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Show .mse TPTrx 'ar- 4 LAST EDITION 4 Ml the World! Jfowo Cp ! Doily ''- - EVENING T ' 10,' rAGES' War Savings Stamps, Better Than Paid Up Life Insurance LAKE t- CITY UTAH aSIXTY-XIXTI- YEAR I li - KILLS LEGISLATION PREST. WILSON NOT TO CALL EXTRA SESSION SPAR TA CANS PLAN TO DISRUPT-GERANY I t i ii - 1- m ! A 1 . PRESIDENT-WILSO- SAYS N French Ace Who Has Won Every Possible Decoration SMALL GROUP OF SENATORS HAVE EMBARRASSED NATION March 4. Upon the adjournment of Congress today with killed by a Republican senate filibuster. President Wilson issued a statement declaring that "a group of men in the senate have deliberately ehtwen to embarrass the administration of the government to imperil the financial interests of the railway system pf the country. "Th president's statement foltowe; "A group of men In the senate have deliberately choeen to embarrass the administration of the government, to Imperil the financial interests of the railway systems of the country and to make arbitrary use of powers Intended to be employed in interest of the people. . . It is plainly my present duty to attend the peace conference In JParis. It is also my duty to be in close contact with the publie business during a session of the Congress. I mast make my choice between these two duties, and I confidently hope that the people of the country will think that I am making the right choice. ' It is not in the interest of the right conduct of public affairs that I should cfll the Congress In special session while It is impossible for me to Issues be tn Washington because of a more pressing doty elsewhere, to Preaideni , Wilson with the bouses. Statement That Extra Ses--I I take it for granted that the men who have obstructed and prevented of the legislation have taken aQ of this-intpassage consideration sioivWill Not be Called to and are wiling necessary to assume the responsibility of the Impaired efficiency of the government and the embarrassed finances of the country daring the tune of Consider Legislation. my enforced absence. Republican Leader Lodge declined to comment on the preudent'a state-mes He declared, however, that of the Republicans sincereMarch 4. W ASHINGToV. ly deplored failure of the railroad appropriation. The few Republicans who tonoon at Omiktom adjourned Insisted upon filibustering to defeat the bill. It waa stated, were beyond conday In tlie midst of a Republican trol." telling their leaders that their action waa personal and not a party affill hunter In the senate that killed ' fair. a long list of Important meumima. , There waa no turning back of a filibuster, which today blocked even locks- - The Democratic leaders real- the usual and perfunctory at fair a such GOVERNORS ised the silualton hopeless and as exchanges of courtesy to and from the gavels eudihg the long, great war retiring offices. Measures That Failed. Congress session and the Sixty-fift- h The long list of measures that (ailed actually tapped at noon. inclnded all reconstruction legislation. E Just before adjournment, President Including the general railroad legislaWilson in his Capitol office authori- tion bills defining a shipping policy zed final notice to the Republicans and dealing with unemployment, labor illiteracy problems; the oil, gas that their efforts to force an imme- and and coal land leasing and water power diate extra session had failed; that he development bills; the com promise was unshaken in his determination woman suffrage --esolution; legislation not to call Congress until bis work to anforre war lima prohibition; meat, done. industry legislation; immigration ex-- 1 at the peace conference-wa- a elusion and alien deportation bills; Reof of the group Xhcfiilbuiier resolution to terminate government I NeW JcTtCV Alld Ohio ExC-contr-ol J publicans working for an extra sesof telegraph, telephone and sion, continued until the end.. Sena- other wire ntilittea Dee-- , HI; the sedi cutive Did Not Agree on unlawful acta and tor Sherman of Illinois, Republican, tion bin airbed atresolution -the propaganda; JO held 7; a at am., who "began speech Government Assistance to in the 10 per cent tax on the floor (pore than four hours and the war revenue bill; and Secy. Lane's The People. 8100,000,000 for successfully prevented further con- bill appropriating sideration of the railroad appropria- -' reclamation of waste lands to be allotted to soldiers and sailors. lion. dust before the- - president left the Adjourned blue Doo." WASHINGTON. March 4 A dash White House, the statement of his an in senate uproar adjourned Tjie final determination not to let failure between Gov. Edge of New Jersey and vice of laughter when the president of important bills change hla decision Gov. Cox of Ohio announced that the senate was ad- against an early extra session was off- the conference of developed today at governors and mayjourned sine deo Instead of sine die. icially conGrmed. ors after an attack by Goar. Edge on There was no further action in the GaUerfeu Crowded. offered last senate on the resolution following pro- tjie government's policy of trying to night by Republican Reader