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THE ARIZONA. REPUBLICAN, AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1915 - -v -r-v a t ti A OL XXV. NO. 239 TAX COMMISSION BEGINS FIGHT AGAINST PROPOSED MINE TAX BILL Statement Prepared Show ing That Mines' Propor tion of Whole of the State Taxes Will Be Reduced to 20 Per Cent. AN AMENDMENT OF PRIMARY LAW Bill to Relieve Situation in Phoenix Amounting to Something More Than ar. Eyesore Chaplain Rend- i ers Thanks The sessions of both houses of the legislature yesterday were brief and business-like. No time was wasted in oratory; there was not the slightest I Kust of wind or windiness. When the order of business in the house and the senate was completed in each house in tlie morning, an adjournment was tak en until the afternoon and when it then appeared that nothing had developed in the meantime, early adjournments were taken until the usual hour this morning. But In the course of business in the house several bills of interest, were J brought in though some of them may j not have been of grave import. One of j them was by Mr. Cook of Cochise ere- ating the office of immigration com- missioner under the direction of and i at the appointment of the land com mission. His salary is to be $2400 a year and he will be placed under a bond of $2,000; an appropriation of $24,000 for advertising is proposed. The commissioner must be a man who has some knowledge of the duties he is to perform and he is not to have any con nection with any real estate or other corporation engaged in any business which an immigration commissioner would be in a position to favor. Mr. Farrel of Santa Cruz introduced sweeping amendment of the primary law, the principal feature of which provides that a candidate at the pri maries receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared to be elected. It was the first thought that there was a mistake in the preparation of the bill; that it was meant that the candidate receiving a majority of all the votes cast at the primary should be declared to be elected. But Mr. Farrell said that that was not the case; the bill meant precisely what it said and the purpose of it was two fold: first to keep votes of different parties "crossing the suit" and next, to relieve the high man from the expense of a subsequent campaign which in all probability would result in his election. In most, if not in all cas es, except where there might be a tie, the primary would dispense with the necessity of a general election, leaving I nothing to be voted upon except pro posed direct election. Mr. Farrell introduced a bill to amend the law with reference to the collection of the road tax. It increases the amount of the tax from $2 to $3.50 j and provides that it may be payable in I either cash or work. Another bill by Mr. Farrell allows assessors in coun- ties of the ninth class to have a clerk for three months in the year, at a sal ary of not more than $100 a month ex cept in the session period when the monthly expense for assistance may not exceed $150. I Another bill by Mr. Farrell is de-1 signed to amend the mine lien law which makes a prospect or a mine, un-! iler lease or option liable for the wages of workers. Mr. Ferrall explained that the law as it new stands not only works a great injustice to the mine owners and prospectors, but to working min ers themselves in that it deprive them of employment for owners in many cases have refused to lease mines or to give options on them except to well known and responsible parties and in consequence, many properties ever since the passage of the law have lain Mile. He said that under the semi monthly payment law, workmen were already fairly well protected. A Street Improvement Bill Senator Colter of Apache introduced, in the senate a bill designed to remove an eyesore from Phoenix, by authoriz ing school trustees to make improve ments. For months, and some years, people have noticed that the west half of Center street abutting upon the Central school property has not been paved; there are no sidewalks about the property and, for that matter, there are no street improvements or sidewalks about the property of any school dis trict in the state. Much more than a year ago the trustees of Phoenix school district No. I held an election at which (Continued on Page Two Billy"-Sunday Takes Shot At Official Washington ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH! WASHINGTON. Jan. 18 Billy Sun day, the revivalist, visited Washing ton, called at the White House, and talked to five thousand people about "If Christ Came to Washington." I do -not have to leave Washing ton to find people who are willing to crucify Jesus Christ if' he walked up Pennsylvania avenue today," declared Sunday at a meeting where Champ Clark presided and Secretary Bryan, Attorney General Gregory, Secretary Lane and Joseph Tumulty, the presi dent's secretary, sat on the platform. "Christ is already in Washington," Dacia Case Will Probably Bring British Reply Today ASSOCIATED PRtSS DISPATCH LONDON, Jan. 18. The British government probably will reply to morrow to the request of the United States that the former Hamburg American steamer Dacia, which now flics the American flag, be permitted to make one trip with cotton to Ger many without the voyage being con sidered a precedent establishing the right of German ships interned in the United States to be transferred to I ho American flag. The general opinion in official cir cles is that Great Britain cannot make an exception in this instance. