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senator iienry uapot L.oage was Knocked
wn In a fight in his offlce today with a
ton pacifist, The fight, which resulted
ira the pacifist calling Senator Lodge a
ard after an aruument- on the' war
atlon, was quelied by the police. Senator
Be was not badly nurt. lie is sixty-
en years old.
'ie pacifist, who gaVe his name as Alex-
ffBannwart, of 338 Washington street,
tori, accompanied by a woman, w ho gave
,-namo as Mrs. Anna May Peabody, of
HlUlard street, Cambridge. Mbbs., went
Senator Lodge's office and demanded that
&otargalnst any -war.resdludon.
arrument follnwfd. In which Tt.irin-
LVt called the Senator a coward. The lie
then passed ' andlBannwart claimed
kt the' Senator hit" hlr&" A fight fol.
Wed and Senator Lodge was being worsted
(fa' ft telegraph clerk, David B,- Her-
m, juniped Into the. fray and beat Bann-
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ollowlng- statementslving his version of
we assault:
S"l was tryine to get away from the man.
He was very violent. I said, 'Well, we
"oust a?reo to differ,' Then this man, whom
afterward learnea was nannwan, saiu,
Tou' aria damned coward,' addressing live
berionallx. I went forward, close up to
Mm and satd, 'You are a liar.' He struck
Jrto aitd I, struck him. Then the whole party
rushed at nie and pushed me against the
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"A'-jouugMnan from Arizona, who was In
he'borrUldr with a message, my secretaries
,ndb'enator.Stone'3' messenger, intervened
or jny protection and droye them off."
Senator, "WeeksrFenator Lodge's colleague
rim Massachusetts, also gae out a state
ment, on 'the affair, calling- the attack on
Senator Lodge "ujiproNOKea anu iiisgrnce-
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It . has a far wider significance than
imply' an-assault. onan individual," he
ild. "It Is well for tho country to take
iotlce that those who claim to be trying
to keep tls 'out ?of war' are among'the most
htoterant of our citizens, and they do not
esltate to nuuuit uiuac wiiu iiutu uihcicih
ilnlons. ,
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itcYie.d. and if they are American citizens
iould be compelled to take oath. I doubt
is -gopd faith and loyalty of men and
omen who are so far lost to the pio
rieiles as were thtfee who committed this
Ifense." 4.
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BEGIN DUTY TODAY
Two Companies of First
Now in Service Third
Regiment to Leave
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
The entire Third Pennsylvania Infantry
nnd two companies of tho First Fennsyl
anla Infantry, two of Philadelphia's Na
tional Guard units called out by tho Presi
dent, will bo on police duty before night
fall, according to War Department orders.
Company C (Captain Gentncr) and Com
pany K (Captain Orf). of the Fitst r.egl
merit, left their aimory shortly before noon
and now1 are on guard duty.
T"hq Third will entrain as a unit late
today for points designated by tho Gov
ernment, The destination of tho troops, in
accordance with the request of the War De
partment, Is not given.
All Is- bustle today at the two armories,
especially at that of tho Third, where the
entire regimental equipment, Including
wagons, Is being packed for the departure.
Inoculation of the men who hae not re
ceived their first injection of typhoid virus
was finished this morning. Recruiting has
been halted temporarily.
The remaining companies of the First
will lease tomoirow, leaving 'the headquar
ters In Philadelphia, The other detach
ments will be statlohed within 100 miles
of the city, according to Lieutenant Col
onel Brown, commander of the Fhst.
The Third announced tho following pro
motions today. First Lieutenant I. A. Grif
fith ' be captain of Coinpa?;y L; First
Lieutenant B. Killian to bo captain of Com
pany B : Second Lieutenant A. C. Boycs to
be first lieutenant of Company L; Second
Lieutenant William Houso to be first lieu
tenant of. Company F, and Second Lieuten
ant .lohn F. Pierce to be first lieutenant of
Company I.
YEOWOME.V IN SERVICE
The first two women ' to go Into active
naal service as chief yoemen Miss Blanche
C. Taul, of Riverside, N. J., and Mis3 Flor
ence A. MacKnlght. of Wayne reported at
the Philadelphia Xay Yard today upon
lecelpt of orders from Commandant Rus
sell. Chief Yeoman Loretta Walsh, the
first woman to be sworn into the navy,
is on a recruiting cruise on the Nedeva II,
and Chief Yeomen Catherine .BraUdock nnd
AHee V. Murdoch also are doing recruiting
duty. ,.
