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CONGRESS
ENOORSES
PRESIDENT
By Substantial Majorities House
Votes Not to Warn Americans
From Armed Merchantmen, Sus
taining Policy of President Pro
posals to Allow Anti-Administration
Amendments Defeated De
bate Wages on Resolution Itself.
WASHINGTON, March 7.Tho
vote In tabling tho MoLomoro rosolu.
Hon was 270 for, 113 nsulnst.
WASHINGTON'. March 7. Presi
dent Wilson's stand that congress
ahull not ndviso Americans lo abnn
ilnn llioir rifhtt to travel tho sons on
merchant shi nrmril for defense in
accordance with intctnational law
was indorsed in tho house toilnv by
two heavy tet votes on the McLe
niorc resolution.
llv substantial majorities tlie ad
ministration forces defeated attempts
to nmenil the resolution to the liking,
of the president's opponents nnd put
it squarely before the house without
nmenilment for n vote under n spe
cial rulo nt tho end of four bourn'
debate.
About 0 o'clock this evening tho
administration foiccs will move to
table the MoLemoro resolution and
tho heavy votes they polled in the
two preliminary tents indicate that
thev will kill it by a substantial ma
jority. Dissentient I'Yovtned Upon
Once tabled, tho resolution will
hove gone tho way of tho Goto reso
lution in the senate nnd n majority
of congress will have been placed on
record before the world as demon
strating that it does not indorse tho
dissensions against the president's
forciiiu policy.
In quick i-uccession todny the
house rejected tho pnosnl to allow
nnti-ndrainistration amendments to
the Mrl.crnarti resolution nnd then
adopted the special ruin for consid
eration of tho resolution itself, rout
ing the opposition by voteH of 2."(1 to
1110 and 'J7I to i:S. respectively.
Immediately after tho adoption of
the rulo debute began ou tho resolu
tion itself, Chairman Mood of (ho
foreign affair committee mo, tug to
table it.
Vote Not Partisan
Ouo hundred and ninety-two demo
crat voted for the administration on
the prcious question, which waft tho
riuciul test, 01 republicans and ono
progiessive, Mart ill. Total, 256". Op
posed to the administintion wore '-'1
democrats, 132 republican, 5 pre
gicssiwa, I independent (Kent), 1
-.oi-ialist (Londou); loial, 10o nays,
Huwley, McArthur and Sinuott of
Oregon opposed the administration.
I 'u Leoils Attack
Mr. I'ou attacked tho McLeniore
resolution at tho outset.
"It means in effect that if nn
American disregards n turning that
tin' United State gcrnmont will
told its hands," he said. "Is there a
single red-blooded person in this
house or this country who wants to
do that I It is charged that the pres
ident wants war. All the imps of hell
never devised a more infamous
charge. No man since Abraham Lin
coln has gone through such a tet as
the president has gone through in the
Iat six months. He has tried to
proene Moce. Ho would not sae
utice a single life to moke himself
president lor a lifetime. He has the
support ot both sides of this chain-
(Continued on page six)
lw.NI. March 7. A dtl.md Ila
a dip.itih tiled in Sulomki on
S.iturdiu ynes u rcpoit that almost
all the Austrian and (ienuuu troops
winch had been concentrated on the
It.ilkun front have left fur the west
irn tioiit.
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LEAVE KIEL-CRUISE
IN THE NORTH SEA
HO.MI!, March .", via London,
Murch ") (delayed). Twenty Gor
man drendnuughts have left Kiel,
according to infoi motion received
here today.
Tho foregoing dispatch was hold
up by tho Hritish censor for two
days. Another dispatch filed in
London at II :2." o'clock this morn
ing said that a fleet of twenty
five German warships was observ
ed Monday cruising in tho North
sen. This message was received
in London from Yliclund, near
North Holland.
ITALIAN STEAMER
GKNOA, March 7. via I'nns.- Sil
io Potcnzuni, commander of the
Italian steamship Giavn, which was
sunk bv a submarine March 1 in tho
Mediterranean while on her way from
Leghorn to a Greek port with pns
songers nnd u cargo of cement, glws
further drte1: of tho destruction ot
his ship. Tho commanding officer of
the submarine refused to tow tin.
boats with the crew and passengers
to the neighborhood of tho const of
Milo, tho nearest land. On account of
tho nature of the cargo, no attempt
was mndo to torpedo tho vessel, the
big submarine employing for tho de
struction of tho Italian vessel tho two
three-inch guns which tho wnr craft
carried. It required forty-five shot
to scud the fieightur to the bottom.
