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AY
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VOTE OF R.R MEN
INCOME TAXED BE D.S.SENDS SHARP
WILL LEAD SUFFRAGE
FIGHT AT WASHINGTON
MEANS STRIKE ALL
SO REVISED AS TO NOTE TO ENGLAND
THROUGH BELGIUM
OVER THE COUNTRY
ON TRADING ACT
RAISE MILLIONS
Hilles of National Committee
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Action
ones 128.
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OVER 20,000 SHELLS FIRED EXPECT BULL MOOSERS ID ND
ARBITRATION TO BE REFUSED
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Thirty-Two French Aeroplanes Meeting of Subcommittee Ap-
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JRS A.FI
ICE
for
10-hour
MAS FANF ~z. Rosss/}G.
rofit or the English—British
were instructed
At Hetsas some Ger-
ably to Calais.
now free to go ahead and
the
man detachments tried to cross
needs."’
revise the law to meet new
reply.
cwnmuz
2000 Miles Away.
TEXANS CAN MAKE
Lol- 1
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MOHR DIVORCE PAPERS ARE
But never have
to big strikes.
"2
And never
men been so united.
er
RULED OUT IN MURDER CAS
the
and
er. t hat
( opinioD,
, Mgr.
re
by
advanced in argument
it understands has been delivered to
resident Wilson.
ELL
seal
you indict them.”
COl. HOUSE'S TRIP
COMPULSORY MILITARY BILL
Bryan and other pncifici
K1i1F1) BY BANDITS.
N(T It \N I II MU \N II I .
Franz Joef’s < onlition Grave.
According to
Jan.
n the l"alatine
Happy With Two
Wives Under One
cago Interview, Says Inter-
vention Is Only Safeguard.
MEXICO GOOD, SAYS
LOUISE WORTHAM
Charges He Is Responsible
for Murders in Mexico.
BRITISH LOSE 13 AIRCRAFT
WHILE GERMANS LOSE NINE
proves Convention Plans,
but Names No Officers.
Leaders of 400,000 Brother-
hood Members Say It Will Be
Quit First, Parley After.
T THE
RKET
TURKEY TO BE QUESTIONED
ABOUT SINKING OF PERSIA
Bromwich Observatory Records
Place of Shock About
c la red that the appointments to the
Federal Reserve Board, the Federal
have united in a demand
B-hour day at the present
to make a
of American
Against British Trading
With Enemy Ruling.
The four brotherhoods have dro]
all internal and sectional strife. "
a hithert
that iz . a
which al
subject i
alupe Sts.
the roads.
I of both
and saus-
vuld like a
Texas
delighttui
I you lira
pread. Let
k of “Gold
[ "event-
ow" fame,
read flour
Democratic Leaders Wor-
ried Over Revenue.
Drop 200 Bombs at Guev-
gheli and Monastir.
stands between the United States and
invasion from Mexico.”
This statement was made by Louis J
tration is to be attacked are
Iowa;
Supreme Court in Opinion by
Chief Justice Holds the Law
Is Constitutional.
VICE
light
Phone 100
Results of Ballot So Far Show
Overwhelming Sentiment for
Enforcing Demands.
’vice
M3 night
GHT
। City LAmtts
EED
Violent Bombardment at Mouth
of Yser Marks Attempt to
Reach Calais.
tore I college
tarred.
"Under the
HEAVY’QUAKE IS
INDICATED, BUT
IS NOT LOCATED
viously made a similar report.
Officials placed no credence in re-
would be a calamity. •
Treasurer George H. Sheidon • •‘•Ted
laughter when he expiained the aston-
American treasurers are compelled to
give a public accounting.
"We knight the big contributors and
aw eeping in vestiga tion
trade.
spondent, the Vatican has received ad-
vices that the condition of Emperor
l'rands Joseph is grave.
i each
o
s &
NS
STRONG WITNESS FOR
MRS. MOHR’S DEFENSE
ft
j
law.