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH HEADQUARTERS NINTH GER MAN ARMY IN POLAND (Delayed), Jan. 18. Short days, miserable roads and a stubbornly resisting enemy are the three-fold difficulties preventing rapid progress in the eastern cam paign, according to General Von Mackensen, commander of the ninth I German artillery, with whom the As- sociated Press correspondent dined. Effective shelling of the enemy's po sition, without which no infantry at tack in these days of modern rapid j firing rifles and machine guns is; possible against an entrenched enemy, can be carried on only during the five! or six hours of daylight. Infantry at tacks cannot be pressed home in the ' same short periods. The Russians show no signs of breaking and are fighting hard with every advantage of position between the Germans and Warsaw. The long nights give the Russians abundant time to take off their troops and equipment practically unmolested, to occupy another position equally as strong as the one from which they were ejected at much expenditure of! effort. At the outset of the war the Rus sians were accustomed to make more daring use of their artillery in ad vanced positions, but since their heavy losses in guns. General Von Mackensen said, they have been guarding their cannon, taking as few chances with them as possible. Ap parently they found their artillery losses severe, as among the recently captured cannon are field guns ofj antiquated type. The modern type of Russian artillery is very good.j General Mackensen said, the heavy mortars particularly so. The Russians apparently have diffi ni mm nnn inn nin nnmn MUNI UAID AMI BAD nUMJD PREVENT HfSlPID PROGRESS i culties now and then with ammuni- 3,000 injured persons from the earth tion and supplies, and days of almost ' quake zone already have arrived in uninterrupted quiet are followed by Rome and many more are expected, furious cannonades. The shortness of Deaths on these incoming trains are flying time and the lark of many clear days makes the use of aero planes difficult in this field of war. SULLIVAN UNDER FIRE Represented as Demanding Share of Construction Company's Profits ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH NEW YORK. Jan, 18. James M. Sullivan, minister of the Dominican republic whose conduct is under In vestigation before Senator-elect Phe lan, was represented during the tes timony as having insisted in sharing the profits of the construction com pany organized to obtain contracts from the Dominican government. The Inrnatiiratirin la Knintr rnnrl i,t or! a3 ' a result of efforts to remove Sulli van. W. Lee Sisson, construction en gineer, who is said to have been asked by the late Samuel Jarvis, controlling the Banco National ofjAurelius Antoninus on the Piazza feanto Domingo, to become presi- dent of the construction company, testified that F. J. R. Mitchell, president of the bank, told him they would have to 'take the minister in with them, and thought it advisable to do so as he could be of con siderable service in throwing con tracts to the company. Sisson said he had refused, and returned to New York. declared Sunday. "He sees every false vote you cast here. His judgment of you and me Is not based on what he reads in the Congressional Record." Member sof the cabinet, congress men, diplomats and government offi cials helped to swell the big audience as the picturesque evangelist vlimbed upon the table and warned his hearers that "God must be served." Speaker Clark, introducing Sunday, declared a "quorum of the house is on hand." And the assemblage rose to hear the evangelist's final prayer. He thanked God for a "president in the White House who bows his knee in submission to God." The Dacia case has produced a marked impression in England. It is being generally discussed in the streets by men of all classes, and the feeling against the position of the United states concerning the Da cia is much, more bitter than was aroused by the American note con cerning the delays of shipping. There is increasing evidence that the ex amination of ships suspected of car rying contraband will be more quick ly carried out. Only four ships are now held in the British Isles for prize courts, but three others are detained for inspection. & J RESERVE BOARD HAS I MATTERS PENDING WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 The federal reserve board expects to take action on several import- ant questions following meetings here during the present week of the advisory council and gover- j nors of the twelve federal reserve I banks. Regulations to govern the ! i admission of state banks, and j trust companies, rules for redis- count of acceptances based on I the export or importation of I goods, and the scope ' of clearing I house operations by the reserve hanks are all under consideration by the board, the council and the governors. y ARE IN HOLY CITY Flivtllf'l' Penmtv fl-f.lM tri(. i 111 UK I itCpOltS IlOl.l TUG Earthquake Zone Do Not Minimize the Death Toll. Propertv Damage Prob ably 6(,000,0()r ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsrATCIl ROME, Jan. 18 No fewer than Irequent occurrence. ' Others fif thf u-rtiinHH nrn hninf taken to Naplesc. A dispatch to the Giornale d' Italia ! from Cittaducale, in the region of CIngolano, reports that ljo 'persons were killed and many others injured by the earth shock at that place. At Borgo