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ivEDNESDAY EVENING-
TOPKKA. KANSAS. MARCH. 17, 1915.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
THIS EDITION 2 CENTS
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ATTEMPT TO LOOT THE STATE
TREASURY IS CHARGED TODAY
BY SPEAKER STONE DURING
MOST BITTER HOUSE FIGHT
Appropriation Measure Brought
Forth Yicious Battle Today.
All 111 Will of 1915 Session
Turned Loose This Morning.
ENDUES TOLD TO GO TO HADES
- " " -Hendricks
of Rawlins Took
ExplosiTe Slap at Him.
Refusal of Recognition From
Chair Started a Row.
SLIMY TRAIL jBFTHADE STOME
Speaker Stone Thus Designates
the Appropriation Budgets.
He Branded Action as Policy
Worse Than Bribery.
In the most bitter fight of the legis
lative session, the house today over
rode Speaker Stone and adopted the
conference report on appropriation
bills. f-'tone served notice that he
would appeal to the governor to veto
measures down to the original house
bills. He charged that "a slimy trail
of trade was traceable through the
legislature."
Piouse members went into today's
session with bitter feeling. Their
grouch was as thick as a vein of
Pennsylvania coal and ,trouble start
ed as soon as the chaplain had fin
ished his prayer. In the course of
the debate many personalities were
dealt in and Hendricks of Rawlins.
Democrat, at one point in the pro
ceedings told Endres of Leavenworth,
Republican, and other house members
to go to the bad place.
All of the ill will that has accumu
lated during the legislative deadlock
seemed to ' e turned loose this morn
iijg. The attitude of the speaker did
not please the house members at all
and some of then-- did. not hesitate to
-W the';- fl-'v'r- f. ;
For -O Minutes In an I'proar.
For twenty minutes the house was
in an uproar. Speaker Stone pounded
his gavel and shouted for order. But
the members refused to subside.
The fight started on the Jocelyn
resolution to receive and file the con
ference report. It Was- offered as a
substitute to a pending motion to
adopt the report. Debate ran like
water and for a time the dignity of a
legislative body was forgotten in the
exchange of personalities most of
which were not at all complimentary.
Early in the fight Clarke of Sheri
dan arose to state a point of order.
Stone refused to recognize him. Then
flark lost his temper. All of his
fighting Kentucky blood came to the
surface with a rush.
'Do Vou Get That!" Clark.
"I would like to see you or any
member of this house or any one else
refuse to hear a point of order. Do
you et that?" shouted Clark.
Stone ruled Clark out of order.
Hendricks Tried It.
Then Hendricks tried.
Hendricks was ruled out of order.
Stone shouted for order and Hen
dricks jelled right back at him.
"I can rise to a point of order anv
time I want to and you know it,"
yelled Hendricks.
Store ignored Hendricks ami recog
nized Keene of Bourbon, who was in
his seat. Then Hendricks exploded.
'You can't run thii house arbitrar
ily and I defy you to try it," snapped
the Rawlins man. "By what rule do
you recognize a man in his seat and
ignore a man on his feet?"
"The chair didn't recognise you,"
aid Stone.
"Set down," shouted Kndres of
Leavenworth and a half dozen other
members.
Kndres Told Where to Go.
"You go to ," snapped Hen
dricks. Then he sat down.
Stone called Knrires to the chair
and took up the fight in person. He
Jed the fight for the adoption of the
.Jocelyn motion to defer -.adoption of
the conference report. Stone's speech
did everything except pour oil on the
waters.
"I object to this budget as a whole,
as it increases the house appropria
tions a half million dollars," said
Stone. "I object further because its
distribution shows a deliberate method
to loot the treasury. I want to brand
this policy as worse than bribery. By
insidious temptation and trading it is
a worse practice than bribery and we
have beheld an attempt to loot the
treasury of nearly two million dol
lars. It is simply a traffic and trade.
It leaves a slimy trail of trade all
through the legislature."
Way ma n Too Mart to Talk.
With the charge of corruption In
making up appropriations Wayman of
Lyon, Progressive, jumped to his feet.
His grouch was turned to white hot
wrath. He tried to talk, but the chair
did not recognize him. Then Moore
head jumped to his feet to ask the
speaker if he did not trust the com
mittee which he t himself had ap
pointed. "Yes, I trust my committee," re
plied Stone. "But this is wrong.
