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THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
> VOLUME XXXXIII
_ BIRAl INGIfAM, ALABAMA, 'PLLSI)AV, MAHCH ;>L 1914 _ _
12 PAGES_
Nl’MBKR 3-9
VERBAL ARTILLERY
THUNDERS IN BOTH
, HOUSE AND SENATE
THROUGHOUT DAY
^pgress Is Completely Ab
sorbed in Fight for Re
peal of Canal Toll
Exemption
HOUSE VOTES ON
SIMS BILL LATE
THIS AFTERNOON
Speech of Speaker Clark Is Eagerly
Awaited—Lewis Makes Eomark
> able Address on Foreign Re
lations—Wilson Discusses
the Situation
Washington, March 30.—On the eve of
the vote In the House of Itepresenta
tivea on the repeal of American toll ex
emption In the Panama canal act. Con
gress today was completely absorbed In
the controversy. Verbal artillery thun
dered throughout the day In both House
and Senate.
While opposing forces are clashing In
oratorical flights at the capital. Pres
ident Wilson took occasion to discuss
the all-engrossing situation with call
ers, expressing keen regret that what
^ had promised to be a dignified contest
•vtr principles had degenerated Into a
fight upon the administration.
While on the subject President Wilson
characterised as '-‘a crowning insult of a
number of insults” in the debate, the
declaration of Representative Knowland
of California, that the administration bad
made a deal to repeal the tolls exemp
tion with Sir William Terrell, secretary
to Sir Edward Grey, British secretary of
foreign affairs.
HOUSE WILL VOTE ON
SIMS BILL TODAY
With the final vote on the Sims bill
repeal in the House scheduled for late
tomorrow interest in the controversy re
vived the closing speech of Speaker
Clark in opposition to the repeal serving
as the chief objective point of anticipa
tion. Little doubt as to the result of
the vote on the bill is entertained by
. anjonc, the majority for the repeal being
variously estimated at from 30 to 75 votes.
All oars will be strained for the speaker
tomorrow, and there is much speculation
as to the course of his attack on the bill
will take. ills friends do not expect
him to attack the President. Some
democrats believe that he will not re
frain, however, from allusion to political
entanglements.
Uiscussiyn of the issue in the Senate, to*
' day wSei ebItVdied by Senator .lathes
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who pleaded
for the President's cause, urging, how
ever, a compromise giving the President
authority to suspend tolls. Thus he pro
posed to find “some intermediate chan
nel between what appears to be Hcylla
upon the one side and Charybdis upon
the other and to prevent the party craft
from striking on either promontory, either
to he wounded or disrupted.”
Senator Lewis aroused mingled aston
ishment and curiosity among his col
leagues by discussing the foreign rela
tions of the I'nlted States and explain
ing what he thought the President might
have referred in his message on the tolls
* issue, asking Congress to grant the re
peal. He drew a vivid picture of dire
things that would happen should the
Tinitr-rJ States intervene in Mexico.
LEWIS SPEAKS ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Referring to the* President’s failure to
specify what foreign relations prompted
him to appeal for tolls exemption re
peal, the senator did not hesitate to give
"what 1 feel may have been good rea
son." Then he entered upon a recital
of acts of aggression on tin; part of the
' United .States, beginning with the taking
of Philippines.
"You entered in the Philippine into a
system of colonial government." said
the senator. Hardly had you come inti;
office, scarcely were you seated unti
you met the problem. The cry was: ‘Yoi,
have come into the Orient and brought
your people and we desire that our peo
ple shall now come into yours.’ We can
not consent to that.
"Paralysis has set upon us as to thf
negotiations of the treaty with .Itfpar
respecting exclusion, and hesitant. In
deed, is the movement respecting tin
matter of immigration."
Taking up the Mexican situation and
l reviewing the operations of the United
States in other lands and the other in
terest in Mexico of England, France, Ja
pan and other nations, Senator Rewis
dramatically declared:
"The very first moment we move dowr
into Mexico with a view of executing tin
Monroe doctrine against these foreign na
tions who have stationed themselves there
upon the theory that we no longer had
a right to execute the doctrine because
I (Continued on Page Two)
10,000 Juvenile Policemen at
Work on East Side in
New York
r
New York, March 30.—Under super
Vision of officers of the East Side pro
tection association, 10,000 juvenile po
licemen started today to give the Eas
Side a spring cleaning up.
