The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. THE BISMAR TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918 ¢ ew WANTS EAGUE “PORK” TO LET BOYS IN FRANCE CAST PRICE FIVE CENTS JAMS $1000 BILL THROUGH VOTE PEACE TERMS STILL AGITATE BELLIGERENTS Germany Hopes to Drive Wedge Between Allies by Sepa- rate Arrangement. LITTLE MILITARY ACTIONS Considerable Importance Attached to Invitation of Chancellor to Continue Negotiations. READY TO ACCEPT. London, Jan. 26.—Austria has declared her readiness to con- clude separate peace without Ger- many, and to accept the Russian democratic program with the ex- ception of selt-determination of | nations, says a dispatch from Pe- trograd to the Exchange Tele- graph company. Another dispatch to the Ex- change Telegraph company from Petrograd, dated Friday, says: ‘The Bolsheviki newspapers to- day report that great demonstra- tions are taking place ail over Austria-Hungary. Workmen and Soldiers’ organizations have been formed at Vienna and Budapest. A big strike has begun at War- j saw. i The socialist congress at War- | saw has resoived to organize a revolutionary _ council of work- men’s and soldiers’ deputies.” BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. | Discussion of war aims—or peace} terms—is claiming public attention al- most to the total exclusion of military affairs. Active operations in fact, are in progress nowhere, just at present, | except in the way. of never ceasing cannonading along the various fronts, | andthe reconnditering activities. Echoes of the speeches delivered by Count Von Hertling, the German im- perial chancellor, and:,Count-Czernin. the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister are plentifully found: in the comment of the press, amd there. seems. com paratively little diversity of opinion in the various allied capitals. The prevailing view in London, as reflected in the press, is that Germany | has adopted what amounts to be at uncompromising attitude, desiring to listen to no peace terms, but her own, while Austria, although more conciliatory because of internal con ditions, nevertheless is unremitting: ly faithful to her German ally. A representative French view is that the central powers are revealed in tue speeches as trying to drive a wedge between the allied nations by attempting to open separate debates with each. Some of the foreign commentators attach considerable importance to the invitation of the German chancellor, for continued conversations on the subject of peace terms. ‘Scheidermann’s reply to the Chan- cellor as published in the Berliner Vorwaerts follows: “The chief arguments were advance- ed by the militarists party for pro- longation of the war, namely the suc- cess of the U-boats, and the strength of our army. But these were to have given ‘us a decisive victory in. six months ,according to the announce- ment made in 1918. Alas, that per- iod has long passed, and while the U-boat has admittedly harmed Eng- land enormously, its chief visible ef- fect had the entry of America into the w | ar. ‘If the United States had not enter- ed the war, we may be sure the Rus- sian revolution would have long ago have brought a general peace. “What tbout the army? Suppose the army should tapture Calias and Paris, wouldthat mean peace? I say ‘No.’ P “Suppose” the army | conquered France and England, would that mean peace? I say ‘No.’ for we would ‘still have to conquer America.” He fiercely attacked the militarist leaders declaring their attitude to- ward Russia was likely to lose for Germany her last friend. ‘If our government leaders cannot free us from these ‘patriots’”, the so- cial democratic leader said, “they had better go. I warn them that if they do not bring us peace with Russia they will be hurled from power.” He declared that an agreement easily was possible on eleven points of President Wilson's statement. “But Mr. Wilson must be told plain- ly”, the speaker said, “that Alsace| is Germany's and will remain so. It} one clear word is spoken regarding Belgium, England’s war :mongering will end. An honorable, complete re- instatement of Belgium’ 1s our duty. GERMANS RAID Paris, Jan. 26—German raid made on the French positions west of St. Goeben between the Oise and Ailette rivers failed last night according to the official statement issued today by the French war office. ‘WAR_ ON KALENDINES *Petrograd; Jan. 26.