What is more, 1 propose to say to the
governor that I want him to veto
these excessive bills and I want you
to protest, too, against such a pro
gram as is being carried out here."
Jocelyn explained his amendment.
He said the report was only advisorv.
Then he yielded his closing time to
Stone and Keene.
"Is that a part of the your agree
ment to yield this time?" Moxcey
asked Jocelyn.
"No. it is my desire," sarcastically
replied Jocelyn.
Both Stone and Keene told of the
(Continued on PaseT 6.)
COLLEGE EDDER-KATIOX.
Richmond, Ind.. March 17. Earl
ham college professors have made
no formal complaint yet against
the high school and academies for
turning over raw product to the
college, but one may be expected
soon if the present quality of fresh
men continues to appear. Follow
ing a recent examination on gen
eral subjects, one of the professors
made public the following freak
answers:
"Contraband is a kind of Negro."
Normal Angel "The people who
invaded England a long time ago."
Kaiser "The king of Russia."
Mikado "A brand of coffee."
Utopia "A town in Kansas."
Ad valorem "With courage."
Sun Yat Sen "Chinese words
for one, two, three."
Matriculation "Circulation of
the blood in veins and arteries."
Habeas corpus "Just keep the
corpse."
O'NEAL JS KILLED
Wealthy Fanner Near Berryton
Victim of Gas Explosion.
Blows Up While Repairs Were
Made on Lighting System.
Charles O'Neal, a farmer liyingt.1
half-mile south and a mile west of
Berryton, was almost instantly killed
in an explosion in a gas lighting plant
in his home at 9:30 o'clock this morn
ing. Bertie Hill, a hired hand, who
was assisting O'Neal In making re
pairs on the plant, was blown a dis
tance of twenty feet and was rendered
unconscious. The explosion set fire to
the house, but Hill regained con
sciousness in time to extinguish tho
flames. O'Neal was alive when Hill
found him after the explosion, but he
died in a few minutes. He had re
ceived a blow over the left eye which
crushed the skull.
i o Aeal and mil were tne only per-
ous pt eweiiL at. Lilts iiinc KfL me explo
sion. Mrs. O'Neal was in Topeka and
was notified by telephone of the death
of har husband. O'Neal was one of
; the i.fd settlers of the eorrvrtunity. He
; ..d a -valuable farm and a nici- home.
; He was 58 years old and had no chil
dren. ..
MEANS ABIC LOSS
England Embargo Will Be Op
posed to the Limit.
It Cuts Down Import Duties
$100,000 a Day.
Washington, March 17. That Eng
land's attempted justification of her
German commerce embargo will meet
with no response in administration
circles was plainly Indicated today.
The request that this country ' look
upon the latest order in council as a
modified blockade and the claim that
it parallels the North's action in the
Civil war, is to be ignored.
Persons enjoying the confidence of
the administration today insisted that
there is to be no change in the pro
gram. Explicit and pointed protest
will be made against interference with
America's oversea trade that is not
contraband of war. This nation will
relinquish no right it enjoys to force
payment of full damages when any
violation of its recognized treaty
rights occur.
Senators Hoke Smith and Walsh
after conferring with President Wil
son and Secretary of Commerce Red
field today, estimated that stoppage
of German imports to the United
States, even under existing conditions,
will mean a loss in custom duties
alone of more than $100,000 daily. In
addition, shutting off cotton exports
to Germany direct and through Rot
terdam will mean a reduction in con
sumption estimated at not less than
30,000 bales weekly, and the latter fig
ure is only a minimum, according to
reports reaching the state depart
ment's foreign trade adviser. The
cotton trade with Germany was just
getting well started when the English
blockade was announced.
RIGHT; THEN GLOOMY
Pleasant Morning Was Followed by
Clouds and Rain.
Following a comparatively bright
and pleasant morning the sky became
overcost this afternoon. A drizzling
rain began falling at 2:30 o'clock.
The forecast calls for fair weather.
There was a light freeze this morn
ing and a heavy frost. The minimum
temperature at 7 o'clock 27 degrees
was four degrees below the normal
minimum. There is expected to be a
light freeze Thursday morning.
