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Show THE GRANTSVILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. IM SESSION German Dye UHSIHG EXPOSES OF II6UE CONGRESS VOTES TO 8EVER DIP. LOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH TEUTON8. MORE OF BERNSTORFF'S CABLE EXCHANGES WITH VON JAGOW MADE PUBLIC. Probably most momentous Ma- - Army Draft Law, Two War Credit Measures, Authorising Loans to Allies and Sale of Bonds Among Important Measures Passed. SESSION IN HISTORY, AND ONE OF GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT. itiC N Washington. The extraordinary von ry tober irls-h- n itch r to lidt, iche s a 6. Vehement criticism of Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, and his own defense, occupying virtually the entire day, marked the vlose of the war session, with other customary adjournment and legislative procedure, includ- er the era-ig- ses- sion of congress, which began April 2, and generally regarded as the most momentous in American history, was adjourned sine die at 3 p. in. on Oc- U.S SHIPS SUNK BY ing President Wilsons attendance at the capltol. The usual eleventh hour grist of legislation was put through, following six months of important war action, and by night most of the members who had remained for- the final days were en route home to await the call of the next session, December 3. During Interruptions of the days congress found time to dispose of a few last moment matters with President Wilson in attendance during tlie last hour in his room near the senate chumber signing bills. Secretaries Lansing and Bedfleld and Postmaster General Burleson accompanied the president. Among the Inst acts of congress were confirmation in open session of many nominations, hastily sent in by the president, including those of Major Generals Pershing and Bliss to be generals. Bight of free speech and of discussion of public questions was emphasized by Senator La Follette in while senatore speech, criticising him declared that he transcended the constitutional guarantees In that respect Senator Kellogg of Minnesota bitterly denounced as h slander on the intelligence, honor and patriotism of the ocuntry" the alleged declaration of Mr. La Follette in St. Paul thot the nation went to war to maintain a technical right of Americans to travel on munition-ladevessels in behalf of munitions makers' Interest in the war. Marking the session which lius just passed into history were its war declaration; provision for quick and lurge increases in the nations fighting forces on land, sea and in the.air; appropriations of more than twenty billions dollars ; measures of taxation and credits to meet the financial drafts, and vesting the president with vast powers. Looming ahead for disposition at session are further enormous appropriations for this and next year, great tax and bond bills and a mass of other war and domestic legislation with congressional primaries and elections closely following. Among the most important measures enacted were : The army draft law, two war credits measures, authorizing loans to the allies and sale of domestic bonds, the war tax law, appropriations of $640,000,000 for airplanes, the espionage act, control of foods, feeds and fuel; the trading with the enemy act, including authority for the president to embargo imports, the soldiers' and sailors' insurance act and two war budget bills. Besides prohibiting further manufacture or importation of distilled beverages and authorizing the president in the food control bill to stop or curtail that of beer and wines, the senate by a vote of 65 to 20 also passed the Sheppard resolution, proposing a national dry amendment to the federal constitution. It is pending in the house for action at the December ses- iged inch TWO GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDERS ARE OPERATING SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH 8EA8. -- BRITAIN J0IN8 UNITED EXSTATES IN PREVENTING PORTS TO NORTHERN EUROPE. GREAT and by Captain of American Schooner Sent to Holland and Scandinavian Countries to Be Deprived of Foodstuffs BeBottom Brings News of Operaned cause They Are Charged With Furtions Which Result in Loss of man Twelve Vessels. nishing Supplies to Germany. nch 1 of the president with. the' It Is expected that' Hontevlda11 be converted into a biugr. of for the allied fleets; '' ' V 7 COALITION ONLY&HF aer Kerensky Pleads for Union of Ft to 8ave Russia. letrograd. When a committee the Democratic congress visited mier Kerensky on Suturday he dressed the committeemen as ' Two German comWashington. the merce raiders, manned by the crew of the famous Seeadler, which, it now deas velops, stranded on Mopeha island, in nger the South Pacific, after roaming the seas for seven montlis preying on Amfork erican and allied shipping, are operacwls, ating somewhere in the South Sens, 3 to cording to a report received October comVon at the navy department from the osed mander of the naval station at Tutuila, rect Samoan islands. The disputch, transmitting the story of Capt Hador Smith of the American schooner C. Slade, one of the Seead-ler- s victims, wqs grot on September Ger- tne two new 29, several weeks raiders left Mopeha island, where they had been captured by the Germans. The first put to sea August 21 and the velt, Na- - other September 5, and it probably was their operations which led to rethe cent reports of raiders in the Pudfic. on Before coming to grief August 2, only the Seeadler had added the American safe schooners A. B. Johnson, Manila und ipon Slade to the list of at least twelve veslany sels which she sank early this year in and the South Atlantic ocean. In the long period from last March, when she was last heard from, the raider probably sent down other craft encountered in evolt the Atlantic, around lias passing through Gape Horn and across the Pacific to the Society group of French islands, of which Mopeha is one. at The Seeadler, according to Captain Smiths report, arrived at Mopeha July 31. Two days later she stranded on the island and was abandoned as a total loss, the master and crew, with twenty-sevewhite men and seventeen native prisoners, making shore in safety. The company remained there unpr to til August 21, when the Seeadlers masn his ter, accompanied by three officers and Spain two men, put to sea in a motor sloop with