nt Havre, in tho northern part of Montunn, regis tered' 20 degrees below zero today. Hero tho tempera turo was zero. Colder weather is forecasted for to night and tomorrow. Tho oold wave extends into northern Idaho also. Pnnco Albert, Snsk., reported 21 degrees below rero todav. INGT LAREDO. Toxas, Jan. 4 A gaEO lino bath has been added In Xucro Laredo, Moxioo, to prevent typhus In fection. It Ik applied, however, only to suspects of unusual personal un tidiness. Federal health officials said today that a typhus epidemic alone tho Mexican border Is unMLely If proper precautions are taken. I AUSTINS REPULSE ATTACKS BY RUSSIAN EORGES - BERLIN, Jan. 4. Despcrnto attempts by tho Hussions to "" "" break through tho Austrian lines in Gnlicin nro continuing, but, "" according to today's official statement by tho Austro-Hun- " " gawan war office, they hnvo "" "" been nowhero successful, and tho Russians nro declared to T" linvn utiffnrix1 vnrv 1,nntv tnstif. T SEATTLE'S STORM SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 4. The storm center that cnused Know on Monday throughout Oregou, Washing ton, Idaho and Montana, has moved from tho mouth of tho Columbia river to Wyoming nnd Colorado. High at mospheric pruro from tho north, with low temperatures, centers over British Columbia nnd extends into Washington. At Knmloops, B. G, 14 below zero was reported this morn ing. Tho high pressure will result in moderate northwest winds ovor Washington with fair weather in tho Ptiget Sound country tonight nnd Wednesday nnd continued cold. Tho lowest temperature in Scnttlo last night wns 20 degrees; in Tacomn, 28. A minimum tempernturo of 18 de grees is predicted for Seattle tonight. Tho snowfall hero since January 1 reduced to water, has been .09 of an inch. TO E AT DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 4. Henry Ford, leader of tho peace mission to Tho Hague, returned to Detroit to- day, but nt the station ho avoided a delegation of local citizens who had planned to welcome him homo and present him with n flornl pieco in recognition of his pence efforts. Hu remained in his private car and proceeded to his country homo at Dearborn. A publio meeting in honor of Mr. Ford is being planned for tho Lncar future. Tho only member of tho Ford party who left tho train in Detroit was Rev. Samuel S. Marquis, dean of St. Paul's cathedral here. Rev. Marquis said that tomorrow ho will don his working clothes and proceed to tho Ford factory, whero ho ih under engagement for a year to study sociological conditions among tho 20,000 employes of tho factory. ARMAMENT TRUST WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.Rcpresonta tlvo Sherwood, democrat, of Ohio, led oft a number of preparedness speech es In tho houso today with an on slaught on "armament makers and militarists," IIo proposed reducing tho army to fifty thousand men. Representative Sherwood said ho had fought In forty-two battles of tho Civil war, left tho army a general, and was now ready at eighty years, to enlist, If danger threatened tho country, although ho spoko against preparedness. Ho told the house "tho peoplo back homo" were against the cntlro prcpaicdncss plan. TO ER NEW YORK. Jan. 4 George J. Gould began suit todav in the tuprcme court against the Texu-. & Paoitic Railroad ooin)un to re ocr-H,711,-000 on pronuMorv note Ythn-h are held by tho plurotiff, Edwin Gould, Holen Gould Slieppanl and Howard Gould, as executor of the estate of their father, the late Jay Gould, MOVES TO ROCKIES RETURNS 1 WEOBsracr- VB-. J JL Charles Grant, Survivor, Tells of Slnklna of Liner by Submarine Too Late for Boats, He Clung to Wreckage for Sixteen hours, When He Was Pulled Into Boat. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 4, via London. Charles Grant of Boston, ono of tho two American.1 known to havo been on board tho British steamer Persia when sho was torpe doed in tho Mediterranean, has arriv ed in Alexandria. Mr. Grant, so for on known, is tho only Anioncan from whom oan como tho story of the Per sia's sinking. Ho gave to tho Asso ciated Press today tho most detailed account yet received of tho disaster: "I was in tho dining saloon of tho Persia nt 1:03 p. m., Thursday," he said. "I had just finished my soup nnd tho steward was asking whal I would tako for my focond courso when a tcrrifio explosion occurred. Hocnrs Aboai-d Slilp "Tho saloon becamo filled with smoke, broken glass and