The Kaw river is slowly falling; the
stage today was 7.8 feet. The wind
this morning was but three miles an
hour from the west.
Sky Overcast This Afternoon.
By 2 o'clock this afternoon the sKy
was completely overcast, but the
weather map is encouraging. The
wind was twelve miles from the
southwest this afternoon.
The shippers' forecast calls for the
protection of thirty-six hour ship
ments in all directions against tem
perature of 28 degrees.
The hourly readings:
7 o clock 27
8 o'clock 30
9 o'clock 35
1Q o'clock 37
11 o'clock 39
12 o'clock 41
1 o'clock 42
2 o'clock. .,..40
TO EVERY FAMILY
THREE CHILDREN
France Considering Flan to
Repopulate Her Country.
Result of War Means Worst
Crisis in All History.
AT LEAST 2,000,000 KILLED
Increased Birth Rate Only
Remedy for Depleted Race.
All Europe Faces Most Serious
Problem of Population.
Paris. March 17. The Academy of
Moral and Political Sciences has just
asked the French government to take
up at once its most serious problem
GERMAN YOUTHS MARCHING THROUGH BERLIN ON WAY TO FRONT
"MiJ- - ; '!f tl wl
The German losses at the battle fronts are beginning: to tell. The exeat gaps in the ranks have to be
filled, and very young men are being: called upon. This picture, which has just been received, shows a regiment
of young men mostly under twenty marching through Berlin on their way to entrain for the front The first
pictures that were received from Berlin after war was declared showed the soldiers to b6 gay and carefree.
But this photograph seems to indicate an entirely different state of mind.
that will result from the war that of
the population of Europe.
The Academy has pointed out that
when the war ends a minimum of
2,000.000 men at the very least will
have been killed. The crisis which
Europe will then face for its repopu
lation will be without parallel in the
world's history.
The Academy has already pledged
to the government its most profound
and exhaustive study of the situation.
While it is the intention of the mem
bers eventually to take up the prob
lem in its application to all the coun
tries stricken by the war, they for the
moment will .confine their efforts to
the problem as it is presented in
France.
That France will be the country
that will face the most serious phase
of the situation is already recognized.
For years ' even before the war
France's birth rate had decreased to
a point where it was exceeded by the
deaths. Now with hundreds of thou
sands of her men most capable of re
producing their kind being killed, the
situation' is recognized to have been
aggravated to a degree where only the
most radical, unanimous and exhaus
tive measures on the part not only of
the French government but of the en
tire French people are going to be
necessary in order toi nsure the con
tinuity of the French race.
As yet the Academy has suggested
no measures to the government ex
cept the immediate revision of all
legislation on the subject. The
Academy, however, from the super
ficial glance which it has already
given to the subject declares that the
minimum motto which France can
adopt and hope to prevent the grad
ual obliteration from the face of the
earth of the French people is "Three
children for every family." The con
dition entailed by the war renders
this an imperative necessity.
The Academy also has asked the
government to effect a complete
change in the policy of its laws on
this subject. Instead of enacting
measures with the end in view of
forcing families to have children, it is
urged, that the laws tend rather to
make it possible for parents to have
children by reducing for them the
economic burden of bringing them up.
As the laws now stand, it is assert
ed that the larger a man's family is
the more taxes, duties and other con
tributions he is obliged to pay to the
state. Tne Academy asks the reversal
of this.
It asks also the immediate revival
of an old law which was suppressed
in 18 So. It provided that every fam
ily with seven children had the right
to have at least one of these brought
up at the expense of the state. The
Academy insists that even a larger
application of this law would be
justifiable under the present condi
tions. Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair tonight and Thursday; not
much change in temperature.
BIG CONFERENCE
IN FULL; SWING
Several Hundred Delegates to
Methodist. State Meeting.
I Well Filled Program Is. Carried
Out Here Today.
THEY ABE 60QD BUSINESS MEN
Methodist Ministers Are Com
petent, Says Bernard Kelly.
Dr. Edwin Locke Is Named Sec
retary of the. Convention.
The Kansas annual conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
which has brought more than 600
ministers and their' wives to Topeka,
is now in full swing. The opening
event was in the nature of a reception
by the Methodist ministers and their
wives and official boards of the To
peka churches in the Sunday school
temple of the First church Tuesday
evening which was attended by more
than 1,000 persons.