"We are
qnent pi
consuls
B each
0
AUSTIN AMERICAN
SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS ARE
OPEN TO INSPECTION
pped
They
an
ishment of the treasurer of the Eng-
lish conservaiive party when told that
“ROAST” PRESIDENT
Americals doing business here would I - ■ • .....
be equivalent to seeking the impair- |
cntcnizene risht ot native Ameri- Fort Worth Publisher, in Chi-
by this report, of which there was
no official confirmation, but was in
8 7
probable that
the ultimatum
j xisted that no thought had been given
| into today’s session to the matter of
Austin American is the only newspaper in Texas that publishes the full day and night reports of the International News Service, including (by special arrangement) the exclusive war dispatches of the
London Times, London Telegraph and Berliner Tageblatt. The American’s State Capitol and Legislative reports are the most comprehensive and complete published and do not appear in any other newspaper
made « h a
support i
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lers in ecrap
botties, mack.
ty wood bar-
505% Neches
O. Box 549,
only a particular character of direct
zax without apportionient, and there-
The men, by their votes, ara
Au
George i temporary officers for the convention.
g fired I This important subject. involving the
selection of a temporary chairman
whose political affiliation may decide
[the fate of the party in 1916, as it did
Secretary
•Hacked Pi
---------- chair,
manship- that it was "‘somnething to
be considered at a later session Many
political changes may be rung before
in levied i nde r its
The luncheon at the Hamilton lub
was in honor of the sut-comnittee of
the National committee. which Ln in
Chicago to confer with the local com-
mittee headed by Fred W Upham, on
the convention arrangements.
Trade Com mission and other bodies
xix papers were brought into court
today, identified. dess ribed, discussed
and then withdrawn.
Their temnporary ppearance left but
little we ight as evidence, but threw
great light on the state of mind and
regulation of appor-
ble to all other direct , the state of soul of Dr. Mohr and his
the Roman
» one of the
n< )M ik Jan
Decision Brings Gratification to Attempt to Stop Neutral Bus-
iness of Suspected Concerns
Arouses Resentment.
nost antiquarians, is seri-
WENTHER FORECAMT.
East Texas: Increanng cloudi
n«w. colder, except in southeazt
pnrtion, and a eold wave in norn-
west portion Tueaday. Wednen-
। day uisettled and colder
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1916. —TEN PAGES.
2 1 --Giaco
vations in
Mrs. Wright will be an important
witness for the defense in the Mohr
murder trial. She is expected to tes-
tify that she heard the defendants.
Brown and Spellman, planning a rob-
bery on Aug. 22 in a street car in which
she was riding, before Dr. Charles F.
Mohr was murdered.
He de-
the selection becornes an absolute ne- ?
cessity. and it is beiieved that thesub.
comnrittee will hold off its recom men. a
afion until the last moment enator
| Borah and Senator Lodze have been -
mentioned as a posstitlit > acceptable
to the returned Progressives, and to
The re were twenty-six different papers ,
filed in the Mohr divorce case duringiWorthamn, publisher of the Fort Worth
James B Reynolds also
half of domestic
of the combined brotherhoods before
May 1 On that date the present con-
tracts expire.
No only are the men overwhelming-
ly for striking, but they have now
decided that their only hope is to
strike before submitting their demands
to the seemingly inevitable board of
arbitration.
They say that to delay action while
mediation is In progress means end-
leas delay and certain compromise.
They indicate 1915 as their proof.
The voting has been in progress for
thirty days. It wH have been entitely
collected by March 1. Then the exec-
utive committees of the four brother-
hoods will parley. The demands will
be eumplled in ultimatum form.
No later than May 1 the roads must
either reject or accept the terms dic-
tated by the unions. If the roads
say "no, the question ef a strike will
be put up to the men There will be
another vote if two-thirds of th*
350,000 to 400,000 members of the
brotherhoods vote "yes," the strike
is on.
