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THE PAPER THAT B008TS KEO O KUK ALL "HE TIME. Subscribers of the Dally Gate city are served the full Leiied Wire Serv Ice of the United Pres^s Associations Pf' ipr 4§#- VOL. 120. NO. 54. Xi -i !!^Lfl?.aI.' act!on Quite a Number of Measures Failed to Pass at Present Session Which Came to an End at Noon Today. Rill NIGHT f!MEETING WAS TAME *V«4A President Wilson is Given Authority to Use All f'r Armed Forces to Enforce This Nation's Neutrality During European War.. [United Press Teased Wire Servicel WASHINGTON, March 4 —Day dawned today with' congress still in session awaiting adjournment sine die at noon. The senate at 8 o'clock •was discussing the Indian appropria tion Ml'. The house recessed at 5 o'clock until 9 a. m. I.ittlo business faced the (sleepy eyed congressmen today after their all Insuring adjournment without a seri ous hitch. A deadlock on the Indian bill threat ened its demise. An emergency, ap propriation to, provide necessary ,funds for Indian schools, agents and reser vations ,wa9..hyteadjness. A bare batidruf of members .redu^ta-' morning. At 6:30 a iiuiry call for a quorum in the donate wa3 sent out. JTot in years has such a tame final nijht passion been witnessed. Usual boistrous hilarity, e\vin in the house, was lacking. both houses being too lusy to vent thei- f:elin?s in the time honored manner About 4:30 this morning, the house held a", brief songfest, Representative Conrev of •New York s'.ngin?* .Old Black Joe and other popttla- songs. i: Shortly before 1 a. m... the house to use all armed and naval forces to enforce this nntion'3 neutrality, Ttv shin purchase biH.is drad Ad ministration senato-R threatened with a continuation of the republican fili buster. did not plan another attempt to revive it. The bill diss In confer ence. Rural credits legislation also is dead. Instead, a congressional committee is authorized to Investigate the whole subject and report to the next con?mss by January 1, 1916. One Important "come back' proposition undisposed of, was the LaFollette sea- totfay. it has been generally expected he would veto it. lt The housr. passed the bill providing aid to Alaskan agricultural colleges, approved •'51 Leader Mann paid a tribute to Bart lett's long service and had Bartlett's bill passed as a token of the house's esteem. night vigil. Only two appropriation Dakota the conference report on the| measures, the Indian anj postofflce —Km «="».« bills remained as the final "clean up," While congress adjourned at noon. appropriation bill was called up and In tTie jam v., as mo laruneue nea- two^Dnroorlation*11 bills— I men's labor hill. The president must legislation, two appropriation mhs upon th_ls a measure (Kn,„MnnR to nrovide car space Plan. The fight on the Tndl?n t»I11 began °t S a. m., In the senata when the conference report was called up. Sen ator Gronna objected to items for In dian attorneys and allowance to cer tain Indian tribes. Senator I^aFollette also promised vigorous objection to the elimination of Cliotaw Indians of Mississippi from participation In Oklahoma tribal funds. Numbers of minor "private" bills were passed by both branches during the nieht .session. necessary funds were hurriedly sub- Defeat of the ship purchase bill and postponement of rural credits legisla tion were the features of the closing hours. Another important bill to die was the Philippine independence measure. The congress expiring today was an other "billion dollajr congress," its appropriations aggregating $1,120,000, 000.- Failure to enact legislation request ed by President Wilson when the houses convened last December was a feature of tlv, Philippine indepen dence, conservation, water power da- app-oved drowning velopment and the ship purchase hills. jSST»£?iS. SSS'SSS! "a Thew Wright and, as a tribute to the* veteran Representative Bartlett ofi An extra session of congress Georgia, who retires^ passed a" bill] also been thrown into the discard, at appropriating $50,000 for a federal •building at Forsyth, Oa. Republican (Continued on page 2.) THIRTY-SEVEN DEAD BODIES REMOVED FROM THE MINE Rescue Work is Hampered by Crumbling of Roof of the Underground Tomb, 4 T". [United Press leased Wire Service. 1 LAYLAiND. W. Va., March 4.