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RALD HOME EDITION WEATHZK FORECAST. Fair and colder tonight with cold ware; tempe-ature will lw iO to it degree. Saturday fair. TODAY'S PRICES -- 1 cr (Handy and Harmon quota- ', u rains, hlKher Livestock, .i -M.'ilcun bank notes, 15 Chi- imhua currei . K'i Cinua cor- . li'i. 16 PAGES TWO SECTIONS TODAY. DELIVERED AKTWHERS 69 CENTS A MONTH. LATEST NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. single copr fiyk cents. EL PASO. TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1915. ALAZAR SWEARS DEATH TO VILUSTAS a son TTTr iMiiiiisJsL 11 i Xj iTj-3L.k3V- JLLA Wil GAINS IN D..H:. Tnr.',Aa C;A 1 Ship Purchase Bill lo the Very End. CUMMINSATTACKS WILSCWS STAND Declares President Initiates Nearly All General Meas ures Before Congress. - ko- THi: DAY IN CONGHKS5. f $. Washington, D. C.. Jan. 22. The day In congress: - Senate, Republican senators contln- ned speaking against the. ad- ministration ship bill. w llaimi.. . ni'hntf cnntinilAri on the I nrmy appropriation bill. "- TT-r TVUINGTOX. D. C Jan. 22. A A vigorous attack upon presl- J T detit WJlson's influence on le gation and on the sentiments expressed 1.1 the president's Indianapolis speech -nas made by senator Cummins today in the coure of the TUJfcnstorot) the adnttaislf Ativffl BBHjszT'Sjs'ssrTsW " "One of the snMt nctlBHT d dangerous proposal! ever rnstdn PHO-Ji-." was his characterization of the bill. The president's speech he' at tacked at length. "Its effect has been and will continue to be to strengthen -1 lie Republican cause," he said. "I pre dict it will pass into history as a la mentable attempt of a president to forget the dignity always looked for in his high office." H declared it to be his judgment, that, taken as a whole, the course of the president, has. In two years, "turned bark the hands upon the dial of prog ' t.-s so far that his party will not asain be trusted with the time piece of the 20th century." Initiate All Legislation. lie attacked the president's Influ ence on congress and declared that, with the exception of the tariff law, :il' measures of general interest con : .derec! since the beginning of his administration had been "initiated" in the words of a cabinet minister. ' The legislative branch of the gov ernment has become a mere recorder. What the president really wants is a joui nal clerk, instead of a congress," said senator Cummins. His Attitude Destructive. i The attitude of the executive, the senator asserted, was medieval in 'its character and destructive in its ten dency Senator Cummins attacked all of the principal reform measures of the! Democratic administration and said that if the shipping bill should become h lav,, "we will have imposed upon the people the most reactionary and Inde fensible legislation which, so far as my knowledge goes, has ever appeared in congress." OppoHltlen Is Determined. Republicans of the senate at a for ma! conference held late Thursday, determined to fight the government ship purchase bill with all the re sources they could command, and to continue the opposition indefinitely until March fourth, or in an extra ses sion should one be called. Immediately following the confer ence, called by minority leader Gal liiincr, the Republicans began con certed action Thursday in the senate. .Senator 8 moot moved that the senate adjourn. This was defeated. Demo iiatic members, most of whom had ieen absent while senator Weeks con . luded his speech in opposition to the measure, voting It down. At the Republican caucus were a ma jority of the minority senators. In cluding several of the progressive Re publicans, among them senators Borah, Cronna and Bristow. On the motion to rdjourn, however, senators La Follette, :iapp and Poindexter voted with the Democrats. Can Debate Indefinitely. "It was the consensus or opinio! among the Republican senators," said senator Ballinger. "that we should keep up the fight against the ship purchase lull. We have thoroughly canvassed the situation and find we have a vast amount of material and plenty of talent for continuing debate indefinitely. How lone t will require to get our argu ments against the measure before tht nation it is impossible to predict." Senator Williams asserted that sena tor Townsend and the Republicans gen eiall were attempting to appeal tt "purely sectional feeling upon thir side." The thought that such a pro gram could be successful, he