WEATHER EVENING CAPITAL NEWS ALL THE NEWS FIRST VOL. MA. BOIHK, IDAHO, TIIPKSPAY, .IAN. Hi, 1!)19 No. 182. ITALY GIVES UP IMPERIALISTIC PROGRAM; AIDS HARMONY PLAN Resignation of Cabinet Regard ed as Assurance That British and American Peace Plans Will Be Accepted. QUITS FRANCE TO JOIN AMERICAN BAND WAGON Italy's Territorial Ambitions Have Constituted One of the Hardest Obstacles in Peace Conclaves; Wilson Wins. Rome. Jan. 16.—The entire Italian cabinet has resigned. Premier Orlando was at work to day on the formation of a new cab inet. T'y HENRY "L.ris, Jan. Iß.- Italy has imperialist! )D. ii'tirprctation in rs today of the entire Italian e ndonc program and definit« 1\ a* * - pt« d flu Ibati I and Am- ri* a id« as of a democratic peace settle ment , That was the diplomat ie quart nation of the late vestenla y. Italy's territorial ambitions hav constituted one of the stumbling block in tin peace conferences. The ol sein»* I Italian diplomats stolidly eluti to the determination that the* entir program of political and t-UTit mia I - pension should lu* carried out. Th more d< moeratic members of the gov eminent . •« «unsel«' d various d« gM « s r nnulifii a tion. This led to a minist- r ial • ' isn- whit !I reached its elirnax yes terda y. OPPOSED MODERATION. Ft. ogn ; ■ posai Ministe tin len Sonnt . r . • f t lie « li'i'ic <.p alio n of tlie pr«>\ is pu j. t. rib- attitude lion «d* M in ist or | 1 t 1m portfolio of I' 1 '» isions ami Ha* j ion of otlu r libtral : 11 uE far*l that •dit« « I «l«b Ilu «•«»nun -s it is doublai! whether D« upnrsrtlrd. CHANGES ATTITUDE. < tu* doubt, how« vor, t lint hi* * in the conferences will W inlî'ioiu f «I hy the cabinet jvs • n ml tii.il h« will not fool tits his nur. 1 - ad polivh k pa ns ion. Italy n«j Italy 1 o dato ranco in the f f,il ami territ« j J ; • I ; I i DISLOYALTY CHARGES AGAINST LA FOLLETTE DROPPED BY SENATE W d ishingle dismiss« S ! I j Ti «gain - senate to harges of disloyalty LaFoiletto. Wisconsin. \ resolut iuu. proj»uscd by Senator I»illjnghaiu. Wrmont, dismissing - a res<»luU««n of the Minnesota publie safety comniisHion which asked that LaFoll.ett© l>e tried and expelled fi-orn th«* senate because of a speech he mail»: at t«*mbi Î t> 1T dopt «•«! h; .1 1«« -1. CALIFORNIA STARTS FIGHT TO OUST PR0HI DECISION j ! j f tie i« d 1 Sb« panl «)r\ a tin lulnu nt, is ilu* ■« «nu* t«»Yja\ of a h gal battle for ! a P« i ma ii« Tit in i a-i inn t u pf «**• «nt «)*•'• I nor Steplimi: i 11 1 « ill il i n g tie f««l- ! rial gn\ « i i nu nl ll.it * • nu-inlm«a h.i* le en i at ifii'd. The w«*ls argue that if U,e fe,|.*n,! gov« i-iimi nt is rmt Inf« i m< «I officiallv that Calihunia s b giilatur« has ; it will re \ i*r kn*»w ahoiit il. l ud« state const it lit ion the g«,\«rnor i «•nly on«* who can < « »minuni« a ie the. fed i i a I goveriiuieiit. A PERFECT "36" Washirvjton. Jan. 16.— Nebraska today earned a new name by being ♦ be Jbtli state to ratify tiie nation «I prohibition amendment Senatoi Sheppard. Texas, author of the amendment, coined the name. "Nebraska." said Sheppard, "is the perfect number 36 among th * states." SINN FEINERS *NAME ENVOYS. Dublin, Jan. 16 -Count Plunkett and Kdmond Fera have been selected as the Irish delegates to the conference, it was asserted today. They were picked at a meeting of the Rinn Fein members of parliament. Dry Amendment Is 18 th Added to U. S. Basic Laws The prohibition amendment is the eight« •■mb added to the fed eral constitution. Provisions «»f the 1$ amend ments with Hn* length of time taken for ratification follow: First, ten amendments, known as the "bill of rig his," provided guar antees such ; five speech; rati fied iu nine months. Eleventh amendment established sovereignty of sic tes; ratified In four