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I POSSUM
)T WEAKENING
SENATE QUIBBLES
ABOUT ARMY BILL
AND DOES NOTHING
Contrary, It Is War,
promisingly and Bit
ilytotheEnd :g talks as one
eady victorious
or Has Evidently Sur
i to Hindenburg to
Save His Place
3 Arthur E. Mann.
! Press staff correspondent.)
ucii, liny 1". Germany in no
living possum," letting hints
through her censorship show
i popular waves for peace
if to lull her enemies into tho
4 he is weakening. On the
it is war, uncompromisingly
-dly to the end. And Amer
; sw iu this new development
ity for throwing all America's
mediately Into the fray.
Sis close ringside sent to the
t opinion i.i universal among
I aiul allied officials and eiti-j
fin German I'lianeellor Von
j Hollweg' speech. Copenha
est of all neutrals to the
;de of the conflict and less sub
utside influences,
lerieans and allies liere regard
speech as that of a lender
s m a small sized brush with
tie political elements. They
would never have made so un
singly curt an address if he
sure of his grip. They hhjd tlio
f tad flatly refuted the flood
stions from Germany' propa
parlmcnt that Germany is
quit. They hope Hollweg's
A stand for continuation of
fill eradicate that element in
riick has counselled for pass
nation in the war in the, hope
is getting ready for a
man People Optimistic.
nformed officials here inter
Imost universal approval of
i speech as voiced in German
, 88 an indication that the
nas survived tho politieul
lis career. They are not by
sure there ever was a serious
threatening llollwcg's
tit may have been n very clev-
0 propaganda move to spread
?H reports of internal dia
, '"('st reports from Ger
W he counted on to influence
'oil a8 the United States
socialists have already np-
great stock in these Ger
s of public unrest and have
a they nro working for peace
revolution" in German v.
appeared mat Hollweg" was
i",nCVC.r'.if,not snger, and
retain his strength unless
' l' bt"t eampnign fails or
mho other stroke against the
"Owcrg.
1 "Pt'raism for victory in Ger
verwhelmcd the radicals and
"faction over failure of the
t immediately to institute re-
fight Over Wording: "Durins!
txisimg emergencies ana
"During Present War"
LAFOLLETTE AND STONE
ARE TROUBLE MAKERS
Qiamberlain Says If Bill Goes
to Conference Again It
Means 30 Days Delay
I first Call for Troops
WH1 BeJnSeptember
Washington, Msy 17. The
first 500,000 men under the new
selective service bill will not be
culled until about Keptember ,
it became known today.
HecreUry Haker, in a letter to
Senator Jones, Washington, said
that the delay in the rail U due
to "the depleted state of war
supplies."
Senator Jones hud written
Baker asking if conscripted
troops could not be used to help
harvest the coming crops. Bak-
er's reply said that owing to the
depleted state of supplies, "it
will not be practical to call out
the first 500,000 men until about
September 1," and that there-
fore, "thtre will be no appreci-
able interference with the labor
supply of the country until that
date."
Baker added that when the
men are called they will have to
be continuously trained to the
colors until they ' are sent
abroad. As the period of train-
ing before they are sent "will
at best be all too short," he
added, "in justice to the men, it
must be intensive and continu-
ous. "
senate touny continued quibbling and
"hair splitting" on the selective serv
ice army bill.
Apparently a breach between White
House and capitol was growing wider,
while the nation wait, for a method of
raising an army.
Over three hourg'were spent iu wordv
wrangling over whether the men ehn.mi
for the army should serve douing "the!
existing emergency" or duriug "thfli
present war." I
Senators MeKellar, Hoke Smith, i
Hardwick and Reed declared the latter!
words should be used. To change the
,u r,uu mem wouiu once mom
throw the measure into conference.
Hardwick was particularly bitter in
urging the change. .
Under the present wording, "an 'em
ergency' could still be held to exist if
we got into war with some teapot con
tral or south American country," Hard
wick shouted.
"We couldn't get into such a wai
without consent of congress," Kellogg
of Minnesota, interposed, ...
