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Show VOL. XXVI IIEBER CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 15, 1915 NO. 4G. 3 I I FOLLOWING of partisans WOMEN FEAT votes for Democratic Leader Underwood StronglWhile Rey Opposed Resolution, Mann Favored publican Leader Cause of Suffragists. Weather Conditions in Russian Poland Prevents Movement of Large Bodies of Troops and in a Measure Halts Operations. Washington The house of on Tuesday, by a vote of to the 204 to iT4, refused to submit federal to the amendment an states .constitution to enfranchise women. The tote, the second in the history woman suffrage of congress on the close of a day in issue, came at the during oratory, long prepared for which the many speakers were listened to w all frequent evidences of approval or disapproval by packed galleries The question waB before the house on the Mondell resolution to amendment submit a constitutional that the right-- of suffrage should not be abridged because of sex." vote was s affirmative A necessarv to pass the resolution; it was defeated by a majority of thirty. Party lines were not strictly drawn in the fight, though Democratic Leader Underwood, voicing the attitude of his party that suffrage is a state issue, strongly opposed the resolution, while Republican Leader Mann was one of the chief speakers of the suffragists. This was the second defeat for the suffrage cause in the national legislature within a year. March 19 last an amendequal suffrage constitutional ment, proposed by Senator Chamber-laiof Oregon, received a vote of 35 to 3t In the senate, securing a bare majority, but failing of the necessary The French attacks to the north of Soissons, on the Aisne and near Perthes, east of Reim-.- , aie develop ing into a serious intensive. The gains the French claim to have made at these points, if followed up, would have a twofold importance They threaten the railways which the Germans are using to supply their troops in the fighting line and are a serious menace to the German forces which hold positions to the north ol Heims The French have found it impossi ble to take by frontal attack taose positions from which the Germans are bombarding Reims, but advances on either side would envelop them and force a retireent, thus giving the cathedral city much desired relief from the German shells In the Argonne and on the heights of the Meuse the Germans are on the offensive and claim to have made further progress. It Is reported that the Germans have sent heavy reinforcements to this district to prevent the French from breaking their lines, which are very close to their own border and not far from Metz. Fresh German troops dispatched to Alsace, combined with the wintry weather, have stopped the French advance in that region. Along the rest of the front artillery is doing most of the work. Only isolated attacks are being attempted, the state of the weather and the ground making the movements of large bodies of oops out of the question. Siilar conditions prevail in the east and while they have not completely stopped the fighting they have called a halt over the greater part of the flald of operations. In restricted areas, along the river Rawka, near Bolimow, however, there has been fierce fighting, but according to Petro-gracorrespondents, the Germans have been unable to make any material advance. Severe fighting also Is taking place on the Nida river, where the Austrians are opposing the to Russian attempts to penetrate Cracow. The Germans are keeping the Mazu-rialakes open with ice breakers to block the Russian advance in East Prussia. The Russian troops hold positions around the lakes and have been waiting for them to freeze over before resuming their offensive. repre-gentatm- -s n s FOOD SUPPLY SCARCE. Reof Constantinople duced to Verge of Starvation. New York The closing of the Dar- Inhabitants danelles and the shutting off of Turkey from outside commerce has resulteo in the people of Constantinople being reduced to the verge of starvation, according to George Tomayan of Chicago, for the last eight months in charge of an Armenian orphan asylum at Constantinople, who arrived here on the Greek steamship Athenai from Piraeus. Submarine Contracts Awarded. Washington. Contracts were awarded by the navy department on Tuesday to the Electric Boat company for one submarine to be built at end for Quincy, Mass., at $1,300,000, three coast defense submarines, to be built at Seattle, Wash., at Jtou.COO each, and to the Lake Torpedo Boat company for four coast defense submarines to be built at Bridgeport, Conn., $427,000 each. g Blames Farmers for High Prices. Caleb H. Canby, president of the Chicago board of trade, accused by the millers and bakers of contributing to the high cost of flour, ha passed the blame up to the farmers. He visited the United States district attorney .conducting the inquiry into the high cost of living and declared that the farmers by holding their wheat were sending its price sky-"war- Depositors Will Lose. Chicago The defunct La Salle Street Trust & Savings bank, of which 'William Lorlmer was president, will be lucky to pay 42 per cent of its outstanding liabilities, according to testimony given by William C. Niblack, receiver for the bank, in an action for Its