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INitlVIERGtNCYi HOT INDIGNATION SHIP TRAFFIC! m 41 . T . I BY GERlNYi LACONIA VICTIMS
Senate Not to Act Upon President's
Bequest to Arm Ships Until Housel
Votes Flood Bill Recommended
Strikes Out Words "Other Instru
mentalities" and Amends Insurance
WASHINGTON, Feb. &. The
house foreign nf fairs committee to
day reported the Flood bill, designed
to Rive the president power to pro
tect the lives of United States citi
zens and American ships, after strik
ing out the words "other instrumen
talities," and amending the measure
to prohibit Kovernment war insurance
for ships carrying munitions of war.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. That the
senate will take no action on the arm
ed neutrality bill until the house has
passed the measure practically was
assured today after n conference be
tween Senator Stone, chairman of the
foreign relations committee, and lfcp
rcscntntivc Mann, house republican
leader. Mr. Jlann declared the senate
could not net on a bill providing for
an issue of bonds until it hud been
passed by the house.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 'J8. Sena
tors and representatives today con
sidered bills which will determine
liirjrcly the future course of tile
Cnitcd States in its relations toward
Germany, daily becoming more seri
ous. No doubt remains in the minds of
state department officials that the
sudden night attack on the I.aconia
embodies un open defiance of the
principles for which the United Slates
tfovernment has contended, but it was
said no additional step would be taken
pending action by congress to rant
President Wilson the authority he
asks.
1-Ycsh KvMspci'ullon.
. Ilcports that the German govern
ment is now detaining the Yarrowdale
prisoners on the excuse that an in
fectious disease has been discovered
at the place where they are living
were received here with a feeling ap
proaching exasperation. In addition
to this irritating incident, it was dis
closed that the state department feels
a break in relations with Austria
Hungarv is so inevitable that Ambas
sador I'enfield at Vienna has been in
structed to make all arrangements
for withdrawal of American diplo
mats and consuls from the country.
The house foreign affairs commit
tee today resumed consideration of
the bill to authorize the president to
enter a state of nmicd neutrality, hut
decided opposition was apparent to
granting him ns broad powers as he
wishes.
llouso Measure.
As reported by the house commit
tee, the bill would read:
"Tho president of the I'nited States
he and is hereby authorized and em
powered to supply merchant ships, the
property of citizens of the Cnitcd
States and bearing registry of the
I'nited States, with defensive arms
and also with the necessary ammuni
tim and means of making use of them
in defense against unlawful attack.
and thnt he be and is hereby author
ized and empowered to protect such
ships and the citizens of the I'nited
States niramst unlawful attack while
at their lawful respectful pursuits on
the high seas."
This eliminates the provision which
would have empowered the president
to use such "other instrumentalities
and methods as mav in his judgment
and discretion seem necessary u tul
adequate."
The bill would provide the M0.
110(1,000 bond issue nnd authorize the
president to transfer some of the
funds to the war risk insurance bu
(Continued on Page Two.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S Over the
protests of Chairman Fitzgerald of
the appropriations committee, who
declared the federal trade commix
ston's Investigation into the high cost
of living was chasing a "will of the
wlsn." the house today voted the
necessary appropriation of $4'i0,0''i
In ihe civil sundry hill on s roll call
CONGRESS PROVIDES
FOR FOOD INQUIRY
tote.
Washington Views Von Bethmann
Hollweg's Address to Reichstag
With Amazement and Indignation
Trying to Befuddle the German
People by Continued Falsehood.
WASHINGTON,
JS. Siir-
prise bordering on indignation
voiced today over Chancellor
lietlunann-llollwcg's speech to
was
Voil
the
rcichstag.
Stale department officials are
amazed that the chancellor should
seek further to confuse German
Anicrienn relations with a scries of
statements which they say are palp
ably opposed to the most obvious
events of recent historv.
