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THE ARIZONA. REPUBLIC AN, AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10 PAGES YOL.XXV NO. 233 FEWER ATTACHES AND BETTER: THEORY OF SENATE SELECTION Whole Morning Taken up With Appointments; Webb of Maricopa Scores '-First With Bill to Delay Tax Payments; Senatorial Agreement on Mrs. Munds' Title; Press Encouraged by Hope of New li Gallery" AVhere Reporters May Hear as AYell as See; Chase's Tribute to Power of Printers' Ink; Committee Appoint ments Finally Complete in Senate and Still More Finally in House. There were fragmentary sessions of the senate and a short one of the house, in the afternoon, devoted to preparation for the real business before the members. Committee as signments had not been quite com- COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE, SENATE COMMITTES. Rules Speaker, Johns, Powers. Elections Francis, Doyle, Lines, Lanford, Pinkley. pleted in the house notwithstanding Ways and Meana Graham, Leeper, the labors of Speaker Brooks the Christy, Goodwin, Buchanan, Lee, greater part of the night before. The ('lay pool. Wm. E. Brooks; Rules President, Webb, Bacon. W. B. Sims; Finance Bacofi, Lovin, McMillen, Karns, Webb, Campbell, Garvin. Judiciary Goldwater, Webb, Karns, Crabb, Kinney. Public Lands Riggs, Webb, Clar- list of the committees were an nounced so far as they had been made up to. In the senate, the com mittees were made public with the names of the chairman of each 'is printed by The Republican yester day morning. The first instance of legislation oc curred in the senate when Mr. Webb introduced a measure of the emer gency kind, designed to remedy a situation in this country which some famous statesmen are inclined to at tribute to the assasination of Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria by a foolish Servian patriot last s immer. Others think that the assassination was really committed by the demo cratic majority in the federal' con gress. But Mr. Webb was proposing to deal with the situation itself and not with its disputed causes. Senate Bill No. 1 proposes an ex tension of the time for the payment of school and county taxes already due and delinquent, until April 15 of this year. The taxes referred to are those of 1914. The bill would not only extend the time of payment but would also remit all penalties attached for non-payment. President Sims made the . perpetrator of this first legislative offence a fact of public record. It had been predicted that the present legislature would be conser vative and that the state would see no radical bomb-throwing legisla tion. But the prediction was almost unverified when Senator Stapley of Maricopa proposed to dock every member for non-attendance upon the session. The verhnl resolution was repeated by the president who put it this way: "Every man who fails to attend the session" etc., when Sena tor Goldwater of Yavapai in surprise asked, ''Every man?" at the same time pointing eloquently toward his colleagues. It was thereupon re solved that all allusions to the mem bers thereafter should be to them as "senators" and Mrs. Frances W. Munds was to be formally referred to as the "junior senator from Ya vapai." On the spur of the moment (he resolution probably would have been adopted. It seemed so reason able that the ox which had not participated in the treading out of the corn should be muzzled and that the laborer who had not labored should be deprived of his hire. But Senator Riggs who is not inclined to be a shirk pointed out that the constitutional provision that each laborer in the legislative field should be entitled to a per diem whether he labored or not., it was sufficient for him to have been elect ed. Therefore, when the resolution was presented in a written form it was defeated. The Attaches The morning session of the senate which began at ten o'clock was given wholly to making up the list of the attaches and to the announcement of the committee list. The attaches most of whom had been given by The Republican in its preliminary re ports are as follows: Chaplain, Rev. Eertrand Cocks; secretary', Oscar Cole; assistant ' secretary, Con. P. Cronin; journal clerk, Harriet Oliver; enrolling and engrossing clerk., Clara Earth; sergeant at arms, Mike Hao non; doorkeeper, J. W. Weatherford; page. Bertha Thorn. (Tommy . Mur phy in the interin.) secretary to the president, (not yet filled). The clerks and stenographers are: Andy Hammons, Joseph Bingham, M. A. Stewart, Albert De Saules, Lucy X. Grant, Ethel A. Webb, Myrtle Kendall, Ory Cantrill, Lois Gaylore, Clara Freestone. Eunice Waller. Lou ise Gass, Sylvia De Kuhn, Thelma Francis and Mrs. Sture. This is probably all of the attaches who will be appointed against some eigh teen clerks in the last legislature. There is yet to be appointed a joint postmaster. The House Force The report of the committee ap pointed to make selection of the at taches submitted only a partial re port, including the officials