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s MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE 1 ANCIENT SENATE RULES Washington, March 6. Pres. Wil son probably will not attempt to arm American merchant ships now, un less big loophole is found in laws which he says bind his hands. A senate Democratic caucus will today start discussing a cloture M move, asked by Wilson to prevent ' such a situation as killed his armed neutrality request If some reform of ancient, hide bound rules of senate can be ob tained, Wilson will call an extra ses ' sion to try to put over his armed neu trality measure. There is no ques tion as to its passage with rules al tered to prevent filibustering. But there is grave doubt that senate rules ' can be remolded. Some southernehs are strong against cloture plan for fear it might' be used against them later that Re- publicans might pass a measure pro viding use of federal troops at south ern balloting places. Single weapon against this measure, touching black and white questions, has been in past times a filibuster. Amsterdam. Austro-Hungary, in official declaration to American Am bassador Penfield, puts blame for submarine policy of central powers upon Great Britain for her alleged violation of international law in ille f gal blockade. ! Tokio. Japan knows full well where her true interests lie and would be "committing an act " of sheer madness if she attempted to violate her plighted faith with the allies," said Field Marshal Count Sei kl Terauchi, premier of Japan. o o , A WILSON REAPPOINTS OLD r W CABINET FOR NEW TERM Washington, March 6. President Wilson Monday reappointed his full 1 cabinet for another term. The names "sent to the senate were: Robert Lansing for sec'y of state; William Gibbs McAdoo, sec'y of the treasury; Newton D. Baker, sec'y of war; Thos. W. Gregory, att'y general; Albert Sidney Burleson, postmaster general; Josephus Dan iels, sec'y of the interior; David P. Houston, sec'y of agriculture; Wm. Redfield, sec'y of commerce, and Wm. B. Wilson, sec'y of labor. HINDU AND GERMAN INVOLVED IN REVOLUTION PLOT New York, Mar 6. Dr. Chanader Chakieberty, Hindu physician, and Dr. Ernest Sckunner, German, are under arrest at New York police headquarters, charged with "setting on foot a military expedition against a friendly nation." They will be ar raigned today before federal author ities. The two 'admitted that they had received $60,000 from Wolff Von Igel, alleged German plotter. Object o plotaccording to police, was to start a revolution in India. The-connection of a Chinese, who is said, to have agreed to get munitions into India from China, is being investigated. Yorf Igel is now on Frederik VIII., homeward bound with Count von Bernstorff, having had his $25,000 bond under a conspiracy indictment released day before ship sailed. He was held, along with Hans Tauscher, Krupp agent in United States, in con nection with Welland canal plot Since departure of Bernstorff there have been reports of a $2,000, 000 propaganda fund 'left here, to be used by German agents working for some unknown new chief. o o STENCH OF DECAYING HUMAN FLESH CAUSED RETREAT With the British Armies in France, March 6. One reason why Germans retreated along Ancre was because they were fast becoming garrison of gibbering lunatics. Their position had becbme more hideous than scup pers of hell. Mud bottomless in places and the ceaseless pounding of the British guns had turned their positions into stench-pits too horrible for human nerves to- stand.