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University tf Ortfion Library YEATI11IJ- -Maximum rsttTl;i , iniiiiiimiii loday, 32. FOK'lX'AST- 'Liiii,i;lil and tomorrow, (iccashmally llirealciiinir, nn 3BF0 Ml? 4 f Forty-sixth Yrar. JJ.it ly Klevcnih Tar. MKDFORD. ORKUOX. WKDXKSDAV. .MARCH 7. H)17 NO. 290 - Mi ill Alii SENATE. LEADER t u ru ii h vu iuric I CHANGED RULES BERLIN PAPER r PERMIT DEBATE DUBS INAUGURAL TO BE SHUT-OFF Democratic and Republican Commit tees Agree' to Change in Senate Rules Whereby Two-Thirds Vote . Will Shut Off Talk and Prevent Filibuster and Dilatory Tactics. WASHINGTON', March 7. The senate democratic caucus Into today approved the proposed now rule by which a two-thirds vote could shut oft debato In the senate. Shortly afterward endorsement of the rule by the republican caucus was announced. There was little op position among the senators of cither party. WASHINGTON, March 7. After a white house conference the democratic senators hurried to the cnpitol for a conference with republican leaders to lay before them a plan for a modified cloture which. the democrats hope to bring before the senate tomorrow. The democrats said they expected prompt action. The democratic and republican clo ture committee agreed at their con ference to recommend to their party caucuses later today a change of the rules so by a two-thirds vote In the senate, debate could be shut off and dilatory tactics prevented. CJumu'o in ItcHoliition. A change in the resolution framed at their meeting last night. Senator Penrose, a republican member of the cloture committee announced, was to . provide that no amendment shnll be offered to a bill against which the cloture is to be enforced after the cloture has been voted by tiie senate. That would prevent any efforts t-j offer a substitute after the cloture had been agreed upon. Senator Walsh on the senate floor, argued that the senate was not a con tinuing body, that each - new senate was a separate entity and that it therefore should enact its own ruk"; without regard to existing rules of proceed nre. Walsh Demands Action. "The people,' Senator Walsh said, "are evidently resolved to talce upon themselves the burden of providing and maintaining a naval and nilMtaiy establishment greater than ever here tofore borne in time of penco. A gen uine alarm pervades the country lest some enemy may, in the very near future, attack us. Imagine the tlmo at hand and the foe bearing down upon us. The crisis involves the very life of the nation. The occasion brooks no delay. Action, Immediate action, by congress is Imperative. It Is scarcely conceivable that war should be precipitated or be impend ing without an appeal from the presi dent for some hurried action by con gress. Such an appeal comes to this body. It finds a ready response ex vopt from a small coterie of senators who spell each other on the floor until the enemy thunders at the gates' of our cities and the republic has had Its death blow. They may be honest. but misguided, peace at .any price men who refuse to believe that war is merltahle and continue to hope that (Continued on Page Three.) IN'nUXAJ'OI.IS, March 7. fom plete but unofficial returns from the 140 precincts in Indianapolis received this morning from ye-tcrilny's prim ary show that Charles W. .lewctt was nominated fur mayor on the "repub lican ticket hy a majority of '.Mil! over fjcw Shank. The unoHicinl vote was: Jewell r..H, Shank U.H'8. Shank aiinoiuii-cd lust nii'lil lhat it' he were defeated for llie nomination he would run on an independent ticket. Dick Miller, who hail no oppo-i-tion. was nominaled for mayor by the democrat.-. E 'Never Has Capitol at Washington Been More Profanely Desecrated" President Most Unrighteous and Dishonorable Man Who Has Yet Headed a Great State. IJKltl.lK, Mar.