The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 1

NE CENT to Orso pee Ae anne right bd Const ene, CENTS elsewhere. tehe' by The Presse Pablisbing ‘The New York baa. HOUSE ADOPTS ROOSEVELT f ARMY ecginciics Bill Goes Back to Conferees ® for New Report Embracing Volunteer Cl Clause, "PUSSYFOOTING’ DENIED SENATE STRIKES Into the Debate. By Samuel M. Williams. Special Staff, Cormpeprestent of The E WASHINGTON, May 12.--By a-vote | ©f 215 to 178 the House to-day, after 38, in Committee of the Whole. WASHINGTON, May ping 12.—By a @ wrangle of two hours voted to In- wtruct its conferees on the Army bill | to restore the amendment to permit Col. Roosevelt to lead a division to rance. Unless a cemsorship The amendment adopted to-day is | mado in the Senate, Adentica} with the provision of the| Session, the President will not bill adopted by the fected in conference. wi get togetirer again Monday to formulate a new report, including provision for the four Roosevelt vol- ‘unteer divisions, Meanwhile all plans for the new conscription army must held up pending fina! action in tongress next week. War and the Navy, SPEAKER CLARK i sca ener 65 to 5 WHEN HE VOTES “NO.” Speaker Clark, the last to vote wildly cheered when he voted © Whole Gregory to-day Espoinage bill the Ss e but e- Senate but re-| war government as sought by A ney General Gregory. After the censorship clause had The conferees Dem« am and ndment providing for specific press censorship u was lie use’ “no,” of cereals, grains or other ble things in the manufacture of ‘velt amendment. Representative Sherwood, Democrat, Onto, a Civil War veteran now eighty- | amendment, people who are best informed, two years old, also received an ova- | people of this country and the coun- tion when he voted for the Roosovelt | tries with which it is allied will be|ernmeats, through thelr food com- lan, starving. They may have enough to| missioners, held a natural corner. Majority Leader Kitchin nged| sustain life, but they will not have|At ono time they were “long” grom bie intended vote and responded | enough to sustain strength to make | 29,000,000 bushels of wheat in the Sno” Administration icaders gener. | t8e™ a Vigorous fighting force. Wither | Chicago market. Much was closed { 2 . | we will have to do without booze or | out th They had wanted | @lly voted against the Roosevelt | we will have to do without bread. out some time ago. They had want amendment. am in favor of doing without booze. jie actual grain, but finding that Immediately after the House vote 7 action on the censorship clause | much of it did t exist and that was reported Representative bey llladen throw the question into | bottoms necessary to carry it abroad Gee Madd cares Wecthe Genale| tant, Where the. fall foros of the | en tet Seem they reduced their Steak roome ‘and held a conference | Administration will exerted to put a| Holdings, and by force of circum- with ‘Republican, leaders there ri through in some form. stances took a handsome speculative | {| 4g generally believed the Senat HA Ra a beta 4 follow the action of the House bit effective | send the bill back to conference only ft . OOSEVELT IN SPOTLIGHT FO Da Cou Nevers " NEW TARIFF BOARD ACTS For two hours Col. Roosevelt fn tho focus of the Congressional| spotlight, not in person but in name war ARMY PLAN, 215 10 178, .. AFTER 2-HOUR WRANGLE QUT CENSORSHIP bert. of Wn ts PART OF SF OF SPY BILL = Clause Is Voted Voied Down, 39 to 9 to 38 the Senate in Cqmmittee of struck out of the section | crtablishing a censorship on the press provision is acting in regular] the power to curtail criticism of the stricken from the bill, Senator Kirby, at, of Arkansas, introduce: a definite the supervision of the Secretaries of and that was de- Prohibition against the employment | Cummins in offering his prohibition | “if we may believe the TO SAVE U. §, MILLIONS WHEAT PRICE FIXED AT $3.18 A BUSHEL BY BOARD OF TRADE Speculators at Once Begin to Bull July and September Deliveries. CHICAGO, May 12.—The settlemont price for May wheat, wiped from the Board of Trade yesterday as a specu- lative option, was fixed at Lee a bushel to-day. The price committee, ft which James A, Patten was chairman, met an hour before the opening of the board and fixed upon 83.18 as the proper price, for the reason that this was the figure established by com- petitive bidding at the close yester- day. Speculators to-day jumped into the July and September futures. The re- sult was sharp rises in both options. July opened at $246, but quickly jumped to 5, at which it closed, September opened down 3 centy at $2.14 and later reached $2.75, closing at that figure. "There are in Chicago public eleva- tors 219,000 bushels of wheat of the grade required for delivery on con- tracts, A rough estimate places the amount contracted