Lodge," Gov. Cox and signed by 38 Republican members ceedings in both boesea until well aft- do much for the people." -said the government was not doing midnight and today the galleries of the next the league er standing room was enough. of nations In its present form. The filled rapidly until was house resolution urging the American at a premium. It beensaid thata never After Gov. Cox concluded a speech before had there large leace delegates to make an effort for attendance at a closing such, session. The urging the government to determine Irish Independence also died in the general deficiency bill including senate. for the railroad administra- the basis of reasonable prices, reduce Failure of the f 760.000,000 railroad tion fund was the measure, freight charges on road materials and revolving ttothwith also carried appropriation er appropriations In the general de- against which the minority filibuster start at once a railroad Improvement was bnt Republican leaders ficiency bill, aggregating 893.000,008 said itaimed, would be passed finally as their program, and criticising Gov. Edge's distributed among many government purpose simply was to prevent action remarks, the delegates stood and apdepartments, and including 330.000,-04- 0 on Senator Sher- plauded for nearly a mine to. Gov. legislation. for purchase and requisition of man.other of Illinois, and LaKollette of Edge In the midst of the ships by the shipping board. applause hours, the There also was pending a house res- Wisconsin spoke foratseveral 1 o'clock after arose and said: olution providing for the payment of former beginning This Is hardly a forum for the deRepublican Leader Lodge had presalaries and allowances to members sented and failed to secure action on velopment of political viewpoints, but for time spent In war service. was which, he said, supSenator Lewis endeavored to Intro- a resolution, ported by 87 members of the new I shall be glad to develop my points duce another amendment expressing eeoate. of the further at another time." opposing acceptance the wish of the senate that the presi- constitution of the - of nations Previously Gov. Edge had declared dent would have a safe journey and as it was framed. leaguewaa nothing wrong with the safa, return and providing that the dozen senators remained there or the a Scarcely country !anate earnestly ap proves all proper in the chamber, during the government except that early efforts of the president to effect a morning hoars and even the efforts be thought some times the government to too much for the people. league M peace that can bring an ar- of the few on watch to hasten the tried do "The people today, employers and rangement guaranteeing the tranquil- moments with raillery and dialogue ity of nations and the mutual friend- - did not prevent a member here and employees alike," he said, waDt to be 3 atone. Then 'leave them aiona hip-of ; the world.-from dropping his head on his left He also oharged the government with After being read. Vice President there desk for a brief period of repose. Marshall ruled it out of order. failing to adopt a definite and perThere was little evidence of senatori- manent In declining to make a statement al-dignity policy toward Industry, saying scenes in cloak the In' relative to the session Just closed. Re- and committee rooms where this was the principal cause of unmembers publican Leader Lodge said: slept, some of them flat on their certainty. It speaks for Itself." Gov. Cox replied that the executive backs on table tops and others hudGets More Signatures. dled together on assembled chairs. branch of the government had recommended a definite policy, .but that The - number ofslgnature to- - the Senatorial snores could be beard as Congress had failed to act on it. resolution which purported to far as the doors of the senate chamHe charged that road material men record the senate as opposed to the ber. league of nations as now constituted, . The only break in the monotony tn throughout the country maintained was increased from 37 to 38 with the the senate chamber resulted from the unreasonable uniform price and that arrival today of Darla Elkina Repub- - occasional appearance of the clerk this retarded road building, which bean senator elect , front Weep house reporting action by, that would furnish employment, I body.". Ridtrmlew Procedure? Representative . themed vex , While Senators kelson and Kellogg. strolled into the senate chamber Irfi Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Republicans of Minnesota, declined at groups, only to hasten away as ridiculed the procedure of the con- this time to sign the resolution, it was quorum calls were sounding from Or,, saying the governors failed to said today both opposed the proposed their side of the capitoL recognise serious social conditions in plan for a league of' nationa Sena-- 1 Scene In the House. their states with which mayors ot n"un his po- ,oene In the house was quite cities were in touch. " ,prcl? n - PuL in from different The first governor speaking at this when that senate the t passing he ,peker' r,yel fctC A a Senator conference who knew the trouble with Democratic control at the CapitoL The; rtark annooned the end of the Slxty-pa- 4 his state was Gov. Cox." said Mayor at bean ,n I fifth Congress the Marine band played Baker. Tou governor don't know p " the German war patriotic songs and members and the anything that is wrong You had- bet declaration, and its almost continuous crowded galleries in the singnot Joining ter find and find out" In a hurry. reunions have been marked by unprece- ing.