—At noon today thirty.seven dead bodies been removes from the wrecked ing. I mm iKury-* passed Just 'before noon. n. offlcl: lly it was some minutes after ward befor8 the final gavels sounded1. The house stopped Its clock. The senate did not resort. to this subterfuge, but Vice President Mar shall held that body until 12:: 04 JqJIb-. tab lib. "good by®*' •V .HA address. Almost Two Veas WASHINGTON, March tag tha first half of-President Wil son's administration the congress adjourned sine die at noon toctay. The capitol ivj-echoed with .rheers when the gavels of Vice .Presi dent Marshall and Speaker Clark sounded "tap£." Zr." ident WIl- The president and his entire cabi net witurtsseid the close. In the presi dent's private chamber, adjoining the senate The president's signature on finally and s'ent to t£ presi"-!^^ bill .was the signal for the dent a resolution as amended byabe fm-cludiiig ceremonies, in accordance senate, Eivlns Mm swee-oins authority I wJtl» patcher As the life of congress ebbed away, the usual dramatic and historic scenes were re-enacted. Then members dash- rclameTtesl ad for trains. on the A8,at,c dM has at a number of points and the pro gnoses of the rescue parties is slow. While more than ten miners have been rescued from the mine siace the south exjjflosion occurred, only six of them: fighting Inues at all hours. *"1 'W [By Ed. L, Keen, United Press Staff Correspondent.] LONDON, March 4.—The Turkish fleet, assigned to give battle to the .Anglo-French warships Inside the Dardanesses, has fled at the ap'^oach of the allied war squadron, ar^j? .hg to Athens dispatches today. While heavy fog hung 'a the strait, the Turkish war cr? .ed an chor and steamed silent! of Na gara Road and into th of Mar mora, With the liftir the mist, allied avlatora repoi" ,ot a single Turkish war vessel/ strait and recononitering fiigKV»* «r up the Mar mora eea, failed to rev%al their where abouts. "Admiralty officials today ad mitted they were puzzled at the mys terious disappearance of the Turkish fleet. When the bombardment of the Dardanelles began, "hsarly the entire! naval forces of the sultan were con-j centrated In the narrows of Nagara Road to block the progress of the al lied fleet toward Constantinople. The successful advance of the Anglo French warships, brought thom with in six miles of where the enemy's fleet was concentrated. The Turks are believed to.* have withdrawn to the approaches of Con stantinople, prepared to pass the Bos phorus and enter the Black sea if the Ottoman capital fajls. Turkish avia tors flew over the allied fleet all day The senate adjourned at 12:04. Thej sJ^day^^^he^port'theV made"of house adjourned at 12:20. «tren9th of th- bombarding force. Despite the passage of a resolution u-n-JJ, to hav. continuing the appropriations of the retreat Indian bill of last year, and the HM-j Three more of the Inner Dardanelles ^u'te5 o' Senator Gronna of South, ,aused a oreclol- rdi th •de tim.-j honored custom Among A. I_ AM ANNFNVDL th.T last to receive approval was the seamen's labor# bill. Adjournment came today after prac tically continuous sessions of both senata and house since last Tuesday morning. It also marked the end of almost constant meeting for congress since the president's inauguration. two years todav. entrance to the narrowest part of the strait. Dardanelles, The fleet guns forf.^'on sixty-third!^® Asiatic side of the strait. The latest statement from the ad miralty regarding the Dardanelles operations, emphasized the strength of the attacklnq force. The battleship LONDON, March 4.—Athens dls-!and 1% per cent on grain." this afternoon confirmed the "We will show you increases in .report that German artillerymen are freight rates ranging from five per cent manning the big Krupp guns replying jtD 100 per cent in amount," Thorne to the allied fleet bombarding the' A landing party, moving northward tng ooured on the corpses by the retreat-1 Tur•|8 ,n an att .ospects of failure of the postof-j filibuster on the Indian bill and them. In the poc of jn tbe sixteen supplementary orders! Ace appropriation bill were dissipated! 