Flies will be swatted wherever found
Janitors will be told to keep fire escape
Clear, and smokers will be advised no
to throw’ cigars on pavements or oi
the floors of factories or homes.
>The boys, all of whom attend publi
schools, have been divided into squad
Just like “real cops.”
There is the “health squad," th
•‘traffic squad," the “cigarette squad
and other departments.
Some will have "fixed posts" ever,
night beginning tonight. They will as
aemhle in Hamilton Fish park to re
port delinquencies and delinquents.
One of the city magistrate* will mee
with the boys from time to time t
present the legal aspect of offense
against the sanitary health laws.
in . %. • » . . (
WARM STATEMENT
FROM VARDAMAN ON
TOLL EXEMPTION
By C. K. STEWART
Washington? March 30.—(Spe
cial.*— declaring that “it is not that
I love President Wilson less but I
love the people of the Initeri States
arul mv obligations more." Senator
James K. Vardaman today issued a
strong and vigorous statement in
opposition to the repeal of the Pan
ama canal tolls act.
hen the question of repealing
the law permitting American ships
engaged in the coastwise traffic to
pass through the canal free of tolls
came up I was curious to know
what the President was going to
say in explanation of his change of
front on that subject,’’ said Senator
Vardaman. “I looked forward to a
masterful discussion of the great
question. I thought that be would
take Congress into his confidence
and that we would reason together
about the matter.
"But when he said that we would
do this because he asked us to do it,
and do it ‘ungrudgingly,’ I was
sorely disappointed.”
Asking loo iYluen
Senator Vardanian declared that
he was a member of the platform
committee of tho Baltimore conven
tion. "This canal tolls question was
considered carefuly along with
other planks in the platform.’ he
said, "and it was the mature
thought of the convention, as much
so as any other plank In the plat
form. After the convention the
President discussed and approved of
it. Mr. Bryan approved it. The
American people approved it. and
now to ask democrats elected on
that platform to betray their con
stituents pud violate instructions
given by them is asking a little
more than my sense of right and
loyalty to my constituents will per
mit me to do.
"It is very unfortunate that cer
tain senators and representatives
have undertaken to cloud the issue
and mislead the people by claiming
that to permit American ships en
gaged in coastwise trade to pass
through the canal free of tribute to
the goverment is gratning a sub
sidy or encouraging a monopoly.
The question of dollars and cents
to the government is not the issue.
“The President has made tho
issue squarely upon the right of
the 1’nited States to control and
manage its own property in the
canal section. The American peo
ple spent $400,000,000 to build the
canal. It is constructed on property
belonging to the I’nited States
government. It is ours just as much
as if it was cut through the terri
tory across the continent from New
York La San Vrancien o. and the
American people ;cr«> not going to
be misled by pusillanimous as
saults made by certain pliant, sy
rhophantio followers of the Presi
dent against senators and repre
sentatives who insist upon carrying
out the party's platform pledges.
"It 18 most unfortunate that that
j great problem cannot he discussed,"
continues the senator's statement,
"without imputing improper mo
tives to the men who made it pos
sible for the democrats to win and
Woodrow Wilson to be elected
President of the United States."
The senator’s statement continues
at considerable length, bristling
with epigrams. "I am not going to
criticize Mr. Bryan," said the. sen
ator. "1 don't know what Influences
are working on him. He is brave,
patriotic and intelligent, and I love
him. but his great desire to work
in perfect harmony with the Presi
dent seems to have operated as a
kind of hypnotic spell. Instead of
the strong voice 1 expected him to
to be. he seems to be content to
play the part of an echo.”
| HOW PRESIDENT
VIEWS SITUATION
I
I
Washington, March 30.—The White
House today authorized a statement
of what the President had said in
answer to the charge that the Presi
dent had made a deal with Sir Wil
liam Tyrrell, private secretary to Sir
Edward Grey, British foreign se re
tary.