- And you had better do something now dented legislation and controversy. In the east gallery, Mrs. J. Charles to correct tt. I think we have not had Big bills that failed inrluded both LAnthlcum of wife of Rep. anything so far in this conference exthe army and navy appropriation Linthicum of Baltimore, unfurled a conversation. It la high time to measures. Only two important meas- large American Maryland, ' and waved it cept develop definite policies for dealing ures that ran the gauntlet of the last above the floor of flag house. the with unemployment and social un- 48 hours of filibustering were the VicThe last act of the house waa the tory Liberty loan bill and the billion unanimous passage of a resolution, of- rest.' Gov. Spronl of Pennsylvania , critidollar wheat guarantee bill. fered by Republican Leader Mann, cized administration of government Bin TluU Failed. thanking Speaker Clark for his able railroads malls, express, telephones work aa speaker. and impartial" He and bills that failed was one telegraphs. 'Among the suggested that No matter what It criaca may sppropriatlng $750,000,000 for the declared Mr. Clark In response, the railroad administration Immedito railroad administration, without which aay." start material and Imbuy ately some administration leaders say the this Congress has done more importand pay raijroada the work than any two other Con- proveft properties ant railroads must be returned to their gresses. In this Congress, the Repub- bills owes them. Railroads in Pennowners before the middle of April, licans acted as patriotically and a sylvania, he said.- had discharged 50,-0kever in SO years, veteran congres-wonmen under government adminisas the Democrats. I cannot fal'hfully tration and that this did not accord employees said, had there been with qther government preachings. (Continued on page two-- i complete tleup of business by i h M ... L 4 TUESDAY MARCH 4 1919 SALT U A. -- WASHINGTON. j House, 216' to 41, Adopts Resolution Exp r e s s i n g Hope Peace Congress Will Take Matter Up. Chief Executive to Make Address at New York at Metropolitan Opera House Before Elmharking. o NEW YORK. March 4. Information that mlliUMit suffragette, are paying from $50 to $135 each for Urihs of admission so Uie Metropolitan Opera Rouen, where Praddenl Wilson and V William Howard Taft will speak e the league of atUnut tonight, was received today by Edward Nwuun, The oounty district attorney. prosecutor mid his assistants and the police would take extra precautions to bar from the meeting women sosperted of srrking to enter in order to create dtstnrbanue. nu three-fourth- ' CLASH t -- semi-luxuri- 3 senate.-opposh- ur 3750,-000.0- 1 -s- , -- .Vjr-J.fro- nn ra -- of, - al ? . L c lev Adoption of the resolution In aed and underground ways. Berlin the of 88 ' Republicans signed a resolution introduced last Leader Lodge night by Republican designed to record the senate against the league aa now proposed. Senator Lodge will be chairman of the new foreign relations committee. WASHINGTON. March 4. Presisaid goodbye to White House officials and employees at 10'50 oclock today and drove to the Capitol to sign measures passed during the closing hours of Congress before leaving for New York on hla way back to France. Secretaries Glass anf Houston and Secy, Tumulty, accomfnied 'the president. Other cabinet officers, including Secretaries Daniels and Redfietd, Joined" the president In" hla private rmm off the senate chamber. After Congress adjourned, Wilson remained In his room 20 dnt minut greeting Visitors. It was "nouneedM wduld make recess appointments at Hoboken tonight of nomineew-who-fatt- ed of confirmation. Instead of going from the Capitol to hla train, thd president drove back to the WJiite House for lunch. It wax understood he FnjJ York before 2 p.m. Makes Artrfnvw. ' During President Wilsons visit of less than four hours tn New York tonight he will speak on the league of nBon to 5.000 persons at the Metro politan Opera House, hold a short private conference with former President William H. Taft; receive a delegation of 20 Irishmen who will request him to present tlie subject of for Ireland at the peace conference and then will board the steamer George Washington which sails early tomorrow for dent Wilson e, Ueyaf orR, 7 France. , Philadelphia at 815 oclock and (Continued on page two.) will According to the revised plan the president will arrive in this city from rail- is wiUiout water, or pm, the Exrlutnge house came after a turbulent He had been'fctven luthuaisaUc stations by crowds as be and airs- - Wilson left the White House and as thsy passed through the station. The last act of the president at the White House was to issue a statement