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PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY. MAY 12,
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WOUNDED BRITISH "TOMMIES" VISIT CITY HALL
'- Ar ,'tiw
Pfitf
Two invalided members of the Hritish
of Richmond, Va., u private in the
and Kenneth Uowyer, of Moose Jaw,
K. II olden, vice president of
ISER MUST GO,"
-MfAMSTS SAY
imerican Radicals Tell Ger-
mans in Cablegram Hoheli-
zollernism Must End
JRGE REFORM PROGRAM
j' .
M XHW P.ORK. May 12.
K,'A number uf American Socialists cent
Ircord to their colleagues nf Germany t i-
' that the Kaiser :ml Knlscrlsm' mut
o; that tha war against Germany must
continued by tlio democratic people of
the world until, this result Is achieved.
Tj.The message was cabled by the. small
roup represented by Charles i:Uvnul Rus-
m, William English Walling and .1. G.
iMps,, Stokes. It wan cabled to Stock-
, Copenhagen, The Hague and Heme,
specific requests that the text be
warded to German Socialists. The mes-
t was Bent purely In tbo name of In-
UvHuals and not In the name of the
teclallst Party.
funics of America's most piomlnent So-
Buts were afflxed to the message lu-
Studlng Charles Kdward UuhspII. J. !.
IHMps Stokes, William Kngllsh Walling:.
lose Pastor Stokes and others.
Where Is only one way to brine the war
n tany encl." the appeal asserted;
nat Is the Kaiser miial nr "
fc'Thc .SoclallMs' nifssaKe cbmes at the
fime, when Ueiinan Socialists or nseudo-
wlallhts, who are Government agents, are
Wklnc vIroi'ouhIj under sanction of tha
gJfWJH Government Itself to persuado and
- Hoesian Liberals into a Oerman-made
we. xt comes Just before a meeting of
WCUllctB In KtoiUlili,i ,.ll...l .. i,,na
JM' which has auspiciously German anto-
.uo unu personnel.
ih J?C8saB constitutes a virtual appeal
tZ "e"nan ssociaiists that If they are la
VnMt about nem'rt thdl- nun tiring nl.nu.
? t"1 f the war very quickly by over
ttWnjf the Kasel. nnd hM autocratlo
!ernmentfli mnnitin
Kj116 'Ifmocratlo peoples of the wtuld now
B league a8alnst the Kaiser and Kalserlsm
r.i."" compelled td continue their war
Ei .1 1,'lany and her autocratic allies
r11 Hie KalKpf (ii i.-ninn..i .
(own. the message read.
i. ,k "'an "Wails' faction that op.
tV,.S Gove''"ent has already realized
Knnia".fBrly ,,eace uml "ernmii lib
toulS ?"'r? ."!"'' the I'ower of the K'alser
id J., " n"a '"""I'-dlutely curtailed,
" "ey nave annoimei.,1 11,0 f..n,.,. i.... .,
Ejm as a cure for KafsVism: " '
te?,'l:l,.lt? f Uw Government to the
r .,.. """"" " lie-two aim
"itlonnf ,."el0hBtap clci:tlnn districts;
u, Ilf'IPIlMtllr HAnlrn1
fcoZMLlrno,w "1'Parently on the way to
n iittr'l ' Uous" "ot yH ITom'il.
I'TThls nroerum i' .,.,., ...
Unt . r . ""maiiiBiuui iuhi ex-
wfa so expAiion, i.i i .,. ...
ielv ...in , --" ,ucvu iimi it is ex
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'ted series of ovemhebning German
Continued on fate Two. Column Four
I; THE WEATHER
FOttEaABT
m I'hUadelphta and vicinity Vartlu
mil and continued cool tonlnht and
Pv; moderate northwest Kinds.
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L ?' 7.04 b'.m. I tnnn an.IV.- .I.l
K;il's3!,m. IIx)w wnter.. lKlTn.m
TT'y :,u "V I Jllth water, OWT p.ni.
yPKg At- BACH' HOUR
LMZT
army today called at the office of Mayor Smith. They were I Inch Gerow,
Fourth Canadian Battalion, who lost an arm on the western battlefront.