elected at the organization so that the to'al list to date includes:, chief clerk, (Continued on Page Six) Sweeney, Judiciary Vaughn Line!, Powers, Procto Baker. Labor Reed, Mahoncy, Proctor, Bris;:oe, Sweeney, Claypool, Francis. Mines and Mining Leeper, Briscoe, Christy, Goodwin, 'ahoney, Pinkley, Reed. Appropriations Powers, Richard son, Pinkley, Marlar, Johns, Edwards, Newberry. Banking and Insurance Newberry, Richardson, Baker, Vaughn, Flanni gan. Lines, Pinkley. Corporations Merrill, ' Richardson, Christy, Edwards Austen, Leeper, Baker. Suffrage and Elections Edwards, Mrs. Berry, Lanford, Briscoe, Buch anan. Constitutional Amendment and Ref erendum Briscoe, Farrell, Lee, Cook, Maboney. Flannigan, 'dee, Garvin, Colter, Martin, Karns. Labor' Chase, Kinney, Cluridge, Riggs, McMillen. Mines and Mining McMillen, Kin ney, Karns, Lovin, Martin. Appropriations Sta-pley, Campbel), Riggs, Martin, Kinney, Crabb, Colter. Banking and Insurance Drach man, Goldwater, Stapley, Kinney, Col ter. Corporations Martin, Garvin, Mc Millen, Karns, Riggs. Constitutional Mandates Kinney, Martin, Chase, Webb, Lovin. Constitutional Amendments and Referendum Cluridge, McMillen, Chase, Crabb, Martin. Suffrage and Elections Garvin, McMillen, Drachman, Lovin, Crabb. Education and Public Institutions Munds, Campbell, Drachman, Chase, Karns, Stapley, Claridge. SUFFRAGE LOST HOUSE BY GOOD if HIT By Vote of 204 to 174 Con gress Refuses to Submit Proposed Amendment to the State's, for Deciding Vote DISORDER IN THE GALLERIES After Vote Is Taken One Hundred Dejected Suf fragists Mingle In Corri dors With Enthusiastic Antis OPENING THE SAN 0 EXPOSITION ASSOCIATED . PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. The house of representatives tonight by a vote of 204 to 174 refused to submit to the states an amendment to the federal constitution to enfranchise women. The vote, the second in the history of congress on the suffrage issue, came at the close of a day of: oratory listened to with frequent evi Education Marlar, Berry, Richard- Claridge, Webb, Garvin, Colter, Crabb, dences of approval or disapproval by Agriculture and Irrigation Karns, , packed galleries. The question was son, Proctor, Doyle, Vaughn, Lan ford. Good Roads Berry, Edwards, Ba ker, Johns, . Francis, McClain, Reed Camp- Riggs. Live Stock Colter, Riggs, bell, Crabb, Drachman. Counties and County Affairs- Aqriculture and Irrigation Lee, Ed-, Campbell, Karns,, Garvin, Stapley, wards, McClain. Austen, Acuff. Lines. ' Kinney, Drachman, Riggs. Live Stock Marlar, Johns, McClain, Militia and Public Defense Lovin, Farrell, Austen. Campbell, Claridge, Goldwater, Mar- Counties and County Affairs tin. Orthel. Baker, Doyle, Acuff, Berry, Public Health and Statistics Ba- Buchanan, Proctor. con, Munds, Claridge, Stapley, Drach- Militia and Public Defense Lanford,, man Acuff, Marlar, Merrill. Goodwin. State Accounting and Methods of Public Health and Statistics Cook ' Business Stapley. Bacon, Marlar, Berry, Buchanan, Flannigan, Austen, Mahoney. Enrolling and Engrossing Richard- Martin, Goldwater. Style, Revision and Compilation Sims, Drachman, Stapley, Bacon, Mc- (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) Let Contracts For Eight Submarines . Of Large Size Farmers To Blame For Present High Cost Of Flour ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Contracts for the construction of eight sub marines, one of which is a 1000-ton sea-going craft, the largest in the u.-nrM utith H irprt;, hit, trtipff( tubes. were awarded bv the raw deoart-! Passed the blame on to farmers who ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH CHICAGO, Jan 12. Caleb U. Can by, president of the board of trade, accused by the millers and bakprs of contributing to the high cost of flour, ment. Four coast defense submar ines were awarded to the Lake Tor pedo Boat company of Bridgeport, three similar craft went to the Elec tric Boat company, to be built at Seattle and a big submarine by the same company will be built at Quincy, Mass. The largest of these will be twice the size of any foreign submarine, have a radius of three thousand miles and capable of running a day under water on batteries. The di rectable torpedo tubes will eliminate manuvering. Rapid fire guns will be mounted on the deck and will be enclosed when submerged. It will cost $1,330,000. Seven coast defense craft will be one-third her size and cost $45,000 each on the Pacific coast and $23,000 less on the Atlantic coast. These will be for coast work, but able to travel 1000 miles on the 'surface. are holding their wheat, he said. He exhibited a telegram whloh read: "Farmers are still very bullish. No wheat is being sold. The break it not worrying them," when he ap peared at the United States district attorney's high cost of living in quiry. "The entire world's demand for wheat has concentrated on the Unit ed States since the war," he said. "Greece, Italy and Northern Africa are buying wheat here for the first time. The