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DISCUSSION OF
PEACE PROPOSAL
IS POSTPONED
Action on Cummins Resolution to
Provide Exclusive Consideration of
President's Address- Sent to Calen
$r of Being Debated for Two
' Hours Come Up In Regular Order
WASHINGTON', Jim. 24. A.I i.n
on Senator Cummins'' resolution to
provide for exrlusive coiiMilerution of
I're-ident Wilson's puiiec mlilioss un
til all senators liuve expressed their
views was dvfvrrrd today and it was
seal to the calendar after it had been
debated two hours.
Senator Cummins sought to obtain
anauiuiouH consent for the resolution
to ro over without prejudice, to pome
up autinntii'allv iiffaiii tomorrow, but
Chairman Stone of the foreign rela
tions committee objected. Senator
Cummins pointed out I hut willi the
resolution on tile ciilemlnr it is pos
sible for him to move to take it up
tomorrow or any other day, after the
senate, routine niurninjr business is
concluded.
Ordered on Clileiular.
Senator Stone wanted lo refer the
resolution to the foreign relations
committee, but the presiding officer
finally ordered it to the ealendar.
In this situation it will reouire an
affirmative vote of the senate to set
the resolution up aiiain.
Senator Cuiumins said:
"I have no disnosition to speak at
length on this resolution. I hope sin
cerely that vc may he able to leach
a vote on it before the morning; hour
conies to a close. It will be observed
that the resolution does not invite nor
propertv'Tiei'lnit a discussion lit this
time of the soundness or unsoundness
of the purposes announced in the
president's address. I will ilu all I
can do to hold the debate to the point
at isKUe. What is if It is this:
Ought the senate on some day in the
near future do the country justice of
informiii;; the people and advising the
president of our views concerning a
policy of the most vital importance to
uliich he has told us he is about to
commit his government .'
Should. He Discussed.
flj"Kor the proper discussion, it mat
ters not whether the president is
light or wrong. In either ca-c his
coniiminication is the most important
ct'er niade by a chief executive of the
I'aiti'd States, lie so regards it The
whole country so looks upon it, anil
foreign nations so accept it. lie has
conic lo the senate frankly anil bold
ly and I assume wilh all sincerity.
iving that he owed it lo us to dis
close to ns the. purpose in his mind.
Whv did he owe it to us to disclose
without reserve the thought and pur
poses in his mind .'
"This is not a partisan subject,"
he said. ,"The president is not the
only person charged with the duty of
speech upon such a subject."
Senator Stone, chairman of the
torcign relations committee, opened
discussion in opposition to the rcso
hitioa, arguing that it would take
aiore than a week of the senate's time
il every senator toed; the proposed
"our to discuss. the subject, lie de
el'd it to be best that the resolution
he referred to the foreign relation
committee. To Postnne HcniiiiK.
Hefore a vote! could be ordered.
Senator Shafroth, democrat, urged a
public hearing by the foreign relations
I'onnaittee and debate in the .-finite
special session to confirm appoint
'"nts after March 4.
Senator Shafroth read a resolution
w!ui'li he did not introduce, proposing
;l Hcnty for the creation of a world-
(Continued on Page Four.)
NKW YORK, Jan. 24. Uethle
hein Steel's response at the opening
today's market to yesterday's
"meion cutting," of the directors.
l'l'h Included a 2U0 per cent stock
""vulend, was a decline of five points
10 2.'i on a fale of lOO.ftuO share?
The balance of the list was irregular
on moderate dealings, price changes
,n most of the active Issues litins
""Iv tramlonnl.
SAI.KM, Ore., .tun. 24. A
woman presided as speaker over
the Oregon notice of represen
tatives today for the first time,
it Is said, In the history of the
state, when Speaker' Ilobert X.
Stant'ield retired shortly after
the session opened and turned
the gavel over to -Mrs. Alexan
der Thompson, representative
from The Dalles. .Mrs. Thomp
son held the chair until noon.
It was as "Mrs. Speaker" that
members' called her as they
asked for recognition and intro
duced their hills and not n one
of the fifty-nine men on the
floor lit a cigar during her rule.
Stant'ield retired complaining
of throat trouble.
BKI.I.IN. Jan. 'J -I. -KMimuling the
I otal (ierman 1ism' in tin1 wn r at
about Otm,(iO(), the National Zcituug
of Berlin fnys that there are avail
nh!e sut'liririil forces n curry on the
war fur M'vcntl years mure. The
newspaper gives available figures of
casualties mitl continue--:
"If the total losses are calculated
at about 2,1)00,000, the (ierman re
serves would still number 7,000,000
out (if the (t.000.000 with which the
war was begun. On the other hand,
large numbers of young men hitVe
reached the age of military servh
ilimng tie war. According to a con
servative calculation, (icrmnnv has in
this way an addition of l.."00.000 t
her forces."