Canada, who lost a leu while serving in the Sixteenth Scottish Battalion.
the Oxford Association for Returned Soldiers, accompanied them.
FRENCH TROOPS
EXTEND ATTACK
SOUTH OF LAON
Nivelle Assails Germans
as -Far South as
Alsace
PIERCE DEFENSES
ON VERDUN LINE
Penetrate German Trenches
at Several Places in Am-
mertzwiller Sector
LONDON, .May 13.
General Maude lias opened art of
fensive in Mesopotamia. His Hritish
trcops are still pushing back the Turks.
An oflicial statement today put the
newly advanced British lines at a point
from sixty to eighty miles north of
Bagdad. "Since the second instant."
the report said, "our mobile coluntns in
the basins of the Shatt-cl-Adhaim and
Diala Rivers have pressed the army
back into the Jcb-cl-Hamrin range."
PARIS. May i.
Fighting all the way south of I.aou
down to Alsace-Lorraine was detailed In
today's French official slutement. Gains
were achieved by General Nlvelle's forces
In penetrating the German lines south of
Uesonvaux ns well as at veteral points in
the Anmiertzwlller sector of Alsace, the
War Office t,ald.
Around Chemlii des Dames the aitlllery
combat showed a slight slackening, the
statement halii. Tho French blew up a
munitions depot In this bectlon.
At Juvlncourt there was patrol lighting.
In the regions south of 1'argny, and tir tjie
Champagne, west of the fornlllet woods,
tho same style of lighting prevullcd.
Around Verdun them was an artillery
Cunllnucdoii I'uce The. Column Tmi
Wills His Sermons Be Burned
NOIUUSTOWNM'o., May 12. In the will
of the Itev. Uenonl Hates, pastor of Christ
Reformed Church, this city, ho makes his
wife Ills sole benellciary and directs that his
sermons, "which were God's gift to me, be
burned, hoping that the unoko may come
up before (?oU us the odor of a sweet
smell, u sacrifice jvliolly acceptable unto
Him, my best thank offering to Illm a re
turn of what IIo has given me la most
grateful appreciation of my Ilovennly Fath.
er's help."
First Actual Photographs ,
of the
Capture of Vimy Ridge
by the Canadians
Two whole pages of these
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES
will ivppear in Monday's
EupningS&lIeiiger
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Pictprial'Seetioni
fj3t:Js ttfte'fr"?
HOUSE STRUGGLES
Bitter Fight Precipitated by
Move to Save Volun
teer Army
ANTHONY FOR COLONEL
WASHINGTON. .Ma 1-'.
The offer of Colonel Roosevelt to lead
an expeditionary rnrce to Fiance picelp!-
f.tf.i .. iw.t n.i.t i.. t..k ii...... i
..-. ii .in ..,t. ( ..I.- iiuuri' i"'iu.' ':i ,
the conference report of (he army draft
bill., As soon as the Mouse convened ltoo?e
volt supporters gave notice they would at
tempt to send the conference report back
I
to the senate and House conference ci.m- j
mltteo with instructions to Include the !
Harding amendment authorizing the ITcsi
dent to accept the servlies of the "Uoosevelt
volunteers."
It was agreed that a motion to it-commit !
the conference report should be considered
I
i. i
The motion to it commit was otfeied bv
Itepicsentatlvc Anthony, of Kansas, one of i
tlin conferees on the draft bill. lie lefused I
to sign the i-oiifrience leport because of i
the limitation of the Senate amendment I
iiiithori.lng the raising of four divisions
of volunteers husp-ctlve of the selective i
draft piovlstons of the bill.
