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MKDFORD. ORKUOX. WKDXKSDAV. .MARCH 7. H)17
NO. 290 -
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SENATE. LEADER
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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
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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
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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,
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