'Phe President had been asked if the
charge were true. 'The President re
plied:
"Of course that answers itself. It is
just the crowning insult of a number
of insults which have l»een intro
duced in this debate. This whole thing
reminds me of a story I used to be
fond uf telling of a very effective de
lta ter. 1 need not say where this hap
pened. He sent a challenge doWn into
a county very hostile to him to de
bate. The people down there did not
like the judge much, but they put up
the man best liked by them and who
was handy for such occasions, u great,
big, husky fellow. They all called him
Tom. The challenger was given the
first hour of the two hours allotted
for the debate, and he had not go'
more than half way through his
speech when it became evident that
he was convincing the audience, when
one of Tom s partisans in the back of
1 the room cried:
" ’Tom, Tom, call him a liar and
make it a fight,’
"That is the stage this thing has
reached."
NO UNDERSTANDING
WITH ENGLAND
London, March 30.—Sir Edward
Grey. British foreign secretary, in the
House of Commons today denied the
published allegations that the action
of President Wilson in regard to the
question of Panama canal tolls was
j the result of an understanding be
t tween the governments of the United
States and Great Rritnln. .
1 "It has been said," he asserted, "that
under the terms of the understanding
: Great Britain had undertaken to as
* sist President Wilson’s policy In re
gard to Mexico. There Is no founda
* tion whatever for these reports, and I
am glad to be able to take as early an
opportunity as possible for saying It."
Six Hurt in Explosion
. Boston. Mass., March 80.—Six employe
t of the Massachusetts Chocolate com
) pen.v were badly injured today in a
6 explosion of a blower used lu preparln
cocoa.
Please Tell the Weather Man to “Cut Out the Rough Stuff”
Location of Regional Reserve Banks
Will Likely Be Announced Tomorrow
No Reason to Believe
That Less Than Twelve
Banks Will Be Estab
lished
Washington, March r.<*. After hroe
months of cnnsM ration. the reserve bank
organisation committee—Secretaries Me - ]
Adoo and Houston and Comptroller of ike
Currency WWI«me- charged with laving
the groundwork for the new currency
system, is about to define geographicaIh
the limits of the federal reserve district-;
into which the continental l'Ailed States
is to be divided for banking purposes,
and at the same tinif name the cities
in each district when reserve banks a
to bo located. It Is the general expecta
tion here that the announcement of these
conclusions will be made about April l
for the committee Is known t»* hav >
reached a point in Its deliberations wheie
little remains to be done.
The committee has taken precautions
to keep its conclusions secret, and has
announced that any lists made previous
to their official publication are merely
speculative. Despite this fact, there lias
been groat interest here in tlm doings «*i
the committee and volumes talked by
those in official life who are not entire),
within the innei circle.
Opinion Is not unanimous among tho.e
persons as to tin number of banks to l*>
established. The law permits the estab
lishment of not less than eight and not
more than 12 hanks. There is apparently
little ground for believing that the com
mittee will name only eight cities and
many persons are eonlldent that they will
select the full number allowed. The ex
pectation seems to he quite general that j
there will he at least four cities on the |
Atlantic seaboard. In this section Hos j
ton, New York and Pmiudelphia have]
been named many times and Richmond
and Atlanta. Bnltnm •>* aim Washington
have been put down on many of the ui -
■ a 1 , Kiln. •eh the AJJegh'nv
rumi»:4a .ns fliul t ie'JL lUickies tile prophet ■»
are not so definite, but many of them
agree tlml Chicago, »St. Louis and Kansas
City are practically certain to be chosen,
and many of them add Minneapolis, . in
< innail and New Orleans or Dallas, tex.
Persons who have figured their Hats
largely on the resources of the national
banks which are to become of the reserve
system believe only one bank will be bl
eated on the Pacific coast, ut San Fran
cisco. They point out that in that terri
tory there are now only banks with suf
ficient capital to subscribe to only one
reserve bank. Cnder the law each reserve
bank must have a capital stock of $4.o0u.
