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VOL Xi . , MISSOULA, MONTANA, TUESAY MOANINO, MARCH 31, 1914, PRICE FIVE
1IENt'S PLACIbITY R FFLED BY TOLLS QUARREL
iE is in Gun andaGrenades--Not Typewriters
P RI7 N'S P A C D T Y RB Y T O L QA"' i 1 i U i g un nc ar - re a es - ot T ypew r t s
M TORSI
FORECAST IS MADE THAT WALSH
AND %IfYERS DO NOT A90REE
ON TOLLS REPEAL.
S1 IS IN tILE M A
As L Member of the Baltimore Plat
forIm Committee. the Junior Senator
Helped Prepare the Tolls-Exemption
Plank and Hi Does Not Like to Re
pudiate It-Myers is for Repeal.
Washington, March 30.-(Special.)
-It is expected that the two Montana
senators will not be in accord when
the final action is taken on the re
peal of the Panama tolls. Senator
Myers, it is believed, will support the
measure, while Senator Walsh, if he
maintains his present attitude, will
oppose it.
Senator Walsh is placed iAS some
what of a dilemma in regard to the
tolls question. The senator was a
member of the committee of the
democratic national convention which
drafted the platform containing the
indotsement of the free-tolls provi
sion of the Panama canal act, and up
to the piresent time has been a sEp
porter of the free-tolls policy.
Last week the president had a con
ference with Senator Walsh and oth
ers at which, it is said, the subject of
the free-tolls repeal was discussed. At
the conclusion of the conference, Sen
ator Walsh said he was still uncon
verted to the proposed repeal.
It is believed, however, that the
president, who has a very persuasive
Way in matters he wishes to get
through congress, will succeed in con
verting Senator Walsh to his way of
thinking before the time comes to
take a vote on the repeal bill in the
senate. It is remembered that Sen
ator Walsh was an ardent opponent
of free wool and eaee sugar when the
tariff debate was new but that, be
fore it was ended, the president had
not only converted him to his belief
in free wool afid free sugar, but his
conversion was so complete that he
became the chief exponent of these
theories on the floor of the senate.
Therefore, it is confidently expected
by the advocates of free-tolls repeal
that Senator Walsh will be leading
the fight for the repeal bill in due
time,
MYERS GETS HIS BILL
BACK TO LIFE AGAIN
Washington, March 30-(Special.)
Senator Myers today secured the re
consideratipn of the vote by which
his Republic Coal company bill was
defeated in the senate and had the
bill restored to its former ..place on
the calendar. The vote to reconsider
was 30 to 24, as against the vote de
feating the bill, 29 to 28. Senator
Myers believes he has votes sufficient
to pass his bill when it comes again
before the senate for action.
THE REASONS.
Philadelphia, March 30.-Higher
wages, higher taxes.and recently en
acted legislation are given by Samuel
Rea, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, as the principal
causes of decreases in net operating
revenue, "necessitating the retrench
ment policy" announced last'week.
S SBTRICKEN.
-LaGrande, Ore., March 30.--Just as
he was going to step into the pulpit
to deliver his Sunday sermon, Dr. A.
G. Lane, pastor of thb First Presby
terian church of this city, collapsed
and died of h0frt failure before a
physician arrived.
MYERS IS CERTAIN
THAT WOMEN
WILL WIN
Washington, March 30.--(pe
I oJal,)--In an interview on the sub
"jeet. of woman suffrage, Senator
. Myers said: "I have not been in
SMontana for more than a year, but
I believe tiat woman suffrage is
I-golng. to earrFy in that state in the
Scoming eletton. There is a strong
sentismeit tfor it. We are surround.
e bly wo~man suffrage states and
. arews.ot hlakely to be left ladon as a
.t t.lMe. sep'tioqn. I believe- it is
L9JY1 -Q t+aton of time until
I joa~nl autt l1 be extended
- t, ,9iot t.l etire country."
"THE CROWNING INSULT"
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VILLA WRESTS HIS VICTORY
OUT OF ABSOLUTE DEFEATS-..
V' A.i ITO Y - -_
OUT O ABSOUTE DFEAT
El Paso, March 30.-A tale of rebel
reverses and rebel luck was brought
here tonight from the front by John
Reed, correspondent of the New York
World,'~hd Robert Dorman, a photog
rapher. Their stories are the first un
biased accounts of eye witnesses since
the attack on Gomez Palacio, Lerdo
and Torreon began. They left the
front Saturday morning, at which
time they estimated that the rebel loss
was 2,000 killed and wounded.