years. Twelfth method of pr« ratified in one Thirteenth ; ited slavery; less than a ye Fourteenth negroes citizen • -miment changed sidential elections; ■miment if led in prohib slightly amendment s. ratified made Fifteenth amendment enfran chised negro« ' on same basis as white persons, ratified in one year. Sixteenth amendment allowed congress t«» levy income tax; rati fied in three and a half years. Seventeenth amendment provid ed for popular election of senators; ratitied in slightly less than a year. Eighteenth amendment makes country dry; ratified in one year, four weeks and one day. About one bundled amendments have been proposed in congress but only four besides those rati fied were submitted to the states. Radical Leader at Chicago La bor Parley Proposes Walk out Start May 1 ; Resolution Referred to Committee, ! dust rial stiike lu h A. nation - eg in on .Ala ri: -»nmetit «. roposed in ; ition i offered to da> at tin labor con - | gross on the Moon* *j • vas« by Dennis B. • Hat t, Detroit. | 'la t the cl | pi tain t worry about the v that will b «• lost," said Batt. j "Tlici «* will 1.» '.* no g; tin bj waiting uni il : tall f. w the ,st rike », • begin. The quit a WANTS OCRS TO SPEAK. EUW u'd B. Nolan, S 4 :i Francise«, um non l chairman wi.u is run -i .if tin N « »l.i j today that I J at. the cungr ; cialist 1« adc • I i « «»lut ion ottered b I Htltti*. AI (tillin\ it ing I 1 ;ing of the resolution \\a: ; a \ ictory for the radical "All labor must bang I glared Nolan. 'The. a i such elements as Bolsli io Y. Deb . terda y opp«. A . S. I lu ni bs. Th< ! u interpreter element.. together,'* ire no longer viki, rods, ul tras or radicals. Wo arc all th«* sann* at S this «•«ingress. Debs, Socialist, martyr, ha. a light t*> address this convention." MANY RESOLUTIONS. ! Efforts hy conservatives to for«« an I adjuurnimut to d«d« it pians *11 I« Wil fimj ing ! ! ER6I Senators Borah and Nugent Hold Conference With Sec rotary of Interior Lane at Washington. <( 'apit.i 1 New S|v * ial Servi«-*.» Wa shing ton. Ja ! i. 16 Senators Borah a nd Nuge nt had an « Mend—1 luter vt«*\\ with the re er« Jury of th« infer lor lame. this w « « K on 1 he question «»f irrigation and reclamation in I«laho Th« entir« subject was taken up and dismissed hu'ludfng the Bruneau andj Sutinysble prnjeetn and also the Black (,'an.von and the Dubois projects. Secretary Dim* stated to them 1hat his engineers and experts were work ing upon tiie Bruneau proposition. thnt he was very much interested in it and wanted to sc« ft go but could not «tut« definitely what would be done until the engineers got through. He said lie* MAY EASE BAN ON CENSORSHIP CLAMPED UPON PEACE PARLEYS Concert of Protest From News paper Men Greets Big Fives' Plan to Make Secretive First Full Conference. SEVERAL VITAL ISSUES ARE NOT YET SETTLED French Program of Operation, Status of Montenegrin En voys and the Russian Soviet Puzzle to Be Discussed. I B> FILED S. J'EHCH'kSQN. Paris, Jan. 16—The peace dele gates decided today to call news paper correspondents of the allied representatives into conference for an "interchange of views.'' It was believed that the recent "secrecy" order would be brought up and it is predicted it would be materially modified. By FRED S. FERGUSON. Paris, Jan. 16.—The inter-allied conferences were continued in the Quai d'Orsay at 10:30 a. m. today. The same representatives that at tended yesterday's meetings were •resent. In ihe meantime, the storm of protest .against confining news of the conferences to the official com munique was increasing. In addi tion the announcement was made that correspondents would not be permitted inside the foreign office building as they were Sunday. The correspondents were given the lib erty of standing in the court yard and watching the delegates arrive and depart in their automobiles. WI EE! A A! FIIIEE1F SIMMS Tin* « d dele ! gates m m, working at full spe*d tu«l.iy j to get everything in i t , the priin*i-| pies of Ihdshevi*-m.' . « '«denn«* dis patch report i.mI today. Tin* dispatch J said 111«* proclamation \\s issued by a! self-appointed dictator who placed tin city rm!