LISHOX, Jan. 24. The Seculo,
commenting on President Wilson's
speech, says he has the "genius of
inopportunity." lie Is inexhaus
tible," says the Seculo, "us an In
ventor of untimely pacifists' systems,
inapplicable to present conditions.
One can only praise the idealistic
courage with which lie continues to
proclaim these Ideals, which are not
even original. The comity of nations
and perpetual peace are two common
places which should not be revived
when the foundation of the only prac
tical peace lies In the permanent de
struction of the germ of war ineoi
porated In the Prussian system."
FOR ALLIES FAVORED
AVASHIMITON. .Ian. 24. A com
mittee from '.lie federal council nf
the Churches of thri.-t in America,
headed by Hisi.np Karl ( illusion of
this city, calle i 'ipon President Wil
son today an 1 ilso appeared before
the senan foreign relations commit
tee, urging r.rohitions in support of
legislation to provide for adequate
protection by the national govern
ment of aliens in this country, "and
for the creation of a federal com
mittee of not less than five members
for the study or the entire problem
of the relations of America with
Japan and China."
SEN! 10 PERSHING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1' No more
shin;: from t!- I'liit.-.l State. No
orders have l. .11 Issued by the wfr
dPpartm'-m to (;.'iirai IVrehins to
withilr-nv ;ind no sp.-.-ifio tiim has
l.rfii The i.t-.'nt movMiieir.
irm Kl Vail is on f;mral Pfr
shinti's InHiMive, hii.I if l-a-d
on his knowienue Itiat th" troop. uill
in.- iim;iin hnvi in M-io.
MEDFOUD.
BULGARS LOS
E
E
Unable to Hold Gains Made Yester
day, Teutons Fall Back Russians
Pressed Back in Riga Sector Mile
and a Half French Troops in a
Successful Raid.
Apparently the Bulgarians were
not ablo to hold the ground on the
north side of the southern estuary
of the Danube, north of Tulteha in
Dobrudja, occupation of which was
announced hi yesterday's Ge. man
headquarters reports.
Today's statement apparently in
dicates a wllhdraa.1 of the Unitar
ians to their former position on the
southern side of fun estuury.
Attention again is turned to the
Ulna region in the northern end of
the Russian t'roiit where u renewal of
the fighting Is reported by Mer in.
On the raneo-llelgian region
front, the pronounced yo'lvity of
raiding detachments is btln'; con
tinued. Berlin reports numerous air
engagements in which the entente
lost a total of six airplanes. Three
German machines were brought
down on the French front, Paris an
nounces. Itusshtns pureed Back.
PKTHOUItAI). Jan. 2 1. (ierman
troops in the Uiga region have suc
ceeded by repeated attacks in stroiig
force in pressing back the Uu.-slnn
lines about a mile and a half be
tween the Tirul swamp and the River
Aa, and east of Kalnzem, the war of
fice announced today.
UKI1LI.V, Jan. 2-t. A withdrawal
of Teutonic, fortes In the region aloni?
the Danube north of Tulteha 1s an
nounced In today's army headquar
ters statement which reads:
"During the severe cold prevailing
lliere have been only local lively ar
tillery and advance guard engage
ments. "The north hank of the southern
arm north of Tulteha has again been
abandoned.."
.Along Kiihus.
IllCrtl.l.V, Jan. H lienewed fight
ing has broken out In the Uiga re
gion on the Russian front, the war
office announced today. The result
of the engagements has been favor
able to the Cermaus, says the official
statement, which reads:
"ICastern front: Front of Prince
Leopold. On both sides of the River
Aa, and south of Riga engagements
developed which took a course fa
vorable to us."
PARIS, Jan. 2 1. Trench troops
made successful raids last night near
Chilly, south of the Somme and In
the YVoevre district, the wnr office
announces. Patrols were unusually
active In the Seille region, near the
eastern end of the front.
IlKItMN, Jnn. 2-1. Six entente
airplanes wore shot down yesterday
on the western front, the war of
fice announces. Th official report
from the Kranco-Itt'Uian war theater
is as follows:
"The weather was frosty and ex
ceptionally bright yesterday. Over
most of the front the lighting was
moderately active. Aviators took ad
vantage of favorable ronditions for
observation. In the course of numer
ous aerial engagements, and as a re
sult of our defensive fire, the enemy
lost six airplanes."