The railroads of the United States
are fully awake to ths seriousness of
th. situation other demands have
been made, granted or refused. Ar-
bitration has heretofore blocked the
(HICAGO. Jan. 24—‛Texas alone
LONDON,
the Dnily
VOLUME 4, NO. 56.
making answer. It is |
the roads will receive t
ithough
to the
Lo levy an income tax
dirert should not be
have they shown such singleness of
purpose.
rhe spirit of the men is set forth
| concisely by Timothy shea, assistant
to W. S. Carter, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and nginemen. Mr. Shea said to-
day
"I don’t think there will be any ar-
bitration this time. I think that all
the arguments will follow the sirike
order and not precede and decay it.
’ I am not authorized to apeak of-
wages and "time and half time” pay
for all working hours in excess of
eight.
The railroad stockholders and man-
agers are predicting ruin. They point
in alarm to the fact that already the
employes of the railroads of the
United States are getting 4 5 per cent
of the combined gross earnings of the
roads.
The union leaders are offering no
PARIS. Jan. 24.— )n extremely vio-
lent tombard men t by the Germans of
the Belgian line at the mouth of the
Yser was reported tonight by the war
office. No less than twenty thousand
shells were expended by the German
batteries in an attempt to smash the
Belgian defenses.
Final reports of the action had not
reached the war office at the hour
when the mienight communique was
issued First reports stated that the
German infantry attempted to de-
bouch trom their trenenes, but the
attack was broken up by the fire
from the Franco- Belgian batteries.
This activity, coupled with reports
of an action further south along the
Yser Canal indicate preparations for
a new effort to press through, prob-
TEUTONSMAKENEW G.O.P. CHIEFS, IN
EFFORTTO CROSS UNSPARINGTERMS,
mo Eoni. di
the Briton’s
present system," said
far-reaching effect ofiwife during all these months.
assumption will be The Stat sought to introduce these
generalizing the man y । papers, holding that they had had a
----- great effect upon Mrs Mohr "mnen-
The resolution was re- but Mrs Nelle Fabyan satd that the
sixty men employes are being drilled
fore if
The National Woman Suffrage Asso-
ciation announces it* plans for its fight
for the Federal suffrage amendment.
This is the first time that the Na-
tional Association has concentrated on
work in 4 ‘ongress.
Mrs. Frank M Roessing of Penn-
sylvania will be in charge of the cam-
paign in Washington and four groups
of speakers have been appointed to be
known as the Congressional campaign
corps who will canvass the entire
United states in the interest of the
amendment
There will be a group of brilliant
Southern women who will speak in
fourteen Southern States; woman res-
idents of seventeen ok the Middle West
States will line up their conferers in
that part of the country and others
will be In charge of ths work in the
Pacific Coast States.
asking for a $:.250,000 Federal build- calty from German sonrees "
mg al Dallas and a sub post office sta- • — ■ »*• *« —— -
tion for the new terminal depot in
TO HOME MAY PAVE Citizen Soldiery
WAY FOR PEACE TALK' '=
without merit, and
on th® merits to *f-
court’s action in dis-
AUNORA, 111. Jan
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The refer-
edum vote now being taken among
the organized employes of the rail-
roads ot the United States indicates
that the men want a National strike.
Stronger and stronger grows the
sentiment, "Strike first and parley
afterwards.” Never in the history of
the powerful brotherhoods has there
been such unanimity of sentiment.
us prop
utional
ed as I
so interrin
diffieult to
Chut Justic
’We are
I F
lour and for
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—State De-
partment officials announced today
that the United States will ask Turkey
point blank if one of its submarines
sank the British steamer Persia. The
announcement was made after the
publication of press dispatches report-
ing thaut the Turkish government is
preparing voluntarily to take the
blame for the sinking of the P & O.
liner The department announced em-
phatically. however, that its decision
to question Turkey was not influenced
tiahalyytbudtsehattthgdiemper OPPOhe no offietal confrmation. but ... in
men It is my whole-hearted belier conformtty with ihs orignal plan of
that they nave nad enough at this putting the question to all the Teu-
so-called arbitration I tonic allies ...