"We did in Mexico," said LnFollette.
"We. did in Hanto Domingo Haiti,
Vera Cruz and elsewhere," added Smith
of Michigan.
The Kaiser's Senators.
TO TRAIN NEGROES
Snu Francisco, May 17. An
independent training camp for
negro reserve officers will be
established soon in tho western
army department, according to
announcement today. All ne
groes who have been recom
mended for reserve commissions
will lw excused from other duty
until the camp is established.
!
ARMY BILL
READYFOR
PRESIDENT
Af ter Many Days of Acricioa
ious Debate Senate Today
Passed the Bill Authorizing
Army of 1,600,000
Washington, May 17. The great
selective serrioe army bill, calling
for 1,600,000 troops Is now ready
for the president's signature.
After acrimonious debate which
endured for six and half hours
today, the senate finally approved
the measure, 65 to 8.
Those who voted against it were:
Senators Gore, Groiina, Hard
wick, Klrby, LaFollette, Norris,
Stone and Trammel!.
INDICTS CONGRESS
New York, May 17. Declar
ing congress is guilty of treacn
ery to the United States, the
new York World today again
pleaded for quicker action on
the army bill.
"It is difficult to write tem
perately of the treachery to the
United states, its allies and tho
cause of human freedom reveal
ed by treatment of the army
bill at the hands of congress,"
said the World.
" Congress may be sincere in
its attitude toward the army
bill, but if so, it ean defend its
patriotism only by indicting its
intelligence. A more shameful
or shocking exhibition would be
difficult to stage even in dis
tracted Rutsia. "
FIFTY SOLDIERS POISONED
Good Roads Convention
In Session at Medford
Medford, Ore., May 17. With the
leading good roads workers of the three
Pacific coast states attending, the an
nual convention of tho Tri-State Good
Roads association got into full swing
here today, the second day of the gath
ering.
Governor W ltliycomoe in
London, May 17. Knowing that Am
erican destroyers are.tofay combing the
seas along with Bntisa warships search
ing for submarines, the terse announce
ment of tho American commander
an address ."We're ready for immediate duty"
Pittsburg, Ta., May 17 Fifty
soldiers belonging to a Phila
delphia company on guard in
the Pittsburg district were ill
today with poisoning symptom
atica! of that which caused the
death yesterday of Lieutenant
W. F. Corcoran.
All ate bread pudding served
them at the restaurant of Carl
Miller, who is now under arrest
and iu close confinement.
No further deaths are expect
ed, phycisians attending the
men stated shortly before noon,
though some of the men are in
"bad shape "
$2,245,000,000 IS
SIZE OF BILL SAYS
CHAIMIWI!
Treasurer McAdoo Says
$445,000,000 Mast Be
Added to Meet Demands
i
TOTAL $6,464,949,922
TO MEET SUMS ASKED
HCAI1 COMMANDER
REPORTS:" READY GREAT CROWD GATHERS
FOR IMMEDIATE DUTY"
Britishers Surprised When
Destroyers Arrive Prepared
for Business -
RUSSIANS GETAN
OBJECT LESSON IN
CEBI-1DUPLICIIY
LaFollette declared he saw a "delib-! before the convention yesterday declar-Jupon arrival of the flotilla at Queens
crate attempt to fasten the draft system '' ed that good roads were essential to na-1 town sent a thtill through England to
on ine country permanently by the mill
tarists."
tional defense.
The following officers were elected
Chamberlain, Oregon, in charge of the last night
bill, eloquently protested neainst "fur
ther delay with danger at our door." He
accused senators of hair splitting. He
was especially aroused over charges that
"some influence some motive" must
(Continued on page two.)
President. X A. westerlund, Med
ford; vice-president, C. C. Chapman,
Portland; executive secretary, George
E. Boos, Medford; treasurer, J. Edgar
Allen, San Francisco; directors, W. C.
Lcever, Centrtil Point, Ore., and A. War
ren Gould, Seattle.
