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No. 19,84(1. J
EXTRA SESSION
DEEMEDCERTAIN
Action of Republicans in Conference
Believed to Have
Dissipated All Hope.
DETERMINED TO OPPOSE
SHIPPING BILL TO LAST |
Inevitable Result, It Is Thought,
Will Mean Delayed Action on Appropriation
Measures.
Hope of RTfrtlDR an extra session of
Congress Is believed to bave been dissipated
by last evening's conference of
republican senators, resulting in determination
to oppose the shipping blil
to the last extremity.
Such a course will inevitably result.
It Is thought. In preventing action on j
nil the appropriation bills before this
Congress expires by constitutional limitation,
March 4, thus necessitating the
Pssemhling of the new Congress in the
spring.
Only the President's recession from
his insistence upon the shipping legislation
will suffice to avert the result.
it is declared. As Congress has several
times had example of the President's
tenacity of purpose, statesmen
on th^ hill are not looking with confidence
to a backdown on this bill.
Some of the democratic senators are
quite in sympathy with his determination.
holding that it is "now or never"
with the shipping bill. When the new
Congress comes in. with the democratic
maiority in the House cut to 35. they
look for stiffened opposition to all the
:?d*"inistrat;on's legislative policies iff
the lower House.
Would Push Party Bills.
Such influential senators as Hoke
Smith of Georgia favor going ahead
with the shipping bill and the proposed
j rural credits measure, letting the apj
propriation bills go over to an extra
i session, pointing out that the money
will not be needed before June 30 next
anyhow. They think there are worse
tilings than an extra session, one of
them being abandonment of legislation
which the administration considers essential.
Sentiment in Congress in favor of the
rural credits bill is stimulated by
knowledge that the republicans are
planning to seize upon this new idea
as republican political capital for the
next campaign.
Tt is well known that Myron T. Herrick
will make rural credits an important
feature of his campaign for
the presidential nomination. Senator
Borah, indeed, has already "beaten him
to it," dwelling strongly upon it, as he
did in his speech in the Senate the
other day, which by many was construed
as the opening gun in his own
presidential campaign.
Senator Borah taunted the democrats
with having failed to put through such
a measure. Tt was observed that a few
days thereafter a caucus of democratic
senators recommended taking up rural
credits at once
While each political party favors the
legislation, it is realized that advantage
will accrue to the party which
enacts it, and the democrats are anxious
to avert further criticisms upon
the charge of non-action.
Encountering Strong Opposition.
The shipping bill is encountering
strong head winds and a choppy sea,
and has already been amended in democratic
caucus so that it has a decided
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II ax. to port it nu 13 "V " " "Jr
the head. President Wilson has told
his callers that he does not object to
amendment of his bill so Ion*? as the
chanpre does not po to the essentials of
the proposition. Some of the democrats
are after the e sentials.
Here is another feature of the anxietv
of some of the democratic senators to
rush the administration's legislation
through at this session: The Tammany
delegation in Congress is getting its
war paint on, in anticipation of an extra
session.
in the new Congress it is admitted
that Tammany democrats will hold a
strong position of vantage in the
House, by reason of the close margin
of majority. There isn't the slightest i
doubt in the mind of any one that Tarn- j
many democrats are preparing to push
th-ir advantage to the utmost.
They will have t-? be reckoned with,
it js said, and they are known to feel
that there "is something coming to
them," and that In very -liberal rneastire,
too.
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Married"
By Seumas
MacManus
' The Irish Bluebell
of Greenwich
Street is the hero1
n e , and T e r r v
O'H ara, "the royalest
vagabond that
Ireland ever was i
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guilty ui, is CI1C
Hero. A story entirely
worthy of the
author of "Donegal
Fairy Tales"
in t le next
i Sunday Magazine
of the
Sunday
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EXPRESSES FAITH
INPiFMNG
George W. Perkins Explains
Wage System of the U. S.
Steel Corporation.
HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE
FEDERAL COMMISSION
Henry Ford Explains the Working
of His Plan for Compensation
of Labor.
NEW TOHK. January 28.?The ex
animation of George W. Perkins wai
continued when the hearing was re
sumed today by the federal commissi01
of industrial relations into the grea
philanthrophtc organizations and th<
CHiise of Industrial unrest. Mr. Perkini
explained in detail the wage system o
the United States Steel Corporation
Only 22 per cent of the employes in tin
mills and mines were forced to worl
twelve hours a day, he said. He de
nied that the system of allowing th?
employes to purchase stock in the cor
poration had a tendency to curtail th?
personal liberty of the employes bj
preventing them from making com
plaints about wages and the length o:
working hours.
jne witness Denevea in?i prom
sharing was the "missing link between
capital ana labor," and that its general
establishment would do much to decrease
industrial unrest and bring
about a better feeling between employes
and employer. Mr. Perkins
said he thought it advisable to have
the employes of the steel corporation
represented in the board of directors
and that such a question had recently
received considerable attention of the
board.
The witness believed the present condition
of business and the failure of
the steel corporation to earn profits
at the present time were due to the
new tariff law.
Retarded by Sherman Law.
Mr. Perkins testified yesterday that he
believed the Sherman law had worked tc
retard the industrial development of the
United States; that legislation bringing
labor organizations under the control ol
the federal government was needed, an<J
that co-operation and not competition was
the life of trade. Further, he said, in his
opinion big business was able to do more
for the workers of the country than the
smalt units.
He did not believe, he said, that the
government would improve upon the present
methods employed in the administration
of the funds of the philanthropic
foundations, but that it should require
statements concerning the detail of the
administration at regular intervals. He
was in favor of organized labor, providing
honest, efficient men were at tho head of
it.
Explains ?5-a-Day Plan.
Henry Ford of Detroit, automobile
manufacturer, detailed the working: ol
the wage system which he introduced
at his plant last yfear, under which no
employe receives less than $5 a day.
Mr. Ford said that since the plan had
been introduced the following benefits
had accrued to the employes :
Bank deposits had increased more
than 130 per cent.
The number of life insurance policies
taken out by employes and the number
of homes bought by them had
greatly increased.
Intoxication among the employes had
"decreased. It was a rare thing, Mr. Ford
said, for an employe at his plant to be
arrested. The plan, he added, was based
on the belief that work well done should
be rewarded.
No Discrimination Allowed.
No distinction was made againsl
fnrmpr pnnvirtR. Mr FnrH uaiH TKi
other employes, however, are not allowed
to know which of the men hav?
been in prison. A man properly fed and
clothed will right himself. Mr. Ford said.
As to the accumulation and perpetua
tion of large,fortunes. Mr. Ford said he
believed it better, wiser and more jusl
to make many men comfortable than tc
make a few. rich. He said the great
philanthropic foundations probably did
some good, but they were not adequate.
"I do not think any man can do good
work mentally and physically for more
than eight hours per day."
Mr. Ford said in his statement that
under his plan, as in operation, "men
were made men."
"We have men who have been in
prison and who are cripples who are
making good. We would guarantee tc
take every convict in Sing Sing and
make a man out of him."
ASKS ARMIES TO SPAKE ART.
National Sculpture Society Sendi
Petition to European Belligerents.
NEW YORK, January 22.?The National
Sculpture Society has addressed
a petition to the nations at war in
which a plea" Is made that those now
engaged in warfare respect and spare
the world's works of art wherever
found. The petition, which was made
public here yesterday, states that tiu
membership of the society include*
men of both American and Europear
birth, "united by a common aim tc
cherish the art of sculpture in this
country," acknowledges the debt America
owe* to Europe for her help anc
sympathy in the attempt to build here
a worthy national art and concludes
by asking the nations of Europe tc
further extend this obligation b>
showing us an example?heroic, perhaps,
at the present hour?an example
of that spirit of reverence in whicl;
all that is best In art is created anc
conserved."