DCIiATi: TWO HOI'ltS
A unanimous consent agreement was
tenched by the House that the debate on the
conference leport should continue for two
hours. The Administration leaders, taking
no chances, made a point of in quorum to
bring In absentees to hear the opening
speech of Chaliman Dent, of the .Military
Committee, ngalhst the Roosevelt amend
ment. Ueprcscnt.itlve (jnrdner. of Massachu
setts: Lenioot, of Wisconsin, and Anthony,
nf Kansas, were selected by the advocates
of the Roosevelt amendment to lend the
light for Its ictcntlou. They came to the
chamber loaded down with hooks on tule.s
and piecedcnts to meet any point of ordei
iigalnst their attempt to 1 eject the con
ferenee report. H-itli sides polled State dele
gations today and yesterday afternoon, and
It was admitted the vote on the Roosevelt
ptnposnl would be c'ose.
Colonel Roosevelt telegiuphed Senator
Harding and Mr. (budnci- that be did not
deslro to hold up tho army draft bill but
the Senator anil Mr. (!aiduer espiessed a
willingness to assume responsibility for a
delay nf a few- hours, since the bill was held I
in conference two weeks.
HUNT HKFI-'XI'S ACTION'
Defending the illinlnatloii of the Roose
elt amendment. Chairman Dent, of the
Military Committee, said:
"lly a vote of 170 to lnu this House
('iiiltllllli'il un I'ltse Tmi, Column Tun
HKOTIIEHHOOl) FUND ELECTS
L. G. Smith, of llarrisburg, Heads Ue
lief Organization
HARRISIIUIttS. .May 12. The lliolhtr
hood Relief and Compensation Fund of the
t'nlted States, In session here, has elected
the following officers:' tlrand president.
L. J, Smith. Harrisbuig; assistant secre
tary. K. L. llctlinnls, Pltcalrn ; national
secretary. D. W. II. llutphy. Altoona;
trustee, Ueorge W. Ualtossor. Harrlsburg,
and editor of official publication, W. Ar
thur Wilson, Harrlsburg.
Reading- Recruits Off to Camp
RKADINtl, Pa May 12. Theodore
Helzmann, Frederick Muhlenberg and
Donald Stewart, well-known Reading busi
nessmen, who left today, were the first
recruits dispatched from Reading to the
officers' reserve corps training camp at
Iron Niagara. Tney were a.monsr the nrst
t0. "',. ip.p.l!c0in .fr $ iV5, at!d Wf
pawed, Wlth.a mrk ofiexcellence in their
'nft'n-'rilfn'r'BTr'Tirir1- If-tr --" ' -
RUSSIANS SEIZE
GREAT ESTATES
OF RICH GENTRY
' i
i
150,000,000 Acres Already
Confiscated by Rebel
Peasantry
SOCIALIST PEACE MOVE
Plan International Congress and
Will Support. Stockholm
Con Terence
WASHINGTON. May 12.
Departure of the American mission
lo Russia will lie speeded because of
adWccs of continued internal disturb-
r.iu'cs in Russia. F.lihu Root, chairman i
of the Russian Commission, held a lone j
conference today with Frank Scott,
chairman of the munitions board of the I
Council of National Defense; General i
, Crozier, chief of ordnance, nnd Secrc-
tary Ilakcr to discuss the problems to
I be solved. In the State Department !
it was said no oflicial news has been '
1 received directly from Russia for three i
days. The route and actual time of
departure of the commission will be;
kept secret.
By WILLIAM (i. .SHEPHERD
l'KTIKHiHAP. May U'.
nxlcty of the plsln people of Itussln In. ,
i-tantancous'y lo brlilg,, the chasm between '
the autocracy that was and the democracy i
that Is to be -without caiefully testing out I
the bridge inenaies Uussla today I
The workmen and Socialists mistrust the
I'unia lender. Therefore, the Ginrrntnent
is powerless and virtually under airest In!
it" own hntisf was the apt summary of tlw
-Jtiatlnn in the Duma yesterday by Dole-
gate Shiilgin.
In the Duma nnvting today Deputy Itoilll.
heir referred tn Internal H let Ion III plead.
, lag for donieslle peare.
"All honest Kii'slan hearts ate with you."
i he declared tn an impasloniiI address to
, the Duma nffn i.ils. "evcti yntir oppoiieuts -j
even those who speak against .Mill. Don't
i weaken Your names w 111 be blessed as lung
as the Ibi-slan language Is spoken."