STATi; CAlMTol., Salem. Or.f .Inn.
'M. Member- (' the hnii.-e are much
interested in liejire-entiMive SheMonV
bill to repeal tile antiiUnted section
nf the Oregon In w-, that denie.-t nil
eitii-n except iho-e who own prop
city the riulit lo vote for cho.d di-rci-toi-.
The bill now i- hctnre the
hou-e f-oininittei' on education, mid
will be nut wit liin a -hott time. There
i- 110 npi'iirent oppn-ition to it. a
people in nil pad- ol the -late -uf-tcrin.'
nii'icr thi- re-trit'tioii have de
mand' d it.
"Ii woi.bl In ,i'i-t n- lair to dmv 11
111:111 tin- li'jlit to vide ln-i'nu-e he oxvn-
h than 1 .(miu.imm) a- it i- lo di-ny
him (tie ri'jlit ln-ean-1' be i- iiitloitun
nte enim'jli not to nvn any property."
-aid Sheldon.
GROUND WON IN
DOBRUDJADRIV
OUKOOX. WKDXKsn.W.
MANSION AS
Creilitoi.s of .Mrs. IHngluun, famous actress, hnve applied hi court for
an order evicting her from her lllverside Ih-ivo mansion, New York,
which they .-ay she put up as security hy mortgage for stocks she Ins) hi
Wall st. Mrs. lMnxhaiii has a second mortgage 011 the property and re
fuse.s to leave her home.
OF SEA BATTLE I
OFF ZEEBRUGGE
LONDON. Jan. 'M. A survivor l'
the (ierman de.-troyer V-(i! interview
ed at Yinuiden by ihe eon-e.-pondeiit
of the Kvening News, says the main
action occurred at a point thirlv miles
oil' eebrugge. His ve-el, with n ti
nt he r torpedo-boat destroyer, Conned
the rear uanl oi" a flotilla of eleven
ve--els.
Smldeidy the Oenmiu llotilla was
'onl'rontcd by two Itritish sipiadmns,
eoniposed ol" four and six big ships
each. The Driti-li marksmanship
was neeurate and the V-tiil was badly
liit. The compa-- and steering gear
being destroyed, the officers nf the
Herman destroyer followed the other
steameis by using their propcllon-.
While making for home they were
confronted by four dei-t rover and
the Y-(j!) ran lor the Dutch coast.
"I don't know what happened to
the oilier ve-.-el.-, the survivor con
eluded, "but thev must Imve got il
badlv."
IiKKI.lN. Jan. '2 I. One ltritih de-,-troyer
wa -nn and another wa-ob-ened
to be in a -inkini: eoiiditioti
in the North ea nanil engageineiit ,
the udmiinlty aniioiinees. One (ier
man lorpcilo boat put in at Vmuideit
in a damaged condition. The other
returned with sli-jbt damage.
The ainiuiinceniciit follows ;
'In Ihe eiMir.-e id an enter)ri-e un
deitaken by a portion i.f our de--troyer
t'orce an engagement ocf-ur-red
earlv in the morning of January
'2'A wilh Irili-h naval force-. One
enemy de.-troyer wa- -unk during the
lli'.'ht. After the engagement a -ce-oinl
was nb-erved by our a irplaiiei
to be in a sinking condition.'
LONDON, Jan. 2 1- Lloyd's ship
ping agency announces the sinking
of the Dutch steamer .a Hand of
2, 2 '.',2 tons gross, and the itritish
steamer Treameadow of 2,'i2Tt tons
groins. The i.tpwh were landed.
The sinking of the Dutch steamer
y.eela. of ,n."i: tons gross, a nil the
British steamer Ncuqden, of 'i,T,s:
tons gross, Is aleo announced by
Lloyd-s.
The crew of the sunken fishing
boat K'tlieJ. (tays another Lloyd's an
nouncement, landed after seventeen
hour at sea in open boats during
zero' weather, the whole crew suffer
ing from exposure and exhaustion.
.IANTAUY '24. 1917
PAY FOR STOCK LOSSES
4
4
4 xfi$ -'
AMELIA
BINGHAM
WASHINGTON. Jan. '24.- Sug-ge.-ted
changes in Ihe bill pending
before congress on the railroad .-ilu-ation
were t-ubmitlcd to I're-ident
Wilson today by representatives of
the four railroad brotherhoods, lie
aUed them to outline their proposal
in writing and promises lo give il
careful consideration. The details
were not made puhli:
Tlje stiggcMioii of the bfotherhond
reprc.-entalives was that instead id'
the eompul.-ory feature of the pending
bill, a commis-iou made up of em
ploy e and employers be Conned to
iuve-lignle eoiit roversie- a- pi'opo-cil
Indole the lnui-e eouillierce i-oiiil)lit-tee
bv tlie brotherhood heatU.