7doad Germans were found letters, in shortly before 5 a. m,, when the house adopted the conference report, which provides that the basis of paying rail ways for carrying mail shall be changed from, a -weight to confirmation of many nominations 1 j|catlna they had but recently ar were amone the senate last tasks The nomination of George H. ttub lee of NVw Hampshire, to be federal tra5V» commissioner was among those refused confirmation. (Continued on page 2.) A [By Henry Wood, United Press Staff Two Prussian 9 mine of the New River and Pocahon tas Consolidated Coal *Co, at Qtilnni-jtho Champagne region. The Prus- meters of hl« family, according to mont mountain. The greater part of!sians stormed the French trenches jjfflcjgi Hicrvatr_h«.n from Antivari to. mnp»HW KEOKUK. IOWA, THURSDAY* MAR. 4, 1915 THORNE RESISTS RATE INCREASES Iowa Railway Commissioner is^Fighting Proposed Boost in Bates by West ern Roads. HEARING HAS STARTED Not as Great as Published Claims At torney for Railroads, Who Says It Really is Not Alarming. (United Press Leased Wire Service.] CHICAGO, March 4.—Never before in history of the American railways has tHere been involved as much of the public money as in the rate In crease asked by the forty-one western railways of the interstate commerce commission, Clifford Thome, Iowa rail way commissioner, today told Inter state Commerce Commissioner W. M. Daniels. Railroad companies asking the increase, own lines west of Chicago and east of the Rocky mountains. is believed to have caused a preclpl- ern railroiads has been suspended by ferU ha«. beef) French and Enflneh warahios ., .1 Ena itn warsnios conunue continue to shell the The rate Increase asked by the west- the Interstate commerce commission, pending the hearing which opened to day. /•:. C. C. Wright, general solicitor of the Chicago and Northwesterrn railroa«l, and Pre8ident Athens dispatches today My the souri, Kansas and Texas railroad, French sauadron is renewing the at- tack On the Bulair forts on gulf of, wer© Salres, on the Asiatic side, with the railway commissions and in ctoject of landing marines to seize the railway. M(n» s*9*p«r« have cleared the channel for a distance of twelve miles TtWt^nce, pen(if|atlna neaf ly to Cape Kephez, thirteen miles In- 1 trained on smaller fort, on.^ ,Ive Canopua, last heard from in South American waters, Is training a8Serted, *,de* ^°**,e8 many Q-pman, neaP d,sma?t,ed of: «,« ruins of a er Correspondent.] by the M. K. & T. head, because, he! PARIS, March 4.—German gains In'said, tthe claim is made that watery the fighting north of Arras around way transportation is much cheaper, Notre Dame De Lorette (the Lorette without taking into consideration that hills) were admitted In the official:the government is seeking to the up dispatches from the battle front to -j keep of the harbors and rivers, day. The enemy pressed forward In1 massed attack and took the advanced trenches of the allies over a consider able distance. The Germans are again pouring hot shell fire Into Rheims, completing their work of ruin. All day yester day, at intervals of three minutes, shel'ls shrieked across the valley and into the heart of the city, sending buildings tumbling into the streets, Servicel kaiser's prize troops, w^^rtlydeci- _Two region. The Prus- these were recovered In section 5.1 northeast of Mesnil, but were beaten jjayB The aviators hurled several The roof of the mine ha3 caved in off with heavy losses. bombs at the crown prince's villa In French troops have made fresh pro- the suburbs of Antivari, while Prince gress on the plateau of Vauquois, Danilo was in the residence. The near Varennes, and now hold the bombs narrowly missed their mark, portion of the town. Street but did no damage. contlni German attacks have teen rep^lMd. C. E. Schaff. of the Mis- the speakers today for the rail- r0ads. Thorne represented eighteen dividual shippers. "The amount of Increase In revenues 1b not as great as has been stated In Wrtfeht^fclafed. It Will ambirtit to little Jver J100 per mile: The increase is not general, but limited only to grain and grain prod- stQck fre8h twelve Inch guns on the Turklsff forts. I centration.. Her sister ship, the Ocean, Is also In "The total increase asked is estl action and the 6,500 ton Russian {maced at about $1*/ 000,000. This cruiser Askold, carrying twelve 6-Inch amounts to about 1% per cent in rtuns, has joined the fleet. Forty,crease on the freight revenues of the battleships and cruisers, supported by last fiscal year. The largest increase a flotilla of destroyers and smaller {fs ten per cent, asked on coal from