"We were whipped twice at Gomez
Palacio," related Dorman, "but the
federals didn't have the good sense to
follow their advantage, and Villa re
turned to attack after reorganizing,
and ultimately occupied the city. We
were whipped right there, but Velasco,
the federal commander, didn't know it.
"Federal prisoners whom we cap
turned said that Velasco later went
insane in the trenches. He is a cripple
of previous revolutions, and has a bad
arm and a bad leg. The prisoners told
us he went mad after Gomez Palacio
fell, and went raging up and down the
lines, cursing arid. issuing the most
absurd orders. Ultimately his own of
ficers put him under restraint.
- ----------ate.-
ASQUITH SPRINGS SURPRISE ON NATION
London, March 30.-After all the
many solutions of thq government
crisis which had been proposed and
discussed, Premier Asquith announced
a decision to the house of commons
today which none of the prophets had
expected or even suggested.
The prime minister himself will as
sumq the ,burden of the war office, in
addition to his other and almost
crushing Lduties. He will resign from
the house at this critical stage when
the second reading of the home rule
bill is about to be taken up and will
appeal for re-election to his constitu
ents In East Fife, Scotland, within a
few days.
Field Marshal Sir John French, chief
of the imperial general staff, and
General Sir John Ewart, adjutant
general, declined to withdraw their
resignations, in spite of the army or
der issued on Friday which Viscount
Haldane cleverly framed as a plat
form on which the generals might
stand with consistency and honor.
It thus became impossible for
Colonel Seeley, who was co-signer
with them, of the assurances to Brig
adier General Gough that the army
would not be used to suppress the
Ulster opposition to home rule, to re
tain the pecretaryship of war. His
reslgnation, therefore, was accepted
after he had been for some days ua
der fire of the newspapers of his own
party, - Whlich inssated that he
must go.
Viscount Morley of Blackburn, lord
president of tile council, who was
.partner with Colonel Seeley in draft
inag the offending paragraphs of the
document, stands in the same po5i-'
tion :and hi withdrawal from office
is aeipected toarortow,
"Our attack on (omez Palacio was
centered on the hill known as Cerro
de La Pilar. It is precipitous, and we
made seven assaults before taking it.
The result of each of the six 'assaults
which were unsuccessful could be dis
cerned after the battle by the rings
of dead rebels. Their bodies dis
tinctly marked the line where they
were repulsed.
"The home-made shrapnel of the
rebels had much to do with the early
repulse at Gomez Palacio. Only about
one in thirty exploded.
"General Villa is a fighting man.
He was everywhere, and his greatest
delight was to join the' assaults on
foot and throw hand grenades himself.
"Ultimately he will take Torreon.
When we left Saturday morning the
fight for the possession of Torreon
was in progress. It was slow, stub
born work, as the rebels had to fight
from house to house, the enemy re
treating from position to position,
through holes knocked through the
mud houses9 which are built one
against another."
Reed and Dorman, like other corre
spondents and photographers, were
GENERAL FRENCH.
These were the events in today's
chapter of the continued story which
is keeping the country at the highest
pitch of excitement. The present sit
uation is remarkable in that the gov
ernment nominally will be without a
prime minister and without a leader
in the house of commons until the
bye-election is held in East Fife. The
writ for the election must give eight
days' notice and it probably will be
issued tomorrow.
Thq only practical lose to the party
in the meantime will ýe the with
drawal of Mr. Asquith s voice from
the debattes. 'Re will preside over the
cabinet meetlrgsa nd direct ma
i*uvbrsl n the house of comm'bns fr6tn
not only forbidden to send out news
after the attack on Torreon began, but
they themselves were forbidden to
leave.
According to Reed, they bribed a
section hand to allow them to use a
gasoline-propelled rail vehicle, which
carried them to Bermejillo. There
they caught a hospital train, which
carried them to Chhl~ualha. All along
the line they were stopped and ques
tioned, but they still had their safe
conduct passes from Villa and man
aged to get through, as the verbal or
ders against their departure had not
been properly promulgated. In Juarez
they were stopped twice, but their
passes carried them through.
