The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1919, Page 1

Poses weceoewane, THE WEATHER: Warmer Tonight. isiiatienieatettaemiomeiniaainenoae ieee o TWIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUE DAY, JAN BERLIN IN STA EPOCH-MAKING | E {6TH ASSEMBLY GETS UNDER WAY WITH N. P. CREW House and Senate Both Organ- ized at Noon Today by Townley Partisans. FIRST CAUCUS YESTERDAY Hour Advanced Three Hours on Short Notice—Contests to Be Decided. The organization of the 16th gen- eral assembly proceeded today with the smoothness of clock-work. Al- though J. F. T. O'Connor's name was proposed by the independent minor- ity in the house for the speaker- ship, it was a rather perfunctory op- position, and no one appeared sur- prised or disappointed when L. L. Stair of Bottineau, the league cau- cus nominee, won the berth by a vote of 71 to 32. The election of (George A. Totten, Jr.. son of the Rev. ‘George A. Totten of the board of re- gents, to be chief clerk of the house, was acconiplished in the same ami- cable manner. In the senate W. J. Prater of Bis- marck was reelected secretary, C. } Olson of Bismarck desk stenographer and a slate of employes presented by Senator H. H. McNair, leaguer, of Traill county, was approved without a dissenting vote. The senate paid a pretty compliment to the men who have risked their lives in the service of their country when it swore in three khaki-clad soldiers, two of whom have seen active service in France. and one of whom lost an arm in the famous Yank charge at Cantigny. New Line-ups Apparent. The most striking feature of ‘both houses as they assembled today was the strong percentage of tew faces. In the senate there were missing men who had heen an institution there for two or three decades. While half of the upper. house.js composed, of holt. over members, eightéeit-of these holt: overs were elected two years ago for thir first: terms. and they ‘are: com- parative new-comers. There is a lib eral sprinkling among the newly ele ed members of the senate of member: who were™prominent in the -leagte house of two years ago, ;but there sy alst a considerable proportion of | who never previous to‘ this time ha’e, served in either house. \ Stair to Be Fair. ; Speaker L, L. Stair following his election in the house delivered a ‘brief speech in which he pleaded for har- mony and loyalty to the interests of the state from which pure factional- ism might be eleminated. He de- (Continued on Page Bight. STEEN CLOSES FOUR YEARS OF | GOOD SERVICE Retiring ‘Treasurer Conducted Increasing Business With Small Force. TURNS OVER LARGE FUND State Treasurer John Steen, after eight years of public life, four years us treasurer of North Dakota and four as treasurer of Pierce county, wound up official affairs Monday night and with a relieved sigh departed for his home at Knox, where he owns one of the finest ranches in North Dakota. In spite/of his popularity and eligibility and ability to maintain a family, Mr. Steen retires from public life as he en- tered it, a comparatively young mun, a bachelor. When the state treasurer turned over his office yesterday to Obert A. Olson of Bowman, his successor, and a Jeaguer, he made the Bowman man custodian of $1,257,580.69, the actual balance standing’ to the credit of the state at this time. A statement of the operations of the office of state treas- urer covering the lust decade shows that Mr. Steen’s four years’ steward- ship, in spite of advancing costs and | a great increase in the business of his department, cost.North Dakota no wore than previous administrations. The following data illustrates this fact : Oct, 31, 1907 799,310.07 : collections, — $3,259,688.84 $3,476,073.42; balance, $582,905 June 30, 1914—Balance, $1,633,417.29 ; collections, $4,704.2290.34 + + balance, $901,629.86. collections, $7.571,919.32; payments, $7.688,133.00; balance, $1,369,607.27. During Treasurer Steen’s incumbency the bonded indebtedness of the state was reduced from $662,300 to $412,000. The total funds invested in bonds and mort; July 1, 1915, was $7,783,- 131.77 and $3,542,960, respectively, and on July 1, 1918, $10,234,043.98 and In spite of this big increase in the volume of business to be handled, Mr. Steen’s office force at the close of 1918; was no larger than: it was.a decade BE PROMINENT IN NEW LEGISLATURE Many nationalities ure represented in the 16th general dssembly, and among them is at least one Icelunder, typical of the hardy northern race which hus contributed inuch to the development of the upper purt of the Red river valley. He fs Paul Jubnson of Mountain, Pem- bina county, one of the comparatively few democrats of this session. He ts a man who is considerable of a power in his own country, and he is expected to make his mark in this assembly. TELEGRAMS T0 MRS, ROOSEVELT REFLECT LOSS President Wilson and Former President Taft Send Mes- sages of Condolence AIR SQUADRON IS SENTRY| Fly Over Home of Deceased and) Drop Laurel Wreaths On ! the Ground { Oyster Bay, Jan. 7—Wive hundred | messages poured into the home