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VOLUME 1I-NUMBER 154. II'TE. MINTANA, TUESDAY, II' 'ARY 25, 919. PRICE FIVE CEN
PROPOOS RADICAL CHANGES IN NAVY LAW
By FRED S. FERGUSON
(United Press Staff Correspondenl.)
(Copyright, 1919, by United Press.)
Paris, Feb. 25.-Revohl
I ionlary changes ill interna
timal naval laws which, fit
1 inll in with the league of na
l ills, would make war vir
1 all y impossi)ble, are now
1Iidl(.r discussionl . Regula
t iolls under which munitious
are shipped from neutrals
to warring countries would
Ie( completely overturned.
Under their operation "free
dom of the seas" would not
be theoretical, but real.
The United Press is able
to state that the principle
points favored by the peace
delegatet s regarding muni
tions shipmenits in future
are:
Each of the member nations shall
he held responsible for any unneu
1ral net by its citizens; all contra
band must be estaablished at the out
break of the war; lists cannot hb
changed during the period of hostil
ities.
Ax; carrying of contraband is na
turally forbidden, the flag of a non
warring nation flying over a ship
would be a guarantee that she was
not carrying munitions and other
prohibited materials.
If a ship arouses suspicion and is
stopped within restricted area, the
search shall be limited to investiga
tion of her papers to determine her
nationality. If a ship of a nonwar
ring power is discovered carrying
contraband, that nation will be sub
.ijct to punishment by the league of
nations economically or otherwise
as the executive coundil recommends.
It is obvious that under such rules
no nation will be able to carry on a
war beyond the limit of her own Ipo
duction of munitions. The practice
of buying munitions from a non-war
ring power by the payment of enor
mous prices and obtaining shipment
through payment of high freight:
rates, with shippers taking the risk
--as heretofore done--would be
eliminated and the nation from which
the ship was sailing would ascertain
they carried no contraband as a
measure of self protection.
There would be no neutral power,
in a strict sense, after the establish
ing of the league of nations, but as
sinning that despite the rigidness of
the league some powers would start.
to engage in war, these regulations
would act as a further deterrent. As
the discussion progresses the idea
that is constantly brought to the
front is not to frame rules under
which war can be humanely con
ducted, but to render war in mpossible.
PRESIDENT WILSON NOT
SHIORT ON OPTIMISM
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 25.-President
Wilson stated today that he is "con
fident the people of the country will
rally with practical unanimity to
support the league of nations."
The president expressed this be
lief in a telegram to Theodore Bur
ton, president of the League of Na
tions union of New York.
President Wilson desires to leave
for France again March 5, Secretary
Tumulty stated. Telegrams pledg
ing support and expressing belief
that the country will approve the
league of nations plan are pouring
into the White House.
SPANISH CABINET
RESIGNS, 'TIS SAID
(Special United Press Wire.)
liadrid, Feb. 25.-The Spanish
cabinet resigned yesterday, it is an
nounced.
MICHIGAN RUM rRUNNERS
LEADING ROMANTIC LIFE
(By United Press.)
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 25.-A color
ful chapter in the history of prohibi
tion is being written by numerous
daring bands of whiskey smugglers
operating in Michigan.
Their attention is centered prin
cipally on Detroit.
Smuggling whiskey into the state
todhy is not. the crude, haphazard
business it was when Michigan went
dry, last May. Brains, daring and in
genuity are necessary to circumvent
the forces engaged in enforcing the
dry laws.
.The principal source of supply for
detroit and vicinity is Toledo, O.
Two goof autpmobile roads connect
tfibcities. 'Albfig these roads, at the
Michigan-Ohio border and at Mohroe,
W. . DUNN FINED $5,000; CASE APPEALED
GET INCREASE OF
ONE DOLLAR
A DAY
Workmen in the New York
Building Trades Dispute
Go Back to Work After
Increase Conceded.
Washington, Feb. 25.-All work
men on strike in the New York
Building Trades dispute and all
other sympathetic strikers went back
to work today under an agreement
reached at a conference here between
representatives of the Building
Trades association, the union and
the secretaries of war and labor.
An advance in wages was the only
question involved and the employ
ers were forced to concede an in
crease. The men demanded an ad
vance of $1, making their wages
$6.50 a day.
