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Show - c I J THE WEE1XLY jEPXEX. KAYS VILLE, UTAH HAILl'I nr PASSED Revenue Maiur Which- - Has Been Before the Senate Since December 12 Now Goes to Conference, Planned to Begin January 2. It la Eetimatrd It Wi!l Take Two! Washington. Without a record vote, the senate on Deceinier 23 jmsed the war revenue hill, reduced to false a Ik nit, six billion dollars lit 1111) and four b.lllon in 1120, as compared with the levy of $S,200,000,000 for negt year, projwsed in the bill passed by the house three mouths ago. When the final lote was taken at 10 AO o'clock the senate had been In continuous session for neuriy thirteen Itours. Immediately after the passage of llie bill the senate beguu Us holiday yacatioa under the plan recesM--s until January 2. Absence of a quorum la the house, however, had prevented that body from putting a similar program into effect. The revenue kill, which had leea be ore tiie senate Hint 12, fiow goes to Conference with formal ""'meetings of the senate' arid house managers, planned to begin January 2 with pi view to final enactment of the legislation next month. In di'jKjsing fiiuijUx of controverted flections, the peltate rejected, 53 to 0, Pel-embe- r ' Fight for Prompt Return of Owners After the Passage Remedial Laws la Decided Upon. Billion Dollars to Repair Damage Done Dpring German Occupation and Give Nation Fresh Start Warsaw. Poland was fctripied of all materials and machinery during the Germun occupation which ended November 1L On that day a few thousand acdiers 6f llie Polish legion, aided by the imputation of Warsaw, disarmed more than 20,000 German soldiers who had planned a revolt against their own officers. All food and all telephone wires werf removed by the Germans. Ail Industrial plants were robbed and dismantled, with the result that Poland will have a bard job to start In again, even If financial and political conditions were f the best, observers say. Discussing the economic situation in Poluud, Stnnlslau Larlow-ski- , direclor of the Commercial hank of Warsaw, said to the correstxmdent on December 22 : It will take nearly $2,000,000,000 to TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE OPhepalr the damage ' done during' the PORTUNITY TO GAIN INFORMA. German occupation und to put ns on TJON AT FIRST HAND. onr feet proierIy and to develop our great natural resources. At the present time the economic President it Satisfied That the People of France and Great Britain Are (situation is confused because Russian Largely lnccprdWiOtJHl rubier--A ust riaamwn-- w ad German Principle. marks In The are circulation. marks are a heritage of the German occupaBaris. Definite plans for the peace tion, confendjce are not shaping as rapidly as some of the American commissionWALTER HINES PAGE DIES. ers expected. Meanwhile President Wilson Is taking advantage of the opFormer Ambassador to Great Britain assess to portunity public opinion In Answers Summons. In Great Brit France, and, Incidentally, rinehurst, N. C. Walter Hines rage, aln. Ills advisers say that he Is en former ambassador to Great Britain, satisfied that these people are died here December 21, after an Illness tirely In accord with the principles largely of many weeks. Dr, Page's health be- he has announced as necessary to a gan to fall nearly a year ago, and he durable peace. gave up his post, as American repre- - The members of the American missentative at the court of SL James sion are employing their time .before late in the summer,' the peace delegates from the various Walter Ilines Page was editor of the countries act ually assemble In a series magazine, The Worlds Work, and a of Informal conference, which eventumember of the publishing firm of ally will Include a representative of Doubleday, Page & Co., of Garden City, each of the entente belligerents. NeuL, L, when In March, 1913, President tral states will not come into these disWilson appointed him American am- cussions. bassador to Great Britain. The feeling among all the entente conferees la that the making of peace German Troops Evacuate Reval. should be their first task, so that they Amsterdam. Reval, the capital of may determine upon the broad outlines Esthonla, situated on the Gulf of Fin- of a league of nations, which, later, land, has been evacuated by the Ger- representatives of neutral countries mans, according to a telegram from will assist In completing. Berlin. German