otcnm from tho boiler. Thoro was no panic. Wo went on deck as though wo wcro at drill nnd reported at tho lifeboats on tlio starboard side, h tho vessel had 'listed to port. I clung to tho roil ing. Tho last thing dono was to tio on Captain Spnckly h lifebelt. "As the veswei wns then listinc so badly that it was impossible to launch tho starboard boats, I slid down tho starboard rail into tho water. I got caught in a roo which nulled off a khoe, but I broko loose nnd climbed on somo floating wreckage. j no insi i saw or iuq I'orsta sue had her bow in tho uir, fivo minutes nitor tho explosion. "Alter lloating about on the wreck ago until 4 o'clock in tho morning I taw five boats. I wns pulled into ono 6t them. o rowed nbout looking tor stragglers. IVmts Overcrowded "Tho bontlfheonmo ovnrlonilfil nnA tho occupants wero redistributed. Four boats wcro tied together by their painters nnd tho fifth followed isomo distnnco awn v. "My boat left tho others in order toscarch tho moro frequented steam ship channels for hcln. Wo ram! .three houru. Then we snw a cruiser nnd called eut: 'Wo are English.' Wo explained that wo woro survivors of tho Persia and gavo directions to tho cruiser ne to whero tho other boats were. They wcro i5oon found and tho occupants wcro taken off immediate ly by tho English 6ailor. "Robert McNcely, American consul ot Aden, eat at tho sarao tablo with me on tho voyage. He was not sccu, probably becauso bin cabin was on tho port side. "ft was a borriblo sceno. Tlio water was, as black as ink. Somo passcn gers wero screaming, others wero calling out goodbye, Those in one boat sang hymns." RAIN MADE LAKE AT SAN FRAXCISCO, Jon. 4. Au thorities began today to dram a rain mado lako covering three square miles in an outlying manufacturing district which flooded two rest denccs nnd two tanneries nnd start ed a firo in tho California glue works by saturating threo hundred barrels of limo in a warehouse. Firemen fought tho fire from rowboats with sand and chemical extinguishers, wa ter only adding to tho hcut from the lirac. E FELT AT T NKWPORT, Or, Jan. J. -Two sharp vuithnuale fcliouls were felt here at 11 a. m. today. Dihc rut- tied on their hhelvtw and people rufched from their bom. No dam age was reported. Karthnuakes are. of a rare occurrence on tbiy part of the Orejon goast. EARTHQUAK RURAL CREOlflEMDiirJ BILL INTRODUCED WASHINGTON, Jiin. 4. Tho nd- miniHtrntion rural credits bill wns in troduced in congress in both tho houso and senate today. Governmental control of tho sys tern would bo in a federal farm loan board of fivo appointed by tho presi dent for ten years each. Loana would be mado to farmers by twelve or moro federal land banks, each operating in a separate district with capital of not less than $500,000, which would bo taken by tho government if not pri vately subscribed. Tho land banks would loan to fanners through local associations of borrowers, enlicd national farm loan associations. Kvery borrower would bo required to toko stock in tho association to tho amount of & per ccut of his lonn. A limit of thirty-six years would bo placed on loans and borrowers would bo re quired to makn small annual pay ments on principal. Chairman Glass of tho banking committeo unsuccessfully asked con sideration of a resolution to extend for four months tho timo in which tho joint committee on rural credits fdiall report on icrsonnI credits leg islation for fnnners. Objections de ferred action for tho present. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 4. -Noith-westcrn Orecon toduv was acabi be ing isitcd by a snow storm. Dur ing tho last twenty-four hours this part of the state has run tho gamut of elimatio change. Yesterdays snow storm wn3 followed later in tho day by a thaw and clear skioy. A few hours of freezing tempernturo on sued. F.nrly today tho storm clouds returned nnd the snow began falling. According to tho district woathcr forecast, clour skio again will prc vuil before night. Tho minimum tom pemturc in Portland todav was 28 degrees above zero. At Baker, Or., tho mercury foil to 18 dogreoo. m' ' '" ' ' ' m SOLE SURVIVOR OF MONITOR BATTLE DEAD PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4. Will. iam Durt, 70, t.id to be the sole sur vivor of the Monitor, whiuh ennogwl the Morrimae in the historic ciwl war battle in Hampton Roads, died nt his home here today ilea pucuwpnia. BY ADMINISTRATION FREAK WEATHER RULES