The friction between the Duma leaileix
' and representatives of the snldlers and
workmen has long been appaient. Today,
Iioh ever, came word of an eonally menacing
point of difference. Russia's peasantry
Is taking things in If own hands. Picas
by I nun. i representatives sent broadcast
throughout Itussln to pi each the doctrine of
I the new plan of government and to tell
me ignorant peasants to wair tor complete
organisation' nteiilp.'vri"ritl"f SRllnfr. 'on dc.if
cars.
.Word inched lKie today Indicates th.it
nearly ISO.tlOU.OOO acies of laud have been
seized by tho peasants tluougliont Itussln.
The peasants could not wall for the prom
ised bieaklng up of ast estates under
pie. lues that such a distribution would come
sonu after the constituent assembly Inn)
definitely mapped out Russia's, future.
Confiscation .and distribution of land has
in many sections of Russia been forma'Iy
decided upon by vote of popular assemblies.
The movement has become so general
thioughotit the land lh.it German agents
have succeeded In stilling up great dls-
satisfaction among soldleis at the front b.v
insinuating that unless the soldiers descried
!.,,! .,..,! 1wmiw I. leiHIiitll.lt.l In til 11 .,1H
",,u ';" '' " ,.......!"" '-
! escatlon they would lose
l,.,. tl,. .. ,mt,l ,.L.. tl.Ii- .lint
Numerous desertions liavc i ome fiom tills
report.
The Itusslau woikincu. too, aie taking
Ciintliiiieil mi Pane rite, t'oliiinii line
HANG GRAIN SPECULATORS
HIGH, JOE LEITER DEMANDS
t -
Former "KinK of Wlieat Corner' Calls
Operations "Treasonable"
WASHINGTON. .Iav 1J. - ll III. Ill who
M.culates In grain of itnv Kind of food-
fluffs "should be strung from a specially
constructed gallows." Joe l.eitei. former
"wheal coiner king." ileclated today,
" cannot Imagine a more ticasonable,
unprincipled thing than for an Ameilcan
citizen tn speculate on nnv rr.ihs or food-
stuffH at this time," su tl t." tc-r. "Ilia ar-
Hon of the Chicago Hoard of Trade In
topping all trading In wheit futures should
have been taken montiis ago. i
plled'byTveTy'eVtianBe In Ucoulitry'Viii !
which there Is any kind or form of specula-
tlon In foodstuffs. j
"As for myself I haven't luiueil a spec,
w'ivVor the"ol,er-ln sewnlceT' carT1"'" I
''There ought to bo a law providing' for
hanging high any man uno speculates in
food products of any kind at this precarious
time."
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NORR1STOWN, P.I.. May 12. Com t to.
day granted a piellminary injunction re
straining Joseph F. Dul.in fiom pievcntlng
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vuw-lVnglfghti.olJnmmD,;
premise's. The company complained that
Iiol.ui had run woikinen down while they
weio digging holes foi pole.
Wintcrhulter en Navy Hoard
WASHINGTON. May 12. Rear Admiral
A. C. Winterhalter. who has commanded
the Asiatic fleet fur two years, was totlnj
iclleved of his command ami assigned to
the general board of the navy. He will be
succeeded III the tn It-lit by Rear Admiral
Austin 11. Knight
liars Mails to Liquor Ads
WASHINGTON, Hay 12, The Poslolllce
Department Ib today sending out announce
ment showing the Stales to which It is un
lawful, on and after July 1, to addross mall
matter containing liuuor nilvcitlsoinents or
solicitations.
JOFFRE PICTURES
The Pictorial Section of tomor
row's Public Ledger will contain
three full pages of pictures of Mar
shal JofTre, ex-Premier Viviani and
the French commission, taken dur
ing their visit to Philadelphia on
Wednesday. They will make a hand
some souvenir of the occasion.