—An official statement issued today hy the Bol sheviki government says that on Wed- nesday the Congress of Cossacks from the front was inaugurated at the mili- tary. station of Kamensky and passed |FRAMED FOR CONSUMPTION |Speeches Interdependent in that | tria, one official suggested that the | notes, the German being almost defi- | PEACE RIOTS IN BERLIN London, Jan. 26—The Amsterdam correspondent of the Express says that extraordinary reports are cur- rent concerning a evolution in Ger- many, and that there have'been rumors of grave disorders in Berlin during the last two days, the rioters clamoring for peace. He also reports bread riots which were ruthlessly repressed by the police, many men, women anil chil- j dren being wounded. The corespondent admits that con- jfirmation of these rumors is imposs- fble, but thinks tirat it is remarkable that no telegrams, either press or com- Friday direct from Berlin, all com- ing by round about routes. None of Thursday morning Berlin newspapers have arrived. NO OLIVE BRANCH CONSISTENT WITH HUN WAR AIMS Washington Sees No Hope in Con-| tradictory Speeches of Hertung and Czernin Both Powers Represented , Act in Harmony Washington, Jan. 26.—No a:lvance to ward peace is seen here in the speech- es made Thursday in Berlin and Vie nna by the German chancellor and the Austrian foreign minister upon the war aims of the Central powers. Formal comment, will be withheld until the texts are put out by an au- thorized German agency, but after reading press accounts of the speech: es, officialé.expresséd the ‘opinion that they were framed largely for inter- nal consumption with the incidental purpose :to plant’ seeds © of discord among the allies by suggestions of separante negotiations, and to appeal to the sympathies of the radical ‘soc- ialist elements in the enemy’s coun- try. Striking Difference Regarding the designs to affect the internal conditions Germany and Aus striking difference of tone in the two antly aggressive, and the Austrian i | mercial, were received in Holland on ‘HENEY TURNS ALLEGE HUNS UPINSIDEDOPE CAUSE MILLION | ON BEEF KINGS FIRE LOSSES il Barges, Pier and Warehouses | on Newark Bay Are Destroyed. Joint Message Sent by Detroit Bankers Complaining That Ex- | pose Is Hurting Business. | 'PACKERS FIGHT STOCKMEN|FETERBORO 18 IN FLAMES | Winona, Minnesota, Scene of Seri- out Dynamite Explosion— Whole Block Affected. Investigators Show Financia! Ramifications of Meat i Industry. ' | pera aE, Washington, Jan. 26.—The big pack-| Newark, N. J., Jan. 26.--More than ing interests were charged today by! million dollars worth of property John Francis Heney, special counsel} lestr Li flre“believed to b in the Federal Trade commission’s in-| V8 destroyed in a flre*believed to be vestigation into the packing industry] the work of German. spies, which with having attempted to bring in-| burned up ‘oil, barges, a@ pier, ware- fluence to bear on President Wilson; houses and freight caré on Newark ae the present investigation ater] Bay close to the plant.of the Quarter- Mr. Heney told the commission that! master department of the Army. he would show later that a joint tele- AT LPETEE gram rerentlv sent to the president ie P FIRE AT PETERBORO a number of Detroit bankers protest-, Toronto, Ontario, Jan. 26.—A_ ser- a& ud. uae anvesugauien Was uisturs-| fous fire is in progress in Peterboro, ing economic conditions. Livestock! an extensive manufacturing town, 94 buyers throughout the United States; miles northeast. of here. Wire. com- vy the five big packers which would! munication has been ‘interrupted and have the effect of eliminating compe-| gerails so far are negative tition among them was also charged, Lindsay, a town twenty-five miles by Mr. Heney on the basis of a memor-! y way, sent aid during the night to help andum taken from confidential files) tient the flames. of Edward F. Swift. | = pane Mr. Heney’s statement was made in| Peterboro is a port of entry on the sonnection with the reading of fur-)Otomabee river and has many man- ther confidential documents taken) ufacturies of iron, wooden ware, wool- from the file of tue Chicago packers,| ens, It has a large export trade in which showed ‘that the packers plan-| grain, pork and lumber. ‘The popula- ied an elaborate campaign in 1916 to; tion is about 15,000. influence congressmen against order-| a ——_—— ng an investigation into the livestock | MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION und meat packing industry, as was Winona, Minn., Jan. 26.