Approximately 125,000 men were
involved in the strike which threat
ened to become nation-wide. It was
estimated that 90 per cent of gov
ernment construction would have
been stopped if the strike had
spread.
STRIKE DECLAREO OFF
BUT MINES STAY DOWN
J'ronre, Aris., Feb. 25.-The
strike which closed "down the Unit..d
Verde and United Verde Extension
copper mines here has been declared
off, according to an announcement
by the local strike committee yes
terday.
In view of their decision that the
mines would remain closed for from
three to six months, from Feb. 13,
last, the mine managers say the
strike committee's announcement
"cannot be taken seriously."
MONTANA WEATHEIR.
Generally fair Tuesday; Wedner
(lay unsettled, probably rain or snow
west of the divide; rising tempera
ture.
ill F('.
JULES VEDRINES
S
I Jules Vedrines, who recently startled
Paris by his wonderful feat of landing
on a building with his airplane. Dur
ing the war his was the hazardous
task of landing French secret service
men behind the German lines.
Michigan, a stopping-off point be
tween the cities, the state constabu
lary, deputy sheriffs and agents of
the state pure food and drugs bureau
are mobilized in force.
They daily intercept autonmobiles
laden with liquor. Some of them
they capture. How many get by un
detected is problematical. Not a
night passes without leaving its tale
of exciting races through the dark.
Anywhere from one to four wrecked
automobiles are found in the ditches
by'the road, saturated with their ill
fated cargoes.
Practically every weapon known to
war, except poison gas and howitzers,
is to be found in the smuggler's ar
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ABOLISH OFFICEI
OF STATE GAME
WARDEN
Up to Sheriff's Forces to
See That Laws Are Obey
ed, Says House at Helena
Legislative Assembly.
Helena, Feb. 25.--By a vote of 50
to 30, the house last, night passed on
third reading Crumiaker's bill, abol.
ishing the office of state game ward
en and placing the duty of enforc
ing game laws on the shoulders of the
sheriffs of the state.
With 10 absent, the vote was as
follows:
Ayes - Arnold, Baggs, Baldwin,
Bcley, Bergeson, Block, Brandjord.
Brockway, Brooks, Brown, Budas,
Buell, Coburn, Collins, Conser, Coon
ey, Crumbaker, Dillavou, Dodds, Dry
burgh Eaton Feltoji, Fuller, Gibson,
Gladdin, Griffin, (udmunsen, Haa
land, Hathaway, Higgins, Iolt, hun
ter, Ingalls, Johnsrn, Jones of Phil
lips, Jones of Richland, McAfee, Mc
Quarrie, Meigs, Middleton, Naylor,
Nyquist, Otten, Penwell, IRasmusso:.
Reid, Rhoads, Roberts, Scott of Big
Horn, Scott of Silver Bow, Silver
man, Sinclair, StephensR. Treloar WVil
comb, Wilson, Belden.
Noes--Boulware, Uroderick, Car
penter, Carroll, Chrystal. Church,
Corry, Crouch, l)ertnl, Finsley, Foley,
Franklin, Harrington, Jones of Cas
cade, Kelly, King, Leumnon. McCor
mick, Mead, Meyer, Mi,, Mooney,
Muth, Newman, Soleinan, Stewart,
Sullivan, Walsh, W\Heil. \Wilson, Wood.
Absent and not voting - - Bent,
Buchanan, Call, Dunn, Flaust. Goodell,
Gullidge, Henderson, Kelsey, Schar
nikow.
STRIKE OF MINERS
AT SLT LAKE CITY
(Special United Press Wire.)
Salt Lakbs eity, Feb. 25.--Dissat
isfied over wage reductions of steam
fitters and other skilled mechanics in
the Garileld plant of the Utah Cop
per company, the employes struck to
day.
PREMIE[ CIEMENCEAU IS
NOW 00T OF DANGER
(Special United Press Wire.)
o Paris, Feb. 25.--Premier Clemen
ceau is somuch improved that no
r- bulletins will be issue4 on his con
- dition after tOdfY, it ~ officially an
nounced.
LIKUIELL
We clip the following from the
leading daily paper of Anacoudeh
andt dedicate it to the Butte re.
coitstruel( ionists and profiteers:
To Ihe Editor of the Standard:
I etm a Butte boy with the army
ofi occupationl in Germany anid I
have a parody on "Silver Threads
Among the Gold" which I wish
yiou would put in your paper.