troops are reported to While the American commissioners have been engaged In fighting Bolshe-vl- are holding these informal exchanges, forces. - Near Zhitomir, eighty which are designed to clear up divermiles southwest of Kiev, the capital of gencies of opinion, the president Is conthe Ukraine, the Germans captured stantly giving the closest attention to fifteen guns from the Bolshevikl. immediate problems. He Is receiving reports 'from the United States, from American diplomatic agencies throughHalf Million Italians Lost In War. Baris. Five hundred thousand Ital- out the world, and from the group of ians lost their lives In the war. Of Investigators brought here for the purpose of studying the many special probthis number 200,000 were killed In This statement was made to the lems which will arise. These Investigators are continuing their studies with correspondent Saturday by Salvatore of member former the Italian the advantage now of being on the Barzilal, ground and In Intimate contact with cabinet, . original sources of Information. The president may change the proWALTER HINES PAGE gram of his movements while awaiting the opening of the conference. It was not supposed until Thursday that he would visit England before the new year, but he has receive urgent imitations to come soon. OF HOT 01! SECRETARY DANIELS DECLARES HE KNOWS NOTHING OF PROPO- -' SAL TO DESTROY HUN NAVY. First Suggestion of Plan Comes from London as one Possible Way of tlllnaProblem. Very-Vex- " lette of Wisconsin which higher rates principally on "profits t proposed war-exces- s Income sur- taxes. Another vote on the second-clas- s jHibtuge question also was taken and the senate sustained, 41 to 22, Its pre- vious action in favor of tiie amendment, which, will rcpeul the existing cunts rates of publications and substitute a rate of 1 cent a pound within cents a pound, be530 miles arid 1 yond. A change made in the automobile tax section, provided for exemption of tnuks, tractors and trailers reducing tiie bill's estimated revenue yield by about $30,000,000, but the reinsertion of the luxury tax clause will result In bn estimated yield of $80,000,000. The Inheritance tax plan proposes a graduated levy ranging from 1 per cent on inheritances between $10,000 and $25,000 to 23 per cent on those - REMOVE RULES ON ALIENS. But Attorney General Continues to Exercise Power to Intern. All restrictions on Washington. German enemy aliens except those applying to entry Into and departure from the Vnlted States and thoso affecting the power of internment were ordered, removed Monday by Attorney General Gregory, effective Christmas day. Tills action was taken on cabled Instructions from President Wilson, and will affect about 500,000 German men and women. , It was explained that the department of justice would continue to exercise the power of internment of dangerous German enemy aliens and that the order wvuM out affect such aliens already Interned. . . Bomb Suspect Arrested. , Milwaukee, Wis. Dominick Coster-ellowife with making charged by his and placing a bomb which killed ten detectives "and police and one woman in Milwaukee Central police station on November 24, 1017, has been arrested In -- k ac-tlo- n. FRANCE PAYS HEAVY TOLLl Authority on Leproey Die. Ir. Donald II. Brookline, Mass. States public United Currie, of tbe , health service, iort physician of and regarded ns one of the fore most authorities o. leprosy in America. died at his home Monday of pneumonia, resulting from influenza. Bos-ton- wh.ch transport George Washington, an.l took President Wilson to France, here arrived Cedric the steamship over-seaMonday, bringing 0023 men from In time to celebrate Christmas in the United States. s Spanish Crowds Ctash. Balboa, Spain. Two groups of one shouting against Spain collidend the other crying for Spain, - One of the persons ed here Monday. a In the loyalist' crowd was "killed' by pistol shot Denies Recall of Ven Eckhardt. Fletcher Washington. Ambassador deetate the advised at Mexico City a Pueblo, El that partment Monday that denied had government organ, to Ton Eckhardt, the German minister been recalled.. V.M-o- n Opposes Sinking Hun Ships. It may be stated Itatlvely that President Wilson fashion r;Jxrse In the most direct sink the to source lh frra any un-- . v surrendered by Germany c russ of the armistice. , - Chile Considers Trouble Closed. RueDos Aires. Chile considers the question of