—A myster- vroposed in the Lorland resolution: [ious explosion that sent police res- Made by Counsel |erves on a hunt thru the western The recommendation was made hy|part of the city here «t night and rounsel for the packers that they! citizens to the streets in alarm was should undertake to ‘iave the judi-j traced to a sewer exc ion crew. siary. committee , flooded with tele | The heavy charge of iynamite had grams from.all over the.country, espe-| torn .a great hole in. tap : street, and vally the’~ congressional districts | shattered. windows for a block in all where the memers came ‘from, pro-| directions. Long distance telephone testing against passage of the Bor-| service was crippled for several hours, land resolution, on the grounds that} due to a breaking of the toll cable ‘vestock was selling at very satistaz-| by the blast. ! ory prices and any investigation}. Rumors that the city’s milling indus- would only disturb such satisfactory) tries had been blown up were widely conditions. Q | circulated. , “It is quite important to reach Gard| Dishes were broken in nearby of Hamilton, Ohio,” the memorandum | houses,\and plasters from the walls. compromising and insinuating, were caluculated precisely to meet the vary: ing conditions in the two countries In Germany, strengthened by the Rus- sian collapse resulting in the trans: fer of vast forces from the eastern to the western front, the militaristic party is in the ascendancy and the chancellor abandoning the concilia tory attitude he occupied when he as sumed office apparently voices the will of the military leaders. In Austria the working people arc reported in incipient rebellion and the demands for peace at almost any price are insistent and clamorous.. This is the explanation found here for the for. eign minister's vague promises 0! peace without annexations or indemni ties, and his special bid for negotia tions direct with America. Speeches Inter-Dependent It is noted, however, that the speeches are inter-depegdent; that Austria will not negotiate without Germany’s consent and approval, and that Germany gives her sanction to what has been done in Austria. Bott spokesmen express confidence in the success of the peace negotiations with Russia, in contrast to the bitter de nunciation of the conduct of the Teu tons by Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik’ minister of foreign affairs. This at titude, officials and diplomatists be dieve to be the result of apprehen sion that the confession at this mo: ment of the failure of the Brest-Lit ovsk negotiations would exasperate the German and Austrian publics be yond the safety point. In some quarters there was a dis position to find a grain of hope ir the concession by both speakers tha there were points in the utterances of Lloyd George and President Wilsor that might be acceptable to the Ger manic powers and afford the basis of further discussions. Practice to Mislead ~ .But other officials insisted that this was only another demonstration of the truth of President Wilson’s state ment in his address to congress, thal it was the practice of German diplo macy to mislead by declaring adher ence to large principles and then neu tralize them by insistence upon de tails of quite another character. The present belief of the officials is that there-is not the slightest probab- ility of a compliance by the United States and the allies with the final demands of the German chancellor for the submission by them of new pro- posals for peace. TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS _Copenhagen, Jan. 26.—The Russian Congregs of Soldiers’ and Workmen's Deputies, to which the Bolsheviki Government referred the question of war or peace, has authorized Foreign Minister Trotzky to continue the _ unanimously a resolution declaring General Kalendines . Hag Sees tae Petrograd dispatch reports, peace negotiations at Breat-Litovsk, a) - Fargo, N. D:, Jan. 26.—Two forms of verdict, one acquitting Anton Kov- of counsel reads. “Perhsp.s Proctor! By of Cincinnati knows him.” LANGER LOSES sentence of the memor recommended all the wnessages should | over,’ which undoubiedly was recog- nized by the packers also Indica-; ion & Co., but which carried a rota-| lin, and the other his daughter, Julia, ion showing that it was sent to all of! 14 years old, accused jointly of first “Put Something Over.” Questioned by Commis3ivn:r ‘Mur dock, Mr. Heney said the Proctor ierred to was the soap manufactur ANOTHER CASE Mr. Murdock found considerable be varied. He said it was the psychol-! FOR THE STATE ogy of congressmen that wien they; “eceived a large number of telegram: 2 identical in form, they suspected soiae-| Cass County Jury Finds Dogden body of trying to “put something Farmer and Young Daugh. | ter Not Guilty. tion that the packers had advance} nformation of what the packers were loing in regard to the Borland resolu-| don was taken from the files of Wil- he) five Me necking companies. The | degree murder, were returned ‘by the Wanted Sceret Kept. jury sitting in the case in the Cass “Mr. Faulkner (counse! for Armour) {county district court. vas received word from Washington! Judge A. T. Cole charged the jurors hat the Borland hearings have been|at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, follow- “efinitely set for Tune Do not|ing the closing of the rebuttal for mention the fact that we have this! the state by Atty. Gen. William Lang- idvance information as the offictaljer. The case was started in the dis- word probably will be out within a day| trict court last Saturday afternoon, or two. It is not believed that Mr.