Diarling I am coming back,
Silver threads amonlg thll black.
Now that pt'eace ill Europe lears,
I'll Ibe home in seven yeats.
I'll drop in on you sonme night
With my whiskers long and
white.
Yes the war is over, deatr,
And we're cominig home, I hear. r
Home again with youe once amore-
Say by nineteen twenty-four. 8
Once I thought by now I'd be
Sailing back across the sea;
Back to where you sit and pine,
But I'm stuck here on the
Rhine.
You can heatI the gang all curse
" War is hell, but peace is worse."
W\hen tie next war comes around
In the front rank I'll be found.
I'll rush in again pell mell,
Yes I will-I will like hell.
-WILIAM H. JUDGE.
l'Fourth Engineers, Fourth Div.,
Army of Occupation, Dungeuheim,
Gernulny, Jlan. 27, 1910.
Butte address, 14 West Fremont
street.
WILSON SIGNS THE
III_'lEVENUE BILL
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 25.--President.
Wilson signed the $6,000,000,000
revenue bill last night before retir
ing it is announced.
The measure besides providing for
greatly increased taxes on incomes
and profits on many of the every
n day things of life, carries a rider
a making the national capital bone
- dry.
Income tax blanks have been mail
ed and operation of many of the pro
visions of the law starts immediately.
SECOND BAVARIAN CITY
HAS SOVIET lEPUBLIC
(SIwl I'nited Press Wire.)
o Paru . Feb. 25.-A Soviet republic
t- has bien proclaime in.nhNuremburg,
1- the se, llnd city of BAria;, according
to a dispitch reaching here.today.
PERSHING SAYS
MORE YANKS TO
RETURN
All Except "Regulars" to
Return; Those Longest
Overseas Are to Be Sent
Home First.
(Special United Press Wire.)
Paris, Feb. 25.--American troops
will return home in order of the ar
rival of their respective divisions in
France, General Pershing has an
nounced. Divisions bearing regular
army designations will be excluded,
however.
Those assigned are combat, supply
and labor units which will be re
turned in order of service so far as
can be spared. Estimated shipping
including German craft, will be avail
able as follows: March, 212,000
tons; May, 248,000 tons; June,
270,000.
Based on orders issu(ed by Persn
ing and taking into consideration the
importance of their present assign
ment, divisions would return as fol
lows: March, the Twenty-seventh
Thirty-eighth, Fifth, Thirty-seventh
and Ninety-first divisions; April, the
Twenty-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Eigh
ty-second, Thirty-fifth and Forty-sec
ond divisions; May, the Thirty-sec
ond, Twenty-eighth, Thirty - third.
Eightieth and Seventy-eighth divis
ions; June, the Eighty-ninth; Nine
tieth Twenty-ninth and Seventy
ninth divisions.
By the exception of the so-called
regular army divisions, the orders
would indicate that those units will
be inaintained as an army of occu
pation a: long as necessary.
BAVARIA TO SET UP
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
(Special United Press Wire.)
Berne, Feb. 2.- -The setting up
of a soviet government in Bavaria is
feared as a result of the division of
Germany, a Vienna dispatch today
stated. As a result, the Austrian de
sire for a union with Germany is said
to be cooling.
WILL RECOMMEND AN
ARMY OF 537,000
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington,. Feb. 25.-The senate
military committee has agreed to ree
ommend an artmy of 509,000 men and
28,000 officers as the nation's per
manent military forces.
KENNEDY SAYS HE
SENT IN QUES
TIONNAIRE
President of Wobbly Union
and Secretary Jackson
Still in Jail; Deportation
Is Probable.
Joe Kennedy, secretary otf lM(tal
Aline W\orkers' Unioni No. Sut), who
was arrested by thlie federal thor
itlies on F'eb. 12 on a "slacker"
charge, is still languishing in 1the
county jail awaiting disposition of
his case.
Although arrested on Wednesday
morning without warrant, no chalrge
was placed against him until Thurs
day evening, when he was charged
with failure to return his question
naire last September.
Kennedy states that he received
questionnairo on the 14th of the
month, filled it out in the presence
of an attorney on the 15th and re
turned it on the 16th.
John Jackson, also of the I. W. W.
local is also confined in the county
jail on a charge of violation of the
immigration laws, and held incom
municado, awaiting a federal war
rant.