■Arbitration no doubt is quite all I The note to Ambassador Morgen-
right But the principle has been | than, directing him to question the
much abused The men have submit-| Tu. kish xovernment about I sub.
ted to mediation n the past. It never marine operations, will not be sent
produced the justice promised This until a supplemental statement has
in the spirit of the men it is not theybeen obtained from Autria. The.de-
mere words of their leaders. The men partment is now awaiting a note which
me v ----tenaa hee hcen delivores ti.
nuaxeu’n wn BILL BANISHING ELECTORAL
soon and the hope is expressed in Vat-
sunea authority which does not par-
take of the < haracteristics exacted by
the amendment, it is outside ol the
amendment and is void as a direct tx
in the general constitutional sense, but
not apportioned.
"(b) As the amendment authorizes
a tax only upon incomes ‛froi what-
ever source derived,’ the exclusion
from taxation of some incomes of
designated persons and < lasses is not
authorized, and henee the constitu-
tionality of the law must be tested
by the general provisions of the Con-
stitution as to taxation. and thus again
the tax is void for want of apportion-
inent.
"(c) As the right to tax incomes
’from whatever source derived' for
which the amendment provides must
be considered as exacting intrinsic uni-
fcrmity, therefore no tax comes un-
der authority of the amendment not
conforming to such standard, and
hence all the provisions of the ansailed
statutes must once more be tested
solely under the general and pre-exist-
ing provisions of the Constitution,
causing the statute again to be void
in the absence of apportionment.
”(«1) As the power conferred by
the amendment is new and prospect-
Ive. the attempt in the statute to make
Its provisions retroactively apply is
void because so t^r as the retroactive
period is concerned it is governed by
the pre-cxistin constitutional require-
ment as to apportionment.
”But it ciearly results that the prop-
osition and the contention under it, If
seceded to. would cause one provision
of the Constitution to destroy another;
that is, they would result in pringing
the provisions of the amendment ex-
emtping a direct tax from apportion-
ment into Irreconcilable conflict with
the general requirement that al di-
rect taxes be apportioned Moreover,
the tax authorized by the amendment
being direct, would not come under
the rule of uniformity applicable un-
der the Constitution to other than di-
rect taxes, and thus it would come to
pass that the result of the amendment
would be to authorize a particular di-
rect tax not subject either to apyor-
tionment or to the rules of geograph-
ical uniformity, thus giving power to
impose a different tax in one State
or Etates than was levjed in another
State or Etates."
‘HOVIDFNCF, R I , Jan 24 —
WASHINGTON, Jan
As It stands today, the income tax
law yields $80,000,000 annually in
round numbers. When it is revised
and the burden placed where the
lemocrats say it will be placed, it l*
expected to yield twice, perhaps three
times that sum The present plan »»
to inerease substantially the surtaxes-
Beginning at 42O.GOV incomes, the sur-
tax is to be very substantially in-
ereased. Home of the leaders go so
far as to say this incrense will be one-
third of that now paid it may be an
increase of 50 per c ent With a broad
interpretation of the taxing power or
the pederal Governnent, the Supreme
Gouri ct the Lnited States sustained
the constitutionality of the income tax
provisions of the Underwood tariff
in «n opinioh handed down by chief ;
Justice white, the court meel5 a»
harges of diseriiination in the tax
by the single statement that the uni-
formity prescribed by the Constitution
tor Federal ‘axes was simply a Ee0-
graphical uniformity which might per-
mit ali sort of distinetions as to Per-
Eons and subjects of taxation, so the
ditinctions wtre uniforan thoMshout
ths country.