said, was founded in the "arrogant assumptioi of the average Republican that tht average Democrat is a fool." U. S. DOUBTS REPORT THAT CAROTHERS IS SHOT Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. Consular agent George C Carothers, In a dis patch dated Thursday, reported his.de parture from Aguascalientes. State de paitment officials said today they pmced no credence in published re ports that he had fallen in a personal encounter with Gen. Villa. El Paso, In Spite bf SEMI-MONTHLY PAY BILL FAVORED .The War At a Glance THK Germans have halted the French advance designed to cut communication with the Important fortress of Metz In Lor raine and Isolate the German forces in the St. Mihlel region. The offi cial statement from Ilerllu today says that the French lost heavily In nn attack near iont-A-Mousiion and Mere repulsed. The French statement acknowledges that the Germans hare retaken part oi tneir lost trenches. Another violent battle Is In progress In Alsace, in which troops are engaged In hand to hand strug gles. The Berlin war office as serts that the French were driven from the heights near Sennhelm. A dispatch to Berlin from Copen hagen sajs the aerial raid on the east coast of England was a Zep pelin raid of the latest type of ma chines. BIG WAR MAX PMXXEO . conference was held In Paris between representatives of Eng land, France and Russia who are reported to have under considera tion n Joint loan of three illllon dollars. Reports from Amsterdam tell of a hard, battle between Ostentl and Xleuport, which has been raging without Interruption for three days, notwithstanding the rains, flooded trepches nnd almost Impassable roads. At the center of the line, near Ceruny and Thann, Alsace, there Is artillery firing of unnsnnl violence. Another encounter along the Lorraine frontier. Is Increasing In force, and may develop into n battle of the proportions of that nt SolsHon last week. RUSSIANS XBAR GERMAN BORDER The Russian nnd German forces west of Warsaw have settled In down In the Intrenched positions nnd the battle line has become fixed almost -as rigidly am In the west. la the north, however, the llassjans are advancing toward the Prussian border, apparently having dispatched a large nrmy for this movement. The campaign In Gnll cts. nnd Hukowtta makes slow -htdvray en.ieccraut of the heavy Mrr. According .to reports from Hussion sources the retirement of the Anstrlans neron the Carpa thians still Is In, progress. BRITISH SHU'S TORPJ3DOBD Another Brltlsk vessel has been torpedoed by a German submarine. The steamer Durwnrd, a small mer chantman, was sent to the bottom but her crew was saved. inner iisjsits Follows Appointments With" Allocution Dealing With Some Phases of War. Rome. Italy, Jan. 22. The pope today held a private and public consistory, in the course of which he created several bishops and delivered an allocution dealing chiefly with the war. Rev. J. J. Brown, of the College of Jesuits, at Denver, Colo., was to be appointed bishop of El Paso, Texas. The pope began his allocution by ex pressing his deep chagrin that mojKii after month went by without even the distant hope that this fatal war soon would cease. .He alluded to what had beer done toward the exchange of pris oners, and explained that the llmita- , tions of His apostolic office did not per mit him to go further. As interpreter of the eternal law. the pontiff said, he could say that nobody could influence the jury, but he could not go further in this conflict. TO do so would be neither convenient, nor useful. Steers Neutral Course. The Roman pontiff, be said, as the vicar of Christ who died for all. must embrace all the combatants in his sen timents of charity. Being the father of all Catholics, he has sons on both sides in this conflict, for whose safety he must be anxious. Consequently it was impossible for him to look upon the special Interests influencing the people in this conflict, but rather the common bonds making them brothers in this faith. Urges Against Devastation. "Concerning our beloved Belgian peo ple," the pope continued, "we showed our sympathy in our letter to cardinal Mercier. Here we make appeal to the sentiment, of humanity of those who cross the frontiers of hostile nations, conjuring them not to devastate the invaded regions more than is absolute ly necessary from tho standpoint of military occupation, and above all not to wound, without actual necessity, the feelings