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SENATE PASSES
MINERAL LAND
LEASING BILL|
Borah's Appeal for Govern
ment Control o? Resources
Goes Unheeded..
In I?? of an appeal by Senator
Borah, of Idaho, that th? govern
?rent Itself develop and operate tbe
public oil. coal, potash arad other
mineral land reeerves, tb? Senate
yeaterday. by the narrow margin of
?"to a. passed th? mlnersl land?
leaainf bill.
U?ar the term? of tb? measure.
privat? interest? will be permitted to
exploit the reserve?. Charges that
the Standard OH will be the prin
cipal beneficiary were freely made
by opponent? of the bill during the
debete-.
??rah state, raalttoa.
"From thia time on." ?aid Borah.
'I am unwilling to ?rote to donate
to private partie? th? great resource?
of the land. The only way to con
trol these resources Is by granting
*he right to the State or Federal
autilorltie? to own, develop and op
era.? them.
"The leasing system is detrimental
to the Western States. It establishes
a control In Washington, 2.000 or 3.000
?rile? away. It destroys initiative and
puts the resource.? under one control?
namely, tho?? powerful enough to ?*?
cure the lands.
"It will not be long under s bill like
this before the small man will disap
pear and monopoly will control. The
very nature of oil development brings
It under a few persona."
M??p?h* Chars? De.le?.
Opponents of the bill emphatically
declared that it would allow the
Standard Oil Company to obtain a
monopoly of the land?, especially In
Wyoming.
Just before the final passage of th.
measure. Senator Kirby. of Arkansas,
offered a substitute bill, authorising
the President to operate the lands
through the Secretary of the Interior.
In a viva voce vote. Klrby and Borah
were among the very few who voted
for thia
Aa amendment by Senator Poin
dexter. of Washington. tS remove
from the bill tbe opportunity of leas
ing or buying coal lands was defeated.
Tbe bill muat now go to the House
Practically similar measures have
been passed there twice before.
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Thirty-fiv. brand-new lawyers will
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wer? admitted to the bar yesterday
by Chief Justice J. Harry Covtngton.
of the District Supreme Court, pre
siding ?t a general term.
Sta of the ?ucceaaful candidate, are
woman. Tan of th? nata ar. from ?
Washington. Ml?? Marie ?. K?sby
Smlth. niece of Mai.- Eeuay-Smith.,
preaMent of the Bar Asaeclatlon. 1?
imong the suci-e??ful women cand?
datas. Th? other? are: Misa Cora I*.
Keeley, of North Dakota,; Mary K.
Laird? of New Tork; Mis? Edna E.
Thompaon, of Utah: Mia. May
Warner, of Indiana, aad Mia? Olive
N. Jack, of Nebraska. ?
The men candidate? from thl? city
?re: Arthur P. Drury, Aubrey B. Fen
nel, Leonard T. Geneate, Bernard F.
Carrey. Benjamin Levlnavon. Charle?
E. Robinson. Joseph A. Rafferty and
Bale? M. Stovall.
ROOT STATUE GIVEN
PAN AMERICAN UNION
Friends of Former Secretary of
State Make Presentation.
A bronze ?tatue of Blthu Root
yeaterday waa placad In th? recep
tion room of Director General Bar
rett at the Pan American Union. It
is bust ala?, of brouse and I? a re
markable likeness of the states
man, Mr. Barrett said:
"A group of friends" ot Mr. Root,
headed by Charlea H." Kherrill. of
N.w Tork, presented th. bust sev
eral months ago. Difficulty in ob
taining a pedestal of the same kind
as those supporting the statues of
th? national hero.? of the countries
that are member? of th? Union de
layed placing th? butt on exhibi
tion unii now. C. S. Piepro, of New
Tork, wa? th? sculptor.
Mr. R? ot, while Secretary of
State, was chairman of the govern
ing board of the Pan American
I'nion. While holding that office he
m.d. an extended trip, through
South America, visiting Cbil?, Bra
sil, Argentina, Peru, and many of
the other countries, member? of the
L'nlon. With the exception of Sec
retary of State Knox, he ia the only
Secretary of State to visit South
American countries whll? holding
that office.
Placing the bust on its pedestal
for exhibition was done simply.
Director General Barrett superin
tended the preparation? and placed
the statue In position. It face? the
wide door entering the reception
room from the hall In which are
the national heroes of Central and
South American countries.
TENANTS FLEE FIRE
IN SCANTY ATTIRE
Early Morning, Blaze Causes Hasty
Exit from Stanhope ?Apartments.