Collefagato, a number of bodies were taken from the ruins. The Tribuna says that Salmona Castro Nuevo, a town of 500 inhabi tants and the town of Canistro were destroyed. At the latter place sixty persons were attending mass at the moment of the earthquake and fifty of them remain under the ruins of the church. The victims at Capistrello number about 200. The Rome observatory officials say that the seismic activity clearly is diminishing. The Idea Nazionale says the Tech nical Commission has found that the fifth block of the Column of Marcus Colonna was displaced about four (Continued on Page Seven) 1 AREA SHAKEN IN ITALIAN CATASTROPHE TO5CANY ftCMJCIA MARCHES UM6RIA VITMftO 1 JA V WMLUNW ' I Hf TYRRHENIAN ' 'J SEA The earthquake which visited Italy cn Wednesday practically wiped, out the town of Avezzano. Many buildings in ISeiHf nr injured, while thtS shock was fell as fa south as Naples. . IIP IS General Belief That Neither the Germans Nor the French Care to Risk Of fensive Action in the Present Circumstances 'ARTILLERY DUELS ARE CONTINUING For Time Being Germans Seem to lie More on the Offensive, Although Re ports from Both Sides Are Very Meager ASSOCIATED press dispatch LONDON, Jan. 18. The omission fiom German official statements of any refeience .(.o Scissors, the scene of the recent marked German suc cesses, and the French statement that there is no change in that re- ,,, ,,, lo ,he helief that the rcneWi. 0f a violent struggle theie is impending, the temporary quiet Icing clue to the fact that neither sice cares to risk an offensive in the present circumstances. At widely separated points else where there were engagements, but the weather is again playing an im portant part. A storm in Belgium invents operations except for ar tillery duels, and snow in the Vosges 'and at th other extremity of the line, makes attacks exceedingly dif ficult. In the Argonne district, how Jever, fighting is almost continuous, jeach side claiming minor successes. ' For the time being the Germans Uecm more, on the offensive than the : .fpntijvp. German reports all east ern operations brief, out Russians, more in detail. It is believed the Russians are again menacing East Prussia, and Poscn, the Turks according to re ports, have been dealt another stag gering blow after their determined stand in the snow a' Kara Urgan in the Caucasus. They are fighting rear guard actions, but are being i pressed bark in great disorder. The Turkish garrison at Adrian iople, the partial withdrawal of which was previously reported, has been (completely withdrawn, according to ."r Athens dispatch, in whjch is given n explanation. London papers print for(,cas,t appearing in the Paris ris tnat GroecCi Bulgaria and Rumania will join the allies, but there is nothins more definite re- (Continued on Page Six) Literacy Test And All Immigration Bill To President ASSOCIATED PHUSS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The presi dent received the immigration bill as passed by congress and set aside three hours on Friday to listen to ar guments on the merits of the measure. The bill went to the White House with the restrictive literacy test for admis sion of aliens unamended, despite the frequent declarations by the president that this would not meet with his favor. f ! The fact that the president has granted a hearing for the arguments aroused hopes of the champions of the bill that he will not veto it. In congress there are many democrats who believe the bill could be easily passed over the presidential veto in both houses by the necessary two thirds majority. When Taft vetoed a similar measure it was repassed in the senate and failed by only a few votes in the house. Should the president veto it it is feared by administration leaders it might be used further to delay the progress of the shipping bill by the republicans who opposed the latter. ADRIATIC SEA ' . OMACAUNOA -no a Ui ft HAWK V$S5W Art-u OTKNZA A. MORE WOMEN THAN MEN SURVIVE EARTHQUAKE AVEZZANO, Jan. 18. Fresh troops have reached the earthquake area, and are speeding forward the rescue work with redoubled energy. The number of women being found alive is larger than the men. The women appear to have superior resisting powers. Even today, five days after the disaster, several girls, and old women were extricated. All were injured, but the doctors hope to save them. A little boy was also found alive. He was clutching a wooden horse, evidently a Christmas present. Excavators have come upon many corpses of persons burned to death. It would appear in many places that fire broks out under the ruins. At Chappelle a man sixty-five years old was brought out with both feet burned off. He lived two hours. Military authorities are taking severe repressive measures to stop looting. ILLICIT GATHERING OE MONEY i PRESIDENT SMILING OVER NEW ARRIVAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The president was able to talk of lit tle other than the arrival of his first grandson, which was born on Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Fran cis Sayre. Dr. Grayson tonight reported both mother and the baby progressing favorably. Thousands of congratulatory telegrams and many presents arrived during the I day. The president w:ore a broad I smile alj ,day and his callers emerged from his private office I laughing sympathetically. Marked Improvement as Affecting International Exchange is Noted With Increase in American Ex ports to Europe ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. A marked improvement in general trade condi tions as affecung International ex change was reported to the president by J. P. Morgan, who informed Wilson that the increase in American exports to Europe had greatly reduced the debt owed by Europe. Morgan mentioned the credit of $12,000,000 recently estab lished by the Russian government in the United States through Morgan's banking firm. He explained there Is to be no direct loan of money to the Russian government. Morgan extended the president warm (Continued on Page Seven) MUM It US WILSON TRADE i nnuniTiniinnnn! UUNUIIIUHUUUU MYSTERY IN REASONS FOR SUDDEN MOVE OF GUTIERREZ FROM CAPITAL ASSOCIATBO PRESS DISPATCH WASHING!'