of the inhabitants in their dearest possessions, their sacred tem ples, their ministers of God. their rights. their religion and their faith." Referring to those whose country has been occupied by an enemy, the pope said he understood -how burden some it must be to remain subject to administration of strangers, but that nevertheless the desire to regain Inde pendence must not lead them to any in fraction ef the public order, which might aggravate their condition. God's Hand in War. The pope said be ventured to express the opinion that God allowed people whose thoughts were entirely engrossed with things of this world to punish each other with mutual slaughter for the disdain and neglect with which they treated him. Continuing, the pope alluded to the recent earthquake in Italy, saying that other events had occurred which had obliged men to humiliate themselves befdre the powerful hand of God and he brought his allocution fbra close by urging the faithful to prayer. TEXAS BIS Tfl FIGHT SITU lose Minor Changes Asked By Railroads; Labor Men Urge Action. SALARY BASIS FOR. COUNTY OFFICERS House . Committee Reports Favorably on Joint Reso lution By Butler. A' USTIN, Tex, Jan. 21 Committer work occupied the attention or the Texas lawmakers this morning in both branches of the legis lature, action being on several meas ures. The house convened this afternoon -at 2, while the senate met at 1:30 in the afternoon. Recommends Seml-Monthly Pay. The senate committee on labor, after consideration of Smithes semi-monthly pay day bill, made a unanimous report recommending its paassvge. A number of labor representatives were pres ent O. Ll. Kingaley, chairman of the legislative., hoard. of kreemotive fire men and engineers, advocated the pas sage of the bill, declaring that under the present system many employes were greatly handicapped for money for living expenses. Not Opposed by Roads. Judge Hiram .Glass, representing the railroad interests, did not oppose the measure, but asked that certain minor changes be made and that the rail roads be freed from its operation until 1816. as it entailed considerable loss to railroads to make the change at once. The bill amending the employers' lia bility act," by Hudspeth and others, was postponed indefinitely on account of the recent decision of the third court of appeals. A hearing will be held some time later. Warehouse Bill Considered. Senate Judiciary committee No. 1 continued consideration today of the Wiley warehouse measure. Senator Wiley explained the provisions of the bill which requires railroads to shed their platforms. . A. H. Culwelt of the Santa Fe lines, explained to the committee that it would be impossible for the railroads to comply with that provision of the law, as it would entail an expenditure of nearly J2.000.oo0: Butler Resolution Favored. The house committee on constitu tional amendments held a two hours" session today and recommended favor ably the passage of tho, joint resolu tion by Butler providing for a consti tutional amendment placing all district and county officers on a fixed salary basis, according to the population of their respective counties. The amendment proposed by repie sentative SfcFarland. giving traveling men, railroad employes and others the riLht to vote whereTer they may he on election day, received favorable discus sion, and Its adoption will be recom mended later. There was considerable discussion relative to the date upon whifh ,all constitutional amendments recommended shall be voted on. Date FInnlly Set. Several days were proposed, ranging frcm August to November. It was firally agreed that the third Saturday of August should be selected, except in cases where proponents of measures prefer the first Tuesday in November. Xew'Henlth Officer. Governor Ferguson is expected this afternoon to send up to the senate for confllrmation his new appointee for state health officer. While the name of this offlcal has not as yet been announced, it is understood it will be Xr. V. B. Collins of Crockett, Houston county. He takes the place r.r rr ir. r p-vto nf Fort Worth, who declined' the position on account of protests by physicians of the state. CHARLES BAHNEY DROPS DEAD FRIDAY MORNING Charles Bahney dropped dead in the Mills building Friday morning at H ocVock. He was one of the pioneers who came to El Paso in the old fron tier days and was known to all of the older El Pasoans. He came here in the early Ws and made his home here ever since. He conduoted the Gem billiard parlor here at one time and was also -a chef in a local hotel. He was about SO years old and is survived by his parents, who live in Bloomtngton. 