| and the introduction of testimony was fisher knows it as yet.” begun Monday morning. Mr. Fisher referred to was Walter} The case arose over the alleged Fisher, counsel for the livestock men,} shooting of Alec Panasuk, a neigh- vho were urging the investigation. | | boring farmer of Anton Kovlin, in Statements by Francis J. Heney|M¢Lean county, in the fall of 1915. hat Armour & Co. had been found to/ Anton Kovlin was. represented by ontrol the street railways of Kansas) Atty. Francis Murphy of the law firm) Yity was the first indication that the | of Fisk & Murphy Minot, N. D. inancial ramifications of the packers! —_—_____—_ j CHANGE RULING ouched many street rdilway systems. S Washington, Jan. 26.—Reversing an ‘The influence of the packers in earlier ruling, the fuel administration Tanaas City is more widesnread than| in any other city of the United States, | today held that newsprint paper mills axcepting Chicago,” Mr. Heney said. | come within the class of industries; Fvidence of the packers’ influence| that must be closed on the next nine ‘a the tin industry also has been dis-| Mondays to conserve fuel. ‘overed, Mr. Heney tbld Commissioner! The ruling was changed after the Murdock, who asked about that phase} Commission had reported that enough) of the inquiry, after remarking that] newsprint was on hand in the coyn- he nackers were broadening their ac-| try to supply newspapers for the next | ‘ivities in the production of canned | twenty-eight “days. zoods. Control by the packers over finan- rial institutions has reached such an axtent that when a packer asked for 1 loan from one of the big New York) yanks, thé bank wrote to Thomas E| Wilson, of Wilson & Co., asking if the credit should be extended, Mr. Heney said. Evidence that the packers had ob-| ‘ained confidential information in 1916/ caused Francis J. Heney, counsel for the meat packing investigation to pro- test publicly to the Federal Trade Commission against the practice of leaving the office of the Commission) unlocked. “I have returned several times and found an attorney for the packers alone in my office,’Mr. Heney said. GREAT DEPTH OF SNOW. Pierre. 8. D., Jan. 26—Snow is piling high in this district today BUY A $4.12 WAR SAVINGS STAMP The government buys it back from you January 1, 1923, for ~ $5.00 Buy it outright for cash. Or buy it on the installment plan: 25¢ down and’ 25c as often as you can spare it. W.S. S.. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Isgued by the United States Government This. space has been contributed by the publisher: ‘of | ; needed sorely for the freight conges-' | KANSAS COURT OBNOXIOUS MEASURE BE SENATE MARKS "07.485 TTITE WAITING | (egmmmmmms FOR REPORTS Committees S:ill Wrestling with Seed Bonding and Grad- ing Acts. BILLS ARE REPORTED OUT Number of House Measures Given First and Second Reading This Morning. The senate commiitee are still wrestling with the gram grading and seed bonding bills passed by the, TLINT house. It is probable that they will LINDA SOSH be largely amended in committee, and Chicago officials give this as the if passed by the senate in this form, creed of Linda Jose, Youngstown, O.,| they must be returned to the house for girl whom they arested because she concurrence, which means more de- Carried a satchel of dynamite, believ- lay. ,ed intended tor pro-German plotters: The appropriations committee inthe ‘I do not believe in God, govern- senate this morning reported in the Ment or laws. state hospital emergency appropria- “I do not believe in the ceremony tion measure, as passed by the house, Of marriage. with some slight amendments, and ‘! do not believe in war. recommended that it pass. The same ‘! do not care who wins: the pres- report came in ona bill appropriat- ent war. ing $5,000 to finance the state deposi- “I do not care what they do with tors’ guaranty commission. ps eee The insurance committee reported ‘That's’ what she said when in'S. B. No. 15,'an insurance meas- ‘Wizzed her, the officials say. ure, and: Senator Martin’s two rail-i !n.the girl's effects were found the way bills without recommendation. ,22me of an I. W. W. leader who. is they Ds i tesolution Neither of these bills is facluded in 20W in jail. the list of necessary legis’ ‘She is also an admirer of Kate cified in. the concurrent Richards O'Hare, recently entertained adopted Ly Loth houses. by Judge E. B. Totten of Bowman. House Bill Nu. 11 creating a state ————————. council of dete douse’ Bill 12, appropriating for mileage and per diem of members and officers; and House Bill 13, relating to county mu- tual insurance companies, were re- ceived and given a first and second reading. COAT TO PROVE BL PASO BRIDGE: HE’S YET POOR — Townley turned his coat inside | An Hour and Forty-Five Minutes out at the league caucus last night . . and produced a rip in the lining of Active Shooting at El to disprove allegations of afflu- Pas ence made in The Tribune's an- ‘0 nouncement of his arrival Friday. | He also assured his hearers that 009 SHOTS OVER BORDER he had had the coat for six de ae a months, and furthermore that Not Definitely Known Who Initi- ated the Fight With while he traveled in a Pullman, he slept in an upper berth. Much of his talk was devoted to mn criticism of The Bismarck Trib- Smuggers une, but he was much less acrim- El Paso, Texas, Jan. 26. — For onious than formerly, and he ad- mitted that“he couldn’t work up a first-class, violent rage against his enemies so easily as in the old days, when things were breaking harder. Mr. Townley informed The Trib- une at noon today that he would leave on No. 4, which is several hours late, for St. Paul. He ad- vised leaguers assembled at the | horse. Northwest hotel last night that According to the officers in com- he would not be much longer in) mand of the infantry company the fir- North Dakota. ‘He is devoting {ing commenced when several groups much of his attention to organiza- | of Mexicans, supposed to have been tion work in the new fields. smugglers, attempted to cross the riv- T : er. It is not clear whether the first Gross Negligence shots came from the Mexicans or the ° * American side. of cae irra e On the Mexican side soldiers kept up a constant fire apparently direct- hown by McA; 00 | ed at the custom house and the immi- gration service station at the Ameri- can end of the bridge. The’ soldiers of the American bridge | guard returned the fire briskly, shoct- | ing whenever they could discern a moving figure onjthe opposite bank of the river and at the flashes of their opponents’ rifles. At 11 o'clock the firing ceased, the Mexicans retiring toward the business over an hour last night American and Mexican soldiers exchanged shots’ across the Rio Grande at the Santa Fe international bridge southern section of El Paso. Upward of 500 shots were exchanged. One American, private, Linn, was struck in the lip by a bul-; let. One Mexican, who was directing the fire from the Mexican side of the river, was seen to topple from his Washington, Jan. 26.—Gross negli-| gence of railroads under private man- agement, in not giving proper care to locomotives, is the principal cause of the freight congestion, according to a report presented today by Dir- ector-General McAdoo by Interstate Commerce Commissioner McCord, af- ter analyzing reports of inspectors! who have investigated conditions at LEAGUERS RENEW ATTACK ON SOLDIERS’ VOTING PRIVILEGE AND INSIST THAT THE SHOVED THROUGH ‘FRAZIER BOARD FROM HUN SUBS Church Advances Novel Argument in Favor of Patterson's Ballot Bill. BOYS DON’T WANT IT—COLE Nonpartisan Member from Cass Says It’s Mere Matter of Sentiment. $10,000 GRAB BILL PASSES. The league’s soldiers’ voting bill introduced by Patterson passed the house this afternoon by a vote of 99 to 1, the only negative voter being Reishus whose two bills on the same subject were killed in committee on elections. The bill was passed with admis- sions from the league members that it was not entirely satisfac- tory and with the understanding . that it would probably go-into a» conference committee for further : repairs after it reached the-sen- < ate. 5 a % The determination of the. Jeague majority in the house.to force ‘the ac- ceptance of its soldiers’ voting bill, carrying an appropriation of $10,000'to finance ‘a commission tobe named by. the governor and which.may ‘exercise its own discretion as to the ‘soldters who will be given a right to vote-was made evident this morning when“the élections committee, headed:by..A. M. Hagan, again reported-out for passage Rep. Patterson's league bill dnd’ redc- ommended the indefinite postpone- ment of Rep. Reishus’ two ‘bills, which would enable soldiers: in foreigh. ser- e to vote by.mail: Met The league committee on..elections and election privileges did not com- plete its deliberations until after 11 o'clock, and the session, called for 10, killed time for more than an hour. The league bill came back in practic: ally the same form in which it was-re- jected Friday. The only important amendment provided for the holding ot elections by the voting commission. 