Tomorrow's
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JULY AND SEPTEMBER WHEAT SOAR
CHICAGO. May 12. The removal of May wheat fiom tiiu trr.j
in", on the Chicago Bonul of Trade, which action was taken by tN
boaitl nf directors yesterday, was followed today by brisk tvadlnj; In
the July option. Demand for July was large from the stnrt and by
the rlo'.e the price hnd been advanced to 52.75 a bushel, a gain of
a :i-te over the close of last night, nnd n new high record. Scptcmhri
at the Miine time, rose 27c to $2.-15.
MIKNCArOLIS, May 12. May wheat leached $3.30 uerti today,
jumping 17 l-2c. July reached $2.01 and" flour soaied GOc to $17.20.
Trading in May wheat may be discontinued.
PENROSE' AND KNOX "DUCK" CENSORSHIP VOTE
WASHINGTON. May 12. Neither Senator Penrose nov Senator
Knox voted on the Johnson nmendnicnt to knock out the prefab ecu
sorSilliii provision uf the espionage bill, which was lo.t in the Senite
today.
DANISH SHIP l'HOM BOSTON SUNK BY U-BOAT
BOSTON. May 12. The Danish steamship Louisiana, which lor
ten years sailed between Boston and Copenhagen and Chriitiaiua,
has been torpedoed off tho English coast by a German submarine.
Although tho vessel was sunk without warning the ciew escaped in
boati nnd woe picked up by a Biltish patrol ship. The chip belonged
t i the S?niirllliitvlni.Al'itriran Line anil wai of 301 .'i "toss tuilliae.
MAINE CENTRAL IJARS ALL BUT FOOD FREIGHT
I'DllTI.AND. lie.. .May 11'.- -A freight embargo on everything except food
stuffs lias been declared by the .Maine Central llallroad Company because of the
freight congestion brought about in part by htrikex of employes.
RASE HOSPITAL NO. 10 READY TO GO TO FRANCE
The 1 Ml,, imlerllo, 'iTi doctors nnd surgeoii.s and 0." . nurses composing thn
Pennsylvania Hospital unit, known as llase Hospital No. 10, are keeping In touch
with Int. i' hi'iitliimittui-H, Cavalry Parish Ilou-e, Ijicust street above Fifteenth.
They are expecting nioimntary orders to be sent "oinewhere In France."
AUTOISTS WARNED OF NEW BETHLEHEM PIKE TRAP
The Automobile Club of Delaware County bus sent out a warning to motorists
of a ii""v fap on l!i thlelietn pike at Spring House, at thu point where the follow
ing mimed ru.ul,! nt-:-Mct llctlilebcnt pike: S-'omueytovvn pike, I'enllyii pike, McKean'a
rond. ''". , :ii'o"lt;"- li.n-e creeled u. truing signs, and all persons falling to sound
horn nt llic.-e st.-us vv'll be pio'ecuteil.
$100,000 FIRE IN CANADIAN MUNITIONS WORKS
TORONTO. May U'.-I'ire believed to
tlnn caused nearly $400.QU0 damage in the Cluff Ammunition Works here. Forty
thousand live-pound shells were exploded.
STATE COLLEGE GIRLS ORGANIZE WIRELESS UNIT
.STATU Col.LKGH. Pa.. May lu. -Seventy girl students at the Pennsylvania
Stale Colleso have organize! a reserve unit of wireless telegraph operators. They
expect to offer their services to the Cnvcrnnieiit after they become elllcient with
the codes and apparatus.
UNIDENTIFIED BRITISH SHIP ACCIDENTALLY SUNK
AN AMF.RICAN PORT. .May H!. The P.rllish steamship L'ltonla on arrival
today reported slnkim; another Hritish steamship In a collision. The Ultonla,
sailing from a I'uiope.iii port, was steaming without lights and ran full speed
into the other vessel, also without lights. Officers of the Hltonla were unable to
learn the name of the other ship, which sank rapidly. (On Thursday. May 10, the
London Chronicle tamed a story to the effect that a large steamship had been
sunk with a loss of seventy lives two weeks ago. No announcement of the disaster
was made b.v the Admiralty i
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SCANDINAVIANS WILL MAINTAIN THEIR NEUTRALITY
....