! IN, Jan. IS. General Viila is due to reach Mexico City to night to assist Colonel Roque Gon zales Garza, selected by the conven tion as temporary executive to succeed Gutierrez. Advices to this effect reached the staff department, together with the information that while the capital is well protected and policed, and there were some executions for disorders, the populace is uneasy over the general situation. The reasons for the departure of Gutierrez have not yet been explained to the state department, but the belief -prevails that with ti.OOO troops accompanying him from Mexico City, with Generals Blanco and Roble, he Is endeavoring either to join the Obregon and Carran za element or intends to set up an independent faction. Copies of letters alleged to have been sent by Gutierrez to the constitutionalist generals an nounced that Gutierrez was planning to depose ' Villa. The letters written to Generals Ob regon and Aguilar were dated January 7, approximately the time when Gut erres: announced to the convention that he was working on plans for the pucification of Mexico. In the letter Gutierrez asked Obregon to suspend hi operations toward the capital un til Gutierrez was ready to announce his action against Villa. Obregon replied that this would be Impossible and It would be betraying his fol low officers in various parts of Mex ico, all of whom were active against Villa. Obregon promised to co-operate in every way possible at such time as Gutierrez would take action against the Villistas. ' All caught are being shot. Deputy Bissolati, socialist leader in the chamber, who is a noted mountain climber, ascended with a party of men to the village of Rendinara, twelve hundred feet up the mountain side. The village, which rested on a crag like an eagle's nest, was des troyed. A church collapsed while filled with worshippers. The men rescued a number from the ruins. In many places the rescuers are dig ging where grocery stores are bur ied and food is being distributed as fast as recovered. o SOME COPPER EXPORTS WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 18. Copper exports during the six weeks ending January 3. were valued at f 7,91 1,384, according to the depart ment of commerce. During the last week of this period copper valued at more than $2,000,000 left country. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH ' NEW YORK, Jan. 18. "The illicit gathering of money in certain quar ters" is the direct cause of much pov erty, and nearly all railorads and other great corporations are under the com plete control of banking interests which have reorganized them after they have become insolvent, Samuel Fntermyer of New York told the fed eral industrial relations commission. The situation had narrowed down in railroad matters, 1'ntermyer declared, until all questions regarding labor conditions in connection with their op eration could be decided in one office. Concentration of power and capital is grossly unfair to labor, he said. ! It was the commission's ' opening session of the investigation of the .country's great philanthropic organi I zations, such as the Rockefeller, Car ! negie. Sage, Cleveland and Baron de Hirsch foundations. L'ntermyer, who was counsel 'for the Pujo congressional committee which investigated the so called "money trust," advocated fed eral charters for these foundations and prohibition against the accumulation of income. Roger W. Bahson, statistician, said a large commodity like copper is gov erned by the law of supply and de mand. He declared a large percentage of the labor trouble and social unrest I was caused by the plants being gov I erned by a board of directors sitting in an office building in some other city, usually New York. x J Babson asserted capitalists have no grudge against labor. They'are mere ly indifferent to it. He advocated the I establishment of profit sharing plans among employes of large corporations, j Vntermyer proposed federal exchanges, j similar to those existing in Germany .before the war; compulsory state regu- lated insurance against unemployment, sickness and accident, and the enact ' ment of a law doing away with voting ' stock by proxies, making it necessary jfor stockholders to vote for themselves,. in person or bv mail. ' o , CANAL MEN MUST PAY ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. IS L'nder Presidential order employes at the Panama Canal and the Pana- 'ma Railroad company on the Isthmus jof Panama will have to pay rent and buy fuel, and electric current beginning on March t. These had ' been supplied free. 1 R It is declared that Gutierrez, had lowers will second his policy of brig Obregon taken favorable action on andage and desolation, because a his request, planned to issue a mani- j number of the honest