-h 7. TW Lc.kM An zv'igor, in a lonjf editorial .today, se verely eritieises I'rcsidunl WiUon's inaugural address. "On the self-same day that .James Monroe, 100 years njjo, assumed Hie presidency," says the newspaper, his successor, President Wilson, at the eapitol in Washington, ton up (he document known as the Monroe doc trine which Tor n century has been the cardinal feature of America's for eign politics. The peculiarly veiled rhetoric in which ho clothes bis iniiujj, ura! sentiments admits of no other interpretation. j Mere Presumption. "Tiie entire address is plainly an ai'tiiiment in support. of the necessity which President Wilson thinks has been shown by the world war, that there should be enforced on the Old World the laws which he had evolved in his own mind for re-rulntinir the inter-relations of the nations of the earth in future. In this ambition, which borders on megalomania, is ri ven led a measure of presumption which, thank (iod, is in inverse rutin tu the physical assets at his command needed to achieve (he realization of his program. "That, however, is not the most re volting Yea tare of his address. In each of its sentences the intention is plainly revealed throughout persistent misstatements, distortion and con cealment of undeniable facts, to pro claim himself to the world at large as a peace mediator at the very moment that he is threatening without cause to take up arms and enter the war: and this, though he is responsible for its prolongation hy virtue of his pro Knglish attitude, his so-called neu trality nnd his numerous sins of omission. Profane beseem! ton. ''Never has the eapitol at Wash ington hoen more profanely desecrat ed by a speech than on this occasion. In each of its sentences, its author sets up the claim to he counted among the most righteous and honorable of mortals, while in each word he reveals himself the most unrighteous and dis honorable man who has yet stood at the head of a great state. And when he states that there is .nothing that can alter his thoughts or his inten tions a million voices shout back across the Atlantic 'no threat of armed ships, no declaration of war, will again ofx-n up our blockade zones to American commerce.' ' CRIPPLED BY Ml niCm.l.N". March 7. The Russian armored cruiser 'Kyurlk struck a mine in the Gulf of Finland and was badly damaged, according to reports from Stockholm, says an Overseas News Ageilcy announcement. News of the disaster to the Ryurik was received In Sweden despite the Russian naval censors, the agency's Stockholm advices state. The warship wan shortly afterward docked at Cronsladt, on the Gulf of Finland, It Is added. ' The Ryurik (also spelled Iturik I Is an armored cruiser of l.'OOO tons, S29 feet long, 73 feet bea:r. and 2f deet depth, ller armament com prises four ten-Inch guns In pairs In turrets and eight eight-Inch guns sim ilarly mounted, together with twenty four-Inch guns and four tbree-poiind-ers. She has two torpedo tubes, sub merged. The Ryurik. which was built at Uarrow In 19011, developed a speed of 21.) knots on her trial. Her com plement is '.'' s men. P MASTER MINDS OF 3 aw i t v.-4 .t-f ' jisk i ys .-v-H lwwVAsf w 'sss ' Tlii is one of Hie yivulet news pii-lurcs In arrive in this enuutrv since the -lart nl'ihe Kurnpeiin war. II shows the Ihrce muster minds of (leriniiny iiin.ir over the. inap of Hie world mid pluuniiio- a cainpiiicn fur wbrld dominion. Tliey are, left lo'riyjit, (loneriil von llindeiihiiii;-, Kaiser Willi. din mid (ieiierul von l.iidciidnrH'. NEW CONGRESSMEN WASHINGTON', Man-n 7.-official advice to ilciiincraiii' mid rcpiililican limi.-o leaders tmlav showed that till of Hie newly elected nieinhi'rsliip is lihysieally able lu respond iiiiiiiedintu ly to a call for an extra session. California republicans arc endeav oring: In olihiin the support of IJeprc scntutive liiiiiilnll, proliiliitinnist, in Hie coming organization fight on the ground thai victory for them would mean live cnnimittee chairmanships for Hie stale. I'lider the seniority rule, with K.indall listed as a repub lican and the repulilicans in control. Calil'iirniiins would head .euniniittces us follows: Kalin, military: Hayes, banking ami currency: Kandall, post office: Nolan, patents, and I'.lston, mileage. Prohibitionists after, careful can vass of the personnel of the ncw hoitse, today declared they would have even greater strength in it than they had ill the last liou-o. Repre sentative Webb will seek to