STOCKHOLM, liny U'. -Hie neutrality of the hcaiidln.ivhui countries will be
maintained. Decision lo tills effect has been reached by the .Ministers of Norway
Denmark and .Sweden, in conferences here. Ollfcial announcement of their decision
has been made to meet the crisis brought about by tho ."hortago of coal In the
Scandinavian countries. Tho llinlstera In conference have appointed a committee
oversee the production and distribution of fuel,
ALLIES' UNITED HOARD
WASHINUTON. .May I:'. -The greatest purchasing commhslon in Hie history
f the world soon will have its headiiuatters here, it will buy all supplies needed
for France. Italy and Croat llrilaln. Uy
keep prices bdow Ihe
agreement v.lilcn create t me commission now is in inc naiids or Secretary of
the Treasury llcdou. It will be taken tip with the Hritish and French missions
probably nest ww-k. The Allies will expend In tills country all of the money
loaned them by the Fulled, Stales.
WORLD l'RAYER DAY SUGGESTED UY DR. CONWELL
A sugge.-'.liui for an International day of prajer was forwarded today to President
Wilson by the Lev. Dr. Russell II. Conwell, pastor of the Ilaptist Temple and piesldent
of Temple I'niverslty. The suggestion woh adopted in the form of a resolution bv a
meeting at the Temple, and Is: "Resolved. That we suggest to the President the
necessity for culling for it day of national prayer as air Important part of our
preparation lor war, and that wo ask him If It Is not feasible to ask all the nations
at war to do the same thing."
TWENTY-SEVEN BOATS ON DELAWARE READY TO AID U. S.
Twenty-seven power boats are ready for service in the Delaware waters to aid
the Government in the light against tho F-boats, members of the Delaware Itlver
Power Squadron have announced. Two boats have alreudy been given to the Govern
ment, while the rest are ready at a minute's notice to act as destroyers, chasers nnd
mine layers.
U. S. PREPARING FOR TRADE CONFLICT AFTER WAR
WASHINGTON. May 12. Tho United States has taken Us first step toward
preparing for tho trade war which will follow tho conlllct with Germany. The
preliminary preparations for the commercial conflict will bo In the hands of the
recently appointed tariff commission. Today the tariff commission announced
the appointment of Commissioners Calbertson and Costlgan as a committee to
make "an Investigation Into foreign trade relations, commercial treaties and bar
gaining treaties." In the course of their
I visit virtually all or the Aiuea countries. Tney will leave in June, the commission
ann0unced, for a, trip that will take them to Great Britain, France.-; wsk. JUhr,
II. ' ,mJ ' - JjT'SjZ- SAtJm.1
HtoV.il.nd China. - - ' , fWrv,;M.- - ,v$l&f'li&KLfifc
visit virtually all of the Allied countries.
NEWS
have staitcd from spontaneous comlm.s- i
TO IJUY SUPPLIES IN U. S
so doing it is expected that it will be
pn-hlblUvc matk
A draft of tho proposed
investigation tho two commissioners xtttt
They will leave in June, the commission.
SENATE KILLS
PLAN TO CURB
PRESS IN WAR
Censor Clause in Spy
Bill Loses in Com-,
mittee of Whole
j
DEBATE PROCEEDS
ON OTHER SECTIONS
Ample Powers Granted to
President to Protect Na
tion Against Treason
DRY ISSUE UP. AGAIN
Cummins Would Tack Prohibi
tion Provision on to Espion
age Measure
WASHINGTON, May 1J.
Uy a majority of only ono voto the Sen
ate, pitting ns a committee of tha whole,
struck front tho Gregory espionage bill the
cenorslilp provision that would authorlie
autocratic power to gag tho press durltif
the war.
Tho voto was .19 to H8. Fifteen Demo
trats Joined with twenty-four Ilepubl leans
to defeat the objectionable provision which
has caused a storm of criticism from all
over the country and on the floor of both
houses of Congress.
Senator Martin, Democratic floor leader,
was one of the Democrats who voted
against the provision which Attorney Gen
eral tiregory promulgated.