vessels are now in action. Indiana to Illinois points. A five to twelve per cent increase Is asked onj GERMANS ARE HELPING. fruits from the southwest. Other in [iBy Ed L. Keen. United Press Staff!creases requested are 3% per cent ou Correspondent.] packing, 2% per cent on live stoc?t meats and pack ing house products, coal, hay, fruits and Vegetables and cotton goods. The hearing also Involves the propriety of ehminating certain privileges- rrevail ing in parts of the territory relating to her'stoppage in transit, storage and con- "that have been permitted to become effective or are now pend- "The advances permitted during tne thla commIssi0n Jurk's_^/„:°IL-ha.^-!!r three western railroads, those Involv original suspension order empt to cremate |ed I nnaaed '"u f. in. this case, added to those involved) in the on issued by the commission. In this case affecting considerably over a thousand tariffs and supplements add ed to those now being filed, make a total, we believe, of a ten per cent in crease in the railroads' revenue from freight.". The railroad business in the south west has been and now Is a struggle for existence, Schaff said in his ad dress. He told the commission that construction of lines had practically •stopped and exrendltures reduced to the minimum. Governmental expenditures -for watt ways and harbors were criticized uard refliment^ the M^eneg^o, MaS 2 AustH 'an aviato mated In a violent attempt to retake successful attempt to kill the Monte pesitions captured by the French In 4 an un ln Crown Prince Dani |0 and the dispatches from Antivari to. —Read The Daily Gate City, cents, per week. Ten United Press Leased Wire Service.] BERLIN, (via wireless to London), March 4.—Forty thousand German troops narrowly escaped capture Or annihilation by the Russians In the recent fighting around Prznasysz, It was admitted by the war office today. Only by most desperate fighting and by forced marches did the Germans extricate themselves from an extreme ly dangerous position. Following the German's victory over the Russians near the outskirts of Prsnyzsnls, an army corps advanced eastward from the town. Russian forces to the num ber of 110,000 closed In on the kais er's troops from east and south. For a whole day the bloody conflict raged, the Slavs attempting to surround ths German corps whose position was most critical. Towarda night, the Ger mans cut their way back toward Prznasysz. They were forced to aban don their wounded. The Germans who had stormed Pr^pasysz in the meantime had been foroed to retire before superior forces, falling back upon Mlava. The retreat ing army 6orpa found Itself still threatened by Russian hordes, -but maintained an orderly'retreat,-despite the fact that It waa outnumbered three to one. Near Mlava, German rein forcements were brought up and ttfe Rusaian advance halted. I The Russian Victory In this region is without the slightest importance,! the war office asserted today. It can-: not be compared to the recent storm Ing of Prznasysz when the Germans took 10,000 prisoners. Petrograd, It was asserted, is making the most of this and other important gains to di vert public attention from the disas trous rout of the Slavs In the Mazur lan lakes* OFFICIAL REPORT. BERLIN, (via wireless to London), March 4.—Defeat of several French regiments In the Lorette hills north west of Arras, was claimed In the of ficial statement from the War office thlr afternoon, ,« "We have taken more than 1,000 yards of the enemy's trenbhes, eight, officers and 558 men," said the official statement. "In addition we have cap tured seven machine guns and six cannon. In the Argonne near St. Hu bert, we have taken a French posl tlon." In Poland, the Ruasian attacks northwest of Przasnysz and south of Myschlnez have been renewed. A Ger man force that moved southward from Myschlnez and whoae retreat was ad mitted yesterday, continues to fall back toward the Prussian frontier be fore the advance of a superior Rus sian force. Northwest of Grodno, a Russian force that attempted to descend upon I Augustof was routed, the attack break ing up under German artillery fire. Northeast of Lomza the Slavs' ad vance on Kolno waa similarly halted. Are Making Radium. DENVER, Colo.. March 4.