111. He has two brothers and a daughter living in Los Angeles, Calif. BIJOU THEATER COMPANY FILES CHARTER AT AUSTIN Austin, Tex., Jan. 22. Thd charter of the Bijou Theater company of El Paso was filed today in the state de partment. The capital stock is $6000. The Incorporators are: Charles Davis, Lamar Davis and John R. Fulkerson. Her Cottonwood Trees, Has Had No Cotton Panic (i CHIMMIE FADDEN" TO TALK. TO EVERYBODY IN CLEVELAND SQUARE BBBBBBBBSBslsABHBfifltt&k SBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBteBSfe jtsPlsBBBBBBBBBBBBsl Wfc ylHlMMlE FAUDEX"5 will have one of his famous outloor meetings Saturday afternoou at 3v ofcx!kro Cleveland , I , square. He will boom out hW lay sermon to the c-owds which will fill the open square, to nV'.tSe'lNew York " newsboy who calls himself "tie big noise," and wit is selling UeraldB this week". . - - " i The '"Chinmiie" meeting will be free and the newsboyoreacher nil! tell somie of 'his.slaPK .ajprjes. JXMJch. ipad.e him famous, will give his experiences as a newsboy in Xew York aid uill tell Hhc boys of El Paso how to live better lives. U. S. 1 DRIFTING TQ WflU An English Publication Sees Grave Danger in-Fresent Trend of Events. London. Eng., Jan. 22----The Specta tor, in a leading editorial article today entitled "A Great Danger." expresses "anxiety and alarm -at the way in which we are drifting toward the dan ger of a collision with the United States." This article speaks in praise of the good feeling toward Great Britain of many prominent Americans, but it re sents deeply the "indifference, indeed, callousness, toward" Great Britain and her cause, shown by the government of the United States." Comparing the present situation with that which existed at- the time of the Siidell and Mason arrests (1861) the Spectator says that British states men were as much at fault then as American statesmen are now, but hap pily the queen and president Lincoln prevented the war. lT. S. Plnylnt? German Game. Believing that the American gevern rrent would certainly be on the side rf those who are fighting to restore Belgium. , the British people "suddenly find America officially playing the German game and in effect trying to nrevent our bringing Germany to her knees and driving her out of Belgium. The disappointment is the greater be cause wc. like the Americans of 6J years ago. fancj- that our flesh and blood across the water are influenced by the thought of profit just as Eng lishmen were believed to have been influenced in the civil war. "So now America wants to malte a profit out of - copper." the Spectator continues, "and the American govern ment is on the side of Germany ami. in effect, claims the right to provide Germunv with the means of holding down Belgium and killing English sol diers and freely to supply the rhaterlal required In . bombs to slay noncom batants." CARS COLLIDE, ON MONTANA STREET; COMPLAINT IS FILED G. W. Hartsell, driving car 27-5. and W. F.. Arnold, in car 255, collided at the intersection of Montana and Mesa streets Thursdav evening' about G:5. Noithtr of the cars asbadly damaged t"- ' ,i:-e of tat- occupants was hurt. Mr. Arnold stated Friday morning thai he was driving eaat en Montana v.-hrn the car of Mr. Ilartaell turned into Montana from Mesa avenue. He lied crossed the intersection, he stated, v. hen Mr. Hartr.cll's' car apparently skidded and the two cars came to gether in a side collision. Hartsell filed complaint against Mr. Arnold at. the police station. FOURTH CAMP OF CANAL WORKS IS ESTABLISHED La Mesa, . . M., ' Jan. . 2J. Another new cam, of 60-.raen-.wlth .as many teams has leen established between here and Chamberino. This is the fourth large camp to be started since the beginning of the construction of the west side canal. HI nan WINSTIP Russian Forces in Northern Poland Force Their Way Close to German Boundary, Making This Their Main J viiensive movement, w mie merely nuiaing de fensive Before Warsaw; Inactive in' West. Lo::r pat ia o::DON, Sng.. Jan. 22. News dis patches referring to the situation Poland set forth that north of the Vistula in the vicinity of Llpno. Russian advance guards are within 20 miles of the German frontier, while to the northeast the' Germans have evacu