McCORMICK OFF COMMITTEE.
Says He Left Progressive Party Gov
erning Board Two Months Ago.
SPRINGFIELD, III.. January 22.?
| Medlll McCormick of Chicago, who, ai
a progressive member of the legisla
i lure, recently cast his lot with the re
publicans, last night announced that hi
had resigned two months ago as thi
Illinois member of the progressive na
tional committee and that Haroli
| Ickes of Chicago had been elected ti
(ill the vacancy caused by his resigns
tlon.
"1 lesigned from the national com
mittee about a week before the meet
i ing of the executive committee of thi
national committee, which was held ii
! Chicago more than two months ago'
said Sir. McCormick.
"I was importuned to retain mi
: membership on the committee, but de"
sired to quit. Announcement of mi
resignation was not made public at thi
time.*'
Mr. McCormick. who was considerei
one of Col. Roosevelt's strongest sup
porters m Illinois, refused to give an;
reason for his resignation.
FIGHT IN PROSPECT
I OVER DISTRICT BILL
t Appropriation Measure, Coming
Up Tomorrow, Promises
to Cause Row in House.
FILIBUSTER BY CARLIN
nnnrn nw IIRinmillAAn
Ij Nirrtu di uiMucnirvuuu
* Virginia Representative Opposes Occoquan
Reformatory Being Located
in His District.
Because there in prospect of an ?11s
clay fight 011 the. District appropriation
- bitl when it comes tip to be sent to con- !
l ferenre. House leaders have been ban- |
t filing the bill as if it wore a. live coal,
e and Majority leader Underwood hlmb
self had to leap into the melee, which
f was goinsr on in an undertone on the
. floor of the House today to prevent the
; continuance of a lusty young fllllbusf
ter. which had just been started by
Representative Carlin of Virginia. The
1 fact that the bill has every promise of
* precipitating a long row when it is
- sent to conference is the reason why
r Chairman Page has been putting off
* this request from day to day.
f House leaders who don't want to have
the regular legislative program interfered
. with have been threatening Mr. Page with
i all sorts of horrors, in a friendly way, if
I he should dare to break up the debate
on the military bill with the inevitable
row on the District bill.
When the He use met at 11. o'clock today
Representative Page was on hand
with the papers in the case, while around
him hovered Representatives Hay, Under1
wood, Johnson of Kentucky, Foster of Illinois
and Carlin of Virginia, all having
a deep Interest in the District bill one
way or another.
Nearly every one of these veteran
legislators had been conferring around
the corridors and had reached tentative
agreements with one another as to time,
etc., but as each one- has a different
viewpoint from which he sees the bill,
the result was that no agreement could
, be reached to sidetrack the District bill
except that Chairman Page served
notice that positively and notwith1
standing he intends to call up the bill
; for conference, tomorrow at noon.
Representative Carlln, who is bitter1
ly opposed to having the Occoquan
i reformatory in his district, started a
i filibuster in general as soon as the
i clerk had completed the reading of the
, journal today. The bill contains the
Kern amendment, which provides that
, 110 brick or other building material
produced by prisoners at Occoquan
, shall be sold in competition with the
, products of free labor.
Carlin Favors Amendment.
! Mr. Carlin is very much in favor of
that amendment, inasmuch asf it would
kill the Occoquan institution deader
than a door nail if it were enacted.
Having made the reformatory worthless,
there would be no use for It In his
district, and therefore Mr. Carlin trill
probably lead a strenuous fight tomori
row in an effort to have the bill go to
1 conference with instructions to retain
that Kern amendment. Representative
Page, chairman of the committee and
i head of the House conferees, is by no
means disposed to take any such sug
, gestion without >having it forced on
him by a majority vote,
j When Mr. Carlin made his point of
, order that there was no quorum presI
ent, he was clearly right, a8 there
seemed to be scarcely fifty men in
[ sight in the House, but Representative
I Underwood, who is having a heartrend."