—Radium salts worth more than $40,000 has been produced at the Denver reduc tion works of the United States bu reau of mines within the last two months. Radium concentrates, worth $14,000 will be shipped to the Nation al Radium Institute at Baltimore here today. A second consignment, val ued at $20,000 will be sent to Balti more within a week. The plant here is now able to pro duce $2,400 worth of radium dally to an in ard Kelly, cancer expert, of Balti more. RUSSIA [United Press Leased Wire Service.] PETROGRAD, March 4.—Russian shells have silenced several Austrian batteries at Czernowltz, according to dispatches via Lemberp today. Gen eral Ivanoff ha* established his ad vanced base at Hadgora, recaptured three days ago. and Is directing an energetic attempt to retake the Buko wina capital. Civilians have been or dered to leave Czernowltz. The war office today declared German gunfire at Ossowetz has done no damage to the fortress. At all other points in Poland, notably toward Augustof, the Russians are making progress. In a memorandum today, it was pointed out that despite costly efforts by the Germans and Austrlans to ad vance t0 the relief of Przemysl and retake Lemberg the enemy has made no progress, but actually has lost ground in the last fornight of fight ing. Along the railway leading through the mountains from Munkac to Stryj and thence to Lemberg, the Qermans have been defeated. Two companies were slaughtered in the snow filled mountain passes by the Russian ma chine guns. The Austrlans have been forced to evacuate Krasna, southwest of Stanis lau and are retiring southward toward Nadvorna. "v Sfe&uJiL Citg. 11 Why? Fear of spies, of course. In the nearest good, sized town, to the fir ing line, in spite of all that can be done, spies are ever present. For an out-eider, it now requires a pass from .Qepieral Joffre's headquarters to stay idewr ivmu te# attyS. ~Then" three separate and distinct passes must be obtained before one tp permitted even to- buy a railroad ticket out of the place: one from local police authori ties, one from local military authori ties to whom the police permit must be shown, the last from the special officer of the provost guard at the railway station where both the first and second passes are examined. If you love romance and have a properly developed imagination, all your troubles coming and going are more than compensated for. For of all the towns in hearing distance, of the firing line, this one has most to offer with the minimum of discom fort. The hotels here, though crowd ed, are not bad and If you stay long enough you will get a pretty fair idea of the folks who go to make up the war, generals and men, English and Turcos. French and Hindus, Cana dians, Sengalese, Australians, New Zealanders. Moroccans, aviators, sub mariners, naval officers, secret serv icers, spies and Red Crossers. It is Just after lunch. As the cof fee room begins to fill up, you take your place by the window overlook ing the large square, ln the middle of which stands the heroic statue of Jean Bart, who played the dickens with British shipping in by gone years— but who holds a British standard ln his hand just now. Waiting for the waiter to bring your coffee, you reed the names of a string of cafes on the opposite side of the place. They are ln order: first is the cafe of the Stars, while next to it is the Cafe of the Universe. The ad [United PreBS leased Wire Service.) NEW YOlK, March 4 (11 a. m.)— Announcement ln the Captown as sembly that there have been 1,000 casualties ln the South African rebel lion and 10,000 rebel Boers have sur rendered, is the first intimation of the seriousness of the uprising which has been passed by the censor. The British public, as well as the world at large, have been allowed to be lieve that no more than a handful of the Boers were rebellious. From the fact that announcement is now publicly made of the extent of the revolt, it Is probable that the backbone of the resistance has been broken. Whether the situation has THE WEATHEtt Snow tonight and Friday. Lo cal temp—7 p. m. 32 7 a. m. 30 IS ENDED BECAUSE DF SfT KHAffi It Takes Three Different Kinds of Passe# to Get ,^s Outside of Dunkirk if You Ever are Allowed to Get Inside. United Press Staff Correspondent Tells of Some of the People Who Gather in the Cafe the Belgian Border. on [Following Is the fifth of a series of mall stories by United Press Staff Correspondent, Wm. Philip