Tho captain nf firms that he stop
pod his vessel nt tho first warning
shot from the submarine, but that the
latter continued to fire.
The sen was calm and tho trans
fer of crew nnd passengers to ih
boats was achieved without diffi
culty. They were soon discovered bv
a Hritish steamship and taken to the
island of Milo, where they found HOP)
survivors from tho French nuxiliary
cruiser It l'rovenee II. The Brit-h
vosscl before reaching Milo sighted
a submarine which began prepara
tions to attack hor, but was fright
cned off when llrilish dostroycr
showed up in tho distance.
The Giavn, 2031 tons gross and
.T) i feet long, was built at New Cas
tlo in 1S.S1 and was owned in Pal
ermo. Imports from Athens stated
that tho Giava was sunk by a large
submarine living the Austrian Hag
nt a ikoint about 1:10 miles from Cnuc
Mi.ttapnn. The pacnge! nnl crew
in tl ree boat, ach rescued b the
Ui.lih UMmship Tuwh.m.
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OVER FOREIGN POLICY
WASHINGTON. Mni-h 7. Repte
tentative (tnbert M. Page of North
Carolina will not lie a candidate for
re-election because he disagrees with
President Wilson in tho submarine
(ontrovcrsy. Mr. Paso, who is a
brother of Ambassador Page at Lou-
don. so announced in a letter to bis
coustituentb. The annoiinccmeut
aused a sensation in tho house at
tho moment of a vote on what prac
tically is a proposal not to interfere
with the pi trident's diplomatic nego
tiation. CITY OF OAXACA
WASllINTiTON', M.,uh 7.- The
tily of Ouxacu. in Mexico, w buru-
'ed March "), accoiding to informa
tion reaching the Mute department
toduy from tbe Cafrunu government.
It was uUo reported tT(ut thoe who
have been in poeion of the city
ii.ic i-wicuatcd It.
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bma
WITHOUT WARN NG
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HILL NO. 265
CAPTURED BY
GROWN PICE
Attack on Verdun Shifts to West and
Germans Pound Away From Be
yond the Meuse Town of Forces,
Nine Miles From Verdun, Taken
British Assisting French In Verdun.
LONDON, March ".The attack on
Verdun has hhifted lo the west nnd
tho Germans nit now pounding their
way toward the fortress from be
yond the Meuse, advancing along tho
railroad that parallel the westerly
bank.
Last night t no crown princes
troops assaulted and took tho town
of Forges, nine railos northwest of
Vet dun, but woro prevented by tho
French from debouching ngninst the
I'ote do l'Oie, a height about n mile to
the south.
Today comes tho admission from
Paris that tho Germans after u vio
lent bombardment succeeded in forc
ing their way through Forges and
tolong the railroad in the vicinity of
Uegnovillc, a village n mile and a hilt
southeast.
Simultaneously an entire division
violently nttnckod and capttned Hill
No. 2(1.", southwest of Itegnoulle.
Heavy losses were sustained by the
Germans in taking this position, 1'nrt.s
declares.
French linos further west hnvo held
nnd they are in possession of IJethin-
Court and nearby territory and still
occupy Coto do l'Oie.
There is still notable artillery nf
tivity along tho immediate front of
Verdun, east of tho Mouse, as well
'as in tho Woovro district southeast
iif the fartreM.
The first confirmation of rcM)its
that tho ltritish were assisting the
'French in the defense of Verdun onmo
today in a statement that nu Aus
tralian siege brigade was fighting
there J tie ltritish big cutis Hie said
to have been doing great execution.
It is official! v declared in London
that in the Gemian Zeppelin raid of
Siinilnv night no niiht.u.. dam.ige was
inflicted.
PORTLAND. Ore, M.inli ".
George T. Whitofleld alias Melee
Orr, agod 54, a former teacher of
Latin, was In Jul! hero today a self
confosiod forger, according to the
police. Ills downfall, he Is said to
have stated, wus iu to the fact that
he was short sighted and hard of
hearing and the students in his Latin
classes laughed at him. He whs ar
rested early today while preparing to
catch a train for Suuttlo.
He Is alleged to have confessed
having forgod checks In San Diego,
Los Angoles, Stockton, Sacramento,
Portland. Tacoma, Seattle and Vic
toria. II. C. According to the police,
Whltefleld ! the cleverest forger that
has been arrested on the coast In a
Rumber of years.