of} the late Theodore Roosevelt last ev--! ning and today. One of the first to be received was the following from President Wilson sent from Mondane on the Franco-ltalian front. The mes- sage said: “Pray accept my heartfelt sym- pathy for you in the death of your husband, the news of which has shocked me very much.” It was only one of the many from men in every walk of life from states: mht; diploniuts; menibers df congress, rough riders, cowboys and former as- soclates in the west. A message = from queen mother, read: , Alexandria, the ““1 am..greived to hear of the , death of your great and distin- 4 Quighed husband for:whom | fad/! i gréat regard.. Please accept my | sympathy at ‘your irreparable { loss.” | Wormer President Taft wired from Harrisburg Pa.: “tam shocked to hear the bad news. My heart goes out to you - in your great sorrow. The coun- try can ill afford to lose one who has done and could have done in the next decade so much. we have lost .a.great patriot, a great American and the most command- ing personality since Lincoln. 1 mourn his going .as a personal loss.. Mrs. Taft and | send our deepest sympathy.” With flags at Oyster Bay at half mast the arrangements for the funeral go forward. High in the air over wagamore Hill army acroplanes main- tained a vigil dropping. wreaths of laurel. In accordance with’ the "wishes: of the former president the obsequies will be of spartan simplicity.. There will be prayer service at the house attended only by relatives. ‘At 12:45 services will be held in Christ church conducted by Rev. G. Talmadge. There will be no music or -honorary pall bearers. Mrs. Roosevelt’ has request- ed that there be no flowers. Former and present employes probably will bear the body to its final resting place. The burial will take place in God's acre of the old Young farm in a place picked out by the deceased as a fam- ily burial ground. He will lie among the fir trees in a plot overlooking the bay. The cemetery was established as a burial place two centuries ago. Theodore Roosevelt will be the first of the Koosevelt family to be buried there. The church in which the funeral (Continued on Page ‘Tnres.) 85 PER CENT OF WOUNDED RECOVERED, Washington, Jan. 7.—Of 71,114 wounded and injury cases tabulated from January 15 to October 15, 85.3 per cent recovered and returned to duty, the war department announced today. eDaths totaled only 8.1 per cent. NO MORE BRITISH TROOPS TO RUSSIA London, Jan. 7.—Great Britain will send no more troops to Russia. ‘Not more than 30,000 British troops are in Rusisa today, and these are being brought back as quickly as possible. {Many of this number. are ‘non-combat- ants, “ OUR GIRL REPORTER'S FIRST NEWS + 7, 1919. : ) PRICE FIVE, CENTS OF » weweeeweee eee -- ASSEMBLY OPE ANARCE eed woeeeenecesoconce= FROM THE LAND OF BOLSHEVISM { Vladivostock, Gateway to Terror, Gives Foretaste of Interior’s Miserie By PEGGY HULL Woman War Correspondent Now Cov: ering Russiaaud Siberia for the N. F..A. and the Daily Tribune, Viadivostok, Siberia, Jan, 7.—The gateway to, The Terror. That’s Vladivostok. I came to this forsuken corner of the earth to penetrate the blackness that surrounds Russia. I find that blackness rushing here to} mneet me—as it meets all travelers from America who ‘seek to enter Russia by its frozen backdoor, Siberia. : Savagery and civilization rub elbows here. Filth reeks amid wealth. Order and decency are nearly over- whelmed in a back-to-the-wall battle with barbarism, And these conditions are only a be- sinning to the awisery that rules in the interior—or so they tell me here. Human wrecks huddle on stone floors among vermin-infested rags— Others, drowsy, stare with vacant eyes— s Beings hardly step removed from extreme sav: ‘y drag their way thru} the crowd: “It’s worse thin this in the interior, a voice shouted in my car, “Think of those who couldn't get away !” Even before the gangplank = was | from the bout gripped) many. in dropped, we could see that abject: misery "an officer from rs remarked as we | passed through the custom hous ' T tried to, but one accidental whi sent me.reeling. toward the doors A dirty wharf and a collection of human, beings not half so well, kept or clean as the average village dog back | home—that was my welcome to Siberia: T began to realize. that T hadn't been altogether misinformed about this part | of Russia, | Our myuchine slidein and out of long lines of crudely. made: wagons drawn by bintstiithbling wrecks of hor “Hold Other machines us, rocking and Rail Commissioner; ; [ij ‘Opposes Ownership: By U.S. Government Washington, Jan. 7—Opposition to government. ownership of railroads was expressed today by the interstate commerce commisison at its hearing by Commissioner Edgar Clark. “Considering and weighing the best we can for and against the different plans, we are led to the conviction that ft would not ‘be wise or best to assume government ownership of rail- roads.” ‘He declared, however, that before returning ratlroads to private owner- ship again that there should be a per- iod