dissolution brought by State Auditor Brady. Redmond Heads Irish League. Dublin John Redmond has been reelected president of the United Irish league at the annual meeting of the directorate held here. . Resolutions were adopted congratulating the Irish ation on the triumphal end of ths agitation of the past forty years for a national self government. . Blease It Out Columbia, S. C. In his fare message to the South Carolina leg! ure, Governor Blease commei upon what he described as the croachment by the federal gov 111)011 8tates' rights, many hich he asserted had been stole: Schumann-Hein- Cancels Dates dates of r canceled Tues f Madame Ernestine Schumi emk. who is ill at seriously ome here with bronchial pneumo ysicians said she would be obli k Chicago. Remaining Dcert tour were resl for many weeks. Damage Done by Airmen. a wireless dispatch London n , on fi Sajs that the e ments in and near military w Dunkirk Plotely destroyed by the Gert Which attacked at . French Parliament Convene SMi!,1"18 7The rogu'ar parliament 1915 began Tuesday. Ba Mackan- the iJest of 08, called the chamber to ori The v aron made an address which ... rnm.de Wldy cheered. - OF A GERMAN ADVANCE ATTEMPT OF ALLIES TO DESTROY RAILWAYS USED IN BRINGING REINFORCEMENTS. MEET SECOND DE WITHIN PAST YEAR. Chicago. MOVEMENTS OEAL PENDING WHICH MAY END LONG STANDING TROUBLE IN ARKANSAS COAL FIELD. Dam-age- vvAh iu mm RELIEF REACHES BELGIAN CON VENT BARELY IN TIME TO SAVE LIVES OF INMATES. n of syndicate, ten companies are now in the For Weeks Sisters Had Sheltered and hands of a federal receiver, have apFed Children Until All Were Starvproved the plan. It was asserted that the union in ing When Relief Came From tends operating the mines for the Charitable Americans. benefit of its members temporarily, and unless they can be sold at a London. Herbert Clark Hoover, will retain them for operation profit, chairman of the American commisbasis. sion for relief in Belgium, on Friday on a received from the commissions repreWOULD END BORDER STRIFE. sentative in the Belgian province ol Brabant a pathetic account of the re- Villa Direct Sonora Governor to Sign lief from imminent starvation of the Drafted by Scott. Agreement inmates of the convent of the Soeurs El Paso, Texas. General Villa gave near Louvain, comprising Oblates, sixty-fivnuns and 400 homeless chil- General Scott hla word that he would fighting, dren. prevent further border For weeks the sisters had sheltered which since the Madero revolution in and fed the children and it was not 1911 has been a menace to residents until the supplies of the convent were of American border towns. the Tbe Mexican leader promised almost exhausted tuat they sent an American chief of staff that he would appeal to the commission for help. On receipt of the request for aid order Governor Maytorena to sign an food was dispatched' immediately to agreement drafted by General Scott the convent. The delegate who ac- at Naco, which would prevent a recompanied the food was received by currence of the fighting there, which the mother superior in a tattered during the last two months caused habit. The nuns greeted the Ameri- the wounding and killing of more than fifty persons on the American can flag with tears in their eyes. Children in rags and with bare legs side of the line. General Hill, comcrowded about, asking if it were true mander of Carranza garrison defendthat food was coming, the report ing Naco, Sonora, already has signed says. Many of the larger children, the agreement. with pale and aged faces, showed JOBS FOR MEN OUT OF WORK. plainly the terrible experiences through which they had passed." ProAs the delegate was leaving the National Employment Bureau to vide Work for Needy. mother superior said: Thank God, one country at least Washington. A national employhas peace and can so nobly show her ment bureau reaching into every secsympathy for those at war." tion of the United States will be put in operation by the department of la8EAS ARE FREE TO ALL. bor, carrying out the suggestion oi British Attitude President Wilson in the Indianapolis German Declare speech for a systematic method of Cause of Present War. helping the workingmen of America." New York. The sea is the common Preliminary work for the bureau property of all the world and if its has been completed, it is announced freedom is maintained It will mean Commissioner Camlnetti of the imthe cessation of war, asserted Dr. by bureau, and Instructions migration Bernhard Dernberg, former colonial sent to the thousands of postmasters secretary of the German empire, in and rural mail carriers throughout an address before tbe Republican club. the country and to nearly 209,000 field The present struggle, be declared, of the department of agriculagents was tbe fight on tbe one aide for an who will with the lature, absolute dominion of the seven seas bor to the jobless bring department and on the other for a free sea. man and manless Job together. Bache-Denma- n whose Relations Between Have Reached Over Alleged Greeks in Greece and Turkey British Government Points Out Difficulties Involved and Intimates Breaking Point llltreatment of That Belligerents Have ObAsia Minor. tained Contraband. London. Should Romania, now that the Russians are on the border, if