mediation between herself and Bern as closed. La Naelon says It is informed from a reliable source, and has offered a compromise plan by which Peru and Bolivia would be given territorial compensation In the of the Tacna-Aric- a dispute. Railroad aud commercial connections also would be granted with the object of benefiting all tbe three nations In- nt s, JelHcoe to Visit Australia. Admiral Sir John Jeb Melbourne. Britllcoe, former first sea lord of- the toAustralia ish admitaltyr will come commonin February to review the wealth's naval base program. -- Washington. Dress dispatches from Paris saying that the American peace delegates,- with British support, will urge the sinking of the surrendeted German warships as the" solution of their disposition, led to Initiation of steps In Jlie senate on Thursday to obtain an official statement of the facts afad to wide discussion In naval circles. At the state and navy departments no information was available. Secretary Daniels repeating his previous statement that he had never heard the suggestion officially, while at the state department It was said that so far as known there no such project was included In the American peace program. The first published suggestion that the ships be sunk came from Londoq several days ago, but even before that it was learned, this has occurred to some naval authorities here as one possible way of settling a vexing problem. Admiral Benson, chief of naval operations, and designated as naval adviser to the American peace delegation, has been In Europe some time. His views, worked out with Vice Admiral Sims and officials of the British admiralty and the French ministry of marine, will have great weight with the American delegates on naval questions arising at the conference, but there is nothing here to Indicate what conclusion he may ha ye reached on the disposition of the surrendered craft There were many Indications that a proposal to sink the ships would meet strong opposition In congress. .- Yh George Washington Back Home, United State York. The New y Tcxlco.- - bed ing Nearly Million and! Half Soldiers Were volved. Killed During War, t Baris. French soldiers to the numJOHrSKELTOrvVI LOAMS ber of 1,400,000 were killed during tlxe war. according to a statement by tlx Socialist deputy, Luclen Vollln, In the -r?. chamber of deputies Friday afternoon, during an intetrpcllation of the government on demobilization. Deputy Tallin asked that the soldiers be returned to the soil and tiie factories without delay, and continued : I betray uo secret when I say 'that the problem of demobilization presents itself thus; We hare mobilized 6,900,-00- 0 men'; we have had altout 1,400,000 killed, while 800,0)0 recovered from wounds. We are going to demobilize 12100.000 resenes, territorials and heads of families. Lancaster, Pa. man!-festant- PHOM! Maximum Copper Washington. Maximum prices on copper will expire January 1 and will not be renewed. It was announced December 20 by the committee of the war Industries hoard. - , Price-Expire- s. price-fixin- g Bran Price Jumps. Minneapolis. The price of bran Jumped from $27.73 to $46.00 a ton John Skelton Williams, comptroller here .Friday, the sudden rise being due of AmeriHinea former Walter Page, currency, who remarkable can ambassador to Great Britain, who to the removal of all milling restric- figures of resources gives of American nations by tbe government died at hie homo In North Carolina. tional banka. .. Krupps Will Net Pay Dividends. Berlin. The Krupp company at a general meeting December 20, decided sot to pay a dividend this year. The great arms concern paid a dividend ,ef 12 per cent In each of tbe flrst twb years and 10 per cent last year. Will Complete Postoffice Buildings. Washington. Congress has been asked by Secretary of the Treasury Glass to appropriate $4227.501 for completion of postoffice buildings in 120 Cities, construction of which was postponed during the war. -- Boys Expected Home Soon. Salt Lake City. Four thousand Utahns, selective service men Inducted into service at Camp Lewis, Wash., during the past few months, win come home during the latter part of Janu-ary and February. , V - 1 - Scarlet Chevrons as Service Mark. Washington. Secretary Raker has directed that each soldier honorably (bscharged be furnished with two scarlet chevrons, to be worn on the left sleeve as a recognition of his service w the country. Fech and Wilson MeeL shal Foch