The chancellor's statement that the
I'nited States severed relations
"brus(Uely" is viewed as loo absurd
for discussion. It is pointed out that
the American correspondence had
plainly threatened such action; that'
Count Von Henistorff hail said for
several days beforehand that he ex
pected to be dismissed and that the
German government had shown its
realization of ihe coming break bv
sending out orders to disable its mer
chant ships in this country.
Chancellor rontrnilictcil.
It also was pointed out that while
the I'nited States delayed three days
in taking the action it had clearly
foreshadowed in several notes, Ger
many put into effect its campaign of
ruthlessness .on eight hours' notice
after months of assuianees that she
had no intention of taking such it
step.
The statement that Germany in her
Sussex note reserved a new course of
action is declared wholly unjustified.
The Cnitcd States specifically rcfus
ed to accept that condition, and in
default of any reply from Germany,
was justified in believing that Ger
many adhered to her point of view.
In diplomacy the last note between
the two nations is the binding note
and stands in all particulars utitil de
nied by one or the other participants.
Is (iiven the Lie.
The chaiK-ellor's complaint that he
received only Renter's dispatches and
a verbal statement to the foreign min
ister as to the causes of the break,
recalls that a note setting out the
reasons for the action of the Cnitcd
States was handed to Count on
Henistorff with his passports.
The statement condemning Presi
dent Wilson for announcing an em
bargo on arms to Mexico and lint to
Kurnpe was dismissed as nbsurd and
incorrect. The eases arc held to be
in no way parallel as .Mexico was in
c ivil war.
I
WASHINGTON. Ceb. 2s. It is of
ficially established that the Ameri
can sailing schooner Lyman .M. i.i:w
was not sunk by un Austro-Hungarhiii
submarine.
It had been presumed that the Law
was destroyed by an Austrian sub
marine because she was halted on
her way to Palermo. Italy, In a re
gion where It was thought there were
no German C-boats. The submatine
showed no marks of identity, and It
now is assumed that she must h-ive
been Gernuin or possibly Turkish.
Ambassador I'enfield, at Vienna,
cabled a report today in response to
Inquiries from Secretary Lansing. The
Law was sunk, according to official
dispatches, by a bomb after Its crew
had been under shell fire.
President Wilson in his address to
congress characterized the destruc
tion of the Law as expressing a
ruthlessness .which deserves grave
condemnation." Hut was what might
have been expected.
FIRE DESTROYS MINING
PLANT, M0YIE, B. C.
XL'I.SON. I!. ('.. Feb. JS Kite hist
night destroyed the entire i"on-
tlntillg plant and building- at the St.
L'imciic mine. Movie, II. C. operated
bv the Ciilt-nliilatcd company. The
old mill i. I :;tli.iiinl. but was heim:
remodeled lor expel imeiilal pun'scs.
and its ai tual tiliie was mio-li less,
Liner Finland Reports That All Ves- l flp i
els, Liners as Well as Freighters it J jfJUt" l
Used Solely for Supplies and rk'' ff&wtJ "f&$ $t
Troops Lloyd George Anxious to JtLlfJ& 'SmOt Xw J'- v " V
See America Get Into the War. :
MOW YORK, Feb. L'S. Reports
that passenger traffic on all British
vessels leaving ISnglaml for America
and France lias been susoended. were
brought here today hy passengers,
who arrived on tho steamship Fin
land, tho last Amerilan lir.'i boat to
leave Liverpool and the third .tnit of
this fleet to sail from thai port after
tlorinany's proclamation of nuroslriei
cd Hubmiirit.e wart'ure.
.lames F. F:an of Philndc'phu
and Hobcrt Wilson of New York,
European representatives of lurso
American business interests said tuat
before leaving Knglnud they had hern
informed on what they .roiisidiTiii re
liable authority that the HiltHh ad
miralty had decided to employ all
vessels, passenger carriers as well as
freighters, solely for transporting
supplies or moving troops.
Passengers Itai-rcd.
Scandinavian and Dutch passenger
ships to America no longer sotp at
Mritish ports, but avoid the subma
rine zone by making Halifax their
port of call. Consequently, if the re
port of the Finland's passengers is
correct, no passengers can now reach
the United States from 'lOngiand un
less American liners sail from this
country to -fetch them.