The case before the court that
of Frank H. rushuber, appeliani, '•
The rnkm Pscifie Railroad Company:
0s appeal trut t Rc Dstriet * our of
the I nited States for the douthern Dis-
trict of New York. Mr Frushaber. a
a stockholder of the I nion Pacitie,
sought injun tion to forbkd the com-
pany from paying the immune tax on
tne ground that the ta was uncon;
stitution *1. Ine Chief Justi e declared
contention*, as to the court's lack of
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The de-
cision of the Supreme Court Uday
that the Income tax law is constitu-
tional, removed a load of doubt from
the minds of administration leaders in
Congress charged with the duty of
finding the xneans of providing the
revenue for resident Wilton’s pre-
paredness plans.
Funds are to be furnished largely
through the imposition of income
taxes if the tentative plans discussed
by leaders ate carried out, the wealthy
who will be protected most by the Na-
tional defense, must pay the bills.
The income tax law 1s to be re-
visd. Representative Hull of Tennes-
see, who drew the original income tax
iron circles that his presence may af-
ford an opportunity to discuss the pos-
sibility of opening negofiations be-
tween the belligerents which, even if
they do not lead to Immediate peace,
will smooth the way toward more con-
crete steps later.
It is asserted here that the Ameri-
can cardinals have been trying to in-
duce Prestdent Wilson to have Colonel
House visit the Pope.
Telegraph's Home corre
izing a troop of citizen soldiery on the ' in 1912. when klhu Root was given
24 -senator -'■'*■ widely known aaRankitnecvchc"subestnnttepintenmcag.
Norri. of Nebraska today introduced j. Villa, on tit- I ox Hirer All the eni- March IS
a constitutional amendment providing Phivea are hem- drilled l» • •ai.tali i Chairman Hille. Mild It was to.
for the direct election of President and . s on a furicuKh from West Point early t dineu. she tempora
LONDON, Jan. 24.— The military
compulsory service bill passed the
House f Commons on its third read-
lng tonight by a vote of 383 to 36
The bill was sent immediately to the*
House of Lords, where it had its first
reading tonight The present plan is
to prorogue Parliament on Friday.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—A heavy earth*
quake was recorded by the West
Bromwich observatory today. The
shock was about two thousand miles
away. From certain indications it is
said that it may have occ urred in
Asia Minor in the vicinity of the Black
Saa.
COLLEGE RAISED IN SENATE .................................
poritions (alleging
ity of the taxi are
to cause it to bo
them.” sald the
tha confusfun
rather artse f
the sixteenth i
ight.
of < ity, 25c.
•MPANY
Prop.
H West Fifth
mci
wrangiing that finally was ended by
Dr Mohr's murder These twenty-
LONDON. Jan 24—In the House
of Commons this afternoon H. L.
Tennant, secretary of war, announced
that the English had lost thirteen
aeroplanes on the western front in the
last four wet ks and the Germans had
lost nine or ten In this period the
British employed 114 machines and
crossed the German lines 1227 times
The Germans during the same period
have n*cd aporoximately twenty aer-
oplanes. in which they have crossed
the British line 114 times.
Mr Tennant said that in the west-
erx theater of war the Engiish are
using marly seven times as many
The rights of the sea were denied
to all concerns who were even sus-
pected of having German connection*.
Although the commodity affected
might be non-contraband and might
be shipped to a neutral country, this
was entirely disregarded.
In their quest for information the
British agents are said to have de-
manded more intimate and compre-
hensive data on American industry
than is in the possession of the bu-
rer.u of corporations or any other
Washington agency.
The copper trade was the first to
feel Great Britain's stranglehold Oth-
er lines of business were not long in
being made aware that their activities
were subject to the censorship of
London Firms with German solnd-
ing names were particularly subject
to this interferenge. As vondon’s
rules have grown more arbitrary,
commerce even with China has been
restricted and Washington has been
flooded with protests.
it is known that the State Depart-
ment in its protest must take the
ground that naturalized German-
American citizens are on a parity with
ntive American ellizenm. Therefore,
it will be held that any act of a for-
eign governrent which would seek to
impair the rights of such naturalized
fcllowu:
amen linen! cuthorizes
two wives, who did not approve of night by one of the bandits Both
his domestic arranrements of the robbers escnped.