ing time keeping his majority together
1 . all in one place at the same time, leaped
[ over the aisle and had an animated uebate
with the Alexandria man in an
undertone. Other members with interests
in the bill began buzzing to one
another, and finally Representative
Page made the announcement that to
morrow would be the limit to which
he would be pushed on delaying the
, bill.
i Representative Foster of Illinois was
interested in keeping the bill back as
far as possible, as he is opposed to the
Gallinger Hospital amendment, being
5 possessed of an antipathy to municipal
hospitals in general. However, in the
' general sub voce debate Representa:
tive Page quieted him by assuring the
1 Illinois Congressman-physician that
he, Representative Page, would not ac1
cept the hospital item, because the act
of a year ago provided money for
plans which have not materialized.
i Wants His Amendment Back.
j Added to these c omplications is the in!
sistenee of Chairman Johnson of the
1 House Distrct committee that amendment
1 So. 1 should be allowed to come back to
the House, so that the lower body should
be given another chance at it. Amendment
No. 1 is the Senatorial refusal to
accept the Johnson plan that the expenses
of the District shall Ite paid oi/t of the
' revenues of the District to the extent that
they are available, the balance to be paid
out of the federal Treasury?which is the
attempt to nullify the half and half plan.
I Representative Page proposes to ask
that the House shall disagree to all
Senate amendments, which would satisfy
Representative Johnson for the present.
but he hopes that the conferees
will prove adamant, so that the House
will have a chance to vote -on the sub.
ject again.
The chances for the bill's passing by
March 4 were described as "remote" by
a House member who is in a position
to know.
This member spoke of the manner in
which a commission of inquiry could
I be created by Congress by an amend.
merit to the appropriation bill in its
s present form.
? "The conferees have no right to add
I legislation to the diii wmcn nas not
been considered by either house," he
i said, "but a section creating this conii
mission could be added by the conferees
I following: a vote of instruction by the
two houses."
FAILS TO GET A QUORUM.
Senate Committee May Take Up
Excise Board Probe Tuesday.
The committee on contingent expenses
' UI lilt: ocuaic, uciuig ? invii to I'cuuiiig
the resolution for an investigation of
- the charges made by Senator Jones
^ against the District excise board, ata
tempted to hold a meeting today but
" failed to get a quorum.
1 It is understood, however, that Sena^
tor Williams, chairman of the cora
inittee, will attempt to hold a meeting
of the committee Tuesday in order to
- take action on the resolution.
i lamps or Falls Five Stories.
PHIUADEI-PHIA. January 22.?Mra.
f Anna Sharpe, wife of the Rev. Arthur
- B. Sharpe, superintendent of an orY
phanage at Richmond, Va., jumped or
3 fell from a fifth floor window of a
I hospital here today and died in a few
- minutes. She had been under treat- j
/ ment at the hospital and was to have I
returned home today with her husband.
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French St*
PARIS, January 22.?The French '
ail official report on the process of the
"In Belgium tne enemy yesterday
degree of violence. Our infantry made
LrOmbaertzyde highway. Between Ypre
tions on the part of our artillery agai
tachments of infantry of the enemy to<
"From the Olse to the Argonne:
Soissons shows no change. Near Berr;
compelled to evacuate following a vio
by us. In the region of Perthes the <
the night of January 20-21 at a point n
out success.
"Between the Meuse and the Mosel
In the forest of Apremont an exceedin
Impossible for us to retain the Germa
day for a distance of 150 yards.
"To the northwest of Pont-a-Mous
enemy yesterday recaptured a portion
ary 20, but we are maintaining ourselv
tion.
"In the Vosges the enemy hurled
great caliber, without, however, doing ;
"At a point between Mount Bonhor
been an artillery engagement in which
to silence.
"In Alsace the infantry fighting
Weilerkopf Is going on with great f<
hand-to-hand.
"In front of Dannemarie our arti
enemy."