«-r martial law. Bolshevik disturbances wer« report- 1 ; ed to have m:curre«i< t ion's rc< on the pr operat ion sets forth the • eradicated so that a j measure of justice and freedom i tablishcd betwern man and ma n. Principles of rlemociac*. should regu i late relationship of men in all tin i pt ions of human liberty, and opportunity must be ap The doctrine of co-operation must he applied as among various kinds of workers as well ns between woikeis anil pmployors . anrt no ,- kl . rs iln<1 lhp government. Co-operation, the federation's »• port says, "must of necessity pro part the mass of the people to participât« mare effectively in tiie solution of in dustrial, commercial, social and polit i cal problems, w hich continually i i , ! SOLEMNITY RULES AS ROLL CALLED TO PUT NATION DRY FOREVER Nebraska Solons Applaud Loudly ' When Lieutenant Governor Signs I Ratification Measure. *— --- i TJncoln, Ncl) , Jan. 16- When j the final roll was taken on the f«*d eial dry amendment in tlie Neb i raska state senate this morning, ! Nebraska solons answered to their ' names with a simple "aye" or "no." Ev«*rything was as quiet and solemn as a Sunday school. As the nano* of Senator Tanner «.f Douglas was called, he made no statement, but merely responded "no." He bad expressed his senti ments in private before that he considered ho was voting as his constituents wished. The senators applauded loudly ns L.ioiit.onant-C«ov •» rnor I*. A. Barrows signed the bill. Consider able demonstration was made in the house yesterday when mem bers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union sang several of 1 their songs from the gallery. Very few outsiders were present when th«* vot« s were taken h«*«mise the legislatur« convened earlier than usual this morning. j 1 ! ; J 1 ; ' j 500,000 MEN Il II ARMY ADVOCATED IN BAEKR'S PLAN Complete Rebuilding of Military Organization Called for In Tentative Bill; Opposes Uni versal War Training. Washingt for complet can army o found most ; laid before ; tee by Sr*, i hill . Jan. 10.—-A bill calling rebuilding of the Atm ri ;mi/ation along the "lim s ««'fui during the war," was e house military eominit ary of War Baker. The mid make, the general staff, lieu li the chief of stuff, supreme in the tern porn ry it orb is the a00,000 mm ! until Nome ! set tb cl on. flit fit UJ'C be Halo -ui,l b« Pin The pr« in I would not ml uni versai military training states would bo aid« d in re i g their national guard if they at* their -share of the burden* als encountered iinmitt« « , many cutting general io n«*e inst« i*I of increasing It. WHY 500.000 ARMY? rotative McKen ..ie, Illinois,« jy an army of 500,000 men was i re> ommende«!. a tor . ... lst of our military situa ition." Baker said, ! "Wo have no means of knowing what the military obligations of the United states will be in the future. We he 00,000 : Have an am ! old igat ions." ! Several members 1 llWM " e will meet these j would never be : jized. Baker sa i I he cut by futur« t digresses. terda y of a tank of moins Commercial st wo-million gallon a s on a wharf in -rot. At least 11 persons « won i.in, a girl, and nlri«* men lost the» lives and more than 60 were injured, many sen o * ; s ! v. Th«* money !