"We slept -actually slept-on the
roof of the caboose to Chihuahua," re
lated Reed. "It is true the sleep was
much broken, but still we slept. In
ocr waking movements we could hear
the moans and cries of the wounded,
especially when the train stopped, and
still otherwise in the desert. The
wounded died, and they were simply
(Continued oal Page Six.)
an unofficial seat, while Regina~tl .
McKenna, the home secretary, and
Winston Spencer ('hurchill, first lord
of the admiralty, will understudy
him as house leader.
"Oh, I'll be handy if I'm wantcld,"
Mr. Asquith remarked to Andrew"
Bonar Law, the oppositioul leader,
who thought that the home rule bill
could not be proceeded with in the
absence of the premier.
Mr. Asquith apparently consulted
no one except the king before his
bold decision. His colleagues in the
cabinet seemed to be as surprised aq
the other members of the house when
he revealed his plans. Mr. Asquith
is already first lord of the treasury
which office he will continue to-hol I.
If he had merely shifted from one of
fice to another the resignation of his
seat in the house of commons wo,,ld
not have been necessary, but he said
that he had been, legally advised that
the accetjat ce of "an office of profit
under the crown" in the words of the
statute, necessitated a new election,
although he will take only one sua!
ary, $25,000.
Gladstone took .two offices under
similar circumstances, accepting the
salary of one and half the salary of
the other amounting to $37,500, ar.d
did pot consider a re-election neces
sary.
The political seers gather that Mr.
Asquith is in a fighting mood. They
have been saying recently that he
had shown the effects, in his physical
appearance, of the heavy strain of his
long labor in office and would gladly
see the goveritment defeated. But it
looks at the present moment as if be
rpurposes to make the reorganization
of the army a fglttlng issue;.
SENATOR LEWIS BREAKS OUT
OFFERING HIS EXPLANATION
OF THE PRESIDENT'S RIDDLE
Washington, March 30.-On the eve of the vote in the house on the repeal of Ameri
can toll exemption in the Panama canal, congress today was completely absorbed in the
controversy. While opposing forces were clashing in oratorical flights at the capitol, Presi
dent Wilson took occasion to discuss the situation with callers, expressing keen regret
that what had promised to be a dignified contest over principles had degenerated into a
fight upon the administration. Mr. Wilson characterized as
a "crowning insult of a number of insults" in the debate
the declaration of Representative Knowland of California
that the administration had made a deal to repeal the toll
exemption with Sir William Terrell, secretary to Sir Edward
Grey, British secretary for foreign affairs.
With the final vote on the Sims repeal bill in the house
scheduled for late tomorrow, interest in the controversy re
vived increasingly with the approach of the end, and the clos
ing speech of Speaker Clark in opposition to the repeal
serving as the chief objective point of anticipation.
Little doubt as to the result of the vote on the bill is en
tertained by anyone, the majority for the repeal being esti
mated at from 30 to 75 votes.
All ears will be strained for the speaker tomorrow. There
is much speculation as to the course his attack on the bill
will take. His friends do not expect him to attack the
president. Some democrats believe that he will not re
frain, however, from all.isions to political entanglements. JIM-HAM LEWIS.
Discussion of the issue in the senate today was enlivened by Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois, who pleaded for the president's cause, urging, however, a compromise
giving the president authority to suspend tolls. Thus he proposed to find "some inter
mediate channel between what appears to be Scylla upon the one side and 'Charybdis
upon the other, and to prevent the party cra ft from striking upon either promontory,
either to be wounded or disrupted."
ncilaclor L.,ewis aIrollsed illll lt led as
tonishlellti ind curlisty i ltly oig iis
collieagues by dilscussing forteign rl.i
tioins in the utnited States - iul (Sx
llahling what hie thliotught the prest!
deitnt might Ilut\. referred to oln thie
canal tolls issIue asking eiliigress to
grant the repeal. lie drew a v\tvid
picture of dire things thait wou'd hap
penl should the United States inter
vene in Mexico.
Jim-Ham Explains.
Referring to the president's fallure
to specify what foreign relatiolns
prompted him to aptpeal for toll ex
emption repeal, Setit lor Lewis did not
hosIitate to give "what I feel may hlt've
been his reasons." lie then enteLered
upon a;t recital of acts oif aggrssionll
on the part of the Unlited States be
ginning with the taking of the Phil
ippines.