WASIIINfiTON, Jan. 24.-A pro
v i-i"n forbidding trike pending in-c.-tig;ilion
was voted itiit of the
pending railroad bill today for the
-ccoiiil time by the senate commeree
committee. Three deiuoerats joined
with the republican- in itipo-iug (be
provi-inri which was siigge-ted by
I're-ident Wil-uii.
KL I'ASO. Tev.. Jan.'JI.- The coli
eent rat joti ol' American po.-t t ronp
at Cooiii:i Diiblau ha- been complet
ed, all -urphis equipment, .-tores and
baggage have been loaded and a
number of truck train- have -larled
north toward the border, according
to information received at the Car
lau.a eon-ulate here at noon ' ,av
No Hoop movement north of the pun
itive expedition had been begun al
that time, it was -aid al the eon .id
ale. WASIIINCTON. .IcD. 2t - l're:d
, e.eni vvtisou has tHken under con
fslderatlon a suggestion that ,11'Mr
I congress adjourns he make a number
j of speeches in different parts of the
country in a ram paten of educaUon
in connection with the Ideas ex
pressed by him In his address on
pence before the senate. Officials
said today the president had reached
no conclusion and would not do no
for several Weeks, '
LEAK PROBERS SCIENTIFIC PLAN
iADJOURNHEARING FORDISPOSALOF
l IN NEW YORK) FARM PRODUCTS
Await Furnishing of Specific Records
of Stock Exchange Which Is Prom
ised by Next Week Exchange
Members Agree to Comply With
Requests Showing Records.
NKW YOUK. Jau. M. The house
rules committee In executive session
decided today to ud ouni its New
York hearing on the .'. a k" invest I
nation tor an indefinite pt : tod. y-v.-I
ers of the eonimitte:k who plaue.ed
tc -.item to Washingtoe. this at" 10
noon will hold u meetii in Wash
.iMton later In the we"K to deeic'o
uhen iby shall resuni -. tl.e heur'n.'s
here.
Announcement of this pian caiue
while the eominittee still was in ses-
?on wit it representatives of the New
"l'orli st let exchange trying to agree
en a ne.v reipust for submission cl
specific records to the coniinitto'.
When the meeting adjourned, n.o.-t
oi the y m. uUeemen rushed fcr
Washing! n. trains and Sherman I.
Whipple, 'Duns' 1 for the commit ten,
detailed what had taken place In ihe
meeting.
To I'rodiiee Information.
President Noble of the stock ex
change, ho aid, had agreed to sub
mit to the bourd of governors of the
exchange a supplemental request fo;
"certain Information regarding mar
ket transactions between December
10 und December ' which would
make it possible for the committee
to resume Its inquiry some time next
week, possibly Monday or Tuesduv.
llo was inclined to think It would
be Tuesday beeause personal busi
ness promised to detain members in
Washington.
Kvery indication, Whipple said
wus that the exchange members
would comply with the supplemental
request, but if they did not, the roni
mitten would bo hurriedly ro-con
veiled and steps taken to Insure pro
duction of the desired records. The
hoard of governors was to act on the
request later In the day.
The request for the information
sought yesterday, Including the
names of all customers and records
ol their deals, "rests in abeyance
Mr. Whipple said.
Most of the direct testimony of
Mr. Noble was in regard to the secu
rities withdrawn from the list. Me
-said that the stock In which there is
little dealing because of Its scarcity
on the market. He also admitted
that "short" dealing in narrowly held
stocks was dangerous because of the
inability of speculators lo borrow it.
Deforo Noble was excused, Repre
sentative licnnelt wanted to know it'
Uolhleheni Steel was not an example
of narrowly held stock of the l.iiul
which was dangerous for out of town
speculators to deal In because of the
difficulty in always making prompt
deliveries.
"I have rend In the newspapers,"
said IW-iiett, "that Charles M.
Schwab, controls slvty per cent of the
stock and that only forty per tent Is
on Hie market. Would you call that
stock narrowly held?"
"Yes. hut there Is always plenty In
circulation," said the witness, adding
that he did not think Dellilehem a
good example.
Dullness of ItmiLcrs.