chiefs of the festo accusing both Villa and Zapata northern division are also willing to of criminal conduct and depose them 1 co-operate with us. from the commands. Enrique Llorente. j "i desire t0 point out t0 you that it W ashington representative of Villa, ls our intention to occupy the princi sa!d he had no information yet eon-jai pu5Iic offices of the country, but cermng the change in administra-1 to use a our activities, good will tion at Mexico City, hut expected of-1 and patriotism to the end that peace filial advices tomorrow clarifying thejm.ly be restored in the land. To at situation, tain this end we are endeavoring to Eliseo Arrendondo, head of the Car- l accomplish the union of all the revo ranza agency here, made public the ; unionists who have no exclusively text of the correspondence. The let- personal ambitions, but who are uni ter purporting to have been signed I m.lted witn tne COmmon desire tu by General Gutierrez follows: "Generals Alvaro, Obregon and Candi do Aguilar, wherever they may be: "My Dear Colleagues: B virtue of a decision reached between Generals Rubles, minister of war: Lucio Blan- co, minister of the interior: Eugenio Aguirre renaviaes, suosecretary ot i war. and mvself. Wo helieve il natri.' otic and honest to address you order to point out the convenience of your suspending your advance toward this capital while we are formulating a plan of campaign that we. intend to pursue against Genera.l Francisco Villa, whom we have always had the intention of separating entirely from the conventionist army and from all public matters of our country. "For your information I must tell you that delegates have arrived here from the states of Tamaulipas, Coa huila, Nuevo Leon and San Luis Po tosi and have stated that the forces which are operating in those states are willing to support the attitude which this government may assume'"""1" "ml "ur """" '""' against Villa, and that very few fol- (Continued on Page Six) E GIVES PUCE 10 H ME First Meeting of the "Cham ber of Commerce of Phoe nix" and the Last of the Old Organization A New Spirit SENATOR BACON'S WITTY DIAGNOSIS Ills of Body Politic Dis cussed, Remedies Sug gested and Certain Re covery Predicted at the Rousing "Get-together" Likening Arizona to a patient bad ly needing a wise treatment, Dr. John E. Bacon, senator from Gila county, delivered before the three hundred guests of the chamoer of commerce of Phoenix the diagnosis of the dis ease in the body politic, as his mind saw it and as his keen wit inter preted it. And the essence of his speech was: That Arizona is too lightly popu lated to carry its present burden of official expenses; that the per capita j lebt is the biggest in any state, ex l cepting Massachusetts; that hasty and ill-considered legislation has ag gravated the malady. Before the meeting had started, U was whispered about that Dr. Bacon would explode a bombshell, producing lacerations. Instead, he uncovered what he saw to be wounds and ail ments, and pointed out what he saw to be remedies. Instead of making fresh cuts and jabs, he merely showed old ones and told how he thought they might be healed. For Arizona's ills can be healed, he said, and they will be healed. And optimism permeated his closing re marks, so as to take the sting from the sarcasm he had exercised before. Really, his remarks covered all that was said at the splendid meeting of Phoenix citizens with the state leg islature last night. Even the speak ers who had the subjects farthest away from that of the senator, dealt with practically the same big idea. 'Something's the matter. AVhat must be done to fix it?" As in the "Going Lp" assembly, speeches referred directly to legis lation; what its effects will be, and how to overcome or mitigate the evil ones. No laws that are bad were mentioned by title, but everybody un derstood what was meant by the fre quent references to "ill-considered and hasty legislation." "Always timid capital" was brought up again and ! again. Dr. Andrew Kimball, another i speaker, said there was plenty of money in the banks, where Arizona, industries cannot get it. In other words, the swing of the pendulum from the point of "corporation con- trol" toward the perpendicular of i public sanity and evenness had been j too strong had sent it over to the j other extreme of "labor control." This expression was contributed by ' X H. Chalmers, another speaker. ' Chamber of Commerce j After today, the organization which distributes publicity for Phoe- nix, concentrates boosting and directs ' It, will be known as the "Chamber of Commerce of Phoenix." It was i (Continued on Page Seven) save our country from anarchy and ruin. "I trust that as soon as this com- I munication reaches your hands you will give me a reply, which I have n , a .Tmtlit will Ho ntrroAiihla tr mil ,. v- off, ,,,, I'll! tH'TTC. .lUdl M.lV I'lSUULV, menu and colleague." I General Obregon's answer was ' quoted as follows: "I "have just received your commu nication of the seventh Instant, in which in your own name and in the names of Generals Robles, Aguirre Benavides and Blanco you express the desire that our advance toward Mex ico City should be suspended until you begin your campaign against Villa and the men who follow him in his work of brigandage and desolation. "I am pleased to see that you have come to an understanding of the jus tice of the fight we have waged, from the beginning against the Villis ta faction knowing that the worst IH