000 ami each bank must subscribe to make
tills capital 0 per cent of its own capital
and surplus. If the banks becoming
members cannot subscribe a sufficient
amount to make up the 14,000,000, the
stock of tiie reserve bank is to be sub
scribed by the public. It is assumed here
that the committee will not launch the
new system in such a way that any
bank will bo tin* center of a district whh li
cannot without public subscription take up
Findings of Committee Have
Been Kept Absolutely
Secret—Opinion Is Not
Unanimous
the meoMtary reserve bunk stock Those
who use this argument ate inclined to be
lieve that the committee may for this t ea -
sav that It will be only a few years when
say that it will l> eonly a few years whoa
the Pacific lnorthwest will he uhle in the
course of norma, expansion to take the
stork of a reserve bank and that by
that time that Section will need such a
ha n k.
There has been doubt In the minds o*'
some persons as to the number of banks
to be set up In th** south. Atlanta, New
Orleans. Richmond and uouisvllle have
been active In an attempt to secure a
bank, but the committee has been re
minded by others that the south, east
of the Mississippi, is still a borrowing
country. Accepting tnls statement as
true, some persons in their lists have
limited themselves to 10. They declare
that this would allow for natural expan
sion In the south and permit the estab
lishment of a bank there later.
A fact that has not been emphasised jm
the unofficial reports Is that the fed
eral reserve board which is to manage the
now system has authority under the law
to change the districts and the titles
whenever it sees lit. Although It seems
at present unlikely, the reserve hoard
could change the organisation commit
tee's entire plan if it deemed advisable.
Senator Clarke of Arkansas
Is Apparently Defeated.
To Be Contested
TJttle Rock. Ark., March 30.—Official re
turn* from 72 counties anti complete but
unofficial returns from the remaining
three counties £1 Arkansas give William
V. Kirby, associate justice of the slut**
supreme court, a majority of IK I votes,
over I’nited States Senator James I*.
Clarke in the contest for the democratic
nomination a* I’nited States senator from
Arkansas, which ts equivalent to election.
The returns of the state-wide primary
election as reported give Judge Kirby
67.93d Notes and Senator Clark 67,752.
Already it is evident that the fight will
be carried before the democratic .mate
central committee and then to the demo
cratic state convention, which nvHI bo
held in Pine Bluff on June 3. as the court
of last resort. At the democratic con
ventions held In every county of the state
today partisans of each candidate made
vigorous efforts to control the election
(if delegates to the state convention.
Already there Is u prospect of a big
fight in Poins?tt county. In that county
the vote is officially reported as dark
1285, Kirby 615. However. Slate Senator
Clyde Going, who was chairman of to
day's Poinsett county convention, report
ed* from Hairisburg over the long dis
tance telephone tonight that the vote was
1621 for Clarke to 450 for Kirby. These
figures if correct would ‘give Senator
Clarke a majority of 317 on the complete
vote.
SUPREME COURT
RESUMES MONDAY'
i_____
Montgomery, March 30.—(Special.)—Af
ter a recess of nearly two- month*, the
supreme court of Alxoama • will next
Monday resume the call of the various
judicial divisions of the state, first tak
ing up cases from the first division
This division is composed of the coun
ties of Baldwin. Oarke, Mobile. Monroe
and Washington.
The supreme court completed I he first,
call of the eight divisions of the state
1 on February 9, and since that time the
" members of the court have been prepar
» tug decisions in other cases.
I The court of appeals will also rasume
session next Monday.
WATT BROWN’S RACE
COST HIM $1237.50
Washington. March 30.—(Special.) W.
T. Brown, candidate for the short term
senntorship, has filed his expense account
with the clerk of the Senate. Mr. Brown
has spent for advertising $1,417.50; othet
expense, $120. making a total $1237.50. lie
has hod no contributions to his campaign.
Kills Wife and Baby and
Then Cuts Off Their
Heads
Shirley, Ark.. March 80.—Elijah Hug
gihs, farmer, was arrested at his home
near Shirley today, charged with hav
ing murdered and beheaded his wife
and baby. Huggins, it is stated, was
recently released from the state insane
asylum.
According t o officers who brought
the man to Jail* Huggins' 8-.vear-old son
charged that his fat tier first lifted the
baby from its cradle and dashed" ft
agaltfst the wall of the room and then
attacked his wife with a butcher knife,
piercing her body M times. Carrying
the bodies to a rear porch he is al
leged to have severed the heads of
hot li.
The hoy escaped and went to the
home of a relative. Huggins offered no
resistance when officers reached the
scene and in jail here refused to make
any statement.