conferred for half an hou Tuesday night The subjects under discussion were" mainly in reference to the armistice between the allies and Germany. i PARK to New York. A definite program calling for prompt return of the railroads after the passage of remedial federal legislation was worked out at a meeting here, Decemler 20, of the standing committee of the Association of Railroad Executives, according to an offiWhile provisions cial announcement. of tiie plan were cot made public, it was said that they took Into consideration every detail of The program. The program will be submitted next month to the senate interstate commerce comxnisriom.lt It Is approved at a fall meeting of the association called for December 30. Whatever thecost, It was said, the executives are opiosed to extending the period of federal control beyond twenty-on- e months after the signing of peace, as prescribed by law. It IS understood thab rather than have the time extended to five years, as suggested by Director General McAdoo, they would prefer return of the roads without the proposed legislation. A hint as to what form the execu- tives Think this legislation should take is found In the reasons they ascribe for Improved conditions effected by government operation, which are additional equipment, abolition of the shipper's power to route his own traffic, increase in demurrage rates, decrease In time allowed for loading and unloading, and strict - supervision of . Shipments. BARGAINS IN USED CARS Sen. Vm4 Cm Wri Det, ui Zt" '' Laita THAT GOOD OLD RAH, Ancient and Honorable and Chm.l ent Institution That Held Hoia red Place on the Farm. - Amd&g the once necessaries 'of life that reflected prodigality l0 th use of valuable timber Mas the old rail fence, observes the Columbus Dls. patch. Like many other 'almost of rural life. Its place In farm wastefulness now Is well established and yet It had Its uses for which the present straight line wire fencin'- - can. not qualify. The old rail fences serrated stretches were the homes of small anJ. mal Ufe that now are rapidly disap. pcaring. Around Its timbers there rre ' theUn cultivated 'black berry, wit hiu sister, the raspberry, and among it recesses there thrived the elder whom fruit once was coveted pie material and whose blossoms were the foundation for' elderberry wine that matron served of a winter evenieg when ths neighbors gathered. The rail fence, with its invarlabls undergrowth, was the favorite proteo-tion seasons. of CurreKcy Gives Remarkable Figures Regarding Banka. Washington. Resources of the national banks of the country ,on November 1, the date of the last 'tall, aggregated $19,821,404,000, Comptroller of the Currency Williams announced on Sunday. This not only fas a new high record, but was au Increase of over the total shown by the call last August 3L Tbe resources of the national banks of the United States, Mr. Williams said, exceed the combined aggregate resources of the national banks of Issue of England, the Dominion of Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Japan and Germany, as shown by their latest available reports. Mr. Williams also said that the national banks resources were only one billion dollars less than the combined resources of all state and other banks and trust companies in the country, as shown by their reports of June, 1917, and that in the past five years the growth of the resources of the national Institutions had been greater than the increase which took place In the preceding twenty-fiv- e years. Comptroller UNIVERSITY HONORS PRESIDENT Recognizes Wilson as term, for Bob White in from Its top he sang In RECORD BANK RESOURCES. Jurist and His- torian. Paris. In the great amphitheatre of the University of Baris, (the President Wilson Saturday afternoon, December 21, received the degree of doctor," honoris"" causa, conferred upon him In recognition of bis work as a Jurist and historian. This Is the first time In the history of the university that an honorary degree has been bestowed, authorization for its granting having been given by a recent decree. ITerident Boincare, the presidents of the senate and the cha mixer of depuSar-bonne- ). . ties, the diplomatic corps, members of the government and the highest civil and military authorities were present at the ceremony. Great crowds cheered the president when be arrived at the university, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, William Graves Sharp, ths