«•*-• tta-, m-t ELEVEN KNOWN DEAD IN MOLASSES BLAST; SEARCH FOR VICTIMS More Than 60 Injured In Exploston of 2,000,000-Gal 1er» Tank at Boston Wharf. •light up objec or auo.LMMi declaring educed it nnce author - 1 th« 1 ska* could easily Boston. Jan. 16—-Salvage squads hunted bodies today in the wreck age of the buildings and wharves destroyed by the explosion yes been estimated The explosion w have been caused t nir end gas within the large«,» on th* a mixture nf i r g rea t tank, Atlantic sea chemists tank t( i > j i board In the opinion of stenrn pipes fixed in thi arm the molasses < rn gases to form, with the r tank of harmless nml i true a high exploRi\ e.. UTAH FAVORS SUFFRAGE •ilt Ulk« CID Utah, toil a v an. 16 I'tab for national m on record «»man suffrage. The res. Jut ion memorializing con to pass th«* constltutionnl amend ■ at f » i • woman suffrage was pissed both houses of th«» l«*gis1ature lute _% es terda* unanim««i The late TUB WFATHER Forecast for B*>i.so and Vicinity; BAIN TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. i For Idaho: Tonight and Friday, rain. Highest tempt rature yesterday, 47. i lowest temperature this morning, 3 à. , .M'Uii t«*nq>t*iaturo yesterday, 4". (ion was ' I i j i ! ' PROHIBITION AMENDMENT NOW PART OF AMERICA'S BASIC LAW; 38 STATES HAVE RATIFIED BILL Measure Made Part of Federal Constitu tion and Nation Goes Bone-Dry Year From Today; Every State, So Far Vot ing on Amendment, Has Ratified; Passes Nebraska House 98-0. Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 16—Without a dissenting vote both houses of the Wyoming legislature ratified the federal prohib j ition amendment today. Governor Carey immediately signed 1 the ratification resolution. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 16—Missouri today ratified the federal prohibition amendment, the house concurring 104 to 36 in the resolution passed by the senate earlier by a vote of 22 to 10. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 16—The Minnesota senate today ratified the national prohibition amendment 48 to 11. The house was expected to follow shortly. Santa Fe, N. M , Jan. 16—The New Mexican house of rep resentatives ratified the prohib ition amendment today by a vote of 45 to 1, Senate approval of the amendment was to be recorded shortly after the r csolution was received from the house. s * nr Will ful prohibition dale under Iho Lincoln. Neb.. Jan. 10.- Xebra.-ka, home inm Jennings Bryan today ratified Ihe IVdei amendment, being Ihe thirty-sixth and final federal constitution. The iialiuu goes hone-dry under Ibis amendment one year from today. The Nebraska house ratified Ihe amendment at 111:25 a. in., the vote being «JS to • ». I'hc joint resolution wmil hack to tiic senate for ei amended bv the liuust* mriirmiie, the hv Hie addition original ha\ ing r been if the house signatures. ] i j ] . i \ j | | it ii »hingt or r triumi onstituti nised it: enl. ui nollier « , Jan, If, tant tod fi ui itself. head ca fight ;is old the nine >ked upon y and was loi •rank notion." It gathered strength, t up, doctors follow ed organizations of anti-llq.uor m> , the anti-saloon league, and MAINE LEADS OFF. Churches and then In the middle of the 10th century ; Maine went dry. Kansas followed. At» the end of the civil war the little band j of anti-slave agitators, who had won j their fight, seriously considered turn- I ; j ng . to the prohibition battle. Their* «r number included William Lloyd Gar | risen and the poet, Whittier. j About 1900, came the "militant" '^jstag« in the person of Carrie Nation i Katinas, probably the most pic j turesque figure the fight ever devel oped. Ten years later the crusade against liquor had grown from the "ravings of cranks" into an irresistible move ment that swept the country. But John Barleycorn will try to stage a "come back." Distillers are already planning a fight