machine guns, rifles, bombs, and about one months supplies. The remainder of the crew stayed on the island until September 5, when the French schooner Lutece, bound out of Tahiti, Society islands, arrived at Mopeha and was seized. The schooner ws equipped with machine guns, rifles- and bombs and the Germans immediately put to sea in her. The Seeadlers prisoners, of whom Captain Smith was one, were left on the almost desolate island, but on September 19, Smith and three others of the prisoners departed in an open boat and reached Tutuila ten days later. Smith reported the prisoners badly in need of food and water. lows : The growth of anarchy, the c tion of politics ruln, which confi the country, the extravagant dem: of various groups and the strivinf certain quarters to restore the foi regime, force a recognition of the cesslty of union and coalition, the union of the bourgeois and d era tic elements can save the coun . Minister of Foreign Affairs Te chenko pleaded for a reconstructs the nations forces so that the gates who will participate in the 1 conference October 16 may point to the allies that our fighting has been renewed and that our I of strength is no myth. . n dlp-vo- n BEE SPECIALIST IN THE W Representative of U. 8. Dept oi riculture Visits Utah and Ida E. F. Phillips, wl Washington. the specialist of the U. S, depart of agriculture in charge of is visiting the Becky mou .states in the interests of more production from that region. Wit announced scarcity of sugar, th jNirtance of the honey crop bee more evident, and the department is doing what it can to foster improved methods which will prevent winter losses, and increase the production of next season. Working with the agricultural extension divisions of the Utah state college of agriculture at Logan, and of the University of Idaho at Boise, Dr. Phillips will meet the honey producers of the two states to discuss wiili them plans for developing the beekeeping Industry, and the management of apiaries through between the U. S. department of agriculture and the state colleges, lie was in Salt Lake City on October 5 and 6 and will be in Twin Falls, Idaho, on October 12 and in Idaho Falls on October 13. . bee-lu- g, 1 - Negro Rioters Sentenced. Belleville, 111. Ten of the thirteen negroes who have been on trial here for a week ehurged with the murder of Detective Samuel Coppedge on the morning of July 2 last, which precipitated the East St Louis, III., race riots, were convicted October 7, and sentenced to fourteen years eHcli in the penitentiary. Three were - Gas Kills Mother. Salt Lake City. Mrs. Annie Boss, aged 28, is dead and her three children had a narrow escape from asphyxiation, being trapped for three hours in their home here. Mrs. Boss death was accidental. She is believed to luive fallen in a faint at the moment she was attempting to light the gas and then to have been asphyxiated before she could regain consciousness. Mother Gives Life for Child. Alliance, 0. Seeing her son and a playmate writhtenacious the in grasp of a live ing M. Llndman Is the 8wedlsh foreign C. O. Bloom Mrs. threw herself wire, minister whose office was so badly inShe knocked wire. the at headlong volved by the disclosures of Secretary to Bafety, but paid the penchild her In of violations of neutrality Lansing with her own life. The other Argentina and Mexico in behalf of alty was child electrocuted. Germany. Washington. Great Britains em- bargo in the export of all supplies to the northern Europeun neutral countries, Just announced, was declared after every phase of its possible effect was gone over in conferences between American and allied statesmen. Holland and Scandinavian countries have been charged with importing foodstuffs from the United States and then turning the shipments over to Germany. .American officials, it was learned Wednesday, initiated the discussions and insisted that the British step be taken to make sure that there be no nullification of the purposes the United States government had in view in putting. Into operation its own embargo. The step indicated that the allies have united in a decision that the neutrals must cut off the shipment of all supplies to Germany. The new policy can be accomplished through rigid embargoes applied by all the allies. The neutrals cannot exist without British and American sup- plies, and within the next two or three' months all of them' are expected to declare flat embargoes on the export of their commodities to all countries. This will hit England as well as Germany, but the British, who can draw on the United States, are in a position to do' without neutral goods, while Germany, cut off from the rest of the world, cannot exist, officials here say, if neutral shipments cease. While the- American and British embargoes cut off virtually all sup- plies to the Europeun neutrals, there still is the chance that some goods will reach them from South America, despite the British blockade. To meet this situation, the United States and Great Britain are prepared to embargo coal shipments to South America if necessary.-- " - DR. VAN SANDT de-bu- te n sion. The house created a special committee on woman suffrage, while the senate favorably reported the Susan B. an Anthony amendment proposing equal franchise amendment to the constitution. The latter will be pressed next session. Several bills passed the senate and house, but failed of joint approval and remain pending on the calendur. Among them are the soldiers' and sailors' civil rights bill, the daylight saving measure, the Webb export bill, the measure regulating the killing of migratory birds and the national prohibition measure. The proposed Colombian treaty for payment of $25,000,000 in satisfaction of her loss of the Panama canal zone, also failed of senate ratification and is on the calendar. White 8ox Win Two. The White Sox won the Chicago. Doctor Van 8andt, tho civilian gov- first two games from the Giants in the ernor of Belgium, haa been dismissed, world championship series, the first according to a dispatch reaching this game going to the White Sox by a 2 country via London. He was the only to 1 score; the second being 7 to 2. .German official, the dispatch says, who About 40,000 people witnessed the first ever gave any evidence of humanity in game and 82,000 attended the second treatment of the Belgian populace. contest |