not actually in Transylvania, decide to participate in the war on the side of the allies, her army will provide the missing link in the chain of troops winding from the Baltic to the Adriatic, a distance, roughly, of 1300 miles. This battle line would be composed of Russians, Roumanians, Servians and Montenegrins on the one side and Gers mans and on the other. While Roumania has not taken the fateful step the belief exists in the countries of the allies that she soon will do so. Other developments are The relations between expected. Greece end Turkey has reached the breaking point over the alleged 111 treatment of Greeks in Asia Minor. Italy 4s growing restless over Turkeys delay In giving satisfaction for the violation of the Italian consulate at Hodeida, from which the British consul, who sought refuge there, was Austro-Hungarian- Washington. Great Britain's preliminary reply to the note from the United States government requesting an improvement in the treatment of American commerce by the British fleet was made public here and in London on Sunday by mutual agreement between the state department and the British foreign office. conThe British communication curs in the view of the United States that commerce between neutral nations should be interfered with only when imperatively necessary, and officials of the Washington government construed ft as conceding that the principles expressed by the American note were just and upheld by the previously accepted usages of International law. Briefly the British flote, while conceding the principles of the American government's contention, points out difficulties in actual practice, refers to alleged fraudulent practices by shippers and cities statistics showing an increase rather than a decrease in certain neutral commerce, in support of Great Britains suspicions that Germany and Austria have been indirectly obtaining contraband through neutral countries. The note promises, however, that will make redress Great Britain whenever the British fleet may unintentionally exceed" the limits of international law. , WALLIS INDICTED. Former Pure Food Inspector of Idaho Charged With Embezzlement. Boise, Idaho. James H. Wallis, former state pure food inspector and president of the National Pure Food association, has been brought back from Utah to answer to indictments covering five counts, returned by the grand jury. Wallis was arrested in Salt Lake and returned without extradition papers. The charges against Wallis are misappropriation of public moneys, embezzlement and false certification. The charge in each count is a felony under the Idaho laws and the aggregate penyears in the penialty is thirty-fiv- e tentiary. PERMITS REQUIRED e CONFEREES Baseball Men Confer. Chicago. Representatives of organized baseball met here Tuesday and planned fhe defense of the suit brought by the Federal league under t law, which the Sherman comes up before United States Dis'rict anti-trus- NOW. , Alleged Bread Trust, Jefferson City, Mo. Suit seeking to oust an. alleged bread trust of St. from doing bus'ness in Missouri be filed here by Attorney General wii MME. J0FFRE Pa'ker. The suit will be directed Mme. Joftre, wife of the generalone company and will charge issimo of the French forces In the against that this company formed a pool and field. trust agreement with seven others. To Banish Gambling. Vera Cruz General Carranza has announced his intention of promulgating a decree aimed at doing away entirely with gambling in Mexico. It will be directed primarily against lotteries. 20.0C0 Attend Mask Ball. San Francisco. A new municipal auditorium, built by the Panama-Pacifiexposition as rart of San Francisco's civic center, a in dedicated Saturday night with a mt sired ball which 20.009 persons ateiMed. c Mothers Pension Law Attacked. Prescott, Arlz. The Arizona mothers pension law, approved by the peo-p.- e in the election last November, was attacked in a suit filed in the superior court m behalf of the Prescott chamber of commerce. Clark Predicts Victory. Washington. Before the third annual convention of the Womans Democratic league here on Thursday, Speaker Clark predicted a Democratic victory in 1916 on the legislative record of the administration. REJECT CHANGES. Favor Exempting Belgians From Literacy Test House and senate conWashington. ferees on amendments to the immigration bill has agreed to eliminate the senate provisious barring negroes and exempting Belgian farmers from tbe literacy test and certain other requirements. All other differences, none substantial, were compromised and the perfected bill will next be presented to both houses for final passage before It goes to tbe president, who will bold pebllc hearings on the literacy test before deciding whether to sign or veto IL Do Socialist Member of Reichstag Unable to Deliver Addreae on War. Amsterdam. The Vorwaerts of Berlin says that public meetings which previously were permitted to be held in Saxony without hindrance, now must have the sanction of the military. Herr Stuecklen, socialist member of the reichstag, organized a meeting of his constituents at which he was to deliver an address on the subject of the world Var and the task or the working classes. This meeting, however, was prohibited by the military