This evening at 6 o'clock there will
be a Baker university banquet- in the
Sunday school temple, presided over
by Dr. W. N. Mason, president of the
institution. The anniversary of the
Board of Education will be celebrated
at 7:30 o'clock, the Rev. John Enda
cott presiding. An address will be de
livered by Dr. J. W. Hancher of New
York. The anniversary of the Freed
man's Aid society will also be given
consideration tonight. The Rev. B.
M. Powell will preside. There will be
an address by Dr. I. Garland Fenn.
Good Business Men.
Methodist ministers are the best
business men in the world.
According to Dr. Bernard Kelly, of
Emporia, a retired army chaplain who
spoke briefly before the members of
the Kansas conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at the First
Methodist church this morning. "To
take the salary of a Methodist Epis
copal minister,' he said, "and educate
their families proves that they are the
best financiers in the world," he said.
Dr. I. Garland Penn, of Cincinnati,
secretary of the Freed man's Aid so
ciety, spoke of the deplorable condi
tion that exists in the southern states
because of the lack of a market for
cotton due to the European war.
"The war has cut off the cotton
market in the South," he said. "The
colored people are in worse condition
than I have seen for years.
rComlnued on Page Two.)
' The Rot. Henry J- Coker of ' Denver,
! Meld tSeoretary Board of Home Mis
: Hions and Member Kansas Confer
' encc
MILESTONE NOW
REACHED IN VAR
Pirotal Battles Are Being
Fought on Both Fronts.
At Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi
in the West.
PRZASNYSZ AND PRZEMYSL
Centers of Struggle in the East
ern Fighting Zone.
Russian Lines Draw Closer
About the Austrian Fortress.
London. March 17. Neuve Chapelle
and St. Eloi in the west and Przasysz
and Przemysl in the east are the piv
ots of the battle areas in which strug-
gles that may mark important mile
stones in the war are now being
fought.
The outcome of the fight for Neuve
Chapelle, from which the British have
driven the Germans with a loss of
nearly 20.000 men, should prove, in
the opinion of British observers,
whether the Germans can mass men
and retrieve ground lost by them with
the same battering tactics they dis
played last year. On the other hand
if the British can hold the positions
gained by them it will go far toward
attesting what may be expected when
the allies begin their spring advance.
The outcome of the battle of Prza
snysz will demonstrate whether Field
Marshal Von Hindenburg again has
failed and virtually nullified all his
costly efforts to reach Warsaw.
To the south the Austrians are at
tempting what they have tried many
times before, a dash to relieve the for
tress of Przemysl. According to dis
patches from Petrograd, this latest ef
fort which was a northward advance,
from the Carpathians, has definitely
fallen short, the Austrians having been
checked in the center of their chief
offensive movement at Smolnik, to
the south of Lutowiska. In the mean
time the Russians are drawing closer
their lines around the Przemysl for
tress. London has received no confirma
tion of the report that the British
cruiser Amethyst has penetrated the
narrows of the Dardanelles as far as
Nagara and unless the destruction of
the forts has been more rapid than of
ficially has been reported, such a feat
is regarded as unlikely. Nagara is
the northern limit of the Narrows, to
reach which a ship would have to run
the gauntlet of the forts on both
shores at ranges varying from 400 to
2.000 yards.
EMBARoFOMlORH.
I'nited States Pears Disease in Indian
Grain May Spread.
Washington, March 17. The de
partment of agriculture has issued -an
order, effective immediately, prohib
iting the importation of Indian corn
from Java, India and parts of Oceania.
A disease known as Sclerosporo May
dis, ruinous to the corn plant, is rav
aging corn in parts of India and it
was to prevent the pest from reach
ing the United States that the em
bargo was ordered.
Identification Cards.
The Business Men's Bible class of
the First Methodist church has fur
nished small flags for each member
attending the convention for the pur
pose of identification.
AMERICAN METHOD IX WAR.
Paris, March 17. The second
lieutenant of a battalion of Alpine
Chasseurs tells hothe lasso was
utilized against the Germans in the
Vosges.