It was one a. in. on February IS
when the Finland left Liverpool with
170 passengers. Sim sailed with all
lights burning, illuminating the
American flag painted on either side.
No submarine was sighted.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Amer
ican minister to Holland, who was
reported to be on the Finland, did
not sail. I'nited Slates Senator Kim
Frederick Hale of Maine said lie
understood Dr.. .Van Dyke was still
in London.
Mr. Hale, during three weeks spent
in England and France met many of
the leading men handling the affairs
of the entente allies.
Lloyd d'corge'.s Hopes.
I talked with Lloyd George In
London nnd he told me lie hoped
America would get into the war," Mr.
Hale said, "lie added that he want
ed to see America take a prominent
part in the peace negotiations at the
end of the conflict.
"I also saw Premier Ilrland in
Paris nnd ho said tlie entry of Ameri
ca into the fight against tho central
powers would have a great moral and
practical erfect toward bringing
about peace.
"The prevailing sentiment among
leading officials In both countries
was expressed that were the I'nited
States to send over even a small
fighting force under the American
flag, It would have a great moral ef
fect." PRESIDENT TALKS
TO PEACE ADVOCATES
. "WASHINGTON. I-VI). 2S. Presi
dent Wilson told pearo advocates who
called on him today to protest against
the Ktep8 lie proposen In dealing with
Germany that the country was faced
by a momentous problem in the pres
ent situation, that he had always been
for peace and would do everything
within his power to maintuia H.
The president received their sus
Kestlons sympathetically, memheni of
the delegation said, hut, told them the
country must realize the magnitude
of the question.
irno.
mm
ional
SAN KlfANCrsro. Kdi. ''h. -i w
Wiir department order received here
tndav hv Mff.jnr (iwriA .1. Frunklin
rtetl. run.nmnder of the wi-trrn dr-
iiii'tment "t the I niti-d t;t!- iinny,
find -uin'I Ity SeerHiiry NVwtmi I),
linker, di-iuiinte Ihe "Sliir-Spunijled
innin'i" n- the n;iti'uiiil anthem nnd
prohibit military hand iin'lndin it
r ni'Sioiwii niithem fit I'-ifin niin
l rir in im-dh-v-.
ULILHUL uurmu I i s
ASKS CONSIDERATION!
FORALITOIDENTSlgiJ
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. The
council of national defense today is
sued an appeal to t lie people of the
I'nited States to show every consider
ation in the present . international
situation to aliens resident In tills
country.
"The presence here at this time
of perhaps 8,000,000 aliens Is deeply
and soberly to be weighed, not only
in our Interests, but in their own,"
says the statement.
"ICinphasizing anew our national
doctrines of tolerance and personal
liberty, of holding all persons within
in the land to be loyal unless by their
own nets they shall prove the con
trary, we call upon all citizens, If un
toward events should come upon us,
to present to these aliens tho attitude
of neither suspicion nor aggressive
ness. "Any other course is unworthy of
our traditions aVd against public pol
icy ami the free flow of governmental
affairs." '
ALL ALONG LINE
E
FROM STAFF COKIIKKPONDKXT
OF THK ASSOCIATKU PHKSS.
BRITISH lIFADQl'AHTFItS IX
FRAN CIO, Feb. 27. There was shar
per resistance along the lino of the
German retreat tonight than nt any
time, since the movement began.
There is no indication as yet of the
fixed purpose by the GcnminH to
make a definite stand hut they arc
doing everything possible to hold up
and interfere with the British ad
vance. To the rear, outposts were im
mensely strengthened nd this led to
stiff fighting with the British patrols.
The Germans prepared carefully for
their retreat, apart from choosing the
movement when spring was just be
ginning, bringing with H new depths
of clinging mud. Belt after belt of
barbed wire marks the German trail.
Always great believers in this method
of defense, the Germans appear to
have outdone all previous efforts in
the way of wire barriers in the
Somme and Anere arc?..