Kennedy is threatened with de
portation to Great Britain and Jack
son to Finland.
Visiting hours at the O'Rourke
apartments are 2 to 4 p. m. on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays.
WNTIS EOPLE TO
VOTE ON THE L[AGUE
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 25.-A bill pro
viding for a nation-wide referendum
on the league of nations was intro
duced in the house today by Repre
sentative Lundeen.
IBUTTE WEA''THER.
Generally fair; somewhat warmer
in western portion:s.
ROBERT MUNRO
- ..i
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. iterni New.ua5Dr Un
Robert Munro has again been ap
pointed secretary for Scotland by Pre
mier Lloyd George. He occupied the
same post in the Asquith cabinet.
A SOLDIER'S TALE FROM
THE ARCHANGEL FRONT
(Special to The Bulletin.)
New York. Feb. 25.---The office of
the Russian socialist daily, "Novy
Mir," in New York, was recently vis
ited by t soldier of the American
army, who had just returned from
Archangel. His experience no doubt
is of interest to everyone who has
been watching the drama which Is
being played in far distant north
ltRusia. His story shows that not only
i:i there no necessity for holding al
lied troops in Russia, but that their
being there is becoming a tragic
farce, greatly damaging the reputa
tion of America.
"I amn a Russian," began the tale
of the soldier: "I fountd myself in the
American army, as many 'natives of
Russia with "first papers" or without
Helena, Feb. 25.-At the
und of two hours of delibera
tion, the jury in the trial of
W. F. Dunm, editorial writer
of the Butte Daily Bulletin,
on the charge of sedition, re
turned a verdict of guilty at
10:45 last night, fixing the
punishlnent at a fine of
$5,000. An editorial which
le wrote and published in
the Bulletin, attacking the
state council of defense, was
the basis of prosecution. The
case will go to the supreme
court.
Judgment will be pro
nounced at 10:00 o'clock Fri
day morning. Dunn's orig
inal bond of $5,000 was al-.
lowed to stand and he is again at
tending the legislative sessions, being
the only legislator sent by the demo
crats of Silver Bow county whose
seat. is not being contested.
The trials of R. B. Smith and Leo
Daly, others of the Bulletin's execu
tive staff, who are charged in the
same information with Dunn, will be
set later by Judge Word.
The jurors in this case will not be
in the venire for the trial of Smith
and they were excused by Judge
Word until further notice.
Dunn, in his defense, denied dis
loyalty and said he had bought Lib
erty bonds and thrift stamps and
given to the Red Cross.
The feature of the argument that
closed the trial waes aki address to
the jury by Dunn, in which he said,,
among other things:
"So long as I have a pen in my
hand, and a tongue to speak with, I
will write and say these things." He
was referring to the editorial on
which he was convicted. Dunn ex
ercised his constitutional right to ad
dress the jury after both sides had
rested.
PRESIDENT MAY NOT
ADDRESS JOINT SESSION
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 25.-No final de
cision has yet been made by Presi
dent Wilson as to whether he will
address a joint session of congress
on the league of nations.
Secretary Tumulty said neither has
he decided on the question of an
extra session.
Democratic house leaders want the
president to call an extra session
within 30 days after the end of the
present session, March 4, for consid
ering the premanent merchant ma
rine policy and railroad and army
legislation.
MILLION DOLLAR SNOW
STORM AT SPOKANL
(Special United Press Wire.)
Spokane, Feb. 25.-The inland em
pire is smothered today in a million
dollar snow storm. The snow begap
falling early last night, continuing
fiercely today. A six-inch layer cov
ers the city. The weather bureau
says the fall will continue for two
days.
Wheat growers say the snow means
one of the greatest crops ever har
•vested in the northwest.
them. I lived in the state of Mich
igan and when the draft egme I was
taken in. I was placed in the Three
Hundred Thirty-ninth Michigan regi
ment and with this regiment I went
to E.urope to fight for "democracy,
freedom and justice."
"When once you are in the army
you become a small part of a nmahine
which- works as is preecribed; one
loses his will and has to do whatever
one is ordered to do. So it was in
myil case.
"The regiment went abroad. Al
ready before the departure I -had .a
hunch that we would be sent not.to
France but to Russia. I shared y.
apprehensions with some Othsa ll1
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