"We occupied a wooded knoll,"
he says, "so well placed the Ger
mans couldn't think of taking It by
assault, so they set their miners
and sappers at work. They arrived
thus within a few yards of our
trenches and had the audacity to
place a sentinel there, well protect
ed in a sort of armored box with
loopholes in it. There was no way
of driving him out. One day a
Chasseur who had seen life on the
American plains, asked permission
to try his hand with a rope. At
midnight he slipped out of the
trench and crept close enough to
throw a slip noose over the box,
then another and another before
the German realized what had
happened. With the aid of a num
ber of comrades the box with the
German in it was dragged into our
trenches." '
DRIVE SHIPS BACK
Attempts at Mine Sweeping
Frustrated by Turks.
Increasing Activity Indicated
on Western Battle Front.
The lack of news concerning the at
tack on the Dardanelles Is explained
in a dispatch from Constantinople
which says that only unimportant
operations have been carried on by
the allied fleet during the last few
days. Two attempts of cruisers to ap
proach the outer fortifications in con
nection with mine sweeping opera
tions are said to have been frustrated
by the fire from shore.
Increasing activity is indicated
along the western end of the Franco-
Belgian battle line. A message from
a correspondent at the front to a
Paris newspaper says that Nieuport
has been bombarded by the Germans
and Westende by the allies. The Bel
gians are reported to have made some
headway against the Germans, .cap
turing positions in two localities.
The British army is still on the of
fensive although its advance appar
ently has been checked by the Ger-
GARZA IS ON JOB
Provisional President of Mex
ico Returns to Capital.
He Issues Statement Assuring
Protection to the Public.". '
Washington. March 17.-7-l7nofficial
advices reaching the state department
today told of the return to Mexico
City of Roque .Gonzales Garza, elected
provisional president by a convention
of generals January 17, and of his is
suing a statement assuring protection
to the public in the capital. Martial
law would be declared, Garza's state
ment said.
Advices telling of Garza's return
said there was no disorder in the city
and that business houses had been re
opened. Garza succeeded Eulalle Gutierrez
and he presumably entered the cap
ital with Zapata forces last week, aft
er its evacuation by General Obregon.
Information concerning actual con
ditions in Mexico City has been scant
since the latest change in control, but
state department dispatches from the
Swedish legation there have said con
ditions are deplorable. These dis
patches told specifically of alleged
outrages to Swedish subjects.
State department officials today
awaited an answer to a request that
transportation be furnished Ameri
cans and foreigners desiring to leave
the capital.. Concern was felt for the
safety of foreigners at Manzanillo on
the west coast. Urgent representa
tions have been sent to General Car
ranza, calling attention to the serious
situation there.
NEARING A BREAK
Negotiations Between Italy and
Austria Still Going On.
The Romans Demand 31 ore Ter
ritory or a Fight.
TBy Alice Rohe.
Rome, March 17. Rumors of im
portant developments in the Balkans
today divided attention in diplomatic
circles with reports that Austria and
Italy were nearing a break.
Private advices from Uskub indicat
ed a massing of Servian troops in the
direction of the Albanian frontier.
This gave rise to a report that Servia
has determined upon a sudden inva
sion of Albania with the object of ob
taining a hold on the Adriatic. An
other report from Salonica states that
important Bulgarian movements have
taken place in the direction of the
Turko-Bulgarian frontier, indicating
a Bulgarian movement southward to
ward the Gulf of Sarosa.
Almost cut off from news from the
war centers, Salonica and Uskub have
been rumor centers since the war
started. For this reason, neither of
the reports reaching here was given
serious consideration, except in so far
as they indicate further unrest in the
Balkans.
Anti-Austrian demonstrations were
again reported from a number of Ital
ian cities today. Unquestionably, the
warlike utterances of that portion of
the press favoring the allies is stirring
up strong sentiment in favor of war.
On the other hand, the leaders who
have persistently urged the mainte
nance of Italy's neutrality have not
been without success.
High government officials today in
sisted that there is no cause for alarm.
The -negotiations with Austria, being
conducted through von Buelow, are
continuing. That there has been no
break in the interchanges i taken to
mean that Austria may yet yield to
Italy's demand for an expansion of
her boundaries.
TORPEDOED
Two British Ships Attacked by
German Submarines.
The Atlanta Able to Beach Port
With Her Crew.