The British, however, pushed for
ward today all along the eleven mile
line stretrh from south of Gomme
court to west of Lo Transloy. They
pushed further into l'uisieux Aiimont
southeast of Gommcrourt, in which
more fires were visible last night.
Searchlights also were plaing anx
iously about.
HOUSE FILIBUSTER AGAINST
CAPITAL PROHIBITION LAW
WASIll.VdTliN. Teh. JH.-I'niliilii-tion
mid iinti-priiliibitiiin forces in the
house lined up this n I'terniioii tor n
t'iiiiil determined licht over the senitte
bill tii m.ikc the liistrlct of (.'oluiuhiu
dry.
f Ipponcnts of the inuilsine be;in n
filibuster bv denimidiiitr roll culls on
11 do.cll Itttieltdnli-ltts, one of which
would pro ide ti referendum ol' the
fptestion by the residents of the dis
tricl. The di vs. in u ilelenniiicd effort lo
brctik the lilibit-ter. then oll'civil u j
resolution to snbt it utc the bill ul
rcadv ie-cd hv the scmitc for thej
oii-c bill mid niiil.c It in order without I
debute. The et- i icdiiitciy litum-h-
ed jiiioihcr titiliit-lcr, loit it s,M.niiil
lllllt I III- te-ollltloll would be !liloited
Hllil e lilrill lull- tilkfli bcloie lilld-
iiijjhl.
Top, loft lo light: Samuel Gotup
cvs, president American l-'cilcratit it
of Litbnr; Julius linscnwa'J, presi
dent ol Sears, lioeliuck & Co.; Ilr
Frederick II. Martin id' Chicago
Daniel Wiihnd, president II. & O. rail
road, llelow, left to t ight : llolli:
Godfrey of Drexel Institute, Philadel
phia : Howard K. Coffin id' lie! roil.
E
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.- An In
crease of $ ;; 7 .Ti 0 0,00 0 to the army
appropriation hill was ordered ttoduy
by the senate military committee In
completing revision of tho measure
t which passed the house. As it will
ihe reported to the senate, the hill
will carry $2 7 7,4sii,70S, ten million
J in excess of the amount carried In ex
listing laws.
I The principal increase ordered Is
j$in. 000,000 for clothing and camp
.and garrison equipment, making the
I total for thiH purpose $2S,r,oo,OiH.
The committee was actuated in recom
J mending the increase as a result of
the Mexican mobilization which
demonstrated that clothing supplies
and camp equipment were, as Sen
ator Chamberlain expressed it, "woe
fully lacking."
Oilier large increases ordered are
$ I,.'! 5 0,0 no for automatic machine
rifles; $ 1,000,01)0 for civilian mili
tary training; $ 1 ,;;r.O,Oon for govern
ment manufacture of arms; $2,000.
ooo for army suhstinence; $2,S00,
000 for the signal service; $2(-l.",:!,-for
supplies to the quartermas
ter's corps; $1,;!7;:,7nO for tianspor
tation and $-'.oo,otio for military
roads in Alaska.
The committee attached to the
measure Ihe Chamberlain universal
military service bill, but it is not ex
pected to carry at this session.
FEDERAL FARM LOAN
WASHINGTON, Feh. 'JH. - Federal
rutin loan hoard nlt'ic-inls un- under-
-t I to liii vc arm ii-ed for pliieing
hall' ol the entire t'irl i-ue ni" ioitli
comirig tarm Man bond-, itinoiint un
determined, will) a -yndiejilc id' bank
er's jit New York and elsewhere tit a
rate of -1 1 j per eenl. , The rate lo be
charged the fanner- mi hiiiiis will
raie.:e between and ."' per e-nt.
From the number of applications
from farmers wanting Iojum officials
estimate that as high as $:.MMMi,iiqo
in bonds may lie issued within the
first ear. Although official of only
five of the banks have b en an
nounced so lar. virtually all the banks
will be dofnn business, it Is expected,
within three wet-ks.