bring up his national prohibition resolution as quickly as possible after the new house convenes in regular session. T LONDON, March 7 An nll'icial report from Kypt nys the Turk? haVe abandoned a Mmnir pnsitiun in the nttitrhhnrhocHl nf Slieikh Xurau, west of SheMal. Shcllnl is in upper Kjjypt. on the Nile, about miles south of Cairo. There have been no recent reports of fighting in this region. In various parts of the country uprisingK have occurred during the war, usually mi the part of tribesmen led hv Turkish officers. So far as the Hiiti-h re ports have shown, little headway has been made by these forces. IT ILL WASHINGTON. March 7.-President Wil-on took to his room today with a cold contracted about a week no and made worse durinc, his inaug uration Monda. Aflcr seeing a jrroup of senators early this tnoruiiiL' and then eonfeirui with Seeietnry Lansini' and Secretary McA.loo, lie decided to ce no more cullers and went to his bedroom. Ilis condition 14 UOt M'lioUS, GERMANY MA P OUT CAMPAIGN ?4 ffTV-fWWi i . ir s, HOME RULE FOR NO; IT LON'OOX, March 7. On bchall' o' the Iri-h nationalists, T. I. O'Conner moved in tlte house of commons today a n'solnlion that the free institutions loiiy promised to Jruland should be conferred on her willmiit further de lay. Mr. OTunner said it was an in- ivilaliou to the whole house to join in a united and genuine effort to settle the lri-h question. It indicated n ehanue in the attitude of the nation alists toward the war policy, in re gard to which there was no opposition in Ireland. The only criticism of John I'cil moml. Mr. OVnnucr continued, was that he, well as other leaders nf the nat ionnli-U, had paid the price of liberty without get tint; it. The na tionalists recognized the difficulty of j putting the home rule act into oper lation during the war. The rcmark- aide thing was that the Irish people j accented the dclav. I They trusted to the honor of Kng lland and no one cmh imagine that the country which was fighting for the principle of small nationalities would he so inconsistent ami unjiM as to deny ih.t rijjht to Indand. I'l'eniier Lloyd (icorge snj( it w.ik the "nvcrninciil's view lii:it there must he no attempt at a -etllelaent of the Irish (uc--tiin which would provoke civil war in one part of the kingdom and rend t he whole kingdom into warring camps during the great world straggle. j Premier l.loyd (ieor-.-e said the j gove rnm eat was prepared to confer self-government on parts nf liclitiid f clearly deiii:inditiLr it. WASIIINdTON', March 7.-T.. in cuurue siumII touns and ill;iL,es to maintain national nard uiii's, the war ilepni luiciit, in a circilar issued today has authorized lite establish ment of detached platoons. Two or more of Pn-sc platoons, coming from netirbv Imiii- or sciilciui-nN, would form a company ui a reL'imcul nrjoii leil in lli.il iarl of the -talc. The iiiiniit'iiui stri iieth lixcd forib--lached tl.itooiis is f i veil al thiily four men, one ol licerl fir-l or second lieuleiiiint I, one -ci'iioanl, lour cor porals, nine private-, lir-t ela--, am! nineteen privates. The plan would supply a four siiuul 1 nriiiii I ion w hich could be drilled in enmiianv maneuv ers -o it o tube its place with (he other platoons of the compar.v on ILl'.lull.ull'Jll. FOR SMALL TOWNSiUSE NAVY FUNDS FOR WORLD CONTROL ! : . M I- i BRITISH FORCES 11 THIRTY LONDON', March 7. lirili.-h cav alry hud advanced wit li in nine miles of t'tesiphoii, mi the Tigris fronl, on Mondny afternoon, it ,-is announced of i iciallv tiitlnv. Tiie statement follows: "On Monday afternoon lli ilir-h cav alry were encased with the Turkish rearguard al La.jj. nine miles south east of I'tesiplion, Mesopotaniiii." "Oivins to Hie fact tluil the war material abandoned by llie enemy is strewn over eighty mile of the coun try, it is not vol possible to ie an accurate iind full list of our rap tures. The cllcclion of booty and the salvage nf mills, etc., which were thrown into the river, is Ileitis carried on and up to llie prc-onl tliirtv-eiuhl '.i'ltis. including those on captured river era ft. have been collected, e-elu-ive of niai bine uii- and trench