Danube country and Rus sia which always supplied them are now closed. The Australian crop is poor. Argentina prohibited wheat exportation until recently, but ought to export 10,000 bushels a week in February." He said the big elevator owners have less than usual on hand. before the house on the Mondell re solution. A two-thirds affirmative vote is necessary to pass the resolu tion. It was defeated by a majority of thirty. After the vote had been taken 100 dejected suffragists with their purple and yellow sashes left their gallery and mingled in the corridors with the enthusiastic rose bedecked anti-suffragists from the opposite gallery. Often during the earnest and at times bitter debate preceding the vote. Crabb 1 Speaker Clark was forced to interrupt ' I speakers on the floor, and fill the .'chamber with the deafening batter ing of his gavel to warn both mem bers, and spectators that order must be preserved. Several times he threatened to have the galleries cleared, but the murmurs of ap proval or disapproval continued. The turmoil culminated in a storm of hissing that greeted a speech by Representative Bowdle, of Ohio, opposing the amendment. He had treated the subject humorously, and remarked that "the women of Wash ington are beautiful, but they have no interest in the affairs of state" Tarty lines were not strictly drawn in the fight, though Democratic Leader Underwood, voicing the atti tude of his party that suffrage was a state issue, strongly opposed the it solution. Republican Leader Mann was one of the chief speakers of the suffragists. Opponents of the resolution based their . opposition largely upon the argument that for the federal government to prescribe qualification for suffrage would be an unwarranted invasion of the Left (o right: Aubrey Davidson, William G. MoAdoo and Lyman J. Gage, at formal opening of Panama-California exposition. The Panama-California exposition at San Diego, California, was for mally opened on January 1. The principal figures at the opening cere monies were G. Aubrey Davidson, president of the exposition; William G. McAdoo, secretary of the United States treasury and personal representa tive of President Woodrow Wilson; and Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the United States treasury and chairman of the opening ceremonies. w HELD SINCE NOVEMBER 1H LONDON associated press dispatchJ and was taken into Leith, Novetn LONDON, Jan. 12. The Norwegian j ber 17. It is said by the owners or tne vessels that they' sailed from the steamers Alfred Nobel and Bjornst jerne Bjornson, loaded chiefly with lard, bacon and other products of Chicago packing houses, hate been held with their cargoes in British ports since the middle of November. The cargoes are consigned "to order" at Copenhagen. The Nobel sailed from New York, October 20. and ar rived in Liverpool, November 17. The B.iornson left New" York, October 27, TO SUBSCRIBERS Within the last week numerous complaints from subscribers have reached this office of failure to receive their copies of The Republican. These complaints have come generally from new subscribers. In conse quence of the bargain offer many hundreds of subscribers have been added. Within a few days The Republican enjoyed a greater increase in new subscriptions than have ever suddenly been enrolled upon the sub scription list of any Arizona paper. One result has been the confusion of the carriers on most of the routes, but within a day or two all the subscribers will be located and regularly served. In the meantime, we trust those subscribers who fall to receive The Republican will telephone or call in person that the process of rectifi cation may be hastened. PHONE 422. United States before the British an nouncement of October 29 that all supplies that a belligerent army might utilize must be definitely con signed, to some firm or individual. The Swedish steamer Fridland, which left New York, October 28, for Copenhagen and arrived at Kirkwall, November 10, and was taken thence to Shields, November 30, also is still being held. Like the Nobel and Bjornson, the Fridland is loaded with packers' products. The foreign office was advised the 1 Frldland's manifest was fraudulent, ! it being alleged that rubber was list ed in it as gum. The cargoes of all three ships have been held for a ' prize court. The foreign office says the delay in bringing the cases to trial was due to the request of the owners for time to complete their evidence. The Bri- tish government, it was added, of fered to sell the cargoes at auction, but the owners refused to permit this, sailing the bacon In them was not the sort required by the English market and that the other supplies In packages were- not desirable for the London trade SWEDEN IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SIT CARDINAL REALLY T Leading Swedish Conserva tive Paper Expresses Dis satisfaction Over Prelim inary Reply to. the Amer ican Note HER UNDER i l TAKING on E MAKING SAINS These Gains, If