Secretary McAdoo is expected soon
to sign certificates for the linvern
ment's fubM-riptlon to stock not
taken by the public. The tiovernment
will place approximately 70,"m
jat the disposal of the banks in this
j manner. Thefe funds will be drawn
I upon bh fast as needed and although
' each hunk u ill j. km; Mm o n bonds,
jtlie board will uiidrtak the market
ing of thpin.
Suspicion of Imperial Government Is
Voiced by Detention of United
States Envoys Based Upon Cir
cumstances Which, Through No
Fault of America, Detained Mueller
WASHINGTON, Fel. 2S. Four
American consuls are being detained
in Germany while the Berlin govern
ment awaits official advices that all
German consuls in this country, or
dered to Central and South America,
have bet ti permitted to proceed.
Tho German government's action
is based on circumstances which,
through no fault of the I'nited States,
detained Consul Mueller at Havana
Cuba, while he was on his way from
Atlanta, to Quito, Kcuador.
The American consuls detained In
Germany are Consul Henry C. K.
Darnm, transferred from Aachen to
llarput, Turkey: Consul John Q
Wood, transferred from Chemnitz lo
Messina; Vice Consul YV. Bruce Wal
lace, transferred from Magdeburg to
Constantinople, and Vice Consul C
I nnes Bown, transferred from Man
helm to Constantinople.
Two X o t es I lr eel ved .
Two notes have been received from
the German government on the sub
icct. the first a week ago. charging
(hat the Fnited States had detained
Mueller at Havana and a second ask
ing for u reply to the first and also
containing a statement on charges
thnt American consuls and their wives
departing from Germany hart- been
subjected to indignities. It added
that as soon as .Mueller had been al
lowed lo proceed the American con
suls could go on.
That the German government has
been mitdnformed regarding Consul!
Mueller and other German consuls
formerly stationed In the I'nited
States is certain. The departure of
none has been hindered by this gov
ernment. Mueller was forced to re
main In Havana longer than he at
first thought would be necessary and
he cabled Berlin that he was detain
ed there. The German government
Ih believed lo havo taken this to
menu that tho Fnited States was re
sponsible for the detention.' As a
matter of fact, Mueller was forced to
remain in Havana because of tem
porary lack of transportation and fail
ure to receive passports from the
Kcuadoreati government.
Ieny Bad Treatment.
In the note received today, Ger
many complains against published
reports recently cabled to the Fnit
ed States rrom The Hague, in which
it was stated that American consular
officers leaving Germany had been
mistreated. It is stated that every
thing possible was done to provide
for the comfortable and safe depar
ture or the American officials and
blame for Ihe alleged nilsrepi-esenta-tlon
Is placed upon Vice Consul Har
old M. Quarton, formerly al Berlin,
who Germany believes to have been
the only consular officer from Ger
many In The Hague at tin; time the
newspaper articles were cabled.
As for treatment said in news
paper dispatches from Kurupe to have
been acorded American consuls and
members of the families, Germany de
clares that instructions were given
that they should receive every per
sonal consideration. However, It Is
made rlear that on the grounds ol
miiiiary necessity there were many
condition Incident to tin erosslnt:
of the frontiers to which mcrlcans,
the same as citizens of oilier nation
alities, hail to siibjuit. It was Impos
sible, Germany asserts, that all tho
military regulations could be done
away with at the time the American
consular and diplomatic officials
were crossing the border.
GIVEN UP AS LOSE
I.OXIIOX, Ti b. I'x. - Ai Hip lint, h
I'Katiiin II mh.i B.iiil ml;iv Hutu wuk
no ronririnaiion ,,t tin- ri'inirt puli-llslii-d
curlier in the wwk Hint Hip
Hutch uti nmslilix namtoiMm. Ki'in
liuul mill iiunilljk with mill mloiit.
On I lie miiirarv, tin- later Inrnrinii
tln received by the Dutch oflliliils
lcil to the tidier Hint the vw'l Iwiil
Iiccii lost. A KPiin h for Ihe stcani
nhis proved imHvalllim.