niorlars." The UrilMi arc now within less than thirty miles of liadad. The low n of l.a.i.j, which they reached on Moiidiiy, is I wenly-eibl miles from Ilia! oily. Since the tall of Kill -el -Amaru on Kcbnuiiy 'Jli, the llrili-b have ii.lyniced al I l ivhty miles. Ouiicj t the naUire of the 'jromid bclween K ut A inn in and Oc-iphon. w hieh is but I rly ndapteil lo defen sive pnrpn .c-, it has been predicted by military writers tbai Hie Turks would ii'iike no serious ullcinpl to halt then retreat Tint i I Clcsipbon wa- reached and that a deoi-ive i nuacuiciit prob- aoiy comiii conic at Dial iiolut. II was Ibcrc that the dccidinL' h.illlc in the cu in .a i.'ii of l(l,'i was foimht. Th British won an initial virlorv onlv to fall back in ihc lac,, of Turkish rein forcement s. The -icjc id' Kul -el -Amaru and tile sin render of tleneral Town-bend to the Turks followed. WASIIIMITON, March 7. - Liner.-. encv funds o h(. nay deiarliecnl iiiity be used t itilintie coastal siir- i vey work as a re, nil of Hie failure of ; appropriation- lor the work to pass Hie a-t coli'.-rc.-s. Secretary liedlicld of llie (leparluicllt of commerce told Seerelarv Daniels today t lint const and eodclic funds under bis super-vi-ion wcic chnu-tcil nnd iinli-s I he navy depuitincnt could find siftic nut I for I iniincin'r the work under its hitec j eiiicreeiH'v aiproiiiatieii clialtiir.' ot' uie coa-s, iii nai Illip'Oianec III lia- linlial ileleiisc plan- aid not be carried on. Seerelarv Daniels will -cek lea! aih ice its to ubctlicr he call livei! tku cuicru'citi'v funds to llii-wok. II TO BE ARMED FOR C0EV1MANDS MFRRHANTMFN IFNI ISTE!) MEN im Mrjinnminr nr ni iiMTrrnn UK K Mr u Illy irrnA , 111 I1L.M11 I U I UMU Ul I ULUI 1 I L.L.IIU Definite Impression That American Ships Would Be Armed Gained in Conferences With President Ex tra Session to Be Called Before June for Important Legislation. WASHINGTON, March 7.--The definite impression I tin I American merchantmen would be ariueil in Hie near future gained cn,unil today Vo lowiuii conferences between President Wilson and aduiiiilslralion officials and deiuocratie senators. Sonic niliniuistrnlion officinls lo day weri' in-'jim; on rrcsidenl Wilson I heir view 1 1 1 : 1 1 he may legally arm merchant ships now wilhniil waitinu for express nulbority which congress niilil rive if called in special session. They indued thai Hie old law passed in I S 1 !t lorbiddiiu; a luercluinliuaii to fire on ''a public armed vessel of a nalion in amity with Ihc t'uitoil Stales," would not apply lo Hie pres ent silunlion. The president heard these views with been interest and in dicaled lha.1 lie is seeliill'. some leeal means of netinv promptly, bill would prefer eoiiuressiona I approval. I'Atra Session Likely. II appeared finite probable today that the ('ailed Slates would not press Hie i--siio created by Auslro I luii''ar 's notification that she ad heres to (jcrmniiy's principles of sub iiaiine warfare, iiiasniui-h as the com munication has a coiicilialory lone and poinls out thai since Aiislriaii iuhinariiies operale only in Ihc Adri iilio and Mcililcrruiiciin Ihc chuuees of their actually iobitine- Auicrican rights nre not i-reat. rrospects of ail extra session of eonercss soon seemed strong .today. Mouthers of eoiicrcss jjcnerally now look I'm- an extra se-siou to be culled lo meet not Inter than June as a re sult of hints said lo have been thrown out by officials clo.-e to President Wilson. Aside from any action on llie armed ship bill, tl ceil of an e.vlra session lo pu-.s ihc hie .supply measures which failed al the last session js rcc.urilcd as imperative Legislation Itesired. III addition, lb are other meas ures that the aibiiini-tralioll regarded as almost inipcratiic which failed to puss, They included it uiclldmclll s to the shipping and federal reserve laws, legislation to siienl'ien the Aibiiiisou jaw, oiiiisult nt inn. lotcij;ii selling cor porations and cnla i L.