25 days next prior to or 25 days next succeeding any primary election, in- stead of ten and five days, as ‘origin- ally set, and for holding such. elec- tions 25 days prior to any general elec- tion or within five days next succeed- ing. Chairman A. M. 'Hagen moved tne adoption of the committee's, report. High Principle Involved. Speaking on the three bills, Rep. J. F. T. O’Connor declared, involved in these measures the highest. principle of democratic government; the prin- ciple which brought America into this world war, which are the extension to all the peoples of the world a demo- cratic form of government. This is the first time an attempt has ever ‘been made to extend a vote” to soldiers fighting on foreign soil,” declared O'Connor. We are asked to consider the rights as citizens of the men most entitled at this time to con- sideration, the sons of men in this as- sembly, the very best blood of North Dakota, the ten thousand soldiers who perhaps this very night, as we .sit deliberating here, are preparing to go over the top in France. Against Commission Idea. “I don't believe the commission plan pronosed in House Bill 17 will, work satisfactorily. It might have worked when our boys were on the Mexican border, all within comparatively short distance of one another. It cannot work today when we have thousands of boys in England, thousands in 'France; thousands who have volun- teered in various branches of the ser- ‘vice ,and who are in the Philippines, in Hawaii and in other possessions scattered through every. land. “Furthermore, this bill makes it discretionary with this commission of three men as to whether these boys shall be given a vote—it is left with center of Juarez. The shooting caused intenses excite- ment in south El Paso, which is inhab-| ited entirely by Mexicans. The officer in charge of the military headquarters tion are in roundhouses, frozen or out at Jaares, declined te mare ony. state- ' : , ment on the telephone beyond saying St commission stor Jack eas | that the affair was trivial and that it | was ended. Since United States authorities a month ago inaugurated a rigid en- forcement of the passport regulations thousands of Mexicans have been de- nied admission here, and the officers believe that those who attempted to cross tonight were men who had been the principal points of congestion in| the East. Commissioner McCord reported that hundreds of locomotives which are; SAYS BELGIAN CLAIM HOLDS Topeka, Kans. Jan. 26— An echo of the German invasion of Belgium was heard in a case de- cided in the Kansas supreme court Friday. The court held tiat a mortgage on a Kansas farm, lost when the Germans sacked Belgian: towns, did not prevent the holder of the notes and mort- gage from foreclosing on property in. this state. The suit to fore- close was brought by Leon Bro- quet of Tournai, Belgium, against entrace into the United States under cover of darkness. RUMORS OF DISORDERS Madrid, Jan. 26—Rumors of disor- ders in Barcelonia are confirmed by reports reaching here, which state that groups of women started, riots Government has suspended constitu- before a driving snow storm, fol- The Tribune lowing a chinook wind yesterday, Sy ee ‘W. N. Mosier, of Morton county, Kansas. oe ‘Bai rejected and were trying to effect an} them to ‘say whether the boys in France or in Italy or in England shall yote, or whether only those in one of these countries shall cast their bal- lots. The commission can operate only in a limited space. The plan is cumbersome,’ awkward, unwieldy. “Let us leave the discretion with the man who has the right to vote and not with any two men who would form @ mojority of this commission. Sec- tion 4, providing for elections on dif- ferent dates and in different places outside of the sate is, I belfeve, un- constitutional. Can Get By Censor. “T understand the principal objec- tion raised to House Eills 15 and. 16 is that the ‘ballots might. not: get by the censor. I am sure that if these ballots were placed in an envelope, of- ficially stamped by the commanding | ormecer in charge, to show demanding cheaper food prices. The {fered tional guarantees in the province of Sms EVENING EDITION TO GUARD VOTE —