Mrs. Hoy Died In Arms of Daughter,
Who Succumbed a Few Minutes
Later Ivatt Passed Away In the
Arms of His Fiancee, Who Tried in
Vain to Keep Him Warm with Hair.
UYKuTOOL, Feh. 'J8 The lie v.
F. Dun-tan Sargent id' Grenada, Brit
ish We-t Imlio, a passenger on tho
Laeonia. who administered the Inst
rites of the Unman Catholic church to
seven persons who peri-bed, gave ti
the Associated I'resS today the fol
lowing account id' Ihe death of Mrs.
.Mary Hoy and Miss Klinbeth Hoy of
Chicago, nnd Ccdelie F. Ivntt of
London:
"Mrs. Hoy died in the arms of her
danghler. Her body slipped off into
the sen out of her daughter's weak
ened arms. The heartbroken daugh
ter succumbed a few minutes after
wards and her body fell over Ihe side
of the boat as we were tossed by tho
huge waves,
Exposure Cn u him 1 Death.
"In icy water up to her knees for
two hours, the daughter till the time,
bravely supported her aged mother,
uttering words of encouragement.
From ihe start both were violently
seasick, which, coupled with the cold
and exposure, gradually wore -down,
their courage. They werehravo wo
men." Aller a pause, Falher Sargent coir-
tinned: "The first to die in our boat-
was W. Irvine Itohiuson of Toronto.
After Ins body had been consigned to
ihe sea, we tossed about for an hour,
gelling more and more water until tlie
gunwales were uhnosl level with the
sea. I lien .Mr. ivntt, who wan nor.
physically, strong succumbed iu .the
nnhs of his fiancee, who was elos
beside him, trying in vnin to keep him
warm by throwing her wealth of hah
about his neck. Kveu after he died,
she refused to give him up, and al
though the additional weigh! made tho
situation more dangerous for us nil,
we yielded to her pitiful pleading an, I
allowed her to keep the body. It wan
taken aboard the rescuing patrol,
from which it was buried. Tile burial
aboard (be pttlrol al which I offici
ated, was a solemn and memorable,
ceremony.
In Boat Ten Hours.
''The Hoys were the next to pn-i
away. Then a fireman died and la
ier two others of the crew who were
too thinly (dad tit resist exposure,, Al
together, we were in the boat, ten
hours. We were rescued in the mid
dle of I he morning.
Father Sargent said his boat was
badly damaged on being launched and
immediately began lo leak. Owing tj
the heavy wave- they were unable to '
attract ihe attention of the other
boats or to transfer the passengers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. A report
today from Con-til Frost says that
the l.aeoiiia's lifeboat, which contain
ed Father lun-lan Sargent and Mrs.
and Mi-s Hoy was racked while being
lowered and sprung a leak, it float
ed away, -upporled by its tanks. Mr.
Fm.-t reported having taken affidav
iN from survivors. His dispatch fid
lows :
"lliMlli of lloy ladies anil negro
Colter, covered by nffidavils Father
I Inn-tan Sa rent and Jacob Fottier
ingham, shows boat No. 8 racked nnd
-piling in lowering against port side
and filled with water at oncf, bur.
floated away by its tiink-, became
-epa rated from oilier boat-, picked up
by second patrol 'Jlith, 7 a. m., eight
of il- lwenty-!vo necuiMints having
succumbed during the night.
Survivor in Hospital.
"Add to American sm vivorn (wo
iternc-. Mar-hall llyhiml. New York,
and Cleveland Teak, New Albany, Ind.
AH -univors (ecpl lour ho-pitut
(Continued on Page Two.)
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SEVEN DUTCH SHIPS
THK IIACti:. Xethcilnlid.i, I!v
Thn Ccrinan Koveijiment hap of
fered in replum the seven Hutch mer
chantmen which were torpedoed off
the Kimllah const lust week with (ler
nian rrelKhtnrn until the end of thn
war. on condition thai Holland pur
chase tliein afterward.