ated Skemps, which is about 25 miles frcm the Prussian border and du southwest of Thorn. The western allies are watching this region just now with great' interest, and dispatches frSm Petrograd say that the Russians are pinning high hopes on this offensive thrust near the German line. Elsewhere they are planning merely to hold their own; .barring, of course, the advance through Transyl vania. The Austro-Hungarlans, how ever, appear to have been joined by their reserves in Bukowina, for the Russians themselves refer to the at tempted Austrian offensive. Qther news dispatches tell of the movement of Austrian reinforcements aimed to j check the Russian advance. i Suffering In the Bast. ! The suffering in Belgium, which the help, the American has gone so far to relieve is for the moment in the back ! ground when compared ro the destitu- tioQ of noncombatapL. in Palestine, I Poland and the Carpathians., from, I Palestine. Jewish colonists continue to flee to Egypt, being conveyed as rap : idly as possible by the American cruiser Tennessee. The destitution of I Poland Is said to be terrible and the j fleeing people of Bukowina are living ' like animals with caves and fighting with wolves for such sustenance as the onow covered country affords. German Trench Blown Up. I The German war office at Beriin ! issued a statement today in part as i follows: I "On January 21 in the western the- ater of war a continuous rain renders impossible any .important fighting be- tween the coast and the canal of La IBassee. Artillery duels took place near Arras. One of the trenches which we iook-day before yesterday, to the south I v.est of Berry-An -Bac. was abandoned I and blown up. It has been partly de ' stroyed by the collapse. of th wait of a factory. Attack XCar Verdun 'Repulsed, ' " "A French attack north of Verdun t was repulsed easily. After the battles of the day berore yesterday to the south of St. Mlhiei. small French detachment still . held out In the neighborhood of our own positions. By means -of an-advance, the regions before our front was cleared of all Frenchmen as far as their old positions. "In the Voages, north of Sennheim, our troops threw the enemy out of the FKFTnpRira bUhWUk I W I IIWWW1III EI CHECK ADHNGE heights of Hartmann-Weilerkopf hills. We took two officers and 125 men pris oners. "In the eastern theater of the war, the situation is unchanged.." Germans flomhnrri Nienport. The French war office this afternoon gave out an official report at Paris on the progress of the war which reads in part as follows: "In Bcleium. the enemy bombarded Nieuport with a fair degree' of violence"! Thursday. , "The situation in the vicinity of Sois sons shows no change. Near Berry-Au-Bac. a trench which we were compelled to evacuate from a violent bombard ment, was recaptured by us.. French Driven Ont. "Between the Meure and Moselle: To the so-ith of Sl Mi'niel, in the forest of Aprerr.ont. an exceedingly violent bom bardment made it impossible for us to retain the German trenches occupied by us Thursday for a distance of 150 yards. "To the northwest of Pont-A-Mous-son. in the rorcst of Le Pretre, the en emy Thursday recaptured a' portion of the trenches taken by Us January 20, ,iut we are maintaining ourselves at all other points of thi3 position. Bullets Carry Teeth, Metal andMoney from One Soldier To Another, Say Surgeons Parir, Frrnce. Jc-n. 2J. The remark-I able wounds that arc caused by rico cheting bullets and secondary projec tiles, apd aie being discovered in ever increasing variety are commented o3 by Henri de Varigny. in the Dcbat. Not only are deformed bullets fre quently found in wounds, but with them such unusual substances as bits of bone from the bodies of other men, metal and medals and money, pieces of cloth and other articles. The presence of these extraneous sub stances in wounda invariably means that thev have been nroicted bv rico cheting bullets. An officer" recentlyxj was found to have been injured by part of the forearm of one of his men; one man was struck by a stone that had been projected by a bullet. Jn another case a part of one man's jaw bone was picked out of another man's body wound; still another sol dier lost the sight of his eye by being struck with a fellow soldier's tooth. From the various field hospitals come reports of finding in supposed bullet wounds such unusual objects as buttons, nails, fragments of eye glasses, pieces of teeth, slivers