-emcnl of the in terstate coiuuici-c commission. IIAVHK, Kiauit'. March 7. (leue ral Von lll.ssint;, i,ovi'Vnor general of Mcluluni, has Issued a decree ordering the seizure througl.oiit Ilelglum of certain articles rur removal to l)er many when the ipiantliles held hy any owner exci ad lertaln siiecified iiumliers or weights. There ale sixty articles oil the list, including lulilei loilf, napkins, silks, manufactured or law; water-proof stuffs and ganiiciils, oil cloths, wool en yarns, fibres of every sort, bris tles, feu, (,( r ue v blankels, leg gins, linen bandages and other sani tary articles. The country, a-ioidlng to advices rec. ivctl here Is In in,- emptied under Ibis decree of ccr) tiling useful tu lorntuiiy. DELAWARE INDI.GNANT WITH SENATE FILIBUSTERERS Do Ki;, ),.., Ma red 7. - The Debt- waie -cnale today Mini in sy adopted a concurrent resolution re coidiu'.' its "deep iiuligalion at those uiciiibers ,,f ihc -cnatc of the Tniied States who failed to -tipport the ann cd -hip bill.'' BELGIAN GOODS6 OTS : War Department Directs Desigtintioii of Efficient Regular Soldiers to Serve 1 as Officers in Whatever Anny May Be Raised Sixty Men Selected From Each Regiment. WASIIIXOTOX, March 7 The war department haa directed that between a.OOO and 0,000 enlisted men of the army he designated by regimental comnianderH for comniisHlon iig com iiriiiy officers, in whatever army may be raised. Orders have been sent to each rcKiment to select sixty men who will bo eligible for commissions up to and including captains. The deiilKuatlou of tho men will be on their military rtptltudo, not by ex amination. Tho department, ns a precautionary atop, it was explained, desired to establish this list of men deemed fit for cpmnilsUons by offi cers under whom they have, served. ! I', i.'suniably t.'-.e non-coiii missioned personnel will supply the largast number. ' N'alioual tiiiiird Also. ft la possible that a Blmllai" list will bo compiled uiuoiik .N'atlonul , (luard reKlments. If a volunteer army of any sizo weru summoned to ' the colors, these men would ho draft- . 'ed for IrainliiK duty as officers of tlin volunteers. The officers reserve e. corps will furnish addltionul' oil lces", some of ifio rank of major, but as ', less than ono thousand men aro now enrolled In the corps it could not sup- : ply sufficient officers for the volun- . leers. ,,,( The department Is conducting a ' vigorous campaign to incrcaso the of ficers corps. Kfforts aro being made ' to enroll fifty men In each coniires- slouul district. Jlllitary ' aptitude. -rather than experience with troops of present knowledge of military mat ters will bo the governing factor la their examination. t Is Only H ay for Army. 'J : Tho regular army may suffer itf ' efficiency If Its best enlisted men are ' withdrawn rr duty Willi volunteers, but (hero Is no oilier way, officers say, to provide an adequate training ioico even lor a volunteer army or "inn, nun men. . . If a million or nioro were to ba Irained, offleers lor the force would" have to he selected from the first : oiKiinlzed, tho regular osliih- llshment. at present not being capable of supplying more than enough fully : trained officers for higher commands inn special service details renoirlnc leclinleal skill. J erfect, tho regit- ; lavs will have to train first tho fores that is to train the volunteer army it a big force Is to be raised. WASHINGTON, M,,., 7.-0en,,an ph'ls to foment revolutions i India "biel, dale hack ninny veurs bel'oro the Kuropcan war were said at tho stale dcpurlinent to he enlirely ,ler coul i ol as far as operations j t Ui country me coneerned. Sun Fran, cisco, willi Oennany nnil China, was used .luring- the fir-t part of the wnt as one ol (be Ihree main bases of on. crnlion, hut the activities r the por. son who ilirecled operations there whose name tho ilcpurlment will not disclo.e, is sfaicd to l,ve been eurli. c . A smaller .junta at Maniln against hic, lb,, Hritish loivcrumerit had. I'Mestcil, is also said to have been broken up. GERMAN SUBMARINES REPORT 204,000 TONNAGE I'L'UUV, March 7.-frman ! inarlaes returning March 1 and 3 from their operations. ul,le reportB Indicating; tho sinking r vessels with an aggregate tonic,, .. f .,a. cording to tho Overseas News age,. ....o, uuriuuu news hureauj, 1 I I I 1 "Jr y r?ryi w,rTi.-iiii .w