With flags making the'dty a blaze of red,
white and blue, recruiting took on new life
today. .New recruiting stations for the
various branches of Hie service were opened
In fill sections of tho city.
A recruiting office, for tho needed re
serve officers and men for the marine corps
has been opened by Brigadier General L.
W. T. Waller. V. S. M. C, at 210 South
Thirteenth street. The" manno corps peeds
14f second lluitenants and 1700 men, and
the newly authorized reserve needs 20,000
men. A. J. Drexel BIddle, organizer of the
Philadelphia Training Corps, has been com
missioned as a captain in tljo reserve, and
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Falls Dead in Bank. Vestibule
Eugene Wplgamulh sixty years aid,
of 4000 Spruce street, fell dead In the es
tlbule of the Fidelity Trust Company, 325
Chestnut street, Just nfter he had with
drawn $00 from his account there. Dr.
L. L. llobbs, of the Pennsyhanla Hos
pital, said that the man's death was due
to n stroke ot oppopleiy.
Wreck Piles Up 21 Freight Cars
NOniUSTOWN, Pa., April 2. A broken
axle on a fi eight train on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad near King of Piuvsla this
morning cause'd a pile-up ot twenty-one
loaded .coal and freight cais. Coal and
merchandise were scattered about the
tracks. No one was Injured.
Mrs. Alton B. Parker Dead
NEW YORK. April 2. Mrs. Alton B,
Parker, wife of the former Democratic
nominee for President, died here today.
School Children Show Patriotism
KANSAS CITY, April 2. Sixty thousand
school children of Kansaa City, assembled
in patriotic meetings at the hour Congress
convened today.
MACK STARTS LONG
PITCHING WORKOUTS
Only Two Pitchers to the Game
Instead of Three, as
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ATLANTA, Ga April 2. Connie Mack
announced today that his pitchers were
about to go Into strenuous training and,
beginning today only two will be used In
the games Instead ot three. Joe 'Bush ond
Jack Nabora were selected as the first vlc
thns, and twirled against Atlanta in th6
Becond game of the series tfelg afternoon.
Mr, Davis, of the Crackers, will not commit
himself, but It was believed that- Davis,
the former Mackman ; Ad Brennln, Muggby
McQraw'p conqueror and ex.-Phll, and Tom
Sheehan, who worked Saturday, wculd be
on the mound, ,
There wasno practice this, mornlhtr.pvylng
to the thunderstorm arid near cloudburst
which vlslfed this city during the night.
The diamond was In shape for nothing but
a college "regatta,, but It dried off' enough
to stage tho'battlo'thla afternoon,.,
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HOUSE ELECTS CHAMP CLARK
SPEAKER; PRESIDENT EXPECTED
TQ ANNOUNCE "STATE OF WAR"
Republicans Delay Delivery of Momentous
Message, But Prepares Resolution
Demanding Measures to Halt
German Outrages
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STATE OF WAR" DECLARATION
AS PREPARED
Resolution prepared for House of Representatives by Chairman Flood,
of Foreign Affairs Committee:
Whereas, the recent course of the Imperial German Government is in fact
nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United
States,
Resolved, by the Senate nnd House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled that the state of belligerency which
has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared, and,
That the President be and he, is hereby authorized to take immediate
steps not only to put tho country in a state of defense, but also to exert all
of its power arid employ all of its lesources to carry on war against the Im
perial German Government and to bring the conflict to a successful conclusion.
WASHINGTON. April 2.
President Wilson will go beforo Congtess
In Joint session at & o'clock tonight to de
liver his message demanding war measuies
agalit't' Germany. This was officially an
nounced at the White House nfu-r Repre-'
sentatho Kltchln, Democratic Iloor leader,
had lecommended this plan In view of the
delay In the oiganlzatlon of the House.
Throughout tho day tho Piesldcnt had
remained In his study waiting for the
House organization to bo completed.'
When Kltchln's suggestion was given
him by Secretary Tumulty tho President
Immediately expressed his willingness to
comply.