Slmms, on his recent tour of the Belgian battle front at the Invitation of the general staff of the Belgian army.] [By William Philip Simms. United Press Staff Correspondent.] DUNKIRK, France, Feb. 12. (By mail to New York)—This town is get ting tighter and tighter. Pretty soon it will be as difficult to get Into or out of as Verdun, Belfort and the rest of the war atone towns ln the east ot Franco. TEN PAGES main FOR EVERY STRANGER if totals® joining Cafe of thp Bank, next to th© I Imposing pile which Is the Bank of 1 France (branch) Is not so heavenly In Its name, but the ''Cafe of the Sun" on the other side of the bank ta&es up where the "Cafe of the Universe" left off. The "Cafe of the M001/" oomes down a peg, but the last of the bunch claims the distinction of being the "Cafe of the Eclipse." But your coffee has come and the strangely mixed company about you Is agog. You listen. Captalu Bidd!? ton is uniformed ln a strangij salt of I khaki which is neither English, nor American, nor Canadian, nor Indian, I nor anything else. He is mysterious :ly conpected with the Belgian army and calls himself "captain" while claiming to he English. The Belgian offlcere simply ca[l him "monsieur." Draw your- own •cdnclt«hiii-""He":'ls" one of the mysteries of Dunkirk. Me Is now talking of campaigning ln cen- 1 Is now talking of campaigning in Cen peons are an army and where a Brit isher can lick a regiment—presum ably proportionate to the same army in the south. His voice Is drowned out by Steele. Steele Is an American drummer. He has "business" with the Belgian government. He Is faultless ly dressed, ln fact he Is the best dressed man in the room by far. Bid dleton eyes him with suspicion for, from remarks dropped by himself, he was in the intelligence department of the French army at the beginning of the war. Steele ignores Biddleton'-* disapproving glances and finishes the anecdote which he is relating to a Belgian major who speaks English perfectly, but who fails almost com pletely to understand American. Steel probably will put across a deal in the afternon for million pairs of army shoes, or mittens, or sanitary tooth picks for the trenches. On a sofa are two middle ageit ladles who appear to have steel ram rods for spines. One is the Duchess Somebody-or-other, her companion be ing the Countess Whatvher-name, of the Belgian nobility. They are talk ing very earnestly to a Belgian col onel, an attache to Baron DeBroqne vllle ,the war minister. Thev are trying to get the colonel to plead their cause with the baron, their de sire being to found a portable hosri* tal of twenty-five beds to fellow the Belgian army when the Germans be gin their retreat. What the War Moves Mean By J. W. T. Mason, Former European Man ager of the United Press. ever been sufficiently critical to com pel the intervention of Portuguese troops Is not yet known. Great Britain. to all Intents and purposes has pur chased the use of the Portuguese ar my for the present war. A large part 1 of the army has been transported un der British direction from Portugal to Portuguese East Africa. There It 1 Now, however, it has suddenly be come known that while so large a part of the population is Involved In the uprising that only a few ring-lead ers will be prosecuted. The announce ment in effect raises the status of the rebellion to a condition of civil war and it improbable that penalties commensurate with the crimes of sedi tion and mutiny will ever be impose on any of the principals now under ar rest. was distributed soon after the Boer rebellion broke out, prepared to came to the rescue of the loyalists 1 and attack the rebels on the flank. It would be humiliating to the Brit ish empire, however. If outside help had to be summoned to put down In surrection in one of the empire's greatest colonies. If London .has or* dered the Portuguese regiments to cross into British territory, vital ne cessity has required the step. The insurrection, in itself, is sufficiently humiliating to British imperial pre3 tige, but it would have been more so had not General Louis Botha re malned loyal to his oath of office. His military and administrative talents 1 as well as the prestige of his person ality. have played the chief part in I keeping the present rebellion within I A 4 ji-j- rt i.a vT'-v'-.V j*- :i"~- V.'.-'*-