WFUPILS TO ENLIST
U L n' 11''1'ila "'the state
w wiU '"ioll for agricul
Hft ",' V1C0, oni..rrow under a
uedhj-Oovernor Lister.
m Mil harvest Washington
MARTIN
1 m
'5J ?
:
M1' tiU they trv t'
. OPPOSitin , " rCI10mi-
suppression of
Russian Crisis Has Passed
Differences Melting Away
May Soon Show Solid Front
By William G. Shepiierd
(United Press staff correspondent)
: 1'etrograd, May 17. Russia appeared
todav to have uassed the crisis of her
political sickness and to have started
on the road to convalescence. Differ
ences between the duma government
and the soldiers' and workmen's dele
gates were meltinsr awav and the for
mation of a cabinet which seems cer- cooperative societies unde:
ive affairs by the duma. The delegates
are representatives of the Russian peo
ple, themselves.
When the revolution succeeded the
Russian people spontaneously began
considering some way of taking advant
age of the lessons in cooperation and
popular rule and the experience they
had gained in the zemstvo ami otner
tue oiu Hu-
tain to command full support of all
factions went on apace.
Today the executive committee of
the soldiers '"'and workmen 's commit
tee met with the duma ministry. They
asked that the ministry include in the
recognized cabinet three social demo
crats and three national socialists
six out of twelve of the cabinet posts.
Official denial of alarmist reports
of conditions of anarchy at Vladivo
stok was issued today. It was asserted
the army commandant there reported
complete quiet and co-operation of all
classes ever since the revolution.
American Influence Felt
One thing which it seems has had
great erfect in stopping the interne
cine strife among factions here is tne
series of statements iirmtea in nus-
sinn newspapers. from prominent Amer
icans urging complete uemocracj Him
unity of effort to oust autrocratic
Germany. Today the statements of
Hamilton Holt, New York editor, and a
number of American socialists that the
United States does not seek and does
not favor aggrandizement in the war,
were received with special favor.
Few people , outside of Russia will
understand why there has been so much
vacillution 'about a coalition cabinet
why the soldiers' and workmen's dele
gates first refused the duma ministry s
proffer Of such a plan; why they chang
ed this'refnsal into acceptance; on cer
tain : specified terms; : why the: duma
leaders rejected the specific terms and
how:it comes today that, there is so
much "jockeying", between ' the .two
litlnnr fnr tha nrcrnuized eabinCti Att
understanding of what : the- ; soldiers '(
and workmen's council refllly amounts
to is essential.
Take Place of Duma
As a matter of fact, the workmen's
and soldiers' delegates have practical
ly usurped-the place formerly held
theoretically in Russian aelministrat-
AT CHOATE FUNERAL
People of All Nations and of
; All Stations Pay Tribute
to Great American
. . i
New York, May 17. Representatives
of the humble and the exalted of ell the
civilized nations of the World except
those with whom the United States is
at war, paid final tribute to the mem
ory of Joseph P. Choate in the brief and
simple funeral service tor the lawyer
diplomat at St. Bartholomew's church
here today.
Madison avenuo. in both directions for
blocks was lined with hundreds of the
rich and poor, the great and the obscure,
the young and tho old, who knew and
were known by the beloved patriarch of
the law, on equal terms.
It took 1D0 patrolmen and a squad of
mounted officers to handle the crowds.
The church was packed to the doors.
The service, attended, though it wbb,
by the great men of many nations, was
brief, simple and not at all funereal-
as Choate himself had requested.
There was no funeral sermon, no flow
ers on the casket. This was covered with
palms and borno on the shoulders of the
distinguished pall bearers, immediate
ly followed by Mrs. Choate on the arm
of her son, Joseph Choate, Jr. Other
near relatives followed them..
. Episcopal Ceremony Used.
Among the active pall bearers were
Mayor John Purroy Mitchel) J, P. Mor
gan, British. Ambassador Sir Cecil
stripped down to fighting trim and the ! Spring-Rice, British naval attacho of
personnel tlriliea to rue second. line xriviu ewuttsov, wuy vntuxii. uu a.
London newspapers glowed in relat- Hovelaque, inspector general of public
ing the incident of how British officers instruction of France and members of
Radical Revamping of Bill to
Increase Revenues Is
Made Necessary .