According to his alleged confession.
Whitoflold taught Lstln and classics
at St. Mary's college ut Techny, III,
Sacred Heart college at Sucrod Heart,
Okla.,
and at Holy Cross college In
N' Orleans Ills physical Infirm!
ties, however, and the jibes ot bis
scholars, who rnslderod him a per
fect specimen of bookworm, diove
him from the teu htng profession.
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' MAKSHFIELD, Or., March 7.
The landslide which threatened to
carry the town of Wedderhurn into
the Kogue river haa stopped, accord
ingto word received here today from
'iuld Deacb. The rain which has
fallen steadily for several days is
thawing signs of stopping. Ureal
figures several hundred, yards long
Vcic upemd at the crc-t of the bill
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STUDENTS DERISION
CAUSE
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THE ROAD
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GERMAN RAIDER :MIUJ0N INCREASE
PREYING ON ALLIES j IN BRITISH NAVAL
dapicip rTiMMirDpri mMMAPc dv uiad
I HUH IU UUIfllllLllUL! I UI1ITOL U KVHh
HONOl.t LP. T II . Mhi.Ii 7.
Hrltlsh shipping lu the Pacific U en
dangered l) the pie.Nince sodium hero
In Pacific waters of u Oermsu raider,
warnings concerning which have been
issued 1 the ltritish admiralty, ac
cording to statements of officers of
the ltritish steamer Niagara made
public here today.
The officers of the Niagara, It waa
announced, confided to officials of
this port that the vessel had been
notified by the admiralty of the pres-
inc of the raider, sutd to have been
seen in the Straits of Magellan and
reported to Port Stanley, Falkland
Islands, by captains of ressels pass
ing through the straits.
The Australian battle cruiser Aus
trails snd tbe Australian cruiser
Sydney, the officer of the Niagara
said, are searching for the German
raider, and it is believed that tho
Japanese cruisers Chltose and To
klwa are huh engaged In the search.
The Niagara arrived here March
3 from Sydney. AuHtralia. en route
to Vancouver. It. (' . and at that time
It was reported liv passengers on the
vessel that lirttlxli officials in Aus
tralia believed there was a German
auxiliary omewheie in tbe Pacific.
For two weeks the Niagara steamed
at full speed, arriving here a day
ahead of time.
SWEDEN TRIES TO
LONIiOX, March 7 -Hauler's Co
penhagen orretipourient sends tbe
follewing:
"A dispatch lo tbe Pulltlkon from
Stockholm says It is stated is Swed
ish political circles Hunt tbe Swedish
government en two separate occas
ions applied to the failed States lo
obtain President Wiltfg'a co-operation
for concerted mediation towards
PMM.
"President Wilson, who already at
an early stage of the war had his of
fer rejected, adds the dispatch, de
clined to join the movOjent until re
guested by the belligerents.
"It Is stated that at Stockholm and
other neutral capHals, tho ciiu-stlon
la lielng ill .j-iii nf foriiiiii. a mt--'lU'ion
1 oiii. " 1 . IiIki'ii ii 1 ,
OKvistioii ul tl.. I m"-ii ntj I
ORGANIZE NEUTRALS
TO VERDUN!
LONDON, .,., 7. A. J. lial
Ymr, tn! lord of the admiralty,
Mated in the hini'.e of cunuuons to
day thut the tonnage of the Mritiidi
tuny had been inereawed by one mil
lion sine the outbreak of the war,
while the strength of the air diviaion
'of the navy hud grown tcufold.
LON'IKJX, March 7.-The ehief in-
1cTct ill the vM'iiing of jiarttanieul
IimIhx ecnlen lit the exa(eled impor
tant -ItJlcinent by Arthur J. Ualfour,
lirxt lord of the admiralty, in Intro
ducing the entimulex for the navy for
the eexning year. Colonel Winston
1 'hurt-hill, Mr. Iinltour's predeeesMor
in office, i cxpiM'tcd to take unrl in
(he debate from nn opiraeition stand
Htinl. Another feature of (ho heion will
be the reply ur Premier Aviuilh to a
ipiextion regarding the projected mr
iitoruiai for obligations of men uulled
Vi the colors.