Followed Up. Will. Threaten, the Railways Germans Use to Supply Troops on the Firing Line GERMANS CLAIM FURTHER PROGRESS In the Argonne District, On the Heights of the Meuse, the Germans on the Offensive Claim Pro gress is Made AllVMlhU - ' V I. Jilt 1UO t VW X J. VS J. 4. k His Palace He Is Placed in State of Arrest AVith in Palace and Is Watched Bv Military ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH I ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH STOCKHOLM. Jan. 12 Dagblad, the1 Ro.ME, Jan. 12 "The German de leading Swedish conservative news- nial that Cardinal Mercier was ar- paper, expresses great dissatisfaction rested in Brussels is true only in uer vneaL rnuiui s pi eiiminai j re- u, jt'cnniCLil sense. saj s Aiie i.iiuuua ply to the American government's in a special edition. right of individual states to con- j note concerning the delays of com-. "The Cardinal was not physically trol their actions. Further argu- merce. The paper declares the note arrested and brought away from his indicates a determination to adhere residence, but he was nevertheless mcnts were made upon the conten tion there is no adequate "public demand" for the amendment. Advocates contended there was a widespread demand for woman suf frage, and its succes's in states where it has been tried, and the principle "of allowing the people to lule", justified the submission of the proposal to state for ratification. This is the second defeat of the suffrage cause within a year. On March 19 last, the equal suffrage constitutional amendment received a bare majority in the senate, but not the necessary two-thirds. Suffrage leaders tonight declared they are not dismayed, and that the fight is by no means over. They declared they would fight until every woman in America will -have the right to cast ballot. After an hour and a half of debate the house adopted 209 to 31, a special rule for considering the proposed constitutional amendment for woman suffrage and then settled down to six hours actual debate before voting (Continued on Page Five.) Case Of Louis GhernaToGoTo Supreme Court (Special to The Republican) TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 12. Superior Court Judge Cooper this morning de cided he had no jurisdiction to act on the habeas corpus petition presented in behalf of Louis Gherna, who is making a test of the prohibition law. A stay of execution was then granted and Gherna is now out on bond. A large crowd filled the court room. Gherna is now under a sentence of ninety days and to pay a fine of $100. The case will now go to the supreme court of the state, on the original charge against Gherna and not on the habeas corpus overruling. Attorney General Wiley Jones said this after noon that he would soon hand down an opinion as to what is covered by the amendment but is now of the opinion that anything which can be used as a beverage and which will produce dninkeness comes under the law. lie left for Fhoenix tonight. to what it terms the harrassing policy placed in a state of arrest within of interfering with and restricting his palace and was watched by the the legitimate commerce of the neu- military. trals. . j The German government, realizing Dagblad maintains that the figures that violence against a prince of the quoted by Sir Kdward Grey in sup- church would have painful conse- Krt of the contention that neutral quences throughout the world and countries are importing large quanti- also among the Catholic population ties of contraband from the I'nited of .Germany and fearing the effect States for re-export to Germany are or measures which might be taken misleading. It concludes by declaring by the Vatican, decided to hurriedly the Swedish people never will sub-' restore conditions to their former mit to Great Britain's assumption status. that she has the right to dictate just Nevertheless, an net of violence (Continued on Page Two) (Continued -n Page Two) BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE TO FIGHT PENSION AND DRY LAWS Fortv-eight of the most representa- i tive business men in Arizona held a conference at the Adams Hotel here today and organized. as the Arizona Business Improvement LeaKue. They decided to circulate petitions through out the state which they hope will cause the legislature to call a special election for the reconsideration of the old age and mothers pension act and make suitable changes in the drastic prohibition amendment to the consti tution. It was further decided to me morialize the legislature to take action tending to prevent, in the future, such uses of the initiative and referendum such as occured in the Miami county division bill, the anti-blacklist law and other measures submitted to the vwters at the last election. George M. Michaelson, president of the Tuma National bank, was elected chairman and Malcolm A. Fraser, sec retary of the Yavapai county chamber of commerce, secretary. A representa tive of each county was named as a maker of