Washington, May 17. Four hundred
and forty-five million dollars additional
must bo added to the $l,S00,OOO,000 rev
enue bill now before the house, making
it total $2,245,000,000, Chairman Kitcb j
in of the ways and means commutes
told the house today.
Kitchin read a statement from the
treasury department showing' that the
total amount of appropriations passed
and pending in congress, necessary for
war must be raised to cover appropria
tions already asked.
Representative Lenroot, Wisconsin,
moved to increase from 11 to 13.75 per
cent the surtax on the amounts by
which incomes exceed t)0,000, but do
not exceed 0,000. This was adopted.
"I propose to ask that the tax on
all incomes above the $60,000 mark W
increased by 25 per cent," Lenroot
said.
Kitchin caused a sensation when he
favored this amendment. He had op
posed all former amendments to in
crease the income tax. He said we will
need every dollar that can be raised
When Russian Regbcri Re
fused to Fraternize Feci-'
tion Is Attacked
ARE OVERWHELMED BY
ASPHYXIATING GASES
German Guns Again Roaring
Over Greater Part of Frost
Russian Flotilla Attacks
day.
That the American vessels arrived on
this side ready for instant action, and
that one of the destroyers has already
had a brush with a submarine became
known following the first admiralty
statement announcing their presence.
Tho British admiralty never discloses
details of actions between its patrol
vessels and submarines, unless there
have been casualties to the British
forces. The same plan presumably will
cover whatever the admiralty may have
to say regarding the American destroy
ers in action. In the prclimisary an
nouncement, however, it is believed the
admiralty desired to let the peoplo of
England know that the Americans were
"in the thick of it" and therefore per
mitted announcement showing the destroyer-U-boat
action. What the out
come of the brushes, the admiralty
withheld.
Every British naval officer and sea
man who has seen the American flotil
la is open-voiced in admiration of the
business like appearance of both ships
and men. The destroyers had been
"cleared for action" on the way over,
Fetrograd, May 17. Fraternizing fea-
twecn Russiin and Teutonic soldiers has
stopped along practically all the north
ern front, according to a Nord-Snis
agency dispatch received today.
The cessation of friendly relations
was caused by one incident which, it
was said, brought home to tho Russia
troops the duplicity of the Germans and
the hint that the Teutons had some ul
terior purposes behind their efforts. It
happened on a sector of the Riga front.
A certain Russian regiment has with
stood all German blandishments to eom
out and talk over things. The positioa
held by this regiment was overyhelmnd
by asphyxiating gases, intense rifle
and artillery fire and a hurricane of
hand grenades and trench mortars.
Mines were exploded nearby.
The Nord-Sud dispatch declared Ger
man guns now were roaring over a great
part of the front since the soldiers
stopped fraternizing, but that Russian
army morale was being 1 excellently
maintained despite this continuous
pounding.
Russian aeroplanes flying ever tho
(Black sea harrassed the enemy in Ru-
",If the committee had known about mama, compelling the Teutonic aband-
lament; or tug jnum&uiHii urdk hi uw .
Danube. Later when the Germans me
to i re-eross, the - Russian - flyer again
threw them back.
The news of a Russian submarine- flo
tilla shelling and silencing a battery am
the Bosphorus was also printed here to
day. Heavy damage was said to have
been, inflicted on the Turkish positioa.
who boarded the American flotilla com
mander's flagship to bid him welcome
and to take tea with him, learned that
the American commander expected to
begin dutv the next morning.
The British had expected several days
"tuning up after" the trans-Atlantic
run,
tocratic rule- Such organizations as the
zemstvo many tunes saved Kussia un
der the old-regime by assuring proper
food to troops at the front and endeav
oring to balance distribution of food.
Many of the present leaders of the min
istry were prominent in these organiza
tions having become prominent be
cause they were originally chosen by
the people.