Senator Norris, "there is no practical |
way for any one to be an indepedent
candidate. No one can be elected Forom an d
President who does not have the nom-worla’s for
ination of a political party ” ously ill
Ambassador I’enfield, relating to an
investigation by Baron Burian. which
exonerated Austria of blame for the
Persia sinking Germany had pre-
unknoon power of taxation.
not inherent, but
the conclusion that
dment provides for
ffonment applie
taxes. And the
this erroneous
CONTENTIONS SWEPT ASIDE WILL NOTCOUNTENANCEORDER
are running this
"Our present demands are brief and
can not be misconstrued. We ask for
an l-hour day at 10 hour wages and
time and half time for overtime. If
our demands are not acceded to the
men will walk out. The arguments
will have to come later Every rail-
road in the United States 1s affected."
It was declared officially today that
dissatisfaction with the latest decisions
of the Federal mediators has precipi-
tated .he present vote and the unani-
mous demand for an 8-hour day.
According to locai representatives
of the brotherhools, when the media-
tors of the Wertern railroad employes
adjourned In May, 1115, they served
notice that the original demands for
an 8-hour day would be renewed Moy
1. 1914
The decision of the ediators last
year contained orly a small part of the
demands made by th© brotherhood
men Thus the 1915 decision was lit-
tle more than a rrnee
PEORIA, III. Jan 24.- While
holding a gun on tw bandits he had
captured and wo ting for the patrol
wagon to arriv, Norman Gray, a po-
licenan, was shot and killed here to.
I com’'tent.
I Charies H Warren of Michigan said
’be party had not "weicomed the Pro-
gressives back," but that the two ele-
I ments had "shahen hands.' Th* sub-
comnmittee later made an official call
at Mayor Thompson's office Then it
sat in with the local committee at th*
(‘ongress and ooked over the coliseum
v ___ rarv • y seuting arrangements l’rovision was
Company I rained ncha
by Millionaire (a at the 1*12 convention. Pre"id-
‘ All the National com in’tteemen in-
(Star-Telegram, at the Blackstone Ho-
i tel today.
Mr Wortham was a Texas Ranger
and river guard in the early dais and
he is still in constant touch with con-
ditions along the Rio Grande, so he
speaks with authority
•■The Mexican* have no respect for
the Government of the United States,"
he said. "They would not hesitate to
cross the border in a general attack
on this county if the were not afraid
of Texas The kangers and river
guards have instilled a wholesome fear
in the bandit chiefs, but they are not
afruid of the United States army.
’They know that the regulations’
slow up the army and that official
red tape would protect them in their
move ments This is not true of the
Texas border guards, however, and the
Mexicans know it.
"If the State mnilitia of Texas was
given authority to go ncross the b r-
dvr. the lives of American citizens
would be safe in a few hours. Under
the leadership of the Rangers and the
old Texans who have piotected thenn-
selves against the raiding bands for
years, the State troops could go across
the river and make travel on the Mex-
kan rat‘roads nn safe as it is In the
United States "
An Internaticnal News Servica re-
porter asked Mr Wortham if Carranza
would ever bring about peace in his
country.
••Never.” he rnid "Carranza is a
vainglorious weakling and will never
get control of his people. He is not
a soldier: not a leader The outrages
of the last several days .ndicate how
powerless he is to control the situation.
"Intervention is the only thing that
can safeguard the lives of foreigners.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Ad unsparins ,
denunciation of President Wilson, 5
even to an accusation of personal rs- 3
sponsibility for carnage in Mexico, |
marked the Republican party's key-
note speech, uttered today before th* 4
Hamilton Club by Charles D. Hilles, d
chairman of ins Nationai commitee..,,
air hihes udicaled categvricaity a
the lines upon wnich me rremidenuai T
campuign wni be ought, re urew his s
andctinent in plain words and mien- J
uoned the lres.dent by name. He ae- a
cused Mr. Wison oi uavng sacririced J
National prestige tne woriu over to a ‛
deal re to ue revenged upon huerta.