of wood (Continued on race 13, Col. S). Corralitos Rsinch Raided by Former Huerta General; tlolds Up Cowboys. VILLA ARMY IS NOW AT REATA Querelaro Being Attacked; Villa's Governor to Yield, Says Report. WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 22 Zapata forces were within four miles of Puebla when an of ficial dispatch was filed from there to the state department late Thursday night, and the Carranxa defenders were reported loading artillery and equip ment, apparently for retreat. The Car ranza. troops recently drove the Villa -Zapata army out of the city with heavv loss. OJhregon was reported a few da -ago within 30 miles of Mexico Cm Another report stated he had forced the fighting to the outskirts of the capital and jas then preparing to enter the city. Curranza reports for the weci; past have stated that Obregon wou!l( occupy the capital within a few da s When the menace of Obregon became serious, Gen. Zapata is said to have sent a large army east from Mexico Cif It would appear that these forces were successful in forcing Obreson back upon his base, with the probability that the Carranaa commander will be forced to retreat further toward Veracruz. Other official reports were summar ised at the department in this state ment: "A dispatch from Mexico City sav strict orders have been issued against any kind of depredation under pain of death. The convention did not trans act ar.y business of importance on Jan. 19. On Jan. 20. Mexican dollars went to 12 te cents. The local supply of pe troleum and gasoline in Mexico City is reported about exhausted. Troops of lien, villa are now at Reata. A large force of Carranza troops, under Gen. Vasquez, has re treated back to Monclova." "I AM against ViUa and all Villis tas. I will kill every one 1 can get my hands on until thi v 'get' me." This statement !t is claimed was made by Jose Ynez Salaaar to an American rancher Sunday at the head quarters of the Corralitos ranch. Sal-a-ar bad just raided the headquarters, taxing 35 horses, about a dozen sad dles and all of the food and supplies at the headquarters. The American ar rived here Wednesday. Has C Men iu Band. As far as is known the rancher is the first American who has seen and talked with Salaxar since the "Colorado" lead er retu.ied to Mexico after his sensa tional escape from the jail at Albu querque. Salazar had with htm 62 men all well armed but many of them with out mounts. All of them are now mounted since the raid on the ranch headquarters. Says U. S. Backs Villa. "The United States has backed Villa through all of the troubles and in trigues in Mexico." Salazar told the rancher. "The American government has considered the other factions sim ply as step children. But my disagree ment is not with the American people All I want is to' fight the Villistas. I will kill every one of the Villistas un til they "get me.' "I want it to be known that I did not join with Huerta through any belief or hope that I would increase my stand ing or better myself. I allied myself with him simply because I thought thai it would bring peace to Mexico all the sooner. Huerta, I firmly believed, wpi in better position, at the time he a sunied the head of the government, to secure peace for Mexico than any otlie man who has appeared in Mexican pol itics durins the long fighting." Salaaar stated to the American that he had had no fights with the Vil listas except at S'abinal. shortly after he arrived in northern Chihuahua. The Villista at that time, he said, nearly captured him. Holds Up SO Cow bo; s. Prior to the raid on tiie ueadquu' ters. Salazar had held up u band ' about 50 cowboys who were rounding up cattle and had taken from them nil their supplies. According to the American, Salazar is only killing cattle when he needs fresh meat and i3 rnt wantonly destroying anv properu After remaining a short time at the headquaiters of the ranch he and Im hand left for the foot hills. He is still located en the ranch property. . Apparently no effort is being made ! anv of the Villa garrirons to cap ture Salazar. the American states. T! authontes are adhering to their polli v of keeping the Isolated towns an I ranches deserted and concentrating all of the people in the stronjeiy irarrisoneti towns, such as Car.as Grandes. Both Manuel Gutierrez an Jose Campa are supposed to be with Sala-ai, the American said, but h did not s either of them. The American haa (CentlR'irO on I'ne 5. (ill. 2.