; Immediately after the killing of the sec
i tlnn. Senator Klrbj, of Arfinnsas, one of
I the "little group of willful men." made u
final effort to have a censorship provision,
even more drastic than that proposed by
j the Administration, Incorporated In the bill.
u was voted down uy tne overwhelming
majority of C.' to 5.
Disposition of the censorship feature
leaves the President with no specific con
trol over the press.
AMPM-: VOW1211.H GIVEN
Other sections ot tho espionage bip coer
treasonable utterances, and It was the con
tention of those opposed to the censorship
.1,n. .lm,A .nnl li.i.u ...111 ..1... ,,.,. ",. .....
Itllt.b ...ucu ct.tu.io Ml, I H,V HIV UUtCIII
i ment ample powers to protect Itself.
It Is possible that lator an effort will
be made, by the Administration to set a
much modified censorship provision, but the
temper of the Senate now Is' Blich'as absoi"
lately to prohibit nny drastic regulation
of tho press or Interferccnce with the
rights of free speech.
1'tider the rulo allowing ten minutes to
each Senator to speak on different provi
sions of the csplonago bill, discussion of
other sections went on today and a vote
on the whole bill is expected before ad
journment tills evening. Even as It standi.
It gives tho I'res'.dent powers such us are
hatdly exceeded by any ruler In the world.
PROVISIONS OF BILLS
The President Is authorized to Ifesuo proc
' lamntlons governing movements of nil ves
I nels In American- territorial waters, and to
t!,u' IMMWHton "' all such vessels If neccs
sary. In audition
The President is authorized to employ
laud nnd naval foices to prevent destruc
tion or, injury to any vessel In Amer
ican waters nnd to prevent vessels to
bo uet as resort for any one conspiring;
against the United States.
A penalty of not more than twenty-five
years' imprisonment for any one fo
menting trouble or conveying false re
ports about tho military and naval forces
of tho country.
It provides a heavy penalty for any
one conspiring against the United States
or who harbors any one whom he sus
pects of being a conspirator.
It provides a fine of not moro than
i 10,1100 und Imprisonment for not more
than ten yearj for any one who injures
or attempts to injure vAsols or people
engaged In .commerce between this coun
try and a foreign country.
It provides a similar penalty for any
one attempting or accomplishing actual
Interference by violent means with ship
ment of products from the United States.
The President Is empowered to with
hold clearanco papers to any vessel de
siring to leave an American port with
a penalty for attempts to escape without
proper clearance.
CONTROLLING VKSSELS
Also, the President may restrain In port
any armed vessel owned wholly or In part
by American citizens until adequate
proof Is given that sailing of the vessel
will In no way Jeopardize tho Interests of
tho United States.
It makes It unlawful to sell or lend
any vessel armed or equipped or built
for war to any belligerent nation, either
directly or Indirectly.
It necesrltates the filing of an oath
that the cargo of any vessel leaving an
American pott vill not be delivered to
another vessel In port or transshipped on
the high teas.
It provides heavy, penalties for nny In
terned aliens who attempt to escape or
any one who assists such aliens In the
attempt.
The President is authorized to use the
army and navy to prevent the hatchtnr
or launching of armed expeditions against
nations at pence with the United States.
It empowers the President to force out
of port If necessary any foreign vessel,
HMHAltaO PLANS ,
The President is authorized to place an
embargo on arms and ammunition when
over he deems it necessary, also on prod
ucts to neutrals.
It provides a heavy penalty for untrue
statements designed to disturb foreign re
lations of the United States. .
It prescribes drastic regulations on Is
suance of passiiorts and Improper use
thereof.
It broadeps the powers of officials la
application of search .warrants.
It authorizes the Postmaster General to
forbid use of malls under penalty to any
one advocating or urging treason. Insur
rection or (orciote resistance to any law a
of tne Lniteu siaieB. . ,
It Imposes a drastic penalty on any one Vjv;
round distributing information pertaining L.
to matters of national defense or unlaw- ..
fully haying In his possession such lnfcK'
in a tlon maps, pictures, documents, code,? '
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