Air. llalfoui speech will coinnrioo
a broiiil general mirtey of the eon
ilition of the navy, i( j believeil. The
mly exuet information which uill be
tivi-ii in the navy oiimiite iIiJn year
will he ilwit icgunliiig the personnel,
approxiiiuiiclv .VtO.Uuu nicer' and
men, nu incHiitc n ,"0,MHJ uver llixt
c.i r.
NATIONAL PARK
CONFERENCE CALLED
T.W I'MA. Wa.b., Maul. 7. su-icni-.nr
I). L. Keiibum l tin- It.uni' r
nntii-nnl park left Tacoma lust tucht
for Yiihingtou, D, I'., to attend n
Vonferciice culled by Htepheu T.
Mather, assistant aoeretuiv of tho
interim, and by Robert Marshall,
geneial KiiM-rintendent of national
jwrk'i. The cunfereuce is uiidcrMol
to bear on the policy of the aluiini4
trutiou tin-, war iu natioiutl jmrk
iuaitcr-..
ADMIRAL ASA WALKER
DEAD AT MINNEAPOLIS
WAKIIINdTON, Maul. 7. Hear
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IS SUSTAINED BY
UTAH
SENA
Stitlicrlaml Prefers War to Playinp,
Poltroon or Placlnn. Ease Before
Honor Submarine Must Yield to
Law, for If Law Yields to Submar
ine, Security on Seas Has Fled.
WASHINGTON', March 7. Dis
cussing tho armed ship Ibsiio today
In tho fionnto Hcnntor Hutherland of
I'tnh, a republican member ot tho
foreign relations committee, atood
squarely behind President Wilson In
I his policy of dealing with Germany
In tho submarine negotiations.
I do not want wnr nt any tlmo,"
aid Senator Sutherland, "and I pray
God that It may not conio now, but
I would rather hnvo wnr with nil Its
-aulflres and suffering than that thla
nation, with Its long history of lioro
lm nnd glory, should play tho pol
troon when confronted by tho su
preme national duty, because It places
greater value upon Its en no than upon
Ui honor "
No Seeker of Wnr
' I am one of those who doslro
pence.' tin senator continued, "but
n nation when all other moaiiH fall
that will not resent a flagrant nnd
IllcKal attempt upon tho lives of Its
own citizens Is only Iosh dctostnhlo
than a man who will not fight for
his vlfo and children. And, believ
ing, as I do, about that, It tho llfo
of an American cltliun Is iigaln taken
bv the Illegal iDid deliberate sinking
without warning of a morchniit ship,
unarmed or armed only for defense,
that this government should hold tho
offending nation to a stem reckon
ing, I shall never give my consent
to tho Iwniauco of a formal and offi
cial notice such as has been proposod
which If not heeded would, without
minimising our duty In tho leant,
have the effect of embarrassing mid
weakening our moral stand If wo
should once moro be under tho sad
necessity of seeking retwratiou for
the destruction of the lives of our
people "
Senator Sutherland In discussing
tbe legal status of armed merchant
ships under International law mid tho
relation thereto of the submarine con
tended that the submarine must yield
to the law and nut tbe law to tho sub
marine. Law Aboio Siituuailuo
"If the law yields to the submarine,"
he said, "and allows the underwater
boat to sink vessels armed dofonslvo-
ly only without warning and without
Kiting iwssengers and crow a clinnco
to get to a place of safety, It will bo
Inviting the sinking nf unarmed ships
ss well since, he said, "It Is well
nigh Impossible for the officers of n
submarine to determine In advance
Another a Riven vessel Is armed or
tiot. The result will be that
unarmed vessels while possessing Im
munity lu theory mill have none lu
fact.
"The question next arises ami, In
deed, It Is really the cruklul question
shall our cltleius be officially ad
vised to forbear fiom traveling 011
belligerent merchant vessels armed
fur defense only Or, Indeed, shall
w go farther sud forbid their doing
so under penalty for disobedlenee7
If I am correct In what t have already
said, namely, that these merchant
shlpH have the right to cariy defen
sive uriiinmi'iit. it follouH that such
(Continued on page two.)
T
IiKXU.K, i -I.-. M.m h 7 For
the scccnil time this winter south-
westein Culorml" is -iihwIiomihI. l)u
rungu, the centci oi the Murui, bus
for tcUe hums been cut off from
outside commuuieatiun and t luff in
jreuerullv in tho Kan Juaubusin i
dcuiorulued.