Representative Kltchln announced that
tho House Committee would go to the
White Houso about 7!30 o'clock and foi
mally notify tho President that tho House
was organized nnd Congress ready to re
ceive any communications. '
Tho Senato notification committee will
telephone the White Houso that it Is ready
for business.
Tho President will announce that In his
belief n state of war exists between the two
countries.
The Chfef Executive would not wait until
tomorrow, but Insisted upon appearing Im
mediately after completion of the House or
ganization. Ho leached this decision sud
dontly late this afternoon after Democratic
leaders had told him the Houso organiza
tion could not be perfected beforo 7 o'clock.
This will bo the first tlmo any President
has addressed tho Congress at night. It Is
expected he will appear, in evening clothes,
and tho galleries may bo filled with fot
geously gowned women and men In diess
suits, adding nn unusual picture to life deep
solemnity of tho occasion,
While President Wilson mas holding
himself In leadlness to deliver his ma
mentous message, the sixty-fifth Congress,
called into extr.i session, met at noon and
proceeded at once tow aid organization by
tho election of Rppiceutatlve Champ Clark,
ofiriss,ourl, as Speaker by t vote ot 217
to 205.
Following the seating of Speaker Clark.
Republican tactics, In demanding a roll tall
on the election of all Houe official, de
l.ijed tho message of the President. Until
so late that the President announced that
he would addiess the Joint session tonight.
Meanwhile, Tleptesentatlvo Flood, chair
man of tho H'ouso Foielgu Affairs Com
mittee made public tho text of the Admin
istration resolution which authorizes tho
declaration of a "state of wai" apd em
power tho President nggie&slvely to enter
tho conflict against Get many.
Representative Clark was elected Speaker
defeating James R. Mann, of Illinois, choice
of tho Republican caucus, after Repre
sentative Lenroot, of Wisconsin, himself tho
candidate of a minority of the Republicans,
had challenged tho suggestion made by
NIEH0FF, TEDDY, BRYAN
ALL IN JACKSONVILLE
But of These Three Second-
Sacker Looked Best to Pat
Moran
, 'Sua Staff Correspondent
JACKSONVILLE, Fia April 2, The
fact that Teddy Roosevelt passed through
here this morning and that William Jen
nings Bryan Is In this city was of small
moment to Pat Moran, compared with the
'fact 'that second baseman Niehoff reported
'here today, Niehoff left his home in Col
orado last Friday afternoon with his wife
and son, and they reached here shortly after
Pat and the players had left for Rose Field
for a morning workout. Niehoff lost no
time In catching the ferry to South Jack
sonville and reporting to Pat. Moran an
nounced that he would put on his uniform
today and begin the training grind. He is
not much overweight, but It will be some
time beforo he will be ablo to get In and
"bust ein" like ho did last season when
he. led both of tho major leagues In two.
baggers.
Another member of the team wenjj on the
ftillng list last night, "Gavvy'' Cravath be
Ing the victim. "flawy-V,' stomach went
back on him, and he spent the morning In
bed. f
Bancroft also was not In uniform, Daye
has-been ordered, to rest up and nqt take
any more cbapces untllHhe- trouble- in, his
groin Is, cured,, ,
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FOR LOWER HOUSE
Representative Schall, of Minnesota, Tro-grcssIvc-Republlcan
In placing Clark In
nomination that tho existing International
situation demanded that President Wilson
be given a Democratic House oiganlzatlon,
ns well as Senate, to assume 'responsibility
for his policies. Lenroot then had seconded
the Mann nomjnatlon.
Tho defection of Schall was n body blow
to the Republicans, who had counted con
fidently on his support. Tho Democratic
advantage also was added to when Repre
sentative Lep, of Georgia, Just recovering
from an attack of pneumonia, was assisted
into the chamber to, vote for the Speaker
and tho other members of the Democratic
slate for Houso positions.
Tho vote for Speaker stood: Clark, 217;
Mann, 205; Glllett, 2; Lenroot, 2. Two
members voted present1.
HOW HOUSE VOTED
A recapitulation of the vote showed:
Clark received the solid Democratic
vote of 213 members and four Inde
pendents Schall, of Minnesota, Pro
gressive; London, of New York, So
cialists Randall, of California, Prohi
bitionist, and Martin, or Louisiana,
Progressive-protectionist.