Shipwrecked Mariners Reach Port
New York. March 30.—The steamer ' Her- j
mud inn. which arrived today from Her- j
muda,'brought seven members of the crew I
of the schooner Frances.C/Tunnell. which !
put into Bermuda in distress while on a
voyage, from Brunswick, Ga., for -New!
York.
Tariff Expert Dead
Mount Clair. N. J.. March 30—William
Dewart, prominently identified with the
First Canadian Protective Tariff associa
| tlon, and for many years a writer of ar
1 tides dealing with tariff questions in tlm
i nited States and Canada, died today at
the home of his son her* ,
CITIZENS OF TOLEDO
HAVE AN EASY THING
Are Riding Free on Street
Cars Pending Court
Decision
Toledo, O., March 30.- With decision*
delayed In all court proceedings In
volving Toledo Hallways and Light
company franchise, residents of Toledo
who Insist still arc riding free on the
street cars.
Reports issued by the company's of
ficials today showed that 22.000 passen
ger* were carried Saturday free. That
was lfi per cent of the usual traffic.
Sunday the percentage had Increased
to IS. No fares are collected from pas
sengers who refuse to pay more than
ii cents.
Judge John M. Killits of the federal
court late today refused to grand th.
injunction by which the company
sought to prevent the city from enforc
ing the new 3-cent fare ordinance. The
judge held relie.f should be sought If!
the Mtate courts.
French Explorer Dead
PordeauVc. Frame, March 30.—Kmlle
fl»*ntil, explorer' ami former army offi
cer, died today. With (’mint De Brazza,
M. (lentil explored a great portion »f
the French Congo and Lake Tchad. His
trip brought a vast area of land under
the French protectorate.
TODAY’S AGE-HERALD
1— -Toll exemption light continues.
Definite advices regarding battle at
Tor non lacking.
Sensational turn to Ulster situation.
Will probably announce location o(
regional banks tomorrow.
2— Indwell dies; victim of unknown.
3— Schwab forsees early adjustment.
4— Kditorial comment.
5— Viaduct agreement reached.
Can B. R. 1* & P. Co. buy the Tide
water?
Hundreds visit the new Ridgely.
Helheimer answers the governor,
h Woipon’s page.
7— Sports.
8— Suit against Steel corporation neari
clo«e.
tL-Dlsbrow reaches city.
11— Markets.
12— Marshall High school ha» gooc]
team.
DEFINITE ADVICES j
REGARDING BATTLE j
.. . .
All That Is Known Is That
Fighting Is Still in
Progress
MUCH SURPRISE AT
TROOPS’ ENDURANCE
Federal Garrison at Tampico Rein
forced in Anticipation of Attack.
900.000 Pesos Captured by
Rebels Off Topolobampo
Juarex, Mexico, March > The robe)
and federal forces at Torreon are .oil!
engaged in battle. It was burned tonight.
This information came from Rob. rto V.
IVsqutra, confidential agent of tic con
stitutionalists In the United States, wuo
recently arrived here from Washington.
Senor Pesqulra spent live afternoon and
part of the evening in this city hives* i
gating various rumors and so ■-•ailed f
flcial reports dealing wifh the situation
at the front. At the conclusion of his
investigations, he telegraphed a long
port to associates in Washington and
later talked with newspaper men Tie
constitutionalist secretary of the interior,
Senor Zulmran. was present at the inter
view .
They had no facts to divulge save fight
ing continued and that the contest thus
far has been bloody and stubbornly con
tested on both sides. They stated that
no telogiam from General Villa hud be. a
received saving that General Velasco hud
suggested a conditional surrender. They
asserted positively, on the other hand,
that federal reports of victory wore an
surd.
I believe that the rebels tonight are
making a concerted attack on the fed
eral positions." said Secretary Zulmran
"With what success I do not know. In:t
In the end I believe General Villa is : cr
tnin of victory. Mexicans are fighting
against Mexicans and the contest is stub
born, hut the moral force, which In the
end will spell victory. Is on our able.
Many of the telegrams credited to Gen
einl Villa have not really been sent b\
him. Whence they came I do not know.