reaffirming his beih--f that his duty was to attend the peace conference and placing upon the group of men in the senate who conducted a filibuster during the closing hours of the session responsibility for the failure He Said it of necessary legislation. was not in the interest of right con duet of public affairs that he should, cali Congress in special session dur Ing his absence, and expressed confidence that the people would think be had made the right choice. Members of the cabinet, leaders in Congress and many officials said goodbye to the president while he was in his office at the Capitol signing the last bills snd resolutions passed. From there the president drove to the White House for lunch and shortly before 2 o'clock he waa on board hie special train for New York, where he speaks tonight with former President Taft on the league of nations. He bad arranged to stop at Philadelphia for an hour and a half to see his daughter, Mrs. Sayre, and his new grandson. The president' sails tomorrow for Paris with no definite promise of what the attitude of the next senate will be toward the league of nations Violent opposition to the tentative draft of the league's constitution was voiced by and some tepubllcana Democrats during protracted debate Presi-ferenc- LONDON, March 4 A genre In Berlin Mooda? German wirelrm mew evening. till evening age ren-lieAll (mffle lias been shipped on tlie street ears snd lluv al strike lirtnin months. c- the senate, and prits. a reWhen the hou.e resolution ceived by the senate Senator France of Maryland, Republican. asked unanimous consent f r its Immediate consideration. Senator Smith of Georgia, Democrat, objected and demanded that the resolution go to the foreign affair; committee where a similar resolution has been pending for eevaral at-thf- r In -- - ' tAIj)ulhd, out Reds Seek- - Overthrow of National A$$embly- - and DePre$ent Republic mand Trial of Chief Cul- meat. .Marcb 4. PresiWASHINGTON, dent Wilson started on his return to Paris today after adjournment of Congress had marked tke dose of his cap!- busy week tremendously The president's, the - station March 4 Bv a WASHINGTON, vote of 318 to 41 the house early today adopted the resolution expressing the hope that the peace conference ould "favorably consider the claim of Ireland to the right of " The resolution now goes to the senate a here It Is considered altogether Improbable that any action can ibe obtained before final adjourn, session ln which an organized effort was made to keep the resolution from coming to a, vote. The attempt was abandoned shortly before 4 oclock. Only one member, Rep. Connelly, of TsXdpfftressed cjipoeltlop to the pur pose of tbs resolution, but Republican Leader Mann, Rep. Moore of Pennsylvania end other ..Attempted parliamentary delay throughout- th night. Democratic Mann charged that Bep. supporters of the resolution had delayed the bringing of It to a vote until Just before adjournment so that It would-no- t be passed by the senate and so that President Wilson would not be called upon to approve or disapprove the measure. I desire to advise the political party that attempts-t- o throttle this resolu- lion that It is dealing with dynamite said Rep. Gallivan of Massachusetts, Democrat. T appeal to the house to stop this nonsense and glve ennridera-tio- n to a resolution for the relief of a people who have been suffering for several centuries, and "to let the world know that we believe In President Wilson when he said we entered the war to make small nations free. In opposing the resolution. Rep. Conpally said the internal affairs of Great Britain were no concern to the people of the United States. The people of this country, he asserted, would resent a. resolution In the British parliament proposing for Porto Rico Rep. Gallagher of Illinois, author of the resolution, said that even if the measure were not approved by the senate, favorable action by the house might obtain sympathetic consideration for Ireland at the peace conference. egraph flACAlf OtORGE , , Italys Claim A special Copen-liagv- u BERLIN.. Monday, March 3. (By the Associated Trc6 ) The National Spartacus league and the Greater Berlin communiMt orKantiatlon have sued an appeal for an immediate gen-er- al Against Austria Is Three Billion 4 rs ty Tel- March 4. COPENHAGEN, Marshal Foch has demanded the immediate deli very of the German, mercantile next without regard to the question of food supply. according to a dispatch from naneinutr, when! the. tional assembly I tn srsslon,'' ; Orowd' forced tlieir" way into tlie various puhce'etaUons In Berlin Monday night, disarmed tliC policemen and rut the telephone w Iren, according to a telegram from Berlin. Every Secoratfon Ahal Frfhie effn bestow upon, her fighting tjnen ha ben won by Lieutenant ehaire, one of the leading French need. He la shown here Just after he atepped ashore from a transport. He came to America on a. government mission. LONDON. March orrespondent reports. elce-IrM- trtrdte- and'the irverthroar' ctf thy national assembly and the present re- public. The organizations instruct their followers to assemble at factories to prevent work and direct