Lenroot .received two voteB Gard
ner, of Massachusetts, Republlca-n, nnd
Fuller, of Massachusetts, Progresslve
"Republlcan. Gillette, of Massachusetts, received
two votes Dalllnger, of Massachu-
Contlnued on Pate Eleven, Column Three
GARBARINO BEATEN
IN HOTEL ASSAULT
U. S. Detective Set Upon and
Severely Injured by
Several Men
ACCUSES WHITE SLAVERS
Frank L. Garbarlno, special agent and
head of the local bureau of tho Depart
ment of Justice, was attacked and se
verely beaten In Dad's Theatilcal Hotel,
150 North Seventh street, early today,
while searching, he said, for the two Ger
man sailors who escaped recently fiom
tho Philadelphia Navy Turd.
Garbarlno was knocked unconscious. His
nose was broken. One tooth was knocked
out, and he was cut and beaten about the
fact? and head and klfVed about the body,
Garbarlno was ava to leave the Hahne
mann Hospital at 11:30 this morning with
his head swathed in bandages.
Four men were arrested by the police
after a fusillade of shots had been ex
changed. Threo women said to have fig
ured In the affair escaped.
The attack occurred shortly after 2
o'clock this morning In the rear room of
the hotel. Garbarlno was set upon by four
men at least, he said. After two calls
had been sent to the Eleventh and Winter
streets station an attempt was made by
friends to set free the four men captured.
At least a dozen shots were exchanged,
several of the men In the crowd being
armed with revolvers. None of the shots
took effect.
The attack and the shooting threw the
neighborhood In an uproar. It was re
ported that the special agent had been
stabbed threo times. This was denied by
Dr. William L. Martin, chief resident phy
sician at tho hospital.
It is known that Garbarlno's life has been
threatened on several roccaslons, especially
since he has been engaged In ferreting out
the recent activities of the German plotters.
When seon by an Evening Ledger reporter
In the hospital today, he denied emphati
cally that he had been searching for plot
ters, but merely went to Dad'a In answer to
a tip that the two sailors were to be found
there. ,
Ills face covered with bandages. Gar
barlno from his. cot in the hospital ex
plained how the attack occurred.
"I left the offlce Jn sucb a hurry when
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RUSSIAN TORPEDOBOATS SINK TURKISH SHIPS
ITritOGItAD, Apiil 2. Russinn torpedoboats cruising in tho
Black Set sank two Tuikish barks and destroyed aviation hangars on
laud by shell firei t
ADRIATIC ARRIVES AT BRITISH PORT
NEW YORK, April 2. The White Star liner Adiiatic, sailing
from nn Atlantic ptut oil March 21, has ariived in a British port,
accoullng- to cable advices to the White Star offices this afternoon.
DIGGS AND CAMINETTI READY TO SERVE SENTENCES
SAN rilANCISCO, April 2. Accompanied by their attorney,
.'X'heodoie Roche, Jklnury I. Biggs and Fred, Diew Caminetti, convicted
cf violnVing tho Mnnn white slave law, surrendered to United States
Haichnl Holahan today. They will be taken to McNeil's Island
Penitentiary at once to begin &eiving their sentence.
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA TROOPS ORDERED OUT
WASHINGTON, April 2. The following- national guard units
weie oiclcred outtodny by tho Wnr Department for general police
jrtutyg Second Regiment, West Virginia; Fourth Regiment, Virginia;
Battel y D, field aitillery, Virginia.
1500 PORCELAIN WORKERS 'AT TRENTON OUT ON STRIKE
RENTON, April 2. About 1500 men and young women compris
ing the entile foico of porcelain workers in ten plants hefe stVuck
today, closing tho plants, because the employers refused to meet
demands for increased wages ranging from ten cents a day more for
women to fifty cent's a day moxe for men, There has been no disordci.