German St
BERLIN, January 22, by wireless
the following statement today:
"On January 21, in the western t
rendered impossible any important fig
canal of La Bassee. Artillery duels t<
trenches which we took on the day. 1
of Berry-au-Bac, was abandoned and
destroyed by the collapse of the wall <
"A French attack north of Verdu
battles of the day before yesterday
French detachments still held out in 1
By means of an advance the region
all Frenchmen as far as their old posi
"The battle for Croix-des-Larmes,
tinues. A strong French attack on th
was repulsed with heavy losses to th?
"In the Vosges, north of Sennheiir
of the heights of the Hartmann-Weile
and 125 men prisoners.
"In the eastern theater of war
1 attacks on a branch of the Hzucha mad
I new east of the Pllica."
Russian S
PETROGRAD, Russia, January 22.
army has given out an official announ
"There has been no change in or
Mlawa we are holding in close contact
on the part of the Germans to penetrate
four hours has been repulsed. We
Skempe, which was rapidly evacuated 1
"On the river Bzura and on the rii
ading and heavy rifle firing along al
was engaged successfully with that
silence several German batteries. Our i
several partial atiacAH ui cue oucm;
"South of the river Pilica and in <
Only here and there has the sound of <
"In Bukowina we captured the tov
detachments of the enemy who were e
in the region of Kirlibaba. Here we
officers and more than 150 soldiers."
Austrian Si
VIENNA, via London, January 22.says:
"The situation is without change i
artillery engagements have occurred."
Turkish St
AMSTERDAM, January' 82, via ],o
munlcation lasued at (Jonstantinople ht
"The Russian attacks along the
brought to a standstill."
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TE UNWELCOME ARRTVA
y Reported.
itement
war office this afternoon gave out
war, reading.an follows:
bombarded Nieuport with a fair
sorne slight progress to the east of
s and the Oise successful operanst
field works, batteries and de>k
place yesterday.
Tl.? alf..n?lnn In IV. ?.l ~ I n#
y-au-Bac a trench which we were
lent bombardment was recaptured
enemy delivered an attack during
orthwest of Beausejour, but withle:
To the southeast of St. Mihiel
igljr violent bombardment made it
n trenches occupied by us yesterson
in the forest of Le Pretre the
of the trenches taken by us Janues
at all other points of this posiagainst
St. Die six projectiles of
any serious damage,
nme and Mount Schlucht there has
the German batteries were reduced
in the region of Hartmann and
irocity. The struggle is actually
llery dispersed gatherings of the
atement
to Dondon.?The war office i.ssu?-d
heater of war, a continuous rain *
hting between the coast and the
>ok place near Arras. One pf the
>efore yesterday to the southwest
blown up. It had been partly
of a factory. .
n was repulsed easily. After the
to the south of St. Mihlel, small
:he neighborhood of our positions,
before our front was cleared of
tions.
northwest of Pont-a-Mousson, cone
recaptured part of our positions
; enemy.
t, our troops threw the enemy out
rkopf hills. We took two officers
the situation is unchanged. Our
e slow progress. There is nothing
tatement
?The general staff of the Russian
cement, as follows:
iental Prussia. In the vicinity of
with the enemy, and every effort
i our lines during the past twentytook
by assault the place called
>y the enemy.
rer Rawka there lias been cannonmost
all the front. Our artillery
of the enemy and reduced to
troops were successful in repulsing
on this front.
Qalicia there has been-?no fighting.
:anuon firing been heard,
vn of Vorokhta and we drove back
ndeavoring an offensive movement
i captured a major, several other
atement j
?The official statement just issued
alone: the entire front. Only local
atement
ndon.?The following official com18
been received here:
Caucasian front have now been
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POSTAL CLERK ACCUSED ^
OF ROBBING THE MAIL;
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Mansell F. Mills Alleged to Have j
Taken Thousand One- 1
Dollar Bills. t
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I
Munsell P. Mills, a clerk in the registry
divison of the city post office,
who resides in the 1100 block of Girard
street northwest, was arrested today
and taken before United States Commissioner
Hitt, in the Maryland building,
1410 H street northwest, charged
with a violation ?of the postal laws.