"Villa Is using guns ami hand gre
nades, not typewriters. He told the cor
respondents at the front franklv that
they could send no dispatches until 1? •
had taken Torreon. There have hern no
such dispatches and the conclusion aside
from our actual, though scanty Informa
tion. is clear. Torreon has not be- n
taken.
"On the other hand, every fact c.t our
command shows that tno advantage la
with us. We have Gomez Palacio ami
Lerdo ami a foothold In Torreon. Ti e
story is being told there. We muv have
tin* city In a day or a week, but in the
end we will have it. We have no de
tails; we know only that our men art'
fighting ttie big fight of the resolution
and that the advantage thus f«*i 4is
with us."
Displaying Surprising Endurance
Washington March id Arm) ofl
here are much surprised at t hr* endur
ance shown by the raw and undisciplined
Mexican troops on both shies In the fight
ing around Torreon. It Is estimated that
for live days past these soldiers have
been engaged in almost constant buttle,
without opportunity for sleep or rest
anil practically without a commissariat,
on the rebel side, at least.
It is believed here that the explanation
for tiie almost unparalleled obstinat e ot
the attack by the rebels is the knowledge
tiiat the only way to food and safety
lies directly behind the federal defences
in the city of Torreon. and tiiat* retreat
across the arid desert in their rear Is out
of the question with a victorious enemy
In pursuit.
It. the absence of news from the scene
of the great battle in central Mexico,
the little Information that came to Wash
ington today was from the naval officers
sin tinned on the two coasts. This related
to tin* case of an American doctor ar
il sted because one of Ids patients who
oied under his ministrations was a con
stitutionalist officer, and to a really
tireatenlng situation at Tampico.
Because of the oil wells in its rear
ai d Its rich custom house, Tampico has
long been in object of rebel desire and
today Admiral Mayo reported tha* no
i ad heard that a large force of rebels
had crossed the river above the city
and was approaching with Intent to at
tack the place. To offset this move, gov
ei mient reinforcements numbering shfl
soldiers with two cannon and an armored
car had arrived to assist in the defense,
so it was evident tiiat. bucked with .1
1 orient 1 warship in the harbor, the town
would not he taketi without a hitte■
•st . uggle.
Fugitive Federal* Exterminated
1'agle Pass. Tex.. March lie Refugee?
who reached Piedras Negras, Mexico,
from the eltv of Monclovla, toddy repott
ed tiiat (Jeneral Margin's command ol
constitutionalists had Intercepted several
bands of fugitive federal volunteers fron
Torreon and killed them to the last man
No estimate was given of the casualties
Arrested Thirty Queuelcss
Chinamen, But Only Got
Five to Station House
San Francisco, March 30.- Sing If
handed Patrolman Michael Miller raid***
a gambling house in Chinatown las
night and arrested 30 Chinese, but whei
he reached the police station he ha*
only five in his party.
"You should know belter, Miller,
admonished the desk sergeant, "than t*
try to arrest so many all by yourself
How did you export to bring them al
in?”
"You see. sergeant,’’ Miller said, "
have not been on file Chinatown bea
since the Chinese turned republican!
anti started to patronize the barber
shops. In the old flays an officer wit I
a wooden leg could have brought In 3'
of them without a bit of trouble, bu
last night when I made the raid am
reached for their Heaps 1 found tha
every blessed one of them had got «
hair cult, which prevented tying queue,
together."
ft was the custom to tie them It
H'luads of a dozen and In this waj
take them to the station.
PREMIER ASQUITH
WILE RESIGN SEAI
IN PARLIAMENT AND
GO BEFORE PEOPLE
By-Election Made Necessary
by His Assumption of
Office of Secre
tary of War
SEELY FORCED OUT;
VISCOUNT MORLEY
TO RESIGN TODAY •
Asquith's Action Is Hip Surprise.
Will Have Little Kffect on Politi
cal Situation hs Uo V ill Still
Direct Affairs of the
Government
London, March IHI.— \ffcr nil t he
mu o' solution* of the government
er|n|«, which had heen proposed nod dl«
ciisncd. Uremler \squlth nnnounced n
solution to the House of t omtnona to
day which none of the prophet* had
suspected or even expected. The prime
mlnlMfer lilm*elf will iiMMiime the har
den of the wnr office In addition to lit*
other mill nlitiowt crushing duties. lie
will rcMlgn from the llnunc at thl*
erltlenl stage. when flic second rending
of the home role Itlll I* n limit to lie
(liken up and will nppenl for re-election
to III* constituent* In I'.aM Fife. Scot
liiiid, within n few dny*.