THE FINGAL SENT TO BOOT
Six Members of Her Crew Lose
Their Lires.
The Survivors Are Landed on
the Northumberland Coast.
London, March 17. Official an
nouncement was made today that th
British steamers Atlanta and Fingal
had been torpedoed.
The text of the communication fol
lows: "The British steamer Atlanta, Sit
tons, owned by Messrs. J. and P.
Hutchison, of Glasgow, was torpedoed
by a German submarine off Inish
turk, on the west coast of County Gal
way, Ireland, about noon of March 14.
The crew was landed on Inlshturk is
land and the vessel is now In the har
bor. "The British steamer Fingal. of
1,562 gross tons (661 net tons), owned
by the London Edinburgh Shipping
company of Leith, Scotland, was tor
pedoed and sunk at 10:60 a. m. March.
15, off the Northumberland coast.
Twenty-one members of her crew
were landed at North Shields, but six
lives are reported to have been lost,
including the chief mate and the
stewardess."
OPEN BORDER WAR
Mexicans Raid Town of Dwyer,
in New Mexico.
Shoot Up the Place and Finn
der the Stores.
Santa Fe, N. M., March 17. Sev
eral Americans are reported killed in
a ' battle with Mexican bandits who
raided the town of Dwyer, in Glenn
county, southeast of Silver City, last
night. The Mexicans escaped and at
last accounts were racing for the
border with a reinforced posse from
Grant and Luna counties riding hard
to head them off.
-The-Mexicans rode Into Dwyer 'and
robbed the general store ' of Frank
Paiper of a considerable sum, twenty
high power repeating rifles and one
thousands rounds of ammunition.
After shooting in all directions to
terrorize the inhabitants of the town,
the raiders rode southward, heading
for the border.
A posse was organized at Dwyer
and. well mounted and heavily arm
ed started in pursuit. After a chase
of twenty miles the posse overhouled
the Mexicans'. A running battle fol
lowed. George Tidwell. Lafe Justin
and another member of the posse.
wnose name nad not been learned,
were killed, according to report reach
ing here. Albert Tidwell was reported
missing.
It is not known, whether or not anv
of the bandits were killed. The Dwyer
posse aia not succeed in stopping the
Mexicans, who continued their flisht
southward. Sheriff McOrath of Grant
county was notified by telegraph and
formed a fresh posse which started
southward, joining a band organized by
Sheriff Stephen of Luna county. The
Americans at last accounts still were
in pursuit of the fleeing Mexicans.
PANICINPROGRESO
Foreigners Ask for Itefuge on
American Warship.
Carranza Again Promises Pro
tection to Life and Property.
Washington. March 17. Foreigners
at Progreso, alarmed at disorders in
the vicinity, have asked for refuge on
the American cruiser Des Moinea.
General Carranza, after conference
with American naval and diplomatic
officers at Vera Cruz, has promised
full protection for them.
The situation at Progreso was sum
marized in this statement by the state
department:
"Advices from Vera Cruz, dated
March 16. state much alarm exists at
Progreso on account of the severe de
feat of the insurgent forces. Foreign
ers there have made a request for
asylum on the U. S. warship. In com
pany with the chief of staff of the
American admiral the representative
of the department of state called at
the foreign office in regard to the
situation at Progreso. Assurances
were given that General Carranza
would issue immediate orders to his
chief in command to give full protec
tion to foreign life and property. The
foreign office further stated the ad
miral could instruct the captain of
the Des Moines to inform foreigners
to this effect.
"The foreign office at Vera Cms,
the department is informed, has iss
ued instructions that the port of Pro
greso has been again opened to inter
national traffic."
Other official dispatches' were thus
summarized:
The department is in receipt of a
dispatch dated March 16, from Eagle
Pass, stating that General Hernandez
has sent 200 troops back to Piedras
Negras to garrison the town.
Secretary Bryan spent an hour with
President Wilson today discussing the
Mexican question, particularly in con
nection with the treatment of priests
and nuns.
Bishop Currier of Mantanzas, Cuba,
Cardinal Gibbons and other Catholic
leaders have been in frequent com
munication ,with the president and
secretary to get protection for the
clergy in Mexico and the administra
tion is making every effort to see that
their rights are respected.