"'You entered, in the Philippirnes,
into a system of cololliail government,"
the senaltor said, "and gentlemen who
cry 'England' fronm the honorabtile othler
sidel of this chmllilber will not overlook
that it was the Influtencte of those
who controlled in Engipad, by whichl
this nation was detlivered into thie
colonial policy of an English form of
g\'ernment.
"What hapnened? Hardly had you
come into office untitl youll et the
problem. The cry was, 'You have
now come into our countiry; You hltve
broken the birs that heretofore lim
ited you; you have come into the
Orient and brought your people andti
we desire that our people shall now
conme into yours.' We cannot consent
to that.
"Paralysis his set upon us as to the
negotiatlons of the treaty with Japlan
respecting the exclusion and hesitant,
COLONEL SEELY.
"The whole army system may have
to be recast," Colonel Seeley re
marked significantly today.
The first business will be to find a
successor for Sir John French, whose
withdrawal leaves a great void at the
war office. The name of General Sir
Ivan Hamilton is the most discussed,
General Hamilton holds the position
of Inspector of the over-seas forces
at a salary of $30,000 and the gov
ernment would be glad to abolish the
office.
Both houses debated the situation
today, but thile debates simmered
down into mere assertions on one side
of a plot to Seduce the army and on
the other side =of-a plot' to-:crush the
lllded, is tie rmoxllemnllt ir.spettlrg thll
111'rltl' of I iltlligrati.t lo'n."
'laking tup the Allxihun litution .rii ai
reviewing the operattions of the llititcdii
ti-teai ini other ialtals anld the lntter
oatsI ill Mexi|to iCof EnIInd, I'fPrnicel,I
Japalin nI1d othter nat lons.. Sanilliaor
Lewil dratnatically slserted: "The
very first romullnnt vwe move down Ilto
Mexico with a view to executing the
Monltroi tlotrilne agitainst those foreign
nllatiosll, who have now Istationed thIeti
slv\e tIhere on the theory that we
Ino lol.nge'r had a right to exrc'It.i tIhe
doctrine bheusi e' of iour past fully,
Jipatlxn woulhl tize the Phillipllne
isandsii. Shre would thiri wea' lit
xwalil uin thein i such conditionl Ourtl
lltlllt in Mi exoi' , the i Icanl;i n til fiu
ishedt, noll waiy lto have iit .li uler ' of
iTr u.O ntry lie?
Russia.
"tHissitiat with hert grievaluOe, whoi
lnut ali to the Unlt liu al it time Iwheni'
it Wias thr iutenettd iUl dtiitunionl , feelsl
that ie ilituse of lEngliah influeice tihe I
alministrtilon in plower the last li
yearsri lenti lts aid to Jtpn tagainst
ther. Ihlistil, renw l.lriinll g thisa
roLng, now i1 anll offenslive nltl hde
finsive atlltianice of life and deatih with
Japatn, w1iul not tu lllle o tipporttu
nity. tistuti.a, with Iliihr grirvanne
now so great thiat, she ihas no treaty
with the Itinited States oif eithler cint
pantiontshp or atittty, would promptly
aid in seizing Alaska and the north
nearl her. (tOur navy, divided, woild
sall it thel frigit sea against tihe
rnoiny iand to the south to pirotect
the IPh'i lippine islandsi. 'ttle artmy
would he divided, part in Mexico tandli
the other part moving ltoi our possei.t
Ulster covmnanters with denials and
counter-denials tand heltedl lersonal
it les.
No member of the Irish nationalist
party, of which John E. Itodl onid is
the head, uttered a word in the
house. The Irishmen are permitting
the English to fight it out lonme.
Premier Asqitt h, Viscount Morley,
Colonel Seeley and (lenerals lFrench
mi(d Ewart all visited the king during
the day..
The debate following Premier As
quith's withdrawal was tume, Freder
ick E. Smith, unionist for the \\alton
division of Liverpool, rene!.wed his ae
cuisations that the government halo
hltcheted a conspiracy atgainst ilster.
"It was Napoleonic, but there was no
Napoleon," he said.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, said the plot
tling had all been done by the ollppo
sition, who tried to seduce the army.