them ,tQ avoid street demonstrations hi order that the government may have no oppor- -' tunlty to crush the movement by force Meetings were being held today at' various faitories for the purpose of deciding whether to respond to the . appeal. The workman of the Schwartzs plant, who are among the most radical in Berlin, hkve voted for a general strike, 12.0UU men being affected dis- patch to the London Daily News, says that the war indemnity claims by Italy from Austria has been, approximately calculated at (400.000,000 Aa it is extremely ($3,000,000,000). doubtful whether its payment can be enforced, the Italian government will possibly reenrt to a practical remedy for compensation consisting in special- -- ly favorable concessions over the natural resources of the country. Thus It Is proposed that about a third of the war Indemnity claimed by Italy should be paid by Austria in. the kind, aa it were, by ceding to Italy majority of the werklngmen in the FORD EAGLE IS 8.000.000 cubic mekres 1(282,512,000 metal trades and the railway workers cubic feet) of timber, to be exported favor a general stoppage of work. BEST BOAT TO Some 300 busmens snd professional during a period of five years. men and of 'leers in-- he city m orily CHASE SUBMARINES adherens of .the old order, held a SALT LAKE BOY meeting and decided to take Imme4 March WASHINGTON, diate steps for organizing a general IS COMMENDED strike of all the classes, Ford Eagle boat is the best type of as k counter-measurIt seems .submarine jehaser In existence and la BY SECY. DANIELS doubtful, whether however, the organrequired as part of a complete navy, izers of the meeting wll be able to even in peace times, the senate naval considerable numbers. - which in4 affairs WASHINGTON. Sec- pway any March As strikes outside Berlin, quired Into the construction of the retary Daniels announced today that reportsregards the Risen distrist show from he ha4 commended 52 enlisted men that the miners craft, reported today to the senate. strike has been reNo charges against the Ford Motor of the navy who during the recent newed. has not reached company, which contracted to build influenza epidemic voluntarily sub- large but that It The men are deproportions the Eagle boats during the war, were mitted to experiments at the ngval the of their,, dax. manding shorjonifts sustained. hospital at Chelsea, Maas.; to ald navaj by "half an hour The miners in the er doctors in Ihe .aUemph Atf enbmT'rimi-mrfrifti central frer- -' determine the cause and method of tranxmimion many have voted to return to work toMAY EXCHANGE of the disease and a. preventive. This is believed to mark the day Among the Influenza squad are R. beginning of the end of the' coal minRUSSIAN PRISONER FI Goodwin, Midlothian, Texas, and ing strike in Thuringia. B. Wanlees, FYank Salt Lake City. FOR U. S. CONSUL Aims of Spur lucanx. Utah, and Daniel J. Hedges, Ekalaka' j The aims of tjie proposed strike as Mont j called by the, RefTiYi Bpartacans in-- 1 elude the introduction of factory coun-- I British government has asked the gov- -' ells In all plants to rejtuUte factory KUISLK KUt,Hfc5 I ER Rus-- j eminent of India to release affairs and ultimately, the taking ovee , -held-new tn Dr prisoner BRINGS TROOPS frffJflMvA vJUg citsarnmTraiThe United Persv.,-i(government States esehange- for J t ' nilnt of a,! . lists, thp with Consul Roger C. Tredwell of New of U ,rooP? Rochet York, who has been held prisoner Westphalia, 'Prions designated, Bolshevik officials at Taahkend, Tur- - from Breet with 3 8 U h e ?dal Bremn and oth , troops and 52 and the formation of a red guard kestan, for several months men. . pp-.troop in-- ! der the control of the The Bolshevik! recently offered W naval enlisted free Tredwell If the United States gov- -, ft?''1? the 4STVh aero squadron, mo-- 1 would take over all military anil po bile lice and 100, hospital powers. casual P'0 eminent would bring about the re- The liberation of alL poliUdalfrfg-oner- s No. 1214 of Texas, two lease of Eugene V. Debs os Tbemaa and the establlshmenf of a revin the United States, or of Acer and 104 men. olutionary tlrbunal to t'rjT the "chief some Bolshevikl held by the Indian! culprits" of the war. fe Hohensol-lern- s. i Field Marshal wSn Hindenburg, Officials said today there was RO , PRESIDENT WILSON Gen. Ludendorff. Admiral von the that now concession Ttrpitx' certainty pro . SIGNS WHEAT BILL and the traitors Ao the revolution" by the British government posed lYesident Ebery'Chancellor Schetde-ma- nn would Insure Mr. Tred well's release, as and Gustdv the minister, it waa impossible to know what the WASHINGTON. March 4 Presi- of defense areals Noske. railed for. The ImBolshevikl would do. The last report dent Wilson wheat the signed today mediate of peace with Rusreceived concerning the consul, bill carrying an appropria sia an copttuvion trfe establishment of b waa ili.uon of 8UOOO.OOO.OOO mT diploma- to maintain the bat well ) treated. custody, guaranteed price of $2.26 a btishel ,tOonUnued op page crorittnr-tm'jniiirV6rwam- 1 -The e. u, I I ern stM-irixh- : ''"7 eak non-Soe- byL-rnt- .T oir 1 lraal r'0 i - -i-, f j two) r q |