Fire early yesterday in th? Stanhope
apartnu-nt, H street, between First
a nd New Jersey avenu?* northwest
threatened for a short time the de
structioa of the house and drove tbe
occupants to the streets scantily clad.
The fire started at tbe bottom of the
elevator shaft in a pile of rubbish. An
investigation showed that the rub
'bfsh was Ignited'by a lighted cigarette
or match droppet by an occupant of
the house.
The damage is estimated at SI.000.
Many of the occupanti? of the hou;*?
in their haste to reach safety climbed
down the ice-coated lire escapes to the
ground. None was hurt. Other?
e scaped by the rear and front doors
and were clven shelter in residences
in the neishborhood.
BOX MAKERS OPEN BUREAU.
The national emergency bureau of
? he wooden box industry has opened
offices here, with F. C. Gifford aa sec
i * tary-manager. Government re
?.?.?irements for wooden packing boxes
or munitions, commissary supplies
?i.d other materiale are very great.
nd to enable the ind'iatry to meet
lese needs it was decided to establish
?: emergency bureau representing box
Manufacturers throughout the coun
* iy.
NAME DELAWARE FOOD BOSS.
Delaware'? Federal Food Adminis
trator has been named by the Presi
dent. He a? Edmund Mitchell, vice
president of the Wilmington 0?s
t'ompany, and will make his head
quarters in Wilmington. Announce
ment of the appointment was made
last night by the National Food Ad
ministration.
CM. < ivo.. Headache aad Grip
l-AXATIVE BROMO griMvr remo?? the
ranae. There ia only one "Bnar-v Quinine."
B. W. ORHVK S ?itnatiiie la oa box. -?-.-Ade.
?. S. TO COME
FIRST IN 1918
COALPLAHS
Shipments to Alli*es Will Be
Subject to Conditions
in America.
Expert coal to the ?111??? and neu
trals will be cut in IMS to take care
of America's needs first, and all ax
port contracts will be subject to
exigencies in the United States. Tbe
limit of export already ha? been
fixed.
Thi? policy has been derided on by
tba State Department and United
Sute? Fuel Administration, It waa
announced yeeterday by Dr. Harry A.
Qarfleld, National Fuel Administrator.
All exports, except to Canada, will
be under the control of the War Trade
Board, which will allot shipments,
through Its licensing, only after de
termination that th? coal will be used
for war purpose?. In th? ease of the
?Ule?, or for indirect war benefit to
America. In the case of neutrals.
After Expor? Trade.
The Fuel Administration has pre
pared a statamene for the guidance
of the War Trade Board, showing
the amount that may b? disbursed.
a liart of American trader? w'th data
concerning what they have been wont
to export ?nd where, and a state
ment of Americsn navy needs In
foreign ?ervlce to be ?llowed for In
addition to other coal ex-orts.
?? export and bunker coal recently
wa? advanced by the Fuel Adminis
tration Si.? a ton to meet the price
of foreign coal and save for America
profita theretofore going Into the
pocket? of foreign shipping men.
there will be ? scramble amour.
American coal producers now to get
the export business and the additional
?l.SS a ton, but the War Trade
Board's problem of apportionment of
export business here will be simplified
by quality standardisation acceal
billty of producer to shipping point
and a strict investigation of each ap
plication for export license.
All exports must depend on what
may be the needs In the United
States, tir. Garfield ends his an
nouncement with the warning:
"Notice la hereby given that no con
tracts for tbe purchase or sale of
coal during the year 1918 can be relied
upon for a sure supply. All con
tract? for export coal are subject,
first, to the requirements of the United
States, and, secondly, to such regula
tions as exist or may hereafter exist
concerning exporta."
Ohio Miners Starring
Through Car Shortage
Columbus. Ohio. Jsn. 7.?Declar
ing that hundreds of Ohio miners'
families face starvation because
mines are unable to operate on ac
count of car shortage. Governor
Cox wried Railway Director McAdoo
today to send a man to Ohio to sur
vey the car shortage situation.
Many miner?. It wa? learned, have
not been able to earn enough to pay
rent, while their grocery bills have
piled up so that credit I? not longer
extended to them.
mrs. daniels lauds
southerners; relief
Wife of Navy Secretary Addresses
Meeting of Aid Society.
-
In a talk to member? of the South
ern Relief Society last night in the
W'lllsrd Hotel. Mrs. Josephu? Daniels,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy,
paid tribute to the work of the or
nani?tion.