He waived the preliminary examination
and was held for the action of the
grand jury. He was admitted to bail
in the sum of $2,000. He is charged
with the taking of a package containing
1,000 one-dollar bills in United
States currency.
Disappeared in December.
I A registered package containing the
bills sent by a local bank to a bank at
Dos Angeles, Cal., disappeared mysteri- ,
ously December 14 in the Washington post I
office. The loss, however, it is said, was
not reported to the inspector in charge
until January 4, when Post Office Inspectors
Saffell, Demon, Barclay, Mosby
and Robertson of the Washington division were
assigned to the case.
Mills, who hails from Salisbury. Md.,
has been a clerk in the registry division
of the city post office a]x?ut eight years
and for a number of years was stenog|
rapher to the superintendent, of the regisj
try divisi* n, where, it is said, he became <
j thoroughly familiar with all the details i
j of handling registered mail in the city <
! post office and had full opportunity of <
[ ascertaining the weaknesses of the sys- j
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Law School Graduate.
About two years ago lie was graduated
from the Georgetown Law School and
has been engaged in the patent law business,
with oitices at 14th and G streets
so that he might attend the school, and,
ceeded in having his office hours adjusted}
so that he. might attend the school and
since his graduation, it is said, in his
j spare hours from official service, he has
i conducted his patent business.
| He is a clean-cut looking man of
| about thirty years of age and very
, popular with his associates in office.
His arrest today came as a startling "
surprise. Mills is bonded as an employe
of the city post office for $5,000.
POPE CALLS WAR SERVICES
Expiatory Functions to Be Held in
Europe February 7; Outside.
March 21.
ROME, January 22.?The Pope today
held a private and public consistory in
the course of which he preconlzed sev
1 kinkAnc onrl <taliirora/1 nn n tlno.itlnn
ci at uiauui/o aim >?vi. ?ti tu ak awv^uhuh .
dealing chiefly with the war.
The pontiff emphasized the neutrality |
of the holy see and referred to his efforts
to mitigate the disastrous consequences
of the conflict.
He urged his hearers not to heed those
conditions which separated the faithful,
but rather to consider those which made
them brothers in the faith, and he called
upon the invaders of territory of the
enemy not to commit excesses.
In conclusion the Pope invited all the
faithful to participate in a great expiratory
function in Europe to be he?rt
February_ 7. and outside of Europe
March 21. He said that on February 7
he and the cardinals would take part In
a special service at St. Peter's.
ARMY BILL DEBATED
BYHOUSEMHRS
Measure Carrying Appropriation
of $101,000,000
Discussed.
FACING THE DEMAND FOR
LARGER DEFENSE FORCE
Representative Hay Heard in Behalf
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of the Administration's Present
Military Policy.
Debate under the five-minute rule on
he army appropriation bill carrying $101.500,000
began today In the House of Representatives,
following the conclusion of
the seven-hour general debate yesterday
afternoon. The military affairs committee
races today the attempts of Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts and other
"big army" advocates to amend the bill
jo as to greatly increase the fighting force,
md. Incidentally, the annual expenses of
this branch of the national defense.
Gardner Amendments Voted Down.
The attack on the bill began today,
when Representative Gardner of Massachusetts
endeavored to raise the
Fieroplane appropriation from $800,000
to $1,000,000. He said that of the thirty-two
aeroplanes In the army, six are
rrippled, none is armored, and that the
reserve aero fleet is nothing but a lot
of spare parts. Both RepresentatU'e
Hay, chairman, and Representative
Kahn. ranking republican on the military
committee, said that the bill carries
all the aeroplane money the army
*sked for, and the Gardner amendment
was voted down.
He also offered unsuccessfully an
amendment to increase the personnel
of the coast and field artillery. He
laimed that the coast artillery is 564
officers and nearly 11,000 men short of
the requisite number for a complete
coast defense.