Thirty-fie puengrs on a Den
ver tt Rio Urande paseuger train
have been held at t'bania, N. II., for
he days on uccuuut of the drifting
now, f
Tlie publif utilities eommissiun of
Coliir.ido bn- bci'ii upiealed to in a 1
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10 BIG PROFITS
No Rc.il Competition In Fuel Oil Bus
iness, Declares Secretary Lane
Pipe Monopoly Never Disturbed
Increase Price Shown In Special
Dividends nnd Melons.
llv atLSON' GAHDKK1L
WASHINGTON', Mnroh 7. Profits
for tho oil ooinpuiiios-indcpendcnti
nnd Standard is tho answer to why
gasoline is so high. Tho report of
the secretary of tho interior, Frnnk
liu I. Lnne, maile to congress, is
conclusive on this point.
Increased consumption nlid In
creased exports there have been, but
neither of these enuses is respons
ible for the high price of gasoline.
There is- no real competition in tho
fuel oil business. The fcdoml truilcs
iHimmisMiou report just finished set
lies that. This document showa that
tlio pipe line monopoly which iu tho
batd of the control in this industry
never has been d'uttuihud, nnd that
no independent enn becomo 11 real
competitor whilo dependent on tho
trust, nn thev all nn, for their pipe
line trunspotlntion.
Where the iiieroused prioo paid for
gasoline is going is shown by tho
profit figures of tho companios. Spe
eiul dixidendw, regular dividendn,
"melons," stock dividend), hnvo been
piling tip so fnst thut it takos n Hur
rows ndding mnuhino to oven try to
comprehend it.
Aiunliig DUIdcnds
Secretary Lane points out tlitu
fuut nnd selects ns a sttmpto iiuuount
of dividenils 11 (piotntion from tho
"Potrolcum Age" of N'ctv York for
tlecember, 10L", ns follews:
"Convincing proof of the amazing
recovery within tlio oil Industry In
tho Just Imlf of 1015 is furnished by
the dividend declarations of tho
Standard Oil group for the hut quar
ter, which reached tho astonishing
total nf $J 1,788,(13(1, which is tlio rec
ord for any ipmrter since the disso
lution, with the exception of tho first
quarter of 11)1. 'I, when Standard Oil
Co. of 'New Jersey nmdo its fumous
10 ner cent wish distribution. True,
it is thut of this sum, .f,8n0,000,
representing tlio 1ft per cent dividend
of Illinois Pipe Line, ft per uent by
Prairie Pipe Line, and 3 per cent by
Prairie Oil & flas Co., will not bo
imyuble until January lo, but all of
them are syulile to December shnro
holdern and repiesent distributions.
front 11)15 profits. Including those
sums, Die total of rogulnr nnd o.tm
cash dividends wince the dissolution
in December, 1011, reaches tho im
preasiw total of JUO.OIJD.OS:!, to
which must be udded sioek dividends
at par totulling 1100,100,000. Taking
into account the present market vnluu
of the distributed stock, tho cosh
alue of ull distributions iu tho lust
four years by this grouo is in oxcesn
of hulf a billion dollars. Tho mar
ket effect of this enormous oarnintf
'eiiiMicity is slnkmgly rofleeted in
the steady appreciation in value of
tbe old Standard Oil Co. of Now Jer
sey stock 'all on which has risen
from Ic-h tlmu 050 al the time of tho
dissolution in December, 1011, to a
new high record of 1770 during the
current mouth."
Tniit'i Kuoiiiioiis Profits
lluw enormous are the profits on-
joyed b the Staudui'd trust itnoo itH
"dissulution" by court dooiue 1110
best et out iu the words of Ueibert
S. Migdow of C'iuuiniiutl, who Iiuk
Kicu some attention to the subjoet.
He calls attention to the fact thut
1. lie Mnckholdcr in the Standard lints
icilicl vJii.000.000 r year in divi
id ml- .nu! that the value of this puv-
(Contlnuoa on Page Two)
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1(1 TLAND, Vi., M'ureh 7. -Tho
ijUestiou whether stutewjde prohibi
tion, beginninuMay I. shall supplant
the local opium torm of lituor soil
ing, which Im- In ' 11 c. .me ior thu-
teen yours, wn- tited n at the Ull-
uual tort 11 iiieeiiiiKs IuiI.in. Vermont
GASOL
w.i- 111 I lie (uolilbilion ruuks for
bull .1 vuluiy up to 1'JiRl,
,
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