A report on relief work was read
by Mrs. Eugenia Rollins, treasurer.
More than $14,000 had been expended
in the last year In assisting needy
Southernefs living In the District.
Nineteen women were housed \n the
Southern Relief Home on Pennsyl
vania avenue northwest, near Twen
tieth street. More than forty women
outside the borne received assistance.
Kighteen Confederate veterans were
aided.
A resolution Introduced by Judge
William Chambers, United States
Board of Mediation and Reconcilia
tion, requesting that Congress raise
the estimate for the society in the
board of charities appropriation for
the District from $10,000 to 115.000.
Recitations from Shakespeare and
Kipling were given by R. D. Shep
herd, retired actor.
Judge Chamber? snd Mi?? Nannie
Randolph Heth, president of the so
ciety, spoke.
Hearing of Pickets
Deferred for a Day
The White House auftrage picket? of
th? Woman'? party who appealed their
case?, instead of going to jail with the
other? laat November, will have hear
ings on the argumenta of their case
In the Court of Appeal? of the Dis
trict, this morning, before Chief Jue
t?-e Constantlne Smyth and Justices
Robb ?nd Van Oradel. Hearing waa
to have been had yesterday.
J.D. ADDS $5,500,000
TO FOUNDATION FUND
Rockefeller Make? Gift to Meet De
mand? Due to War.
New York, Jan. 7.?John D. Rocke
feller today made a further gift of
$.',,.".00,000 to the Rockefeller Founda
tion. The gift is made in view of the
Increasing demand? upon the founda
tion'? fund on account of tbe war.
President G. E. Vincent, of the foun
dation said it was hoped that the gift
would make It unnecessary to draw
further on the principal, of which
K.OOO.OO had been expended In ?1?.
In his letter accompanying the gift
Mr. Rockefeller ?ays:
"In view of the Increasing demands
upon the funds of the foundation aris
ing In connection with th? war and
having in mind particularly the large
cotrlbutlons made to the American
Red Cross war fund and the war work
of the Y. M. (.?. ?.. I enclose here
with my check for IBJOO.OOO to be used
as the foundation may aee fit for
furthering its corporate purpose."
WOMEN ASK OUSTER
OF HOUSE AVIATOR
New Yorkers Present Petition
Against La Guardia to Speaker.
Speaker Champ Clark yesterday re
ceived a delegation of New York wom
en voters with a petition containing
3,000 nume?, demanding that the House
declare vacant the seat held by Capt.
F. il. La Guardia? now In the avia
tion service In Itaiy.
The delegation was headed by Mrs.
Kdith Shatto King, of Greenwich
House, a social settlement of the
Fourteenth Congressional district, and
Included Mrs- Wlnthrop I). Lane. Miss
Nelle Vincent. Mrs. Victor D. Bren
ner and Mis? Pauline Newman. Among
the signatures on the petition? were
three of Mrs. Philip I.ydig, Mrs. Wal
ter Weyl. Mrs. John Coltler, Miss Mary
White Ovlngton, Mies Rose O'Neill.
Arthur Kellogg and a large number
of Italians.
The Speaker wild he was not pre
pared to state his views, but added:
"The question Is likely to come up
almost any day. It might come up
in a dispute over the exist e nc of a
quorum, which Is one more than half
of the bona rid?? member*? of the Hour??.
Or it might come up through some
member rising to a point of highest
privilege and demanding a ruling as
to whether the three members of the
House who have accepted commis
sions in the army ?Tre still members
of the House.
'?The question would then have to
be decided."
The women cited precedents In the
civil war and th?? Spanish American
war, when the seat was Invariably de
clared vacant.
BRADLEY GETS APPOINTMENT.
Lee C Bradley, of Birmingham, Ala.,
has been appointed general counsel of
the Alien Property Custodian, it was
announced yesterday. He succeed?
Morite Rosenthal. and entered upon
his duties January 1.
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BELIEVE H?NS
WILL ANSWER
PEACE TERMS
Allied Diplomats Expect
Evasion of Lloyd George
Proposals.
Germany will endeavor to make a
prompt reply to the Lloyd George out
line of peace term?. This 1? th? of- I
Ocial belief her?.
Whatever the reply may be, officials
do not believe it will lead to peace.
A reply which meet? Lloyd George's
terms in the same spevlou? manner in
which the German reply met tbe Bol
thevifci offer* will be rejected on Its
faoa Almut an"- reply offered by ?
the present German ?-overrun?m will I
be rejected.