MAXOR VOICES PHILADELPHIA'S, PLEDGE TO PRESIDENT
, Assurance of Philadelphia's loyalty 'was sent to President 'Wilson "hy Mayor
Smith today In a telegram that wa an echo) of tho Independence Square patriotic
maw-meetlng Saturday. The message read. In part: "At the-Jargest rrtVetlng of
cltUwna', ever held In HidepenTencj,quare, representing; all creeds, raes anfl'ooa
tlwt.ithereWere adopted, wltjy Vsof approval au'd'vwlthout RliItl'nivoJce.,
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Occupy' Teuton Strong
hold After Fierce
Fighting
take four other.
Tillages in drive
British Troops Only Two
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St. Quentin
FRENCH PUSH FORWARD
Capture Vauxaillon, Between
Oise and Aisne Berlin Ad
mits Losses
BERLIN, April 2.
Russian troops fighting in Rumania
have begun a new offensive against the
Austro-Germans.
"On both sides of the Uzul Vallej,
along the frontier heights, the Russians,
after strong bombardment made an at
tack over a front of four miles," tha
War Office announced today. "Thes
storming waves broke down in our fire
except in one place where the attack re
sulted in hand-to-hand fighting. Minor
advances in addition to the main as
sault failed also."
In th,e sector of the Ludova foreat
Austro-German detachments destroyed
Russo-Rumanian works with mines.
s PETROGRAD, April 2.
Russian forces in the Caucasus have
occupied Miatague, Poitaht and Ser
poule and arc pursuing the Turks, who
are fleeing toward Kasrichirih, the of
ficial War Office statement announced
today. v ,
"VV1TH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD.
April 2. , j
British troops between Bapaume and Cam- ' 2WS-
orai smashed their way forward . again'' to-tft
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vjtu.iaiia. Amoug tnem wsb tho mighty
German stronghold of Croailles, about which,
there has been furious fighting for mora
than a week. Tho British have also taken
Longetto and Dolgnlc, as well as the vil
lages of Attllly and Vlllechollcs, on tha
railroad line running from Rolsef to St.
Quentin.
Crosllles is one of the most Important
points of support taken by the British sine
they began their advance along the Ba-paumc-Cambial
road. Crosllles lies on high
ground eight miles southeast of Arras and
fourteen miles northwest of Cambra"frv Ita
capture opens the way for a direct drive
on tho strategic Arras-Cambrai road.
The British are now only two and a half
miles from St. Quentin.
. , , PARIS. ApVil 2.
trench tioopo between the Oho and the
Alsne Rivers have occupied the fortified
villago ot Vauxaillon, driving the Germans
cast of that point. Announcement to this
effect was mado by the War OKlce today.
Fiench patrols that advanced to within
three miles of St. Quentin reported that
they found heavy concentrations of Oerman
troops before that city.
Oerman attacks In Champagne were re
pulsed. L'OXDOX. April .
Occupation of St. Quentin, one of the key
positions on the perman front, by the Allies,
beforo tho .nd of the present week wae
stiongly predicted by" military observers
todaj. "
Advices from Paris today quoted French
war experts as saying that the Germans
may evacuate St. Quentin just as they did
Bapaume and Peronne. The French ex
ptessed tho belief, however, that it would
be some days before Anglo-French pressure
at this point forces the Germans to make
a deflnitn stand or to fall back.
That the Teutons are preparing to give up
St. -Quentin before the powerful encircling
movements of General Hale's nnd General
N'Uelle's armle3 la Indicated by the fact
that most of the city has been destroyed by
flro and dynamite.
Press teleprams from behind tho Allied
front tay tint tho magnificent twelfth-cen-
tury cathedial in St. Quentin has not been
completely destroyed, for the spires can b
seen fiom the high ground around Savy
wood, four miles west, although It has been
badly damaged.
It is charged by the coi respondent that
tho Germans have systematically looted tha
city, sending inluable art treasures back to
Germany. It Is believed that many resi
dents hae been sent to the rear by tha
Germans, as they have regularly made selx.
ures'of inhabitants when bigger cities wera
given up.
Both the lilltlsh and French are driving
finatd viciously all along th? line -between
Arras and the Alsne. sweeping over
woodland nnd capturing the ruins of what
were once villages. In the last thlrty-slx
hours a dozen or iore Milages have been
taken from the retreating Germans. All
day Palm Sunday thero was savage fighting
north and south of the Somme and OU
Rivers, Tho French, it is reported, hava
entered the villages or vauxaillon and lf
faux. while the British have pressed .for
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