for at perhaps a hundred times that quantity, Had not the board intervened, it is sald, probably 99 per cent. of the contracts would have had to be settled at any | Price, even $10 a bushel, demanded by the holders of the contracts, in trade parlance known as “longs,” who held the sellers, or “shorts” absolutely vote have ttor- been dan nder edi- bev- fs was Minority Leader Mann, who |erage liquors during the war and one at their mercy. ‘voted the same. |year after was proposed as un amend-| The situation differed from a Miss Jeannette Rankin won loud ap-|ment by Senator Cummins. corner, in that the holders were scat- plause when she voted for the Rooso-| “Within ono year,” said Senator| tered, whereas, In a mantpulated corner the supply {s congested in tho hands of an individual or a group of speculators acting as one man. As’a matter of fact the Allied Gov- the 0,450 STUDENT OFFICERS ARRIVE. AT PLATTSBURG 1,200 New Yorkers in First Con- | Eulogies of praise, shafts of sar Mt ccrmp~eponal | tingent—Others Will Reach ’ m, predictions of glory, denunceia- | I’r es That Customs Increases | Camp Monday. ¥ Giovs of self-seeking and even booms in War Tax Bill Go Int | ce — ‘ for the Presidency of 1920 were fe s | PLATTSBURG, N. ¥. May 12— mingled in the rapid fire ey ti Effect at Once | Twenty-four hundred and fifty men, the House WASHINGTON, May 12.—The|the first contingent of the Platts- Party lines were cris crossed Tariff Commission's first t has|burg training camp, arrived here to- though a majority of Roosevelt's | ¢ to recomni legislation ex-|day on nine special trains, t Jew backers were Republicans and his op- |Pected to save to the Government | Yorkers numbering about 1,200 ponents chiefly Democrat Tam- | millions of dollars in reven The | coming in forty-five « many sneered at T. Re while Mis-|Commission proposes that all the The first arrivals detrained at 4.50 sissipp! and Texas shouted for him, | Customs Increases posed In the lat hour Kansas and Massachusetts’ led the |W" ‘x bil shall & ne effective # bringing the fight for him, while Vermont and |f"0™ the date of the report of the vists under or- New York were against him, ¢ r ¥ ih. La Hou ' * tor tt camp to-da and jeerd alternated every few min importe ty uild which utes, All that was needed to com t quantitte » he iticers dure plete the liveliest Congressional show Wiley Shey AO EBSIE SUBY BE the Oe a ene of the season was the Colone} himsc!f| fhe Commission has ordered in- | rush work shouting and gestloulating from the vestigations Into the chemical s | in on. ‘um, “| eda ornare ye Be SD 4 i hide Bead ep F Lt will not be possible for us tol Otior phases of the. sheep oe usthy | iente on Monday EN Rate and made tentative plans for investi- . (Continued on Fourth Page.) geting the silk situation, (For Rasing Results See Page 2.) MERCHANTS CHEER BAL FOUR; LORD CUNLIFFE, WARNS UL § “British Fleet Defends Human- ity; Germans Butcher Help- less,” Declares Envoy. Hon, Arthur J. Balfour and his fel- low members of the British war mis- sion were. the guests of honor to-day at a luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce at No. 65 Liberty Street. The British emis- waries found themselves facing & mobilization of the captains of fn- ance. Among their hosts were 2 to answor to every name which stood for big business downtown, for | three generations. Gen. Joffce and M. Viviani of the Fretich party were in) Boston and Ottawa, respectively | ‘The great and rather solemn hall) of the chamber was lightened by fes- toons of the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack and the Tricolor, Presi- | dent Outerbridge of the Chamber, In welcoming Mr. Balfour, said In part: “Mr, Balfour, we have been proud to welcome many of your distin- guished countrymen here before, but we are prouder still to welcome you and your Commission here to- day. “There will be a new world after this war is over, a new civilization, a new humanity, a renewed and greatly vitalized Christianity, out of which will spring new conceptions of national and personal relations of social and religious life, of liberty and responsibility. “Those whom God has joined to- gether to battle for lMberty and the enduring peace of the world, let no man and no cause put asunder.” BALFOUR RESPONDS TO WEL- COME WITH DEEP FEELING. Mr. Balfour responded with evi- dence of deep feeling, voicing his amazement and gratification at the strength and scope of the welcome to his mission, Mr. Balfour brought the blage to its feet when he referred to the British fleet. Ho said that the power of the fleet had always been exercised in behalf of humanity and the freedom of the human rice. Then he asked this question: “Does anybody think that if sea power were transferred from British to German hands you could say the sam There were o of “No, noi” and cheers for the British navy. The distinguished Englishman con tinued: “‘By thelr fruits ye shall them, German autocracy and the German people have known th could not triumph without breaking down that sea power, the great guar antee of liberty. “GERMANS BUILDING A FLEET FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS.” “The Germans have been bull a fleet for eighteen yoars to dest the country with which they have quarrel, but whom they regard wit instinotive jealousy. They have assem know not disappoint Their fleet ha n harbor (great laugt t puts out to sea Is not whose accompitsh has been the destruction of dete leas merchantmen and the bute of nelpless men and women Mr, Balfour 4 4 that warfare of the past was | a its worst con ed to ti reser German sea policy, He spoke of tii restricted safety zone, adding “And in those areas noutral ships (Continued on Second P ) AT LUNCHEON, TO ECONOMIZE ‘150,000,000 ACRES OF LAND SEIZED BY RUSSIAN PEASANTS Executive Committee of Work- ers Against Le eabese by Vote of 23 to 22. PETROGRAD, May in many places throughout Russia peasants have taken matters in tivir ows hands, Pleas by Duma represen+ tatives sent broadcast throughout Russia to preach the doctrines of the| |new plan of government and to tell} the ignorant peasants to wait for complete organization are apparently falling on deaf cars. Word recelved to-day indicat that nearly 160,000,000 acres of land have been selaod by the peasants throughout Russia. The peasants could not wait for thé promised breaking up of vast estates under pledges that such a distribution would come soon after the constitu- ent assembly had definitely mapped out Russia's future. Confiscation and distribution of Jand has in many sections of Russia been formally decided upon by vote of popular assemblies. ‘The entire Russian protetariat in- dignantly rejects the idea of arate peace, said M. Skobeleff, a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Counell of Workmen's and Sol- rs’ delegates, in reply to a ques- a sep | Germany ee ae WEATHER—Cool to-night mnd to-m 19 RAGES PI RICE ROR (Siberia Gre ei aeniee GERMAN LINES SMASHED IN NEW DRE BY BRITISH; BATTLE ON 1o-MILE ron _auweeree sv Gen. Hatg’s report to the War Office wald: “Very successful operations were undertaken by our troops last” night and early this morning, At~ tacks were ‘delivered on the Hin- denburg line In the neighborhood of Bullecourt; also astride the Arraa-Cambrai road and north of the Scarpe. 3 “We gained our objectivés at ali points and bave taken some hundreds of prisoners, “Local fighting, resulting ip our favor, also took place during the night east of Lempire. “Successful raids, in which we captured several prisoners, were made by us last night east of Ypres.” (To-day's Berlin official seport gives a further indication of the extent of the new British attack pire, as w equal suffrage In Prussia—now purently on the way to accomplisl mt, though not yet promised even “after the war.’ “This programs fundamental and excellent—so excglient indeed that it is extremely unifkely to bo granted Message Says Early Peace and Downfall of Autocracy. Amvtiesn pootaiwta vom wort wiaig Attacks Near Bellecourt, thelr colleagues ot Germany to-day! Along the Cambrai Road and on go; thaté the war against Germany must be continued by the democratic * é F peoples of the world until this result Objectives in Each Move. ‘The message was cabled by the Na- tlonal Executive Committee of Social onal Executive Committee of #ocia-| EVR ENCH MAKE NEW GAINS; Neves ohn pause reduati at its BIG BATTLE AT VERDUN text be forwarded to German Soolal- at The message..constitutes @ virtual ‘feagree egy ap tron ger mara notible advances, Halg on the Atras lime and Nivelle om the Verdun front, they can bring about the end of the| Where unusually heavy artillery figiting took place in the region of war very quickly by overthrowing! Ayocourt. French patrols penetrated the German lines at several points menta} machine, “The democratic peoples of the / The British attacked near Bullecotrt, and on both sides of the Arras- world now in longue against the! Cambrai road, and north of the Scare River last night and early this pelled to continue their war againat | Morning. and ber autocratic allies until the Kaiser and Kalserism are “The German Socialist faction that opposes the Government has already | 10 SPEED ROOT MISSION realized that both an early peace and power of the Kaiser should be rigidly Chairman Holds Conference With and immediately ourtulled and they Baker and Other Officials on have announced the following pro- “Responsibility of the Government agg enka Ma ee to the Relehsta, Reichstag control ec ahd wears cquai Holohstag| Will be speeded because of advices of per houses afjthe states and the em- recive seo pipes