AT PORTLAND TIDOPERATIONFOR E KL PASO, Tex., Jnn. 4,Tlto third opcrntion upon General Victoriono Huerta lo relievo him of fluid in tho intestinal tract1, duo to protracted jnundice, wns set for a little buforo jiobn today. At that timo General Hucrtii's condition was unchanged. After tho operation Dr. M. P. Schuster issued tho following bullu tin: "uencrai victonano utiorta was tapped this morning for tho purpose of rclioVing him of fluid in tho in testinal tract. Tho operation wn moro extensive than heretofore nnd permitted dniiungo of a Inrgor urea. llio patient was much relieved and subsequently his pulso nnd tempern turo neenmo normal." m KL PASO, Tex,, Jnn. J.Tbo con dition of General Yiutoriano Huerta, former provisional president of Mex ico, who is b.eriously ill at his homo here, wns reported unchanged today. Following an operation for gall stones Saturday, a second operation to removo a quantity of fluid from tlio intestinal tract was necessary yesterday evening, Tho patient seem ed relieved by tho operation, REFUSE TO VACATE BLRLIN. Jnn. 4 lv umtlukH to Sayville). Tho Overseas News agency says; 'According to the Corriero Delia Sera of Milan, John K. K'ehl, Ameri can consul at Knlnniln. who iw ear. ing for the intoroats of Auotriu, Gor many, Bulgaria nnd Turkey thoro, has called upon tho Franco-Bntish omiciais to evnouato the buildings oc cupied by tho consulates. Tho request wns refused. "It is also ronortcd that 0111011? flm othor German and Austrian arrested at Snloniki, numboring about 1000, nro the head master of a German school ami several women." GENERAL SARRAIL VISITS KM PETER ATHKNS, Mi London, Jan. King Peter of Serbia, wiio la now on board a French dettroer at 8 lonllcl, yesterday gavo au audience to General Sarrall, commandor of )o French foreon there and Lieutenant General Mahon, commander of the lirltlib troops. RELIEF OF JAUNDIC SEIZED CONSULATES BRITAIN AGAIN E S Sir John Simon Resigns as Secretary for Home Affairs McKcnna anil Runclman Likely to Lcavo on Ac count of Differences Over Con scription Bill. LONDON, Jnn. I. Announcement was mado In tho houso ot commons today ot tho resignation ot Sir John Simon, secretary ot stato for homo af fairs. Tho names of Lowls Harcourt, first commlssolner of works, and Her bert Samuel, chnucollor ot tho Duchy of Lancaster, aro mentioned among his poBslblo successors at tho homo oftlco. Cabinet CrUli Ktbta LONDON, Jan. 4. It again be camo evident that tho cabinet crisis Is far from endod. Tho only dofl nlto point Is that Sir John Simon, secretary ot stnto for homo affairs, has resigned. Ho had a prolonged Interview with Premier Asqiilth yes terday. Tho premier did his utmost to Induco Sir John to remain In tho cabinet but without nvail and It Is almost certain that tho homo secre tary's resignation will bo officially announced on tho ro-nssombllng ot parliament. Tho position of Reginald McKcn na, chancellor ot tho exchequer, nnd Walter Runclman, president ot tho board of trade, is still undecided. Thoy nro making tho nccontnnco of tho government compulsion bill con ditional upon securing a concession to their vclws on tho eventual slzo ot tho army. Asqiilth Kmlmrrawtcd. In this mnttor 1'romlor Asqulth Is In an embarrassing position. llei Is bolng strongly Impelled from tho outsldo not to yield this point and it Is bcIoycd a majority In tho cab inet itself Is ngnlnst tholr views. Honco today's mooting of tho cabinet to consider tho latest draft of tho compulsion bill may result In farther changes 'and may possibly result In tho resignation of these two Import ant ministers. Tho trentmont of Ireland Is anoth er thorny problem nnd tho conflict ing statements regarding this mat tor may bo nn Indication of tho strug glo which will go on In tho cabinet this morning. All tho papers both conscrlptlonlsts and advocates of vol unteer enlistment ngrco that Ireland will bo excluded from tho operation of tho bill nnd that tho press asso ciation statement that Ireland would bo inciddod was Inacurato. Accord. Ing to tho Tlirlos, Iroland wnH Includ ed In tho '.first draft of tho bill which was only Intended to provldo a cdu vcnlont basis for discussion. NKW YORK, Jan. 1 Kxclmngo on Germany fell today to 75 ',4, tho lowest quotation slnco tho outbreak ot tho war, and probably without precedent In tho financial relations between this center and Ilerlln. Tho unit ot exchango on Ocrinnny Is four marks, so that