"io his blind pursuit uc tnat nat- ;
red," said tne speaker, "is to be |
charged the loss of countless Amen- 2
can lives.”
Again lie said:
"ia ail the lair history of the United |
States mere never was written so did-
graceful a page as tnat which must i
contain the record of Wooarow Wi- 3
sons conduct of our relations wi:n 2
Mexico."
Secretary McAdoo was accused by 1
Mr Hilles of employing in© "odious |
methods of high inance to juggle he 3
Treasury statements.’* and of insult- E
ing ’ and "flimflamming ' the Ameri- a
can people.
Orriclai weight as a G. O. P. pro- |
nouncement was given to Chairman 8
Hilles' address Irom the fact that IL J
was prepared after responses bad bee* 9
received to a questionaire sue muted to j
3300 State ana count) comiitteeuen a
in the various States Ah save Uu d
State, he said, had reported reunton ;
with the Progresstves.
As elaborated by Mr. Hilles, the is- 2
sues oa which tne Wilson adinis- A
1 The "vicious paternalistic and so- \
cialistic project of a Government- *
owned ana Government-operated uier-
chant marine?”
2. Abolition of the tariff board by
the Democratie varty by a atlure to
provide funds.
1. The "wanton, unprecedented and
unmeasured extravagance” of the
Democratic party.
4. The policy of 'exemption by spe- I
cial statute ut certain ciasss of cit-
izens for the application of the auti- |
trust laws."
5. Passage of the seamen's bill, 4
which has already paralysed the Pa- |
cirie shipping industry and will drive 1
American ships from the high sean
when peace is restored in Furope."
« The "imposition by the veio-
crats of a war tax in times of peace." I
7. High cost of living.
4 The Wilson Mexican policy.
9. The effect of the Mrxcan pol- -5
ky in other foreign lands, throughout j
central and South America, in Eu- a
rope and probably tn A-ia.
14 Inefficiency in the runduct of
every department or Government; in-
sincerity in the observance of civil s
service reform; deception in the
treasury—"no greater insult was ever i
offered the intelligence of the voter*
than that involved in Mr. McAdoo’s 7
efforts to flimflam them regarding |
the actual condition of the treasury.” j
II The tarif—th© "record of ib* a
Wilson administration on tariff is
alone sufficient to insure a Kepub- '
bean victory.”
That the Republicans could wig on
the record of the Wilson administra- 1
non was the opinion of the party lead- -7
j u risd k tion w ere
then provectkd
firm the lowe
iningine the case
Government Takes
same roof and be happy, at least so
says Jense Farewell 24. a Springfield
township farmer whe was arrested
here on a c harge of bigamy County
officials also Farewell was liv-
ing peacefully with his two wives
The charge on which Farewell was
locked up nets forth that six years
ago in Canada he married Miss Clara
Akey of Philadelphia and lart Novem-
ber married Miss Irene Bennett. 20.
daughter of a prominent farmer of
this vicinity His first wife is tha
mother of three children and the sec-
ond wife is expecting the stork
"Everything was running smoothly
and my wives were getting along fine
together I can't understand how this
trouble was sirred up.” Farewell said
The action of the authorities fol-
Inwed a visit to the Farewell home a
few days ngo of the mothers of the
canal, but the Belgian and French in-
fantry. backed by the fire of the ma-
chine guns and artillery, repulsed the
attackers.
Midnight official;
"In Belgium, toward the mouth of
the Yser, in the region of Nieuport, the
Germans carried out an extremely vio-
lent bombardment, in the course of
which they fired not less than twenty
thousand shells. According to our
first advices, the German infantry
tried in vain to debouch from their
trenches, but were stopped short by
our barrier fire. With the exception
of some groups, which were imme-
diately dispersed by our fire, none of
them was able lb leave the trenches.
"In the region of Boesinghe, Het-
sas and Steenstaete the artillery was
also very active on both sides. Some
German detachments which tried to
eross the canal at Helsas were thrown
back by our infantry and machine gun
fire, supported by artillery.