A Sort of Zemstvo
lint with the revolution a success, the
people be?an electing delegates to meet
in the duma buliding to act as a sort
of zemstvo organization to aid in gov
ernmental administration. Workmen
all over Kussia met in barracks, trench
es workshops and peasants including
women in all settlements, to choose
representatives. Theso delegates hasten
ed to Petrograd. Entirely unofficial,
thev nevertheless, really constitute the
'. omirnneh to ' t lie voice of the
people" now possible in Russia. I San Fral,cisco, May 17. Revelation!)
The delegates occupied the Duma if f.ye niurdcrs, the destruction of 28
,;i.iino The structure now iwim""
...... ft. ..n.
nan in which n
TELLS OFJACK HAND
Gang of 150 Has Terrorized
California for Eleven Years
Says Informer
nnn vpntinn
Christian Kndeavor society is meeting,
f.winrotinn nf lnhor. or the Kg
Or wc- " , ; ,
homes and the terrorizing oi wi.i
Italians into the payment of thousands
of dollars by a black hand gang of 150
u. rrr. nlnced in the hands ot
- - . .i : ueiliurirc " i .
tarians. Improvises signs i " j t, , gan yrancisco ponce touaj uy
,lors tell the delegates at what rooms) pn(lmie undcr life sentence for
iJLi Anv. Todav, with San
-i a .1 III M. till""--
tn resisfer. where to Una longing m.,rjr 0f Gaetano IngraMia,
.vlien meetings will be held
workmen an
Have AU the Power ' authorities, Chief of Po-
a'?'e" Z: White is probing the story deeper.
Because the worKmen ana " j probing the
have all the rifles, they Predom"iate ! the W
over the purely peasant d" More" For i y and h
over, tho fighting ciass is j -
majority of the people.
With this unofficial assembly added
to the Russian governmental machin
ery, the dun has bejjrt entirely super
te dec!
' The officials selected by the now re
tired duma cannot give orders now with
out the sanction of the . workmen an,
soldiers... The assembly have appointed
(Continued on page two.)
has been ex
torting money ana
of death or aein"-"" r--r"-'
against prominent Italians of the bay
counties The murders Pendono told of
include those of Francisco Palazzotto in
11 T : e Vrnnei-aco: Mrs. Josephine
r,t. Mountain View in 1913,
ami Joseph Mello at Mountain View
4 f1 I
'a:c tn Pendone the gang has
L..,i-,.tv in- San Francisco, San
Jose, Berkeley, Pittsburg and Martinez, logg,
the French war mission
The only floral offerings were half a
dozen magnificent pieces grouped in the
chancfl.
Among theae was one from tho Bri
tish embassy at Washington. It was
tho Cross of St, George on a white back
ground with a British jack on cither
side.
As the strains of the "King of Love
My Shepherd Is" died away the Right
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Brent, bishop of the
Philippines read the Episcopal funeral
service. The bishop was assisted by tho
Rev. Lcighton Parks, pastor of St. Bar
tholomew 's and the Rev. George Merrill
of Stockbridgc, Mass.
Burial on Home Farm.
' The service was concluded with "the
singing of "Rise, Rise, Imperial Salem,
Rise," after which the casket was
wheeled slowly to the entrance and tak-!
en to Grand Central .terminal where it
was placed iiboard a special train for
Stockbridge. Burial will be on special
plot on the Choate estate there. j
The crowd along the street stood mo
tionless and with bowed heads, as the
procession left the church.
At Stockbridge the casket will be
placed on one of the Choate estate farm
wagons drawn by the great lawyer's fa
vorite team of horses, driven by an Eng
lishman he befriended in London years
ago and escorted by 20 boys from the
surrounding countryside who have been
helped along by Choate in many ways.
The funeral party was aceompanien
by Honorary Pallbearers from the New
York Bar association and the American
Bar association, the New England so
ciety, the American Peace Centenary
committee, the Pilgrims of New York
nd the New York Board of Aldermen.