authorities, who gave no reason for their action. Fight to Retain Offices. Mandamus proceedWashington. ings were begun in the local courts Tuesday against Postmaster General Burleson and Secretary Daniels by civil war veterans discharged from the civil service, who contend the law forbids their discharge while their records are good. . tm ALLIES BELIEVE ROUMANIA WILL NEUTRAL SHOULD COMMERCE JOIN IN STRIFE FOLLOWING NOT BE INTERFERED WITH, INVASION OF RUSSIANS. EXCEPT WHEN IMPERATIVE. one-thir- Monday. iFort Smith, Ark. The United Mine Workers of America have offered for the holdings of the $200,000 Coal company in the Hartford valley of Arkansas, it became known here Sunday, it waa believed here that the deal would he consummated within a few days, and thus bring to an end the troubles in the coal mining region. Under the terms of the offer, all difficulties growing out of troubles between the coal company and miners are to he dropped. This would include the dismissal of the companys suit for $1,450,000 damages against the United Mine Workers of America, the local unions in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and the national officers In connection with the destruction of four of the companys surface plants at Prairie Creek last July. It was understood that creditors of the Rache-Denma- forcibly removed. Italy also. It is reported, has agreed that Servia should be granted a port In the Adriatic. Roumania and Greece, it Is thought, however, may delay taking up arms until Bulgaria, which is anxious for a part of Macedonia, Is MAY BE FREED ON PAROLE. satisfied or the last efforts fail to satSeventeen of Convicted Ironworkere isfy that country, which is at present Have 8erved Third of Sentence. maintaining her neutrality, for a hostile Bulgaria on their borders would Leavenworth, Kan. The rapidity them to divide their forces. with which they constructed a new compel cellhouse at the federal prison here MURDER CASE DROPPED. was one of the arguments put forward Grand Junction, Colo. George by seventeen structural ironworkers convicted in the dynamite conspir- Hughes, Dale Mitchell, T. D. Bowman acy cases at Indianapolis, who ap- and Claude Timbrel, well known catpeared before the federal parole tlemen indicted by the grand jury in board, which convened here. Having 1913 and charged with the murder of of their sentences Peter Swanson, a sheepman, in 1907, served were released from custody on order the men are eligible for parole. of Judge Thomas J. Black in the district court here Saturday. Bohemia Demanda Protection. Information Switzerland. Geneva, has reached here from Prague by way of Innsbruck that a petition signed by influential Bohemians has been forwarded to Emperor Francis Joseph demanding that more energetic measures be taken to protect Bohemia from possible Russian invasion. The petition makes the threat that the signers will join with Austria's enemy unless the request is granted. Bergen-op-Zoo- Legislature. The Utah atate legislature opened Under Terms of the Offer the Coal s Company's Suit for $1,450,000 Against the Miners Union Would be Dropped. n Judge Landis, January 20. Canadian Officer Killed. London. The first officer of the Canadian contingent to be killed in action was CapL D. O- - C. Newton of He went into the trenches Montreal. last Saturday with Princess Patricia light Infantry and was killed. Sued Under Antitrust Law. Jefferson City, Mo. A suit charging the American Bakery company of SL Louis with being a trust in restraint of trade was filed in the state supreme court on Monday by Attorney General Baker. Fire Raging In Brussels. Amsterdam. Refugees who have from Brusarrived at sels, says the Nieuws wan den Dag, report that a great fire had broken out at the former Belgian capital on Two Speakers Chosen by Rival Faction at Opening Setaion of Utah Not MILITIA GUARD AT JAIL. on Monday, It being a day of turbulence In the lower house, two speak- ers having been chosen. At the close of the opening day, the allies held the house chamber with Parley P. Christensen, Progressive, of Salt Lake, sworn in as speaker. The Republicans held one corner of the chamber with L. R. Anderson of Sanpete asEach suming the duties of speaker. side claims that its organization Is the legal organization of the house. Quite in contrast to the stormy scenes In the house was the quiet behavior of the state senate. The senate is composed of twelve Republicans, five Democrats and on Progressive. The Republicans, therefore, experienced no trouble in effecting their organization and electing their officers on a straight party rote. The Republicans elected W. Mont Ferry of Salt Lake president of the senate, while the fusion forces gave a complimentary vote to James W. Funk, Democrat, of Cache county. The employees of the senate, named by the Republican caucus on Saturday, were all elected to office. After effecting Democratic-ProgresBive-Sociali- st their organization the senators wait- ed for the house to oiganize. Then they gave up and adjourned until 3 oclock Tuesday Excluding two Republicans against whom contests were filed, the fusion-ist- s claimed the election of their speaker by a majority of those whom they claimed to be the qualified members of the house. The Republicans claimed the election of