Field Marshal Sir John French, chief
< l the imperial general staff. and Ui ii.
Sir John Kwart, adjutant general, de
clined to withdraw their resignation** w
spite of the army order issued Fri
day. which VlhcAunt llaldatie clcrvcrl;*
framed ns a platform on which the
generals might stand with « onaliteney
Seely Forced Out
It thus became impossible for Col.
.1. K. It Hccly, who whs cosigner with
them of the assurance# to Brigadier
General Gough that the arm.\ would
not he used to suppress the l ister op
position lo home rule, to retain tht*
s* cretaryship of war. Ills resignation,
therefore, was accepted, after he had
l pen for some days under tire from the
newspapers of his own party, which in
sisted thui ho must go.
Viscount Morlcv of Blackburn, lord
president of the council, who was part
ner With Colonel Seely in drafting the
offending paragraphs of the document,
.stands in the same position anil his
withdrawal from office la expected to- v
ir.oVi ow.
These ware the events in todays
chapter of the continued story which Is
I-replug the country at. the IvJghesl
pitch of excitement and suspense. Th *
piesent situation Is remarkable in tha.
the government nominally will be wlth
t ut a prime minister and without a
leader in the House of Commons until
i he bv-election I* held in Kast Kifa.
'I’lic writ for the election must gi*«
eight days' notice and probably will ho
issued tomorrow.
The only practical loss to the party
meantime will In* the withdrawal of Mr.
Asquith's voice from the debates Ho
will preside over the cabinet meetings
and direct maneuvers in the House if
Common* from an unofficial seat while
I '.eg I tin Id McKenna, the lioim sec. re tar.*',
and Winston Spam **r Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, will understudy
him as House leader.
Asquith Will lie Hand)
"Ob, I'll he handy If I'm wanted." Mr.
Asquith remarked to Andrew Honar
Law. the opposition leader, who thought
that the home rule hill could not ho
proceeded with in the absence of the
premier.
Mr. Asquith apparently consulted no
one except the King before Ills hold de
cision. Ills colleagues hi the cabinet
seemed to be as surprised as t lie other
members of the House when he revealed
Ids plans Mr. Asquith is already first
lord of the treasury, which office he
will continue to hold. If he had merely
shifted from one office to another, the
resignation of his seat in the House of
Commons would not have been necessary,
hut he said that he had been Icgullv ad
vised that the act eptance of "an office
of profit under the crown” in the words
of the statute, necessitated a new elec
tion, although In* will take only one sal
ary. *26,000.
Gladstone took two offices tinder *iml
j lat circumstances, accepting the salar.v of
| one and half the salary of the other,
• amounting to $37.6*N>. and did not cousidat
a re-election necessary.
The political seers gather that Mr. As
quith Is In fighting mood. Thev have
been saving recently that he had shown
the effects, In his physical appearance, of
the heavv strain of his long labor In of
fice and would gladly sec the gov era
' (Continued nn I’nup Two.)
COLORADO RIVER
EXPLORERS BACK
Have Data on Habits of
Many Kinds of Birds
and Mammals
Berkley, Cal . March 30.— Joseph Orln
nel of the California Mupseum of Verte
brate Zoology made public today the
results of an expedition down the Col
orado river for the study of bird and
animal life.
dinners party In a small boat
braved the dangers of the whirlpools and
i rocks of the rugged stream and re
turned with data on the habits of 150
varieties of birds and 43 kinds of mam
mals. The explorers said the giant
pact us. supposed to be known only to
Arliona, was to he found on the Cali
fornia side as well.
They made discoveries concerning
I birds which make their homes in holes
In this plant.
The expedition, which required three
months, was financed largely by Miss
Annie Alexander of Oakland, founder
i of the museum. The collection now con
tains 30,000 mama!s, 36,000 birds and juO0
reptile*
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