These delegations included such men
n. fharles Evana Huches. Levi P. Mor
ton, Alton B- Farker and Frank B. Kel-
the additional $145,000,000," Kitchin,
"we should -have -put more -taxes
on incomes and excess profits and other
items and should have found additional
sources of revenue. ", ,
Representative Fordney, " Michigan,
ranking republican member of the ways
and means committee, proposed a two
cent tax on all bank checks of $100 or
less, saying this would raise $1,000,000,
000. The ways and means committee
split sharply over the question of rais
ing additional taxes. Representative
Hill, Connecticut, a committee member,
insisted that the whole bill be sent back
to the committee and perfected.
Representative Madden, Illinois, re
publican, supported Hill. Garner,
Texas, a committee member, opposed
either any increases in taxes under the
bill or the proposed reconsideration by
the committee
The committee could meet next Octo
ber and decide on additional taxes.
Radical revamping of the revenue
bill, with startling increases in taxes on
biff incomes so the war will be made
pay-as-we-go, was forecast by the action
today.
Acting in committee of the whole, the
house adopted an amendment by Len
root, Wisconsin, raising the surtax on
incomes of over $00,000. This action
followed the adoption of an amendment
late yesterday increasing the surtax on
incomes O f$10,000 and over.
McAdoo 's statement showed total ap
propriations already authorized for de
ficiencies during tho present year and
for appropriations for the fiscal year
that starts July 1, next, of $1,889,412,-933-
Appropriations pending total $5,
259,094,24(5, McAdoo said.
ARGENTINE PLACES AN
EMBARGO ON WHEAT
Supposedly This Does Not Ab
rogate Trade Recently Made
with England
Buenos Aires, May 17. The Argen
tine government today announced a pro
hibition on the exportation of wheat.
It was the government s second an
nouncement of an embargo. The first,
effective early in April, was held in
abeyance through protest of Great Bri
tain, backed by the United States-
At that time the British government
threatened to cut off all shipments of
coal to Argentine. Inasmuch as the
republic is entirelv dependent on lm
ported coal, paralyzation of its . Indus-
Tries was vuus lumicucu. ,ms a.iu,vW(
States was reported tacitly, to have join-;
ed in this, application of pressure on
Argentine to resist,. the original embar
go was changed. .
The settlement provided that England
should be permitted to purchase an en
ormous quantity of Argentine wheat,
the same to be repaid late in the fall
when the Australian crop was harvest
Whether the embargo todav is with
regard to thi8 agreement with England
or is an independent step dj me repuo
lie was not made public. .
Cayuse T-bone Steaks ; t
for Portland Epicures
Portland, Or., May 17. T-bone
steaks for 7',L cents a pound, and choice,
cuts of meat for 5 cents!
- What dc ye think o' that! Not beef,
it's true, but choice horses direct from
the plains of eastern Oregon. A car
load of horses, 22 in all, rounded up by
Indians on the Warm' Springs reserva
tion, will arrivo at the Portland stock
yards tonight. Monday morning Ed
ward Kinzer,..buteher, will open tho
Eastern Oregon Horse Meat Market
probablv the only 'exclusive horse meat
market in-the west. '
Horse meat will be sold nt from four
to 7Vi! cents a pound. The horses ran
wild In eastern Oregon and eastern
Washington and ean be rounded np in
almost any number. They are too smalt
for ordinary use.
Prospective Officers
Hear First Lecture
San Francisco, May 17. Prospective
officers for the United States army at
the Presidio training camp attended
their first lecture on military organiza
tion today. Army officer-instructor
lectured and answered questions sub
mitted in writing by the students. This
preceded a second afternoon of intens
ive squad drill. All of yesterday was
devoted to instruction , in the school
of the soldiers and tr.e squad.
The first hours of instruction have
convinced the student officers that it
is all work. After devoting all day
to drill, last night the men were con
fronted with two hours' study, prepar
ing questions for today 's lecture and
today's program offers no respite.
VICAR OF ALASKA
Rome, May 17 Popo Benedict
today appointed the Jesuit fath-
er Cremonti as -vicar of Apos-'
tolic in Alaska.
THE
jjc jjc j 5C C
WEATHER
Oregon: Tonight
and Friday unset
tled, probably
showers; "warmer
east-pes lion;
s o u t h w esterly
winds- .