Present Policy Defended.
The present military policy was defended
yesterday by Representative Hay of Virginia.
chairman of the military affairs
committee, who deprecated the war talk,
ind said it is not necessary' to add a
jingle man to the standing army of the
United States, while Representative Kahn
)f California, ranking republican member
>f the committee, and Representative
iardner of Massachusetts insisted that
he present force is inadequate.
In the course of his speech. Representitive
Hay said:
Representative Greene of Vermont,
'ormerly adjutant general of his state,
leclared that "the military reserve quesion
never will be satisfactorily settled
jntil each of the forty-eight states of the
Union consents to surrender its exclusive
jurisdiction over its quota of the socalled
National Guard." He said the
states should undertake the movement to
his end.
Without "Adequate Defense."
Representative Kahn of California said
ie believed in being prepared for any
possible emergency, and that the United
States did not have an "adequate de:ense."
"I have no fear of any early trouble
arith any foreign country," he said, "and
ret I recognize the tact that rulers and
jabinets ana peoples are ail human- This
;ountry should be so well equipped that
n case any country wants to engage in
var with us; that country will tlunx two
>r three times before it takes up
:udgeis."
Representative Sloan of Nebraska de'ended
Aiaj. Benjamin M. Koehier, who
recently was sentenced by a court mariai
to dismissal from the army for conluct
unbecoming an officer and a gentlenan.
Mr. Sloan said the officer had made
i brilliant record in the Philippines, was
brave, courageous, pure in language,
bought and action," and could not have
seen guhty of the offenses with which
le was charged.
EXEMPTION OF ARTICLES
UNDER WAR REVENUE LAW
Reg-ulations Explained for Information
of Deputy Collector of Customs
at Georgetown.
John L). Koogle, deputy collector in
. harge of the Georgetown customhouse,
is asking questions. His concern is
>ver the taxable status under the war
emergency revenue law of entries of
mports consigned to the government
ind to foreign diplomats.
Entries covering merchandise imported
solely for governmental purposes
are not subject to tax, he is adrised
by the commissioner of internal
evenue.
Entries covering merchandise imported
for thP honpflt of ministers or at
taches of embassies or legations, and
exempted from duty either by specific
terms of the tariff act or as an act of
nternational courtesy, are also not reluired
to be stamped.
Entries covering either class of imports
are exempt from the tax stamp
even when the entries are made by
customs brokers.
The Acid Test.
The worth of advertising
space, like the worth of any
other commodity, is shown
by the demahd for it.
The value of The Star to
advertisers is proved day
after day, month after
month, year after year, by
the measure of the space
they bpy.
Yesterday's Advertising
Local Display
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Again The Star printed
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RUSSIANS PRESSING
ON GERMAN BORDER
IN NEWOFFENSIVE.
Pin Uink Linn ? * 1
in myii iiujjca un wiovemeni
and Other Allies Watch
With Interest.
AUSTRIANS PREPARE
DESPERATE RESISTANCE
Hand-to-Hand Fighting Is Going on
in Alsace.
I
FRENCH MEET REVERSES
Teutons Retake Trenches?Fierce
Battle Reported Between Nieuport
and Ostend?Floods
Hinder Operations.
LONDON*, January 22.?New*
dispatches referring to the situa<
I tioti in Poland set forth that
north of the Vistula, in the vicinity
of Lipno, Russian advance
guards are within twenty miles
of the German frontier, while to
the northeast the Germans have
evacuated Skempe, which is alxiut
twenty-five miles from the Prussian
border and due southeast of
Thorn. If the Russians follow up
their success at Skempe and continue
their forward movement it
will give them an unbroken front,
in the .opinion of British observers.
dangerously near German
territory.
Western Allies Watching.
The western allies are watching: this
region just now with trrc.it interest,
and dispatches Irom l'etrograd say
that, the Russians are pinning htgh
hopes on this offensive thrust near th?