Samuel !. Strcft, ehiifrnnu of t h
stock echa nan (lea ring house, was
then recalled and eMiiitlned on the de
tails of the exchange machinery.
Some houses, he said, had as many
as a t h 011 sand accounts and the
(Continued on Cage l-'onrt
I'AIUS, Jan. 2 I, Austria has de
cided on an extraordinary measure
to stave off 'imminent bankruptcy"
according to the I'd it Journal's le
ncva conespondent. The correspon
dent says tiiat a decree is about to be
submitted to the emperor whereby a
foil rlli part of the icjil and personal
property of all the snttfeits and inhabitant-!
of the empire s to become
the propert of the state in ctchatiL'e
for a Kind of mortgage bond. Th i -bond,
according to the correspondent,
the state hinds itself to redeem when
the financial filiation permits.
NO. '2m
David Lubin Declares High Cost of
Food Due to Methods at Present
Followed Where Speculator awl
Middlemen Take the Growers'
Profit Example of Germany Cited
UOMK, Jan. 2-1. "Tiio remedy fort
the high cost of food In the United
States is adoption hy the national
government of a scientific plan for,
disposing of farm products," accord
lug lo David Lubin, the American
representative to the Interna lien at.
Institute of Agriculture hero anil
himself the.fM-igitiator of the plan ot;
t'ounilin;; t) at Institution.
' ",'tie 'imedy was v rrked o t by!
Germany many years ago and all w?
have to tlo Is to adopt this remedy,'
he said. ' The trouble with oil" pies-
ul l'n nn nig conditions Is that, tho
middleman uid the speculator rali:-r
lhan the farmer get tho biggest profit
from the Mile of farm products. ThiH
is shov, n by the fact that soon nearly
per :?nt of the farms of our coun
try will he mortgaged or merely occu
pied on lease by the soP's cultivators.
Kxnmple of Koine.
"Right here In Home a long whilo
ago we had u striking exampb oC
what poverty means to tho farii". r.
In the i: ,at of Kmperor TJiwiitia
tlracrhm;, Uome began to buy in r
food from .u'riea Instead of encoura;;
ing her farmers. The land rapidly,
parted Uitn from the hands of t!iJ
cultivator of the soil to other owner
ship, and the small farmer's 1 11 ill,
entailed that of the nation.
"America won't solve its high eostj
of food problem by putting tho apeciH
lators in Jail. We must make It im
possible for the speculator lo operate
hy strengthening the farmer. Th
(iermans saw this many years ago
and they worked out u welfare phui
for tho farmer, ilnd thereby for the
nation, which resulted In placing S'J1
per cent of the farms In the hands C
the cultivator.
"The key to the plan of the (ler
mans, known as the Land wirtliachaN
tiJit, Is that of keeping the furnier In
formed regarding the. needs of ,tho(
cities, of the market, so that his dis
(rlhutlon system Is good, so that liei
knows what his products are worth,
so that he knows how to sell, and sot
that he knows how to plant his crops,,
Central Inlonmition.
"AM of (lerma ny is divided u
provinces, and each province is kept
Informed of the other's dolngrf
through a central office. Suppose
there were too many potatoes In the
province of A, with the result thatf
prices were low, the farmers In thl
province would make inquiries of tht4
farmer's organization in a neighbor
ing province, say of i, how its sup
ply stood, and so on through several,
provinces until the whole potato)
proposition was gone over, and thw
potatoes shipped to the point where
the supply was least. In the United
States, at present, given the condi
t ion of province oT A, the grower
there merely continue to sell thelp
potatoes to Ihe big city buyers at
whatever prices they choose to offer,
the farmers In Kentucky, say, bein;
unaware of the conditions In Ohio,
or at least Inexactly Informed.
"The Cerman plan Is valuable be-
I cause It Is a farmer's affair. All the
business of information is carried on
through their own agents, and not by
outsiders. This ogani.atioii Is recog
nizeil by the; government. All legis
lation affecting agriculture must by
law first be submitted to a standing;
cent nil committee of the farmers.
The organization Is entirely indepen
dent of the department of ugrieiit-
(Continued on Page Four.)
ELIGIBLE TO IRK
SALKM. Ore., Jan. 24. -Only
American citizens will be eligible for
employment. In construction of pub
lic works by municipalities, school
districts, counties ami states, if a
bill Introduced Into the Oregon sen
ate here today by Seuntor A. W. Or
ion of Portland, becomes a law. Tho
bill provides that uffiilals who vio
late Its measures by employing aliens
may be charged wilh misdemeanor,
and. if convicted, fined not over $2u0.
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