1lte quolted froml tihe unionist leaders'
speeches in which they advised the
army to refuse to serve against
Ulster.
In the house of lords the Earl of
tielborne spoke with a warmth seldom
heard in that house. He termed Mr.
Churchill's charges "foul falsehoods."
Field Marshal Lord Roberts ap
pealed to the country to dismiss the
Idle but dangerous and mischievous
assertions that the army was im
plicated in a political conspiracy and
the ridiculous fallacy that the offi
cers are a wealthy and privileged
class. The government's ultimatum,
he said; was like springing a mine on
the army. He wished to nail to the
cenuter the 'lie that any officer had
disobeyed orders:
her :Jlint(I, oll ho hrthlrnhrdell r hee
without frieLndshipL and S.ith Amnr
tca, already illtuled, with a feeling thit
when undert the admini-itstra loll of
President Ioosevelt \\e Ip, rfortt'edl a.
titesttrUia, .opor.tioni uIpoln t'oltmtiblta
and e'.xlised from her the government
of Panama, only waits that it may
dllplieito the perfIlortmancelllt' lonll one
1tllhal d ol ' lfenset,(s ln the s( th nearI
the rentul; furnishing Supplies t) thelo
4lient Jlult supporting the assault. IlI
\w1h111 a. splelhih conlditioni we woulh(
Stantd. ad, inde,.l, It is to (co t'O nt
plate,"
Trust the President.
Senatol r lwli .alppeailel'd to longHress
to trust the lwlpreslidlt llent. "hoplng that
wt) may return to the 41trinrll, f ea
truie party."
'Agairlo inltay in tlhe hotnse t crowded
floor al'nd gialleris thronged to a point
whichl , lrlkt' li l reorlds for attenld
alItte, Ilstlettl d to the arK.ti ents on tll
issuo. 'Mhe proslednt was (I tt("ked
laind dltfended by vigorous orators.
The foreign Iol'ly ,if thel adilitistra
tion was de-rled and all ollll`nltded, Tht
onomito piuttley of granlting American
'leselt free iolls iwas iternately tsup
portll{d and COlll'llllle -d.
Defense of Wilson.
Atritcks on the l)presidenllt brought
R'lepresentaive WoVlsh of New Jersey
to his feet w\ith a ringing defense.
TI'he demotrtat cheOered hi tr iiuIte to
I'rSldellt WIlso.
Tlhroughtllt tlhit day men and wom
Ss11at for hours nll the erowded gal
leries withoIut ilternisslion even for
Innehoon iu hear the idbate in the
IsHt imlortait. legislalhie iqluestio
l'fore the c'ongriess iln a decade.
The ihllltrtllnc, of the Icctasion was
Imrllr'ssend O ti tl HIpectators whe
shoritly after the h',usf meot, lpre
N·tltatl\v' 'l; lngll of I"lridlt , an in
taidr. 0wi wheeled into the house ri
at- chair alnd imde a speellc, opposln
During the day Miss Eleanor \Vil
1on, the lproidhie t's dalghter, lilld sev
eral geilt book plclais in the gact et'y
of thill hiouse andi listened to thie de
Platform Contradictions.
In t(he sellate(. S:tenatoar t 'lwen rnll
Illt( 1 the rl'cord a plank of tih, ltaiii
mlore platforml dtenoIntcing ship S'ab
sidy. This, he said, Was a that con
radictiion of the plank favoring ex
e rlptiuo n in lhe l'ellnill L cail Wa.l woit s
till'I expression of democralllrltic doctrinle
(Continued on Page Six.)
LITTLE GIRL GOES
ACROSS LAND
ALONE
I lth n., .M rch 30.--( toe hl.) .
,inlltia Martha Van Dergrift, a
six-yeaur-old B]uttie miss, who
speak,';s hoth Frelnch italn English.
w:\11 11 taLgged ntlll Itlaeled tomor
row anilld sellnt isti to her father
llland grandparentlls at Ocean Grave,
N. J. At St. PIaul, Chicago and
Trentonl, offitcersl of the varlous
children's home soeletles will meet
thlle little girl's train and transter
her. Two weeks ato her mother,
whol lives in Bltte, relinqulahb
her claihns il the child to '·tae'.
bureau of child tand ahimal prj
lectlon, whose attention had been
directed to the matter by the New
Jersey Children's[ HoEme boOtety.