German line. HIsewhere they are planning
merely to hold tneir own. barring,
of course, the advance through Transylvania.
The Austrians, however, appear not
to have been crushed by their reverses
in Bukowina. for the Russians themselves
refer to the attempted Austrian
offensive to check the Russian advance.
The Austrians appear at last to have
realized the importance of the Russian
advance through Bukowina, for they
have assembled a large independent
army under Field Marshal Locdman,
which has occupied the passes and
posted heavy artillery, tbii?' to some
extent checking the rapid advance ot
the Russians. Loedman is prepared to
make a desperate resistance.
Hungarians Are Moving.
Strong forces of Hungarian troops
are reported to be proceeding to the
Bukowina frontier by wayj ot' Ristritx
to help arrest the Russian Invasion.
In the western arena of the war the
battle at Soissons still ranks as the
only great conllict during many weeks
past. There has been fightfcpg at many
points, but a trench here and a few
yards there Is all either side had
gained. If the German plan is a re
j newed general orrensive or a serious
j concentrated attack at some strategic
| point it has not yet materialized.
| Determined infantry fighting-, with
ferocious hand-to-hand encounters, is
going on today in Alsace, but that the
situation at Soissons shows no change.
Artillery exchanges, in which the
French were successful, occurred between
Ypres and the Oise, near Berryau-Bac
and in the Vosges. while i i the
forest of Apremont the German artillery
drove the French away.
Reverses for French.
Reverses for French arms are admitted
between the Meuse and Moselle, to the
southeast of St. Mihiel, where the heavy
German iKjinbardment has made it impossible
for the French to retain the foe's
trenches recently occupied. In ii fierce
encounter northwest of I'ont-a-Moussdn,
in the forest of L,e 1'retre, the Teutons
captured a portion of tiie trenches taken
from them in the battle of January ^0.
Defeat for the allies in two important
engagements is announced in an official
statement given out today by the German
war office. A French attack near
I'ont-a-Mousson, where the allies are attempting
to cut the German communications
with Mertz, is said t.? have been repulsed,
with heavy losses for the attackers.
In Alsace the French were
driven out of the heights near Sennheini.
The Germans were compelled to evacuate
o ? niij r 1 wr-v i, _ T<?. ,. hut idinail
some ground In the Verdun region.
Between Xleu port and ostend a hard
battle, has been uninterruptedly raging
for three days despite rain, flooded
trenches and almost hnpassabie roads,
says the Sluis. Holland, correspondent
of the Amsterdam Telegraaf. The correspondent
reports large numbers of
Herman wounded passing Sluis.
Floods in the region of Altkirch and
in the Sundgau or southern country
of Alsace generally have completely
stopped Herman military operations,
says l dispatch to th?* newspapei
Suisse. The rivers 111 and Leirg have
ov? rilowvcd from their beds and the narrow
valleys are entirely submerged.
At Altkirch the German headquarters
installed in a business building were
obliged to move to private houses on
the heights.
The French troops near Thann, the
dispatch says, are in a good position
well out of reach of the floods. They
shelled the Hermans vigorously all day
Thursday.
Shell Fire More Deadly.
Kxceptionally heavy artillery firing la
going: on in the region of Cernay and
Thann. The German wounded state,
according to reports that come over
the border, that the frozen ground
makes shell fire much more deadly, as
the projectiles, in striking the hard
surface, explode with increased violence.
scattering frozen clods of earth
which cause ugly wounds.
Prince Eitel Friedrich, the second son
of Emperor William, has arrived at
I Mulhausen with a numerous suite and
! has taken up his abode in the magI
niflcent villa of the Koechlin family,
who fled to America at the beginning
of the war.
Turks Claim Success.
The Turks claim to have arrested the
Russian advance in the Caucasus, but
they give no details. The British press
continues to assert that the proposed
Turkish invasion of Egypt is doomed to
failure, but it gives credence to many
reports to the effect that such invasion
surely will be attempted.
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