In on? ?enee It 1? admitted here ?
that Lloyd George'? s| eech wa? some
what of a surprise. It is believed th?t
though the speech wa* primarily de
signed to answer th? question? of
liritiah labor. It answered the ct. nun
peace propn??!? of the Teuton? a? ef
fectively aa could have been done
through th? Joint declaration of war
?ima which haa been in preparation
almoit ?ver since Col. House arrived
In London a? the President's repre
sentative to the Interallied council.
Exchange? of view? on war aims
among th? allies and the United
State? ?re ?till going on. If the
Teuton?, directly or Indirectly answer
Lloyd George. It 1? Intimated her?
that tbe oriKinal plan will be followed
and a Joint statement be made.
?Meat Oa Ratals.
Officiala are still wary of discuss
ing Russia. It Is admitted, however,
that the ?ltu?t!on bear? a much
mor? optlmiitlc relation to the gen- ?
eral situation. Germany's plan? for
the transfer of troop? from the East
to the West front are hindered if
not entirely checked, accordine to
the estimate- of military experts.
It la not rontidered thtt this will!
defer the German intention of a
?mashing drive on the Weat treat
a? ?oon aa the weather permit?.
Thl? drive, according to the ??t?
mate of military experta her?, la
aimed to do all the damage poaaible
before the United State? get? In and
will be made Irrespective of the ?uc
ee?* or failure of th? Ku.alan nego
tiation?.
Representatives of the ?Hied ml?-'
?ion? are frank in their pleasure
over the failure of the Sudan nego
tiation?, however. They hav? ?tated
alway? that the precent fore?? on
the Weit front c?n hold aay ex
tensive German Attempt to break J
through. With thl? attempt depriv
ed of re-enforcement? from th? ?
K??t they se? lea? coat to them
selves in ?waiting th? arrival of the i
American army.
Under thl? view of tbe military
situation It I? declared here that
the entente will have to engag? in
a diplomatic nffenalve aaralntt Ger
many with all th? thoronghnea?
with which Germany ha* employed
the*, mean? against her anemie*.
500 TUBERCULOSIS
CASES NOT ALARMING
Prevalence of Measles at Camp j
_ Wheeler Held Responsible.
Discovery of 600 caie? of tuberculo
sis at Camp Wheeler, Georgi?, must
not be taken aa a ?tattling condition,
aay? th. Burgeon General'? Depart
ement of the army.
No verification of the number of men
HI of thl? disease haa come to tbe de
partment; but It I? explained that thl?
would not be an alarming situation.
Tuberculosl.? often develops from
measles. The latter disease Is more
frequent In the Southern camp?, be
fiu?e moat of the men are from coun
try dattrlct?. and hav. not mingled
with large number? of men. They did
not have measles when children, aa In
the cases of most of the men in the
Northern camps.
Camp Wheeler has somethlpg like
??,000 men and the proportionate num
ber of cases Is very small. Tha deaths
have been only a fractional part of
1 per cent, which is better than any
city of the ?ame lise can boast, It
wae explained
?OYPENCIL
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VENUS pencils ar? (Mrfect!
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ICY WALKS CAUSE
WORK FOR DOCTORS
Many Persons Hurt by Falls Treated ?
in Hospitals.
Many person? were treated in
Washington hospitals yesterday for
injuries sustained in falls on Icy
pavements. The ambulance service
of the hospitals was inadequate and
patrol wagons and private am
bulances were used.
Miss Lillian Browning. 10 years
old. of Bast Falls Church, Va-, fell
at Fourteenth and ? streets north
west, striking her head. At Emerg
ency Hospital physicians say eh*1
will recover.
Dennis Nabriad. SS years old, 1.14"
Fifth street northwest, was re
moved to Freedman's Hospital suf
fering from lacerations of th*j fore- ]
head ?uttered when he fell oa th?
uy p*yement
N. T. Haunder?. 7? yeara 1>U
Fairmont ?treet northwect. fell oa
the ?Id? ??Ik at Fourteenth aad F
?treat?. stHsrlnc his bead. H? wa?
removed to Kmerajency Hoapltsl
Mr?. Pearl McKay. 26 year? old.
of 1007 ? street north we?t, fell at
Fourteenth and ? ?treet? and
?pr?1ned her ?nkle. She was taken
to ber home and treated by her
family physician.
COLD CLOSES COLLEGE CLUIS
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of coal forced tb? ?lyrac??e l
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