Show NIGHT I 1 OF ANXIETY IET y SCENE IN washington WHEN HUERTA 8 DEFIANCE CAME CAMIE TO MR WILSON SUSPENSE AT WHITE HOUSE arrival 0 charge mesepa in code and giving t cut ut the newe news that electrified the country by my GEORGE CLINTON washington washington waa was in nu on tho the night whoa when final anwar was expected expect ad from huerta of mexico to tho demand of F Freel dent wilson that he salute the stars and stripes or stand the consequences quen ces would it bo be uninteresting to picture the scene during the hour hours ot of the night before tho the day on woodrow wilson had promised that the flag bad had been saluted be he would go to tho the american concree con gree rm in won vernon to ask for a vote ot at conflux 1 wace in the course that ho he intended to atako ko and ind of authority to use the tho armed forces of at tha th government to uphold tho the honor ot at tho th nation it Is on sunday night in the lobby of the white house offices la is gathered a crowd of newspaper men across avenue brilliantly lighted endows in the state war and navy departments in indicate dicato where the latest news from charge Is being translated from the codo word comes that the thia dispatch was filed about 4 p m in mexico cly city and that it deals with an interview between and the mexican secretary of foreign affairs it as s ten the crowd in to and about the executive office has increased from across the street comes secretary of at tho the navy Dant daniels els who enters the office of the presidents april arinto ite secretary in a it moment he be reappears with Secret secretary pry who Is expected to announce the news as he had promised to do if it it were favorable news will mean thai that 1112 orta 1 has promised to salute and ibal that war will be averted tor too serious to give out but instead the two officials jump into a waiting state department au to mobile r r detary daniels pausing an instant 0 a tell the correspondents that tho the nera news ne ra Is too serious to be made imade public without consultation with the secretary of at state there Is in no doubt in the minds mindo of the newspaper correspondents of what this means the feeling of at suspense under w wilch mch all of them have lived through the day gives place to one of suppressor suppress od excitement it Is 1020 1030 p ra through pennsyl vanla avenue dashes a great touring car driven by a chauffeur apparently ignorant that such things as speed laws exial the machine swings into the white houam grounds and with ith its siren shrieking to to clear the way draws drawn up at the joor of the executive offices N prom the automobile come secretary of state bryan secretary of the vavy daniels and secretary to the president Tres dent ident they shoulder 0 dir way through the expectant crowd of newspaper mem mon and die disappear into nto one of the rear offices of ithe white house later the correspondence correspondents are admit ud into secretary tumults Tumult ys room leaving la in the lobby only the door mon the white house police a few bermy and navy officers ind and the cly allan a visitors to whom the he full eriv of newspaper men roan do not ox ex kend out comes the big new news lind those who have been left behind ido do not have long to wait wall in a ruo moot through the corridor from the drcar r room dashes a young man on r his is way to a telephone booth he lie does not stop to communicate bis his ud tid tings but as he unburdens himself of his this news by means of the telephone ito the office of at his newspaper the by islanders learn team that there will be a special meeting of the cabinet at ten lo clock ia in the morning and that at three in the afternoon the lp president resident will go before a joint see sea slon alon of congress to ask far for an expression of its confidence and for authority ity to do what seems to him best beat 1 ithe impending crisis everybody knows the promise upon the conclusion must be based the messenger Is to soon followed by others all of them in baete baste to speed through the transmitters in the ed little telephone room to the wait walt ting ling newspaper arf ua az zes ua of at the the new news that the end of at diplo inacy has boin bon bo in reached and that in all human probability the dreaded war with mexico Is about to become a realty wealty it Is midnight through the streets of f the capital city shrills the cry of Ex extra extras trav V dextral extras Ext raf ral extra V 1 all the latest war newel news and in imagination one can com hear it echoed from an and and mountain and and from tho the 0 of our country army well wall prepared it baa ban been evident for come years that the war department of tho the united state states wan determined if it a conflict were to come alth any other country there would bo be no duplication of tho the state ot of in which the service was found at the outbreak of at the spanish war and which led to row rows between of high rank and to scandals la which gave embalmed embalm ed boor a place in army annals it can bo be eald said today mitt except in the matter of at hold and ammunition tor for it the united states army la Is well prepared in every way to anything that may come con gross seemingly never haa has been boon willing to appropriate i enough money molloy to keep tho the service departments up to the standard but with the lesson of at tho the war behind them the dopart department apartment part ment chiefs have done the boit they could with the money which waa was forthcoming any army of the united suites states which BOOB goes into the field today will be well fed well clothed well armed and every precaution will be taken and every moans means afforded to save tho the men from the ravages 0 of f disease it waa was lust just after the spanish war that the general staff of 0 tha army wa WIS established the moving army spirit in the work wae was william if U curler now a major general of the service with three or four years more ahead of him on the active list the general staff not cot only has looked after plans for operations in case of emergency but it haa has done what it could to see that tho the supplies of all k kinds in do were properly distributed and made available for instant use genera gorler al department under an act of at congress approved two years ago the quartermaster subsistence and pay departments of the army were consolidated in a single organization to bo be known aa as the quartermasters corps july ae 1 1907 president roosevelt nominated maj MO james D Al as an brigadier general in u command of the quarter n asters department today general Alea hiro Is a major general with supervisory authority over the three departments depart menta which consolidated mako make up the quartermasters quarter malters corps brig gen henry G sharpe Is to the commissary general jeneral the responsibilities resting on general eral Al Alua hiro are perhaps greater than those which rest on any other man of at the united states a array my with general sharpe and the other officers 3 of the quartermasters quarterma corps he Is responsible for feeding and clothing the armies in the field soldiers do not glowas as hard at the man who leads them to defeat as they do at we man who falls to lead them to dinner dier plan of labor commission the commission on industrial relations aich congress established some timo ago to study labor matters has made public certain proposals for legislation to cipo out what aro are called chronically chaotic conditions in the labor market and thus as the commis commission cion puts it to strike a tow blow at the annually recur ring evils of employment non in the united states i the chairman of the commission Is frank P walsh who rays ewt the proposals are tentative and that the would like to receive criticisms aud and suggestions from all nho mho choose to offer them it is pro posed poised by legislation tc to establish in washington a national bureau of labor exchange to bo bre connected with the department of labor of which william il wilson Is to the secretary it is proposed to have branch offices in other alth a clearing house in each for the district immediately surround ing that city tho the plan being to divide c the entire cogut country y into division divisions the legislation asked will empower the bureau to establish and conduct free public toza offices labor market bulletin one at 0 the most important services of the bureau if it established will be to gather and distribute accurate information conc concerning ernins the labor market in different places in the united states staten li it is the intention if it the proposals get the form of law to publish this information in the form f arm of at to be issued frequently aud to be given such circulation as to make it available to every person who la is in search of and to every employer who ants workmen it Is proposed and this feature c the plan the commission thinks will be interesting to the country that ad council counci lp shall be appointed for the bureau and one for each of the dif district triet clearing houses these councils will ill be composed of equal numbers of representatives ut employ era em and of employed emp loyes and will assist the director in all matter pertaining to the management will od in de ing and will sey see to it that the bureau is impartial in disputes dispute a every evory employment office conducted by the bureau be required to send a dally daily report of at business to the clearing bo house use of the district in luct it was situated |