ase day with Frank Scott, Chairman of of National Defense; Gen. Crozier, Chief or Ordnance, and Secretary Baker to discuss the problems to be . German Liberty Demand that the Kaiser and Kalseriam must : : the Scarpe River, Gaining His is achieved. Berne with specific request that its LONDON, May: 12—British’apd) French War Offices today xéport appeal to the German Socialists that he Kaiser and nis autocratic govern- 3 in Alsace and in the region of Bezonvaux. Kalsor and Kaiseriam will be com- a ee tho aonasae read. | DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA German liberty requiro that the Problems Involved, gramme as a cure for Kalserism: staction dictitotsy chelition of the up= |menues internal: Sissaramens Hotes the Munitions Board of the Council solved, tion to-day concerning the visit to the In the State ‘Department it was said ion tty i napreventatives of the| Without @ protracted series of over~|no oficial news has been recelved di- $0 ie Aree eee Europe. council. whelming German defeats. It is fully] rectly from Russia for three days, ho Germans say that fighting iach sd that every soldier who{half of what is needed. But it ts not] ‘The route and actual time of de- forelopen: aioe Sirtee nee greed to a separate peaco with the| sufficient. Tho Hobenzollerns must] parture of the Commission will be py je and Queant. This is @ Germans did harm to cause of | 6°. kept t ee some SES miles. Russian démocracy, The army, he de-| ‘The rest of, the world realizes, —— Bets. pe last night aro ired, should be ready to fight. It| whether the German peopl a |624, 700 W. Y, oY MEN ones 0 have been nust not be content to remain in the] or not, that Mberty in Germany and | frelon) parent cam one ut should take the offen-| peace ¢ world must remain a FLIGIBLE AS CONSCRIPTS speak partioviagly of Saeeala fo © and carry out the movements) shan as long ay the Hohenollerns [sprek periodate Se eee Ag pene utegy deman Jand thelr supporters retain any real a deh M r of War Gutchkoff to-day | power Director of Census Bureau Finds} span a ne a ee “< . proclamation to” tye) “Bus whether G prefers a 10,000,000 in U, S. Will Be British, summoning thelr energies to People who hate Russia SepUnio nes Rogatitations! Meee] Subject to Draft, the full, pushed over the Germans ; ! age jthe Hohensoiterns adition and and held the position—with a German 4 acting the worm . o prestige must'not only formed WASHINGTON, May 12. —= Ten| trench extending half a mile to the TY, moring for the end tt muat be broken. The Kaiser bim-| million men in the United State: north, several prisoners and three the, war, An active campaign ‘9 self claima that Kaiserism is to be gressing against dis nce pre and Do ten to traftors. In- sist ranks observe discl pilne c ont, rbey y it | y Executive Committee of t council of Workmen's and Soldiers’ | Dolegates has decided ne mi t of Petrograd, in the report that the District C tee had broken away from t (Continued on Fourth Page.) | tne world that a reformé selective con: within the ages agreed machine guns, Jemocratized and thus strengthened ‘This fighting aptly Mustrates the in ita fight against the other nations, tion on July J, ther nati upon in the conference report on the| sort « ° ‘It will be dimicult, if not !mpos-| War Army bill, Director Rogers of 5 f a struggle which is raging sible, to convince tha’ democracies of | the tor ttoKers of | to-day along the whole line of the d Kalsertam | ; 4 day. nen between | British front, te anya ae ore ot tan [28 ind thitty,| The Germans are everywhere meme wiling tools of His fre | mmc ue Te Oreo tere nearly 10) continuing their tactice of eoun- DONE, ething bv ere of betwe 104,000,000 -aha| tercattacking in foree, using gas throw of the ante 104,000,000 on July 1, 1917, | bombs, boiling oi! and fiquid aty Peas “ie Of these conscription eligibles the| flame, In massed attacks last Fefuse to bi | Dureau eatimates New York State! night the Germans succeeded in mes be i# pl 000, 1ilinots 69,600, Ohio 494,400 and| retaking Guillemont Farm, north- Pinan aatis anes tha. Texas (20,200, In the eight cities! east of Margicourt. At 1 o'clock ; jwhich had more than half & million! this merning the British counter- nev 1 ee ae ae ate cutie nt? | attacked, drove the enemy out, ‘ cage consolidated their position and from Milwauh ; 8 were again in possession of the Mo " farm. f | ‘The stubborn resistance put up by andidate. foF Gove ay oe ,e Germans south of the Bouches ono ra a Caimone, Vresident Sixms 270,000,000 Army|Kiver was & The British os ; Appropete: min, of these positions WASHINGTON 12 President | found the ground strewn with Ger- Wilson late this aft on signed th '¢] man dead, These bodies showed that BE L. Blobodin, iT | an arm ppr n bil ‘Committee. ending Jupe 30, "eis serve rine nay been thrown inte *