their speaker by the vote of 26 of the 46 members of the house. With a better organization and n careful plan of action the allies captured the temporary organization of the houBe, named a committee on credentials, excluded two Republican members from voting pending a decision on the contests against them, and were well on the way to organize the house before the Republicans had discovered what was happening. Then th Several Republicans bolted. hours later, after a conference with rethe governor, the Republican turned to tbe house chamber, took the oath of office and participated In some of the proceedings. Then they again bolted, and in one corner of the as chamber chose Mr. Anderson speaker, then adjourned to meet at 2 oclock Tuesday. Both factions of the lower bouse of the Utah legislature held sessions of the lower house at different timea in the house chamber Tuesday afternoon. The fusionlsta, acting on the assumption that they were the house of some transacted representatives, business and proceeded with the work is hand, naming committees and Bending communications to the senate and the governor in a manner such a would be the case were it conceded that they did constitute a quorum of the bouse. The Republicans merely met in the house chamber, called the roll and adhowever, journed. The Republicans, stoutly maintained that L, R. Anderacted as speaker of their son, who session, had been regularly and legally elected by the vote of the house. No cognizance was taken by the senate of either the fusionist house of representatlvee or the Republican house of representatives, with the result that about the only businese transacted In the upper house was the reading of the minutes of the first days meeting. Eight new senators took the oath of office when the senate met at noon on Monday., The new senators are; Joof Weber; seph Chez, Democrat, George H. Dera, Democrat, Salt Lake; Frank Evans, Progressive, Salt Lake; Utah Democrat. H. T. Reynolds, county John Wootton, Republican, Utah county; Orlando Bradley, Democrat, Sanpete; WUllam Seegmiller, Republican Kane county, and Don B. Colton. Republican, from Uinta county. The following holdover senator took their seats: Willard S. Hansen, Republican, of Boxelder; James W. Funk, Democrat, of Cache; William Craig, Republican, of Weber; L. A Republican, of Summit Wight, Charles Cottrell, Jr., Republican, Salt Lake; D. O. Rideout, Republican, Salt Lake; W. Mont Ferry, Republican, Salt Lake; J. R. Edglielll, Republican, of Juab, and Joseph Eckersley, Republican, of Wayne. Ga the Republican eld of the house the veteran members of the legislature include W. C. HoTsley of Boxelder county, who has served two sessions as state senator; C. R. Mabey of Davia county, serving his second term; ed, But No Disturbance Occurs. Denver. The company of state militia sent from Cameron in Huerfano county Saturday night to guard the county jail at Walsenburg were ordered to return to Cameron Sunday by Adjutant General John Chase. The troops were hurriedly dispatched to Walsenburg upon Instructions of Governor Ammons when Sheriff Jefferson Farr feared the jai would be attacked by sympathizers of the miners' union No disturbance occurred. Thomas Sevy of Garfield, who was a member of the first state legislature; Wtlford Day of Iron, In the house for the third time; L. R. Anderson of Asa R. Hawley of Sevier, C. L. Warnick of Utah county, who was a member of the Idaho legislature two years ago; J. L. Van Waggoner of Wasatch, J. J. Barker of Weber. An equally imposing array of veterans will lead the youngsters on the other side. They Include Samuel Oldham of Cache, William O'Neil of Duchesne, F. B. Hammond, Sr., of Grand, Heber J. Meeks of Kane, C. M. Croft of Morgan, Byron D. Nebeker of Uinta, David H. Morris of Washington. Examine Cargo With tests Galveston, Texas. After had shown no contraband concealed in her cargo, the American steamship Nebraskan sailed Friday for Bremen, carrying a cargo of 10,317 hales of Noted Au.hor Dead. St. Paul. Minn. Marshall P. Wilder, the author and humorist, died at a local hotel early Sunday from hear trouble, complicated by a slight attack Ml. Wilder had been of pneumonia. In poor health for about two weeks. Prevents Union of White and Black. Washington. A bill to prevent of whites and negroes In the District of Columbia was passed by the house on Monday by a vote of 230 to 60. Vigorous debate preceded No Army Guns Sold. British Recruits From Fiji. Honolulu, T. II A contingent of sixty volunteer fer service in the British army have arrived here from Fiji Islands to b ard the steamer Makura. They are on the way to Attack by Frienda of "Miners Expect- FRANK H. HAYNES Frank H. Haynes of Boston, who was made blind 18 years ago by a sunstroke, suddenly had his tight restored by accidentally bumping a bedpost. his head against X-r- cotton. Widespread rumors Washington. that the war department has been selling its discarded Krag Jorgensen army rifles to European belligerents were formally denied Friday by Secretary Garrison. San-pet- e, the veto. Quake In California. Santa Barbara, Cal Nine distinct earthquake shocks none serious, were felt Monday in this winter abode of wealthy easterners. The only damage reported was the settling of a brick building. |