a statewide organization committee. This body, in turn, named a central executive committee of four members. Members of the organization com mittee are: Franklin F. Towle, abstrac ter, Gila; W. S. Purcell, sheep raiser. Apache: James Ball, druggist, Cochise: Ed Sawyer, sheep raiser, Navajo; Charles J. Babbitt, merchant, Coconi no; Ed A. Shaw, merchant, Mohave," P. A. Johns, manufacturer, Yavapai; Thomas Thorpe, pharmacist, Maricopa; T. L. McCutcheon, merchant, Yuma; ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH LONDON, Jan. 12. French attacks to the north of Soissons, on the Aisne and near Perthes, east of RheimB, are developing into a ser ious offensive. The gains the French have made at these points, if follow ed up, would have been of two-fold importance. They threaten the railways the Germans are using to supply their troops on the fighting line, and are of a serious menace to the German forces which held the positions to the north of Rheims. In Argonne, on the heights of the Meuse, the Germans are on the offensive, and claim to have made further progress. There is practically no changes else where. The French have found it im possible to take by frontal attacks the positions from which the Ger mans are bombarding Rheims, but advances on each side would en velop them, and force retirement, thus giving the cathedral city much desired 'relief from German shells. It is reported the Germans have sent heavy reinforcements to the Argonne district to prevent the French break ing their lines, which are very clos to the German border, not far from Metz. Fresh German troops dispatched to Alsace, combined with wintry, wea ther, have stopped the French ad vance in that region. Along the rest of the front the artillery is doing most of the work. Only isolated attacks are being attempted, the state of the weather and the ground making the movement of large bodies of troops out of the question. Simi lar conditions prevail in the east. While they have not completely stop red fighting they have called a halt over the greater part of the field of operations. In restricted areas, and along the River Rawka ne.ir Bolimow, however, there has been fierce fighting. According to Petrograd correspond ents the Germans have been unable to make any material advance. Se vere fighting is also taking place on the Nida River where the Aus trians are opposing the Russians, at tempts to penetrate to Cracow. The Germans are keeping the Mazurian Lakes open with ice breakers to block the Russian advance in Eat Prussia. Russian troops hold posi tions around the lakes, and have been waiting for them to freeze over before resuming the offensive. Constantinople officials denied th Russians won such a large victory ss Petrograd claimed over the Turkish army in the Caucasus, according to the Reuter Telegram. The Turks claimed to have captured dominating positions on the main front beyond the frontier. The dispatch stated the main head quarters of the Turkish army re pudiated the Russian press reports. The following telegram from the commander of the Caucasian army was made public: "On the main front our troop1! have captured dominating positions beyond the frontier. Operations near Olti and Ardahan have been delayed by deep snow, and severe frosts. Tim Russian assertion that a commander of a Turkish division was taken prisoner is not true, but a Russian detachment attacked a transport car lying wounded in a Russian village, capturing a severely wounded com mander of a Turkish brigade, and (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on Page Two) For Army Of Efficiency And Preparation In Time Of War associated press dispatch in time of war. The reserve corps WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. War de-jbill gives the secretary power to de partment bills designed to strengthen ; charge competent men into the re the army, create a reserve corps, pro-1 serve corps after one year's service, vide officers for time of war, and j Garrison said the present reserve properly man the coast defenses were; system is a "vacuum'' producing six discussed in open session by the sen- ! teen members in two years. He ate military commission with Secre- strongly urged the creation of officers tary of War Garrison. Stress was i for reserve because there are not laid on the necessity for good coast j enough available to command an defenses which Gen. Weaver, chief I army of 350,000 In time of war. Sen of the coast artillery, called "the best ator Dupont asked what he had done in the world." Members of the committee indi cated by questions general approval of the bills. Garrison said the bills were prepared by the war college at his direction with the idea of an army of efficiency and preparation : f or the army." to create greater respect Tor the army uniform. Garrison said he could not legislate that, but "I think people for the first time are seriously consider ing1 common defense and hope there 111 grow out of that greater respect