today's quo tation Impllos a valuu ot only about 18 coots for marks, as ugalnst tho normal value of about 23 i cents. On tho other hand, remittances to London attained their highest rat oh In mouths, demand sterling being quoted at $t.71. NOMINATIONS CLOSE FOR CITY OFFICE Nominations for city otflco to bo voted for at tho annual election Jan uary II, closed January 3 with the following neminee: For Recerder: Wmer T. 1'om, in cumbent, und Martin MeDonough. City Troaaurer: Out WaniueU, lu cunibunt, and John AV. Shirley. CeiinclliHn: Ylnl Ward K. V. Modynikl und Dr. J. J. Mmnion Seoud Ward Dr. J. M. Krone, G. O Ilurrows, and (loorge L. Trelcblec Third WaraCharles W Davis. ACNGAS W C A B NET S GERMAN EXCHANGE RATES 0NT0B0GGAN WON SEEKS FULLDEIAILSON PERSIA SINKING President Cancels Cabinet Meeting, Awaltlnrj Further Information and Calls In Members of Foreign Rela tions Committeo Administration Doing All That It Can. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.The pros ident cancelled tho cabinet meeting becauso tho stnto denartment has not yet gathered complete information on tho l'erein. Aftor a brief conforenco with President Wilson, Secretary Tumulty issued tho following statement: "The president and tho secretary of stnto aro taking every means pos siblo to obtain tho full facts in this grnvo matter and will act jut as soon us tho information is obtained." Coiistilta Congress President Wilson called in Chair man Stono nnd several members of tho senate foreign rotations commit tee Jodity to discuss tho international crisis growing out of tho aubmariuo cam'pnign in tho Mediterranean. Lntcr Chninnnn Flood of tho houso foreign nffnirs committeo called at tho whito houso und conferred with President Wilson on tho situation. Whito houso officials said both tho senuto nnd houso would bo kept in formed of nil important developments in tho foreign situation, probably through conferences between tho president nnd sennto and houso lead ers, nlthough if any drastic action is tnken it is possiblo thnt tho president may send a messngo to congress. Hocking I'till Facts Chairman Stono informed the pres ident thero wero intinintipns -that sonlo, senators wero prcpnring to mnko speeches on tho sinking of Bhlps with loss of Amoricnn life. Tho president is understood to havo simp ly replied tlmt tho administration wus doing nil it could to protect Ameri can rights. Sonntor Stono nbo told tho presi dent that when the foreign rolntions committee meet tomorrow ho would bu prcpnred to meet nny situation that might arise. Tho senulor said after his talk with tho president thnt until tho facts regarding the Persia wero obtained nothing could bo done. Any nation, ho declared, which outraged tho United Stutes should bo dealt with sovcroly. Tho administration is depending largely on tho inquiries which Am bassador Pcnfield has been instruct ed to nmko at Vienna nnd tho infor mation which consuls nro gnthoring elsewhere, to establish tho uutionul lty of tho submariiio which is said to havo sunk the Persia, and lo develop tho facts in tho caso generally. .Hiibiiiui'lno AVarfui-o Thero was no indication today of what tho prospects wcro for tho United States formally acquainting; Hulgnria nnd Turkey of its position on tho question of submariiio war fare. H has been proposed that such ac tion hhould bo (iikcn so (hat nono of tho central power bclligoi-cuts could plead lack of offioiul information, nn Austria did at first in tho Anconn case. Tho coin-bo of tho United StatcH in that regard will bo devel oped definitely lator. It was dihdoscd today, however, that somo timo ago tho United States' comploto submariiio corrospondeuco ilh Germany was sent to American diplomiilio reproseutnlios in Turkey nnd Rulgaria, it was nlso dulivcred to tho diplonmtio representatives of those two eountrioh in Washington. T UNDER DRY LAW INDICTMENT PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 4. -Tho first indictment in Oregon for a vio lation of the prohibition law was ro turned by a county grand jury hero today against Giw Anderson, lio was arrested in a rooming houso yos turday after accepting a mnrked dol. lar for a bottlo of whwky, according; to the polioo. Tho speed with which (ho indictment was returned sets a now roeonl fur grand jury aetion w. Multnomah oounty. If ootivioled, Aif. . dorsou will bu liable to n fine of $WW, or a term of six months iu gullrx both. Mi r J ' i "