on the amendment in the courts ' on the ground that it was not adopted by two-thirds of the whole congress and that the seven-year limitation in it invalidates the measure. DRYS NOT ALARMED. Drys say they are confident that neither of these conti nuons will h«>ld nn«i on their side are preparing legis lation carrying heavy penalties for vio lation of prohibition. A special ngen cy in the internal revenue bureau will probably he asked. The first 36 states rnUDing the jnmenilment are. Mississippi, Virgin ia, Kentucky, Vorth Dakota, Fouth j Carolina. Maryland, Montana, Taxa I Delaware, South Dakota, Mass-achu ; «et« :, Arizona. Georgia, I.ouisiana. 'Florida, Michigan. Ohio, Oklahoma, i Maine, Maho. West Virginia, Wash ! ingfon. TetlTicauf sas Iilinois. fnd Alabama, Kansas. Iowa, Colorado. ; Oregon, New Hampshire, Utah and j Nebraska. National dry leaders hero todav worn ab; nrnm, Arknn - , North ' oi olinii. j ronfldent that (tlstlliers- attempts tn| , foreo a referendum on the b'gislatm nd - vatifi*ation «■«'' the federal dry j ment in California and a dozen or mot mf other st, fes .aie doomed to failure. WEBB CANT SEE IT. The mnsiitutinn provides that an amendment must be ratified by the leg , Islatures t»f three-fourths of the states. ' it is hard to conceive how any state law or any section of a state constitu tion giving the tight of referendum to ithe voters could override a specific pro vision in tim federal constitution," Représentât ive Webb said. He is chair man of the house judiciary eommitL e and co-author of the Webb-Kenyon law. I Representative Randall of California pointed «oit that Ians of most of the ;.states which had the referendum pro jvided that the voters might pass upon (acts of the state legislature. ; j j I SWAN SONG OF BOOZE IS SUNG AS AMENDMENT GETS 36 0. K.S Nationwide Prohibition Be comes Part of Basic Law of America When Nebraska Ratifies Federal Amendment. ' the isth amendment to Washington, Jan. 16 rrohlbltion beoatn* part of tho basic law of th« 1'nltO'i States today. Katlflcation of the federal amendment by the Neb raska legislature makes that measure the federal constitution. All but a half dozen of tlio 46 states •lie expected to adopt the amendment In the next few weeks but the action "f Nebraska today gives the ratifica tion of the three fourths of the states the number necessary to administer John Barleycorn the K. O. punch. DROUTH BEGINS IN YEAR. cine year from today every saloon, brewery, distillery and wine press In Ihe land must «-lose |i s doors, unless, rs now twin, likely thev ar*> already , loser) nr that tinv h;- war prohibition whh h c■>", Into effect, n-yt July 1. end mers until completion r, f demobilisa tion. The nmendtnenl which outlaws llepier In this country rends Section 1 After one tear from the ratification of tills article the nianu j facl me. sole or transportation of In toxicating liquors within, the lmpor tation tin-root* Into, or the exportation thereof, from the t * î teel States and .«'II territory snbjeet to the jurisdiction thereof, for beverage Poses .nr« hereby prohibited. "Section The congress and the several states have the concurrent power in enforce this article by ap propriate legislation. STATES' O. K. NEEDED. "Section S The article shall be In operative unless It shall have been ratified by an amendment to the con stitution by the legislatures of the several states us provided by the con stitution within seven years of the date of submission lici t of to the states by congress." This is the amendment adopted by congress December IS, 1917. and rati fied by 36 states a little more titan one year later. And here are some of the things the amendment will do; Wipe «»ut at a stroke 236 distilleries; (Continued iiom Pago Two,)