"In Artois, on our front west of
the highway from Arras to Lens, the
Germans, after exploding a mine, at-
tempted a new attack which was
stopped short with hand grenades and
rifle*. A second attack undertaken a
little further to the south, met with
no greater success.
"North of Soissons our batteries
wrecked the German trenches on Hill
129. East of the Codat fanm, in the
region of Rheims, our artillery fire,
directed by aeroplanes, seriously dam-
aged a German battery.
"Army of the East: A group of
thirty-two French aeroplanes has
bombarded the enemy eneampments
at Guevghel and Monastir. More
than two hundred bombs were
dropped on the latter place by our
mac hines."
tally, morally and physically.”
Also to corroborate the testimony
of Healis when he said that Mrs
Mohr had told him her divorce case
wns about to come up in court, and
so the killing of her husband “should
be done at once"
ounsel for Mrs Mohr objected
John J l'tzgerald, explaining their
stand, said:
“If Mr Kice is intending to intro-
duce these documents to show that
Mrs. Mohr had anything to fear, we
warn to know it. We are going to go
into this question' and show that site
had absolutely nothing to fear."
"I do not propose to try in this case
the domestic difficulties of the Mohr
family,” was Judge Steam's final com-
ment, and he ruled that all the divorce
papers be excluded from the record
A significant point that came out in
the mass of lawyers’ wrangling is that
while. in her divorce proceedings Mrs.
Mohr allerec that she was married
"on or about May 15, 1903," the date
that Dr. Mohr gave for the marriage
in his petition was not permitted to be
read.
And ‘f the United States does not want
to intervene, just give Texas half a
chance and she will go over there and
a f stop all this murdering and nillaging
Roof; Arrested -------
HOUSE OF COMMONS PASSES
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.—The
United States took the first step to-
day to free business in America from
th® control which Great Britain in the
last few weeks has undertaken to ex-
ercise.
The American embassy in London
was instructed to notify the British
government that this country would
not countenance the application of
the trading with the enemy art in a
manner affecting American trade
This act was passed by the British
Parliament to reach English and neu-
tral business concerns suspected of
having Teutonic alliances To carry
out its aims—the complete strangling
of German commerce to the conse-
TWO MILLION DOLLARSIS I In, « -415 tenton mlysettyo of th 16:
ASKED FOR DALLAS P.O.; 7
•---- ' mita," says the Times, "we ,ha|| pub-
WASHINOTON. Jan. 24—* bil I lish an hecurate account of the lo-
eca= I
E ■ A
L A
aeroplanes as the Germans
port, that Turkey waspreparine,to I naderace ananpentna “th.
come forwarsand.claim on. ..rr ' derman ines. wing to the weterl
ityfortheRerstasxinking °* ,f,‘ winds, cerman aircraft. If struck,
cial.put It 1 « Wa-is,.. . c I planed down to thejr own lines. This
So sovernment Euilty nt th IR c rim- Ei Britt-N "ratt were unable to do in - ---------
Inal art would comerorwara and •<*-[, nse of smilar accident in peaking ' showed "rank and low" parttmanship
mit it at the moment when the I erjof the two raid on the kentiah coast j on the I resident , part and declare
sia cane is fast pasanE to the n«t of E derman aviators on Saturday night that appointment of a tariff r oimi--
myaterten of the wr _ . „ , land sundas. Mr Tenn: nt sala that ’•«" by the present adminiastration
Ambasnador. 'n" Bern storre m2; four aritih military aeroplanes and
ported to visit the State peparmenttw. Reaplanen had pursued the at-
tomorrow or Wednesday to close "Pitacking aircraft, but the raider, had
the Lusttania. cane alonE. .Li rain a too rar • start to be over,
factory both to the I fitted Htatcs and | takon
Fermany _ _ I The London Time* this morning
vice president, and abolishing the elec- Colonel Fabyan 1* in the Fast today
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