of readjustment. He presented a detailed plan to be followed which {n- cluded: strict regulation of rates, service, - finance, security issues and pooling of facilities. GERMANS EXPECT TO 1-4 CLAIM INDEMNITIES. N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. Amsterdam—German must come s, Says Peggy Hull. bumping in high speed dver the cobble- stones. Tam sure not one was going less than 40 miles an hour. British, Russian, Japanese and Czech flags waved from the radiators, and the mo- ment we got out of the’congested traf- fic our chauffeur stepped on the accel- erator with what appeared to me to be a fiendish determination to outspeed our allies. T found Major General William 8. aves, commander of the American for and his staff quartered tu an imposing Russian home on the main avenne—Svetlanstkaye is one way of spelling it, and there are a dozen ways of preaouncing it. From a window in'thé chief of staft’s otlice T had a good nie of the street below. In less than 15 minutes I counted 13 distinct nationalities in the passing throng—their clothing as va- ried in style as their countries in dis- tances, On Main streef-even diring the most crowded hours there is a semblance of orderly procedure. Hére the ‘people pushed cach other off thé walk without an apology. ‘They bumped into slared at them. Many pedestrians took the street, but were chased back almost immediately by a speeding machine, I stood there and featfully watched the crowds, momentarily. expecting an accident. T couldn't believe auton Ss could. travel so madly “and recklessly strangers and through a traficladen Street and not |, hit somebody-or something. T ‘ihentioned it *to ‘ore of the gen- ral's:aides.“He had only been here a month but tis answer was as“blise as a native Siberian: “Oh, they get 1 to: » then, or a coolic.” h » British and Canadian otli- handsome, wel) dressed, distin- guished figures, rubbed elbows with the half savage creatures who filled the street below. Italians in smart gray followed he) their — watk ollicers moved — th erectness and ky driver now | 1 Two Chinese oflicers, in gold. red and blu aced through the et in an automobile aimost as mag: pnt as themselves is only, the beginning of Russia arch) it must ite in the interior—where Tam going, jus and as far as allied protection wborn American nerve, defying nm, Will take me? ‘WHERE THE HELL COULD WE JHAVE'SENT: HIM, SAYS COUNT WHEN SPEAKING OF KAISER London, Jan. 7—Count Von Bern- storff, former German ambassador to the United States is working every day at the German foreign office pre- paring data for the peace conference according to a dispatch from the cor- respondent of the ‘London Express. To the correspondent he said that he en- dorsed the plan for a lcague of na- tions, . He said that in it he sees the against the allies, says the Cologne | Gazette, “While the allies,” says the Gazette, “are debating how to make Germany pay, it is no only our right, but our duty to set up counter claims. The armistice conditions accorded us forward: with heavy ‘counter-claims” —————————————————————————————— THE U. S. WATCH ON THE RHINE Atherican sentries of the Army of Occupation are here seen on guard on a bridge in Treves, Germany ‘The small boy:and the‘German workman show no displeasure at getting into the picture, ‘ : Se only way in which to prevent war by a limitation of armament. “It. is unthinkable,” he said. “that any member of the former reigning house will ever be placed at the head of the German government.” When asked why the former kais- er was sent to Holland Bernstorff an- swered: “Where the hell else could we have sent him?” illegal and inexcusable block- ade injured us to an extent which cannot even approximately be, esti- mated. Above all, it costs us the loss of the war, with all the horrible consequences connected with — this Tho the. privilege of fixing our damages. | loss.” : 1 RRR RRR ee FIGHTING IN STRE Final Battle Expected to Copenhagen, Jan. 7.—Berlin i upon telephonic information. in all points. Jutionists. ing his troops for the final fight, there for two hours. Hundreds prevent bloodshed. attacked on a front of 12 miles. took part, including a company captured. the Bolshevik army on January 4 b McCumber Urges Leageu of Nations —Immediate es- league of nations | with Germany as a member was urg-| ed by Senator McCumber the first] republican to support President Wi son's policy. “The danger of any great war would then be pressed far into the realms of impossibility,” he said. He deciared that he wanted Ger- many’s signature to the agreement as she had menaced the peace of the world for 40 years. Continuing he} declared that such a league would not vitiate the Monroe doctrine but rath- er strengthen it. MAY KNOW FATE TODAY, Chicago, Jan. 7.