American . ambassador, and Jean' Jules Jussernnd. FTench ambassador to the United States. VillaBandits HoId Upjrrslr El Daso. La Republics, a Mexican dally, published a statement that Martin Lopez and thirty-fiv- e Villa followers held up a Mexican Central passenger train at Bachlmba pass, thirty miles south of Chihuahua CItf , Sunday, killing all the train guards and robbing the passengers.' British Fleet to Visit U. 8. London. It U reported that the admiralty views favorably the suggestion that a large part of the British fleet commanded by Admiral' Sir David Beaity should visit the United States. winter, and the warmer Beneath, the little ground squirrel burrowed. From safe retreat be chattered "If 'borne Intruder came near to annoy him as he ni busily engaged in gathering his store of food for the snow time. To the harvest hand it afforded pro. tection at the end of the long row for brief respite and its corners formed shaded nooks under which the water Jug might be kept ' And from what royal timber wai this old fence constructed! Black walnut logs, chestnut logs and tbs smooth lengths f the ash tree were cleft by, numerous, rail splitters for the seven high fence that stood tbs storms of decades. There was many a black walnut rail whose timber would make the manufacturer of gua stocks chortle with satisfaction had be such a present supply of wood st his command. -- i NAMES IN ASIAS GOLDEN ERA What Genghle Khan, Destroyer, anl . Tamerlane, Upbuilder, Accomplished In Samarkand. Whenever one 1 shown a ruin Is Samarkand, the native explains that Genghis Khan destroyed iL If s monument still wears some vestige of Its former grandeur Tamerlane erected It Everywhere Is carried dowi from generation to generation memories of Genghis Khan, the destroyed and Tamerlane, the upbuilder. It i to Tamerlane, who reigned at the en4 of tiie fourteenth .century, that Samar krnd owes Its most beautiful mnn meats, Elsie F. Weil writes la iris With his exploits be InMagazine. spired the Imagination of counties poets of as many nations, including Christopher Marlowe, for he waswcB great sovereign and organizer as as a mighty conqueror. When Tamer lane returned to his capital after va qulriiing most of Asia he via deteri mined to make it the loveliest city the world. To Persia, Mesopotamia India end China he sent for the most celebrated artisans,., ordering the , here to create their Persian and Arabic In art were all melted Into a P m feet bxmuony greens and blues lowing into 'eaClnjthrer-Rk-thand the sky a vast and reverent chorus of beauty, masterpiece-Byzantine- lac9-ence- V s Chrysanthemum In Japan. Back In" the sixteenth jear reign of Emperor Kwammu first poem written to the chry mum, or kikn. bot away bc . nese mythology tbe ny it O fi oneed abo e all others. vas called the kuka, f"siaei re6t the goddess Kuka Him. feast was first kept by Bmpethe P And still kami la 1G11. & through follow tbe empress . rer. dens oa the ninth day 4 month, lunaricaliy speaking, r ently watch the crimson thalr oa slender stems beneath coverings.' ' " . . Nemesis. lti Nemesis was a goddess of Juo The worf ,eSt, divine retribution. from a Greek verb meaning to distribute, dispense, la vrF a" goddess-tyinallotment or ihe lion to every man of bis Acquitted f Murder Charge. of fortune, good an3 bad- Eikton, Md. Charles Ilalwardt special function to see that tb Johnson was acquitted by a Jury of individual rre,ie the charge of murdering MaJ. William proportion of thxt e ryots e and preserved, nS N. Y irupenris-- , raroe Brooklyn, i too prosperous or wid t lug engineering of the Aberdeen prow- bis prosperity uplifted by J lug ground reduced or punished. No money was taken. rarls. President Wilson and Mar Onr Friend,; f Bandit Steal Liberty Bonds. , Argentina Recalls Mexican Minister. Mexico City. The Argentine Ma Bandits Joplin, govern, Friday ment has recalled its minister to Mex- blew open the vault in early the bank of ico, Manuel E. Malbran. It was an- Granby, Mo, twenty miles southeast nounced Thursday that the minister of here, and escaped with $15,900 would leave here not later Chan Decemworthof.unregisterod-4Jberty- bonds. ber 21 AU A Glorious Christmas OPPOSE GOVERNMENT CONTROL MONTHS BEYOND TWENTY-ON- E PERIOD DESIGNATED. ALL INDUSTRIAL PLANTS WERE STRIPPED AND DISMANTLED AND FOOD TAKEN. individual To SEDATE WILL RAISE SIX BILLION DOLLARS IN 1919 AND FOUR BILLION IN 1920. and CHIEFS cgy-Nenw- sls |