—Victor L. Berger,’ congressman-elect, and four other so- cialist leaders charged with conspir- acy may know their fate tonight. The case will Ibel given to the jury late this afternoon. If convicted the de- fendants wil face a term in prison from one to twenty years. The des- cendants are indicted on 26 counts. ROBERT WADESON | | DELAYED BY DEATH Robert Wadeson, representative from Cass county, has advised Secretary of State Hall that he must be excused for a week because of a death in his fam- ily. j Washington, Jan. tablishment of a Dry Amendment Ratified in Ohio Columbus, Jan. 7.—The senate to- day ratified national prohibition. It now goes to the house of representa- | tives. LOOKING OVER SESSION , Congressman-elect J. H. Sinclair of Kenmare, who defeated Paddy Norton in the Third, is here for the session. ALLIED LEADER AS RUSS DICTATOR, PLAN. N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. London—Among the proposals for the settlement of the Rusisan prob- Tem is one for the naming of an al- lied comamnder 4s dictator in Russia for one year with troops at his back to bring order in the country. The plan has been approved by influen- tial Rusisans. dispatch received here at noon today. : ETSOFHUN CAPITAL BETWEEN ADHERENTS OF EBERT AND SPARTACUS GROUPS Be Fought Soon for Con- trol of City by Different Factions of Socialists —Machine Guns in Use on Streets is ina state of complete anarchy and civil war has begun in the German capital. This news is based Banks are barricaded and all pub- lic places are in the hands of the Spartacus group. At. several points firing has begun. The sound of machine gun firing is heard It is the intention of the de facto government to storm the police headquarters, which is the stronghold of the revo- Dr. Carl Liebknecht has been seen here and there, organiz- which is expected to start soon. Hundreds of people are fleeing from the city. BIG DEMONSTRATION By Associated Press sigh Berlin, Jan. 7.—The Spartacus group is engaged in a big dem-: onstration against the government. Liebknecht sympathizers are parading the streets, but up to the time of filing this dispatch no shots had been fired. Joffe Raedek, the Russian Bolshevik leader, is in Berlin con- ferring with Liebknecht upon continuing the revolution. are believed to be at police headquarters. The independent social- ists who have been dismissed from the government have joined the Spartacus group. Everywhere are signs of preparation for the final battle to preserve the revolution. The Wilhelmstrasse from Under den Linden for a long dis- tance ig packed full of government sympathizers, who have s' Tens of thousands of the They of youths are carrying rifles. Street fighting has occurred where Bolshevik demonstrators took away the banners of the government’s adherents. The American flag has been hoisted over the hotel where American officials are living. Nothing short of a miracle will LEMBERG SURROUNDED London, Jan. 7.—Lemberg is now surrounded, which is de- fended by the Poles. In the advance on Lemberg the Lithuanians . All Polish forces in Lemberg of women, of whom many were CAPTURE RIGA London, Jan. 7.—The port of Riga was captured at noon by , according to a Russian wireless ACDONALD IS UNPOPULAR IN LEAGUE RANKS Dog In Manger Tactics of Profes- sional Office Holder Lose Him Friends. The supreme court today issued an alternative writ returnable at 2. p.m, January 9: directing~retiring Superin- » tendent of ‘Public ‘Mmstruction ‘NY ©. ‘Macdonald to show cause why there should not issue a writ demanding that he turn over to Miss Minnie J. Nielson of Valley City, who dedea ed him in the recent general election. the office which he is withholding from her, he says, “in the interests of higher education.” ‘Formal application for a writ of mandamus compelling Neil C. Mac- donald to show cause why he should not turn over the office of state super- intendent of public instruction to his successor, Miss Minnie J. Nielson, was filed with the supreme court at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon by Attor- ney General William Langer. It was expected this morning that the court some time during the day would is- sue an alternative writ directing Mac- donald to surrender the office or to show cause for not doing so. Capitol people who are familiar with Macdonald's angles are predict- ing today that he will not respond to this writ. but will let the action go by default. vacating to Miss Niel- son under the supreme court order. They believe that this whole weird proceeding is designed by Supt. Mac- donald to lay the ground work for a subsequent action in which Macdonald will contend that he was compelled to give up the office ynder duress. Not Popular. (Macdonald has not increased his popularity with the rank and file of the league through this action. Ex- CONGRESSMAN SINCLAIR __ j presions in hotel lobbies are far from complimentary. Macdonald is receiving little sym- pathy from members of his own party. Bird Law Found Unconstitutional Washington, Jan. 7.—The federal migratory bird Jaw of 1919 under ‘which the government for the first time exerted authority over ‘prescrib- ed closed season for wild birds which hibitually migrate from state ‘to state was in effect declared invalid” today. by the supreme court which dismissed on the govrnment’s motion an appeal